The New Notah Begay

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The New Notah Begay

VOL II, Issue 12, June 17, 2015
New Mexico’s second-largest newspaper
The New
Notah
Begay
Page 7
Tenants Complain
Apartment Complex
Run Like a Prison
Page 5
How MRIs Can Make You Sick
Page 17
Thai Spice
Heats Up
N.E. Heights
Page 26
Theater on the Farm Sprouts in North Valley, Page 28
NEWS
2 • June 17, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS
ABQ Free Press Pulp News
compiled By abq free press staff
Anti-war suit
An Iraqi single mother has assembled
an international team of lawyers who
are now asking the Ninth Circuit
Court of Appeals to hear her claim
that the Iraq War was illegal under
laws set down at the Nuremberg
Trials, which govern when and how
a country can go to war. Her lawyer
filed papers in late May urging the
Ninth Circuit to review facts and
statements made by high-ranking
Bush Administration officials – including former President George W.
Bush, former Vice President Richard
Cheney, and former Secretary of
Defense Donald Rumsfeld – in the
run-up to the Iraq War. On June 2, an
international group of lawyers – including former U.S. Attorney General
Ramsey Clark – filed an amicus brief
in support of her claims. Amicus
briefs allow parties who have strong
interest in a case’s subject matter, but
are not directly involved, to advise the
court of further relevant information
or additional arguments, reports U.S.
Labor Against War.
Crawl aboard!
American Airlines forced a disabled
passenger to crawl onto one of its
flights, prompting the woman to file a
$75,000 lawsuit. The woman had notified American in advance she needed
a ramp but when the flight boarded,
a gate agent said it was too late to
use the one next to the plane. “I was
humiliated. It was embarrassing to
have 50-something people watch you
crawl into a plane,” Theresa Purcell
said. “Is today another time where I
have to climb onto an airplane again,
where all these people have to watch
me embarrass myself again, and I
gotta be there, hoping please, I hope I
never see these people again?”
The hypocrisy
Former Massachusetts Congressman
Barney Frank, the first openly gay
member of Congress, had harsh words
for Dennis Hastert. “Dennis Hastert
was a member of the House who
voted for the Defense of Marriage act.
He subsequently as Speaker twice put
before the House of Representatives
the constitutional amendment that
would have cancelled retroactively
all the same sex marriages that had
taken place legally,” Hastert told
Chris Hayes of “All In.” “The rank
hypocrisy of this man using his power
to persecute other people for doing
what he was doing. Secondly, and
it is relevant to note that in terms of
the hypocrisy area, you mentioned
Gingrich had to quit. It turns out
Gingrich was at the time having an
affair with the woman he is now
married who was an employee of the
House Agriculture Committee. And
then Livingston who was supposed
to replace him had to quit because he
was having an affair not just with a
woman but with a lobbyist who was
lobbying him. So then in an effort
to get somebody [who was clean],
they get Hastert. The point is that all
this was happening while they were
impeaching Bill Clinton for having
oral sex. So I think that it now looks
like if you take Bill Clinton, Newt
Gingrich, Dennis Hastert, and Robert
Livingston the Republican Speakers
or would-be speakers – Clinton is a
choir boy.”
Deeper scandal
Getting lost in former Republican
Speaker Dennis Hastert’s hush
money scandal is a bigger question:
How did Hastert get so rich? When
he went to Congress for the first
time in 1987, he was worth $275,000.
Twenty years later he’s worth $17 million and paying out $50,000 in hush
money. One answer is insider dealing
in real estate located along
the proposed route of a highway in
his Illinois district that netted him
$3 million in profit, according to
NationalReview.com.
Shrinking
Brace yourself for another crackdown
on carry-ons. The International Air
Transport Association is recommending a smaller carry-on size. While it
will mean more space in overhead
bins on planes, it could also mean
more money for airlines, reports
WTSP-TV of Tampa Bay. The trade
group is encouraging airlines to
enforce slimmer measurements: 21.5
x 13.5 x 7.5 inches. Southwest Airlines
currently allows some of the largest
bags with 24 x 16 x 10 inches. The
measurement used by many major
airlines including Delta, United and
American is 22 x 14 x 9 inches.
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ABQ Free Press Pulp News...............................................................................................................Page 2
Santolina — Wait for it....................................................................................................................Page 4
Senior residential rebellion at La Resolana....................................................................................Page 5
ABQ Free Press Local Briefs..............................................................................................................Page 6
COVER STORY: Notah Begay III reboots career..............................................................................Page 7
Typewriter torment....................................................................................................................... Page 10
Two demoted for fake sick note scheme..................................................................................... Page 11
Teachers rebel against failing system.......................................................................................... Page 14
High court says Gov. Martinez stiffed workers........................................................................... Page 15
Where’d you get that coffee?...................................................................................................... Page 16
Evidence mounting that MRI chemicals are toxic....................................................................... Page 17
Killing the Colorado River............................................................................................................ Page 18
Reddit doesn’t want to read about hate..................................................................................... Page 20
COLUMNS
Left vs. Right: Accountability or testing for testing’s sake?..........................................................Page 8
Joe Monahan: Brandenburg’s fading star..................................................................................... Page 9
Efrain Villa: The endless impossibilities of India............................................................................Page 9
Sayrah Namasté: AIM commemoration; World Refugee Day.................................................... Page 12
ABeerQ: High bar for local microbreweries................................................................................ Page 34
ANALYSIS & OPINION
Gary Glasgow editorial cartoons.....................................................................................................Page 8
Domrzalski: Lavu’s Lim tells ABQ to put on its big boy pants.................................................... Page 12
Robert Reich: Texas needs to get a grip on reality..................................................................... Page 19
ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT & MORE
Calling all Pets............................................................................................................................... Page 20
Screens: Icon Cinema seduces ABQ with popcorn, pop, plush................................................... Page 21
State of the Arts: One hell of a Saturday.................................................................................... Page 22
Spotlight: Dark documentaries at The Guild............................................................................... Page 22
Screens: “Love & Mercy”; “The Life of Riley”; “Sense8”...................................................Pages 23-25
Deep Dish: Thai Spice, then donuts to cool the burn........................................................Pages 26-27
Stages: Theater on the Farm........................................................................................................ Page 28
Living: The Bugman cometh......................................................................................................... Page 29
Sex Q-and-A: Prolonging pleasure............................................................................................... Page 29
Music: Clearing the inbox............................................................................................................. Page 31
Boom Box: Reviews of new music................................................................................................ Page 33
Music: Why Ornette matters........................................................................................................ Page 35
Within Range: The nuevomexicano music scene........................................................................ Page 35
Calendar of arts and entertainment events........................................................................ Page 36-39
Crossword puzzle.......................................................................................................................... Page 40
Classified ads................................................................................................................................. Page 40
On the cover: Notah Begay III, now a journeyman TV golf announcer, on where his career is now (Photo by Don James)
NEWS
Santolina’s Road Ahead a Long One
By abq free press staff
D
on’t expect bulldozers at Santolina any
time soon. The 14,000acre community on
the far West Mesa will
remain vacant desert for
years before anything is
built.
That’s because Santolina’s owners, Western
staff photo
Albuquerque Land
Holdings, have two more Bernalillo County Commissioners hear Santolina testimony.
planning processes to go
through, and they will all
Sol, the 12,900-acre master planned
be as lengthy as the first round, which
development on Albuquerque’s south
took more than a year.
side. Before the recession, Mesa del
The commission’s exhaustive debate
Sol’s leaders figured it would take
on a Level A master plan for the giant
40 to 50 years to fill it up with more
development was just a prelude.
than 30,000 homes and nearly 100,000
That’s only an outline for the project.
residents. Right now there are a little
Next come Level B and Level C master
more than 150 homes out there.
plans, which will include details of
And then there’s the money for the
where homes will be built and what
roads
and other infrastructure and
they will look like. Both of those will
where
it will come from. Mesa del
have to go through the Bernalillo
Sol
estimated
its infrastructure cost at
County Planning Commission and the
$635
million,
and
it has TIDDS (Tax
County Commission.
Increment Development Districts)
Then there’s the market. Right
to help pay for it. At this point, no
now there isn’t one for Santolina.
TIDDS are planned for Santolina.
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NEWS
ABQ FREE PRESS • June 17, 2015 • 5
Residents Rebel Against Apartment Complex Rules
BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI
S
ome residents of La Resolana Seniors Community in Northeast Albuquerque have an idea they
believe would show how the Section 8, rent-assisted
facility is run by its owner and manager.
They want to print up signs with the word “cell”
and put them above their apartment numbers. They
complain managers run the complex like a prison
and use intimidation and a system of snitches to
frighten them into compliance with ever-changing
and increasingly restrictive rules.
The complex at Chelwood Park Boulevard
and Mountain Road Northeast has 166 federally
subsidized apartments for the low-income elderly
and disabled. Its operation is overseen by the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development.
La Resolana residents could once barbecue with
charcoal and electric grills. No more. Only grills that
use small, camping-size, one-pound propane tanks
are allowed.
Wheelchairs and other assistive equipment many
residents use to get around can no longer be stored
on patios. Residents of second-floor units have been
told they can’t sit out in their enclosed walkways
because of fire code restrictions.
The complex went smoke-free in January, a situation that has sparked some of the conflict between
residents and management.
Residents said they have been given 10-day notices
of potential eviction based on hearsay. Management
doesn’t verify the complaints for accuracy and it
doesn’t give residents a chance to confront their
accusers, they said.
Managers installed locks on the HVAC air filters in
some apartments, apparently in an attempt to catch
smokers when the filters are changed out. Some
residents said annual inspections of their apartments
are overly strict and that the inspections are used to
hammer them into submission.
One 85-year-old resident said he nearly failed an
inspection because there were bread crumbs underneath his toaster.
A 93-year-old woman with congestive heart failure
and who needs a walker to get around was moved
to a second-floor apartment from her ground-level
unit until management can locate a one-bedroom for
her on the first floor.
A 68-year-old resident said the president of the
company that owns the complex took a five-gallon
propane tank out of the bed of his pickup truck and
then tried to evict him after he filed suit to get it
back.
And on June 5, management banned residents
from wearing sleeveless t-shirts or housecoats in
public areas of the property.
Residents’ unrest
La Resolana is owned by New Mexico-American
Housing Foundation, Inc., which is based in
Virginia. The contract property manager, Carnes &
Co., Inc., of Albuquerque, said the company couldn’t
discuss specific cases without written permission
from the seven residents who spoke to ABQ
Free Press about their situations. He denied any
John Lawler shot this photo of the screensaver at the public computer at La Resolana Senior Community’s clubhouse
shortly before it was taken down in June. Enforcement of management’s rules has led to turmoil at the 166-unit apartment
complex.
infringement of residents’ rights.
Company president Sam Carnes said in a written
statement that the residents, many of whom are
smokers, have been angry since the complex went
smoke-free in January.
“There are a very small number of residents who
have been extremely disgruntled since the property
implemented a no-smoking policy on the premises
and banned the use or possession of large propane
tanks in the property in 2014,” Carnes wrote.
“The owner of the property adopted these rule
changes to protect the safety, health and welfare
of the residents of this property, whose residents
primarily are elderly and infirm, and should apply
to all residents.”
Carnes also said that management investigates
complaints that rise to the level of HUD or house
rule violations.
“Management does what could be considered typical fact finding on the issue and then, if warranted,
prepares a 10-day notice of violation,” Carnes said.
“Each 10-day notice goes through several layers of
review before it is issued to a resident.”
Residents disagree. They said management targets
those who challenge its rules and authority.
Gloria Hajduk, who has lived at La Resolana since
1998, pulled no punches. “It’s starting to feel like
a prison and a Gestapo camp. You can’t smoke,
everyone’s walking on eggs. You have to be careful
about what you say or do,” Hajduk said.
The 76-year-old Hajduk recently received a 10-day
notice of violation for smoking and talking on the
phone with her front door open that began with the
words, “It has been reported.” Hajduk fired back a
response to management that read:
“Your report is unsubstantiated, a fabrication and
an insult. I have not smoked in my apartment as of
this year. I never talk on the phone with my front
door open, and as of April 13, my birthday, I have
stopped using tobacco. Your information is faulty at
best, and a violation of my privacy at worst. It seems
that this current administration continues to create
an environment of intimidation and ultimate stress,
employing snitches and using hearsay as proof.
Please let me live in my apartment in peace.”
The propane tank
In 2014, management issued new house rules banning the use of charcoal and electric grills, as well as
on-property storage of five-gallon propane tanks.
Resident Michael Lawler, then 67, objected. He
pointed out that the City of Albuquerque’s fire code
allows for storage of five-gallon propane tanks on
multi-family residential properties so long as they
are stored 10 feet from any building. His five-gallon
tank was safely stored in the bed of his 1991 Toyota
pickup truck 30 to 50 feet from any building.
cont. on page 13
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ABQ Free Press Local Briefs
Danger!
Chief Administrative Officer Rob
Perry says a former city councilor’s
call for a house cleaning at the Albuquerque Police Department “dangerous.” In an interview with KOAT-TV,
Perry also said Pete Dinelli’s call
for the firing of 53 APD top brass
“asinine.” “Making statements like
this, you know, to an underground
newspaper, a disgruntled, unelected
political figure like this, is dangerous
because they come up with ideas
that can lead to very, very poor
results,” Perry said. Dinelli, a former
city councilor who unsuccessfully
challenged Berry for mayor in 2013,
told ABQ Free Press that in 1997 the
chief of APD tried to intimidate him
into abandoning a police oversight
proposal while Dinelli was a city
councilor. For the record, this “underground” newspaper is published on
the second floor of an office building
on San Pedro Boulevard Northeast.
Tasty
Albuquerque’s water tastes pretty
good. In fact, the city’s water tied
Boston’s for third place in the
American Water Works Association
annual taste test competition earlier
this month. The contest was held in
Anaheim, Calif., and 29 municipalities
competed, the Albuquerque Bernalillo
County Water Utility Authority said.
The Big Sky water system in Billings,
Mont., had the best tasting water,
while Universal City, Texas, came in
second. Albuquerque’s sample came
from a drinking fountain in the lobby
of the City-County building downtown. Albuquerque’s drinking water
is a combination of ground water
from the aquifer and surface water
from the San Juan-Chama project.
More poverty
New Mexico’s Medicaid rolls keep
growing, an indication of an economy
that is sorely lacking well-paying
Jobs. In May, 798,937 New Mexicans
were on Medicaid, the federal/state
healthcare program for children from
low-income families and low-income
adults. That comes out to 38.3 percent
of the state’s population. To be eligible
for Medicaid, you have to make 138
percent or less of the federal poverty
level. Here’s how little that is. For a
single person, 138 percent of the FPL
is $16,105 a year. For a family of four
it’s $32,913. The state’s Medicaid rolls
began expanding in 2014 when the
state joined the expanded Medicaid
program which allowed low-income
adults to qualify. New Mexico Human
Services spokesman Matt Kennicott
said that when Medicare and veterans’ health care is added into the
equation, well over 50 percent of the
state’s residents are on a government
healthcare program.
All rosy
The Botanic Garden at the ABQ
BioPark has a new exhibit, the High
Desert Rose Garden that will serve
as a grand entrance to the existing
Sasebo Japanese garden. The exhibit
consists of more than 400 roses of 100
different types. The Rose Garden is
also home to several hundred perennials, 60 grasses, 30 trees, as well as
other seasonal containers and hanging
baskets. The steel post trellis system
will grow out to provide a beautiful
gateway to the Japanese Garden.
“Roses add color and fragrance to our
environment, and we wanted to be
sure that the role roses can play in a
xeric climate was demonstrated,” said
Botanic Garden Manager Catherine
Hubbard.
Honored
A Baghdad-born Albuquerque man
has won a $25,000 National Heritage
Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the nation’s highest
honor in the folk and traditional arts.
Rahim AlHaj plays and composes for
the oud, a pearshaped string
instrument used
in the Middle
East. He has performed with jazz
artist Bill Frisell,
Indian classical
musician Amjad
Ali Khan, the
string quartet Kronos Quartet, and
the rock band REM. AlHaj was born
in Baghdad, where he began studying the oud at the age of nine. In
1991, after the first Gulf War, AlHaj
was forced to leave Iraq due to his
activism against the Saddam Hussein
regime. He lived in Jordan and Syria
before moving to the United States in
2000 as a political refugee. AlHaj has
released nine CDs, two of which have
received Grammy nominations.
NEWS
Notah Begay on His Golf Career, Version 2.0
BY DAN VUKELICH
N
ot many people can
qualify for the term
“local hero,” but in this
community, four-time
PGA Tour player Notah
Begay III is one of them.
Begay, 42, who is part
Navajo and part Pueblo
Indian and the first fullblooded Native American to win on tour, has
never forgotten his roots
in Albuquerque – going
back to his days at
Albuquerque Academy,
when he’d hop the fence
at Ladera Golf course,
the municipal course
not far from his West
Side home.
Golf Channel
For Pueblo kids
Notah Begay has made the transition from PGA Tour player to on-course TV commentator,
throughout New
which sometimes means critiquing the play of old friends.
Mexico, he was a star
in the same universe as
Pueblo, the first Native American to become a Class
Tiger Woods over the last 15 years, starting with his
A Golf Professional in the PGA of America, credits
first PGA Tour win in 1999.
Begay’s accomplishments with helping set him on
Through his days on tour to his new life as a golf
his life course.
course designer and golf commentator for NBC and
“Growing up we had Tiger but Notah for me was
the Golf Channel, locals who have followed Begay’s
the standout and the role model,” said Montoya,
career point to how he has given of his time and
now a first assistant golf professional running the
energy here – most frequently on behalf of Native
First Tee program at Talking Stick Golf Club, a
American children who benefit from the work of his
Native American-owned golf course near Scottsdale.
NB3 Foundation to combat childhood obesity.
“As a Native American, he was the one who
Late this month, the NB3 Foundation and the
motivated me to take my game to the next level
Jewish Community Center of Albuquerque will coand now, as an adult, he’s been my motivation to
host the Rio Grande Charity Slam at Santa Ana Golf
teach kids something that gets them outside besides
Club at Santa Ana Pueblo. A variety of celebrities
baseball and basketball.”
will participate in the two-day event on June 25-26,
including Begay’s broadcast colleague, U.S. Open
Dan Vukelich is editor of ABQ Free Press.
winner Johnny Miller.
He previously edited Sun Country Golf magazine.
Twenty-nine-year-old Jason Montoya of Santa Ana
Reach him at [email protected]
Inside the Ropes
T
he secret to first-rate golf commentary from
an on-course golf announcer at a PGA Tour
event is to offer context and insight, Notah
Begay says.
Now five years in and officially a journeyman,
Begay regularly joins Mark Rolfing and Roger
Maltie inside the ropes during Golf Channel and
NBC broadcasts. The on-course commentators
generally stay just outside the TV frame, wearing
a headset and vest with microphone, radio and
antenna, checking the lie, the stance and the
obstacles facing a player on an impending shot.
Although Begay uses his own PGA Tour experience, he and other announcers get help from
the players’ caddies.
With one hand on the bag, caddies signal behind
their back which club their player has pulled.
Three- and 5-wood are easy, with three or
five fingers pointing to the sky. Irons are a little
harder. For long irons, three fingers pointing
upward means a 3-iron. For short irons, three
fingers pointing downward mean an 8-iron. A
clenched fist means a pitching wedge. An “S”
drawn in the air is a sand wedge and an “L” is a
lob wedge.
“The best caddies, like Jim “Bones” McKay,
who carries for Phil Mickelson, take it a step
further,” Begay said. “A thumb and index finger
together mean ‘tiny’ for a shorter swing than
normal,” he said.
“It’s all about providing a backdrop, which
gives us something to focus on to give the
viewer the best possible viewing experience,”
Begay said.
What Notah’s Doing Now
N
otah Begay is planning to play in several
professional golf events this summer, but
he’s keeping his day job as a commentator for
the Golf Channel – which puts him a whisper
away from some of his friends and former
competitors on the PGA Tour.
“The crossover to the media side means that,
even being close to the top players I’ve known
for years, I have to be objective and even critical at times,” Begay said.
“I’m pretty close to it, I mean, I am only
five years away from playing out there, so it’s
pretty close to home for me,” he said.
Watching a player handling the emotions
that come with getting close to his first win,
or conversely, watching someone hit a career
low, as he saw his friend and college teammate
Tiger Woods do recently, “is something I can
identify with,” Begay said.
“I look two or three layers down, based on
my own experiences, and can relate to these
people putting themselves and their egos on
the line,” especially in this era of social media
where anyone with an phone or a laptop can
claim to be an instant expert,” Begay said.
Each week, Begay commutes from Albuquerque to the Golf Channel’s Orlando studio or to
the PGA Tour’s next venue. His contract with
NBC calls for him to be on the road 25 to 30
weeks a year. Being away from his 5-year-old
son and 7-year-old daughter is tough but being
off the rest of the year allows him to be a
full-time, stay-at-home dad, he said.
“It’s a trade off,” he said. “I miss soccer
games and recitals, but when I’m home, I’m
there making them breakfast, getting them to
school and taking them to soccer. It’s a challenge, but I feel very lucky to be where I am in
life and still be involved in golf.”
Other Golf News
Ladera Golf Course, long the neglected stepchild
of the City of Albuquerque, returns to the rotation of the Great Albuquerque City Men’s Golf
Championship, to be held July 3-5.
Once beset by maintenance, water and soil
problems, Ladera is in the best shape it’s been in
more than 15 years, thanks to new cart paths, a
new irrigation system and reseeded fairways. Sam
Zimmerly, concessionaire at Ladera, just added a
fleet of new Yamaha golf carts.
Notah Begay says Ladera, which opened in 1980
near his childhood West Side home, “will always
be my home course.”
After several years absence, it rejoins Arroyo
del Oso and Los Altos golf courses as a venue for
the championship. Entry into all flights is $165.
Deadline for entry is 6 p.m. June 30. Entry forms
are available at any city golf course.
OPINION
Testing: Adding Accountability
Or Testing for Testing’s Sake?
Editor’s note: This is an email conversation between
Alan Webber, a businessman who sought the 2014
Democratic nomination for governor, and Paul
Gessing, a Libertarian who heads the Rio Grande
Foundation. The topic was Gov. Susana Martinez’s push for standardized testing of New Mexico
schoolchildren.
Alan Webber: As the product of a good
education, I know that learning is the ladder of
opportunity. As the father of two children with
learning differences, I know that each child has
his or her own way and pace of learning.
That’s why education matters. That’s why
what we’re doing with testing in our schools is
madness. Used correctly, testing is a tool, not
an end in itself. But we’re substituting testing
for teaching, punishing children, privatizing
public education
and driving away
good teachers.
It’s expensive
and it’s not
working. Let’s put
our money where
it can make a
difference: early
childhood education for every
New Mexican.
Paul Gessing:
I understand
Alan’s frustrations
with testing. But
today’s testing is
a result of past
frustrations with
our educational
system’s lack of accountability and performance.
One-size-fits-all testing regimes are not ideal,
but that’s because government-run monopolistic educational systems are ill-equipped to
serve the diverse needs of students of varying
abilities and with different learning styles.
If you want to solve American education, try
offering school choice and empowering parents
with education dollars. Parents, not bureaucrats (especially) in Washington, but even in
Santa Fe, can better judge which schools are
succeeding and which are failing.
Our educational struggles are nothing new.
It’s time to end the one-size-fits-all government
monopoly.
Webber: Talk about muddying the waters! No
more straw men, Paul. Let’s talk about what
works.
A terrific book called “It’s Being Done” offers
a comprehensive look at high-performing
schools in low-resource communities.
These schools have high-expectations for
their students, because they know how high
the stakes are: These students need a good
education to escape a life of poverty. They
constantly re-examine what they do. They hold
themselves accountable to the community, because the students they’re teaching are future
citizens. In return, they ask the community to
contribute to the school. They take professional
development seriously.
These are all things we could do in New
Mexico, if we tested less and taught more.
It’s great that a few public schools in poor
areas are performing well. But if “It’s being
done” in some schools, why isn’t it being done
consistently in New Mexico and across the
country? It’s not like New Mexico schools were
beating the world before Gov. Martinez came
along and destroyed the system.
Gessing: Replicating success is the real challenge in education. School
choice works
consistently.
