KATHLEEN M. RODGERS’S new novel beautifully captures the feeling of growing up landlocked and dreaming of the sea. Set in the fictional eastern New Mexico town of Sandhill, The Llano County Mermaid…
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ABOUT 20 MILES southeast of Deming, the desert floor opens into a shallow, rock-lined crater, bordered by six concrete lines and a pair of triangular slabs. A nearby marker suggests an otherworldly…
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“I’VE HAD A MASSIVE love affair with this state since I went to college in Santa Fe,” says Trevor Logan, who founded Desert Mountain Tea Company in 2022. After 30 years of running restaurants and pie…
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THE CLICK OF MY HEELS ECHOES through the alley behind M’tucci’s Bar Roma, in Albuquerque’s Nob Hill neighborhood. Out on Central Avenue, the sidewalk bustles in front of the popular Italian restaurant…
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IN BOSQUE FARMS, Polychrome is bringing a little punk rock to the wine world. Friends Zac Webb and Timothy Eyster, who met in Albuquerque’s late-’90s music scene, have traded guitars for grape…
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FROM NM 53 IN THE HEART OF ZUNI PUEBLO, you can’t miss it: a gleaming metal building rising from red earth. Out front, an angular solar carport tilts toward the sun, casting a long geometric shadow…
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WHEN THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO announced it would cut the men’s soccer program in 2018, fans, players, and alumni were stunned. The Lobos weren’t just competitive—they were nationally recognized…
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THE CATTLE QUEEN OF NEW MEXICO After losing her lawyer husband, Alexander McSween, during the bloody Lincoln County War, Susan McSween (1845–1931) didn’t just survive—she thrived. Nicknamed the Cattle…
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BENEATH THE CRAGGY SPIRES of the Organ Mountains, rumors of hidden gold still drift through piñon-juniper canyons near Las Cruces. For at least 150 years, the legend of the Lost Padre Mine has lured…
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IN THE SMALL East Mountains community of Chilili, a folk art memorial holds sacred space. During the mid-20th century, local artist Horace McAfee created punched-tin tombstones for the San Juan…
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