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Santa Fe Barman
Chris Milligan is a bartender, bon vivant and a self-professed drink geek.
Cocktail Competitions Galore in New Mexico
"On April 15, The Lodge at Santa Fe, along with Southern Wine and Spirits, hosts the Don Q Rum Mix it Up competition"
Veggie Trails
Paige Victoria is a professional fashionista with a passion for healthy eating and natural living.
"I like to hop onto the trail for jogging or to take my puppy on a long walk in the evening"
"Tsankawi is an ancestral pueblo village, which was occupied during the 1100s-1500s..."
The Guy In the Groove
Dick is an all-around music guy and wild shirt aficionado.
Rockers Sell! Rockers Sell Out!
"The number of artists who recorded Coca-Cola commercials may be greater than the ones who didn’t..."
Culture Junkie
Staci Golar is a writer, artist and fan of the Welsh village name Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrob-wllllantysiliogogogoch.
Local Treasures
"How 'Our Lady' Became a Potent Symbol of Santa Fe"
Pueblo Feast Days Throughout New Mexico Fill Body and Spirit
"...it’s a quintessential New Mexican experience..."
Hoof Prints in Santa Fe
Susie Morgan is a lifetime lover of horses, the outdoors and lives for adventures. She lives in Las Campanas, and is reconnecting with horses after working 27 years in New York City.
The Ojito Desert Badlands – Back Country Trail Report from Bill Manns
"...the Ojito covers about 12,000 acres of rough, rock-strewn country with lots of up and down scrambles"
Poetically Hungry
Mary MacIntyre writes incessantly, is an avid photographer, and a classic health food nut.
Neglected beauty: a green blog showcasing the spaces and faces in our world that are making our environment a little more interesting and lot more beautiful.
Carole-Aine finds beauty in all aspects of the environment -- she is an advocate for locally grown flowers and beautification projects, and she is an award-winning floral designer who loves wearing impractical boots, even in the summer.
"...the snow-covered chollas and chamisas made us feel like we were in a winter fairy-land"
Ready-to-Wear Beauty: Weedrobes
"After the photo shoot, Dextras places her living sculpture in a garden or park setting and allows it to decompose over time"
Fox in a Forest
Todd Eric Lovato is a Santa Fe native, the managing editor of SantaFe.com, an award-winning musician and an overfed, long-haired leaping gnome.
Opening Night: The Santa Fe Fuego Light Up Ft. Marcy Park
"It was a funky, sloppy, sluggish and chilly experience. It was also wildly entertaining and a wonderful community event..."
Santa Fe Creates
Kris Swedin is a community activist, writer and staffs a 21-year-old calico cat.
Critical Faculties
Craig Smith answered an ad for singers for the Santa Fe Desert Chorale’s first season way back when – OK, 1983 – and has been here happily ever since. He is a writer, editor, journalist, arts critic, general wordsmith, and wannabe polymath.
"A night of exquisite conducting, top-drawer costumes, passion and punch..."
An Illuminating, Heartbreaking “Our Town”
"Thornton Wilder's 'Our Town' is unusually good at the Santa Fe Playhouse..."
The Hitching Post
Jessie is a designer of boutique weddings and special events in Santa Fe. She has a serious case of creative ADD and is a whiz with a glue gun.
"This lovely wedding took place at the Hotel St. Francis, a charming spot for intimate nuptials"
"I was lucky enough to create a fun hot air balloon-themed baby shower for twins..."
Santa Fe Real Estate: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Warren R. Sacks isn’t a traditional real estate guy, believes numbers never lie and likes a good joke.
First Quarter Real Estate Report, 2012
"The Santa Fe real estate market continues to show consistent signs of life and progress"
Are You Considering Protesting Your Residential Santa Fe County Property Taxes?
"...we can provide you with sold data of properties that you may use in your protest"
Horned Locust GoatScaping: Adventures in the Goat Life
Amanita Thorp aims to walk in beauty, is an artist, writer and enthusiast of inter-species relating
"I have serious reservations about walking through this area, about the rain runoff, as well as proximity to the river below"
At Home Outdoors
Karen Denison is owner of Outspire Hiking and Snowshoeing guide service, a former biologist, and a shameless admirer of the outdoors.
"There in the clump of dead grass and new sprouts was a carefully crafted and well-camouflaged nest..."
"It is a sprawling annual plant in very dry, disturbed soils in New Mexico and Arizona"
Santa Fe Sky 365
Does Santa Fe average 300 days of sunshine a year?
