Three Spirited Outings in October
Fort Stanton Flashlight Tour October 30 Over the years, Fort Stanton has been a military fort, a tuberculosis hospital, a prison, and a rehab center. While guests can normally only visit seven of the…
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Tag: Weird New Mexico
Lost Love at White Sands
AT WHITE SANDS NATIONAL PARK, there is a story that could have long been dead—yet it lives on the evening breeze and in the brilliant sands. It is La Pavura Blanca, or Pavla Blanca, as many refer to…
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Editor’s Letter: Land of Odd
BENJAMIN RADFORD GREW UP in Corrales during the 1970s and ’80s with some big-time FOMO. All the sensational mysteries seemed far, far away: Bigfoot prowled the Pacific Northwest, the Bermuda Triangle…
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Small Wonders in Roswell
CO-FOUNDERS ELAINE HOWE and Nancy Fleming already feature at least 30 makers of miniature dwellings and oddities in Roswell’s Miniatures & Curious Collections Museum. But a recent trip to Beverly…
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Detour-Worthy Roadside Sculptures
Big Bird, Las Cruces Forget speedy cartoon roadrunners. Artist Olin Calk’s 20-foot-tall, one-ton Big Bird sculpture, west of Las Cruces off I-10, is made entirely of tossed sneakers, dead cell…
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Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return at 10
INSIDE MEOW WOLF’s House of Eternal Return, the lobby goes dark, swallowing the doorway behind you. As your eyes adjust, a glowing two-story house appears with every window lit. To the right sits a…
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Albuquerque’s Center of the Universe
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 little-known cousin, Room With My Soul Left…
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