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The world is divided into people you’re happy to see and people you’re not. It’s no more distinct than that — she’s simply one of those people you’re happy to see. I’ve only seen her once, but I know I’d be happy to see her again. I’m sure no one with a head on their shoulders would think otherwise — or at least no one who didn’t have something to hide would feel that way. - [The Archer](https://santafemagazine.co/article/the-archer/): Scott Garen reinvented the holy myth of Mickey Mouse. I suspect he did it partly out of a natural sense of rebellion, and partly to make a job he’d already decided to leave a little more fun. He also worked directly with what were reputed to be two of the most difficult people in Hollywood — and I probably shouldn’t name them, but here goes: Jeffrey Katzenberg and Michael Eisner. He survived, with his life, a contract, and something almost no Disney executive ever got: approval to do something genuinely his own. - [Journey](https://santafemagazine.co/article/journey/): Education has never been simply a path to a career for Journey Gillson — it is a responsibility. Raised in a Navajo family where knowledge was meant to be returned to the community, she grew up watching her parents dedicate their lives to public service. Through the Chipeta Scholarship — founded by Don Siegel of Chipeta Trading Company in partnership with Native American Jump Start — she earned her master’s degree in speech-language pathology. Now, as she begins her career while serving as a Chipeta ambassador, she’s honoring the lesson that shaped her from the beginning: what you learn is only as valuable as what you give back. - [The Craftsman](https://santafemagazine.co/article/the-craftsman/): I spent a brisk, crisp forty-five minutes with Jonathan Boyd, struck by his absolute clarity — of purpose, of focus, of what good design means. Everything he cared about pointed at wood, at getting things right, at not compromising. I meant to ask about Leo’s, the restaurant he co-founded, but neither of us had the time. So one night I just went. And I realized he didn’t need to tell me anything more, because every single thing he cared about was on display, in process, manifest in that room: the same elegance of design, the same clarity, the same excellence in every detail — the menu, the drinks, the waiters, all of it. I shouldn’t have been surprised. When you master one thing, then find a second domain that rewards the same drive, you don’t just add to your success — you multiply it by an order of magnitude. - [Life of a Belly Dancer](https://santafemagazine.co/article/life-of-a-belly-dancer/): My mother loved to dance and took a lot of dance classes when I was very small. My family also started the California Renaissance fairs — they were the inspiration for them — so we went every year. My father played his harp for the fair, and I danced and took my cap around and got coin for it. At that time, Jamila Salimpour was putting together a dance company called Bal Anat, and that was my first impression of belly dancing. I loved it. It caught my imagination and I fell in love with it. I studied with Jamila for a while, and then we moved to Raleigh, North Carolina. My father got a job as musician-in-residence for the state university. There were two really significant mentors in my life there, two belly dancers who worked as a team. One was Armenian and had been in the Armenian folk ballet, part of that dance company in New York. Their stage names were Sara and Sari. I studied with them for seven years, then came back to Northern California and immersed myself in that whole world again, where there was a huge explosion of artistic freedom. Many of us went down that road of loving and studying — this kind of belly-dance ecstasy. I loved the freedom of expression I was finding through it. I preferred it greatly to my ballet classes, which I quit very early on. Ballet felt contained, and I think I felt the abuse of the body, the abuse of the feminine part of myself, to fit into certain boxes. My spirit just wouldn’t have it. - [Capturing the Moment](https://santafemagazine.co/article/capturing-the-moment/): She came to Santa Fe on pure instinct, trading her career as a music photographer for Bill Graham in San Francisco for what she describes as the spectacular high desert light, the lenticular clouds, and the humbling experience of urging a single squash plant from the dry clay soil and ancient pueblo pottery shards in the garden. - [The Wrangler](https://santafemagazine.co/article/the-wrangler/): On the way back from