The day before riding the Star Train, I sat down to lunch with Peter Lipscomb and Robert Hoyle, two self-proclaimed “astrononerds” who spend their days talking about the skies and their nights gazing into them.

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.

There’s evidence Americans are under the erroneous impression that puppet shows are only for kids. But if the minds behind the Holiday Open House at the New Mexico Museum of Art have their way, adults will get over it and enjoy toys just as much as children do.

The history of snow sports is one of tragedy, folly and regret. But some things hurt more than others. When 30 fun-filled years of mayhem and drunken horror is robbed from the public because of “liability,” the only choice is to go rogue.

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

Madrid, NM, and its Christmas light displays were known all over the world during the first few decades of the 20th century. Even Walt Disney is fabled to have been enamored of Madrid, thrilled by its devotion to luminescent displays around the holidays; he spent time in northern New Mexico while filming The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca in Cerrillos in the ’50s.

Boots, gloves, sweaters, hats and lotion for staying warm and protected in the coming ice age.

SFR's annual report on the pros and cons of weather's whitest season.

Whether you love or eschew the cold, there’s no denying that winter is on its way. With it comes the chance to hit the slopes, build a snow cave or hide inside with a woodstove and a yoga workout.

Winter camping is not most people’s idea of a good time. It’s cold. There are no s’mores. You’re lucky if you can dig up enough sticks and tinder out of the snow to start a fire, and you’re luckier if you don’t make any forehead-slapping bumbles like letting the stove frost over or forgetting your lighter and matches a few miles back at the car.

“Weather-stripping” sounds like a college prank. Like having to get naked against a flagpole during a blizzard while tinny speakers belt out the ’80s Van Halen hit, “Hot for Teacher.”