As reported by
the Friedman
Foundation for
Educational
Choice, “Twelve
empirical studies
have examined
academic
outcomes for
school choice
participants
using random
assignment. Of
these, 11 find
that choice improves student
outcomes. One
study finds no visible impact. No empirical
study has found a negative impact.”
Webber: The Friedman Foundation, Paul? Next
you’ll quote “The Fox Foundation in Favor of
Unguarded Henhouses.”
Here’s an objective source: The Council of
Chief State School Officers and Scholastic, Inc.
polled 56 of the nation’s best teachers and
found that student success depends more on
factors outside the classroom than inside. Poverty and the problems that accompany poverty,
family stress and learning differences all shape
how – and whether – students learn.
It’s not school choice. It’s food, healthcare, a
safe home, counseling.
Testing won’t address these factors. Testing
doesn’t even consider them. We need to stop
doing things we know don’t make sense and
develop a made-in-New Mexico education
strategy. Education is still the ladder of opportunity. That’s what our children deserve.
For a related news story on testing,
see Page 14
COLUMNS
Kari Brandenburg’s Political
Star Fading Fast
By JOE MONAHAN
T
alk about
things turning on a dime. A
few months ago,
Bernalillo County
District Attorney
Kari Brandenburg
was being heralded
for her stance in
pursuing murder charges against two
police officers in connection with the
fatal shooting of homeless camper
James Boyd.
In addition, she won fans for her
display of spunk and determination in
refuting questionable bribery charges
brought against her by APD. Those
charges were shot down by Attorney
General Hector Balderas, giving additional luster to her political star. An
unprecedented fifth four-year term
as DA in 2016 seemed in the cards or
maybe even a run for the mayor’s office
in 2017.
But Brandenburg’s star fast became a
falling one when shots rang out in Rio
Rancho in late May claiming the life of
police officer Gregg Benner. Now insiders are saying Brandenburg is unlikely
to seek re-election. That would mean a
fresh face in the DA’s office for the first
time since she took the helm in 2001.
What happened to Brandenburg is
simple. She got caught in the debate
over who was responsible for Andrew
Romero, the alleged killer of Benner,
being out on the streets at the time of
Benner’s murder.
In her first take on what happened,
Brandenburg assumed “partial blame”
for Romero’s freedom. She noted that
a plea bargain her office arranged on
earlier charges Romero faced did not
put him behind bars. Instead, he was
ordered to a drug rehab program he
never reported to.
However, only days later Brandenburg
said she wanted to “walk back a little”
her earlier assumption of blame. She then
went on to blame the entire criminal justice system for what soon became labeled
as Romero’s “sweetheart plea deal.”
Never mind that Brandenburg made
a persuasive case that the blame should
indeed be shared and that Attorney
General Balderas announced he is
convening a task force to study that very
problem. The political retribution was
fast and furious with public comments
excoriating the DA on social media
and talk radio and making clear that
her future political career now faces
formidable roadblocks.
Brandenburg has not made official her
re-election decision, but two Democrats,
Ed Perea and Raul Torrez, already are
hard at work on the campaign trial.
Given developments in the Romero
case and the continued chaos at APD, a
strong Republican could be expected to
join the race.
If she does forego re-election, Brandenburg might be able to take comfort
that the heat over the Benner killing
is probably not what she will be most
remembered for. Her legacy is more
likely to be her historic decision to bring
charges against two APD officers for the
Boyd slaying.
That decision will influence future
district attorneys far into the future and
perhaps someday be seen as a turning
point in reining in the culture that led to
the APD crisis. Meanwhile, the travails
of Brandenburg are the latest stunning
lesson in how fast political fortunes can
rise or fall.
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T
he blight produced in Albuquerque
by the Great Recession even found
its way into the city’s more affluent
neighborhoods, including Four Hills and
its shopping center at Tramway and
Central.
The mall has been in disrepair for
years but now is seeing new life as
developers bring in a movie theater
complex as well as a new grocery store.
The Four Hills Country Club also is seeing
a rebirth as the Canyon Club after nearly
going out of existence.
A recent drive though the area shows
that homes behind the shopping center
and near the country club remain
in good shape. The affluence is not
perhaps what it once was, given the
quiet but persistent federal budget
cuts to the labs that fuel so many highincome Albuquerque households, and
the less wealthy neighborhoods around
the area took an even bigger hit during
the long downturn.
It will take a $5 million investment by
the developers to restore the shopping
center (the theater complex is already
open). Whether the economic storm has
entirely passed is very much open to
question, but it’s nice to see a patch of
clear sky emerge from the clouds.
Joe Monahan is a veteran of New Mexico
politics. His daily blog can be found at
joemonahan.com
India, a Subcontinent
Of Endless Impossibilities
BY EFRAIN VILLA
W
alk into a
pharmacy
in India and ask
for earplugs: “Not
possible.”
Step into a bar and
request a margarita:
“Very not possible.”
Suggest a restaurant owner grill up
a juicy burger from one of the countless
sacred cows roaming the streets and
alleys: “Very, very not possible!”
If the pessimistic motto weren’t
invariably delivered with friendly smiles
and cheery head wobbles, one could
easily assume it epitomizes a country of
endless impossibilities.
Yet there are the things that are only
possible in India – systems so utterly
miraculous in function that one almost
has to resort to fable to understand
them. On a daily basis, Indian Railways, one of the world’s largest train
networks, moves more than 23 million
people across vast deserts, Himalayan
mountains, roaring rivers, lush jungles,
and densely populated urbanscapes.
Inside the trains, one can have shoes
repaired, fortunes told, and I am pretty
sure I once saw a medical consultation
taking place. Dabbawallas, a team of
mostly illiterate food couriers, use trains
to deliver more than a million lunch
boxes per week with almost no errors
or interruptions – even during monsoon
floods. Impromptu concerts are also
common en route, with or without
audience consent.
On a Delhi-bound train I was woken
up by a young boy who held his
outstretched palm near my face. “I’m
not giving you money for waking me
up,” I told the beggar.
He stood in front of me, not budging.
I ignored him and tried to go back to
sleep. After dozing off again, I opened
my eyes when I felt him zipping up my
jacket.
My jacket zipper had been broken for
two months. He had replaced it with
a new one in my sleep and was simply
trying to collect for his service.
“How much?” I asked.
He put up a finger.
“Ok,” I said. “One hundred rupees.”
“No,” a man next to me interjected.
“He wants ten rupees (about 20 American cents).”
Things off the train, on the other
hand, are sometimes frustratingly difficult. In Kolkata, I walked into a
storefront with a sign above it that
read: “We Sell SIM cards.” I asked the
clerk for a SIM that would allow me to
use my phone on local networks. “Not
possible,” was his immediate reply.
“Why not?” I asked.
He gave me a list of documents the
government required as a counterterrorism measure: two passport-sized
photos, a passport copy, an original
passport for verification, a filled-out
form (in triplicate) detailing place of
residence, purpose of travel, and I’m
pretty sure there was a line that said
something about attaching a DNA
sequencing certificate.
I returned the next day with all the
necessary materials. “I would like to buy
a SIM card now,” I told the clerk.
“Not possible.”
“Why not?”
As he listed the items I needed, I
provided them. “There,” I said, once we
had gone through all the paperwork.
“You have everything needed. Now can
you please sell me a SIM card?”
He stared blankly at the back of my
passport without moving.
“Sir,” I said, clenching my teeth.
“Whatever you are looking for will not
be found on the back of my passport.
Please, the SIM card!”
“Not possible.”
“Why not?”
“I ran out of SIM cards two months
ago.”
I eventually did find someone to sell
me a SIM card, probably on a train. It
stopped working a few weeks later.
I walked into a storefront with a sign
above it that said, “We Repair SIM
Cards.” The old lady behind the counter
did not speak English, so I simply
showed her my phone, dialed a number,
hit send, and handed it to her when
nothing happened. She ushered me out
of her store, apparently needing privacy
to work on my phone.
I returned a half-hour later. The lady
was very excited, but I had no idea what
she was saying. She grasped at words in
her mind and finally began to communicate a diagnosis via interpretive dance.
Holding up one closed hand in the air
she said, “You SIM.”
“My SIM,” I repeated.
She put up her other closed hand in
the air and said, “You mobile.”
“Ok, my mobile.”
She crashed her two fists together
dramatically. “They is fighting!”
“Ah, my SIM card and mobile aren’t
compatible! One new SIM card, then.”
She smiled and said, “Not possible.”
Reach Efrain Villa through his website,
aimlessvagabond.com
Typewriter Torment, Dreadful Disease
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cylinders, and then music boxes and cash registers
and so much more, including a massive, circular
slide rule.
Why has he amassed thousands of machines?
“They’re available. Why does a guy grab another
beer? Because it’s there, and you don’t want the
other guy to get it,” Lewis said.
J
People love them
While we are now in the computer and Internet
age, Lewis has found that people will pay a lot
of money to get their old machines restored. One
customer in Louisiana sent in a machine that needs
major work. “I told the guy that I could sell him
one for much cheaper than fixing this one, and he
said, ‘Well, this one belonged to my grandfather.’ I
estimated the bill at $2,300, and he has already sent
me half,” Lewis said.
A customer from Jacksonville, N.C., sent Lewis a
machine that he restored. Unfortunately, the frame
broke during shipping on the way back to the guy,
and the customer is thinking of having it repaired
again. “His typewriter was a $30 typewriter when
he sent it to me; that’s what I would have paid for it
if I saw it, but it’s a family machine,” Lewis said.
Getting them working
Juan Antonio Labreche
John Lewis has been repairing typewriters since 1966, when he went to work at an Anchorage, Alaska, office supply store.
He and his wife moved to Albuquerque in 1977 and started Business Systems and Machines, which grew to four stores and
46 employees.
Lewis explained as he began a two-hour-long tour
of his shop. “She was the Ann Landers for the office.
I’ve got all her paperwork for the tests she took, and
when you read how the typing tests go off, it’s just
amazing. They take 10 words off for one mistake.
She finished her first contest with 126 words [per
minute] after mistakes.
“She toured with Underwood Typewriter, and this
machine has been modified for her. The return key
lever is hanging down
and the space bar has
been cut off at both ends
so she didn’t jam her
fingers.”
And lest anyone think
that manual typewriters
were clunkers that
couldn’t do much, Lewis
explained how that
wasn’t and still isn’t the
case. He’s got several
models from the early
1900s that allowed their
users to type in different
languages.
One Hammond on
display has a rubber half
circle, or shuttles, with
letters on it, one in front
and one on the back. “So
if you wanted to type in
Lewis also repairs antique phonographs and musical devices like this music box,
English or write home in
which uses a metal disc.
TYPEWRITER, PAGE 10
BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI
ohn Lewis has so much backlogged work that he
could close his Albuquerque business tomorrow
and have enough work for two years.
Lewis’ customers come from all over the United
States and even from other countries, and customers
will pay pretty much whatever Lewis asks, and they
will wait in line for his services.
Lewis isn’t a web designer, network security guy
or a data analyst. He’s a 72-year-old typewriter
repairman, and he’s the last one in Albuquerque.
“If I locked that front door right now, I probably
wouldn’t have to open again for two years,” Lewis
said, shaking his head somewhat amazed. “I have
people call me all the time and say, ‘Let me help you
increase your business.’ I just laugh and tell them I
don’t need it.”
Stepping into Lewis’ 7,400-square-foot shop,
Mechanical Antique Repair, at 4805 Menaul Blvd.
N.E., is like walking into a mechanical wonderland
of antique manual typewriters, spring-driven music
boxes and phonographs, cash registers and adding
machines. There are more than 100 lovingly restored
machines in a part of the building that once was a
typewriter museum, and in the backrooms of the
place are thousands upon thousands of typewriters
just waiting for someone to fix them or scavenge
them for parts.
There are old Remingtons, Olivettis, Hammonds,
Underwoods, and even a typewriter from India.
There are machines that type music and Braille, and
there’s a 75-pound adding machine that was built in
1895.
And if you’re really crazy about manual typewriters and the thrill of lifting metal levers through the
power of your fingertips, there is one of the greatest
finds of all: the typewriter used by Margaret B.
Owen, who held the world typing championship
from 1913 through 1915.
“We got the typewriter from her son and daughter.
She [Owen] wrote about the secret of typing speed,
and she wrote a column for the Chicago Tribune,”
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German, you turn the wheel around,” Lewis said.
There was another way to type in different
languages in those days: removable keyboards in
different languages. “On the IBM, you change the
ball. On this one, you change the whole keyboard,”
he said.
Lewis got his start in typewriters and business
machines in 1966 when he and his wife, Darlene,
moved to Anchorage. They had celebrated their first
wedding anniversary, and Lewis was unemployed.
“I went down the street looking for a job. They
were hiring for a trainee in a typewriter company
up there, Yukon Office Supply, and I got the job and
moved up in the company and up in electronics,”
Lewis says.
In 1977, the couple came to Albuquerque and
started Business Systems and Machines, which at
one point had four stores in the state and 46 employees. They’ve been at their current location since 1991.
For $375, Lewis can get most machines to function
as they did just out of the factory. That includes
washing them (often with Windex) and getting
the gunk and dust out of the keys and levers.
For machines in worse shape, Lewis will have to
dismantle the thing, wash and de-rust any parts,
make new key pads, put on new decals and paint
it. An intense refurbishing and rebuilding job could
take up to a week.
And while no one really makes typewriter parts
anymore, Lewis isn’t worried. His thousands of
machines provide the spare parts. A local machinist makes ribbon spools out of Bakelite. A guy in
the Netherlands makes decals for the front of the
machines. A company in upstate New York will
rebuild the platens (typing surface). Lewis can make
his own key pads with resins.
Some history
Lewis really can’t stop talking about typewriters,
and his knowledge of them is vast. Early typewriters, for instance, were known as “blind,” or “understroke typewriters” because the operator couldn’t
see what he or she was typing. That’s because the
typebars were arranged under the platen and typed
on its bottom. Typists had to lift up their carriage to
see what they had typed.
“Underwood came out with the first front-strike
typewriter, and their publicity man was brilliant,”
Lewis said. “He said, ‘We don’t make blind typewriters,’ and at that point all the other typewriters became
‘blind typewriters.’ It took Remington 10 years to
come up with a typewriter that was a front-strike.”
Lewis has been at this game for 50 years and
is looking to retire. He’s hoping to find a young
military veteran or anyone else with strong hands
willing to learn the trade and continue fixing and
restoring these old mechanical wonders.
“Kids come in here today, and they look at these
old phonographs and the typewriters, and they say,
‘Who would want to use one of those,’” Lewis says.
“Well, at the time, they were state of the art.”
Dennis Domrzalski is an associate editor at ABQ Free
Press. Reach him at [email protected]
Collecting machines
The collecting bug hit Lewis early. He got his
first few typewriters in Astoria, Ore., in 1970 while
helping an 85-year-old man clean his basement. “We
went into the basement, and there were shelves of
typewriters, an Olivetti and a Hammond, and I said,
‘What are you going to do with all of these typewriters? How much do you want?’ and he said two or
three bucks apiece,” Lewis said.
After that, it was old phonographs, especially
the old cylinder machines that played ceramic-like
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Most typewriters he refurbishes simply need a good cleaning, but Lewis often scavenges damaged machines for parts or relies
on specialists around the world who fabricate specific parts.
Planning Dept. Demotes
Two in Fake Sick
Note Scheme
BY PETER ST. CYR
T
wo City of Albuquerque Planning Department
employees have been demoted for their roles in
improperly protecting a city inspector’s job while he
was jailed in connection with a rape charge.
Former Planning Director Debbie Stover – who has
admitted submitting fake doctor’s note to save her son
Levi Criswell’s job – remains a city contractor.
City Council Director John Zaman told ABQ Free Press
that Stover continues to earn $35.10 an hour helping
councilors put together a uniform city planning code.
Zaman would not say if Stover’s professional services
agreement will be renewed at the end of the month.
He refused to comment on Stover’s role in the
cover-up. Stover also remains an elected member of the
Albuquerque Metropolitan Arroyo Flood Control Authority Board. Citing health issues, Stover has refused to
comment on her role in the fake note scheme.
Criswell resigned his city job in January. The fake
doctor’s note scheme arose when Criswell was jailed for
failure to take a drug test required as a condition of his
release on the 2012 charge that he raped a 4-year-old girl.
His mother feared he was in danger of running out of
personal leave, according to emails she sent to herself.
The rape case is pending in District Court.
City Councilor Ken Sanchez said he was aware of the
fraudulent doctor’s note but he declined to comment
on prospects of Stover’s continued service because he
considers it a personnel matter.
Matthew Conrad and Ramona Andrade-Miranda, the
two planning department employees, were found in an
investigation by city hearing officer and Assistant City
Attorney Peter Pierotti to have failed to report “highly
critical information” regarding Criswell’s misconduct
and abuse of sick leave. Both were demoted after
Pierotti determined they also hindered an investigation
and failed to perform their supervisory duties and
responsibilities.
After reviewing Pierotti’s findings, Director of Planning Suzanne Lubar notified Associate Planning Director Matthew Conrad that there was “just cause to issue
discipline” despite his exemplary work record. Lubar
demoted Conrad to a code enforcement supervisor in
May. His salary has been reduced almost 8 percent –
from $42.22 an hour to $38.90 an hour.
Personnel Officer Ramona Andrade-Miranda was
demoted from a $26.47-an-hour personnel officer and
transferred to the Solid Waste Department to work as
a human resource analyst. Her salary was cut almost 5
percent to $25.22 an hour.
Andrade-Miranda had argued she did not know that
the doctor’s note submitted as an excuse for Criswell’s
absence was falsified.
Chief Administrator Officer Rob
Perry told ABQ Free Press that the allegations “especially related to preferential treatment” have been
fully investigated.
“In this case, we did just that,” Perry said. “We think
it sends a message that everyone needs to be treated
equally and we expect professionalism and ethics in our
workforce.”
Peter St. Cyr is an independent journalist
in Albuquerque. Reach him at [email protected]
NEWS/ANALYSIS
AIM Commemoration, World
Refugee Day Events Planned
BY Sayrah NAMASTÉ
H
ere are some
coming events of
interest to grassroots
activists or anyone
interested in social
justice in Albuquerque:
Stand for Leonard
Peltier! At 3 p.m.
Friday, June 26 at the
Pete V. Domenici U.S. District Courthouse, 333 Lomas Ave. N.E., activists
can stand in solidarity with the Oglala
commemoration to mark the 40th
anniversary of the shootout that led to
the imprisonment of American Indian
Movement (AIM) activist Leonard Peltier.
At the behest of Peltier, the Indigenous Rights Center in Albuquerque was
recently created to continue AIM’s work.
Peltier was sentenced to two life terms
for first-degree murder in the shooting
deaths of two FBI agents during the
1975 siege on the Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation in South Dakota. Peltier has
always maintained his innocence and is
considered a political prisoner by many,
including Amnesty International.
The IRC is dedicated to improving the
lives of indigenous peoples of North
America. Its co-directors are Chauncey
Peltier, Leonard’s oldest son, and Peter
Clark, a local resident and one of many
people who have tried to free Peltier.
The IRC has several programs:
• The International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee is working to persuade President Obama to grant Peltier clemency. People supporting clemency should call the White House at (202) 456-1111.
• The Wind Chases the Sun Corrections Project supports religious freedom for native people in prison. Lenny Foster, Peltier’s spiritual advisor,
conducts sweat lodges and pipe ceremonies in prisons. The IRC has small grants available for families of incarcerated Native Americans, especially those imprisoned more than 500 miles from their homes.
• The IRC’s Holiday Gift Drive and General Assistance Program provides warm clothing, blankets, and financial assistance for the people of Pine Ridge and Turtle Mountain, Peltier’s home.
• The Wind Chases the Sun Youth
Suicide Prevention Project works to address the alarmingly high Native American youth suicide rate.
If you are interested in supporting,
donating, or volunteering on behalf
of the Indigenous Rights Center, email:
[email protected].
World Refugee Day: A naturalization
ceremony followed by a City of Albu-
Entrepreneur to ABQ:
Drop the Can’t-do Attitude
by dennis Domrzalski
querque proclamation kicks off the day’s
celebrations at 11:45 a.m., Saturday
June 20 at the Cesar Chavez Community
Center, 7505 Kathryn Ave. S.E. Food,
dancing, music, art, soccer and information tables will continue through 2:30
p.m. If you would like to volunteer,
email: [email protected]
Albuquerque-Bernalillo County
Comprehensive Plan: The City of
Albuquerque and Bernalillo County
want to hear from you about how our
community should look, feel, and grow.
Public input is especially needed as
developers and corporations continually
attempt to pressure elected officials to
approve their plans.
Public workshops to help update the
Comprehensive Plan are scheduled for:
• 5:30-7 p.m. Tuesday, June 23, at the Manzano Mesa Multigenerational Center, 501 Elizabeth St. S.E.;
• 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 24, at the Central Unser Library, 8081 Central Ave. N.W.;
• 5:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday June 24 at the Alamosa Community Center, 6900 Gonzales Rd. S.W.;
• 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 25 at the Holiday Park Community Center, 11710 Comanche Rd. N.E.
A sad departure: The activist community is saddened by news that the Media
Literacy Project will close its doors after
27 years of media justice work locally
and internationally. The staff and board
of advisors made the difficult decision to
close at the end of this month.
The website, medialiteracyproject.org,
will remain functional so that the
resources and curricula can be accessed.
The project’s work will live on through
partners Generation Justice and the
New Mexico Digital Justice Coalition. Its
partner, Quote Unquote, Inc. will house
Radio Burque, a low-power FM radio station expected to be up and running soon.
This is from project staff: “The simple
and short reason is that we don’t have
the resources that we need to sustain
our organization. We have struggled
to navigate foundation funding in the
midst of losing a large percent of our
earned income.
“We know we are not alone. We have
watched with trepidation and sadness as
organizations near and dear to us have
been forced to close over the past few
years. We are now in a position where
our work and the resources we need to
maintain it has become unsustainable.”
Sayrah Namasté is an organizer with the
American Friends Service Committee in
Albuquerque
A
ndy Lim has
some advice
for Albuquerque’s
business community:
Stop whining, stop
making excuses, and
stop relying on the
government. Believe
in yourselves and
your companies and get your asses in gear
and make something that people in other
places will want to buy.
It isn’t empty talk from Lim; he has done
what he advises.
In the past few years Lim has become
something of an entrepreneurial celebrity in Albuquerque. His point-of-sales
software company Lavu, Inc., which he
began in 2010 at his kitchen table, now
sells its products in 85 countries. The firm
just got a $15 million investment from a
Washington, D.C.-based venture capital
firm and it hopes to grow by five to 10
times in the next 18 months.
“I try to change the mentality that
people can’t be successful here and that
people can’t make big things happen,”
Lim says, echoing a theme that he has
harped on for several years. “We have
great people here. We have great support
from local communities, we have great
talent and we have the highest percentage of Ph.Ds. per capita anywhere in the
entire world.
“How can people just not be looking
here? It just kind of boggles me. You
can do it, anybody can; stop with the
excuses.”
Albuquerque and New Mexico need
people like Lim and his attitude, which
runs counter to the prevailing business attitude here, which is to rely on the federal
government for business and jobs.
That 70-year run of dependency has
led to a horrible outcome: Albuquerque’s
business people never learned how to
compete for and get business outside the
state and outside the government. They
never developed the skills or the attitudes
it takes to compete in the real world.
That dependency and lack of know-how
is now hurting the city and state. The
federal government has cut back and
continues to cut back on spending at the
national labs and military bases. That has
meant fewer government contracts and a
stagnant economy.
People are leaving New Mexico and
Albuquerque for other states. If the
outflow continues, the city could enter
a death spiral where its young, talented
and skilled people leave and never return.
Companies won’t move to a place that’s
losing its young people.
And it’s not as if our 70-year dependency on the feds has led to a utopia of
high-paying jobs and wealth. It’s just the
opposite. Nearly 800,000 New Mexicans,
or 38 percent of the population, are on
Medicaid, the federal-state healthcare
program for children from low-income
families and low-income adults. Someone
on Medicaid is someone who’s got a job
that pays just above the poverty level
or who comes from a family that makes
almost no money.
‘People here, mostly they
don’t believe, or they
have a negative attitude.
