One of Our 50 Is Missing: August 2023
Illustration by Chris Philpot. WHERE’S THE BEACH? Years ago, RAYMOND PUFFER was a brand-new ensign in the Navy, assigned to what was then Sandia Base, in Albuquerque. Back in Michigan, his mother, a…
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Tag: New Mexico
Scope Out These Astronomy Clubs
FOUNDED IN 1951 by Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh, the Astronomical Society of Las Cruces holds downtown moon-gazing events, monthly dark sky gatherings at their Walter Haas Observatory in Leasburg…
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Nine Best Places to Go Stargazing
COSMIC CAMPGROUND Alma Forty miles from the nearest significant source of electric light, the 3.5-acre site was the first International Dark Sky Sanctuary in the U.S. and is still just one of 17 in…
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Fall in Love with New Mexico's Night Skies
FIVE YEARS AGO, during a Perseid meteor shower in August, my husband and I spent our first night at Cosmic Campground in the Gila National Forest. We’d planned the visit ever since DarkSky (formerly…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: July 2023
Illustration by Chris Philpot. A PRESCRIPTION FOR FRUSTRATION Former Rio Rancho resident NANCY BELL once traveled from New Mexico to Cape Cod, Massachusetts. While there, she needed to refill a…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: June 2023
Illustration by Chris Philpot. ROAD TRIPPER A 1972 graduate of St. Pius X High School, in Albuquerque, LOUIE CASTORIA was hanging out at the Ace Hardware in Half Moon Bay, California, when a…
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Artists Find a Home in Carrizozo
THE EMERGENCE OF A HIP desert art town follows a certain pattern. It starts with the rise of an industry in a small community: maybe a military base (see Marfa, Texas, and Slab City, California) or a…
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Hike Flag Mountain for Panoramic Views
THE TRAIL DISAPPEARED INTO THE OLD BURN SCAR. Young aspen and oak, regrown since the 1996 Lama fire, shimmered in yellows, reds, and oranges. We pushed into the growth and scrambled up the ridge…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: May 2023
Illustration by Chris Philpot. SALAMI SHENANIGANS In 1966, RAY GOLDSTEIN was a graduate student in Las Cruces. As a native New Yorker in the land of green chile, he was also sorely missing the taste…
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Try These 25 Classic New Mexico Restaurants
Click here for an enlarged version of this map. BIBO BAR & GRILLE Bibo Tucked inside an adobe facade off historic Route 66, Bibo Bar & Grille is no stranger to shifting with the times. The original…
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