A S A TEENAGE RUNAWAY, Gemma Ra’Star DiFerdinando ended up in the Southwest in 2001 after hopping on a freight train with two Catahoula leopard dogs she found under a house. Through the kindness of…
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EMMA PATTERSON, A 29-YEAR-OLD professional skier, never set out to build a restaurant. “It was never like, Oh, this is our ultimate goal,” she says of Rio Lucero Farms, which she and her father, Doug…
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A SLOW PLUME OF DUST HANGS behind my truck, then dissolves with the wind. For miles, the shortgrass prairie of eastern New Mexico offers little beyond itself. Side oats, blue grama, buffalo grass, and…
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1 Explore the past. Journey into the rich archaeological and living history of New Mexico with tours and hands-on activities involving ancient tools and weapons during the state Archaeology Fair on…
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FAST BECOMING ONE OF the most anticipated film festivals in the Southwest, the Santa Fe International Film Festival turns the City Different into a cinephile’s paradise with hundreds of films…
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BENJAMIN RADFORD GREW UP in Corrales during the 1970s and ’80s with some big-time FOMO. All the sensational mysteries seemed far, far away: Bigfoot prowled the Pacific Northwest, the Bermuda Triangle…
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CO-FOUNDERS ELAINE HOWE and Nancy Fleming already feature at least 30 makers of miniature dwellings and oddities in Roswell’s Miniatures & Curious Collections Museum. But a recent trip to Beverly…
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Big Bird, Las Cruces Forget speedy cartoon roadrunners. Artist Olin Calk’s 20-foot-tall, one-ton Big Bird sculpture, west of Las Cruces off I-10, is made entirely of tossed sneakers, dead cell…
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INSIDE MEOW WOLF’s House of Eternal Return, the lobby goes dark, swallowing the doorway behind you. As your eyes adjust, a glowing two-story house appears with every window lit. To the right sits a…
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WHILE THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE may be quotidian on the University of New Mexico’s Albuquerque campus, Bruce Nauman’s concrete walk-through sculpture has a little-known cousin, Room With My Soul Left…
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