As if Mother Nature read the calendar, it’s fall in Santa Fe. After one of the best summers we’ve had since we’ve been here looks like autumn will be lovely as well. The leaves are turning, evenings are chilly and days are shorter. I love fall, but not that winter is on the way. Some are predicting a snowy one. Great for skiers, but… Enjoy our latest Tidbits.
Santa Fe food and dining
We mentioned that Chef Enrique Guerrero, whose food truck Bang Bite took honors in the Green Chile Cheeseburger Smackdown was planning to opening Market 500 at the old Flying Star location at the Railyard as well as an upscale bowling alley upstairs. Funding went south and the project is kaput. That seems to be a really unlucky location. We were excited about the southern comfort food menu he promised.
La Loncherita Salvadoreña pupusaria, photo.Steve Collins
There’s a new food truck in town and it’s getting rave reviews. La Loncherita Salvadoreña is a pupusaria on wheels. The truck, parked next to the Mandela International Magnet School at 1719 Llano Street offers this signature Salvadoran dish. We ran into them at a food truck event held by the Santa Fe Reporter on Sunday and loved our chicharrones pupusa. Be aware that in El Salvador chicharrones is a pork mixture rather than the fried pig skin you find in Mexico. Great news for people who don’t eat corn, owners Vilma and Giovanni Peraza make rice pupusas as well as masa (corn). The pupusas are really reasonable and they have a discounted price for three. They also offer daily specials. The truck, closed Wednesdays, is open from 11am to 6pm. Call (505) 316-2228 to make sure they’re open before you go.
Empanadas at La Fogata, photo Steve Collins
We’d been hearing great things about La Fogota Grill, newly opened at 112 West San Francisco Street in the spot that used to house Sleeping Dog and then Istalif. Much to our surprise, we encountered Jorge Santos who we know from Jarochos, the food stand outside Jackalope on Cerrillos Road. We’ve been fans of their tacos and gorditas for years. The Santos family sold the stand and Jorge opened La Fogata. The menu, while offering a few New Mexican dishes to please tourists, is full of Veracruz-style food, as that’s where the family hails from, as well as tasty additions from other places in Latin America. We hit them during the daily happy hour when prices on some entrees are a good deal lower than at dinner. We went back a week later for breakfast. Both breakfast and lunch are served from is served from 9am to 5pm when dinner begins. Tuesdays, they have Taco Tuesday and a mariachi band. And don’t forget that Happy Hour.
Santa Fe music
The Santa Fe Symphony presents Mozart & Schubert, their “fall tribute to two Viennese masters” on Sunday, October 18th at 4pm at the Lensic Performing Arts Center. Featured soloists will be Concertmaster David Felberg and Principal Violist Kim Fredenburgh under the direction of of Guest Conductor Philip Mann. The program includes Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante and Schubert’s Symphony in C Major, his final symphony, nicknamed the “Great.” There’s a preconcert lecture at 3pm. Tickets, $25 to $80 are available at the Santa Fe Symphony and Lensic box offices as well as online at Tickets Santa Fe.*
The Santa Fe Pro Musica presents the New Orford String Quartet on Saturday, October 10th at 4pm at the St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art. The group: Jonathan Crow, violin; Andrew Wan, violin; Eric Nowlin, viola and Brian Manker, cello will present a program that includes work from Schubert, Wolf, Beethoven, Hétu, and Debussy. Tickets, $20, $35, $48, $69, are available at both the Santa Fe Pro Musica and Lensic box offices as well as online at Tickets Santa Fe.*
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Santa Fe art and museums
Museums
Standing Rock in Canyon del Muerto from Oblique Views: Archaeology, Photography, and Time, courtesy Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
Want to see the Southwest’s great archeological sites from the air? Hear for Oblique Views: Archaeology, Photography, and Time, a new exhibition opening at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture on October 25th. The show features pairs large aerial prints taken by Charles and Anne Lindbergh with ones taken by photographer Adriel Heisey. The show was first envisioned by Archaeology Southwest in 2004 as a preservation project to scan and protect the Lindberg’s deteriorating nitrate negatives of archaeological landscapes of the Southwest. In 2007 and 2008 Heisey went out to shoot the same sites to be juxtaposed with the original grainy black and white images. The show runs through May 2017.
South Portal of La Fonda Hotel, by T. Harmon Parkhurst. Palace of the Governors Photo Archives, No. 054316
The New Mexico History Museum is big on Fred Harvey and it turns out, we’re big Fredheads (the nickname given to Fred Harvey fans) as well. If you don’t know who and what Fred Harvey was, read Stephen Fried’s definitive book Appetite for America. In short, the company opened the Southwest to tourism. In the heyday of the Santa Fe Railway they had eating houses and hotels from Chicago to California. Remaining Harvey House hotels are Santa Fe’s La Fonda, the Castañeda in Las Vegas (now under renovation) as well as La Posada in Winslow Arizona and a half-dozen buildings including two hotels at Grand Canyon. We have a post on the Grand Canyon Historic District that will be posted in a few weeks (subscribe to Santa Fe Travelers and it will be delivered to your inbox). The museum has a Fred Harvey weekend scheduled for the end of October. There are a host of events as well as several appearances by Fried. Events include: Harvey Houses of New Mexico: Historic Hospitality from Raton to Deming on Thursday October 8th at noon; Dinner with Daggett, an exclusive Fred Harvey event Thursday, October 22, 6 pm at La Fonda and Harvey Girls Revisited, a showing of Katrina Parks’ 2013 documentary Harvey Girls: Opportunity Bound at the museum on Sunday, October 25th at 2 pm. Parks, Fried and members of the Harvey family will be present for a post film discussion. Full details of all the Fred-centric events are on the calendar on the museum’s website.
