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VOL III, Issue 12, June 15 – June 28, 2016
Albuquerque’s Award-winning Alternative Newspaper
2 • June 15 – June 28, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS
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Hola, Fidel
The race to fly Americans and their dollars to Cuba
is on. The U.S. Department of Transportation selected American Airlines, Frontier Airlines, JetBlue
Airways, Southwest Airlines and two airlines with
Florida-Caribbean routes, Silver Airways and Sun
Country Airlines, as the carriers authorized to fly to
Cuba for the first time in more than 50 years. The 161
authorized weekly flights will depart from Miami,
Fort Lauderdale, Chicago, Philadelphia and Minneapolis-St. Paul. Charter flights have been allowed for
years. Cruise ships started calling on Cuba several
weeks ago and the first golf tourism group departed
Miami earlier this month to play Havana’s one golf
course. The tourism group was organized by a pair of
entrepreneurs who applied to Cuban authorities only
a few months ago.
legal passages and submits them for review by human lawyers who upvote or downvote the robot’s
findings. The AI, known as ROSS, “uses machine
learning technology to fine tune its research methods,” The Washington Post reported. Meanwhile,
3,600 miles away, Joshua Browder, a 19-year-old U.K.
teen, has developed a robo-lawyer that has helped
Brits appeal $3 million in parking tickets since it was
launched in 2015. “Once you sign in, a chat screen
pops up. To learn about your case, the bot asks questions like, ‘Were you the one driving?’ and ‘Was it
hard to understand the parking signs?’ It then spits
out an appeal letter, which you mail to the court. If
the robot is completely confused, it tells you how to
contact Browder directly, according to the website
Tech Insider.
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Contributors this issue
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Elgar B. Hicks, Bill Hume, Ariane Jarocki, Dan Klein, Andy Lyman,
Ian Maksik, Suzy Maloy, Joe Monahan, Sayrah Namasté,
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Carbon dioxide
Poring through reams of bankruptcy documents
used to be the job of fresh-out-of-school law grads.
Now, a robot is helping one of the nation’s law firms
do the job. The AI being used by BakerHostetler of
Washington, D.C., scans pages looking for relevant
Editor
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M. Brianna Stallings
If you’re flying internationally this summer and are
tempted to hit the duty free shops, be forewarned,
any liquor in a quantity greater than a 3.4-ounce
miniature in your carry-on baggage will be confiscated by the TSA before you board your first
domestic flight home. The answer is packing locally
procured liquor in your checked luggage before you
head home. But rules apply for that, too. Your booze
must be unopened. You can’t pack anything over 140
proof due to fire danger, and you can’t pack more
than five liters per person (or 6.6 750 ml size bottles).
Some airlines have their own restrictions. Southwest
Airlines, for example, requires leak-proof packaging
outside the bottle.
Objection
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Flying booze
Scientists in Iceland believe they’ve found a breakthrough way to store massive amounts of carbon
dioxide underground in a way that binds it with
rocks, the Los Angeles Times reported. The idea is to
inject the green house gas underground with water.
Under high pressure, the CO2 becomes dissolved in
the water to become carbonic acid. The acid solution
then courses through layers of basaltic rock, where
it leaches out minerals like calcium, magnesium
and iron. The components in the mixture eventually
recombine and begin to mineralize into carbonate
rocks. In the end, the Icelandic scientists found they
could turn tons of carbon dioxide into a stable chalky
white substance. Using radioactive Carbon 14 as a
marker, they found that the injected water reached
monitoring wells — a sign the water had gotten
through the rock formations — but the Carbon 14 was
at a much lower level than when it was first injected,
meaning most of it was left behind in the rocks along
with the carbon dioxide.
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I
t’s called Pantone 448C, a muddy jungle
green with as much allure as a U.S. Army
ammo box. It’s now the legally mandated color
that all cigarettes sold in the United Kingdom
must be packaged in — in addition to cancer
and death warnings. Research found that colors
in that range are among the most repulsive
to the human mind. It’s not the first time the
murky shade has been used to deter people,
Angela Wright, a color consultant and author of
“The Beginner’s Guide to Color Psychology,”
told CNN. In the 1960s, an American color
consultant devised a way to stop department
store employees from taking lengthy bathroom
breaks. Rather than change the color scheme of
the work area, the consultant painted bathrooms in a color similar to Pantone 448C. “Nobody wanted to spend time in the restrooms
after that,” Wright told the network.
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A&E: Three to See
[Page 21]
#beer #map #ABQ
Scope ABQ Free Press’ map to
Beer Town.
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#film #industry #NMFilm
Christa Valdez dishes on the
local film scene.
AMC
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#rational #astrology #stars
Elgar B. Hicks, PhD, deconstructs
the stars.
Get Your OctoFair On
by M. BRIANNA STALLINGS
O
ne steers its
cephalopodic body
across the ocean with
eight tentacles. The other
roams the forest on four
furry legs, seeking food
and shelter and avoiding Norwegian comedy
troupes’ curiosity about
what it says. These two
very different beasts — the
octopus and the fox — are
the namesakes of an AlThe Octopus and the Fox
buquerque boutique that
Amigurumi dolls hanging out at local boutique
purveys local, handmade
crafts and art.
Visit The Octopus and the Fox (514 Central SE) for a free, family friendly
afternoon of hyperlocal shopping from over 35 vendors at the fifth annual
Summer OctoFair on Saturday, June 18, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The soundtrack comes courtesy of Sage Harrington (12:30 p.m.) and Stephy
and Carlos (2 p.m.). Raffle sponsors include Self Serve, Java Joe’s, Being Present,
The Guild Cinema and Bhava Yoga. Local truck Soo Bak Foods will be on hand
with scrumptious Korean “Seoul” food.
For updated info: call 203-2659, email hello@octofoxshop.com or visit
facebook.com/events/1713067942311543
Fifth Annual Summer OctoFair
Saturday, June 18, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
The Octopus and the Fox, 514 Central SE, 203-2659,
octofoxshop.com
M. Brianna Stallings is a staff writer at ABQ Free Press.
Email her at brianna@freeabq.com
NEWS
ABQ Free Press Local News Briefs
by abq free press staff
Yeah, right
A top city official’s assertion that police
were forced by law to place Donald
Trump supporters and anti-Trump
protesters just a few feet from each other
appears not to be grounded in fact. The
ACLU, an authority on free speech,
says in its national website that “police
are permitted to keep two antagonistic
groups separated” when it comes to
public protests. That contradicts what
Mayor Richard Berry’s Chief of Staff,
Gilbert Montaño, told the Albuquerque
Journal. “Montaño said police determined it would be against the law to
force Trump supporters and protesters
into separate areas. Case law, he said,
calls for them to have the ‘ability to be
right next to each other,’’’ the Journal
reported. Peter Simonson, executive
director of the ACLU of New Mexico,
said interpreting the law as requiring
APD to cram opposing groups close
enough together to virtually guarantee
violence isn’t what the law requires.
“The important point is that the protesters be approximate enough that they can
communicate their message effectively,”
Simonson said. Organizers of the Trump
protest had sought the right to assemble
across the street. The police union
charged that APD commanders needlessly put officers’ safety at risk during
the melee, in which bottles, rocks and
urine-bombs were thrown at police lacking riot equipment.
Scammed
San Miguel County has lost $38,000
in a wire transfer scam, State Auditor
Tim Keller said, warning government
agencies not fall for the fraud. Scammers
have targeted at least nine government
agencies in the state, and they convinced
government employees from three agencies to initiate wire transfers totaling
$100,000, Keller said. The Zuni Public
Schools and Deming Public Schools
were able to stop the transfers, which
the scammers requested by email.
Screwed up
During questioning by New Mexico
Democratic U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan
Grisham earlier this month, a top official
with the U.S. Department of Agriculture
said, “New Mexico is probably the most
fouled up SNAP system in the United
States right now.” A federal lawsuit
under way in Las Cruces alleges state officials falsely overstated the incomes of
applicants for emergency food assistance
through the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program to allow them to
deny benefits and not run afoul of federal
deadlines. At a hearing, top state official
repeatedly took the Fifth Amendment
rather than risk self-incrimination. A
U.S. Department of Agriculture official
testified before Congress that the USDA
hadn’t launched an investigation because
New Mexico was investigating. Lujan
Grisham said that wasn’t good enough.
Rebates
The City of Albuquerque says it will
give refunds to the owners of dieselpowered vehicles who paid for emissions tests for their vehicles that city
officials belatedly realized were illegal –
three and a half years later. About 9,400
tests of diesel-powered vehicles have
been done under the illegal program
that began on Jan. 1, 2013, said Danny
Nevarez, deputy director for air quality
with the city’s Environmental Health
Department. The Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Air Quality Control Board
voted to hold a hearing later this year
on whether to junk the diesel-testing
program, which the city concedes
violates state law. The statute authorizes
emissions testing for spark plug-ignited
engines only. A typical emissions test
costs $29.95, according to an employee
of a local Jiffy Lube shop.
