Guest Post: Taco Sal

Note: Alphaquerque is pleased to publish another Guest Post courtesy of Albuquerque’s own Julie James-Griego. – The Mayor “Hey Doll!” That’s what you’d hear every time anyone walked into a great little New Mexican food restaurant in the Northeast Heights. Growing up near this great place I always thought the sign to be festive and nostalgic. And over 50 years later it still is! Owners Felix and Cecelia Gabaldon opened their first restaurant in Truth or Consequences, NM right after […]

C’mon Baby, Let’s Do the Twisters

In 1987, Albuquerque experienced a rare weather phenomenon for this area: a tornado. This was no over-hyped dust devil, but real honest-to-goodness twister, complete with uprooted trees and damaged buildings but (fortunately) no loss of life. Now we have Twisters all over the place. Not the cyclone kind, but the burrito kind. (My weekend is not complete without the No. 4 with red chile.) Holy Ad Lib!!! The typeface in the Twisters logo is a perfect analogy of the 1987 […]