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VOL II, Issue 16, August 12, 2015
New Mexico’s second-largest newspaper
XX-centric
Bubonicon
Author Mary R. Kowal
Joins ‘Women of Wonder’
at Sci-fi Fest
Page 17
How Payday
Lenders
Got Their Way
in Santa Fe
Page 4
Joe Monahan:
List of 2017
Mayoral
Hopefuls Grows
Page 7
Boyd Standoff Went Badly Right from the Start Page 5
2 • August 12, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS
Redflex Greased its ABQ Deal, Report Finds
By abq free press staff
C
ity auditors found violations
of city policy but no criminal
wrongdoing in an investigation
of Redflex, the company that
operated Albuquerque’s redlight
and speed cameras from 2004 to
2011.
The investigation was requested
by City Councilor Dan Lewis after
news reports that Redflex had
bribed municipal officials around
the country to win redlight
contracts.
In a lawsuit, an executive
at Redflex, Aaron Rosenberg,
alleged he was a top salesman
for five years from 2008 to 2013
and that Redflex has been bribing
and giving gifts to city officials
throughout the United States,
including officials in Chicago,
Arizona, Ohio and New Mexico.
Six executives have been fired
since 2013, with six separate
indictments spanning from 2006
to 2015.
The investigation by Albuquerque’s internal auditor found that
Redflex spent about $1,425 on
meals, hotel accommodations
and golf equipment benefitting
civilian and Albuquerque Police
Department employees.
Redflex paid for a total of 53
meals for city employees starting
in 2003 and bought one city
employee $40 worth of golf balls,
according to the auditor’s report.
Accepting meals or other benefits
from a current or potential vendor
is a violation of the city’s administrative code, according to the
report.
“An Albuquerque FBI agent
informed us that according to
the Chicago office, there were no
allegations of bribery or inappropriate gifts in Albuquerque,”
Auditor Debra Yoshimura wrote
in a report to Lewis early this
year. “The FBI agent chacaterized the allegations related to
Albuquerque as ‘glad-handing’
activities such as taking people
out to lunch or dinner a couple of
times.”
Albuquerque voters decided
to end the red-light cameras
in October 2011. City officials
concluded that Albuquerque
made $7 million from red-light
traffic tickets, while Redflex made
$18 million.
Rio Rancho is the only city in
New Mexico still contracted with
Redflex. The contract ends in
December.
compiled By abq free press staff
Requests for “pee-proof paint”
are going through the roof in
San Francisco, where officials are
trying to stop public urination
with a paint that repels urine.
“We are piloting it to see if we can
discourage people from peeing
at many of our hot spots,” said
Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru. The UV-coated paint
is hydrophobic, meaning it repels
water. Urine actually bounces
back at the urinator, splashing
pants and shoes. San Francisco
got the idea from the German
city of Hamburg, which grew
weary of smelling like a urinal
each morning. “The team that
did the testing, they were excited
because the liquid bounces back
more than we thought it would.
Anything we can do to deter
people is a good thing,” Nuru
told the newspaper SFGate.
Quid pro quo
How bad is corruption in Greece,
stepchild of the European Union?
Bribery accounts for 8 percent of
the gross domestic product of the
country, according to the Brookings Institution. The practice has
its roots in the electoral system,
where government officials hand
out jobs in return for votes. The
study found that 27,000 new
public-sector jobs were added
before one recent election. Now,
Greece has a ministry charged
with eliminating 25,000 government jobs as part of the country’s
plan to get its economy in order.
Well off
About 71 percent of the 7 billion
people on this planet are classified as poor, while 13 percent
are middle-class, according to
Bloombergview.com. That leaves
about 16 percent who are rich.
Being poor is defined as getting
by on less than $2 a day. Middleclass is defined as living on
between $10 and $20 a day.
Punished
A Florida toll booth attendant
was fired after reaching into his
own pocket to pay part of the toll
for a driver. Vladislav Samsonov,
77, said he made up the difference when he mistakenly charged
the driver too little to pass
through his booth on the Gasparilla Island Bridge Authority near
Boca Grande, Fla. “He broke the
rules by putting $5.50 into the
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cash register from his pocket after
he realized he missed a trailer
being pulled by a vehicle and
wanted his register to balance
with the axel counts and was
caught on tape putting money
from his pocket into the register,”
Samsonov’s daughter, Patricia
Samsonov Gillis, wrote on
Facebook. Samsonov had worked
for the toll authority for 29 years.
He was popular with customers
because he handed out lollipops
to children and dog bones to pets,
according to USA Today.
Vandalized
A drunken squirrel caused more
than $500 damage to a Worcestershire, England pub, according
to the British newspaper the
Independent. The owner of the
Honeybourne Railway Club said
he found glasses and beer bottles
broken when he arrived to open
up, before he spotted a squirrel
stumbling out from under the bar.
The owner believes the squirrel
somehow opened a beer tap and
drank from it before going on its
drunken rampage. He chased the
squirrel out a restroom window.
“It’s safe to say he is now barred
for life,” the owner said.
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[STAGES]
“I showed ‘Jonesy’ a Chatter postcard, and he said,
‘Oh, man, Dude’ – he kept calling me ‘dude’ – ‘Do you know
about the parking ramp?’”
– Chatter Executive Director
Pamela Michaelis on finding an
outdoor “auditorium” for Chatter’s Sept. 5 rooftop concert
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[ARTS]
“[Misogyny] is not a new
thing, and the reason that
we’re seeing all this conversation about it is because it’s
something that people are
actively fighting against.”
– Bubonicon 47 toastmaster,
author and puppeteer Mary
Robinette Kowal on sexism and
harassment in the sci-fi/fantasy
community
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[ARTS]
“Gatas y Vatas is going
down in Seattle this year,
[but] the all-ages music fest
featuring solo female performers (including trans and cis
women, as well as genderqueer
and non-binary folks) hasn’t
forgotten its many nuevomexicano fans.” – Lisa Barrow
on Gatas y Vatas’ fundraiser
Animales Animados: Monsters
Under the Bed
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[FOOD]
“Think all-American summer foods: watermelon,
barbeque, lemonade ... and
macaroni and cheese? If that last
one didn’t immediately spring to
mind, don’t worry.” – M. Brianna
Stallings on the transformative
cultural power of the Macaroni
and Cheese Festival
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ABQ FREE PRESS • August 12, 2015 • 3
[FOOD/DRINK]
“Even the toughest of
weeks are no match for
the Three Sisters, Downtown’s
sleeping giant and the HauteSavoie of the High Desert.”
– Ariane Jarocki on the second
installment of our multi-issue
Deep Dish coverage of Albuquerque’s best happy hours
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[SCREENS]
“Can we relate to an animated horse? How about
one who was once a household
name and lives in a mansion
with his entourage? You might
be surprised.” – Hugh Elliott on
dark, animated Netflix comedy
“Bojack Horseman”
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[STAGES]
“All the while, rape culture blames victims, tells
women that their worth is 100
percent body-based and cracks
jokes about men dropping the
soap in prison showers.”
– M. Brianna Stallings on
YouTube sex educator Laci
Green’s visit to UNM to present
“Taking Down Rape Culture”
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[MUSIC]
“With the exception of
Gregg Araki’s ‘Happy Face’
and Judd Apatow’s ‘Pineapple
Express’, stoner movies have
been declining ever since
Cheech and Chong toked on
that Labrador strain. On the
other hand, stoner rock has
experienced a renaissance of
late.”
– Samantha Anne Carrillo on
Weedeater’s concert at
Launchpad
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on the cover:
Author/puppeteer Mary Robinette Kowal. Photo by Rod Searcey.
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Payday Lenders’ Giving Pays Off at Roundhouse
BY RENE THOMPSON AND DAN VUKELICH
Spending Wisely
I
f you wonder why it’s still legal in New Mexico
to charge up to 1,000 percent on payday and title
loans, a clue lies in the campaign finance records of
the Office of Secretary of State.
Payday lenders, title loan lenders and other
high-interest storefront lending operations or their
lobbyists gave state legislators tens of thousands of
dollars during the last two election cycles, an ABQ
Free Press investigation found.
The industry’s apparent payback for that largesse
came during this year’s 60-day legislative session
when two bills enjoying broad public support to cap
interest rates at 36 percent were killed in committee.
One bill got a committee hearing in the House of
Representatives and then was tabled. The bill in the
Senate never got a hearing.
The 2015 legislative session was the latest in a
string of failures. Former Attorney General Gary
King tried to persuade the Legislature starting
in 2007 to reduce allowable interest rates. The
persistent failure of payday lending reform in New
Mexico runs counter to what’s happening elsewhere
in the United States as state regulators try to break
what is called the “debt trap,” where low-income
people take out successive loans to pay off earlier
ones – and never get out of debt.
Regulators in 13 states recently have reined in
exorbitant interest and fees. In North Carolina, a
state with a large military presence, lawmakers have
banned payday lenders completely. The Department of Defense supports limits on payday lenders
because servicemen and women are among the
industry’s targets.
Before the 2015 session of the New Mexico Legislature, 45 community, social service, religious and
service organizations backed payday lending reform
or were prepared to testify in favor of capping
interest rates at 36 percent, which has been done
elsewhere. Four of the state’s largest newspapers
editorialized in favor of interest rate caps.
But their voices weren’t heard.
Reform advocates who went to the Roundhouse to
testify in favor of capping interest rates allege that
the former chairman of the Senate Corporations and
Transportation Committee, Phil Griego of San José,
essentially gave the payday industry a veto over the
legislation.
Griego told both sides that the interest rate cap
Campaign finance records show that the payday
loan industry gave money to 24 legislators with the
power to block payday lending reform during the
2015 Legislature. These included the House and
Senate leaders and members of two key committees.
bill wouldn’t get a hearing unless reform advocates
and industry lobbyists first agreed on a compromise,
according to lobbyists for both sides. When the
Legislature adjourned its 60-day session, according
to reform advocates, the bill was still locked in
committee.
The power of money
The payday loan industry (we use the term in
this article to encompass all forms of high-interest
storefront lending) was well prepared to defend the
revenue stream their storefront offices generate.
The industry has been generous. A review of
campaign finance records shows that the industry
spent $74,675 on the most recent campaigns of 24
key legislators – the top leaders of the Senate and
the House and members of the two key committees
assigned to hear payday loan bills this year.
The debate over the intersection of money and
influence in Santa Fe is an old one. Advocates for
ethics reform see the appearance of impropriety.
Lawmakers see nothing wrong with accepting
campaign donations from industries they regulate.
Sen. Clemente Sanchez, a Grants Democrat who
has received $2,700 from the industry since 2012,
said contributions to his campaign do not affect
how he votes. Sen. Michael Padilla, an Albuquerque
Democrat who has received $2,000 from payday
lenders, said, “If someone decided to write a check,
that’s one thing; you know I’m not going to send
checks back, but that doesn’t mean that I looked for
it, because I didn’t.”
Another thing the industry had going for it this
year was manpower. As many as 23 payday loan
industry lobbyists worked the Roundhouse in 2015;
Top Payday Loan Donation Recipients
Rep. Nate Gentry
Sen. Phil Griego
Sen. Stuart Ingle
$12,950
$11,075
$7,400
House
minority leader
Corporations
Committee chair
Senate
minority leader
$5,250
Senate
majority leader
$5,100
TOTAL............................................. $74,675
*Sources: New Mexico Secretary of State’s Office, 2012 and 2014 election campaign reports; followthemoney.org
on the side for reform, there was one.
ABQ Free Press could not put the question of
money and influence at the Roundhouse this year to
many of the legislative leaders. That’s because calls
and emails to the following people who received
payday loan donations were not returned over a
period of several months:
House Speaker Don Tripp, a Socorro Republican;
President Pro Tem Papen, a Las Cruces Democrat;
House Majority Leader Nate Gentry, an Albuquerque Republican; Rep. Brian Egolf, a Santa Fe
Democrat; Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez,
a Belen Democrat; and Senate Minority Leader
Stuart Ingle, a Portales Republican.
Tale of two bills
Sen. John Sapien Sen. Michael Sanchez Sen. Mary Kay Papen
Corporations
Committee member
Rep. Nate Gentry ....................................... $12,950
Sen. Phil Griego ......................................... $11,075
Sen. Stuart Ingle........................................... $7,400
Sen. John Sapien ......................................... $5,250
Sen. Michael Sanchez................................... $5,100
Sen. Mary Kay Papen................................... $4,350
Sen. William H. Payne.................................. $3,400
Sen. Clemente Sanchez ............................... $2,700
Sen. Sander Rue........................................... $2,700
Sen. William Sharer...................................... $2,650
Rep. Alonzo Baldonado .............................. $2,450
Rep. Nora Espinoza...................................... $2,200
Rep. Yvette Herrell....................................... $2,150
Sen. Michael Padilla..................................... $2,000
Rep. Don Tripp.............................................. $1,750
Sen. Mark Moores........................................ $1,600
Rep. Bob Wooley.......................................... $1,050
Rep. James E. Smith..................................... $1,050
Rep. Mimi Stewart.......................................... $650
Rep. Patricia Caballero.................................... $550
Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton...................... $550
Rep. Lee Cotter ............................................... $500
Sen. Brian Egolf............................................... $400
Rep. Deborah Armstrong................................ $200
Senate
president pro tem
$4,350
While several bills were introduced during the
2015 Legislature to cap rates or change the way
payday lenders do business in New Mexico, reform
advocates rallied around two identical measures –
House Bill 36 and Senate Bill 72.
Both were pre-filed – meaning they were introduced
before the Legislature convened for its 60-day session
on Jan. 20. The bills officially got their committee
referrals on Jan. 23, the third day of the Legislature.
In the Senate, SB 72, sponsored by Rep. William
Soules, a Las Cruces Democrat, was referred by
cont. on page 10
NEWS
Boyd told Cops: ‘I Can’t Walk Away. You Can’t Walk Away’
BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI
I
t wasn’t long into his three-hour standoff with
Albuquerque police that James Boyd seemed to
grasp the severity of the dilemma he and the cops
were in. What had started off as a minor call about
illegal camping had spun irrevocably out of control.
Even Boyd’s paranoid schizophrenia, which was
on full display that 16th day of March 2014, couldn’t
interfere with his intuition of how things had gone
and where they were going.
In words that now seem hauntingly prophetic,
Boyd understood that neither he nor the cops could
disengage from their deadly dance. He had committed a felony by pulling two knives on cops and
threatening to kill them, and they were obligated to
disarm and arrest him.
“We’re in a situation,” Boyd told the six or seven
officers surrounding him, weapons drawn at a
sun-baked, rocky and sparsely vegetated place called
U Mound in the Sandia Mountain foothills on the
east edge of town. It was just 26 minutes and eight
seconds into their dance when Boyd stated what
everybody there knew: “I can’t walk away. You can’t
walk away.”
About four minutes later, one of the officers asked
Boyd, who had repeatedly refused to drop or give up
his knives, “How are we going to resolve this?”
Again, Boyd responded with an intuition that
turned out to be eerily accurate: “I don’t know if we
can. I think somebody’s going to get hurt, killed.”
Boyd was indeed prophetic. He was shot three
times by cops and mortally wounded that day. The
Albuquerque Police Department was hurt as well,
as well, its reputation as a trigger-happy department
solidified, thanks to lapel-camera video that was seen
worldwide. The two officers who shot Boyd would
face charges of second-degree murder, an unprecedented decision for this city.
Many times during the three-hour standoff there
were points where it could have been prevented from
escalating. But for a variety of reasons, those opportunities were missed or refused, and Boyd and the cops
danced themselves right into the abyss.
ABQ Free Press talked with retired cops and a
former prosecutor to see exactly how and when the
Boyd confrontation spun out of control and how it
might have been prevented or calmed. Not all of
our sources agreed with each other on police tactics,
which is why the Boyd case has so divided the
community.
Here’s a breakdown of the major scenes in the Boyd
drama.
Guns drawn 11 seconds in
It was around 4:30 that Sunday afternoon when
APD Open Space officers John McDaniel and Patrick
Hernandez got a call of someone camping illegally
in city open space in the foothills past the end of
Copper Avenue.
They stopped at the house of nearby resident
Alexander Thickstun, a U.S. Air Force captain who
had called APD’s nonemergency number to report
the illegal camping. Thickstun had been out earlier
that day with his two Great Danes and a handgun
to investigate the area where he thought a man had
been camping. Thickstun told the officers where
they could find Boyd.
Albuquerque Police Department
A series of decisions made by James Boyd and a variety of police officers in the Sandia foothills over a period of hours on March 16,
2014, led to Boyd’s shooting death and charges of second-degree murder against the two police officers who shot him.
McDaniel and Hernandez reached Boyd’s site
around 4:45 p.m. and found him lying in a makeshift
plastic tent. Illegal camping is a misdemeanor, but
things escalated immediately. One of Boyd’s hands
was outside the tent and the other was inside.
McDaniel wanted to see the other hand to make sure
it wasn’t holding a weapon.
“How’s it going? Albuquerque police,” McDaniel
said as he approached Boyd. About six seconds later,
McDaniel said to Boyd, “Let’s see your hands.” At
11 seconds in, McDaniel repeated the demand, and
he and Hernandez drew their handguns on Boyd.
To some former cops, that was the wrong call
and escalated a petty misdemeanor call to one
where weapons were drawn, putting Boyd on the
defensive. Cops should never draw a weapon,
which amounts to a show of deadly force, for a
misdemeanor, they said.
“There is no purpose to draw a weapon on a suspect in a nonviolent crime, said former APD officer
Tom Grover. “Drawing a weapon because someone
hasn’t shown their hands on an initial approach is
completely outside of training. You don’t have any
information that he is a suspect in an armed crime.”
The preferable way to handle such a situation
would have been to tell Boyd in a friendly, nonthreatening manner that camping here was illegal,
but that he could move 300 yards east to the
national forest to camp. They could then say they’d
be back in a few hours and that he better be gone
when they returned, some officers said.
That’s how those types of calls were and might still
be handled, they said, by officers using their discretion and not going strictly by the book.
But there was one thing that prevented that from
happening.
The officers were dispatched based on a citizen’s
call and that citizen expected action, said retired
APD officer Mark Bralley. “Telling a guy to leave
and that I’d be back in two hours, I might have done
that if I had not gotten a call from a citizen. It’s a call
from a citizen who expects something to be done,
and he got plenty of service that day,” Bralley said.
Ill-advised pat down?
The next escalation came about 43 seconds into the
encounter when McDaniel told Boyd he wanted to
pat him down to see if he had weapons.
Boyd said to the officers, “Please don’t touch me.”
But McDaniel persisted and asked Boyd to turn
around. When McDaniel attempted the pat down,
Boyd wheeled around and pulled two four-inch-blade
pocket knives out of his pockets and held the blades
outward in both hands while facing the officers. At
that instant, Boyd committed the crime of aggravated
assault with a deadly weapon on an officer, and at that
point the cops were obligated to arrest him.
That attempted pat down was a mistake, some
former cops said, for two reasons. It jeopardized the
officers’ safety, and most cops know that homeless
people in general don’t like to be touched.
Most cops who deal with the homeless know they
typically are armed for their own protection, usually
with box cutters or knives, Grover said. “They don’t
have hatchets, machetes, or bazookas,” he said.
In general, cops don’t like to touch homeless
people either, because, well, they’re walking infestations and germ factories, former cops said, and their
clothes are often caked with feces and urine.
Boyd could have ended it
While McDaniel and Hernandez might have
acted too aggressively, the fact that Boyd pulled
two knives on them took the situation to a new and
dangerous level. The officers then faced a potentially
deadly threat, because knives, even ones with fourinch blades, can easily slice through the
body armor cops wear. And at 6-foot-2 and 220
pounds, Boyd presented a formidable threat.
