Your Ultimate Film Festival Guide
SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL February 21–23, 2025 WHAT YOU’LL SEE: The state’s longest-running film festival showcases 90 narrative features, documentaries, and shorts programs—about a quarter of which are…
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The Power of the Pen
“I LOVE MY SOLITARY LIFE,” says Albuquerque poet, novelist, and screenwriter Jimmy Santiago Baca. Abandoned by his parents as a toddler, Baca spent portions of his youth in a Santa Fe orphanage before…
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Tomasita’s Celebrates Good Food
TOMASITA’S IS FULL on a midsummer Tuesday afternoon in the height of Santa Fe’s tourist season. Servers keep up with the rush, running dishes smothered in the restaurant’s famous green and red chile…
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Shop Fun Finds at Indigo Market
THE INDIGO MARKET wants to make you smile while you shop. The two-year-old Taos boutique specializes in eclectic locally made goods, including baby onesies, organic skin care products, sunglasses…
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A Taste of New Zealand in Taos
ALY HYDER STARTED SELLING meat pies from a five-foot food truck in Taos Ski Valley during the pandemic. Skiers could enjoy fresh, hot, individually sized meals without even taking off their gloves…
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'Whiskey Tender' Reveals Bold Truths
DEBORAH JACKSON TAFFA WAS A TEENAGE REBEL. During high school in Farmington, she embraced her Indigenous identity, which set her apart in an era that emphasized a certain kind of kitschy conformity…
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An Acoma Pueblo Christmas
PEOPLE TELL PRUDY CORREA that they love her storyteller pottery figures because they’re so joyful, with their eyes lifted to the sky and their mouths open in song. “I’m happy when I’m working, and…
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Tinwork Stamped with Tradition
NICOLAS MADRID LEARNED TINSMITHING from his father, Jimmy, who taught him to make his own silver stamps and instilled in him a discerning eye. “I focus on New Mexico tradition,” Madrid says. “A lot of…
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Remembering John Nichols
ONE OF NEW MEXICO’S most beloved writers left us on Monday, November 27. John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War, died at age 83. Born and raised in New York, he wrote his first novels there…
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Why We Love NM: Atomic History Was Made Here
IN 1943, HUNDREDS OF SCIENTISTS CAME TO NEW MEXICO to build an atomic bomb before the Nazis could. J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team toiled in a top-secret laboratory located at a former boys’ school…
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