Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Enjoy the strange. The Oddities & Curiosities Expo, the largest subculture and oddities fest in the world, comes to Expo New Mexico in Albuquerque this weekend. “If you’re into Halloween, you’re…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Attend a film festival. For the first time, the Santa Fe International Film Festival (SFIFF) expands to six full days of programming, showing more than 200 films, including 74 features, at venues…
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Joshua Wheeler’s Cosmic New Novel
JOSHUA WHEELER HAD HEARD THE STORY—many times—about the cult in La Luz. His family owned White Sands Ranch in nearby Alamogordo, and his aunt and uncle ran a church on the property that became a…
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Unearthing the Atari Tomb
IN FALL 1983, an industry-wide video game crash left Atari with an entire El Paso warehouse full of unsold inventory, including hundreds of thousands of copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial—often…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Hang with the Easter Bunny. Easter Eggstravaganza, Farmington Sycamore Park in Farmington hosts a yearly egg hunt, which happens Friday at 9 a.m. The Easter Bunny, a photo booth, games, and food…
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2024 True Heroes: Casey Otero
CASEY OTERO didn’t know much about baseball when she stepped up to the plate in early 2024 to bring Little League back to Tularosa. What she did know was that the village’s kids needed an after-school…
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2024 True Heroes: Joaquín Luján
FOR JOAQUÍN LUJÁN, delivering freshly roasted green chiles to his neighbors is about more than just filling empty bellies. It’s an organizing strategy. “You start talking about green chile,” he…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Get jazzy in Taos. The great alto saxophonist Frank Morgan called Taos home for five years before his passing in 2007. Now, the Frank Morgan Jazz Festival honors his legacy by bringing some of the…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Experience independent cinema. Santa Fe International Film Festival This festival showcasing independent, international, and Indigenous films has become one of the most lauded in the country, and…
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Summer Eats and Treats
DURING THE DOG DAYS, I start looking at my stove as an enemy. Not only has the heat zapped my energy to cook, but working over a hot oven sounds like a punishment of the cruel and unusual variety…
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