Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Picture the Mother Road. Inside the lobby at the Apache Motel in Tucumcari, Before 100: Route 66 Now is a traveling exhibition featuring images taken by photographer Craig Kilgore. On view Friday…
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Posts From: March 2026
One of Our 50 Is Missing: March 2026
HE DROVE HER BUGGY While steering a horse-and-buggy in Limerick, Ireland, the driver asked the passengers where they were from. “New Mexico,” replied CHRISTINE HYDE , of Las Cruces. “Oh,” he said…
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What We’re Reading: I Am Agatha
IN HER DEBUT NOVEL, I Am Agatha (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster), Nancy Foley channels the distinctive rhythms of a famous artist’s interior monologue. Inspired by a rumored packet of destroyed…
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Walter White Lives On in Albuquerque
WHEN ONE OF THE CREEPIEST early sequences in Vince Gilligan’s recent Apple TV series, Pluribus, unfolds in the parking lot of an Albuquerque strip mall, many local viewers instantly recognized actress…
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Route 66 Rest Stops
EL RANCHO HOTEL, GALLUP Opened in 1937, the recently renovated hotel once played home to Hollywood legends (their names are on the doors) when out of the glare of movie cameras. The glitterati may…
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Life Is Beautiful in Mesilla
THE ARMCHAIR IN THE SALA GRANDE holds nothing but sunshine. Its otherwise emptiness speaks to the loss of the man who once held court here, mere steps off the Mesilla Plaza. Since 2003, when J. Paul…
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Route 66 Revival at the Imperial Inn
IT’S ONE OF THOSE neon-lit nights on Albuquerque’s Route 66 when downtown hums with evening energy. Enter me, checking into a stark white 1960s Imperial Inn, located a mile away in the Duke City’s…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Attend a homecoming. After a four-year tour throughout the country, Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery returns home to the Southwest with an opening celebration on Saturday at the…
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Navajo Craft Meets Smart Tech
CHARLES C. LYNCH doesn’t consider himself a stylish man. “I don’t wear a lot of jewelry myself,” admits the owner of Bilasáana, an Apple Watch band and accessories maker in Farmington. “I wear Levi’s…
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Mac and Cheese Makeover
AFTER ROB MCCORMACK’S WIFE, Tania, spent a whole summer doctoring mac and cheese with frozen green chile, he detected a business opportunity. As a passionate outdoorsman, McCormack was always looking…
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