Zane Fischer
Stories by Zane Fischer
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.
Metamorphosis
The elegant little building, situated at the corner of Alameda and Galisteo streets, once contained the fledgling promise of the Mediterranean Café. It has spent the last several years drooping from a gem into a degenerate gangster bar and then a rug shop and, finally, a sad, empty building in need of genuine metamorphosis. The building was a cockroach, but it woke up recently to find it had transformed into Louie’s Corner Café.
Zane's World
You know what I’m all done with? Santa Fe’s quatrocentenario––the 400th anniversary celebration. So far nothing has really happened to convince me that it’s anything other than a weird post-colonial seizure—the fevered gasp of a misunderstood and violent history.
Going Local Means Getting Large
Hand me a sealed plastic bag of so-called “food” on an airplane and my instinct instinct is to say, “If any portion of the high cost of my airplane ticket is justified by the expense of this nasty little sack of over-processed by-products, please give me the home address of your CEO because I desperately want to wake him in the night by ramming these airplane-shaped graham crackers down his throat.”
Santa Fe Restaurant Guide 2009-1010
SFR's annual guide to eating in Santa Fe: classic restaurants, restaurant of the year, our 40 favorites and the complete list of where to eat and what to eat.
SF Talk: Small is Big
Susan Witt is the executive director of the EF Schumacher Society. The society is dedicated to finding practical applications for the ideas Schumacher expressed in his well-known book, Small is Beautiful. Witt will speak at 7 pm, Oct. 24, on “linking land, people, communities and local economies” at the La Montañita Co-op’s annual membership meeting. The meeting is open to the public and takes place at SITE Santa Fe.
Zane's World
MIX needs a remix, Glenn Beck needs to be slapped, the AP needs to be put out of its misery, issuing a city bond to build a private movie theater is a bad idea on every possible level, and continually extending government support to a movie studio in the county is getting awful tiresome, too.
Colter’s Ghost
Remember when La Plazuela restaurant—the house eatery for La Fonda hotel—was like an all-terrain skate bowl? Stepping from the lobby into the dining room was like entering a lopsided universe of chunky stone that drained toward a rocky vortex at the center. Not only was sure footing unlikely, but tables, plates and drinks listed with the tilt of the bowl. It was like eating in a dramatic, frozen ocean.
Zane's World
Santa Fe is once again a prominent player in Travel + Leisure magazine’s annual survey of America’s favorite cities. Of course, people who vote in the survey are just echoing the marketing campaigns put forward by the cities and the preconceptions formed by, for example, Travel + Leisure magazine.
Corner Clash
Red patio umbrellas face yellow patio umbrellas across Old Santa Fe Trail and on opposite sides of the Santa Fe River. The colorful umbrellas on sturdy, upright poles are not exactly flags flying from pikes, but I nonetheless think of them as signs of the clash between two new restaurants: a brasserie versus bistro brawl.
