Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Celebrate Spanish art. A signature summer event on the Santa Fe Plaza, Traditional Spanish Market celebrates the breadth and depth of Spanish art in the Land of Enchantment. From tinwork and wood…
Read More
Posts From: July 2023
Zahn McClarnon Previews Dark Winds Season 2
CERTAIN LINES ARE DRAWN in the sand this season,” says Zahn McClarnon, who stars as Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn in Dark Winds, the crime series from AMC set in and around the Navajo Nation. “We get to…
Read More
Nacha Mendez Inspires the Next Generation
AT AGE SEVEN, a severed fingertip nearly kept Margarita Cordero, who performs as Nacha Mendez, from a career in music. Inspired by the ranchera songs her grandmother (the original Nacha Mendez) taught…
Read More
Why We Love NM: We Express Ourselves On Wheels
AS A CHILD SPENDING SUMMERS IN CHIMAYÓ with my grandmother, I felt a great deal of excitement about the lowriders that rolled by on the dirt roads on weekends and during the annual Good Friday cruise…
Read More
Why We Love NM: We Celebrate What Has Sustained Us
T HE WAGON MOUND BEAN DAY Celebration honors one of New Mexico’s perennial crops, the pinto bean, which was once abundantly grown on farms surrounding the small village on the plains of northeastern…
Read More
Why We Love NM: Our Waters Have Healing Powers
T HINK BEING THE OWNER of a hot springs resort in one of New Mexico’s most laid-back towns is some kind of dream job? Jake Foerstner would heartily agree. Since 2006, he’s been the proud proprietor of…
Read More
Why We Love NM: Our Ghost Towns Contain Multitudes
J OHN M. MULHOUSE MISSES THE UNIQUELY eerie vibes of a New Mexico ghost town. Though he now lives in Oklahoma, the historian and author is nostalgic for the decade he spent traipsing around the…
Read More
Why We Love NM: Our Art Tells Sacred Stories
THE ART OF THE SANTERO, or maker of saintly images, is believed to have begun around 1760 in colonial New Mexico. Franciscan priests, charged with the task of establishing Christianity on the…
Read More
Why We Love NM: Our Animals Are Inspiring
C ŌLLETTE WAS BORN IN LAS CRUCES, and the Chihuahuan Desert environment influences her artistic practice. The Xicana artist of Indigenous descent uses crisp lines, meticulous detail, and warm colors…
Read More
What We're Reading: Doña Cleanwell Leaves Home
MY BEST FRIEND AND I traded Ana Castillo’s The Mixquiahuala Letters back and forth during high school, inspired by the novel’s clear-eyed depiction of a long friendship between two women artists. In…
Read More