Swarthmore, I drove across country with a friend. We stopped to see a distant relative of his on a ranch near the North Dakota border. When we got there, this old man was climbing a windmill trying to fix something, and everyone was worried about him. He had all his cows — a lot of these old ranchers live with their cows, the cows are their friends. And when he saw his relative arrive with a young baby, he said, There’s nothing as wonderful as a human family. Not even cows. That stuck with me. - [What Lies Beneath](https://santafemagazine.co/article/what-lies-beneath/): I am half Japanese, and when I moved to New Mexico, I felt an inexplicable pull to this land — and stranger still, a sense of connection to Japan. I couldn’t explain it. - [Stand Up for Historians](https://santafemagazine.co/article/stand-up-for-historians/): Among the platitudes about history, Santayana’s line about those who forget it being condemned to repeat it makes you want to pull out a violin. It’s not that the phrase is wrong; quite the opposite. It’s that you’ve heard it so many times you can no longer see the virtue still sitting right there inside it. But when you sit down with Sara and Dan, you want to reanimate the phrase because the truth in it is still true — it’s just gone invisible from overuse. - [Listen to Your Body](https://santafemagazine.co/article/listen-to-your-body/): The word doctor, at its root, means teacher — and for Linda Lancaster, that’s never been just a footnote. It’s the whole idea. - [Rising](https://santafemagazine.co/article/rising/): There are more shows, other types of success, other things that you can do. The Santa Fe Indian Art Market is one of the best shows in the world. In my opinion it’s one of the only ones I know that you can do solely as an artist — you don’t have to rely on a gallery to get you into bigger shows. You can do this all on your own, if you’re capable of it. And that’s what I did. I just started doing this stuff on my own, until recently Tony invited me to go to Art Basel in Miami, to just go and check it out. I didn’t know anything about this show, or the armory, or anything like that. So I go there and I see that there are other cultures being represented, different sorts of art movements, and Native art is just a component inside of this bigger art scene. I’m so appreciative to have that perspective. Without Tony helping me find that, I don’t think I would be doing the work that I’m doing right now. - [It Worked.](https://santafemagazine.co/article/it-worked-2/): Contrary to popular belief, Oppenheimer did not utter the quote from the Bhagavad Gita at the moment of the atomic explosion. What he actually said was: It worked. He was gobsmacked, as anyone would be, that all the complex theory, the implausible connections, the impossible combinations, had actually transpired. I have this astonishing fact on the authority of Ellen Bradbury, who had it firsthand and told it to me in Volume One, Number One — one of our first interviews. - [Confessions](https://santafemagazine.co/article/confessions/): What’s the most embarrassing thing you haven’t said in print? - [How Meow Wolf Did It](https://santafemagazine.co/article/how-meow-wolf-did-it/): THE FIRST TIME I HEARD Vince Kadlubek’s name was in 2008. It came through my sister’s friend, who said he was selling weed at Video Library. I was out of college and reluctantly back in Santa Fe — back from New York City, where I’d been suddenly laid off from my Executive Assistant job in the financial crash. I had been producing Xanadu on Broadway. It went dark two weeks after opening. So there I was. Back in what I had decided — with all the certainty of someone who'd briefly escaped — was my hometown. Stuck with all the losers who had never left. - [The Grand Master](https://santafemagazine.co/article/the-grand-master/): I VISITED DR. JASON HAO'S OFFICE, and what I saw and heard was extraordinary. - [Not Another Blanket](https://santafemagazine.co/article/not-another-blanket/): EMMI WHITEHORSE was for a very long time a regionally popular Diné painter from Crownpoint, New Mexico who enjoyed a successful career living in Santa Fe and being represented at Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art on Canyon Road. - [Why El Rey is so Cool](https://santafemagazine.co/article/why-el-rey-is-so-cool/): THERE ARE MANY WAYS we sort people into categories: young and old, healthy and unhealthy, honest and not. But I’d add one more distinction to that peculiar list: those who are comfortable in their own skin and those who are not. - [The Creative Trespasser](https://santafemagazine.co/article/the-creative-trespasser/): PROVOCATEUR. Activist. Author. Shit-stirrer. Fool. Rogue. Varlet. Lesbian. 