The Magic of Chimayó
MAGICAL REALISM WAS NOT SIMPLY a literary genre when I spent summers in Chimayó during my youth. It was a lived experience. I’d venture into the hills behind my grandmother’s home, just a stone’s…
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Category: City Guides
Explore the Charm of Sunland Park
“WE’RE A STRANGE LITTLE PLACE,” says Marina Ardovino, describing both her Sunland Park restaurant and inn (Ardovino’s Desert Crossing), as well as the border town itself. “I joke that we’re still the…
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Art City, Here We Come
DAWN LIGHT BATHES ART CITY in pastels. Mauves and pinks unfurl over the desert plains, lending a gauzy morning majesty to the giant sculpture of a poppy-red mouth that sits outside my trailer. I open…
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Unearth New Adventures in Carlsbad
THE HILLS AND CANYONS that tumble eastward from the Guadalupe Mountains down to the town of Carlsbad are scraggly with prickly pears and ocotillo, littered with slabs and placards of limestone, and…
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Jemez Springs Shines Bright
FOR TWO DECEMBER EVENINGS, farolitos light the stacked sandstone walls of the mission church at the Jemez Historic Site. Even more of the paper lanterns follow the surrounding half-standing walls that…
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Get Creative in Madrid
THE AUGUST SUN BEATS DOWN ON the lively patio of Refinery 14, where NM 14 ambles through the center of Madrid. Hemmed by a rough coyote fence under a gnarled salt cedar, the former outdoor space of…
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Barelas Is for the Gente
A CALICO CAT LOUNGES ON THE PATIO in front of La Mexicana Tortilla Co. Cleo and her two cohorts are street cats in their golden years that the crew of the historic Albuquerque establishment treat with…
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Uncover Farmington’s Arts Scene
A BAND FROM THE NAVAJO NATION takes the open-air stage in downtown Farmington, quickly assembling an altar with animal bones and incense before roiling the mostly Indigenous crowd with the blackest of…
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Find Biking Heaven in Angel Fire
LEARNING HOW TO MOUNTAIN BIKE comes with all sorts of axioms that double as life lessons. Keep your eyes on where you want to go. Look past the problem, and you might just roll through it. But the…
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Try These Four Essential Art Tours
Las Vegas murals. The self-guided walking tour of more than a dozen murals includes the hand-painted images of heroes of medicine located on the side of the El Centro Family Care building (emblazoned…
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