The world premier of The Righteous, about the collision of religion and politics during the 1980s, and four standard repertory works round out the Santa Fe Opera's 2024 season.
Star Codes: June 28-July 4
How do we feel about a family heritage and habits; how do we feel about our home and homeland; how can we make home safe for all? This is what the sun, Mercury, and Venus now in domestic Cancer want to know.
Want to feel lucky? Trudge along Cerrillos in the heat
Walking along Cerrillos Road shows a different side of Santa Fe, Brian Sandford writes.
Star Codes: June 21-27
This first week of summer brings long leisurely evenings, a watch for forest fires, and interesting new layers of family responsibility as the sun in Cancer asks us to introspect and take care of business on the home front.
On top of an Outback
The author has become an unlikely camper late in his life, and by the time you're reading this, he'll be waking up in Yellowstone National Park.
Our sunlight peaks as the earth hits its maximum tilt with summer almost upon us.
The good stuff
Welcome to almost-summer, the moderately quiet spell before the opera and art markets and concerts kick in and when the temps somehow went from slightly shivery to blazing face sweats.
Star Codes: June 7-13
The astrological weather is nervy, exciting, but with potentially scattered focus and the occasional anxious streak with the sun, Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter all in mercury-ruled Gemini.
Karma for Carmen
Spoiler warning: The author goes deep on his feelings about plot developments in the opera Carmen, which was first staged in the year 1875.
Star Codes: May 31-June 6
Feel a new wind coming in. It could just bring another drift of pollen or spate of wild winds, but it also opens up new possibilities.
Crowd made artist's first, last reception a celebration
The size and exuberance of the crowd at a reception for painter Al Kittel's work reflected well on Santa Fe, columnist Brian Sandford writes.
The pollen-filled season of Gemini is upon us.
Paper chase
The Santa Fe International Literary Festival reminds Pasa's editor of the book challenges that fed her competitive nature as a child.
Star Codes: May 17-23
This week the stars ask us to weed and cultivate our garden. Run with that earthy metaphor throughout life. But determining what’s a weed and what’s a plant worth fert…
Chasing tomorrows
I heard someone recently refer to themselves as having more yesterdays than tomorrows, and my heart froze in my chest. Do I have more yesterdays than tomorrows? Who knows. But it spurred me into action.
Star Codes: May 10-16
Mother’s Day weekend brings the peak of sensuous Taurus season.
A Santa Fe artist's end-of-life challenges are a rare look at the effects of Friedreich’s ataxia.
Star Codes: May 3-9
Astrologers predicted this spring would be as restless as the incoming tide on a full moon while the sun shoots off solar flares and Jupiter conjuncts Uranus.
Our story
Indigenous fashion is undefinable, writes Ungelbah Dávila. Native Fashion Week "is an opportunity to learn, and to wrap your body — whomever you are — in many narratives of survival, brilliance, and immovability."
Star Codes: April 26-May 2
Recombobulate, straighten out recent problems, and pick up threads of a project. Mercury just turned direct after a three-week retrograde, and we have some cleaning up to do.
Art town traveling
The author learned first-hand that Ruidoso is one of the best places you can spend a weekend in New Mexico, even in the snow.
Star Codes: April 19-25
Fasten your seatbelt and roll with the changes. Jupiter conjuncts Uranus, the planet named after the god of procreative chaos. We feel this aspect all spring long, tho…
Book smart
All children deserve to have access to books and to experience the joys and benefits of reading.
Star Codes: April 12-18
Keep plans flexible and stay ready to improvise. Retrograde Mercury is in full trickster mode as Jupiter approaches a conjunction with change-master Uranus.
ARTS NEWS
- Family fun day at Museum of Indian Arts & Culture
- Center gets grant to place 20,000 images online
- Banksy Museum open in New York City
- SCFF honors students with Katie Besser awards
- Banner exhibit honors women who shaped New Mexico history
- Again, two will share Santa Fe youth poet laureate role
- Film festival honored by MovieMaker Magazine
- More Meow Wolf weddings on April 22
- Caldera residency applications open
- Santa Fean among Guggenheim foundation fellows