Buck Dunton’s Western Soul
THE DOWNCAST DEMEANOR of William Herbert “Buck” Dunton’s offspring in his painting My Children (circa 1922), created shortly after their parents divorced, lends it an elegiac tone. Despite the somber…
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Category: April
Kenyan Beef Kebabs
Read more: This recipe originally appeared in "Jambo Joy" by Johnny Vee…
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Jambo Coconut Chicken Curry
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Experience Big Room Magic
CARLSBAD CAVERNS IS UNIQUE for the rock that it occupies and how it formed. Most caves form from the top down, but sulfuric acid helped create these from the bottom up. A few factors had to combine to…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Hop into Easter fun. Easter Eggstravaganza, Farmington Get into the Easter fun early at the Easter Eggstravaganza at Sycamore Park Community Center on Friday from 9 a.m. to noon. The Easter Bunny…
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Ahmed Obo's Next Move
WALKING INTO JAMBO CAFÉ, off busy Cerrillos Road in Santa Fe, feels like coming home. From the warm greetings to the chatter of happy diners and the clatter of cutlery on plates piled high with…
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Datebook: April 2023
IN JULY 1923, the New Mexico Highway Journal launched with a mission to elevate “the attractions of New Mexico as a national playground.” That journal—America’s original state magazine—became the…
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Editor's Letter: Dig Deep
WE HAD BARELY TURNED ONTO THE ENTRANCE road to Carlsbad Caverns National Park when my wife pointed to our left. “Look,” she said. “Stop the car.” Barbary sheep were everywhere, grazing along the…
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Explore Lechuguilla Cave
A CAVERS’ MAP IS DOTTED WITH QUESTION MARKS, indicating where other cavers have spotted a crack or crevasse that offers a possible unexplored passage. Some become impassably small. Some dead-end in…
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Dive Into the Depths of Carlsbad Caverns
THE DARKNESS IS SO COMPLETE that I can close my eyes, open them again, and see no difference. For seemingly long moments that might have been a few seconds, our group of 25 falls silent. Only the…
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