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VOL III, Issue 2, January 27, 2016
New Mexico’s best alternative newspaper
ABQ Official’s
Cozy Relationship
With Santolina’s
Developer
Page 8
The Woman
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Lewis Black
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‘Naked Truth’
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‘Lightning Speak’: A Raven Chacon Retrospective Page 23
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NEWS
compiled by abq free press staff
Pluto killer
Scientists have discovered a
massive planet lurking far beyond Pluto that they are naming
“Planet Nine.” The massive
icy body has not been seen by
telescopes but its existence and
size has been inferred by its
gravitational effect on nearby
planetoids. It could be as much
as twice to four times the diameter of the Earth. The planet was
co-discovered by astronomers
Michael Brown and Konstantin
Batygin. Brown is the guy who
got Pluto demoted from planet
to dwarf planet. Brown tweets
under the handle @plutokiller
and he wrote the book “How I
Killed Pluto and Why It Had It
Coming.” He told the Chicago
Tribune that it may be time to
rewrite the textbooks yet again.
“My daughter, she’s still kind of
mad about Pluto being demoted,
even though she was barely born
at that time,” Brown said. “She
suggested a few years ago that
she’d forgive me if I found a
new planet. So I guess I’ve been
working on this for her.”
Drone nation
Reuters reports that the Pentagon
is quietly building up a small
airstrip in a remote region of
Djibouti, in east Africa, as its
center of drone operations in
Somalia and Yemen. The shift
of ten Predator and four Reaper
drones from a camp near Djibouti’s international airport to a
remote French-run airstrip is part
of an effort to lower the military’s
profile in Africa. Dr. David Vine,
author of “Base Nation: How
U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm
America and the World,” said,
“The [U.S.] military has gone
to great lengths to disguise and
downplay its growing presence
in Africa generally in the hopes
of avoiding negative attention
and protests both in the U.S.
and in African countries wary of
the colonial-esque presence of
foreign troops.”
Superfood
Coverage of the cost of breast
pumps by Obamacare has sent
sales of the devices through
the roof. Their availability has
allowed working mothers with
access to refrigeration to pump
milk on their own schedule to
feed their babies when they
return home. The increase in
breast milk availability has led to
a thriving market on the website
onlythebreast.com. The site has
caught the attention of athletes
who believe breast milk is the
new superfood that can enhance
performance. Frozen breast milk
goes for between $1 and $2 an
ounce. Some online sellers list
frozen quantities for sale as large
as 5,000 ounces, which works out
to a little more than 39 gallons.
Bumped
Starting in March, Delta Airlines
will no longer allow large pets
to fly with their owners, which
means they’ll travel as freight.
As part of the policy change, pets
will have to arrive at the airport
three hours before a flight, be
dropped off and picked up at the
airline’s cargo facility – which
may be in a different location
than passenger check in, and the
pooch could fly on a separate
flight – that may arrive at a
different time. Southwest Airlines
and JetBlue won’t let you check
a pet. American Airlines still
does, but only on certain types of
aircraft and not when it’s too hot
or too cold. Service animals of all
sizes are allowed into the cabin, a
system that travel experts believe
will be taken advantage of as
airlines make it harder to check
pets. United Airlines transports
larger dogs as cargo.
ABQ Free Press Local Briefs
compiled by abq free press staff
Panned
Our recent online poll of ABQ
Free Press readers on the performance of Gov. Susana Martinez found that Republicans
are almost as upset with her as
Democrats. Of the 1,841 readers
who responded, 293 identified
themselves as Republicans. While
90 percent of all respondents said
they would not vote for Martinez
again if she sought higher office,
72.69 percent of Republican responding said they were “somewhat unlikely” or “extremely
unlikely” to vote for her again.
Republicans’ dissatisfaction with
the governor spanned the gamut
of issues. On only one issue,
public safety, did the governor
receive an approval rating
approaching 25 percent. On most
other issues, her favorability
rating among Republican respondents was in the high teens.
Primaries
State Reps. Moe Maestas, an
Albuquerque Democrat, and
Stephanie Garcia Richard, a Los
Alamos Democrat, have introduced a proposed constitutional
amendment that would open
up New Mexico’s primaries and
allow anyone of any party to vote
in any primary. The way it works
now, only Democrats can vote in
their party’s primaries, and the
same thing for Republicans and
voters in other parties. Supporters of the proposed amendment,
House Joint Resolution 12, say
it would break the stranglehold that the two major parties
have on the electoral process.
If the Legislature approves the
amendment – which is a long
shot – it would go before voters
in November.
Taser-gate
A state grand jury has subpoenaed payroll records, documents
related to legal interpretations,
and correspondence between
former Albuquerque Police Chief
Ray Schultz and Taser International, Inc., in connection with
an ongoing criminal investigation into allegations of contract
rigging that Schultz has been
unable to shake since they first
arose in early 2014, according to
New Mexico In Depth, an online
news agency.
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W
hat a difference a year makes.
In February 2015, the Hobbs
Chamber of Commerce told anyone
who would listen that Hobbs had
surpassed Santa Fe as the state’s second-largest economy in terms of gross
receipts taxes. At $9.9 million in GRT
money, Hobbs was awash in cash,
thanks to Lea County’s oil industry,
which continued to boom despite the
fact that oil prices had been falling
since the summer of 2014.
But this month, the reality of what
is now a year-and-a-half-long plunge
in oil prices has hit Hobbs hard.
Hobbs’ GRT revenue in January
was $3.9 million — down about $6
million from the city’s GRT revenue
last February. Now Hobbs is barely
ahead of Farmington as the state’s
fourth-largest economy. Economic
activity of all kinds — oil well drilling,
well field services, restaurants, hotels
and grocery stores and businesses
that sell to oil industry workers — has
fallen off sharply.
Oilfield service companies have
laid off workers, equipment is idle
and stacking up in marshaling
yards. Truck drivers who once made
$100,000 a year are adjusting to
making $15 an hour in retail.
But Hobbs isn’t the only casualty of
the oil price bust.
State government is reeling, and legislators in Santa Fe are in a near panic
because state tax revenues from oil
are quickly disappearing. The amount
of “new money” available for next
fiscal year’s budget has plummeted. In
August, it was thought to be around
$293 million. By December that had
Kimberly Ryan, Hobbs News-Sun
Oilfield workers in Southeastern New Mexico who made upwards of $100,000 in 2014 have been laid off and forced to take lower-paying jobs in the retail
sector since oil fell below $50 a barrel.
fallen to $232 million. Now, lawmakers fear it will be $100 million or less.
If the price of oil continues to
fall — some predict it could drop to
$20 a barrel or less — and it remains
depressed, operations of state government could be in jeopardy. One third
of the state’s general fund budget
comes from oil and gas money.
“It’s serious and something the
public does not keep up with, but
we still have advocacy groups that
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Idled drilling rigs fill equipment storage yards in Southeastern New Mexico as a result of last year’s
dramatic drop in oil prices.
would like to get rid of the extractive
industries, but they deliver 32 percent
of our general fund monies,” said
Sen. John Arthur Smith, a Deming
Democrat who chairs the Legislative
Finance Committee during the interim
and the Senate Finance Committee
during the current 30-day session.
“The ripple effect on jobs and gross
receipts taxes are always delayed, and
we are pretty apprehensive about it,”
Smith said. “We are very concerned.”
No panic
The people in Hobbs and
Southeastern New Mexico are apprehensive about the global oil industry,
too. But they’ve got one advantage
over the folks now in charge in Santa
Fe; they’ve been through the boomand-bust cycle many times before.
Today’s economy in Hobbs and
other oil-patch cities is more diversified than during previous busts.
Even though companies have laid off
workers and some have pulled out of
the area entirely, there’s still a housing
shortage in Hobbs. The city’s population is predicted to grow by 14 percent
by 2020, according to the University
of New Mexico’s Bureau of Business
and Economic Research.
“It [the economy] has not imploded,”
Hobbs Mayor Sam Cobb said during a
recent interview when oil prices were
still in the $40-a-barrel range.
“It has slowed down, but it has not
imploded. All those wells drilled over
the past seven or eight years, if they
are still operating, they have to be
serviced. Parts wear out. Water and
oil have to be hauled and wells have
to be metered.”
Grant Taylor, executive director of
the Hobbs Chamber of Commerce,
said people are stoic, even hopeful. “The overall mood is, ‘Wait and
see.’ Most of the conversations I’ve
had with people in the [oil] business
are predicting a return to $50 a barrel
this year,” Taylor said. “We’ve had so
many families that are just bracing
themselves, saying that they will get
through this.”
Taylor said that the $3.9 million in
GRT revenue Hobbs got in January
was the lowest amount the city had
seen in several years.
Sam Spencer, president and CEO of
Lea County State Bank in Hobbs, said
the area is starting to see the effects
of more than 18 months of falling oil
prices. “We’ve seen more layoffs, unemployment is up to 6 percent or so,” he
said. He expects more layoffs and business failures. “Any time you’ve got this
type of depressed price in a commodity,
some of that goes on,” Spencer said.
cont. on page 15
NEWS
Playing Catch with the Ethics Reform Hot Potato
BY BILL HUME
H
istorically, governmental ethics are like the weather
in New Mexico: Everybody talks about it but
nobody does anything about it.
However, the issue is white-hot this year, given the
guilty plea of former Secretary of State Dianna Duran to
illegally tapping her campaign accounts, plus continuing
hints of ongoing state and federal grand jury probes,
this time looking at Republicans.
Not everyone is aroused. The word “ethics” was absent
from Gov. Susana Martinez’s State of the State address.
Governmental ethics aren’t a hot-button issue when it’s
your own party in the spotlight, apparently.
The topic hangs heavy on the minds of legislators
this year. Two early items target the issue. The proposal
of Rep. Brian Egolf, a Santa Fe Democrat, is a bill (HB
80) proposing the statutory establishment of an ethics
commission.
A bulky 108 pages long, the bill details the composition and antecedents of a ten-member “State Ethics
Commission,” and goes into great detail on its prerogatives, responsibilities and procedures. The other, a
proposal by Rep. Jim Dines, an Albuquerque Republican,
is a House Joint Resolution. It proposes a nine-member
State Ethics Commission established by a constitutional
amendment. It is but five and a half pages long,
detailing the composition, antecedents and duties of a
nine-member commission.
Egolf’s proposal lays down powers and procedures
that would make it a dangerous proposition for any
legislator, administration official, board or commission
member to violate any law or regulation. An impedi-
ment is that it is subject to the governor’s input through
her control of the short session agenda and through her
veto authority.
Dines, on the other hand, bypasses the governor’s
authority by going the amendment route. Should his
joint resolution pass both chambers, it would go directly
to the people at the next general election, bypassing the
fourth floor.
Everybody’s up for re-election this year. The sound-bite
fabricators will be watching (and recording) every turn
of phrase. Both proposals will face the covert opposition
of legislators understandably unenthusiastic about strict
laws aimed at their own conduct.
So, the stage is set for a tap dance over the next few
weeks. Legislators will not want to speak out against
ethics legislation at the same time that many – perhaps
a majority – would prefer that it quietly go away. But
to do that, they will have to decide whether to take it
down by vote or by procedural maneuver.
What to do? Because of its less complicated legislative
path, Dines’ constitutional amendment presents the
easier starting point for the House to come together on
something – and because both proposals are there, the
House is obliged to make the first move.
Egolf and his colleagues should be aware of Dines’
probable motivation on this, if they aren’t already. Many
years ago, Dines was a lead counsel for the Albuquerque
Journal in a defamation lawsuit against the paper. (I
was involved in the course of my work there). Through
the process of our successful defense, Dines got up close
and personal exposure to ethical lapses (to put it softly)
in state government. I have had but one or two brief,
unrelated, conversations with Dines in the last 25 years
– but I suspect he is acting on bedrock conviction on this
issue. He’s pushing for red-meat reform.
Republicans can be expected to kill Egolf’s bill. But
that leaves them caught in the spotlight of anti-ethics
attention. If they were to send Dines’ joint resolution on
to the Senate with bipartisan support, it would shift the
dilemma to the upper chamber. The House has to be first
because it is the originating chamber of the proposals –
but it could pass the buck to the Senate, with no sound
bites lingering to haunt them.
Let’s face it: There is zero constituency among New
Mexico voters for opposing ethics oversight of our
public officials. It will be every legislator against his own
constituency for anybody seen as standing against it.
As noted previously, Dines’ constitutional amendment
mechanism deals the governor out of the game.
Consequently, getting together on a constitutional
amendment proposal to pitch smoking-hot to the Senate
is absolutely the best path out for the House.
Dines has already demonstrated cross-aisle rapport
with the Senate, with his joint sponsoring with Sen.
Peter Wirth, a Santa Fe Democrat, of legislation on
warrants for police cellphone searches. All eyes will be
on all members as ethics proposals start their journey
this session.
Bill Hume is a former editorial page editor of the
Albuquerque Journal and later served as a policy adviser
to former Gov. Bill Richardson.
Lobbyist Spending Expected to Ramp Up for 2016 Session
BY SANDRA FISH
NEW MEXICO IN DEPTH
L
obbyists and their employers spent some
$818,000 on meals, receptions and gifts for lawmakers and other New Mexico officials in 2015.
Individual lobbyists – 148 of them – spent more
than $474,000, while 23 businesses spent more than
$344,000, reports show.
The overall total includes a rarity in New Mexico
campaign finance reporting – the money a big New
Mexico corporation spent on lobbying services last
year.
In a report filed Jan. 15, Yates Petroleum Corp. reported paying former state Sen. Kent Cravens nearly
$90,000 for lobbying services.
Cravens said the company mistakenly filed what
he was paid for his lobbying services and the report
will be rescinded, however.
“Their report got filed, which shouldn’t have.
They’re not a registered lobbyist so they’re not
required to file,” Cravens said. “Someone in their tax
department saw a deadline and they thought they
had to meet it.”
Yates’ filing cracks a window onto what businesses
spend on lobbyists; this is the information organizations such as Common Cause New Mexico and
others like Rep. Jeff Steinborn, a Las Cruces Democrat, will push for during the 30-day legislative
session that continues through Feb. 18. Unlike other
states, including Colorado, New Mexico doesn’t
require private-sector companies to reveal
how much they pay lobbyists working on
their behalf.
In November, New Mexico In Depth
reported that public agencies paid more than
$7.2 million in 2014 and 2015 for state and
federal lobbying services. But that figure
doesn’t capture a complete picture because
not much is known about how much private-sector employers pay their lobbyists.
Viki Harrison, executive director of Common Cause New Mexico, said the mistaken
Yates filing is a good example of the sort of transparency her organization would like to see.
“This lets us know what can be done,” she said.
“This is what people want.”
It’s difficult to draw conclusions for what all
private-sector employers spend on lobbying from
one corporate filing. But if all 148 lobbyists reporting
expenses in 2015 were paid $90,000 a year based on
all sources of revenue, that would total more than
$13 million. Many lobbyists have multiple clients
paying them.
Most of the money spent by lobbyists and employers – more than $561,000 – was spent during the first
four months of the year, as lobbyists and their clients
focused on the 2015 60-day legislative session.
But in reports filed by the Jan. 15 deadline, employers reported spending an additional $127,000
from May through December in addition to the
$217,000 they spent in the first four months of
2015. Individual lobbyists reported spending about
$130,000 between May and December to add to the
$344,000 they spent January through April 2015.
Surprisingly, only three individual lobbyists
reported expenses for June 8, the date of a special
session, totaling $310.88.
The National Education Association of New
Mexico reported spending $293.48 for pizza for state
senators that day.
The total spent by individual lobbyists was slightly
less than during the 2013 session, according to the
New Mexico In Depth analysis.
Sandra Fish writes for New Mexico In Depth, a
non-profit news organization that seeks to develop
partnerships with media outlets across New Mexico.
COLUMNS
Signs that Lawmakers
Have Grown Weary of Susana
BY JOE MONAHAN
Y
ou would have
thought that
Gov. Martinez’s
ill-fated and
nationally embarrassing holiday pizza
pie party would
have resulted in her
eating a hefty slice
of humble pie, but
no such luck.
The governor and her minions remain
in kill-the-messenger mode. Their assault
on the “New Mexico Truth” parody TV
ads demonstrates that the intransigence
and vindictiveness that have been the
hallmark of Martinez’s tenure remain its
guiding principles.
The ads, produced by Albuquerque
nonprofit CHI St. Joseph’s Children, spoof
the state’s well-known tourism ad campaign “New Mexico True.” Using similar
magnificent natural backdrops as New
Mexico True does to attract tourists, New
Mexico Truth points out that amid this
spectacular setting the childhood poverty
rate is the highest in the nation and the
child hunger rate is third highest.
You might expect state officials to either
ignore the campaign or say something to
the effect that they have a plan to tackle
these stubborn matters. Instead, the administration rattles its saber, threatening
legal action and condemning the ads as
unpatriotic. The Martinez administration’s
response to the New Mexico Truth ads
brings to mind the scene in “A Few Good
Men” when Jack Nicholson angrily snaps:
“You can’t handle the truth.”
In her State of the State speech to the
2016 Legislature, the governor did not
mention that New Mexico has the nation’s
worst childhood poverty rate, the highest
unemployment rate (as of November) or
that it ranks 49th in overall child well-being, according to a respected national
study.
Instead, she trudged through a rambling
list of anti-crime bills as she worked feverishly to divert attention from the state’s
true condition. In that way, she hopes to
excite an electorate into giving her and
her party more power by taking control
of the state Senate at the November
election.
While the deep-seated cynicism of
Martinez and company appears to have
been unaltered by the exposure of the
dark side of her personality as a result of
the pizza party gone wrong, there are
growing signs that even those who have
been supportive of her are tiring of the
charade.
