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Craft Republic – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil Garduno — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 06:01:00 +0000

For several months every four years, Americans are subjected to a seemingly interminable number of television commercials, radio ads and social media postings advocating for candidates running for political office. Opposing idealogies would have you believe the “other guy or gal” was of dubious character with “extreme” points of view. One-minute snippets pandering primarily to “undecided” voters may have unintentionally created even more cynics and malcontents among eligible voters. Some of us wished the sadistic “mean season” was as simple and decisive as selecting the winner of the annual New Mexico State Fair Green Chile Cheeseburger Challenge. While the New Mexico State Fair hosts a number of food related competitions, none garner as much attention as the green chile cheeseburger…

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Two Fools Tavern – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil Garduno — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 06:32:17 +0000

Read the table tent placards at the Two Fools Tavern and you’ll learn that this is where the craic is mighty. An old Gaelic term pronounced “crack,”craic refers to the lively essence of the pub experience, a unique and sometimes loud combination of good friends, good times and of course, good pints. Craic is a word for which there is no exact English translation even though there are some 9,000 pubs in the Emerald Isle. In Ireland, pubs, or public houses, are a focal point of the community–as much as the local church. It’s where friends gather for camaraderie and commiseration. The sale and consumption of alcoholic libations is perhaps the pub function with which most Americans are familiar. Most…

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Slate Street Billiards Bar & Grille – Rio Rancho, New Mexico

Gil Garduno — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 06:01:31 +0000

Discovering a bubbling crude…Texas tea, black gold, oil that is, transformed Jed Clampett from poor mountaineer who barely kept his family fed to a millionaire residing in a Beverly (Hills that is, swimming pools, movie stars) mansion. Moving from a tiny ramshackle hovel to a luxurious and palatial dwelling brought with it one surprise after another for Jed and his family. Among them was “a good strong eatin’ table” upon which “you could serve up a whole barbecued steer.” Jed’s nephew Jethro who graduated at the top of his glass…”by a good foot” found out from a friend that the room in which the fancy eatin’ table was centered was called a “billy-yard room.” Ergo, the table was a “billy-yard…

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