Magic Table
Coffee and cake — you pick the fruit
This version is sweet, but not overly sweet, and you can use almost any fruit that will soften up in the time the cake is in the oven.
In the middle of a pandemic, as it turns out, you savor life’s little pleasures even more.
Some people think of K-pop fandom as a welcoming, friendly community, while others think of the niche following as aggressively obsessive about their favorite groups.
These musicians have gone from unknown to mainstream in the past 10 years.
Music review
Swift’s ‘folklore’ offers hope in dark times
The recently released surprise album is perhaps a symbol of this year's demand for personal introspection — a silver lining of the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic.
LOS ANGELES
Pete Hamill, 1935-2020
Pete Hamill, legendary New York columnist and novelist, dies
Pete Hamill, the self-taught, street-wise newspaper columnist whose love affair with New York inspired a colorful and uniquely influential journalistic career and produced several books of fiction and nonfiction, died Wednesday morning. He was 85.
Magic table
Chill with gazpacho
There's no better time to whip up this simple soup than the height of summer
This is a beautifully balanced example of a modern “Santa Fe Style” home — nothing ostentatious, and the whole nicely grounded in the honey-colored maple flooring. Pin…
By Paul Weideman
This interview series focuses on the people in Santa Fe’s real-estate industry. Gary Wallace is an associate broker with TERRA Santa Fe.
I am often asked the question, “Will they let me change the windows, doors, portal, add an elevator, add a carport, add this room, etc. on this historic house?” And of…
By Paul Weideman
COVID-19 has created a watershed moment for everyone in the world. The impact of this collective pandemic experience will certainly make its way into home design. Inte…
After many decades of real estate values going up and down, we have reached a unique time. Santa Fe has always been a desirable destination for families vacationing fr…
Rome in August is hotter than a pizza oven. Shops, restaurants, and cafés batten down the hatches and stay closed until mid-September when temperatures finally drop. R…
June 19 - July 18
Joseph Sanchez, 376 Cam. Hasta. $499,000.
Living with Children
My parent's tough love stuck with me
I recently received a paean to my generation — the so-called “boomers” — that has been circulating on the internet for some time now. It recalls and celebrates the fre…
“I wasn’t gonna kiss this guy on a first date during COVID,” my friend Abby firmly stated while describing a recent evening out.
My kids had online footprints long before they had ever dipped their toes into the social media pool.
The restaurant-turned-catering outfit is closing after 54 years in business in Santa Fe.
For some New Mexican teens, cars are cornerstones of community, outlets for artistic self-expression and even tools for faith.
Cars are as much a part of our everyday lives as our shoes. They are stylized artworks, status symbols, items of personal expression and even household names.
Magic Table
Super-simple summer 'salad'
This is a summer dinner salad recipe, but I have to make a confession: It’s not a typical salad. It’s not a typical dinner. It’s not even a typical recipe. In fact, th…
Side Dish
Rose’s Kitchen: Farm fresh
Ilana Rose Blankman serves up comforting dishes from a pint-sized truck at Reunity Farm.
Watchmen, cloaked in superhero mythology and grounded in real-world racism, received a leading 26 nominations Tuesday for the prime-time Emmy Awards.
Olivia de Havilland, 1916-2020
Studio star upended old Hollywood
The two-time Oscar winner was the last surviving lead from Gone With the Wind.
Living with Children
Parents face same problems all over the world
One of my books, Making the ‘Terrible’ Twos Terrific!, has recently become a best seller in China, of all places. Seriously!
Commentary Sarah Green Carmichael
Parents' work-from-home struggles are employers' problem, too
As the U.S. free-falls back into an uncontained outbreak of COVID-19, school districts across the country have announced they won’t be fully reopening. It’s become a m…
Whole Hearted Parenting
Talking with your children about racism
The three characteristics of a sensitive or crucial talk are that the stakes are high, feelings are elevated and opinions may differ. In talking about racism with your…
Education STANDOUTS
Pushing through a fog of hatred and ignorance in the form of tear gas and smog, Generation Z kids are fighting for the truth, now more than ever.
As Generation Z inherits a wide variety of issues that must be solved with urgency, our actions are arguably more critical than those who came before us.
Magic Table
Peperonata salad: Sample Italy in summer
The secret sauce to this salad is the peperonata, which also acts as the vinaigrette. As the peppers slowly cook in olive oil, their natural juices release into the pot.
Understanding Disability
Face-friendly masks for the hearing impaired
Pam Parfitt is a retired violinist with moderate to severe hearing loss.
Etiquette Rules!
Those who mask together, stay together
I don’t know what to say.
Living with Children
Worried about a head-banging tot? Don't
Question: When my 2-year-old gets angry, he sometimes gets down and bangs his head on the floor. This happens two or three times a week, generally speaking. He’s not b…
Celebrations
Whole Hearted Parenting
Before talking to kids about racism, start with yourself
There are many big, sensitive and crucial talks that we will have with our children. They are all challenging, with high stakes and big feelings.
My View Emma LAWRENCE
Recognizing the roots of yoga
In order to put the focus back where it belongs, yoga teachers and studio owners must invite conversations about cultural appropriation and accountability.
Local experts say that because teens have lost so much, so abruptly, many young are going through a period of grief and suffering from anxiety, depression or both.
Side Dish
For great ribs, learn from the best
Four-time James Beard Book Award winner Cheryl Alters Jamison gives the lowdown on how to cook superior ribs.
Magic table
Soaking in the flavor
Cooking dried beans is like a super-safe investment. Sure, they take more time to cook, but you will be rewarded.
Living with Children
Parents: You're not (wholly) responsible for how your kids turn out
Are parents responsible for the sort of people their children become? That’s this week’s question, and the answer is no, albeit equivocally.
What the Generation Next team is watching and listening to as lockdowns continue.
Magic Table
Two easy staples for the summer
Eating with the natural rhythm of the seasons brings about all kinds of good things — better flavor, more nutrients, cost savings and increased variety.
Elaine Gilmartin lived for many years in what she always called the Big House — today's 1300 "G" Canyon Road. Just before she found "The Hill," she had been involved i…
The Santa Fe New Mexican of Nov. 30, 1929, announced that five architects had been invited “to submit designs for the buildings of the Laboratory of Anthropology to be…
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