New Mexico

Okay,there is some bias here, as this is our newest offering. The fact that this home is inthe city limits, but offers such privacy makes it quite unique. The views, the acreage, the location on Circle Drive also put in a class of its own. I could spend hours pointing out details in this house. The most memorable thing from my first visit was the scale of the “his and hers” master suites. There is a consistency throughout the house when it comes to the details. No expense was spared, and no corners were cut. The original builder still takes care of this home, and has recently gone through it with a fine tooth comb. Here is Santa Fe’s Finest Home

With some dissent from a school director, the Cimarron Municipal Schools Board of Education on May 8 approved construction plans for a solar array that will be built at Eagle Nest Elementary and Middle Schools for a cost of $745,297 including taxes.

I was on my way to a small concert on Canyon Road when I caught sight of this sculpture in someones yard.

IFriday, May 17, 2013  KSFR, Santa Fe, NM  Webcasting!  10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time  Host: Steve Terrell  101.1 FM email me during the show! terrel(at)ksfr.org  OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos Back from the Shadows Again by The Firesign Theatre Too Many Bills by Figures of Light I Like Drinkin' by The Beaumonts Creek Cats by Legendary Shack Shakers Country

Temptations, Crash Crew, Python, KRS-One, Tricky, EPMD, Li'l Patty B. & More... 123:29 minutes (113.06 MB)

If you are in Albuquerque tomorrow, May 18 at 10 AM, join us for the 3rd Spotlight Series lecture with Oliver Prezant at the Albuquerque Museum of Art. Free admission and no reservations necessary to experience the lecture titled “The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein: Isn’t it Grand?”Calendar :: Albuquerque Museum :: The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, New Mexicoalbuquerquemuseum.orgA municipal museum whose mission is to be a leading institution for art, history and culture in the Southwest.

Check these posts: Follow your bliss…: My latest painting…the Moon is Rising at Sunset on May 17, 2013 at taos arts – Google Blog Search: About Me. My Photo · Laura J. Wellner (author pseudonym Laura J. W. Ryan): I’m an artist, a writer, and I live in an old farmhouse on top of a windswept hill with my Fred, our son, six cats, and one dog named Max. View my complete profile ….. openings connecting · WHERE? WHAT? HOW have I been? – these are from my time in and around Taos in August: perfect for those of us who are IN LOVE WITH THE LIGHTa new exhibit coming up with my "gang of five"… … 6 months ago … 5:36 – Burn as One on May 17, 2013 at taos arts – Google Blog Search: ?Pro-smoking in the arts, and the official sister-site to deviantART’s first and largest pro-smoking group:#TAOS: The Art of SmokingLook for favorites, news, and more in the Highlights, and enjoy! Smoke ‘em if you’ve got ‘em! ~TikiIn Death, Art: … LAGUNA STONEWORK / Daily Photograph #1,936 | WHEN A … on May 17, 2013 at taos arts – Google Blog Search: About the Artist … I love my iPhone, my iPad, and my iVan, Betsy, the Volkswagen. My summer home is in Taos, New Mexico, and in the winter, I travel. …. Taos and Taos Arts i?on STUDIO GALLERY / Daily Photogr?Peggy Sindt on STUDIO … Bourbon Street Rain | STORYTELLER on May 16, 2013 at taos arts – Google Blog Search: Every sort of huckster, scam artist and two-bit dealer plies his or her trade here. It’s mostly a street filled with cheap dives and bars that cater to the tourist trade. I can’t think of very many locals who go here. Most of us have no reason to do … Fana Bangoura tours New Mexico and Colorado! | Mounafanyi … on May 16, 2013 at taos arts – Google Blog Search: Fana Bangoura and Soriba Fofana are featured artists at this year’s Camp Mabina. Join us on our tour of NM and CO! Join masters of drum and dance Fana Bangoura and … Dance: 6.45pm. Tenderfoot Dance Cooperative 1548 G Street Unit 5. JUNE 5th TAOS Drum: 5pm. Dance: 6.30pm. Drum at 19 Santa Nino Rd Dance at TADA 2 Upper Colonias Rd. Please contact kerfala.bangoura@gmail.com with any questions, or to schedule a private lesson or group workshop during the tour. Holy Spirit ? San Felipe Neri ? Oratorio | MOONWYND STUDIO … on May 16, 2013 at taos arts – Google Blog Search: MOONWYND STUDIO | Photos Writing Art. Window or door? You decide! May 16, 2013 by MoonWynd Studio … Avoiding ‘Truthiness’ When Wri?on The Artist’s Road · Reporter’s notebook: Hundreds?on NBC Latino · The real owner of the … Alpine Cowboys opening home game Sunday « Big Bend Now on May 16, 2013 at taos arts – Google Blog Search: The Cowboys will face off against the Taos Blizzards for the first game in a series of four following the recognition of youth and high school baseball and softball teams at the diamond. Retired Major League pitcher and three-time American … [writing|travel] Off to the Nebs, then Rio Hondo | jlake.com on May 17, 2013 at taos nm – Google Blog Search: Crack of Sunday, I light out for New Mexico my own self. This trip is completely unrelated to Lisa’s, as I am heading for Rio Hondo, but our automobile will pause whilst passing through Santa Fe on the way from Albuquerque to Taos for us to … Bathymetry and vegetation in isolated marsh and cypress wetlands … on May 17, 2013 at taos nm – Google Blog Search: Taos County, New Mexico, 2000-2004,. Carole Marsh 9781873176993. . Guardians of the Bay Comic Book; Florida Water Science Center – Bibliography . and Pfeiffer, W.R., 2010, Bathymetry of Lake. and Vegetation in Isolated Marsh and … Pastures of Plenty: A Request from the Janitor on May 17, 2013 at taos nm – Google Blog Search: That’s where I am going

