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Five Things to Do This Weekend

1 Lift off for Balloon Fiesta. Rainbow-colored hot-air balloons take to the skies over the Duke City beginning this weekend for the 50 th Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. The fiesta, held…

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Pottery Tips From a Professional Potter

For the last 39 years, Zia Pueblo traditional potter Ruby Panana has made stunning bowls and vases by hand. She is a fourth-generation potter, and like her mother, famed potter Seferina Pino Bell…

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Fire Up the Kiln

Taos Ceramics Center offers a variety of eight-week courses that meet weekly. Paseo Pottery, in Santa Fe, holds two different seven-week courses—wheel-throwing and hand-building—that meet once a week…

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Following The Gold Leaf Trail

FOR NEARLY 11 MONTHS OF THE YEAR, New Mexico’s seasons march along with the ordered serenity of cloistered nuns in procession, but in October their progress becomes a “revel of frenzied Bacchantes.”…

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Editor's Letter: Hop(s) to It

I HAVE NEVER MET A TOOL THAT I DIDN’T HATE—hammer, wrench, saw, shovel, you name it. I am bad with all of them, on a frustratingly epic level. My father tried to teach me when I was a kid, as I helped…

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Datebook: October 2022

PEGGY KING UNDERSTANDS THE IMPORTANCE of the Día de los Muertos celebration and its return to the Mesilla Plaza after a two-year hiatus. An event coordinator at the Calavera Coalition, which oversees…

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Five Things to Do This Weekend

1 Hit the harvest. Harvest season is in full swing with three ways to celebrate the bounty this weekend. The Corrales Harvest Festival bustles with events on Saturday and Sunday throughout the…

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What We're Reading: Wild New World

IT COMES OUT IN LATE OCTOBER, but the new Dan Flores book is worth the wait. In Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals & People in America (W.W. Norton), the Santa Fe–based author delivers epic…

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