Staging Area
MARK AND STEPHANIE MEDOFF'S home has seen a lot of drama. The Mediterranean-style manse, situated on five acres in the Las Cruces neighborhood of Mesilla Park, has been the setting for wakes…
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Posts From: April 2017
Cerrillos Sweet Spot
Above: The guesthouse patio of David Campbell and Heidi Steele in Cerrillos is ringed by raised garden beds. THE PARTY WAS POPPING, and David Campbell and Heidi Steele were nervous. With a guest list…
Read MoreStorytellers | April 2017
ELAINE RITCHEL Santa Fe Freestyle Freelance writer Elaine Ritchel seeks out rich visual experiences to share with others, then uses her background in museum education to engage readers in the arts. “I…
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Real, Simple O'Keeffe
YOU CAN HARDLY SET FOOT in northern New Mexico without hearing about Georgia O’Keeffe. The woman who lived by her own rules and established a distinctive personal style spent nearly 60 of her 98 years…
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Old Town, New Era
Above: Old Town's San Felipe de Neri Church was built in 1793, replacing a 1706 mission. On the edge of a neighborhood epitomized by rambling adobes, turquoise doors, and ristra-hung portals, Hotel…
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Boot-Scootin’ in Cruces
Above: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, with Jeff Hanna on guitar, performed at last year's Las Cruces Country Music Festival. Las Cruces is the heart of the Mesilla Valley, an agricultural region rich in…
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Go. See. Do. | April 2017
Above: Dusk settles over Isotopes Park. THIS PLACE IS THE BOMB On July 16, 1945, a shock wave boomed across the desert near the Carrizozo Plain, mountains blazed with white light, and a mushroom cloud…
Read MoreNM Living | Editor's Letter | April 2017
GEORGIA O’KEEFFEE NEVER CEASES to amaze—and I’m not even talking about her artwork, but her lifestyle. She was so far ahead of 20th-century manners and mores that today’s trendies are still playing…
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