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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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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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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Take a Little Trip Through Lowrider Culture
I’D GROWN UP in Albuquerque seeing lowriders my whole life, but mostly in passing. One Sunday in 2017, I took my camera to Seventh Street and Central Avenue. I wanted to photograph scenes I’d only…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Catch an arts panel. On Saturday at 2 p.m., artists, activists, and lawyers gather at the Albuquerque Museum to speak about the mass incarceration of immigrants in New Mexico and the rest of the…
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Faith, Culture, and Lowriding
T HERE’S A CERTAIN SKILL —a vibe—to driving a lowrider. “You’ve got to lean back, turn on your radio, and just cruise it,” Arthur Angelo Medina says. Known to most as LowLow, Medina and his wife, Joan…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 See New Deal art. Using a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, gallupARTS has united more than 120 works made during the New Deal program in the 1930s and 1940s into the Gallup New Deal…
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24th Annual Photo Awards: New Mexico Experience
Thank you to our sponsors for the 24th Annual Photo Awards: Muench Workshops, New Mexico Department of Game & Fish, New Mexico Department of Transportation, the Hatch Chile Store, World Balloon, the…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Take the family to the fair. It’s hard not to feel like a kid at the San Juan County Fair in Farmington, where colorful lights, whooshing rides, fun games, and delicious eats are at your…
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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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