Take a Tour of UNM's Campus
WHEN NEW MEXICO’S TERRITORIAL government decided in 1889 to establish an institution of higher learning in Albuquerque, it called for a school sited on 20 acres of “high and dry” land, uphill from the…
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Category: 2022
Five Things To Do This Weekend
1 See the lights. The historic buildings at Fort Selden glow in the light of over 900 flickering candles on New Year’s Eve during the beloved Noches de las Luminarias, back after a two-year pandemic…
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What We're Reading: Blind Eye
A DOUBLE MURDER ANCHORS MARTHA BURNS’S debut novel, Blind Eye (Atmosphere Press), but the mystery of its perpetrator fits into larger dramas of generational abuse and a community’s reluctance to…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: December 2022
DESTINATION UNKNOWN On his way back to Santa Fe from a visit to New Orleans, Patrick Murphy needed to check in for his flight at an airline desk. When he got to the front of the line, the clerk saw…
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Made in Silver City
AT MADE IN SILVER CITY, you might see dangly earrings, abstract paintings, turquoise-inlaid wooden bowls, and—hold up!—an unfinished statue. Run by four sculptors, the downtown Silver City storefront…
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Through the Lens of Ernst Haas
UNTIL HE SET FOOT IN NEW MEXICO, in 1952, photographer Ernst Haas was strictly a black-and-white devotee. But during a weeks-long assignment for Life magazine—during which he hitchhiked through…
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Give The Telephone Museum a Ring
DEEMED TOO DELICATE FOR ERECTING TELEPHONE POLES and laying cables, women were relegated to uncomfortable chairs and repetitive-injury-inducing switchboard tasks. They had to “always smile when…
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Bernalillo Is Grounded by Faith
THIS MONTH, NEW MEXICO’S FAITHFUL will observe the Christmas season with cherished traditions. That’s especially true in Bernalillo, a small town north of Albuquerque that has resisted the urban…
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Books We Loved in 2022
reVOlution Charles S. King (Museum of New Mexico Press) Author Charles S. King places Virgil Ortiz's creativity in the context of his Cochiti Pueblo artistic lineage. First & Wildest: The Gila…
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Tamales Wrapped in Love
FOR 30 YEARS, THERESA OLIVAS HAS BEEN pouring masa and her soul into making tamales. Starting at age six, in her mother’s Mora County kitchen, she and her six siblings would assemble the family’s…
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