Your Guide to Local Music
Above: Chevel Shepherd is on her way to national stardom. Photograph by Shutterfreak. I can remember bands like Perfección and Cuarenta y Cinco singing from the bandstand of the local fiestas in…
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Posts From: April 2019
The Museum That's Saving a Community
Above: Visitors dance at the Chimayó Museum's fiesta. Photographs by Don J. Usner. MARTA TRUJILLO MARTINEZ LABORS to lift herself up from her folding chair in the shade of a giant cottonwood along…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing
COGNITIVE TURBULENCE Albuquerque resident Lyle Hale recently took a flight from Nashville to Phoenix. En route, the plane flew over New Mexico between Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Looking out over the…
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We're In Love With This Locally-Made Apparel
Above: Khohay Apparel. Photograph by Inga Hendrickson. David Naranjo, of Santa Clara Pueblo, is the artist behind Khohay Apparel. He brings the visual language of ancient and contemporary Puebloan…
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The Beauty of Aguas Frescas
Above: Dive into a spectrum of aguas frescas colors and flavors. Photographs by Douglas Merriam. WHEN THE PETALS OF the flor de jamaic a (hibiscus flower) begin to dry, they turn a deep crimson, the…
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Our Stars Rule
Above: The night sky night at the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument. Photograph by Jake Werth. At dusk on a cool spring evening, the National Park Service and volunteers from the Albuquerque…
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