What We're Reading: Shutter
RITA TODACHEENE, RAISED IN TOHATCHI, is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police. She also sees dead people. Both skills come in handy when she’s called to the scene of a grisly…
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Posts From: November 2022
One of Our 50 Is Missing: November 2022
Roll Those R’s National media had a field day over a spelling error too large to miss. In July, the New Mexico Department of Transportation upgraded a truck-size directional sign on I-40 that told…
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In Praise of New Mexico Churches
IN HISTORIC CHURCHES OF NEW MEXICO TODAY (Oxford University Press, 2017), Frank Graziano travels throughout the state to detail the history of churches and the people who care for them today…
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Tomé's Church Renovation Is No Small Miracle
"PEOPLE ARE DRAWN TO THE MIRACLES Jesus performed,” Father Michael Demkovich tells a dozen parishioners at Tomé’s Immaculate Conception Church during a Wednesday morning Mass. “But that wasn’t why he…
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Vintage T-Bird Lands in T or C
THE TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES MUNICIPAL AIRPORT guarantees you can see a shooting star. Not the kind from outer space, but a vintage Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star that once zoomed through the skies at 600…
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Carving New Paths for Adventure
ON A SUMMER AFTERNOON IN 2021, Peter Olson guided me out to some of the newest trail loops in the Galisteo Basin Preserve. But we had to walk before we could really ride. After briefly pedaling down a…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Shop local. New Mexico Artisan Market Hotel Albuquerque hosts the New Mexico Artisan Market this weekend, where you can shop goods created by more than 100 of the state’s coolest makers. Tinwork…
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New Mexico Ski Directory
Enchanted Forest Cross Country Ski Area Enchanted Forest is New Mexico's largest full-service cross-country ski and snowshoe area featuring a full rental and retail shop, lessons for all ages and…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 See billboards as urban art. This is the last weekend to see Soul of a Nation , a public art installation in Albuquerque developed by artist Jodie Herrera and the national SaveArtSpace. Focused on…
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Adobe Churches Face Challenges
SUNBAKED BRICKS OF MUD WERE an easy building material for Spanish colonists, who erected churches atop stone foundations and then plastered the walls with more mud—reapplying it when rains washed it…
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