With more than 200 galleries and museums, most people probably think of Santa Fe as just an art town. But it’s increasingly gaining a reputation as a destination for cinephiles. The 11th Annual Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, Wednesday, Oct. 16, through Oct. 20, happens at various venues in town.
Tantoo Cardinal is the epitome of a working actress, and she is probably the most recognizable indigenous actress working today. A tribute to Tantoo Cardinal takes place at the Lensic on Saturday, Oct. 19 at 7 p.m.
Jane Seymour receives a lifetime achievement award Oct. 18 from the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival at the Lensic Performing Arts Center, 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18.
Santa Fe Independent Film Festival 2019 picks by Pasatiempo writer Paul Weideman.
Family dynamics and strained parent-child relationships feature prominently in several movies screening at the 2019 Santa Fe Independent Film Festival. Here are picks by Pasatiempo writer Jennifer Levin.
2019 Santa Fe Independent Film Festival picks by Pasatiempo writer Michael Abatemarco.
The Once and Future Child: A Photographic History of Childhood in New Mexico, presented by Searchlight New Mexico, has an opening reception at El Zaguán at the Historic Santa Fe Foundation, 5-7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11. The exhibit runs through Nov. 1
A Contemporary Look at Childhood in New Mexico, presented by the New Mexico chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers, Edition ONE Gallery, has a reception 5-7 p.m. Oct. 19; the exhibit runs through Oct. 31.
Indigenous Sámi Mari Boine sings at the Lensic Performing Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 15.
It’s time for the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD broadcasts. This year’s series, sponsored locally by the Lensic Performing Arts Center and the Santa Fe Opera, consists of 10 live broadcasts that begin at 11 a.m. Each opera also gets an evening encore screening, which is not always on the same day as the live broadcast.
Sassella opened in July in a lovely territorial brick house adjacent to the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Previously home to the O’Keeffe Café, Georgia, and Maize, the newest restaurant in residence is named for a small village in northern Italy. Sassella promises a classic high-end Italian dining experience under the culinary direction of chef Cristian Pontiggia, an alumnus of the Four Seasons hotel in London and Osteria d’Assisi in downtown Santa Fe and El Nido in Tesuque.
In the pantheon of hipster pop stars, Rufus Wainwright has got to be one of the princes of the realm. Son of all-time hipster singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, …
Jazz flutist Ali Ryerson leads a quartet at the Museum Hill Café at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 11.
The Santa Fe Independent Film Festival offers panel discussions with industry professionals and other educational offerings. All are held at Form & Concept Gallery, and admission is free.
Blue World might first seem like a light-touch aberration from the work John Coltrane was doing in the consequential year of 1964. But these performances are, in fact, deeply entrenched in Coltrane’s moment.
Fiesta Fela 2019 features music, drumming, and dancing by groups from Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and West Africa, as well as food vendors and an arts-and-crafts tent for kids. Fiesta Fela is 12 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 12, in the Railyard Park.
The natural world unites the poetry of three Santa Fe scribes, all of whom have recently published new books. Renny Golden, Barbara Rockman, and John Macker read from their work at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 12, at Teatro Paraguas.
“Brooklyn has become both a product and a brand,” Thomas J. Campanella writes. “That brand has now spread around the world.”
A full moon in Aries can bring a hot and cold weekend: We can light sparks with one another, fire up the revolution, or just get a little hot under the collar.
Revisit what we had to say about Madame Matisse, Jimmy D’s and Luminaria.
Early this year, Alien Space Kitchen self-released The Golden Age of Climate Change: The ASK EP Project, Volume 1, a 7-song burst of joy concerning the pending last gasp of human history. I enjoyed that EP but took the group’s plan to release a new CD every three months with a grain — no, actually a pillar — of salt.
The traveling exhibition Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist, which opens at the New Mexico Museum of Art on Friday, Oct. 4, is the first major survey of Pelton’s work in more than 20 years and features more than 40 paintings spanning her career.
In his latest book, Metahuman: Unleashing Your Potential (Harmony Books), Chopra wants to demonstrate that we are not merely the roles we play. We are (or can be) part of a cosmic consciousness that transcends physical reality.
Moros y Cristianos, a pageant with roots in Spain, is one of many folk traditions of New Mexico included in Música Buena: Hispano Folk Music of New Mexico, which opens at the museum on Sunday, Oct. 6, and remains on view through March 7, 2021.
Whether you’re planning to stand on the field during the Glowdeo or watch the Mass Ascension from the rooftop or balcony of your hotel, the pageantry of the International Balloon Fiesta is singular and captivating. The Duke City offers a wide variety of options for delicious off-the-field nosh, from classic New Mexican to Vietnamese. Here’s a guide to some of our favorite spots.
Serenata of Santa Fe billed its Sept. 28 concert, Latin Sunset, as a “special” event, without explaining why. It turned out that it wasn’t just the unusual appearance …
October is an unofficial “women in classical music” month in Santa Fe, thanks to an unusual synchronicity of programs by three area organizations. On offer are lectures, concerts and a film.
