Explore Santa Fe: Visiting Santa Fe

Remember Anna Maria Cardinalli?

Frequently featured as a Hispanic teenage role model years ago, her unusual academic achievements and musical success made national headlines.  Since then, she has continued with a remarkable career as a classical and flamenco guitarist and opera singer, completed here Ph.D. at notre Dame, and has spent years touring on the university concert and lecture circuit.

Santa Fe is called the City Different for many reasons, but the Burning of Zozobra certainly stands out from the rest. Briefly, Zozobra is a giant marionnette effigy which is burned down at the climax of a late summer celebration. That description only just begins to touch on the incredible strangeness that is the Burning of Zozobra.

Variety's 10 Greatest Locations on Earth

Variety recently conducted an online poll among several hundred prominent location managers, UPM's, AD's and cinematographers asking them to rate locations in North America and around the world.

Billy the Kid might have been a punk, but he was a literate one.

Two of the infamous outlaw's letters, acquired recently by the Museum of New Mexico, demonstrate fluency in English, neat handwriting and a candidness about his case.

Sundays will soon no longer be a day of rest for New Mexico Rail Runner Express trains.

Gov. Bill Richardson announced Friday that trains will begin operating seven days a week beginning on Labor Day. Adding a morning, afternoon and evening train in both directions on Sundays is a result of rider demand, he said.