Datebook: September 2026
“IF WE COULD BOTTLE the smell of roasting chile, it would be our number one export,” says John Hard, owner of Zia Chile Traders and co-chair of the Hatch Chile Festival. Since 1971, the two-day…
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Category: August
Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Say ahoy to the weekend. Set sail for the seventh annual Pirate Viking Summer Festival on Saturday and Sunday at Wildlife West Nature Park in Edgewood. Created in 2019 after requests for a summer…
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5 Treasures in New Mexico’s Museums
Indian Detours bus at Santa Clara Pueblo, circa 1926. (Above) One hundred years after the start of the Harvey Indian Detours, which changed Southwest tourism, a staged image of a Packard passenger…
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8 Only-in-New-Mexico Museums
SMOKEY BEAR HISTORICAL PARK Capitán In the mountain village where a rescued cub became a national icon, this small but poignant museum traces Smokey Bear’s journey from the 1950 Capitán Gap Fire to…
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Explore New Mexico’s Farm & Ranch Museum
ON A CLOUDLESS MAY morning, girls in sparkly white dresses and boys in tidy polos mill about. The crowd of more than 250 goes silent as Bishop Peter Baldacchino strides to the front of the New Mexico…
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Just Peachy Finds a Home in Mesilla
CHAOS. That’s how Kalyn Hazen describes the process of creating her Southwestern-style metalwork jewelry. “I look at the stuff that’s in front of me, and I just make stuff,” she says. “It’s whatever…
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Izanami’s Happiest Hours
THE SERVER ARRIVES with a bottle of Chokaisan Junmai Daiginjo Nama sake and a look of knowing anticipation. He sets down a glass, leans in slightly, and begins to chant as he fills it…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Take in mountain air, music, and BBQ. Spend your weekend in the mountains surrounded by music, delicious food, and fresh air at the 8750’ BBQ and Music Festival in Red River, from Thursday through…
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What We’re Reading: The Sleeping Sisters
POWERED BY THE MYTHICAL Aztec goddess Cōātlīcue, with her skirt made of snakes, The Sleeping Sisters (Mulholland Books) is a roiling stew of Chicana-Indigenous literary horror. Albuquerque resident…
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