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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Molding Pottery Novices Into Experts
“CERAMICISTS EAT FAILURE FOR BREAKFAST,” says Miranda Howe. The founder of Bone Springs Art Space, an art studio and gallery in Roswell, Howe knows of what she speaks. She teaches the Dirty Dozen…
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Sample These Southeastern New Mexico Wineries
Enchantment Vineyards Enchantment Vineyards, in Portales, in eastern New Mexico, takes advantage of alkaline soil and a dry climate to yield rich grapes for its prized chambourcin, a dry red that…
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A Ruidoso Winery Is Making Noise
"I LIKE TO TELL PEOPLE I LEARNED TO MAKE WINE starting at the bottom of the bottle,” says Jasper Riddle, a longtime Ruidoso resident and owner of the Noisy Water Winery, which has expanded to six…
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Where Wine and Pistachios Meet
“We’re out here on the farm,” says Marianne Schweers, who runs Heart of the Desert Vineyards with her husband, George. Since 1974, the couple has been growing and harvesting pistachios on their Eagle…
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This Rattler Has A Tall Tail
FEW PEOPLE LIVE IN RODEO, a small town between Arizona’s Chiricahua and New Mexico’s Peloncillo mountains. But it’s rattlesnake paradise. “There are probably more rattlesnakes, more species, per…
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"Dark Winds" Brings Tony Hillerman Novels To AMC
“AS ACTORS, WE ALL WANT to be part of shows and movies with multidimensional characters that are fully fleshed out,” says Zahn McClarnon, who stars as Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn in AMC’s new mystery…
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Southwest Silver Rush
The Route Stray from the beaten path to experience this cross section of New Mexico life. Packed with hiking, history, food, and shopping, the route is well suited to families and adventurers alike…
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Hitch up this Light Camping Trailer
THE IDEA for Earth Traveler Teardrop Trailers came after a camping debacle. Angel Irlanda had turned in for the night with his family at Elephant Butte Lake State Park when a sharp wind picked up. “It…
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Welcome to Cabinetlandia
A RUSTED METAL FILE CABINET rises from the earth as if it were a natural feature of an otherwise barren wilderness east of Deming, in southwest New Mexico, between an I-10 overpass and winding train…
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