Shrapnel
An Albuquerque attorney says a mother
and child were injured – possibly by a
gunshot or fragments from a bullet – in
a May operation by the U.S. Marshal
Service in which the Marshal Service
said no one was hurt and no gun was
fired. Attorney Jason Bowles, who represents the man arrested at a North Valley
residence, said the man’s girlfriend and
her daughter were injured during the
incident. At the time, Marshal Deputy
Kenneth Daniel said no one was shot
and no one was injured. But the next
day, KOAT-TV Channel 7 reported that
sources had confirmed that a deputy
marshal had fired a shot and had been
placed on leave. Bowles said he’s been
told Albuquerque police returned to the
house to retrieve a bullet. The Marshal
Service has been involved in at least five
shootings in the past five months. In
two, people were killed, one who was
shot by accident and one in which a
man committed suicide.
Gone in 60 seconds
The four-county Albuquerque Metro
region had the second highest rate of
vehicle thefts in the nation in 2015,
according to the National Insurance
Crime Bureau. The area had 6,657
thefts last year for a rate of 733.71 per
100,000 people, the NICB said. That
was second only to Modesto, Calif.,
which had 4,072 thefts, for a rate of
756.33 per 100,000 people. California is
car thief heaven. The Golden State had
eight metro areas on the top 10 list for
the highest rates of vehicle thefts.
Soap opera
The melodrama starring Chief Gorden
Eden’s pick to head the Albuquerque
Police Academy continues. The New
Mexico Law Enforcement Academy’s
board refused to dismiss charges against
Jessica Tyler – a move that clears the way
for a possible revocation of her license to be
a cop. The case against Tyler was filed by
her former boss, Bernalillo County Sheriff
Manny Gonzales, who charged Tyler
misled Gonzales about a 2015 training
academy for reserve deputies that cost
BCSO $25,000. The NMLEA development
earlier this month followed by a few days
a bizarre twist in which two officers who
attended a training session by Tyler were
shadowed at lunch by her husband, who
tried to record them complaining about
her. The husband, a former sheriff’s officer,
then told his wife, who that afternoon in a
training session berated the cops publicly
and threatened to bust them to patrolmen.
That led one of the cops to file an Internal
Affairs complaint against Tyler, while the
husband filed a Police Oversight Board
complaint against the cops – without actually naming any of them.
Other cops
The New Mexico Law Enforcement
Academy board also rejected a recommendation that a decertification case
against Albuquerque Aviation Police
Chief Marshall Katz be dismissed. The
board voted to revoke the law enforcement license of former APD officer
Adam Casaus, who was convicted of
careless driving in connection with
a collision that killed a 21-year-old Albuquerque woman in February 2013.
Toxin testing
A bill co-sponsored by U.S. Sen. Tom
Udall, a New Mexico Democrat, that
is heading to the president’s desk will
give the EPA authority to test new
chemicals hitting the market that previously underwent no safety testing.
Udall said, “Most Americans believe
that when they buy a product at the
hardware store or the grocery store,
that product has been tested and
determined to be safe. But that isn’t
the case. Americans are exposed to
hundreds of chemicals. We carry them
around with us in our bodies – even
before we’re born. Some are known
carcinogens; others are highly toxic.”
The bill gives the states power to act
on suspected dangerous chemicals if
EPA fails to do so.
Openness
An open government group and a
journalism society have partnered to
offer “summer camps” for transparency
in government. The free seminars will
be held in Las Cruces and Albuquerque.
The Albuquerque seminar will be held
from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Saturday,
July 23, at the Albuquerque Journal
auditorium. Speakers will include New
Mexico In Depth’s data journalist Sandra
Fish and Susan Boe, executive director
of the New Mexico Foundation for Open
Government. Fish will conduct a training
seminar about following online government information to track campaign
contributions and candidate spending.
Boe will discuss recent Inspection of
Public Records Act developments and
how to fine-tune records requests.
Ethical?
U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, a New Mexico
Republican, tried to kill funding for
the Office of Congressional Ethics,
which has investigated his staff. With
his attempt to strip it of its annual $1.4
million budget, he tried to prevent it
from getting a $190,000 increase, a move
derailed by Rep. Debbie Wasserman
Schultz, a Florida Democrat, according
to the Huffington Post. Pearce argued
that the House Ethics Committee, not an
independent agency, should be Congress’ watchdog. He said his amendment was meant to “give notice to the
OCE that we are watching what you’re
doing.” The Campaign Legal Center,
a nonprofit government ethics group,
denounced Pearce’s latest effort. “Rep.
Pearce’s motivation is clear,” the group
said. “He has had several interactions
with the OCE, and this effort is nothing
more than sour grapes.”
NEWS
Water Strategy Shift Could Benefit Santolina
BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI
I
t’s just one sentence — 19 words —
but its disappearance from a
proposed 100-year plan to manage
the Albuquerque Metro area’s water
supply has critics saying its omission
could dramatically draw down the
aquifer in future years.
The critics also charge it’s part of
a plan by water insiders and consultants to flip Bernalillo County’s water
strategy without any real public input
and that it will work to the benefit
of the proposed Santolina masterplanned community on Albuquerque’s far West Side.
The change is to the Albuquerque
Bernalillo County Water Utility
Authority’s Water Resources Management Strategy, which was last updated in 2007. The current version of the
strategy’s Policy B says, “The Authority shall limit the use of ground water
except to meet peak demands or
during times of drought.”
But that sentence is missing from
the water authority’s proposed
revised strategy, which could be
approved by the utility’s board of
directors later this summer.
Water Meetings
The Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water
Utility Authority will hold public meetings on
its proposed revision of the Water Resources
Management Strategy. All meetings will run
from 6–8 p.m. To attend, you must register in
advance at: www.abcwua.org/ccreg.html
June 16, Don Newton/Taylor Ranch Community Center, 5900 Kachina St. NW
June 29, North Domingo Baca Multicultural Center, 7521 Carmel Ave. NE
June 30, National Hispanic Cultural Center,
1801 4th St. SW
July 22, Town Hall, Marriott Uptown
Here’s the meaning of the proposed
change:
Instead of reserving the aquifer
exclusively as a drought reserve or for
use in emergencies, the change would
allow the aquifer to be pumped to a
degree that the water table could drop
to as much as 250 feet below predevelopment levels. The area from the top
of the water table to 250 feet below is
called a “working reserve” under the
proposed strategy.
According to water expert Elaine
Hebard, who is also a member of
the water utility’s Technical Customer Advisory Committee and is a
Santolina opponent, the presence of
the 19-word sentence in the current
Dan Vukelich
The Rio Grande as seen from near Candelaria Road Northwest. Opponents of the 38,000-home Santolina community proposed for Bernalillo County’s Southwest Mesa postulate a proposed change to the
Metro area’s 100-year water strategy is a backdoor way to get Santolina the water it needs
strategy mandates the authority to
use its surface water, known as San
Juan-Chama water that flows in the
Rio Grande, to meet most of the Metro
area’s drinking water needs and to
pump from the aquifer only when
absolutely necessary.
“It changes it [the policy] from
focusing on using surface water,
which is our most renewable supply,
to relying more on the groundwater
system,” Hebard said. “But why are
we changing?”
Strategy flip
Norm Gaume, the former water
resources manager for the City of Albuquerque, said the proposed change
flips the previous strategy on its head.
Instead of relying primarily on surface
water, the Metro area is going back to
the bad old days of pumping groundwater, he said.
“It no longer minimizes it [groundwater pumping] but uses it all the time,”
Gaume said. “It doesn’t make sense.”
Gaume said he thinks the proposed
strategy would allow the water
authority to get water to the proposed
— and controversial — 14,000-acre
Santolina project on the far West
Mesa. “It allows them to serve Santolina without any changes to their
water system,” Gaume said.
Bernalillo County Commissioner
Debbie O’Malley, who sits on the water
utility’s board, said the utility is beginning to look at renewed growth in the
area. And if that means Santolina, that’s
part of the agency’s mission, she said.
“The water utility is basically a
business, and its main thing is to
provide water,” O’Malley said. “So
they are starting to prepare for likely
growth. They are not in the business
of denying people water. Their business is to provide water for the future,
and it doesn’t say just for people who
live here now.”
John Stomp, chief operating officer
of the water utility, said the proposed
strategy represents long-range planning that will keep the aquifer from
falling below a dangerous level and
protects it for future generations.
No other western city or state is
engaged in such long-term planning,
he said. If the water table drops to 110
feet below its original point, the utility
would be forced to find new sources
of water, Stomp said.
“The idea that we are changing
the groundwater management plan
is true,” Stomp said. “Except for
that, we’re actually going to be more
conservative. Because in the past, the
previous strategy was to only pump
during droughts or for peak supplies.
But that doesn’t say what happens
when the aquifer gets to a certain
level. It’s just, keep pumping.
“What we are proposing is not being done anywhere else in the country.
We’re talking about a plan where
we can draw down the aquifer to a
certain point, and that’s it, we need to
bring on new supplies. We are saying
that we are going to manage this
aquifer at this level forever.”
Transparency?
