Five Books to Gift This Season
FOR THE ART LOVER Paired with an exhibition at Santa Fe’s Museum of Indian Arts & Culture that runs through February 2, Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles showcases a dazzling…
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Tag: Culture
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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Your Ultimate Film Festival Guide
SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL February 21–23, 2025 WHAT YOU’LL SEE: The state’s longest-running film festival showcases 90 narrative features, documentaries, and shorts programs—about a quarter of which are…
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History Takes Flight in Hobbs
YOU MIGHT THINK it’s the real thing: A World War II Boeing B-17 bomber surrounded by crews preparing for takeoff. But this flying fortress—located on what once was Hobbs Army Airfield, where…
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What We’re Reading: Light as Light
“LANGUAGE IS AT THE BASE and core of relating to others,” Acoma Pueblo poet Simon J. Ortiz writes in Light as Light (University of Arizona Press). “Language is motion. Action. Doing. Letting. Sharing…
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Enter William A. Goodman’s Creative World
IF THE STATE of New Mexico is viewed as a torso, Lincoln County is its slightly east-of-center belly button. That core has a rich history. Centuries before New Mexico became a state in 1912, Lincoln…
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Native Lab Amplifies Indigenous Voices
“I ALWAYS LIKE to say that clay is really my family’s way of storytelling,” says Charine Pilar Gonzales. The Santa Fe–based filmmaker and screenwriter, who comes from six generations of San Ildefonso…
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Olive Rush Studio Welcomes a New Era
“ONE LOVELY THING about a garden is the way one’s friends enjoy it,” Olive Rush (1873–1966) once wrote to a fellow artist. On a recent evening in Santa Fe, a circle of young people seated under her…
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The Power of the Pen
“I LOVE MY SOLITARY LIFE,” says Albuquerque poet, novelist, and screenwriter Jimmy Santiago Baca. Abandoned by his parents as a toddler, Baca spent portions of his youth in a Santa Fe orphanage before…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Honor the dead. Muertos y Marigolds Intergenerational learning, community building, pride in local identity, and remembering late loved ones are the anchors of the South Valley Día de los Muertos…
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