"I HAVE SEEN A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY it’s sad,” a recent visitor wrote on a whiteboard filled with responses to the new permanent exhibition Bosque Redondo: A Place of Suffering, a Place of Survival. “I…
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The Origin Story No one can say for certain who was the first to slap green chile and cheese on a hamburger. (We can say that this person was a genius.) Most experts agree that the Original Owl Bar &…
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FIRED BY TEMPERATURES of more than 2,000 degrees, a warrior emerges from a monolithic portal adorned with Indigenous symbols. A blood-red bust faces the courtyard of the Inn and Spa at Loretto…
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THE OPENING OF A ROADSIDE HOT SPRINGS might not seem like an occasion for tears. But when the mineral baths on NM 65 outside Las Vegas, New Mexico, reopened last fall after 18 months of Covid-related…
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ON JULY 4, 1882, six-foot-tall, 225-pound Park Van Tassel lifted off from Albuquerque’s Old Town in a hot-air balloon that was dangerously inflated at only two-thirds capacity. It was the first…
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THE GATHERING OF NATIONS—North America’s largest powwow—is traditionally held in spring. This year, the season of rebirth gives the event special meaning. After two years of pandemic-related hiatus…
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AT SUNSET ON A WINTER EVENING just outside Roswell, Eric J. García is making good on a promise to take art out of the gallery. In the field behind his house at the Roswell Artist-in-Residence…
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TRAVEL ANY DISTANCE IN NEW MEXICO between sunrise and sunset and eventually you’ll start to envision a soft place to rest your head. Spanish colonists caravanning north along the Camino Real called…
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ONE MORNING IN TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, I leave my Twilight Zone room on what feels like a journey to another dimension. I’ve spent a quiet night at Blackstone Hotsprings Lodging & Baths, where the…
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"FISH TACOS? HERE?" SNIFFED MY ROAD-TRIP PARTNER, who was visiting the high desert of northern New Mexico from California’s Monterey Bay. I’d been telling her about the buzz for Café Sierra Negra…
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