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A metamorphosis — after twelve years of exile and study, cast away upon an island “full of noises and sounds and sweet airs,” where, as Caliban said, “the clouds methought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me, that when I waked, I cried to dream again.” It was there where he developed powers and perception that were almost beyond his power of recognition. He “had bedimmed the noontide sun, called forth the mutinous winds, and plucked up the pine and cedar.” - [Why Ozomatli is Genius](https://santafemagazine.co/article/why-ozomatli-is-genius/): WHEN I SAT DOWN with Raul, I decided not to mention that I had never heard of Ozomatli. (Apparently I am one of the few.) What I discovered instead was something more important: how completely music claimed him. - [Hotel Glorieta & El Rey](https://santafemagazine.co/article/hotel-glorieta-el-rey/): Escape from the rich sights and sounds of downtown Santa Fe and arrive at Hotel Glorieta, a hideaway above the city with space to unwind. Offering unmatched 360 views of the Sangre De Cristo mountains, Hotel Glorieta isn’t just a hotel, it’s a destination. - [Bunny Terry](https://santafemagazine.co/article/bunny-terry/): Bunny Terry grew up in a small farming community, where she learned the value of hard work, close-knit relationships, and doing a job well. Exactly what she does today as a real estate broker in Santa Fe. - [Laura Mueller & Vladem Contemporary](https://santafemagazine.co/article/laura-mueller-vladem-contemporary/): The Vladem is co-sponsoring the event with the Santa Fe Magazine Festival. It is the latest installment of Virgil’s renowned Revolt 1680/2180 series. As Virgil explained in Santa Fe Magazine #3, Hardly anyone knows about the first American Revolution. It’s the genocide that happened to our people in this area. But younger generations aren’t interested. So how do we create a storyline to get them interested? I loved sci-fi when I was a kid: the original Star Trek, and Star Wars when it came out — I saw it three times the first day. So I came up with Revolt 1680/2180, which tells the story of the future revolt and brings sci-fi into it. It’s Indigenous futurism. - [Sarah Davis & David Carl: St. John’s College](https://santafemagazine.co/article/sarah-davis-david-carl-st-johns-college/): This June, something unprecedented will happen. For three days — June 12, 13, and 14 — St. John’s College has invited the Santa Fe Magazine Festival to take over their campus. St. John’s, perched in the hills with the mountains and sky as neighbors, has guarded its contemplative mission for decades. They have never opened their doors to an event like this. - [Chip Conley & MEA](https://santafemagazine.co/article/chip-conley-mea/): SOME PEOPLE WHO HAVE DONE WELL in business, who have a shitload of money, especially when they are young, think in some way they earned it, that there’s a relationship between what they make and how good they are. That it’s all about merit. Mind you, they won’t quite say that — but think of those tech bros out there who think that eight years of good hard work means it’s fair and logical that they’re worth 100,000 times more than the average teacher. - [The Plan](https://santafemagazine.co/article/the-plan/): THERE’S SOMETHING in Henry’s voice — something that makes you feel understood in just the way you would like to be understood, that makes you feel you will be taken care of. As if he had thought about it all and has a plan for you. - [Don’t Sleep with Your Drummer](https://santafemagazine.co/article/dont-sleep-with-your-drummer/): IT IS NOT UNREASONABLE to posit that Jen Sincero invented a whole genre of self-help books by positioning herself as the perpetually funny, older sister who’s gotten her ass kicked, gotten back on her veritable horse, and then figured out how to kick ass herself. - [Wild Weil](https://santafemagazine.co/article/wild-weil/): ANDREW WEIL HAS SPENT SIX DECADES being loyal — it appears exclusively loyal — to his curiosity and to the pursuit of wellness and health in the fullest sense of those words. That curiosity took him from the Harvard Botanical Museum to Japan (where he first encountered matcha tea, decades before it became trendy), from the Amazon rainforest to spontaneous healing, from psychedelic medicine to integrative approaches to aging consciously. For this loyalty to intellectual exploration and his joyful willingness to be his own guinea pig, he’s been celebrated to an