Check these posts: Researchers: Bigfoot Lives in New Mexico – KOAT Albuquerque on May 17, 2013 at New Mexico News: Daily Mail Researchers: Bigfoot Lives in New Mexico KOAT Albuquerque The founder of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization said Bigfoot is as close as any mountain range in New Mexico. Matt Moneymaker told Action 7 News, evidence includes video footage. His show, Finding Bigfoot on Animal Planet Channel, showed … Proof of Bigfoot’s existence? Hunt is on in New Mexico after thermal imaging …Daily Mail Bigfoot hunt after thermal video shows 7-ft creature in N. Mexico – Digital …DigitalJournal.com Attention of Bigfoot Hunters Drew by Thermal Image Video of Presence of 7-foot …French Tribune all 4 news articles » Mom in New Mexico gives chase after man grabs 4-year-old daughter; police … – Fox News on May 17, 2013 at New Mexico News: San Francisco Chronicle Mom in New Mexico gives chase after man grabs 4-year-old daughter; police … Fox News ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A mother whose 4-year-old was being abducted chased the suspect down and crashed her vehicle into his car, triggering a manhunt and the arrest of the suspect, Albuquerque police said Thursday. The young girl was playing in her … New Mexico mom chases down child abductor; girl safeWashington Times Mom in New Mexico gives chase after man grabs 4-year-old daughter; girl safeNewser Mom in New Mexico chases down child abductor; girl safeMemphis Commercial Appeal New York Daily News -Huffington Post all 48 news articles » Alamogordo lawyer enters race for New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District – Alamogordo Daily News on May 16, 2013 at New Mexico News: Alamogordo lawyer enters race for New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District Alamogordo Daily News SANTA FE Democrat Leslie Endean-Singh says jobs will be the centerpiece of her campaign for Congress in New Mexico’s 2nd District. Endean-Singh, 69, on Thursday became the first Democrat to enter the 2014 race. She came out swinging at the district’s … and more » Health exchange board member’s warning: Don’t rely on federal gov’t – Albuquerque Business First (blog) on May 16, 2013 at New Mexico News: KUTV Dan Sheldon Health exchange board member’s warning: Don’t rely on federal gov’t Albuquerque Business First (blog) Sandel, who is also a board member of the New Mexico Medical High Risk Insurance Pool, said the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has reneged on a promise made in 2010 to fully fund a program that offers health insurance to chronically-ill … New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange Still In QuestionFronteras: The Changing America Desk all 15 news articles » Exploring New Mexico, from native pueblos to Georgia O’Keeffe – The Seattle Times on May 16, 2013 at New Mexico News: Exploring New Mexico, from native pueblos to Georgia O’Keeffe The Seattle Times On a road trip around New Mexico, this mix of motifs and cultures seems to echo across the centuries and turn up at every stop, whether you’re visiting 1,000-year-old native villages, churches from the era of Spanish conquistadors or the landscape that … Santa Fe’s Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Opens New Exhibition GEORGIA O …Broadway World all 2 news articles »