Work on the new strategy began 17
months ago, but Hebard and Gaume,
who helped develop the first water
resources strategy back in the 1990s,
said there has been little community
input for a project that purports to set
the course of Albuquerque’s water
policy for the next 100 years.
There were at least two public
meetings earlier this year that, in total,
drew fewer than 50 people. Four more
meetings have been scheduled, including a July 22 meeting in Albuquerque.
“We will have a town hall meeting,
but by then the policy will already be
written. Where is the public involvement?” Hebard said.
Stomp said the public really doesn’t
get involved in such big policy
changes early on, and especially now
when there is no immediate crisis.
“I would argue that the public
doesn’t care until you get to a certain
point,” Stomp said. “If you say the
aquifer is rising and everything is all
right, no one will come. You don’t
want to engage the public so early on
that they don’t care.”
Water savings
One thing that is clear is that Metro
area residents have done a tremendous job of conserving water over the
years, and the aquifer has been rising
since 2009 when the San Juan-Chama
drinking water project became operational, Stomp said. That project allows
Albuquerque to use water flowing
into the Rio Grande from the San Juan
River Basin in Colorado.
In 2009, area residents used 111,231
acre feet of water. Last year, that
had dropped to 92,940 acre-feet.
More importantly, the consumptive
use — water that isn’t returned to the
wastewater reclamation plant and
then back to the Rio Grande — has
fallen from 52,709 acre-feet in 2009 to
39,142 acre-feet last year.
It means that residents and businesses are using much less water
on landscaping and other things
that cause water to evaporate or be
otherwise lost. An acre-foot — the
amount of water that will cover an
acre of flat ground to a depth of one
foot — equates to 325,851 gallons.
Since 2009, the aquifer has risen by
about 50 feet. In 2008, the water table
was approximately 115 feet below predevelopment levels. By 2020, because
of reduced groundwater pumping,
it is expected to rise to 50 feet below
predevelopment levels, Stomp said.
Dennis Domrzalski is an associate editor
at ABQ Free Press. Reach him at
dennis@freeabq.com.
news
Time for Media to Tackle Cost of Climate Change
BY THOM HARTMANN
T
he corporate media in this country
need to stop kowtowing to vested
fossil fuel advertisers that want to keep
the U.S. public in the dark, and they
need to start telling people the truth
about the connections between extreme
weather events and climate change.
We can’t expect the U.S. public to rally
to aggressively address our climate crisis
if the mainstream media refuses to talk
about the realities of climate change.
A state of disaster has been declared
in 31 flooded Texas counties as rivers
in the region crest at historic highs.
Six people have died, up to four more
people are missing, and hundreds of
people were evacuated as the Brazos
River reached over 54 feet in Fort Bend
County.
On the East Coast, the National
Hurricane Center declared that Tropical
Depression Bonnie, which caused significant flash flooding in the U.S. Southeast
over Memorial Day weekend, “revived”
off the coast of North Carolina.
It’s not just remarkable that Bonnie
“revived” itself as a tropical depression
— it’s remarkable that 2016 is the second
year in a row that the Atlantic hurricane
season has begun before June 1.
The situation in Europe
has been described as
‘worse than the floods of
1910,’ which cost France
roughly $1.5 billion in
today’s dollars
In Europe, the French government
issued an orange alert in response to
days of torrential rains that brought
the Seine’s water level to over 5 meters.
As a result, the Louvre announced the
museum would be closed to the public
so that staff could prepare for the worst.
Nine people died across northern
Europe as a result of the storms and
subsequent flooding: Streets were
submerged, schools were forced to
close, and thousands of people were
evacuated while others were stranded
on their rooftops.
The Loire region of France alone got
six weeks of rainfall in three days. The
situation in Europe has been described
as “worse than the floods of 1910,”
which cost France roughly $1.5 billion in
today’s dollars.
And the mainstream media in this
country is committing malpractice with
The Atlantic hurricane season came early again this year.
their coverage of these events. The
simple fact is, these storms are directly
connected to global climate change.
Feedback loop
More specifically, these storms are
directly related to the “water vapor
positive feedback loop.”
Right now, according to climate
scientist Kevin Trenberth, there is
about 5 percent more water vapor in
the atmosphere above the oceans than
there was in 1968 when Richard Nixon
was sworn in, thanks to the fact that
the oceans have already warmed 1
degree Celsius.
We know that the planet is warming and that it’s warming because of
human activities. We rip fossil fuels out
of the Earth and burn them into the
atmosphere, we destroy our soils with
industrial farming, and we clear-cut
carbon-rich rainforests to plant fields
of monocrops.
All of those activities have contributed to unprecedented, unnatural global
warming during the past century and
a half. As a result, the planet’s atmosphere can hold more moisture than it
could have in the absence of humancaused global warming.
That’s because warmer systems can
hold more moisture. Think about how
much stickier and wet it feels at 90
degrees Fahrenheit and 90 percent
humidity than it feels at 45 degrees
Fahrenheit and 90 percent humidity.
And water vapor acts just like any
other greenhouse gas in the atmosphere: It reflects light and heat back
in all directions, including back toward
Earth. This leads to the “water vapor
positive feedback loop” that over time
causes a dangerous amplification in
warming.
If the mainstream media
were doing its job … they
would tell you that,
according to Citibank, the
estimated cost of climate
inaction is around
$44 trillion globally
A warmer planet can hold more
moisture in the atmosphere, more
moisture in the atmosphere leads to
more warming, more warming means
that the atmosphere can hold more
moisture — and on and on.
But water vapor is also very good at
trapping energy. In fact, we use “calorie” as a basic measurement of energy
defined as the amount of energy
needed to raise the temperature of
one gram of water by 1 degree Celsius
at sea level.
What that
means is that
more water vapor
in the atmosphere
doesn’t just mean
more light and
heat reflected
back to Earth — it
means more
energy is trapped
in the atmosphere
at any given time.
According
to NASA, as the
Earth approaches
1.8 degrees
Fahrenheit warming, the resulting
increase in water
vapor will trap an
extra 2 watts of
energy per square
meter.
BEHINDLENS
And as Andrew
Dessler told NASA,
“That number
may not sound
like much, but
add up all of that energy of the entire
Earth surface, and you find that water
vapor is trapping a lot of energy. We
now think the water vapor feedback
is extraordinarily strong, capable of
doubling the warming due to carbon
dioxide alone.”
If the mainstream media were doing
its job responsibly, they wouldn’t just
tell you the estimated cost of disaster
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COLUMNS
N.M. Republicans Carrying Trump
Monkey on Their Backs This Year
BY JOE MONAHAN
I
n this topsy-turvy,
utterly unpredictable, anything-goes
election year, who
better to turn to for
calm guidance than
Brian Sanderoff, the
veteran pollster who
approaches even
the most emotional
of elections with a sedate demeanor,
armed with an arsenal of facts.
Sanderoff, who heads Research and
Polling, is in his 30th year of conducting
highly accurate surveys for the Albuquerque Journal. Because there are no banner
statewide races such as the U.S. senate or
governor on the ballot this year, it will be
the battle for control of the New Mexico
House and Senate that will be most
prominent, with the obvious exception of
the Clinton-Trump showdown.
That’s where we started our conversation with Sanderoff.
The pollster does not break ranks with
his fellow pundits in predicting that
New Mexico appears “safe” for Clinton.
“With two large Obama victories
in 2008 and 2012 and with Hispanics – who lean Democratic – making up
an increasing share of the electorate,
Clinton is the clear favorite to take the
state’s five electoral votes,” he declared.
Sanderoff does leave the door open
a crack for Trump, saying if there
was an anomaly, such as a crash in
voter turnout, it could make for a more
competitive race here.
The presidential race led Sanderoff
into comments about the battle for the
Legislature.
“Our studies have shown the national
mood plays a very big role in determining the outcome of legislative races.
In 2008, the Democrats held a 45-25
advantage in the state House. Then
came the 2010 midterm and the rise
of the Tea Party. Republicans picked
up eight state House seats. In the 2014
midterm when Obama was unpopular,
the Rs picked up the House seats they
needed to take control for the first time
since the early ’50s.”
But there’s more than the national
mood to consider, Sanderoff said. Republicans will be “playing defense” in
the effort to keep control.
“In some ways, they are victims of
their own success. They have to hold on
to all those seats they picked up in the
nonpresidential cycle, plus they have to
worry about Trump,” he said.
That doesn’t mean they can’t succeed,
he reasoned, but this time the wind is
not at their backs. That leads us back to
Trump (doesn’t everything?).
Republican Gov. Susana Martinez
and Republican Albuquerque Mayor
Richard Berry have been like cats on a
hot tin roof when it comes to Trump.
They keep jumping away from their
party’s presumptive nominee, refusing
to formally endorse him as his campaign
rhetoric about Hispanics has grown
increasingly strident and offensive to
many. Sanderoff says such caution (or
fear) will likely find its way into the
legislative races.
“In House districts where Republicans
need Democratic votes to win, I suspect
you will see the Republican candidates
refusing to endorse Trump,” he said.
Not that there is any safe play for
the Rs when it comes to The Donald. If
they refuse to back him, the Democratic
candidates will keep up the pressure for
GOP endorsements as they work to make
their races a referendum on Trump.
