New Mexico plans on removing iconic Santa Fe mural

New Mexico plans on removing iconic Santa Fe mural

By Kai Porter – KOB.com – Video Capture: KOB 4. Santa Fe, New Mexico – A battle is brewing in downtown Santa Fe over the state’s plans to tear down an iconic Chicano mural. The state Cultural Affairs Department claims the mural is beyond repair...
New Mexico taps Chicano studies professor as poet laureate

New Mexico taps Chicano studies professor as poet laureate

By Associated Press – ABQJournal.com – Photo: University Of New Mexico. Photo: Levi Romero was chosen as the state’s inaugural poet laureate. Santa Fe – New Mexico has chosen as its first poet laureate a bilingual Spanish-English writer and Chicano studies...
Random Acts With The Cool Cats: New Mexico Jazz Latino Orchestra

Random Acts With The Cool Cats: New Mexico Jazz Latino Orchestra

By Michael Abatemarco – SantaFeNewMexican.com – Photo Not Credited. The New Mexico Jazz Latino Orchestra performs at the National Hispanic Cultural Center for the fourth time for a night of Latin jazz, salsa, cha-cha, and rumba. The stellar lineup of 13...
Vladem Contemporary Back on Track

Vladem Contemporary Back on Track

By Leah Cantor – SFReporter.com – Photo: Anson Stevens-Bollen. Photo: The 1930s Halpin Building and its 1980s mural today from Guadalupe Street in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Multi-Cultural mural painted on the side of the state’s historic Halpin...