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It takes a spirit of adventure to get to Santa Fe. There are only a handful of direct flights; locals mostly drive to Albuquerque to go anywhere. And go anywhere they do. For an out-of-the-way little town, just about everybody living around here has travel creds you would not believe. Your waitress probably just came back from doing an environmental good deed in Borneo. The sales clerk who helped you the other day is going backpacking in Nepal soon. Your river rafting guide spends three months in South America every winter. Nobody stays put for very long, and when they go, they go far and...

Thursday, May 15, 2008
by Leslie Clark and Mary Corcoran (Photographer) • SantaFe.com

Santa Fe just got voted best small art town in America for the third year in a row by AmericanStyle Magazine, muchas gracias, and the art you see everywhere, on cars and houses, flowerpots and front doors, is what makes it such an entertaining place to live. One of my favorites is an ordinary mailbox resting on two big sculpted hands. All that inventiveness and creativity shows up in three stores in town in particular known for eclectic, wonderful “objets,” as the Japanese call them. The Yiddish word “chotchke” seems more warm and affectionate, but there’s just that trace of a dismissive...

Thursday, May 1, 2008
by Leslie Clark and Mary Corcoran (Photographer) • SantaFe.com

Spring has nearly sprung, and along with it comes thoughts of breathing life back into the office wardrobe. By now we’re ready to burst out of the tired winter cocoon of sweaters, coats and tights and spread our wings in something lighter and brighter. It was time to check in with the Hi-Lo Shopper and see what she had been thinking about lately.

A true fashionista, the Hi-Lo Shopper is a career woman who manages to look glossy and groomed at all times. She loves to shop, but with her schedule has to streamline where to go in Santa Fe for what she wants in business-appropriate clothes....

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
by Leslie Clark and Mary Corcoran (Photographer) • SantaFe.com

The two Japanese women got off the plane in Albuquerque for only one reason. Starting in New York, they had been shopping their way across the U.S. for a week. New Mexico was their last stop before heading to Los Angeles for their flight home. What were they looking for, cowboy boots? No, they both already had plenty of those. Turquoise jewelry? That was for another trip. They wanted just one thing:

A Chimayó jacket.

Sophisticated, fashion-savvy Japanese are some of the biggest customers of the centuries-old New Mexico wool-weaving tradition. In the picturesque Hispanic settlement of...

Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at 4:00 PM
by Leslie Clark and Mary Corcoran (Photographer) • SantaFe.com