Zozobra— burned for the 101st time on Aug. 29, 2025. Source NM talks to attendees — and politicians —about their glooms.

I’ve talked to old-timers about Zozobra. In the 1980s, they tell me, it was magic. Forty feet of burlap and wire looming above a crowd small enough that you could ...

THE ALBUQUERQUE BALLOON MUSEUM IS HOSTING A STEAM NIGHT WITH A SPECIAL EVENT CELEBRATING TWO ICONIC NEW MEXICO TRADITIONS. ZOZOBRA AND BALLOONS. LAST NIGHT, PEOPLE GATHERED IN CELEBRATION OF THE 100TH ...

LOOK AT THE HISTORY, THE CULTURE AND THE IMPACT OF OLD MAN GLOOM. NOW WE KNOW SECRETS ARE A PART OF ANY TRADITION, AND ZOZOBRA IS NO EXCEPTION THERE. LILY MELENDEZ UNRAVELS SOME OF THE MYSTERY BEHIND ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — High anxiety about White House politics, hurricane flooding and even the threat of nuclear war with North Korea is adding an extra spark to the annual burning of a giant, ghostly ...