Naah, I can’t do that. The
attitude is thatthis is not
really a place for startups’
— Andy Lim
In 2012, 71 percent of the births in the
state were paid for by Medicaid. That’s
one of the most frightening statistics
out there. It means we’re a state of poor
people. It means that the economy here
sucks. It means that if we don’t want
everyone with talent and skills to leave,
we have to change the economy.
It means that we have to develop an export,
or economic base, economy; an economy
that exports goods and services and imports
in money. It is only through that importation
of money by selling stuff to people in other
places that an economy can grow.
Albuquerque needs a different
economy, but because of its long-term
dependency it doesn’t know how to
create one. That’s where Lim comes in.
He’s not from here and he’s not burdened
with the prevailing can’t-do attitude. He
arrived from Taiwan in 2000 and couldn’t
speak English. But he learned quickly and
used his computer and business skills to
create a company that exports stuff and
imports money. In just four years, he has
developed a global customer base.
“People here, mostly they don’t believe,
or they have a negative attitude. Naah, I
can’t do that. The attitude is that this is
not really a place for startups,” Lim says,
“and that is far from the truth.
“It’s like when you ask for help from
the government,” Lim adds, shaking his
head. “You’ve got to make things happen
yourself. You’ve got to create the best
product that people will take note of and
you have to work a little bit harder.”
Dennis Domrzalski is an associate editor
at ABQ Free Press. Reach him at
[email protected]
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COMPLEX RULES, PAGE 5
Management disagreed, and on the afternoon of
Oct. 14, Carnes and Brant Baber, president of the
company that owns La Resolana, decided to take
action. According to witnesses Sandra King and
Roselyn Strohl – both La Resolana residents – Carnes
and Baber went to Lawler’s pickup and looked
underneath the tarp that covered the pickup’s bed.
Carnes went into the complex’s office and Baber
took the propane tank out of the truck.
Lawler saw what was happening and confronted
Baber. Baber elbowed him and stepped on his feet,
Lawler said, then made off with the propane tank.
Lawler called it theft and in February filed a case in
Metropolitan Court to get it returned. La Resolana
responded by filing a countersuit that sought
Lawler’s eviction.
Carnes said the ban on large propane tanks is
necessary because the complex consists of 166
wood-framed apartments without sprinklers that
are occupied by elderly and disabled residents. “We
determined not to take a chance on someone failing
to properly use their large propane tanks or other
open flame devices – charcoal grills, etc.,” Carnes
said.
Lawler represented himself in the case. On May
20, after brief trial, Metro Court Judge Rosie Lazcano
Allred dismissed the eviction case against Lawler.
Lawler has had other trouble with management.
Earlier this year, two police officers showed up at his
apartment investigating the alleged use of marijuana. The two officers said they had been called and
told that the smell of pot smoke was coming from
his apartment, Lawler said. He denied having used
marijuana that day. He wasn’t arrested or charged.
Targeting dissent
Lawler said he’s a target of management because
he challenges their rules. Trouble for him began
a couple of years ago, when he said management
was breaking its own rules by entering residents’
apartments on the pretext of safety concerns. The
rules allow unauthorized entry only for emergencies, Lawler said.
“I was a target because I was outspoken about
the rules and had tagged them more than once for
going into apartments without the requisite 24-hour
notice,” Lawler said.
Management has twice offered to return Lawler’s
propane tank, but only if he signs a receipt for it.
Lawler has refused the offer and said he won’t sign
a receipt to get back property that he believes was
stolen from him.
Eighty-five-year-old Don Pierce has lived at La
Resolana for around five years, and in that time
he has passed only one apartment inspection. He
has short-term memory loss and doesn’t remember
exactly when he almost got busted for having bread
crumbs underneath his toaster.
Pierce said the property’s onsite manager, Martie Masten,
was doing an inspection of his
apartment. “She wrote down
[on an inspection checklist]
that I had crumbs around my
toaster,” Pierce recalled. “I had
just finished breakfast. I guess
you have to be a friend or a
relative to pass [an inspection].
It’s kind of aggravating.”
Pierce said his troubles with
management began after he
signed a petition requesting
that Masten be fired. Masten
did not return a phone call
Dan Vukelich
requesting comment for this
story.
The entrance to La Resolana is at the intersection of Mountain Road and Chelwood
Esther Harrison is 93 and has Park Boulevard Northeast.
lived at La Resolana for five
DeWitt’s apartment where they removed her clothes,
years. Until earlier this year
laid her down on a living room couch and started
she shared a two-bedroom, ground-floor apartment
hand-picking the needles out of her body. Then they
with her son. But the two decided to split up and get
their own apartments. Harrison, who can walk only
got a surprise.
with a walker, requested to stay in the apartment
Resident Tobias Katz, a La Resolana employee who
until a single bedroom unit opened up on the first
is supposed to respond to smoke alarm calls and
floor. Her request was denied. Harrison, who has
resident lockouts, was peering in the apartment’s
congestive heart failure, was put in a second-floor
front window. He allegedly pushed the front door in
unit in March.
and entered the apartment, King said.
“They said that if I stayed in the two-bedroom
“I said, ‘Get him out of here,’” King recalled. “Roz
apartment I would have to pay $920 a month,”
[Strohl] said, ‘What are you doing here?’ and he said
Harrison said.
he wanted to find out if she [DeWitt] knew that her
“I cannot walk without a walker and I have an
clothes were outside.”
injured right knee and I can’t walk long distances,”
King and Strohl had received 10-day smoking
Harrison said. “I believe they were forcing me to
violation
notices shortly after Katz entered DeWitt’s
take the second-floor apartment.”
apartment.
They said they weren’t smoking. They
Harrison had another shock from management in
believe
Katz
reported them.
April when she spent two weeks in a hospital.
Katz responded to an ABQ Free Press phone
“I called [an office employee] and I said, ‘I’m in
message about the situation and directed the paper
the hospital and I’m going to be a little late with the
to call his employer, Carnes & Co.
rent,” Harrison said. “Then she said, ‘If you’re late
Carnes said only a small number of disgruntled
you will have to pay an extra five dollars.’ And I
said, ‘Where is the compassion?’ and she said, ‘We
residents have complained about conditions at
don’t go by compassion; we go by rules and regulaLa Resolana. But on July 26, 2013, more than 30
tions.’”
residents met with a HUD representative on the
ABQ Free Press spoke with that employee by
property to discuss their grievances. They laid out
telephone and she declined to comment. Carnes
14 complaints, including retaliation.
said management has “followed all applicable HUD
The unease appears to be lingering. On June 5,
rules” in Harrison’s case. “And all of our residents
Lawler turned on the public computer in the media
on the second floor have access to a walkway and to
room of La Resolana’s clubhouse. The screenelevators.”
saver had been changed. That morning it flashed a
message that said: “If you don’t like living here,
Barging in
MOVE!”
“This is a pattern of conduct designed to intimiIn April, resident Verrill DeWitt fell into a cactus
date,” Lawler said. “It’s a hostile living environon the grounds. Needles penetrated her clothes and
body. Strohl and King took the 68-year-old DeWitt to
ment.”
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Teachers Say PED’s Testing System Designed to Fail Them
BY JOEY PETERS
The New Mexico Political Report
A
t 26 and with four years of teaching music at Eisenhower Middle
School in Albuquerque under his belt,
Nick Prior is ready to take his career
to its next phase.
That would mean advancing from
a state-certified Level 1 instructor
to Level 2, which would bump his
modest salary from $30,000 a year to
$40,000 a year. Prior leads six choir
groups at the school, half of which
have earned state awards.
One of the groups that Prior leads
even took home a Best Showmanship
and a Best Musicianship award when
it competed nationally at the Los
Alamitos “Xtravaganza” last year in
California.
He isn’t modest in talking about the
honors his choir groups have earned.
“With the success that my program
has had, there’s not really much room
for improvement,” Prior said in a
recent interview.
This year, Prior scored just 112 out of 200 possible
points on his state-mandated teacher evaluation,
ranking him “minimally effective.”
It’s also a dramatic drop from last year’s
evaluation, in which Prior scored “highly effective”
ranking. That’s because this year, half of Prior’s
evaluation is based on improvements in student
standardized test scores.
In the category marked “student achievement,”
Prior scored a 33.25 out of a possible 100 points,
too low for him to be able to apply for a Level 2
license this summer. If his ranking doesn’t improve
by next year, Prior’s teacher license will expire. In
that situation, he must apply for an extension, teach
somewhere else or drop teaching altogether.
But Prior is especially irritated that the testing
portion of his evaluation isn’t actually based on any
tests or class material he gave to his students. Nor is
Prior’s score based on just his own students’ scores.
Instead, it comes directly from a portion of the
grade score that Eisenhower’s student population
earned – another controversial program imposed
by the state Public Education Department that is
designed to improve accountability in the education
system.
The state gave Eisenhower an overall “B,” which
represents an above average grade just like it would
on a student’s report card. But the segment of the
school’s grade that made up half of Prior’s evaluation came from the average of standardized test
scores from the school’s lowest performing quarter
of students over a period of three years up to 2014.
In local education jargon, this demographic is
known as “Q1” students.
Their test score data come from the Standards
Based Assessment (SBA), New Mexico’s flagship
standardized test for its public schools until 2014.
These tests measured reading and math skills –
nothing related to the music lessons Prior teaches or
the tests he gives his students.
Eisenhower’s “Q1” score came to 6.65 out of 20
possible points this year, according to the school’s
grade, a low enough ranking for an “F.” So half of
Prior’s evaluation came from simply multiplying
that 6.65 number and the 20 possible points by five.
That comes to his score of 33.25 out of 100.
Prior scored better on the other half of his evaluation, which was based primarily on his classroom
observations and attendance.
“All those score marks were above the state and
district average,” he said. “Once they added in the
school grade from subjects I don’t teach and kids I
don’t have, that’s what made me receive such a low
score.”
Now he has to work another year on Level 1 pay, a
prospect he describes as “awful.”
A disconnect
For critics of education reform, most of the attention revolves around the controversy of disproportionately using scores from high stakes standardized
tests to hold teachers accountable. But what happens
when that accountability isn’t related to any material
that a teacher deals with directly?
It’s a situation many Albuquerque arts and electives teachers – particularly in middle schools – now
find themselves in.
This logic, in the words of Jackson Middle School
music teacher Steve Snowden, is akin to firing a
school custodian based on a music teacher’s out-oftune clarinets.
“The biggest issue I have – I don’t teach math, I
don’t teach English.” he said. “I may have some Q1
students, but many of these students I’ve never met
before.”
To the Public Education Department, Prior and
Snowden fall within a bureaucratic hierarchy known
as Group B. According to the department’s definition, that means teachers who “teach grades and/
or subjects that can’t be meaningfully
linked to the SBA.”
State teacher evaluations, therefore,
are supposed to analyze different test
scores for Group B teachers.
Group B teachers are fairly
widespread and aren’t limited to
just electives like art and music.
They include all middle school
social studies and science teachers.
High school language arts and math
teachers for freshmen and seniors
are also lumped into this category, as
well as 12th grade science teachers
and career and technical education
instructors.
Each Group B teacher is supposed
to be evaluated on his or her own
End of Course exam (EOC), subject
to the topics they teach in class. But
for those Group B teachers who don’t
have their own End of Course exams,
the state Education Department gave
school districts “fallback options,” according to
Carla Greene, a special projects director at Albuquerque Public Schools. A few of the options included
using the “Q1” student test score material from the
school grades.
APS ultimately chose the “Q1” student test score
data to evaluate teachers in this situation because
“those are the students most likely to see growth,”
according to school district spokesman Rigo Chavez.
Yet New Mexico music teachers do, in fact, give
out their own end of course music exams, which
consist of a written evaluation and a performance
evaluation.
Exam confusion
Neil Swapp, a past president of the New Mexico
Music Educators Association, who currently heads
the music department at New Mexico School for the
Arts in Santa Fe, helped put the EOC together for
state music teachers.
He said that he knows for sure state Education
Department didn’t use EOC performance data for
teacher evaluations for this year. But beyond this, he
has run into plenty of confusion over music EOCs.
“I’m contacted on a regular basis by teachers
who’ve been told by their administrators that they
either don’t have to give an EOC or they have to
give an EOC to every student,” Swapp said. “It’s not
clear what the process is.”
New Mexico Political Report contacted the state
Education Department multiple times to find the
extent of how many music teachers were actually
evaluated on music test scores this year, as opposed
to Math and English scores like Prior and Snowden.
After both written and verbal exchanges, department spokesman Robert McEntyre did not provide
any answers to the questions.
Greene [APS’s special projects director], who is
essentially acting as a go-between for Albuquerque
cont. on page 15
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TEACHER, PAGE 14
teachers and the Public Education
Department, said she has three
inquiries into the state department
regarding middle school music teachers who weren’t graded on their own
EOC results, but rather on the school
grade data.
For these three inquiries, Greene
said she “cannot see that they have
any end of course exam data in them.”
“I believe firmly if the teacher has
administered an EOC, that is what
they should be graded on,” Greene
told New Mexico Political Report in a
recent interview.
Snowden’s situation isn’t as dire as
Prior’s. Overall, his teacher evaluation
found him “effective,” which means
his score this year wouldn’t prevent
him from applying to the next teacher
licensure level.
The student achievement portion
of his score still significantly brought
his total evaluation down. For its
Q1 students, Jackson Middle School
scored 9.84 out of 20 in its school
grade this year – an “F.” That meant
that just like Prior, half of Snowden’s
score came from simply multiplying
9.84 by five to get 49.20 out of a
possible 100 points.
Again, the data from this configuration came from measuring three years
worth of growth in math and English
standardized test scores from Jackson
Middle School’s lowest-performing 25
percent of students.
Snowden, 38, said he doesn’t put
any stock into his score. He has been
teaching for 11 years, and he said that
if the current state evaluation model
stays the same, he will retire after
putting in a minimum of 25 years at
the district.
“I was evaluated on stuff I don’t
teach,” Snowden said. “It doesn’t
mean anything to me.”
Prior maintained that if things stay
the same, he’ll leave New Mexico and
teach someplace else.
“Teaching is what I know, it’s what
I’m good at, it’s what I’m passionate
about,” Prior said. “For $30,000 a year
I work a 60-hour workweek for a state
and a district that tells me I’m a poor
teacher and I can’t keep my license.”
Contact the reporter at
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(505) 226-3190.
High Court: Gov. Stiffed Workers,
Denied Them Prevailing Wages
T
he New Mexico Supreme Court
says foot-dragging by the Martinez
administration led to underpayment
of workers employed on New Mexico
public-works projects over the last
five years and the court ordered the
administration to comply with the
so-called “Little Davis-Bacon Act”
within 30 days.
By refusing to set new prevailing
wage rates since 2010 and simply
“reissuing” the same prevailing wage
rates that were in effect in 2010 – the
administration effectively denied
workers on New Mexico public-works
jobs any raises for five years.
In its ruling issued on June 15, the
high court found that the administration’s inaction led workers to be paid
5 to 35 percent less than they should
have been.
The court’s order called the administration’s delays “inexcusable” and
noted pointedly that in 2010 a lawyer
for the administration had told the
state’s five Supreme Court justices a
new set of rates could be in place “in
four or five months.”
Under New Mexico’s version of the
federal Davis-Bacon Act, local, county
or state construction projects must
use prevailing wages – as determined
by pay and fringe benefits outlined
in existing local collective bargaining agreements – in determining
how much workers will be paid on
public-works projects worth more
than $60,000.
Three justices concurred in the
opinion written by Justice Petra
Jimenez Maes. Justice Richard Bosson,
who announced he would retire later
this year, recused himself. The case
the court ruled on was brought by
several unions. The lead plaintiff
was the New Mexico Building and
Construction Trades Council.
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Do You Know Where Your Coffee Comes From?
Evidence Mounts that MRI Chemicals Are Toxic
C
W
BY JOSEPH SORRENTINO
offee production is hard
villages. When farmers in Chiapas,
work. Coffee grows at high
Mexico wanted new patios to dry
altitudes in tropical regions that
their coffee, Guttromson funded
are hot, humid, usually inaccesit. In Ethiopia, her money went to
sible to vehicles and virtually
build a new library.
impossible to mechanize. The
Prosum Roasters’ location, 3228
small-scale coffee growers
Los Arboles Ave. N.E., is an unlikely
providing much of the world’s
place for a coffee shop and, actually,
gourmet coffee do the work by
it isn’t one. There are a couple of
hand, their most important tool
chairs at a counter. The roaster
being the machete hanging from
hums nearby. But the coffee’s
their belts.
available around town, including
Coffee beans grow on low
at Café Bella, Humble Coffee and
bushes, inside small green pods
Boiler Monkey.
that turn red when they’re
Espresso Fino at 222 Gold Ave.
ripe. Each pod (or cherry) is
S.W. exclusively sells Agapao
picked by hand, bagged in the
(Greek for “love”) Coffee, which is
field and typically carried on
roasted in Denver. Agapao, owned
someone’s back to their home,
by Santa Fean David Black, offers
where they’re washed, the beans
24 fair trade and seven coffees that
separated from the flesh and
Black calls “farm-to-cup,” another
spread out on concrete to dry.
name for direct trade.
“That’s what I love about
Although all coffee at Espresso
coffee,” said Dave Rodriquez,
Fino is fair trade, owner Greg Flores
the 39-year-old owner of Blunt
is low-key about it.
Joseph Sorrentino
Brothers Coffee, 4400 Central
“We do make people aware
A coffee grower harvests beans in Pueblo, Mexico. Much fair-trade coffee is “shade-grown,”
Ave. S.E. “Every bean I sell is
we’re
selling fair trade coffee,”
meaning the coffee beans come from bushes that grow in a natural setting, as opposed to on
touched by hand.”
Flores said, “but we don’t push it.
hillsides or coffee plantations that have been clear cut of other vegetation.
What he doesn’t love is that the
We’re not real political. Fair trade
people growing the coffee are
is good for coffee growers, good
among the poorest in the world,
for the planet.” That’s because
so Rodriguez and a number
most, but not all, fair trade coffee
of coffee roasters and shops in
is organic and shade-grown. With
Albuquerque are selling fairshade-grown, trees aren’t cut down
trade coffee.
wholesale to make room for coffee
Fair trade pays coffee growers
plants, which saves habitat for birds
a higher price for their coffee
and other animals.
and also guarantees a stable
Michelle Franklin, La Montañita
price for the growing season,
Co-op’s
distribution center director,
so growers can estimate how
said
there’s
been a steady increase
much they’ll earn in a particular
in
interest
in
fair-trade coffee. La
season.
Montañita sells Equal Exchange
There are no brothers and no
coffee and other fair-trade coffees,
one named Blunt at Rodriguez’s
which are also available at Natural
coffee shop. “The name is a play
Grocers and Whole Foods.
on our personalities,” he said.
If you’re curious if your coffee
“We’re very blunt people.”
shop
offers fair trade, just ask. For
That’s clear when he’s asked why
example,
Flying Star and Satellite
he sells fair trade coffee. “You’re
Joseph
Sorrentino
owner
Jean
Bernstein said her blend
either helping people or [screwing]
is
70
percent
fair trade. Michael
them over,” he said. “We care
Dave Rodriguez of Blunt Brothers Coffee, 4400 Central Ave. S.E., says he sells fair-trade
Thomas
Coffee
Co., 1111 Carlisle
about humans; others are more
coffee “because we care about humans.”
Blvd.
S.E.,
offers
12 fair trade coffees.
than happy to exploit people.”
Fair-trade
coffee
costs more but it
Rodriguez has his own coffee
benefits
the
people
bringing it to us
fair
trade
a
step
further.
In
direct
trade,
there’s
a
closer
blend that’s all Fair Trade USAand it benefits the planet because fair-trade growers
connection between the coffee buyer and growers;
certified. There’s no place to sit at Blunt Brothers.
tend to use organic and sustainable farming methods.
Guttromson, and other direct trade coffee purveyors,
Customers buy at the walk-up or drive-through
Espresso Fino’s Greg Flores is blunt in his support of
actually visit the farmers providing the beans.
windows because Rodriguez doesn’t want the hassle
it. “You have to be an idiot or cheap not to buy fair
“I know and see exactly where the money goes,”
that comes with a coffee shop. He has one purpose:
trade coffee,” he said.
she said. “I know the money is getting to the farm“I’m here to give you the greatest cup of coffee of
ers, that they’re getting paid fairly for their work.”
your life.”
In addition to paying growers more for their
Joseph Sorrentino is an Albuquerque freelance writer.
Cindy Guttromson, owner of Prosum (Latin for “to be
coffee, Guttromson helps with special projects in the
useful”) Roasters sells direct trade coffee, which takes
Reach him at [email protected]
BY JEFF GERTH
ProPublica
ith a family history of breast cancer, Marcie
Jacobs decided in June 2001 that an MRI
screening was her best preventive option.
As is common with MRIs, Jacobs was injected
beforehand with a contrast agent, a drug that helps
sharpen the resulting images. But after a few of
these treatments, she began noticing strange cognitive effects. Jacobs began missing meetings. Over
the next several years, she had additional MRIs. The
math skills that were crucial to her job as finance
manager started deteriorating, she said.
Jacobs eventually wound up on disability. She
stopped worrying about cancer – and started worrying about imaging drugs.
This month, two prominent experts in the radiology community joined in the concern, calling for
more research into the possible health risks after
three recent studies found that gadolinium, a
potentially toxic metal, wound up in the brain tissue
of MRI patients who used two different contrast
agents.
The new studies cited by Kanal
and Tweedle have set off alarms
because they show that even
patients with healthy kidneys
are retaining gadolinium
Editorializing in the journal Radiology, Dr.
Emanuel Kanal of the University of Pittsburgh
Medical Center and Michael Tweedle of Ohio State
University, said the studies “called into question”
the “safety of at least some” of these agents. The two
urged radiologists to change their prescribing habits
although not to stop using the drugs because of their
proven benefits to patients.
Nine gadolinium-based contrast agents are
sold in the United States. The two in question,
Omniscan, made by GE Healthcare, and Magnevist,
manufactured by Bayer HealthCare, once dominated
the contrast agent market. Both GE and Bayer, in
statements, said they were monitoring the issue and
noted the new studies had not found any clinical
impact, such as brain injury.
Contrast agents like Omniscan had been on the
market for years when, in 2006, they were linked
to a crippling, sometimes fatal condition called
nephrogenic systemic fibrosis, or NSF. The Food and
Drug Administration put a “black box” warning on
the drugs the following year, saying patients with
kidney impairment may be at risk of NSF because
they were unable to excrete the gadolinium.
ProPublica first disclosed in 2009 that the agency
ignored two of its own medical reviewers who
wanted to ban Omniscan for patients with severe
kidney disease. In 2010, the FDA did act, recommending that GE’s drug and two other agents
shouldn’t be used in patients with impaired kidneys.
The other drugs were Magnevist and Optimark, sold
by Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals.
The new studies cited by Kanal and Tweedle have
set off alarms because
they show that even
patients with healthy
kidneys are retaining
gadolinium from Omniscan and Magnevist.
Estimates are that about
one-third of the 20 million
MRIs in the United States
each year use one of the
nine contrast agents.
Doctors now routinely
screen MRI patients for
kidney problems before
injecting them with
contrast agents, and
scientists believe that
NSF has essentially
disappeared. The new
studies don’t speak to the
New research shows that the heavy metal in contrast agents injected into patients prior to
clinical effects, if any, of
magnetic resonance imaging exams can accumulate in the brain, leading to impairment.
gadolinium in the brain.
But in an interview, Kanal
said the findings ought to
make radiologists think
twice about which agents
to prescribe.
“We can use an agent
today that does not retain
gadolinium in the brain
to the degree that those
other agents do,” he said,
referring to Omniscan
and Magnevist. Given
that the alternatives are
“at least as efficacious” as
the other two, he asked,
“Why are some still
prescribing the agents
that do accumulate in
the brain over the other
options?”
Jacobs has no medical
proof, but she’s conThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it is “carefully reviewing” new studies showing that gadolinium, a heavy metal in MRI contrast agents, is being retained by patients.
vinced the two drugs are
behind her problems.
