Datebook: January/February 2022
ON FEBRUARY 6, bang a gong and get your Lunar New Year on at Santa Fe’s Museum of International Folk Art. Between the pounding of Taiko drums, a dancing Buddha, and multiple lions on parade, the free…
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What We're Reading: Virgil Ortiz: reVOlution
VIRGIL ORTIZ'S FIRST CLAY FIGURE, created at age six, was a curvy woman clad in a man’s two-piece suit and bow tie. For his genre-bending work, the potter, provocateur, fashion designer, and futurist…
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Heat Up with Salsa Trios
ONE SUNDAY NIGHT in the early 1950s, three brothers in the Baca family sat around the supper table, hashing out their next business venture. The men had returned from World War II to their Barelas…
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This Year's Must-See Holiday Light Shows
Above: The ABQ BioPark’s River of Lights returns this year. Photograph by ZUMA Press Inc./Alamy. Christmas on the Pecos Christmas on the Pecos means a 40-minute boat cruise that takes you from…
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Officially Divine: Bizcochitos
Above: This classic recipe appears in The Best from New Mexico Kitchens . Photograph by Douglas Merriam. ADVICE FROM THE ABUELAS We asked two Santa Fe–based grandmas—and expert bizcochito bakers—for…
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Light Up the Night
Above: Create your own festival of lights at home. Illustration by Chris Philpot. THEY'RE CALLED FAROLITOS UP NORTH and luminarias in the central and southern parts of the state, but a lineup of…
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Advice from the Abuelas
Above: New Mexico's official state cookie has simple, yet rich flavors of cinnamon, sugar, and anise. Photograph by Douglas Merriam. GROWING UP IN TESUQUE, Loretta Sisneros Olguin had an elderly…
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Datebook: December 2021
HOLIDAY BAZAARS OFFER A CHANCE to find that quintessential handmade–in–New Mexico treasure, the one that will be cherished by far-flung friends for years to come. Get your wallet out and chart a…
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Meet the Honorees of the 2021 Governor’s Arts Awards
Above: Artist Susan Contreras is among this year's recipients of the 2021 Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts. Photograph by Kate Russell. WHAT'S THE SMALLEST DEGREE of separation between N…
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Datebook: November 2021
Above: Fredheads unite this fall at the12th annual Fred Harvey History Weekend. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. FANS OF HOSPITALITY entrepreneur Fred Harvey (1835–1901) gather November 12–15…
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