City On The Edge Podcast

We travel back in time to the Albuquerque of 110 years ago and find a world of mail scams, abortion pills and quack treatment for hemorrhoids.

Visible from Albuquerque, but a world away, Sierra Ladrones is home to the ghosts of bandits, mysterious spirits and rumors of buried treasure.

Hey, this episode is available on our brand new youtube channel at bit.ly/cityontheedge! We chat with chile historian and author Dave DeWitt about the history and biology of green chile. Also, we find out a bit about Home Movie Day from our friends at Modern Albuquerque and Basement Films.

We talk to Albuquerque the Magazine assistant editor Taylor Hood about his research into various historic homes in Albuquerque, from a bed & breakfast where spies passed secrets to the Soviet government, to a home built for the New Mexico governor when residents were sure that Albuquerque would be the state capital. We also delve into what happens when a persistent legend is false, but gets printed as fact.

We follow the lives of several women who traveled on El Camino Real, the royal road that ran from Mexico City to Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico.

Did infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone spend time in the mountains of New Mexico? If he did, was he "hiding out?" We look into the persistent legends and try to find the truth.

We chat with Albuquerque poet Hakim Bellamy and photographer Justin Thor Simenson about their new book, We Are Neighbors, which explores an Albuquerque neighborhood through image and fiction.

We talk about the most famous WWII correspondent you've never heard of: Ernie Pyle. A beloved journalist who wrote about America's everyday stories before he went to war, Ernie Pyle's fame skyrocketed when he began covering the Western Front. So what's the Albuquerque connection? Listen and find out!

We talk to poet and artist Amaris Ketcham about her interactive map of Albuquerque's literary landscape (poeticroutes.com).

This episode, we look into Skyline Drive, an almost-was paved road that would have run down the face of Sandia if it hadn’t been stopped by environmentalists.

CoE talks to New Mexico Political Report Environmental Correspondent Laura Paskus about the water issues affecting our city and state.

It's Halloween, so we visit some Albuquerque graveyards and tell stories from cemeteries. Spooky!

We go into the history of the Albuquerque Indian School, featuring interviews with historian Joe Sabatini and Rachel Moore, educational curator at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

We chat with Albuquerque native, journalist and author Rachel Syme--whose work can be found in the New Yorker, New York Times and other major publications--about how the rest of the world views Albuquerque and the impact of Breaking Bad.

The latest episode of CITY ON THE EDGE is about a 1940 concert deep underground in the San Pedro Mine, near Albuquerque, featuring the first symphony orchestra ever conducted by a woman, and funded by a tycoon who built the Empire State Building and tried to overthrow the government with a secret corporate coup. Check it out!

In 1955, a passenger airplane flew into the west face of the Sandia Mountains. We know *how* it happened, but why is an enduring mystery. This episode, Mike, Nora and Ty discuss the details of this infamous part of New Mexico history.

Part 2 of our look at the history of a forgotten town in the Manzano mountains. With the demise of the original village of Ojo Sabino, the area takes on a new identity as a silver fox fur farm. Also, a listener asked us about a weird noise in the Sandia mountains, so we give it our best shot to provide an explanation.

Sabino NM, Pt 1, A Spanish Village by Ty, Nora and Mike

We look into the history of dowsing in New Mexico.

During World War II, nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans were put into internment camps due to American racism and fears of espionage. Several of those camps were in New Mexico, and this week we look at a disturbing shooting that occurred at Camp Lordsburg.