What We're Reading: Legible Walls
IF YOU LOOK OUT THE WINDOWS during a trip on the Rail Runner Express between Santa Fe and Albuquerque, you’re rewarded with a trove of murals on city walls. In Darryl Lorenzo Wellington’s Legible…
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Calm, Cool, and Connected
RED CLAY. VOLCANIC ASH. SAGE OIL. ROSE WATER. RED CHILE. I’m saying the words silently, focusing on their cadences as I lie covered in a tingling mixture of these ingredients. Massage therapist…
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What We're Reading: Thin Skin
MANY NEW MEXICANS critiqued Oppenheimer for omitting the local impact of nuclear development. The filmmakers should’ve read the title essay from Jenn Shapland’s deeply felt collection, Thin Skin…
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Delmas Howe Sets the Art Mood
AS A BOY, HE OFTEN LAY IN THE GRASS to watch the billowing cumulus clouds roll in from the Black Range. A sweet-eyed bassoon player who also liked to read about Greek and Roman mythology, he was…
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What We're Reading: New Mexico Fiestas
THE LONGEST-RUNNING FESTIVAL in the United States takes over the Santa Fe Plaza September 2–10. In New Mexico Fiestas: A History of Music, Dance & Fandango (The History Press), historian Ray John de…
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Check Out Carnegie's Library Legacy
NESTLED IN THE CENTER OF A LEAFY GREEN, the 1904 Carnegie Library brought neoclassical gravitas to New Town. East Las Vegas hatched the monument to book-learning by asking steel tycoon Andrew…
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The History Behind the Whitmore House
WHEN KATHY HENDRICKSON first walked into her three-story Victorian home on 825 Seventh Street, she couldn’t believe her eyes. “I saw this unpainted original woodwork, and I was like, ‘This is…
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Rawlins Building Returns to Glory
FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT ATTORNEY Thomas Clayton remembers playing as a child in the massive boarding house his grandparents owned at 515 Railroad Avenue. It was built by British saloon owner William…
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A Tale of Two Buildings
LAS VEGAS IS ESSENTIALLY A TALE OF TWO TOWNS—Old and New, West and East—that separately incorporated in 1888 and 1903, respectively, and did not join as one municipality until 1970. Similarly, the…
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Historic Masonic Lodge Waits for Revival
“THIS IS STILL OPERATING, yes, ma’am,” says Greg Baker, secretary for Chapman Masonic Lodge No. 2. We’re standing outside the ruddy, purplish sandstone front of what experts call the most…
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