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Suspect in Protective Custody
Scott Owens, the man accused of driving drunk and killing four Santa Fe teenagers, is now in protective custody at the Santa Fe jail.
Memorialized in Poetry
Mourners busted out the turntables, the tracks that remind them of their departed friends and some crazy good lyrics in honor of the mile marker 5 crash victims. With Video Extra.
Bad Toys II
After sitting through the grandiose, insipid spectacle Michael Bay has wrought, I can offer devotees of 1980s merchandise-hawking cartoons the assurance that Hasbro found the right man for the job.
Local Seafood
In 1918, Mose Iacino launched a family fish business in Colorado by bringing fresh seafood into Denver on railcars. The supply came from Seattle, Wash. and, in order to keep the catch fresh, new ice was added every time the train stopped on its multi-day journey.
Daddy Needs a Drink
After the kids had finished their school-related camping trips, field days and locker cleanups, and once I stopped seeing blue (books) after grading exams, we decided to have what folks are calling a “staycation:” staying in a hotel and playing tourist in your hometown.
Like many families who consider themselves “locals” in a popular tourist destination, we’d been avoiding the areas that attract outsiders.
Zane's World
Robbed of the complacency of geography and the insulating filter of mass media—factors that manage to simultaneously sensationalize death and make it unremarkable—we feel the accident at mile marker 5 not as a headline from elsewhere, but as an inconsolable despair that will be forever contained in the collective consciousness of the community.
Letters to the Editor
Digital on the brain, Northwest Quadrant and LGBT solidarity.
Santa Fe Grieves
A tragedy like the car crash that killed four Santa Fe teenagers on June 28 leaves even strangers reeling with grief. But few in our community are strangers to the victims and their families. At SFR, the events of June 28 hit particularly close to home. The sole survivor and driver from the teenagers’ car, Avree Koffman, is the daughter of one of our staff members, Dan Koffman. Several of our contributors also had personal relationships with the victims who did not survive.
