Light Up the Season
THE BELOVED RITUAL of Las Posadas returns to the Santa Fe Plaza at 5:30 p.m. on December 11. “It’s a wonderful opportunity for locals to share this tradition with visitors, as we engage in a rich…
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Category: 2022
True Heroes 2022: Dr. Jodi Casados & Dr. Levi Maes
DOCTORS JODI CASADOS AND LEVI MAES remember their first Covid-positive patient at La Clínica del Pueblo de Río Arriba, in Tierra Amarilla. Maes put on every piece of the clinic’s personal protective…
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True Heroes 2022: Elizabeth "Liz" Bradford
DURING RAMADAN LAST YEAR, Liz Bradford and her daughter were bringing food to the home of a recently arrived Rwandan student, to break the holy fast. As a teacher with the Albuquerque Public Schools…
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True Heroes 2022: Dr. Sanjeev Arora
ONE MORNING IN 2001, DR. SANJEEV ARORA entered his university clinic in Albuquerque to find a woman and her two children already waiting for him. The woman, who had been living with untreated…
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A New Mexico Christmas—Season of Renewal
CHRISTMAS IN NEW MEXICO IS UNIQUE. It is a time of celebration and a time of memories. When I was a child, my mother’s preparations for Christmas meant a week’s work in the kitchen. Pots of posole…
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What We're Reading: Shutter
RITA TODACHEENE, RAISED IN TOHATCHI, is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police. She also sees dead people. Both skills come in handy when she’s called to the scene of a grisly…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: November 2022
Roll Those R’s National media had a field day over a spelling error too large to miss. In July, the New Mexico Department of Transportation upgraded a truck-size directional sign on I-40 that told…
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In Praise of New Mexico Churches
IN HISTORIC CHURCHES OF NEW MEXICO TODAY (Oxford University Press, 2017), Frank Graziano travels throughout the state to detail the history of churches and the people who care for them today…
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Tomé's Church Renovation Is No Small Miracle
"PEOPLE ARE DRAWN TO THE MIRACLES Jesus performed,” Father Michael Demkovich tells a dozen parishioners at Tomé’s Immaculate Conception Church during a Wednesday morning Mass. “But that wasn’t why he…
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Vintage T-Bird Lands in T or C
THE TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES MUNICIPAL AIRPORT guarantees you can see a shooting star. Not the kind from outer space, but a vintage Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star that once zoomed through the skies at 600…
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