What We're Reading: A Luminous Uplift
NORTHERN NEW MEXICO poet John Brandi traverses three continents and 40 years in A Luminous Uplift: Landscape & Memory (White Pine Press). Brandi divides his tome into travelogues of places he’s…
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Category: Culture
One of Our 50 Is Missing: July 2024
Illustration by Chris Philpot. A CUT ABOVE ... THE BORDER A recent trim got hairy for REBECCA SCHULTZ in Waukegan, Illinois, when she mentioned an upcoming trip to the Land of Enchantment. “I wish I…
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A Ranch on the Ruidoso
A LONE MAN ON HORSEBACK crosses a dry wash, approaching a bare-bones ranch with a couple of shade trees. Before him, a broad chiaroscuro mosaic of rolling golden foothills, distant purple mountains…
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Tales of the Southwest
MANY BOOKSTORES throughout the state have a Southwest section. But Books of the Southwest, in the original Las Vegas, is completely devoted to the special category of used and rare regional…
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Brett Vaughn's Wild Adventures
A ROCKY INCLINE LEADING to a cloudless desert sky fills the screen. Then the video angle pans down to wilderness adventurer Brett Vaughn as he details his plans to climb the treacherous rock face with…
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Three Artists Inspired by Water
SASHA VOM DORP Taos Sasha vom Dorp set out to see sound. After learning that sounds had form, he started searching for its shapes and for a medium that would respond to its waves. The answer was…
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Tularosa's Eye-Catching Cars
THEY’RE HARD TO MISS while driving through Tularosa: five pairs of enormous eyes peering from the windshields of vintage vehicles parked on an otherwise vacant lot. The rusty but still colorful fire…
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Kingston Ghost Town Museum Gets New Life
A BLUEGRASS TRIO JAMS in the shade of a refurbished adobe home, its textured walls painted white and roof trimmed with a dusty turquoise. Notes from the stand-up bass, guitar, and mandolin provide…
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Experience Photographic Mysticism
THERE’S A TOUCH OF MAGIC in the new MoMo Gallery exhibition, In the Time of Spirits, opening in Santa Fe July 6. Curated by former Life Magazine editor in chief Bill Shapiro, the show features…
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Explore Abstract Art in Taos
LAUREN SMITH UNDERSTANDS and appreciates the history and significance of art in northern New Mexico. As co-founder of the Taos Abstract Artist Collective, she sees the nonprofit group of more than 200…
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