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Taos Web Logged has moved over to Wordpress.com. To see the blog at its new location, click HERE.

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They are commonly known as roadside crosses. But for many families in New Mexico,the descanso is a small shrine erected to remember a loved one in the place where their soul left this world. They can be found alongside roadways all over the southwest.On October 24, 2006, Antonia Miera, a 16 year old Taos High School student, died in the parking lot of the Hacienda Inn, along busy Paseo del Pueblo

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High school students competed March 16, 2007, at the Taos Community Auditorium, with Taos High School taking home first place for the second year in a row.Four Northern New Mexico teams competed in this event: Santa Fe High, Taos High, Questa High and Bernalillo High.

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Four people have died so far this year on a particular stretch of Kit Carson Road in Taos New Mexico. Several people along this deadly stretch of road -- including friends of two recent victims and Captain Daron Syling of the Taos Police Deptartment -- talk about the problems and what needs to be addressed. Video by Rick Romancito, editing and music by Melody Romancito, for The Taos News Media

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John Nichols delivers an expletive-laden rant against GW Bush at a peace rally on Taos Plaza to mark the 4th anniversary of the Iraq War.Nichols is the author of the New Mexico trilogy, three novels about complex relationships between history, race and ethnicity, and land and water rights in the fictional Chamisaville County, New Mexico.

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Aztec dance troupe Danza Azteca de Anahuac dance at the 14th Annual Gathering celebrating the honor of Cuauhtémoc, defender of the Aztec nation with a performance in Taos at the Bataan Hall on Civic Plaza Drive, Taos, New Mexico. Video by Rick Romancito, editing by Melody Romancito, for The Taos News Media Center, http://taosnews.com/mediacenter

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Lyla Johnston recites a poem as preview for the SOMOS Winter Writer's Series finale. Johnston is a Diné poet and high school student whose poetry sends out a positive message and has inspired many audiences to join a more conscious humanity.Johnston has won numerous awards at U.S. regional and national poetry slams, and was a featured performer at the Global Forum in Indonesia last year.Harwood

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Rick Romancito has planned a special screening of his film, "Benito's Gift," Friday, Feb. 2, 2007, 7:30 p.m. at Taos Community Auditorium, 145 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos, New Mexico. Tickets are $10 at the door.

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For a look at all of the podcast stories for January 2007, click on one of the audio tiles below. If you have a slow connection, it is suggested that you wait for the whole file to load before playing.

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The Taos News announced Monday, Jan. 7, that it is beefing up its Media Center by producing videos created by Rick and Melody Romancito.What started as an experiment by the Romancitos on their private Taos Experience Web site blossomed into more than 30 videos of Taos personalities and events posted on YouTube.com.Noticing a demand for this type of internet journalism, The Taos News publisher

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January 1, 2007. Ranchitos, Taos, New Mexico. Video and photography by Rick Romancito, music by Melody Romancito.

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Isabel Scott talks with TaosExperience.com about her new project, United Space, while having lunch at the Guadalajara Grill Northside.For more information about United Space, visit United Space Online

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Marc Campbell of Mondo Video and Kulture Cafe protests Fox and its promotion of OJ Simpson's new book titled "If I Did It," by destroying DVD covers of Fox Entertainment products, Nov. 18, 2006, Taos New Mexico, USA.Though a cameraman from KOAT News in Albuquerque was present at the demonstration, the local ABC affiliate chose to run (asnd rerun) a story about a Christian rock concert that was

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The Taos News has decided to start running some of my videos on their website. For some reason, I can't download the one they have residing on their site (Quicktime problems -- both on my Mac and the PC, which is odd), but I have no trouble viewing my videos hosted by youtube.com.The exposure is helping my view numbers, but not that significantly. Let's see if continued advertising helps things

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Well, I've finally gone and done it -- I bought a display ad in Tempo to promote TaosExperience.com. The ad is simple, yet compelling. It says "See Taosenos on Youtube. Go to TaosExperience.com." And I use the Youtube logo.Meanwhile, I'm keeping a daily log of video views, and I'm proud to say I've been at this for a little more than a month, and some of my videos have broken the 700-view mark.