Republican Sen. Gay Kernan of Hobbs
announced she is no longer sponsoring
For a follow-up to our online reader poll on the
governor’s performance, see Page 4 Local Briefs
third-grade retention legislation, one of
the administration’s key education goals
that each year gets rejected. Kernan says
the facts now show it does not work
in states where it has been adopted.
And conservative Democratic Sen. John
Arthur Smith of Deming, chairman of the
powerful Senate Finance Committee, who
is often supportive of Martinez initiatives,
has toughened his rhetoric toward her
perennial wedge issue of driver’s licenses
for undocumented New Mexicans.
He says the House Republican bill for
driving privilege cards backed by the
governor is unacceptable because it contains a “Scarlet Letter.” The card would
identify undocumented immigrants to
law enforcement. “That’s the component
where you have concerns about racial
profiling,” Smith said.
The Martinez
administration’s response
to the New Mexico
Truth ads brings to mind
the scene in ‘A Few
Good Men’ when Jack
Nicholson angrily snaps:
‘You can’t handle the truth’
It seems that the $50,000 TV ad campaign that a pro-Martinez PAC aired prior
to the session urging viewers to hammer
lawmakers to repeal the licenses may have
been for naught.
Martinez continues to weaken in the
aftermath of the pizza party and the
New Mexico Truth ad campaign. Regional
polling we’ve seen from Valencia, Cibola,
McKinley and Sandoval counties shows
her losing traction, especially among
independent voters who have been
among her most sturdy supporters.
Martinez appears headed toward a
statewide public approval rating of below
50 percent for the first time, if she isn’t
already there.
Martinez may continue to push away the
humble pie but it’s going to keep being
placed in front of her by fellow politicians
and a public grown increasingly weary of
the nonstop drumbeat of bad news. Killing
the messenger doesn’t work very well
when you have no message of your own.
Joe Monahan is a veteran of New Mexico
politics. His daily blog can be found at
joemonahan.com
NEWS
Official Pushes ABQ to Buy Sand Dunes Miles from Town
BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI
W
estern Albuquerque Land Holdings LLC, the
company that wants to build the 14,000-acre
Santolina development on the far West Mesa, has
been working behind the scenes with Albuquerque
officials since at least 2011 to get the city to spend
millions of dollars to buy thousands of acres of its
land – some of it undevelopable – for open space.
The company, which is owned by Barclays Capital Real Estate, has even suggested tax increases
and public relations campaigns to push its agenda.
And in December 2014, WALH sent city officials a
spreadsheet suggesting the city spend $33.1 million
through 2033 to buy 13,644 acres of its land, most
of it near the Rio Puerco, miles beyond the city’s
borders.
Two open space activists said the situation smacks
of a much-too-cozy relationship between WALH and
the main city official it has been dealing with, Open
Space Superintendent Matt Schmader.
WALH’s effort to get the city to buy its land has
come despite the city’s dwindling resources to buy
open space. For instance, in 2007, city voters approved $5.5 million in general obligation bonds to
buy open space. But then the recession hit, and in
2011, open space general obligation bonds totaled
$700,000. Last year, just $200,000 was set aside for
open space acquisition.
WALH, through its asset manager, Garrett Development Corp., has worked closely with Schmader on its agenda, according to emails and other
records obtained by activist Ike Eastvold. Schmader
and Garrett principals, Jeff and Ted Garrett, have
exchanged scores of emails over the years regarding
WALH’s agenda.
WALH’s effort to get the city to
buy its land has come despite
the city’s dwindling resources
to buy open space
Eastvold and former city councilor Alan Reed,
who helped start the open space program in the
1970s, said the effort to steer city money to WALH
culminated in early 2015 when three city councilors
introduced a bill to dissolve the city’s $10 million
Open Space Trust Fund and use it to buy property.
Interest on the trust funds principal is currently used
to help maintain city open spaces.
That legislation was introduced just four months
after WALH sent Schmader its spreadsheet suggesting the city spend $33 million on its properties. The
City Council eventually junked the idea of dissolving the trust fund after Reed, Eastvold and others
objected.
Schmader expressed his support to Ted Garrett last
year for the trust fund dissolution bill. “This is the
introduction for the bill to re-purpose the permanent
fund for land acquisition,” Schmader’s April 6, 2015,
email said. “So this is the first step in what I hope to
be a couple months-long process to allow for more
purchases soon.”
Schmader’s relationship with WALH officials has
troubled Eastvold and Reed. Both said it appeared
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The Human Beings in the 911 Chain:
If They’re Not There, No One Is
BY DAN KLEIN
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Western Albuquerque Land Holdings LLC plans to develop 14,000 acres of desert west and south of Albuquerque and has been trying to
get the City of Albuquerque to buy 13,644 acres of its land near the Rio Puerco.
that WALH had gotten special treatment, and that
the lack of public involvement in the process was
concerning.
Schmader did not return ABQ Free Press phone
calls for comment on this story. Nor did Ted or Jeff
Garrett.
“It smells. It shows a continuing effort and cooperation between the representatives of WALH and
the superintendent of Open Space, Matt Schmader,
to earmark open space money to purchase undevelopable lands from WALH,” said Reed, who was a
councilor from 1975 to 1979. “It’s improper because
there was no public input on this.”
Eastvold, who pushed for the creation of the Petroglyph National Monument in the late 1980s, said,
“It definitely seems to me that this particular land
owner was given almost exclusive treatment, and
plans were hatched that would not be tolerated by
the City Council and that would drain city resources
for the next 18 years.”
Both Eastvold and Reed said the city should be
looking to buy open space land closer to the city and
in greater danger of being developed, not land near
the Rio Puerco.
Both men said they became even more convinced
that WALH and Schmader were cooperating too
closely last August when they said Schmader tried
to ram through the city’s purchase of 640 acres of
WALH property called the Northern Sand Dunes
near the Rio Puerco for $1.5 million. Schmader
appeared before the city Open Space Advisory
Board on Aug. 25, 2015, and told board members
he wanted them to recommend approval of the
purchase. The problem, though, was that the issue
wasn’t on the board’s agenda as an action item, and
thus the board was barred from voting on it under
the rules of the New Mexico Open Meetings Act.
The board did approve the buy, and Eastvold filed
an Open Meetings Act violation complaint against
the board. The board held a second vote on the
recommended purchase in September and approved
it again.
‘It definitely seems to me that this
particular land owner was given
almost exclusive treatment, and
plans were hatched that would not
be tolerated by the City Council
and that would drain city resources
for the next 18 years’
— Ike Eastvold
Open Space board member Janet Saiers said she
was uncomfortable with the way Schmader tried
to push through the sand dunes purchase. “The
agenda said it was a property report involving the
sand dunes. Then all of a sudden it goes from a
property report to Matt Schmader recommending
acquisition,” Saiers said. “I thought we were only
going to have a report.”
“The questions I have,” Saiers continued, “is
who had directed Matt to ask for that parcel to be
purchased, what is the relationship between the city
and WALH, and were any intentions made [between
the city and WALH] that were not part of the public
discussion? Some of those emails [between WALH
cont. on page 11
t was Feb. 27, 1987. The Albuquerque
Police Department Communications
Center, located in the basement of the
police station, was a secure windowless room accessed only by a security
key.
The 911 operators are located in the
back and the police dispatchers are
located in the front. Shortly before
midnight, APD 911 operators received
a call from a woman asking for help.
She was involved in a domestic
disturbance.
Nancy, the 911 operator, sent the call
to Kat, the dispatcher, who dispatched
Officers John Carrillo and John Messimer to the location of the domestic
disturbance. Moments later, the
transmission no one in Dispatch ever
wanted to hear: “10-83! Shots fired!
Officer down!”
One of the dispatchers (Sy), who was
working in the radio room that night,
described the emotion-filled moment
that followed. I edited her comments
and I am only using first names.
“Cindy was control [supervisor]. The
911s were Nancy, Geri and me [Sy].
Kat was the dispatcher for Northeast
and Marie was on Valley dispatch. We
all knew what had happened a minute
before midnight when John took his
last breath. Cindy came to the front of
the radio room so all the DPs (dispatchers) and 911s (operators) could
see and hear her. She announced, ‘I
wanted to let you all know that Officer
John Carrillo was killed.’ Then she
faded into tears.”
Cindy went back to work a few minutes later. Personal tragedy and death
does not allow the men and women
in APD Dispatch to take a holiday, not
that night, nor any other. Through the
pain they have to be there.
The 911 operator who took the
original call was taken off the console
so she could calm down. Another 911
operator went to the hospital emergency room, leaving one 911 operator
working the terminal. Why did she
stay? Because the human element
doesn’t stop just because those who
care for the rest of us have been
devastated.
Here’s what she had to say: “With
every call that came in, how badly
inside I felt that their piddly problems
didn’t compare to my friend’s murder, but I had to care because there
wasn’t anyone else. ... There were still
incidents and accidents and boyfriends beating up girlfriends, fights
and stolen this and stolen that. [On
that night] I learned how to be polite
to needy people who had no idea of
the thousand deaths I felt like I was
dying.”
The 911 operator was 21 years old.
She, along with many others in the
radio room that night, continued
working. They had a job to do. Citizens were still calling in for help.
‘There were still incidents
and accidents and
boyfriends beating up
girlfriends, fights
and stolen this and
stolen that’
— 911 operator
All the dispatchers and 911 operators
I talked with expressed concern for
“their” officers and citizens. They
didn’t want their story to elicit pity.
They had a job to do and they continued to do it. It’s that simple. A more
caring, professional, group of people
you would be hard pressed to find in
any job.
APD has had many tragedies since
that night. By writing this column I
hope to shed light on those forgotten
heroes, the 911 operators and dispatchers, who keep doing their jobs,
even when their world is falling apart
around them. They are every bit as
heroic as the cop on the beat. They
can’t leave when they are personally
confronted with tragedy. They realize
that if they aren’t there, answering
your calls for help, then no one is
there.
Emergency operators tell officers
where to go while comforting citizens
who are in crisis. Without them, police
officers can’t perform their job. They
are the nameless, faceless people to
whom we turn for help when we dial
911. They deserve every bit of praise
that we give to our police officers.
We all belong to the same team,
and if one part of that team doesn’t
do their job, then the entire team falls
apart. Too often, the professional
service and work done by 911 operators and dispatchers is overlooked by
the public, city administrators, police
chiefs and police officers. I hope this
column has remedied that.
Dan Klein is a retired Albuquerque
police sergeant. He can be contacted via
Facebook.
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Meet the ‘Activist at Birth’ Who Brought the DOJ to ABQ
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The consent decree has been a
bittersweet victory for Hall. She still
sees a terrible imbalance of power in
this country, a structure she refers to
as a “fraternal order.”
It’s fitting that her babysitter was
her great grandmother, who was
born into slavery in the 1850s and
who taught Hall as a young girl how
power works in America. “It was like
an oral history every evening about
how the system works, how they use
ethnic groups to further their own
cause,” Hall said.
by TOM O’CONNELL
ewel Hall was leading the fight in 2012 to bring
the U.S. Department of Justice to Albuquerque to
investigate police use of force when she learned that
eight cops had fired 46 bullets at her own son back
in Michigan, killing him and sparking an international outcry.
Milton Hall was mentally ill, lived on the streets and
had been accused of stealing a cup of coffee, she said.
Reactions
Bringing the DOJ here,
Hall said, faced one monumental
roadblock: Albuquerque
Mayor Richard J. Berry
It was all too familiar to the retired science teacher
and union leader, now 83, who has seen hundreds of
young men killed by Albuquerque police since moving
here in 1977. But when the bodies started falling even
faster than usual – 23 killed and 14 wounded by officers here over four years – Hall and her fellow activists
at the Martin Luther King Jr. Multicultural Council of
Albuquerque started talking about what to do.
And then Christopher Torres, the son of the
group’s longtime vice president, Renetta Torres, was
killed in 2011. That’s when they organized the ad
hoc Martin Luther King Task Force, came together
and got to work.
“We thought we had to say to the city, after we’d
done our work and looked at the number of kids
that had been killed, that somebody has got to come
and look at the situation,” Hall said. “They cannot
keep doing this to the community.”
Hall, who was a founder of the MLK council, got
the idea of bringing in the DOJ from her brother-inlaw, who helped put New Orleans back together after 2005’s Hurricane Katrina. In the ugly aftermath,
as police allegedly gunned down desperate survivors, the intervention of the Department of Justice
was a galvanizing force that saw results overnight,
her brother-in-law told her.
The city will get a chance to
see how implementation of the
consent decree is going when
the DOJ monitor presents his
quarterly progress report to the
City Council on March 7
“So I suggested to our nucleus group that we
needed an objective look at all of these murders
after we’d done research and found that Renetta’s
son wasn’t the only one that had been murdered
unjustly,” she said.
The roadblock
It was not an easy fight. They did win. The DOJ
is here and it has condemned APD practices. DOJ’s
monitor, James Ginger, is overseeing reforms spelled
out in a consent decree that will take an estimated
Jewel Hall and the Martin Luther King Multicultural Council of
Albuquerque that she helped found, were the driving force in
getting the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the
Albuquerque Police Department.
four years to implement. But bringing the DOJ here,
Hall said, faced one monumental roadblock: Albuquerque Mayor Richard J. Berry.
Early on, the task force went to Berry and asked
him to join their cause. “We were naïve enough to
think that if it happened in New Orleans and we
explained it to the mayor, that he would also join us.
But the mayor refused to join us.”
One big barrier to Berry’s participation came
during a 2011 conflict with his office when the city decided to pull its support for her organization’s annual
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. Hall believes
that was retaliation because Berry wanted Renetta
Torres removed as VP but the group refused. Berry
also didn’t seem to think there was a problem at APD.
“When we met with Berry to help us get an
objective review of these killings of all these kids,
he told us we had the best police force in the United
States,” said Hall, who chuckled. “We know each
other well,” she said of the mayor, but wouldn’t
elaborate, saying their history was “negative” and
“not newsworthy.”
“I just worry about being an old woman in jail,”
she said, chuckling again, this time uneasily. “I hear
they don’t treat you well.”
Next, the Task Force tried the City Council, which
voted to bring in the DOJ, but Berry vetoed it. Later,
the City Council voted unanimously to support the
DOJ if it did come to town, and that vote stuck. But
they still couldn’t get the mayor onboard, and they
failed to get the City Council to override the mayor’s veto. So the task force approached then-Sen. Jeff
Bingaman, who helped get the ball rolling.
The city will get a chance to see how implementation of the consent decree is going when the DOJ
monitor presents his quarterly progress report to the
City Council on March 7. Ginger is expected to show
that APD is 95 percent in compliance with reforms.
The reforms outlined in the consent decree
include: a requirement for a system of accountability
for use of force and investigations of use of force;
how decisions for SWAT enforcement are handled;
a new training regimen for use of force and how
officers are held accountable; and an enhanced crisis
intervention process for dealing with those experiencing mental issues.
The ACLU of New Mexico, which partnered with
the task force in bringing the DOJ, is optimistic but
fears that the consent decree falls short.
“I think it’s our best opportunity to push for
systemic change in APD,” said executive director
Peter Simonson. “While we would have hoped for a
stronger decree, we also recognize the opportunity
to reform a department that has gone through three
cycles of officer-involved violence in 40 years. This
is the first time a federal agency has stepped in to
enforce changes. It represents a unique opportunity
to undo problems that have been with this department for many years.”
Simonson would have liked to have seen better
reporting on how SWAT teams are used, better
accountability regarding APD’s bodycam policy,
and more specific requirements regarding officers’
violations of policy and discipline.
‘While we would have hoped for a
stronger decree, we also recognize
the opportunity to reform a
department that has gone through
three cycles of officer-involved
violence in 40 years’
— Peter Simonson, New Mexico ACLU
Although she’s elated to see the federal government taking an interest in APD, Hall remains
skeptical. That’s largely because those most personally affected by the killings have not been involved,
she said. She would have liked to see survivors like
Renetta Torres have a say during negotiations and
implementation.
City Councilor Ken Sanchez is confident in the job
Ginger is doing, but acknowledged the challenges
ahead. He believes the process has been transparent
and that the right people from the community have
been involved.
“We’ve got a monumental task ahead of us, and
there needs to be enormous reform,” said Sanchez.
“One thing I was concerned with was having a community involved that truly understood the issues.”
Responding to Hall’s concern that survivors have
not been part of the process, Sanchez said, “I’ve been
at the meetings and I think some of those people
were involved. The stakeholders must be involved
for this to work.”
Cont. on page 11
mLK/doj, Page 10
‘A firing squad’
‘Boyd would still be living
if he had stayed on
Second Street or Fourth
Street. But he went up
into the million-dollar
homes, and they went
and got him’
— Jewel Hall
That could explain why Hall insists
she became an activist “at birth.”
“I come from the old school, and I
used to hear my ancestors say over
and over the police in this country
are an extension of the KKK, which
protected certain populations and
were trained that certain populations
were less valuable than others,” Hall
said. “And every so often, I think
those thoughts are valid.”
That brings to mind the terrible
video that can be seen online of those
officers in Saginaw, Mich., circling
her son Milton, 49, a German shepherd barking at him for two minutes
before the cops unload a barrage of
firepower. The body drops, the bullets
stop, the body is still, and one officer
rolls Milton onto his belly and cuffs
his corpse.
At the time, Hall described it as “a
firing squad dressed in police uniforms.”
So where does she stand now, at
83, a woman who’s been fighting an
elitist system all her life? What did
she take from these latest battles?
