Albuquerque, Modern
Above: The Bank of the West Tower, nicknamed the Horizon Pillar, in Albuquerque. Photographs by Krysta Jabczenski. THE SUN GLEAMS OFF the gild-ed bands of a white tower as Thea Haver, founder of…
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Category: May 2019
One of Our 50 Is Missing
SOMETHING BLOCKING YOUR VIEW? Andrew Weber of Shiprock was enjoying the book American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road, by Nick Bilton, but was astonished to…
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Garlic Questions Finally Answered
Above: The bounty of the garlic harvest. Photographs by Douglas Merriam. IN THE LATE 1970S, I was lent an apartment on Canyon Road in Santa Fe for a month, where I wrote the first draft of a…
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Our Stone Age Heroes
Above: David Eck gestures toward the arroyo where history was discovered. Photographs by Minesh Bacrania. HUMANS HAVEN'T REALLY CHANGED much since the last ice age ended and nomadic hunters roamed…
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Get More Fiber
Above: Weaving on a vertical loom goes back at least 400 year in New Mexico. Photograph Courtesy of New Mexico Fiber Crawl. Some of my most treasured possessions are fiber—like the pair of little…
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La Musica de los Manitos
Above: Noah Martinez, Tanya Nuñez, Jordan Wax, and Leticia González play for a packed house. Photography by Inga Hendrickson. THE PAST IS EVER PRESENT—alive, even. Today it takes the form of Gregorio…
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Make It Rain
Photograph by John McCauley “The earth is shaking / From our beating the basket drums” —Tewa song So much depends on rain. Native peoples throughout the Southwest pray for it, dance for it, build its…
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Our Favorite New Santa Fe Hang
Above: RMXAB's laid-back atmosphere and black-and-gold interior welcome all. Photographs by Gabriella Marks. The options are endless—create a Spotify playlist, deejay a set, meet new faces, grab a…
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Meet Our State Bird
ON MARCH 16, 1949, the New Mexico Legislature named as our official state avian species the “Chaparral Bird,” aka Geococcyx californianus , aka the greater roadrunner. Longtime hero of Saturday morning…
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Jammin’ in Nuevo
Above: The band, Native Roots, Emmett "Shkeme" Garcia and John Williams. Photographs by Gabriella Marks. Listen to 101 songs by artists featured in our May issue with this Spotify playlist created by…
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