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PBS visits Taos
To travel the length of the Pan-American Highway from Alaska to Patagonia presents an exhausting and potentially perilous undertaking; to attempt such an odyssey while shooting a TV show for PBS beggars belief for the scale of the logistics and challenges involved. But that is exactly what a tight-knit crew of seasoned documentary film-makers are currently tackling; they stayed in Taos last week to film a segment on, would you believe, adobe construction.
Magical dramas in the Wild West
‘The Year of the Mad Jag’ Hoopern Publishing (2023, 281 pp.) A group of thirty-something Englishmen —“a stream of overeducated trans-Atlantic yobbos and tarts” — congregate in the central Arizona outback in late-1980 to grow and smuggle some seriously potent sinsemilla — seedless cannabis.
Linda May leaves 'Nomadland' for Taos
Serendipitous meetings can change people for a few days, perhaps for months, maybe for a lifetime. Few chance encounters though can match the life-changing effect that Linda May and Jessica Bruder experienced after they stumbled upon one another on a dusty patch of Arizona desert in the winter of 2013. After her life was torn apart by her husband's death Linda May, nearing destitution, packed her belongings in a Jeep and trailer and took to the road, a latter day nomad.
Filmmaking in New Mexico during COVID
The old saw that the movie business thrives during times of economic decline is holding true in New Mexico as COVID-19 continues to cast its pall over the state, the country and the world.
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