The officers pointed their weapons directly at Boyd
and shouted at him at least a dozen times to drop
the knives. Boyd refused, and the situation reached
the point of no return.
cont. on page 6
NEWS
boyd, Page 5
Reinforcements arrive
To Grover, that was the tipping point
for both sides. Any cop listening to his
radio heard that a guy had threatened
fellow officers with lethal force – a
felony – and police started flooding
into the area. Dispatch began directing
officers to the scene, and 17 more
eventually arrived.
“That is when the genie is out of the
bottle. It’s when the bell is rung, and
now you can’t unring it,” Grover said.
Standoff and negotiations
As more officers arrived, including Crisis Intervention Team (CIT)
members, they began negotiating
with Boyd. Early on, Boyd identified
himself only by the nickname of Ba.
His knives were back in his pockets,
and he rambled on about his connections with high government officials,
including those at the U.S. Department of Defense, and how the world
would run out of money in five to six
months.
“I’ve been calling [APD] about
national security,” Boyd said. At one
point, he said he would talk only to
the New Mexico State Police. A state
police officer was dispatched to the
scene.
There were times when Boyd
advanced slightly on the officers, but
they repeatedly warned him that he
would be shot with a bean bag rifle if
he went past a certain point – a large
rock nearby. For the most part, Boyd
stayed behind the rock. Boyd also
seemed to know police protocol. At
one point, he warned the officers, “I’m
approaching.”
Throughout the talks, officers
repeatedly told Boyd that he would
have to surrender his knives, a proposition that he repeatedly rejected.
“You have no business asking me to
put my knives down,” he said.
Around 29 minutes into the standoff,
an officer said to Boyd, “How about
we all put down our weapons? We’d
have to pat you down.”
“You’re not touching my person,”
Boyd replied.
“That’s what’s going to have to
happen,” the officer said.
“Wanna bet?” Boyd answered.
Boyd’s ‘handlers’ not called
Two years before the standoff, APD
had assigned two CIT officers to monitor
Boyd as part of a department program
to keep mentally ill homeless people on
their medications and out of trouble.
It wasn’t until one hour and twoand-a-half-minutes into the standoff
that Boyd gave his name to the
officers. That information was radioed
to dispatch, but the special prosecutor
in the case said there was no evidence
that anyone from APD called Boyd’s
two CIT officers to come to the scene.
Some former officers speculated
that had two people been on the scene
who knew Boyd and his mental illness
well, they might have been able to get
him to drop his knives and surrender.
No commanders on scene
To retired APD sergeant Dan Klein
(a columnist for this newspaper),
there was a glaring defect in the
department’s response to the Boyd
situation. No officer above the rank
of sergeant – meaning anyone on the
APD command staff – was on the
scene during the negotiations and
when the final plan to subdue and arrest Boyd was hatched and launched.
Sergeants, Klein explained, tend to
think tactically, while commanders
have a more strategic view of critical
incidents. Sergeants generally want to
end a situation as quickly as possible,
while commanders might take more
time to develop a plan or let negotiations go on longer.
“Many times, sergeants do not have
the training to control and command
officers from different units, and
that is huge,” Klein said. “Sergeants
know their five or six people that they
work with. When you have a critical
incident, you might have 20 or more
officers out there.”
At critical incidents, there almost
always is tension between SWAT team
members and negotiators who are
talking with, say, a barricaded subject,
Klein said.
“The negotiators are saying, ‘Give us
more time,’ and the SWAT sergeant is
saying, ‘It’s getting late, the sun is going
down, let’s end this.’ The command
staff would be able to listen to both
sides and say, ‘I’m going to give the negotiators another hour and SWAT team
stand down.’ When there is a plan, the
command staff can say, ‘This is a good
plan’ or ‘This is a screwed-up plan.
Why don’t we hit him with wooden
batons (nonlethal rounds similar to
rubber bullets) until he gets tired of
being hit with wooden batons?’”
Even now, 17 months later, it’s not
clear exactly who developed the
nonlethal plan to subdue Boyd, but it
was either SWAT or Repeat Offender
Project team members on the scene.
Change in personnel, tactics
It was around 6 p.m. when APD
Officer Keith Sandy arrived on the
scene. Sandy was a member of the
ROP – Repeat Offender Project – team,
a unit that had been created years
earlier to go after the worst of the
worst. The ROP Team tended to
cont. on page 12
COLUMNS
List of Potential ABQ Mayoral
Candidates Growing
By JOE MONAHAN
I
n our last column
we noted that
speculation over
who will seek to
become Albuquerque’s next mayor
in 2017 has barely
risen to the level of
a murmur, but there
are contenders quietly emerging and
some testing of the waters.
Names circulating include Democratic
City Councilor Ken Sanchez, GOP City
Councilor Dan Lewis, GOP Bernalillo
County Commissioner Wayne Johnson,
former New Mexico Democratic Party
Chairman Brian Colon and New Mexico
State Auditor Tim Keller.
And even though he has said he will
not seek a third, four-year term, there’s
still talk that Mayor Berry could reverse
himself, especially if his chances don’t
look good for the 2018 GOP gubernatorial nomination he has an eye on.
The chattering class is also enjoying
speculating about the future of Gov.
Susana Martinez during these lazy days
of summer. Much will depend on how
she fares in the three years remaining in
her second term.
She has so far dodged some powerful
potential bullets – chief among them
the stagnant economy – but Auditor
Keller has been holding her feet to the
fire with a probe of her taxation and
revenue secretary. Second terms often
bring that sort of trouble in piles.
If she beats the odds and remains
popular (both two-term governors who
served before her – Gary Johnson and
Bill Richardson – finished their tenures
with approval ratings in the tank), Dems
think she could take a shot at Democratic U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich in 2018.
As for the likelihood of her being the
GOP vice-presidential choice for the
2016 ticket, that talk has dissipated.
Seventeen candidates are seeking the
presidential nomination. The VP pick is
likely to be one of the 16 losers.
Another option for Martinez is getting
out of politics and making a lot of
money by being appointed to corporate
boards, authoring a book and delivering
paid speeches. That would be similar to
the path taken by former Alaska Gov.
Sarah Palin. It’s on the table for Martinez not because of her performance as
governor but due to her status as the
nation’s first female Hispanic governor.
become a big deal, but analysts say that
would probably take big money. So
far there are no reports of any groups
organizing to buy advertising against
the one-eighth cent increase in the gross
receipts tax.
The tax would raise an estimated $17
million a year for 15 years and finance
capital improvements at the BioPark,
which includes the zoo, Tingley Beach,
the botanic garden and the aquarium.
Early polling shows the public
disposed toward approving the levy
but that could change in the face of a
negative ad blitz. The turnout for the
city election will be an older electorate
and weighted toward the conservative
side. The opportunity to persuade those
voters to turn down a tax increase is
there but without vocal opposition,
supporters of the increase are confident
they will prevail.
That little tax increase proposed for
the Albuquerque BioPark that city voters
will decide in the Oct. 6 election could
Joe Monahan is a veteran of New Mexico
politics. His daily blog can be found at
joemonahan.com
Even though he has said
he will not seek a third
term, there’s still talk
that Mayor Berry could
reverse himself
And what about that proposal on the
ballot to amend the City Charter and
give the city council confirmation power
over the mayor’s selection for police and
fire chiefs? After all the turmoil at APD,
political pros say this one should be a
winner.
If it does pass it will be one of the
more significant power shifts away from
the executive branch and to the council
since the modern form of government
was ushered in back in 1974. But it could
have been worse for future mayors.
The original proposal would have given
the City Council not only the power to
confirm the chiefs but also to fire them.
If any of the forthcoming city political
questions catches your attention and
you’re not registered to vote, you still
have time. The last day to register is
Sept. 8. Information is on the city clerk’s
website or you can call 924-3650.
Not that anyone expects a stampede
to the polls. The experts say only about
10 percent of the city’s registered
voters can be expected to cast ballots
in October. There are about 350,000
voters registered, so that would mean a
turnout in the neighborhood of 35,000.
The Meaning of Best Friends
Forever In Rwanda
BY EFRAIN VILLA
“B
ecause you
are a good
person” was Musa’s
answer to most of
my questions.
“Musa, why are
you paying for my
beer?” “Musa, why
did you jump in
front of me when that dog attacked?”
“Musa, why do you insist I sleep with
your sister?”
Generally, I nurture a healthy suspicion
of anyone who professes to know I am
a good person. I assume these people
are either dumb or are swindlers laying
the groundwork for the pounce. Even
so, I will occasionally fall for scams with
the same naiveté of the idiot at a strip
club who thinks he has an emotional
connection with the dancer giving him a
lap dance.
I met Musa at a beach in the Rwandan
border town of Gisenyi, a village abutting the Democratic Republic of Congo’s
Virunga National Park, where the
world’s most active volcano threatens to
annihilate the region.
Another fun fact left out of tourism
brochures is that nearby Lake Kivu is
prone to limnic eruption in which enormous farts of carbon dioxide burst out
of the water and instantaneously suffocate everyone in the area. The noxious
vapors can be accompanied by tsunamis
that wash away all evidence of Mother
Nature’s little burp. And just for added
drama, there are guerilla uprisings and
child soldiers in the countryside.
As he spoke, I tried to
assess if his story was
part of a long con
strategy to eventually
hit me up for money
These conditions do not dampen the
mood here, though. Locals are cheery
and, most of the time, the town has the
kind of tranquil backdrop one might
expect to see in a Corona commercial.
So when Musa asked me if we would
be best friends forever, even before
knowing my name, I reasoned that the
locals’ waste-no-time attitude was a
byproduct of living on the perpetual
verge of apocalypse.
“Sure ... let’s be friends until our dying
day,” I said, looking up at the ominous,
glowing clouds over the volcano. “Or
lunchtime. Whichever comes first.”
To start off our new friendship, Musa
took me to some hot springs. On the
way, we encountered a lady gouging
out the eyeballs from an animal carcass
splayed at her feet. She put down her
giant knife, looked up at me, and said
something in Kinyarwanda. The only
word I understood was “Fanta,” which
in these parts can mean a bottled drink,
a bribe, a tip, charity, or even a ransom.
I turned to Musa to gauge if our
exchange with the eye-gouger was
friendly. His relaxed demeanor told me
it was. I looked at the lady, turned my
pockets inside out, and politely said,
“No Fanta.” As we walked past her, she
mumbled something that made Musa
chuckle.
“She said you Muzungus these days
are more poor than us Africans.” He
pointed at my feet. “In Rwanda, only
very poor people wear rugabire (shoes
made out of tires).”
At the hot springs, Musa told me he
had recently returned to Gisenyi from
Kigali because his Australian girlfriend
had cut him off. “When she called
my place,” he said, pausing to take a
drag of his cigarette, “my friend’s wife
answered. By the time I got back from
the bathroom, she was yelling that I
was a womanizer like all Africans and
just using her to pay for my studies. One
phone call took my love, my home, and
my future.”
As he spoke, I tried to assess if his
story was part of a long con strategy to
eventually hit me up for money. “My
room’s small and uncomfortable,” I lied.
“Otherwise, I would offer you lodging.”
In reality, I was more concerned he might
bring bedbugs into my sprawling suite.
“Oh, you are a good person to think
of troubling yourself,” he said. “I will
ask the church people if you can stay in
their big, comfortable room with the
other Muzungos.”
“Missionaries?” I asked. “No thanks,
I’ll manage.”
When we parted ways later that day, I
gave Musa my number and told him to
call me the next evening. I planned to
be long gone by then.
The next day, I was seated in a plane
getting ready to take off when my phone
rang. “He probably wants money?” I
thought. I took a sip of my orange Fanta,
inspected my seat for bedbugs, and hit
the ignore button on my phone.
As we flew over Rwanda, I looked out
the window at the lush, green canopy
below and tried to remind myself that I
was a good person.
Reach Efrain Villa through his website,
aimlessvagabond.com
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Teaching
Healing
Rita Navarrete, a Mexican
curandera, or “healer,” perfoms
a traditional cleansing ceremony,
blowing smoke from burning
copal, an incense used in Latin
America, on participants in a
University of New Mexico class.
Organized by Eliseo “Cheo”
Torres, UNM Vice President of
Student Affairs, the Curandismo
classes began 15 years ago and
now attract 200 to 250 participants interested in the use of the
herbs in healing.
“People need something tactile,”
said Toñita Gonzalez, a curandera
living in Albuquerque who participated. “They watch the smoke,
and they can see their problems
going to the heavens,” she said.
“We’re changing a person’s
spiritual and emotional level.”
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OPINION
New Thinking at APD Can Fix
County’s Low DWI Conviction Rate
By dan klein
F
or decades, Albuquerque residents
have complained about dismal
drunken driving enforcement – and year
after year, tragedy after tragedy, not
one of our elected officials has come
up with a better way to ensure DWI
convictions.
A DWI arrest means nothing. The
only way to gauge success is how many
convictions we get from those arrested.
DWI in Albuquerque is like Groundhog
Day, the same issue, the same fingerpointing and the same do-nothing from
the people we elect or hire to fix this
problem.
In July, the Albuquerque Journal’s
Mike Gallagher exposed how APD
Officer Lou Golson had 140 DWI cases
dismissed in the six months after he
was shot in the line of duty. Golson is a
hard-working officer, it’s not his fault
these cases were dismissed. It also isn’t
the fault of the courts or the District
Attorney as they must protect the
Constitutional right to a speedy trial in
six months or less, according to a New
Mexico Supreme Court rule.
A comparison of DWI conviction rates
for 2014 shows that Bernalillo County
had the second-lowest conviction rate
in the state. Rio Arriba County had the
worst. More than half of the DWI arrests
made in Bernalillo County in 2014 were
dismissed.
That means over a thousand people
who were arrested in Bernalillo County
in 2014 for DWI had their charges
dismissed. They drove away with no
conviction. Why?
Disband the DWI unit.
Don’t stop DWI
enforcement, just
share the responsibility
with all APD officers
Ask the Bernalillo County District Attorney’s office – the answer is that police
officers don’t show up in court.
The Albuquerque Police Department
says that cases are dismissed because
Metro Court schedules its DWI unit officers to appear in different courtrooms
at the same time. Metro Court will tell
you that they have to schedule the
police officers this way because of the
speedy trial rule.
And the criminal justice circus in
Bernalillo County goes on and on, with
the same excuses and finger-pointing
that has not produced any better results
for decades.
We have a conviction rate of 47
percent. As a citizen are you OK with
this? Aren’t you tired of the blame game
by public officials? If you are, here’s
a simple way to stop DWI cases from
being dismissed:
A comparison of DWI
conviction rates for 2014
shows that Bernalillo
County had the secondlowest conviction rate
in the state. Rio Arriba
County had the worst
The APD DWI Unit of about 10
officers is involved in 95 percent of all
DWI cases. It is impossible to obtain a
conviction when you depend on the
same 10 officers to handle 95 percent of
the workload. They simply cannot be in
10 courtrooms at once.
The solution? APD should stop fingerpointing at Metro Court’s scheduling.
Years of complaining about Metro Court
scheduling has gotten us nowhere. APD
must come to the realization that the
court is not going to change.
APD can fix the problem of cases being
dismissed because officers are not in
court without Metro Court help. How?
Disband the DWI unit. Don’t stop DWI
enforcement, just share the responsibility with all APD officers.
Every APD officer is certified in DWI
enforcement. This is a requirement
for becoming a police officer in New
Mexico. I propose that every field
services officer at APD – and there are
more than 400 of them – have a mandatory rotation in DWI roadblocks, which
produce the majority of DWI arrests.
Every night a DWI roadblock is
scheduled, a new group of police
officers should be reassigned from their
regular duties – for one night – to the
DWI roadblock. So, if APD does two
roadblocks in one week, a total of 30
officers, or 15 each night, would work
roadblocks.
This would spread the DWI duty
among 400 officers instead of just 10,
meaning APD’s 400 officers would only
have one DWI case scheduled at a time. I
know from experience when the officer
is present in Metro Court, the case
usually ends with a conviction.
Dan Klein is a retired Albuquerque
police officer.
Commemorate the First Transgender Riot
And the World’s First True Peace Treaty
BY SAYRAH NAMASTé
S
ay No to Military
Recruiters! Military recruiters will be
on the UNM campus
as the new academic
year begins, ironically
as part of the annual
Safety, Health, and
Wellness Day. Each
year in response, students and community members oppose the military
recruiters, pass out counter-recruitment
information and protest their efforts.
The event is 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesday,
Aug. 18 at the University of New Mexico
Student Union Building Mall between
the SUB and Mesa Vista Hall.
Before the Fight for Rights at Stonewall. The local transgender community,
including the Transgender Resource
Center of New Mexico and Transcending
Differences, is marking the anniversary
of the first recorded transgender riot
in United States history. The Compton’s
Cafeteria Riot preceded the more
famous 1969 Stonewall Riots in New
York City by three years. There will be a
screening of the documentary: “Screaming Queens: The Riots at Compton’s
Cafeteria” with a panel discussion
afterwards. You may be surprised when
you learn about transgender history
and the context in the early gay rights
movement. The event starts at 6:30 p.m.
on Saturday, Aug. 22 at the Albuquerque Peace & Justice Center, 202 Harvard
Dr. S.E.
Women’s Equality Day Celebration
and Poetry Reading: The event, organized by the Albuquerque chapter of
the National Organization of Women to
commemorate the day when women’s
right to vote was recognized in the 19th
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,
will be 1:30-4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 22
in Botts Hall of the Special Collections
Library, 423 Central Ave. N.E. Almost 100
years later, our mostly male Congress
is dismantling women’s rights despite
the Equal Rights Amendment, written
in 1923, which states “Equality of rights
under the law shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or by any
state on account of sex.” Speakers will
share what progress we’ve made toward
full equality for women in the U.S. A
poetry reading featuring the Albuquerque Word Weavers includes an open
microphone, so bring your poems about
women’s rights (4 minutes maximum).
For more information, contact smrcmd@
hotmail.com.
You May Say I’m A Dreamer: The
Albuquerque Chapter of Veterans for
Peace, along with other organizations,
will commemorate the signing of
the Kellogg-Briand Pact with a press
conference and reception 1 p.m. on
Thursday, Aug. 27 at the Albuquerque
Mennonite Church, 1300 Girard Blvd.
N.E. You’ve probably never heard of this
astounding treaty which was sponsored
by the U.S. and France to renounce war
as an instrument of national policy.
Signatory nations promised not to use
war to resolve “disputes or conflicts of
whatever nature or of whatever origin
they may be, which may arise among
them.” The United States, Germany,
and France signed the treaty on Aug.
27, 1928, and most other nations signed
soon after. Imagine the human suffering
that would have been prevented from
all of our wars if we had followed this
agreement.
Environmental Justice Day in the
South Valley: Join celebrants from 3
p.m.-7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29 at the
Valle de Oro National Refuge, the first
urban wildlife refuge in the Southwest.
The newly established Refuge at 7851
South Second St. S.W. is partnering
with Los Jardines Institute, a grassroots
community organization that fights
environmental racism and works to
reform chemical policy. There will be
music, food, entertainment, and trolley
tours of the Refuge, which is restoring
the wetlands with native vegetation.
Environmentalists at City Council:
Climate Change Activists with 350.org
are demanding that the Albuquerque
City Council vote in favor of Councilor
Isaac Benton’s resolution to withdraw
the city’s membership from the New
Mexico Industrial Energy Consumers in
favor of safe, clean, affordable renewable energy. “NMIEC is incapable of representing our best interests because it
primarily represents large multi-national
corporations,” according to a statement
from 350.org. They will make their case
at 5 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 17 at the City
Council meeting in the Vincent E. Griego
Council Chambers, in the basement of 1
Civic Plaza N.W. If you attend, you can
sign up to give public comment. If you
can’t attend, 350.org is urging people
to email City Council at: www.cabq.gov/
council/councilors/contact-all-councilors.
