It’s a damn good thing City Councilor Ronald Trujillo has taken a proposed ordinance to ban the feeding of prairie dogs and stuffed it down a mysterious hole in a city park. It makes no sense to legislate such a thing�as numerous critics have pointed out�but that doesn’t mean Trujillo’s sentiment was wrong.

For some long-ago birthday—one of those foggy, early-20s episodes in innocent debauchery—I conned my grandmother into paying for me and all my friends to have dinner in the private wine cellar at the Inn of the Anasazi.

The planet should collectively thank BP for the Deepwater Horizon accident. With public opinion regarding oil and gas at an all-time nadir, and 63 percent of Americans willing to pay more for clean and independent energy, the impetus to finally jump on renewables is here.

John Gordon has tackled the role of the first president of the College of Santa Fe’s new incarnation as the Santa Fe University for Art and Design.

So-called tasting menus are alternately vilified and lionized in Anthony Bourdain’s most recent book, Medium Raw. But then, Bourdain’s book is a back-and-forth, thoroughly wishy-washy ride—smart and painfully funny but, as promised by the title, it’s not rare or well-done. It’s medium through and through

Serious business is afoot in the halls of government in Santa Fe. The city that once proposed leash laws for cats is now angling to license panhandlers and toughen up laws against nudity.

The next time you are haunting the bright, Santa Fe morning, urging your eyeballs to recess back into their sockets and you need solids to saturate the slurry in your stomach, consider a helping of philanthropy with your breakfast burrito.

“It’s the end of the world as we know it,” REM’s Michael Stipe sings in the eponymous song, “and I feel fine.” It’s an old song, but it’s also a kind of philosophy problem.

Some people like to dip their french fries in mayonnaise. It turns out I like to dip mine in chipotle hummus. Is that so wrong? Whatever—it feels so right at the Nile Café and Catering Company food cart on the corner of St. Francis Drive and Cordova Road.

How do you pronounce CSF's new name? Is it sfoo-ad or is it sfwad?