“It told me that even though
DOJ came, and DOJ is a part of the
government system, that it is still
a relationship of fraternal order
between national government, state
government, and city government,”
said Hall. “To me, it says that to get
justice with those three who in some
way protect each other, you have to
have either money or numbers.”
She talked of James Boyd, the
homeless camper shot down by APD
in 2014. “Boyd would still be living
if he had stayed on Second Street or
Fourth Street,” she said. “But he went
up into the million-dollar homes, and
they went and got him.”
If money rules, then all you have to
fall back on is strength in numbers.
“From my experience, the most
powerful thing is numbers because
when numbers rise up, [governments]
do not want that kind of publicity
about their city or their state or the
United States going worldwide,” Hall
said.
“So if you can get numbers or
coalitions of people to come together,
and have your mission and concerns
clearly and professionally stated, then
you can get policies changed.”
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and Schmader] lead someone to ask if
there was a commitment made.”
A Feb. 6, 2012, memo from Ted
Garrett suggested various ways the
city could fund its purchase of four
WALH properties, including the
sand dunes. They included sales and
property taxes, as well as federal
funds. The memo even suggested a
public relations campaign to help with
the effort.
A Sept. 24, 2015, hand-written memo
by Schmader about a meeting he had
with Ted Garrett might suggest the
real reason for WALH’s continuing
campaign to get the city to buy its
land. “TG-[WALH] Are looking to pay
‘Some of those emails
[between WALH and
Schmader] lead someone
to ask if there was a
commitment made’
— Open Space Board Member Janet Saiers
down debt. Large OS [open space]
through the rest of the city has not
been donated,” Schmader’s memo
said. “WALH would not be able to donate any land or take a price redux.”
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Getting at the Root of the Takeover in Oregon
Editor’s note: This is an email conversation between Alan Webber, a businessman who
sought the 2014 Democratic nomination for governor, and Paul Gessing, a Libertarian
who heads the Rio Grande Foundation. The topic was the occupation of a federal wildlife
refuge headquarters in Oregon by anti-government activists.
Paul Gessing: While we disapprove of their methods, the protesters who have
occupied a wildlife refuge in Oregon have a point about the scope of federal land
holdings in the West.
Currently, 28 percent of the U.S. and 42 percent of New Mexico are under
federal control. No one is talking about privatizing Yellowstone (or Carlsbad
Caverns), but the federal estate continues to grow and we at the Rio Grande
Foundation believe that the Feds have more than enough land.
It is time to shift most if not all U.S. Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service lands to state control where leaders who are closer to the people and
understand the issues of the West can do a
better job of stewardship for the environment and taxpayers alike.
Alan Webber: If the Bundy’s have a point,
Paul, I sure wish you’d tell us what it is!
And by the way, you never explain exactly
why “it is time” to turn federal land over
the states. If it’s for the reasons the Bundys
are on the rampage, it’s so we can drill,
drain and damage the public’s land in the
name of resource extraction and private
financial gain.
Perhaps you think it’ll save taxpayer
money. But a recent study found that turning federal land in Utah over to that state
would cost Utah taxpayers $275 million per
year. No bargain there!
If it all comes down to economics, let’s get
real: The benefit of federal lands is not in
extraction – it’s in tourism and recreation.
The Bundys don’t get that. Do you, Paul?
Gessing: I’m not sure what assumptions
these Utah researchers made, but I have numerous studies showing that state
management of BLM and Forest Service lands will result in both increased cost
efficiency and better management. Who knows New Mexico lands better, the
locals or a bureaucrat behind a desk in Washington?
Gessing: It isn’t just the Kochs or Bundys who
have concerns with federal land policies. Reies Lopez
Tijerina’s Tierra Amarilla courthouse raid back in
1967 was due to federal encroachment on land
grants here in Northern New Mexicot
Fires have burned out of control in the West on federal lands due in part to
poor federal management techniques that allowed forests to become overly
dense.
To this day, Native Americans manage and thin their forests. Washington lets
them burn. The Little Bear fire burned more than 35,000 acres of National Forest
land near Ruidoso in the summer of 2012. Locals, including the president of the
Mescalero Apaches, testified in Congress about his tribe’s success in managing
the forests and contrasted it to the failure of the Forest Service.
Webber: Paul, you keep shifting your argument: Now it’s about local control!
Following your argument about local control to its logical conclusion, you’re
going to find yourself re-fighting the Civil War. After all, who knew the South
better than the slave owners?
No, there’s libertarian ideology hiding behind all this obfuscation. It’s simple:
Like the Koch Brothers who fund the American Lands Council, you want to strip
away federal protections from some of the most spectacular land owned by the
American people and open it up for private gain. Drill, baby, drill! That’s the real
motive here.
And as for those “bureaucrats” in Washington, D.C., you’re talking about
Teddy Roosevelt, Aldo Leopold, Gifford Pinchot and Stewart Udall, to name a
few. I trust their vision more than the simplistic slogans of the Ammon Bundys of
the world.
Gessing: Whether “state” control qualifies as “local” or not is irrelevant. It’s a lot
more “local” than Washington, D.C.
And, no, we are not talking about national parks here. We are discussing
“multiple use” National Forests and BLM lands. Now, there are indeed a lot of
trees on those Forest Service lands, but that
doesn’t make them all “spectacular.” And
the BLM controls lands nearly the size of
West Virginia in New Mexico alone. Much
of these are vast prairie.
It isn’t just the Kochs or Bundys who have
concerns with federal land policies. Reies
Lopez Tijerina’s Tierra Amarilla courthouse
raid back in 1967 was due to federal encroachment on land grants here in Northern
New Mexico.
The powerful like Teddy Roosevelt have
used government for decades to push
around those who stand in their way.
Webber: The history of New Mexico land
grants and the Oregon occupation are two
completely different (ball) parks! And
when you accuse Teddy “The Trustbuster”
Roosevelt of not standing up for the little
people – them’s fighting words!
Let’s try to cut through all this false history. This dispute isn’t about who controls
the land. It’s about what we value.
It’s about the enduring value of conservation – of handing down unspoiled
land from generation to generation – versus the short-term fixation on extraction
and development.
I’m going to give my last words to Teddy Roosevelt, who understood why
nature mattered: “We have fallen heirs to the most glorious heritage a people
ever received, and each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is
worthy of its good fortune.” That’s what’s really at stake.
Webber: Following your argument about local control
to its logical conclusion, you’re going to find yourself
re-fighting the Civil War. After all, who knew the
South better than the slave owners?
Gessing: I am happy to quote Teddy Roosevelt as well. Alan’s hero has some
doozies including, “We need not waste our time in dealing with any sentimentalist who believes that, on account of any abstract principle, it would have
been right to leave this continent to the domain, the hunting ground of squalid
savages. It had to be taken by the white race.”
Roosevelt is a great hero for “progressives” because he didn’t respect limits on
his power like checks and balances. To him, power flowed from a “great man”
and that if you stood in his way, you should be dealt with harshly.
Ranchers and others who try to make a living on and around federal lands
must often feel like Native Americans of Teddy Roosevelt’s time, trying to avoid
being squashed by a far-off bureaucracy.
letters/editorial cartoons
To the Editor:
In regard to the President’s State of the
Union Address, while I agree with President Obama’s message overall, I feel some
material may have been left out due to
political expediency.
We don’t just need more jobs. We need
more GOOD jobs, jobs that pay enough not
only to allow Americans to survive but to
actually thrive. Jobs that provide not only
the basic means of bare survival but also
the respect, fair, and decent treatment that
all human beings are entitled to.
Too many Americans are not receiving
these most basic of human and fundamental rights, and this is reflected by the
non-stop and increasingly more common
violence and mass shootings. While some
were acts of evil for which there is no political solution, it is no coincidence that most
of the mass shooters were, or were soon to
be, unemployed or homeless.
We remain one of the few nations where
unemployment is treated as a capital
offense that the victim is held accountable
for. Most unemployed do not receive
unemployment benefits and are simply
pushed off the economic cliff with no, or
an inadequate, safety net below them. I do
not believe that the proven high morbidity
and mortality of unemployment is always
an unintended result. Death by deliberate
neglect is a proven means of genocide and
crime against humanity, and our nation is
not “exceptional” enough to be above the
law and beyond such considerations.
We STILL need universal health-care and
STILL need to separate health care from
employment. Discrimination based on
disability, age, sex and gender, even race
and ethnicity, and against those who are insurance risks for whatever reason, is being
made a requirement for financial survival
for many honest employers, and an extra
source of profit for many dishonest ones.
Members of Congress who refuse to
honor their Constitutional mandate and
sworn duty to fund the government and its
democratically instituted laws are in violation of the Constitution. They are engaging
in a treasonous end-run around the Constitution and effectively assuming the presidential power of veto. They are traitors and
should be impeached and convicted of the
high crime of treason, and the lesser crime
of perjuring their oath, regardless of what
their co-conspirators on any court say.
— Mike Richardson
To the Editor:
The recent Journal article on the front
page entitled “Report shows N.M. has fallen
out of top 10 in solar capacity” begs the
question: Why? There are a variety of reasons, few answers attempted in the Journal’s
article. Some of the answers are actually
in the recently released governor’s energy
policy.
This “policy” is full of half-truths and
giveaways to the Republicans’ beloved oil
and gas industry, and virtually nothing for
renewables, which despite the tenor of this
“plan” is the future of energy.
Recently, President Obama called out the
Koch brothers for their constant attempts
to destroy alternative energy policy in the
states, through their moneyed influence on
Republican politicians, including our own
governor.
The Koch Brothers, who gave nearly
$20,000 to Gov. Martinez and the governor’s
Susana PAC from 2010 to 2013 (the Journal,
May 8, 2014), are attempting to eliminate
all alternative energy projects in the states
through their well-funded American Legislative Exchange Council and their Americans
for Prosperity, most recently in Arizona.
In Arizona, Arizona Public Service Company, the largest electric utility company in
the state, admitted that it worked with the 60
Plus Association, a Virginia-based nonprofit
seniors advocacy group receiving Koch
money, to support the utility’s proposal to
add fees on homeowners with solar panels.
This is the same ploy that our own PNM was
going to forward to the PRC, but thought
better of it.
Gov. Martinez’ veto of Senate Bill 391, the
Extend the Solar Market Development Tax
Credit for homeowners, is a prime example
of her attempt to eliminate alternative energy
in New Mexico in order to placate her fossil
fuel donors. The veto flies in the face of her
statement in the new energy policy: “A key
principle of this plan is that New Mexico cannot afford to exclude any energy asset from
our portfolio of development opportunities.”
New Mexico should be a leader in solar
energy, and not just PNM, who will build
solar facilities on public or private land with
tax breaks paid for by New Mexico taxpayers. This is Martinez’ energy credential: all oil
and gas until there is no more. Then what?
It is impossible to tell whether the governor’s anti-environmental philosophy is
dictated by the obscene amount of money
funneled to her by the anti-environmental
Koch brothers, or simply her own philosophy.
The insidious recent tax cuts for the rich and
corporations in New Mexico putatively to
“create jobs” is a sham as we know, and quite
evident by New Mexico’s high unemployment, the highest in the nation.
If corporations were only interested in low
or no taxes, Silicon Valley would be in Florida or Texas and not California. Corporations
are interested in a well educated electorate
and many prefer clean energy. As the fossil
fuel industry is laying off workers, the alternative energy industry in New Mexico has
provided thousands of new jobs. Martinez,
as in so many areas, is on the wrong side of
the future, and her new Energy “plan” is no
panacea. Its’ clear she only cares about the 1
percent. Sad for New Mexico’s future.
— M. Steven Shackley
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ANALYSIS/EDITORIAL CARTOONS
Why Does the Governor
Lie About REAL ID?
BY HEATH HAUSSAMEN
G
ov.
Susana
Martinez
is telling a
whopper
of a tale
during the
fight over
giving driver’s licenses
to immigrants living in the United
States without legal status.
Martinez, a Republican, has
fought for years to take away
licenses from such immigrants.
Until this year she has rejected
compromise and tried to knock
those who opposed her out of
office.
Now she’s blaming Democrats
for the state’s noncompliance
with the federal REAL ID Act. The
U.S. Department of Homeland
Security recently came down on
several states, including New
Mexico, for failing for a decade
to come into compliance with the
law.
In part because New Mexico
doesn’t require license holders
to prove citizenship or legal
residence, our licenses now
aren’t acceptable forms of
identification to get onto military
bases nationwide. If New Mexico
doesn’t come into compliance by
2018, the feds say we could need
passports to fly domestically.
“Unfortunately, this is the
reality we face: the federal
government is clamping down on
our citizens because Democrats
in the Legislature insist on
giving driver’s licenses to illegal
immigrants,” Martinez said in a
statement her office released last
week. She’s repeated that line
often lately.
It’s not true.
The truth: REAL ID does not
prohibit states from giving
driving privileges to people living
there without legal status. Several
REAL ID-compliant states have
two different types of licenses – a
compliant license that’s valid for
federal purposes and given to
those who prove legal status, and
a noncompliant card for everyone
else that lets them drive legally.
More truth: New Mexico isn’t in
compliance with REAL ID because
politicians from both parties, led
by Martinez, have used immigrant licenses as a political wedge
issue in recent years instead of
compromising on that issue and
making other changes necessary
for compliance.
The sin committed by many
Democrats was fighting to keep
our license system as is – allowing
people who don’t prove legal
status to get licenses that are
identical to those the rest of us
hold – and wrongly betting the
feds would never enforce REAL
ID.
Many Democrats and left-leaning activists rejected the idea of
implementing a two-tier licensure
system when I asked about it
while working on an article in
2013. Sen. John Arthur Smith of
Deming was a notable exception.
Martinez’s sin was refusing to
compromise and trying to nuke
those who fought her. Her actions
paralyzed efforts toward REAL ID
compliance.
Martinez told me, during an
interview for my 2013 article, that
she wouldn’t support a two-tier
licensure system. She said she
would keep fighting to take
licenses away from immigrants
who lacked legal status.
I asked Martinez what immigrants who used their licenses
to get to work, take their kids
to school, and buy groceries
were supposed to do if the state
took them away? Such people
got around before New Mexico
began allowing them to obtain
licenses in 2003, she said. They
could do it again.
Smith and other senators
from both parties, on the other
hand, made a genuine effort to
compromise last year. The bill
they passed, though flawed, was
a step in the right direction.
With the federal government
making New Mexicans face
consequences for state inaction
on REAL ID, Martinez has finally
signaled willingness to compromise. That’s great. But deliberations in the current legislative
session will lead to a better
solution if the governor drops the
dishonest rhetoric.
Haussamen runs NMPolitics.net,
a news organization devoted to
hard-hitting, fair exploration
of politics and government that
seeks to inform, engage and build
community. Reach him at
heath@haussamen.com, on
Facebook at /haussamen, or on
twitter @haussamen
NEWS
pessimistic in the short term. He said
this is the second-worst oil bust he’s
seen. He also believes that the current
rate of production in the Permain
Basin isn’t sustainable.
“The decline in prices is about as
dramatic as it was in 1986, and we
don’t know how long this is going to
last,” Scott said. “The 1986 decline
was probably close to five years
before the prices recovered. I believe
the projection for 2016 is an average
of $43 a barrel, which would indicate
some fairly significant improvement
in the not too distant future. I’m of the
opinion that we are where we are as
long as the Saudis are committed to
maintaining their market share, and
that is anybody’s guess.”
Greg Lopez, owner of G&L
Trucking LLC, is one of those business
owners who resisted the temptation
to take on new debt during the oil
price run-up. His company hauls produced water from well sites with six
trucks and eight people. The way he
sees it, the area is still booming.
“They are building tons of pipelines and companies are flooding
Southeastern New Mexico with drilling rigs,” Lopez said. “They just keep
drilling them [oil wells] like crazy.”
Lopez’s trucks still run 12 hours a
day, seven days a week, hauling water
from wells. He credits his success to
staying small. He, like Cobb, credits
fracking technology for allowing producers to make a profit at much lower
prices. “Everybody knows how to
handle the busts better now,” Lopez
said. “They pay the equipment off
and save their money.”
hobbs, page 5
Oil keeps flowing
Despite the plunge in oil prices —
West Texas Intermediate was selling
for $27.27 a barrel on Jan. 20 — oil
production in New Mexico hit a new
record. As of November, companies
had pumped 134.7 million barrels,
shattering the previous record set in
1970, according to the New Mexico
Oil Conservation Division.
When December’s numbers are
totaled, production will be around
146.7 million barrels, or more than
double the 71.2 million barrels
pumped just four years earlier. Yet no
one, it seems, not U.S. producers, and
not OPEC members, is cutting back on
production, and with China’s economic growth slowing, the glut of oil
on the world market continues to grow.
Taylor said the increased production in the Permian Basin was the
result of U.S. shale producers and
frackers refusing to be driven out of
business by OPEC, which maintained
production quotas in the hope that
lower prices would drive smaller U.S.
producers out of business.
But U.S. fracking technology has
improved dramatically over the past
several years and frackers can remain
profitable in the $35-a-barrel range,
Cobb said, because once a well is
drilled, ongoing maintenance costs
aren’t that high.
“I’m really glad that after Saudi
Arabia went after shale producers, we
haven’t blinked,” Taylor said.
New Mexico’s record production
has softened the blow of low prices on
the state’s budget, but that might not
last. Production could fall off sometime this year, said Wally Drangmeister,
vice president of the New Mexico Oil
and Gas Association. New exploration
activity has fallen dramatically in the
state. As of Jan. 16, there were 32 drilling rigs operating in the state, most
of them in New Mexico’s portion of
the Permian Basin. That compares to
92 rigs in January 2015, according to
Baker Hughes, a Houston-based oilfield-services company.