Sayrah Namasté is an organizer with the
American Friends Service Committee in
Albuquerque.
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the citizen’s Legislature,” she said.
“This has been a decade-long if not
a hundred-years-long conversation
about wanting professional legislators,
but people tend to like things the way
they are,” Harrison said. “They are
just slammed with bills, and they’re
only in session for a couple months at
most, so that means they’re out in the
community the rest of the time.”
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Senate Majority Leader Michael
Sanchez, a Belen Democrat, to the
Senate Corporations and Transportation
Committee and to the Senate Judiciary
Committee. Sanchez received $5,100
from payday lenders, his campaign
finance records show.
The chairman of the corporations
committee, Sen. Phil Griego, was the
second leading legislative recipient of
payday loan campaign contributions,
taking $11,075 from the industry, his
campaign finance records show.
(Griego, a real estate broker, resigned
from the Legislature a week before
the end of the 2015 session. He faced
a likely censure by his peers over a
conflict of interest during the 2014
session.)
After this year’s session adjourned,
Griego told ABQ Free Press that the
complexity and divisiveness of the
payday loan interest-cap issue threatened to bog down his committee and
endanger passage of other legislation.
Griego said he ordered both sides
to work out a compromise before he
would give the bill a hearing.
“What that means is he basically
gave the industry veto over this legislation,” said Steve Fischmann of the
New Mexico Fair Lending Coalition, a
collection of nonprofits, which pushed
for the payday loan interest rate cap.
“So all the industry had to do was
not talk to advocates, and no legislation would ever get to the committee,”
Fischmann said.
Clemente Sanchez, who assumed the
chairmanship of Griego’s committee
after Griego’s resignation, said, “The
way it works is the chairman of the
committee decides what goes on the
agenda, and since it was Phil Griego at
the time, he never brought it up. Since
it’s up to the chairman to put it in the
agenda, we never talked about it at all.”
Over in the House, HB 36 hardly
fared better.
HB 36, sponsored by Rep. Gail
Chasey, an Albuquerque Democrat,
was referred to the House Public
Affairs Committee and to the House
Ways and Means Committee. The
referral to House Ways and Means
was unusual because that committee
generally hears appropriation bills, tax
bills or bills that affect tax revenues
or proposed changes in government
operations with fiscal impacts.
The referral of HB 36 was made
by Speaker of the House Don Tripp,
a recipient of $1,750 in payday loan
campaign donations, according to his
campaign finance records.
State Rep. Yvette Herrell, an
A massive loophole
Alamogordo Republican, gave HB
36 a hearing in the House Regulation
and Public Affairs Committee but then
tabled it for the duration of the session.
Herrell received $2,150 in payday
loan contributions, her records show.
Herrell did not respond to phone calls
or emails from ABQ Free Press on why
she tabled the bill.
A member of Herrell’s committee,
Rep. Nora Espinoza, a Roswell Republican, whose records show she received
$2,200 in payday loan contributions,
said, “After reviewing our records, HB
36 had a hearing on Feb. 2 in an open
public meeting but was tabled by the
committee after debate.”
When the Legislature adjourned on
the afternoon of Saturday, March 21,
both HB 36 and SB 72 were still in the
two committees to which they had
been referred 57 days earlier.
Unseen forces
“It’s clear that the industry and
special interests have access and influence that the rest of us don’t have,”
said Fischmann, the lending reform
advocate.
“And what people are doing is legal,
but the fact that it’s legal doesn’t
mean that it’s not corrupt, because it’s
terribly corrupt,” he said.
“I’m a former state senator, and I
served four years in the New Mexico
Senate, so I’ve seen it firsthand,”
Fischmann said.
Sen. Clemente Sanchez takes issue
with that logic.
“That’s not why we receive contributions, and there’s no strings attached,
so that doesn’t mean I am going to
vote with them on anything,” Sanchez
said when asked about influence his
donors might seek to gain.
Viki Harrison, executive director of
Common Cause New Mexico, said the
influence of money at the Legislature
is apparent year in and year out.
“That is why we have the lobbyists,
the larger corporations and the folks
with money that are able to make these
kinds of contributions, as opposed
to your average citizen, so that’s the
nature of the way it is in Santa Fe with
ABQ Free Press’ investigation into
the payday loan industry’s influence
at the 2015 Legislature uncovered a
loophole in the secretary of state’s
campaign reporting system that allows
lobbyists to funnel vast amounts of
money to legislators without publicly
identifying the source.
An example is James “J.D.” Bullington, a lobbyist for FastBucks, a payday
lender, as well as 23 other business
interests. Records show Bullington has
not identified on whose behalf he gave
legislators campaign contributions
since 2103.
Although campaign and lobbyist disclosure laws require that the ultimate
source of all lobbyist donations be
reported, Bullington’s donations show
up in his name only. FastBucks did
not file any contribution reports under
its own name between 2012 to 2014,
according to the secretary of state’s
website.
A review of reports filed by the
legislators shows Bullington gave
$21,875 in contributions during the 2013
and 2014 cycles. In an interview, he said
some of that originated with FastBucks,
but he declined to offer details.
The Lobbbyist Regulation Act states
that lobbyists must report to the Office
of the Secretary of State “the names,
addresses and occupations of other
contributors and the amounts of their
separate political contributions.”
Bullington faults the secretary of
state’s online lobbyist filing form.
“The Secretary of State is going to
eventually update the website because
we do electronic filing now and there
is no box; it says to put who it was
made to and the dollar amount, and
those are the only two boxes.” Other
lobbyists confirmed their belief there
is a technical problem with the online
filing form.
An examination of all of Bullington’s
campaign contributions since 2013
to the present shows he has given
candidates $130,600 – $28,500 of that
to Gov. Susana Martinez in 2013 alone
– with no explanation of where the
money came from.
A spokesman for the Secretary of
State’s Office said lobbyists who make
cont. on page 11
OPINION/NEWS
What Lessons Have We Learned
Since the Last ‘Bad War’?
BY TERRY L. WARKENTINE
I
need to relate part of my story. Most
of the younger generation needs to
hear it and many of my generation need
to be reminded of it.
I am a U.S. Navy veteran of two tours
of the Vietnam War. My first tour was
as part of the “Brown Water Navy.” I
proudly served on swift boats running
both coastal patrol and engaging in
river warfare. Fewer than 3,500 of us
served on swifts during the war. Far
fewer remain alive today.
Both times I returned to the States
after a tour, the reception was far from
enthusiastic. People gathered to yell
obscenities at us, to throw garbage at
us and to call us “baby killers.” Anti-war
protests were rampant nationwide. No
one, not even my parents, would pat us
on the back and say, “well done.”
About a year after my separation from
the Navy and after time off to accustom
myself to civilian life again, I made the
decision to return to college. Even in
that bastion of higher learning, veterans
suffered. Once, while sitting with a
friend in a campus coffee shop, she saw
one of her friends enter, waved her
over, introduced me as a veteran and
invited her to join us. The young woman
declined, saying all vets were crazy and
left.
Even my oldest grandson
had no idea I was a
veteran until, when he
was about 16, he saw
the front ‘Vietnam
Veteran’ car plate I had
recently gotten
Another time, I was at a private party
off campus. I happened to meet an army
vet and we got to talking about places
we were stationed in ‘Nam. It wasn’t
long before the hostess came over and
told us both to leave as the other guests
did not want to hear us talking about
our time in Vietnam.
We were not only shunned and
disliked, but actually hated as were all
things associated with that terrible war.
For that reason and others, I simply did
not talk about that war. Even my oldest
grandson had no idea I was a veteran
until, when he was about 16, he saw the
front “Vietnam Veteran” car plate I had
recently gotten. I was recently reminded
of how long ago that all was when a
young lady saw the plate and remarked,
“You were in Vietnam? That was the
‘bad’ war, wasn’t it?” I replied that I was
not aware of any good wars. I came to
realize that history had passed many
people by.
The main thing that kept me going
through all that time was the belief
that, with all that hatred of the war and
those who served in it, quite possibly we
would never enter into another useless
war and never again would veterans
be subjected to such abuse. I was partly
right.
Too many of our
government representatives seek to replace
diplomacy with war. War
is nothing more than a
video game to them
The wars came again, way too soon
and way too often. Now, though,
the public perception of servicemen
and women had changed. They are
perceived as heroes, maybe because
we have a volunteer army now, maybe
because of a misplaced sense of vengeance or justice.
Don’t get me wrong. I think it’s great
that servicemen and women are now
thanked for their service. It’s not the
heroic, glamorous job that young
people are led to believe because of
all the video games they’re exposed to.
The result from all this, I really fear, is
that our nation’s collective psyche has
become almost “Sparta” like. We are
raising a nation of warriors.
Some may think this is not necessarily
a bad thing. After all, we do have to
protect ourselves from those who want
to destroy us. My question is: Why do so
many consider us an evil that must be
destroyed? Are we better than a nation
only of warriors?
I continue to hope so, but that hope is
fading as too many of our government
representatives seek to replace diplomacy with war. War is nothing more than a
video game to them. To those who have
never experienced the horror of real
combat, or have forgotten, or only wish
to benefit monetarily from constant war,
I say enough. Talk is cheap, yes. But war
is way too expensive to allow our nation
to survive.
Terry L. Warkentine lives in
Albuquerque’s Northeast Heights.
payday loans, Page 10
campaign donations using a client’s
money should report them on another
online form. Use of the form would
eliminate the appearance that all the
money is coming from the lobbyist.
Why the form isn’t being used was
unclear.
The argument
The payday loan industry argues that
it serves as a lender of last resort for
many poor New Mexicans who can’t
qualify for conventional loans because
of lack of resources or poor credit.
Additionally, the industry argues that
high interest rates – as high as 1,000
percent with most loans averaging 340
percent – are necessary because of the
high loan default rate.
Sen. Michael Padilla, who sits on the
Senate Corporations Committee, said
he supported an interest rate cap, but
he thought 36 percent was too low
for the industry to make any money.
Bullington said trying to set a flat rate
cap across the spectrum of payday and
title loans is unworkable.
“Some companies do underwriting;
some have people walking in with
minimal credit checks; others do income
credit checks; others do long-term loans
that are a year or more; and others do
very short-term loans,” Bullington said.
“So this type of bill doesn’t fit the entire
industry very well.”
Fischmann sees no redeeming social
value in an industry that can legally
collect up to 1,000 percent interest.
“They’re not here to help anybody;
they’re just here to loot poor people.
There are all kinds of complicated
financial arguments about how [the
industry’s argument] is not true, but
I think 90 percent of the public wants
interest rate caps, because they get it
and they know it’s a ripoff,” he said.
Payday loan lobbyists
Payday lenders hired some of the
most experienced lobbyists in New
Mexico, including former members of
the Legislature, to beat back efforts
to cap interest rates during the 2015
Legislature. According to Secretary
of State lobbyist registration records,
working for them were:
Mickey Barnett
James “J.D.” Bullington
Arthur Hull II
Kimberly Legant
Vincent Montoya
Brent Moore
Daniel Najjar
Dea Rankin
Scott Scanlon
Sam Ray
Robert Reich
Raymond Sanchez
Matejka Santillanes
David Schmidt
Anthony Trujillo
Timothy Trujillo
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NEWS
Newspaper Wins Damages
in APD Records Case
BY ABQ FREE PRESS STAFF
A
judge has ordered the City of
Albuquerque to pay $50,925 in
legal fees over the Albuquerque Police
Department’s refusal to give ABQ
Free Press a list of its military-style
weapons.
The order by Bernalillo County
District Judge Alan Malott also
requires the city to pay $1,426 in
costs and $7,500 in damages to the
newspaper and independent journalist Peter St. Cyr, who requested the
inventory as part of an assignment by
the newspaper.
The request under the New Mexico
Inspection of Public Records Act, or
IPRA, was made on Jan. 21, 2014. APD
took longer than the allowable 15
days to respond to the request before
ultimately denying it.
In his order, Malott noted that APD
waited until “the eleventh hour”
before requesting an extension to
consider the records request, before
ultimately denying it well after its
deadline for responding. APD’s delay
“was not reasonable and evidences a
disregard of the public policy behind
IPRA,” the judge wrote.
APD had claimed that the weapons
inventory was exempt from disclosure
under a provision of the IPRA statute
that allows it to withhold documents
relating to “emergency security
procedures that could be used to
facilitate the planning or execution of
a terrorist attack.” Malott rejected that
argument.
The judge ordered that St. Cyr be
paid $4,700 in actual damages to
compensate him for time spent on the
IPRA lawsuit. Another $2,700 will be
paid to the plaintiffs for APD’s failure
to respond to the newspaper’s request
for 27 days after its statutory deadline
for doing so.
Malott ordered $1,426 be paid to the
newspaper to reimburse it for the cost
of deposing APD Chief Gorden Eden
and former APD records custodian
Reynaldo Chavez. Attorneys Colin
Hunter and James Dory of the Barnett
law firm represented St. Cyr and the
newspaper in the case.
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mount heavily armed assaults on
houses where armed and dangerous
criminals with violent criminal records
were holed up.
In recent years, some of the worst
abuses by APD involving wrongful
use of force were committed by
the ROP team. In settlement of a
civil-rights investigation of APD by
the U.S. Department of Justice, the
department disbanded it.
Around the time of Sandy’s arrival, members of APD’s SWAT team
and other tactical officers also began
arriving. Prior to that, all of the officers
negotiating with Boyd were field officers
– meaning patrol officers, or beat cops –
sergeants and CIT officers. At one point,
they were pulled back from close contact
with Boyd, and the SWAT and tactical
officers took their places.
Randi McGinn, special prosecutor
in the case against Sandy and officer
Dominique Perez, told the judge who
heard the case against them that it
was then that the tone of the standoff
changed and became more ominous.
The failed plan to subdue
The sun set at 7:15 p.m. that day, and
some officers apparently were concerned
that it would soon be dark. And because
of the rough terrain they were in, it
wasn’t practical to bring in floodlights
to illuminate the area, testimony at the
preliminary hearing showed.
The plan to get Boyd off the
mountain was called a layered,
nonlethal plan that involved throwing
a flashbang grenade at him, shooting
him with a Taser shotgun and having
a K-9 police dog attack him.
Sandy and Perez, who arrived at the
scene at 7:11 p.m., were put in position
as lethal backup shooters in case Boyd
continued to resist. At 30 seconds past
7:30 p.m., the flashbang grenade was
thrown at Boyd, who was on high
ground above the officers.
A flashbang grenade is a nonfragmentation explosive device that booms
with 178 decibels and creates a flash of
light so bright that it generally blinds
a subject for 20 to 30 seconds. In 70
percent of the cases in which flashbangs
are used, subjects fall to the ground, according to testimony in the preliminary
hearing for Sandy and Perez.
Right before the plan was put into
effect, it appeared that Boyd was
willing to leave the mountain and
cooperate. “All right, don’t change up
the agreement,” Boyd said as Perez
and Sandy aimed their rifles at him.
“I’m going to try to walk with you.”
Boyd then picked up his backpack
and other belongings and appeared to
be ready to start walking. He had no
knives in his hands.
Rene Thompson
Mourners left
a memorial
at the spot
where James
Boyd was
killed by
Albuquerque
police.
At that point, an officer said, “Do
it,” and the flashbang grenade was
thrown toward Boyd.
Because the grenade landed near a
rock in front of him, which possibly
shielded him from the blast and light,
Boyd didn’t fall to the ground when
it went off. Around the same time, an
officer fired a Taser shotgun round at
Boyd, and the K-9 dog was set loose
toward him.
The Taser, which causes muscles to
seize up and trigger a bodywide cramp,
didn’t affect Boyd, perhaps because he
was wearing five layers of clothing –
four shirts and a sweat shirt – according
to testimony. The K-9 dog didn’t bite
Boyd as planned. The dog apparently
was affected by the Taser and turned
back to its handler, APD Officer Scott
Weimerskirch, who ran forward toward
Boyd to meet the animal.
By this time, Sandy, who was
providing lethal cover for Weimerskirch, moved forward as well. After
the ineffective grenade, Taser and
dog attack, Boyd pulled two knives
from his pockets and held them about
waist-high in both hands.
Officers told him to hit the ground.
Boyd started turning to his left – to
obey the officers’ orders, the prosecution claimed – when Sandy and Perez
fired at him with semi-automatic
assault rifles. Sandy was nine to 10
feet away when he shot Boyd, who
was hit by three shots in the 1.5
seconds it took the two officers to fire
their weapons.
“Everything that could go wrong
with the plan did go wrong,” Klein
said, adding that there was no reason
the officers could not have kept talking to Boyd and then shot him with
baton rounds if it got too dark.
Despite the efforts to negotiate
with Boyd and get into his mind, no
one could. “Anyone who could have
gotten into his head sure would have
been welcomed on the hill that night,”
Bralley said.
Dennis Domrzalski is an associate editor
at ABQ Free Press. Reach him at
[email protected]
OPINION
Letters
To the Editor:
Whenever anyone, whether it’s the Rio
Grande Foundation or you, makes the
claim that nobody rides the city bus, I
have to wonder why the No. 66 Central
bus is almost always full. But your article
focused on how people get to work.
Ignoring the fact that to get from home
to just about any workplace in Albuquerque on the bus system without taking
forever and at great inconvenience either
calls for very good luck or very good
planning, are we to assume that anyone
not going to work is “nobody?” That the
lame, the halt, the blind, the elderly, and
the nonworking poor are “nobody?”
That said, I agree with your opinion of
the mayor’s rapid transit plan. He seems
to think that making us look as pretty as
San Jose, Calif., will make us as prosperous as that Silicon Valley city.
Central Avenue is extremely well-served
already. What the city bus system really
needs is better feeder lines, with fixed
schedules, benches at remote bus stops,
and those schedules posted at every bus
stop.
Posted schedules are especially important on those lines that run infrequently
and at irregular intervals. This, of course,
is expensive, unglamorous, and for the
most part, serves those with neither
money nor power, who cannot be counted
on to vote for our mayor.
But please, rethink your definition
of “nobody.” Those of us who fit that
category tend to resent it.
— Patricia Mathews
To the Editor:
The New Mexico Law Enforcement
Academy Board has historically treaded
lightly on revoking police officer certifications. I am aware of cases where officers
staged crime scenes or stole public
property, but were allowed to continue to
hold their police officer certifications after
the NMLEA initially suspended them. The
honesty of our police officers is paramount
to the effectiveness of our judicial system.
Any officer who commits an act or moral
turpitude (dishonesty) such as theft or
lying should have their certification
permanently revoked.
— Bill Elliott, via FreeABQ.com
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Chatter Owes Success to Adaptability, Integrity
BY MEGAN KAMERICK
W
hen The Beatles recorded a rooftop concert in
London circa 1969, the show became a touchstone in rock history. It also signaled the end of an era.
The Fab Four would record only one more album,
and the group would disband later that year. When
local classical collective Chatter plays the roof of a
Downtown Albuquerque parking garage on Saturday,
Sept. 5, the recital marks an upswing – rather than a
decline – in its musical journey.
Chatter’s Sunday concerts debuted in 2008 under
the name The Church of Beethoven, and they have
flourished. Chatter’s wild success bucks a national
trend wherein the percentage of adults attending
classical concerts dropped from 11.6 percent in 2002
to 8.8 percent in 2012, according to statistics from the
National Endowment for the Arts. Somehow Chatter
sells out on Sunday mornings and at its bimonthly
evening cabarets at Hotel Andaluz.
