THOMAS W. SWETNAM’S The Jemez Mountains: A Cultural and Natural History (University of New Mexico Press), doesn’t read like the academic tome its title suggests. The 40 short chapters explore colorful…
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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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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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1 Attend an opening reception. Artists from the Institute of American Indian Arts’ MFA studio arts program show work at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Santa Fe at the exhibition Not Here, But…
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FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS, artist Gustave Baumann tried to get his passion project, Little Saints of New Mexico, published. But a circuitous route full of obstacles prevented his artistic homage to the…
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T HE OPENING PAGES of Ramona Emerson’s new novel, Exposure, are crime-scene-level gory. A family is brutally murdered—and Navajo forensic photographer Rita Todacheene is back on the job. She’s also…
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New Mexico Magazine is giving away tickets to two author sessions at the Santa Fe International Literary Festival! Don’t miss your chance to be inspired in the City Different. 📚️ GIVEAWAY SESSIONS:…
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SANTA FEANS LOST a culinary gem when the trendsetting Corn Dance Café closed its doors in 2003. More than 20 years later, its chef-owner Loretta Barrett Oden shares many of her beloved recipes in Corn…
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BY THE TIME SUSAN WALLACE’S WAGON TRAIN CRESTED RATÓN PASS IN 1878, the Santa Fe Trail had accomplished its goal of knitting the Wild West into the American story. The trail’s 1821–1880 heyday as a…
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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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