A Month of Fun Days
More than the calendar or even the thermometer, the aroma of roasting green chile announces the end of summer here in Las Cruces and its environs. When left in the field to ripen, the green peppers…
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Category: Going Places
Suite Dreams
Take a video tour of the Nativo Lodge's rooms. http://bit.ly/NativoLodge Hotel guests are used to art in hotel rooms—that is, in a frame, likely chosen for its generic and blandly soothing properties…
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Rocky Roads
Why Go Now The state’s sparsely populated 180-mile border with Mexico yields some wonderful curiosities around the Chihuahuan Desert communities of Deming and Columbus, from the site of one of the few…
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High Fidelity
“Salzburg is beautiful, Aix-en-Provence is beautiful—but no other opera company sits on a mesa and overlooks two mountain ranges,” says Joyce Idema, spokesperson for The Santa Fe Opera. The opera’s…
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A Patriotic Pig Roast
Looking for a delicious way to celebrate the Fourth? Head to Arroyo Seco, a charmingly quirky bend in the road between Taos and Taos Ski Valley. Seemingly, every one of the 1,000-plus residents of…
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How to Explore Chaco Canyon
With so much of its human past scattered in plain sight across the landscape, New Mexico offers the casual day-tripper and more serious archaeology buff an amazing range of sites to visit. As the…
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What's Happening
JUNE 6–9 Rockabilly on the Route Blast into the West’s road-trip past on the Route 66 New Mexico Motor Tour. June 6–8, folks driving “all-legal street vehicles” are welcome to ride the storied Mother…
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The Art Of Living, Well Crafted
Not long ago, I was on an afternoon flight from Dallas to Santa Fe’s small municipal airport. It was one of those magical flights: the evening sun glowing through the fuselage, bathing everything in…
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What's Happening
May 3–5 Fiesta Forever Celebrate Hispanic culture in Grants at the 18th annual La Fiesta de Colores. According to santero and Fiesta Director Jerry Montoya, “The original idea for the Fiesta was to…
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Caught in Roswell's Orbit
THE FIRST THING THAT COMES TO MIND when you hear “Roswell” is probably not karaoke. Yet there I found myself on a Saturday night, in Billy Ray’s, a spacious restaurant and bar memorable for its retro…
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