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In his March column, Dick Stolley examines why the Santa Fe River is a dry river bed and a proposal by the Santa Fe Watershed Association to bring it back to life. Dick is founding managing editor of People Magazine, author, and award-winning reporter and editor for Life magazine.

There comes a time in the life of every city—usually when it is at a critical cross-roads, when its future is at stake—when it has to decide which other city it doesn’t want to be.

That was true for Portland, Oregon in the early 1970s.

It’s true for Santa Fe now.

Back in the 1970s I was an assistant to the young mayor of Portland who had run for office on a campaign that said, “Ours is a city with much to cherish, much to save, and too much to lose to remain idle.” In fact, Portland was at an inflection point. San Francisco to the south was established as a sophisticated city; Seattle to...

The old adage that ‘location, location, location’ sells a house may still hold true, however just as significant to the buying decision is ‘emotion, emotion, emotion’. The human mind loves images and emotion and buyers in particular, are extremely visual when it comes to deciding on the ideal property to purchase.

Capturing the interest of buyers can be as simple as creating visual ‘cues’ or scenes both inside and outside the property that will trigger a positive response to what they are seeing. Real estate staging is a unique ‘design to sell’ technique that uses existing furnishings,...

Prior to living on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, Susana Guillaume has touched down in Hollywood, Southern France, and Northern England with a brief foray into the Amazon. From these life experiences, Susana has created a one-woman show— Girl Facing West— about “the pleasures and pains of growing up, while staying human, in a complex world.” This solo performance piece is composed of “my personal choices and the legacy of family.”

Susana Guillaume has an abiding passion for “body-based improvisation where life experiences reside” and, consequently, has taught dance for the past twelve years....

Abiquiú, best known as the home of artist Georgia O’Keeffe, offers astonishing landscapes and a glimpse into New Mexico’s rich past.

Abiquiú, a small town about 50 miles northwest of Santa Fe, is best known today as the home of the artist Georgia O’Keeffe. Once you visit, you’ll understand why she loved and painted the landscape of her adopted home for so many years. The haunting beauty of the tiny adobe village, the majesty of the surrounding mountains, and the astonishing grandeur of the nearby red rock canyons is more than enough to keep any artist enthralled for a lifetime.

Ask a dozen Wall Street analysts this month where and when the stock market will bottom out and you’ll get twelve different answers. Jumping in as a buyer at any point in time is a gamble, particularly if short term timing is the objective. Real estate suffers from similar speculation: does the market have further to fall, or is this the time to step up as mortgage rates continue to fall and inventory has swelled to inviting proportions (from a buyer’s point of view). Just as the stock market is a mosaic of multiple components (retail, energy, tech, manufacturing, transportation…)...

Happy Valentine’s Day in Northern New Mexico! Site Santa Fe opens an exhibit of one of those local yet ‘global’ artists that fill our town, belying those who still insist on an absurd, archaic regional/ international split in the art world. Steina: 1970 - 2000, is a retrospective of a new media trailblazer.

“Long considered,” write the show’s curators, “a pioneer in the field of new media art by artists and curators alike, Steina has been making art for over three decades that has expanded the boundaries of video technology and electronic imaging. Through an ongoing process of...

The 80th annual awards show will be held Feb. 24 at the Kodak Theatre and will feature a host of A-list stars. Forest Whitaker, Helen Mirren, Jennifer Hudson, Miley Cyrus, George Clooney and Nicole Kidman will be among the presenters. Others include Denzel Washington, Martin Scorsese, Cate Blanchett, Cameron Diaz, Harrison Ford and Tom Hanks.

John Stewart will be this year’s Oscar host. Stewart has been host and executive producer of Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, winner of four consecutive Emmy® Awards for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series, since 1999.

Profiles of Artistic Director Tone Forrest, Resident Playwright and Board Member Craig Barnes, and Clara Soister (Actress and Director).

On January 7, 2008, I met with members of the Red Thread Collective for two hours at Java Joe’s Coffee Shop to discuss the theater company’s history, its vision for professional, quality drama in Santa Fe, and its upcoming performance schedule.

One of my earliest recollections is of my Scots grandparents talking about the importance of the red thread: “If you follow the red thread, you can unravel even a hopeless tangle.” Artistic Director Tone...

On January 7, 2008, at Java Joe’s Coffee Shop, I met with Red Thread Collective members Tone Forrest (Artistic Director), Craig Barnes (Resident Playwright and Board member), and Clara Soister (Actress and Director) on the community needs for the growth of theater in Santa Fe with a schedule of upcoming productions.

Tone, Craig, and Clara all agree that money is needed to create an important and challenging theater community. The irony is that while Santa Fe is an arts town, there is little funding for the drama. All three RTC members see the absolute need for a performing arts center....