Spend a Weekend in Gallup
FROM THE SKY at last year’s Red Rock Balloon Rally, the contours of Gallup make a stunning kind of sense. When it’s rising over the city’s eastern side just past dawn, a hot-air balloon turns out to…
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Tag: Route 66
Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Follow the art prints. Printmakers unite in Silver City this weekend during the Southwest Print Fiesta. The art festival features workshops, artist talks and demos, exhibitions, print parties…
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The Route 66 Soundtrack
WHAT BETTER WAY to celebrate the upcoming Diamond Anniversary of Route 66 than with song? We asked Steve Terrell, The Santa Fe New Mexican 's pop music writer, to share his top six Route 66 Road songs…
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Tune In at El Rey Court
IN FRONT OF A CORNER beehive fireplace inside the living room-like lobby of El Rey Court, in Santa Fe, singer-songwriter Esther Rose strums her acoustic guitar, quieting the several dozen listeners…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Better understand Baumann. Gustave Baumann: The Artist’s Environment opens at the New Mexico Museum of Art’s Plaza Building on Friday, showcasing works from the museum’s collection that detail…
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Smokin’ BBQ on Route 66
“ARE THEY STILL OPEN?” an anxious-looking woman asks me from the passenger window as her husband pulls their car into the gravel lot outside Watson’s Bar-B-Que and Tucumcari Ranch Supply. It’s…
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Datebook: July 2025
TINSMITH JUSTIN GALLEGOS MAYRANT got his start at the youth market of Santa Fe’s Traditional Spanish Market in 1998. His ornate crosses, framed mirrors, candleholders, light fixtures, and holiday…
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Level Up Your Summer: Transplant
FEEL THE HEAT AT THE CHILE PEPPER INSTITUTE What is the world’s hottest chile? Why are New Mexico’s Big Jim peppers so prized? Get answers to these burning questions on a guided tour of the New…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Time travel at a new exhibition. A new retrospective exhibition at the Museum of International Folk Art takes viewers back to the early years of New Mexico statehood through the embroidered works…
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Datebook: June 2025
FLAMING PURPLE PAINT JOBS, cherry-red lifted Ford F-150s, butter-yellow 1960s Mustangs, and other shiny souped-up hot rods make it fun to ogle the offerings at the Spokes on 66 Car Show in Grants…
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