As for the Republican dream of
taking over the state Senate, currently
controlled 24 to 18 by the Democrats,
Sanderoff puts that in the “long-shot”
category.
“The Republicans would have to pick
up six Senate districts to gain outright
control of the Senate, assuming the
Democrats regain two Democratic-leaning districts that they lost due to special
circumstances. All of this would need to
happen in a presidential election cycle
in which turnout increases, thereby
typically helping Democrats.”
When it comes to the proliferation of
virtually unregulated millions of dollars
flooding into the political process as
a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s
Citizens United ruling, Sanderoff likes
to see the glass as half full.
“The biggest change in politics in my
lifetime is the downsizing of the political parties and the rise of the super
PACs and other fund-raising vehicles.
But this year we saw Jeb Bush, who was
financed by millions in PAC dollars, go
down to defeat, and Bernie Sanders
managed to bypass mega-donations
and super PACs by raising millions in
grassroots donations.”
Sanderoff delivers his big-picture
analysis with his trademark tranquility
and an even-tempered manner that
has weathered the decades. That’s
especially welcome in these current days
of political tumult.
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politics. His daily blog can be found at
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Remembering One’s Dead
BY dan klein
D
o you remember the first
dead body you ever
saw? I do.
I was 5 years old,
and it was at the
rosary for my greatgrandmother. To
this day, my oldest brother still teases me
for wailing like an old woman. I doubt I
would even remember her death were it
not for my chosen career as a beat cop.
Beat cops, violent crime detectives and
crime scene officers see a lot of death,
much more than any other officer. It’s
not all violent; most of the deaths are
natural but unattended. Dealing with
death is a very small part of the job, but
it is one that stays with you long after
you leave police work.
The first dead body I saw in law
enforcement was during an autopsy in
Topeka, Kan. She was a young, single
mother who had been sick with the flu.
She choked and fell forward, cracking
her head wide open against a coffee
table. Unconscious, she couldn’t clear
her airway and died, feet away from her
infant daughter.
The first body I saw with the Albuquerque Police Department was in October
1983. A biker had been stabbed to death
in the basement of a home near 12th
Street and Mountain Road.
He had been there for several days and
was discovered only when the upstairs
tenants called police to report “a bad
smell.” That was an understatement.
I don’t know if the homicide was ever
solved, but I vividly remember the
homicide detectives smoking Swisher
Sweets cigars to cloak the smell.
Because I was the rookie, I was given
the happy job of helping the OMI bag
the guy and load him into their van. You
have to work together when handling a
body, or bad things will happen. In this
case, the upper half I was holding broke
off at his sternum. You wouldn’t believe
the number of maggots that streamed
out of his chest cavity.
In the course of my career, I have seen
hundreds of dead people. The lonely,
despondent alcoholic who blew his
brains out in a motel room at 65th and
Central was one. Alcoholism is a sure
path to an early death.
The calm faces of three young men
who died instantly when struck by a
drunk National Guardsman who was
getting ready to deploy to the First Gulf
War were others. They were killed at
San Mateo and Menaul boulevards, the
side impact causing their aortas to snap,
causing instant death with no outward
markings.
A Cop’s
View
Still others were the three young men
who died of carbon monoxide poisoning
in a home by Walter Street and what
then was known as Stadium Boulevard.
It was an old house, and one man had
passed out on a floor heating vent. I
don’t have enough words to describe
what his baked face looked like.
There’s the mother who was strangled
by her boyfriend in the Ladera area. Her
children were in the next rooms, and I
can only imagine her fear for them as he
choked the life out of her.
When we kicked down the door, we
found the killer with a syringe sticking
out of his neck, alive. In the bedroom
where the woman lay dead on her
bed, we found the school IDs for her
three children, laid out for us to find.
The killer had apparently intended to
kill them but instead sent them off to
school. The most difficult job that day
was explaining to the three children that
mommy was dead.
Dealing with
death is a very small part
of the job, but
it is one that stays with
you long after
you leave police work
You might think me odd, but I sleep
very well. Remembering these deaths
doesn’t bother me. I get into bed and
fall asleep almost immediately. I don’t
wake up during the night. The only
dreams I have usually have me walking
naked down a street. Now that is weird.
There is a reason why I am not plagued
by thoughts of the death and destruction I have witnessed.
Years ago, I was trained to place these
thoughts in a canister and visualize placing this canister on the top shelf. I would
bring it down and open it up only when
I wished to remember.
APD Psych Services officers Pete
DiVasto and Jack Price taught me this,
and I am forever grateful. Pete and Jack
taught me how to retain my sanity in
a job that shows you the insane almost
daily. I hope current officers are receiving this counseling.
Unfortunately, I know of many officers
who don’t sleep because of the dreams
that come. Their own dead people haunt
them. For these officers, the faces of the
dead never leave. I hope someday they
will let them go.
Dan Klein is a retired Albuquerque police
sergeant. Reach him through Facebook.
NEWS
Primary Saw Some Shake-ups; Stage Set for Santolina Fight
BY JOEY PETERS,
NM POLITICAL REPORT
A
hard-fought, close three-way race that will
determine the ideological balance of the
Bernalillo County Commission ended with a winner — Steven Michael Quezada.
Quezada, a member of the Albuquerque Public
Schools Board of Education and an actor best known
for his supporting role in “Breaking Bad,” now goes
into the fall general election race a clear favorite
over Republican Patricia Paiz.
Itinerant House Rep Booted
BY ANDY LYMAN,
NM POLITICAL REPORT
Throughout the campaign,
Quezada pointed to his vote
against Santolina on the APS
school board as evidence of his
disapproval of the project. At the
same time, he wouldn’t rule out
potentially supporting some of
the 80 public subsidies Santolina
developers are currently seeking
Quezada said he isn’t ruling out Paiz’s challenge,
despite his district’s Democratic leanings.
“We still got to move forward,” he said. “We still got
to fight.”
Quezada narrowly edged out opponents Adrián
Actor and Albuquerque native Steven Michael Quezada has
plunged headlong into New Mexico politics, first winning election
to the Albuquerque Public Schools Board of Education in 2013,
then on June 7 winning the Democratic primary race for a seat on
the Bernalillo County Commission.
cont. on page 10
Scandals Played Role In other Races
Here’s a summary of the results of other June 7 primary elections:
House District 25
Senate District 17
This race was always going
to be an uphill battle for Chris
Berkheimer. His list of scandals
started more than a decade ago
when he resigned from his job as
a worker’s compensation judge
after accusations that he made
sexual advances on an injured
worker.
When Berkheimer began his
campaign, he was on an ankle
monitor for violating a restraining
order against his daughter. He
was in jail the week before the
election for violating probation.
So it’s no surprise that he
received less than a quarter of
the vote against Christine Trujillo,
the incumbent, in the Democratic
primary. Trujillo received support
from educators and teacher
unions. Trujillo faces no Republican challenger in the general
election.
The district straddles Interstate
40 between Carlisle and Wyoming, with the bulk of it north of
I-40.
Former state senator Shannon
Robinson runs for the Senate
every four years and has since
1986.
He has lost the last three
times, including Tuesday night to
incumbent Mimi Stewart. Robinson lost in 2008 to State Auditor
Tim Keller in the Democratic
primary. In 2012, Robinson ran as
a Republican and lost to Keller in
the general election. He ran as a
Democrat again this year.
Stewart avenged her close
1992 Democratic primary loss to
Robinson and will likely keep the
seat, as she faces no Republican
in the general election. Stewart
ended up winning with nearly 60
percent of the vote.
Senate District 17 lies mostly
south of Interstate 40 between
Carlisle and Four Hills Boulevard.
PRC District 1
Cynthia Hall ousted incumbent
Karen Montoya – in emphatic
fashion. Hall ended up with 57
percent of the vote to Montoya’s
43 percent in the Democratic
primary.
Hall received big support from
environmentalists, including
Conservation Voters New Mexico,
and successfully painted Montoya
as being too close to the Public
Service Company of New Mexico,
which the PRC regulates.
Hall does not face a Republican
in November, but former Democratic State Rep. Bob Perls told
NM Political Report earlier this
year that he intends to run as an
independent against the winner
of the Democratic primary.
County Treasurer
No one really knew what to
expect in this race, but it turns out
two scandal-plagued candidates
were, indeed, finally punished by
voters, including the incumbent in
the Democratic primary.
Nancy Bearce won the four-way
race. Incumbent Treasurer Manny
Ortiz, who suffered the ignominy
of a “no confidence” vote from the
Bernalillo County Commission after
cont. on page 10
New Mexico’s House District 21 will have a new
representative in January after high school teacher
Debbie Sariñana won the primary election this month.
Sariñana won the race, by about five percentage
points, against incumbent Idalia Lechuga-Tena and
a third candidate, Amanda KinKaid.
Lechuga-Tena was the only incumbent legislator
in the state to lose in the primary election.
Sariñana told NM Political Report that she was
excited about the win and said she credited her win
to a good group of campaign staff.
