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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One of Our 50 Is Missing: May 2025
ET 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…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: April 2025
BANANA 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…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: March 2025
COOKIE 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”…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: January/ February 2025
HATS 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…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: December 2024
OH, 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…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: November 2024
FOUR-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…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: October 2024
BON 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…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: September 2024
WHEN 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…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: August 2024
Illustration 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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