Category: What's Happening

What's Happening

By Andrew Collins on Nov. 03, 2015

Above photo by Rebecca McMullan CHRISTMAS CRUISES Bustling downtown Carlsbad’s riverfront park anchors the town’s five-week Christmas on the Pecos celebration, November 27–December 31. Each evening…

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What's Happening | November

By Andrew Collins on Oct. 19, 2015

Above: Festival of the Cranes at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. Photo by Kevin Garrett. NOVEMBER 17–22 FLOCK TO IT One of the top bird-watching events in North America, Festival of the…

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What's Happening | October

By Andrew Collins on Sep. 15, 2015

(above) Balloons are in high season in Albuquerque and Taos. OCTOBER 2–4 WEAVE GOT IT GOING ON Good luck resisting the cuteness quotient of the Taos Wool Festival’s “Fiber Critters Corner,” where kids…

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What's Happening | September 2015

By Andrew Collins on Aug. 11, 2015

The Ghanaian reggae singer Rocky Dawuni and his band rocked the NHCC’s Plaza Mayor at ¡Globalquerque! 2014. SEPTEMBER 25–26 Since its inception a decade ago, the richly diverse, high-energy…

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What's Happening | August 2015

By Andrew Collins on Jul. 15, 2015

(above) Michael Franti performs in conjunction with the Santa Fe Yoga Festival. JULY 31–AUGUST 8 80 YEARS STRONG Lovington embraces a raucous takeover each summer when the Lea County Fair and PRCA…

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What's Happening | July 2015

By Andrew Collins on Jun. 03, 2015

Courtesy Santa Fe Garden Club JULY 21, 28 SECRET GARDEN “This year we’re featuring several homes owned or decorated by prominent local interior designers,” says Barbara Templeman, organizer of the…

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What's Happening

By Andrew Collins on May. 04, 2015

MAY 29–31, JUNE 11–JULY 5 SHREW’D MOVES You can watch a pair of Elizabethan theater classics—one comic, one tragic—beneath a canopy of stars this month. Beginning June 11, Thursdays through Sundays at…

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What's Happening

By John Muller on Nov. 07, 2014

DECEMBER A LUMINOUS MONTH Call them luminarias, call them farolitos, or just call them beautiful—New Mexico’s signature holiday lights are dazzling. Albuquerque is the first to flip the switch on the…

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What's Happening

By John Muller on Oct. 14, 2014

Wingdings NOVEMBER 2, 9, 16, 18–23 A 1941 count at the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge (pictured) turned up only 17 sandhill cranes across the refuge’s 57,331 acres. This year, some 9,000…

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What's Happening

Aug. 13, 2014

SEPTEMBER 19–20 ALL OVER THE MAP Tickets to see the world can whack a checkbook, so it’s nice when the world comes to you. Marking its tenth year, the ¡Globalquerque! festival is staging an eclectic…

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