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BANANA BRAIN When PATRICK ERCOLINO ’s grandmother passed away, he took his two young sons to a Banana Republic in New Jersey to buy suits for the funeral. To receive 50 percent off, he applied for a…
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BANANA BRAIN When PATRICK ERCOLINO ’s grandmother passed away, he took his two young sons to a Banana Republic in New Jersey to buy suits for the funeral. To receive 50 percent off, he applied for a…
Read MoreIN FALL 1983, an industry-wide video game crash left Atari with an entire El Paso warehouse full of unsold inventory, including hundreds of thousands of copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial—often…
Read MoreBY THE TIME SUSAN WALLACE’S WAGON TRAIN CRESTED RATÓN PASS IN 1878, the Santa Fe Trail had accomplished its goal of knitting the Wild West into the American story. The trail’s 1821–1880 heyday as a…
Read MoreA LTHOUGH LOS ALAMOS native Melissa Fu moved to the United Kingdom 18 years ago, she says she’s “always plotting” ways to return home. In September, the author joined the inaugural artist-in-residence…
Read MoreWhat compelled you to write this book? There were so many points of entry for me to study the women of the Santa Fe Trail. I have lived along the Santa Fe Trail and have been the chief executive of…
Read MoreP OP CULTURE OFTEN DEPICTS record store owners as a certain type: pretentious, aloof, and opinionated, often dismissive of mainstream tastes in favor of underground tracks. George Casey, owner of Lost…
Read MoreI N 2012, Jemez Pueblo tribal and religious leadership filed a lawsuit to reclaim the Valles Caldera as their aboriginal and most sacred lands. In October 2024, a settlement between the National Park…
Read MoreSANDS AND SCIENCE shift under the weight of history in Rachel Robbins’s debut novel, The Sound of a Thousand Stars (Alcove Press). Set during World War II, the story primarily follows Alice Katz, a…
Read MoreCOOKIE CRUMBLED In December, New York Times food columnist LISA DONOVAN created a stir with her bizcochitos recipe. The writer discovered our state cookie at a gas station “somewhere in New Mexico”…
Read MoreMOST JAZZ MUSICIANS PREFER A double bass with a sprightly pizzicato tone. But Charlie Haden chose a model made around 1843 in France by the renowned J.B. Vuillaume, one of only three known to exist…
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