Poetic Fire
Above: Jake Skeets at El Rancho Hotel in Gallup, near his hometown on the Navajo Nation. Photographs by Gabriella Marks. ONE DAY IN 2011, Jake Skeets leaned on the wall outside the Frontier…
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Posts From: December 2019
Cold Comforts
Above: Resolve to have fun this New Year with a host of winter adventures. Illustrations by Ryan Johnson. SLAPSHOT SNAPSHOT With a crash, Spencer Rudrud’s shoulder hits the partition in front of me…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing
Above: Illustration by Chris Philpot. ALOHA-HA-HA-HA Grocery stores from Texas to Arizona to Colorado came under our readers’ fire when the new crop of Hatch chiles landed this fall. Mind you, no…
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He’s No Dummy
Above: Slim Slidell says ... "Pay attention!" Photograph by Dan Leeth / Alamy Stock Photo. Slim Slidell is a hero. Whenever Taos Ski Valley has “slider” conditions—firm, challenging snow—there he is…
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Back on Track
Above: AT&SF 2926 in California pulling the Chief, a passenger train. Photographs by Western Railway Museum Archives. In 1999, when Albuquerque Mayor Jim Baca decided to sell the AT&SF 2926 to the…
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Farolitos vs. Luminarias
IN A DECEMBER 3, 1590, journal entry, Spanish explorer Gaspar Costaño de Sosa mentioned the small bonfires his cohorts had lit to guide a scout back to camp. Luminarias, he called them, thereby…
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Page Turners
Above: This year's top books. Photograph by Inga Hendrickson. ART & ARTISTS In a Modern Rendering The Color Woodcuts of Gustave Baumann Gala Chamberlain, Nancy E. Green, and Thomas Leech (Rizzoli…
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Kitchen Fixins
Above: Get cookin' with these must-have kitchen favorites. Photographs by Inga Hendrickson. Azurite bread knife ($95). Santa Fe Stoneworks, Santa Fe, santafestoneworks.com. Magnetic knife block…
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Ghost Stories
Above: Japanese dolls. Photographs courtesy of Museum of International Folk Art. During Japan’s Edo period (1603–1868), stories of yōkai spoke of ghosts, demons, and monsters who were destined to…
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