Editor’s Letter: Game On!
SUMMER IS SHORT, with just 108 days from Memorial Day to Labor Day. But it’s also the most elastic of seasons, bending and stretching like something out of a superhero movie. As a kid growing up in…
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Editor's Letter: Pit Stop
TWO HUNDRED THIRTY MILES. That’s the distance I’d go for Mad Jack’s Mountaintop Barbecue. Add another hour and a half waiting in line just to get inside the Cloudcroft BBQ joint in mid-November…
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Editor's Letter: Long Views
“IT’S ALMOST LIKE a meditation,” says Ranger Corey Lycopolus, as members of our group pause to compose photos with their Polaroid instant cameras. We’ve hiked about a half mile from the Valles Caldera…
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Editor's Letter: Hotel Perks
“WHAT ARE THOSE?” a woman from California asks as our six-person tour group moves from La Fonda on the Plaza’s lobby into an alcove near the registration desk. She motions toward a display of more…
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Editor’s Letter: Lens Craft
ANDY JONES LOVES NEW MEXICO. He appreciates the variety of the landscapes, finds beauty in the sunsets and dark skies, and enjoys exploring the outdoors. And yet. When the St. Louis transplant hears…
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Meet the Photo Awards Grand Prize Winner
ANDY JONES’S FIRST LOVE WAS THE OUTDOORS. Formerly a teacher in St. Louis, he’d take weeks-long road trips during the summer to Alaska and Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Glacier, and other national parks…
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Editor’s Letter: Magical Feast
BREAKFAST ON CHRISTMAS morning might be my favorite holiday meal. After all the excitement of Santa’s arrival and finally opening presents, breakfast might seem anticlimactic. But growing up, I always…
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Editor’s Letter: Game Time
THE AUDIENCE cheered as the screen went dark and the credits rolled on Rez Ball. Hosted by the Santa Fe International Film Festival (SFIFF), the special screening was more than an early preview of the…
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Editor’s Letter: Bar Talk
LOS OJOS RESTAURANT & SALOON, in Jemez Springs, is hopping on a Sunday. On the elevated stage at the front of the room, Ponderosa-based country singer Austin Van belts out a rousing cover of Alan…
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Editor's Letter: Gone Country
I’VE ALWAYS HAD a touch of cowboy envy. I’m not talking about the horse-riding, calf-roping, fence-mending kind, whose talents are best suited to a ranch or a farm. I know that’s not the life for me…
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