The holiday entertainment season, version 2022, offers some new twists, some welcome reappearances, and some reassuring reliables.
Santa Feans remember Ted Rose as a painter of steam railroads. He was also a master of landscapes and portraits. His watercolors of locomotives graced calendars, posta…
Processed instruments, quadraphonic sound, and field recordings are among the distinctive elements of a new monthly series focused on experimental music.
Maria Schrader's She Said is an engrossing depiction of the reporting that brought down Harvey Weinstein and ignited the #MeToo movement.
Two scientists use a century's worth of study into transcendent experiences to continue a project famously started by William James.
Mixed Media
Sticking in Santa Fe
For the second consecutive year, the winter Traditional Spanish Market Artist Show is in Santa Fe and not New Mexico's largest city.
Random Acts
Respect for the dead
Eric Blinman, director of the state Office of Archaeological Studies, will address finding a collaborative approach in human burial studies during an upcoming Southwest Seminars discussion.
Start a home improvement project this weekend, but don’t try to talk anyone else into joining, just make it look like fun.
In Galatea, novelist Madeline Miller, known for The Song of Achilles and Circe, retells another myth in her own way.
The third and final season of the Netflix dramedy Dead to Me is a fitting if uneven ending to a compelling story about female friendship and loss.
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Strings to spare
A musician will play 16th and 17th century music on the distinctively shaped archlute, which dates from that era.
Behind his tough image, the longtime FBI director was a man of profound contradictions, historian Beverly Gage writes.
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Appetite for abstraction
Strata Gallery’s exhibition of Santa Fe artist and poet Jane Shoenfeld’s abstract works runs through Dec. 17, with a reception Dec. 2 and a poetry reading Dec. 9.
Nancy King Zeckendorf’s engaging autobiography tracks the former dancer’s ascent in the arts and fundraising worlds.
Although Hermanos Gutiérrez is based in Switzerland, the band's music can be described as a soundtrack to a Southwestern journey.
Shira Greenberg’s joke is that Keshet Dance Company and Center for the Arts in Albuquerque, which she founded 26 years ago, has almost reached the point of achieving her vision. Good things take time.
With Thistlefoot, GemmaRose Nethercott, a poet and folklorist, has crafted an astonishing, tremendously rewarding multi-genre debut novel about estranged siblings who are reunited after receiving a mysterious inheritance.
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‘Messiah’ kicks off holiday concert season
You know the holidays aren't far off when the Santa Fe Symphony and Chorus perform Handel's Messiah. By Santa Fe tradition it's first out of the gate in the seasonal sweepstakes, this year on Saturday, Nov. 19, and Sunday, Nov. 20, at the Lensic Performing Arts Center.
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Block party for the arts
ArtWalk Santa Fe's upcoming event is billed as the first Rufina Block Party, taking place at businesses in the area of Rufina Street and Calle de Comercio.
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In her world, a platypus has claws
Suzanne Sbarge's art, which appears to be a set of snapshots from an alternate reality, is the focus of a nearly monthlong exhibition at Santa Fe's Hecho Gallery.
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Many happy returns
A diverse array of instruments such as the mountain dulcimer, North Indian sitar, and bowed psaltery will make appearances alongside husband-and-wife duo Four Shillings Short, which is returning to Santa Fe for a pre-holiday performance.
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'Spirit' on the small screen
The exhibit Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery continues through May 29 at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, but it's not the only way to learn about pueblos' rich history with clay.
Season 2 of Mike White's award-winning covid-era creation The White Lotus might feel like a slight rehash, but includes enough new ideas to make it worthwhile.
Marvel sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever covers up its inability to move on by resorting to repetitive action sequences, maudlin emotion, and an uninvolving, occasionally incoherent story.
Book Review
Bob Dylan takes us on a tour of songs he admires
The singer writes some creative appreciations in The Philosophy of Modern Song.
Feel that shift as planets move from brooding and focused Scorpio during the election to enthusiastic Sagittarius through Thanksgiving.
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing delves into actor Matthew Perry's staggering drug use, his near-fatal health issues and his desperate need to be loved.
The historian highlights the 16th president's politics of faith and noble compromise, and suggests they should be applied today.
The chamber ballet company New York Theatre Ballet is coming to the Lensic Performing Arts Center on Friday, Nov. 11.
A Santa Fe man has parlayed his passion for music into a record label, Mama Mañana Records.
Restaurant Review
A delicious celebration of eating out again
Horno is the latest restaurant created by chef David Sellers and his wife, Heather Sellers. The restaurant's atmosphere, service, and food will lure our reviewer back, and soon.