“You think when you’ve played with someone for over 25 years that you would get used to it,” bassist Christian McBride says about the veteran jazz pianist Chick Corea. “But playing with Chick I never cease to be amazed, and I’m still starstruck.” McBride and drummer Brian Blade join Corea for a performance at the Lensic.
The Canadian icon has always been a politically engaged musician, focusing on First Nations and Native American issues, ecology, and anti-violence. She plays a fundraiser concert for Indigenous Solutions, Tewa Women United, and the Friendship.
The latest news from the Santa Fe arts scene. Writer Suzan Shown Harjo honored for lifetime achievement at Washington, D.C., symposium; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra appoints new musicians; Fulcrum Fund awards $60,000 to local artists; local journalist wins Rabkin Foundation award; and Santa Fe Independent Film Festival adds new board members.
The New York City-based modern dance group has found a way to perform for audiences without making viewers choose between high art and kicking back with a beer. Catch them at Second Street Brewery-Rufina Taproom.
Accountability is the name of the game this week. Both Saturn and Pluto recently turned direct after long retrogrades, which brought new theories, plots, and machinations out into the open. The planets ask us to take stock of our responsibilities and hold people accountable for theirs.
The farmland of South Africa’s Free State region is a remote, stark, and (you might be tempted to say) a godforsaken place. But you would be at odds with the devout, churchgoing Afrikaners who inhabit and work these lands.
More than most, this review must come with a warning label: This movie is not for everybody. If you shell out your hard-earned money and then sit for almost an hour and twenty minutes and discover that not much happens, don’t come whining to me.
Following two deeply damaged siblings, each lacking a place in the world, Justin Chon’s Ms. Purple seems named not for a character but for a state of mind that’s been a long time brewing.
New Mexicans are fated to hear Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 this fall. It was on the Santa Fe Symphony’s season-opening concert and it returns on the New Mexico Philharmonic’s Tchaikovsky Times Two.
Drummer and composer Allison Miller played with singers Natalie Merchant and Brandi Carlile, alt-folkie Ani DiFranco, and funkmeister Dr. Lonnie Smith before getting together with violinist and composer Jenny Scheinman a few years ago. They lead their Parlour Game quartet at Gig Performance Space.
Is anything more New Mexico than Al Hurricane Jr. singing his classic “La Fiesta de Santa Fe”? The godson of New Mexico music gets feet moving and fingers snapping at a benefit concert for San Isidro Catholic Church.
Under the careful guidance of entomologist, artist, and Hollywood bug wrangler Steven Kutcher, six-legged insects, eight-legged arachnids, and other creatures craft abstract compositions. Kutcher makes appearances at Calliope in Madrid, New Mexico, to demonstrate the process.
For Son Volt’s newest release, Union, lead singer Jay Farrar has penned an album of protest songs. As it did in the 1990s, Son Volt still embraces an alt-country sound — which straddles interesting political and philosophical lines in 2019.
Gruet Winery this September marked the 30th anniversary of the release of its sparkling wines. The Albuquerque-based winery released its first two sparkling wines in 1989. To mark the anniversary, Gruet released two limited-edition sparkling wines. More food news here.
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From the hysterical levels of overpraise, concern-trolling, and general hype that have greeted Joker, casual observers might assume that it’s either genius, right-wing propaganda, or some diabolically potent combination thereof. The truth is, it’s just a movie — a fine movie, not a great movie, a movie that will please the specific subculture of fans it aims to service.
The present range of the jaguar extends from the southwestern United States to as far south as Argentina. But on the U.S. side of the border with Mexico, you’re not likely to encounter many of them, even if you know where to look.
At 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 3, Elizabeth Kolbert joins New Mexico environmental journalist Laura Paskus for a discussion about The Sixth Extinction at KiMo Theatre in Albuquerque. After the talk, ticket holders are invited to visit the gallery for a reception where Kolbert will be signing copies of her book.
“In my novel, Rambo is a man bitter about what he learned about himself in war,” says David Morrell, the Santa Fe writer of the iconic character he created in 1972’s First Blood. “Anyone 40 years or younger won’t have the faintest idea what’s troubling him.”
Of the historical figures associated with this region, Jean-Baptiste Lamy is perhaps one of the most famous but least known. His story spans a turbulent era in the Southwest when Spanish and Mexican rule were giving way, for better or worse, to American and European influences.
It looked like a burger. It smelled like a burger. But all things considered, I wasn’t sure these were positives.
Now the home of Audubon New Mexico, the Randall Davey House celebrated the 100th anniversary of the arrival in Santa Fe of artists Davey and John French Sloan this month.
Hannah Laga Abram, Santa Fe’s first youth poet laureate, knows that a good poem can transform an individual experience into a shared understanding of what it means to be human.
The 5th Annual Fall Harvest Festival at Los Luceros Historic Site runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 28. The event is free.
A narrator’s voice is not merely a delivery system, an element extraneous to the text, but is an integral one — fulfilling, enriching, injuring, or sinking a book.
