Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Turn trash into treasure. Redefine waste by seeing art and fashion made from commonly discarded materials at the Recycle Santa Fe Art Festival. Now in its 27th year, the event is one of the oldest…
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Tag: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Editor’s Letter: Display Case
“THAT’S ENORMOUS,” a young girl in a flowered dress exclaims while checking out the shell of Hesperotestudo, a giant land tortoise, on display at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science…
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Albuquerque’s Dinosaurs Return
BETWEEN EXHIBITS AT THE New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, in Albuquerque’s Sawmill District, a group of kids crowds around a small display of unassuming brown fragments. Reading the…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 See artists’ visions of New Mexico. The beginnings of Rooted Strong: Visions of America from New Mexico — opening Saturday at the New Mexico Museum of Art—came from an endeavor to honor the 250th…
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Meet New Mexico’s Oldest Residents
LONG BEFORE NEW MEXICO was a landlocked mix of deserts, mountains, and mesas, it was a land of seas, beaches, and lush forests. Plant-eating lizards with tall, bony sails scurried along its shores…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Laugh it up. The Cloudtop Comedy Festival delivers an abundance of LOL moments and more than 50 comedians to Santa Fe Thursday through Sunday. Performances take place at six venues throughout the…
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Dig into This Fossil Collection
IT’S NOT SO FEARSOME NOW, save for the teeth. But imagine adding reptilian flesh, then inserting a cold, inquisitive eye into the flat, three-foot-long fossilized skull of the Bisti Beast, New…
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Larry Crumpler's Mars Mission
VOLCANOLOGIST LARRY CRUMPLER has long studied New Mexico’s lava-filled past while working at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, in Albuquerque. Over the last 15 years, his research…
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What's Up, Doc?
Above: A new exhibit at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, in Albuquerque explores the world of Warner Bros. cartoons. Photograph courtesy of The New Mexico Museum Of Natural History…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
Find your favorite cactus at the Albuquerque Garden Center. Photograph courtesy of the Cactus and Succulent Society of New Mexico. Spike it up. Grab your sunhat and head to the Albuquerque Garden…
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