Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em
Former barbecue world champion Kelly Wertz returns to Smokin' on the Pecos. New Mexico’s state championship barbecue tournament was born from a morning of binge-watching the TV show BBQ Pitmasters…
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Tag: Events
Worldly Desires Summer in Santa Fe
Above: Soak up the iconography of a famous Mexican artist in Mirror, Mirror:photographs of Frida Kahlo, at the Spanish Colonial Art in Santa Fe. Photography Courtesy Throckmorton fine Art / Nickolas…
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Go. See. Do. | May 2017
Above: The Liberators perform gunfight reenactments at Rawhide Days. Photography by Connie Loveland Photography BEAR WITH US Smokey never sleeps. For 70 years, he’s educated Americans about the…
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Boot-Scootin’ in Cruces
Above: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, with Jeff Hanna on guitar, performed at last year's Las Cruces Country Music Festival. Las Cruces is the heart of the Mesilla Valley, an agricultural region rich in…
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Go. See. Do. | April 2017
Above: Dusk settles over Isotopes Park. THIS PLACE IS THE BOMB On July 16, 1945, a shock wave boomed across the desert near the Carrizozo Plain, mountains blazed with white light, and a mushroom cloud…
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Co-Starring New Mexico
It all starts, as many things do, with Thomas Edison. In autumn 1897, his train steamed into New Mexico Territory, and shortly thereafter, the Wizard of Menlo Park captured the first moving images of…
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Go. See. Do. | March 2017
HE IS LIKE A HURRICANE Alejandro Escovedo has been on fire lately. After a tough spell that included hurricane-induced PTSD, hepatitis treatments, and a season of creative drift, the Austin legend…
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Moccasins on the Move
Above: Jaylyn Atsye (center) with two fans during 2015's Rock Your Mocs event at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center . PHOTOGRAPHY BY: COURTESY INDIAN PUEBLO CULUTRAL CENTER The first pair of moccasins…
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Done The Old Way
Above: Bultos by Margarito Mondragon. The Renaissance ArtsFaire in Las Cruces will attract the usual assortment of dragons, knights, and wenches, but for the second year, it comes with a distinctly…
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Garden Party
Above: Cross the Red Bridge to explore phase two of the Santa Fe Botanical Garden's development. Just three years after planting its first seedlings and saplings, the Santa Fe Botanical Garden has…
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