Above: Tom Brewer. Photographs by Douglas Merriam. ON A SMALL FARM in the town of Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, a wet year has led to an early emergence of one of New Mexico’s newest crops. Everywhere…
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Above: La Cumbre's beers are meant to disappear, but the whimsically illustrated cans are for keeps. Photographs courtesy of La Cumbre Brewing. STARTED IN 2010 by Jeff Erway, La Cumbre Brewing has…
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CREATED OVER 75 YEARS AGO as a cartoon mascot who warned, “Only you can prevent forest fires,” Smokey Bear found his living embodiment six years later—a fire-singed cub clinging to a charred tree in…
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Above: Bullets flew across this road during the Lincoln County War. Photograph courtesy of Timothy Roberts. THE RIO BONITO PUSHES THROUGH a spring-fattened bosque, adding a palette of varying greens…
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Above: Inside Founders Speakeasy. Photograph Courtesy of Founders Speakeasy. I stepped inside of El Rey Liquors, in downtown Albuquerque, thinking, Is this right? I saw no signs and heard no hubbub…
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Above: Mac's Cherry limeade. Photograph by Douglas Merriam. Mac’s Steak in the Rough is a retro drive-in on Albuquerque’s Menaul Boulevard where a big, icy cup of old-fashioned limeade will quench…
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Above: Asa Stone at Sidetrack Brewery. Photograph by Minesh Bacrania. ASA STONE THIRSTS for knowledge. When graduating from high school in Hitachi, Japan, she didn’t want to study just one thing, as…
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