Annual Manual
1 Sangre de Cristo Mountain Works328 S. Guadalupe St.505-984-8221In 1994, Kent Little moved to Santa Fe and opened a climbing-oriented store to combine his experience in retail management with his lov
Annual Manual
1 Sangre de Cristo Mountain Works328 S. Guadalupe St.505-984-8221In 1994, Kent Little moved to Santa Fe and opened a climbing-oriented store to combine his experience in retail management with his lov
Annual Manual
The Locals' Guide to Living in Santa Fe. Whether you're new to Santa Fe or Santa Fe is still new to you, SFR's Annual Manual is the best resource for helping you get the most out of living in the City Different.
Bar & Nightlife Guide
In June 2009, The Atlantic published a story titled “Cold Fusion”—a heavily serious headline for an article about cocktail ice. Suffice it to say that, in some coastal cities, mixology is a discipline, and cocktails are an art. Characteristically, Santa Fe is looking both ways—twice—before it crosses that street, but we’re getting there.
Bar & Nightlife Guide
In June 2009, The Atlantic published a story titled “Cold Fusion”—a heavily serious headline for an article about cocktail ice. Suffice it to say that, in some coastal cities, mixology is a discipline, and cocktails are an art. Characteristically, Santa Fe is looking both ways—twice—before it crosses that street, but we’re getting there.
Rob Rittmeyer makes an Old Fashioned with a little bit of bourbon, a little bit of sugar and “a little bit of love.”
Bar & Nightlife Guide
I can sum up my advice for non-drinking over-21ers in Santa Fe in two words: good luck! Short of actively choosing alcoholism, your options are pretty limited—as I recently learned during a multi-night stab at fun with my freakjob brother.
Bar & Nightlife Guide
Santa Fe has just four microbreweries to choose from, and two of them are owned by the same guy (art mogul Gerald Peters). But luckily, each location—Santa Fe Brewing Company, Second Street Brewery, Blue Corn Café and Brewery and the Marble Brewery Tap Room—offers a different experience. And, of course, different brews.
Bar & Nightlife Guide
The Atomic Grill carries gluten-free beer. I learned this back in September, when my baby mama and I moved to Santa Fe. We spent the days looking for work and a rental home, suppressing the dinner urge until late-night, only to discover that Santa Fe late-night begins at 9:30 pm, except at the Atomic. So we go in, expecting your typical diner fare, but what’s this on the beer list? Gluten-free Bard’s Gold.
Once, in a college sociology class, my professor told the class that alcohol doesn’t affect your ability to make decisions; it affects your ability to care about the outcome. Since then, every time I go out, before I partake in libations, I make my decision on how I’m getting home and throw away the key (sometimes almost literally).
This city is terrified of young people, but it’s even more terrified of losing them. I am 19, and a stranger recently thanked me for being in Santa Fe—as if I had voluntarily entered a war zone.
Bar & Nightlife Guide
Alcohol is, of course, a legal drug—given certain usage constraints—and I’ve just had a smidge too much of it in the service of exploring the offerings put forth by New Mexico distillers.
Best of Santa Fe
Several times last spring, I was approached by friends and strangers wanting to know if “it was too late to vote.” Being the dullard that I am, I would then dutifully launch into a recitation of all the various deadlines for the primary elections... Of course, folks weren’t asking about that. They were asking about SFR’s annual Best of Santa Fe Readers’ Poll.
Best of Santa Fe
Several times last spring, I was approached by friends and strangers wanting to know if “it was too late to vote.” Being the dullard that I am, I would then dutifully launch into a recitation of all the various deadlines for the primary elections... Of course, folks weren’t asking about that. They were asking about SFR’s annual Best of Santa Fe Readers’ Poll.
Best of Santa Fe
From best band and craziest karaoke to favorite museum and absolutely illest DJ, the City Different struts it's culture different.
Best of Santa Fe
There's eating drinking and then there's eating and drinking in Santa Fe. Readers poke their top picks of 2010 for slurping and slushing in da Fe.
Best of Santa Fe
Santa Fe ranks among the most giving in the nation with huge amounts of philanthropy and more than 1,000 non-profit and charitable organizations. But, let's face it, sometimes you just want to buy something nice. Luckily, Santa Fe is good at that too.