Chatter also succeeds at presenting contemporary
classical works – often a tough sell – alongside more
traditional pieces. Add in a spoken word segment,
espresso and homemade baked goods, and the
hour-long Sunday event is a far cry from a traditional
symphony concert. Think Samuel Barber paired with
slam poetry. Yes, that actually happened.
“We sort of hit a magical sweet spot,” says artistic
director David Felberg. “We’re all about accessibility.
It’s very easy to go to one of our performances.”
Audiences may be savoring lattes or sipping martinis. but that doesn’t means they’re any less respectful,
Felberg says. “They’re still quiet when we do our
performance,” he notes. “And when I walk onstage,
there’s such a great energy in the air. I haven’t found
that anywhere.”
Associate Artistic Director James Shields believes
community is key. “I think the real power of what we
do is found in the act of bringing people together to
share a common experience,” Shields says.
Felberg and Shields recruit local musicians, friends
from other places and musicians visiting New Mexico
during the Santa Fe Opera season. “We get a great
collection of folks who want to play with us and for
us,” Felberg says.
Poets also love the venue, says Don McIver, who
books Chatter’s spoken-word portion. “The audience
is there to listen to classical music, so they know how
to listen and be super responsive,” McIver says.
Chatter’s Sunday morning audiences includes both
young and older classical devotees, creative types
and career professionals. That’s a combination many
classical groups would love to have in their audience
and one they often try to attract with limited success.
The most notorious pop culture example of this
rebranding strategy was Sir Mix-a-Lot performing
last year “Baby Got Back” with the Seattle Symphony.
“There are organizations who have decided [the] Sir
Mix-a-lot [model] is the only way we’ll survive,” says
Pamela Michaelis, Chatter’s volunteer executive director. “Let’s bring in that ‘new’ stuff. People will hate it,
but maybe it will bring in new people. Then throw in
standards, and everybody will be happy. And no one
is happy. Because there’s no integrity in that.”
The Chatter of today is the confluence of two
organizations. Felberg began Chatter: A Chamber
Ensemble, in 2002. Chatter member Felix Wurman created Sunday-morning event the Church of Beethoven
Chatter
Flautist Jesse Tatum of the Santa Fe Opera warms up before a Chatter performance in May 2015.
in 2008. Back then, it was so informal that organizers
merely passed a basket around to collect donations
for the musicians. After Wurman’s death, his sister
laid claim to the Church of Beethoven name, forcing
the group to rebrand. In 2010, the two organizations
merged as Ensemble Music New Mexico. Michaelis is
the president of the board of directors.
A skilled fundraiser, Michaelis taps corporate
sponsors and grants, but donations by individual
donors comprise the bulk of Chatter’s funds. The
collection baskets are long gone. Tickets are available
for purchase online, and ticket sales are 41 percent of
the group’s revenue. A phalanx of 26 volunteers puts
in about 5,400 hours a year. This allows Chatter to
run on a lean annual budget of $223,000; a majority of
those operating costs, 72 percent, pay the performing
musicians, authors and poets.
It’s a new model for doing business because the
overhead is low and the organization is adaptable,
says Regina Chavez Puccetti, core arts management
faculty at the University of New Mexico. “They absolutely understand who their audience is,” Puccetti
says. “And their performance venues are a lot smaller
and [more] intimate, and people want that.”
Occasionally Chatter goes big. In 2014, Chatter
achieved a milestone when it attracted 750 people to
a concert south of Downtown at the Rail Yards. This
was before the Rail Yards Market was open regularly,
and Michaelis says the mystique of the beautiful,
dilapidated buildings drew a bigger audience. It was
an intriguing setting for an evening of classical music
– with the sounds of birds flitting in the rafters and an
occasional train rolling by.
The creative seed of the rooftop concert was planted
during that planning process. Michaelis was at the fire
marshal’s office when she met “Jonesy.” “I showed
him a Chatter postcard,” she says. “He said, ‘Oh man,
Dude!’ – he kept calling me Dude – ‘Do you know
about the parking ramp?’”
It turned out Jonesy’s “ramp” at Copper Avenue and
Third Street is ideal for a concert. Michaelis explains
that there’s a natural slope, and Hotel Andaluz’ wall
allows sound to resonate and bounce off. Another
high wall on the Copper Avenue side and The Banque
Lofts on the Central Avenue side form a sort of
auditorium. And the views across Downtown and out
to the Sandia Mountains are pretty spectacular.
At the Sept. 5 concert, former Albuquerque Poet
Laureate Hakim Bellamy will read text based on a
letter from Sam Melville, a principal organizer of
the 1971 Attica Prison riot, to the strains of Frederic
Rzewski’s “Coming Together.” Other works on the
schedule are Thomas Albert’s “A Maze (With Grace)”
and John Adams’ “Chamber Symphony.”
After the rooftop concert comes another landmark for
Chatter: A move to Las Puertas at 1512 First Street NW.
Owner Lee Blaugrund has revamped this warehouse
as an event space and tango dance studio. For Chatter, Blaugrund is adding a drop-down ceiling, new
lighting, a better stage and, naturally, a new coffee bar.
Michaelis says The Kosmos has been a great home, but
the owners put it on the market last year. In addition,
Chatter now sells out every week.
“That’s a wonderful problem to have … [but] it
means there [are] a lot of people you’re not serving, and
that’s not good,” Michaelis says. The first regular Chatter
concert in the new space will be Sunday, Sept. 20.
Learn more about Chatter at chatterabq.org
arts
‘Women of Wonder’ Honored at 47th Annual Bubonicon
BY RENE THOMPSON
B
ubonicon, an Albuquerque sci-fi
tradition, has been evolving for 47
years.
It’s New Mexico’s longest-running
sci-fi convention and geek fest, and
this year’s gathering happens the last
weekend in August. Bubonicon sets itself
apart from other such conferences with
its laser-like focus on sci-fi and fantasy
literature.
This year’s con promises three fantastic
days and nights of events for sci-fi fans
of all stripes. Revolving around the
theme “Women of Wonder,” the fest
itself celebrates the women of sci-fi and
fantasy. This year’s guests of honor
are renowned in the sci-fi and fantasy
literary genres and include Tamora
Pierce and Cat Valente, toastmaster Mary
Robinette Kowal and guest artist Ruth
Sanderson.
Casi Cooper, co-chair of Bubonicon,
says there will be a slew of vendors with
a number of booksellers and dealers who
specialize in local comic books, fantasy
art and gaming merch; customized
“steam punk” costumes and corsets; and
convention swag.
All the usual events like gaming
tournaments – including a full Catan
tourney called the Catan Cup – offer
rewards that range from membership
in next year’s con to special awards and
prizes. Cooper also calls attention to the
event’s art show, costume contest and
widely acclaimed Green Slime Awards;
the “Slime Time Live”-esque mock
awards show spotlights badly made
science fiction from the past year with
ridicule and submersion in green slime.
“The Green Slime Awards are held during the costume contest halftime show,
so while the judges go off to deliberate,”
Cooper says, “our Green Slime Mistress
gets up there and talks about the things
that didn’t go so well in science-fiction
that year – specifically movies that
really bombed or books that were really
horrible either because [they were] super
clichéd or written horribly.”
Cooper notes another aspect that sets
Bubonicon a head above the rest is the
mass autograph session on Saturday,
wherein fans can score free autographs
and selfies with authors or special
guests. There’s a limit of one autograph
per person, and there’s no charge if you
flash your convention ticket. Several
cons charge upwards of $100 for access
to signatures and photos with celebrity
guests. Bubonicon tries to avoid that at
all costs. With authors like New Mexico
transplant George R.R. Martin, author of
the Game of Thrones series, on the guest
list, inclusive access to prime movers and
shakers is a nice perk.
Courtesy of the author
Author and puppeteer Mary Robinette Kowal will serve as toastmaster of the 47th Annual Bubonicon.
47th Annual Bubonicon
Fri., Aug. 28 - Sun., Aug. 30.
Albuquerque Marriott Uptown
2101 Louisiana NE
Tickets: $15 up to $45 for a fullweekend pass purchased at the door.
Presale tickets, convention info:
bubonicon.com and
facebook.com/Bubonicon.
“People can bring their previously
owned books or books purchased [at
the con] and have them autographed for
free,” says Cooper. “So, it’s really cool
because people can get an [autograph]
or picture and chat with somebody they
really look up to.”
Mary Robinette Kowal, this year’s
toastmaster, is an esteemed author with
three Hugo awards under her belt and
numerous other nominations for her
anthologized short stories and novels.
Kowal’s latest short story collection
“Word Puppets” publishes Nov. 19.
Artist Howard Lyon’s “Word Puppets”
cover art draws the eye with vibrant
colors and eerie scenery, projecting a
melancholy tone inspired by its contents.
When ABQ Free Press spoke to Kowal by
phone she expressed excitement about
her honorary Bubonicon position.
Kowal is not only a writer; she’s also
an accomplished professional puppeteer
and has worked on Jim Henson productions like “Sesame Street” and “Elmo in
Grouchland.” Kowal is currently hard
at work on the Jim Henson Company’s
Diversity Puppeteer Training Initiative
Workshop. The workshop’s goal is to
make puppeteering more accessible and
inclusive for all cultures and backgrounds.
“[The Jim Henson Company] looked
at their cast realized they were all white
guys,” says Kowal, “and they needed
not to be. So basically they’ve brought on
a bunch of people of color and women,
and it really is great.”
Kowal’s catalog includes the Glamourist Histories series, the sort of magical
adventures that might have resulted if
Jane Austen walked on the grimmer side
of the Regency. Kowal revealed that the
inspiration for this series originated with
topics Austen herself wrote about like
slavery and exploitation. In the Glamourist Histories series, Kowal sheds new
light on these historical and contemporary issues with a clear, modern message
about greed and venality.
“One of the things I enjoy about
historical fiction is that it allows us to
talk about contemporary issues in ways
that don’t immediately cause readers to
become completely desensitized,” says
Kowal. “We talk about how it’s this beautiful and lovely period in history with
magnificent dresses, but we forget that it
was all built upon slavery.” Kowal notes
that Jane Austen used many references
to and commentary on slavery in her
novels. “That is exactly why I wrote this
book. ... For Austen’s contemporaries all
the excerpts she put in [were] apparent;
but to people now, it seems as if she
doesn’t touch it. So I wanted to write
a book that was as clear to a modern
reader about [these] topics … as it would
have once been heard.”
On advice to aspiring writers,
Kowal says what worked for her was
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Matters of the Art: Spirited Animals, the Pueblo and Earth
BY LISA BARROW
Cirque du vata
Even though Gatas y Vatas is going
down in Seattle this year, the all-ages
music fest featuring solo female performers (including trans and cis women,
as well as genderqueer and non-binary
folks) hasn’t forgotten the many nuevomexicano fans it spent its first five years
cultivating. An upcoming benefit event
embraces all the joyous experimentalism
and performative magic you’ve come to
expect from this bleeding-edge cultural
force. On Sunday, Aug. 16, fans old and
new can head to Tiguex Park (1800
Mountain NW) for Animales Animados:
Monsters Under the Bed.
While many of the hipper musical
events around town plant their feet
firmly in the old-enough-to-drink realm,
one aspect of this partnership between
the artists of Gatas y Vatas and Animales
Animados is an openness to performers
all along the age spectrum. Kicking off
at 4:30 p.m., the show spotlights aerial
dance from local sirens of the somatic
arts AirDance New Mexico.
Not only are AirDance New Mexico’s
adult and junior companies joining
forces for this benefit event, but the
emerging musicians themselves are
comprised of girls and women. The
otherworldly Lady Uranium, for example, takes the stage with 10-year-old
A.L.A.S. to soundtrack airdancer Joanna
Furgal and her 15-year-old partner Layla
Getz. The musical lineup also includes
exquisite Burqueña powerhouses Lilah
Rose, Bigawatt, Floozy, Wychdokta, Star
Canyon and Anna Mall.
Funds raised from the $10 suggested
donation go to support the continuing
evolution of Gatas y Vatas. For more
information, visit gatasyvatas.com or the
event page at on.fb.me/1Ixy6PF.
Pueblo passion
“A special note to young people”
at the front of “Laguna Pueblo: A
Photographic History” (UNM Press,
hardcover, $39.95) attests, “You are
composed of parts from each of your
ancestors / To know who you are, you
must know who they were / To know
where you are going, you must know
where they have been.” The pages that
follow present these ideas in tangible
form. The authors, renowned photographer Lee Marmon and his longtime
[email protected]
friend Tom Corbett, have produced a
sumptuous volume of black-and-white
photography, Marmon family lore and
oral histories of the Laguna people with
the long view in mind.
Perhaps no other published history of
a Southwestern pueblo rivals “Laguna
Pueblo” for its historical scope, social
breadth and sheer visual grace. Touching on everything from the arrival of
the railroad in the 1880s to the shifting
attitudes about uranium mining on
tribal lands to biographical anecdotes
about individual pueblo personalities,
Marmon and Corbett’s book lays open
the human heart of the six villages that
comprise Laguna Pueblo.
Embroider your life with a texture of
fascinating stories well told when Marmon and Corbett discuss their seminal
collaboration at Bookworks (4022 Rio
Grande NW) on Saturday, Aug. 22, at 3
p.m. For more information, visit bkwrks.
com or call 344-8139.
Earth shattering
A slew of new exhibitions at Downtown gallery 516 ARTS offer up art and
artists as a means to close the chasm
cont. on page 21
Say (Mac and) Cheese!
BY M. Brianna Stallings
T
hink all-American summer foods:
watermelon, barbeque, lemonade
... and macaroni and cheese? If that
last one didn’t immediately spring to
mind, don’t worry. As delicious as mac
and cheese undoubtedly is, it’s not
exactly high on the list of dinner fun in
the summertime. But guess what? The
Macaroni and Cheese Fest arrives soon
in Albuquerque to change all that.
Starting at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Aug.
22, hungry 505 folks are invited to
sample gourmet takes on this beloved
comfort food from a variety of local
chefs. Food and drink samples will be
provided by more than 40 restaurants,
wineries and breweries like Gold Street
Caffè, Canteen Brewhouse, and St.
Clair Winery & Bistro.
Curious about the menu? Standouts
include:
• Applewood Smoked Chicken Mac & Cheese (Chef Knoulan,
Ponderosa Winery)
• Braised Brisket Mac & Cheese (Chef Pedro, Kasey’s Steakhouse)
• Cocoa Butter Lobster Mac & Cheese (Chef Esperanza, Route 66 Buffet)
• Green Chile Bacon Mac & Cheese (Chefs of
Bravo! Cucina Italiana)
• White Truffle Mac & Cheese (Chef David,
Soul & Vine)
Once you’ve had your
fill, vote for your favorites,
Dana Robinson
and the top three chefs
win prizes and a 3-foottall fork trophy. Sweets and artisanal
goodies will also be available.
The admission may seem pricey,
but your $45 ticket actually gets you
a lot. Savor unlimited mac & cheese
samples and vote for your faves; quaff
half-ounce booze tastings galore (beer,
wine and liquor available); play beer
pong or croquet, listen to music from
the Fabulous Martini-Tones; and park
for free. Leave the kids and pets with
a sitter for this 21-plus food fest; bring
your ID, sunscreen, lawn chairs and
blankets. Anyone under 21 will not be
admitted.
The Macaroni & Cheese Festival is
co-presented by American General
Media and St. Clair Winery and Bistro.
Proceeds benefit the New Mexico
Cancer Center Foundation, which helps
families pay for day-to-day cancer
treatment costs. Call 768-6020 or
visit themacandcheesefest.com for
more info.
The Macaroni and
Cheese Festival
Saturday, Aug. 22,
from 1 to 5 p.m.
Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque
International Balloon Museum
9201 Balloon Museum Dr NE
Tickets: $45
FOOD/DRINK
Deep Dish: The Happiest of Hours, Part 2
BY ARIANE JAROCKI
T
he second installment of our
Albuquerque happy hour coverage reveals an extraordinary trinity
of joy purveyors. Even the toughest
of weeks are no match for the Three
Sisters, a sleeping giant and the
Haute-Savoie of the High Desert.
Flower Celebration Salad, which is a
bed of carrot greens, watercress and
arugula crowned with edible flowers – including pansies, nasturtium,
and squash blossoms – and an artful
drizzle of prickly pear vinaigrette. The
result is perfectly sweet yet earthy
greens. Someone whisked a Tri-color
Tomato Caprese Salad and Vietnamese Hand Rolls by, and I envied a
neighboring party from a distance.
Savoy Wine Bar & Grill
Pueblo Harvest Café
2401 12th Street NW
bit.ly/puebloharvest
724-3510, indianpueblo.org/visit/café
Party on the Patio on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday
Every week from Thursday through
Saturday, Pueblo Harvest Café
showcases local musicians, creating
an immersive “getaway” at their
Party on the Patio. Ten bucks grants
you access to drink specials and an
all-you-can-eat pizza bar on the patio;
the Ancestral Pueblo-meets-modern
minimalism-meets-Pueblo Revival
ambience is exemplified on the patio
by the contrast of latilla ceiling and
geometric skylights. The pizza is
baked right then and there in an
horno, a beehive-shaped, outdoor
adobe oven of Native American
invention.
As far as toppings go, your regularly
scheduled vegetarian and carnivorous
heart’s desires are here. My Top 2 topping combos were sun dried tomato,
olive and pepperoni with a cream
sauce; and pesto, red onion, and black
olives with a tomato sauce. If you’re
not an anchovy person, be advised
that they’re in the mix, so keep your
wits about you. It is entirely possible
to mistake these potent tiny, briny
fishes for say, a mushroom. Servers
snake gracefully through a gauntlet
of tables to take your drink order.
I went with a Lemon Ginny, which
combines simple syrup, Sanpellegrino
Limonata, gin and mint. There are
a bevy of alcoholic options ranging
from margaritas to beer flights.
If you’re living la vida gluten-free,
the rotating appetizer menu may be
more your speed. It evolves every
three weeks, and that keeps the flavor
palate fresh and creative. I savored the
Try the Musubi, a savory Hawaiian
treat. Teriyaki Spam is placed on sticky
rice, and the whole shebang is then
wrapped in nori aka seaweed. It’s a
salty, hearty combo that proves an
unexpectedly satisfying snack.
Adieux
420 Central SW
adieuxabq.com
243-0028
Happy hour daily
This café is Downtown’s sleeping
giant. Adieux has a friendly, laidback
vibe. It’s the sort of joint where you
meet friends for lunch or a round
of post-work, pre-dinner spirits. A
spectrum of fine liquors is displayed
for your perusal. The bartender can
whip you up anything from classics
like gimlets and manhattans to brandnew, experimental specials. Lately
Chef Thomas Groff has been brewing
tinctures to promote their forthcoming
seasonal drink menu. Happy hour at
Adieux happens every day from 4 to
6 p.m.
Adieux’s menu may be experiencing
its best incarnation yet. Staples like
Frito pies, rice bowls, and tacos are
still around. Pro-tip: The carnitas
sells out quickly, so plan accordingly.
My faves are the Pully, a pulled-pork
BBQ sandwich heaped with coleslaw,
and the Banh Mi sandwich that pairs
mushroom pate with pork loin. A
superb vegetarian choice is the Bulbasaur sandwich, a marinated-andgrilled eggplant accented by green
harissa, pickled beets, spinach and
garlic mayonnaise. Traditionally made
from African red peppers, Adieux’s
harissa is a reimagined spread
composed of green chiles, jalapenos
and cilantro. All sandwiches are now
served on house-baked bread. Landing somewhere between bolillo and
baguette, the bread is a crispy, chewy
masterpiece. Feeling adventurous?
