The Truth About Billy the Kid
D ESPITE WHAT YOU MIGHT have heard (or read or watched), Billy the Kid wasn’t a wild gunslinger with a taste for murder. He was an orphan who excelled at escaping from jail and fought in the Lincoln…
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Inside New Mexico’s Spirit World
N EW MEXICO CHILDREN don’t play in arroyos for fear of La Llorona, the spirit of the wailing woman. “She searches waterways for her drowned children,” says Mora storyteller Ray John de Aragón, author…
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The Romance and Reality of the Old West
PAUL ANDREW HUTTON saw Walt Disney’s Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier for the first time when he was six years old. “That just stamped itself on my psyche,” says the longtime University of New…
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Faces of the Fair: Master Weaver Rowena Mora
J ICARILLA APACHE MASTER WEAVER Rowena Mora has crafted and sold more than 200 baskets during her 37 years in the art form. That includes a brightly striped storage basket purchased by the Smithsonian…
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Creativity Shines at the NM State Fair
IF YOU QUILT, collect coins, or refurbish antique dolls, there’s a juried contest—more than 1,400 in creative and home arts—for you at the fair. Here are three creative competitions not to miss. Wood…
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Celebrate Culture at the State Fair
“WE HAVE ONE of the most culturally diverse state fairs in the country,” says Dan Mourning, general manager of Expo New Mexico. No doubt there’s a lot packed into the fair’s 236 acres: a powwow at…
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Lyndon Tsosie’s Design Mind
L YNDON TSOSIE PARTIED THROUGH his early adulthood and then found his calling in the pages of Dexter Cirillo’s Southwestern Indian Jewelry. The book cost $65, and Tsosie had $75 in his pocket for…
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Radio Roots Run Deep
ANNOUNCING UPCOMING local commencements and shouting out grads on a late spring day, Adi in the Afternoon is spinning Journey, Cher, and Stevie Wonder for Graduation Class Song Day at KSWV-99.9 FM…
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David Santiago Paints It Big
D AVID SANTIAGO , also known as St. Jame, paints beautiful women. Often nude and somewhat sensual, the idealized figures in his murals and large-scale paintings call to mind anime and vintage pinup art…
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