The Santa Fe Public Schools Board of Education had put Alvord elementary on notice: One more year and then we’re closing the school forever. But the school board's reasoning is wrong-headed and greedy.

Opening the public input process for planning a new St. Michael's Avenue reveals planning smarts and hutzpah. It also reveals a professional conceit among designers and planners that needs to be overcome if such a bold initiative is to succeed.

Dennis Hopper’s works at the Harwood Museum of Art are a mix of photographs and paintings. The paintings are mostly of photographs, and the photographs are mostly attempts at achieving a painterly, abstract expressionist sensibility. So that’s weird.

A Disney marketing camaign is bringing divisiveness to Santa Fe's Railyard, a public space that used to prioritize local business.

My youngest brother, whom we refer to lovingly (and accurately) as Crazy Eddie, has lived in Orlando, Fla. since before the Animal Kingdom was built, most of those years working as an entertainer for the largest media and entertainment company in the world

The College of Santa Fe is playing lead actress in a drama with a twist: It has become a comedy or, if you prefer, a farce. CSF is a damsel in distress if ever there was one, but she has been now lying on the train tracks of impending doom through the heroic but failed efforts of so many suitors, she herself must be wishing the damned train would just round the bend and finish the job.

Earth Day is like celebrating a diet on which you never followed through. We think we’re saving the world by buying fair trade coffee and organic vegetables, recycling everything, driving hybrid cars and paying Public Service Company of New Mexico extra so we can pretend our electricity comes from wind power. As long as it doesn't hurt any birds.

All options are on the table for CSF...except that of a focused and progressive art school working toward a national reputation that would lend meat to Santa Fe’s somewhat spurious claim of being a significant art center.

My beautiful sonchild sporting a mullock (mullet + dreadlock) and morphing into a Boulder hippie, trying to score weed on a lonely street corner, all while wearing socks with leather flip-flops?

A new "petrozine" lays out the oil and gas industry's impression of itself.