“It was a tough race,” Sariñana said on election
night. “We worked hard; we had great volunteers.”
Sariñana was aided by her fellow teachers in the
race, including union members who canvassed for
her and helped to get out the vote. Sariñana won
the day-of voting. Sariñana called her campaign,
which began in December, “slow and steady”
and said she is excited to begin working with the
district’s constituents.
Sariñana said KinKaid called to congratulate her.
“Amanda called me graciously, and we had a
great conversation,” Sariñana said. Lechuga-Tena
also called Sariñana on election night.
Lechuga-Tena thanked her supporters on Facebook after the election and said she called Sariñana
to congratulate her.
“It has been an honor to have served the community that I love and that raised me,” Lechuga-Tena
wrote. “I made great new friends, and I am humbled
by everyone’s outpouring support. I trust God’s timing, and I know everything happens for a purpose.”
House District 21 has seen three different representatives in as many years and was one of the races
NM Political Report watched closely in the weeks
leading to Election Day.
The seat changed hands not because of elections
but because of resignations and appointments.
Mimi Stewart held the seat until the Bernalillo
County Commission appointed her to the State
Senate. She replaced Tim Keller in the Senate after
he won the race for state auditor. The Bernalillo
County Commission then chose activist Stephanie
Maez to the seat. A year later, she resigned to
focus on her family after police charged her son
with murder. The son, Donovan Maez, was recently
released from jail, and charges were dropped.
The Bernalillo County Commission then chose
Lechuga-Tena last year over both Sariñana and
KinKaid to replace Maez when Maez resigned.
Lechuga-Tena came with controversy. She admitted to, years ago, voting before becoming a U.S.
citizen. Opponents also said she did not actually live
in the district. Lechuga-Tena moved into an apartment complex known for short-term leases while
still maintaining a house outside the district.
Lechuga-Tena, now a lame duck, did buy a house
in the district since that move. Her soon-to-beformer district lies mostly south of Interstate 40
between Louisiana and Tramway Boulevard and
encompasses Albuquerque’s International District.
OPINION
Why Did APD Send Cops into Harm’s Way Unprotected?
BY DAVID GILMORE
Editor’s note: On June 2, ABQ Free Press invited the
Albuquerque Police Department, specifically APD
spokespersons Tanner Tixier and Celina Espinoza, to offer
a response to this op-ed. We received no reply.
A
lbuquerque’s leadership allowed for the continued stoning of our police officers and
the destruction of property — and the national media
had a frenzy rubbing it in our collective noses.
In California, the next day, their officers utilized
the required force and took the anarchists out of
the picture. Albuquerque can now be referred to as
Baltimore II.
Chief Gorden Eden said the rocks,
urine bombs, sharpened objects
and Molotov cocktail-like devices
sounded like a rainstorm as they
hit the officers, horses and others
Under the current mayoral administration, our
police department has been reduced to the point
that it can barely protect itself. They had to know
events were going to turn violent, and from all
appearances, they were totally unprepared for it.
Afterwards, listening to an afternoon radio talk
show, I heard the APD spokespeople defend their
actions during the riot. Sorry, I and a number of the
citizens are not buying it. One of the primary objectives of riot control is to remove the instigators. One
arrest for all of the injuries suffered by the police
and all the property damage — unimpressive, to say
the least.
We all need to support the right to assemble and
protest in a peaceful manner. Assaults on our officers
by extension are an assault on all the law abiding
citizens of this city. At the first sign of violence, our
officers should have gotten aggressive and quelled it
then and there.
Chief Gorden Eden said the rocks, urine bombs,
sharpened objects and Molotov cocktail-like devices
sounded like a rainstorm as they hit the officers,
horses and others. The chief makes it sound as
though it was a good thing that our officers endured
the onslaught of potential lethal objects.
Mayor Richard Berry said the officers “showed
restraint, professionalism and good judgment”
throughout the night. He further stated the police
department was operating under a new plan approved by the court-appointed monitor overseeing
The monitor should pack his bags
and go home if his reforms are
to allow our officers to be injured
without the ability to respond
Kudos to our front-line law enforcement personnel for doing the best they could under the circumstances. It was their leadership at the highest levels
that let them down. No doubt the thought of the
Department of Justice watching may have hindered
their judgment in how to handle this mess.
There is absolutely no excuse whatsoever for APD
to deploy officers to the front lines without protective riot gear, not even a helmet – another point
picked up by the national media.
David M. Gilmore is a retired Albuquerque police captain.
SCANDALS, Page 9
Shake-up, Page 9
Pedroza and Robert Chavez by winning just over
35 percent of the vote for the district, which covers
Albuquerque’s South Valley and Southwest Mesa.
Pedroza won roughly 32 percent of the vote while
Chavez claimed 31 percent in one of the tightest
primaries of the night.
The County Commission seat received extra scrutiny after spending by a political action committee
backed by lawyers and developers associated with
the controversial Santolina planned living community in the city’s West Side.
Pedroza, a vocal opponent of Santolina who criticized it as sprawl development, focused on the issue
aggressively during his campaign. A PAC, New
Mexicans for New Mexico, attacked Pedroza and
supported Quezada and Chavez. The PAC bought
billboards in support of Quezada and alluding to
his role on “Breaking Bad.”
Throughout the campaign, Quezada pointed to
his vote against Santolina on the APS school board
as evidence of his disapproval of the project. At the
same time, he wouldn’t rule out potentially supporting some of the 80 public subsidies Santolina
developers are currently seeking from the county.
After the election, Commissioner Art de La Cruz
said the Santolina project would be a major issue for
the incoming county commissioner.
Quezada attributed his primary win to his support
of behavioral health and economic development in
the Southwest Mesa.
“Despite whatever attacks came our way, we just
police reforms for handling large crowds.
The monitor should pack his bags and go
home if his reforms are to allow our officers to be
injured without the ability to respond. The City of
Albuquerque’s administration can spin this fiasco
only so far.
stuck to what we wanted to do,” he said.
On the day before the primary, an unregistered
PAC sent a mailer attacking both Quezada and
Pedroza with especially vicious allegations.
The mailer alleged that Quezada “beats women
in front of children” and cited a domestic violence
incident from 1999 – a case in which Quezada told
NM Political Report he was the victim, not the alleged offender.
The mailer also targeted Pedroza for two arrests
more than a decade ago, which had already been
brought up in the campaign.
On the day before the primary, an
unregistered PAC sent a mailer
attacking both Quezada and
Pedroza with especially vicious
allegations
Quezada said he doesn’t think the attacks from the
PACs are over.
“We saw the hit piece they put on me yesterday, so
there’s no way they’re done,” he said on election night.
He praised his two primary opponents.
“I tip my hat to Adrián Pedroza and Robert
Chavez,” Quezada said. “I want them to continue to
be great community people.”
Joey Peters, Andy Lyman and Matthew Reichbach report for
NMPoliticalReport.com, a non-profit online news agency.
his investment strategy cost taxpayers $17 million,
finished fourth.
Patrick Padilla, a former county treasurer with
his own long track record of scandal and failed
investments, finished narrowly ahead of Ortiz.
An employee of the Treasurer’s office, Christopher Sanchez, finished second, but well behind
Bearce’s 39 percent.
Kim Hillard won the Republican primary easily
and will face Bearce in the general election.
Automatic recounts
Two races in Southern New Mexico look headed
for automatic recounts. Any legislative races
within 1 percentage point are subject to automatic
recounts. This includes primary elections.
In the House District 32 Republican primary,
Vicki Chavez leads Scott Chandler by just 16
votes – 892-876. Late mailers by a political action
committee with connections to Gov. Susana
Martinez came against Chandler, who is facing
lawsuits over alleged abuse and even torture at
his Southwest New Mexico ranch for troubled
youth.
House District 32 lies in New Mexico’s southwestern boot heel.
In the House District 38 Democratic primary, Mary
Hotvedt leads by just 29 votes over Karen Whitlock,
1,761 to 1,732.
The state canvassing board meets later this
month to certify election results.
—NM Political Report
ANALYSIS
Study Shows N.M. Lags Arizona
Because of Federal Dependency
Why is Skate Park Shooter
Still Walking ABQ Streets?
BY MATT E. RYAN
I
n 2010, I wrote a brief study that compared the economic performance
of New Mexico to that of Arizona over
the preceding 50 years.
Back then, Arizona’s economy was
roughly 50 percent larger than New
Mexico’s. Today, the size difference
is more than 230 percent. How could
remarkably similar states within the
same region of the country experience
such a disparity in economic fortunes?
In short, one possible explanation for
the difference in economic fortunes of
two similar areas is a difference in the
degree to which each state’s economy
relies on markets to coordinate economic activity.
Many of the underlying factors that
could influence each state’s economy
are, if not identical, sufficiently similar
so as to be ruled out as a primary driver
of their divergent economic success or
lack thereof.
Arizona and New Mexico broadly
contain similar geography without direct
ocean access; historically, both states
have Apache and Navajo roots, among
others; and both areas were largely
under Mexican rule until the end of the
Mexican-American War.
