Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Elevate your weekend. The La Mesa Airfield in Ratón hosts the International Santa Fe Trail Balloon Rally this weekend. Balloons lift off daily at 6:30 a.m. Saturday through Monday. The Ratón Elks…
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What We're Reading: Crazy Fourth
Photograph by John McCauley. ON JULY 4, 1912, around 4,000 PEOPLE witnessed a lopsided bout that was “no better than a basement smoker in the local Odd Fellows lodge hall,” writes Toby Smith in Crazy…
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SUMMER IN THE MEADOW CITY | LAS VEGAS July 3–6 Fourth of July Fiestas Come to Plaza Park for live music, a parade, watermelon-eating contest, and the Fiesta Run. (505) 454-1401, ext. 3272;…
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True Grit: New Mexico's Western Mythos
IN 2008, THE LURID DRAMA No Country for Old Men won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. A gloriously creepy essay on violence—in which a madman toting a cattle gun teases victims into calling a coin…
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