Any artists worth their salt understand that one has to know all the rules before one can break all the rules. Few genres of music exemplify this tenet better than live improvisational jazz, and Israeli saxophonist Anat Cohen is an international jazz star. Since age 12, Cohen has been well-versed in clarinet and saxophone.

With the Santa Fe Film Festival creeping closer every day, many Santa Feans are feeling the movie bug’s insistent bite. In a free public lecture, Hank Rogerson and Jilann Spitzmiller offer basic advice on filmmaking from idea development to how to get funding—and something tells us they know their stuff.

A mermaid dons a skeletal crown, women bed down with fish and children glance surreptitiously over shoulders as they do precisely what their parents told them not to. The figures in Fay Ku’s drawings demonstrate that the ridiculous restraints that bind our sexual urges lead to hilarious, if disconcerting, appetites—in this case, bestial couplings of the piscine and avian persuasion.

Santa Fe loves Americana. Almost any night of the week one can head somewhere in town to catch someone picking away on an old guitar, singing a beautiful melody or shredding the mandolin. While it’s hard to say one musician is better than the next, a few names rise to the top as local standouts. Josh Martin, for example, plays a contemporary style of roots music.