Why We Love NM: Our Wild Places Tame Hearts
ALMOST ANYWHERE YOU LIVE IN NEW MEXICO, a mountain range rises within beckoning distance. Our major cities all stand in their shadows. Their names ring with poetry: the Sangre de Cristos, the…
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Posts From: July 2023
Why We Love NM: Our Music Strikes A Chord
W ITH MORE THAN 30 ALBUMS and thousands of shows stretching back to the 1950s, Al Hurricane helped define the sound of modern New Mexico. Known as the godfather of New Mexico music, Hurricane passed…
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Why We Love NM: Our Agricultural Heritage Has Deep Family Roots
G ROWING UP, Fita Witte only knew life on her family’s ranch in the Estancia Valley. Born Fita Aceves, she married fifth-generation rancher Jerry Witte and worked the ranch for 60 years before retiring…
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Why We Love NM: Our Acequias Feed the Land
WITHIN A FEW DAYS OF ARRIVING in New Mexico’s Embudo Valley, my wife, RoseMary, and I were inspecting a rental property in the upper end of the narrow valley. It was an old adobe, sans bathroom or…
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Why We Love NM: For Us, Chile Means Home
HOW DO YOU MAKE CHILE? It’s a common question in our capsicum-crazed state, a culinary query that sounds deceptively simple. Reach for a recipe and heat up a pot? Almost, but not. Long before the…
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Elephant Butte Revs Up Its Off-Road Fun
PRICKLY PEAR CACTUS CLINGS TO the mountainside overhanging the two-track road. So when the passenger-side wheels of our Polaris RZR jump a ledge, we teeter left, bringing my driver’s face dangerously…
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Fly the Friendly New Mexico Skies
CHRIS DAHL-BREDINE CHASES THE LIGHT. “I’m moved by sunrises and sunsets,” he says. “There’s nothing quite like the beautiful New Mexico light, and I just want to be right there in it.” Flying high in…
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Step into the Corner Office
THEIR WINE CELLAR HAD DWINDLED to its last case. According to Taos restaurateurs Jori Jayne Emde and Zakary Pelaccio, that’s what spurred them to open New Mexico’s very first natural wine bar. The…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Geek out at ScienceFest. Every summer, the city of Los Alamos hosts ScienceFest, a flurry of hands-on activities, concerts, and markets that focus on science and history. It kicks off Friday with…
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New Mexico Magazine Centennial Cookbook Giveaway
GET A FREE COOKBOOK! For ten decades, New Mexico Magazine has published the Land of Enchantment’s best recipes and stories about food and to continue celebrating our 100th anniversary, we are giving…
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