But, strangely, it’s possible that a
further fall-off in production might
not happen because producers will
likely continue to pump more oil
to offset the low prices — plus the
Permian Basin happens to be a sweet
spot in the U.S. with relatively easyto-get oil.
“Even though the rig count is down,
those rigs are going into very high
production areas,” and away from
low production areas, Drangmeister
said. “If low prices continue and we
Community leaders in Hobbs and other cities in Southeastern New Mexico hope for a ray of sunshine
to let them weather the current oil bust.
continue to see the rig count go down,
there will be a time when production
goes down and levels off. But right
now, production is extremely strong.”
View from the ground
Gregg Fulfer, a Lea County commissioner and owner of Fulfer Oil and
Cattle Co., thinks the oil will keep flowing from the Permian Basin this year.
“Companies are closing down their
rigs in other states and bringing that
equipment into their core areas, and
this is one of their core areas,” Fulfer
said. “Most oil companies are looking
at this area for the next 50 years to be
highly productive. They’re bringing
a healthy part of their budgets to Lea
and Eddy counties, and that is real
promising. Everybody has definitely
slowed down, but we still continue
to see drilling activity, although at a
slower pace right now.”
Fulfer’s small company — it produced 19,000 barrels in 2014 — is an
example of how some of the area’s
firms manage to survive oil’s boomand-bust cycles. They never grow too
big and don’t over-leverage themselves. At the height of the boom
when oil was going for $100 a barrel,
Fulfer had 42 employees. Now he’s
down to around 20.
“We are maintaining what we have
and just trying to keep what we’ve
got running,” Fulfer said. “We’re not
doing any new activity.”
Larry Scott, owner of Lynx
Petroleum Consultants, Inc., has been
in the oil business since 1981 and is
More diversified
Once, oil was all Southeastern New
Mexico had, and when it went bust,
so did everything else. Although oil is
still king, over the past two decades,
the area has diversified. Southeastern
New Mexico calls itself the state’s
“Energyplex” — with an economy
centered on different types of energy,
not just oil. Urenco USA operates a
uranium enrichment plant outside of
Eunice that employs hundreds. And
local companies are beginning to produce biofuels.
But in the meantime, nearly everyone — from waiters to truck drivers to
grocery clerks — keeps an eye on oil
prices. “Every down cycle has hurt;
some have hurt more and some have
hurt less,” Scott said. “And I think
this one has hurt pretty bad.”
Dennis Domrzalski is an associate editor
at ABQ Free Press. Reach him at
dennis@freeabq.com
PETS
CALLING ALL PETS
NEWS
Trump: The Making
Of a President?
COMPILED BY JUANI HOPWOOD
Editor’s note: Here’s a selection of quotes
from Donald Trump since he entered the
race to become the Republican nominee for
president.
“What can be simpler or more accurately stated? The Mexican government is forcing their most unwanted
people into the United States. They
are, in many cases, criminals, drug
dealers, rapists.”
— statement, July 6
Sue Williams of Rio Rancho sent us this photo of her
neighbor’s dog, Peyton, a 5-year-old, mixed-breed
rescue dog from the Watermelon Mountain Ranch.
“We think he’s part Beagle,” said his owner, Danielle Davidson. “He’s always freezing because he doesn’t have a
lot of hair, so he’s always burrowing into the blankets.”
Send it to
petphotos@freeabq.com
Include your name, phone number, and your pet’s name,
and we’ll try to reserve their spot in the pet parade.
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“They’re going to build a plant and
illegals are going drive those cars right
over the border. And they’ll probably
end up stealing the cars.”
— speech in Iowa, Oct. 21
“Lemme just tell ya: I may win, I may
not win; Hillary is not a president.
Everything that’s been involved in
Hillary has been losses. You take a
look. Even her race to [sic] Obama!
She was gonna beat Obama! I don’t
know who’d be worse. I don’t know.
How does it get worse? But she was
gonna beat, she was favored to win,
and she got schlonged, she lost, I mean
she lost.”
— speech in Michigan, Dec. 12
“When you had the World Trade
Center go, people were put into planes
that were friends, family, girlfriends,
and they were put into planes and
they were sent back, for the most part,
to Saudi Arabia. They knew what was
going on. They went home and they
wanted to watch their boyfriends on
television.”
— CNN Presidential Debate, Dec. 17
When asked how a database created
from a system of registering Muslims
would be different from Jews forced
to register in Nazi Germany, Trump
repeatedly said, “You tell me,” until he
stopped responding to the question.
— in response to an NBC News reporter’s questions, Nov. 20
“People never talk about the mental
health aspect, the people that actually pull the trigger, they don’t talk
about that … they talk about the
guns. If people in Paris had guns, you
wouldn’t have had 134 people – and
many more to follow — get killed. And
if people in California had had a couple of guns in that room, you wouldn’t
have had 16 people killed, people
laying in the hospital wounded.”
— CNN interview, Jan. 4
“I don’t think I have rough edges,
I’ll be honest with you. I went to
an Ivy League school, I was a good
student ... I can be the most politically
correct person with you. I could say
something at the end of this interview, you would say, ‘Wow, was that
boring!’ ... Here’s the problem with
political correctness: we don’t have
time. I talked about anchor babies at
one news conference and one of the
reporters — actually from ABC — said,
‘That’s a derogatory term.’ I said,
‘Why?’ He said, ‘Well, it’s derogatory.’
He didn’t know why. And then I said,
‘Well, what would you call ‘em?’ ‘The
babies of undocumented immigrants,
or —’ he gave me a seven- or eightword definition. I said, ‘We don’t have
time for that, I’m sorry, we don’t have
time for that.’ Now, look: I can be the
most politically correct person that
you’ve ever interviewed. Takes too
much time.”
— interview on “Face The Nation,” Jan. 3
“I could stand in the middle of Fifth
Avenue and shoot somebody, and I
wouldn’t lose any voters, okay? It’s,
like, incredible.”
— speech at Dordt College, Jan. 23
“Goodbye, goodbye. He wasn’t wearing one of those hats was he? And he
never will.”
— comment as a Sikh protester in a red turban unfurling a “Stop Hate” banner is ejected from a campaign rally in Iowa, Jan. 24
“Obama’s talking about all of this with
the global warming and a lot of it’s a
hoax … I mean, it’s a money-making
industry, okay? It’s a hoax, a lot of it.” — speech in Hilton Head, S.C., Dec. 30
“I think the climate change is just a
very, very expensive form of tax. A lot
of people are making a lot of money. I
know much about climate change. I’d
be — received a environmental awards.
And I often joke that this is done for
the benefit of China. Obviously, I
joke. But this is done for the benefit
of China, because China does not
do anything to help climate change.
They burn everything you could burn;
they couldn’t care less. They have
very — you know, their standards are
nothing. But they — in the meantime,
they can undercut us on price. So it’s
very hard on our business.”
— interview on “Fox and Friends,” Jan. 18
Sports
The Lobo Dilemma at Point Guard
And Kissing Krebs’ Ring
BY RICHARD STEVENS
T
ime to crack open
the mail box….
You probably have
figured out by now
that the majority of the
Albuquerque media
tap dances around
major issues (athletics/
politics) in fear of
reprisal or maybe simply to stay in favor with
those they cover.
That won’t happen here. Paul Krebs, UNM’s
athletics director, refuses to issue this columnist
a press pass to attend UNM’s sporting events.
So, I’m a common ticket-buyer like you. I
also have no interest in being a favored child
of the UNM athletics department – saw too
much stuff in seven years working in that
department.
So, if you want some honest answers to
any hard questions, keep writing to
rstev50@gmail.com.
Sunday
February
th
7 - 3 PM
From CS: Greetings Richard, I’m new to
Albuquerque by three years, and a season
ticket holder for Lobos’ basketball. I’m no way
a sports aficionado, but I do love basketball.
Grew up with Celtics back in beantown.
Your article (on the Neals) was right on.
Such a great assessment of the “what’s so.”
Immaturity is a problem, and the coach is the
epicenter of that. The Neal kid should never
have signed on here. That was a setup to keep
him in check, without true growth potential.
My view is, we have lots of good players, but
they are being minimized by a coach and staff
that lack nurturing ability for their respective
talents and potential.
Anyway, my point in writing was to say I
thought you did a great job on this piece.
From RJ: There has been a lot of talk about
how Cullen Neal should not be playing the
point. What do you think? Why doesn’t Coach
Neal give some of the younger point guards a
look?
Stevens: Cullen Neal has a lot of point-guard
skills. He should be used as either the point
guard or the off-guard (shooting) guard.
He doesn’t have the physical frame to play
any other position. If you have a “conspiracy
theory” nature, you might think that Coach
Neal is playing his son at the point for several
reasons.
1. It’s the only position Cullen can play at the
next level and Cullen needs the development.
2. The rest of the team has no choice but to
put the ball in Cullen’s hands, because he is the
point.
The second point is an interesting one. If you
watched the Lobos during Cullen’s freshman
season, you couldn’t help but notice that
players like Kendal Williams and Alex Kirk
would almost take a traveling charge rather
than pass the ball to Cullen. It was almost
comical. They were hesitant to make that pass
probably because those two Lobos worried
about getting the ball back — or simply didn’t
want to give the ball to a player likely to make
a bad decision.
Cullen has gotten a lot better. His decisionmaking has improved. He has courage in
playmaking that probably is fueled by his
relationship to the head man. It’s difficult
to say Cullen is the best option at the point
because Coach Neal doesn’t really present us
with many other options. But, as Coach Neal
told us, he is far more qualified than anyone
else to recognize point-guard skills.
It will be interesting to see how the Lobos
perform with Cullen on the bench because
of concussion protocol. Opportunities should
arise. Cullen had concussion issues at San Jose
State. He likely will spend some time on the
bench during the Mountain West run due to
foul trouble or possibly other injuries.
But ... if another Lobo shows he can run the
point with efficiency – will he get the chance?
From JH: I was disappointed in the Lobos’
soccer seasons this past season, but have
complete faith in Coach Fishbein. But I see no
reason the women’s program can’t be better as
well. What did you think about UNM firing Kit
Vela? That seemed like a strange move. Was
UNM simply unhappy with the progress of her
program?
Stevens: Kit Vela had established one of the
more consistent and stable programs at UNM.
She had a team loaded with young athletes
and they made outstanding grades. The “party
line” at UNM — Paul Krebs’ Kool-aid — was
that Vela was let go for that hazing incident
within her team. OK, the incident looked bad.
But look at what happens on the UNM football
team within a given year. You might recall
the Lobo football player who helped break
into another Lobos’ (female) apartment and
that female athlete was injured. That football
player didn’t even miss a game.
The UNM athletic department (Krebs) does
what he wants — turns his back when he
wants, fires people when he wants. Krebs now
has an accountant babysitting his financial
decisions and he probably needs a committee
to oversee any decisions on firing personnel.
Vela should have been reprimanded, fined,
suspended — whatever — but she should not
have been fired. There were a lot of people
(including coaches) in the department, who
thought that Vela got a raw deal.
Vela was let go for other reasons. She was
a fiery coach who fought for her players, her
program and her budget. She was not the
“yes, sir, thank you, sir” coach that Krebs wants
to see in his Olympic sports. There were — and
are — at least two women coaches at UNM who
should have been fired at UNM before Vela.
But they kiss the ring.
Richard Stevens is a former sports writer
for The Albuquerque Tribune. More recently
he was an insider at the Lobo athletic
department. Reach him at rstev50@gmail.com
comedy
The Lewis Black Interview: Talking (Hysterical) Naked Truth
BY M. BRIANNA STALLINGS
C
onsider our nation at the present moment. Mass public shootings
are shrugged off as commonplace
atrocities, an unavoidable consequence of “freedom.” The entire
water supply of an American city
is a fetid, undrinkable, rust-colored
mess. An egocentric business mogul/
former reality TV star wants to trade
his garish New York penthouse for a
comparatively humble white house at
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Feel that throb in your temple?
Smell tooth dust as you grind ‘em
down? You’re not alone. In fact,
there’s a comedian whose body of
work embodies exactly this sort of
furious resistance of the status quo.
He’s transformed Carnegie Hall into
a temple of tormented rage and goes
stark raving mad — to the perverse
delight of his audiences — every night
on stage. He’s even been rendered
as Anger, a fiery red block of feeling
in Disney/Pixar’s recent hit “Inside
Out.” Fingers wagging, blood boiling — he’s the self-proclaimed “Old
Yeller” aka funny man Lewis Black.
His brand-new “Naked Truth”
Tour rolls into Route 66 Casino’s
Legends Theater (I-40, Exit 140) on
Friday, Feb. 5, at 8 p.m. Tickets for this
18-plus show range from $30 to $65
at holdmyticket.com. ABQ Free Press
chatted with Black by phone about his
current tour, paying the rant forward,
big-time swindlers and animated
anti-federalists.
Laugh Out Loud: An Intro to Local Comedy
BY KEVIN BACA
T
he desire to laugh — and slay others
with our wit — is a virtually universal
human trait. Inspired by that perpetual
trend, Albuquerque’s stand-up comedy
scene continues to transform and expand.
Comedy captured the popular imagination early on — consider the medieval
jester — and its appeal hasn’t waned in
intervening centuries. Here in the Duke
City, the lack of dedicated comedy venues
and little more than cursory local press on
the subject mean indie comedy promotion
isn’t always a barrel of laughs.
Some savvy local comics identified this
problem and tackled it head on. Partnering with bars and small theaters, a wave of
open mics and DIY showcases rolled into
Burque. At these events, local talent gets
the chance to show their city what they’ve
got and workshop material. Creating and
coordinating these opportunities was no
small endeavor.
Early on, we were lucky to host two
open mics per week and maybe one showcase a month. Fast-forward to the present,
and you’re hard-pressed to find a night of
the week without local comedy action.
Lovers of resident funny owe this
bounty of open mics and showcases to the
gumption, hard work and dedication of
fellow locals.
Starting off the week on Sunday nights is
Lewis Black
Friday, Feb. 5, 8 p.m.
18+ / $30 to $65
Route 66 Casino Legends Theater
(I-40, Exit 140)
rt66casino.com / lewisblack.com
ABQ Free Press: What can we expect
from “The Naked Truth” Tour?
Lewis Black: The same kind of funfilled Christian comedy that I always
do. [Laughs] It’s gonna be happy and
upbeat. People go out whistling some
of the tunes I create in their heads.
So you’ll be playing a room in
Branson soon?
That’s what I’m moving towards. I
also do a healing; that’s always been
a crowd-pleaser. [Laughs] What they
can expect is what I always kinda
do, which is to just look at the world
around me and go insane.
Tell me about your online exclusive
video content “The Rant is Due.”
You take questions via social media
from fans at your live shows, then
answer them during the show?
Who came up with this idea?
It was in part mine, because I wanted
to do a Q&A with the audience, but
that’s really hard. In the best of all possible worlds, people in the audience
would just ask me questions. Then
my tour manager Ben Brewer started
doing research. He tracked it all out.
So we ended up with a few cameras,
and a friend
of ours who’s
worked on two of
my specials and
travels with us is
the engineer.
Courtesy Chad McBride
He’s mad as hell … and he’s never taken it.
comedy
Will there be a
“Rant Is Due” in
ABQ?
Yes. The only
time there isn’t is
either because of
environmental restrictions created
in terms of getting
a good signal out
or if the house
staff says, “No,
you can’t do that.”
Like we’re gonna
make a million
bucks off it. I’m
sending out free
TV, and it’s still
hard to get people
to watch.
Spit Ya Bit at Boese Brothers Brewery
(601 Gold SW). Hosted by Elena Warden
and Tito Dameron, the open space and
eclectic décor at Boese lends itself
to the intellectual hodgepodge of an open mic.
Warden and Dameron’s
extensive improv backgrounds enable them to
tackle intros with energy
and enthusiasm.
As a performer, Spit Ya Bit is
one of my favorite stages to frequent.
The brewery’s attentive staff serves a
fine selection of in-house beers, and the
atmosphere is warm and inviting. Sign-up
starts at 7 p.m., and there’s an incentive
for comics who sign up before the show
begins at 7:30 p.m.
Robot Lazer Kitten Open Mic has
cured many a case of the Mondays.
Housed at Back Alley Draft House (215
Central NW), this open mic is hosted by
John Cuellar and your author. The insider
consensus? This place was made for standup. Low ceilings, dim lighting and a brick
background ooze classic comedy-club feel.
Part of our city’s old guard, Cuellar
hosted some of the first comedian-run
showcases in town. His top-notch crowd
work warms up the audience, and his
punchy style energizes the room. Tasty
brews are artfully poured by bartender
duo Devon and Stephanie.
It feels a lot like a family gathering. Back
Alley shares a menu with JC’s New
York Pizza Department, so a
couple slices of pizza and a
nice beer can be had for
around $7. And the catalyst
to uproarious laughter is
gratis. Sign-up begins at
6:45 p.m., and the show starts
at 7:30 p.m.
Taking us into Tuesday is Adieux’n
It Well Open Mic Comedy at Adieux
Cafe (420 Central SW). This one’s hosted
by Kevin Miguel, a member of the “new
blood generation,” and yep, me. All prideful boasting aside, Adieux’n It Well is an
uncommon open mic. The intimate setting
and wireless mic erase any separation
between performer and audience. Many
comedians take full advantage of that.
Then there’s the audience interaction;
competition scores are calculated based on
spectator applause translated to a score.
The semantics of scoring change on a
weekly basis. One week, it might be fluffy
baby animals, and the next, the vocabulary
of Mortal Kombat-style finishing moves.
