As the coaches, competitors and students at the New Mexico Fencing Foundation will tell you, today’s fencing derives from one long-ago practice: the gentlemanly fight to the death.

Joe Marquez is the owner of Yan-You-Len Pond Service and also runs a koi fish rescue operation (his youtube channel, youtube.com/user/yanyoulen, is popular among koi enthusiasts worldwide). Marquez has more than 100 fish in 8,000 gallons’ worth of ponds on his own property, including a 300-gallon “hospital” for sick fish. He is interested in starting a koi club in Santa Fe and can be reached at 795-6285. His business’ name translates from Chinese as Caretaker of Fish.

The Southwestern Association of Indian Arts, along with the Shadow Catchers Institute of Indigenous Arts, this year adds another component to Indian Market weekend: (Re)presentation: An Indian Market Literary Arts Event.

Photographer Brad Bealmear got a gig the first day he set foot in New York City in 1983, and wound up spending most of his career as a commercial photographer there. By some divine stroke of luck, he happened into a Fifth Avenue jewelry store just after the previous commercial photographer had been fired.

What, forsooth, wouldst thou say were I to informest thou of a group of minstrels from yon hamlet of Portland, Ore. who call themselves “bardcore” and perform musical delights akin to Iron Maiden or Judas Priest?

The Plaza

Shaman Winter by Rudolfo Anaya

The Pub & Grill at Santa Fe Brewing Company

El Farol

Cowgirl