Get in Line for These Lunch Favorites
JERRY’S CAFE, GALLUP Diners crowd into booths at Jerry’s Cafe in Gallup for American and New Mexican staples with a twist. “We just don’t do the norm,” owner Archie Baca says, pointing to their…
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The Wild World of Burro Racing
WITH MY HEART pounding and panic flashing across my face, I barely register the crowds lining Silver City’s Broadway Avenue for the inaugural Silver Lode Scramble pack burro race last October…
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Emma Kaisa Bunch’s Full Swing
E MMA KAISA BUNCH first picked up a golf club at age nine and was already playing in European tournaments at 13. But she was far from an instant success. “I got last every time,” recalls the New Mexico…
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2025 True Heroes: Patricia Morales-Cano
NOT IN MY BACKYARD. That was Patricia Morales-Cano’s initial response to a homeless shelter opening in her Silver City neighborhood in 2023. Her concerns seemed justified when crime—and…
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Snow Much Tubing Fun
ALL THE SIGNS OF A GOOD TIME are here: Smiles on faces rosy from the cold. Laughter drifting from around glowing firepits. Delighted squeals echoing off white alpine slopes. Bundled children waddling…
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Where to Go Snow Tubing
THE BUNNY HILL at Red River Ski and Summer Area opens to winter tubing after hours. That means the fun doesn’t stop when the lifts close. “It’s a really short hill, but people still have fun,” says…
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Stuff More Family Fun Into the Holidays
MAKE A PLAY DATE Santa Fe Children’s Museum’s newly redesigned Backyard features more than an acre of fenced outdoor space that includes a zipline, amphitheater, sandbox, garden, beehive, and…
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Hooked on Gila Trout
“SOME PEOPLE WANT to just go catch a fish,” says Kirk Patten, chief of fisheries for the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. “Others will fly all the way across the country to fish for a native…
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Reeling In Conservation
“THIS IS WHERE EGGS GO,” Leonard Rice says, while pulling out a shallow drawer containing water and tiny apricot-colored spheres. The Glenwood Fish Hatchery manager is charged with spawning and…
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Sculpting the Spirit of WNMU
A 5,000-POUND GRANITE boulder suspends 10 feet off the ground, supported by stainless steel spires. Representing Western New Mexico University students, the influences that shape them, and the…
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