Fall into Fun at McCall’s
FOR SIX WEEKS every fall, people from throughout New Mexico flock to McCall’s Pumpkin Patch and Haunted Farm, in Moriarty, to pick pumpkins, wander the corn maze, taste delicious treats, and, if…
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Category: Originals
Raise a Glass to Christopher Goblet
FEW PEOPLE OUTSIDE of New Mexico know that the Land of Enchantment is the country’s oldest wine-producing region, which is something Christopher Goblet intends to change. As executive director of the…
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Leading Through Feeding
HELGA GARCIA-GARZA DIDN’T KNOW what to think when representatives of the James Beard Foundation called. “I thought that was for people doing magic with food,” says Garcia-Garza, executive director of…
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Emma Cameron's Rodeo Journey
EMMA CAMERON GREW UP in Santa Fe riding horses as naturally as most kids ride bikes. By age four, she was already participating in the Santa Fe County 4-H program and then in junior rodeos, excelling…
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The Art of Lowrider Culture
WORKING IN A STYLE HE CALLS “TASTEFUL OVERKILL,” Albuquerque native Rob Vanderslice has been painting lowrider cars in New Mexico for nearly 40 years. Vanderslice, who opened his first shop at 18…
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Welcome to Blackdom
“BLACKDOM WAS A REAL PLACE,” Timothy E. Nelson insists. The Santa Fe–based historian introduces his book about the early 20th-century Black homesteader colony in Chaves County with the simple fact of…
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Kate Gerwin is Raising the Bar
KATE GERWIN’S LIST OF ACCOLADES are as long as the craft cocktail menu at her Albuquerque bar, Happy Accidents. A native of the Bay Area and 20-year mixologist, Gerwin advanced to the first-season…
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Richard Pitino Leads the Pack
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO men’s basketball coach Richard Pitino has jammed a lot of life into 41 years. Between growing up as the son of Rick Pitino, one of college basketball’s all-time great coaches…
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Alisa Lynn Valdés’s New Hero Is Rooted in the Land
A LATINA LONGMIRE . That’s what Alisa Lynn Valdés says she had in mind when she began writing her New Mexico–set crime series starring rookie game warden Jodi Luna. The first book, Hollow Beasts , has…
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Nacha Mendez Inspires the Next Generation
AT AGE SEVEN, a severed fingertip nearly kept Margarita Cordero, who performs as Nacha Mendez, from a career in music. Inspired by the ranchera songs her grandmother (the original Nacha Mendez) taught…
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