As her symptoms worsremove gadolinium from her body.
ened, Jacobs said she underwent a series of tests
Researching on the Internet, Jacobs found a
that found accumulated traces of gadolinium in her
support group around the issue. Then in March,
breast, thigh, liver and brain. Doctors were puzzled
a radiology journal, Health Imaging, featured the
because she had no history of kidney disease and
group in an article on the new gadolinium research.
did not fit into the identified at-risk group.
That same month, Jacobs started a Facebook group
that is now composed of researchers as well as
dozens of patients with similar gadolinium experiDoctors now routinely screen MRI
ences and no evidence of kidney disease.
patients for kidney problems before
Jacobs said the new studies “confirm that the
injecting them with contrast agents linear gadolinium-based contrasting agents such
as GE’s product Omniscan and Bayer’s product
Magnevist are being retained at much higher levels
She recovered old records and determined that
than radiologists and the FDA have acknowledged.”
she received Omniscan for her first 11 imagings and
She hopes the FDA might pull the two agents from
Magnevist before the last, in 2007. Jacobs said she
the market.
eventually began a difficult, extended program to
In a statement, an FDA spokesperson said the
cont. on page 18
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MRI, PAGE 17
agency is “carefully reviewing” the
new studies to “better understand the
potential consequences to determine
what further action is needed, which
may include taking steps to ensure the
public is aware of these preliminary
findings.”
Kanal, who has been advising the
FDA and also chairs the American
Board of MR Safety, said the new
studies have “the entire international
radiological community – and the
FDA – on edge, as this is an entirely
unanticipated finding.”
GE Healthcare told ProPublica that
as part of its commitment to safety,
a new company internal task force
reviewed the studies and other data
and continues its work.
After finding “no signs or symptoms
of potential injury to the brain” associated with Omniscan and “no evidence
of cytotoxicity (cell toxicity) in
published autopsy studies,” the task
force concluded that “continued use
of Omniscan according to approved
product labeling” is appropriate, GE
said.
Bayer told ProPublica that patient
safety is its “primary concern” and
that it had reached out to the authors
of the original research studies “to
clarify their findings,” even though
“none of these studies indicate any
clinical implications.” The company
said it was continuing to monitor the
situation.
GE and Bayer have confidentially
settled hundreds of lawsuits – many
involving deaths – while denying
liability for their contrast agents.
In 2013, one case went to trial in
Cleveland and resulted in a $5 million
verdict against GE. A federal appeals
court upheld the verdict last year. By
then, the plaintiff, who had NSF, had
died.
The contours of the contrast agent
market have changed in recent years.
Both Magnevist, once the leading
agent, and Omniscan, also a top seller,
have lost market share since the FDA
restrictions in 2010. GE said its market
share was about 10 percent last year;
Bayer declined to cite a figure.
Jeff Gerth is a senior reporter at
ProPublica. Previously, he worked as an
investigative reporter at The New York
Times. Twice, his work has been honored
with the Pulitzer Prize.
Killing the Colorado River
Excerpted from ProPublica.org
BY ABRAHAM LUSTGARTEN
A
couple of miles outside the town
of Page, Ariz., three 775-foot-tall,
caramel-colored smokestacks tower
like sentries on the edge of northern
Arizona’s sprawling red sandstone
wilderness. At their base, the Navajo
Generating Station, the West’s largest
power-generating facility, thrums
ceaselessly, like a beating heart.
Football-field-length conveyors constantly feed it piles of coal, hauled 78
miles by train from where huge shovels
and mining equipment scraped it out
of the ground shortly before. Then, like
a medieval mortar and pestle machine,
wheels crush the stone against a large
bowl into a smooth powder that is
sprayed into tremendous furnaces –
some of the largest ever built. Those
furnaces are stoked to 2,000 degrees,
heating tubes of steam to produce
enough pressure to drive an 80-ton rod
of steel to spin faster than the speed of
sound, converting the heat of the fires
into electricity.
The power generated enables a
modern wonder. It drives a set of
pumps 325 miles down the Colorado
River that heave trillions of gallons
of water out of the river and send it
shooting over mountains and through
canals. That water – lifted 3,000
vertical feet and carried 336 miles –
has enabled the cities of Phoenix and
Tucson to rapidly expand.
This achievement in moving water,
however, is gained at an enormous
cost.
Every hour the Navajo’s generators
spin, the plant spews more climatewarming gases into the atmosphere
than almost any other facility in the
United States. Alone, it accounts for
29 percent of Arizona’s emissions
from energy generation. The Navajo
station’s infernos gobble 15 tons of
coal each minute, 24 hours each day,
every day. ...
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ProPublica.org or visit our site,
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Time for Texas To Get A Grip on Reality
BY ROBERT REICH
A
s extreme
current drought, the North’s record
weather
winter snowfall, and flooding
marked by
elsewhere.
tornadoes
But you’d have to be nuts not
and flooding
to be at least curious about such a
continues to
connection and its relationship to
sweep across
the carbon dioxide humans have
Texas, Gov.
been spewing into the atmosphere.
Greg Abbott has
Consider also the consequences
requested – and President Obama
for the public’s health. Several
has granted – federal help.
deaths in Texas have been linked to
I don’t begrudge Texas billions of
the extreme weather. Many Texans
dollars in disaster relief. After all,
have been injured by it, directly
we’re all part of America. When
or indirectly. Poor residents are in
some of us are in need, we all have
particular peril because they live in
a duty to respond.
areas prone to flooding or in flimsy
But the flow of federal money
houses and trailers that can be
poses a bit of awkwardness for the
washed or blown away.
Lone Star State.
What’s Texas’ response? Texas
Kanin Studio
After all, just over a month
officials continue to turn down
ago, hundreds of Texans decided
federal funds to expand Medicaid
Many Texans believe the federal government, the same entity to which Texas is applying for disaster
that a pending Navy Seal/Green
under the Affordable Care Act,
aid, is set to invade their state.
Beret joint training exercise was
thereby denying insurance to more
really an excuse to take over the
than 1 million people and preventYet even before the current floods, Texas had
state and impose martial law. And they claimed
ing
the
state
from
receiving an estimated $100 billion
received more disaster relief than any other state,
the Federal Emergency Management Agency was
in federal cash over the next decade.
according to a study by the Center for American
erecting prison camps and readying Walmart stores
I don’t want to pick on Texas. Its officials are not
Progress. That’s not simply because the state is so
as processing centers for political prisoners.
alone in hating the federal government, denying
large. It’s also because Texas is particularly vulnerclimate change and refusing to insure its poor.
able to extreme weather – tornadoes on the plains,
hurricanes
in
the
Gulf,
flooding
across
its
middle
Texas’ governor, Greg Abbott,
south.
Texas officials continue to turn
added to that particular outpouring and
Given this, you might also think Texas would take
down federal funds to expand
of paranoia by ordering the
climate change especially seriously. But here again,
Medicaid under the Affordable Care
there’s cognitive dissonance between what the state
Texas State Guard to monitor
needs and how its officials act.
Act, thereby denying insurance to
the military exercise
Among Texas’ infamous climate-change deniers is
more than 1 million people
Lamar Smith, chairman of the House Committee on
There are nut cases everywhere, but Texas’ goverScience, Space, and Technology, who dismissed last
nor, Greg Abbott, added to that particular outpourAnd I certainly don’t want to suggest all Texans
year’s report by the United Nations’ Intergoverning of paranoia by ordering the Texas State Guard
are
implicated. Obviously, many thoughtful and
mental Panel on Climate Change as “more political
to monitor the military exercise. “It is important
reasonable
people reside there.
than scientific” and the White House report on the
that Texans know their safety, constitutional rights,
Yet Texans have elected people who seem not to
urgency of addressing climate change as designed
private property rights and civil liberties will not
have a clue. Indeed, Texas has done more in recent
“to frighten Americans.”
be infringed upon,” he said. In other words, he’d
years to institutionalize irrationality than almost
Smith is still at it. His committee just slashed by
protect Texans from this federal plot.
anywhere else in America – thereby imposing a
more than 20 percent NASA’s spending on Earth
Now, Abbott wants federal money. And FEMA is
huge burden on its citizens.
science, which includes climate change.
gearing up for a major role in the cleanup – includHow many natural disasters will it take for the
ing places like Bastrop, Texas, where the Bastrop
Lone Star State to wake up to the disaster of its
You might also think Texas would
State Park dam failed – and where, just five weeks
elected officials?
ago, a U.S. Army colonel trying to explain the
take climate change especially
pending military exercise was shouted down by
Robert B. Reich, chancellor’s professor of public policy
seriously. But here again, there’s
hundreds of self-described patriots shouting “liar!”
at the University of California at Berkeley and senior
cognitive dissonance between
Texans dislike the federal government even more
fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies,
than most other Americans do. According to a
was secretary of labor in the Clinton administration.
what the state needs and how
February poll conducted by the University of Texas
Time magazine named him one of the 10 most effective
its officials act
and the Texas Tribune, only 23 percent of Texans
cabinet secretaries of the 20th century. He has written
view the federal government favorably, while 57
13 books, including the bestsellers “Aftershock” and
percent view it unfavorably, including more than a
“The Work of Nations.” His latest, “Beyond Outrage,”
It’s of course possible that Texas’ current record
third who hold a “very unfavorable” view.
is now out in paperback. He is also a founding editor
rainfalls – the National Weather Service reports that
Texas dislikes the federal government so much that
of the American Prospect magazine and chairman of
the downpour in May alone was enough to put the
eight of its congressional representatives, along with
Common Cause. His new film, “Inequality for All,” is
entire state under 8 inches of water – has nothing to
Sen. Ted Cruz, opposed disaster relief for the victims of
available on Netflix, iTunes, DVD and On Demand.
do with the kind of extreme weather we’re witnessHurricane Sandy – adding to the awkwardness of their
His blog is robertreich.org
ing elsewhere in the nation, such as the West’s
lobbying for the federal relief now heading Texas’ way.
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Ken Balizer sent us this picture of his dog, Zoe (right) and
her best friend, Ollie, a friend’s dog. “They’ve become
great pals and hang out together,” Ken said. Both are
rescue dogs from Albuquerque Animal Welfare’s shelter.
CALLING ALL PETS
Send it to
[email protected]
Include your name, phone number, and your pet’s name,
and we’ll try to reserve their spot in the pet parade.
Reddit Cracks Down on Hate
By abq free press staff
S
SCREENS
Icon in the Rough: New Cinema Offers More than Endless Popcorn
BY LISA BARROW
ome users went ballistic over
Reddit’s decision to shut down its
“Fat People Hate” subreddit, a forum
where cruelty toward fat people
was the norm. The forum’s deletion
followed Reddit’s June 10 decision to
ban hate speech.
Until then, the site, often called “the
front page of the Internet,” was unadulterated free speech on anything from
firearms to underarm hair – with no
regard to cultural norms or sensitivity.
The Fat People Hate subreddit
(FPH for short) was devoted solely to
ruthless criticism of fat people. It had
150,000 subscribers, many of whom
called themselves “shitlords,” Internet
slang for people who engage in racist,
sexist, homophobic or other demeaning dialogue.
FPH subscribers were especially relentless in their Internet “trolling,” or
online stalking. In one case, a woman
posting about her battle with her
weight was followed onto YouTube,
her videos were voted down, and she
was subjected to death threats.
“The [FPH] subreddit was banned
alongside the likes of r/hamplanethatred, r/transfags, r/neofag, and
r/shitniggerssay, though Fat People
Hate’s subscriber numbers drastically
outweighed those of the other banned
subreddits, so its removal has attracted
the most attention,” wrote the website
craveonline.com.
“Or maybe it has been more roundly
defended because the shaming of
overweight people is more morally
acceptable than flagrant racism and
homophobia,” craveonline.com wrote.
Within days of the crackdown,
disgruntled Redditors decamped en
masse to a Swiss-based clone of Reddit
called Voat, which struggled to deal
with the increased traffic, the U.K.
newspaper, the Guardian, reported.
In response to the deluge, Voat,
which mimics Reddit’s design and
layout (albeit using “subverses”
rather than “subreddits”) was forced
to ask for bitcoin donations to keep
the site live.
“We are sorry to see
theguardian.com/technology/reddit”
change like this, in this way, in such
an accelerated fashion. We would
have never anticipated such events,”
Atko, Voat’s founder and chief
technology officer, told the Guardian.
“A lazy day at home,” writes Cheryl Wolff in describing
this photo of Ely and Oscar (two dogs),
Harvey and Neo (two cats) and Jessie (single dog).
CALLING ALL PETS
Send it to
[email protected]
Include your name, phone number, and your pet’s name,
and we’ll try to reserve their spot in the pet parade.
B
efore the new Icon Cinema (13120A Central S.E.) opened, I didn’t
realize how deep Albuquerque’s collective lust for movie theater popcorn
runs. I was ignorant of the popcornshaped hole in the lives of so many
of us, a breach that clearly cannot be
filled by microwaveable bags or the
flavor-packed powders available on
grocery store shelves. Every time I’ve
mentioned “unlimited refills” and
“popcorn” in the same sentence to my
friends, they have paid rapt attention
and begun to salivate.
The prospect of never-ending
popcorn may woo many to the newly
opened theater in the Four Hills Shopping Center at Tramway and Central
– I include myself – but honestly,
there’s a limit to the amount of salty
snack food that can be devoured over
the course of a single movie, even by
the most dedicated chompers among
us. Even when it’s washed down by
soda refills that are also delightfully
limitless.
No quantity of popcorn will make
up for an otherwise poor experience.
A grainy projection, a rude employee,
sound that cuts out or someone’s
butt in your face as they repeatedly
squeeze past you down
the row can all wreck date
night or a family outing,
especially one in which
a decent-sized chunk of
change has been invested
for the privilege.
Happily, Icon Cinema
avoids these common
pitfalls in every way. The
interior remodel has given
it a pleasing coat of newness, but what seems more germane
is the intelligence of their approach
to luxury. Entering through the glass
doors out front, you come upon a
lobby that is nice, very nice, but not
fancy. High ceiling, decidedly un-tacky
floor tiles, electronic menu board
hovering over the long, well-stocked
counter – nothing here suggests an
attempt to distract you with pointless
bells and whistles.
That’s especially true in the
games area, which isn’t especially
well-stocked; there are so many claw
machines they appear to be at their
family reunion. A row of them towers
over a tired-looking Ms.
Pac-Man/Galaga combo
near a basketball arcade
game. So there’s room for
improvement, certainly, but
the cinema’s real test lies in
the movie experience.
When I arrive with
my husband on opening
weekend, already a little late
for the 5:15 p.m. showing
of Spy, the first thing we
do is crane our necks for the ticket
counter. There isn’t one. We approach
the snack counter – no lines, at least
three employees making eye contact
and ready to help – and discover that
all preliminaries happen in this single
location.
We name our movie, and the hardest
part of the evening begins when the
clerk turns a small monitor screen
toward me. It displays a map of colorful interlocking squares. This is the
theater floor plan, and it’s up to me
to pick – in advance – where we’ll sit.
I hadn’t thought about it. Gesturing
to different parts of the diagram, the
clerk is patient as she explains, “Green
seats are the vibration sensation, blue
are the electric recliners. Red has been
purchased already, and the purple
seats are the handicap spots.”
I’m not always a snappy decisionmaker. Stalling for time, I ask what the
vibrating seats do, and she tells me
they shake along with action in the
movie. Boldly, I make a decision – we
are recliner people – and select a couple
of spots on Row E. She runs my card
for $32.50 (that’s $10.75 per adult ticket,
$6.50 for the popcorn tub and $4.50
for the large drink, comparable to
other cinemas in town) and hands us
our containers to fill ourselves at the
spacious snack area.
And thus ends the hardest part of
the experience. (It wasn’t that hard.)
Soon after, armed with a heaping
bucket of popcorn, a Diet Coke and the
glorious knowledge that we can refill
either at our slightest whim, we get
our tickets ripped in the hallway and
cont. on page 31
ARTS
State of the Art: One Hell of a Saturday
BY LISA BARROW
Touch wood
Despite its name, the 1st Annual
World of Wood Artists Festival isn’t
just about selling art made out of dead
trees. On Saturday, June 27, from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m., Albuquerque Exotic
Woods (4224 Menaul NE) opens its
parking lot to local artisans of every
stripe for an outdoor “makersplosion.”
Expect leather workers, fine art painters, ceramicists, fiber artists, jewelers,
stained glass artists, glassblowers and
more in addition to woodworkers
of the turning, burning and carving
varieties. Stay cool with something
tasty from the Pop Fizz ice cream cart
while choosing from an abundance of
locally made, one-of-a-kind goodies.
Plus, take in exhibition tables that offer
woodworking demos and a chance
to see “people just working on stuff,”
says festival organizer and wood shop
volunteer Holly von Winckel.
Albuquerque Exotic Woods isn’t
like your typical lumber store. Most
of its stock consists of hard-to-find
items, spanning the alphabet from
African mahogany to zebrawood
with materials that are full of artistic
potential and please the senses. “When
you buy exotic hardwood,” von
Winckel explains, “you’re buying it for
the aesthetic. The working qualities
of the wood are secondary to how it
looks, how it feels, what it smells like.”
Customers often remark on the heady
aromas of olivewood, cedar, juniper,
sandalwood and more filling the shop,
she says. For more information about
the store and its unusual stock, visit
abqexoticwoods.com.
The festival is free to attend, which
means you can save your cash for
something beautiful. Spaces for
vendors are still available; call 293-9663
or email [email protected] to
sign up through June 26. “Any kind of
crafter or artisan is welcome to set up a
booth for free,” says von Winckel.
Fair weather
Everything from recycledsweater fox pins to Thomas Tomlinson
laser-cut wall art is waiting to be
discovered at Downtown boutique
The Octopus and the Fox (514 Central
SE). The purveyors of handcrafted
and vintage goods are committed to
bringing unusual local artistry to light
not only in their shop, but by holding two Octofairs a year, once each
spring and fall. This year, though, the
weather chose not to cooperate; the
original Spring Octofair on May 9 was
plagued by nasty winds and unseasonably cold weather, forcing many
artists to shut down their booths
before they blew away.
Octofair 2: The Revenge corrects the
wrongs of the inclement-weathered
past with a crafty do-over on Saturday, June 27, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
As always, expect a relaxed, familyfriendly, carnival atmosphere with
food trucks like Cheesy Street, Pop
Fizz and Soo Bak, and live music from
Sage and Jared’s Happy Gland Band,
Billy Crooze and the Dinglehoppers,
Billy Bellmont, Faye Lynn Richards
and more. The fair is free to attend;
booths for vending cost $25. For more
information, call 203-2659, email
[email protected] or
visit theoctopusandthefox.com.
O sister, where
art thou?
Corn, beans and squash are more
than a delicious filling for your next
burrito. An exhibit at the Open Space
BY RICHARD OYAMA
Visitor Center (6500 Coors NW) aims
to unveil how deeply the famed “three
sisters” of agriculture are interwoven
into New Mexico’s Pueblo culture and
history. The Three Sisters: A Pueblo
Perspective shakes out on Saturday,
June 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Talks,
kids’ activities and traditional pueblo
dances make it a day of festive fun
grounded in learning about the crucial
role played by these staple foods of
the Southwest.
Originally displayed at the National
Hispanic Cultural Center, the Three
Sisters exhibit educates viewers about
how corn, beans and squash have
played out in botanical history and
medicinal use in Mesoamerica, the
cultural region stretching from about
central Mexico through Central America that flourished before Spanish
colonization. Saturday’s event, which
stems from a partnership between the
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center and
the Open Space Visitor Center, seeks
to bring “a Pueblo perspective to this
exhibit,” according to the event page,
“and provide lessons in sustainability
and stewardship.”
To see the full schedule of free
events, which include a discussion
with farmer Obsidian Caz of Jemez
Pueblo, a make-your-own planter
activity for the rugrats and hands-on
cultivation activities in the Traditions
Garden, visit the Facebook event page
at on.fb.me/1GoDPbK.
Spotlight: Rivetheads Rejoice!
Dark docs at Guild
BY M. BRIANNA STALLINGS
S
ummer’s here and the time is right
for films in theater seats. Sitting in
the dark, surrounded by noise, reveling
in the joy of large machines pumping
out recirculated air – it reads like a day
trip to Paradise for the typical industrial
fan. Between the afterglow of “Mad
Max: Fury Road” and the anticipation
of “Terminator: Genisys,” 505 lovers
of all things black and bleak can catch
two critically acclaimed documentaries
courtesy of The Guild Cinema (3405 Central NE) from Friday, June 26 through
Monday, June 29. With “Dark Star: H.
R. Giger’s World,” (95 minutes) director
Belinda Sallin gives viewers an intimate
glimpse into the life and work of the
Oscar-winning Swiss artist who scared
the piss out of filmgoers over thirty
years ago with his beasts in “Alien.”
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To a Blossom World: On ‘Love & Mercy’
Giger, who died in 2014, opens up his
sketchbooks, home, and museum full of
monstrous marvels for a final glimpse
into his unprecedented creative vision.
Meanwhile, “Industrial Soundtrack
For The Urban Decay” (52 minutes),
directed by Amelie Ravalec and Travis
Collins, is billed as a must-see 2015 film
by websites Noisey and Uncut. Through
interviews with such genre luminaries as
Genesis P. Orridge (Throbbing Gristle),
Graeme Revell, Cabaret Voltaire and
Boyd Rice, “Industrial Soundtrack”
shares the rich, dissonant history of a
genre shaped by crumbling factories,
worker discontent, and Thatcher-era
Europe. Ravalec is also responsible for
the 2012 documentary “Paris/Berlin: 20
Years of Underground Techno.”
C
ritic Greil Marcus noted that there
was affection in The Beach Boys’
sound ... even at their most desperate.
The opening montage of Bill Pohlad’s
“Love & Mercy,” a biopic about
bandleader Brian Wilson, gorgeously
evokes the buoyancy of those early
Beach Boys’ hits. But that’s mere
prelude to what happened when
the wildly successful pop group –
marked by familial harmonies and
Chuck Berry rhythms – morphed into
something else during a late-decade
period of creative ferment.
Young Brian, played by a noteperfect Paul Dano, is a SoCal boy
imbued with a naked vulnerability
and innocence, an unmediated quality
that never allowed him to keep safe.
He was at once emotionally available
and frightfully unprotected. That is
to say, he was an American artist.
Accompanying Wilson’s hymns to
sun, girls and surf, there was always
a plaintive undercurrent in his
Courtesy of Roadside Attractions
songs – notably “In My Room.” And
for good reason. His stage-manager
John Cusack plays Brian Future in “Love & Mercy,” a new biopic about the life of The Beach Boys’ prime mover, Brian Wilson.
father Murry (Bill Camp) tyrannized
and beat his sons brutally. In a
guru whose chief claim to fame is authorship of hipIt’s a familiar trope that genius lies close to madreal-life episode not included in the
ness. Wilson suffers a breakdown on a plane flight
pie jargon manual “The Underground Dictionary.”
film, Murry removed his glass eye to show Brian
and withdraws from touring. He enacts the same
Landy is an out-and-out scoundrel and charlatan
the hollow socket in his skull. There is no mention
move The Beatles will make in 1966, leaving him
who misdiagnoses Brian as paranoid schizophrenic
of his brother Dennis’ friendship with an aspiring
free to experiment in the studio: He drops LSD and
and keeps him under virtual house arrest. Giamatti
songwriter named Charles Manson either. Brian was
descends into the maelstrom. The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepisn’t allowed much range as the heavy, but to his
deaf in one ear as a result of his father’s abuse. There
per’s” is the white whale Wilson pursues, but the
credit, he manages to render even Landy’s geniality
was Gothic horror in the California sunshine.
resulting “Smile” sessions are shelved indefinitely.
(and hairpiece) as sinister.
