Spend the day eating fresh chile and generally whooping it up with the whole family at the Bosque Chile Festival on Aug. 17 from 10am to 6pm at National Hispanic Cultural Center. There are cooking demonstrations, food trucks, craft vendors and craft beers, a chicharron competition, a fun run and a poetry slam. It’s $5 if you are over 12 and free if you are not. For more information on this all-ages event, see nhccnm.org.

Get Out There

It’s summer in Burque and myriad patios await your presence. Snap the kids out of their bought air-and-video game trance for an outing that culminates in the joyful consumption of healthful and delicious paletas—no, really!—or invite some colleagues and comrades out to smash the swanky local rooftop bar scene with you. If you’re looking for a more pastoral vibe, get your farm-to-table on in Albuquerque’s resplendent North Valley. Here are a handful of our favorite patios in The Duke City. Don’t neglect to slather on some sunscreen and install a rideshare app (such as Uber, Lyft or zTrip) on your smartphone ... in case you over-hydrate.

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