The Land of the Giants

TROMPING UP A DRY arroyo flanked by scrubby creosote bushes and tumbled blocks of red mudstone, eight-yearold Dominic made his first discovery of the day. “Look at this, I found a fossil!” he shouted…

Recipe: Red Chile Hummus

25 Reasons to Love Route 66

COME TAKE A RIDE. The passenger door is open. We have a 19-foot-long shell-pink and iridescent-lavender American automobile to take us down the road. Some days, as the early-summer sun shakes down…

Love New Mexico Style

STEAMY REPRIEVE Editor's note: This item published originally in the February 2013 issue of New Mexico Magazine . Some information may have changed during that time. You are encouraged to verify rates…

Red Chile Sauce and Capirotada

Red Chile Sauce For centuries, farmers in Chimayó have grown a particular “landrace” of chile, different from other versions just a valley over, and a good bit different in appearance from the…

Rattle and Drum

“Beat the drum once to enter a world of music as spirit.” So reads a sign on a gallery wall at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture in Santa Fe, above a large wooden drum with a taut animal-hide top…

One of Our 50 Is Missing

DEWEY KNOW THE WAY TO SANTA FE? Craig and Natalie Epps, of Dewey, Oklahoma, vacation in Red River at least twice a year. When they tell friends in Dewey that they are going to New Mexico, they’re…