When buying meat in New Mexico, one has many options—grass-fed, grass-finished, natural, organic, grain-fed, Slim Jims—but only approximately a 1 percent likelihood that it’s from here. That could change. A 2008 report commissioned by Beef Industry Improvement of New Mexico says branding (the marketing kind) would be a huge boon to the local beef industry.

Given that I’m with what is essentially a group of strangers who, for the most part, met online to learn about sex arts, I feel quite comfortable and not sketched out. It isn’t (as I momentarily feared while walking behind an unknown couple up to the house) a swingers’ club or a cult offering Reeboks and punch.

The term Champagne applies strictly to sparkling wines from the Champagne region of France, located 90 miles east of Paris, where wine grapes have been cultivated for 2,000 years. But the term has been used—to the dismay of everyone who knows where Champagne is—for sparkling wines found elsewhere.

Owner of Santa Fe and Albuquerque’s Walther Family Law, Gretchen Walther has practiced family law for 14 years and has conducted hundreds of divorces. Walther is married and has never been divorced.

Pot made headlines left and right in 2009. California struggled with an oversaturated and under-regulated commercial pot industry. Attorney General Eric Holder discouraged federal prosecutors from interfering with states’ medical marijuana laws. And in New Mexico, officials toyed with the nuts and bolts of the state’s fledgling program.r

With the help of Bill Dunning, a former radio broadcaster and journalist, SFR caught up with the elusive Jolly Old Saint Nick, aka Santa Claus, by phone at his home in the North Pole. You can grill him yourself at the DeVargas Center. He’ll be there 10 am-5 pm from Dec. 18 through Christmas Eve.

Fifteen sets of skates for 15 pairs of stockinged skaters’ feet make a 50-mile journey three to five times a week. This is the story of prospective ice-skaters’ introduction into the high-stakes world of US Figure Skating. It’s also a story of not taking such things too seriously.

Razelle Benally considers snowboarding—like filmmaking, skateboarding and underground hip-hop—to be more than a hobby. For Benally, it's integral to life.

Following the death of his wife, former US Marshal and Green Beret Rick Iannucci returned to Santa Fe from special mission unit work in Colombia to retire and care for his three children. Here he founded and runs a 4H club, Turquoise Trail Wranglers, which is featured this month in Western Horseman magazine.

When the housing market is good, the self-storage industry booms. When the housing market is bad, the self-storage industry...booms.