Category: 2023
Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Ring in the New Year. NYE at Taos Ski Valley, Taos New Year’s Eve at Taos Ski Valley means drinks, dancing, dinner, and light shows. See the mountain light up as skiers descend the runs with…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: December 2023
Illustration by Chris Philpot. IT COULD HAPPEN TO ANYONE CAROL MOHOLT moved to New Mexico three years ago. “I enjoy reading your monthly reports,” she writes. “But I couldn’t believe it could happen…
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Protecting the Caja del Rio
AS HE WALKS ALONG A DARK BASALT mesa rimmed with piñon and juniper woodlands, Joseph Brophy Toledo, a member of the Pueblo of Jemez, browses a generous landscape. Juniper berries supply antioxidants…
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True Heroes 2023: Richard Sturgeon
RICHARD STURGEON BEGAN RIDING motorcycles when he moved to New Mexico, where a Los Alamos National Laboratory coworker encouraged him to learn. An environmental science technician, he now rides his…
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True Heroes 2023: Lynda Spencer
THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC was not kind to New Mexico students, and in summer 2021, Lynda Spencer was staring down a dilemma as principal of Blanco Elementary School, located east of Farmington. Many of…
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True Heroes 2023: Dr. Shawn Secatero
DR. SHAWN SECATERO IS ONLY 54, but his students already consider him a treasured elder. A member of Cañoncito Band of Navajos (Diné) and associate professor of education at the University of New…
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Branded with History
ON THE SOUTH AND WEST DOORS of the 1892 Eddy County Courthouse, in Carlsbad, 211 cattle brands recognize ranches across southeast New Mexico and other parts of the U.S. Southwest. “They’re definitely…
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What We're Reading: The Lost Tomb
IN 1986, DOUGLAS PRESTON drove from New York City to Santa Fe. There, he settled into a writing career that included contributions to New Mexico Magazine. His 1995 New Yorker article, “The Mystery of…
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Prepare for the Apicklelypse
WHEN A FORMER METAL-BAND singer who headed research and development at Santa Fe Brewing Company steps into his own food lab to riff on flavors, expect nothing short of Apicklelypse. This line of…
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