extraordinary degree — alternatively castigated, embraced, dismissed, vindicated. - [Soul of the Artist](https://santafemagazine.co/article/soul-of-the-artist/): WE WENT TO VISIT DOUG ATWILL at his home a couple of months before he died. We knew him, as most people do, as a kind of Santa Fe legend, but we also knew him in a distinctly personal way because we live in a house he built So we kind of knew his eccentricities, his penchants, his loves, and his comfort with breaking norms. - [The Hometown Mayor](https://santafemagazine.co/article/the-hometown-mayor/): HE IS A LOCAL BOY, a policy wonk, a former baseball card entrepreneur, a family man — and our new mayor. - [Apples and Owls](https://santafemagazine.co/article/apples-and-owls/): I FOUND IT NOT SURPRISING, yet infinitely comforting to hear from Priyanka — who is as much of an authority as you can be — that there are huge similarities between the sublime, spiritual, ineffable feeling of Tibet and of our hometown. So much so that Tibetan monks often come here, a home away from home as it were. - [Breaking the Myth](https://santafemagazine.co/article/breaking-the-myth/): IF GEORGIA O’KEEFFE HADN’T EXISTED, American culture would have demanded her invention. She arrived at precisely the moment the nation needed a living embodiment of frontier mythology translated into modernist terms — a solitary woman artist claiming her private mountain, transforming stark landscapes into icons of American identity. - [The Santa Fe Magazine Festival](https://santafemagazine.co/article/the-santa-fe-magazine-festival/): After 20 years as a magazine entrepreneur, I went upstate to the Hudson River Valley and started something called Shakespeare on the Hudson. I bought 95 acres along the river and began producing and directing Shakespeare plays. In doing so, I was betting the ranch, so to speak. This, for better or worse, is second nature to me. - [The Prodigal Son](https://santafemagazine.co/article/the-prodigal-son/): But back in this world, a young musician of talent and promise experienced some miracle of forgiveness. And he needed it: he had stolen $450,000 and spent it all. Ready to be sentenced to 20 years in prison, he did something that the presiding judge had never witnessed. The man, reduced to penury, represented himself and told the truth. What happened next is the story you are about to hear. The prodigal son in this, forgiven, forgives himself and starts a new life. — OL - [The Decisive Moment](https://santafemagazine.co/article/the-decisive-moment/): Yes. The thing is generally people see what they expect to see and they don’t see what’s actually there. For me, vision is a feast. The great gift of being a photographer is learning to see. - [Water: Why we’re not screwed…](https://santafemagazine.co/article/water-why-were-not-screwed/): JESSE AND KYLE have spent their lives swimming, rafting, and talking water. Oh, and inventing and implementing all local water policy. - [Living Vastu Shastra](https://santafemagazine.co/article/living-vastu-shastra/): IF YOU’VE BEEN TO A MEDITATION CLASS, you know the drill. Sit to quiet your mind, become aware of being part of everything around you. You might do a metta or loving-kindness practice, to cultivate concern for all beings. But you probably won’t focus on the space around you. Not the room, nor the lights, nor the chairs. - [The Force of Will](https://santafemagazine.co/article/the-force-of-will/): THERE IS SOMETHING GORGEOUS and boundlessly strange about the cantilever. Anchored at one end while the other extends freely into space, unsupported, untethered, it relies on the strength, the rigidity, the integrity of the single support. - [The Healing Capital of the U.S.](https://santafemagazine.co/article/the-healing-capital-of-the-u-s/): Psychedelics have been used in ceremony by indigenous communities for millennia, as a way of connecting people both to each other and to the Great Spirit, God, the Creator, whatever. Ceremonies go deep into who we are. They help us through birth, help us through difficult times, help us get married and buried and baptized. We’re initiated in ceremonies. My movie Cast Away was about a guy who was completely connected in his life, then disconnected — it’s almost a metaphor for a psychedelic journey. - [Master Printer… (on a Good Day)](https://santafemagazine.co/article/master-printer-on-a-good-day/): No comparison. People always ask me, Are you a master printer? And I always have the same answer: On a good day. - [That Shiwi](https://santafemagazine.co/article/that-shiwi/): A:SHIWI is what the Zunis call themselves. "That Shiwi" means