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Once upon a time (ten years ago), investors looking for investment properties with attractive cap rates (rate of return), blue-chip tenants and triple-net leases (the tenant pays virtually all operating expenses), had to rely on word-of-mouth, out-of-state brokers, trade publications, or specialty research firms. If you were buying for your own account, as opposed to looking for a REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust), there were no central clearing houses with decent inventories of properties. Sometimes, when you got a lead, you jumped on a plane.

What a difference a decade makes. According...

Friday, May 9, 2008 at 10:34 AM
by Michael French • SantaFe.com

The Tenth Annual Screenwriting Conference in Santa Fe (SCSFe) will be held at The Lodge from May 27 to June 1, 2008. The conference will be divided into two major strands. “The Screenwriting Symposium” will include classroom instruction from world-class screenwriters, over thirty 90-minute symposia; mentor panel discussion, live readings of “Actors Choice Award” winners, and 18-hour Academy Labs for advanced screenwriters (limited to ten participants). “The Hollywood Connection” will include two Producer panel discussions, symposia to aid in marketing, and private pitches to 15 Hollywood...

Monday, May 5, 2008 at 11:31 AM
by Jeffrey Laing • SantaFe.com

Founded by four Minnesota natives, Santa Fe’s newest theater company—The Coop Theatre—will hit the stage running in mid-May with an ambitious and controversial play, David Mamet’s Oleanna (1992). Promising high-quality productions of entertaining and challenging plays, co-founder Jeremy Hance voices the overarching goals of Coop Theatre: “…all of us agree on the kind of company we hope to create. We all love good theatre that is demanding and powerful. We hope our company will be relevant and inclusive. We want to get all kinds of interested people involved” (Tiffany Roufs, Coop Theatre...

Monday, May 5, 2008 at 11:28 AM
by Jeffrey Laing • SantaFe.com

You know the drill: Go out with your single friends, have one too many margaritas, end up giving the person you’ve been dirty dancing with all night your phone number, wake up the next morning with a headache and a vague recollection of a slobbery kiss, and dodge the phone for the next two weeks. But isn’t there a better way to meet the love of your life?

Yes, yes, yes! I took an unofficial poll of friends and acquaintances and found that most of them met their partners Not at a Bar. After all, if you’re seeking someone who enjoys early morning hikes, you want to meet them somewhere other...

Monday, May 5, 2008
by Hillary Welles • SantaFe.com

This is a wonderful time of year! For one thing, graduation is in the air. There’s nothing as optimistic as the sight of another group of young people collecting their high school diplomas and heading toward the next stage of life, filled with pride, with a sense of accomplishment, and a feeling of self-worth and self-confidence.

But, of course, for that to happen, kids have to graduate.

And for that to happen, they have to stay in school.

Santa Fe kids, unfortunately, don’t. They don’t stay in school and therefore they don’t graduate. The numbers are a little hazy, but between our two...

Monday, May 5, 2008
by Alan M. Webber • SantaFe.com

Today, more than ever before, there is significant emphasis put on education. College is the new high school, and graduate school is the new college. The state of our economy only further enhances competition for people (at any level) and makes entering the work field that much harder for recent graduates (regardless of how much education they have received). Surprisingly, our nation continues to see incredibly high drop-out rates amongst high school students. In order to receive honest answers directly from high school students, I conducted an anonymous survey of twenty students from Monte...

Monday, May 5, 2008
by Alexis Shannez Dudelczyk • SantaFe.com

The Matteucci Compound, the almost two acre “entrance” to the Eastside, at the corner of Paseo de Peralta and Acequia Madre and the home of one of Santa Fe’s most important art galleries, is for sale. The property consists of the gallery, attached main residence and guest quarters and three additional guest houses. With an incredibly colorful history, we thought we would ask If this house could talk:

House: The property then was an orchard and two farm houses that faced the Acequia Madre. There was farm land all along the Paseo from the Bandelier house, (now the Sherwood Gallery), to...

Friday, May 2, 2008 at 1:35 PM
by Pat French • SantaFe.com

In the midst of many openings this fortnight, a few painting shows stand out for their boldness and comprehension of the history and practice of painting:

Linda Durham Contemporary Art – Opening Friday, May 2 from 5 to 7pm
1101 Paseo de Peralta

On May 2nd, Linda Durham Contemporary Art hosts a reception for Insideout: New Paintings by John Andolsek. (1101 Paseo de Peralta, Friday, May 2, 5 to 7pm) Andolsek, born in Germany and working as a painting conservator as well as an artist, brings a great sense of humor and respect for the painted surface to his work. In 2005, he wrote, “I...

Thursday, May 1, 2008
by Aline Brandauer • SantaFe.com

In addition to the painted delights outlined in Must-See art this go-round, I want to mention a few more treats for historically-motivated viewers.

Peyton Wright - Friday, May, 2
237 East Palace Avenue

Peyton Wright (237 East Palace Avenue, Friday, May, 2) presents The Modernists: Selections from the Estates. Peyton Wright has been diligently collecting artists’ estates for years. In this exhibition, the gallery features painting, sculpture, and works on paper from the estates of six important American Modernists - Clinton Adams (1918-2002), Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), Paul Burlin...

Thursday, May 1, 2008
by Aline Brandauer • SantaFe.com

On March 19, 2008, over mineral water and scones, I met with Santa Fe’s Eliot Gray Fisher to discuss his burgeoning career in the arts. Whatever criteria one may consider—genetics, upbringing, academic preparation, and inclination—Eliot was destined to be an artist. However, what is most striking about his early successes in the dramatic arts is how he has taken a tired, much disabused form—the classic melodrama—and breathed life into it to create a twenty-first century melding of high and low art.

Eliot Gray Fisher’s roots are firmly entrenched in an accomplished artistic family. His...

Thursday, May 1, 2008
by Jeffrey Laing • SantaFe.com