High-scoring comics are recalled to the
stage. In a semiorderly fashion, these
contestants must make either Tyler (the
bartender) or Zach (the chef) laugh
enough to receive a “secret prize.” Signup starts at 7:30 p.m., and the guffaws
ensue at 8:30.
Near week’s end, all roads lead to our
latest comedy venue. Referred to as a
“pop-up” club, The Speakeasy (109 Gold
NW) is actually a dedicated Downtown
comedy venue. Run by a local cabal, the
space is a labor of love. Schedules aren’t
set in stone yet, but Thursdays and Fridays
look good.
The structure differs from The Speakeasy routine: doors open at 6:30 p.m., an
introductory showcase kicks off at 7:15
p.m., and the open mic itself starts at 9:15
p.m. There is a cover charge, but it’s a
reasonable $3 single admission or a twofor-$5 deal. Stay in the know at facebook.
com/ComedyAtTheSpeakeasy.
Over the decades, the Albuquerque comedy scene has had its ups and its downs. At
the moment, our local contingent of funny
is impressive and expansive. We can thank
the talent driving this renaissance for
the option of seeing local comedy shows
throughout the week. For an exhaustive
calendar of comedy-friendly open mics and
showcases, visit albuquerquecomedy.com.
Albuquerque comedian and promoter Kevin Baca
reports on the local comedy scene for
ABQ Free Press.
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Lewis Black enjoys a moment of relative calm.
It won’t be hard to get people to
watch “Madoff,” the upcoming ABC
miniseries starring Richard Dreyfuss
as the notorious financier who pulled
off a $65 billion Ponzi scheme and
bankrupted thousands of investors.
That airs Wednesday, Feb. 3, two
days before you play here. You appear in “Madoff,” correct?
I have a small role, and I actually lost
a scene because of scheduling, so
that didn’t help my presence in the
film. [Laughs] I’m there just a bit, but
I got to work with Dreyfuss and hang
out with him. He’s incredible in it. I
also know Blythe Danner [who plays
Madoff’s wife Ruth] and she’s brilliant.
So I think it’s gonna be good.
In spite of today’s often censorious
culture — eggshell-y, I guess — do
you feel that this is a fertile time for
comedy?
It is, but only in the sense that things
are so insane. That’s the upside. The
downside is that comedy and satire
intersect now — wait, I mean reality
and satire. Pick up the front page of
any paper; one of those stories would
be better if it were fiction. And funnier.
The fact that it’s real is freakish.
What’s your take on the anti-government occupation at Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge?
It’s like watching a cartoon. I don’t
even know which one I would
compare it to. They’ve invaded Yogi
Bear’s campground, and Foghorn
Leghorn is wandering around with a
gun! I mean, that’s how crazy we are.
These people have to be removed and
that’s the deal. It’s public land; you
take it to court.
Speaking of cartoons — sorry for the
terrible segue — you’ve had plenty of
voice roles, including Anger in the
Academy Award-nominated “Inside
Out.” Ever have young fans recognize you?
I’ve had parents bring their kids out,
because the kids don’t really know it’s
me. And then I tell the adults, “Now
make sure you have an adult lock on
your computer” because they really
shouldn’t be watching my stand-up.
Well — at least not until they’re 12 or so.
M. Brianna Stallings writes so you don’t
have to.
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School Bond/Mill Levy Election
Matters of the Art: ‘Dark Messengers,’
Burque Bowl and ‘Radio Flor’
by LISA BARROW
February 2, 2016
What will a “YES” vote
mean to OUR students?
$575 million for:
Courtesy of artist
Tarrah Krajnak, Untitled from “Dark Messengers” series
‘D
ark Messengers’
PLUS
$12 million a month into the
local construction economy.
All With No Tax Increase!
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...through education!
Tarrah Krajnak, born in Peru
and based in Los Angeles, describes
herself in her artist’s statement as
“what you might call ‘trans-American’ — on the border between histories, between races, between families,
between identities.” Her photography
delves into the fissures, casting a poetic eye along the contours of the places
we inhabit (or don’t).
At 5 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 5, Krajnak
visits Central Features Contemporary
Art — offering a sneak preview of the
new location at 514 Central SW, #2 —
to discuss her black-and-white series,
“Dark Messengers.” Rich in contrasts,
the photos were shot on 35mm film in
South America and in the American
West. They sculpt lucid images — natural patterns, still lifes, apertures,
portraits — from atramentous blacks
and penetrating swaths of light. For
details, visit centralfeatures.com or
call 252-9983.
More work by Krajnak appears at
Central Features’ new neighbor, 516
ARTS (516 Central SW), as part of “At
Home in the World.” Marking a decade
of action-oriented arts involvement
for the Downtown gallery, this first
exhibition of 2016 opens from 6-8 p.m.
on Saturday, Feb. 6 — although members can get in on a preview starting at 5
p.m.
The show includes work from local,
American and international artists
exploring questions of identity, migration, place, community and more.
Juna Rosales Muller’s “Mending
Patriotism,” for example, uses a patchwork conglomeration of reddish and
blue clothes left behind by migrants to
suggest a cobbled-together American
flag. Other artists employ everything
from mixed media to charcoal to
engage in global conversation through
their work.
To learn more about the cluster
of events orbiting “At Home in the
World,” consult 516arts.org or call
242-1445.
Burque Bowl
After a post-holiday, midwinter
(relative) lull, Albuquerque’s Downtown
is roaring back to life. Also on Friday,
Feb. 5, the resurgence is being celebrated
on Second Street near Lead. Stroll, bike
or otherwise microcommute over to
appreciate just how effectively a stretch of
destinations along Downtown’s southwestern wing is transforming the area.
Burque Bowl opens the doors of
four neighborhood businesses for an
evening of interaction, arts appreciation
and beer drinking. Get there as early as
4 p.m. for the latter — Sidetrack Brewing (413 Second Street SW), home of
the “buy a friend a beer” chalkboard, is
ready to be your craft-brew best buddy.
It’ll be open until 10 p.m.
Nestled right next door, caffeine
-slinger Zendo (also at 413 Second Street
SW) doesn’t open until 6 p.m., but do
stop by for a mouthwatering pick-me-up
and a view of artwork by Matthew M.
Cohen until 8 p.m.
Fancy-living dream factory Gertrude
Zachary Antiques (416 Second Street
SW) shows off its 12,000 square
cont. on page 26
art
Raven Chacon Talks ‘Lightning Speak’
BY SAMANTHA ANNE CARRILLO
T
he life of an artist is romanticized.
Yet the existence of the modern
working artist revolves less around
an exalted state of being and more
around hard work. By the time most
artists land a retrospective, they’re not
long for this world. At 38 years old,
Raven Chacon proves an exception to
that rule.
Born in Fort Defiance, Ariz., Chacon
is known around Albuquerque as a
fervent supporter of experimental
art. Among a litany of collaborations,
Chacon founded Southwest-based
label Sicksicksick Distro and remains
a prime mover in performance troupe
Death Convention Singers, electronic
duo Mesa Ritual and indigenous art
collective Postcommodity.
Chacon’s solo work — especially
his chamber and noise compositions
— are the basis of this UNM retrospective, so further recounting of
his many artistic partnerships might
distract from the “Lightning Speak”
focus. That said, it’s hard to imagine
the Southwest art and music scenes
without this enigmatic prankster in
residence.
“Lightning Speak: Solo and
Collaborative Work of Raven Chacon”
On view at Jonson Gallery
Jan. 29–May 14
Opening reception
Friday, Jan. 29, 6–8 p.m.
Jonson Gallery
1 University of New Mexico
unmartmuseum.org
ABQ Free Press sat down with
Chacon to discuss his retrospective,
art as resistance, the role of place in
creation and his studies at UNM.
ABQ Free Press: The title of your
solo exhibition is “Lightning Speak.”
What’s the origin of that phrase, and
what does it mean?
Raven Chacon: In Navajo language
— which I am continually attempting
to learn — the word for lightning is
the same word now used for electricity. So in trying to translate the idea
of electrically transmitted sound, the
medium I work in, it became “Lightning Speak.” I also use the phrase for
the sub-label of my Sicksicksick label
that releases music by Natives from
the region. It also implies that works,
ideas or sounds originate from elsewhere, travel through a musician or
artist and exit through a speaker.
Of the work on exhibit, what was the biggest
challenge to translate for
gallery exhibition?
Many of these works
existed solely as music compositions, their performance
being only half of their
realization. So documenting sound works or music
performances, especially
those that are performed in
non-traditional venues can
be a challenge. Relaying
spatialized or extremely
loud sounds usually do not
directly translate.
The massive threechannel video installation
of Canadian iceberg mural
“Gauge” premieres at this
exhibition. How did your
participation in “Gauge”
come about?
I was invited by artist
“While Contemplating their Fate in the Stars, the Twins
Danny Osborne a week
Surround the Enemy,” 2003, Installation, Courtesy of the artist.
before the project began. As
the project began to take
mentioned a repeat performance
on a life as a video installation, sound
may happen sometime during the
was going to be a necessary compoexhibit’s run.
nent. I soon realized my role would
“Drum Grid” will be performed in
extend beyond making field recordthe middle of the UNM campus on
ings; our small crew of six would
Friday, April 29, during the noon
travel far out onto the frozen ocean,
hour. My piece, “Biyan,” written for
scout for locations, set up camp and
Chatter Ensemble will be performed
equipment, “make” paint, and evenWednesday, March 30, in the entrance
tually I found myself painting some of
to the Art Building on [UNM’s] campus.
the murals as well.
Can you expand on the compositionHas place — the Navajo Nation, the
al nature of “Ofrendas De Luz”?
Southwest in toto — informed your
“Ofrendas De Luz” is the documentawork or your path to becoming an
tion of the process and results of the
artist?
Death Convention Singers’ (formerly
My first work, “Field Recordings,”
Cobra//group) 2008 album “Brujas.”
was completely site-specific and made
The album began as an experiment
me realize the importance of capin invoking completely free improvituring, presenting, performing and
sation by inviting local musicians to
recording in spaces and places — all
attend pitch-black recording seswhile considering and fully recognizsions in abandoned spaces around
ing the context of the people involved,
Albuquerque and Corrales. The sescreator, audience or innocent
sions were
bystander (nature). In my work, place
organized
equates to pace more than landscape
via email
being translated into sound. But conand subcerning the Southwest, it doesn’t take
sequent
a local to see how easily instances of
anonymous
beauty line up with other instances of
interactions
beauty around here.
and invitaYou previously noted that “Drum
tions, and
Grid’s” composition requires exterthe finished
nal resistance to end the piece. I love
album was
that. In the show, it’s represented
edited as a
by video of a 2010 performance by
group projDeath Convention Singers. You
ect. Other
“Report,” 2001, video still
than the core group, we don’t know
who (or what) is on the album.
“Still life no. 3” blurs the linearity
of a retelling of the Navajo creation
myth by varying intensity of sound
and light. Loudness and brightness
take on narrative significance. Was
that your intention?
Those timed elements are intentional,
but while the piece addresses the nonlinearity of time, what reinforces the
blur or fluidity of a linear narrative is
when elements get repeated, or when
history repeats itself. For instance, if
an action in a story is repeated four
times, and so does the next action,
a narrative can be seen as less of a
sequence and rather a series of overlapping cycles. It fascinates me that
some creation stories take on these
forms, perhaps expanding without
moving forward.
During your studies at UNM, who
were your favorite professors?
I learned the most from Manny
Rettinger (recording/sound) and
Christopher Shultis (composition,
conceptual music, silence). I am still
learning from Manny.
In contrast to temporal distortion
(see “Still life no. 3”), the composition “Report’s” use of gun calibers as
note structure for salvo/cantos seems
darkly playful. Is that one aspect of
the piece’s intent toward cultural
resistance?
The calibers do directly correlate to
pitch and tuning, but there was an
intention for the piece to become
the ultimate leveler – to eliminate
dynamic and eventually nuance. On
one hand, it erases the identity of the
performers, but in performance (or
video), the identity of the shooters is
of great importance, and this provides
an opportunity for another kind of
resistance or agency.
Samantha Anne Carrillo is a situationist,
fourth-wave feminist and associate editor
at ABQ Free Press.
Courtesy of artist
food/film
505 Entrée: Bubblicitea Elevates Boba Scene
ased solely on its moniker, one might be tempted to write off Bubblicitea Café (2325
San Pedro NE, Ste 1D) as another teeny-bopper
boba tea joint. Don’t. Chartreuse walls artfully
slung with B&W photos of cityscapes are the first
visual tip-off that this café is a mature offering.
Sleek seating in reception is echoed by modern
pendant lighting and shiny silver carafes at the
counter. The dining area’s intimate tables are
cheekily offset by white Eamesian chairs. Patrons
ought to be forewarned about being enveloped by scents upon entering. While the baked
goods are an olfactory delight, the Filipino offerings — ranked second best world cuisine in a
recent CNN poll — are even more tempting.
Warm pastries bask in a glass display case and
wait patiently on baker’s racks … in dozens and
dozens. At Bubblicitea, the vastest array of confections and delicacies is the sole province of the
early bird. Their delightful baked goods sell out
quickly, so I make it a priority to arrive early.
The menu and daily specials vary, but everything I tasted met or beat my expectations. Consider the pan de coco, yeasty buns filled with
sweetened coconut flakes. Saturdays are a literal
feast day at Bubblicitea, with a heady selection of
Filipino cuisine. What I fell for was the Mami, a
broth-based soup laden with veggies, meat and
noodles.
Bubblicitea’s Mami boasts slow-cooked beef
and secret spices (garlic, anise and some sort of
magic), resulting in a rich, savory broth. Napa
2325 San Pedro NE, Ste 1D, 289-9719,
facebook.com/BubbliciteaCafeUS
Hours: M-Sa, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
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Above: From left, plain and boba-infused, vacuum-sealed teas at
Bubblicitea
Below: Bubblicitea’s Mami soup combo with Siopaos, aka steamed BBQ
pork buns
Resident foodie Ariane Jarocki fearlessly reports on
Albuquerque’s restaurant, food truck and bakery scenes
for ABQ Free Press.
Ariane Jarocki
BY CHRISTA VALDEZ
or the past seven years, I’ve blogged about the New Mexico
film industry at OneHeadlightInk.
com. Given that tenure, you might
assume I’ve rooted for local creatives
and film work for just as long; yet my
passion for New Mexico and its people has been a driving, lifelong force.
I’ve never yearned to be a film star.
In fact, faced with most any camera, I
freeze, paralyzed. I’m not out to make
big (or even quick) bucks. I always
wanted to write about New Mexico
film, so I did. Like my blog, this
regular column in ABQ Free Press will
focus on this place, the film industry
and people I wholeheartedly believe
are some of the best in the business.
Whatever your craft, calling or
interests, there’s a place for you in
the New Mexico film industry. From
Chama to Sunland Park, Gallup
to Tucumcari, production teams,
casts and crews have canvassed the
state, producing everything from
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Film and Media Day visit
bit.ly/NMFM2016
large-scale productions, commercials,
homegrown documentaries and epic
independent films. Both Albuquerque
and Santa Fe are home to world-class
studio facilities with Roswell and Las
Cruces working hard to follow suit.
Living at the epicenter of statewide
film industry action, Burqueños have
access to a host of resources and
networks that can lead to industry
opportunities. After all, Albuquerque
is where the “best TV show ever”
(according to Forbes circa 2013)
was made. The runaway success of
“Breaking Bad” boosted television production in our city, and that growth
shows no sign of slowing.
NBC series “The Night Shift” and the
first full season of AMC’s “Preacher”
are set to film in town soon. Local
production of independent music
videos, shorts, web series and fulllength feature films, are taking off at
a breakneck pace and grow in variety,
quality and popularity by the day.
Between you and me, I’d like this
introduction to serve as an invitation
to interested parties to look into the
New Mexico independent film community. Talent, craftspeople, service
providers, electrical and construction
trade specialists and all-around film
enthusiasts can gain a wealth of
knowledge and access to the organizations and resources that come together
in creating a production.
To those of you in the industry I
haven’t yet come to know, I’m here to
learn what you’re doing, where you
want to go and what you’d like to see
come from our state’s film industry.
This blogger-turned-columnist
loves movies and the artists who
create them. I’m here to shine a
light on opportunities in the film
ver the past decade, Albuquerque has become an honest-to-goodness “beer town.” As a guy possessing
a certain, shall we say, appreciation
for that old, bubbled barley nectar, I
couldn’t be happier. Sure, I’ve gone on
record expressing trepidation over the
vast number of breweries springing
up in town — a trend that shows no
sign of abating — but that stems more
from concern about upstart breweries
competing in an already crowded
marketplace. From a consumer point
of view, I’m thrilled.
So welcome to “Beer Town,” my
regular ABQ Free Press column
chronicling valiant attempts to get a
handle on our ever-expanding brewery scene. I anticipate the challenge
with a certain, well, thirst. Sometimes
Beer Town will cover breaking and
industry news. It’ll also delve into
aspects of our local brewery scene and
examine big-picture issues affecting
the burgeoning American microbrew
environment as a whole. Most importantly, I intend to drink beer … and
write about it.
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Beer Town: For Richer or Pourer
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Bubblicitea Café
cabbage, a hard-boiled egg and falling-apart,
stewed beef are served in broth atop fresh egg
noodles. Order Mami à la carte or as a combo
with two steamed BBQ pork buns, aka Siopaos.
Arrive famished to tackle the combo or save the
buns for an afternoon snack.
Other dishes include the Pork Adobo bowl and
Longsilog, which is a breakfasty plate of Filipinostyle sausage with garlic fried rice and a fried egg.
