Trip of the Month
Above: The photographer’s son at City of Rocks State Park, between Deming and Silver City. January 1948 Nature was clowning when she created the City of Rocks. You know she had a lot of fun dreaming…
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Category: 2016
One of Our 50 Is Missing | January 2016
MOVING TARGET Jerry Benally of Farmington was watching the H2 channel’s Hangar 1: The UFO Files when a map of the US flashed on the screen. Much to his chagrin, he noticed that the map indicated that…
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Hidden in Plain Sight
A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN Selected Stories By Lucia Berlin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015) Lucia Berlin (1936–2004) lived in many places and in many ways. She was a well-off teenager in Chile…
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Cooking Up a Scene
Above: Clockwise from top left: Centennial red wine from Pecos Flavors Winery, Valley Gurlz Goodz pickled asparagus, Lusty Monk Original Sin mustard, Valley Gurlz pickled watermelon rinds, Lusty Monk…
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Be The Maker
Photo by JAY HEMPHILL SILVER CITY Towers of Wow Self-described outlaw artist Jean-Robert P. Beffort is the front man of Silver City’s community art garage, A Space, where he reuses and recycles doll…
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ABQ Awakening
Above: Jared and Laurie Tarbell at their high-tech playground/lab, Levitated Toy Factory. TUCKED AWAY in the heart of Downtown Albuquerque, among a growing number of antique buildings being…
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PERPETUAL motion MACHINE
Above: Kate Brown at her magical Oxberry animation stand. VISIT KATE BROWN’S studio at the Mimbres Hot Springs Ranch, a commune 30 miles east of Silver City, and you encounter an array of pottery in…
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Neo Santa Fe
Above Violet Crown Cinema is a magnetic new anchor in the Railyard. The multiplex presents films from foreign to arty to blockbuster, and its menu offers bacony brussels sprouts, burgers and truffle…
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Raising the Bar
Above: Makin’ moves: Brooks Thostenson and Kyle Hawari, the buddies behind the snack bars packed with Taos Mountain energy and spirit. IN THE WINTER of 2010, more than 200 inches of snow dumped on…
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