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I've been making videos all weekend and last week I made a separate account for TaosExperience so it could be separate from my own stuff. the best way to find them is byhttp://youtube.com/user/taosexperiencehttp://youtube.com/user/mromancito I'm logging all the views in the morning and in the evening so I can have a more realistic picture of what's getting seen. Some videos are getting picked up

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TaosExperience.com has uploaded the first of many podcasts of selected stories from The Taos News. The podcasts are read by Rick Romancito, editor of Tempo, and edited by Melody Romancito, and recorded by Romancito House. The audio files are in MP3 format and are from 2-5 MB in size.Listen to podcasts of selected stories from the October 5, 2006 issue of The Taos News by clicking HERE.

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TaosExperience.com has gone through another revamp Monday, Sept. 25. This newer, sleeker version 5.02 features videos on YouTube.com and a return to focus on entertainment. Not that reviewing restaurants and shops doesn't have merits -- it's just that a web editor can do only so much. My plan is to keep it small yet punchy with current music-scene adio and video.Lokey Music now has a blog at

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Memorial Day in Red River is a busy one for vendors and police -- not to mention shops, hotels and restaurants, with motocyclists numbering 40,000 or more during the annual gathering.Photo by Megan Bowers

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Taos writer wins screenwriting award By The Taos News staffMay 10 - 7 a.m.SANTA FE - Gov. Bill Richardson announced Tuesday (May 9) the four winners of the 2006 Governor’s Cup Short Screenplay Competition: Tempo editor Rick Romancito of Taos; Scott and Paula Merrow of Albuquerque; David Valdez and Philip Gunn of Rio Rancho; and Hannah Macpherson of Albuquerque.“These writers represent

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For the last couple of days there have been cows in our yard. We'd shoo them off, then they'd be right back -- putting the dog in a panic and pooping all over.Apparently, the came up from the Rio Fernando Creek through a break in the fence. We went down once to see where they might be coming through but couldn't find anything.Yesterday, a new pickup truck came down our dead-end road. The driver

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There's a web camera pointed toward Taos Mountain from Ranchitos. It's on most days, and if you'd like to view it, here's what you do:Get yourself a Yahoo Messenger account -- if you don't already have one -- then add taosexperience as a contact. If the cam is on and there's someone around, you can view it.

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Recently, my family and I experienced a small crisis. We had a small fire in the wall of our house. Besides the hole large enough to throw a cat through, our electricity and heat were turned off because fire had burned through the insulation on the electrical wire.We counted ourselves extremely lucky, knowing it could have been much more serious if I had been away from the house or at work. We

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This photograph was taken by Shirley Butts of a group of men who participate in the tradition of Los Abuelos.According to local tradition, December 12th, the Fe ast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Los Abuelos, fur-covered, beast-like mountain spirits, wake up from their caves high in the mountains.They come down from the mountain cracking their whips and bellowing that the unbelievers shall be

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The old saying goes, "Red sky at morning -- sailors take warning." Though sailors are few and far between here in this inland sea, what is certainly meant is that the afternoon will be especially windy. This has certainly been the case as we slide into the holiday season.Photograph by Melody Romancito at 6:15 a.m.

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Photo by Rick Romancito.It is just before sunset and the bell at San Geronimo Church at Taos Pueblo calls everyone to Vespers. Already, parking is difficult and grid lock grips the road that leads directly into the Native American village from the Northern New Mexico town.Hundreds of people stand and wait or troop through the crunchy snow and follow what is left of the sunlight as it warms the

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The television news said it got down to nearly 20 degrees F last night. If the usual seven-degree difference for Ranchitos held, that meant it was about 13 degrees or so at our house. No wonder everything was covered with a sheen of frost after the sun rose.It looked like we had enough wood to build about one more good fire. It was time to go for a wood run. We’d talked about it for a while but

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This photo of Gorman was taken in his gallery in 2002.Photograph by Rick Romancito. By Rick Romancito and Virginia Clark, The Taos News Nov. 3 - 2:05 p.m.Taos artist R.C. Gorman, age 74, died today (Nov. 3) at about 12:20 p.m. at University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque.Gorman was remembered "as a great spokesman for New Mexico and the Navajo nation and for artists around the world,”

