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Taking Care of Bidness

Taking Care of Bidness

Does the city's construction process need an overhaul?

The convention center is a very expensive example of what some say are problems with the city's process for securing construction contracts. When SFR took a look at some 25 other contracts from the last two years, many of them also had few, if any, competing bids.
Grand New Party

Grand New Party

It may not be the star-studded bonanza Democrats threw in Denver last week, but the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. this week is just as thrilling and momentous an occasion for New Mexico's delegates.
Sculptural Sounds

Sculptural Sounds

Atmospheric Diver's images and sounds are unfamiliar and somewhat illogical. The mind, finding that it cannot deconstruct the ideas intellectually, refocuses and an organic and pure experience is left.
 

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Songs for Obama
Songs for Obama

For Santa Fe musician Felipe Ruibal and his salsa and cumbia band, Quemozo, the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver was about more than a bunch of talking heads. It was a place to play a high profile gig.

Music Gabe Gomez 09/02/2008

Fit For A King
Fit For A King

Little Freddie King is not a household name, but is part of the reason—if not the very reason—why the ninth annual Thirsty Ear Festival is worth the trip.

Music Gabe Gomez 08/26/2008

Frog Rock
Frog Rock

The Frogville label has established the Santa Fe sound.

Music Gabe Gomez 08/20/2008

Movies This Week

That Sexy Jesus
That Sexy Jesus

An unwaveringly optimistic teacher tries to inspire a rag-tag group of high school drama-class kids in Hamlet 2, a funny, inspired riff on uptight middle America and its intolerance of controversial art. That sounds fairly serious, but the movie is anything but.

Movies Bob Grimm 09/02/2008

Another Attack
Another Attack

Traitor is not all that bad, but, then again, it’s not all that good either. It’s the sort of movie to put on your Netflix DVD queue at position 33, and then to keep pushing back until you finally never see it.

Movies Emiliano Garcia-Sarnoff 09/02/2008

Tied Together
Tied Together

To watch Man on Wire is to reclaim the Twin Towers, however partially or fleetingly, as symbols of hope, human ingenuity and triumph.

Movies Emiliano Garcia-Sarnoff 08/27/2008

Consider This...

Sculptural Sounds
Sculptural Sounds

Atmospheric Diver's images and sounds are unfamiliar and somewhat illogical. The mind, finding that it cannot deconstruct the ideas intellectually, refocuses and an organic and pure experience is left.

Visual Arts Patricia Sauthoff 09/02/2008

Dynamic Duo
Dynamic Duo

Two artists with concurrent solo exhibitions at Eight Modern could hardly be more different in materials and approach, but that diversity makes for a much improved conversation.

Visual Arts Zane Fischer 08/27/2008

Raise a Parting Glass
Raise a Parting Glass

Gaddes will be remembered warmly as the man who respected the SFO’s traditions, extended its reach and expanded its artistic horizons.

Performing Arts / Books John Stege 08/27/2008

Focus Pocus

Zane's World
Zane's World

The more two-wheeled junkies that zip through roadways, between cars and around obstacles, the more awareness bubbles to the surface about what’s wrong with riding in Santa Fe.

Columns , Local News Zane Fischer 09/02/2008

First Person: Off-Road Facts
First Person: Off-Road Facts

Valerie Gremillion, PhD, is a neuroscientist-turned-ecologist, research assistant professor at the University of New Mexico and a long-time resident of Santa Fe.  See her writing in The Global Dialog Project as well as her blog, Why You Should Care About This.

Columns 09/02/2008

DADDY NEEDS A DRINK

When I started working at the school where I currently teach, my daughter Poppy was only a few months old. Many of my new colleagues would pat me on the back and say, “You just wait ’til she comes up here.” Even though it’s a dozen years later, some of those same colleagues are still standing. But this time, their advice about a daughter roaming hallways with her father sounds a bit more restrictive.

Columns Rob Wilder 09/02/2008

Local Business Directory

Dr. Windy Carter, D.C.

Doctor of Chiropractic

Chiropractic Care Santa Fe
Pomegranate Studios

Dance & Fitness Studio

Dance Studios Santa Fe
Southwestern Counseling Center

Counseling-- Low Cost

Affordable Counseling Santa Fe
Marie Seren Cohen, PhD

Clinical and Geriatric Psychologist

Clinical and Geriatric Psychology Santa Fe

Restaurant Finder

Santa Fe Brewing Company

New Mexico's oldest microbrewery has great beer and inexpensive pub fare.

Santa Fe
Second Street Brewery

Microbrews, hearty beer-friendly food and live music. 

Santa Fe
Xiclo Vietnamese Restaurant

An attractive, veggie-friendly café in the Solana Center. 

Santa Fe
Saigon Cafe

A casual spot for spring rolls and pho. 

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