Editor’s Letter: Lens Craft
ANDY JONES LOVES NEW MEXICO. He appreciates the variety of the landscapes, finds beauty in the sunsets and dark skies, and enjoys exploring the outdoors. And yet. When the St. Louis transplant hears…
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Posts From: December 2024
Datebook: January/February 2025
WITH MORE THAN 200 restaurants packed into just 37 square miles, Santa Fe’s culinary scene is as varied and wondrous as its landscape. James Beard Award winners cozy up next to family-owned cafés…
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Meet the Photo Awards Grand Prize Winner
ANDY JONES’S FIRST LOVE WAS THE OUTDOORS. Formerly a teacher in St. Louis, he’d take weeks-long road trips during the summer to Alaska and Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Glacier, and other national parks…
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The 24th Annual New Mexico Magazine Photos of the Year
GRAND PRIZE WINNER Surprise, Andy Jones "Shooting landscapes at night is something I get excited about. There are many things to love about being out in the dark with your camera. And adding the…
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Things to Do on New Year’s Eve
1 Chile Drop, Las Cruces In quintessential New Mexican fashion, Las Cruces welcomes the new year with chile—a 19-foot chrome pepper bedazzled with 2,400 sparkling lights that is. The chile drops at…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
Looking for New Year's Eve plans? Check out the list of things to do here! 1 Dance into 2025. A born-and-raised New Mexican, La Emi has been dancing flamenco since her childhood, bringing both a deep…
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2024 True Heroes: Casey Otero
CASEY OTERO didn’t know much about baseball when she stepped up to the plate in early 2024 to bring Little League back to Tularosa. What she did know was that the village’s kids needed an after-school…
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2024 True Heroes: Nicole Gallegos
MANY OF NICOLE GALLEGOS’S patients, who have just received diagnoses for conditions like Parkinson’s disease, dementia, or aphasia after a stroke, come to her during the most difficult days of their…
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Sugar Moon Makes Spirits Bright
TIRED OF HAVING TO PEEL, squeeze, and boil ingredients every time she wanted to make a fresh cocktail, Albuquerque mixologist and bar manager Paige Alvarez longed for a line of high-quality drink…
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What We're Reading: Fountain Creek
NEW MEXICO MAGAZINE contributor and Pueblo, Colorado, native Jim O’Donnell traces the flow of his hometown watershed in Fountain Creek: Big Lessons from a Little River (Torrey House Press). “The world…
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