I went to Silver City today for the fourth time in four weeks in search of a house to buy. I'm not sure I'm getting closer to mission accomplished, but I'm learning a lot about the different parts of town.
I was delighted to see this beauty salon on College Avenue: Curl Up & Dye. Fans of the Blues Brothers movie will remember that Carrie Fisher played the jilted fiancée of Jake Blues (John Belushi). After being stood up at their wedding, she tried to get revenge by staging spectacularly unsuccessful attempts to kill Jake. In her down time from her job as a manicurist at the Curl Up & Dye salon, she studied the owner's manual for a flame thrower, which she put to good use in demolishing a phone booth containing Jake and his brother Elwood (Dan Aykroyd).
Update: the week after I took this photo, the Curl Up and Dye sign was spray painted black. I felt sad for the demise of another business. I have been to Silver City eight times this year, and on a recent trip, I noticed that Curl Up and Dye had moved one door west, to the little house that used to be the fabulous Curious Kumquat restaurant.
Years ago, Steve and I were VERY lucky to eat at this restaurant, where the owner Rob Connoley did everything from grow the produce, hunt the deer, forage for ingredients in the Gila National Forest, cook incredible food for no more than 20 patrons per night (we were lucky to get in as #21 and #22 due to a mistake by the hostess), and even wash the dishes. He gave us a lesson in bon bon making, and told us he made 200 bon bons a day for a restaurant in Santa Fe. He gave us some bon bons that he said were not quite what he wanted them to be. They tasted delicious to us. Unfortunately, this James Beard award semi-finalist has gone back home to Saint Louis, where he is dazzling his lucky restaurant patrons with Ozark-inspired cuisine at Bulrush.
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