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A Santa Fe Must: Eat a Frito Pie at Five & Dime. Seriously

Where: 58 E. San Francisco St. [map], Santa Fe, NM, United States, 87501
October 20, 2010 at 11:35 AM | by | Comments (0)

When Santa Fe locals and in-the-know travelers want a delicious lunch, they get Frito pie at a convenience store. We aren't joking.

The generic-looking Five & Dime General Store, which sits on the historic Santa Fe Plaza, sells everything from cold medicine to schlocky shot glasses. Head to the back of the store, there's a small snack bar that you'd easily overlook because of the unappetizing hot dogs and pizza under heat lamps.

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Pelvises and Nekkid Pictures: Inside the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Where: 217 Johnson St. [map], Santa Fe, NM, United States, 87501
October 19, 2010 at 8:30 AM | by | Comments (0)

If there's any artist who is synonymous with New Mexico, it's modernist painter Georgia O'Keeffe. The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum is the most-visited museum in the state, with more than 2 million people coming each year to see her famous desert landscapes.

The museum is pretty small, but it holds the biggest collection of O'Keeffe works. When you enter, there’s a screening room to the right that plays a short film on the artist's life. It reveals, for example, how just before O'Keeffe's first exhibition, another artist (who later became her husband) showcased nekkid photos of her. That led critics to read her art as sexual for the rest of her career, which she hated.

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