109 East Palace
NEAR THE SANTA FE PLAZA, a narrow courtyard between two buildings on Palace Avenue holds ristras, Talavera pottery, and crepe paper flowers. Wander all the way back for a piece of what was once…
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Posts From: March 2022
Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Celebrate Santa Fe Playhouse’s centennial season. What is love? This question is an integral piece of the plot in The Effect, opening at Santa Fe Playhouse . Written by British playwright Lucy…
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Tastes Like Aggie Team Spirit
CHEERING FOR THE HOME TEAM takes on new meaning when you can support your school with tasty New Mexico–made beer, wine, whiskey, and pecans. Five years ago, New Mexico State University became one of…
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Wine and Dine
SARA JO MATHEWS named Prairie Hill Café, the restaurant in Las Vegas’s Plaza Hotel, after the road leading to her family’s ranch. Their beef stars in the Jackpot Cowboy, a triple-layered, nine-ounce…
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Luxurious Lodgings
Sierra Grande Media mogul Ted Turner owns two parcels of land the size of national parks outside Truth or Consequences, and the Sierra Grande retreat is the jumping-off point for explorations of them…
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Hotel Andaluz Shines
ENTER THE HOTEL ANDALUZ'S LOBBY, in downtown Albuquerque, and the “Middle Casbah,” an alcove seating area, just might invite you to lounge a bit while sipping a cocktail near its fish-tank table. But…
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Go with the Grain
MAN MIGHT NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, but it sure does help. That’s what baker Andre Kempton bet on when expanding his Wild Leaven Bakery from Taos to Santa Fe late last year. With a following that…
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Rail Yard Renaissance
ONE DECEMBER DAY IN 1920, Isadore Freed, a Russian émigré to New York and then Iowa, stepped off an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway train at the Albuquerque depot. Behind him, the Alvarado Hotel…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Gear up for outdoor fun. Ruidoso celebrates the coming of spring with an inaugural Outdoor Expo at the convention center on Saturday (10 a.m.–6 p.m.) and Sunday (11 a.m.–4 p.m.). The…
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Alamogordo's Newest Brewery Takes Off
THE EARLIEST KERNELS of 575 Brewing Company began fermenting in Bill Arnold’s Alamogordo kitchen. “I just bought a homebrew kit one day,” he says. “I made a mess, but it was kind of drinkable.” He…
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