Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Have a wild weekend. Step into a village frozen in time for Old Lincoln Days and The Last Escape of Billy the Kid pageant. The village of Lincoln is the state’s most visited historic site, and for a…
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Tag: Alamogordo
Ode to Hi-D-Ho Drive In
TO ORDER A WORLD-FAMOUS TIGER Burger—or anything else—from Alamogordo’s Hi-D-Ho Drive In, you simply flash your headlights. They’ve done it this way since 1952. You push the button or twist the dial a…
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A Healing Labyrinth Takes Shape
FROM ANY POINT along the Trinity Turtle Healing Labyrinth Park, the sounds of cars, pickups, and semitrailers zipping along US 54/70 are almost imperceptible. Maybe it’s the yin and yang of the place:…
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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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