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Try, Try Again
Multiple sources now tell SFR Thornburg plans to start a new company, structured as a savings and loan or thrift.
That could mean a fresh start as a bank, with new government regulators. Partly because of its corporate structure, Thornburg Mortgage was ineligible for federal bailouts last year. (Thornburg Investment Management, a separate company, remains in business.) -
Local Road Trip
A lot of restaurants with oasis-like locations under towering cottonwood trees on the banks of iconic rivers, not to mention captive audiences of rafters, thirsty tourists and hillbillies, wouldn’t bother with the quality of the food. This is America, after all, and we are stupid and fat enough to eat anything, especially when we’re miles from anywhere. Embudo Station has itself sometimes coasted on lesser fare, but no longer.
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Taken To The Streets
A license for busking in Santa Fe costs $35 per calendar year (so, whether you buy a license in January or October, it only lasts through December). The license comes with a host of guidelines that include when buskers can play, where they can play and how long they can play there; it also specifies that there can be no amplification. All this raises somewhat existential questions. Can a city really tell you when and where you can or can’t play music?
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Everyone Knew
Police say “Reno” Leyba killed his girlfriend, Sarah Marie Lovato, her unborn child, Isaac, and her father, Bennie Ray Lovato, Sr.
Perhaps no one else should be surprised. The story of Reno and Sarah is one of families destroying themselves while their community, looking on, does nothing.
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SFR Talk: Moving Through Grief
Ted Wiard knows grief. He’s suffered through the worst and emerged with a commitment to help others survive loss through grief counseling and through the Golden Willow Retreat he founded in Taos. The Monday morning after the June 28 crash that left four teens dead, Wiard helped Santa Fe Preparatory and Monte del Sol schools with one of the most emotionally challenging weeks in the community’s history.
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Open Heart Dancing
Like poetry, dance is difficult to define and almost impossible to explain. Nevertheless, Julie Brette Adams manages to explain quite a lot in her solo contemporary dance concert. Adams’ method is not conceptual or abstract, modes she sees as “a reflection of our culture’s emphasis on technology, instant gratification, the external,” but rather her dance is “a journey inward.” Her performances investigate pathos, grieving, loss and humor.
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The Cowboy Junkies
The perfect excuse for a trip to the Pub & Grill is just around the corner when Canada’s Cowboy Junkies comes through town. The Junkies’ career has lasted well over 20 years and includes solid albums, unbelievable live performances and the shock that three siblings could manage to play in a band together and still be able to stand one another.
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Bert's La Taqueria
Chef Fernando Olea’s father-daughter operation (his daughter, Samantha, who works the front of the house, lays down a sauce of charm and hustle as thick as her father’s), is as hospitable as it is delicious, and when a table is in the mood to celebrate, the staff is in accompaniment.
Mariscos "La Playa"
Living in the high desert could make you fear seafood, but better it should make you appreciate the fruits of the far-away sea that much more. And at colorful Mariscos, the spicy, sassy, Mexican-style seafood is deeply appreciable.
Sushi Land East
With its early hours and inexpensive menu, Sushi Land East positions itself as a quick-bite type of restaurant, the kind a few friends hit before a night on the town. It’s a stopover, rather than a destination in the evening and, for a lunch, a spot that’s great for a calming but fast out-of-the-office business meeting or a solo meal away from computers.
