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Just Add Pecans

LET NEW MEXICO’S top food crop add pizzazz to your holiday menus. Rich in fiber, antioxidants, phosphorus, magnesium, heart-healthy fats, and anti-cancer and anti-aging properties, pecans can enhance…

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Only in NM

DISTANCE LEARNING The first time I visited Chaco Canyon, I was trespassing. Hidden under a smudge of thick black eyeliner, I looked like a girl out for trouble, not a hike around 900-year-old Native…

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One of Our 50 is Missing

ATLAS SHRUGGED A relative sent Dave Ring, of Albuquerque, a Maryland newspaper ad in which a local tour outfit offered a springtime Southwestern Adventure Tour of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico…

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Spirited Tunes

THE AUDIENCE at a preview performance of Haunted America Suite wasn’t expecting actual ghosts. But as an eerie movement came to a close, everyone packed into Atkinson Recital Hall at New Mexico State…

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Applause!

Virgil Ortiz at his Cochiti Pueblo home. Photo by Minesh Bacrania. BACK TO THE FUTURE Spoiler alert: Virgil Ortiz just might have superpowers. Mild-mannered by day, the Cochiti ceramist mounts…

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The Stars of the Show

(above) Visitors line up to see the moon and some of the visible planets at a Chaco Canyon star party. A view of the Milky Way above Fajada Butte in Chaco. Our jaw-dropping night skies are worth a…

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What's Happening | October

(above) Balloons are in high season in Albuquerque and Taos. OCTOBER 2–4 WEAVE GOT IT GOING ON Good luck resisting the cuteness quotient of the Taos Wool Festival’s “Fiber Critters Corner,” where kids…

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Look! Up In The Sky!

STARGAZING HAS long been a favorite pastime in these parts, going back at least as far as the ancient Puebloans who inhabited Chaco Canyon. A thousand years later, their petroglyphs are still…

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