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Belltower Bar
Why bag a peak when you can catch a picture-perfect view of a fabulously fiery Southwest sunset here, atop the La Fonda hotel, the tallest building in town, with a cold beer or killer margarita.
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Dragon Room Bar
This 300-year-old adobe is a consistent top fave for locals and Hollywood-famous visitors alike. Drop by for a signature Black Dragon margarita - after on Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday if you want it served with live music (flamenco guitar, Latin jazz and the like).
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Evangelo's
Everyone is welcome in this casual, rowdy joint owned by the Klonis family since 1971 (ask owner/bartender Nick about his father's unusual fame). Drop in, put on some Patsy Cline and grab a draft beer - it's the perfect escape from Plaza culture.
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James A Little Theatre
At the New Mexico School for the Deaf, this unpretentious venue hosts community arts performances as well as the Santa Fe Institute's Public Lecture Series (admission free). Your neurons will fire faster than usual listening to internationally prominent scientists discuss mass extinctions, heredity and evolution, natural disasters and genetically modified foods.
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Lannon Readings & Conversations
These staged readings, which tend to focus on cultural and progressive issues, by local and internationally renowned poets and authors take place on various Wednesday evenings throughout the year.
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Lensic Performing Arts Center
This 1931 Moorish-revival movie house is an intimate 850-seat venue. It hosts the New Mexico Jazz Festival in July, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Santa Fe Symphony, as well as lectures, theatre and dance.
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Maria Benitez Teatro Flamenco
One of the most revered flamenco artists in North America, Maria Benitez stopped performing in 2004 but still directs this outstanding troupe of protégées. She occasionally joins for a solo. These intensely focused and festively garbed performers have earned every accolade for their impressive Spanish dance and perform June through September at the Lodge. Can't get enough flamenco? El Farol stages performances on some Wednesdays, while El Mesón has flamenco on the first Saturday of each month.
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Santa Fe Brewing Company
Sample the indigenous Santa Fe Ale at this often crowded, always fun pub adjacent to the brewery and tasting room. You can also rock to blue grass, Western rock, funk, jazz or some mix of them all. Dancing is encouraged!
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Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
This is another big cultural event, known for filling elegant venues like the Lensic and the stunning St Francis Auditorium with Brahms, Mozart and other classic masters. It's not just world-class acts like violinist Pinchas Zukerman and pianist Yuja Wang defining the season; top-notch jazz, world music and New Music virtuosos round out the menu, also available for lunch during popular weekly noon performances and at weekly youth concerts aimed at five- to 12-year-olds.
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Santa Fe Desert Chorale
Twenty lauded professional singers from around the country come together in July, August and the winter holidays to perform everything from Gregorian chants and gospel to Renaissance madrigals and modern love songs at venues like St Francis Cathedral and Loretto Chapel.
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Santa Fe Film Center at Cinemacafé
Home of the annual December Santa Fe Film Festival, this art house is known for the Tuesday night New Mexico Showcase and Thursday night gay and lesbian films. The best of independent cinema is screened the rest of the week.
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Santa Fe Opera
Many come to Santa Fe for this and this alone: the theater is an architectural marvel, with nearly 360-degree views of wind-carved sandstone wilderness crowned with sunsets and moonrises, and at center stage the world's finest talent performs Western Civilization's masterworks. It's still the Wild West, though; you can even wear jeans - just try that in New York City.
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Santa Fe Playhouse
Local actors have been putting on plays, including the annual Fiesta Melodrama (in late August with audience participation!), in this historic adobe since 1922. Sunday matinees are 'pay what you wish.'
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Second Street Brewery
After a hard day hiking (or just shopping for hiking equipment), stop by this microbrewery to pair a Cream Stout or Extra Special Bitter with fish and chips (around US$9 ) or beer-poached salmon salad (around US$8 ). There's often live music Thursday through Saturday evenings.
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Swig
The closest any club in New Mexico comes to matching a South Beach or LA venue, this hot dance club actually waits until to set its trendy clientele loose on the dance floor with a live DJ spinning house, club and hip-hop in the Orange Bar.
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Warehouse 21
This all-ages club and arts center, catering to the under-21 crowd in a 3500-sq-ft warehouse, is the perfect alcohol-free venue for catching cutting-edge local and touring bands and for comparing new piercings and tattoos.
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WilLee's Blues Bar
This club is the real deal, drawing the likes of John Lee Hooker Jr, Leon Russell and Rockin' Jake to perform. Large portions of Italian food and burgers satisfy (dishes around US$8 -around US$14 ), but not like the blues do.
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