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Chile Chicken Nashville Hot Chicken – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil Garduno — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 06:01:57 +0000

My brother Mario–seven years younger, much better looking and quite a bit smarter–and I have shared many memorable firsts. There was the time I taught him how to drive on our dad’s 1965 standard transmission Chevrolet pickup truck. He was a quick study, soon terrifying our grandmother with drifting skills Formula D drivers would envy. I took him to his first championship wrestling match at Albuquerque’s Civic Auditorium where we watched “Rapid” Ricky Romero dispatch “Yellow Belly” Robley. Mario would go on to similarly dominate high school wrestling opponents (though unlike Robley, he didn’t pull “foreign objects” from his trunks with which to beat his opponents). Already in our grizzled 30s, we once beat two much younger (and ostensibly more…

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Pine State Biscuits – Reno, Nevada

Gil Garduno — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 06:01:50 +0000

In 2020, Ted Lasso burst onto the pop culture scene. Not long thereafter my friend Alonna Smith, the brilliant owner of My Indian Stove practically begged me to watch it. She realized that with my penchant for British comedies, I’d love the laugh-out-loud show about an American soccer coach who assumes the help at a Premiere League soccer team in the United Kingdom despite not knowing anything about soccer. Lasso is the master of the one-liner as well as the bringer of balm during heart-warming scenes. He’s warm and fuzzy…and as usual, Alanna steered me in the right direction. On the second episode of season one, Ted began the practice of bringing freshly baked biscuits to the football club’s owner…

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The Post Chicken & Beer – Estes Park, Colorado

Gil Garduno — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 06:01:56 +0000

In 1974 prolific author Stephen King and his wife Tabitha spent a night in Room 217 of The Stanley, a a 140-room Colonial Revival hotel in Estes Park, about five miles from the entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park. The hotel staff was preparing to close the hotel for the season so the Kings found themselves the only guests in the place. King wrote about the experience on his website: “Wandering through its corridors, I thought that it seemed the perfect—maybe the archetypical—setting for a ghost story. That night I dreamed of my three-year-old son running through the corridors, looking back over his shoulder, eyes wide, screaming. He was being chased by a fire-hose. I woke up with a tremendous…

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