Best of Santa Fe
Whether it's the person pushing a drink across the bar, delivering a plate of nachos, doing your hair, drilling your teeth or performing any skilled service you can think of, Santa Feans have opinions about who does it best.
Best of Santa Fe
Government, community services, charities, festivals and access (even when limited by––argh––government): These are the things that quietly making up local living. Discerning Santa Feans pick the stand-outs.
Best of Santa Fe
Yes, the voters know what's best about Santa Fe, but what does the Reporter's staff think is strangely exceptional about life in Santa Fe?
Best of Santa Fe
The Best Of party chronicled in photographs.
Holiday Gift Guide
The city is chock-full of local businesses whose owners and employees strive to create shopping experiences that are actually fun and rewarding. It’s no wonder the city has been on the vanguard of the buy-local movement; Santa Feans well understand the value of supporting their independent shops, artisans and organizations.
Holiday Gift Guide
The city is chock-full of local businesses whose owners and employees strive to create shopping experiences that are actually fun and rewarding. It’s no wonder the city has been on the vanguard of the buy-local movement; Santa Feans well understand the value of supporting their independent shops, artisans and organizations.
Holiday Gift Guide
By now you know the drill: Spending your money at local businesses keeps more of it in the community, pays for public services and supports independent stores. SFR is a big supporter of the shop local movement for all of these reasons—and for one other: Shopping locally is way more fun.
Holiday Gift Guide
Your annual guide for greasing the wheels of local shopping and good gift-giving.
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No need to get creative about your holiday gift giving this year... SFR has done it for you! Great ideas for thoughtful shopping. Suggestions include unique, modestly priced (or not!)
Plenty of ideas for the creative, artistic and otherwise unique.
What kid wouldn't go wild over a Sick Stomach kit, an Airzooka or an H-racer?
Fashionable gift ideas for the feet, hands, head and everything in between.
A slathering of scented gift ideas for the body.
Even if you're shopping at the very last minute, don't despair. We've got suggestions for all types in our second—and last—gift guide of the season. These include cute picks for kids, outdoo
For your favorite outdoorsy giftee, these ideas are sure to please.
Local Economy
This edition of SFR’s annual “Local Economy” issue contains fewer exhortations to buy local produce (still important!) or patronize local coffee shops. Instead, we asked several business and community leaders a single question: What’s one thing that Santa Fe can do to improve its own economy? In asking this question, we hope to start a meaningful conversation about economic development in Santa Fe. We also hope to provide a road map for public officials and community leaders so that they can contact these people, refine their ideas and make them happen. As long as a national economic recovery lurks elusively beyond our adobe walls, we may as well create our own way forward.
Local Economy
The plan: Create community workspaces where young artists can live and work, then run those in conjunction with pop-up shops or galleries, where these artists can sell their work and hold events.
Local Economy
The plan: Create a “cultural corridor” linking Santa Fe to Albuquerque and Taos, and encourage collaborative efforts to preserve, expand and market each area’s unique culture.
Local Economy
The plan: Brackley offers two ideas on how to pump life back into Santa Fe’s stagnant economy: simplifying the land use code and investing more money in marketing.
Local Economy
The plan: Match young entrepreneurs and artists with empty retail spaces to create more vibrant, mixed-use spaces around Santa Fe.
Local Economy
The plan: Despite the incubator’s success, however, shifting Santa Fe’s economy away from heavy reliance on its usual industries will take much more than one entity’s well-intentioned efforts.
Local Economy
The plan: Start a meaningful conversation about Santa Fe’s future economy by organizing and engaging small, diverse groups of local residents. Schnieders says the groups would first address the question of what Santa Feans consider the key issues; the question of what changes are necessary would come later.
Local Economy
The plan: Teach Santa Fe students about the growing industry of biofuels.
Local Economy
The plan: Encourage a local, home-based economy based on the strategies pioneered by Live Work New Mexico.
Love & Sex
This is surprising, in a way, because Santa Fe is the type of place where people can smoke pot under the bridge, and everyone who smells it just smiles and keeps walking. Maybe you can’t put a satellite dish on your house in a historic district, but otherwise, people are pretty accepting. So why don’t we talk more about sex?
Love & Sex
This is surprising, in a way, because Santa Fe is the type of place where people can smoke pot under the bridge, and everyone who smells it just smiles and keeps walking. Maybe you can’t put a satellite dish on your house in a historic district, but otherwise, people are pretty accepting. So why don’t we talk more about sex?
