Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Go west. New and young artists are changing the Western art scene. Young Guns , a new exhibit opening this weekend at Manitou Galleries, in Santa Fe, highlights innovative works that also pay homage…
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Posts From: March 2022
What We're Reading: Sky Rider
ON JULY 4, 1882, six-foot-tall, 225-pound Park Van Tassel lifted off from Albuquerque’s Old Town in a hot-air balloon that was dangerously inflated at only two-thirds capacity. It was the first…
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Shop These Earth-friendly Stores
Swan Song, Albuquerque Located next to Albuquerque’s 1937 El Vado Motel, Vanessa Dagavarian’s vintage clothing and eco-goods shop fits in nicely with the restored Route 66 motor lodge’s retro vibe…
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Good Soul at Frank’s Famous Chicken and Waffles
THE FOOD MAY BE FAMOUS, but it’s the music that’s jumping when you walk into Frank’s Famous Chicken and Waffles, in Albuquerque. Old-school tunes from Chaka Khan and Marvin Gaye fill the air, while…
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Editor's Letter: Petal Powers
I'D COME TO THE PECOS WILDERNESS for the caves—the reward for a moderate five-mile hike along Cave Creek Trail. It was mid-August, and despite the narrow, winding road leading to Panchuela Campground…
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Datebook: April 2022
THE GATHERING OF NATIONS—North America’s largest powwow—is traditionally held in spring. This year, the season of rebirth gives the event special meaning. After two years of pandemic-related hiatus…
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Close Encounters of the Satirical Kind
AT SUNSET ON A WINTER EVENING just outside Roswell, Eric J. García is making good on a promise to take art out of the gallery. In the field behind his house at the Roswell Artist-in-Residence…
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Triple Play
WITH QUESTA'S STUNNING NATURAL VISTAS and community spirit, it’s no surprise former mayor and longtime resident Malaquias Rael is fond of saying, “I’m not a millionaire, but I have a millionaire’s…
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Event Central
WITH BOTH RUGGED MOUNTAINS and dusty plains, Edgewood’s scenery looks like a Western movie set. As founder and director of the Wildlife West Nature Park, Roger Alink loves the East Mountains and their…
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