Spencer Beckwith On The Arts
Twice A Month During KUNM's Broadcast Of NPR's "Weekend Edition Saturday"
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James Baldwin once wrote, "You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read." The comfort of…
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In 1961, Judith Espinar came across a handmade casserole pot at a marketplace in Mexico. That revelatory pot, which cost her less than $2, inspired a…
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When Jean-Baptiste Lamy arrived in New Mexico in the mid-19th Century, one of his great ambitions as the new head of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe was to…
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Residents of a small Northern New Mexico town have gathered on a snowy December night for the traditional Christmas play, Los Pastores. Both performers…
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In the early and middle years of the 20th Century, America's path westward was Route 66 -- Chicago to L.A., a 2400-mile adventure to better times. Later…
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Passengers can board a transit bus this month to take an unofficial and eccentric ride through Albuquerque. They become participants in a theatrical…
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UNM Opera Theatre presents a new chamber opera this month inspired by the life of a central figure in New Mexico's cultural history. Wealthy Mabel Dodge…
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When he was five years old, Enrique's mother left him for the United States. Ten years later, he set off alone to find her -- a 1,500-mile journey north…
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He grew up fascinated by the radio towers and power lines that dot the landscape of Northern New Mexico. In high school, he was drawn to welding. And…
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On average, the number of people shot each year in America is over 116,000 -- that's by murders, assaults, suicide and suicide attempts, unintentional…