True Heroes 2023: Holly and Noelle Chavez
DEBORAH DINGWALL’S 39-YEAR-OLD SON was living at home when he began struggling with mental illness. Despite her efforts to help, she had to ask him to leave when he became aggressive. Suddenly…
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Category: Culture
True Heroes 2023: Carmen Baca
THE SPRING MORNING started the same as any other for writer Carmen Baca. But around 2 p.m. on April 6, 2022, from her home in Cañoncito de las Manuelitas, Baca noticed smoke snaking across the sky off…
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Tinwork Stamped with Tradition
NICOLAS MADRID LEARNED TINSMITHING from his father, Jimmy, who taught him to make his own silver stamps and instilled in him a discerning eye. “I focus on New Mexico tradition,” Madrid says. “A lot of…
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Remembering John Nichols
ONE OF NEW MEXICO’S most beloved writers left us on Monday, November 27. John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War, died at age 83. Born and raised in New York, he wrote his first novels there…
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A September Song
IN SEPTEMBER, my joy and sorrow begin. It is the month when I feel most alive, both fragile and indestructible. It also creates in me a discomforting nostalgia, a yearning for more that makes me a…
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The Holiness of Water
Editor's note: This essay and photos by John Nichols were originally excerpted in the July 1992 issue of New Mexico Magazine from The Holiness of Water, a book that was planned to publish in 1993 as…
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Clouds: Heavenly Postcards
Editor's note: This essay was originally published in the March 1998 issue of New Mexico Magazine . I’LL WAGER I LIVE OUT WEST because of clouds. Truly, my heart leaps up when I behold. There’s a…
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A Spectacle to Behold
A FEW MILES NORTH OF TAOS, a massive pair of thick-rimmed glasses peers out onto NM 150 near the driveway to the Bareiss Gallery. In 2002, Texas artist Steve Teeters constructed two sculptures of…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: November 2023
Illustration by Chris Philpot. DEEP SOUTH Both BRUCE MORRISON of Elephant Butte and CATHARINE STRINGFELLOW of Rio Rancho wrote to apprise us of a web article making the rounds titled “The Best Lake…
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Richard Pitino Leads the Pack
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO men’s basketball coach Richard Pitino has jammed a lot of life into 41 years. Between growing up as the son of Rick Pitino, one of college basketball’s all-time great coaches…
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