Love & Sex
A year ago next month, my girlfriend of six years issued me the ultimatum—marriage and kids or a breakup. I chose the latter, telling her that, as much as I loved her, I couldn’t envision a life with children. She called me selfish, and she was right, but I couldn’t any longer uphold the illusion that I would change my mind/feelings.
Love & Sex
In the Victorian era, flowers, and indeed much of life, symbolized something. With the right dictionary, one could read the flowers and colors of a bouquet like a book. OK, it’s a nice thought, but since everyone interpreted the symbols differently, it didn’t really work out.
Love & Sex
Dating in a small town can be pretty miserable. Since I moved here from the East Coast six months ago, it’s been difficult to meet new people. But this doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Everybody knows everybody else, and you can use this to avoid dating disasters before they even happen. Example: I once dated a bisexual spirit guide I met at a bar. Had I met him in Santa Fe, I could have avoided a drawer full of healing crystals and an awkward conversation about whether I’d ever be into using a strap-on by having a quick conversation with a mutual friend.
Love & Sex
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s new book Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform begins by yanking readers out of the closet, burning their designer duds and enlisting them in the fight against assimilation.
Love & Sex
I couldn’t put either my proverbial or fleshborne fingers on it. Conceptually, I knew that I was having sex (it was obvious; I was pinned beneath a naked man who was grunting, heaving and thrusting over me) but my feeling experience—down there—just wasn’t quite right.
Love & Sex
Ah, Valentine’s Day—that wonderful holiday when your girlfriend seems to forget all the awesome stuff you do for her the rest of the year; your boyfriend frantically struggles to stretch one paycheck into jewelry, exorbitantly priced flowers and that tired yet traditional heart-shaped box of chocolates; and your pals at Hallmark get into some serious high-fiving.
Love & Sex
If you’re wondering what happened to your adventurous man and notice any of the following signs, be aware that your partner could suffer from Lazy Man Syndrome. It usually appears in early fall and hits its climax right around the holidays. Here are the top nine symptoms
Love & Sex
Although Valentine’s Day is often considered a typically American holiday, New Mexico presents interesting cultural variations to the popular festival—and, like other states, also has its locales whose names directly call to mind the spirit of Valentine’s Day.
Love & Sex
I met the most beautiful man in one of the miniature interactive habitats on Meow Wolf’s giant indoor ship; who doesn’t these days? He is incredibly cute, which makes up for the fact that he’s eight years too old. But in Santa Fe, you have to raise your age cap.
Santa Fe Restaurant Guide
This may be the last Restaurant Guide you ever read.
Not to
be alarmist or anything, but 2012 is, in some circles, considered the
date of the coming apocalypse. And it’s not just the guys peddling
crystals on the side of the highway; many Americans believe that,
sometime next year, the world will come to an abrupt, fiery end [cover story, Nov. 18, 2009: “My Oh Mayan!”].
The
events of 2011 seem to support this eventuality: fires, floods,
tsunamis, earthquakes, and Congress’ near-failure to raise the debt
ceiling (and utter failure to do anything else).
Lawrence E
Joseph, the author of Apocalypse 2012 (and Aftermath, the guide to
surviving said apocalypse), has a name for the shape of the solar flare
that could spell our demise: “cosmic croissant.”
Santa Fe Restaurant Guide
This may be the last Restaurant Guide you ever read.
Not to
be alarmist or anything, but 2012 is, in some circles, considered the
date of the coming apocalypse. And it’s not just the guys peddling
crystals on the side of the highway; many Americans believe that,
sometime next year, the world will come to an abrupt, fiery end [cover story, Nov. 18, 2009: “My Oh Mayan!”].
The
events of 2011 seem to support this eventuality: fires, floods,
tsunamis, earthquakes, and Congress’ near-failure to raise the debt
ceiling (and utter failure to do anything else).
Lawrence E
Joseph, the author of Apocalypse 2012 (and Aftermath, the guide to
surviving said apocalypse), has a name for the shape of the solar flare
that could spell our demise: “cosmic croissant.”
Santa Fe Restaurant Guide
Santa Fe Restaurant Guide
Each year, SFR makes a list (and checks it twice) just for those restaurants that define the City Different. They’re the ones we know and love—and have for years—for their consistent quality, reliable service and special spark. They’re the comfy jeans of Santa Fe’s restaurant world—ripped in the knees and soft as silk. Obviously, that only makes them sexier. (Alexa Schirtzinger)
Santa Fe Restaurant Guide
Our 20 favorite places you have to eat before the Mayan apocalypse.
