The Santa Fe Children’s Museum closes its doors on Monday, April 18. But don’t worry: It will reopen on May 7, bigger and better than ever. SFR visited with recently hired Executive Director Anna Marie Tutera Manriquez and Deputy Director Jeff Dailey to learn what the expansion means for the city’s most curious and clamorous constituency.

If City Councilor Carmichael Dominguez continues with his ill-advised push to heavily regulate beekeeping in the city limits, it’s going to be fisticuffs between the councilor and myself.

Like many expectant and well-trained omnivores with carnivorous bents, I’m sniffing the air every day for signs that much-adored Santa Fe chef Brian Knox’s new lowbrow, high-quality burger stand has opened. But should I be?

Santa Fe's new network of trails is a beautiful thing. Except when it's not.

The plan announced by Mayor David Coss and City Councilors Rosemary Romero, Ron Trujillo, Chris Calvert and Carmichael Dominguez to increase city property taxes is not only a smart gambit, but a critical leadership move to ensure that Santa Fe insulates itself from the increasing burdens sloughed off on local governments by federal and state inaction

I never believed the myth of the ugly American until I saw it for myself: a whole parade of cacophonous, sweaty, engorged Americans—complete with sun visors, dangling cameras and bulges barely recognizable as flesh testing the seams of riotously colored clothing—all rumbling up an otherwise quiet and quaint Italian street, like invaders from planet NASCAR.

Johnny Vee, the free-spirited and jovial chef who commands the kitchen at the Las Cosas cooking school, is accustomed to both novice and accomplished home cooks suddenly stopping in their tracks like over-jellied terrines, as their brains momentarily imitate poached eggs.

Masque Entertainment, a maker of terrifying thrillers, encountered something scary this year: An economy-eating creature called Gov. Susana Martinez has turned Masque’s plans for locating in Santa Fe into, well, the ultimate fight for survival.

When Wall Street banks started messing with North Dakota by foreclosing on farm properties nearly a century ago, the “Peace Garden State” gave big banking the finger and established its own financial institution. The farms were saved, and the Bank of North Dakota blossomed into a fiercely protected fixture in the conservative state.

Led by a Polish transplant and Princeton University graduate who describes himself as a designer, doctor, educator, engineer, entrepreneur, industrialist, philanthropist, scientist, social entrepreneur and technologist, the Factor E Farm outside of Kansas City, Kansas is leading the “Open Source Ecology” movement.