Above: Tacos from El Parasol. Photograph by Jen Judge. FAVORITE NEW RESTAURANTS New Mexico has recently fostered a bumper crop of fantastic, creative, interesting new restaurants that have transported…
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THE OLD MAN was ambling through the throng of the Navajo Nation Fair in Window Rock, Arizona, last fall when he caught a glimpse of a 1970 step van—an erstwhile Wonder Bread delivery truck—parked…
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IN ORDER TO BECOME a bona fide New Mexican, it is best to submit to a number of initiation activities. A short list would include: hunting for piñon nuts in scrubland hillside forests of the north in…
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Above: Two of many curious, free-roaming feral mustangs near Nageezi, in San Juan County. This image was a finalist in our 16th Annual Photo Contest . March 1957 More and more the beauty, mystery, and…
Read MoreREUNITED (AND IT FEELS SO …AWKWARD) Frank Kohler of Scottsdale, Arizona, noticed a woman wearing turquoise jewelry at a class reunion in Baltimore. After admiring her necklace and earrings, he was…
Read MoreTHE CARVED LINE Block Printmaking in New Mexico By Josie Lopez (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2016) Grade-schoolers often get an art lesson that involves a carved potato, stamp pad, and piece of paper…
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ROWLEY FARMHOUSE ALES 1405 Maclovia St., Santa Fe (505) 428-0719; rowleyfarmhouse.com Chef and co-owner Jeffrey Kaplan calls Rowley’s a “gastropub featuring farm-to-table comfort food.” A restaurant…
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I WAS BORN IN Roswell in 1964, the 11th of 12 children—eight girls and four boys. We didn’t join Girl Scouts or Boy Scouts. We didn’t play Little League baseball or peewee football. We were our own…
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AFTER FOOD TRUCKS proved the concept that just about any old tin can with a kitchen can turn out quality food, maybe it made sense that Albuquerque’s hippest new dining destination would be made out…
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It all starts, as many things do, with Thomas Edison. In autumn 1897, his train steamed into New Mexico Territory, and shortly thereafter, the Wizard of Menlo Park captured the first moving images of…
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