Santa Fe Restaurant Guide
Where to Eat and What to Eat in Santa Fe.
Santa Fe Restaurant Guide
SFR's annual guide to eating in Santa Fe: classic restaurants, restaurant of the year, our 40 favorites and the complete list of where to eat and what to eat.
Santa Fe Restaurant Guide
The indispensable award-winning guide to dining in Santa Fe.
"What's your favorite restaurant in Santa Fe?" That's a question I've been asked a thousand times. And I always give the same answer: "I don't have one." In fact, even whittling my favorites down to 40 is an excruciating process. This list of 40 Favorites is the culmination of a year's worth of eating and months of debate among the Reporter's editorial staff and my cadre of foodie advisors.
Nearly 150 years before any grapes were planted in California, the banks of the Rio Grande were producing sacramental wine for the region's religious services. Today, the state has about 30 active w
Even folks who have lived in Santa Fe for decades sometimes get confused as to which restaurants and dishes are Mexican and which are New Mexican. The easiest way to tell the difference is to look for
It’s best if this story begins with an explanation. “Hashing,” the verb that describes the favored pursuit of the World Hash House Harriers, generally involves a three-mile run, lots of cheap beer, copious raunchy jokes and, ultimately, camaraderie—though not necessarily in that order.
It’s best if this story begins with an explanation. “Hashing,” the verb that describes the favored pursuit of the World Hash House Harriers, generally involves a three-mile run, lots of cheap beer, copious raunchy jokes and, ultimately, camaraderie—though not necessarily in that order.
Summer Guide
For this year’s Summer Guide, SFR profiles a handful of those people—the ones we think best epitomize both summer and its attendant pleasures.
Summer Guide
Jeff Kennedy is a bit of a novelty. He’s the manager of The Bishop’s Lodge Ranch, Resort & Spa stables, and he’s in charge of wrangling horses and guiding guests through the more than 400 acres of Bishop’s Lodge trails adjacent the Santa Fe National Forest. Oh, and his name tag also reads Brooklyn, New York, where he was born and raised.
Summer Guide
ReFlex "shows up in costume when it’s not dress-up night, as Batman…or whoever he feels like." It’s like he’s a comic vigilante and fun is his justice.
Summer Guide
From Susanne Sheston’s “office” at the Santa Fe Opera, one can see the pastel foothills around Tesuque and bask in the afternoon sunlight. As we talk, members of the opera’s Young Voices program interrupt us with iterations of “do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do,” and spontaneously burst into song.
Summer Guide
Hyde Memorial State Park manager Stefan Conkle didn’t find the vocation of forest ranger so much as it found him—or, more accurately, rescued him.
Summer Guide
The 180s that rap has made over its relatively short history—from lo-fi to big time and then from “thoughtful” rap to a present in which complaining about rap’s stereotyped platitudes is verboten—have not fazed Circumference 360, aka Mark J Ortiz.
Summer Guide
New York-based Santa Fe Art Institute artist-in-residence Judith Hoffman has always made art, although not always in the way she does now. She started off as a geek—specifically, a numbers geek.
Summer Guide
When fire tears through wilderness and the borders between populated areas and vast forests and mountains, specially trained wildland firefighters are the ones who answer the call.
Summer Guide
Poet and musician Robert Mirabal is bringing Pueblo Revolt leader Po’pay back to life in his corn- and flute-filled laboratory.
Sweat
On July 7, the Trust for America’s Health—a nonprofit dedicated to improving community health around the country—released a report titled “F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future 2011.” The findings are disappointing, if not particularly shocking: Across the nation, obesity rates continue to balloon out of control.
Sweat
On July 7, the Trust for America’s Health—a nonprofit dedicated to improving community health around the country—released a report titled “F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future 2011.” The findings are disappointing, if not particularly shocking: Across the nation, obesity rates continue to balloon out of control.