The semester is over and presentations are done. I saw this little guy hanging out in the doorway of a gallery yesterday and all I could think is "I know how you feel." I could sleep for a week. I hope you all have a great Friday.

Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of the much-adapted novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald looks a lot like The Bonfire of the Vanities, Brian DePalma’s adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s lurid catalog of the excesses of the 1980′s. It sounds a lot like someone’s idea of Moulin Rouge II. Fitzgerald’s book is narrated by Nick Carraway (Tobey McGuire in the new film), a Fitzgerald-surrogate observer on the sidelines who’s drawn into the boozy mix of new money, old money, and a love lost somewhere in between. Why not? Who wants to sell bonds when you can get dead drunk on bootleg alcohol. The original book tends toward understatement, even as the bachannals run hot and long. This new screen version which just opened the Cannes Film Festival (in pouring rain) is a raucous melodrama, although Luhrmann leaves room for quiet moments of moral judgment. Never underestimate the envy that Americans have for the rich, especially for rich people who look like movie stars – Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, for example, who play the doomed striver Gatsby and the heiress with the thug of a playboy husband (Joel Edgerton)who can’t decide to act on her love for Gatsby. Fitzgerald was trying to tell us, once again, that plutocrats can be dumb, cruel, and unhappy. Luhrmann is trying to tell us the same thing, but his $100 million production stresses that the rich are often miserable in elegant cars and sexy clothes that you can’t afford. Is the audience still jealous? Absolutely. You can just imagine them looking at the screen and insisting that they would have been able to make all the right choices. The production designer, Catherine Martin was aiming at rock opera kitsch here – or if she wasn’t aiming for it, she certainly missed with great accuracy — with locations concocted by someone’s computer that looked like props in a McMansion video game, and interiors with wide spiral staircases that reminded me of the World Financial Center – a place where I imagine financiers are committing crimes far worse than anything Gatsby the swindler was guilty of. That said, DiCaprio has the right look for his character – an appealing politician’s smile – and the blue-blood accent, that is shown to be confected out of nouveau-riche ambition, does sound fake. Should we fault him for being true to the character’s falseness? Mulligan has the slinkiness of a spoiled flapper and the uncertainty of a girl who’s forced to choose between love and money. She will probably be nominated for the only award that this film deserves. Back to the broader twilight-of-the-idols dimension to this moral tale. We watch it with Monday morning’s knowledge that the revelers – or most of them – will be brought down by the force majeure of a depression that hurt poor people a lot more than it ever hurt the rich. The crimes that we see here aren’t committed in the board room. They’re personal, yet what we see doesn’t make you nostalgic for that time, as Gatsby and Daisie and Nick drive through smoking slag mountains in Queens, the filthy foundation of new wealth, on the way to New York, another playground. (Is this the Queens landfill that’s now called Fresh Meadows?) This isn’t the last judgment – far from it. Yet Baz Luhrmann’s Great Gatsby doesn’t bludgeon you with parallels to today. Gatsby’s estate looks enough like a Las Vegas reproduction to remind you that excess has been industrialized beyond the North Shore of Long Island. A critic in the otherwise-perceptive Guardian thought the story was set in the Hamptons. His mistake shows that the connection to today was made.