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Are we there yet? "The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas (2005, Simon & Schuster’s Touchstone Books, New York, New York, $12 paperback) by Davy RothbartDavy Rothbart's “The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas” stories are snapshots from road trips and collages cooked up from scraps of paper found on thrift-store bulletin boards and gas station restrooms. Much like the lost, discarded and

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Melissa Zink’s new show at the Parks Gallery in Taos, New Mexico, is called “Quiddities: Precise Ambiguities within Interrupted Continuities.” What? First, you may have to look up “quiddities,” or its singular form “quiddity,” which means the essence, nature or distinctive peculiarity of a thing. It can also mean “a trifling nicety; a cavil; a quibble.” We all know what it means to quibble

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Five of the world's six climatic vegetation zones lie within a 30-mile radius of Taos. In a single day visitors can experience alpine lakes, high mesas, evergreen forests and deep gorges. You can picnic by a roaring mountain stream, watch beavers build a dam, sight elk or take a brisk hike in these ancient mountains. Northern New Mexico's five primary resort communities are the Village of Taos

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Robert Mirabal puts on an annual spookhouse called "The Trail of Fears," with this year's theme being the "Hellbillies' Revenge." Friends from the Rez (Taos Pueblo Indian Reservation) and town (Taos) were on hand to scare the bejezzus out of kids and grown-ups alike.There were two versions of the spook house planned -- one for family fare, where it was (possibly) OK to bring the kids -- and the

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship says an old Spanish Proverb. If you grew up in Taos, you probably already know what it’s like to be part of a large, extended family. Aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins and elders line the picture wall of your home. The same faces you saw over the edge of your crib are the same faces you saw at your baptism, first communion,

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“Corn, beans, melons and squash – good to eat -- good to eat!” Joe Hayes, eyes sparkled as he told the tale of Yellow Corn Girl for the first and second graders at Taos Day School at Taos Pueblo Friday (Oct. 21).Hayes was here for the SOMOS Sixth Annual Storytelling Festival and he’s made it a habit of dropping by Taos Day School for a round of stories.In the story Yellow Corn Girl hears this “

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Take Back the Night was observed in Taos October 20, 2005, as a contingent from Taos Pueblo met a group waiting at Kit Carson Park in Taos. From there, the group marched on to Taos Plaza where there were speakers and others who had something to say about violence and harmony.Take Back the Night is an international rally and march that is organized in local communities with the purpose of unifying

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I've built two cold frames in the backyard using strawbales and large (48" x 48") sheets of tempered glass I found that had been used for solar panels. The panes are large enough that I was concerned about them becoming airborne should the wind hit them just right, so I secured them with bungee cords.I have one end of the bungee hooked onto the orange plastic twine that holds the bale together,

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Halloween appeals to so many of us because it’s an opportunity to get our spooky ya-yas out. There’s costumes, scary stories, even scarier color combinations -- like black and orange (unless you’re a dyed-in-the-wool Taos Tiger stripped sock wearer -- then you’re fashion freak every game night). Each year we indulge our year-long desires for white and green face makeup, bad wigs, leisure suits

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After three years of posting a web log on my http://taosexperience.com cgi-bin web log, I had to abandon it because it suddenly quit working. Besides not posting new posts, I could no longer access old posts to turn them on or off or even edit them. Strange indeed, seeing as how John Batis at TaosNet said nothing had changed on their end (file permissions, etc.) and certainly nothing has changed

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In Northern New Mexico, life is cyclical and moves from one celebration of life to the next. The wheel of the year is marked by feast days -- times of thanksgiving – not just once a year, but a continuous rosary of reasons to get together with family and friends, break bread and say prayers.From the celebration of saints, baptisms, betrothals, weddings, funerals, and other sacramental seasons to

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A turkey is a feast for anyone. But imagine that you’ve been living in the mountains for the better part of the year – hunting and trapping. The air is starting to hold a little chill and you know that before long the leaves will be changing and it’ll be time to head down the mountain and into Taos Valley for the trade fair. That wild turkey -- stuffed with chives and spitted over a pinon fire –

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Curtis Miller is one of those charmed individuals who can grow just about anything. In an area where you aren’t supposed to have enough growing season to produce butternut squash – Curtis has a field of big ones ready for harvest. He’s sold his crop to Cid’s food market – a grocer who makes a point of buying organic produce from local growers. Butternut, acorn and other kinds of squash are hidden

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