The Santa Fe New Mexican

A new, roomier venue and economic stimulus incentives from the Obama administration have organizers of this year's Santa Fe Area Home Builders Association's home and remodeling show offering more opportunities for participants.
"Homeowners can come and meet contractors -- even bring their blueprints with them," said Kim Shanahan, executive director of the association. "They can find out what's doable and what's affordable."
Shanahan noted that the home show, scheduled for the weekend of April 25-26, will move from the Genoveva Chavez Community Center to the new Santa Fe Community Convention Center.
He said the downtown site will allow the home show, in its 18th year, to e...

When people hear the words "strange" and "New Mexico" in the same sentence, their minds probably leap straight to Roswell and its infamous UFO landing.

Yet Roswell isn't the only town in New Mexico with a history of the weird and paranormal. The entire state has a proud tradition of things inexplicable. Case in point: the Taos Hum, cattle mutilations and haunted historic hotels.

Our family trips to Chimayó often occurred during the off-season - in other words, not during Holy Week - when I was a child. My grandmother didn't appreciate crowds, no matter how much she liked to pray. No trip to El Santuario de Chimayó, a holy place for so many, stands out in my memory as much as the one we took the summer I was 7

NEVER MIND THAT SOME FOLKS back in Boston think New Mexico is just an extension of Old Mexico. Our president is Vicente Fox, right? Some people don't realize that New Mexico is one of the 50 states - New Mexico Magazine's humor column "One of Our Fifty Is Missing" proves it. But our Land of Enchantment has its own share of famous folk. Here's a list of New Mexicans - past and present - who have helped put our state on the map.

Visitors to New Mexico often feel as though they are in another country — and it’s no wonder. Despite being part of the United States for more than 150 years, this state has its European roots in Spain, not England.

Making our special New Mexican mix even more potent is our understanding that human settlement didn’t start with Europeans, but with the indigenous peoples who have lived on this continent longer than written history. That’s true elsewhere, of course, but what sets New Mexico apart is that our indigenous peoples — Pueblo, Navajo and Apache — still live on their ancestral lands.