A visit to Bubblicitea isn’t complete without
sampling the boba tea. Offerings range from classic to fruity in a variety of styles from milk tea to
smoothies. I opted for Green Milk Tea. Bubblicitea
has a better handle on sweetness levels than other
joints. The option of ordering tea at 25-percent
sweetness was a sight for sore eyes … and teeth.
Order tea at Bubblicitea plain or with fun addons like boba, jelly, nata de coco and liquid-filled
popping pearls. Another unique offering is Bubblicitea’s yakult drink, which blends probiotic
yogurt with tea base and flavor. The kefir-like custard delights. Strawberry yakult is my go-to, but
flavors range from honeydew to mango.
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drink
industry — which just so happens to
be the largest job creator in modern
New Mexico history. An annual
opportunity to rise and shine among
industry professionals happens Monday, Feb. 8, at the State Capitol.
During the Legislative session, New
Mexico Film and Media Day is where
the film community and lawmakers
gather in a collective show of support.
State Senator Lisa Torraco says, “The
proven track record of sustainable
jobs the film industry brings to the
state is not only good for our economy,
but it builds morale and provides
education and training opportunities
like never before. Coming out in support of the industry is imperative to
keep it growing strong. And everyone
loves seeing their hometown on the
big screen — it makes us proud.”
Christa Valdez is the founder and author
of New Mexico entertainment blog OneHeadlightInk.com. Reach her at
christa@christavaldez.com
Here’s some government action
hopheads will approve of: The
Bernalillo County Commission has
approved a $5 million bond to fund
Rio Bravo Brewery’s expansion and
implementation of its canning and
shipping operation. Before you cry
government overreach, know this
bond must be repaid in its entirety.
Tractor + Tinder = ❤
Beer has always been something
of a matchmaker. Tractor Brewing
Company — Wells Park (1800 Fourth
Street NW) puts this theory to the test
on Valentine’s Day, when they host
Tinder Swipe Right Night.
Emboldened by a lineup of
ciders, beer and modern technology,
mingle with members of your preferred gender on Saturday, Feb. 14.
Homegirls Records expertly curates
vinyl tuneage. Even if your romantic
ideal doesn’t materialize, you’ll enjoy
prime cuts as you Google “Singles’
Awareness Day” on your smartphone.
Got a hot tip on Albuquerque’s beer
scene? Know of a seasonal draft I’ve
simply got to try? Drop me a line at
beertownabq@gmail.com
logo — has launched a fresh fusion of
flavors known as Double Dead Red
Ale. It promises a major hop punch,
with 33 percent more of the perennial
plant than most IPAs. In Double Dead
Red Ale, fruity and bitter flavors commingle in a danse macabre. (Did you
know that hops and cannabis share a
taxonomic family?)
Meanwhile, Santa Fe Brewery’s
taproom at Green Jeans (3600 Cutler
NE) serves up maltier, cold weather
seasonal Adobe Igloo; this sweet treat
stars the subtle bite of dark chocolate
and red chile’s dazzle.
Kaktus, Nexus and beyond
Our neighbors to the north in
Bernalillo have long enjoyed their
own world-class brewery. At last,
Kaktus Brewing Company is spreading the love southerly with their new
taproom at 2929 Monte Vista NE. The
charmingly odd space, previously
rented by Amore Neapolitan Pizzeria
— which you can now find at Green
Jeans Farmery, FYI — is divided into a
main dining area and two bars. Come
springtime, the rooftop patio is perfect
for people-watching in Nob Hill.
In the former Fremont’s Fine Foods
space at the Courtyard Shopping Center
(1100 San Mateo NE), renovations at
Quarter Celtic Brewery are ongoing.
The location may be out of your way,
but it will undoubtedly be worth
seeking out when it opens. Co-owners
Brady and Ror McKeown have been
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giants in the Albuquerque microbrew
scene since the mid ‘90s — when there
barely even was a microbrew scene. Prepress inquiries went unanswered, so I’m
not sure when it’s opening, but there’s a
“coming soon” sign in plain sight.
Along the six degrees of the
Brothers McKeown, their old
employer Canteen Brewhouse
(formerly Il Vicino taproom) branches
out with a new location in a neighborhood currently dominated by
Genericana restaurants like Pei Wei.
In the Albuquerque Journal, co-owner
Rick Post noted that a lack of local
competition in the area was a factor
in location selection. “There’s nothing else up there,” Post said. Look
for Canteen Brewhouse soon at 417
Tramway NE.
Pursuit of hoppiness
One of the best things about a lively
beer scene is taprooms constantly
experimenting with new flavors and
releasing limited runs of seasonal
beers. Boese Brothers Brewing (601
Gold SW) — they of the nuclear bomb
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On Tuesday, Jan. 19, Santa Fe-based
Duel Brewing hosted a soft opening for
its new taproom in downtown Burque
(606 Central SW). The company
specializes in Belgian-style ales, a nice
addition to hop-heavy local offerings.
Meanwhile, hometown faves
Nexus and Marble plan to grow their
respective operations at opposite ends
of the Duke City. Nexus — named
for a “Star Trek” concept — heads
west to 2641 Coors NW while Marble
embeds itself in the “lifestyle center”
at Montgomery and Eubank (9904
Montgomery NE). I’m not sure what
a “lifestyle center” is, but if they serve
beer, I’m there.
That’s it for now from Beer Town.
As for myself, I’m doing some
beer-making of my own; my first allgrain beer — crafted via the easy yet
exemplary brew-in-bag system — is
currently bottle conditioning. It’s
slated to debut soon on the local scene
encompassed by my home.
Want to try your hand at brewing
your own beer? Visit one of our excellent, local homebrew supply stores,
Victor’s Home Brew (2436 San Mateo
NE) or Southwest Grape & Grain
(2801 Eubank NE), where staffers are
happy to advise you on becoming a
full-fledged, contributing constituent
of Beer Town, New Mexico.
Ty Bannerman is a beer drinker, co-host of
the City on the Edge podcast and author
of “Forgotten Albuquerque” as well as a
forthcoming memoir. He most recently
served as managing, feature and food
editor at Weekly Alibi.
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CARNAVAL & VALENTINES
by M. Brianna Stallings
Ch-Ch-Chicharra!
Trip on over to the Tumblr of Chicharra, Burque’s female-fronted, triplebass-and-vocals experimental band,
for a quick background lesson. The
group’s name is Spanish for “cicada,”
but its colloquial meaning is more
apropos: “slang for a woman who
talks and talks, and for sound that you
cannot control in your environment.”
Along with drummer John Butler’s
deliberate beats, members Mauro
Woody and Monica and Marisa
Demarco make forceful, rumbling
music with almost unstoppable power.
Voices, bass notes and drumbeats
scrape, chime and scratch through
waves of sonorous dissonance on
tracks like “Are You … ?”
There’s no showboating lead here;
Chicharra’s sum is as great as the
whole of its parts. And boy, what
parts they are! Woody is also Lady
Uranium, Marisa moonlights as Bigawatt, and sister Monica summons
Cthulha; the three are also part of performance troupe Milch de la Máquina.
Attend Chicharra’s album release
party on Friday, Feb. 5 at Sister (407
Central NW) at 9 p.m. It’s just five
bucks for this jam-packed 21-plus
show that also includes internationally renowned bassist, composer and
self-described vagabond C.J. Boyd
on “infinitour”; and loud local acts
Time Wound, Jackhammer and Italian
Rats. Mystery specialty merch will
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feet of American and European treasures from 5 – 9 p.m.
The evening’s star, though, is SCA
Contemporary Art (401-3 Second Street
SW). Freshly transplanted from its former
Wells Park location into the renovated
Sanitary Tortilla Factory/Los Chileros
building, SCA now boasts more than
7,000 square feet of space in which to host
exhibitions, fabrication facilities and 15
artists’ studios.
The studios’ grand opening bash
happens from 5 –10 p.m., and both
Tractor Brewing and “old-skool country
& western” quartet Lovers & Leavers
guarantee a fine time among the artists
in their natural habitat. See scacontemporary.com or call Burque Bowl
mastermind Sherri Crider at 228-3749
with questions.
‘Radio Flor’
Heady rhythms and lovelorn lyrics
be available too. For tickets and info,
visit holdmyticket.com or call
242-4900.
Saintseneca be praised
Remember in school when you had
to write a paper that was a minimum
of X words, but
you didn’t start
writing it ’til the
night before so
by the time you
reached what
you thought
was the end, you
discovered it was
still … too short. Then
you began cramming in
sentences to take up space?
Were I so inclined, I could
easily devote multiple lines to a
list of instruments played by Saintseneca founder Zac Little. It’s 17 – everything from bass and guitar to bouzouki and ukulele.
He’s that talented, as are his fellow
bandmates in Saintseneca, the group
Little formed as a teenager in Ohio
in 2007. Drawing inspiration from
traditional Appalachian music, international traditions, folk rock and
contemporary pop, Saintseneca made
itself known with its debut album, the
ass-backwardsly titled “Last.” The
band gained national recognition for
2014’s “Dark Arc,” and continued
to develop its fanbase with “Such
are set to drift deliciously from the
Journal Theatre at the National Hispanic Cultural Center (1701 Fourth
Street SW) just in time for Valentine’s
Day. “Radio Flor,” presented by
touring quintet Cascada de Flores, is a
loving sonic dispatch from the golden
airwaves of yore.
Combining elements of Mexican
and Spanish-speaking Caribbean
radio from the 1930s and including
everything from station identifications
to torch songs to snappy commercial jingles, “Radio Flor” is one part
tantalizing acoustic concert, one part
sophisticated theatrical production
and two parts pure nostalgia.
Jokes fly at full tilt, but Cascada
de Flores isn’t afraid to serve up a
range of emotions meant to be felt in
the body as much as heard through
the ears. The Bay Area-based group
plumbs the worldwide spectrum of
Latin music for its high-energy Cuban
guarachas, folkloric Mexican sones,
Things,” released last October and
produced by Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes,
Jenny Lewis).
Burqueños can revel in Saintseneca’s massive indie folk sound on
Monday, Feb. 8 at Launchpad (618
Central SW). The band shares the
bill with North
Carolina indie
rocker Des
Ark. Initially
launched
in 2001 as a
queercore duo,
Des Ark’s remaining core member is
Aimée Argote.
A candid songwriter, Argote hearkens back
to artists like Chris Pureka,
Nina Nastasia and Cat Power.
Onstage, Argote veers with ease from
wall-shaking noise to gently whispered folk.
Collaborators on her latest album,
2015’s “Everything Dies,” include
members of Swans and Engine Down.
Doors are at 8 p.m., and the 21-plus
show starts at 9:30 p.m. Admission is $8.
Visit launchpadrocks.com to learn more.
Thrashing with ‘Thrax
With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, maybe you’d like to treat your
special someone to a hot, loud, sweaty
night of breathless, heart-pounding
fun. Might I suggest Anthrax? Not
boleros of arresting emotionality
and Columbian bambucos with their
trilling runs, among other forms.
Like old-timey radio, the “Radio
Flor” experience is ephemeral: It
transpires for one performance only,
at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 13. Visit
nhccnm.org or call 724-4771 for tickets,
priced from $12 to $22 (minus $2 for
students, seniors and NHCC members).
For $10 more at the door (instead of
$20 at the regular rate), “Radio Flor”
ticketholders can stay for an evening
of salsa dancing, hors d’oeuvres
and dessert at the fifth annual Latin
Love Fest. The party includes a cash
bar, huge dance floor and both live
and DJ’d music. See facebook.com/
ABQLDF for all the swinging details.
Lisa Barrow is a member of the Dirt
City Writers collective. Visit her on the
interwebs at facebook.com/LisaBarrowLikesWords. She most recently served as
arts & lit and web editor at Weekly Alibi.
CALENDAr
the lethal cow-loving bacteria — the
legendary thrash metal band! Straight
outta NYC circa 1981, Anthrax has
been pumping audiences full of
deadly-fast tunes for over 30 years.
Noted for intense live shows,
Anthrax takes the stage on Wednesday, Feb. 10, at Sunshine Theatre (120
Central SW). In 1991, the band collaborated with Public Enemy on “Bring
the Noise,” an outing that some music
critics say contributed to the development of rap metal — for better or worse.
Remaining founding members
Scott Ian (guitar) and Charlie Benante
(drums) are still on board; singer Joey
Belladonna rejoined the group in 2010
after years of an on-again, off-again
relationship. Belladonna sang on
2011’s “Worship Music” and appears
on the forthcoming “For All Kings”
(dropping Feb. 26).
Anthrax is gleefully joined by local
band Anesthesia. The group recently
took to its Facebook page (facebook.
com/anesthesia505) to shout the
news from the virtual rooftops. There
were lots of curse words and exclamation marks — a surefire sign of
excited metal fans sharing a stage
with musical heroes. Doors for this
13-and-up show open at 7 p.m.; the
shredding starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are
$25 and available online at
sunshinetheaterlive.com
M. Brianna Stallings writes so you don’t
have to.
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 31
FEBRUARY 5–26
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11
Events:
Carnival de Albuquerque
Artspree: Recycled Heart:
Artists of ArtStreet,
Healthcare for the Homeless
Word:
Story Time — Valentine’s Edition
Albuquerque Garden Center,
10120 Lomas Blvd NE,
296-6020,
albuquerquegardencenter.org
Harwood Art Center,
1114 7th St NW, 242-6367,
harwoodartcenter.org
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6
Events: Carnaval 2016:
Ticket to Paradise
Shows: Carnaval Latino
with Baracutanga
7:30 pm,
National Hispanic Cultural Center,
1701 4th St SW, 724-4771,
nhccnm.org
9 pm, Sister Bar,
407 Central Ave SW, 242-4900,
sisterthebar.com
FEBRUARY 5 –7
Shows:
Love: Valentine Cabaret
Las Puertas Event Center, 1512 1st St
NW, nmgmc.org
FEBRUARY 5 –14
Shows:
Seasons of Love: A Cabaret
Musical Theatre Southwest,
6320-B Domingo NE,
265-9119,
musicaltheatresw.com
CLUBS & PUBS
JANUARY 30–FEBRUARY 5
Sister Bar
sisterthebar.com
January 30, Gothic Winter Ball 2016
January 31, Electric Funeral
February 5, Chicharra Album Release
Low Spirits
2823 2nd St NW, 344-9555,
lowspiritslive.com
January 30, Throw the Temple,
Jessie Deluxe
January 31, Duke City Rockers Benefit
February 3, The Ditchrunners,
Hell’s Acre
February 7, Superbowl Party and
Potluck
February 10, The Magic Beans,
Pherkad
Launchpad
launchpadrocks.com
January 30, The Big Spank CD Release
February 2, Agent Orange
February 3, Albuquerque Indian Center Benefit Event
February 4, Paws for Epilepsy Benefit
Show
February 5, Red Light Cameras,
Supergiant
February 6, Leeches of Lore, Hanta
February 8, Saintseneca, Des Ark
February 9, Concepto Tambor Mardi
Gras Party
February 10, Ballyhoo!, Kosha Dillz,
Innastate
February 11, Southwest Burlesque Pre
Party ft Bunny Galore
February 12, Brothers Gow, Pherkad
The Mine Shaft Tavern
2846 NM-14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743,
themineshafttavern.com
January 30, The Shacks
Community: Steampunky
Valentines Workshop
1 pm, Erna Fergusson Library,
3700 San Mateo Blvd NE,
888-8100, abclibrary.org
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9
Shows: Fat Tuesday:
Shiners Club Jazz Band
The Mine Shaft Tavern,
2846 NM-14, Madrid,
(505) 473-0743,
themineshafttavern.com
February 2, Cactus Slim & the
GoatHeads
February 5, Secret Circus
February 6, Harvest Thieves
February 12, Cali Shaw Band
THROUGH JANUARY 30
Who Killed Don Jose?
