¡Rios Grande!
(above) Martín’s chicken with citrus pan sauce and watercress-apple salad. “IF I EVER STOP LEARNING about food, I’ll have to stop cooking. It’s a deep-seated need, this drive I have to explore and…
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Posts From: July 2015
2015 Indian Market Highlights
(above) On Friday evening, the Prismatic Fashion Show turned the main stage lawn into a showcase for models sporting the work of young Native designers like Sun Rose Iron Shell (Lakota) Santa Fe…
Read MoreOnly in New Mexico | Dream Weavers
It started in the winter of 1998, after I’d read People of Darkness , a Tony Hillerman murder mystery set in New Mexico, in Navajo country. A local policeman goes to the Crownpoint Navajo Rug Auction…
Read MoreOne of Our 50 Is Missing
BY HOOK OR BY CROOK Doug Swift of Albuquerque recently tried to send a comment to a California-based seafood company, using its website’s form. When Swift filled in his address, a message popped up…
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Book Reviews
TURQUOISE, WATER, SKY: Meaning and Beauty in Southwest Native Arts BY MAXINE E. MCBRINN, ROSS E. ALTSHULER (MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO PRESS, 2015) Last year, New Mexico’s long-standing love affair with…
Read MoreStrong Stuff
GRAPEVINES WERE FIRST PLANTED in New Mexico in 1629, and the craft beer scene, although its genesis is more recent (1988), is prolific and award-winning enough to cause us to confidently refer to the…
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From the Ground Up
(above) A student piece from a CLAY festival workshop taught by Diego Valles and Carla Martinez, a ceramist couple from Mata Ortiz, Mexico. NEED TO KNOW Silver City’s CLAY festival runs July 27…
Read MoreBringin’ It All Back Home
NEED TO KNOW Michael Hearne’s 13th Annual Big Barndance Music Festival, September 10–12, noon to 11 p.m. daily, Kit Carson Park. Festival passes are $99 until August 1, then $110, taxes included…
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What's Happening | August 2015
(above) Michael Franti performs in conjunction with the Santa Fe Yoga Festival. JULY 31–AUGUST 8 80 YEARS STRONG Lovington embraces a raucous takeover each summer when the Lea County Fair and PRCA…
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