Try FARMesilla’s Green Chile Pita
IN SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO, fall means the smell of roasting green chile—and finding it in just about everything. FARMesilla eatery + drinkery gets in on the action with its new Pistachio Pesto Pita…
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Desert Spirits at Dry Point
CHRIS SCHAEFER HAS SPENT YEARS figuring out how to capture the flavors of New Mexico’s arid landscape—blue corn, prickly pear, mesquite, and chile—in a bottle. “New Mexico’s the center of the…
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Life of the Party
OLD TOWN ALBUQUERQUE takes Día de los Muertos to a new level with 10 days of remembrance and reflection from October 30 to November 8. The celebration peaks November 1–2 for All Souls’ Day, as Old…
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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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Just Peachy Finds a Home in Mesilla
CHAOS. That’s how Kalyn Hazen describes the process of creating her Southwestern-style metalwork jewelry. “I look at the stuff that’s in front of me, and I just make stuff,” she says. “It’s whatever…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Toast to summer. Sip and shop at New Mexico’s longest running wine festival, the Santa Fe Wine Festival, Saturday and Sunday at El Rancho de las Golondrinas. “The unique nature of our grounds being…
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Soap Happens in Silver City
BRENDA MCFARLANE DESCRIBES herself as “challenged, perspiration-wise.” Store-bought remedies just didn’t work. So McFarlane, who moved to Silver City from San Diego in 2015, spent about two years…
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Life Is Beautiful in Mesilla
THE ARMCHAIR IN THE SALA GRANDE holds nothing but sunshine. Its otherwise emptiness speaks to the loss of the man who once held court here, mere steps off the Mesilla Plaza. Since 2003, when J. Paul…
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The Unsolved Fountain Murders
THE STATE SENATE PRO tempore’s office, located in the Capitol building basement in Santa Fe, contains a wall of photographs of holders of that position. Among them is a 1931 black-and-white of a bald…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 See art take over Taos. From sunset to 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, the walls, courtyards, and doorways in downtown Taos transform into canvases for works of art during PASEO 2025. Since 2014…
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