Ride into Route 66 Summerfest
FOR DIEGO LUCERO, deputy director of the City of Albuquerque’s Department of Arts & Culture, this year’s Route 66 Summerfest will feel like walking through the evolution of the Mother Road. With four…
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Tag: Classic Cars
Where Route 66 Still Moves
ON A WEEKEND NIGHT on Central Avenue, Route 66 does not feel historic. It feels active. Cars move slowly beneath old motel signs and storefront lights, an Impala rolling low, a Monte Carlo on wire…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Witness Native theater’s lineage. More than 100 works are part of SITE Santa Fe’s newest exhibition, Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969 , opening Friday with…
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Summer Car Shows in New Mexico
SPOKES ON 66 CAR SHOW June 5–6 Grants puts the pedal down on summer with the full-throttle Route 66 celebration June 5–6. “We are hoping to get 200 cars this year,” says event coordinator Jose Garcia…
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3 Must-See Car Museums in New Mexico
Editor's Note: After the publishing of this story, the New Mexico Route 66 Museum in Tucumcari permanently closed in July 2025. THE CANARY-YELLOW 1930 Ford Model A Five-Window Coupe, perched high atop…
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The Art of Lowrider Culture
WORKING IN A STYLE HE CALLS “TASTEFUL OVERKILL,” Albuquerque native Rob Vanderslice has been painting lowrider cars in New Mexico for nearly 40 years. Vanderslice, who opened his first shop at 18…
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Check Out These Hot Wheels
Editor's note: Russell's Travel Center was purchased by TravelCenters of America in October after acquiring its Springer location earlier in the year. It plans to maintain the car museum and other…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Go West(ern). Northern New Mexico and southern Colorado combine forces to celebrate cowboys and carbs this weekend at the second annual Colexico Experience Spaghetti & Westerns Festival (its name…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Catch a rising artist. Artist and author Zahra Marwan was seven when she immigrated with her family from Kuwait to New Mexico. Her first solo exhibit in Santa Fe opens at Hecho Gallery on Friday…
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