South Broadway Cultural Center,
1025 Broadway Blvd SW, 848-1320,
southbroadwaytickets.com
THROUGH JANUARY 31
Deathtrap
Adobe Theater, 9813 4th St NW,
898-9222, adobetheater.org
16th Annual Revolutions
International Theatre Festival
10:30 am, Bookworks,
4022 Rio Grande NW, 344-8139,
bkwrks.com
Outdoors: Animal Love Lives
11 am, Cerrillos Hills State Park, 37
Main St, Cerrillos, NM,
(505) 474-0196, cerrilloshills.org
Shows: Cubano Club After
Party with Ozomatli, DJ OHM,
Louis the Child
9 pm, Albuquerque Convention
Center, 401 2nd St SW, 768-4575,
ahcnm.org
Community: Hearts for the
Homeless: Dinner and Dancing
to benefit Project Connect
6 pm, YDI Wool Warehouse,
516 1st St NW,
projectconnectabq.wix.com
Events: 5th Annual Latin
Love Festival
8:30 pm, National Hispanic Cultural
Center, 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771,
abqlatinfest.org
Eryn Bent
7 pm, Distillery 365, 2921 Stanford Dr NE,
221-6281, distillery365.com
Gabe Tafoya
Marble Brewery, 111 Marble Ave NW,
243-2739, marblebrewery.com
The Gift
The House Next Door
Part of QSolo Festival
2 pm, Aux Dog Theatre, 3011 Monte
Vista Blvd NE, 254-7716, auxdog.com
Havana Son
Part of Art in the Afternoon
2 pm, Free, Albuquerque Museum of
Art & History, 2000 Mountain Rd NW,
242-4600, cabq.gov/museum
In the Mix: BK Beats
Tricklock Performance Laboratory,
110 Gold Ave SW, 254-8393,
tricklock.com
9 pm, Tractor Brewing-Wells Park,
1800 4th St NW, 243-6752, getplowed.com
The Producers
Zinc Cellar Bar, 3009 Central Ave NE,
254-9462, zincabq.com
Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus,
203 Cornell Drive NE, 925-5858,
unmtickets.com
THROUGH FEBRUARY 7
Hamlet
The Vortex Theatre, 2900 Carlisle NE,
247-8600, vortexabq.org
THROUGH FEBRUARY 14
Dracula
Albuquerque Little Theatre,
224 San Pasquale Ave SW, 242-4750,
albuquerquelittletheatre.org
Stupid Fu**ing Bird
The Cell, 700 1st St NW, 766-9412,
fusionabq.org
SATURDAY, JANUARY 30
Chad Wilkins
7 pm, Tortuga, 901 Edith Blvd SE,
506-0820, tortugagallery.org
David Berkeley
8 pm, Free, Cooperage Restaurant,
7220 Lomas Blvd NE, 255-1657,
ampconcerts.org
Last Call
Merle Haggard
Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort &
Casino, 287 Carrizo Canyon Rd,
Mescalero, (800) 545-9011,
innofthemountaingods.com
Redneck
Dirty Bourbon,
9800 Montgomery Blvd NE, 296-2726,
dirtybourbon.com
Unredeemable
Walking Upright
Part of QSolo Festival
5 pm, Aux Dog Theatre, 3011 Monte
Vista Blvd NE, 254-7716, auxdog.com
JANUARY 30–31
Zuni Olla Maidens
Noon, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center,
2401 12th St NW, 843-7270,
indianpueblo.org
SUNDAY, JANUARY 31
Choral Masterworks of Mozart
& Stravinsky
3 pm, Free, First Presbyterian Church,
215 Locust St NE, (614) 746-9479
Fat Tuesday February 9
Valentine’s Day February 14
Shows: Enchanted Evening
with Peabo Bryson
7 pm, Inn of the Mountain Gods
Resort & Casino, 287 Carrizo Canyon
Rd, Mescalero,
Events: Salsa Love Fest
Eats: Valentine’s Dinner and
Movie Night at the Lobo:
The Princess Bride
7 pm, Lobo Theater, 3013 Central
Ave NE, Nobhillis100.com/events,
tickets: calvaryabq.org
8 pm, El Rey Theater, Stereo Bar,
newmexicosalsacongress.com
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY17
FEBRUARY 13–14
Part of The Counter-Narrative
5:30 pm, Free, Indian Pueblo Cultural
Center, 2401 12th St NW, 843-7270,
indianpueblo.org
Events: Friends & Lovers
Balloon Rally
7 am, Balloon Fiesta Park,
5500 Balloon Fiesta Parkway,
265-2865, hotairballooning.org
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14
Shows: Flaming Hearts feat.
Ott
Word: Love and for the Love
of Art: Joe and Althea Cajero
Shows:
14th Annual Breakin’ Hearts
2 pm, El Rey Theater,
622 Central Ave SW, elreyabq.com
8 pm, Taos Mesa Brewing, 20 ABC
Mesa Rd, El Prado, (575) 758-1900,
taosmesabrewing.com
Shows: Love & Romance
Contemporary Jazz Concert:
Nick Colionne &
Max Anderson
7 pm, ABQ Marriott Pyramid North,
5151 San Francisco NE,
(214) 641-7695, theoasislive.com
Ever the Twain: Shakespeare in
Mark Twain’s America
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5
7 pm, Lensic Theater,
211 W. San Francisco, Santa Fe,
(505) 988-1234, lensic.org
9 pm, Effex, 420 Central Ave,
redfistent.com
Quietly Kept
Part of Bloody Sundays Brunch
and Bloody Mary Bar
11 am, Distillery 365, 2921 Stanford Dr NE,
Shimmy Stardust: A Belly
Dance Tribute to David Bowie
6 pm, Kaktus Brewing Company,
471 S Hill Rd, Bernalillo,
(505) 379-5072, kaktusbrewery.com
Steve Poltz
7:30 pm, Jean Cocteau Cinema,
418 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe,
(505) 466-5528, jeancocteaucinema.com
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2
Alex Maryol Duo
Amtrac & Hotel Garuda
Cesar Millan Live!
7:30 pm, Kiva Auditorium,
Albuquerque Convention Center,
401 2nd Street NW, 768-4575,
albuquerquecc.com
Lewis Black
8 pm, Route 66 Casino, 14500 Central
Ave SW, 352-7866, rt66casino.com
Musica Antigua de Albuquerque
Part of Music at the Museum
5:30 pm, Free, New Mexico Museum
of Art, 107 W Palace Ave, Santa Fe,
(505) 476-5072, nmartmuseum.org
Saudade
9 pm, Scalo, 3500 Central SE,
255-7871, scalonobhill.com
Saving Abel
Zinc Cellar Bar, 3009 Central Ave NE,
254-9462, zincabq.com
7 pm, The Co-Op, 415 Central Ave,
holdmyticket.com
Excision
FEBRUARY 5–7
8:30 pm, El Rey Theater,
Kevin Gates
Sunshine Theater, 120 Central Ave SW,
764-0249, sunshinetheaterlive.com
R5 with Ryland
7 pm, Kiva Auditorium, Albuquerque
Convention Center, 401 2nd Street
NW, 768-4575, ticketmaster.com
FEBRUARY 2–3
George Winston
Riverdance —The 20th
Anniversary World Tour
Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus,
203 Cornell Drive NE, 925-5858,
unmtickets.com
FEBRUARY 5–21
Chapatti
Keshet Center for the Arts,
4121 Cutler Ave NE, 243-0596,
motherroad.org
7:30 pm, Outpost Performance Space,
210 Yale SE, 232-9868, ampconcerts.org
FEBRUARY 5–28
Desert Rose Playhouse,
6921 Montgomery Blvd NE Ste E,
881-0503, desertroseplayhouse.net
G-Eazy, A$AP Ferg
7 pm, Tingley Coliseum,
300 San Pedro Dr NE, toozany.com
The Birds
FEBRUARY 5– MARCH 6
Paula Poundstone
Shirley Valentine
7:30 pm, Lensic Theater, 211 W. San
Francisco, Santa Fe, (505) 988-1234,
ticketssantafe.org
Aux Dog Theatre,
3011 Monte Vista Blvd NE, 254-7716,
westendproductions.org
CALENDAr CALENDAr
Eryn Bent
7 pm, Distillery 365, 2921 Stanford Dr NE,
Honeyhoney
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12
NM Philharmonic:
Bach and Mendelssohn
7 pm, St. John’s United Methodist
Church, 2626 Arizona St NE, mphil.org
Jurassic Park
2 & 6 pm, KiMo Theatre, 423 Central
Ave NW, 768-3544, kimotickets.com
The Met Live: Turandot
8 pm, Taos Mesa Brewing,
20 ABC Mesa Rd, El Prado,
(575) 758-1900, taosmesabrewing.com
Brother Gow
The MLC
Eryn Bent
SUNDAY, JANUARY 31
8 pm, Ned’s Bar & Grill,
2509 San Mateo Blvd NE, 884-4680,
nedsnm.com
7 pm, Café Bella Coffee, 2115 Golf
Course Rd SE, Rio Rancho, 994-9436,
cafebellacoffee.com
2 pm, KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave
NW, 768-3544, kimotickets.com
Musica Antigua de Albuquerque
Hooking up with The
Second City
1 pm, Free, Main Library,
501 Copper Ave NW, 768-5170,
abclibrary.org/mainlibrary
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7
Luz: Flamenco del Pueblo Viejo
7 pm, Outpost Performance Space,
210 Yale Blvd SE, 268-0044,
outpostspace.org
Loadbang
9:30 am, Las Puertas Event Center,
1512 1st St NW, chatterabq.org
Rudy Boy’s Blues and Brews
2 pm, Antonio’s Café and Cantina,
5409 Gibson Blvd SE, reverbnation.com
Saudade
7:30 pm, Yanni’s, 3109 Central Ave
NE, 268-9250, yannisandlemoni.com
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9
Lone Piñon
Noon, Free, South Valley Library,
3904 Isleta Blvd SW, 877-5170,
abclibrary.org
Naughty by Nature
8 pm, Sister, 407 Central Ave,
holdmyticket.com
Omar Villanueva
7:30 pm, Loma Colorado Main Library,
755 Loma Colorado Blvd NE,
Rio Rancho, 891-5013x3033,
riorancholibraries.org
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10
10 pm, Launchpad, 618 Central Ave
SW, 764-8887, launchpadrocks.com
7:30 pm, Lensic Theater,
(505) 988-1234, lensic.org
Keys N Krates
9 pm, El Rey Theater, 622 Central Ave
SW, elreyabq.com
Music for Two Flutes: Esther
Fredrickson & Joy Zalkind
7 pm, The Cathedral of St John,
318 Silver Ave SW, 944-5654,
stjohnsabq.org
Quintessence: Choral Artists
of the Southwest
7 pm, St. John’s United Methodist
Church, 2626 Arizona St NE,
323-4343, nmphil.org
Santa Fe Community Orchestra:
Inspired by Shakespeare
7 pm, Free, New Mexico Museum of
Art, 107 W. Palace Ave, Santa Fe,
(505) 476-5072,
internationalshakespeare.center
Jeremiah and the Red Eyes
Red Door Brewing,
1001 Candelaria Rd NE, 633-6675,
reddoorbrewing.com
BalletBoyz
Lensic Theater, 211 W. San Francisco,
Santa Fe, (505) 988-1234,
ticketssantafe.org
Brillz, Party Favor, Jackal
9 pm, El Rey Theater,
Henry Prego Sings Sinatra
6 pm, Sandia Casino, 30 Rainbow Rd,
796-7500, sandiacasino.com
Peter Pan and Wendy
La Cueva High School,
7801 Wilshire Ave NE,
browpapertickets.com
FEBRUARY 11–15
The Acro-Cats with the
Rock Cats
The Cell Theatre, 700 1st St NW,
766-9412, liveatthecell.com
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5
North by Northwest
6 & 8:30 pm, KiMo Theatre,
423 Central Ave NW, 768-3544,
kimotickets.com
Close Encounters of the
Third Kind
FEBRUARY 12– MARCH 6
The Odd Couple
The Adobe Theater, 9813 4th Street
NW, 898-9222, adobetheater.org
SCREENS
JANUARY 30– FEBRUARY 12
Guild Cinema
3405 Central Ave NE, 255-1848;
guildcinema.com
January 30 –31, Facets Kids Vol 1
February 6 –7, Paul Robeson Double
Feature: Emperor Jones, Song of Freedom
February 12, Sid & Nancy
Jean Cocteau Cinema
(505) 466-5528, jeancocteaucinema.com
Through February 4, Bajirao Mastani;
A Perfect Day
February 5 –11, Dead River
February 12 –19, Durant’s Never Closes
WEDNESDAYS
Noon, Free, Matterform,
500 Marquette Ave NW,
RSVP: 750-3531,
facebook.com/matterformmedia
5 pm, Free, Lizard Tail Brewing,
9800 Montgomery Ave NE,
lizardtailbrewing.com/home
10 am, Free, Open Space Visitor
Center, 6500 Coors Blvd NW,
897-8831, cabq.gov/openspace
Stories in the Sky with
Laurie Magovern
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2
CCA Cinematheque,
1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe,
(505) 982-1338, ccasantafe.org
The Supernationals
CBR: Bucking on the Rio Grande
8 pm, Santa Ana Star Center, 3001
Civic Center Circle NE, 891-7300,
santaanastarcenter.com
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5
Burque Bowl: Live Music,
Art & Community
5 pm, SCAContemporary inside
Sanitary Tortilla Factory,
401-3 2nd St SW, 228-3749,
scacontemporary.com
FEBRUARY 12–14
New Mexico Shrine Circus
Tingley Coliseum,
300 San Pedro Dr NE, 255-5329,
abqshrinecircus.com
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12
Harlem Globetrotters
Coffee & Cars
FEBRUARY 5–6
TUESDAYS
8 am, Café Bella Coffee,
2115 Golf Course Rd SE, Rio Rancho,
994-9436, cafebellacoffee.com
8 pm, Free, Q Bar-Hotel Albuquerque,
800 Rio Grande Blvd NW,
225-5928, qbarabq.com
All About the Bees:
New Mexico Bee Keepers
Truckin’ Tuesdays
Haute Night Out Gala Dinner,
Auction to benefit HauteHopes
1ST FRIDAYS
3 pm, First Unitarian Church,
3701 Carlisle Blvd NE, 217-3612,
whoisleonardpeltier.info
Kids Rock Geology
10 am, Free, Mama’s Minerals,
800 20th St NW, RSVP: 266-8443,
mamasminerals.com
First Friday Fractals
New Mexico Natural History Museum,
1801 Mountain Rd NW,
nmnaturalhistory.org
1ST SATURDAYS
The Organ Transplant
Awareness Program of
New Mexico
10:30 am, Erna Fergusson Library,
3700 San Mateo Blvd NE,
more info: 344-0512
Render Bender Community
Event and Fundraiser
2ND & 4TH SATURDAYS
5 pm, Center for Contemporary Arts,
1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe,
(505) 982-1338, ccasantafe.org
10 am, ages 7–17, Quelab,
680 Haines Ave NW,
coderdojoabq.github.io
FEBRUARY 6–7
Magical Winter Ball to benefit
UNM Children’s Hospital
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque,
330 Tijeras Ave NW,
magicalwinterball.com
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9
Science in the Sky:
Weather Watchers
10 am, Anderson Abruzzo Balloon
Museum, 9201 Balloon Museum Dr NE,
768-6020, balloonmuseum.com
Explora’s Tinkering with
Electricity
2 pm, Loma Colorado Library,
755 Loma Colorado Dr NE,
Rio Rancho, 891-5013,
Coder Dojo
SATURDAYS
Downtown Walking Tours with
Albuquerque Historical Society
10 am, Free, meet at Central and 1st
by Century Theater, 289-0586
International Folk Dancing
7 pm, Lloyd Shaw Dance Center,
5506 Coal Ave SE, 299-0332,
abqfolkdance.org
Saturday Night Swing Dance
7:15 pm, Rhythm Dance Company,
3808A Central Ave SE, 250-6146,
abqswing.com
Storytime Saturday
2 pm, Free, Page 1 Books,
5850 Eubank Blvd NE #B41,
294-2026, page1book.com
3RD SUNDAYS
Family Fun Day
COMMUNITY
5:30 pm, Explora, 701 Mountain Rd NW,
224-8300, explora.us
SUNDAYS
THROUGH APRIL
Introduction to HypnoBirth
10 am, Anderson Abruzzo Balloon
Museum, 9201 Balloon Museum Dr NE,
Eagle Park 305 Eagle Lane, Belen,
864-8091,
facebook.com/worldslargestmatanza
Latin Gold:
Salsa Lessons & Dancing
Explora’s Parents’ Night Out:
Creative Cards & Printmaking
Science in the Sky:
Starlab Planetarium
World’s Largest Matanza 2016
THURSDAYS
10 am, New Mexico History Museum,
113 Lincoln Ave, Santa Fe,
(505) 476-5200, nmhistorymuseum.org
1:30 pm, New Mexico History
Museum, 113 Lincoln Ave, Santa Fe,
(505) 476-5200,
nmhistorymuseum.org
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2
Noon, Santa Fe Community
Convention Center, 201 W. Marcy St,
Santa Fe, (505) 955-6200,
communityconventioncenter.com
Corrales Growers’ Market
New Mexico Veterans Memorial,
1100 Louisiana Blvd SE, 256-2042,
nmvetsmemorial.org
Trail Watch/Open Space Visitor
Center Volunteer Orientation
The Food Depot
Souper Bowl XXII
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7
9:30 am & 11 am,
Anderson Abruzzo Balloon Museum,
9201 Balloon Museum Dr NE,
2 pm, Santa Ana Star Center, 3001
Civic Center Circle NE, 891-7300,
santaanastarcenter.com
Volunteers needed for
NM Veterans Museum
Part of Gardening with the Masters
7 pm, Meadowlark Senior Center,
4330 Meadowlark Ln SE,
Rio Rancho, 891-5018,
sandovalmastergardeners.org
International Day of Solidarity
with Leonard Peltier
Ingrid Bergman — In Her
Own Words
ABQ Jazz Trio Open Jam
ABQ BioPark,
abqbiopark.com
EATS
Growing Tomatoes
STARTS FEBRUARY 12
Nahalat Shalom, 3606 Rio Grande Blvd
NW, 343-8227, nahalatshalom.org
HIPAA Compliance &
Awareness Training
2 & 6 pm, KiMo Theatre, 423 Central
Ave NW, 768-3544, kimotickets.com
8 pm, KiMo Theatre,
kimotickets.com
KlezmerQuerque 2016
1 pm, New Mexico Veterans Memorial,
1100 Louisiana Blvd SE, 256-2042,
nmvetsmemorial.org
5 pm, Hyatt Regency Tamaya,
1300 Tuyuna Trail, Santa Ana Pueblo,
hautepreneurs.com
Expo New Mexico, 300 San Pedro Dr NE,
222-9700, thesupernationals.com
FEBRUARY 12–14
1 pm, Free, CNM Workforce Training
Center, 5600 Eagle Rock Ave NE,
nmtap.org
Shakespeare Treasure Hunt in
Downtown Santa Fe
7 pm, National Hispanic Cultural
Center, 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771,
nhccnm.org
Tenth Annual Southwest
Burlesque Showcase
6 pm, Taos Mesa Brewing, 20 ABC
Mesa Rd, El Prado, (575) 758-1900,
taosmesabrewing.com
Korean War Veterans
Open Meeting
Pueblerina
THROUGH JANUARY 31
Winter Carnival feat.
