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Only in NM

FOR THE BIRDS! As a transplant from Los Angeles, California, to Las Cruces, I’m in a position not to take the only-in-NM menu offerings for granted. One of my favorites is green-chile frozen custard…

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One of Our 50 Is Missing

INN FROM THE COLD A flurry of emails landed in our “Missing” inbox after msn.com picked up a Business Insider slide-show story, “The Best Hotel in Every State,” and ran it on their homepage. New…

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Book Review

LADIES OF THE CANYONS: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest BY LESLEY POLING-KEMPES (The University of Arizona Press, 2015) When it comes to female…

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Green Season Is Here

(above) Green chiles feeling the heat. THE PUNGENT SMOKINESS of 40 pounds of roasting green chile hung in the air around me like a delicious fog. Round and round, the plump peppers tumbled in the wire…

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Their Turn to Shine

( above ) Catalina Delgado-Trunk, pictured in her Albuquerque studio, has reinvented papel picado in New Mexico. NEED TO KNOW Governor’s Arts Awards, September 18. The state hosts a reception and…

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Fiesta Forever

Photo by Charles Mann. SEPTEMBER 4–13 CONTROLLED BURN If it’s been a while since you last attended the Burning of Zozobra, which artist Will Shuster initiated in the mid-1920s, you’re in for an…

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Ready for Prime Time

IF YOU EVER HEAR someone complain that there’s nothing going on in New Mexico, please feel free to whack them over the head—gently, of course, in the spirit of loving kindness—with this issue of the…

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Unhurried in Hachita

Big Hatchet Peak looms south of town. TO APPRECIATE HACHITA, a small town of about 30 people at the entrance to the bootheel of southwestern New Mexico, you must first appreciate the landscape that…

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