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Sweat 2011

Summer Guide 2011

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.

City Cowboy

A Brooklyn transplant trades the office for the outdoors

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.

ReFlexology

Forget Bruce Wayne—Felix Cordova is the real Batman

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.

Desk with a View

Corralling the chorus at the Santa Fe Opera comes with a prime perch

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.

King Conkle

A park ranger explains why you wish you had his job

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.

Degrees of Summer

We go full circle with Circumference 360

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.

Skewed Perspectives

A residency in Santa Fe provides the space to distill the world’s angst

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.

Some Like it Hot

Wildland firefighters don’t expect much downtime in a hot, dry summer

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.

Corn Whisperer

Po’pay returns with a soft touch

Poet and musician Robert Mirabal is bringing Pueblo Revolt leader Po’pay back to life in his corn- and flute-filled laboratory.