Zuni person and is the name Kevin Beltrán prefers, rather than Zuni, which is a word created by the Spaniards. - [The Mad Hatters](https://santafemagazine.co/article/the-mad-hatters/): HE IS A GOOD OL’ BOY from Austin, one who had done some majorly wild and crazy things; one, he went to jail for. He acknowledges it freely, accepts it, and forgives himself. Chenoa, his daughter, does too. - [Cassidy’s Ride](https://santafemagazine.co/article/cassidys-ride/): You’ve been on stage as a musician and an actor. What’s good about both and what’s bad about both? - [The Hopeful Issue](https://santafemagazine.co/article/the-hopeful-issue/): The best way out is always through, so Robert Frost tells us. - [The Remarkable Amy Violette](https://santafemagazine.co/article/the-remarkable-amy-violette/): AMY VIOLETTE IS WEARING ALL BLACK, from her boots to her cowboy hat. Her long, blond hair hangs loose down her back. As we shake hands in greeting, a man nearby teases her about looking like Johnny Cash, making her blush. Though she has a southern drawl and could fairly be described as a “horse girl,” she also happens to be an up-and-coming handbag designer, an actress, a producer, a screenwriter, a seasoned horseback rider, and an ordained Baptist minister. But more than once she explains, I’m just Amy. — JL - [Once within a Time](https://santafemagazine.co/article/once-within-a-time/): DIEGO MEDINA’S BEST CHANCE for a strong Wi-Fi signal is in his car. I never have Wi-Fi in my house, he says. He lives outside Taos, where modern technology can be spotty. Originally from the Las Cruces area, Medina is a member of the Piro-Manso-Tiwa tribe, formed by Native communities living together in the missions of Paso del Norte after the 1680 Revolt. He spends his days reading, painting, drawing, and thinking through the ideas that drive his art. Thinking is the operative word. Diego is a cerebral artist; his work steeped in symbolism and mysticism, all from deep research. And his reputation is growing, with a fellowship at the Santa Fe Art Institute and exhibitions at Smoke The Moon, The Valley in Taos, Form & Concept and the 12th SITE Santa Fe International, Once Within a Time. —JL - [Concrete Compassion](https://santafemagazine.co/article/concrete-compassion/): THIS IS WHAT YOU SHOULDN’T SAY when someone has just received bad news about a cancer diagnosis: It’s not so bad, you look good or It could be worse. - [From Parts Unknown](https://santafemagazine.co/article/from-parts-unknown/): ROLLING DOWN MARCY STREET past the coffee shops, tattoo parlors and sushi restaurants, one is lucky enough to come across a room filled with the beautiful and mysterious wall hangings, curious statues, and bizarre artifacts that appear to be from another world. - [Not Resting on Laurels](https://santafemagazine.co/article/not-resting-on-laurels/): IT’S A BIT OF RELIEF FOR ME to know that our very own poet laureate disliked journal writing as a kid. Instead, she became a visual artist working on fiber, and host of her own jazz radio show. - [#7](https://santafemagazine.co/article/7/): SERGIO RIVAS IS DOMINATING. He’s an attacking midfielder playing for our own New Mexico United soccer team. - [Before](https://santafemagazine.co/article/before/): BEFORE IRA FOUNDED INN OF THE FIVE GRACES, before his life as a successful and controversisal Santa Fe entrepreneur, before all that — there was a young man frequently out of money who inhabited the world of Warhol, Anne Klein, and Bill Paley, one who was a rug entrepreneur, artist, and trendmaker, a young man from Forest Hills, who invented himself in 1970s Afghanistan. —OL - [Where’s the Beef?](https://santafemagazine.co/article/wheres-the-beef/): I LOVE THAT ROAD TO GALISTEO. With the overwhelming sky, the impossibly dominating land, I feel I’m traveling not just to a place, but to another dimension. - [Madam Vladem](https://santafemagazine.co/article/madam-vladem/): I AM TOLD BY A RELIABLE SOURCE that it is extremely rare for an American to speak fluent, flawless, nuanced Japanese — especially if that person has begun her study in college. - [Dry Goods](https://santafemagazine.co/article/dry-goods/): HER MANTRA: IT’S ALL A WORK IN PROGRESS. - [Piano Man](https://santafemagazine.co/article/piano-man/): MARK NEIKRUG HAS BEEN ARTISTIC DIRECTOR of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival since 1998. Already a world-famous musician and composer playing to international audiences, he relocated to Santa Fe from New York City in the early 1980s, drawn by the usual suspects — the light, the slower pace of life, but also a blossoming romance with