Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Lean into fall. Aspencade Music & Arts Festival As honey-hued leaves hit their peak, Aspencade Music & Arts Festival brings live music and an arts market to Red River this weekend, making a trip to…
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Chile by the Numbers
ZERO TO 16 MILLION units of heat on the Scoville scale Read more from our "Ultimate Guide to New Mexico Chile" The Mystery of Big Jim A 10-year effort to restore one of New Mexico’s most…
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Danise Coon: The Science of Chile
ESPAÑOLA NATIVE DANISE COON was looking to escape her family’s farming roots when she started an undergrad program in psychology at New Mexico State University in the 1990s. The pull of her heritage…
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The Making of Chile U
BEHIND AN INCONSPICUOUS DOOR in the unremarkable hallway of a standard university building lies a one-room wonder. There, a former classroom bursts with racks of colorful seed packets, shelves of…
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The Mystery of Big Jim
IN THE EARLY 2000s, Mesilla Valley chile farmers brought a conundrum to Paul Bosland. “Our chile doesn’t taste right anymore,” they told him, “not like what we grew up with, not our chile.” Since…
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Time to Aggie Up
Above: The Aggies at last year's WAC Championship. Photograph Courtesy of NMSU Basketball. It’s time to Aggie Up at the Pan American Center, where the New Mexico State University men’s basketball…
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