The Power of Positive Travel
EVERYBODY KNOWS that traveling is one of the most eye-opening—and potentially life-changing—things a human being can do. During college I took a meandering cross-country road trip and had a minor…
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Only in NM
THE SHUSHING SHAMAN I’m writing and sipping tea at the Inn and Spa at Loretto’s Living Room bar. I come here often to write because it’s quiet, like a library. I look up as a man walks in, wearing a…
Read MoreArias Under the Stars
Regina Sarfaty will never forget her first performance at The Santa Fe Opera. It was July 3, 1957—the first night of the first season of what is now a 55-year-old, internationally acclaimed company…
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DROPPED BATAAN Sandia Park residents Gloria Chavez and her husband were recently in Washington, D.C., and decided to visit the Arlington National Cemetery. The cemetery has memorials to groups of…
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Freedom Writer
NEED TO KNOW June 4 A Night of Poetry, featuring Jimmy Santiago Baca with Hakim Bellamy, Hawah Kasat, Jose Antonio Ponce, and Adam Jones. 6 p.m. at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. $10. June…
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Make Your Summer Cookouts Sizzle
HOG WILD PIG ROASTS Most of us aren’t willing to tackle the cooking of a whole hog, though it’s one of the most appealing outdoor cooking methods for serving a group. Fortunately, chefs are serving up…
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Deal Yourself Inn
These hotels have dreamed up only-in-NM packages to make themselves extra-tempting in the busiest time of the year for vacations. Whether your interests are more culinary or cultural, urban or…
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Roads Less Traveled
WHY GO NOW With its long daylight hours, June is a perfect time to embark on this attraction-packed journey. It meanders for more than 200 miles through the Pecos River Valley, across sweeping…
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What's Happening
MAY 29–31, JUNE 11–JULY 5 SHREW’D MOVES You can watch a pair of Elizabethan theater classics—one comic, one tragic—beneath a canopy of stars this month. Beginning June 11, Thursdays through Sundays at…
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