Enchanted Odds - An Insight Into the Santa Fe Area Casinos
David Oakeley is a marketeer, journalist, and a ski/golf nut.
Balloon Fiesta at Santa Claran in May
" The event will be staged at the casino from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and is free"
The Greene Room
Winston Greene is a writer, actor and lover of the arts.
A Christmas Carol Like No Other
"A stirring adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic 'A Christmas Carol' by Albuquerque's Blackout Productions"
Santa Fe Playhouse presents...
"'Give us a week and a bowl of peanuts and we’ll give you one of the greatest movies of all time”
Communication Guru
Andrew Lovato, Ph.D., is a communication professor, author and eavesdropper.
What are your memories of Zozobra?
"What are your memories of Zozobra? If you are attending the burning tonight, I’d love to hear about you experience..."
Times Are A-Changin'
Lynn Atkison is an educator, yogi, writer, and keen observer of Santa Fe life.
"It occurred to me, then, that I could and would create my own change"
Education Not: An Educator’s View of Education in New Mexico
"I am no longer working at the college and, as a freelance blogger, am less restricted in making some careful observations and points..."
Gourmet Girl
Lynn Cline is a former food editor and the author of two books – Romantic Days and Nights in Santa Fe and Literary Pilgrims: The Santa Fe and Taos Writers' Colonies, 1915-1950. She also loves to cook, when not dining out.
"James Beard Award-winning cookbook authors Bill and Cheryl Alters Jamison launch new cookbook about New Mexico..."
"Use your imagination, not Hallmark, to tell your mom how much you love her and how unique she is"
Diminished Fifth
Gabe Gomez is a writer, radio show host & deputy director for the department of superfluous hyperbole (Southwest Office).
Q&A
Reinventing Idol: An Interview with ‘American Idol’ Alum Crystal Bowersox
Live at Santa Fe Sol, Jan. 28
‘These Go to Eleven’: Album Picks for 2011 and Hometown Accolades
"This list would not be complete without looking within our own music community..."
No Regrets
Michelle Laflamme-Childs is a writer, arts non-profit maven and a teenager locked in the body of a 40-something mom.
"I thought it might be fun to delve into the mysteries of the number 45 and explore its many meanings..."
Top 10 Things I Didn’t Get Around to Doing in 2011
"There were so many things I wanted to do , things I meant to do in 2011, but didn't"
This Enchanted Life
Ana June is a writer, photographer and irreverent mama to four humans and five chickens.
Thing of Beauty Thursday, Oct. 27
"...and so today is beautiful for the life that continues, despite frost, despite time, despite death and sadness. It is all, in the end (as the beginning!) a thing of beauty"
Once a Day Marketing
James Glover, That Branding Guy, provides the inspiration and ideas for you to market every day in his Once a Day Marketing video blog. Tune in daily to his short, entertaining and practical marketing and branding tips and watch your organization become more successful.
Speaking for a Wiser Life
Levi Ben-Shmuel is a Tai Chi and Kabbalah teacher, and co-creator of "Sulam Chi: A Dance of Life."
Are You Ready to Stop Working and Start Playing? Part 2
"For me, reframing work as play is a very effective metaphor"
Are You Ready to Stop Working and Start Playing? Part 1
"If we are willing to bring all of ourselves into work...we can bring spirit into the workplace in a concrete, powerful and inspiring way"
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The Future of Real Estate
Alan Hoffman has been building sustainable homes and communities here in Santa Fe for 30 years and believes that the answers to our greatest challenges are already here.
Natural Homes and Trend Magazine Debut Zero Energy Solar Home in Santa Fe
State Representative Brian Egolf visits premier of Affordable Solar Home
Learn How to Reduce your Carbon Foot Print and Save Money
2012 Zero Energy Home Reception and Workshops
"..it is possible to build cost-effective Zero Energy homes at or below the cost of a custom home equivalent..."
Thor’s Hammer
Thor Sigstedt is an artist in wood, words, cameras, bronze, cast iron, glass, notes and steel; a homesteader from Spirit Valley specializing in forest diversity and “land ethics” and a dabbler in practical and non-practical non-zero new paradigm complexity in the multiverse.
"...there is no better place to be and not much more fun to be had anywhere"
"...the plants, native and non-native, have a lot to teach us About diversity..."
Writer-ly
Sarah Velez is a photographer, writer, and slayer of euphemisms.