Of course, both states fall under the
same federal law and federal regulations. This is not to say there are no
underlying differences between the
states; it is to say there are no differences on the scale of, say, the United
States and the USSR before it imploded.
What remains, however, is to determine
what could be a cause of the economic
valley between Arizona and New Mexico.
And a very likely culprit is, again, the
same primary reason for the difference
between the United States and the USSR
– a reliance on the market system.
My study showed a persistent and
distinct gap in the percentage of each
state’s economic activity derived from
the private sector, with Arizona relying
on the private sector to generate growth
to a larger degree than New Mexico.
The most recent data shows that this
gap remains; in fact, with updated data
on the years included in the original
analysis, the reported discrepancy
in private-sector dependence was, if
anything, understated.
In short: Arizona’s economy relies more
heavily on the market sector than does
New Mexico’s economy.
Another means of assessing the degree
to which economies embrace markets
are economic freedom indices. Annually, the Fraser Institute releases “The
Economic Freedom of North America,” a
three-pronged analysis of every Ameri-
can state and every Canadian province
that, through assessing the size of
government, state-specific taxation and
labor-market freedom, yields a single
number that captures the degree to
which states and provinces embrace the
market system relative to the rest.
In 1981, the first year of their rankings,
Arizona was rated as the eighth freest
state and province of the 60 in the survey,
while New Mexico was 36th. The bad
news for New Mexico only got worse.
New Mexico steadily regressed relative
to the rest of America and Canada and
ranked 46th in North America in 2013,
the most recent data available.
By comparison, Arizona, which saw
its ranking slide into the mid-20s by the
early 1990s, has since regained its standing and sits at ninth. While New Mexico’s
rating specific to taxation trails Arizona’s
by only a relatively slight margin, the
size of government rating along with the
labor-market freedom rating contribute
to New Mexico’s low result.
While establishing New Mexico as
relatively less market friendly compared
to Arizona is not particularly difficult,
more elusive is determining the possible
causes for such an institutional divergence in the past 50 years.
One possible cause of why New Mexico
lags behind Arizona could be the legacy
of federal government activity within the
state. The Manhattan Project – and its
modern-day legacy institutions, Los Alamos
National Laboratory and Sandia National
Laboratories – comes quickly to mind.
A 2007 study by the Tax Foundation
tracked the flow of federal funds to
Washington, D.C., from states in the
form of federal taxes and compared it
to the flow of funds back into the states.
New Mexico ranked highest of all 50
states.
Relative to federal taxes paid, no state
received more federal spending than
New Mexico, which received approximately double the amount in federal
spending there that it paid in federal
taxes. Arizona found itself a net receiver
of federal funds as well but only to the
tune of 15 percent to 20 percent of taxes
sent to Washington.
Markets are how people become rich.
The economic story of Arizona and New
Mexico, and their divergence over the
past half-century, is yet another example
of this persistent economic truth, and it
may help explain why New Mexico lags
economically.
Matt E. Ryan is an associate professor
of economics at Duquesne University in
Pittsburgh.
I
’ve heard the
question so many
times now: Why is
Greg Buchanan still
walking Albuquerque’s streets? It
makes no sense.
And, at first
glance, it doesn’t.
Buchanan is the
24-year-old who shot 17-year-old Jaquise
Lewis in the back at Los Altos Skate
Park in March 2015 during a brawl that
started over a skateboard.
Buchanan claimed self-defense and has
yet to be charged with anything regarding Lewis’ death. He’s the guy who,
two months before killing Lewis, was
arrested and charged with drug trafficking for carrying nine bags of cocaine.
He’s the guy who, just three and
a half weeks after shooting Lewis,
“accidentally” fired a gun through his
kitchen floor and into his neighbor’s
apartment. And, he’s also the guy who
started a fight in a 7-Eleven store on
May 16 that caused the guy he beat up
to pull a gun and fire 17 rounds at him
as he fled down a city street.
In other words, Buchanan appears to
be a walking time bomb.
And while at first it makes no sense
that Buchanan hasn’t been charged with
anything regarding Lewis’ death, the
“accidental” gun discharge and his most
recent public fight, in another way it does.
It makes sense if Buchanan is an
Albuquerque Police Department
informant and is being protected by
the cops – and maybe by cops in the
Foothills Area Command. It’s one of the
only things that can explain what hasn’t
happened to Buchanan thus far.
Think about some of these things. On
the night of Lewis’ shooting, Buchanan
turned himself in to an APD officer in
the park. While sitting in the back of
the officer’s squad car, Buchanan asked
the cop if a certain officer was on duty
that night. Why would he ask that?
Maybe because the cop was his handler
and would run interference for him?
Those felony drug trafficking charges
were pending against Buchanan when
he shot Lewis last year. Would not
Buchanan’s shooting and killing someone,
even in self-defense, have been a violation of his conditions of release? It’s up to
the cops to notify the Bernalillo County
District Attorney’s Office if people violate
their conditions of release. Did that
happen? If not, why not?
District Attorney Kari Brandenburg’s
office dropped the drug charges against
Buchanan last year but later refiled them.
Brandenburg’s office scheduled at least
two, and possibly three, preliminary hearings to determine if there was probable
cause to send Buchanan to trial. The hearings never occurred because – surprise –
the cops assigned to the case didn’t show
up for court. Was it a coincidence – or was
it an attempt to protect Buchanan?
The cops showed up at Buchanan’s
apartment when he “accidentally” fired
his gun through his kitchen floor and
into his neighbor’s apartment. They
could have charged Buchanan with
negligent use of a firearm. But they
didn’t. And, the cops didn’t check the
gun to see if just maybe it was the same
one that killed Lewis. Why not?
And, getting back to Lewis’ death,
Buchanan told police that he had
thrown out or destroyed the gun he
used that night. Isn’t that tampering
with evidence?
Police interviewed Buchanan three
times. He initially told them that he
hadn’t brought a gun to the skate
park the day of the shooting and that
he hadn’t shot Lewis. But after being
confronted with the video evidence
captured on a bystander’s cell phone,
he confessed and said it was in selfdefense. The cops, it seems, didn’t mind
that Buchanan had lied to them.
And during those interviews, some
of the cops were pretty chummy with
Buchanan. It seemed as if they were
chatting with a pal, not someone facing
murder charges.
And then there’s the May 16 deal
where Buchanan walked into the
7-Eleven at 13601 Copper Ave. NE and
started a fight with 36-year-old Miguel
Ortega. Ortega, who was armed,
whipped out his gun and wound up
blasting away at Buchanan as he ran
away – 17 shots in all. Apparently
having a gun doesn’t mean you actually
know how to use it.
Ortega was charged with aggravated
assault and carrying a firearm into a
liquor establishment. And Buchanan,
who started the fight, wasn’t charged
at all. Why not?
So, the questions for Chief Gorden
Eden and Mayor Richard Berry are
simple. Is Buchanan an APD informant?
Why has APD been protecting him? Has
APD been allowing him to run a drug
operation at Los Altos Park?
Remember, guys, Buchanan is a time
bomb. If more blood is spilled because of
him, it’s on your hands. Time to come clean.
Dennis Domrzalski is an associate editor
at ABQ Free Press. Reach him at
dennis@freeabq.com
White House Shaken by Hillary’s Weakness
news
BY GAIUS PUBLIUS
T
he last time I featured former
Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein
on these pages, it was to showcase
his delivery of messages he received
from the White House, to the effect that
the “White House” thought Clinton was
blowing it with her Wall Street speeches
stance, and because of that, the “White
House” was freaking out (to put it colloquially) — at least as Bernstein tells it.
Here’s part of what Bernstein — a
Clinton supporter — said in February:
Bernstein: There is a huge story going
on. I’ve spent part of this weekend
talking to people in the White House.
They are horrified at how Hillary Clinton
is blowing up her own campaign.
And they’re worried that the Democrats could blow — they are horrified
that the whole business of the transcripts, accepting the money — that she
could blow the Democrats’ chance for
the White House. They want her to win.
Obama wants her to win.
But Sanders has shown how vulnerable she is. These ethical lapses have
tied the White House up in knots. They
don’t know what to do. They’re beside
themselves. And now, you’ve got a
situation with these transcripts a little
like Richard Nixon and his tapes that he
stonewalled on and didn’t release.
What freaks them out this
time? That ‘her campaign
is in free fall’ and they’re
‘no longer 100 percent
sure’ that she can get the
nomination
Note the insider tone and access. I’m
not writing a hit piece on Clinton. I’m
showing this to make a more general
point — that Carl Bernstein carries messages from the White House to the
public, from Valerie Jarrett, perhaps, or
someone else just a step removed from
the president, and Bernstein is clearly
speaking with Team Obama’s permission
(and likely encouragement). Which
has to mean, with President Obama’s
permission.
In other words, this isn’t reportorial
digging and revealing: This is White
House messaging delivered via an
intermediary. Read, Bernstein as the
White House speaking.
In that context, listen to the current
“White House” message about the
Clinton campaign via Bernstein:
Bernstein: The implications of all of
this [the email server issue] are that
Hillary Clinton did not want her emails
subjected to the Freedom of Informa-
tion Act or subpoenas from Congress.
