Editor’s Letter: Chaco Time
EARLY IN The Mystery of Chaco Canyon, a petroglyph appears on-screen as narrator Robert Redford discusses the harsh living conditions found in the canyon: “Yet here, ancient people chose to construct…
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Editor’s Letter: Bed Time
THE HUM OF FRIDAY HAPPY HOUR greeted us in the lobby of the recently opened Arrive Albuquerque hotel. “Checking in,” I said at the front desk, but the gravitational pull of the adjacent DWTNR Cocktail…
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Editor’s Letter: Photo Ops
I WAS ALREADY in sweats and slippers when my wife, Kathleen, started seeing photos of the northern lights over Santa Fe on social media. “Should we try to see them?” she asked, somewhat unconvinced…
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Meet the 25th Annual Photo Awards Grand Prize Winner
PHOTOGRAPHY MAY HAVE brought Lauren and Timothy Baca together, but storm chasing is the Moriarty couple’s love language. Lauren grew up in East Texas, where severe weather was always a part of her…
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Editor’s Letter: Snow Ready
EVERY YEAR WHEN WINTER rolls around, I feel a pang that’s like a sharp chill in the air. Growing up in Ohio, I played all kinds of sports, but I somehow never learned how to ski—not that there weren’t…
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Editor’s Letter: Ghost Tales
GROWING UP IN SMALL-TOWN OHIO, I heard plenty of ghost stories and urban legends: the creepy old man who patrolled the woods of Snake Hill, the haunted graveyard directly behind my buddy’s backyard…
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Editor’s Letter: Small Wonders
THE MOUNTAIN AIR FELT like snow was on the way. We’d been blessed with sunny skies and warm temps for most of our long weekend in Cloudcroft, but it was mid-November at 9,000 feet. So on our last…
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Editor's Letter: Fair Play
AS A KID, Nathaniel Tetsuro Paolinelli had one goal at the New Mexico State Fair: to win a goldfish. “They never lasted that long,” he recalls with a laugh. The fair was just part of Paolinelli’s…
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Editor's Letter: Turn It Up
CAMP CHAIRS and blankets pack the sloping lawn of Ashley Pond Park for the opening night of the Los Alamos Summer Concert Series. Wearing a white cowboy hat, a rodeo-size belt buckle, and cowboy boots…
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Editor's Letter: Trout Bitten
A SILVERY FLASH in the narrow Whitewater Creek pool meant that I was close. But the shadowy fish disappeared along the rocky canyon wall just as quickly. The tight quarters under the Catwalk National…
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