Some of “Love & Mercy’s” most pleasurable
They will finally be released in 2011, a half-century
scenes are set in the recording studio; after firing his
“Love & Mercy” smoothly crosscuts between a
manager/father, an emboldened Wilson rehearses
later. Wilson takes to his bed for three years, only
young Wilson and an older version (John Cusack)
songs that will become the talismanic album “Pet
occasionally venturing out in his bathrobe. It sounds
in the 1980s. Cusack’s physical dissimilarity was
Sounds.” The documentary style of these scenes
a hell of a lot like clinical depression.
disconcerting at first but to a remarkable degree, the
communicates a musician’s working process as well
After his crack-up, another controlling father
actor captures Wilson’s near-affectless, naïve speech,
as anything I’ve seen in a feature film. Wilson sought
figure enters Wilson’s orbit in the person of Dr.
his facial tics and mannerisms and his stooped
to replicate the “sounds inside his head,” and it’s
Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti), a cultish therapist/
carriage. Wilson’s spacey conversation with
clear that head was orchestrally oriented and
saleswoman Melinda Ledbetter (Elizabeth
open to serendipitous accident. As session
Banks) in a Cadillac showroom blossoms
drummer Hal Blaine tells Wilson, “You’re
into a geeky romance. It’s a tender, touching
touched.” “Good Vibrations” is a pocket
moment. Ledbetter’s trophy model looks
symphony to God, while “God Only Knows”
belie her steely nerves. She will become
is a religious song.
Brian’s second wife and his fearless advocate.
Wilson encounters resistance to his new
Together Dano and Cusack complete a wholly
music within the group from Mike Love (Jake
credible portrait of a beloved musician.
Abel), the obnoxious frat boy cousin some of
See the heart-tugging Love & Mercy for the
us love to hate. Love complains that Wilson
story
of a damaged El Lay angel named Brian
is messing with the conventional Beach Boys
Wilson
who once passed through our world
“formula.” Murry agrees. There is less and
during a halcyon age and left us a bunch of
less “Fun, Fun, Fun” and more “I Wasn’t
sun-lit, celestial songs.
Made for These Times,” an anthem for misfits.
For all its strange beauty – sleigh bells,
Smile.
barking dogs, trains and all – “Pet Sounds”
is a profoundly sad album. Wilson begins to
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Richard Oyama took a Greyhound from Manhattan to
fear he’s “losing it,” plunging headfirst into a
dreamlike David Hockney underwater ballet. Paul Dano portrays Brian Past.
California on the strength of Beach Boys songs alone.
SCREENS
‘The Life of Riley’: Speech Drowns Out King’s Sound
SCREENS
Standing Room Only: ‘Sense8’ Commodifies Lifestyle
BY RICHARD OYAMA
J
on Brewer’s patchwork documentary “B.B. King: The Life of Riley”
doesn’t trust the music enough to tell
the story, whereas B.B. did. Just one
month ago, the iconic bluesman died
at age 87. The Guild Cinema (3405
Central NE) hosts a tribute screening
on Sunday, June 21, at 12:30 p.m.
It isn’t that Brewer lacked ample
material for a worthy film. “Life of
Riley” makes use of archival footage
of interviews with King himself and
an overabundance of talking heads
– friends, relatives, wives, business
managers and “rock legends” – who
sing hosannas to one of the most
influential blues musicians to have
ever lived. Intermittent narrator
Morgan Freeman falls out, only to be
reincarnated as yet another commentator. Do we need to hear from
Bill Cosby and Bruce Willis? Really?
I’m not sure “The Life of Riley” is well
served by Carlos Santana’s Krishna
consciousness either.
Brewer never allows the audience to
experience a full performance by the
master at work, instead cutting away
to interview segments and even more
egregiously inserting a voice over
during performance
footage. Compare this
to Martin Scorsese’s
inclusion of Muddy
Waters’ riveting “Mannish Boy” performance
in “The Last Waltz.”
When the viewer wants
to toggle to YouTube to
watch concert numbers,
a documentary is not
satisfying its audience.
Born Riley B. King to
Mississippi Delta sharecroppers, his formative
memories included
gospel music, hard labor
and the lynching of a
black man by Southern
whites. At 14 he began
work as a sharecropper
himself. King calculated
that he walked 30 miles
a day, plowing a field
behind a mule. During
his lifetime, he walked enough to
make a circuit around the Earth. King
made $5 a day on the plantation.
After a stint in the Army and a first
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to “Sense8.” From right, trans woman and hactivist
Nomi Marks (Jamie Clayton) embraces her girlfriend
Amanita (Freema Agyeman). Courtesy of Netflix
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marriage, King moved to Memphis,
Tenn., rapidly becoming a popular
DJ on WDIA. Rufus Thomas, who
followed a similar career arc, appears
in this film. Thomas is an electric
presence, and I wanted to hear more
from him. King was successively nicknamed the Beale Street Blues Boy, then
Blues Boy, then B.B. – the poetry of
the blues. Among the influences he assimilated were big band sounds, jump
blues – an uncredited Louis Jordan
is shown briefly – and guitarists like
Charlie Christian and T-Bone Walker.
As music critic Peter Guralnick noted,
King widened the audience for blues
with “the urbanity of his playing, the
absorption of a multiplicity of influences ... along with a graciousness of
manner and [his] willingness to adapt
to new audiences.”
King played 275 one-nighters on the
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chitlin’ circuit – amid Jim Crow, flophouses and shotgun shacks – before
being embraced by a young, white
audience who came to the blues by
way of British rock musicians like The
Rolling Stones and Fleetwood Mac’s
Peter Green; the latter was arguably
King’s truest heir before bad drugs
slew him. What follows in “Riley’s”
assemblage is a predictable roster –
Clapton, Bono, a Beatle drummer and
a debauched-looking Mick Taylor.
Rock royalty pays obeisance to the
originator. The litany of presidential
honors is dutifully recited. King opens
stadium shows for U2.
But what about the music? My
friend KJ once asked me which of the
Kings was my favorite: B.B., Freddie
or Albert. It would have to be B.B. He
was the sparest of guitarists, playing
a Gibson he dubbed Lucille. King
intuited that the blues was “a feeling,
not a thousand notes” – the error of
many otherwise virtuosic rock gods.
Like Miles Davis, one note is all that’s
required to identify, as King said, “the
sound I hear.” Vocally, King’s sweet,
hoarse cry is equally distinctive. He
could embody both sophisticated
urbanity and gutbucket raunch with
equal aplomb.
Visit the Guild Cinema to honor B.B.
King; since the blues is our heritage,
the theater ought to be packed. Afterward, listen to “Live at the Regal” and
you’ll never forget what it’s like for
a bluesman to exist in perfect communion with his audience.
Richard Oyama is a novelist and poet who
has longed to light out for the territory in the
heart of the Delta, following Huck and Jim.
BY HUGH ELLIOTT
I
f there’s one thing the Internet loves, it’s making
up new names for everything. “Normcore,”
“dadbod,” and recently “Yuccies” or “Young Urban
Creatives” are being touted as the Next Big Thing.
The term “Yuccies” originated with a Mashable
article [bit.ly/yuccieorigin] that explains they are
“borne of suburban comfort, indoctrinated with the
transcendent power of education, and infected by
the conviction that not only do we deserve to pursue
our dreams; we should profit from them.” Good
grief. In other words they are fussy, smartypants
hipsters with a purpose. In fact reading this review
might actually plop you down in the midst of this
newly named demographic, so gird your loins.
The good news is that Yuccies now have their
own sci-fi series, and that show is “Sense8” [bit.
ly/senseeight], the new 12-episode Netflix drama
from Lana and Andy Wachowski, the infamous
siblings who brought us “The Matrix.” The octet of
main characters in “Sense8” reads like a New York
Times article about South by Southwest, including
a DJ, an actor and a so-called “hacktivist.” They’re
all young, good looking and fashionably run the
gamut of sexual identities from gay to trans. They’re
certainly comfortable in their San Francisco lofts and
Mexican penthouses. They have abundant access to
recreational drugs. They’re also incredibly fit and
have little issue with nudity and wild sex, so plan
your wardrobe accordingly. Oh you’ll want to be a
Sense8, trust me.
The main problem occurs when they speak. The
script is incredibly pretentious, trading in platitudes
more suitable for 12-step meetings or inspirational
posters. “I’m not just a me, I’m also a we,” the trans
lesbian dramatically intones to her video journal at
one point. Of course you are, dear. Even the episode
titles themselves, like “Death Doesn’t Let You Say
Goodbye” (something a character actually says) are
just maudlin homilies disguised as deep thoughts.
All that’s missing is pictures of puppies and a Sarah
McLachlan song.
Halfway through watching the series, I went on
the Internet to see how other people were reacting
to the show. Much of the expectation surrounding
“Sense8” is owed to the Wachowskis’ involvement
and their fan base’s cautious hopes for more groundbreaking special effects. People are still crazy about
“The Matrix” and that whole red pill/blue pill thing.
These superfans call themselves “Freeminds” and/
or “Coppertops,” which certainly has a better ring to
it than Yuccies.
Lana Wachowski came out as transgender several
years ago, and “Sense8” seizes the opportunity to
school everyone about the fluidity of sexual identity.
It’s a noble lesson but I would guess that if you’re
watching this show, you probably already got the
memo. Personally I’m quite aware of how sex works
(gay or straight, thank you very much) but “Sense8”
is eager to provide erotic examples, lest we have any
lingering questions. Is this just the new normal now,
everybody naked and doing it on teevee? It was
brushed aside in the PR for “Sense8” which is too
bad as it couldn’t have hurt.
What the series never really got was that
binge-worthy buzz that pushed other Netflix series
like “Orange Is The New Black” and “House of
Cards” onto magazine covers. There are no breakout
parts here and certainly no Laverne Cox. There
aren’t any huge stars except Darryl Hannah, who
makes a brief appearance, apparently reviving her
role from “Blade Runner.” Her cameo is one of the
dog whistles for sci-fi fans, like when they use the
emo version of “Mad World” in “Donnie Darko.”
Here, “Sense8” insists, is where you can satisfy your
maudlin Coppertop feelings.
And that manipulation, that inability to let the
viewer breathe and discover the subtlety of emotion,
is where the show disappoints. “Sense8” desperately
tries to cajole us into feeling connected. It wants to
“indoctrinate us with the transcendent power of
education,” an education grounded in remnants
of the ‘60s and ‘70s revolutions that were roiling
when the Wachowskis were growing up. It wants to
hammer home those ideals of free love and transformational connection over and over, at the expense of
logic and plot.
In an interview about the series, Darryl Hannah said, “The thing about ‘Sense8’ is that it’s
paradigm-breaking on multiple levels.” [bit.ly/
hannahquote].
Nice try, but no. It’s a TED talk given by supermodels, a group hug for the cool kids. But then
again, for most Yuccies that probably sounds like
heaven on Earth.
Hugh Elliott is a writer and artist living in California
who rarely uses his Twitter handle @wehogayman
food
Thai Eatery Adds Spice to Northeast Heights
food
Deep Dish: Dollars to Donuts
BY SAFFRON TOMATO
T
he last time I was here, I ordered
a green chile cheeseburger. That’s
because Thai Spice (7441 Paseo Del
Norte) occupies the spot that a burger
joint used to call home. Burger Rush
closed several months ago, and the
building that houses Mario’s Pizzeria
& Ristorante now has a new tenant.
Restaurants are often fine-tuning
both their menu and service at the
two-month mark, but 8-week-old Thai
Spice seems to have already hit its
stride.
I stumbled on the restaurant’s
website, thaispiceabq.com, one
afternoon during a Google search. The
very thought of Thai food immediately primed my pre-dinner jitters for
the rich, bold taste of peanutty curry.
I scoped the online menu and headed
their way. I was already eager for an
early (4 p.m.) dinner when the sweet
smell of jasmine rice greeted me as
I entered. Before morphing into my
server and taking my drink order, the
unfailingly friendly hostess swiftly
offered me a table. I communicated
my desire for a Thai iced tea ($2.95),
which I always invite to join me when
dining Thai. The tea’s quality is often
a reliable benchmark for gauging
expectations of the meal.
I barely had time to note Thai
aspects of the dining room décor – a
Buddha statue and an elaborately
carved room divider – and the exhibition kitchen when my tea arrived. An
origami flower folded from a soda
straw wrapper adorned the serving
straw. How meta! The meticulous
presentation showed respect for the
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Thai Spice
7441 Paseo Del Norte NE
Albuquerque, NM 87113
(505) 503-1521
simple, vital beverage.
Paper rose or no, the tea
was spot on. Boasting a
keen hint of Ceylon and
just the right amount of sweetness,
Thai Spice’s iced tea is made the way
it was intended. The quality of my
drink enhanced my hopes for dishes
that mirrored its perfection.
The menu offers traditional
American-Thai dishes plus a few
hard-to-pronounce plates you won’t
find on typical Thai menus. I opted
for a Thai staple: Chicken Pad Thai
($9.95) spiced at the 3-star level. To
Clockwise from left: The Thai iced tea is served
with a straw adorned with an origami flower.
Massaman curry with tofu is accompanied by
jasmine rice. Thai Spice’s modern interior
incorporates Thai design elements.
Photos Courtesy of Saffron Tomato
explore Thai Spice’s range, I also put
in an order for a stir-fried dish called
Pad Ma Muong Him Mapan ($9.95).
It consists of sautéed cashews, onions,
carrots, bell peppers, dried chili and
your choice of chicken, beef, pork or
shrimp. Piled atop my Pad Thai and
stir fry, the Massaman Curry ($9.95)
with tofu would further satisfy my
nutty spice craving. This entree is
comprised of simmered potatoes,
peanuts, tomatoes and onions – all
drowned in peanut-saturated curry.
My order was promptly delivered to
the open-view kitchen, where you can
watch the chefs at work. The sounds
and smells of sizzling meats and vegetables drenched the air. The beauty of
a 4 p.m. dinner is that you’re usually
dining among few others, and your
order is served quickly. My Pad Thai,
stir fry and curry dishes were all
presented within 15 minutes.
Thanks to immaculately fresh,
vibrant vegetables, my dinner looked
almost as good as it tasted. Splashing
mounds of white rice with milky peanut curry was my initial point of attack,
but that quickly segued to chopstick
snags of egg noodle Pad Thai spiced
just to my liking. I doused the stir-fried
beef and vegetable with dashes of
Sriracha, and my endorphins kicked
into gear. Every dish had a nuanced but
definitive Thai flavor. My meal had the
chef’s uninterrupted attention, but even
so, it was clear he was no rookie when it
comes to Thai creations.
If you’ve ever been to Thailand, you
know American-Thai food tends to
rely more heavily on meat, and less
on herbs and spices. In contrast, Thai
food in Thailand leans heavy on herbs
and is lighter on meats. Thai Spice
meets this double-standard right in
the middle with a balanced combination of both herbs and meat. Choice
garnishes including chopped peanuts,
dried chili and paste; limes and bean
sprouts are offered up in bowls.
Everyone knows that squirts of fresh
lime juice make a brilliant Pad Thai
even more divine, and everything
Thai goes better with more peanuts.
From the Pad Thai’s choice tang to
the stir-fried beef’s whimsical cashew
complement, Thai Spice proves itself a
cut above your typical neighborhood
Thai spot – despite the occasional
undercooked onion. And let us never
forget the peanutty curry tofu, which
was sweet enough to sate my dessert
cravings. Reflecting on the meal – as
leftovers plop onto my keyboard –
I’ve already set a date to revisit Thai
Spice. Folks in the Northeast Heights
are lucky to have this new go-to
Thai spot in their ‘hood. Let’s hope
they stick around longer than their
predecessor.
owned small business with no small
amount of donut sales. They have
several stores around the city, and their
website is donutmartusa.com.
BY SAFFRON TOMATO
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hyperlocal version.
In fact Dee’s was independent and sued and won the
right to use the name and
keep the other Cheesecake
Factory from setting up shop
in the city. Due to the ruling,
The Cheesecake Factory
couldn’t open any locations
here so long as Dee’s was in
business. But co-owner Lisa
Mager wanted to retire in
2014, which allows the chain
to come to Albuquerque.
Initially The Cheesecake Factory’s corporate office said
they had no immediate plans
to open a restaurant in New
Mexico. And there’s certainly
nothing on their website to
indicate they’re headed this
way. But The Cheesecake
Factory did file a permit in
June 2015 to build at Coronado Center.
Stay tuned. Cheesecake may still be in
Albuquerque’s future.
restaurant on the block anymore. A new
ramen-centric restaurant, Naruto, will
open for business at 2110 Central SE in
Mint Tulip’s old spot, perhaps as early
as late-summer. Naruto is owned by the
same family who operates Santa Fe’s
Shohko Café, Hiro and Shohko Fukuda.
The new place is expected to specialize
in ramen, but will also serve sushi, bento
boxes and their own take on tapas. Chef
Shohko has developed her own fusion
cuisine items for Shohko Café, including
green chile tempura and the Santa
Fe roll, which weds green chile with
shrimp tempura and avocado. It will
be interesting to see what they have in
store for Albuquerque.
Betting on brews
Local architects Dan Herr and Joe
Slagle and their wives are hard at work
on a new beer venture. It will be called
Sidetrack Brewing Co., and they
expect to open sometime this summer.
Saffron has been told that it’s a neighborhood tavern concept. The focus will
be on beer and brewing.
413 Second Street SW
sidetrackbrewing.net
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The Earth’s a Stage: Theater on the Farm
Fuses Robust Food, Live Theater Outdoors
Bobby Gonzales
Theater on the Farm’s audience shares the unconventional, earthy stage with actors at Farm & Table.
BY LISA BARROW
I
t rained earlier today. The air remains damp, but
the afternoon has been a hot one. We’re under
an open sky, seated on benches and hay bales and
blankets. We are eating popcorn, and I’m sipping on
a cup of water bearing the faint imprint of the lemon
and mint it was steeped with. We are surrounded
by rows of growing vegetables, sunflowers and a
wide green field. In the field a man and a woman are
moving toward one another. They are approaching
slowly, but curiously, intently. Behind them the
setting sun, resplendent, illuminates a scattering of
low clouds.
This is opening night for Theater on the Farm.
The event’s name is as direct and descriptive as
you’d expect from host restaurant Farm & Table.
Tucked away at 8917 Fourth Street NW, just north
of Paseo Del Norte, this much-lauded North Valley
establishment owned by Cherie Montoya is famed
for its seasonal, hyperlocal ingredients, many of
which come directly from the 2-acre produce farm
out back.
That’s where we are now, at Sol Harvest Farm, just
beyond the restaurant’s spacious patio, watching
“Rain Follows the Plow” unfold first in an adjacent
field and then on the nearby “farm deck,” a small
wooden stage directly in front of us.
“Rain Follows the Plow” is a one-act play created
by Tricklock Company and initially performed by
creators Drew Morrison and Diana Delgado as part
of the Revolutions International Theatre Festival
in January. Told largely in a physical language that
falls somewhere between dance and pantomime,
the piece portrays a young, idealistic couple caught
in the catastrophe of the Dust Bowl. The dialogue is
stylized and poetic. There are flashes of humor and
moments of pathos. They were, the pair tells us and
each other, “a couple who renewed their vows every
morning.”
We get the feeling they’re in for disappointment.
tenderness of the zucchini and
I spoke with director Erin
Theater on the Farm
squash enclosing tangy heirloom
Phillips by phone about the show
feat. Tricklock Company
cherry tomatoes, the flavors
a few days prior. “This play is
and Duke City Repertory
melding gently in a dollop of goat
certainly dealing with the issues
Theatre
cheese pesto. The ingredients are
of the emotional relationship
Through June 24
all locally sourced – zucchini and
humans create with people they
Wednesdays at 7 pm (mingle) and
squash from Silver Leaf Farms in
love and how complicated those
7:30 pm (performances)
Corrales, tomatoes from Jemez
get,” she says. “It’s also just a
Farm & Table / Sol Harvest Farm
8917 Fourth Street NW
Valley Live, goat cheese from Old
really lush, lovely space to absorb
Performance only $30 | Mingle and
Windmill in Estancia, basil from
this love story, even though it’s not
performance with appetizers and
right here at Sol Harvest. Eating
always a happy love story.” That
beer/wine $50
off recycled paper plates under
lushness, the eruption of green on
For tickets and information,
the warm sun, drinking wine or
all sides here at the farm, plays
email [email protected]
beer (each attendee received two
off of some of the work’s most
or call 503-7124.
drink tickets), the crowd’s mood
affecting moments, like when the
is relaxed, pleased. It’s hard to
young wife cradles a tiny bundle,
believe how close we are to the
her apparent newborn – except we
smoke shops and laundromats of Fourth Street.
know, because we have just witnessed her wrapping
Also served at the mingle were tiny, exquisitely
it, that the blanket holds nothing more than a pile of
golden Argentinean empanadas filled with Farm
dry, lifeless dirt.
& Table beef and traditional spices. I don’t eat beef
“It’s doing a really interesting thing to be able to
myself, but my husband went back for seconds, and
be sort of in the earth. Like, at rehearsal every night,
later I overheard a woman lamenting the fact that
dealing with bugs, getting bug bites and getting
the empanadas kept disappearing as fast as servers
itchy, because you’re actually in the hay.” Phillips
could bring trays out. We munched on cherrylaughs. “It’s a perfect fit for the show.”
bourbon bread pudding bites for dessert, drizzled in
During intermission, I heap another paper basket
caramel and offered with cherries from RCJ Orchard
full of popcorn mouthwateringly seasoned with
and Henry’s Farm, both in Albuquerque.
basil, sage, rosemary and plenty of salt. Farm &
After intermission, Ezra Colón of Duke City
Table’s brand-new executive chef Carrie Eagle had
Repertory Theatre (DCRT) takes the stage to deliver
also spoken to me by phone before my visit, telling
“Groundwork.” It’s a monologue written by Derek
me, “One of my signatures as a chef has always been
Davidson and Mike Ostroski that begins quietly,
different types of popcorn.” I can see why.
humorously, and begins to build.
But I’m also already kind of missing the zucColón plays Paul, an orderly, likeable working
chini and summer squash involtini served at the
actor who resolves one day, in a thunderbolt of
$20 “mingle” before tonight’s show. During our
inspiration, to have a garden. As he’s rattling off
interview, Eagle mentioned, almost off-handedly,
the details – the urbanite’s epiphany that “before
“It’s just going to be a simple grilled vegetable
you have a garden, you have to grow one,” the
stuffed with other vegetables and wrapped.” These
enthusiastic acquisition of gardening books, the
humble words left me unprepared for the perfect
cont. on page 33
living
Bugman: Raid Your Pantry Rather
than the Pesticide Aisle
Sex Q&A: How to Prolong Pleasure
BY HUNTER RILEY
Q: I’m a man who
has a hard time
lasting very long
when I’m with
a partner, and I
want sex to last
longer. What can
I do to make that
happen?
BY RICHARD “BUGMAN” FAGERLUND
I
n this regular column for ABQ Free
Press, I plan to answer any pest
questions you have. Active in the pest
industry for more than 40 years, I
practice and promote nontoxic methods
of pest management.
In the real world, pesticides are
nothing more than weapons of mass
destruction. If you have questions about
pests, don’t hesitate to email
[email protected] or call
(505) 385-2820. I will answer all questions, and many answers will be featured
here. In this introductory column, learn
about common, nontoxic household
products you can use to control pests.
The following is a basic list of products
you can find around the house or easily
and inexpensively purchase to manage
pest problems. There are many others,
but let’s start with those that are easiest
to find and use.
Beer
Believe it or not, beer is an incredibly
effective substance for controlling
some pests. Soak a rag in beer and lay
it in the middle of your garage floor at
night; in the morning, it will be covered
in drunken cockroaches waiting to be
dispatched. Set saucers filled with beer
out in your yard, and you will attract
snails and slugs as well. These mollusks
will get drunk alongside the roaches,
drowning together in the brew. Pro-tip:
These pests have discerning tastes, so
don’t try to trick them with light beer.
Boric acid
Boric acid is a powder that coats insects
when they crawl over it and then
abrades the waxy coating on insects’
exoskeletons. This wax coat is used to retain water; without it, the insect quickly
dies from dehydration. When mixed in
baits, it can control ants, cockroaches
and other insects. The insects also
ingest the material while grooming and
subsequently die. Boric acid will remain
effective indefinitely in a dry environment. Mix boric acid with any food
roaches or ants eat, including peanut
butter, jelly, sugar, syrup or honey. You
can mix it with ground beef to control
wasps. While boric acid doesn’t contribute to cancer, birth defects, allergies or
other ailments like typical pesticides, it
is toxic if ingested and should not be
taken internally. So keep any baits you
make out of reach of children and pets.
Diatomaceous earth
I frequently recommend the use of
diatomaceous earth (DE) for controlling
a variety of pests. If you use this prod-
uct, make sure it is food-grade quality.
