It was a pretty damn good year for music in this town. From the old faces of Caguama coming back to rock the Cowgirl on a Tuesday night to a great series of shows at CSF to the hip new underground scene that popped up on Second Street and off Airport Road, there was no reason to whine about a lack of anything to do.

The week begins with staff cuts at the College of Santa Fe and ends with neighborhood law(lessness). Plus, this is now just another gossip column.

I rediscovered drone and have been freebasing it ever since.

Is the College of Santa Fe going backwards rather than forwards? And how can students, staff and faculty regain trust that the administration is working for them?

Dinner and a Rap Song is a benefit to send Santa Fe's finest to the World Social Forum in Brazil.

Online locating of luscious lyrics.

The egomaniacal Kanye West constantly takes to his blog to call out music critics who don’t absolutely adore him, gets into altercations with paparazzi and has been known to bitch when he doesn’t get the award nominations he feels he deserves.

The Rail Runner is the little engine that could run at night, Santa Feans are worried it won’t—at least not enough.

SFR Online: Kristin Hersh belted out murder ballads and folksy assassin fare and gospel mayhem that would make Nick Cave cry pseudo-gothic tears like a blow-dried man baby.

Joe West releases a CD for kids. Kinda.