One of Our 50 Is Missing: June 2025
FOUL BALL Back in 1980, the University of New Mexico men’s basketball team had an academic and gambling scandal that became a national story. “I can remember coach Norm Ellenberger telling Mike…
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FOUL BALL Back in 1980, the University of New Mexico men’s basketball team had an academic and gambling scandal that became a national story. “I can remember coach Norm Ellenberger telling Mike…
Read MoreET TU, FARMINGTON? MICHAEL PADILLA says he could write a book about his “One of Our 50” experiences. A recent entry includes his payment being denied at an AutoZone in Farmington. “I tried to pay with…
Read MoreBANANA 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 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 MoreHATS OFF Perhaps a record number of readers wrote in to express their dismay at some new offerings in the recent Southwest Indian Foundation catalog. The Gallup-based nonprofit enticed shoppers to…
Read MoreOH, CANADA In July, DANIEL ARREOLA of Placitas took a Canadian vacation in Newfoundland and Labrador. In Twillingate, a small fishing village in Notre Dame Bay, he visited the Isles Wooden Boat…
Read MoreFOUR-LEGGED FLUB Albuquerque resident SABRINA DENNING grew up in Germany. She still reads the German magazine Bunte, where she saw an article on Disney’s 2019 live-action Lady and the Tramp remake…
Read MoreBON VOYAGE As a Santa Fean looking to take a vacation, ALAN HILL was intrigued by a recent piece of clickbait advertising on Yahoo.com. “Empty Alaska Cruises Departing from New Mexico that Seniors Can…
Read MoreWHEN IN ROAM Several years ago, JUSTIN MORRIS received an unusually high cell phone bill, so he called his carrier. “Did you travel last month?” the representative asked. “I did spend some time in New…
Read MoreIllustration by Chris Philpot. TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS PAUL CRAWFORD of Rio Rancho pointed us to the May 13 issue of The New Yorker, in which John McPhee rails against copyediting failures. The famed…
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