a local artist, the Santa Clara potter Dolly Naranjo, with whom he raised two children. (Their daughter is potter Jody Naranjo.) - [The Seeker](https://santafemagazine.co/article/the-seeker/): IT IS TRENDY for the privileged to say they want to give back. For some, I’ve observed that what they really mean is they want more people to know what a big deal they have been. They want to use the generosity they wear on their sleeve to get to be better known, to talk about themselves. - [How to be Alive](https://santafemagazine.co/article/how-to-be-alive/): WEATHER PATTERNS (climate change?) being what they are in higher education, it seemed like an excellent idea to talk to St. Johns’ tutor Ron Wilson. In the unlikely chance your attention span is waning these days, here are the Cliff Notes from our talk. - [Super Comic](https://santafemagazine.co/article/super-comic/): IMAGINE THAT COOL, GARDEN-VARIETY SUMMER AFTERNOON outdoor brunch when Maxine shows up. - [Why They Like Us](https://santafemagazine.co/article/why-they-like-us/): When The Wall Street Journal, out of thin air, does a zeitgeist/trend piece, you can safely assume everyone else has been thinking about that subject for at least a year. They did such an article on UFOs last June. - [Why do They Like Us?](https://santafemagazine.co/article/why-do-they-like-us/): I KNEW OF MARC BARASCH AS A JOURNALIST-EDITOR who’d transformed New Age Journal into a National Magazine Award-winner. He wrote the bestselling books Remarkable Recovery and The Compassionate Life (which Desmond Tutu declared a compulsory read for all), and founded the Green World Campaign, planting millions of trees in struggling communities in a dozen countries. For the past decade, his organization has focused on Kenya’s Swahili Coast, helping small farmers restore their arid land. - [Brother Godfrey](https://santafemagazine.co/article/brother-godfrey/): Here’s the thing; if you want to interview Godfrey Reggio, you might consider bringing your seven-year-old daughter. I sensed that he was relieved not to be questioned about the meaning of life, but to just hang out with a curious child. - [Magic on Canyon](https://santafemagazine.co/article/magic-on-canyon/): A childhood of playing piano at El Farol and an adulthood dedicated to holistic health and wholeness gives Tiny Tiaga owner Blake Shanley a unique perspective on one of the oldest roads in the country. - [At Claude’s](https://santafemagazine.co/article/at-claudes/): Anne Mulford knew a different kind of Santa Fe. She came here as a child, because her mother fell in love with Claude James, the owner of the legendary Canyon Road hangout, Claude’s. Anne has been working on a documentary about that time and her mother’s life. She’ll be showing an early cut of the film in May at the Jean Cocteau Cinema. - [Pilar’s](https://santafemagazine.co/article/pilars/): I call Pilar Law “Mama Canyon” because her generosity, insight, and unwavering support of Canyon Road Summer Walks set the foundation to make it happen. This year, she transformed a back room of Edition ONE Gallery into “Pilar’s on Canyon Road” — a general store — and expanded the range of community gatherings she hosts. Her vision isn’t just a nostalgic renovation; it’s an act of reclamation that embodies the belief that community gatherings can happen again. Whenever I see her planning where provisions will be sold or where neighbors will gather for conversations and concerts, I see someone who understands that an authentic community isn’t a luxury — it’s essential infrastructure. Pilar is the real OG. - [Back to the Old Neighborhood](https://santafemagazine.co/article/back-to-the-old-neighborhood/): The following love story is about two people who came back to the halcyon place of their childhood, Canyon Road. Judith Salazar and Patrick Gonzales returned to do something new, something different. Different turned out to be a beauty salon. - [How to Make Paint](https://santafemagazine.co/article/how-to-make-paint/): It just doesn’t get more Canyon Road than making paint, does it? Because every art town needs a real art store. Luckily for us, L’Ecole de Beaux Art is just that. - [Three Sons](https://santafemagazine.co/article/three-sons/): When the Canyon Road Summer Walk was founded, one of the inspirations was Roman Salazar, patriarch of one of the original founding families of our city. We caught up with his three grandsons to understand their history and what connects us all to Canyon Road. - [The Roots of Canyon Road](https://santafemagazine.co/article/the-roots-of-canyon-road/): After launching the Summer Walk last year, I’m back