Eighteen days after the Jan. 12 earthquake that has led to the deaths of more than 200,000 people, Santa Fe resident Alexander Miller, an emergency technician for Rocky Mountain EMS, was en route to Haiti where, for nearly two months, he attempted to assuage some of the ongoing havoc writhing the Caribbean country. In the wake of his visit, Miller realized one of the greatest obstacles to medical care in Haiti is the lack of proper medical vehicles.

The market is up, the market is down, but that’s the least of worries for the New Mexico State Investment Council. Steven Moise, 65, is now charged with restoring the SIC’s reputation and growing its $14 billion portfolio.

Noah Hoffman is an independent scholar and former private art dealer. After uncovering evidence that suggested a previously unknown 1938 trip to the southwest by the artists Milton Avery and Mark Rothko, Hoffman initiated an investigative project called “Rothko with Reservations.”

Nationally renowned writer Hampton Sides is a Memphis, Tenn. native and current Santa Fe resident. His most recent nonfiction book, Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr. and the International Hunt for his Assassin, paints an intricate portrait of the civil rights leader but, perhaps more notably, follows in great detail his assassin, a drifter known as Eric S Galt, John Willard, Harvey Lowmeyer and Ramon George Sneyd, but who was born James Earl Ray.

Daniel Gonzales is a lot of things—bar manager and “master mixologist” at the Hotel St. Francis’ Secreto Lounge, father, foodie and the champion of this year’s national Shake it Up! mixed-drink competition in Las Vegas.

It’s 6:30 on a Friday night and happy hours around town are winding down. SFR hops into a cab in South Capitol for a ride-along with Capital City Cab driver Robert Seigle. A former mechanical engineer who builds PCs in his spare time, Seigle has worked for Capital for eight years.

Last October, Jenna Yañez was hired as the part-time director of Santa Fe’s first Court Watch project, an effort to reduce domestic violence rates by ensuring that at least one outside observer watches cases move through the system. Before moving to Santa Fe in 2008, Yañez worked in Ohio as a legal advocate for refugee women who had suffered genital mutilation. SFR caught up with Yañez at The Teahouse on Canyon Road, where she was studying a thick compendium of statewide domestic violence statistics.

Antonin Artaud, an avant-garde writer, artist and actor who lived and worked in France during the first half of the 20th century, had a tortured life—he was prescribed heroin for severe headaches and spent his entire adult life addicted, detoxing, and checking in and out of mental institutions. In 1937, a trip to Dublin and his subsequent 17-day deportation back to France destroyed what shreds of sanity Artaud had left, yet opened the doors to his most visionary art. Artist Terry Allen wrote, produced and performs Ghost Ship Rodez, a fictional interpretation of this turning point in Artaud’s life.

Sandy Buffett grew up fishing, hiking and “riding around the mesa” outside Albuquerque. Today, she makes her home in Santa Fe, where she’s the executive director of Conservation Voters New Mexico, a nonprofit political group aimed at cultivating pro-environment majorities in the state House and Senate. In an airy, modern office perched atop the ever-alluring Doubletake, Buffett reflects on this year’s legislative session and the state of environmentalism in New Mexico.

When a mountain lion comes to Santa Fe, everyone pays attention. The Santa Fe New Mexican put related stories above the fold twice; SFR created the lion’s Twitter account (@SFMountainLion). We caught up with Department of Game and Fish Northwest Area Assistant Chief Robert Livingston March 17.