Santa Fe Reporter

Santa Fe is no stranger to dark histories or trying to reconcile them. Among the city’s more dire episodes emerged in 1942, when the Department of Justice installed an internment camp over in the hills west of what is now the Casa Solano neighborhood. For four years, thousands of Japanese-Americans and Japanese nationals were detained at the site without due process.

By Leah Romero, Source New Mexico New Mexico’s Medical Psilocybin Program recently opened up applications for producers of the psychedelic mushroom, marking a significant step toward the therapeutic program becoming fully operational. “We’re no longer talking about a piece of legislation and some rulemaking. This is real, this is happening and it’s being operationalized right now,” Santa Fe-based psychedelic attorney Victoria Cvitanovic told Source NM.

This Week’s Stuff to Do Can’t decide what to do and where to go? Why not a bunch of things and places? We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, winter is coming, and not in that annoyingly weird eight-seasons-of-Game-of-Thrones-way where it all just fizzles and undoes a decade of world-building—we mean in a much sadder way wherein everyone hibernates. Longest sentences ever aside, we found some events for locals to enjoy this week that look cool as hell.

facebook twitter youtube instagram RSS 7 Days: August 26, 2026 by SFR Staff 7 Days September 2, 2026 12:00 AM 9 CITY OF SANTA FE'S TOP HOMELESSNESS OFFICIAL OUT AFTER LESS THAN A YEAR That’ll fix the housing crisis. SANTA FE'S SPEED CAMERAS TAKE BULLETS ON FIRST DAY OF OPERATION “Fuck around and find out” is in these days we suppose. DOLLY PARTON DIES AT AGE 80 And humanity had no choice other than to be less than, sadly ever after.

Jennifer Pretzeus goes multimedia for new show in Madrid by Red Cell Arts & Culture September 2, 2026 12:00 AM Sometime last century, an unknown young man in Geneva, Illinois, kept a cheap pocket diary and filled the pages with one ambition: to make it to Chicago in hopes of becoming an actor. The handwriting outlasted the man. In the here and now, Michael Lancaster of Madrid, New Mexico’s Calliope Gallery calls the anonymous author a ghost.

Overnight rains and cooler temperatures continued to aid firefighting crews in the efforts to contain a wildfire burning in the Pecos Wilderness since Aug. 4. The Frijoles Fire, which was sparked by a lightning strike about three miles east of Cundiyo and has now burned through 15,451 acres, according to Santa Fe National Forest officials. Crews have kept the fire at 59% containment level for a couple of days. Crews, which once number nearly 1,000, are now at 537 firefighters.

Back in the olden dayes (™), your old pal The Fork spent a good chunk of years working in fine dining. Of all the types of restaurants we worked in, this was our least favorite, though it certainly wasn’t about the money (the money is good) so much as the regular patrons who acted like eating fancy meals was like some sort of social password into the world of treating workers poorly.

Citing $25,000 shortfall in 2025, Santa Fe Playhouse puts annual Melodrama production on hiatus—but former cast, workers and board members say the decision feels short-sighted by Alex De Vore News August 28, 2026 2:01 PM Despite what former cast members describe as packed houses during its run last year, an altered episodic video version produced during the height of pandemic social distancing and a history spanning more than 100 years, the Santa Fe Playhouse’s annual Melodrama (née Fiesta...

By Patrick Lohmann, Source New Mexico Leaders of the Canadian company seeking to conduct uranium exploration in the Carson National Forest said recently that it was a mistake to seek federal approval for the project without first consulting affected communities.

By Jonny Coker, Southern New Mexico Journalism Collaborative In Carlsbad and Ruidoso, food banks are seeing a rise in demand amid SNAP cuts and other canceled federal food assistance programs rippling through the state. As funding cuts to federal food programs trickle down to New Mexico communities, volunteers are seeing the strain. Outside the senior center in Ruidoso Downs, Site Manager Sergio Guerrero counts cars as they come. He used to see about 80, but lately, it’s closer to 120.