Visit These Seven Iconic Film Locations
ALBUQUERQUE NOTABLES: Lonely Are the Brave (1962), Breaking Bad (2008–2013), The Avengers (2012), Sicario (2015), Better Call Saul (2015–2022), Stranger Things (2016–). While most people know about…
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Tag: Entertainment
Doubling Down at New Mexico’s Casinos
CHA-CHIN-CHA-CHIN. The sound of quarters clicking in my grandmother’s tub was the soundtrack of our casino trips. Although I’d tag along, I never quite got the appeal—until now. After a 60-minute…
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Meet Angelique Midthunder: The Star Maker
E MMY-NOMINATED CASTING director Angelique Midthunder may have been born in Bangkok, but for the last two decades she’s been an integral force in New Mexico’s booming film industry. “It’s been…
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Lights, Camera, New Mexico!
NESTLED AMONG the sagebrush and rocky, inhospitable terrain at the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, an octagonal hogan sits uninhabited. Just a few weeks earlier, a flurry of…
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Editor’s Letter: Bar Talk
LOS OJOS RESTAURANT & SALOON, in Jemez Springs, is hopping on a Sunday. On the elevated stage at the front of the room, Ponderosa-based country singer Austin Van belts out a rousing cover of Alan…
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All Aboard For Adventure
IT’S THE NEW SHERIFF’S FIRST MORNING ON THE JOB, and he’s already pouring sweat. A sword-wielding outlaw has hopped aboard the Wild West Express from Santa Fe to Lamy. He’s annoying a scruffy…
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Call It a Comeback
WHEN THE MEMPHIS P-TAILS took to the Lobo Theater stage in October, the Albuquerque blues band was one of the first acts to perform in the space. As guitarist Darin Goldston crooned the refrain, “I’m…
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Hollywood Vibe
Above: Snap a selfie at the “Calumet Says Howdy” mural in Las Vegas. COWBOY JACK BURNS GETS US. “Westerners hate fences,” he says in an early scene of Lonely Are the Brave. We certainly won’t blame…
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