10601 Montgomery NE
savoyabq.com
294-9463
Happy hour daily
This Northeast Heights staple hosts a
brilliant, early happy hour. Every day
from 3 to 6 p.m., there’s something for
all tastes on special. Tuesday’s happy
hour options include margaritas and
martinis built for two and a Scotch
Spirit Flight. I found the “Two for
Tuesdays” title and description – “All
night specials on selected appetizers,
desserts and cocktails” – misleading.
I read that as “buy one, get one free,”
but it’s actually two items paired on
one plate for a very low price, which
is still a fantastic deal. The star of
the show was the Slider Duo with
chicken. The grilled chicken breast
duo is topped with caramelized
onions and paired with a mound of
parmesan-truffle fries. The chicken
was moist and tender, but the fries
really hogged the spotlight. They’re
reminiscent of the fries at thoroughly
missed eatery La Provence. Spicy,
smoky house-made ketchup adds
another shouldn’t-miss dimension to
the starchy bliss. The “Two for” menu
has an oyster special and Crispy
Mahi-mahi Tacos. Since Mahi-mahi is
my Number 1, I dove right in. I was
vaguely disappointed by the overpowering breading. I refocused my
attention and palate on the Spanish
Red Sangria’s bouquet of apple,
cinnamon and citrus. My final happy
hour order was the Fontina Fondue
drizzled with balsamic vinegar, and it
left me with an authentic half-smile.
FOOD
House of Pho Sates ‘Hot Tooth’
By Ariane Jarocki
H
ouse of Pho (4565 San Mateo NE, Suite A) is
nestled in Montgomery Plaza among outlet
retailers such as Ross and Burlington Coat Factory.
The new Vietnamese restaurant is quickly gaining a
reputation as a hidden gem.
Housed in the old Ahmo’s Gyros space, House of
Pho specializes in broth-based rice noodle soup pho
(pronounced “fuh”). The joint also offers standards
such as spring rolls, bún cha (grilled pork with rice
vermicelli) and com dia at reasonable prices that
accommodate spontaneous culinary adventure.
Staffers are friendly, personable and happy to offer
menu advice; that’s a real boon for pho newbies. My
Vietnamese romance began with the soup and has
progressed to a fairly inclusive range.
Into heat? Try the Hot & Spicy Beef Noodle Soup.
I love spicy food. I was advised to try it mild, and
I’m glad I did. If your food is never spicy enough,
you might try the full-strength version. This graceful
soup floats chewy udon noodles, buttery Wagyu
beef shank and Vietnamese ham in a lemongrass
beef broth. Jalapeños and red cabbage accompany
the traditional pho add-ons: basil, lime and bean
sprouts. The broth’s flavor was never overpowered
by heat.
Awash in food-joy, the spice was a delight for the
senses. I dabbed sweat from my brow, and the staff
knowingly refilled my water. I’m not a glutton for
punishment; let’s just say I have a “hot tooth.” To
ensure my judgment wasn’t compromised by an
adrenaline rush, I returned to House of Pho. This
time, I ordered Tofu Spring Rolls. I usually find
these spring rolls lackluster. To be honest, they
often seem like nothing more than an afterthought
vegetarian option. These spring rolls are a home run
for everyone from vegans to omnivores. Sliced tofu
is fried crispy before it’s wrapped with vermicelli,
lettuce and mint.
House of Pho is also a peanut-free restaurant, so
instead of the traditional peanut sauce, they serve a divine, homemade hoisin-based sauce. The juxtaposition
of crisp tofu, ultra-fresh greens and sticky vermicelli
creates a complex taste and texture combination that’s
completed by the umami dipping sauce.
For the meat-eating contingent, I heartily recommend the Grilled Pork Rice Plate. Thinly sliced
pork is served atop steamed rice with lettuce,
cucumbers, tomato and a vinegary-sweet dipping
sauce. The marination results in a pleasant, smoky
undertone. The meat is lean, gristle-free and low in
calories without a discernible loss of flavor. Other
menu highlights include
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screens
Feminist Thriller Makes Its Presence ‘Felt’
BY SAMANTHA ANNE CARRILLO
Y
ou’ve never seen anything like feminist psychological thriller “Felt” on the silver screen.
Director Jason Banker (“Toad Road”) and artist
Amy Everson co-wrote the film’s narrative,
drawing on Everson’s real-life experience and her
provocative art. The premise is that protagonist
Amy (played by Everson) is living a “fucking
nightmare.” The audience isn’t privy to the gory
details, but Amy’s introductory narration reveals
that she relives this trauma every waking moment
and in recurring nightmares.
For survivors of sexual assault, post-traumatic
stress disorder aka PTSD can take many behavioral forms. Amy’s unresolved anger, hypervigilance
and dissociation serve as everyday reminders of
what happened to her. Art-house sensibilities,
including subversive cinematography, dioramas
and surreal scenarios, abound in “Felt,” but
the realism of the film’s dialogue and character
development keeps the work from feeling like
an overzealous thesis project. Perhaps Banker’s
background in documentary filmmaking can be
credited with balancing stylistic and semantic
concerns with such grace.
An OKCupid date goes horribly wrong when
Amy’s would-be suitor opens with a tasteless rant
about roofies; the romantic frat boy likens date
rape-drugs like Rohypnol to “the bar Santa Claus,”
“mansplaining” that getting roofied is just an
excuse women use for sleeping with several guys
in one night. When Amy recoils, he notes he’s just
being honest. “You’re honestly a dick,” notes Amy.
This interaction is emblematic of Amy’s typical
experience with guys. But everything changes
when she meets Kenny (Kentucker Audley).
It’s not love at first sight. In fact, Amy and a
pal offer Kenny a ride and then kick him out of
their car. But then Amy runs into him at work.
Her suitably eccentric day job involves dancing
around in a chicken costume to advertise hot
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Amy models her third-wave feminist superhero costume.
wings. “Eat my meat,” our heroine squawks. But
this meet-cute is the start of a seemingly beautiful
romance. Amy might have found the perfect guy.
He may not understand why his girlfriend is
dressing up in weird, phallus-inclusive costumes
but he listens when she tries to explain. He throws
her a vagina-themed birthday party. Is Kenny too
good to be true?
Some reviewers have noted that the work’s
hysterical ending seems like a foregone conclusion. I disagree, and the finale of “Felt” was the
only part I found genuinely “disturbing.” A little
– or a lot – of gore is fine with me, but I became
so invested in Amy’s phenomenally fleshed-out
character that I expected more from her … and for
her. You’ve never seen anything like this at your
local cineplex, but I’m cautiously optimistic that
the future promises more “Felt”-like chick flicks.
paintings, sculpture, photography and wearable art,
its contemporary artists grapple with the difficulty
of change. “Bleed,” a work in oil, colored pencil and
Sharpie on “shotgunned plywood” by Lee Lee, is a gorgeous example. Nina Montenegro’s “Last Drops of Lake
Mead from Souvenirs of the Anthropocene,” a collection of found objects, and Wendy Mason’s “Fragrance
of 2009,” which employs a potato and a perfume
pump, go for the jugular with wry humor.
“Warm and Fuzzy,” in the project room, corrals 3Dprinted, responsive objects created by Mark Lee Koven
into an opportunity to explore data with senses other
than your eyes.
All three exhibitions open Saturday, Aug. 29, from
6 to 8 p.m. at 516 ARTS (516 Central SW), and run
through Oct. 31. View the program guide and other
deets at 516arts.org or call 242-1445. The gallery is
open Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.
Just around the corner, Central Features (109 Fifth
Street SW) is getting in on the “HABITAT” action with
a “Knew Normal” satellite exhibition. It also opens on
Samantha Anne Carrillo is a devout Situationist, a
third-wave feminist and an associate editor at ABQ
Free Press. Email her at [email protected]
matters of the art, Page 18
between the reality of global climate change – so often
overwhelming when we actually pause to mull it over
– and our personal or communal ability to take action.
“Addressing the challenges before us all will take a
wealth of creativity and collaboration,” says executive
director Suzanne Sbarge in the program guide for
“HABITAT: Exploring Climate Change Through Art,”
“for which the arts provide a fertile platform.”
“Off the Charts” offers representations of where we
are. Some pieces, like the lushly colored “Jerry’s Map”
by Jerry Gretzinger and “transscape 1” by Jane Lackey,
made with paint, tape and thread on kozo paper, do
so in the form of familiar maps turned on their heads.
Others, like, Nathalie Miebach’s sculpture and threedimensional musical expression, “The Fifteen Ships of
Georges Banks,” entangles meteorological data about
Hurricane Noel with an old sea shanty and materials
like wood and rope.
“Knew Normal” conflates the environment of self
with the environment at large. Through drawings,
Aug. 29, but only runs until Oct. 3. “Control Room”
confronts the $8.33 billion “nuclear renaissance” of
Waynesboro, Ga. in the face of our troubling history
of nuclear meltdowns. “Regeneration,” featuring the
work of Nina Montenegro, includes map weavings,
cyanotype portraits of life re-emerging from cracked
earth in Western American landscapes and wax tree
rubbings juxtaposed with fingerprints. Central Features
is open Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 11 a.m.
to 6 p.m. Call 243-3390 or visit centralfeatures.com to
learn more.
Lisa Barrow is a member of the Dirt City writers collective,
tweets with exceeding irregularity @OhLisaBarrow and most
recently served as arts and lit editor and web editor at the
Weekly Alibi.
SCREENS
Standing Room Only: Betting on a Dark Horse
BY HUGH ELLIOTT
L
et’s take a moment to salute the
great American tradition that was
once Saturday morning cartoons.
When I was a kid, Friday was pizza
night so Saturday morning meant a
slice of cold, leftover pizza that I’d
carry along to the living room and
watch my favorite shows. My parents
slept in and since I was lucky enough
to be an only child, I was King of the
Schedule. While I loved classics like
“The Jetsons,” my favorites were more
serious and adventurous and included
“Jonny Quest.” I dreamt that one day,
I too would be whisked away to be
raised in exotic locales by a handsome
doctor. Oh well.
The heady combination of a lack
of parental control and improbable
fantasy still fuels the allure of cartoons
for many people. Even as we grew
older and “cartoons” became “animated shows,” we recall that buzz.
Many people still think animation
is mostly for kids. After all, you’re
watching a genre that forces you to
accept a reality composed of colored
blobs, such as Marge Simpson’s
towering blue beehive. My animated
favorites as an adult, like “King of the
Hill,” “Bob’s Burgers” and “Archer,”
are sharp and funny and remind me
that silly isn’t such a bad thing.
Then there’s the Netflix series
“Bojack Horseman.” Netflix recently
released the second season of this
odd, biting and sometimes disturbing animated series about a faded
television star from the ‘90s who
happens to be a horse. Bojack isn’t
a lives-in-a-stable horse like Mr. Ed.
Voiced by Will Arnett (“Arrested
Development”), Bojack
is an upright-walking,
talking horse actor
who once starred in
the popular ‘90s sitcom
“Horsin’ Around.”
That show was about
three human orphans
who move into Bojack’s
home and the wackiness
that ensues. Think “Full
House” with more hay
for dinner.
Here, however, Bojack
isn’t the only animal
with anthropomorphic
cred. The whole series
features various animals
inhabiting different
Netflix
walks of life – from
Bojack Horseman (Will Arnett) and his ex-girlfriend/agent Carolyn (Amy Sedaris) share a bittersweet moment. Bojack’s feline agent/
ex-girfriend Princess
Bad”), Patton Oswalt, Stephen Colbert,
instead delving deeper than you think
Carolyn (voiced by the
Kristen Schaal (“Flight of the Conanimation can go. In Season 2, the
always eclectic Amy Sedaris) to his
cords”), Stanley Tucci (“The Lovely
series tackles the Bill Cosby scandal
acting rival Mr. Peanutbutter, a Yellow
Bones”), Olivia Wilde (“House, M.D.”),
with a beloved late-night talk show
Lab voiced by Paul F. Tompkins. In
J. K. Simmons (“Law & Order”), Maria
host named Hank Hippopopalaus
Bojack’s world, animals and humans
Bamford
(“Adventure
Time”),
Wendy
(a hippopotamus, natch) who’s been
interact in an egalitarian manner,
Malick (“Frasier”), Lisa Kudrow
accused of sexual assault by multiple
and they pretty much do everything
(“Friends”), Alan Arkin (“Glengarry
women. The show explicitly confronts
together – and I do mean everything,
Glen Ross”), Anjelica Huston (“The
the way fame blinds the public and
although thankfully we’re spared
Royal Tenenbaums”), Paul McCartney
feeds the victim-blaming rallying cry.
some details. The scenario is delivered
(The Beatles), Daniel Radcliffe (“Harry
The fact that this show is a “cartoon”
without explanation. The animals’
Potter”) and on and on. It’s amazing
that stars talking animals partially
involvement is highlighted to comic
they got all these people to work on
obscures just how on-point its critique
effect with an arachnid movie director
this
niche,
oddball
show;
it
also
makes
of media complicity in protecting stars
named “Quentin Tarantulino,” a film
for a great, post-show guessing game
from reality is. It’s truly must-see TV,
studio called Parrotmount and an
and Googling session.
as few shows of any kind are willing
airline company known as Pandam.
It is also incredibly appropriate that
to be so brutal these days.
All characters, both animal and
so many famous actors contribute, as
If you haven’t already, binge-watch
human, are voiced by a roll call of wellone of the show’s primary themes is
the first season of “Bojack Horseman”
known actors. Aside from Sedaris and
the confabulated reality of show busibefore starting Season 2. That will bring
Arnett, there’s Aaron Paul (“Breaking
ness and “Hollywoo,” so called when
you up to speed on the series’ weird,
a celebrity (guess who!) stole the “D”
hallucinogenic vibe. You’ll snicker and
from the hillside signage. Once a bona
smirk as you get to know the characters.
fide star, Bojack’s career peaked when
Season 2 will make you laugh, some“Horsin’ Around” was a hit. Fifteen
times loudly and uncontrollably, but
years later, he’s desperately clinging
you’ll also be struck by how “Bojack”
to his B-list status and is rapidly being
perfectly illustrates that nagging inner
forced to confront a world that has
voice compelling us to chase the carrot
largely forgotten his minimal appeal
dangling in front of us.” I vaguely recall
and talent. Arnett is often cast as a
being a carefree kid eating leftover
world-weary character on the grift so
pizza and watching my cartoons alone.
his voice fits perfectly here. Bojack is
“Bojack Horseman” walks us through
still semi-famous but mainly hears
learning to let go of the past by instead
tourists shouting “Say your catchanimating a world that, despite its
phrase!” – if they recognize him at
essential absurdity, depicts reality more
all – and the show gallops along with
than it does fantasy.
his midlife identity crisis.
Can we relate to an animated horse?
“Bojack Horseman” is available to
How about one who was once a
stream anytime on Netflix.
household name and lives in a mansion with his entourage? You might
Hugh Elliott is a writer and artist living
be surprised. “Bojack Horseman”
in California who rarely uses his Twitter
avoids cheap shots and easy laughs,
handle @wehogayman
SCREENS
Film Capsules
that centers on a megavillain, his
minions and three orphans named
Margo, Edith and Agnes. “Minions”
itself is a prequel-slash-spinoff. Is it a
metaphor for evolution or devolution?
Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm and Geoffrey
Rush contribute vocal talent. 91 minutes.
Rated PG
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE
NATION
Amnesiac
COMING SOON
AMNESIAC
Was the 1990 filmic adaptation of
Stephen King’s novel “Misery” too
nuanced for your discerning taste in
obsession and torture-themed movies?
If so, Michael Polish’s “Amnesiac” is your
dream come true. Featuring Polish’s
wife Kate Bosworth as “Woman”
and rising horror star Wes Bentley as
“Man,” there’s no subtlety to speak of.
Can Bosworth summon Kathy Bateswith-a-sledgehammer gravitas? There’s
only one way to find out. 90 minutes.
Unrated (Opens Friday 8/14)
FELT
Read our Review on page 21.
79 minutes. Unrated (Opens Friday 8/14)
Guild Cinema Fri-Sun 8:30 p.m.
STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON
Seminal West Coast rap crew N.W.A.
(an acroynm for “Niggaz Wit Attitude”)
gets the biopic treatment in F. Gary
Gray’s much-buzzed about feature film
“Straight Outta Compton.” O’Shea
Jackson, Jr. plays his real-life father, Ice
Cube. Fresh-faced versions of Dr. Dre,
Eazy-E, MC Ren and DJ Yella round out
the thespians who depict the gangstas
of a band once known as the “world’s
most dangerous group.” 147 minutes.
Rated R (Opens Friday 8/14)
STILL PLAYING
AMY
Chanteuse Amy Winehouse was born,
she lived and she died. In between days,
her prodigious talent as a singer became
apparent. As she began to explore
her gifts, addiction descended like a hurricane. Asif Kapadia’s documentary relies
heavily on archival recordings of Amy
on Amy. Like the lady herself, the result
is astonishingly beautiful and ultimately
tragic. 128 minutes. Rated R
ANT MAN
Marvel reaches toward self-referential
humor only to come up with an at-oncemuddled-by-detail-and-confused-in-tone
clunker. A guy (Michael Douglas) gets
hold of a suit that shrinks him to – wait
for it – the size of an ant. Naturally,
hijinks involving high-stakes theft and
geopolitics ensue. Douglas and cast
members including Paul Rudd, T.I., John
Slattery and Bobby Cannavale do their
utmost to urge the plot forward. 117
minutes. Rated PG-13
INSIDE OUT
Pixar creates an authentically human
simulacra of the real world. It exists in
the mind of a distraught adolescent
named Riley. Emotions are personified,
just like they sometimes are here on
Earth. Joy (Amy Poehler) smiles beatifically. Disgust (Mindy Kaling) rolls her
eyes at something Anger (Lewis Black)
says. When onscreen and anthropomorphic, sentiment proves unexpectedly
compelling. Take note, “real world.” 94
minutes. Rated PG
JURASSIC WORLD
Where’s Jeff Goldblum when you need
him? Probably curled up with Hal
Hartley’s latest script. Truth be told, his
absence doesn’t hurt this film. Jurassic
World is really a spectacular coming-out
party for Chris Pratt’s muscles. At this
point in the franchise, reiterations of
and variations on previous themes are
getting pretty bitey. Like some genetically engineered dinosaurs. 123 minutes.
Rated PG-13
MINIONS
If you have young children, you can
probably skip this review. The “minion”
originates from “Despicable Me.” This
is some sort of children’s film franchise
The fifth film in the M:I series finds
Impossible Mission Force leader Ethan
Hunt (Tom Cruise) no longer an unofficial part of the U.S. government, but
he’s still out there doing secret agent
things. Incoming CIA Chief Alan Hunley
(Alec Baldwin), former IMF colleagues
Brandt (Jeremy Renner) and Benji
(Simon Pegg) and British agent/frenemy
Isla Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) add
interest to two hours and 11 minutes of
fights, crashes, fireballs and beatings.
131 minutes. Rated PG-13
MR. HOLMES
More recently acquainted with Robert
Downey, Jr.’s brand of methodical,
substance-abusing detective? This is
altogether different but succeeds on its
terms. Sherlock Holmes (Ian McKellen)
spends his golden years solving mysteries, especially those that confounded
him the first time around. Surprise! The
master sleuth refuses to retire, instead
revisiting a perplexing case from the
past. Laura Linney costars. 104 minutes.
Rated PG
TERMINATOR GENISYS
Arnold is back, and he kills. More specifically, the latest film in the Terminator
franchise proves that the past is always
fertile ground for the future. The Terminator has aged, there is an alternative
timeline to reckon with, and the Earth
and its human inhabitants may still
be doomed. Tune in this week for the
stunning coup de grace. 126 minutes.
