Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Dance the night away. Support the Cleveland Roller Mill Museum while two-stepping to live music by the Rifters at the Cleveland Mill Dance on Friday. “Initially, it was a group of dancers,” says…
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Peak Season in Red River
AS THE JEEP TIRES scrape near the edge of the gravel road, driver Gary Swinford prompts, “See how steep it is?” You can’t miss it. The gravel slope drops so precipitously that the ridgeline on the far…
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New Mexico Music Festival Guide
8750’ FESTIVAL, RED RIVER August 14–17 This high-altitude three-day celebration brings rock and roll, blues, and headlining country acts like Summer Dean and Ray Wylie Hubbard, plus Albuquerque’s own…
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Sangre Joven Keeps Norteño Music Alive
I F YOU’VE CAUGHT Sangre Joven rocking a hometown show at Plaza Park in the center of Las Vegas, you probably understand why the longtime band titled their latest release El Orgullo de Las Vegas (The…
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Delbert Anderson Traces His Musical Roots
“THIS IS VERY LIKELY only the second time a Diné trumpeter has performed this piece,” Delbert Anderson tells a hushed audience from the stage at El Morro Theatre, in Gallup, earlier this year. Then he…
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Join the Navajo Tea Party
A HOT-PINK COLD-DRINK oasis flowers among the wafting scents of roasted corn and frybread at the northwest corner of the Gallup Flea Market. Among the 500-plus vendors of jewelry, crafts, antiques…
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Roswell Declassified
PAUL SEMONES flicks on the handheld microphone that pipes his voice through the speakers of his 15-seat van and points to an unassuming midcentury house. The Roswell UFO Tour guide tells us it’s the…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Attend one of the oldest Native gatherings in the country. Gallup gleams during its annual Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial, which has been happening for more than 100 years with Indigenous attendees…
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Editor's Letter: Turn It Up
CAMP CHAIRS and blankets pack the sloping lawn of Ashley Pond Park for the opening night of the Los Alamos Summer Concert Series. Wearing a white cowboy hat, a rodeo-size belt buckle, and cowboy boots…
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Vintage Meets Local at the Heirloom Shop
IN DOWNTOWN RATÓN, across from the stately brick railway station, Jacob Blackwell is arranging organic vegetables and minding the register inside the Heirloom Shop. With its emerald awning and vintage…
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