Book Review
WILDERNESS (BOOK AND ALBUM) BY THE HANDSOME FAMILY (Carrot Top Records) Strange tidings are coming from a white stucco house in Albuquerque’s Nob Hill neighborhood. It may look like any other home on…
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Posts From: July 2014
Antonya Nelson: Short and to the Point
Antonya Nelson has kept a home in New Mexico for 25 years, while raising her family and writing many of her 11 books. Nelson arrived to teach at New Mexico State University right after publishing her…
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Warriors in Training
In early February of 2014, I was contacted by a distant cousin in Oklahoma, who invited my two sons, Mahko and Ben, to participate in the war dances during March’s ceremonials commemorating the…
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Nine Nights a Week
NEED TO KNOW | RED RIVER SUMMER SOUNDS REDRIVER.ORG IS A GO-TO REFERENCE FOR ENTERTAINMENT, EVENTS, RECREATION, LODGING, DINING, AND MORE. Bull o’ the Woods Saloon hosts great local acts like Hwy. 38…
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NEED TO KNOW Governor’s Arts Awards September 19. The state hosts a reception and exhibition opening from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Governor’s Gallery on the fourth floor of the State Capitol—aka the…
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One of Our 50 Is Found!
HATCHED IN THE WRONG STATE I was five in 1954, when I first went to Hatch. I fell in love with the state instantly. I have been back every year since, for 60 years. I love my home state of Oklahoma…
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Institutional Memories
STAND NEAR THE PARK behind the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis in Santa Fe. Close your ears to road racket, and you just may start to hear voices. That whisper? It could belong to an intrepid nun…
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Sculpting a Century
FOR CURATOR Dorothy Grandbois, meeting sculptor Allan Houser (1914–1994) was a life-changing event, as it was for so many young Native artists who found themselves in New Mexico in the splashy…
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When I drive to New Mexico from Oregon, I often enter the state in the northwest corner, via U.S. 64 or U.S. 491. The stately, 7,178-foot-tall Ship Rock formation welcomes me back to what will always…
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Top Five Fall Recipes
CLAY POT FRIJOLES PUMPKIN FLAN The following recipe comes from Danny Baca at La Fonda del Bosque. BISON MEAT NAVAJO TACOS This recipe is a delicious way to enjoy a fry-bread taco topped with…
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