Editor's Letter: Snap Chat
BOBBY GUTIERREZ HAD NEVER entered our annual photo contest before this year. For the past decade, however, the Albuquerque professional glazier, artist, curator, radio host, and start-up business…
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The 22nd Annual New Mexico Magazine Photos of the Year
JIM STEIN STILL OWNS THE OLYMPUS OM-2 his parents bought him as a kid. For more than 35 years, he’s toted the single-lens, 35-millimeter camera with him, while growing up in Los Alamos, attending…
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Editor's Letter: Cheer Squad
ALMOST NOTHING CAN PREPARE YOU for the funky fun of your first Madrid Christmas Parade—no matter how many times you’ve visited the ghost town turned artist haven or binged the Hallmark Channel’s…
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Solo the Yak Brings Christmas Joy
I F THE MADRID CHRISTMAS PARADE HAD A PRINCESS , Maizie Blue would bear the off-kilter crown. The Española 13-year-old has been riding Solo the Yak, adorned with a bright red nose and led by Santa…
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Editor's Letter: It's a Miracle!
AT NEW MEXICO MAGAZINE, we’re blessed with a talented staff devoted to bringing you the stories of our state’s people, places, and passions. By most any measure, our jobs are a treasure. We get to…
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Balloon Pilot Reaches New Heights
RAY BAIR FOLLOWED WHAT HE CALLS a “natural sequence of steps” into ballooning—from spectator to crewman to balloon owner to pilot. In 1973, Bair and his wife, Carol, attended the very first World Hot…
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Editor's Letter: Hop(s) to It
I HAVE NEVER MET A TOOL THAT I DIDN’T HATE—hammer, wrench, saw, shovel, you name it. I am bad with all of them, on a frustratingly epic level. My father tried to teach me when I was a kid, as I helped…
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Editor's Letter: Vintage Fun
A TRIO OF MONKS sitting in front of wooden wine barrels toast our arrival at Casa Rondeña Winery, in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque. Located near the tasting room door, the painted tiles nod to the…
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Editor's Letter: Fine Arts
I CAN'T SAY that before moving to New Mexico I had ever purchased a piece of art—unless you count what can be found at Ikea. But in just a short time here, my wife and I have bought enough pottery…
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Editor's Letter: Party Time
We all have that one friend, the person who stretches out their birthday into a week (or more) of get-togethers, happy hours, outings, and other festivities. Well, we’re that friend. As you might have…
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