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
Editor’s Note: After this item ran, a keen-eyed reader identified the Sierra Grande Lodge’s sentinel as Leucostele terscheckii, also known as Argentine saguaro, a South American cousin to the…
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Ice, Ice, Baby
WHEN 17-YEAR-OLD CLAUDIUS DIPO ALAM came to the U.S. from Indonesia as a professional soccer player, he had no clue what a paleta was. But a decade or so later, he couldn’t get enough of the Mexican…
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What We're Reading: Molly
THE TITLE CHARACTER in Kevin Honold’s lyrical Molly (Autumn House Press) is a waitress working out a hardscrabble but vastly imaginative life in a trailer on a mesa in New Mexico in 1968. She dubs her…
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Datebook: June 2022
ANCESTRAL PUEBLO PEOPLE KNEW what was up—the sky—and they built their world around it. At Aztec Ruins National Monument, the structures left behind by the Animas River Valley’s largest Indigenous…
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