Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Celebrate Halloween and Día de los Muertos Halloweekend, Los Alamos If you’re that person—or family—who’s really into Halloween, Los Alamos is the place to be this weekend, as the city’s annual…
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Datebook: November 2022
A HOLIDAY MARKET FOR NEW MEXICO FOODIES, co-sponsored by the state’s Department of Agriculture? It’s almost too good to be true, but it is true—#nmtrue, that is. On November 19 and 20, the New Mexico…
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Ruidoso Raises Its Game
A FISHERMAN STANDS ON Grindstone Lake’s shore, casting lines into the blue-green water as I hike under ponderosa pines and through Gambel oak on a trail ringing the lake. It’s an early spring…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Hit the harvest. Harvest season is in full swing with three ways to celebrate the bounty this weekend. The Corrales Harvest Festival bustles with events on Saturday and Sunday throughout the…
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A Ruidoso Winery Is Making Noise
"I LIKE TO TELL PEOPLE I LEARNED TO MAKE WINE starting at the bottom of the bottle,” says Jasper Riddle, a longtime Ruidoso resident and owner of the Noisy Water Winery, which has expanded to six…
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Hit The Trails On Horseback
Ghost Ranch, Abiquiú View the spectacular vistas and actual locations of Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings on the back of a horse rented from the stables at the Ghost Ranch Education and Retreat Center…
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Roots Blossoms with Local Appeal
JUSTIN HUFFMON AND HIS WIFE, NENADA, were traveling in Rome, indulging in espresso shots, when they realized the extent of Italy’s devotion to coffee. “They’ll charge no more than one and a half euros…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Have a fair time. Stars, Stripes, and Summer Nights is the theme of this year’s Rodeo Parade at the Los Alamos County Fair. It winds down Central Avenue at 10 a.m. on Saturday. “This year we have…
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Datebook: August 2022
“IT'S THE ONLY PLACE I know of where you can pay five dollars and race a duck,” says Joanna Costilla, board president of the Great American Duck Race, in Deming. Between August 25 and 28, in fact, you…
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Ruidoso Downs ... The Shangri-la of Racing
FOR CENTURIES THOROGHBREDS have dominated the big-time horse racing scenes throughout the world; however, in the pine-cloaked mountains of southern New Mexico just four summers ago the age-old Sport…
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