Rated PG-13
TRAINWRECK
Amy Schumer and Judd Apatow
team up to bring the romantic life of
substance-friendly, commitment-phobic
journalist Amy (played by Schumer) to
the big screen. Amy is assigned a feature
on golden boy/sports surgeon Aaron
(Bill Hader), and the polar opposites fall
hard for each other. But as many a Facebook relationship status proclaims, “it’s
complicated.” Tilda Swinton plays Amy’s
listicle-loving editor a Maxim-esque
men’s magazine, and LeBron James
portrays Aaron’s “Downton Abbey”obsessed BFF. 124 minutes. Rated R
STAGES
Taking Down Rape Culture with Laci Green
BY M. BRIANNA STALLINGS
You didn’t say yes, but you didn’t say no
either.
Look at what you’re wearing. What’d you
think would happen?
He’s famous, so of course he had a lot of
sex ... but rape? I don’t think so.
H
ow many times in casual con
versation have we all heard – or
even said – these things? An honest
acknowledgment would tell us
“too often.” A brutally honest one
would remind us that such ideas are
reflective of rape culture. It’s a world
in which we pretend that sexual
violence isn’t pervasive, and that it
isn’t perpetuated by heteronormative
notions of insatiable male sexuality and/or perpetual female sexual
availability. All the while, rape culture
blames victims, tells women that their
worth is 100 percent body-based and
cracks jokes about men dropping the
soap in prison showers.
One of the most common sites of
sexual assault is the college campus.
Statistics show that one in four female
students and one in six male students
are sexually violated while attending
university. And while drugs, alcohol
and peer pressure all exacerbate an
already alarming situation, so too
does silence.
That’s why the University of
New Mexico is seeking to open up a
campus-wide conversation about sex,
respect, consent and boundaries. And
what better way to talk about sex with
incoming iPhone Generation freshmen than by bringing one of their
most popular vloggers online?
The UNM Women’s Resource Center, in conjunction with LoboRESPECT,
the Dean of Students Office, Residence
Life and ASUNM Special Events,
presents YouTube personality Laci
Green, creator of online sex ed series
“Sex Plus.” The tremendously popular
show reaches 5 million young adults
every month, in over 125 countries.
An outspoken sex-positive feminist,
Green’s videos are incisive, direct and
engaging. In addition, Green is also
the host of “MTV Braless,” a YouTube
series presented by MTV that takes a
look at sexual representations in pop
culture. Twenty-five-year-old Green
will share her presentation “Taking
Down Rape Culture” in the UNM
Student Union Building on Thursday
Aug. 20, at 7:30 p.m.
Although Green was unavailable
for interviews, three representatives
from the Women’s Resource Center
had plenty of time to talk with ABQ
Free Press about Laci Green, as well
as the rise in campus-wide initiatives
to raise awareness about student
sexual health. We sat down with
Caitlin Henke, program specialist;
Angela Catena, Center counselor and
graduate program assistant with the
Gendered Violence Program; and
Mallory Christensen, student office
assistant.
ABQ Free Press: Why is it important
to have Laci Green speak at UNM?
Caitlin Henke: We as a team have
been working a lot to address this
issue on campus. Angela worked to
create a program to train incoming
Laci Green
YouTube star Laci Green visits UNM to raise awareness about rape culture.
students through orientation.
Students went wild over it. So we
were thinking about this in terms of
welcoming students back: how do we
get them engaged? We thought this
was a really good way. There’s a lot of
efforts in the first weeks of school, and
we needed a big, high-profile one.
Angela Catena: Laci was on our radar
for a while. We’d had some talks
about two years ago about bringing
her here, but we just didn’t have time
to do it then. So recently, with more
University collaboration, we were able
to reach out to our partners and say,
“We want to do this. Will you help us
make it happen?” and everyone was
on board.
Do you think that collaboration with
different campus departments has
led to an increased respect for these
ideas in everyday campus life?
Catena: For a long time I think the
responsibility fell on the Women’s
Resource Center, but we were also
the ones who were bringing up the
conversation. Now people are happy
to join us at the table and ask what
can be done. In terms of student
involvement, it’s always been there
but the efforts have just been with
smaller groups of students trying to
do it on their own. Now it’s more of a
collaborative effort. This is one of the
first times I’ve seen students get this
much support from administration.
What can you tell our readers about
Laci’s presentation on rape culture?
Henke: Based on other universities,
we know that this presentation has
been really well received. She has
an inviting style which is important
for this topic. She doesn’t shy away
from talking about things that are
emotionally charged, but she does it
in a way that everyone is still able to
participate. She makes people want to
listen to her.
Catena: Laci’s direct but not in an
offensive way. I love that about her.
She does throw her opinion in there,
but not in a way that’s imposing it on
anyone else. Then, once Laci leaves,
we have continued curriculum just
to get the point across. We know
that a one-time shot isn’t going to be
effective in terms of providing this
information.
Marjorie Christensen: As a young,
traditional college student, someone
like Laci makes you want to listen.
She’s calling us out on things that we
didn’t realize we were participating
in. That’s what we want to do with
this: make people listen. And after
Laci [leaves], we want to keep people
talking, as well.
M. Brianna Stallings writes so you
don’t have to.
Taking Down Rape Culture:
A Presentation by Laci Green
Thursday Aug. 20, 7:30 p.m.
UNM Student Union Building
Tickets: Free for UNM students, staff
and faculty with ID. $10 general
admission tickets for the public
available online at
unmtickets.com
For more info, call the
Women’s Resource Center
at 277-3716.
music
Within Range: On Killah Priest, Purity Ring & Prayers
C
areful readers may have noticed a
perceptible shift in the coverage dates
of my biweekly Within Range column.
It’s a (literally) forward-thinking move to
focus more heavily on coverage of the
week after publication and beyond.
The logic behind this strategy is that
regular readers of ABQ Free Press will have
access to concert deets before any other
local newspaper’s audience. You’ll be one
of the first to know there’s a noteworthy
show happening in Albuquerque. The
mission of our music section is to deliver
diverse, relevant interviews, previews
and reviews of local and touring artists
and bands, upcoming concerts and new
releases.
If you’re the spontaneous type, follow
us at facebook.com/ABQFreePress and
instagram.com/abqfreepress for up-todate and last-minute reminders of shows
we covered and those we couldn’t make
space for in our print edition. We write
this paper for you, the reader, and we
want to know what you think. Is our hiphop coverage lacking? Do you crave more
shoegaze news? Want deeper insight into
the history of traditional nuevomexicano
music? How do you feel about playlists?
Email me at [email protected].
Let’s take that first-week leap forward
together – past Modest Mouse at Expo
New Mexico (300 San Pedro NE) on
Tuesday, Aug. 18, and several other
worthwhile concerts – to Friday, Aug. 21,
when Killah Priest brings his Gordian lyricism and star-studded production cred to
Launchpad (618 Central SW). This 21-plus
show is the perfect concert to attend with
that extended family member
who decries all rap and
hip-hop as mindless glorification of thug life. On his 2013
double-album “The Psychic
World of Walter Reed,” Priest
requires a lot from his listeners.
If fans want to fully “get” his
poetry, a working knowledge of the Bible,
ancient history and astronomy couldn’t
hurt. The beat starts at 9 p.m., and presale
tickets are $15.
On Saturday, Aug. 22, at the El Rey
Theater (622 Central SW), Irish electro
godhead Sian brings his brand of classic, modern techno to town on the
“Anthracite” album tour. His latest,
23-track release “Anthracite” dropped
on his wildly popular (read: Top Five)
techno label Octopus Recordings on Aug.
3. From spaced-out grooves and vicious
basslines to dance floor-ready bangers,
local techno-philes aged 21 and over can
trip out on Sian’s eclectic inspirations –
like entomology, cosmology and marine
biology – in the so-called flesh starting at
9 p.m. Eight bucks gets you in. Speaking of
the El Rey, it’s my duty to ensure synthpop
wunderkind Purity Ring’s concert at the
El Rey on Friday, Sept. 4, is also on your
radar. That 18-plus show starts at 8 p.m.,
and tickets range from $24 to $29.
Let’s face it: With the
notable exception of Gregg
Araki’s “Happy Face” and
Judd Apatow’s “Pineapple
Express,” stoner movies have
been declining ever since
Cheech and Chong toked on
that Labrador strain. On the other,
roach clip-clutching hand, stoner
rock has experienced a renaissance of late.
Take your inner stoner-hesher out for a
night on the town on Wednesday, Aug. 25.
That’s when North Carolinian threesome
Weedeater blows their secondhand smoke
all over the Launchpad (618 Central SW).
The joint lights up at 9 p.m., and tickets to
this 21-plus bass-fetishizing recital are $10.
Local rock gods Black Maria warm up the
crowd with Taser-like intensity and their
signature, mighty Marshall stacks.
On Thursday, Aug. 27, O.G. “American
Idol” victor/pop-rock star Kelly Clarkson
visits Isleta Amphitheatre (5601 University
SE) along with Texan a capella group
Pentatonix. Like Clarkson, aca-quintet
Pentatonix rose to prominence after
winning a reality TV/talent contest, NBC’s
“The Sing-Off.” Clarkson’s latest single
“Invincible” finds the soprano embracing
her popular roots after experimenting
with a more hard-rocking vibe and then
shattering the glass ceiling of Christmas
Muzak with her platinum-selling holiday
full-length “Wrapped in Red.”
If you’re unfamiliar with San Diego
cholo-goth act Prayers, there’s no time
like the present to make the virtual
acquaintance of this gangbanger-turneddarkwave icon. Prayers’ prime mover
Leafar Seyer aka Rafael Reyes was born
in Cotija, Michoacán but moved to the
ocean-side city early on. Seyer spent time
as a member of the Sherman Grant Hill
Park 27 gang and was incarcerated twice
on assault charges. He credits his jail time
with giving him the opportunity to plan
a way out of street life. Always a fan of
goth-rock and darkwave, Seyer coined the
term “cholo-goth” as a way of describing
the output of his much buzzed-out duo
Prayers. Sink your bejeweled vampire
grill into the music video for “Young
Gods” at bit.ly/YoungGodsvid. Then bring
your 13-year-old cousin to see Prayers at
Launchpad (618 Central SW) on Sunday,
Aug. 30. The synths come alive at 8 p.m.,
and tickets are $15.
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the realization that even as a writer,
she represents an audience. Writing
that resonates with her is likely also
something her audience wants to read.
Speaking to the vastness of the genre,
Kowal says, “The thing about fiction is
that if you don’t want to write something
that someone else has already written,
you don’t have to. They may use the
same ingredients as you, but they’re
going to deliver something completely
different – a different perspective. So it’s
like saying ‘I don’t want to build a house
because someone has already used that
type of wood.’”
Science fiction and fantasy, gaming, cosplay and even literature have all earned
bad reps in regard to how women are
treated in these communities; but Kowal
believes the community is fighting back
against harassment and objectification of
women, and this treatment will eventually be phased out – as many other types
of discrimination have been in the past.
“This is not a new thing,” says Kowal,
“and the reason that we’re seeing all
this conversation about it is because it’s
something people are actively fighting
against. [Those who are] invested in the
idea that women are somehow lesser
creatures are being very vocal because
the majority of people are telling them
that they’re full of shit.” Kowal notes
that catcalling and harassment have been
around since the inception of the genre.
What’s changed, she says, is the fact that
the community is calling them out on it.
“That type of behavior is no longer
acceptable, and the community is no
longer allowing it, so that’s why people
hear them complaining about it,” says
Kowal. “They’re complaining because
they’re being shut down. The thing that
frustrates me with questions like this is
that it’s not particular to science fiction
and fantasy by a long shot. But with my
career, things would [probably] be very
different for me if I were a guy – or if I
had chosen to use a male pen name.”
Women in the sci-fi community have
faced a lot of harassment in their
struggle for equality. Bubonicon thoughtfully addresses that fact with this year’s
theme. Bubonicon: Women of Wonder
will pay tribute to women for their
remarkable creative achievements and
the uphill battle to make those achievements a reality in a male-dominated
industry.
Rene Thompson is an ABQ Free Press
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living
Bugman: The Three Ws of Uninvited Visitors
BY RICHARD ‘BUGMAN’ FAGERLUND
T
Clear away debris both inside and
outside your house. Such piles serve as
excellent hiding places for cockroaches,
scorpions and centipedes. Stacks of
firewood attract black widows so stack
your stash away from your house,
preferably in a heavily sunlit area. Drape
some black plastic over it, and the sun’s
heat and dark plastic will heat things up,
discouraging anything from hiding in
the firewood.
Trees are lovely, but when branches
graze your roof or the sides of your
house, that allows acrobat ants, odorous
house ants and carpenter ants access to
your quarters. The best solution is to trim
offending limbs back, especially during
the warmer months. Sweep or vacuum
spiderwebs inside and outside your home.
These procedures will help keep
pests at a minimum and will not
endanger your family, your pets or
your environment as generic spraying
of pesticides does.
he three Ws of insect invasion are:
wet, warm weather. The W3 formula
holds up, and it’s bringing the bugs
out ... on the town. Their invasion of
our personal space raises the issue of
pesticide use. Pesticide use is sometimes
necessary. Used sparingly and with focus,
they’re a mixed blessing. Some pest
control companies’ standard operating
procedure is still broadcast-spraying
without considering – much less analyzing – what they’re killing. Without a
target pest, indiscriminate spraying is
like ecological carpet-bombing. Before
resorting to toxic measures, try these
simple, nontoxic DIYs for handling
uninvited insect visitors.
Getting past the doorman
In my pest consultation practice, a
building’s points of entry are frequently
the first items I assess and address. That
usually means targeting pesticide use directly in cracks, crevices and voids where
pests live. That’s how it should be done.
Some product labels advise spraying
baseboards and other areas. That’s only
called for if your home or business is
literally infested; then, spraying baseboards may actually kill the target pest.
Generically spraying pesticides is never
a good idea. Folks with small children
or pets are justified in worrying about
the potential for negative physical and
neurological effects when kids, dogs and
cats stumble on to pesticides and their
residue.
At the outside
Some pest companies spray pesticides
around the perimeter of homes, purportedly to control cockroaches, ants,
spiders and other pests. Unless there’s an
actual infestation, what really happens
is that these treatments may dispatch
the occasional cockroach or cricket, but
they’re equally likely to kill off praying
mantis, honeybees and other beneficial
insects. A host of other insects that
aren’t pests will die, and these insects
may then be eaten by birds, which may
then be poisoned. And so on. That’s
not pest control – it’s pollution. These
breathtaking summer thunderstorms
result in rain that washes pesticides into
earth, where their environmental detriment only increases. When a company
treats your home, they should inspect
first – finding, treating and sealing
off any cracks, crevices or voids where
roaches or other pests can hide. If there
are no such crevices, pests can’t get in,
so why needlessly harm the ecological
balance?
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Beyond greenwashing, on
pestproofing
For good reason, the practice of
routinely spraying baseboards seems to
be largely coming to an end. Environmentally conscious companies no longer
do it. The main reason for spraying
baseboards is killing time so customers
believe they’re getting their moneys’
worth. Progressive companies will first
inspect your home inside and out,
looking for infestations and conditions
conducive to them – then only treating areas that actually harbor pests or
provide a safe haven. When choosing a
pest control partner, find one that sprays
as a last resort. Empower yourself by
pestproofing your own home.
Install door sweeps on all outside doors
that need them. Here’s a foolproof test: If
you can slide a piece of paper underneath
a door, it needs a sweep. By their very
nature, garage doors rarely close that
tightly, so put food-grade diatomaceous
earth aka D.E. in corners near the
entrance. Any insects and other arthropods that sneak in will walk through the
D.E. It isn’t a pesticide, and exterminates
by abrading insects’ exoskeletons, causing
moisture loss and ultimately, death by dehydration. Food grade D.E. is commonly
used for grain storage and hydroponic
gardening and in toothpaste, water filters
and facial scrubs. With the exception of
extended, concentrated inhalation of
calcinated or crystalline silica – which has
largely fallen out of favor in comparison
to amorphous silica – D.E. is safe to have
around kids and pets.
Richard “Bugman” Fagerlund is an
Earth-friendly pest consultant.
Email any pest questions to
[email protected], and visit
his website, askthebugman.com, to learn
more about nontoxic pest control solutions.
Have your kids ever wanted
to be apart of a performing
dance team but the cost is
holding you back?
Reignite Studios now has
affordable dance teams coached
by an award–winning coach.
Auditions for the team are
Saturday, Aug. 15, from 1 - 5 pm
at Reignite Studios
3824 B Hawkins Street NE
Albuquerque, NM 87109
Mandatory parent meeting must be
attended by dancer’s parent or legal
guardian on Saturday, Aug 15, 12 - 1 pm
The team will perform in ballet, tap,
jazz, POM, and much more!
Team costs are only $80 per month.
CALENDAr
DEFINITIVE DOZEN
AUGUST 12-27
Artward Bound: Lotería Fest!
1 Featuring the Art of John Picacio!
Jean Cocteau Gallery,
418 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe,
(505) 466-5528, jeancocteaucinema.com
THURSDAY, AUGUST 13
Fundraisers: Live Music Series at
2 The County Line to benefit Meals
on Wheels: The Porter Draw
3 Sister Bar, 407 Central Ave SW,
of Medieval and Traditional Ballads: Scott and Johanna HongellDarsee
Part of Saturday Sunset Series
7 pm, Elena Gallegos Picnic Area,
452-5200, cabq.gov/parksandrecreation
The Dirty Bourbon
9800 Montgomery Blvd NW,
296-2726, dirtybourbon.com
August 12, Live Band Karaoke!!
August 13-15, Asphalt Cowboys
August 20-22, Jackson Tillman
August 27, Laura Wash Band
Launchpad
618 Central Ave SW, 764-8887,
launchpadrocks.com
August 12, Regicide, Destroy to
Recreate
August 13, Rudest Priest, Weedrat,
Constant Harmony
August 14, Texas Hippie, Coalition,
Red Sky Mary
August 15, Russian Girlfriends
“Record” Release Show
August 16, The Atlas Moth, Vattnet
Viskar
August 17, Butcher Babies, Anesthesia
August 20, Behind the Mirror,
Torn Between Worlds
August 21, Killah Priest, Bandit Lordz,
Benny Browncoat
August 22, Concepto Tambor, Reviva
August 23, Authority Zero,
Counterpunch
August 24, The Aristocrats,
Travis Larson Band
August 25, Weedeater, Black Maria,
Sandia Man
August 26, The Acacia Strain,
Vale of Miscreation
August 27, Eagles of Death Metal
11 Outdoors: African Violet Show
and Sale
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27
12 Talks: Stories of the Middle
Rio Grande: Alameda
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22
4 Music/Family: An Evening
AUGUST 12-27
7 am, Historic Plaza, Santa Fe, swaia.org/
Indian_Market
ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden, 2601 Central Ave NW, 764-6200, abqbiopark.com
7 pm, Marble Brewery, 111 Marble Ave,
243-2739, marblebrewery.com
SATURDAY, AUGUST 15
sisterthebar.com
August 12, Circuit Des Yeux,
Marisa Anderson, Chicharra
August 13, Low Life-Vids ‘n’ Vinyl
August 16, Glenn Miller Orchestra
August 20, Thieves and Gypsys,
Red Francis, Holy Glories
10 Fairs: Santa Fe Indian Market
7 Music: Pherkad
242-4900, sisterthebar.com
Sister Bar
The Guild Cinema, 3405 Central Ave NE,
255-1848; guildcinema.com
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20
Music: Flava D
AUGUST 12-20
AUGUST 17-23
in the
Thing from Another World”:
Invasion Double Feature
Part of Siembra, Latino Theatre Festival
National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701
Fourth St SW, 724-4771, nhccnm.org
New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W
Palace Ave, Santa Fe, (505) 476-5072,
nmartmuseum.org
FRIDAY, AUGUST 14
CLUBS & PUBS
9 Screens: “The Blob” and “The
5 Performances: Aye, No!
6 Screens: Native Cinema Showcase
7 pm, The County Line BBQ
9600 Tramway Blvd NE, 856-7477,
countyline.com
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AUGUST 22-23
THROUGH AUGUST 16
8 Performances: Caught in The Act:
A Benefit for New Mexico AIDS
Services
7 pm, Free, Bachechi Open Space, 9521
Rio Grande NE, RSVP: 314-0398, bernco.
