Datebook: July 2026
WORLDS COLLIDE OVER the Fourth of July weekend as the annual Roswell UFO Festival lands on the country’s 250th birthday celebration. But Tommi Jo “TJ” Conyers, the city’s special event supervisor…
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Tag: Santa Fe
What to Drink This Month: Keeping Together Brewery
THE ART OF HOLDING SPACE. How Does Your Divinity Feel? Waiting to Be Discovered. No, these aren’t titles at a metaphysical bookstore, they’re beers on tap at Keeping Together Brewery and Beverage…
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Route 66 Stays with Personality
For the Car Junkie The 1939-built Blue Swallow Motel, in Tucumcari, is a classic motor-court gem. Sure, guests love the glowing neon and restored midcentury decor, but the historic garages attached to…
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Santa Fe Opera Trains Rising Stars
IN LATE SUMMER at the Santa Fe Opera, playful light dances on flowers that are not far from their final throes. Waving grasses shimmer greenish gold, lifting and settling in a mild breeze. Underneath…
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Vanessa Patricks Takes Center Stage
V ANESSA PATRICKS OWNS THE MIC. She sings, she dances, and she banters with fans who flock to her special brand of snarktastic joy. “Being a comedy queen, I lean into the campiness of drag,” she says…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: June 2026
IN JEOPARDY! On a recent episode of Celebrity Jeopardy!, actor STEVEN WEBER buzzed in with “What is New Mexico?” to a clue asking in which country the state of Puebla is located. Macaulay Culkin then…
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Summer Car Shows in New Mexico
SPOKES ON 66 CAR SHOW June 5–6 Grants puts the pedal down on summer with the full-throttle Route 66 celebration June 5–6. “We are hoping to get 200 cars this year,” says event coordinator Jose Garcia…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: May 2026
WHEN IN ROAM Last November, JACK KLUG and his wife, Barbara, were driving from San Antonio, Texas, to Santa Fe. When they crossed the state line, he received a text from his cell phone carrier:…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Hang out with knights and dragons. Unlike Renaissance fairs that happen in the middle of nowhere, the Lincoln Forest Renaissance Faire steps back in time in the center of Ruidoso at Wingfield Park…
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The 7,500-Foot Literary Fest
LITTLE HAS CHANGED since Willa Cather’s rendering of Santa Fe nearly a hundred years ago. The evening’s tangerine light still catches low rooftops, the Plaza still stands crisp and green underfoot…
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