Red Baraat
Certifications for Federal
Government Contracts
Winter Fire Colors Show
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5
EVENTS
Sunshine Theater,
sunshinetheaterlive.com
THROUGH FEBRUARY 20
9 pm, Kiva Auditorium, Albuquerque
Convention Center, 401 2nd Street
NW, 768-4575, albuquerquecc.com
FEBRUARY 12–13
7 pm, The Cell Theatre,
700 1st St NW, 766-9412,
fusionnm.org
The African Queen
Sheryl Underwood with Mike
Washington and David Raibon
Anthrax
David Gans to benefit
New Mexico Academy
of Rock & Blues
Lensic Theater, 211 W. San Francisco,
Santa Fe, (505) 988-1234, lensic.org
2ND TUESDAYS
7 pm, Free, Albuquerque Birth Network,
123 Wellesley SE, 269-8423,
hypnobirthing-nm.com
ONGOING
TUESDAYS
Casino/Cuban-Style Salsa and
Rueda de Casino
6 pm, National Hispanic Cultural Center,
1701 4th St SW, 724-4771,
nhccnm.org
Sunday Family Fun
10 am, Bachechi Open Space,
9521 Rio Grande Blvd NW,
314-0398,
bernco.gov/openspace
OUTDOORS
ENROLLMENT NOW OPEN
Las Huertas Farmer Training
and Incubator Program
Rio Grande Community Farm,
916-1078, riograndefarm.org
9 am, Free,
1025 Broadway Blvd SW,
848-1320, southbroadwaytickets.com
Bats
2 pm, Cerrillos Hills State Park,
37 Main St, Cerrillos, NM,
(505) 474-0196, cerrilloshills.org
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12
Great Backyard Bird Count
8 am, Free, ABQ BioPark,
2601 Central Ave NW,
RSVP by 2/10: 848-7180,
abqbiopark.com
Coffee Education and Tasting
6:30 pm, Prosum Roasters,
3228 Los Arboles Ave NE Ste 100,
379-5136, prosumroasters.com
2ND SATURDAYS
Los Ranchos Growers’ Market
10 am, 6718 Rio Grande Blvd NW,
farmersmarketsnm.org
SATURDAYS
Santa Fe Farmers Market:
Railyard
8 am, 1607 Paseo de Peralta at
Guadalupe, Santa Fe,
11 am, 500 Jones Rd & Corrales Rd,
SUNDAYS
ONGOING
11 am, donation, Rio Bravo Brewing
Company, (937) 671-8917,
riobravobrewing.com
11 am, Civic Plaza, 1 Civic Plaza NW,
3rd St NW and Marquette Ave NW,
albuquerquecc.com
WEDNESDAYS
Red Willow Farmers Market
9 am, 885 Star Rd, Taos Pueblo,
Pints & Planks Yoga Class
Choco-lympics for Teens:
Round 2
3 pm, Loma Colorado Main Library,
755 Loma Colorado Blvd, Rio Rancho,
RSVP by 2/8, 891-5013x3032,
Talin Market Food Truck Round Up
WORD
11 am, 88 Louisiana Blvd SE
FRIDAYS
Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande
NW, 344-8139, bkwrks.com
ABQ Food Fridays
4 pm, Civic Plaza, SW Section,
1 Civic Plaza NW,
3rd St NW and Marquette Ave NW,
civicplazapresents.com
January 30, Marlon Fick,
The Nowhere Man
January 31, Rand Greenfield,
A Change of Consciousness: A Hippie’s
Memoir of the Sixties and Beyond
February 4, Dr Robyn Benson, Healthy
Conscious Traveler: 8 Pathways to
Smart and Effortless Travel
February 9, Chella Courington,
The Somewhat Sad Tale of the
Pitcher and the Crow
February 11, Rose Spader,
Overturned Bucket
THROUGH FEBRUARY 28
Woodstock:
Baron Wolman-Book Exhibition
photo-eye Bookstore + Project Space,
376 Garcia St Ste A, Santa Fe,
(505) 988-5152, photoeye.com
A Bucketful of Reflection on
Space Exploration — Past,
Present and Future: Loretta Hall
1 pm, Special Collections Library,
423 Central NE, 848-1376
abclibrary.org
End of Winter Blues Romance
Event: Darynda Jones, Katie Lane
4 pm, Page One Books,
5850 Eubank Blvd NE Ste B-41,
294-2026, page1book.com
Oiling the Hinges of History:
Rob Kresge & Greg Comer
2 pm, Placitas Community Library,
453 Hwy 165, 867-3355,
placitaslibrary.com
Science Café — Obesity in
America: Dr Elizabeth
Yakes Jimenez
10 am, National Hispanic Cultural
Center, 1701 4th St SW,
RSVP:277-2396, nhccnm.org
Turandot: Mary Kime
Part of Opera Breakfast Lecture Series
9:30 am, Collected Works Bookstore,
202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe,
(505) 988-4226,
collectedworksbookstore.com
SUNDAY, JANUARY 31
House of Cards:
Ekphastic Poetry Reading
2 pm, Tortuga Gallery, 901 Edith Blvd SE,
506-0820, tortugagallery.org
Into the Dream Maze:
John Brandi
2 pm, New Mexico History Museum,
(505) 476-5200, nmhistorymuseum.org
Update on New Energy
Economy and Its Battle
Against PNM in Opposition
to Their Coal and Nuclear Plan:
Mariel Nanasi
11 am, Collected Works Bookstore,
202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe,
(505) 988-4226,
collectedworksbookstore.com
FEBRUARY 1–15
Let’s Read Shakespeare!
6 pm, Free,
Santa Fe Public Libraries, Santa Fe,
internationalshakespeare.center/events
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2
Business and Art:
Joe Feddersen & Drew Michael
Noon, Institute of American Indian
Arts, 83 Avan Nu Po Rd, Santa Fe,
iaia.edu
Three Promises for Jane:
A True Story of Madness
Redemption: Aerial Liese
UNM Bookstore, 2301 Central Ave NE,
277-5827, bookstore.unm.edu
Teju Cole with Amitava Kumar
Part of Readings and Conversations
series, 7 pm, Lensic Theater,
(505) 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org
Transiciones: Pathways of
Latinas and Latinos Writing in
High School and College:
Todd Ruecker
1:30 pm, UNM Bookstore,
2301 Central Ave NE, 277-1388,
unm.edu
Water Through the Lens of Art:
Daryl Lucero
Part of Reframing Resources — Water
in the Contemporary Pueblo World
5:30 pm, Free, Indian Pueblo Cultural
Center, 2401 12th St NW, 843-7270,
indianpueblo.org
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5
Bee Time — Lessons from the
Hive: Mark Winston
Part of New Mexico Beekeepers
Association Meeting
9 am, South Broadway Cultural Center,
1025 Broadway SE, 848-1320,
cabq.gov/sbcc
Art is ... Tradition: Naranjo
family of Santa Clara Pueblo
1 pm, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center,
2401 12th St NW, 843-7270,
indianpueblo.org
La Mistica Ciudad de Dios on
the Northern Frontier —
Sor Maria de Jesus de Agreda:
Anna Nogar
2 pm, National Hispanic Cultural
Center, 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771,
nhccnm.org
OUTSpoken Word
6 pm, Winning Coffee Co,
111 Harvard Dr SE, 266-0000,
winningcoffeeco.com
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8
The Four Ws of Appraisals:
What, Who, Why and When:
Cindy and Scott Hale
2 pm, Wheelwright Library,
704 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe,
(505) 982-4636, wheelwright.org
Meg Cabot Book Signing
7 pm, Jean Cocteau Cinema,
(505) 466-5528,
jeancocteaucinema.com
The AT&SF Railroad and the
Pueblo Indian 1880–1930:
Richard Frost
Part of Brainpower & Brownbags
Lunch Lectures
Noon, New Mexico History Museum,
Meem Community Room, 113 Lincoln
Ave, Santa Fe, (505) 476-5200,
nmhistorymuseum.org
How Women took Shakespeare
Across America: Robin Williams
Noon, Free, New Mexico Museum of
Art, St. Francis Auditorium,
107 W. Palace Ave, Santa Fe,
(505) 476-5072,
The Mysteries of the
Shakespeare First Folio:
Eric Rasmussen
6 pm, New Mexico Museum of Art,
St Francis Auditorium, 107 W. Palace
Ave, Santa Fe, (505) 476-5072,
What Shakespeare Got Wrong
— How to Take Perfectly Fine
History and Turn It Into
Absolute Fiction: Kristin
Bundesen
1 pm, Renesan Institute for Lifelong
Learning in St John’s United Methodist
Church, 1200 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe,
(505) 982-9274, RSVP: renesan.org
Free Spirit Knits: Anne Podlesak
3 pm, Española Valley Fiber Arts
Center, 325 Paseo de Oñate, Española,
(505) 747-3577, evfac.org
The Hispanic Founders of
Villa de Alburquerque: Angel
de Cervantes
FEBRUARY 5–29
CALENDAr CALENDAr
Tokyo Jesus & Eimi Takano
Stranger Factory, 3411 Central Ave,
508-3049, strangerfactory.com
One Man Show: Ray Tracey
Sorrel Sky Gallery, 125 W. Palace Ave,
Santa Fe, (505) 501-6555, sorrelsky.com
Visions of an Enchanted World:
Judith Shaw
Sierra Club Office, 2215 Lead Ave SE,
243-7767
FEBRUARY 5–MAY 1
Medieval to Metal: The Art and
Evolution of the Guitar
Stage, Setting, Mood:
Theatricality in the Visual Arts
New Mexico Museum of Art,
Urban Landscapes:
Richard Estes
Aten Reign: James Turrell,
Gallery Reception
Part of People Create Cities
10:30 am, Special Collections Library,
423 Central NE, 848-1376
abclibrary.org
Richard Levy Gallery, 514 Central
Ave SW, 766-9888, levygallery.com
ONGOING
Park Fine Art, 323 Romero St NW
Ste 6, 764-1900, parkfineart.com
1ST WEDNESDAYS
Poetry and Beer
7 pm, Tractor Brewing Wells Park,
1800 4th St NW, 243-6752,
getplowed.com
WEDNESDAYS
Crazy Wisdom Poetry
4 pm, Free, OffCenter Arts, 808 Park
Ave SW, 247-1172, offcenterarts.org
ARTSPREE
FEBRUARY 1–29
Leap!: Julian Wolf
Albuquerque Press Club,
201 Highland Park Cir SE
Artist Talk: Joe Feddersen
Noon, Institute of American Indian Arts,
83 Avan Nu Po Rd, Santa Fe, iaia.edu
FEBRUARY 4–MARCH 31
Natural Forces — The Wild
1025 Broadway Blvd SW, 848-1320,
southbroadwaytickets.com
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5
Opening Reception — Leap!:
Julian Wolf
201 Highland Park Cir SE,
243-8476, abqpress.club
Opening Reception —
7th Annual People’s Art Show
Factory on 5th, 1715 5th St,
977-9643, factoryon5.com
Visions of an Enchanted World:
Judith Shaw — Reception and
Artists Talk
5 pm, Sierra Club Office,
2215 Lead Ave SE, 243-7767
FEBRUARY 5–28
The Book’s the Thing:
Shakespeare, from Stage to Page
First Folio! The Book that Gave
Us Shakespeare
New Mexico History Museum, 113
Lincoln Ave, Santa Fe, (505) 476-5200,
nmhistory.org, internationalshakespeare.center
FEBRUARY 6–MARCH 6
Origins: Saul Hoffman
FEBRUARY 6–APRIL 16
At Home in the World
516 ARTS, 516 Central Ave SW,
242-1445, 516arts.org
Art Education Juried Art Exhibition
5 pm, UNM Main Campus,
Masley Hall Art Gallery
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12
Reception: Photography of
William Rehm
5 pm, Placitas Community Library, 453
Hwy 165, 867-3355, placitaslibrary.com
ONGOING
THROUGH JANUARY 30
Mexico at the Hour of Combat:
Sabino Osuna’s Photographs of
the Mexican Revolution
¡Viva la Revolución!: The Legacy of the Mexican
Revolution at the University
of New Mexico
Winter Wonderland
Group Show
Sorrel Sky Gallery, 125 W. Palace Ave,
Santa Fe, (505) 501-6555,
sorrelsky.com
THROUGH FEBRUARY 6
Urban Landscapes:
Richard Estes
Aten Reign: James Turrell
Richard Levy Gallery, 514 Central Ave
SW, 766-9888, levygallery.com
THROUGH FEBRUARY 9
Soft
SITE Santa Fe, 1606 Paseo de Peralta,
Santa Fe, (505) 989-1199,
sitesantafe.org
THROUGH FEBRUARY 14
SWAIAs Moving Image Class X
Winners 2015
Institute of American Indian Arts,
83 Avan Nu Po Rd, Santa Fe, iaia.edu
Fiber Rocks!
El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe,
555 Camino De La Familia, Santa Fe,
(505) 992-0591, elmuseocultural.org
THROUGH FEBRUARY 20
Recent Paintings: Paul Huxley
Serenade: Michele Bubacco
Heads and Hands — New
Ceramic Sculptures: Monte
Coleman
David Richard Gallery, 1570 Pacheco St
Ste A1, Santa Fe, 983-9555,
davidrichardgallery.com
THROUGH FEBRUARY 21
An American Modernism
Soul/Soil: Andrew Fearnside &
Bryce Hample
Open Space Visitor Center,
6500 Coors Blvd NW, 897-8831,
cabq.gov/openspace
THROUGH FEBRUARY 26
Echoes of the Civil War
Photography of William Rehm
THROUGH JANUARY 31
Placitas Community Library, 453 Hwy
165, 867-3355, placitaslibrary.com
Urban Landscapes:
Richard Estes
Richard Levy Gallery,
levygallery.com
Gods & Goop Gobbledygook:
Joel Nakamura, Zen Gardens,
Max Lehman
THROUGH FEBRUARY 27
Stranger Factory, 3411 Central Ave NE,
508-3049, strangerfactory.com
OFFCenter Community Arts Project,
808 Park Ave SW, 247-1172,
offcenterarts.org
Hilo: Group Show of
Textile Artists
Inpost Artspace, Outpost Performance
Space, 210 Yale Blvd SE, 268-0044,
outpostspace.org
Original Mimic: Armond Lara
Zane Bennett Contemporary Art,
435 S Guadalupe St, Santa Fe,
(505) 982-8111, zanebennettgallery.com
Art of Devotion: Historic Art
of the Americas
Peyton Wright Gallery, 237 E. Palace Ave,
Santa Fe, (505) 989-9888,
peytonwright.com
Peters Projects, 1011 Paseo de Peralta,
Santa Fe, (505) 954-5800,
petersprojects.com
FACES Santa Fe: Ben Haggard
Homebound:
The Art of Isolation
THROUGH FEBRUARY 28
Starry Night
Museum of Spanish Colonial Art,
750 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe,
(505) 982-2226,
spanishcolonial.org
BY ARIANE JAROCKI
Party Bard-y
THROUGH FRIDAY,
MARCH 11
THROUGH FEBRUARY 13
New Year New Work
Matrix Fine Art, 3812 Central Ave SE,
Ste 100A&B, 268-8952, matrixfineart.com
New Mexico Art League,
3409 Juan Tabo NE, 293-5034,
newmexicoartleague.org
THROUGH MARCH 12
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology,
UNM Main Campus, 500 Redondo Dr SE,
277-4405, unm.edu/~maxwell
NEW — New Works and
New Year’s Celebration
Limited Edition / Prints of
all Kinds
Edition One Gallery, 1036 Canyon Rd,
Santa Fe, (323) 422-8306,
editionone.gallery
New Mexico History Museum,
(505) 476-5200,
nmhistorymuseum.org
Sumner & Dene, 517 Central Ave NW,
842-1400, sumnerdene.com
THROUGH MARCH 5
Failure of Modernity:
Kent Monkman
THROUGH MARCH 13
Painting the Divine: Images of
Mary in the New World
New Mexico History Museum,
(505) 476-5200,
nmhistorymuseum.org
THROUGH MARCH 20
Gustave Baumann and
New Mexico
THROUGH MARCH 26
The Figure in Clay
Santa Fe Clay,
545 Camino de la Familia, Santa Fe,
(505) 984-1122, santafeclay.com
THROUGH MARCH 27
New Mexican Portraiture Now
National Hispanic Cultural Center,
1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, nhccnm.org
THROUGH APRIL 1
Akummittinni:
A Kinngait Family Portrait
Forward: Eliza Naranjo Morse
A
Lego
partnership with the International Shakespeare Center finds the New Mexico Museum of Art hosting a month-long series on all things Willy
the Shakes this February. This once-in-a-lifetime celebration of Shakespeare’s
“First Folio” is visiting all U.S. states and boasts a thoroughly modern vision,
so don’t fear stuffy elitism.
A panoply of events at multiple venues range from theatrical and musical
performances to lectures on women’s role in the promotion of Shakespeare’s
work stateside and the bard’s poetics of science, and that’s just for starters.
This February, explore this circa 1623 publication and its creator, whose
unmatched allegories and turns of phrase inform literature and pop culture to
this day. Visit nmartmuseum.org to learn more.
First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare
Friday, Feb. 5–Sunday, Feb. 28
New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 West Palace Ave, Santa Fe, (505) 476-5200,
nmartmuseum.org, internationalshakespeare.center
A Dog’s Life — And Death
BY M. BRIANNA STALLINGS
Museum of Contemporary Native Arts,
Helen Hardin Media Gallery,
108 Cathedral Pl, Santa Fe,
iaia.edu/museum
Bilingual Center of Excellence Open House
Saturday, February 6, 2016
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
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Albuquerque, NM 87107
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