MUST READ: Stepfanie is to play female lead in upcoming movie !!!!!!! (Dec. 5)

"The Santa Fe New Mexican" (New Mexico)

December 5, 2004

COMPILED BY TOM SHARPE

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"EL MITOTE

JEEP JERKS: Larry Calloway, former Santa Fe resident and Albuquerque Journal columnist turned Colorado blogger and author, has published his first novel, Guide to the Lost Mountains. Calloway describes it as "my homage to Colorado in the form of a mystery novel set deep in the San Juan Mountains." He writes about how the region's old mining camps are disappearing: "Jerks in jeeps pried loose weathered wood for walls in Denver dens. Then came the ski boom followed by the condo boom followed by the casino boom ..."

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TREE HUGGERS: Mary Lou Cook says a tree planted a decade ago along the Santa Fe River in honor of her friend Wangar Maathai was destroyed a few years later when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers cleared out the river channel in an erosion-control project west of St. Francis Drive. Maathai, who won the Nobel Peace Prize last month, founded the Green Belt Movement by mobilizing poor women to plant 30 million trees in her native Kenya and other countries.

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POWER LUNCH: Actress Stepfanie Kramer, known for her role in the TV series Hunter, lunched at The Cowgirl Cafe recently with local author Jann Arrington Wolcott.

Kramer says she's hoping to play the female lead in a film based on Lakota Land, a just-finished archaeological thriller by Wolcott and Kenneth Tankersley, a professor of anthropology at Northern Kentucky University.

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