What We're Reading: Molly
THE TITLE CHARACTER in Kevin Honold’s lyrical Molly (Autumn House Press) is a waitress working out a hardscrabble but vastly imaginative life in a trailer on a mesa in New Mexico in 1968. She dubs her…
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Category: Arts & Entertainment
The Many Faces of Malinche
AN INNOCENT CHILD, she wears a First Communion dress while performing with the Matachines dancers. Around the corner, she transforms into Eve, the progenitor of a new race of people. No, wait, she is…
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Summer Concert Season Heats Up
Santa Fe Plaza Concert Series, Santa Fe Summer concerts on the Santa Fe Plaza are a whole vibe—folks dancing, chilling in camp chairs, and picnicking on the lawn. Starting June 9, the Santa Fe Plaza…
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Art Heals at Secret Gallery
ON DECEMBER 22, 2021, a fire ripped through the warehouse where artist Jesse Littlebird kept his painting studio in Albuquerque’s Barelas neighborhood. Some $500,000 worth of works succumbed to the…
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What We're Reading: New Mexico Rocks!
NEW MEXICO ABOUNDS in geologic wonders, from Ship Rock to Carlsbad Caverns, Capulín Volcano to Rockhound State Park, and a zillion dunes, plains, mountains, and gorges in between. Wouldn’t it be nice…
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What We're Reading: Sky Rider
ON JULY 4, 1882, six-foot-tall, 225-pound Park Van Tassel lifted off from Albuquerque’s Old Town in a hot-air balloon that was dangerously inflated at only two-thirds capacity. It was the first…
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Call It a Comeback
WHEN THE MEMPHIS P-TAILS took to the Lobo Theater stage in October, the Albuquerque blues band was one of the first acts to perform in the space. As guitarist Darin Goldston crooned the refrain, “I’m…
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What We're Reading: First & Wildest
ALDO LEOPOLD'S MONUMENTAL IDEA became the 1922 birth of the Gila Wilderness, the first such protected place in the nation. In honor of its centennial, Elizabeth Hightower Allen gathered essays from…
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The 21st Annual New Mexico Magazine Photos of the Year: Mobile
1ST PLACE Downtown Daze, Abel Espalin (above) "I took this photo in the thick of the pandemic lockdown when downtown Albuquerque was boarded up and a virtual ghost town. I felt like the emptiness and…
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The 21st Annual New Mexico Magazine Photos of the Year: Enchanted Adventures
WITH SOME OF THE MOST BREATHTAKING LANDSCAPES in the world, New Mexico almost implores you to get outdoors. Among those spots that call out to us? Our 35 state parks and their rivers, cliffs…
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