Make Art at Silver City’s A Space
JEAN-ROBERT BÉFFORT meets me and my seven-year-old at the entrance to a)sp.”A”©e (pronounced “A Space”) Studio Art Gallery in downtown Silver City for an experience dubbed Art-on-“A”-Stick. Walking…
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Tag: Weird New Mexico
Stranger Things Around New Mexico
Center of the Universe, Albuquerque While the Center Of The Universe may be quotidian on the University of New Mexico’s Albuquerque campus, Bruce Nauman’s concrete walk-through sculpture has a…
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New Mexico’s UFO Records Declassified
ON MARCH 8, 1949, an aircraft systems inspector at Los Alamos National Laboratory looked up to see “an elliptical, rather stubby, aluminum body” surrounded by “billowy flame.” While watching it…
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The Legend of the Three Brujas
WHILE SALEM IS FAMED for its witch trials, New Mexico had its own tensions between the local church and mystical practices in the late 1700s. The Three Brujas of Taos were women so feared that their…
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The New MeX-Files
LAS CRUCES, AUGUST 20, 1949 Clyde Tombaugh, who famously discovered Pluto, was in his Las Cruces backyard with his wife and mother-in-law on a clear, starry night when “he saw a series of…
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Telling Time at the Very Large Array
FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES, the Bracewell Radio Sundial near Magdalena functions like a clock. Ten metal piers, rescued from Australian engineer Ron Bracewell’s radio telescope at Stanford…
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The Lives of New Mexico’s Bats
IMAGINE THE FINGER BONES of a human hand stretched out to something like body length, with webbing spanning between the fingers. That is, essentially, the bone structure of a bat’s wings. “Their…
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Meet the Jackalope at Red Chimney Pit BBQ
IN 1994, Jill Torres’s grandfather Danny Fowler was in the middle of a high-stakes billiards game. His opponent retrieved a wooden crate from his car and wagered its contents. Fowler won the pot, and…
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Five Unusual Places to Stay in New Mexico
Painted Lady Bed & Brew Albuquerque When Jesse Herron bought the Painted Lady Bed & Brew in Old Town in 2014, it checked all the boxes: “Billy the Kid, buried treasure, and ghosts,” he says. “Where…
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The History of Trinitite
WHEN THE FIRST ATOMIC bomb was tested at White Sands Missile Range in 1945, surrounding sands were sucked into the flames. That atomic sludge dried out to trinitite, an eerie-looking grayish-green…
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