Feature2024 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico
Maida Branch and Johnny Ortiz-Concha, the New Mexico-based founders of Maida Goods and / shed, reclaim daily life as an artistic practice.
May 24, 2024
Justin Favela and Working Classroom serve up supersized sculptural food for thought on regional culinary and cultural heritages in Sandia Hot at Sanitary Tortilla Factory in Albuquerque.
August 21, 2023
Feature2023 New Mexico Field Guide
P. Antonio Márquez's guide to the good old dives of Nuevo México includes Albuquerque Press Club, The Matador in Santa Fe, Saints and Sinners in Española, and more.
May 26, 2023
Albuquerque’s birds + Richard gallery and Richard B restaurant blur the lines between dinner party and exhibition opening with an invitation to take in art with a side of gastronomy.
January 19, 2023
Food + DrinkNew MexicoVol. 4 Winter 2021
Bow & Arrow Brewing Co. has created a genuinely Southwest-centric beer brand based on connections to the landscape, people, and magic of the region.
October 29, 2021
The Support Santa Fe Gift Guide series features treasures from local shops, makers, and organizations. Presenting: the Food + Drink Edition.
November 19, 2020
While the Owl Peak Farm has adjusted to the pandemic with relatively little upheaval, staying nimble in the face of unexpected and uncontrollable situations is nothing new when working with nature. We spoke with them about their dinner program, the farm, and rolling with the punches.
August 05, 2020
Farm & Table is an Albuquerque restaurant with a strong ethos grounded in local food and sustainable practices. Like many in the food and beverage industry, Farm & Table was heavily affected by the COVID-19 restrictions. The week we spoke, the restaurant was fully reopening to the public for the first time since March. We spoke with Cherie Montoya, owner of Farm & Table.
June 22, 2020
“I always tell people ‘wine is like a joke: if you have to explain it, it’s not very good,’” says Sean Sheehan, owner and head vintner at Sheehan Winery in Albuquerque.
March 26, 2020
“So many hands touch coffee before it even gets to me,” Gallegos says, acknowledging that roasting is just one step in the process from bean to cup. When he opened his shop, selecting the origins he wanted to serve was a joyful process. “I have this kind of ideal flavor characteristic for [each of] the six single origins that we deal with...
January 28, 2020
Chef and food writer Deborah Madison is shifting gears and writing a new memoir about her life.
March 27, 2019
tasting notes with: Christian Waguespack. occupation: Curator of 20th Century Art at the New Mexico Museum of Art. venue: Hervé Wine Bar, Santa Fe.
October 30, 2018
Lost Padre Records is a place you can easily get lost in for hours. The shop itself is small—just half an adobe house at 304 Catron Street near downtown Santa Fe—but within its walls is a high density of records you’ll want to discover and rediscover...
October 01, 2018
Tasting notes with: Jennifer Schlesinger. occupation: gallerist and fine art photographer...
August 28, 2018
Casa tomada, the third installment of SITE Santa Fe’s tripartite SITElines biennial series, opens this month on August 3. I met with curators Candice Hopkins and Ruba Katrib in early July over drinks at Santa Fe Spirits (unfortunately José Luis Blondet was unable to join us...
July 30, 2018
You can lie or you can tell the truth. You can’t do both but you can do one or the other. There are people who pretend to do both. Their pretense is nothing more or less than a lie. At first, lying is easy and honesty seems like the impossible dream. Over time, lying gets...
June 28, 2018
A good liar works elements of truth into his lies. A great liar uses big lies to make his small lies more credible. These day, there are liars everywhere you go, even in the wine world. Why would anyone lie about wine? To sell you wines you don’t want. The good news?...
June 01, 2018
She told me her stories. She talked about her childhood, about the lies the adults told to the children and the pain the little girl experienced after she learned the truth. We drove back and forth across the country. Most of the time it was west to east and east to west but there...
April 01, 2018
There’s a ring around the moon with four stars inside the ring. That means it will rain during the next four days. A dog sleeps on his back. That means he trusts you. The prows of the fishing boats face the ocean. That means the tide’s coming in. A woman touches your hand while she...
February 01, 2018
In the glass, the 2009 Cristal is a ripe gold. Eight-year-old Champagnes are not supposed to be able to reconcile age with beauty, but this one does. If you’re the kind of person who likes to discover the ancient in the modern, and vice versa, the living color of the 2009 Cristal will send chills up and down your spine...
December 01, 2017
Dionysus stood at the end of the stone pier in Chios. He was watching the sky, the horizon, and the light on the water. He watched the pirate ship as it made its way into the bay. It was an old, solid ship with a black hull and a frayed white sail. There were twelve pirates on...
November 01, 2017
In prehistoric times, the line that connected people to each other was regarded as one of [...]
October 01, 2017
"Buy the mystery, sell the history” is one of the oldest of Wall Street’s old sayings. The traditional interpretation is that you should buy stocks when they’re widely misunderstood and sell them after they become [...]
September 01, 2017
He was lost. He’d been lost for years but had refused to admit it. Now he had no choice [...]
August 01, 2017
In this world, there are two kinds of relationships: the ones that get better and the ones that get worse. There are people out there—evil people—who will tell you there’s a third kind: the relationship that stays the same [...]
June 01, 2017
There’s this thing that bothers me. It’s been bothering me my whole life. I don’t know what to make of it or what to call it. That’s part of the problem. It won’t show its face [...]
April 01, 2017
One day, when she was in her twenties, Roxanne Swentzell paced a barren corner of her grandmother’s land at Santa Clara Pueblo. She was a homeless, single mother of two...
November 01, 2016
