by radiocafe | Oct 17, 2019 | Arts & films, New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexican
We talk to producers, directors, and actors in this year’s festival, with themes that include Native American adoption, a Louisiana faith healer, the Standing Rock protests, and a housewife and mother going over the edge.
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by radiocafe | Oct 7, 2019 | Arts & films, New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexican
An exhibit traces the history of childhood in New Mexico over the last century. We talk with photographer Don Usner and writer Bill DeBuys about what these images say about our past–and future.
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by radiocafe | Sep 26, 2019 | Arts & films, New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexican
We talk to director Alix Hudson about the Santa Fe productions of three plays by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes–they follow the life of a man from his youth as a Marine, through addiction, reflection, and search for meaning.
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by radiocafe | Jul 29, 2019 | Arts & films, Books, Education, Santa Fe New Mexican
Jamie Bernstein‘s new memoir offers a fascinating glimpse into Leonard Bernstein’s creative life, his family life, and the hard-drinking, chain-smoking, exuberance of New York during one of its most creative eras.
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by radiocafe | Jul 18, 2019 | Arts & films, Books, New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexican
Timothy P. McLaughlin’s new book Seeds Under the Tongue is a compilation of poems, some of them inspired by a brush with death in a canyon that the author transformed into a ceremonial experience. McLaughlin’s work combines well-honed craft, inspiration and a profound connection to wild nature.
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by radiocafe | Jul 8, 2019 | Arts & films, Books, Santa Fe New Mexican
While Steve Young was writing comedy for the David Letterman show, he started collecting weird vinyl records from corporate sales meetings–and found that they were full of incredible music from the weird about diesel and plumbing fixtures.
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by radiocafe | Jun 24, 2019 | Arts & films, New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexican
Santa Fe Opera dramaturg Cori Ellison talks about this summer’s operas–history, production, themes–including a world premiere.
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by radiocafe | May 23, 2019 | Arts & films, Santa Fe New Mexican
She was born in France where she started her film career in the late 1800s, then moved to the US. She made hundreds of films, earned the respect of audiences and colleagues alike — and then was written out of film history. We talk to Pamela Green about her new documentary on Guy-Blaché.
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by radiocafe | Apr 25, 2019 | Arts & films, Santa Fe New Mexican
Assistance dogs have changed the lives of innumerable people with disabilities. We talk to filmmakerHeddy Honigmann about her film Buddy, and to Jill Felice of Assistance Dogs of the West.
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by radiocafe | Mar 21, 2019 | Arts & films, Books, New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexican
Salvatore Scibona‘s novel, The Volunteer, is an exquisitely observed and crafted novel that tells the stories of the people and events leading up to a crime in which a little boy is left alone in an airport, speaking a language that nobody understands.
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