on Canyon Road to dig into the roots. I started at the parking lot across from El Farol, speaking to some members of the founding families who have owned it forever. Their stories help us understand the roots of Canyon Road, and thus our city of Santa Fe. - [Life in One Stroke](https://santafemagazine.co/article/life-in-one-stroke/): TALK ABOUT WHIPLASH – in the middle of a busy day where I’d just interviewed an expert about the future of AI, I suddenly found myself sitting down with a Zen teacher. Kazuaki Tanahashi is a man revered for his writings, his translations, his activism on behalf of nuclear disarmament and the environment, and his achingly beautiful and simple works of art as a calligrapher and one-stroke painter. - [Checking In](https://santafemagazine.co/article/checking-in-maurice-burns/): Maurice has always known he was an artist. He came here with the wave of creative people that descended on Santa Fe in the 1960s, and now, at 88, he’s still working – his art is currently hanging in a major exhibit at the Gerald Peters Gallery. - [A Coyote Story](https://santafemagazine.co/article/a-coyote-story/): EVERY THRIVING COMMUNITY needs poets. Sofia Salazar is a Norteña, a native of the tiny town of Coyote, NM. Her poetry and prose are grounded in the storytelling traditions of her culture. She talked with us about death, emotional intelligence, and the sense of belonging that comes when your roots run deep into the soil of a place. - [The Palace Rises](https://santafemagazine.co/article/the-palace-rises/): WHEN THE FAMOUS MADAME, DOÑA TULES, opened the doors of the Palace Hotel in 1881, it was the toast of the town. Spanning several city blocks, the hulking Victorian structure outsized everything else in Santa Fe. The opulent lodging featured a luxe casino, three floors with electric elevators, and even a billiards table. As The New Mexican reported, “celebrities, heads of state, bishops, athletes and even international spies frequented the establishment.” - [The Aftermath](https://santafemagazine.co/article/the-aftermath/): He is a Guggenheim and Rockefeller Fellow, but you’d never know from talking to him. For an artist, he is refreshingly humble and is happy to give full credit to his Peñasco community for teaching him how to be a good photographer — and a good human. - [The Puppeteer](https://santafemagazine.co/article/the-puppeteer/): THERE’S A LONG, LONG HISTORY of puppets as a way to challenge power, myth, and culture. We use them to say the things that we aren’t comfortable saying. Long before there were digital avatars, we spoke to each other in felt, wood, cloth and shadow. - [The Pioneer](https://santafemagazine.co/article/the-pioneer/): WHEN I ORIGINALLY SAT DOWN with the artist Angela Ellsworth and our Senior Editor, Spencer Windes, I expected a normal interview. What neither Angela nor Spencer realized was how much they had in common. Both of them, it turns out, have backgrounds and childhoods deeply rooted in Mormon culture. Both have prominent Mormon ancestors, prophets of the church. Both are queer. - [The AI Whisperer](https://santafemagazine.co/article/the-ai-whisperer/): MORE BULLSHIT IS WRITTEN ABOUT AI these days than any other subject. Peter is the rare person who is actually qualified to know what he’s talking about. He has spent his life taking data and explaining it, first to himself, and then to large groups, including people like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. - [Jessica Takes the Light](https://santafemagazine.co/article/jessica-takes-the-light/): SOMETIMES, IF YOU’RE LUCKY, what you have done, what you cared about, what you tried to change – all of that is recognized, and maybe even rewarded. - [1 Question](https://santafemagazine.co/article/1-question-ellen-petry-leanse/): As a neuroscientist, what’s your favorite part of the brain? - [1 Question](https://santafemagazine.co/article/1-question-douglas-miles-sr/): Tell us about Apache Skateboards and Fashion Week. - [1 Question](https://santafemagazine.co/article/1-question-kiana-estevez/): What do you teach kids about food? - [The Ostrich](https://santafemagazine.co/article/the-ostrich/): Contrary to popular belief, ostriches don’t bury their heads in the sand – it’s a common myth. However, they sometimes duck flat against the ground with their necks stretched out to become less visible to predators. - [Checking In with Joan](https://santafemagazine.co/article/checking-in-with-joan/): FEELING A BIT PERPLEXED at the state of the world these days, I decided to call up the smartest woman I know. - [Profiles in Courage](https://santafemagazine.co/article/profiles-in-courage/): MARIA