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He’s Still Got It

It’s so frustrating to know that Roman Polanski makes great movies—at least in part because he’s such a creep. But so it goes, and here is The Ghost Writer: a classic-seeming new thriller with the recriminative gall to be an inside joke about how we’ve let the real world turn into something like a Roman Polanski movie.

Arts & Culture, Movies Date 03/17/2010
Eating Wrong

A plot for New Mexico’s salvation: From March 11 to 12, Bioneers held the Dreaming New Mexico Food System Summit and something of a soft launch for Dreaming New Mexico’s road map to “an age of local foodsheds and a fair trade state.”

Arts & Culture, Food Author Zane Fischer Date 03/17/2010
Living Dead

If I were trying to sign on with a gallery, I might think about Skotia Gallery. The high ceilings, dark interior, and happy chirps and hums of staff-selected techno music create a comfortable atmosphere. These details contrast nicely with the often-twisted imagery. The shows are consistently strong, especially in technique.

Arts & Culture, Visual Arts Author John Photos Date 03/17/2010
A Sharp

Years ago, I dated a girl who was intensely into tango. Our relationship was a vicious power struggle so, in an effort to spite her, I refused to dance. Now that I’m making a conscious effort to experience new things, I figured it was a good time to get into tango, so I traveled to the weekly milonga at El Meson.

Eating Wrong

It was a masticatory week for Santa Fe’s restaurants

Arts & Culture, Food Author Zane Fischer Date 03/10/2010
Devour 2010

In the three years that SFR has published its locavore’s guide to Santa Fe, the local food movement has continued to feel like it’s tilting toward a full-blown renaissance. But the movement has also found some inevitable friction. Food is a key component of the economy, and the progress of a local food movement is tied to the progress of a local economy movement.

Living the Dream

“Farming should be an occupation, a career choice that people can make a really good living at,” Arty Mangan says. To that end, Mangan is working with acclaimed ecologist Peter Warshall to develop a map and pamphlet that plot New Mexico’s way forward into a more sustainable, localized, fair trade culinary future.

Five Ways to Be a Better Locavore…

You can always buy stuff, but how often can you buy essential locavore skills locally?

Where’s the Beef?

When buying meat in New Mexico, one has many options—grass-fed, grass-finished, natural, organic, grain-fed, Slim Jims—but only approximately a 1 percent likelihood that it’s from here. That could change. A 2008 report commissioned by Beef Industry Improvement of New Mexico says branding (the marketing kind) would be a huge boon to the local beef industry.

Arts & Culture, Food , News, In Depth Stories Author Rani Molla Date 03/10/2010
Saving Dinner

ln a brightly lit classroom at Salazar Elementary School, two dozen 9- and 10-year-olds wield knives, have direct access to large amounts of flour and crowd in tight groups around three small tables, vying for a turn to take part in a single activity. The weird thing is, they’re all perfectly well-behaved.