And that’s why she set up a home-brew
server.
I think we all know that. People
around her will tell you that in private if
you really get them behind a closed door.
“I was in Washington this week, I
spoke to a number of top Democratic
officials, and they’re terrified, including
people at the White House, that her
campaign is in free fall because of this
distrust factor. Indeed, Trump has a
similar problem, but she’s the one whose
numbers are going south.
I’ve spent part of this
weekend talking to people in the White House.
They are horrified at how
Hillary Clinton is blowing
up her own campaign
– Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein
And the great hope in the White
House, as well as the Democratic leadership and people who support her, is
that she can just get to this convention,
get the nomination — which they’re
no longer 100 percent sure of – and
get President Obama out there to help
her, he’s got a lot of credibility, it’s an
election that’s partly about his legacy.
But she needs all the help she can get
because right now her campaign is in
huge trouble.
Bernstein goes on to pivot the message against Trump, but we can leave it
there.
Bernstein Carrying White House
Water
This is at least the second time Bernstein has carried White House messaging
about Hillary Clinton’s campaign to the
public, and both times, the message is
the same — again colloquially, “We’re
freaking out” (Bernstein is nearly as
vivid).
What freaks them out this time? That
“her campaign is in free fall” and they’re
“no longer 100 percent sure” that she can
get the nomination.
Wow. Wow, that they think it, and
wow that they’re leaking to the public
that they think it.
Makes you wonder what the White
House and other “top Democratic
officials” know that they didn’t tell Carl
Bernstein, or at least, what he’s not
telling us. Maybe this story explains the
plan that all the networks are alleged
(by Chris Matthews, no less) to have
agreed to — to declare Clinton the
overall winner the minute the East Coast
polls closed on June 7 in New Jersey,
even though (or especially because)
the West Coast polls were still open in
California, the largest state.
Put these two things together, and
it’s clear there’s now just one goal for
“top Democratic officials,” including
the White House – to get Clinton across
the finish line despite the fact that her
campaign is “in free fall” and she’s limping to get there. In White House terms,
to get her into the convention and get
her the nomination, no matter how or
under what condition.
Two takeaways: One is that top
Democrats know how precarious
Clinton’s position is. They’re not fooled
any more than you are. That’s worth
noticing. And second, the White House
and Bernstein are not blaming Sanders.
Whoever crafted this message for us is
blaming the Clinton campaign only, and
by extension, Clinton herself.
Again, makes you wonder what they
know and if they really know it.
Editor’s note: Gaius Publius is the nom
de plume of a writer who contributes to
a variety of left-leaning websites. This
piece originally appeared at downwithtyranny.com.blogspot.com. It is reprinted
by permission.
news/mystery photo
TV Reporter Leaves ABQ after 16 Years
BY DAN VUKELICH
N
ew Mexico lost another one.
“The city and the state make a journalist’s job
Kim Holland, an investigative
easy,” she said. “There’s so much to cover. So
reporter for KRQE-TV Channel 13, quit
much back-door politics, somebody getting a
earlier this month to return to Reno, Nev.,
sweet deal, someone misspending money and
to marry her childhood sweetheart.
someone thinking they can get away with it.”
“I can remember that day in fourth grade
“I can honestly say that I loved every single
in Reno,” she said. “He held my hand in a
story, and I loved getting results. I probably
movie theater.”
spent a quarter of my time calling on things
Holland, 44, had been a reporter in New
that would never become stories, like the little
Mexico since 2000. She started as a general
old lady who prepaid to have a stump in her
assignment reporter at KOB-TV, then moved
yard removed. It’s sad that people can’t get reon to anchor weekends for KOB and weeksults unless they call an investigative reporter.”
days for KASA-TV when that station was opShe’s troubled by a trend in TV journalism
erated by KOB. In 2006, she moved across the
toward the “one-man band” where a reporter
street to KRQE-TV and most recently worked
both shoots video and reports. “We’re losing
on the station’s “Special Assignment” Team.
the art of storytelling. These one-man bands
She’s won two regional Emmys for reporting
don’t have the time to do good storytelling.”
excellence.
“I’m pretty straightforward, tell-it-like-it-is
“I’m not the girl you see on TV,” she said
girl,” she said. “If you want sugar and spice
during a phone interview from Reno as she
and telling it nice, I’m not your girl.”
Kim Holland reported and anchored for three Albuquerque TV stations during her time
sat in her parents’ back yard, watching her
“I’m not leaving exhausted or bitter,” she said.
in New Mexico.
8-year-old son, Rylan, climb a tree.
“Giving it up when you still love it makes it
“I have this image and I have work to do
hard to leave.”
an avid skydiver. She has 300 jumps under her belt,
and when I see someone taken advantage of, I take
Holland doesn’t know what she’s going to do after
most of them with Skydive New Mexico, a jump
it personally and want answers,” she said. “But I’m
she gets married next month and once Rylan starts
school operating out of the Belen Alexander Airport.
actually a nice person.”
school and gets acclimated to living with her fiancé’s
“When you’re in the air, floating, nothing matters,
Holland came to New Mexico after working in
twin 12-year-old daughters. Whether she leaves TV
not work, not bills,” she said.
broadcast news in Duluth, Minn., Fort Collins, Colo.,
for good is up in the air.
Aside from the weather, balloons and green
and Omaha, where she spent three years chasing
“I don’t know if I can give it up,” she said.
chile, which she concedes sounds like a cliché, she
tornadoes. She went to journalism school at ColoDan Vukelich is the editor of ABQ Free Press.
said, “I’ll miss the work. New Mexico is a great
rado State University.
Reach him at editor@freeabq.com.
place
for
news.”
During her time in New Mexico, Holland became
Why Did We Take This Photo?
Here are the responses to last issue’s Mystery Photo:
“I believe I found this week’s
mystery photo. It is outside of
the aquarium and botanical
garden entrance. Thank you.
Hope I am the first.”
— Jess Peri, 9 p.m., June 9
“It looks like the dragonfly in
the walkway next to the parking lot on the north side of the
Aquarium and Botanical Garden in Albuquerque. I laughed
when I picked up the ABQ Free
Press Monday morning after
having just dropped my daughter and her friend off for their Biopark camp
class at the Aquarium. I’d just seen this while walking to the parking lot not
15 minutes earlier!”
— Kimiko Larson, 5:04 p.m., June 7
“My Guess: The ‘thing’ in the photo (ABQ Free Press, June 1, 2016) is located
in the Dragonfly Sanctuary Pond, Botanical Gardens, City of Albuquerque
BioPark.”
— Anonymous, 12:34 a.m., June 3
Be the first to tell us what this thing is, and win four tickets to an upcoming Isotopes baseball game. The “thing” in the photo is something
publicly visible around town. If you know what it is, tell us with as
much detail and context as you can. Send your answers to
editor@freeabq.com by 5 p.m. Friday, June 24.
And the winner of four Isotopes tickets is ….
“The object in the picture is an iron dragonfly located just in front of Albuquerque’s wonderful Aquarium/Botanic Garden main entrance on the left hand side as one
walks west. It is embedded in the concrete.”
— Judy Odinek, 11:37 a.m., June 7
news
What Do You Say at a Time Like This?
I
t is undoubtedly a question that many
that one day we will all be united in
people of faith ask themselves after
a bond of love that conquers sin and
mass shootings, bombings, individual
death.”
shootings, stabbings and any act of violence: “Where the hell is God, and why
Dr. Dan Kerlinsky,
does he let these things happen?”
Albuquerque child and
And the aftermath of the Orlando masadolescent psychiatrist:
sacre is no different. As people attend
their churches, synagogues, temples and
“Forty percent of kids have fears,
mosques, the question has undoubtedly
and with shootings like this, kids
crossed more than a few minds.
with obsessive-compulsive disorder
ABQ Free Press reached out to memwill get something in their minds,
bers of the clergy and others to ask how
and they can’t let go of it. The OCD
they respond when that question is put
kids need a different kind of reasto them. And we talked to a child psysurance. They need the sort of myth
chiatrist to ask what he tells children,
that we all live. We tell them that kids
teens and their parents about violence
are safe, being home is safe, parents
and how to deal with it.
Sheknows.com
keep you safe, God keeps you safe,
We asked, basically, whether they see
any hope for the human race or whether
and guns are not for fun. We tell them
we are doomed to a never-ending and es- People around the nation comforted one another after the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando.
that the only things that are real are
calating cycle of intolerance and violence.
what is in this room right now. There is
The clergy were upbeat about the prognosis for the
no past and no future. We don’t want kids thinking
human race. We also talked to members of the LGBT
too far ahead. We teach kids how to relax. Meditation
Helping the Victims
community to ask if they feel safe.
keeps you feeling safe.”
Fr. Frank Quintana, founder of Blessed
Oscar Romero Catholic Community:
“We are expecting God to do something that
humans are responsible for doing [controlling
ourselves and acting peacefully]. God has chosen
not to control humans by giving them free will;
otherwise we would be automatons and robots, and
we wouldn’t need a relationship with God because
we would be controlled by him.
