Posts From: May 2019

Eat a Better Burger

By John Clary Davies, Kate Nelson, Alicia Guzmán on May. 16, 2019

OKAY, I'M JUST GOING TO COME RIGHT OUT and say it: New Mexico has a lot of mediocre green chile cheeseburgers. Overcooked patties. Spiceless peppers. Unmelted cheese. Soggy buns. Get out of here with…

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Camp Life

By John Clary Davies on May. 14, 2019

Above: Idyllic Fenton Lake State Park is the perfect family fishing hole. Photograph by Adrian Holder. IT DIDN'T SEEM RIGHT, but after 16 miles on a rutted dirt road somewhere north of Regina…

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A Hero's Questa

By Alicia Inez Guzmán on May. 13, 2019

Above: Near Questa, the Rio Grande cuts an 800-foot gorge through volcanic rock. Photograph by Geraint Smith. At an elevation of 7,461 feet, the mountain enclave of Questa is the gateway to the Río…

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Albuquerque, Modern

By Maggie Grimason on May. 09, 2019

Above: The Bank of the West Tower, nicknamed the Horizon Pillar, in Albuquerque. Photographs by Krysta Jabczenski. THE SUN GLEAMS OFF the gild-ed bands of a white tower as Thea Haver, founder of…

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One of Our 50 Is Missing

By Our Readers on May. 08, 2019

SOMETHING BLOCKING YOUR VIEW? Andrew Weber of Shiprock was enjoying the book American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road, by Nick Bilton, but was astonished to…

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Garlic Questions Finally Answered

By Stanley Crawford on May. 07, 2019

Above: The bounty of the garlic harvest. Photographs by Douglas Merriam. IN THE LATE 1970S, I was lent an apartment on Canyon Road in Santa Fe for a month, where I wrote the first draft of a…

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Special Mother's Day Offer

By The Staff on May. 06, 2019

Show the special women in your life some love with the gift of New Mexico Magazine. Get 12 issues for our Mother's Day price of $15. Just use promotion code ISMM19…

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Our Stone Age Heroes

By George Oxford Miller on May. 06, 2019

Above: David Eck gestures toward the arroyo where history was discovered. Photographs by Minesh Bacrania. HUMANS HAVEN'T REALLY CHANGED much since the last ice age ended and nomadic hunters roamed…

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Get More Fiber

By Gwyneth Doland on May. 02, 2019

Above: Weaving on a vertical loom goes back at least 400 year in New Mexico. Photograph Courtesy of New Mexico Fiber Crawl. Some of my most treasured possessions are fiber—like the pair of little…

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La Musica de los Manitos

By Alicia Inez Guzmán on May. 01, 2019

Above: Noah Martinez, Tanya Nuñez, Jordan Wax, and Leticia González play for a packed house. Photography by Inga Hendrickson. THE PAST IS EVER PRESENT—alive, even. Today it takes the form of Gregorio…

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