Valley of Creativity
THERE’S A UNIQUE MAGIC to Albuquerque’s North Valley. Life moves at a gentler rhythm—slower and more intentional. Towering cottonwoods arch over winding roads, while the scent of piñon and roasted…
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What to Eat This Month: Burque Licks
IF YOU HAVEN’T been to Burque Licks yet, prepare to ruin all other ice cream for yourself. Opened last summer by wives Kim Proctor and Barbara Maloney, the Albuquerque spot serves seriously next-level…
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Shroomami Packs an Umami Punch
MEREYA BLANCO AND Justin Smurawa of Midnight Disco Fungi are here to turn up the flavor on everything from weeknight dinners to movie-night popcorn with mushroom-powdered seasoning blends. The…
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Datebook: September 2026
“IF WE COULD BOTTLE the smell of roasting chile, it would be our number one export,” says John Hard, owner of Zia Chile Traders and co-chair of the Hatch Chile Festival. Since 1971, the two-day…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Say ahoy to the weekend. Set sail for the seventh annual Pirate Viking Summer Festival on Saturday and Sunday at Wildlife West Nature Park in Edgewood. Created in 2019 after requests for a summer…
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8 Only-in-New-Mexico Museums
SMOKEY BEAR HISTORICAL PARK Capitán In the mountain village where a rescued cub became a national icon, this small but poignant museum traces Smokey Bear’s journey from the 1950 Capitán Gap Fire to…
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What We’re Reading: The Sleeping Sisters
POWERED BY THE MYTHICAL Aztec goddess Cōātlīcue, with her skirt made of snakes, The Sleeping Sisters (Mulholland Books) is a roiling stew of Chicana-Indigenous literary horror. Albuquerque resident…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Have a wild weekend. Step into a village frozen in time for Old Lincoln Days and The Last Escape of Billy the Kid pageant. The village of Lincoln is the state’s most visited historic site, and for a…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Catch—and release—hummingbirds. Find small birds and make big memories at the Hummingbird Festival at the Mimbres Culture Heritage Site on Saturday and Sunday. The festival began 20 years ago in…
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Albuquerque’s Dinosaurs Return
BETWEEN EXHIBITS AT THE New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, in Albuquerque’s Sawmill District, a group of kids crowds around a small display of unassuming brown fragments. Reading the…
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