Bread and Puppet Theater's Our Domestic Resurrection Circus: Apocalypse Defiance is playing a one-night stand at the Wise Fool Studio and yes, the performance includes both puppets to watch and bread to eat, after the show.
Mixed Media
Opera West sends in the clowns
Pagliacci, one of the most famous verismo operas ever written, is having what is almost certainly its first Santa Fe production, courtesy of Opera West at St. Francis Auditorium. Verismo means states of high dudgeon among the lower classes, usually involving adultery, as indeed it does in Ruggero Leoncavallo's masterpiece.
Book Review
One size does not fits all families
In Any Other Family, Eleanor Brown has crafted a highly readable book that explores open adoption and what it means to be a family and a mother.
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'Mr. Beautiful' meets The City Different
One of the jazz world's greatest living pianists, George Cables, is heading to Santa Fe for a gig sponsored by the Santa Fe Music Collective and featuring the members of his trio, bassist Essiet Essiet and drummer Jerome Jennings.
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Call them spokes-people
Cranksgiving is a national Thanksgiving food drive in which volunteer bicyclists take a turn at food delivery. The Santa Fe version is Saturday, Nov. 12.
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Jill and Jack try to get things back
Adult instructors will perform alongside children ages 6 to 13 in Umbrella Children’s Theatre's Jill and Jack and the Beanstalk.
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Díné/Navajo stories of afterlife
A leader with the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission will share Díné/Navajo Stories About Death, the Afterlife, Grief, and Renewal on Thursday, Nov. 17.
Movie Review
When old friendship goes violently awry
Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson reunite with In Bruges filmmaker Martin McDonagh.
Streaming Review
It’s Shy Di’s turn
Season 5 of The Crown finds the royal family spiraling into chaos — but manages to find compelling stories about almost all of them anyway. And it may change your opinion of Charles and Diana.
Ted Conover's Cheap Land Colorado compassionately captures the lives of American outsiders.
Movie Review
Privilege and punk rock in 1980s Queens
James Gray's deeply personal coming-of-age tale Armageddon Time illuminates our own times with surreal prescience.
We can hit the reset button this week. First let’s assess our situation and reorganize as the sun squares serious Saturn on Friday.
Woodward says audio recordings of his Trump interviews offer deeper understanding of the man. They are also a surprising window into Woodward's method.
The famed artist sees his new permanent exhibit in the House of Eternal Return as a chance to continue the storytelling of his Revolt 1680/2180 project.
Music groups love to talk about talking their audiences on an emotional journey, but the Santa Fe Symphony is going one step farther and taking patrons on a physical journey, with Rite this Way. It's a chamber music concert that begins in the Santa Fe Scottish Rite Center's theater and ends in its ballroom, with a champagne break at the midpoint.
Anne Wilkes Tucker trains a lens at trailblazing female photographers. She is coming to Santa Fe near the 50th anniversary of her seminal book on female photographers, The Woman’s Eye. Her lecture, "Not Women Artists, Artists," will be presented at St. Francis Auditorium on Friday, Nov. 4.
Cirque Mechanics brings its people-powered retro-futuristic performance to Popejoy Hall with Zephyr: A Whirlwind of Circus.
Book Review
Speaking the language of the natural world
In Conversations with Birds, a new book of 20 essays, the accomplished writer and documentary filmmaker Priyanka Kumar shares her vast knowledge of birds and wildlife and her interactions with wildlife experts at the various New Mexico refuges she has visited.
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A sobering tale
The Seafarer, the final play of the New Mexico Actors Lab's season, culminates in a poker game with far higher stakes than one of the protagonists could have imagined.
Mixed Media
Lessons from 650 years ago
Santa Fe actress Linda Loving will evoke images and memories from 650 years ago while portraying Julian of Norwich during her one-woman play.
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Culinary Arts
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Restaurant ReviewA delicious celebration of eating out again
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Amuse-BoucheEye of the storm
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Amuse BoucheExtended family: Fiesta with the Franks
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Random ActsCelebrate the grape
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Amuse-BoucheNourishing the creative spirit
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Amuse-boucheStill waters: Altar Spirits anchors in
- ‘That cozy thing’: Holiday desserts from three local bakeries
- Gifts for the discerning host that are (mostly) not fruitcake
- Giving thanks for beer
- Beer-brined bird from The Beeroness
- Treat the fruit well: Rombauer Vineyards
- The underdog of spirits
- Elements of a classic: the martini
- Dining outside the box: Restaurant patios worth checking out
- Soul nourishment: Sweetwater Harvest Kitchen