Plan your weekend in New Mexico, October 9–11, with fall festivals, Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebrations, plus the XTERRA World Championship in Ruidoso.

Clyde Tombaugh, who famously discovered Pluto, was in his Las Cruces backyard with his wife and mother-in-law on a clear, starry night when “he saw a series of rectangular, illuminated boxes moving ...

IMAGINE THE FINGER BONES of a human hand stretched out to something like body length, with webbing spanning between the fingers. That is, essentially, the bone structure of a bat’s wings. “Their wings ...

ON MARCH 8, 1949, an aircraft systems inspector at Los Alamos National Laboratory looked up to see “an elliptical, rather stubby, aluminum body” surrounded by “billowy flame.” While watching it ...

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This Saturday in Alamogordo, pair local wine and agriculture at the Corks and Shells Wine Festival at Alameda Park. “Being in southern New Mexico, we have a lot of different agriculture,” says Sarah ...

Start early at Balloon Fiesta, watch a steamroller make art in Silver City, and find more festivals and events on the October calendar.

FAST BECOMING ONE OF the most anticipated film festivals in the Southwest, the Santa Fe International Film Festival turns the City Different into a cinephile’s paradise with hundreds of films ...

SANTA FE IS ONLY one of many geographic entry points to get to know and collect New Mexico art. Across the state, these galleries and venues are creating buzz while changing perceptions of a diverse ...

BEFORE OPENING PINTO, ceramist Jessica Wertz and woodworker Jason Wittman had strangers knocking on their Hillsboro studio doors regularly. Residents of the tiny town 30 minutes west of Truth or ...