This least-toxic insecticide is considered
harmless to humans and is used in the
storage of grains. Mix ¼ cup food-grade
DE in one gallon vinegar and spray pests
with the mixture or use it to drench ant
mounds. You can create an excellent
pest barrier by applying Tanglefoot
insect barrier or petroleum jelly to areas
like tree trunks, and then lightly dusting
the adhesive with DE. Warning: Do not
buy or use the DE sold for swimming
pool filters. This form is not effective as
an insecticide and can cause an irreversible lung disease called silicosis when
inhaled. Diatomaceous earth is abrasive
to lungs and eyes so don’t get it in your
eyes or smell/sniff it.
Rosemary
Powdered rosemary leaves can be used
as an all-natural flea and tick repellent.
Simply dust the powder onto your pets
or the areas where they sleep. Rosemary
essential oil aids in controlling lice.
Sugar
Sugar is a popular attractant that can be
used to control many insects if properly
mixed with other ingredients. Capture
wasps and yellow jackets by cutting the
top off an empty 2-liter bottle, inverting
it inside the bottle to create a funnel
and adding two to three inches of sugar
water infused with a few drops of soap.
You can make an effective ant bait
by soaking paper towels in a mixture
of two tablespoons of boric acid, two
tablespoons of sugar and one cup of
water. Place the saturated paper towels
in jars with holes punched in the lid.
Then wrap some duct tape around the
jar so the ants can climb up and in.
Vinegar
White vinegar is an effective pesticide
and deterrent against ants. Apple cider
vinegar attracts and catches fruit flies,
fungus gnats and wasps. If neighborhood cats are mistaking your front yard
for a litter box, spray the ground with
white vinegar to repel them. You can
also combine one gallon vinegar with
one cup dishwashing liquid to create a
nontoxic weed-killing spray.
There are many other safe products
you can use to control pests, and I will
discuss them in future columns. As I
mentioned earlier, please contact me
if you have pest questions, and I will
help as best I can. I also do termite
inspections and as I don’t own a termite
company, I have no vested interest in
finding termites.
F
iguring out orgasm during sex with
a partner often is all about timing.
But it also takes self-awareness to figure
out when to do the right things at the
right time. Just like most other activities,
practice makes perfect. This means you
get to practice masturbating — lucky
you!— and focus your awareness on
what your body is feeling. That’s the
long-term solution. In the meantime,
here are other things to try to have
better sex for longer.
For example, erection rings (commonly
known as cock rings) are designed to be
worn a couple different ways. One of
the most common and effective ways is
behind the scrotum and over the shaft;
this means both shaft and balls go
through the ring. When worn, it applies
pressure to the top of the base and the
perineum, which helps constrict blood
flow in an erection. Basically, the blood
is temporarily trapped in the erection,
which makes it more engorged. Once
you’re accustomed to the sensation, the
ring can help you last longer because
it takes more time and effort for the
testes to contract before ejaculation.
Rings also can increase sexual sensation
and intensify orgasms. With a triple
whammy of lasting longer, experiencing
more sensation and achieving an intense
orgasm, what other reason do you need
to put a ring on it?!
Before you even take off your pants,
you can use other sex toys on your
partner to help build them up and get
them off. It’s really crucial that your
penis not bear the entire responsibility
for helping your partner orgasm and
experience pleasure. That’s a ton of
pressure, and almost no one responds
well under pressure, especially when it
comes to sex. Ease that burden by using
the other incredible sex toys that are
already attached to your body. Your
hands are some of the most effective toys
you own, and your mouth can do some
really lovely things to a person’s sensitive
areas. With a bit of communication,
lube and experimentation with speed,
pressure and consistency, you can make
sex last longer by using your hands and
mouth. If all that feels daunting, consider
attending one of our oral sex classes for
ideas on where to start and where to go;
classes are online at selfservetoys.com.
Our classes are the like the sex education
you never got in school.
Masturbation practice can help you last
longer under your own control, but it may
take more time and investment. I think
most people would agree it’s worth it.
Think of masturbation as training for sex.
If you were training for another intense
physical event, you wouldn’t strut into the
gym and immediately begin lifting the
heaviest weight. You would take your time
to warm up your body and slowly build
toward to a heavier weight. Think about
masturbation the same way. Most people
have a very specific stroke, grip and speed
combination that gets them off. When
we’re alone, we usually don’t take the
time to warm up and thoroughly enjoy the
ride. Instead of doing the same thing you
cont. on page 33
Are you 60 years of age or older and
are concerned about your alcohol use?
Are you 60 years of age or older and
are concerned about your alcohol use?
Volunteers are invited to participate in a study
Volunteers are invited to participate in a stud
that looks at
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at
the effectiveness of a behavioral treatment
the effectiveness of a behavioral treatment d
for elderly individuals who report for elderly individuals who report
significant alcohol use problems. significant alcohol use problems.
If you qualify, you will be:
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To learn more about this study
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MUSIC
The Great Beyond: Inbox Clearinghouse
BY SAL TREPPIEDI
F
rom time to time, I must clean out my inbox. The upside to this chore is letting you know about releases,
bands and shows of interest. This column is one of
those occasional cleaning-out-the-inbox columns.
• Mac DeMarco is prepping for the August 2015
release of a mini-LP titled “Another One”: eight songs
recorded between tours at his home in the Far Rockaway neighborhood of Queens, N.Y. This EP-plus comes
on the heels of critically acclaimed and commercially
successful album “Salad Days.” The first single is “The
Way You’d Love Her,” a Jimmy Buffett/Jack Johnson
island hook folded into a shoegaze melody. Visit my
blog The Great Beyond to watch the video. (TW: @
Msldemarco; FB: Mac-DeMarco)
• Many of the best releases that come across my
desk originate off the beaten path. They’re releases
that bring something so left-field to the table that
it might wind up missing the table completely. One
such collective is Snarky Puppy from Denton, Texas.
This instrumental ensemble features musicians playing
instruments like guitar, piano, keyboard, brass, woodwinds, percussion and strings. On their latest release
“Sylva,” the group collaborates with the acclaimed
Netherlands jazz-pop orchestra Metropole Orkest, who
has previously performed with artists like Elvis Costello
and Tori Amos. The songs on “Sylva” were specifically
written to be performed with an orchestra, and those
renditions do not disappoint. Feel like a road trip?
Snarky Puppy and Metropole Orkest play Red Rocks
Amphitheatre in Golden, Colo. on Friday, Sept. 18. (TW:
@RealSnarkyPuppy; FB: snarkypuppy)
• Straight from ‘80s new wave comes Yukon Blonde
and their forthcoming album “On Blonde.” It’s slated
for a June 16 release on the Dine Alone label. Lead
single “Saturday Night” is a catchy dance-pop tune
that’s poised to strike a match and set the world on
fire. It’s the sort of tune that makes you wonder why
the crap you hear on the radio doesn’t have people
running to the ear, nose and throat specialist complaining of a dull, waxy build-up. (yukonblonde.com; TW: @
yukonblonde; FB: yukonblonde)
• Known collectively as I, Us & We, Californian band
of brothers Jordan, Evan and Aaron Doverspike just
released an elegant debut EP titled “Mono.” These four
songs are dreamy synth-pop numbers repping love as
“the cruelest game to play.” Imagine the hero from a
fantastic movie, say “The Matrix,” wandering around
despairing and hopeless before ultimately coming to
the realization that all’s well. That’s the feeling this EP
evokes from beginning to end. Worth a listen. (iusandweband.com; FB: iusandwe)
Yukon Blonde
• In Mario Puzo’s iconic “Godfather” trilogy, Virgil Sollozzo was the narcotics man affiliated with the Tattaglia family. Sonny Corleone notes that Sollozzo is “good
with a knife,” but later reveals to consigliere Tom
Hagen, “I don’t like violence, Tom. I’m a businessman.
Blood is a big expense.” On her new album “Sprinter,”
blood is exactly what Mackenzie Scott aka Torres spills
by the bucketful. As she proclaims on “New Skin,” “I’m
just trying to take this new skin for a spin / Pray for
me, would you?” Many of the included songs deal with
Scott’s present-day and childhood religious experiences.
Torres delivers the tracks with a fervor and ferocity that
leaves one inclined to believe she thrives on bathing
in the blood she spills. Like a folksy, alt-rock Countess
Bathory. Still, confession is good for the soul, and I,
for one, feel cleansed. (torrestorrestorres.com; TW: @
torreslovesyou; FB: torresmusicofficial)
• When I threw on In Letter Form’s “Reflecting The
Rain,” my first thought was that I mistakenly put on
The Cure’s “In Between Days” or any number of tunes
by New Order or Joy Division. The band readily admits
the song was “influenced” by Modern English’s “I Melt
With You.” Still, these polished melodies and silky
vocals make listening to this track a palpable, visceral
pleasure. The other single, “Wait Now,” reminds one of
The Sisters of Mercy and their terrific single “Dominion/
Mother Russia.” Check them out and judge for yourself.
(inletterform.com; TW: @inletterform; FB: InLetterForm)
• Lastly we have Kopecky, formerly known as Kopecky
Family Band. For Kopecky’s band members, it’s been
a tumultuous time riddled with personal hardships of
late. But from amid all that chaos came two exquisite
releases. Full-length “Drug For The Modern Age” and
four-track tour disc “Quarterback” boast bouncy, dance
floor-ready pop tunes with an adrenaline rush and two
shots of espresso thrown in for good measure. Need to
know how to transform heartache into triumph? The
answer lies within these discs. Kopecky is on tour this
summer, but no Southwest dates are scheduled. (kopeckymusic.com; TW: @KopeckyMusic; FB: kopeckymusic)
Mac DeMarco
Kopecky
Photos: Courtesy of artists
Check out music videos from the bands featured in this
column and get your independent music fix between
issues by heading over to the Great Beyond Music Blog
at greatbeyondmusic.wordpress.com. Follow on Twitter
@GreatBeyondBlog and Facebook at facebook.com/
greatbeyondmusicblog. Email comments, suggestions
and tips to [email protected].
ICOn, PAGE 21
head to our theater.
Here, finally, is the fancy. It’s immediately clear that the luxury money was
far better spent in the theater than in
the lobby or on the games. Beneath a
high ceiling and understated décor, the
recliners run in solid banks of brown,
fluffy seating – each one falling aesthetically somewhere between a La-Z-Boy
and the captain’s chair on “Star Trek.”
The vibrational seats are more streamlined but still look cushy. Illuminated
floor markings make our seats easy to
find. Even the cupholder, sunk into the
substantial armrest, inspires confidence.
A simple two-button control system
operates the roomy recliners, and
soon my husband and I are blissfully
stretched out for the movie.
The room’s design is not only sumptuous and relaxing but smart. Sacrificing seat count for customer comfort, the
rows are wide – really wide. Later on,
another patron on a popcorn run will
be able to brush past my fully extended
feet without even touching me. (And to
think, I didn’t have to pay a premium
to avoid anyone’s butt in my face.)
The movie’s great; picture and sound
quality are both sharp throughout, and
no one tries to rush us out before the
credits are over.
Even in an age of instant streaming
and Apple TV, there’s still something
special about going to the movies.
It’s an outing, an event, a pleasurable
communal adventure. Icon Cinema,
brought to us by the Snell family,
minimizes annoyances and maximizes
pleasure, bringing the magic back to the
experience.
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Boom Box: Reviews of New Music
theater on the farm, PAGE 28
BY NATE MAXSON
Kamasi Washington
“The Epic”
(Brainfeeder)
Ornette obituary + photos (In Box tomorrow, Saturday)
“The Epic” isn’t saxophonist Kamasi
Washington’s first release. It’s not
even the first album he’s worked on
this year; that honor goes to his string
arrangement and performance contribution on Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp
A Butterfly.” But it is his solo, label
debut, and he has absolutely arrived.
“The Epic” is a jazz album that
feels truly dangerous – something
the youth of today probably isn’t
even aware is possible. Its title is
completely appropriate. It’s three
hours long and presents an endless
landscape of innovation. There are
elements of traditional jazz, progressive rock and Wagnerian bombast. I
kid you not: There’s a Debussy cover
toward album’s end that is unlike
anything else on this planet. These
are long songs that sprawl out like
vintage King Crimson. Washington’s
playing alternates between a furious
roar and sensual menacing throughout. Yet he doesn’t hog the spotlight.
That would be difficult as there’s also
an orchestra, a gospel choir, virtuosic
bassist Thundercat and the smoking
vocalizations of jazz singer Patrice
Quinn. This is an uncompromising,
rebellious new kind of jazz record.
Colin Stetson and Sarah
Neufeld
“Never Were the Way She Was”
(Constellation)
Speaking of jazz musicians known
as supporting players who’ve come
into their own, Colin Stetson’s latest
is a collaboration with Sarah Neufeld.
Both have played together with
Arcade Fire. Stetson has released a
string of impressive solo albums in
his “New History Warfare” series
over the past few years – as well as
a less-than-stellar collaboration with
Mats Gustafsson – but “Never Were
the Way She Was” is an odd duck. It
employs Stetson’s recording methods,
miked instruments (that pick up every
possible sound) and eschews overdubs,
but it isn’t as visceral as his earlier work.
That’s likely Neufeld’s contribution.
Her violin work has an electronic tinge
to it. It makes the whole thing feel like
a scene from “Blade Runner,” painted
in gloom and steel. The title of this
record is telling. “On Never Were the
Way She Was,” Stetson is as brilliant
as ever but the unknown factor here is
Neufeld, and she is the catalyst. These
instrumental tracks have an incantatory
quality, like smoke or shadowy figures
running through the woods – blink and
they’re gone.
Sharon Van Etten
“I Don’t Want to Let You Down”
(Jagjaguwar)
Folk-rocker Sharon Van Etten’s new
EP “I Don’t Want To Let You Down” is
a distillation of her sound at its purest.
Her songs are the almost-last gasps
of weary romantics who somehow
manage to keep on going. The
opener is an inverted plea wherein the
singer claims to have gone through
“crazy hell” and wails about going
overboard. Van Etten is a simple
songwriter who relies on meat-andpotatoes, Tom Petty-ish rhythms,
but it feels like they emanate from
someplace real and pure. The song
“Just Like Blood” flirts with country
horror and the closer, a live version
of the song “Tell Me,” is thrilling. Van
Etten’s latest album “Are We There”
came out last year; this is a stopgap
between records, but it’s a solid one
and serves as a fine introduction to a
singer-songwriter in her prime who
shows no signs of slowing down.
Bobby Gonzales
Courtesy of Bobby Gonzales
measuring of the plot – we, on our hay
bales and blankets, are enjoying the
last minutes of gold-laced dusk. White
twinkle lights suffuse the stage with
soft luminescence that becomes richer
with each passing moment.
The director of “Groundwork,” Amelia
Ampuero, spoke with me about the play.
Paul is “trying to right some wrongs and
undo some sort of karmic damage that
he has collected and inflicted,” she says
with a laugh. “The cool thing about this
show is that the audience is really a part
of the story. That’s not to say that there’s,
like, that awkward audience participation – but that fourth wall is broken. He
is absolutely talking to the people who
have congregated there to watch him.”
She has anticipated the intimacy we
now feel.
Colón’s immersive portrayal of Paul
has him frenetic at times, hilarious at
others, careening between reflection
and distraction. He assures us he is
hopeful; we sense him teetering over a
pit of despondency. “You make a plot
to control the outcome,” he tells us,
but the chaos is creeping in.
Three mosquitoes bite me during
“Groundwork.” (It’s my own fault for
failing to take advantage of the bug
spray thoughtfully provided by Farm
& Table.) I can almost believe they’re
uncredited performers in the DCRT
production – an irritating reminder of
paradise’s limits just as Paul is dealing
with the grim realities of his own
garden’s pest problem. He grows rueful:
“I want to grow things, not kill them.”
When it ends, we are surprised
that night has fallen so completely.
The bright expanse of the evening’s
beginning – wide-open fields and the
aroma of warm earth – has contracted
to this single bright point, this story of
which we are now an inseparable part
with its preoccupations about life and
death, against a backdrop of black sky.
A real sky, the same one we live under.
Seek out the magic of this intensely local
collaboration when it repeats two more
Wednesdays this month, June 17 and 24.
Lisa Barrow is a member of the Dirt City
Writers collective, tweets with exceeding
irregularity from @OhLisaBarrow and
most recently served as Arts & Lit Editor
and Web Editor at the Alibi.
SEX Q&A, PAGE 29
always do to get yourself off, I encourage
you to approach masturbation with a playful mindset. Start off soft and slow, and see
how that feels. Use sex toys to diversify the
sensations you’re experiencing. Save that
special stroke, speed and grip until the very
end. I recommend making a playlist with
at least four songs. Use each song as a cue
to level up to a different type of stimulation. You’re essentially allowing your body
time to enjoy each phase of your sexual
response cycle. You will become increasingly proficient at knowing when “the
moment of no return” will happen. That’s
the moment when no matter what you do,
you will climax. Knowing what it feels like
right before that moment lets you know
when to stop or change up your moves
with a partner.
This practice might take time, and you
must be relaxed, take deep breaths,
and tune into your arousal level. Pay
attention to what your muscles are
doing during each phase of your
sexual response. By listening to your
body—without pressuring it to act any
specific way—you are well on your way
to getting the results you want.
Hunter Riley is the manager of Albuquerque’s best-voted, woman-owned sex shop,
Self Serve Toys, and runs a sex education
blog, hunterrileysexeducation.com. Follow
her on Twitter @hunteroriley. Send your sex
questions to [email protected]
ABeerQ: Local Microbreweries Set Bar High
DRINK
BY EFRAIN VILLA
In Memoriam:
Why Ornette Matters
BY RICHARD OYAMA
A
nother microbrewery has opened up in your
neighborhood. You, along with everyone else
in town, may be thinking: “I like beer. I like food
trucks. I should open a brewery!” Well, not so fast.
Although Albuquerque is a brewer’s mecca, there
are factors other than location to consider before you
dip into the sudsy world of professional microbrewing. Justin Hamilton, veteran brewer and co-owner
at Boxing Bear Brewing Co., stresses that newcomers
to the brewing business need to do their homework
to ensure they can hold their own in a market that
is flush with high-quality beers. “Albuquerque is
one of the best brewing cities – not just in the nation
but in the world,” said Hamilton. “The brewing
community here is very tight-knit, and many of us
have been brewing with each other for more than a
decade. We take our jobs very seriously.”
Hamilton believes there is still room for growth, as
long as start-up breweries are willing to bring their
A-game. “The market is far from saturated, but we
are always mindful of newcomers because bad beer
can ruin the reputation we’ve worked so hard to
create in New Mexico. It can even negatively affect
tourism and other industries. As long as newbie
brewers produce quality beer, we will be here to
embrace them.”
Quality beer is something that Boxing Bear Brewing Co., open less than a year, is already nationally
known for. Earlier this month their Hefeweizen
(Hairy Mit Hefe) and Bohemian Pilsner (Body
Czech) took silver medals in the North American
Beer Awards competition; their Chocolate Milk Stout
brought home the bronze. This event is sanctioned
by the North American Brewers Association to
determine which brews are the best in the country.
If you want to taste the winners, the Boxing Bear
taproom is located in Northwest Albuquerque on
the sandy banks of the Rio Grande (10200 Corrales Road N.W.). Call ahead to 897-2327 if you’re
interested in taking a free tour of their facilities.
While enjoying their patio or indoor pub, you can
also partake in other goodies they produce onsite,
such as wine, cider, food and small-batch specialty
beers. You may see Boxing Bear beer flowing from a
tap near you soon, as they’re hard at work expanding their wholesale operations. This summer their
featured seasonals are the Black-eye IPA and Sucker
Punch Double IPA. Visit their website, boxingbearbrewing.com, to learn more.
You might be wondering what’s with all these
steroidal IPAs hop, hop, hopping to the heavens.
“Albuquerque is known for being an IPA town,”
said Hamilton. “We do hoppy very well here.” We
do hoppy so well, in fact, that local breweries have
to jump through impressive hoops to ensure they
have enough hops on hand to keep cranking out
the beers New Mexicans love. “Increased demand
for hops throughout the country means we have
to contract with suppliers years in advance,” says
Jessica Myers, general manager at Bosque Brewing
Company. She adds that they have enough Citra
hops to brew their National IPA Challenge winner,
MUSIC
L
Above, a Bosque Brewing
Co. beer poses alongside
pelletized hops (left) and
barley grains (right).
Below, a Boxing Bear
Brewing Co. cerveza
refuses to share the
spotlight.
Courtesy of Boxing Bear
Brewing Co.
Scale Tipper IPA, twice
more in 2015. Citra
trademarked hops are
a rare, aromatic variety
that are in extremely
high demand.
Fortunately Bosque
Brewing Company is
working tirelessly to
reduce any potential
for craft beer scarcity in our state. Earlier this
year, they opened taprooms in Las Cruces (901 E.
University) and Albuquerque’s Nob Hill (106 Girard
Blvd. S.E.). “It was exhausting to open two new
taprooms in different parts of the state within a span
of just three weeks, but they are both doing well,”
said Myers. “In fact we will soon be expanding the
Las Cruces taproom by moving to another location
in the same strip mall. That will give us three times
the space we currently have.” The new location will
feature a full kitchen and a layout similar to their
Nob Hill taproom.
Maybe drinking beer simply isn’t enough to pacify
your soul. Maybe you’re one of those do-gooders
who must make the world a better place with every
action you take. Fret not. Bosque Brewing Company
allows Good Samaritans to drink for a worthy
cause. Every month, one dollar from each featured
beer sold is donated to a preselected charitable
organization. There are also commemorative glasses
patrons can buy to remind them of their good deed
long after the alcohol-induced warm and fuzzies
have faded away. Nonprofit organizations seeking
to apply for funding can find more information on
their website at bosquebrewingcom.
You can reach Efrain Villa at aimlessvagabond.com
ook, you would-be hipster with your
hat, facial hair and smartphone, you
ought to know why Ornette Coleman
matters. Ornette was one of a handful
of jazz musicians readily identifiable by
his first name or a single note. The alto
saxophonist-composer was an innovator
who blew open the door of post-bop’s
possibilities. He died this month at 85.
Coleman was born in Fort Worth,
Texas in a house by the railroad tracks.
He was saturated with the blues. Selftaught, he played alto and tenor in R&B
bands in the area. Coleman was “the
elemental land change,” Amiri Baraka
wrote, “the migratory earth man, the
country blues person of old come in the
city with a funkier wilder blues.” He
loved Charlie Parker’s phrasing.
While on tour, a gang of musicians
once beat him up outside a dance hall
in Baton Rouge, La. His unorthodox
sound displeased them. They smashed his
saxophone. It was serious business learning to play on your own. Moving to Los
Angeles in 1953, Coleman discovered a
marginally more congenial environment.
Most players shunned him. He looked like
a “long-haired, black Jesus.” But there
he met sympathetic cohorts who would
manifest his early music: trumpeter Don
Cherry, drummers Ed Blackwell and Billy
Higgins, and bassist Charlie Haden. In
1954 he married poet Jayne Cortez who
bore him a son named Denardo.
In 1959 Coleman’s quartet played at
the Five Spot Café in Manhattan, N.Y.,
and were suddenly famous. The twoweek engagement extended to twoand-a-half months. By all accounts, every
jazz musician of note attended those
performances, though critical opinion
was violently divided. Trumpeter Miles
Davis claimed Ornette was “sick.” The
New York Times’ John S. Wilson wrote
that Coleman’s playing was “shrill,
meandering and repetitious.”
Tenor saxophonist John Coltrane
begged to differ. “Coltrane loved the
ideas operating behind Coleman’s
quartet,” Ben Ratliff wrote, “the notion
of playing without a pianist or any other
chord-based instrument; the band’s
intuitive ways of getting around strictly
delineated rhythm, and changing tonality in the middle of a tune.”
Coleman coined the term “harmolodics,” a portmanteau that combined
harmony, movement and melody, to
explain his conception. Ratliff again:
“Coleman and Cherry soloed together
harmoniously yet loosely.” Haden made
the music “cohere by creating a strong
tonal center.” The frontline wove
around the drummer’s pulse. That classic
group made nine records for Atlantic.
