Finding “A House in Taos”
AMONG THE BEST-LOVED POETS OF the 20th century, Langston Hughes stands tall. No shortage of poetry lovers around the globe can recite his “I, Too, Sing America,” but relatively few New Mexicans have…
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Clovis Cranks Up the Volume
WITH 90 MINUTES UNTIL SHOWTIME, parking is already scarce at the Curry County Events Center. I hurry toward the front gates, passing out-of-towners as they help their children down from dusty pickups…
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'Whiskey Tender' Reveals Bold Truths
DEBORAH JACKSON TAFFA WAS A TEENAGE REBEL. During high school in Farmington, she embraced her Indigenous identity, which set her apart in an era that emphasized a certain kind of kitschy conformity…
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Weaving Ancestral Threads
RHIANNON GRIEGO SITS IN White Sands National Park, working the strings and pedals of her loom in time with her heartbeat. The gypsum dunes, bathed in the lambent rays of the setting sun, serve as her…
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Dissonance in the Desert
COMPOSER RAVEN CHACON TRACES coordinates in the air above the dining table of his Albuquerque bungalow. He triangulates the house his father built in Corrales in the early 1970s; the Navajo Nation of…
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Roger Deakins Shares His New Mexico Views
AFTER A LONG DAY ON SET—or when the weather isn’t cooperating—Roger Deakins, the two-time Oscar-winning cinematographer behind The Shawshank Redemption, A Beautiful Mind, The Big Lebowski, Skyfall…
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Santa Fe's New Museum on the Block
WHEN THE NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART opened its doors in 1917, archaeologist Edgar Lee Hewett (1885–1946) envisioned the downtown Santa Fe building—a swooping adobe example of then-new Pueblo…
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What We're Reading: Shoot the Moon
SET IN THE 1960S and filled with beautifully captured moments of nostalgia, Shoot the Moon (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) is a heartfelt novel from Isa Arsén, a love letter to the Southwest inspired by…
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The 23rd Annual New Mexico Magazine Photos of the Year: Animals
1 st PLACE Fire and Ice, Pam Dorner " A sandhill crane does his best dragon impersonation a cold January morning in central New Mexico. I spent the first months of the year hoping to photograph…
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The 23rd Annual New Mexico Magazine Photos of the Year: Nightscapes
1 st PLACE Bluff Springs, Richard Larsson "It was a very cold, late-night drive into the forest to photograph the frozen waterfall under the midnight stars. On this February evening, temperatures were…
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