Explore Things to Do: Local Secrets in Plain Sight

Well, the tents are all gone, the crowds have thinned out, our honored visitors have mostly returned home, and Indian Market 2009 becomes another part of the rich cultural history of Santa Fe.  For all who attended though, the images of the event will remain, and await refreshing with new images of Indian Market 2010!  We introduce this online album to capture the images and impressions of Indian Market 2009. 

If you'd like your images and impressions to become a living part of this album, please just email Editor@santafe.com.

A whirlwind tour of Santa Fe’s juicy local clothing shops

Let’s face it—you don’t visit Santa Fe to go to the Gap. In the City Different you seek the unique, the eclectic and the sinfully fabulous. If you’re a local, you’re missing out when you forego downtown’s cozy shops for the cheap thrills of the mall. Whether you’re here for three days or 365, set aside an afternoon to browse your way through downtown Santa Fe. Don’t forget your wallet!

Start a block north of the Plaza on Marcy Street. Pop into Wearabouts, a small women’s clothing store carrying specialty designers like 3J Workshop and Burning Torch. You’ll appreciate snazzy details li...

On December 7 & 8, 2007 at Wise Fool Studio (2778 Agua Fria Street), Santa Fe’s Theater Grottesco (John Flax Artistic Director and Co-Founder) produced a solo puppet show of six related stories by solo puppeteer Eric Bass (Co-Founder of Sandglass Players of Putney, Vermont).

The evening was appropriately titled Autumn Portraits as each vignette focused on the interplay of the puppeteer and a solo puppet that in each instance confronted its history, its present, and its imminent death. The puppet O’Neill, a vaudevillian that clearly had “died” many times on the boards and always faced his next performance with irony, courage, and persistence, enlivened the evening...

Congratulations! You’ve chosen beautiful Santa Fe for your destination wedding. You’ve set a date, wrangled a budget and maybe even started thinking about a few minor details like wedding venue, lodging and officiant. Now it’s time to plan the best party you’ll ever throw—your wedding reception.

First, it’s essential to keep in mind that whether you are inviting 300 of your closest friends or an intimate group of twenty, your reception is for you, the happy couple. Although plenty of people will have opinions on how to do it, you need to make sure that it’s an expression of what you want to share. Fortunately, Santa Fe can provide just about any ambience and...

As with all theater companies, Theater Grottesco (TG) attempts to tell stories. The essential challenge is how to connect with the audience on emotional and spiritual levels as well as on the more literal level of narrative. Company co-founder and artistic director John Flax is always searching for a “new way of telling a story” with his experienced ensemble attempting to discover “what forms make something new.” John makes the analogy between the congruence among TG’s ensemble actors and a no-look pass from a highly skilled point guard on an experienced basketball team. That flash of coordinated brilliance that “wow factor” is what TG is looking to create. At its essen...