One of Our 50 Is Missing: October 2022
Meta-Googling Jon Jackson, who lives in Albuquerque, sent in a whopper that belongs only in virtual reality. When his Google Pixel 3 XL phone battery failed a few years back, he sent Google a message…
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Posts From: October 2022
Try Your Hand at Jewelry Making
Decide what you want to make. Then find who teaches it. Albuquerque’s Meltdown Studio offers specialized classes in specific styles of jewelry, including corset and spinner rings, cuff bracelets, and…
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Earn Your Spurs in Silversmithing
OUT WHERE THE HIGH PLAINS meet Route 66, people from all over the world are drawn to the Cowboy Arts/Western Silversmithing associate’s degree program at Mesalands Community College, in Tucumcari…
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These Brooms Will Sweep You Off Your Feet
IN A STUDIO AT EL ZAGUÁN, a historic adobe compound for artists and writers on Santa Fe’s Canyon Road, Julia Tait Dickenson makes brooms—but not just any brooms. “I like to make functional things…
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Manhattan Project Leaders, Frozen in Time
IN THE END, J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER and Leslie Groves’s time in Los Alamos flitted past quickly. Their legacy, however, lives on—not only in a pair of bronze statues downtown but also in the city’s…
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Piecing Together Mimbres History
THE COW PASTURE’S RAIN-DAMPENED soil bucks and falls in irregular patterns, evidence of past archaeological digs on the NAN Ranch, near Silver City. Chest-high sacaton grass, interspersed with native…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Go West(ern). Northern New Mexico and southern Colorado combine forces to celebrate cowboys and carbs this weekend at the second annual Colexico Experience Spaghetti & Westerns Festival (its name…
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Keeping Weaving Traditions Alive
WHEN I SCHEDULE A CLASS WITH Silver City’s Wild West Weaving, Hosana Eilert gets the measurement from the top of my hip to the floor, to decide where I belong. “We’ll put you on the front loom,” she…
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Step Up Your Mixology Skills
YOUR GRANDMOTHER’S ANGOSTURA BITTERS may have done the trick for her occasional Manhattan, but these days, that drop of added flavor has grown exotic and eclectic. Since 2010, Santa Fe’s Bitter End…
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Weaving Workshops at Your Fingertips
AT WILD WEST WEAVING, in Silver City, owner Hosana Eilert specializes in Chimayó– and Río Grande–style weavings created with handspun and dyed Churro fleece. Her three-hour Beginner Río Grande Weaving…
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