New Mexico
New Mexicans celebrate Lunar New Year
Thousands of people in New Mexico are celebrating the Lunar New Year as the Year of the Dragon began Saturday.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Thousands of people in New Mexico are celebrating the Lunar New Year as the Year of the Dragon began Saturday.
For 15 days, traditions come alive with cultural performances, such as the dragon dance and martial arts showcases.
The celebrations vary but food and family are what everyone has in common for Lunar New Year.
“It usually involves a bunch of dumplings. Every traditional Chinese household will serve dumplings,” Jason Zeng said, adding dumplings symbolize fortune and prosperity in the coming year.
Zeng is a third-generation restauranteur and the owner of Fan Tang Restaurant. The restaurant has strived to introduce Albuquerque to the spicy flavors of his hometown of Szechuan.
His family is one example of the countless families who have immigrated to New Mexico since the 1800s.
“We all know each other, we all help out each other. If one of the families is in need, traditionally, you know, we will chip in and help out that family,” Zeng said.
Food brings the family together every year. That includes traditional dishes like tang yuan.
“Sweet glutinous rice balls with sesame paste inside. It’s like a dessert for after dinner,” Zeng described.
Families also traditionally make noodles. When eaten, they symbolize a long and healthy life.
“This is spicy beef noodle soup. It’s egg noodles, sliced beef in like a spicy broth. Almost like spicy ramen, but Szechuan.”
The Year of the Dragon is said to bring good luck, prosperity and strength to newborns. It goes through January 28, 2025.
New Mexico
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New Mexico
Watch: DOWN Rejoined By KIRK WINDSTEIN For Rescheduled Concert In Mescalero, New Mexico
DOWN played its rescheduled concert at Inn Of The Mountain Gods Resort And Casino in Mescalero, New Mexico this past Friday, September 27. Fan-filmed video of the performance can be seen below.
The long-running heavy metal supergroup, which features vocalist Philip H. Anselmo, guitarists Pepper Keenan and Kirk Windstein, drummer Jimmy Bower and bassist Pat Bruders, was originally supposed to perform at at Inn Of The Mountain Gods on June 20, but the show was called off due to a pair of rapidly growing wildfires which were converging on a village inside a tribal reservation in the state. Thousands of residents in southern New Mexico were ordered to evacuate their homes and the fires prompted the partial closure of U.S. Highway 70 south of the village of Ruidoso.
As a result of the postponement, DOWN played two pop-up shows in Louisiana — on June 20 at Southport Hall in New Orleans and on June 21 at Varsity Theatre in Baton Rouge.
$5 per ticket from each of the DOWN pop-up shows went to Mescalero Apache Nation – South Fork Fire relief fund.
When DOWN‘s concert at Inn Of The Mountain Gods Resort And Casino was first announced in April, the band said that Windstein would sit out the show due to his commitments with CROWBAR. Filling in for him at the June gigs was former DOWN guitarist Bobby Landgraf. Windstein was able to rejoin his DOWN bandmates for the rescheduled Inn Of The Mountain Gods Resort And Casino show.
Prior to Southport Hall, DOWN‘s last concert took place in September 2022 at the Blue Ridge Rock Festival in Alton, Virginia.
DOWN made a handful of rare live appearances in the spring and summer of 2022. The band launched a three-date U.S. run of shows in May 2022 at the Welcome To Rockville festival in Daytona Beach, Florida. After playing in Atlanta and Dallas immediately after Rockville, DOWN took a three-week break before regrouping for three European festival appearances in June. The aforementioned appearance at that year’s Blue Ridge Rock Festival followed in September 2022.
In August 2021, DOWN took part in a very special in-person live and virtual experience. “NOLA Town Throwdown” was held at the Fillmore in New Orleans, Louisiana and featured fans attending the show in person as well as watching it in real time from the comfort of their living room.
In August 2020, DOWN celebrated the 25th anniversary of “NOLA” with a special livestreamed event. Dubbed “The Quarter Century Throwdown”, the high-production, multi-camera event took place using cutting-edge streaming technology to create a one-of-a-kind virtual concert experience.
A founding member of DOWN, Windstein left the band in 2013 in order to focus on CROWBAR and his family life. He was replaced by Bobby Landgraf, DOWN‘s former guitar tech who was previously in GAHDZILLA MOTOR COMPANY, a 1990s outfit also featuring Jason McMaster (DANGEROUS TOYS, WATCHTOWER),and HONKY.
Windstein announced his return to DOWN in 2019, with the band confirming a number of festival appearances for 2020 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of “NOLA”, all of which were later canceled or postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic which swept the globe.
Prior to the August 2020 livestream, DOWN‘s last live appearance took place in August 2016 at the Psycho Las Vegas festival in Las Vegas.
The supergroup hasn’t issued anything since the arrival of the “Down IV – Part Two” EP in May 2014.
“Down IV – Part Two” sold around 10,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release in May 2014 to debut at position No. 23 on The Billboard 200 chart.
The band’s previous EP, “Down IV Part I – The Purple EP”, opened with around 12,000 units in September 2012 to land at No. 35.
“Down IV – Part Two” was recorded at Nodferatu’s Lair — Anselmo‘s home studio — and produced by Michael Thompson. It was released via Down Records/ADA Music.
You know it’s DOWN as soon as you hear them! There’s no mistaking those gargantuan riffs, swamp blues leads, crashing…
Posted by Inn of the Mountain Gods on Thursday, July 11, 2024
New Mexico
Green Chile Fiesta showcases New Mexico’s favorite veggie
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – An annual fiesta sought to spice up the fall season and celebrate New Mexico’s state vegetable.
The Green Chile Fiesta hosted by the SouthWest Organizing Project brought green chile stew connoisseurs together to compete in a cook-off for the “best of” title.
Corrales celebrates autumn with annual harvest festival
Organizers said they had vegetable and meat competitors, and the community could vote for their favorite stew.
Green Chile wasn’t the only new Mexican specialty highlighted at the event. visitors could also check out the low-riders show, local vendors, and live cultural performances by the people who call the Land of Enchantment home.
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