There's a 13-foot inflated sitting man with a hamburger for a head at the Albuquerque Museum. "That one's titled 'The Mayor Rests,'" said Ramona Zamir-Gonzalez, senior assistant at the Albuquerque Museum. "It's attached to this pump that puts air into it, but it kind of sighs and breathes and groans.
Quilting has been passed down from mothers to children for generations. On Monday at the UNM Continuing Education building, almost 100 members of the New Mexico Quilters' Association gathered around an exhibition of quilts that were judged in a quilting contest at the State Fair.
Most people are asleep at 5 a.m. At the Albuquerque Zen Center, at 2300 Garfield Ave. S.E., practitioners of Zen Buddhism are settling down to meditate at that time. It's one of many open meditation sessions at the center held throughout the week. "It's for people who get up," said Seiju Bob Mammoser, the center's abbot.
Reading gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson's works, one might think his whole life was a blur of reckless behavior and drug abuse. But for all of the mescaline-induced tales of ambiguous lizard-like forms slithering about in seedy Las Vegas showrooms, his insight into the cultural and political landscape of his time gave him the torch to write about the American Dream.
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