Over the past few weeks, I’ve encountered multiple Santa Feans—both natives and transplants—who feel intermittent frustration with this city. Beautiful and temperate as it may be, sometimes it feels small and lackluster, especially for those of us under 50 without deep pockets. That’s why places like Whoo’s Donuts are so exciting: They help us feel less left-out of the trends (read: artisan doughnut crazes) larger cities enjoy.

Amaury Torres has a dream. I have one, too. OK, so his is far more inspirational, starting in 1994 on a raft leaving Havana, Cuba, and traveling through Guantánamo, Panama and Miami before ending up on Highway 14 in the San Marcos area south of Santa Fe.

Pupusas were once my Proustian madeleine—a food that transported me so instantly and completely back to El Salvador that I could swear I heard roosters crowing and men hacking at trees with their machetes.

For 20 years, Rick Smith, former president and CEO of the American Liver Foundation, wanted to own a restaurant. But he went about achieving his dream in a decidedly un-Santa Fe way.---After interview

It wouldn’t be inaccurate to say I’ve been stalking the vegan breakfast burrito created somewhere on Aztec Street for some time now. Though long past my vegan phase (which, I’ll admit, lasted le

In the film Tiny Furniture, writer, director and budding indie phenom Lena Dunham plays Aura, a recent college grad struggling to find herself after having moved back into her childhood home in New York City.

You must try everything once before you’re allowed to say you don’t like it.

Pity chef Juan Bochenski.

The former executive sous chef at Jumby Bay, a resort in warm, beachy Antigua, Bochenski moved to Santa Fe in cold, snowy November to become the Anasazi Restaurant’s new executive chef.

I’ve never seen Azur so packed.I walk past the small Mediterranean bistro, the semi-new venture by Ristra owner Eric Lamalle, pretty much every time I scoot out of the house for a last-minute bottle

Santa Fe isn’t exactly a mecca for early adopters. We’re still in the nascent stages of the cupcake craze that hit the coastal cities in the early aughts; we have yet to use weird contraptions to