JACKALOPES DON'T EXIST (sorry), but we still love them. So let’s imagine that they not only exist but hold a magical power. In On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World’s…
Read More
JUDGING BY THE MAN'S DROOPED HEAD and slumped shoulders, the bottle of tequila on the table dealt a knockout blow. Carved from wood, in the style of a Spanish colonial bulto, the figure hardly seems a…
Read More
VOLCANOLOGIST LARRY CRUMPLER has long studied New Mexico’s lava-filled past while working at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, in Albuquerque. Over the last 15 years, his research…
Read More
IN THE SPAN OF ONE WEEKDAY HOUR, three clumps of shoppers see past the understated entrance of Ginny Roemer and Rachel Hensen’s shop and crowd into its four small rooms, each packed with pillows…
Read More
AN INNOCENT CHILD, she wears a First Communion dress while performing with the Matachines dancers. Around the corner, she transforms into Eve, the progenitor of a new race of people. No, wait, she is…
Read More
N EW MEXICO MAGAZINE brought home 16 awards from the International Regional Magazine Association's recent conference in Ottawa, Ontario. The awards recognize excellence in writing, photography, art…
Read More
IN 1926, IN A CITY christened with the Spanish word for Bethlehem, Ramon Baca y Chavez and his wife, Eulalia Castillo Baca, replaced a pane in a dormer window. It turned their Belén home into a…
Read More
THREE YEARS IN, Fritz Kapraun and John Sakel were hitting their stride as gallery operators and bed-and-breakfast owners. So when the landlord pulled the lease on their La Posada de Maria Magdalena…
Read More
NEW MEXICO ABOUNDS in geologic wonders, from Ship Rock to Carlsbad Caverns, Capulín Volcano to Rockhound State Park, and a zillion dunes, plains, mountains, and gorges in between. Wouldn’t it be nice…
Read More
WILLIE WAS A HORSE WRANGLER and maybe a rustler, which might explain why, after the sheriff shot him dead, they tossed his bones aside. Willie now resides beneath the floorboards of the Victoria 913…
Read More
