June New Mexico Restaurant Guide
Farmers markets all over the state are booming with the season's bounty, and our chefs are all too happy to take bushels of fresh produce and meats off the growers' hands and transform them into…
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Posts From: May 2013
Grillin’ and Thrillin’
Whether you’re New Mexican born and bred or only wish you were, grilling should be in your cooking repertoire. People grill outdoors the world over, of course, but not everyplace has the favorable…
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What's Happening
JUNE 6–9 Rockabilly on the Route Blast into the West’s road-trip past on the Route 66 New Mexico Motor Tour. June 6–8, folks driving “all-legal street vehicles” are welcome to ride the storied Mother…
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Basketball Blooper Before the University of New Mexico basketball team flopped early in the NCAA Tournament, all eyes were on the squad’s lofty national ranking. This screen grab featured a foreign…
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Where to Eat Great Meat
Primal Cuts Vernon’s Hidden Valley Steak House The draw is fine prime and aged steaks at this slightly tough-to-find restaurant along Los Ranchos’s main drag. Vernon’s also features New Mexico–raised…
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The Art Of Living, Well Crafted
Not long ago, I was on an afternoon flight from Dallas to Santa Fe’s small municipal airport. It was one of those magical flights: the evening sun glowing through the fuselage, bathing everything in…
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The Leader of the Pack
The Santa Fe area has long been a magnet for painters, sculptors, photographers, writers, directors, actors, and other creative types. Now the ranks of musicians based here have formed the Santa Fe…
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The Alchemist
Where most people might gaze upon a junkyard or an abandoned steel mill and see little more than rust, tetanus shots, and the wreckage of a bygone era, Tom Joyce sees creative potential and a…
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What's Happening
May 3–5 Fiesta Forever Celebrate Hispanic culture in Grants at the 18th annual La Fiesta de Colores. According to santero and Fiesta Director Jerry Montoya, “The original idea for the Fiesta was to…
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Mark Kiffin’s Seared Diver Sea Scallops
I think seafood and pork make the ultimate surf-and-turf. In this case, it’s bacon with big tender sea scallops, often found on The Compound’s menu. True diver scallops are hand-harvested. You may not…
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