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Five Things To Do This Weekend

1 See the lights. The historic buildings at Fort Selden glow in the light of over 900 flickering candles on New Year’s Eve during the beloved Noches de las Luminarias, back after a two-year pandemic…

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What We're Reading: Blind Eye

A DOUBLE MURDER ANCHORS MARTHA BURNS’S debut novel, Blind Eye (Atmosphere Press), but the mystery of its perpetrator fits into larger dramas of generational abuse and a community’s reluctance to…

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Made in Silver City

AT MADE IN SILVER CITY, you might see dangly earrings, abstract paintings, turquoise-inlaid wooden bowls, and—hold up!—an unfinished statue. Run by four sculptors, the downtown Silver City storefront…

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Through the Lens of Ernst Haas

UNTIL HE SET FOOT IN NEW MEXICO, in 1952, photographer Ernst Haas was strictly a black-and-white devotee. But during a weeks-long assignment for Life magazine—during which he hitchhiked through…

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Give The Telephone Museum a Ring

DEEMED TOO DELICATE FOR ERECTING TELEPHONE POLES and laying cables, women were relegated to uncomfortable chairs and repetitive-injury-inducing switchboard tasks. They had to “always smile when…

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Tamales Wrapped in Love

FOR 30 YEARS, THERESA OLIVAS HAS BEEN pouring masa and her soul into making tamales. Starting at age six, in her mother’s Mora County kitchen, she and her six siblings would assemble the family’s…

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True Heroes 2022: Sean Sinclair

WHEN THE HERMITS PEAK/CALF CANYON FIRE erupted this spring, growing from a prescribed burn in the Santa Fe National Forest into the worst wildfire in New Mexico history, Sean Sinclair didn’t hesitate…

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