Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Celebrate the new year alfresco. New Year’s Eve on the Santa Fe Plaza The Santa Fe Plaza hosts its 7th annual New Year’s Eve party on Friday starting at 8 p.m. Among piñon-scented bonfires and…
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Posts From: December 2021
Top 10 Stories for 2021
Above: Cerro de Guadalupe, the remnant of an ancient volcanic eruption, looms to the east of the village of San Luis, in the Río Puerco Valley. Photograph by Andrew Kornylak. REMEMBER HOW HAPPY WE…
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Powder Players
Above: Skiers wait for the lift pull at Agua Piedra. Photograph courtesy of the State Archives of New Mexico (Item No. 002468). ERNIE BLAKE STOOD TRANSFIXED in the deep canyon of what would become…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: December 2021
Above: Illustration by Chris Philpot. Born This Way To travel from Denver to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, for her granddaughter’s wedding, Maria De Marfil dutifully applied for and received a passport. It…
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What We're Reading: The Unmasking
SET MOSTLY IN an approximation of Silver City’s Bear Mountain Lodge, Lynn C. Miller’s The Unmasking: A Novel (UNM Press) mixes a murder mystery with literary analyses of Virginia Woolf, Gertrude…
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Small-Town Spirits in Mountainair
KAREN ARGEANAS WALKS THROUGH the old mission church at Abó, one of three parts of the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument (along with Quarai and Gran Quivira), outside the town of Mountainair…
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Sour Is Sweet
THE TINY TOWN of Dixon, in northern New Mexico, grows some of the tastiest apples in the state, which inspired Loretta Sandoval to turn luscious local cider into her Cañoncito Apple Cider Vinegar…
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Willow + Blaine Brings French Fare to Las Cruces
RAYS OF SUNSET cast a glow on outer stone walls, ratcheting up the already romantic character of Willow + Blaine. Inside the French bistro and wine bar, white marble tabletops, vases of antique tinted…
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Heat Up with Salsa Trios
ONE SUNDAY NIGHT in the early 1950s, three brothers in the Baca family sat around the supper table, hashing out their next business venture. The men had returned from World War II to their Barelas…
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