City Starts Search for New Poet Laureate
"The Poet Laureate represents Santa Fe for a two-year term with public appearances and a community educational outreach initiative"
Submit Your Writing, Art to the Santa Fe Literary Review
"We’re looking for poetry, prose, short fiction, photography, painting, graphic design, comic strips, etc..."
Where’s My Great Career?
Patty Armstrong is a career counselor and educator on a mission to help people of all ages find careers they enjoy.
I Just Graduated and Now I Need a Job
"With hard work and the right guidance, you can find the great career you want"
How Do I Tell People I was Fired?
"When your job application asks your reason for leaving, you need to come up with a neutral – and truthful – explanation..."
Santa Fe Fashion and Style
Greta is an artist, writer and renaissance woman
Brilliance at the New Mexico School for the Arts
"The event gave students from all artistic genres of the school a platform to feature their talents"
Public Enemy: My First Hip-Hop Concert
"Public Enemy has always been on the forefront of political commentary with the poetry of their music and the presentation of their videos"
Santa Fe Business Musings
Polly White is a local business owner, active community member and astronomy geek.
Which Works Better: Cooperation Or Competition?
"I think that competition brings out the 'beast' in us and cooperation brings out the 'best' in us."
Modeling Integrity as a Business Manager or Owner
"These are some reminders for showing integrity and maintaining the respect of employees, co-workers, customers and other business associates"
The Way I See Things
Eric Davis is rebel, a renaissance man, a racounteur, and a philosopher of little or no consequence.
The Way I See Things # 10 – Part 3
The Boss and Me: A Short History of My Long Relationship with Bruce Springsteen and His Music, Pt. 3
“The River” and “Born in the USA”
The Way I See Things # 10 – Part 2
The Boss and Me: A Short History of My Long Relationship with Bruce Springsteen and His Music, Pt. 2
"The 'Darkness' stories and more..."
People, Politics and Passions
I am a poet, teacher, novelist, poet and founder of Women’s Voices and Brain Dynamics
The Romney Money: A Mormon Family’s Legacy
"Like many other Americans and refugees, our family lost everything because of our faith, time and time again"
"We want to be cautious, but also to rejoice in these possible steps toward confidence that our country still has a future..."
Culture Vulture
Tom Maguire is a musician, arts supporter and a guy who travels the Southwest in a 13’ Scamp trailer, because he couldn’t figure out how the tent poles went together.
Sinuhe Speaks
Arthur Panaro is a psychotherapist, teacher and writer. He did 7 years of hard time on fantasy island, Manhattan, NYC, before making the jump to hyper-space in New Mexico.
My Visit to a ‘Think and Act Tank’
"...the Academy is dedicated to cultural transformation"
"...memes are formed starting at birth and get progressively more sophisticated and implanted throughout life"
Trips & Quips
Liz Simon is a photographer, writer and cyclist who likes to combine the three in her quest to discover the nooks and crannies of New Mexico. Sometimes, means of transportation other than bicycle are employed---including the Rail Runner and motorcycle.
"I love the esprit de corps of this ride. Everyone is in such a great mood, and everyone is helpful"
"Getting in shape for cycling, especially for a long event, like The Century, is no small feat"
The Beans & Chile
José Smith is a writer, stay-at-home dad and fiend of excellent essays.
His Name is MCA, I said ‘Howdy,’ He Said ‘Hi’
"It was probably the first time in my young life that something musical, something creative, something at all, compelled me to think and desire beyond the borders of my childhood"
"All I'm saying...is don't surf the web in your car and if you must, get better at doing it"
From Here to Discernity
Steve Stockdale is a military-trained, artistically-inspired, pursuer of differences that make a difference.
Old and New Takes on Education
"Never be afraid to become embroiled in art or life or politics..."
The Rolling Stones of Broken Beliefs
"...sometimes we have life experiences that become unbound from our belief systems"
Queer Qulturist
Linda Krauss is a producer and event promoter who appreciates a wicked sense of humor.
Bohemian Rhapsody: The Music of Ron “Dadu” Romanovsky
"...like a gypsy, prepare to wander down a musical path that will make you clap, dance, and smile in a rhapsody of life's delight..."
"Queer musicians, singers and composers have had a huge creative impact on music for hundreds of years..."
Media Rare
Casey St. Charnez has been video editor for Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide since 1986 and buyer for Lisa Harris' Video Library since 1981. He likes Lisa, cats, crosswords, and the Metropolitan Opera, probably in that order.
Media Rare #17
R.I.P. Capt. John Carter, 1912-2012
"Only three weeks after first release on March 9, the bean-counters proclaimed the movie a box office bomb..."
