True Heroes 2023: Carmen Baca
THE SPRING MORNING started the same as any other for writer Carmen Baca. But around 2 p.m. on April 6, 2022, from her home in Cañoncito de las Manuelitas, Baca noticed smoke snaking across the sky off…
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Find Handcrafted Treasures at Weave + Gather
NESTLED ON A CORNER of the historic Las Vegas Plaza, Weave + Gather is a captivating fusion of art, tradition, and community. “I’ve pulled all my interests in life into one place,” says Rachel Relin…
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2023 True Heroes
Join us on November 16 at 7 p.m. for New Mexico Magazine's True Heroes recognition ceremony on YouTube: @newmexicomag Presented by New Mexico Magazine and KOB 4. CARMEN BACA The longtime Las Vegas…
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The Skillet Takes You to Funky Town
THE 300-POUND CAST-IRON skillet hanging above the front door of the century-old Taichert Wool Warehouse provides a giant clue as to what awaits inside The Skillet, the fantastical restaurant in Las…
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Check Out Carnegie's Library Legacy
NESTLED IN THE CENTER OF A LEAFY GREEN, the 1904 Carnegie Library brought neoclassical gravitas to New Town. East Las Vegas hatched the monument to book-learning by asking steel tycoon Andrew…
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The History Behind the Whitmore House
WHEN KATHY HENDRICKSON first walked into her three-story Victorian home on 825 Seventh Street, she couldn’t believe her eyes. “I saw this unpainted original woodwork, and I was like, ‘This is…
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Rawlins Building Returns to Glory
FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT ATTORNEY Thomas Clayton remembers playing as a child in the massive boarding house his grandparents owned at 515 Railroad Avenue. It was built by British saloon owner William…
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