Recently added articles from Santa Fe Reporter:
SHOE FOR ALL
Mar 04, 2009; ... When my daughter Poppy and I arrived late to a birthday party at our local children's museum, I was pretty amazed at what I surveyed: A room void of children and a table crowded with deviled eggs, pigs in a blanket, chocolate-covered strawberries and a floral center piece straight out of J Lo's ...
TAXING TIMES
Mar 04, 2009; ... Santa Fe is a bubble. It's a common refrain, right? We're disconnected from reality here in the capital city because the sun is always shining and running into a Republican is only a little more likely than seeing a zebra grazing on the Plaza grass (grass that is so precious, we're not ...
DANCING QUEEN
Mar 04, 2009; ... Myra Krien is the founder and director of Pomegranate Studios (535 Cerrillos Road, 986-6164), which offers dance classes and youth outreach programs, as well as the director and choreographer of Mosaic Dance (.Company. Krien and Mosaic will perform Invaders of the Heart: One Love (7 pm Friday ...
VALUE JUDGEMENT
Mar 04, 2009; ... Mental health providers question change in state contractor. Health care providers across New Mexico are concerned the state's decision to contract with a new corporation will undo much of the progress achieved since Gov. Bill Richardson's 2004 restructuring of the behavioral health ...
EATING OUT?
Mar 04, 2009; ... While the National Restaurant Association predicts small growth this year, in Santa Fe "most restaurateurs freely admitted that business was off 10 to 20 percent" at the last Santa Fe Restaurant Association board meeting, according to its president, Carter Tague. This slump coincides ...
DRUNK TECH
Mar 04, 2009; ... Hammered? Ask your dashboard. Last week, a judge in Santa Fe ruled that lawyer Carlos Fierro would have to stand trial for vehicular homicide. Police say Fierro struck and killed a pedestrian, William Tenorio, then sped away one night in November. Fierro and his buddy, former State ...
BRIEFS
Mar 04, 2009; ... Crosswalkers Unite: Santa Fe dog groomer Maria Jobe was naturally upset last week when her mother, Linda, who uses a motorized wheelchair, was struck by a car on her way to the grocery store, in a crosswalk no less. Apparently the driver failed to stop. After hearing about similar incidents from ...
SILVER LINING
Mar 04, 2009; ... In the skies near the border of Texas and New Mexico, a small white airplane speeds toward a promising cloud. A young pilot handles the controls. He must work quickly. The plane's wings each carry a row of 24 flares. They look like shotgun shells. (In fact, the company that sells the ...
SONGBIRDS
Mar 04, 2009; ... There are rules, people. I am the undisputed king of karaoke. Ask anyone. When I get really pumped while I sing "Welcome to the Jungle," people are transfixed. I am the only person in town allowed to sing "Total Eclipse of the Heart," and strangers buy me drinks almost every time. Now, ...
BIG BLACK BLOCK BOOK
Mar 04, 2009; ... BIG BLACK BLOCK BOOK Radius offers an idea factory with its McCracken book. Progress is all about blocks. Stack enough of them and you eventually get somewhere. The language of progress is full of references to building blocks, keystones and cornerstones. Ideas and trends, such ...
STATE OF CONFUSION
Mar 04, 2009; ... A local chef discusses the challenges of authenticity, creativity and staying afloat. Mauka chef Joel Coleman's culinary comfort zone appears to reside in the creative sweet spot between a work in progress and a finished dish. To his likeability but perhaps also to his detriment, he ...
DRAWN IN
Mar 04, 2009; ... DRAWN IN Ari Folman explores the fallibility of memory. WALTZ WITH BASHIR Written and directed by Ari Folman With Ron BenYishai, Ronny Dayag and Ari Folman UA DeVargas 90 min. R BY CURT HOLMAN Waltz With Bashir, Ari Folmaris ...
GIT BACK
Feb 11, 2009; ... New Mexico National Guard Returns from Guantanamo Bay. In the coming year, more than 800 soldiers and airmen in the New Mexico National Guard will be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. They will join what has become a seemingly endless flow of armed Americans to foreign war zones and ...
SLEEPY CITY
Feb 11, 2009; ... SLEEPY CITY New York I love you, but you're bringing me down. THE CITY OF NEW YORK Through April 9 Monroe Gallery of Photography 112 Don Gaspar Ave. 992-0800 New York City carries with it a romanticism that reaches far across city borders ....
Correction
Feb 11, 2009; ... Correction: The third-place winning story in SFR's 2008 writing contest in the nonfiction category, "Desert Blood," was attributed to the wrong writer ....
CLICKABLE CABINET?
Feb 11, 2009; ... With the kind of lefty, idealistic Facebook friends I've got, every visit to the trendy social networking Web site offers a deluge of invitations to join causes or align with groups dedicated to making the world a better place. Clean water for the Third World! Save the Lakota language! ...
WRITING CONTEST
Feb 11, 2009; ... 3rd Pasquale Enos "Desert Blood" Pasquale Enos writes to keep her sanity and currently uses her computer as a bookshelf. Fiercely and proudly Native American, she hopes to write for Rolling Stone magazine while still adhering to her roots. Pasquala's perfect childhood ...
KING'S CROSSING
Feb 11, 2009; ... SFR Talk WITH INDI MCCASEY Indi McCasey is a member of Gender Offenders, a local drag and burlesque group that celebrates Valentine's Day with a performance, (un)Lucky in Love: A Heartbreaking Drag & Burlesque Cabaret, (8 pm Friday, Feb. 13. $10-$15. Wise Fool Studios, 2778-D ...
FLUNK THE SYSTEM
Feb 11, 2009; ... DJ Miss Ginger misses Brazil. Airfare to São Paolo: $1,000 Brazilian visa: $200 World Social Forum registration and space rental: $450 Co -organizers flaking on you: Bummer of the Year For months, Ginger Dunnill, aka DJ Miss Ginger, had been planning and ...
BRIEFS
Feb 11, 2009; ... Peaceniks Heart Bingamari: Santa Fe Jews upset by escalating violence in the Gaza Strip have formed * Another Jewish Voice of Santa Fe (Contact: Jeff Haas, jeffhhaas@aol. com, 469-0714). The group of more than 30 members sent a letter this week thanking US Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-NM, for ...