Galleries
Piers Watson, “Luted Crucible metal casting is a pre-Industrial Age lost wax process that is still in daily use in parts of India and West Africa,” photo Christoph Maas, courtesy Axle Comtemporary
Axel Contemporary (the gallery on wheels) Santa Fe’s Center for Contemporary Arts collaborate on Luted Crucible, a group show opening on October 9th with an opening reception from 5 to 7pm. Beginning on August 19th andcontinuing through October 5th a group of five Santa Fe artists along with sculpture students from the New Mexico School for the Arts will work with with Luted Crucible bronze casting teacher Piers Watson creating bronze sculptures using this traditional and ancient technique. Luted crucible is the term used to describe a centuries old direct wood-fired casting technique used in both West Africa and in India. It refers to the connecting or “luting” of two elements. In this case, it refers to the mold that contains the beeswax object to be cast and the crucible that contains the metals. The show runs through November 1st.
Scene from a melodrama by Robert Wolf at the Tiffany Saloon in Cerrillos, NM, c. 1966, photo Robert Wolf
Writer and artist Robert Wolf arrived at Santa Fe’s St. John’s College in 1965 with an Underwood typewriter in hand after a Kerouacian journey he began in 1963 at age 16. He met and hung out with an arty crowd including Harold West, Tommy Macaione and Eli Levin. His book, Search of America, chronicles his days on the road, his time in Santa Fe and other cities he traveled to. Matthews Gallery presents NEW MEXICO WILD: Typewriter Tales of a Santa Fe Bohemian opening on Friday, October 16th. The author will be there that evening from 5 to 7pm to sign his book. His trusty typewriter will be on display as will a few of Wolf’s paintings and work of some of the artists he met during his time in Santa Fe. The show runs through October 31st.
At the 2013 Canyon Road Paintout, photo Steve Collins
The Eighth Annual Historic Canyon Road Paint & Sculpt Out takes place on Saturday, October 17th along this fabled byway. The event, scheduled from 10am to 3:30pm, will bring hundreds of artists out for the day-long demonstration. A variety of mediums including painting, pottery, glass blowing, fiber arts, and jewelry will be represented. Come out and enjoy the art and the lovely autumn weather.
Santa Fe film news
The Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival opens its sixth season at the CCA on Saturday, October 3rd with Rosenwald about “the wealthiest mensch you never heard of,” followed by The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg the following day. Complete schedule and ticketing information is on their website.
The seventh annual Santa Fe Independent Film Festival takes place from Wednesday, October 14th through Sunday, October 18th at venues around town. One of the highlights of the event is the Lifetime Achievement Award. This year it goes to Gina Rowlands. The event is at the Lensic Performing Arts Center and will be followed by Rowland’s film, Woman under the Influence. New Mexico True Film Day is another special event planned. It will highlight the beauty of New Mexico in films Ticket and other info can be found on the festival’s website.
Santa Fe misc.
Many Santa Feans and frequent visitors will be sad to hear Sanbusco Market Center will be closed and turned into the New Mexico School for the Arts, a charter school focusing on visual and performing arts. It’s great news for the students but not so great for shoppers and diners. Four restaurants: Pranzo Grill, Raja, the new Radish & Rye and El Tesoro Café call Sanbusco home. Some may be able to stay. When Borders closed its doors several years ago, the large space they occupied went unrented and it was just a matter of time. Some tenants have been here for decades. Sanbusco occupies a cluster of historic Railyard District buildings, once home to the Santa Fe Builders Supply Company, dating to the late 1800s when the railroad spur line came to Santa Fe. Built in the late 1800’s it was one of the first businesses built adjacent to the new ATS & F railroad line,
To many the name Georgia O’Keeffe is synonymous with Santa Fe, but she didn’t live here until her last years. The place she called home at least part of the year for over half a century was Abiquiu, an hour north of the city. Australian Vogue did a stunning O’Keeffe-inspired fashion shoot at both her Ghost Ranch home and her home and studio in the village of Abiquiu. While you can get the Australian version of the chic magazine in the US, just in case, here’s a preview of the shoot.
El Rancho de las Golondrinas, photo Steve Collins
The annual Harvest Festival at El Rancho del las Golondrinas, Santa Fe’s living history village, takes place Saturday, October 3rd and Sunday October 4th from 10am to 4pm both days. Attendees can help the “villagers” bring in the year’s harvest, stomp grapes, string chile ristras and more. There will be food, music, dance and other events. Come join the fun! Admission is $8 for adults and $5 for seniors (62 and older) and teens (13 to 18). Children 12 and under are always admitted free of charge.
Taos news
A solid rumor has it that El Monte Segrado, Taos luxury eco-resort, is changing hands. Heritage Hotels, who owns four Santa Fe properties and the intimate Palacio de Marquesa also in Taos is the reported buyer. There should be more news later this month.
That’s it for this month. Tidbits will be back on the last Tuesday in October. ¡Hasta Luego!
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