Last Monday, actor Natalie Portman stopped by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. She and a friend then visited the Andrew Smith photography gallery. She's in town to film Thor, playing Jane Foster, the superhero's first true love.

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The lovely Tao of Steve, filmed in Santa Fe by Santa Feans, no less, made the list of critic Leonard Maltin's 151 Best Movies You've Never Seen. The 2000 film was directed by Jenniphr Goodman and written by Duncan North and Greer Goodman and starred Donal Logue.

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A link to Santa Fe can be seen on the TV show Lost. In the bar, you can see a hand-painted sign in the background that reads, Surdut Exceptional Island Colors. Local artist Beth Surdut reports that the sign once was hers — it used to hang outside her studio in Oahu. She found out her sign had discovered a new lease on life through an e-mail from a fan or hers in Belgium.

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A new book, Appetite for America, features the English-born entrepreneur Fred Harvey and his effect on eating in America. He started the Harvey Houses — a feature along the railroad tracks of New Mexico — and author Stephen Fried credits Harvey with the beginnings of fast food in America.

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Writers Layli Long Soldier and James Thomas Stevens read at Collected Works from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, kicking off the Native Literary Art Series, a new emphasis on the written word in the programs presented by the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts — the folks who bring Indian Market to the Plaza each August.

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The New Mexico History Museum, not even a year old, already is No. 1. True West magazine just named the museum the No. 1 Western museum in the country.

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Santa Fe writer Terry Gomez is featured in the spring Mirage magazine, the University of New Mexico's alumni publication. The article discusses how Gomez, who received an MFA from UNM in 2008, took her play, Carbon Black, to the Autry National Center of the American West in Los Angeles last November. The world premier of the play kicked off the 10th anniversary of Native Voices at the Autry.

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Oscar winner Jeff Bridges and his band perform at 3 p.m. today at the Lensic, a benefit that also includes a screening of his award-winning performance in Crazy Heart.

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