Datebook: August 2023
IT’S LITERALLY COLORED by the presence of Georgia O’Keeffe in the sacred space that so inspired her,” says Lensic 360 director Jamie Lenfestey of the Blossoms & Bones Ghost Ranch Music Festival. Now…
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Nacha Mendez Inspires the Next Generation
AT AGE SEVEN, a severed fingertip nearly kept Margarita Cordero, who performs as Nacha Mendez, from a career in music. Inspired by the ranchera songs her grandmother (the original Nacha Mendez) taught…
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Why We Love NM: Our Ghost Towns Contain Multitudes
J OHN M. MULHOUSE MISSES THE UNIQUELY eerie vibes of a New Mexico ghost town. Though he now lives in Oklahoma, the historian and author is nostalgic for the decade he spent traipsing around the…
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What We're Reading: Doña Cleanwell Leaves Home
MY BEST FRIEND AND I traded Ana Castillo’s The Mixquiahuala Letters back and forth during high school, inspired by the novel’s clear-eyed depiction of a long friendship between two women artists. In…
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The Art of Water
CAN A RIVER SING? If you walk under the ramada in Santa Fe’s Railyard Park this month, you can hear the Río Grande belting it out. At separate intervals along the pathway, hidden speakers transmit six…
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Step into the Corner Office
THEIR WINE CELLAR HAD DWINDLED to its last case. According to Taos restaurateurs Jori Jayne Emde and Zakary Pelaccio, that’s what spurred them to open New Mexico’s very first natural wine bar. The…
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Artists Find a Home in Carrizozo
THE EMERGENCE OF A HIP desert art town follows a certain pattern. It starts with the rise of an industry in a small community: maybe a military base (see Marfa, Texas, and Slab City, California) or a…
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What We're Reading: The Half White Album
“SOME CRITICS SAY you should never start or even use a dream in a story,” writes Cynthia J. Sylvester (Diné) in The Half-White Album (UNM Press), “but I’m awake now and pretending that it wasn’t a…
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Chile en Nogada
CHILES RELLENOS—poblano or green chile peppers stuffed with cheese or meat, then often battered and fried—are pervasive on menus throughout the state. In Taos, Antonio’s the Taste of Mexico serves up…
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Green Chile Cheeseburger
PART OF MONTE CARLO STEAK HOUSE’s allure is in its unassuming environs, just behind a family-owned liquor store off Central Avenue in Albuquerque. Patrons must go around the back to enter the attached…
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