The Call of the Castanets
Above Program for a performance by legendary Gitana flamenco dancer Carmen Amaya,c. 1950s. I WAS NINE YEARS old when I first peered through the painted windows of La Plazuela at La Fonda Hotel…
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Posts From: November 2015
Only in NM
BONA FIDES At our Corrales writing group’s holiday party, we were enjoying some posole and margaritas when a longtime transplant from California looked up from his place on the living room couch and…
Read MoreOne of Our 50 is Missing
MICKEY MOUSING AROUND Diolynda Peña of La Madera recently traveled to Florida to take her grandson to Disney World. While checking in to the hotel, she agreed to receive a sales pitch about purchasing…
Read MoreKnowing: The Right Gift
Harvey Houses of New Mexico: Historic Hospitality from Ratón to Deming (The History Press) vibrates with memories, voices, and historical details, evoking the pivotal era when visionary Fred Harvey…
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The Cookie Different
WHEN MOST PEOPLE think of baking Christmas goodies, lard and anise may not come to mind as key ingredients. Unless they’re New Mexicans. Every December here, it’s blessedly impossible to avoid rich…
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The Tin Master
Above An 1885 nicho, made of tin and glass, by Higinio Gonzales. Photo: David Nufer/Albuquerque Museum Gift of Dr. Ward Alan & Shirley Jolly Minge (PC1997.51.10.A) NEED TO KNOW December 19–April 4…
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What's Happening
Above photo by Rebecca McMullan CHRISTMAS CRUISES Bustling downtown Carlsbad’s riverfront park anchors the town’s five-week Christmas on the Pecos celebration, November 27–December 31. Each evening…
Read MoreEditor’s Letter
I’M PRETTY SURE that by now, my people back east have gotten the message that if they want to see us at Christmas-time, they’re going to have to travel to New Mexico. Because we aren’t going…
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The Sense of Place
Above illustration by Joel Nakamura I’ve spent a good chunk of my life in stinking cities, which sounds redundant—what urban area doesn’t have a little funk to it? To recall my stay in Brooklyn is to…
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