The Sound of New Mexico
A SETTING SUN casts a golden glow over Albuquerque’s Old Town Plaza as hometown trio Felix y Los Gatos takes the historic gazebo stage. Frontman Felix “Gato” Peralta thanks the sizable audience seated…
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Tag: Arts & Entertainment
What We're Reading: Shadow of the Solstice
MISSING YOUR WEEKLY Dark Winds fix while you await season 4 of the AMC drama? Pick up Shadow of the Solstice (Harper), Anne Hillerman’s latest mystery set on the Navajo Nation. When the U.S. secretary…
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What We're Reading: American Oasis
KYLE PAOLETTA’S debut, American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest (Pantheon Books), offers a compelling exploration of five Southwestern metropolises, with Albuquerque—the…
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Nuevo Mexicano Heritage Arts Museum Evolves
ST. GERTRUDE, THE BENEDICTINE MYSTIC, is known for her compassion for souls in purgatory. If one could nominate a patron saint to watch over and protect an unrivaled collection of Spanish Colonial and…
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Arthur Sze's Poetic Journey
“When a black butterfly flits past, when you glimpse the outlines of apple trees, when you smell the sprig of sunrise and walk up to the ditch …” ARTHUR SZE’S NEW BOOK OF POEMS leads off with a simple…
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Writing the Trail
What compelled you to write this book? There were so many points of entry for me to study the women of the Santa Fe Trail. I have lived along the Santa Fe Trail and have been the chief executive of…
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For the Record
P OP CULTURE OFTEN DEPICTS record store owners as a certain type: pretentious, aloof, and opinionated, often dismissive of mainstream tastes in favor of underground tracks. George Casey, owner of Lost…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 See New Deal art. Using a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, gallupARTS has united more than 120 works made during the New Deal program in the 1930s and 1940s into the Gallup New Deal…
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The String Family
MOST JAZZ MUSICIANS PREFER A double bass with a sprightly pizzicato tone. But Charlie Haden chose a model made around 1843 in France by the renowned J.B. Vuillaume, one of only three known to exist…
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See Harmony Hammond’s Art at SITE Santa Fe
THE MERE THOUGHT that ordinary materials—rags, metal grommets, bandages, straw, linoleum, and other utilitarian objects—could be used to make art elevates their mundanity. Galisteo-based artist…
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