Ask Your Doctor
The quick fixes of Big Pharma propaganda have separated us from a common sense notion of health.
Friday Voyage: Mystery Valley
Discovering the hidden wonder of this lesser traveled, more intimate gem in the shadow of Monument Valley.
Montagues and Capulets
As our country goes into its second day of partial government shutdown, many foreigners ready to spend their money at our national parks and other points of interest are being told their destination is closed. They don’t understand how a standoff between two modern political parties in a democracy constantly advertised as worthy of emulation can paralyze a nation, furlough federal workers, and stop important services. This couldn’t happen at home, they say…
The New Normal
Because of our elected officials’ extreme polarization, important sectors of our nation closed down this morning. Government services not deemed to be essential have been forced to shut their doors. National parks and monuments have lines of cars stopped at their gates (many carrying visitors coming from halfway around the globe). Even some workers whose expertise guards our safety, such as a percentage of air traffic controllers, are off the job. More than 800,000 government workers have been furloughed without pay, with thousands more required to continue laboring, also without pay…
Friday Voyage: Croatia
Massive walls, lavender fields, beautiful countryside and a cordial people still recovering from the ravages of war.
A Museum Experience in Farmington
I didn’t know Farmington had an art museum and decided to check it out. In fact, the city of 46,000 in the northwestern corner of our state does not have a museum dedicated exclusively to fine art. But its city museum just finished giving a three-month run to one of the best collections of painting, sculpture, photography, prints and relevant ephemera I have seen in New Mexico—or anywhere else. “An Adventure in the Arts,” a 73-piece collection of 20th Century masterworks on loan from the Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, New York, opened on July 20th and closed on September 21st…
‘For in the end, hate could kill us all’
Twenty-seven years after the end of World War II, two families who had survived that conflict, one of them German Jews and the other German Nazis, fight a different kind of war on a street in Manhattan: the war of the delis. This is the core of a drama penned by a Sandia Park playwright and scheduled for a reading this weekend in Albuquerque.
The story could have been told as a comedy, however it is anything but; rather, it is an explosive tragedy in which old wounds bleed again onto 55th Street. That there is a beacon of hope, even potential salvation, at the end, does not dim the soul-destroying conflict between two families on the same street trying to sell sandwiches, salvage their self-respect and pay back for their history…
Friday Voyage: Cambodia
Margaret Randall explores the unifying consciousness of Angkor Wat in Cambodia.
September 11th and Syria
Each September 11th since 2001, as another anniversary of a tragic assault upon this country’s life and treasure is observed, we relive those horrendous images and think in powerful unison about the almost three thousand lives lost that bright fall day. Some of us mourn loved ones. Some feel collective grief. The hearts of some still pound with a desire for revenge. Some wish the tragedy had provoked a deeper, more profound and useful national conversation about the roots of anti-American hatred and what it means to live in a multicultural world—where one country cannot forever play the bully role and still expect to be loved and respected…