What We’re Reading: A Passing West
DAGOBERTO GILB’S book of personal and journalistic essays, A Passing West (UNM Press), is as fun as it is thought-provoking. His meditations on Mexican American identity and life in the West take…
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Tag: Arts & Entertainment
Chip Thomas Honors the People with Art
SOMETIME AROUND 2012, Chip Thomas, a family physician with a practice on the Navajo Nation, began seeing an uptick in certain health issues in Indigenous men in their seventies and eighties who had…
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Rock Out at Whiskey Creek Zócalo
WHEN THE SAXOPHONIST finishes his howling solo, applause and appreciative hollers rise to the level of the jazz music being shared from the main stage at Whiskey Creek Zócalo. On this Sunday, my…
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Step Inside the Luminarium
THE SHARPEST DESCRIPTION of the PASEO, Taos’s beloved 10-year-old outdoor art extravaganza, came from a tattooed tough guy in a leather jacket. He was shouldering his sleeping toddler at the tail end…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Burn him! Just in time for the 100th burning of Zozobra—which happens next Friday at Fort Marcy Park—the New Mexico History Museum, in Santa Fe, debuts a new exhibition, Zozobra: A Fire That Never…
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What We're Reading: Blood Mountain
LOOKING TO GET IN TOUCH with northern New Mexico culture? Dive into the second book in Alisa Lynn Valdés’s bestselling thriller series starring state game warden Jodi Luna. In Blood Mountain (Thomas &…
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Michael Naranjo's Visionary Touch
IN 1999, AT THE DEDICATION for the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial, in Washington, D.C., then Senator Barack Obama read a statement inscribed on one of the memorial’s 18 glass panels…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Take the family to the fair. It’s hard not to feel like a kid at the San Juan County Fair in Farmington, where colorful lights, whooshing rides, fun games, and delicious eats are at your…
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Explore Indian Market and Beyond
THE SANTA FE PLAZA can hardly contain it all. Featuring over 1,000 artists from more than 200 tribes, the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts Santa Fe Indian Market bursts at the seams with…
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What We're Reading: A Luminous Uplift
NORTHERN NEW MEXICO poet John Brandi traverses three continents and 40 years in A Luminous Uplift: Landscape & Memory (White Pine Press). Brandi divides his tome into travelogues of places he’s…
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