Follow the Airport Road Taco Trail
CRUISING DOWN AIRPORT ROAD, you might find yourself behind a car with Mexico license plates. See where it goes if you’re hungry. Heading west from the intersection of NM 599, start a taco crawl with…
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The Capital of Burnt-Cheese Tacos
A WEB SEARCH FOR “burnt cheese tacos” and “New Mexico” turns up a bunch of results from just one place. A Reddit post features a photo of a homemade taco with dark-orange cheese seared onto its…
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Josh Fournier is a Stand-up Dude
AFTER THE STRIP CLUB he was managing burned down, Josh Fournier found himself at a crossroads in his mid-20s. He had been working on his stand-up comedy—with jokes focused on club life and his tough…
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What We're Reading: Billy the Kid: El Bandido Simpático
ALTHOUGH THE 21-YEAR LIFE of the outlaw Henry McCarty, alias William H. Bonney, ended nearly 143 years ago, historians continue to squabble over his legacy—and Billy the Kid is still one of the most…
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A Deeply Practical Magic
"YOU HAVE A GHOST ATTACHED TO YOU," Marisa Santos tells me matter-of-factly. We’re standing in what she calls her “healing casita,” nestled into a quiet neighborhood in Albuquerque’s South Valley…
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What We're Reading: The Road to Roswell
CONNIE WILLIS’S NOVEL The Road to Roswell (Del Rey) is paved with crackling dialogue, New Mexico–specific humor, aliens, men in black, UFOs, and some out-of-this-world adventures. Willis, a winner of…
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The Cult of Allsup's
IT FELT LIKE THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE. For 17-year-old Daniel McCoy Jr., a Mvskoke Creek/Citizen Potawatomi kid newly arrived in Santa Fe from small-town Oklahoma in the mid-1990s, the gas station…
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Welcome to Blackdom
“BLACKDOM WAS A REAL PLACE,” Timothy E. Nelson insists. The Santa Fe–based historian introduces his book about the early 20th-century Black homesteader colony in Chaves County with the simple fact of…
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Unleashing the Blanchard Beast
IT’S AS IF THE EARTH IS CALMLY GIVING BIRTH HERE, high atop a wind-chewed mountain on the eastern edge of the Río Grande geological rift, while mineral field collectors Bradley Culebro and Michael…
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What We're Reading: The Lost Tomb
IN 1986, DOUGLAS PRESTON drove from New York City to Santa Fe. There, he settled into a writing career that included contributions to New Mexico Magazine. His 1995 New Yorker article, “The Mystery of…
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