Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Catch—and release—hummingbirds. Find small birds and make big memories at the Hummingbird Festival at the Mimbres Culture Heritage Site on Saturday and Sunday. The festival began 20 years ago in…
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Category: August
Editor’s Letter: Display Case
“THAT’S ENORMOUS,” a young girl in a flowered dress exclaims while checking out the shell of Hesperotestudo, a giant land tortoise, on display at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science…
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Three Museums with Big Upgrades
Taos Art Museum at Fechin House. The former home and studio of Russia-born-artist Nicolai Fechin has expanded its exhibition capacity with the new Janis and Roy Coffee Gallery, a climate-controlled…
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Market Blitz: Indian Market Weekend
IndigenousWays Festival, Santa Fe 8/14 Music gets the main stage at this Native festival centered around the water tower in the Santa Fe Railyard. The evening’s events, a collaboration with Lensic…
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Albuquerque’s Dinosaurs Return
BETWEEN EXHIBITS AT THE New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, in Albuquerque’s Sawmill District, a group of kids crowds around a small display of unassuming brown fragments. Reading the…
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Five Museum Exhibitions to See
1 Wonders on Wheels. The mobile museum program of the Department of Cultural Affairs tours the state to bring The Arts of Democracy in New Mexico, an exhibition celebrating 250 years of freedom and…
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Inside New Mexico’s Small-Town Museums
“YOU GO TO A MUSEUM to learn the heart of a town,” says Britney Swart, executive director of the Herzstein Memorial Museum in Clayton. I’m only a few steps inside, though, when she intuits a darker…
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Datebook: August 2026
COOL MOUNTAIN BREEZES, multiple stages of live music, and some of the best barbecue in the Southwest converge in Red River during the 8750' BBQ & Music Festival. “Our weather in August is unbeatable,”…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Burn your gloom—with a few new twists. Zozobra, the towering 50-foot effigy filled with New Mexicans’ flammable worries, burns at Fort Marcy Park in Santa Fe on Friday night. The 101st Burning of…
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What We’re Reading: The Kármán Line
T HE KÁRMÁN LINE (Rescue Press), the title of Daisy Atterbury’s breathtaking, genre-blurring memoir in poetry and prose, refers to the threshold between Earth and outer space. “Above the Kármán line,”…
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