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8 pm, KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW,
768-3544, kimotickets.com, thedolls.org
AUGUST 13-22
Low Spirits
2823 Second St NW, 344-9555
lowspiritslive.com
August 13, Merican Slang,
Daddy Long Loin
August 14, The Lowlights,
Sad Baby Wolf, Train Conductor
August 17, Rocky Votolato, Dave
Hause, Chris Farren
August 20, Aburly Q Burlesque and
Slideshow Spectacular
August 21, Joseph General,
I.Conscious
August 22, Red Elvises, Cowboys
& Indian
AUGUST 13-27
Zinc Cellar Bar
MUSIC
THURSDAY, AUGUST 13
Alejandro Pais Iriart’s Flamenco
Jazz Project & Brain Wingard
7:30 pm, Outpost Performance Space,
210 Yale Blvd SE, 268-0044,
outpostspace.org
American Rhapsody
Part of Chatter Concert Series
6 pm, Free, Albuquerque Museum of
Art & History, 2000 Mountain Rd NW,
242-4600, cabq.gov/museum
Billy Bob Thornton and the
Boxmasters
7:30 pm, Skylight,
139 W San Francisco St, Santa Fe,
(505) 982-0775, skylightsantafe.com
3009 Central Ave NE, 254-9462,
zincabq.com
August 13, Shane
August 15, Alex Maryol
August 16, 11 am, Jack Hansen
August 18, Robby Overfield
August 20, Zoltan Orkestar
August 22, Hello Dollface
August 23, Dan Dowling
August 25, Bosque Blues
August 27, You Knew Me When
Breaking Blue
AUGUST 14-31
FRIDAY, AUGUST 14
Sneakerz Sports Grille
Lil Durk, Gun Play, Hypo Carlito
4100 San Mateo Blvd NE, 837-1708,
sneakerzsportsbar.com
August 14, 6 pm, Fun Addicts Band
August 14, 9 pm, Karaoke
August 15, 7 pm, Primal Panic Bands
August 21, 6 pm, Smoke and Honey
Band
August 21, 9 pm, Karaoke
August 22, 8 am, Brandon’s Cause
Fundraising Tourney
August 22, 9 pm, Quizzling Band
August 31, 11 am, CNM Volleyball
Class
AUGUST 19-27
Marble Brewery
111 Marble Ave NW, 243-2739,
marblebrewery.com
August 19, Robby Overfield
August 22, Green Billies
August 27, Moon Hat
Part of Summer Nights Concert
Schedule
6 pm, ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden,
2601 Central Ave NW, 764-6200,
abqbiopark.com
Swag
Part of Party on the Patio
6 pm, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center,
Pueblo Harvest Café, 2401 12th St
NW, 843-7270, indianpueblo.org
7 pm, El Rey Theater, 622 Central Ave
SW, elreyabq.com
Blues Under the Stars: Ladies
Sing the Blues
7 pm, Albuquerque Museum of Art &
History, 2000 Mountain Rd NW,
The Gruve
9 pm, Free, Lounge 54, Santa Ana Star
Casino, 54 Jemez Canyon Dam Rd,
Santa Ana Pueblo, 867-0000,
santaanastar.com
Hillary Smith & Chris Dracup
5:30 pm, Prairie Star Restaurant and
Wine Bar, 288 Prairie Star Rd, Santa
Ana Pueblo, 867-3327,
mynewmexicogolf.com/prairiestar_home
Joseph General
Modest Mouse
Pueblo Harvest Café, 2401 12th St
7 pm, Expo New Mexico, Villa Hispana,
300 San Pedro Dr NE, 222-9700,
ticketmaster.com
Todd Tijerina
7 pm, Free, Historic Old Town,
Rio Grande Blvd & Central Ave NW,
768-2000
SATURDAY, AUGUST 15
The Blunns
5:30 pm, Vernon’s Speakeasy,
6855 Fourth St NW, Los Ranchos de
Albuquerque, 341-0831,
thehiddensteakhouse.com
Peter Chase
2 pm, Cherry Hills Library, 6901 Barstow St NE, 857-8321, abclibrary.org
Raven & The Sweet Potato Pie
Band
6 pm, Pueblo Harvest Café, Indian
Pueblo Cultural Center, 2401 12th St
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19
Los Van Van
7:30 pm, National Hispanic Cultural
Center, 1701 Fourth St SW,
ampconcerts.org
Snow tha Product, Audio Push
7 pm, Sunshine Theater,
sunshinetheaterlive.com
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20
Blu Sol
Cactus Tractor
SUNDAY, AUGUST 16
Schedule
abqbiopark.com
Asleep at the Wheel
Los Unusual Suspects
7:30 pm, Dirty Bourbon,
9800 Montgomery Blvd NE, 296-2726,
dirtybourbon.com
Part of Thirsty Thursdays Music Series
4 pm, Balloon Fiesta Event Center,
9401 Balloon Museum Dr NW,
768-6062, cabq.gov
Chatter Sunday:
Conor Hanick + Metronomes
10:30 am, Kosmos Performance Space
at the Factory on 5th,
1715 Fifth St NW, chatterabq.org
Gregg Daigle Band
7 pm, Arte de Placitas, 221 Hwy 165,
Placitas, 867-5383, artedeplacitas.com
Martin Sexton
6 pm, Free, Santa Fe Railyard Plaza,
740 Cerrillos Rd, Santa Fe,
ampconcerts.org
TUESDAY, AUGUST 18
Dirty Head, The Expendables,
Katastro
7 pm, Sunshine Theater,
sunshinetheaterlive.com
Voorhees & Kulasighe & JQ
Whitcomb’s Woody Shaw
Project
Part of Summer Thursday Jazz Nights
210 Yale Blvd SE, 268-0044
FRIDAY, AUGUST 21
David & Co
9 pm, Lounge 54, Santa Ana Star
Casino, 54 Jemez Canyon Dam Rd,
santaanastar.com
Jeez LaWeez
5:30 pm, Prairie Star Restaurant and
Wine Bar, 288 Prairie Star Rd,
mynewmexicogolf.com/prairiestar_home
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Latin Night
Part of Summertime in Old Town
6 pm, Free, Historic Old Town,
Rio Grande Blvd & Central Ave NW,
768-2000, cabq.gov/culturalservices
PandaMonium IV feat JAUZ
8 pm, El Rey Theater,
622 Central Ave SW, elreyabq.com
Soul Kitchen
Tinariwen
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27
TUESDAY, AUGUST 25
AUGUST 14-21
SATURDAY, AUGUST 15
Jazz a la Carte
Sublime with Rome
CCA Cinematheque
Made on Route 66
Schedule
abqbiopark.com
Isleta Resort & Casino, 11000
Broadway SE, 724-3800, isleta.com
1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe,
(505) 982-1338, ccasantafe.org
Starts August 14, “Best of Enemies”
Starts August 21, “The Look of
Silence”
Starts August 21, “People Places
Things”
10:30 am, Free, Special Collections
Library, 423 Central NE, 848-1376
abclibrary.org
Joanie & Combo Special
6 pm, Pueblo Harvest Café,
2401 12th St NW, 724-3510,
indianpueblo.com/puebloharvestcafe
Rio Gumbo
Taos Mesa Brewing, 20 ABC Mesa Rd,
El Prado, (575) 758-1900,
taosmesabrewing.com
Part of Thirsty Thursdays Music Series
4 pm, Balloon Fiesta Event Center,
9401 Balloon Museum Dr NW,
768-6062, cabq.gov
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22
PERFORMANCES
Dar Williams
8 pm, South Broadway Cultural Center,
1025 Broadway Blvd SW,
ampconcerts.org
Ijah
2401 12th St NW, 843-7270,
indianpueblo.org
Javier Ortega
3 pm, Main Library, 501 Copper Ave
NW, 768-5170,
abclibrary.org/mainlibrary
Nimbus
Part of Saturday Sunset Series
7 pm, Elena Gallegos Picnic Area,
452-5200, cabq.gov
The Pjudys
2 pm, Cherry Hills Library, 6901 Barstow St NE, 857-8321, abclibrary.org
Red Wine featuring La La &
The Hubcaps
Part of Chispa New Mexico Music
Series
Center, 1701 Fourth St SW, 724-4771,
nhccnm.org
Sian
9 pm, Stereo Bar, 622 Central Ave SW,
elreyabq.com
Sons of the Rio Grande
Part of Chuckwagon Dinner & Music
Series
6 pm, Wildlife West Nature Park,
87 N. Frontage Rd, Edgewood,
(505) 281-7665, wildlifewest.org
Tal Burdine
Part of Art in the Afternoon
2 pm, Albuquerque Museum of Art &
History, 2000 Mountain Rd NW,
Taos Blues Fest
2 pm, Taos Mesa Brewing, 20 ABC
Mesa Rd, El Prado, (575) 758-1900,
mollydogproductions.org/events/taosbluesfest
Westside Summerfest:
George Clinton and Parliament
Funkadelic
THURSDAY, AUGUST 13
Skillet
Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort
& Casino, 287 Carrizo Canyon Rd,
Mescalero,
(800) 545-9011, ticketmaster.com,
innofthemountaingods.com
THROUGH AUGUST 16
The Real Thing
The Vortex Theatre, 2900 Carlisle NE,
247-8600, vortexabq.org
THROUGH AUGUST 23
Love in the DMZ
Sol Acting Academy,
5500 San Mateo Blvd NE Ste 114,
881-0975, solacting.com
Jean Cocteau Cinema
418 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe,
(505) 466-5528,
jeancocteaucinema.com
August 14, “The Falling,”
“Jellyfish Eyes”
August 21, “Big Significant Things,”
“The Tribe”
THURSDAY, AUGUST 13
Shane
Kraig Parker:
Ultimate Tribute to Elvis
8 pm, Route 66 Casino, 14500 Central
Ave SW, 352-7866, rt66casino.com
Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown,
2600 Louisiana Blvd NE, 377-9593,
foulplaycafe.com
THROUGH AUGUST 30
Picnic
The Adobe Theater,
9813 Fourth Street NW, 898-9222,
adobetheater.org
THROUGH SEPTEMBER 13
Albuquerque Little Theatre,
224 San Pasquale Ave SW, 242-4750,
albuquerquelittletheatre.org
Roust the House Teen Performance Night
SCREENS
210 Yale Blvd SE, 268-0044,
outpostspace.org
AUGUST 12-23
Los Van Van
National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701
Fourth St SW, 724-4771,
tickets: ampconcerts.org
FRIDAY, AUGUST 21
Gipsy Kings
8 pm, Route 66 Casino, 14500 Central
Ave SW, 352-7866, rt66casino.com
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center,
2401 12th St NW, 843-7270,
indianpueblo.org
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22
Dar Williams
8 pm, South Broadway Cultural Center,
1025 Broadway Blvd SW,
ampconcerts.org
Part of Movie on the Field
8 pm, Free, UNM, Johnson Field, 1
University Dr, unm.edu
TUESDAY, AUGUST 19
Arsenic and Old Lace
7:30 pm, Hiland Theater, 4800 Central
Ave SE, 872-1800, ndi-nm.org
Avengers 2
Finding Nemo
Buffalo Thunder, 20 Buffalo Thunder
Trail, Santa Fe, (505) 455-5555,
buffalothunderresort.com
10th Annual DXS Dance
Xperience
SUNDAY, AUGUST 16
2 pm, KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave
NW, 768-3544, kimotickets.com
Los Lobos
AUGUST 14-15
6 pm, Free, KiMo Theatre, 423 Central
Ave NW, 768-3544, safeteen.net
FRIDAY, AUGUST 14
The Goonies
Isleta Resort & Casino, 11000 Broadway SE, 724-3800, isleta.com
Pregnant:
Preventing Teen Pregnancy
Santa Fe Chamber Music
Festival
Murder at the Abilene Saloon
Dierks Bentley, Kip Moore,
Maddie and Tae &
Canaan Smith
6:30 pm, Lockheed Martin
Dynatheater, New Mexico Museum
of Natural History,
1801 Mountain Rd NW, 841-2816,
dynasummermovies.brownpapertickets.com
THROUGH AUGUST 24
THROUGH AUGUST 29
Skylight, 139 W San Francisco St,
Santa Fe, (505) 982-0775,
skylightsantafe.com
Maleficent 3D
Part of Great Westerns
Chris Cope
Big Thunder Dancers
(Hopi/Cochiti)
6 pm, Free, Santa Fe Railyard Plaza,
ampconcerts.org
Isleta Resort & Casino, 11000
Broadway SE, 724-3800, isleta.com
FRIDAY, AUGUST 14
SUNDAY, AUGUST 23
Red Elvises
Kelly Clarkson with
Pentatonix
Part of Movies on the Plaza
8:10 pm, Civic Plaza, 1 Civic Plaza NW,
Third St NW and Marquette Ave NW,
albuquerquecc.com
AUGUST 21-23
10:30 am, Kosmos Performance Space
at the Factory on 5th, 1715 Fifth St
NW, chatterabq.org
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27
Various locations in Santa Fe and
Albuquerque, (505) 983-2075,
santafechambermusic.com
5 pm, Free, Cottonwood Dr and Ellison
Dr NW, 768-3556, cabq.gov
Chatter Sunday:
Brahms Piano Quartet
Fathom Events
at selected movie theaters,
fathomevents.com
August 12, “Unity”: Make the
Connection
August 16 & 19, “Grease”
Sing-A-Long
August 23, Counter-Strike:
Global Offensive
AUGUST 12-27
The Guild Cinema
3405 Central Ave NE, 255-1848;
guildcinema.com
August 12-13, “A Poem is a Naked
Person”: The Leon Russell
documentary
August 12-13, “The Wrecking Crew”
August 14, Stand Up Comedy Live
with Aarona Lopez!
August 14-16, “Felt”
August 14-16, “The Tribe”
August 15, “The Nightmare”:
A documentary/horror film on
sleep paralysis
August 17-20, “La Sapienza”
August 17-20, “The World of Apu”
August 21-22, “Redeemer”
August 21-24, “The Wanted 18”
August 21-24, “White Lies”
August 25-27, “Gemma Bovery”
August 25-27, “The 100-Year-Old
Man Who Climbed out the Window
and Disappeared”
Part of Railyard Park Movie Series
8 pm, Free, Santa Fe Railyard Park,
ampconcerts.org
Journey to the Center of the
Earth (1959)
Part of Sci-Fi Second Takes
KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW,
768-3544, kimotickets.com
Pulp Fiction
7 pm, Distillery 365, 2921 Stanford Dr
NE, 221-6281, distillery365.com
The Enforcer
The Dark Knight Rises
Part of The Dark Knight Series
KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW,
768-3544, kimotickets.com
Frontera! Revolt and Rebellion
on the Rio Grande: Screening
and Talk
5:30 pm, Indian Pueblo Cultural
Center, 2401 12th St NW, 843-7270,
indianpueblo.org
FRIDAY, AUGUST 21
Ghostbusters
8:10 pm, Free, Civic Plaza, 1 Civic
Plaza NW, Third St NW and Marquette
Ave NW, albuquerquecc.com
Juke Box Sunday Night
From our street
signs indicating pre1937 Route 66 to our
greasers and swing
dance aficionados,
Burque’s cultural
consciousness is
more than
a little fixated
on days of yore.
Luckily the legacy of
Glenn Miller, one of the 20th century’s most beloved bandleaders, is still going strong. Experience the world famous Glenn
Miller Orchestra at Sister at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 16.
Midwest native Miller – who traded his father’s gift of a
mandolin for a horn as a boy – launched his legendary orchestra
in 1938. The band released classics like “Tuxedo Junction,” “In
the Mood” and “Chattanooga Choo Choo.” Miller went MIA in
1944, and the band regrouped under lead tenor saxophonist Tex
Beneke. The Orchestra’s current incarnation was formed in 1956.
Current bandleader Nick Hilscher took over in 2012. As tempting
as it is to bring the kids, this is strictly a grown-up (21+) affair.
The Glenn Miller Orchestra
The Glenn Miller Orchestra
Sunday, Aug. 16, 7 p.m.
Sister, 407 Central NW, Tickets: $15 , sisterthebar.com
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 22
Wall-E
6:30 pm, Lockheed Martin
Dynatheater, New Mexico Museum
of Natural History,
dynasummermovies.brownpapertickets.com
For Those About to Rock
Just as there’s no chicken in Campbell’s Chicken
Noodle Soup, there’s no actual death metal
in Eagles of Death Metal. But there is a lot of
sweat, guitar and balls-to-the-wall rawk – just as
you’d expect from a group co-founded by Josh
Homme (Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age).
Alongside skinny mustachioed former South
Carolinian Jesse Hughes, Homme launched Eagles
of Death Metal in 1998 in Palm Desert, Calif.,
around the time Homme was working on “Desert
Sessions Vols. 3 & 4.”
Since then, EoDM has released three albums,
and their fourth, the invitingly titled “Zipper
Down,” drops in October. Homme may or may
not be on board for the band’s show on Thursday, Aug. 27, at Launchpad – he’s also doing stuff
with his many other bands – but fans are still
guaranteed a loud, fast and out-of-control show.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 23
Firefox
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
Part of Great Westerns Series
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27
AlleLuia! The Devil’s Carnival
nhccnm.org
FAIRS, FESTIVALS &
FIESTAS
AUGUST 15-16
Wildlife West Harvest Festival
10 am, Wildlife West Nature Park, 87
N Frontage Rd, Edgewood,
281-7655, wildlifewest.org
SUNDAY, AUGUST 16
Santa Fe National Cemetery
World War II Ceremony
1 pm, Santa Fe National Cemetery,
501 N Guadalupe St, Santa Fe,
cem.va.gov, RSVP: (505) 988-6400
Eagles of Death Metal
9:30 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 27
Launchpad
618 Central SW
Tickets: $15
launchpadrocks.com
AUGUST 20-21
AUGUST 21-23
Old Friends, New Faces
Artist Showcase
Viva II to benefit El Ranchito
de los Niños
Wheelwright Museum of the American
Indian, 704 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe,
(505) 982-4636, wheelwright.org
Valencia County Fairgrounds, 10 I-25
Business Loop, Belen, vivalanm.com
AUGUST 22-23
Portal Artisans Celebration
10 am, New Mexico Museum of Art,
107 W Palace Ave, Santa Fe,
(505) 476-5072, nmartmuseum.org
AUGUST 27-29
New Mexico Responsible Gaming Association Conference
Isleta Casino, 11000 Broadway Blvd SE,
isletacasino.com
FAMILY
AUGUST 13-27
NM Black Expo
Multiple locations, Albuquerque,More
info: oaaa.state.nm.us/black-expo.aspx
Bookworks
4022 Rio Grande NW, 344-8139,
bkwrks.com
August 13, 10:30 am, Story Time!
Something’s Fishy
August 15, 10:30 am, Diorama City!
