Executive Director of Think New Mexico—a Santa Fe-based think tank—Fred Nathan is a self-described “recovering attorney.” Since Nathan founded Think New Mexico in 1999, the group has worked to repeal the food tax, provide universal kindergarten and create the Strategic Water Reserve. Its current campaign is to reform government ethics.

Last week, researchers at King’s College London made headlines around the world by declaring there is “no physiological or physical basis” for the so-called G-spot, after having quizzed 1,804 female twins about their sex lives. The news irked Santa Fe therapist Alice Kahn Ladas, co-author of the 1981 book The G Spot, which popularized “this often misunderstood female erogenous zone.”

Artist Issa Nyaphaga is a native of Cameroon, a central African country where electricity, sufficient food and health care are scarce and polio runs rampant.  After an artist residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute, Nyaphaga ran a supply drive with the help of Jenny Sanborn, a volunteer for Santa Fe-based humanitarian nonprofit Soulful Presence.

A selection of "greatest hits" quotes from the year in interviews.

With the help of Bill Dunning, a former radio broadcaster and journalist, SFR caught up with the elusive Jolly Old Saint Nick, aka Santa Claus, by phone at his home in the North Pole. You can grill him yourself at the DeVargas Center. He’ll be there 10 am-5 pm from Dec. 18 through Christmas Eve.

Daniel Craig joined the military to get the hell out. After he turned 17, Craig came down to Albuquerque and enlisted. He went in in 1981. Regular Army. He was in the Gulf War in ’91. The first firing was on 14 February. That’s his association with Valentine’s Day since. 

Gregory Lomayesva is an artist and entrepreneur. He works in both contemporary and traditional Native American styles. When the economy tanked, so did art sales, but Lomayesva survived through his other venture, creating new versions of circuit boards for vintage audio equipment.

Author Margaret Moore Booker spent 10 years visiting Santa Fe from the East Coast before she realized that life is too short to put off living in a place you love. She moved from Nantucket to Santa Fe five years ago and hasn’t looked east since. While living in Nantucket, she co-wrote a book about its historical architecture and, shortly after arriving in New Mexico, she began researching The Santa Fe House.

Following the death of his wife, former US Marshal and Green Beret Rick Iannucci returned to Santa Fe from special mission unit work in Colombia to retire and care for his three children. Here he founded and runs a 4H club, Turquoise Trail Wranglers, which is featured this month in Western Horseman magazine.

Cody Sheppard, the ski patrol director at Ski Santa Fe, grew up in the tropics, but—as the Texans like to say—he got here as fast as he could. After learning to ski back in the 1970s, during college at St. John’s, Sheppard took up ski patrolling. He’s been doing it ever since, and he’s psyched for what looks like a promising ski season.