Sleeping with Spirits
Clayton’s Hotel Eklund is home to a few ghosts. THE HOTEL EKLUND HAS HAD 125 YEARS to accumulate ethereal energy by offering comfortable accommodations, good food, and liberal libations to travelers…
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Posts From: July 2021
Melinda Bonewell Finds a Home in Madrid
Melinda Bonewell owns the Mine Shaft Tavern, in Madrid. Photograph by Andrew Kornylak. MELINDA BONEWELL TRADED SEATTLE’S RAIN FOR the sunny skies of New Mexico 18 years ago when she moved to the…
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The Pottery of Kathleen Wall
Kathleen Wall uses pottery to tell stories and push boundaries. Photograph by Ungelbah Dávila-Shivers. THROUGH CLAY, ARTIST KATHLEEN WALL USES the earth from which her ancestors emerged to document…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: July 2021
Illustration by Chris Philpot. There's Nothing On Anyway After moving to Truth or Consequences, Marlene Eichner tried to set up a TV antenna to get local reception using an app for an RCA product…
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This New Iced Tea Features New Mexico's State Bird
Roadrunner iced teas feature four distinct flavors. Photograph courtesy of Admiral Beverage Corporation. BARBARA CHICHESTER’S DEEP AFFECTION FOR our official state bird led her to develop an entire…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
Judy Chicago unveils a new smoke sculpture Saturday in Belén, where she previously showed Birthday Bouquet for Belen (pictured) in July 2019. Photograph courtesy of Judy Chicago. Find diamonds in the…
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Try These Three Haunted Restaurants for Spooky Eats
Mesilla's Double Eagle restaurant might be haunted by young lovers. Photograph courtesy of Double Eagle. Longtime US 60 favorite the Gatherin’ Place reopened in January as Pie Town Pies, part of the…
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The Tamarind Institute Honors the Fine Art of Printmaking
Hopi Dancers (State I) , 1974, by Fritz Scholder. Courtesy of Tamarind Institute. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, printmaker June Wayne devised a bold plan to rescue the dying medium of lithography. It…
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Trek Back Through Time
IF PEOPLE HAD BEEN THERE TO SEE IT—and there’s a chance Ancestral Acoma or Zuni people were—lava flowing across what’s now El Malpais National Monument might have looked a little like a dark ocean…
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Dining with the Dead
THE CIRCULAR OUTCROPPING OF LOW STRUCTURES rises against a rolling backdrop of desert wilderness. Here, the fabled Adobe Deli, a rambling steakhouse and saloon, sits at the end of a windswept road 10…
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