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Whether you’re on vacation or live here year-round, a special lunch at one of Santa Fe’s higher-end restaurants is a treat worth indulging in. Many of these celebrated eateries offer smaller (and less expensive) versions or their dinner entrées; others serve different dishes at lunch than at dinner. Either way, lunch is a great way to experience some of the City Different’s renowned restaurants at lower prices.

Santacafé
231 Washington Avenue
984-1788

Santacafé is well known as one of the best—and most expensive—restaurants in town. This casually elegant high-end restaurant also serves an...

The CCA, fresh from its transitional year, is back in full force with great shows and its annual “fabulous evening of costumed carousing and raucous masked revelry.” Besides being consistently one of the most fun parties in town, the auction is typically stylish. DJs T.T. and A.G. do the music with visual effects by VJ Hypothetical Entity, food and $5 martini bar provided by the Tesuque Village Market along with wine and champagne. The whole shebang will be emceed by Honey Harris.

This year’s live auction items feature terrific and star-studded experiences including:

In its twenty-fifth year as a group committed to “breathing life into the theatre through the creation of new forms,” Theater Grottesco (TG) and artistic director John Flax take the near sacrilegious position that Shakespeare’s comedies are “dated and silly.” Flax argues that Shakespeare stole characters and conventions “shamelessly” from the Commedia Dell’Arte tradition while ignoring the incisive social commentary that actually thinned out audiences for the Italians. Shakespeare’s comedies are “romantic and light” and focused almost exclusively on the foibles and obsessions of the...

Scott Harrison and Ironweed Productions: A Commitment to Quality American Theater and the Northern New Mexico Community. IP’s spring production of Doubt promises to be another successful and thought-provoking foray into American culture and belief.

James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” began life as a short story by James Baldwin. Set in Harlem in the 1950’s, this narrative is a jazz riff on the ersatz relationship between a good brother Brother (a married veteran and long-term high school teacher) and a bad brother Sonny, (jailbird, heroin addict, and inspired jazz pianist) that morphs into a truer, more loving connection when Brother begins to glean what playing and creating music means for his younger sibling.

What the Word for Word Company does is to adapt short stories to the stage without changing or omitting a word of the original...

A Santa Fe resident for the past two decades, Lorraine Schechter has led a full and varied life as an artist, arts administrator, and teacher of fine arts and yoga. A native of New York City and a rabid Yankee fan, Lorraine lived in the south of France and Northwest Connecticut prior to moving to Santa Fe in 1988. Lorraine first visited Santa Fe in 1969 when she was teaching at Swarthmore College and had just established her first gallery. During that first visit, Lorraine made a promise to herself that took her two decades to fulfill: “I would live and work in Santa Fe some day because...

It’s hard to imagine the extent by which New Mexico’s largest destination resort-hotel, scheduled to open August 9, 2008, will exceed expectations. But Buffalo Thunder Resort in Pojoaque, New Mexico may just accomplish what most four-star resorts endeavor to do: provide an unparallel, unforgettable experience that cannot be replicated anywhere else. The magnitude of the plans, the quality and details of the construction and design, and the presence of Native American culture and art has yet to be seen in the hospitality industry.

Located on 587 acres of tribal land, 12 miles north of...

Applying for a job can be frightening, expectations can be unclear, and knowing where you will perform at your best and be compensated fairly is difficult to assess. The only element that can make this process even more intimidating is if you are applying for your very first job. Carlos Duno, President of Marcia Owen Associates, a permanent and temporary staffing agency located here in Santa Fe, and I have come up with tips for first-time job applicants to get through the process and find the perfect job.

Create your Resume. Creating a resume can be daunting, especially if you don’t have...

As if leaving college wasn’t hard enough, entering the real world and applying for your first “real” job can be just as challenging. To make matters worse, the lack of young professionals in Santa Fe deters many recent graduates from even applying in the City Different. Carlos Duno, President of Marcia Owen Associates, a permanent and temporary staffing agency located here in Santa Fe, and I have come up with tips for recent graduates to get through the job application process, and reasons why even you may want to stay and watch your career grow here.

First and foremost, Mr. Duno maintains...

No one seems sure of the origins of the humble margarita. Both Juarez and Tijuana lay claim to what has become the most popular mixed cocktail in the United States. One version alleges that in 1942 a Juarez bartender mixed a French Cointreau with Mexican tequila, worm and all, in celebration of a customer’s birthday. Another story insists margaritas were invented during World War II as a cheap alternative to hard whiskey, which was expensive and hard to get. According to Texas Monthly magazine, a Dallas restaurateur named Mariano Martinez created the first frozen margarita sometime in...