New Mexico Mercury

Friday Voyage - Turkey

Margaret Randall takes us on a journey through Turkey's haunted past.

Insight New Mexico - Cecilia Portal

V.B. Price talks with Cecilia Portal, photographer and former Guggenheim Fellow, about her new work, "Documented," and about the experience of the immigrant.

Weekly Poetry: Buckman Diversion

Come out from tangled roots,
change course, move away
from contamination. Snake
into the riverbed, divert erosion
into a reflexive complaint
below the run-off. A global
cycle of invasion, of white strips
of drying bandage wrapped
around red poles, of blood-letting
to make dragon soup garnished
with hated radishes...

Pray For Brain

The eclectic Pray For Brain kicks off the Outpost Performance Center's 18th annual Summer Thursday Jazz Night Series. We sit down for a Q&A with Mustafa Stefan Dill, lead guitarist for the genre defying trio.

7 Deadly Sins

V.B. Price explores the conflicts and contradictions of our universal stumbling blocks.

Chaco: Seen and Unseen

Our Friday voyage weaves us through the historical drama of this New Mexico treasure.

Insight New Mexico - Alfredo Corchado

This week V.B. Price talks with Alfredo Corchado, Mexico bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News, and author of the recently published "Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter’s Journey Through a Country’s Descent into Darkness."

Whole Foods Stinks

El Machete

To Find Oneself, Get Lost

What I would not give
to be lost again
in the gold, hot summer woods
of my eleventh year,
when my parents took me
to go out picking blueberries;
I walked too far
into the woods by Echo Lake,
away from the cool of their voices...

“The Seven” - a fusion of theatrical treats

So this week they closed the national forest, state trust lands and county open space. The Rio Grande is a dry arroyo for much of its length, and most of the rest of the river is too shallow for recreation. The lakes are remnants of themselves, and some are not even usable. In the East Mountains, we watch the terrible wildfires in the Jemez and Sangre de Cristo Mountains and wonder if we are next.

So in these hot, windy days of early summer what are New Mexicans to do to escape?

I suggest The Seven, a collection of 10-minute, one-act, two character skits performed by the Fusion company at the Cell Theater in Albuquerque.