Our Six Favorite New Distilleries
Above: Aging barrels at Santa Fe Spirits. Photograph by Douglas Merriam. SITTING UNDER A PORTAL with a cocktail in hand, I watch a monsoon roll in. The dust kicks up, and high-desert aromas roll in…
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Posts From: May 2018
Love and Loathing in Coyote Country
HERE IS A SCENE you will recognize. In New Mexico, something resembling this is so common, the experience may not even be mine, although I’m pretty sure it is. My wife and I are up early, brewing…
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What We're Cooking (and Eating) for Memorial Day
Chicken dinner is served. Photography courtesy of NeONBRAND/Unsplash. HERE AT NEW MEXCIO MAGAZINE , we’re convinced that summer weekends were invented so that everyone can enjoy the long days by eating…
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What We're Doing This Month
Above: The crowd from Music on the Mothership. Photograph Courtesy Music on the Mothership. LET THE SPIRITS SOAR Shake up your inner mixologist during New Mexico Cocktail Week, May 25–June 2, when…
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150 Years After the Long Walk
EVEN NOW, stands of cottonwood, willow, and mesquite marking the course of the Pecos River offer but a tangle of weedy limbs. Around the onetime military post of Fort Sumner, on New Mexico’s eastern…
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Get to Know the New Laguna Burger
Above: First-timers should start with the original Laguna Burger. Photograph by Douglas Merriam. IF YOU LOVE the food at the original Laguna Burger, on Laguna Pueblo west of Albuquerque, you’ll be…
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Tracing the History of the State Through Jewelry
Above: Ousmane Macina’s woven-silver choker with gold and gems. Photograph Courtesy Albuquerque Museum. FROM SPANISH AND MEXICAN SILVERSMITHS to Navajo and Zuni jewelry makers, New Mexico has gained a…
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How to Do ABQ Beer Week
Above: Try new brews and breweries during ABQ Beer Week. Photograph Courtesy ABQ Beer Week / Feel Good Festivals. It almost feels as though every week is beer week here in New Mexico—which we consider…
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Gifts for the New Mexican Outdoorsman
1. Oversize ceramic camp mug ($12). Organ Mountain Outfitters, Las Cruces (575-323-3274, organmountainoutfitters.com). 2. Kerchief printed with map of the Valles Caldera ($15). Pajarito Environmental…
Read MoreParallax | Go. See. Do. | May 2018
Astro-photography can range from a steady hand holding a camera phone against a telescope's eyepiece to extremely technical sessions that span multiple nights capturing data. The image above was taken…
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