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Zane's World
Here’s how you can tell the truth about wages in Santa Fe: No one who is against the living wage would ever agree to work for a rate as low as the living wage. They’ll say it’s economics. But we can go ahead and call it hypocrisy.
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Daddy Needs a Drink
Earlier this fall, my wife Lala and I had told Poppy she needed to do something active—take hip-hop dance, join a gym, jazzercise, her choice—and surprisingly she went postal on us and up and joined the cross country team. In my family, you only ran if you were chasing a ball or being chased by my dad and his wooden spoon of tough love.
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The Big Loud Wolf
Following warnings from Santa Fe police, the Meow Wolf collective has scaled back the number of shows it puts on. For some, this is an opportunity to focus more on its visual offerings. For others (namely me and anyone who gets excited about hearing original music), this is a huge blow to the music scene.
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Attack of the Right Wing Nuts
In April 2006, with the approval ratings of President George W Bush plummeting, his senior political advisor, Karl Rove, began discussing a plan to turn things around. His strategy: Attack progressive organizations that were registering low-income people to vote and helping them fight corporate power—and claim it was about voter fraud.
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The Honor is Yours
It may be the most important local official you don’t get to vote for (at least not right away)—a person who can ruin lives with the thwack of a gavel. At 8:30 am on Nov. 5, a select group of 17 men and women will meet at the courthouse on Catron Street in Santa Fe to evaluate the candidates to replace retiring 1st Judicial District Judge James Hall.
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Back to Nature
The list of things that we forego in a recession—pedicures, pearls and the occasional mortgage—does not include alternative medicine. In fact, herbal supplement sales—along with yoga studios, acupuncture clinics and massage therapy—have proven remarkably resilient in the face of the recession.
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The Scary Barber Chair
Yes, this may be it, the last of the Halloween documentation. Our photographer for the night was Jonathan Tercero, who has done the last few parties we’ve had and is very awesome. The creepy barber chair set-up was put together by Mike Ranft, with props from Hogles.
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A Light In My Soul/Una Luz En Mi Alma
This play is a collaboration between Tectonic Theater Project, choreographer and director Krista DeNio, and the Working Classroom ensemble, and is the product of a two-year interview process in which New Mexican Crypto-Jews—unwilling converts to Christianity who practice their true religion in secret—voiced long-hidden experiences of societal alienation and oppression.
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Mission Café
It takes a certain panache to make Frito pie classy. It helps that the Mission Café is set in the historic Valdes home, a beautiful old adobe with railroaded dining rooms and a shady, romantic courtyard-even the most humble of dishes feels like a special treat.
Latitudes Espresso & Ice Cream
A charming coffee shop with a shady patio, serving ice cream, sandwiches and bagels.