Consider the audacity of the title
The Shape of “Things to Come,” the
quartet’s first major-label record. Here
were four incredibly sensitive, attuned
musicians in total communication
without the safety net of prearranged
changes. The band was a smoothly flowing unit of collective improvisation.
Alongside Coltrane, Cecil Taylor and
others, Coleman became associated
with the free jazz movement. He was
an American modernist. On the album
cover of “Free Jazz” was a Jackson
Pollock painting. Ornette performed
with Beat novelist William Burroughs
and performance artist Laurie Anderson.
Watch Shirley Clarke’s quirky 1985 film
“Ornette: Made in America” to understand the price he paid.
Think of Ornette’s music as the sonic
equivalent of abstract expressionism –
jittery, dirge-like, wailing. “Coleman’s
screams and rants are only musical,”
Baraka wrote, “once one understands
the music his emotional attitude seeks
to create.” His brooding concerto “Skies
of America” was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. It has been
said that Coleman’s melodies resemble
children’s songs. But it’s my belief the
composer was a tragedian on the order
of Melville or Charles Ives. Listen to the
ominous climate of feeling on “Skies.”
Recorded in 1972, it sure as hell sounds
like the present moment.
Coleman purchased an industrial
building on Prince Street in SoHo. Calling it Artists House, he produced
concerts and formed a new group that
included tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman. It was a precursor to the ‘70s loft
jazz scene, when many clubs closed in an
almost-bankrupt New York.
Ornette’s “Prime Time” featured two
electric guitarists, including an acquaintance of mine, Bern Nix. The band’s
dense, jagged sound occupied the same
space as James Blood Ulmer and influenced post-punk bands like Minutemen.
As often happens to major artists in
this country, plaudits were showered
on Coleman late in his career. He was
awarded an NEA Jazz Master fellowship, a MacArthur genius grant and the
Pulitzer Prize for “Sound Grammar.”
“One of the most baffling things about
America is that despite its essentially vile
profile,” Baraka wrote, “so much beauty
continues to exist here.” Coleman was a
maker of strange, haunting, subversive
beauty. Pipe Ornette into Wal-Mart’s
system and see what happens.
Richard Oyama is a poet and novelist.
Within Range: From Trap and Blues to
Southern Gothic Rap and Beyond
BY SAMANTHA ANNE CARRILLO
T
he nuevomexicano music scene is
vast – a limitless expanse for fans
and scholars to explore. From Pueblo
work songs and traditional corridos to
Norman Petty Studios in the ‘50s and
beyond, one could spend a lifetime
immersed in the diverse sounds of
New Mexico. Our state has a storied
history of such attention and inquiry.
Indigenous and Hispanic folk music
archivist John Donald Robb comes
to mind, as does UNM Professor
Emeritus Peter White’s work
preserving musical heritage.
Seeking to understand the past
is a worthy endeavor but don’t
forget that the here and now is
equally worthwhile.
Forthcoming hot tickets include
an electronic/experimental hoedown
and a blues fest honoring the father
figure. On Saturday, June 20, local art
collective Nothng Forevr and Sister
(407 Central NW) debut bimonthly
dark electro party Shrimp Night.
This twerk-friendly premiere features
live performances by BK Beats, The
1960 Sci-Fi Era and soulwave act
LeDouix, and a DJ set by homegrown
swervegaze icon Bryce Hample of
REIGHNBEAU. The 21-plus electro/
bass bash starts at 10 p.m., and there’s
no cover.
Want to get (literally) higher? Make
the 45-minute pilgrimage to higher
(708 feet, to be precise) elevations
in Madrid for the Father’s Day
Blues Festival. Forty New Mexico
musicians, including Chris Dracup,
Todd Tijerina, Hillary Smith and
JD Sipe, will play this four-hour jam
session. New Mexico Jazz Workshop
organized the fest, which tunes up
at 2 p.m. at Oscar Huber Memorial
Ball Park (State Road 14, Madrid).
Arts & crafts and food vendors will
be on hand. Twenty bucks gets you in,
which works out to 50 cents per act.
Talk about value.
Here in town the following
weekend, a concert at Low Spirits
(2823 Second Street NW) celebrates
the life of local musician and writer
Jim Phillips. We met as colleagues,
and I instantly recognized the soul
of an artist and the manners of a true
Southern gentleman. Jim wrote about
love and loss. The forms varied: lyrics
for his band Lousy Robot, journalism,
parables, allegories, stories. There
was a compulsive honesty in his
work. He had many friends, and they
gather to pay tribute and help his
wife Elisa raise funds for his medical
bills. Starting at 9 p.m. on Friday,
June 26, Merma & Roberta, Becca
Garcia, Kimo and others rock in Jim’s
honor. Friends and fans should bring
a $5 donation. As Jim and Hunter S.
Thompson might have said, “Buy the
ticket, take the ride.”
On Saturday, June 27, Songs that
Make You Laugh, Love and Cry
brings a slew of talented local musicians together at Launchpad (618
Central SW). A friend hipped me to
the shredfest that is Mother Death
Queen. I believe he said they
rocked his face off. MDQ
drummer Cara Tolino (The
Hopefuls) tells me that bandmate Ella Brown (Edith) mused
about campfire songs, sung in the
carefree, trusting way friends can.
Tolino, Brown and vocalist/guitarist
Amy Clinkscales will all play solo
and as Mother Death Queen. It’s the
first time in 20 years that professional
badass Jen Sincero has landed on
a lineup with former bandmate
Clinkscales. Other performers playing
their favorite cover songs include
Darrell Sparks (Pawn Drive), Kimo,
Mauro Woody (Lady Uranium),
Marty Crandall (Sad Baby Wolf), The
Lymbs and at least eight other acts.
This 21-plus gig is five bucks. Arrive
by 9 p.m.
A Geto Boys concert is a serious
shouldn’t-miss for all Gen X-ers, especially OG gangsta rap fans. I spent my
teen years near Houston and grokking
Dirty South was as vital to one’s cred
as getting the importance of BBQ.
It’s been a decade since they released
an album, but Geto Boys (presently
Scarface, Willie D and Bushwick Bill)
are together again and crowdfunding
the release of latest “Habeas Corpus.”
Kickstarter rewards range from fan
club membership on the low end
to barhopping with Bushwick Bill
(who’s an ordained minister), golfing
with Scarface (who posts hilarious
tour photos on Instagram) or having
Willie D host your party on the
higher end. The most absurd perk
on offer is a custom-designed Geto
Boys coffin. (Of course I want it.) The
original Southern gothic/horrorcore
crew graces Sister (407 Central NW)
on Monday, June 29. This 21-plus
hip-hop shouldn’t-miss will run you
$20, and the show starts at 9 p.m.
Your mind is not playing tricks on
you, and yes, it does feel damn good
to be a gangsta.
EVENTS
CALENDAr
DEFINITIVE DOZEN
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17
1 MUSIC: Marble Brewery Benefit
for Project PeacePal with Pawn
Shop Poster Boys
5 pm, Marble Brewery, 111 Marble Ave NW,
243-2739, marblebrewery.com
THURSDAY, JUNE 18
2 FOOD: Salud y Sabor: Spain
5:30 pm, Free, National Hispanic
Cultural Center, 1701 Fourth St SW,
724-4771, nhccnm.org
3 TALKS: Getting Men to the
Moon — Behind-the-scenes
Stories with Loretta Hall
7 pm, New Mexico Natural History Museum,
1801 Mountain Rd NW, nmnaturalhistory.org
FRIDAY, JUNE 19
4 MUSEUMS: Candomblé,
Dress & Design: Dr. Paulo Lima
JUNE 19-21
SATURDAY, JUNE 20
JUNE 17-21
Burt’s Tiki Lounge
313 Gold Ave SW, 247-2878
June 17, Freaky Tiki Bass
June 18, Merican Slang
June 19, Billy Crooze
June 20, Fourskin, I am Hologram
June 21, North, Hallow Tongue
JUNE 17-28
Tractor Brewery: Wells Park
1800 Fourth St NW, 243-6752, getplowed.com
June 17, Kamikaze Karaoke
June 18, 8 pm, Mondo Vibrations
June 18, 10 pm, 3rd Thursdays Comedy Contest
June 19, Art Fight Round 8
June 20, In the Mix: Nicolatron
June 25, pLOUD Music Series
June 27, In the Mix: BuddhaFunk
June 28, I’ll Drink to That
JUNE 17-30
Launchpad
618 Central Ave SW, 764-8887,
launchpadrocks.com
June 17, Regicide CD Release Show
June 18, $1000 Mic Club
June 19, Anesthesia, Eagle Claw
June 20, Stoic Frame, Reviva
June 21, Nothing More, Wilson, Red Sun Rising
June 22, Motopony, Great States
June 23, The Picturebooks
June 24, Sorry Guero and Whiskey Driven Tour
Kickoff Show!, Hate Engine
June 25, Broken Diamond Burlesque presents
Cosplay Our Way
June 28, Otep, Illumina AD, Feud of Temptation,
Throw the Temple
June 30, Hemlock, Knuckles Deep, Echoes of
Fallen
7:30 pm, ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden, 2601
Central Ave NW, RSVP: 848-7180, cabq.gov
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24
10 FAMILY: Stories in the Night Sky
& ABQ Concert Band
6 pm, Anderson Abruzzo Balloon Museum,
9201 Balloon Museum Dr NE, 768-6020,
balloonmuseum.com
Downtown Santa Fe; creativesantafe.org
JUNE 26-27
7 STAGES: Pride Concerts:
11 SCREENS: ABQ Internet
Cat Video Festival 2015
I Love the Eighties
KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW,
768-3544, nmgmc.org
SUNDAY, JUNE 21
8 FIESTA: Father’s Day Fiesta
at the Zoo
Noon, Rio Grande Zoo, 903 10th St SW,
764-6200, abqbiopark.com
in the
9 OUTDOORS: Night Walks at the
Botanic Garden
6 ARTWARD BOUND:
FANTASE Fest
Art projections, music, performance, and
downtown vibrancy
6 pm, Free, National Hispanic Cultural Center,
Art Museum, 1701 Fourth St SW, 724-4771,
nhccnm.org
CLUBS & PUBS
TUESDAY, JUNE 23
5 ART: Nature Art through Paper
Show
ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden Show Room,
2601 Central Ave NW, 768-2000,
abqbiopark.com
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South Broadway Cultural Center,
1025 Broadway Blvd SE,
southbroadwaytickets.com, animalhumanenm.org
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SATURDAY, JUNE 27
12 BOOKS & POETRY: Dennis Herrick:
Winter of the Metal People/
The Tiguex War of 1540-1542
111 Marble Ave NW, 243-2739,
marblebrewery.com
June 18, Jade Masque
June 20, Le Chat Lunatique
June 27, Cali Shaw Band
JUNE 18-30
The Jam Spot
239 San Pedro NE, 440-2600
June 18, Gommora, Torture Victim
June 20, T-Zank, E3, Joey Breakdown
June 22, Harrison Wirston
June 24, Jess J Jones, Aldoni, Calvin Rose
June 26, Mike Stezzy
June 27, WhiteNoise
June 29, Brassknuckle Boys, 99 Bottles,
Annihilate, Class War, Infirmary
June 30, Scum
Low Spirits
2823 Second St NW, 344-9555, lowspiritslive.com
June 18, The Magic Beans, Brothers Gow
June 19, Leiahdorus, The Glass Menageries,
Rawrr!
June 20, Dirty Bourbon River Show
June 21, Fairy Bones, The Broken Fables,
The Talking Hours
June 22, Foy Vance, Ryan McMullan
June 23, Larva, Tempest Diaspora, Diverje,
Andrako
June 28, Bob Log III
June 30, Jimmy Thackery
Zinc Cellar Bar
3009 Central Ave NE, 254-9462, zincabq.com
June 18, 9:30 pm, Hank Erwin
June 21, 11 am, Jack Hansen
June 21, 6 pm, Jim Almand
June 23, 8 pm, Sean Farley
June 25, 9:30 pm, Hilary Scott
June 27, 9:30 pm, Youngsville
June 28, 11 am, Dan Dowling
June 30, 8 pm, Matt Campbell
JUNE 18-27
JUNE 18-JULY 25
The Dirty Bourbon
Sister Bar
9800 Montgomery Blvd NW, 296-2726,
dirtybourbon.com
June 18-20, Asphalt Cowboys
June 25-27, Rebel Heart
407 Central Ave SW, 242-4900, sisterthebar.com
June 18, The Howlin’ Wolves, Bellemah,
Sloan Armitage
June 23, Sage Francis, Akword Actwrite,
Dahhm Life
June 24, Leftover Soul
June 25, Low Life Vids ‘n’ Vinyl
June 29, Geto Boys
July 25, Ancient River, Sun Dog
JUNE 19-27
Coolwater Fusion
Wyoming Mall, 2010 Wyoming Blvd NE,
332-2665, coolwaterfusion.com
June 19, 6 pm, Peter Bonner
June 20, 9 pm, Comedy Showcase
hosted by Lucas
June 26, 6 pm, Willy J
June 27, 9 pm, Comedy Showcase
hosted by Keith
Skylight
139 W San Francisco St, Santa Fe,
(505) 982-0775, skylightsantafe.com
June 19, Emiarte Flamenco
June 20, James McMurtry
June 23, World Party with David Duffy
June 24, Open Mic with Jason Reed,
Swing Dance!
June 26, Joaquin Gallegos CD Release
June 27, Cameron Esposito
Sneakerz Sports Grille
4100 San Mateo Blvd NE, 837-1708,
sneakerzsportsbar.com
June 19, 9 am, Fundraising Volleyball Tourney
June 19, Smoke and Honey Band
June 20, 9 am, Semper Fi Wounded Marines
Benefit: Motorcycle Prize Run
June 20, Noon, Semper Fi Wounded Marines
Benefit: Bands
June 27, 9 am, NM Games Senior
Volleyball Tourney
June 27, 8 pm, Primal Panic Band Showcase
THURSDAY, JUNE 18
The Gregg Daigle Band
Part of Summer Nights concert series
6 pm, ABQ BioPark, 2601 Central Ave NW,
The Melvins
7 pm, Taos Mesa Brewing, 20 ABC Mesa Rd,
El Prado, (575) 758-1900, taosmesabrewing.com
JUNE 18-21
New Mexico Classical Guitar Festival
120 Central Ave SW, 764-0249,
sunshinetheaterlive.com
June 24, In This Moment, 36 Crazyfists,
The Defiled
June 27, Halestorm
June 29, Dizzy Wright
ONGOING
Brickyard Pizza
2216 Central Ave SE, 262-2216
Tuesdays, 9 pm, Open Mic Night,
RSVP: brickyardpizza.com/events
Draft Station ABQ
1720 Central SW, draft-station.com
Tuesdays, 7 pm, The Draft Sessions, live local indie
Gecko’s
5801 Academy Rd NE, 821-8291, geckosbar.com
Tuesdays, Karaoke
Wednesdays, Live Entertainment
Thursdays, Texas Hold’em Poker League
Saturdays, 8 pm, Live Entertainment
MUSIC
ONGOING
Latin Jam Sessions
Thursdays, 7 pm, Ben Michael’s,
2404 Pueblo Bonito NW, 224-2817
Jazz N’ Blues Brunch
Sundays, 11 am, Embassy Suites Hotel,
1000 Woodward Place NE, 245-7100
Jesus Bas
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24
Ticklefish Rocks!
10:15 am, Tony Hillerman Library,
8205 Apache Ave NE, 291-6264, abclibrary.org
THURSDAY, JUNE 25
Eliza Gilkyson
FRIDAY, JUNE 19
Watermelon Mountain Jug Band
Bebe La La
1 pm, Los Griegos Library, 1000 Griegos Rd NW,
761-4020, abclibrary.org/losgriegos
Calixto Oviedo’s Latin Train
Part of Salsa Under the Stars concerts
7 pm, Albuquerque Museum of Art & History,
2000 Mountain Rd NW, 243-7255,
cabq.gov/museum
Part of Summertime in Old Town
7 pm, Free, Historic Old Town Plaza,
303 Romero St NW, 768-3556, cabq.gov
SATURDAY, JUNE 20
James McMurtry
8 pm, Skylight, 139 W San Francisco St, Santa Fe,
(505) 886-1251, ampconcerts.org
Jazz Brasileiro
Part of Summertime in Old Town
7 pm, Free, Historic Old Town Plaza,
303 Romero St NW, 768-3556, cabq.gov
The Rio Grande String Band
Part of Saturday Sunset series
7 pm, Elena Gallegos Picnic Area, 452-5200,
cabq.gov
The Susan Abod Trio
Part of Art in the Afternoon
2 pm, Free, Albuquerque Museum of
Art & History, 2000 Mountain Rd NW,
242-4600, cabq.gov/museum
Tommy Castro and the Painkillers
Part of Zoo Music
6 pm, Rio Grande Zoo, 903 10th Street SW,
Whole Lotta’ Rhythm Goin’ Down
Part of Something New Under the Stars concerts
cabq.gov/museum
JUNE 20-21
Windrider Music Fest
Ski Apache, 1286 Ski Run Rd, Alto,
more info: skiapache.com
JUNE 18-30
Thursdays, 7 pm, Hotel Andaluz, MÁS,
125 Second St NW, 242-9090, hotelandaluz.com
SUNDAY, JUNE 21
Ned’s Bar & Grill
Piano Music
2509 San Mateo Boulevard NE, 884-4680,
nedsnm.com
June 18, 5 pm, Freddie Chavez
June 19, 5:30 pm, Crystal Inferno
June 19, 9 pm, Ravenous
June 20, 8 pm, Hartless
June 21, 3 pm, Danger Zone Karaoke
June 23, 6 pm, Picosso
June 25, 5 pm, Freddie Chavez
June 26, 9 pm, Shit Happens
June 28, 3 pm, Danger Zone Karaoke
June 30, 6 pm, Picosso
Thursdays, 11 am, North Valley Senior Center,
3825 Fourth St NW, 761-4025, cabq.gov/seniors
Kosmos Performance Space at the Factory on 5th,
1715 Fifth St NW
10:30 am, chatterabq.org
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17
MONDAY, JUNE 22
The Magic Beans
Navy Band Southwest
Chatter Sunday: Violin, Cello and Piano
6 pm, Cherry Hills Library, 6901 Barstow St NE,
857-8321, abclibrary.org
JUNE 17-21
TUESDAY, JUNE 23
Cruizin’ Central
History of Folk Music in the
20th Century with Jennings & Keller
National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 Fourth St SW,
724-4771, tickets: nhccnm.org
8 pm, Skylight, 139 W San Francisco St, Santa Fe,
(505) 886-1251, ampconcerts.org
Part of Summer Nights concert series
6 pm, ABQ BioPark, 2601 Central Ave NW,
Funk of the West
Sunshine Theater
World Party
Keller Hall, UNM Main Campus, 203 Cornell Drive,
450-4917, guitarnewmexico.org
JUNE 24-29
CALENDAr
The Infamous Stringdusters
Noon, Free, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center,
2401 12th St NW, 843-7270, indianpueblo.org
Marble Brewery
EVENTS
6:30 pm, Lomas Tramway Library,
908 Eastridge Dr NE, 291-6295, abclibrary.org
5:30 pm, North Valley Library,
7704 Second St NW, 897-8823, abclibrary.org
FRIDAY, JUNE 26
The Revelers
Part of Zoo Music
6 pm, Rio Grande Zoo, 903 10th Street SW,
THROUGH AUGUST 29
JUNE 18-JULY 2
Murder at the Abilene Saloon
The Guild Cinema
Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown,
2600 Louisiana Blvd NE, 377-9593,
foulplaycafe.com
3405 Central Ave NE, 255-1848;
for movie times: guildcinema.com
June 18, Rockers
June 19-20, Kung Fu Killer
June 19-23, Charlie’s Country
June 21, BB King: The Life of Riley
June 24, The Pace That Thrills!; The Black Rider
June 25, Cool Runnings
June 26, Midnight Swim
June 26-29, Dark Star: H.R. Giger’s World
June 26-29, Industrial Soundtrack for
The Urban Decay
June 27, Doomsdays
June 27-28, Ernest & Celestine
June 30-July 2, Neil Young Double Feature:
Human Highway, Rust Never Sleep
FRIDAY, JUNE 19
Tim McGraw, Billy Currington,
Chase Bryant
7 pm, Isleta Resort & Casino,
11000 Broadway SE, 724-3800, isleta.com
JUNE 19-JULY 12
The Sunshine Boys
The Adobe Theater, 9813 Fourth Street NW,
898-9222, adobetheater.org
JUNE 19-21
Fiddler on the Roof
Lensic Performing Arts Center,
(505) 988-7050, lensic.org
Son Como Son
SUNDAY, JUNE 21
Part of Salsa Under the Stars concerts
cabq.gov/museum
Daedalus String Quartet
4 pm, Albuquerque Academy, Simms Center for
the Performing Arts, 6400 Wyoming Blvd NE,
Tom Adler and The Fast Peso
String Band
Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort & Casino,
287 Carrizo Canyon Rd, Mescalero,
(800) 545-9011, ticketmaster.com,
innofthemountaingods.com
Part of Music at the Museum
5:30 pm, Free, New Mexico Museum of Art,
107 W Palace Ave, Santa Fe, (505) 476-5072,
nmartmuseum.org
SATURDAY, JUNE 27
Marlon Magdelena, Red Thunder Bear
and the Thunder Rebels
Part of Hit the Road concert series
11 am, Free, Jemez Historic Site, State Hwy 4,
43 miles north of Bernalillo, Jemez Springs,
RSVP: nmhistoricsites.org, (575) 829-3530
Sol Calypso Steel Drum Band
Part of Saturday Sunset series
7 pm, Elena Gallegos Picnic Area, 452-5200,
cabq.gov
SUNDAY, JUNE 28
Chatter Sunday: Samuel Barber,
Edgard Varese, Terry Riley
Kosmos Performance Space at the Factory on 5th,
1715 Fifth St NW
10:30 am, second performance 3 pm,
chatterabq.org
The Tumbleweeds
7 pm, Arte de Placitas, 221 Hwy 165, Placitas,
867-5383, artedeplacitas.com
Frank Caliendo
Marc Chagall:
Creativity and Healthy Narcissism
11 am, Lensic Performing Arts Center,
(505) 988-7050, lensic.org
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24
Vans Warped Tour
Isleta Resort & Casino, Amphitheater, 11000
Broadway SE, 724-3800, isleta.com
JUNE 26-AUGUST 2
Nunsense
Aux Dog Theatre Nob Hill, 3011 Monte Vista Blvd
NE, 254-7716, auxdog.com/wordpress/
SATURDAY, JUNE 27
A Flower Child Summer —
Belly Dance Halfa!
