Poetic Fire
Above: Jake Skeets at El Rancho Hotel in Gallup, near his hometown on the Navajo Nation. Photographs by Gabriella Marks. ONE DAY IN 2011, Jake Skeets leaned on the wall outside the Frontier…
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Category: January 2019
Not Exactly New, Not Exactly Mexico
Above: Illustration by Chris Philpot. GRAB YOUR LUCKY SOMBRERO While checking in with the receptionist at his Holyoke, Massachusetts, doctor’s office, Bob Nelson mentioned that he and his wife were…
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A Tea Party in Mesilla
Above: The Old Barrel Tea and Spice Company. Photograph by Inga Hendrickson. A glass teapot offers a window into the process of properly steeping tea: As the leaves begin to infuse the hot water, the…
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The Pride of Gallup
Above: Sammy Chioda. Photograph by Brian Leddy. NOT MANY PEOPLE HAVE DONE more for Gallup sports than Salvatore Chioda, affectionately known as “Sammy C.” Chioda is involved in many community…
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Finding a Dream State in Jemez Springs
Above: The ruins of Jemez Historic Site nestle near a spectacular mesa. Photographs by Minesh Bacrania. THE MURAL ON THE faded exterior of the Los Ojos Saloon, an old mercantile built in 1947 in…
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Vinyl Grooves
Above: Hi-Phy Records in Albuquerque. Photograph by John McCauley. Jenny and Joe Phy own Hi-Phy Records, in Albuquerque, with two spaces for digging: a room at Spur Line Supply Co., in the Sawmill…
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Favorite Sun
EVERY ONE OF ELIZABETH MEDINA'S award-winning pots begins with a mystery. Her mother-in-law, Sofia Medina, a renowned potter, long ago revealed to her an area of especially rich clay, but only after…
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A Year of Magical Living
Above: The Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument at sunset. Photograph by Wayne Suggs. We all have our go-tos—a restaurant, hike, gallery, margarita, or green chile recipe—that we return to…
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Woman of Steel
Above: Paula Castillo in her studio. Photographs by Gabriella Marks. RÍO GRANDE COLCHA , a massive welded sculpture, unfolds like a circulatory system across the facade of the New Mexico History…
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These Old Satellite Dishes Are Now Works of Art
Above: Native designs now grace repurposed satellite dishes in Grants. Photograph by Jazmen Bradford. Recall the satellite dishes of yore? Those big, bulky pieces of equipment that once received…
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