Larry Bell’s Glass Magic
IN AN OTHERWISE EMPTY ROOM at SITE Santa Fe stands Fourth of July in Venice Fog. Against the crisp white walls of the gallery, the interior of the eight-by-six-foot glass box becomes legible: four…
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Category: October
Stranger Things Around New Mexico
Center of the Universe, Albuquerque While the Center Of The Universe may be quotidian on the University of New Mexico’s Albuquerque campus, Bruce Nauman’s concrete walk-through sculpture has a…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Get a taste of Alamogordo. This Saturday in Alamogordo, pair local wine and agriculture at the Corks and Shells Wine Festival at Alameda Park. “Being in southern New Mexico, we have a lot of…
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New Mexico Goatheads Take the Ice
WHEN THE PUCK DROPS on the New Mexico Goatheads inaugural season this month, the ECHL franchise hopes to bring the same level of toughness, grit, and stick-to-itiveness to the ice that the name…
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New Mexico’s UFO Records Declassified
ON MARCH 8, 1949, an aircraft systems inspector at Los Alamos National Laboratory looked up to see “an elliptical, rather stubby, aluminum body” surrounded by “billowy flame.” While watching it…
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The Legend of the Three Brujas
WHILE SALEM IS FAMED for its witch trials, New Mexico had its own tensions between the local church and mystical practices in the late 1700s. The Three Brujas of Taos were women so feared that their…
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The New MeX-Files
LAS CRUCES, AUGUST 20, 1949 Clyde Tombaugh, who famously discovered Pluto, was in his Las Cruces backyard with his wife and mother-in-law on a clear, starry night when “he saw a series of…
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Telling Time at the Very Large Array
FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES, the Bracewell Radio Sundial near Magdalena functions like a clock. Ten metal piers, rescued from Australian engineer Ron Bracewell’s radio telescope at Stanford…
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New Mexico’s Surreal Landscapes
BISTI/DE-NA-ZIN WILDERNESS AREA, BLOOMFIELD The lattice of colorful badlands, clay hills, and hoodoos located south of Farmington marks the remains of an ancient seaside swamp that was home to trees…
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The Lives of New Mexico’s Bats
IMAGINE THE FINGER BONES of a human hand stretched out to something like body length, with webbing spanning between the fingers. That is, essentially, the bone structure of a bat’s wings. “Their…
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