Taos On The Cheap

Happy Birthday to Cid’s Food Market, where Taos Society mingles over the organic zukes and hot-off-the-spit roast chickens. (I’m generally in a bliss coma sniffing stuff in the soaps and potions aisle.) If it’s usually hard to get out of Cid’s in 20 minutes because you bump into everyone you know there – plus quite a [...]

Taos Country Club hosts a free Taos Icons fine art exhibit on Friday August 7 showing work by nearly all the 54 prominent Taos artists who are part of the Taos Icon group. We know for sure that you’ll see pieces by the Michael McCormick Gallery’s Miguel Martinez, Malcolm Furlow, Shelbee Mares, and Michael Archuleta, [...]

The free Questa Vecindad Studio Tour is on the weekend of August 1 and 2, visiting the homes and studios of artists around Questa, El Rito, and San Cristobal. Meet arts and crafts people working in forms including blown glass, woodwork, furniture, pottery, photography, paintings, jewelery, textiles, and leather. Apparently there are quite a [...]

A coupon for 10% off your next purchase at the great music store Taosound Tape and CD, which sells CDs, DVDs, cassettes, all kinds of collectibles, and even proper vinyl LPs, natch. Taosound Tape and CD is at 314 F, Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos. Here’s the 10% discount coupon.

$3 off Mother’s Day flowers from The Enchanted Florist, for arrangements costing $30 or more. That’s a 10% discount, so you can add a few more flowers to make mom even happier, right?
Mother’s Day is May 10, 2009, so get your discount coupon fast at the Taos News – see ‘Taos Economic Stimulus E-Coupons’ at [...]

Meet author and activist Mark Rudd, who’ll discuss and sign copies of his new memoir Underground: My Life With SDS and the Weathermen on Saturday May 2, from 4:00-6:00 pm, at the Brodsky Bookshop. (Straight afterwards, Rudd speaks at a World Peace Week gathering at the Taos Artist Co-op next door to Brodsky Bookshop.)
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Get set for spring at Blossoms Organic Garden Center on Sat April 25, where there’s free family fun between 10:00 am - 2:00 pm to celebrate Earth Day. Free food, music by Omar Rain, and a fruit tree raffle. Kids can try rock painting, make a bird feeder, or take part in a plant-life scavenger hunt. At [...]

Meet author Allegra Huston on Saturday April 25 2009, from 2:00 – 4:00 pm at Moby Dickens book store. Huston’s new memoir Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found explores her family relationships with film director John Huston, British historian John Julius Norwich, and actor Anjelica Huston. (The April issue of Vogue featured [...]

Open House Reception at The Taos Gallery, 5:00 – 7:00 pm on Friday April 17, 2009.  ‘Melting Pot – An Exhibition of Expression and Letting Go’ features new works from a trio of diverse artists:  ceramic sculptures by Steve Gootgeld, and paintings by Bill Hudson and Kristin Jones. Show continues through April. Free reception at [...]

Meet Carlos Rael, retablos and bultos artist, on Saturday April 4 from noon to 2:00 pm at the Harwood Museum Shop, discussing his work as part of a Shop and Learn Trunk Show. Rael’s work will be on show throughout April 2009.  Free, although nobody can blame you if you shop a little…

April 4, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm. Free admission for nesty types (it’s spring, who isn’t nesty?) at Taos Home & Garden Expo.  Green Building and Sustainable Living, Interiors/Furnishing, Real Estate, Financing, Construction, Landscaping. If it’s about the home, they say it’s here. At Civic Plaza Drive, Rio Grande & Bataan Halls.

Sleep Sanctuary will pay your sales tax on any product throughout the store till April 19. Save on Vera Wang and Serta mattresses, plus futons, pillows, and bedding. That’ll make you sleep easier, won’t it? Owner Mattress Mary says she’ll extend her annual No Sales Tax offer to selected products in her partner Toto Home [...]

Win Two Grand’s worth of goodies in the free-to-enter Spring Fling Bling Thing Giveaway run by KTAO and LUNA radio stations and FIVE Magazine.  How to enter: Pick up a FREE copy of the current issue 32 of FIVE magazine – it’s all over town, can’t miss it. Fill in the entry form, give it [...]