3: 30 pm, Anasazi Field Winery,
26 Camino De Los Pueblitos, Placitas,
867-3062, isalanstudios.com
Little Big Town
Sandia Resort & Casino, 30 Rainbow Rd,
796-7500, sandiacasino.com
JUNE 19-29
CCA Cinematheque
1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, (505) 982-1338,
ccasantafe.org
Starts June 19, Sunshine Superman
June 20-22, Auteurs 2015 Series: The General
Starts June 26, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch
Reflecting on Existence
June 27-29, Auteurs 2015 Series: Touch of Evil
JUNE 20-26
Jean Cocteau Cinema
418 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, (505) 466-5528,
jeancocteaucinema.com
June 20-24, The Apple Pushers
June 26, Forbidden Games, Set Fire to the Stars
NOW PLAYING
Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Secret Ocean 3D
Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric
Planet 3D
Tiny Giants 3D
Lockheed Martin Dynatheater,
New Mexico Museum of Natural History,
nmnaturalhistory.org
THROUGH JUNE 21
Fulldome Programs
Part of New Media New Mexico,
currentsnewmedia.org
Institute of American Indian Arts,
83 Avan Nu Po Rd, Santa Fe, iaia.edu
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17
Experimental Documentary
Series: Shorts
7 pm, Violet Crown Cinema, 1606 Alcaldesa St,
Santa Fe, (512) 495-9600,
facebook.com/violetcrownsantafe
STAGES
TUESDAY, JUNE 30
THROUGH JUNE 27
Xanadu Jr
Isleta Resort & Casino, Amphitheater,
11000 Broadway SE, 724-3800, isleta.com
VSA North 4th Theatre, 4904 Fourth St NW,
cardboard-playhouse.org
SCREENS
7 pm, Free, National Hispanic Cultural Center,
1701 Fourth St SW, 246-2261, nhccnm.org
THROUGH JUNE 28
JUNE 17-25
The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told
Fathom Events, at selected movie
theaters, fathomevents.com
Your Day is My Night: Experimental
Documentary Feature
The Desert Rose Playhouse,
6921 Montgomery Blvd NE, RSVP: 881-0503,
desertroseplayhouse.net
THROUGH JULY 5
Julius Caesar
The Taming of the Shrew
Various Thursdays-Sundays, 7:30 pm,
Albuquerque Civic Plaza, 400 Marquette Ave NW,
247-8600, vortexabq.org
Nickelback
June 17, 2015 DCI Tour Premiere
June 21, Jaws
June 22, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
June 23, Exhibition on Screen:
Girl with a Pearl Earring
June 24, Jaws
June 25, The Audience
THURSDAY, JUNE 18
LuTo
7 pm, Violet Crown Cinema, 1606 Alcaldesa St,
Santa Fe, (512) 495-9600,
facebook.com/violetcrownsantafe
FRIDAY, JUNE 19
Bless Me Ultima
1 pm, Free, Los Lunas Museum of Heritage
and Arts, 251 Main St SE, Los Lunas, 352-7720
Part of Movies in the Park
Dusk, Free, Mile High Little League,
725 Juan Tabo Blvd NE, 314-0477, bernco.gov
Drum Making Demonstration
10 am, Free, Petroglyph National Monument,
6510 Western Trail NW, 899-0205,
nps.gov/petr/index.htm
Jugamos Juntos: Cuentos en la Cocina;
Storytelling and Cooking
FESTIVALS, FIESTAS & FAMILY
10:30 am, Free, National Hispanic Cultural Center,
ONGOING
Mama’s Minerals 10th Annual
Arts and Crafts Fair
Coder Dojo
2nd and 4th Saturdays, 10 am, ages 7-17, Quelab,
680 Haines Ave NW, coderdojoabq.github.io
Giraffe and Lorikeet Feeding
Daily, ABQ BioPark Zoo, 903 10th Street SW,
Stories in the Sky with Laurie Magovern
Wednesday, 9:30 am and 11 am, Anderson
Abruzzo Balloon Museum, 9201 Balloon Museum
Dr NE, 768-6020, balloonmuseum.com
Sunday Family Fun
Sundays, 10 am, Bachechi Open Space,
9521 Rio Grande Blvd NW, 314-0398,
bernco.gov/openspace
Toddler Time
Tuesdays, 9 am, Explora, 1701 Mountain Rd NW,
224-8300, explora.us
JUNE 18-27
Bookworks
4022 Rio Grande NW, 344-8139, bkwrks.com
Free unless otherwise noted; some events take
place at other venues as noted.
June 18, 10:30 am, Story Time: Books for Dad
10 am, Mama’s Minerals, 800 20th St NW,
266-8443, mamasminerals.com
Adobe Summer: Sand-cast Your Hands
1:30 pm, New Mexico History Museum,
113 Lincoln Ave, Santa Fe, (505) 476-5200,
nmhistorymuseum.org
2nd Annual Bike for Brain Trauma Wine
Tour & Festival
11 am, St. Clair Winery & Bistro Albuquerque,
901 Rio Grande Blvd NW, bikeforbraintrauma.com
TUESDAY, JUNE 30
Life-Size Board Game
3 pm, Tony Hillerman Library, 8205 Apache Ave
NE, RSVP: 291-6264, abclibrary.org
FUNDRAISERS
SATURDAY, JUNE 20
Survivors MC Clean & Sober National
Run 2015 to benefit The Endorphin
Power Company
9 am, Indian Motorcycle of Albuquerque,
4509 Alameda Blvd NE, survivorsmc.org
SATURDAY, JUNE 27
Duke City Roller Derby
Pancake Fundraiser
10am, El Rancho de las Golondrinas,
334 Los Pinos Rd, Santa Fe, (505) 471-2261,
golondrinas.org
SUNDAY, JUNE 21
World Giraffe Day
8 am, Rio Grande Zoo, 903 10th St SW,
TUESDAY, JUNE 23
Night Walks at the Botanic Garden
7:30 pm, ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden, 2601
Central Ave NW, RSVP: 848-7180, cabq.gov
SUNDAY, JUNE 28
Fearless Vegetable Gardening 4:
The Leaves of Your Labor
2 pm, Modern General, 637 Cerrillos Road,
Santa Fe, (505) 930-5462, moderngeneralnm.com
The Four Hills Hike
8:30 am, Four Hills, RSVP: 452-5222,
cabq.gov/openspace
MONDAY, JUNE 29
El Camino Real Garden Tour
and Open House
10 am, Barelas Senior Center, 714 Seventh St SW,
764-6436, cabq.gov
TUESDAY, JUNE 30
Rockin’ the Library with Mr. Stinky Feet
8 am, Applebee’s, 10600 Lomas Blvd NE,
dukecityderby.com
10:30 am, Central & Unser Library,
8081 Central Ave NW, 768-4320, abclibrary.org
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
9 am, Free, CNM Workforce Training Center,
5600 Eagle Rock NE, Room 101, 888-1772
JUNE 20-21
2015 Strike Out Homelessness
Bowl-A-Thon
Father’s Day Fiesta at the Zoo
1 pm, Holiday Bowl, 7515 Lomas Blvd NE,
255-3643, Register now: thehousingcoalition.org
Noon, Rio Grande Zoo, 903 10th St SW,
764-6200, abqbiopark.gov
TUESDAY, JUNE 23
Open Space Explorer Series:
Hand-made Paper Making
10 am, Open Space Visitor Center, 6500 Coors
Blvd NW, 897-8831, cabq.gov/openspace
Stories in the Night Sky & ABQ
Concert Band
6 pm, Anderson Abruzzo Balloon Museum,
9201 Balloon Museum Dr NE, 768-6020,
balloonmuseum.com
The Great Race
11:30 am, Unser Racing Museum,
1776 Montaño Rd, NW, 341-1776, greatrace.com
OUTDOORS
NOW OPEN
Los Alamos Nature Center
& Planetarium
2600 Canyon Road, Los Alamos,
(505) 662-0460, peecnature.org
PNM Butterfly Pavilion
ABQ BioPark, 903 10th Street SW, 764-6200,
abqbiopark.com
Landscape Irrigation and Drip Irrigation
Gedunk Food Truck
twitter.com/gedunkfoodtruck
Every other Tuesday, 11 am, Truckin’ Tuesdays,
Civic Plaza
Wednesdays, 11 am, Talin Market,
88 Louisiana Blvd SE
Thursdays, 11 am, Sandia Science & Technology
Park, 10600 Research SE
Hot Off The Press,
ONGOING
You’ll have to go searching or go hungry.
WEDNESDAYS
Food Trucks, Music, Yoga
4:30 pm, Hyder Park, 700 Richmond Dr SE
Trucks: Irrational Pie, Street Food Institute, Pop Fizz
June 30, The Supper Truck returns!
Sunset Market
Truckin’ Tuesdays
Gateway Growers Market
5 pm, 100 Isleta Blvd SW, 217-2484
JUNE 24-27
Vintage Albuquerque Food & Wine Week
Various locations,
more info: vintagealbuquerque.org
SATURDAY, JUNE 27
Gruet Winery Tour
Inside the NM Senate:
A Political History
facebook.com/THELUNCHBOX505
Wednesdays, 11 am,
Sandia Science & Technology Park,
10600 Research SE
Thursdays, 11 am, UNM Hope Bldg,
933 Bradbury SE
Thursdays, 4 pm, Albuquerque Brewing Co.,
8600 Pan American NE
Fridays, 11 am, UNM Cancer Center,
1201 Camino de Salud
TUESDAY
Tasty Tuesdays
THURSDAYS
FRIDAY, JUNE 19
The Lunch Box Food Truck
TUESDAYS AND SATURDAYS
4 pm, Civic Plaza, SW Section, 1 Civic Plaza NW,
Third St NW and Marquette Ave NW,
albuquerquecc.com
Balloon Fiesta Park, 5500 Balloon Fiesta Parkway,
fresquezproductions.com
2 pm, Gruet Winery, 8400 Pan American Frwy NE,
821-0055, gruetwinery.com
MARKETS
8 am, 1607 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe,
santafefarmersmarket.com
6 pm, Free for beginners, Flying Star Café,
723 Silver SW, 244-8099, abqbackgammon.com
facebook.com/HotOffThePressFoodTruck
Mondays, 11 am, UNM Cancer Center,
1201 Camino de Salud
Every other Tuesday, 11 am, Truckin’ Tuesdays,
Civic Plaza
Wednesdays, 11 am, Talin Market,
88 Louisiana Blvd SE
Thursdays, 11 am, Sandia Science & Technology
Park, 10600 Research SE
Saturdays, 7 pm, The Historic El Rey + Stereo Bar,
622 Central Ave SW
MONDAY
Santa Fe Farmers Market
New Mexico Food Truck
and Local Craft Beer Festival
11 am, Civic Plaza, 1 Civic Plaza NW, Third St NW
and Marquette Ave NW, albuquerquecc.com
WEDNESDAY
Talin Market Food Truck Round Up
11 am, 88 Louisiana Blvd SE
Dad You are My Super Hero
10:30 am, Free, North Valley Senior Center,
3825 Fourth St NW, 761-4025, cabq.gov
Dear Old Dad Luncheon
11:30 am, Free, Manzano Mesa Multigenerational
Center, 501 Elizabeth St SE, RSVP: 275-8731,
manzanomesacenter.com
Papa’s Day Luncheon
11:30 am, Free, Los Volcanes Senior Center, 6500
Los Volcanes Road NW, RSVP: 836-8745, cabq.gov
TALKS
SATURDAY, JUNE 20
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17
Cherry Hills Toastmasters
Coffee & Conversation: Reviving
Traditions with San Ildefonso Potter
Erik Fender
5:30 pm, Free, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center,
2401 12th St NW, 843-7270, indianpueblo.com
3 pm, Albuquerque Center for Spiritual Living,
2801 Louisiana NE, 298-3682, 1
111940.toastmastersclubs.org
SUNDAY, JUNE 21
Lyme Get Together: New Mexico Lyme
Disease Support
Noon, Free, RSVP and more info: Diane 304-9411
Noon, Free, New Mexico History Museum,
Washington Ave doors, 113 Lincoln Ave,
Santa Fe, nmhistorymuseum.org
The Six Healing Sounds: Qigong
THURSDAY, JUNE 18
Special Sunday Dance: Father’s Day
Getting Men to the Moon — Behindthe-scenes Stories with Loretta Hall
9 am, Poblano Fields, RSVP: 452-5222,
cabq.gov/openspace
1:30 pm, Men Free, North Valley Senior Center,
3825 Fourth St NW, 761-4025, cabq.gov/seniors
JUNE 17-30
Bookworks
4022 Rio Grande NW, 344-8139, bkwrks.com
Free unless otherwise noted; some events take
place at other venues as noted.
June 17, 7 pm, Katie Snapp, Brave Transitions:
A Woman’s Guide for Maintaining Composure
Through Changes in Work and Life
June 18, 7 pm, Carol Aronoff, Blessings from an
Unseen World; Max Early, Ears of Corn: Listen
June 20, 10:30 am, Jean Reagan,
How to Surprise a Dad
June 20, 3 pm, Sharon Neiderman & Kitty Leaken,
The New Mexico Farm Table Cookbook
June 21, 3 pm, David Gurule, Tortillas and Butter
June 21, 5 pm, Alfred Goldhaber, Quantum Moment
June 23, 7 pm, Meredith and Win Blevins,
Darkness Rolling
June 24, 7 pm, Richard Melzer, A River Runs
Through Us: True Tales of the Rio Abajo
June 25, 7 pm, Don Winslow, The Cartel
June 26, 7 pm, Orlando White, Letterrs;
Sherwin Bitsui, Flood Song
June 28, 1 pm, Jennifer Jacobson, Soul Cards
Tarot Readings
June 28, 3 pm, Linda Silk, Survival Manual for the
Modern Mystic
June 30, 7 pm, JD March, Dance with the Devil,
Devil’s Own #1
FRIDAY, JUNE 19
The Last Unicorn: A Search for
One of Earth’s Rarest Creatures:
William Debuys
7 pm, New Mexico Natural History Museum,
1801 Mountain Rd NW, nmnaturalhistory.org
TUESDAY, JUNE 23
5:30 pm, New Mexico History Museum,
113 Lincoln Ave, Santa Fe, nmhistorymuseum.org
SATURDAY, JUNE 20
ABQ NOW Chapter Meeting
6:15 pm, Erna Fergusson Library,
3700 San Mateo NE, 888-8100, abclibrary.org
Crossword Puzzle appears on page 40
It’s Fun, It’s History, It’s New Mexico!:
Mary Diecker
6:30 pm, Free, Petroglyph National Monument,
6510 Western Trail NW, 899-0205,
nps.gov/petr/index.htm
Painting the Divine Symposium:
Mary in the New World
Bike Safety
5:30 pm, Cherry Hills Library, 6901 Barstow St NE,
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24
Backgammon Instruction and Match
9:30 am, Free, New Mexico History Museum,
nmhistorymuseum.org
6 pm, Free for beginners, Flying Star Café,
723 Silver SW, 244-8099, abqbackgammon.com
SUNDAY, JUNE 21
Biodynamic Study Group and Potluck
Get your Kicks on Route 66: Bob Smith
2 pm, Free, Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, 2000 Mountain Rd NW, 242-4600,
albuqhistsoc.org/programs
ONGOING
Tuesdays, 10:30 am, Free, Erda Gardens & Learning Center, 1305 Blake SW, 610-1538, erdagardens.org
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SUNDAY, JUNE 28
Herb & Lavender Fair
Backgammon Instruction and Match
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SATURDAY, JUNE 27
10 am, Free, The Octopus and the Fox,
514 Central Ave SE, theoctopusandthefox.com
SATURDAY, JUNE 20
BOOKS & POETRY
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cabq.gov/museum
1 pm, Free, Los Lunas Museum of Heritage
and Arts, 251 Main St SE, Los Lunas, 352-7720
JUNE 20-21
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17
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Community Days: Sustainability
Octofair 2: The Revenge
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10 am, Wildlife West Nature Park, 87 N Frontage
Rd, Edgewood, 281-7655, wildlifewest.org
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6:30 pm, 8:30 pm, KiMo Theatre,
423 Central Ave NW, 768-3544, kimotickets.com
10:30 am, Free, National Hispanic Cultural Center,
5 pm, Ten Thousand Waves, Izanami, 3451
Hyde Park Rd, Santa Fe, RSVP: (505) 982-9304,
tenthousandwaves.com
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8205 Apache Ave NE, 291-6264, abclibrary.org
conchitascreations.net
June 17, 11 am, 2300 Menaul Blvd
June 23, 11 am, Truckin’ Tuesday, Civic Plaza
June 24, 6 pm, Stories in the Night Sky,
Albuquerque Balloon Museum
July 8, 6 pm, Stories in the Night Sky,
Albuquerque Balloon Museum
Conchita’s Creations
Tuesdays, 7 pm, Heights Community Center, 823
Buena Vista SE, 710-3840, thecalmingfour.com
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Wildlife Festival
Izanami + Niigata Sake Dinner
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Jugamos Juntos: Summer Bosque
THURSDAY, JUNE 18
Tuesday Night Swing Dance with
The Calming Four
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FOOD TRUCKS & FOOD
2 pm, Free, Placitas Community Library, 453 Hwy
165, Placitas, 867-3355, placitaslibrary.com
12th Century Music of Hildegard of
Bingen: Jane Ellen
Thursdays, 6 pm, Free with weeding exchange,
Erda Gardens & Learning Center, 1305 Blake SW,
610-1538, erdagardens.org
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The Thing from Another World
Third Thursday: Family Night
Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge,
7851 Second St SW, 248-6667
SATURDAY, JUNE 27
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Dusk, Free, Bachechi Open Space,
9521 Rio Grande Blvd NW, 314-0477, bernco.gov
10 am, Free, Open Space Visitor Center,
6500 Coors Blvd NW, 897-8831, cabq.gov
5 pm, Free, Haynes Park, 2006 Grande Blvd SE #A,
Rio Rancho, RSVP: nmasbbq2015.eventbrite.com
10 am, Free, Los Poblanos Historic Inn & Organic
Farm, 4803 Rio Grande Blvd NW, 344-9297,
lospoblanos.com
Tai Chi
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Paddington
Open Space Story Hour: Ana Baca and
Noel Chilton
Powered by the Sun
More info: thinktei.com/albuquerqueworkshops
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FRIDAY, JUNE 26
THURSDAY, JUNE 18
Autism Society Summer BBQ
Tasting: Lavender Tea
Music Business Workshops on The Vans
Warped Tour
Wednesdays, 7pm, Siddha Yoga Meditation
Center, 4308 Carlisle Blvd NE #201, 291-5434,
siddhayoga.org
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7 pm, National Hispanic Cultural Center,
10:30 am, South Broadway Library,
1025 Broadway Blvd SE, 764-1742, abclibrary.org
10 am, ABQ BioPark, 2601 Central Ave NW,
Pueblo Harvest Café, 2401 12th St NW,
724-3510, indianpueblo.com/harvestcafe
Siddha Yoga Meditation
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En La Estancia
Life Cycle of the Butterfly
SATURDAY, JUNE 27
9 am, 777 First St SW, railyardsmarket.org
June 21, Solstice Sun-day: Donne Lewis, Chloe
Nixon and the Band, Bandwidth No Name
June 28, Wellness Day: New Mexico Academy of
Rock and Blues, Eryn Bent, Celia Gary
Bosque Brewing Beer Dinner
Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Helen
Hardin Media Gallery, 108 Cathedral Pl, Santa Fe,
iaia.edu/museum
Sundays, 9 am, Free, Albuquerque Meditation
Group of Self Realization Fellowship,
1704 Moon St NE, 298-3640, yogaananda-srf.org
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2 pm, Central & Unser Library, 8081 Central Ave
NW, 768-4320, RSVP: abclibrary.org
Pollinator Celebration at the
Botanic Garden
Rail Yards Market (Barelas)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17
Brown Bag It with MoCNA:
Eliza Naranjo Morse
Guided Meditation
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2 pm, Free, New Mexico History Museum,
nmhistorymuseum.org
Explora: Kaleidoscope-crazed
6 pm, Free, Oak Flat Picnic Grounds, Highway
337, Tijeras, 254-8227, taas.org
SUNDAYS
6:30 pm, Free, Prosum Roasters, 3228 Los Arboles
Ave NE, 379-5136, prosumroasters.com
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24
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Santa Fe in Motion
6:30 pm, 18+, Explora, 1701 Mountain Rd NW,
224-8300, explora.us
Expo New Mexico, Manuel Lujan Jr Exhibition
Complex, 300 San Pedro Dr NE, 222-9700,
exponm.com
Oak Flat Public Star Party
Coffee Tasting
Sundays, 9 am, Open Space Visitor Center,
6500 Coors Blvd NW, 897-8831,
cabq.gov/openspace,
30% benefits Open Space Alliance
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7:30 pm, The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, 601 Eubank Blvd SE,
nuclearmuseum.org
Adult Night: Sustainable Science
1 pm, Open Space Visitor Center, 6500 Coors Blvd
NW, 897-8831, [email protected]
8 am, Robinson Park, 8th & Central,
downtowngrowers.com
June 20, Piano Man Larry Freidman; 10 am,
Salad Mixer Contest
June 27, The Missing Parts
2 pm, Sandoval County Historical Society Museum
(DeLavy House), 151 Edmond Road, Bernalillo,
771-9493, kuaua.com
Grateful Life Yoga
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Future
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17
54th Annual New Mexico
Arts & Crafts Fair
Composting with Worms
(Vermicomposting)
Downtown Growers’ Market
4 pm, Civic Plaza, SW Section, 1 Civic Plaza NW,
Third St NW and Marquette Ave NW,
civicplazapresents.com
June 19, Chef Ernesto of Café Bien
Prehistoric Weaponry of the Southwest:
Ron Fields
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Dusk, Free, Prado del Sol (Twin Parks),
4300 Avenida Mañana NE, 314-0477, bernco.gov
JUNE 26-28
SATURDAY, JUNE 20
SATURDAYS
FRIDAY
ABQ Food Fridays
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Tuesdays, ages 5-11, Open Space Visitor Center,
6500 Coors Blvd NW, RSVP: 897-8831,
cabq.gov/openspace
10:30 am, Ernie Pyle Library, 900 Girard SE,
10 am, Los Poblanos Historic Inn & Organic Farm,
4803 Rio Grande Blvd NW, 344-9297,
lospoblanos.com
3 pm, Morningside Park,
Lead Ave SE & Morningside Dr SE
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Open Space Explorer Series
Hands of Enchantment:
Face It, You’re a Hero
Los Poblanos Farm Tour
Nob Hill Growers Market
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6pm, 8:30 pm, KiMo Theatre,
423 Central Ave NW, 768-3522, kimotickets.com
THROUGH AUGUST 11
FRIDAY, JUNE 26
FRIDAY, JUNE 19
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Sci-Fi Sequels: Revenge of the Creature
Open Space Story Hour: Sabra Steinsiek
10 am, Free, Open Space Visitor Center, 6500
Coors Blvd NW, 897-8831, cabq.gov/openspace
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8 pm, Free, Santa Fe Railyard Park,
740 Cerrillos Rd, Santa Fe, ampconcerts.org
THURSDAY, JUNE 25
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June 20, 4:30 pm, Teen Book Club, Noggin by
John Corey Whaley
June 24, 4:30 pm, Magic Treehouse Book Club:
High Tide in Hawaii
June 25, 10:30 am, Story Time: Summer Time!
June 27, 10:30 am, Big on Animals: Frogs! 3 pm,
Sage and Jared’s Happy Gland Band
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New Mexico’s
Second-largest
Newspaper
1.Craving
5. Parsley bit
10.Annul
14. “Mi chiamano Mimi,” e.g.
15. France’s longest river
16.Escape, in a way
17.It was redone in ‘04
20.Agnolotti, e.g.
21.Saint Petersburg, once
22.Whimsical
24.Exploit
25.Tend to, as a bad lawn
29.Quip
31.Mozart’s “L’___ del Cairo”
34.At any time
35.“Agreed!”
37.Snake or
mathematician, at times
39. William Thornton designed it
42. Nice goodbye?
43.Persuaded
44.Mercury, for one
45. ___ soup
Destinations
for one
D.C.
46.Rimbaud,
Myles
Mellor
48.Early
word
form and
by
1
2
3
4
50.Money in Moldova
51.Costa Rican
peninsula
52.Shortcomings
57.Mediterranean evergreen
62.The Temple of Zeus was its model
64. Healthy berry
65. Upload ___
66.Manhattan eatery
67. Boxing prize
68.Case type
69.Case type
Down
1.Arctic native
2. Water-soluble compound
3.Some are deadly
4.Red arachnid
5.Arch
6.Tom’s aunt
7. Bank of Paris
8. Persia, now
9.Einstein, e.g.
10.Grammar topic
11. Warm, so to speak
12. Hindu god
13. Kind of column
18.Thief’s obstacle
19.Set up (var.)
Sally
York of taro
23. Variety
5
14
7
9
10
11
12
13
31
32
33
59
60
61
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18
19
20
21
22
26
27
23
24
28
29
34
35
39
30
36
37
40
43
46
45
44
47
48
50
53
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41
42
52
8
Answers on page 39
15
17
25
6
25.Go over
26.Get around
27.Artist’s hue
28. Port city
29.Cascade of ruffles
30. Jewish month
31.Disgrace
32.Literary work
33.About 1% of the atmosphere
36.Besides
38. June 6, 1944
40.City where Elvis was born
41. Bad day for Caesar
47.Nix
49. ___ Bell
50.Allowed
51. Buddhist lecturer, Tendzin, and others
52.Middle-age scourge
53. Houston university
54.Cancer kind
55.Details
56.Eastern prince
58.Spirited horse
59.Stir, with “up”
60.They may be sown
61.Smudge
63.Fulfilled
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51
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