SANTOS IS A DREAMER, a recipient of DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that allows those who were brought to America without documents as young children to remain in the country. Like many, she lives in a liminal state, dependent on the good graces of politicians to decide if she gets to stay in the only country she’s ever really known. - [The Selfie Problem](https://santafemagazine.co/article/the-selfie-problem/): Well, we do know he is a photographer. A pretty elite one who has shot for storied media companies like The New York Times, USA Today, the LA Times, Der Spiegel, The Wall Street Journal, ESPN, TIME, The International Herald Tribune...you get the idea. - [I Knew Nothing About Food](https://santafemagazine.co/article/i-knew-nothing-about-food/): MICHAEL CAMPBELL IS WILLING TO TAKE SOME OF THE BLAME. - [Wildlife Whisperer](https://santafemagazine.co/article/wildlife-whisperer/): I’m the Wildlife Rehabilitation Manager and I wear so many hats. I oversee, in conjunction with our staff veterinarian, the execution of our wildlife rehabilitation program. When people find injured, orphaned or sick wildlife, they bring them to us for treatment. We are truly a hospital, so we do a lot of medical care here. I function both as a manager of the program, as a wildlife rehabilitator, as a veterinary technician, and as a mentor, because we also run a pretty robust internship program. - [Marine, Monk, Money Man](https://santafemagazine.co/article/marine-monk-money-man/): WHEN IT COMES TO ADVICE ABOUT YOUR MONEY, we might expect it to come from, say, your accountant. Or from some wealth manager with an unctuous, cheerful track record managing other peoples’ finances. Maybe you get advice from the guy you knew from college with that golden touch, or maybe it comes from books. - [1 Question](https://santafemagazine.co/article/1-question-jacob-sisneros/): What’s hidden in our old adobe buildings? - [1 Question](https://santafemagazine.co/article/1-question-warren-langford-and-katy-gross/): What’s up with Siri mispronouncing Cerrillos? - [1 Question](https://santafemagazine.co/article/1-question-nathan-center/): The original owner of Book Mountain, Peggy Frank, had the store for 43 years. She tried to sell it. Finally, she put an ad in the paper and hundreds of people responded. According to her, while everyone else responded by telling her how they were the best readers, the best businesspeople, the best of everything, I just said, Well, what can I do? The store became mine in January of 2024. - [1 Question](https://santafemagazine.co/article/1-question-mona-perea/): How do you deal with hundreds of artists at Indian Market? - [A Direction Known](https://santafemagazine.co/article/a-direction-known/): It was a “damp, drizzly November in my soul.” It was also late on election night when I stopped watching the news and began a hunt for my high school copy of Moby Dick. It still isn’t clear why Ishmael called to me that night — I spent days searching for some ineffable words, some faintly remembered meaning. I found them. - [Girls Inc: From 7 to 70](https://santafemagazine.co/article/girls-inc-from-7-to-70/): FOR SEVEN DECADES, Girls Inc. has been a place for generations of Santa Fe girls to gather, get to know each other, and figure out who they are. Founded as the Girls Club of Santa Fe in 1955, they moved into their landmark building on Hillside Avenue shortly after, and since then, thousands of girls have passed through their programs. They’ve learned skills, formed relationships, climbed mountains, and kicked down the doors that were closed to them. - [What Would Ben Franklin Do?](https://santafemagazine.co/article/what-would-ben-franklin-do/): KIRK ELLIS HAS A SHELF FULL OF AWARDS from telling stories about historic figures from John Adams to Anne Frank to the Beach Boys. He’s built a Hollywood career exploring the mythology of the past — most recently in a miniseries about Benjamin Franklin. - [The Fixer](https://santafemagazine.co/article/the-fixer/): MICHAEL TRUJILLO IS THE GUY YOU CALL if you need to cut through any of the bullshit that comes with life in a city crammed with tourists, artists, and politicians. In a place with a lot of big egos, you often hear the refrain that when things head south, call Michael. - [Redemption Song](https://santafemagazine.co/article/redemption-song/): A new book about J.P. has the unusual title The Art and Journey of John Paul Granillo, Inmate #26553051. We talked for a long time about his decade in prison, his life as a free man, and what makes him the artist he is today.