Make Art at Silver City’s A Space
JEAN-ROBERT BÉFFORT meets me and my seven-year-old at the entrance to a)sp.”A”©e (pronounced “A Space”) Studio Art Gallery in downtown Silver City for an experience dubbed Art-on-“A”-Stick. Walking…
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Datebook: October 2026
SILVER CITY HAS A LONG artistic history that has only been enhanced over the last decade by the evolution of the Southwest Print Fiesta. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the four-day bonanza of…
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Datebook: September 2026
“IF WE COULD BOTTLE the smell of roasting chile, it would be our number one export,” says John Hard, owner of Zia Chile Traders and co-chair of the Hatch Chile Festival. Since 1971, the two-day…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Say ahoy to the weekend. Set sail for the seventh annual Pirate Viking Summer Festival on Saturday and Sunday at Wildlife West Nature Park in Edgewood. Created in 2019 after requests for a summer…
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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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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Welcome summer by the river. A full weekend of fun flows into Farmington during Riverfest, a festival packed with live music, family-friendly activities, dance performances, river rafting, wiener…
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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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The Wild World of Burro Racing
WITH MY HEART pounding and panic flashing across my face, I barely register the crowds lining Silver City’s Broadway Avenue for the inaugural Silver Lode Scramble pack burro race last October…
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These Historic Theaters are the Reel Deal
CAVERN THEATRE Carlsbad OPENED: 1951 SEATS: 665 After an $8.4 million remodel, the Art Deco–style theater blends modern amenities, like hearing-assistance headsets, with historic touches, like the…
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Find Your Retirement Town in New Mexico
FOR THE CULTURE SEEKERS Becky and Curt Longardner wanted to be close to family when they moved to New Mexico last year. But they also didn’t want to be far from the cultural amenities, historic…
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