New Mexico Mercury

Insight New Mexico - Richard Fox Election Analysis

Political scientist Richard Fox breaks down the 2014 midterm elections.

Five Questions for New Mexico Authors - Paula E. Morton

This week we ask Florida author and journalist Paula E. Morton some questions about her enthralling new book, Tortillas: A Cultural History, from the University of New Mexico Press, 2014.

New Mexico Mercury: How did you come to think of the tortilla as a vehicle with which to study history and society across cultures?

Paula E. Mortan: Before I was an author, I was a farmer in York County, Pennsylvania. It was a rich but demanding lifestyle, and after more than twenty years we headed west to Las Cruces in the southwest corner of New Mexico. The most I knew about tortillas was that they tasted good in Pennsylvania and were best at the borderlands, handmade and warm off the griddle...

Insight New Mexico - Sherri Brueggemann

V.B. Price talks with Sherri Brueggemann about planning a public art project in a city with no people. Brueggemann explores the idea of creating culture in an environment that is not populated and examines what defines "public art."

Provincial Matters, 10-27-2014

V.B. Price's weekly collection of appreciations and observations.

Provincial Matters, 10-20-2014

V.B. Price's weekly collection of appreciations and observations.

Insight New Mexico - Summer Little

V.B. Price talks with Summer Little, Director of UNM's Women's Resource Center, about the recently formed Sexual Assault Task Force and other initiatives aimed at confronting sexual violence on campus.

Provincial Matters, 10-13-2014

V.B. Price's weekly collection of appreciations and observations.

Insight New Mexico - Peter Katel

V.B. Price talks with longtime journalist Peter Katel about the roots of the anti-surveillance movement here in New Mexico as well as the wave of migrants from Central America.

Provincial Matters, 10-6-2014

V.B. Price's weekly collection of appreciations and observations.

Five Questions for New Mexico Authors - Cipriano Frederico Vigil

This week we ask Cipriano Frederico Vigil of Chamisal, New Mexico—a renowned musician, historian, composer, and musicologist of traditional Nuevomexicano folk music—some questions about his sure-to-be-classic bilingual book New Mexico Folk Music / Cancionero del Folklor Nuevomexicano: Treasures of a People / El Tesoro del Pueblo.

New Mexico Mercury: For someone like me with no tradition of community music, your book is a revelation. These first questions feel naïve, but they are sincere ones. What are the historical and cultural roots of Hispanic folk music in New Mexico? Is there a known beginning?...