Sweat
Lately, I’ve been longing for organized sports—the kind I played in grade school. Maybe it’s an urge that comes from seeing athletes around town gear up for the fall season by running i
Sweat
Perspiratory activities aren’t the only subjects of this year’s Sweat issue. Another type of sweat, that of anxiety and psychological distress, can affect one’s health—this time for the worse
Sweat
There are gyms all over Santa Fe at which you can swing a kettlebell, do squats until your butt falls off, or even watch Cake Boss while monitoring your calories burned. But if you want to join a basketball team or learn how to perfectly execute the butterfly, it may be time to go back to school—the community college, that is.
Sweat
You wake up in a flurry of expletives at 5:38 am, cursing your iPhone alarm for being so damned lovely and inaudible. If you’d gotten up at 5:11, as you’d intended, you’d have tim
Sweat
Despite the name of SFR’s annual fitness guide, the stories in this issue aren’t geared at extreme perspiration. Well, at least, not entirely.
Sweat
As a child, I was often unceremoniously deposited at the Railyard Performance Center on Saturday mornings, where I impatiently awaited my father and the end of African dance class. In those days, he still danced instead of drummed. Also in those days, the center was an unassuming box space with uncomfortable floors and a low ceiling, situated behind Tomasita’s in the Railyard proper.
Sweat
In 1998, Angela Simmerman Sierra was in a devastating car crash. Thought dead, she was resuscitated and brought to a Colombian emergency room where, after four days, doctors decided her wounds were too severe to be mended and sent her home to die among her family.
Sweat
Last spring, my brother announced his impending Long Island nuptials, and I knew something had to be done—something radical. All my life, I’d noted events in the future and told myself I’d get in shape by the time they rolled around, and had always failed miserably.
Winter Guide
One of the most glibly sensationalized years in the modern calendar, 2012, is nearly upon us. With it come the predictions of apocalyptic doom and the unceremonious end of the Mayan calendar.
From a skeptic’s point of view, “total demise” is something of an overstatement. Change, on the other hand, is inescapable.
Winter Guide
One of the most glibly sensationalized years in the modern calendar, 2012, is nearly upon us. With it come the predictions of apocalyptic doom and the unceremonious end of the Mayan calendar.
From a skeptic’s point of view, “total demise” is something of an overstatement. Change, on the other hand, is inescapable.
Winter Guide
I’m new to Santa Fe—why wouldn’t I attempt to paint the aspens? Isn’t that what people do? They move to Los Angeles to be actors, writers and musicians; to New York City to be (different kinds of) actors, writers and musicians; and to Santa Fe to be painters. Forget that I’m still learning how to use my camera properly; my assignment is to paint the aspens.
Winter Guide
As a longtime 13 Moon calendar advocate formerly obsessed with the Maya(n) calendar, as well as the accompanying lore, allow me to clarify: The end of the Maya(n) calendar (Dec. 21, 2012) is not the end of the world; it is merely the end of three-dimensional existence as we know it. With this in mind, my last day of linear Gregorian cluster-fuckiness here in Santa Fe would look a little something like this:
Winter Guide
In response to this guy who got in my face at the grocery store with a diatribe about how I have no right to be a music critic since I’m not a musician myself, I decided to attend the open mic at Second Street Brewery’s Railyard location.
Winter Guide
The New Mexico heraldic crest, if it had one, would probably feature Christmas chiles, a West Side Locos tag, hot air balloons and a bolo tie. And don’t forget the Frito pie, surrounded by fleur-de-lis to class it up a little.
Winter Guide
I moved to Santa Fe nine years ago. Should I have formally immersed myself in the regional cooking methods? Should I have signed up for a class at the Santa Fe School of Cooking back in 2002?
Winter Guide
Pondering a doomsday 2012 scenario, I wondered which Santa Fe offering I would visit if I had only 24 hours to go. Then it hit me: Were I facing inevitable death, I’d want to be as relaxed as possible.
Winter Guide
Before tweens and hillbillies started singing that horrid Nickelback anthem, it was the secret dream of most writers to play in a rock ’n’ roll band. Some authors, including Rick Moody, Stephen King and even (alas!) Barbara Kingsolver, have actually nailed semi-regular gigs doing something a step above karaoke.
Winter Guide
As anyone who survived the Endless Winter of 2009 knows, short, cold days and long, cold nights require a game plan. And, like most of life’s experiences (falling in love, winning the lottery, surviving the apocalypse), a little self-knowledge goes a long way.
Winter Guide
The holidays are a great time to remember those less fortunate—but it seems like everyone chooses the holidays as the time to remember and, the rest of the year, they forget.
