Stars in Alignment
A high-wattage NM–based team produces a wild and gritty Western. The Homesman is the latest unconventional Western to have been hatched in New Mexico. Starring Tommy Lee Jones and Hilary Swank, it…
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Category: December 2014
One of Our 50 Is Missing
YOU CAN CALL ME AL Harland Rieger recently contacted the phone company to change his billing address from his previous Kansas address to Albuquerque. After a 35-minute hold, a customer service…
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On the Mary and Joseph Trail
THE SKY FLARED WITH A BLOOD-RED sunset and then went black as I drove north from Santa Fe on a cold December night last year. I was on my way to Santa Cruz, one of New Mexico’s oldest villages , as the…
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Candlelight Vigil
I am 4 or 5 years old. It is Christmas Eve in Isleta Pueblo, and I lie in bed in our living room, too excited to sleep. My family of nine—seven children and our parents—lives in an adobe home of five…
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New Mexico Between the Covers
Any of these books would be a treat for someone who loves New Mexico and doesn’t (yet) live here. But they also give the gift of a heightened sense of appreciation for one’s home state, which enjoys a…
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NEED TO KNOW: ZUNI PUEBLO Zunitourism.org is packed with info to help you plan a visit to the Pueblo and reserve a spot on walking tours ($10), artist demonstrations ($25 per person), and visits to…
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LASTING IMPRESSIONS My father became close buddies with a man from Santa Fe while in the Navy, and they decided to go into business together upon discharge from the service. They were both airplane…
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Card Games
Holiday card by artist Gustave Baumann. IN THE WINTER of 1919, Gustave Baumann sat down…
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Western NM Road Trip
NEED TO KNOW GALLUP Bill Malone Trading Company 235 W. Coal Ave.; (505) 863-3401; https://friendsofhubbell.org/ Earl’s Family Restaurant 1400 E. Historic Hwy. 66; (505) 863-4201 El Metate Tamale…
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