August 15, 4:30 pm, Teen Book Club:
“Me, Earl and the Dying Girl”
August 19, 4:30 pm, American Girl
Book Club
August 20, 10:30 am, Story Time
Gets Artsy!
August 26, 2:30 pm, Magic Treehouse
Book Club
August 27, 10:30 am, Ahoy! Story
Time!
THURSDAY, AUGUST 13
Back-to-School Fun Fest
1 pm, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum,
217 Johnson St, Santa Fe,
(505) 946-1000, okeeffemuseum.org
SATURDAY, AUGUST 15
Gustave Baumann in
New Mexico: Puppet Show and
Gallery Talk
1 pm, New Mexico Museum of Art,
107 W Palace Ave, Santa Fe,
(505) 476-5072, nmartmuseum.org
Hands-on History
9 am, El Rancho de las Golondrinas,
334 Los Pinos Rd, Santa Fe,
(505) 471-2261, golondrinas.org
FRIDAY, AUGUST 21
Aquarium Overnight
6:30 pm, ABQ BioPark Aquarium,
2601 Central Ave NW,
RSVP: 768-2000, abqbiopark.com
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22
Explora Parent’s Night Out: Colors
5:30 pm, Explora, 1701 Mountain Rd
NW, RSVP: 224-8341, explora.us
IPL PHOTOFACIAL
FOR FACE AND NECK
Regular $399 special $170.
Including free facial plus aromatherapy.
BUY TWO FILLERS,
RECEIVE 3RD FREE
BUY 30 UNITS OF
BOTOX, RECEIVE
10 UNITS FREE
6341 Riverside Plaza Ln NW, Ste A
505-503-7381
Freyaslair.com
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22
Tuesdays, 9 am, Explora,
explora.us
THROUGH AUGUST 16
Here Comes the Storyteller!
Saturdays & Sundays, 7 pm,
THROUGH AUGUST 23
Family Music and Movies
Sundays under the Stars
Free, 6 pm: music, sunset: movie
Inn of the Mountain Gods, front lawn,
287 Carrizo Canyon Rd, Mescalero,
(800) 545-9011, innofthemountaingods.com
August 16, Birch Street, Mega Mind
August 23, Broxton, Bears
COMMUNITY
SATURDAY, AUGUST 15
New Approach with Panpastel
and Clayboard: Jessica Chao
1:30 pm, Free, Artisan-Santa Fe,
2601 Cerrillos Rd, Santa Fe, RSVP:
(505) 954-4179, artisan-santafe.com
My Paper Portrait; Freehand
Silhouette Paper Portraits:
Kevin Overhulser
2015 Night Under the Stars
Gala
6 pm, Paa-Ko Ridge Golf Club,
1 Clubhouse Dr, Sandia Park, (505)
281-7400, eastmountainhigh.net
8 am, Presbyterian Rust Medical Center, 2400 Unser Blvd SE, Rio Rancho,
(888) 465-1482, juliettefoundation.org
4 pm, Civic Plaza, SW Section,
1 Civic Plaza NW, Third St NW and
Marquette Ave NW,
albuquerquecc.com
AUGUST 15-16
THURSDAYS
New Mexico Outdoor Expo
Gateway Growers Market
Shooting Range Park, 16001 Shooting
Range Access Rd, wildlife.state.nm.us
5 pm, 100 Isleta Blvd SW, 217-2484
SUNDAY, AUGUST 16
3 pm, Morningside Park,
Lead Ave SE & Morningside Dr SE
Back to School Pool Party
Summer Soiree to benefit
La Mesa neighborhood
5 pm, Los Padillas Aquatic Center,
Isleta Blvd SW,
backtoschoolnmas.eventbrite.com
6 pm, La Mesa Presbyterian Church,
7401 Copper Ave NE
Wilderness First Aid:
An Overview
TUESDAY, AUGUST 25
MONDAY, AUGUST 24
Dance Class:
Casino/Cuban-Style Salsa and
Rueda de Casino
Inaugural Albuquerque
Golf Charity Invitational
9 am, Open Space Visitor Center,
6500 Coors Blvd NW, RSVP: 452-5222,
cabq.gov/openspace
1:30 pm, Free, Artisan-Santa Fe,
2601 Cerrillos Rd, Santa Fe, RSVP:
(505) 954-4179, artisan-santafe.com
6 pm, National Hispanic
Cultural Center, 1701 Fourth St SW,
724-4771, nhccnm.org
FUNDRAISERS
FRIDAY, AUGUST 14
UV Splash by Color Dash 5k to
benefit PB&J Family Services
7:30 pm, Anderson Abruzzo Balloon
Museum, 9201 Balloon Museum Dr
NE, newcolordash5k.ticketmob.com
SATURDAY, AUGUST 15
Dog Wash:
Babes and Bullies, Viva
10 am, Pet Food Gone Wild,
2415 Southern Blvd SE, Rio Rancho,
thebabesandbullies.com
Noon, Albuquerque Country Club,
601 Laguna Blvd SW, (626) 354-1655,
albuquerquecountryclub.org
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
3rd Annual WinWin Art
Lottery: Tamarind Institute
Tickets on sale now
4 pm, Tamarind Institute, 2500 Central
Ave SE, 277-3901, tamarind.unm.edu
OUTDOORS
Composting with Worms
(Vermicomposting)
10 am, Bear Canyon Senior Center,
Room 5, 4645 Pitt NE, RSVP: 767-5959
or [email protected]
Sunset Market
Nob Hill Growers Market
FRIDAYS
Los Poblanos Friday Farm Stand
3 pm, 4803 Rio Grande Blvd NW,
Los Ranchos de Albuquerque,
lospoblanos.com
SATURDAYS
YogaRitas
Armijo Village Growers’
Market
10 am, El Pinto Restaurant,
10500 Fourth St NW, 898-1771
8 am, Isleta Blvd and Arenal Rd SW
Downtown Growers’ Market
TUESDAY, AUGUST 18
8 am, Robinson Park, Eighth and
Central, downtowngrowers.com
August 15, Kids Cook!
August 22, Wagogo
Bosque Moonlight Hikes
7 pm, Tingley Café Train Station,
Tingley Beach, cabq.gov, RSVP: 848-7180
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22
The Dirty Dash New Mexico
9 am, Wildlife West Nature Park,
87 N Frontage Rd, Edgewood,
thedirtydash.com
Landscape Irrigation and
Drip Irrigation
9 am, Free, CNM Workforce Training
Center, 5600 Eagle Rock NE,
Room 101, 888-1772
SUNDAY, AUGUST 23
Composting Workshop
9 am, Open Space Visitor Center, 6500
Coors Blvd NW, Bring gloves, hats, etc,
RSVP: 452-5222, cabq.gov/openspace
Tomato Fiesta
11 am, Albuquerque Garden Center,
10120 Lomas Blvd NE, 296-6020,
albuquerquegardencenter.org
TUESDAY, AUGUST 25
Night Walks at the
Botanic Garden
6:30 pm, ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden,
2601 Central Ave NW,
RSVP: 848-7180, cabq.gov
THROUGH SEPTEMBER 13
Monarch: Orange Takes Flight
Santa Fe Botanical Garden, 715
Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, (505) 471-9103,
santafebotanicalgarden.org
Part of the “Summer of Color”
all around Santa Fe
Edgewood Farmers’ Market
3 pm, Tractor Supply Company, 8 Marietta Ct, Edgewood, (505) 269-1577
Los Ranchos Growers’ Market
7 am, 8528 Rio Grande Blvd NW,
344-1023,
losranchosgrowersmarket.com
Santa Fe Farmers Market
8 am, 1607 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe,
santafefarmersmarket.com
South Valley Growers’ Market
8 am, 3907 Isleta Blvd SW, 877-4044
SUNDAYS
Corrales Growers Market
9 am, Corrales Rd
south of Post Office, Corrales,
corralesgrowersmarket.com
Mile-Hi Farmers’ Market
11 am, Alvarado Park, Alvarado Dr NE
& Hannett Ave NE
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5:30 pm, Embassy Suites Hotel,
1000 Woodward Pl NE, 245-7100,
kennelkompadres.org
Run for Vision 2015
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3 pm, 12224 N. Hwy 14, Cedar Crest,
(505) 269-1577
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9521 Rio Grande Blvd NW, 314-0398,
bernco.gov/openspace
Mayor and First Lady’s
Dog Ball 2015
Cedar Crest Farmers’ Market
2 pm, Taylor Ranch Library,
5700 Bogart NW, RSVP: 897-8816
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Dance Class:
Casino/Cuban-Style Salsa and
Rueda de Casino
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22
WEDNESDAYS
Home Composting Basics
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6 pm, Sister Bar, 407 Central Ave SW,
242-4900, sisterthebar.com
8 am, 1607 Paseo De Peralta,
Santa Fe, santafefarmersmarket.com
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6 pm, Esperanza Bicycle Safety
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Get Your Geek On! for Project
Pinball Charity
2pm, Taylor Ranch Library,
5700 Bogart St NW, RSVP: 897-8818
Santa Fe Farmers Market
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40th Annual Benefit Auction
at the Wheelwright Museum
SATURDAY, AUGUST 15
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AUGUST 20-21
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Anderson Abruzzo Balloon Museum,
9201 Balloon Museum Dr NE, 7686020, balloonmuseum.com
Noon, Albuquerque Museum of Art
& History, 2000 Mountain Rd NW,
3 pm, Albuquerque Academy,
6400 Wyoming Blvd NE,
abqnemarket.org
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Community Day:
Neighborhood
Albuquerque Northeast
Farmers’ & Artisans Market
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Second and fourth Saturdays, 10 am,
ages 7-17, Quelab, 680 Haines Ave
NW, coderdojoabq.github.io
10 am, Los Poblanos Historic Inn &
Organic Farm, 4803 Rio Grande Blvd
NW, 344-9297, lospoblanos.com
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TUESDAYS
5 pm, La Fonda on the Plaza,
La Terraza, 100 E San Francisco,
Santa Fe, (505) 424-5730,
iaia.edu/support
6 pm, Albuquerque Square Dance
Center, 4915 Hawkins NE, 271-0548,
usadancenm.org
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7 pm, Free, New Mexico Natural
History Museum, 1801 Mountain Rd
NW, nmnaturalhistory.org
FRIDAY, AUGUST 14
Native Arts Unbound: Dinner
and Auction to benefit IAIA
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“It’s a Snap!”
by Myles Mellor and Sally York
real estate
Maddox Management LLC Offers
All of the following rentals; for
More information or a showing
Call (505) 242-0989
WINROCK VILLAS 2/BD 2/BA 1100/SF
Utilities Included! $1200/MO $1100/
DD 1601 Pennsylvania NE N4 Available Now! Schedule with Broker
No Pets Please! Tenant pays all utilities. $995/MO $800/DD 3904 Ladera
NW Schedule with current tenants
Available September
HOUSES FOR RENT
UNFURNISHED (Listed by Price)
RIO GRANDE TOWNHOUSE LOFTS
1/BD 1/BA 1000/S Each unit comes
with a stunning natural balance of old
and contemporary living, exposed
adobe walls, brick floors, built-ins,
sunny windows, stainless steel
appliances, front load washer & dryer
in the unit, courtyard patio areas, and
lovely serene landscaped grounds!
Very pet friendly! No Smoking! Tenants pay ALL utilities. 1-year lease!
$1195/MO $900/DD 200 Rio Grande
SW 202, 203, 205, 208, 211 Available
Now! Schedule with Broker
NE HEIGHTS CONDO - 2/BD 1/BA
860/SF 1/CG PRIVATE CTYD Updated
living kitchen breakfast bar & it opens
to private courtyard, perfect for grilling & chilling! Small Pet Negotiable!
NO Smoking! 1-year lease, tenant
pays Gas & Electric utilities! Juan
Tabo & Menaul $800/MO $700/DD
12004 Stilwell NE D Available Now!
PARK PLAZA CORNER CONDO 2/BD
2/BA 850/SF 8TH FLOOR corner
spacious open living/dining updated
kitchen with granite counters, oodles
of cabinets, loads of closet space! All
utilities included plus onsite library,
workout room, heart shaped pool,
recreation area, cable too, plus gated
covered parking & monitored secure
intercom entry! No Pets, No Smoking
Please! $1395/MO $1300/DD
1331 Park SW 803 Available Now!
EAST DOWNTOWN ARNO LOFTS CITY
2/BD 2/BA 1500/SF Luxury 2nd floor
corner loft in EDO Huning’s Highland
Historic District! Open living, dining
& kitchen, w/stainless appliances,
dishwasher & washer/dryer included,
custom California Closets, stained
concrete floors, sliding doors open
to fabulous views, elevator, security
voice entry, & common area with pool.
Tenants pay electric only! No Smoking, No Pets Please! $1395/MO $900/
DD 400 Central SE 201 Schedule with
Broker Available August
RIO GRANDE TOWNHOUSE LOFTS
2/BD 1/BA 1150/SF unit comes with
a stunning natural balance of old and
contemporary living, exposed adobe
walls, brick floors, built-ins, sunny
windows, stainless steel appliances,
front load washer & dryer in the unit,
courtyard patio areas, and lovely
serene landscaped grounds! Very pet
friendly! Tenants all utilities. 1-year
lease! $1350/MO $900/DD 200 Rio
Grande SW 201 Available Now!
Schedule with Broker
PUEBLO STYLE TOWNHOUSE 2/BD
2/STORY 2/BA 2/CG 1700/SF privacy
courtyard entry, vaulted ceilings open
living, Kiva fireplace, kitchen with
ceramic tile, laundry, loft perfect for
office. French doors, skylights. Tenant
pays all utilities! Pets Negotiable!
$1275/MO $1000/DD 4928 Oso
Grande Ct NE Schedule with current
tenants Available September
OLD TOWN 2/BD 1.5/BA $1250/MO
$1000/DD Tenants pay all utilities!
No Smoking! No Pets! 2444 Pueblo
Bonito Ct NW Available Now!
CITY MARKET LOFTS 1/BD 1/BA
880/SF Luxury 3rd floor loft in EDO
Huning’s Highland Historic District!
Washer/dryer included. No Pets! No
Smoking! All electric! Tenants pay
electric! $1050/MO $900/DD 401
Central NE Apt 303 Available Now!
Schedule with Broker
AHS GYM LOFT EDO/ CORNER 1/BD
1/BA 980SF open floor plan with high
ceilings, raised platform bedroom
area at one end, aseparate bathroom,
closet, hallway on the other end. Corner unit facing the internal courtyard,
fitted blinds on windows all along two
walls for loads of natural light, light
open kitchen, island counter divider,
stainless appliances, light stained
wood cabinets, refrigerator, stove,
microwave, & dishwasher. Laundry
room, trash and recycling all inside the
building. Tenant pays electric only. No
Pets, NO Smoking please! $1025/MO
850/DD 300 Tijeras NE 201 Schedule
with Broker
AHS GYM LOFT EDO 1/BD 1/BA 752/
SF Desirable Gym Loft, open floor plan
with high ceilings, raised platform
bedroom area at one end, a separate
bathroom, closet, hallway on the other
end. Light open kitchen, island counter
divider, stainless appliances, light
stained wood cabinets, refrigerator,
stove. Laundry room, trash, and
recycling all inside the building. Tenant pays electric only! No Pets, NO
Smoking please! $990/MO $800DD
300 Tijeras NE 205 Available Now!
Schedule with broker
NW LADERA GOLF COURSE 2/BD 2/
BA 1250/SF 2/CG open living, vaulted
ceilings, fireplace, washer, dryer
hookups, huge master. No Smoking,
APARTMENTS FOR RENT
UNFURNISHED (Listed by Price)
NE HEIGHTS APARTMENTS 2/BD
1/BA800/SF washer/dryer hook ups!
Tenants pay Gas & Electric! Pet
Negotiable! No Smoking! $675/MO
$600/DD 12016 Indian School NE #1
Available Now!
NE HEIGHTS APARTMENTS 2/BD 1/
BA washer/dryer hook ups! Tenants
pay Gas & Electric! No Dogs! No
Smoking! $675/MO $600/DD 12024
Indian School NE 3 Available Now!
UNM/CNM EFFICIENCY FREE UTILITIES FREE PARKING 1/BA 400+ SF efficiency apartment. Kitchen, full bath,
hardwood floors fenced grounds, &
parking off alley! No Smoking
No Pets Please! $525/MO $300/DD
1816 Lead SE 3 Available Now!
DOWNTOWN STUDIO APARTMENT
Charming clean 298/SF one room
efficiency attached apartment with
kitchen and full bath, hardwood floors
small courtyard and parking off alley.
NO Pets, NO Smoking please! Tenants
pay Gas & Electric. $495/MO $300/
DD 1200.5 Park SW Available Now!
LEGAL NOTICES
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and Property Safe!
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24/7/365 monitoring.
$1400 FREE Security Equipment.
No Installation Fees.
Starting at $19.99/mo.
Call 1-800-621-9263
Sell your structured settlement
or annuity
Payments for CASH NOW.
You don’t have to wait for your future
payments any longer!
Call 1-800-603-0176
NOW HIRING
NM State Fair Security Officers
Apply online at www.securitasjobs.com
Select > Albuquerque/NM State Fair
Across
1. Middle ___
5.Federal org.
9.June honorees
13. Pull partner
14. ___ Boothe Luce
15. Clickable image
16. “Someone ___” (2006 movie)
17. Attack
18. Swiss painter Hans
19. Site of illicit bar for the leisure class?
22. Jam
23. Deodorant brand
24. Second sight
27. Unburdened
29. Out of style
32. Taiwanese girl group
33. Chesterfield, e.g.
36. Sparsely populated North Dakota city
37. Simply relax?
42. Contemptible one
43. “The Open
Window” writer
44. Factor XI (abbr.)
45. OK, in a way
47. Undertake,
“out”
"It'swith
a Snap!"
49. Az ___, R&B group
NOW OFFERING UP TO $450 IN BONUSES!
$350 Bonus* for Level 3 Security Officers
$100 Additional Bonus*
*Bonuses are paid upon completion of the assignment. Work Requirements and conditions of bonus
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505-341-2041
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Down
1.Primatologist’s study
2.Mouthful
3.Cigarette brand
4.Bundle
5.Long bone
6.Back talk
7.Hunts
8.Establishes
9.Diacritical marks
10. Israeli port city
11. Fully cooked
12. Agitated state
by Myles Mellor and Sally York
14. Live peacefully together
20. White wine aperitif
21. Start of a refrain
24. Jolting therapy, for short
25. Wrap
26. Black tea
28. Buck passers?
30. Mawkish
31. A-list
34. J.F.K. overseer
35. Says “When?”
38. Poisoning from tainted grain
39. Mosque officials
40. Gave way
41. Bother, with at
46. Feudal sovereigns
48. Excessively
51. Jeer
53. Ptychozoon
54. Musical pieces
55. Carbon compound
56. Ancient colonnade
57. Fries, maybe
58. Posited Big Bang substance
59. E-mail, e.g.
60. ___ coffee
61. Hebrew letters
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Securitas Security Services is now hiring temporary security officers for the
upcoming New Mexico State Fair, September 10-20, 2015. Employees must be
available to work shifts September 10-20! Up to $450 in special bonuses will be
paid to qualified applicants. All are welcome to apply – Priority will be given to
security officers holding active New Mexico Level 1 or Level 3 Guard Licenses.
$250 Bonus* for Level 1 & 2 Security Officers
from Philly
50. Bypass
52. Journal
54. A soft touch brings relief?
62. Mythological ferryman
63. Cunning
64. Popular Serbian folk singer
65. Gunks
66. Broke off
67. Experienced
68. Brickbat
69. Check
70. Reno calculation
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