Datebook: September 2022
THIS MONTH, there’s only one place in the world where a performance by renowned Taos Pueblo flutist Robert Mirabal is followed by the propulsively percussive Ukrainian quartet DakhaBrakha: onstage at…
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What We're Reading: Tucumcari Tonite!
“TUCUMCARI” MIGHT COME from a Comanche word meaning “to lie in wait for someone or something to approach.” It’s a fitting moniker, we learn in Tucumcari Tonite! A Story of Railroads, Route 66 & the…
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Marla Allison Colors New Worlds
“I AM FROM LAGUNA PUEBLO, so I paint Laguna Pueblo,” says Marla Allison, though her influences span from Hopi and Laguna pottery designs to the modernism of Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso. Art lovers in…
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Cream of the Crop
FREANNA FRISIAN YOGHURT spells its product name the European way, with an “h.” That’s because the Clovis-based family business came to New Mexico from the Netherlands, where milk from Frisian cows…
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Datebook: August 2022
“IT'S THE ONLY PLACE I know of where you can pay five dollars and race a duck,” says Joanna Costilla, board president of the Great American Duck Race, in Deming. Between August 25 and 28, in fact, you…
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Zuni Standard Time
FRESH SNOW DOTS THE Dowa Yalanne mesa in late March, and the A:shiwi people who live at its base have been dancing every evening for nearly two weeks to ensure a prosperous hunting season. But inside…
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Taos Is For Book Lovers
IF THE TAOS HUM COULD TALK, the mysterious low-frequency buzz might recommend a reading list. That’s not outside the realm of magical realism for the heady old town and its storied literary history…
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Here to Stay
“I AM HERE," said Zuni Pueblo scholar Edmund J. Ladd. “I am here, now. I have been here always.” Twenty-five years ago, Ladd’s simple declaration lent itself to Here, Now and Always , an exhibition at…
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Datebook: July 2022
FIFTY YEARS AGO, Santa Fe’s Traditional Spanish Market had grown enough to claim its own two days on the Plaza. The showcase of artworks in woodcarving, textiles, painting, furniture, pottery, and…
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The Truth Behind the Saguaro Saga
WHOEVER PLANTED the 18-foot saguaro cactus in front of the Sierra Grande Lodge, in Truth or Consequences, must have been a dreamer. The saguaro serves as an object lesson in beating the…
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