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El Cotorro – Albuquerque, New Mexico
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El Cotorro – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoJuly 17, 2022July 22, 2022

There’s a scene in the 2006 lucha libre (Mexican professional wrestling) comedy film Nacho Libre in which Nacho’s ectomorphic tag team partner Esqueleto (“the skeleton”) orders two grilled, buttered and chile-dusted elotes (corn-on-the-cob) from a street vendor. Esqueleto graciously attempts to hand one to Nacho who rebuffs the offer, knocks…

Burger Bro’s – Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Burger Bro’s – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoApril 21, 2022April 27, 2022

Such advanced human traits as complex symbolic expression, art as an aesthetic visual form and elaborate cultural diversity emerged mainly during the past 100,000 years or so.  That’s more than four-million years after humans gained the ability to walk on two legs. By comparison, the ubiquitous All-American burger has evolved in the…

Tap N Taco – Rio Rancho, New Mexico
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Tap N Taco – Rio Rancho, New Mexico

Gil GardunoApril 6, 2022April 17, 2022

Imagine Marty McPlata, a 17 year old Rio Rancho High School student who gets transported back in time seven years to 2015. With the help of his mad scientist friend Bill Resnikoff, he makes his way back to the future to the year from which he left–2022.  Significant changes and…

No Te Rajes – Rio Rancho, New Mexico
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No Te Rajes – Rio Rancho, New Mexico

Gil GardunoMarch 19, 2022March 24, 2022

As the eldest of six, I had the wonderful blessing of having spent more time with our dad than my siblings did.  Dad was the embodiment of the term “gentle man,” a patient mentor and nurturing exemplar of how to be a father and friend.  During our many outings, dad…

Sazon Con Amor – Bernalillo, New Mexico
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Sazon Con Amor – Bernalillo, New Mexico

Gil GardunoAugust 3, 2021August 9, 2021

The Broadway musical Rent taught us that a year is comprised of “five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes.”   Instead of measuring the length of a year “in daylights, sunsets, midnights, cups of coffee, inches, miles, laughter or strife,” Rent encouraged us to measure a year in life in…

Taco Bus – Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Taco Bus – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoJuly 3, 2021July 13, 2021

Perhaps no mobile conveyance in the Land of Enchantment has ferried as many interesting people on as many colorful journeys as the “Road Hog,” the psychedelic bus which shuttled its passengers from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock to Llano Largo, New Mexico. The Road Hog’s 1969 arrival in Llano Largo heralded the…

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