“We certainly ought to pray, but prayer without
action is impudent, and action without prayer is arrogant. St. Teresa said that Christ has no feet on this
Earth but our feet and has no hands on this Earth
but our hands. We ought to be channeling God and
opening ourselves up to his actions, and we can do
that through prayer, which is a relationship with the
divine.
“If you look at the moon, it is not emanating its
own light; it faces the sun and reflects its sunlight. If
we channel the divine, we begin to be empowered,
and the divine is able to work through us.
“I don’t trust any human individual, but I trust
what Martin Luther King Jr. said about the arc of
history, which is a long one, but it has always been
toward justice, and the spirit of God will ultimately
have the victory against evil, marginalization, hatred
and bigotry.”
The Rev. Christine Robinson,
First Unitarian Church of Albuquerque:
“The first thing to say is that there was only one
human being being nasty and there were hundreds
and thousands of other human beings who were
Within days, a Gofundme.com campaign run by the
VictimConnect Resource Center and the National
Victims of Crime had received $2.5 million toward
its $3 million goal. The groups previously worked
to raise funds for shooting victims in Chattanooga,
Tenn., and Aurora, Colo.
being self-sacrificing – giving blood, running into
buildings to rescue people, caring for the injured.
As shocking as evil is, there is only a little bit of evil,
and thousands of people were doing good things.
That is what I hold on to.
“We live in a time where one person can get hold
of a weapon and do horrible things, but most of the
people who were there that night were taking care of
each other.
“People who have studied this more than I have
say that fewer people die of violence in this day and
age than ever in the history of humanity. I don’t
know if we are doomed as a species. Whether we are
or not, our job is to do the best we can. The message
is that more people are doing good than bad. That’s
not to say that the bad is not horrible.”
Archbishop John C. Webster,
Archdiocese of Santa Fe:
“This latest attack on innocent people has nothing
to do with any one religion or ethnic group, and we
pray that the sickness of one individual does not spark
further hatred by inappropriately placing blame where
it does not belong. This is certainly a despicable and inexplicable tragedy, and yet we will not shrink from our
resolve to find a path to peace that eradicates bigotry,
hatred and violence from our world.
“We remain convinced that the Prince of Peace, our
Lord Jesus Christ, will guide us in this endeavor and
Israel Chavez, development and political
director of Equality New Mexico:
“The main takeaway from this is it wasn’t about
religion or Muslims. It’s about the same hate that
causes people to not allow trans people to use the
same bathrooms. The same hate used by conservative Christians was used by this man to justify his
murders. It’s not unlike the response by Republicans
who have introduced more than 200 anti-LGBT bills
in the last six months. Now, they don’t care about
LGBT, but they will use us as the justification to go
after Muslims. We’ve been on the receiving end of it
for so long and we recognize it and will not be used
in this way. The magnitude of this violence is new,
but the basic fact is it happens to us all the time.
Instead of making us scared, it makes us stronger
and more willing to call out racism and bigotry.”
Abbas Akhil, president of the Islamic
Center of New Mexico
“The Islamic Center of New Mexico condemns the
deadly shooting in Orlando that has left at least 50
people dead and more than 50 others injured. The
ICNM and Albuquerque Muslim community are
deeply saddened and troubled by this monstrous
attack. We send our heartfelt condolences to the
loved ones of those killed or injured. The Muslim
community joins our fellow Americans in repudiating anyone or any group that would claim to justify
such an appalling act of violence.”
Dennis Domrzalski is an associate editor at ABQ Free
Press. Reach him at dennis@freeabq.com.
ANALYSIS/NEWS
French Show Hypocrisy
In Acoma Shield Case
Judge: Legislature Must Turn
Over Evidence in Griego Case
BY BILL HUME
BY DAN VUKELICH
S
A
o, they postponed or cancelled the
Paris sale of the Acoma Shield, an
item of deep religious significance that
was stolen years ago from the ancient
New Mexico pueblo. Why didn’t they
arrest the auction house owners for
receiving stolen property — or confiscate the shield and initiate an inquiry?
Indifference to Native American
outrage at the theft, sale and collecting of their religious and cultural
symbols stands in stark contrast to the
international unanimity on repatriating
European cultural items stolen by the
Nazis during and before World War II.
“This is how much it hurts my people
to see their cultural patrimony put on
the internet or go up for sale,” said
Acoma Pueblo Gov. Kurt Riley as he
choked back tears at a Washington
meeting last month opposing the sale.
To his credit, Rep. Steve Pearce, a New
Mexico Republican, in whose district
Acoma is located, was the lone New
Mexico lawmaker there in support of
the pueblo’s pleas.
Eve Auction House director Alain
Leroy told The Associated Press that
Acoma could bid on the shield if it
wished to get it back.
Really! Contrast that with the
reaction to the discovery of a massive
collection of art in the Munich apartment of a reclusive octogenarian. German authorities summarily confiscated
the more than 1,400 objets d’art — on
suspicion that some might be Nazi loot.
Or, the discovery that a 1493 printed
edition of a letter written by Christopher Columbus, stolen from a library
in Florence, Italy, possibly 60 years ago,
had ended up in the Library of Congress
collection. U.S. authorities returned the
letter to Florence this year.
Must one be of European descent
to be entitled to protection of one’s
cultural patrimony?
“Art restitution is about preserving
the fundamental human condition,”
said actress Helen Mirren, testifying
June 7 at a U.S. Senate hearing on a
bill to extend the statute of limitations
for recovery of Nazi stolen art. “It gives
Jewish people — and other victims of
the Nazi terror — the opportunity to
reclaim their history, their culture, their
memories and, most importantly, their
families.”
Mirren portrayed one woman’s fight
to retrieve stolen art in the movie
“Woman in Gold.” Perhaps Acoma
Pueblo should recruit Johnny “Tonto”
Depp to champion its cause. A poor
joke, perhaps — and I don’t mean to
denigrate the struggles of Nazi art theft
claimants. But, the Nazis didn’t steal
any art in the United States — while
all theft of Native American cultural
treasures took place on U.S. soil.
Where is the outcry for summary
repatriation of stolen Native American
patrimony? The Acoma Shield is just
the most recent example – one that
received attention only because of the
publicized pleas of the pueblo for its
return.
Because Acoma officials say the only
way that deeply religious item could
have left the pueblo was by theft,
why isn’t it confiscated by the French
government, pending legal proceedings
on its chain of ownership?
La Conquistadora, the statue of the
Virgin Mary that came to Santa Fe in
1626, was stolen from the Santa Fe
Cathedral by a couple of teenagers in
1973. It was subsequently recovered
nearby. What do you suppose would
have been the reaction had it instead
turned up in the catalog of a Paris art
auction house?
First, we must get sensitivity raised
in this country on the facts and significance of the Native American cultural
patrimony black market. Then, we
must focus all the tools of government
on preventing theft and repatriating
that which is already gone. It is not as
if nothing has been done — but as the
Acoma Shield case illustrates — it’s not
enough.
Congress may be poised to pass a bill
to allow survivors of 9/11 victims to sue
Saudi Arabia. How about a bill to allow
Acoma Pueblo to sue the government
of France?
Bill Hume is a former editorial page editor of
the Albuquerque Journal and later served as a
policy adviser to former Gov. Bill Richardson.
judge has ordered legislators to
comply with subpoenas in the
corruption case against former Sen. Phil
Griego, and legislators plan to comply.
Lawyers for the Legislature had
argued that subpoenas issued by
New Mexico Attorney General Hector
Balderas violated legislative privilege
they claim is granted them by a provision of the New Mexico Constitution
stating that legislators “shall not be
questioned in any other place for any
speech or debate, or for any vote cast in
either house.”
The AG’s office issued the subpoenas
for records in preparation for Griego’s
prosecution in Bernalillo County District
Court on charges that he illegally
enriched himself in the sale of a state
building to a private party. The sale
of the building required legislative
approval before it could proceed.
The case against Griego, a San Jose
Democrat, was filed in Santa Fe District
Court but was assigned to Bernalillo
County District Judge Brett Loveless
after all judges in Santa Fe recused
themselves. Griego is a former Santa Fe
mayor.
Loveless granted some and rejected
some of Balderas’ subpoena requests.
Lawyers Michael Browde and Thomas
Hnasko, who were retained by the
Legislative Council Service, argued that
Balderas’ subpoenas are unlimited in
scope.
“To extend the privilege beyond use
of evidence of legislative acts or finding
that it promotes confidentiality would
be inconsistent with our system of our
government and would do little to
protect the integrity of the legislative
process,” Loveless’ order said.
John Yaeger, a spokesman for the
Legislative Council Service, said on June
14 that the subpoenaed records should be
turned over to the AG within a few days.
Dan Vukelich is editor of ABQ Free Press.
Reach him at editor@freeabq.com.
Justice: Bail Reform Likely
To Pass in November
BY ABQ FREE PRESS STAFF
T
he chief justice
of the New
Mexico Supreme
Court says that
barring an influx
of cash from the
bail bond industry,
a proposed state
constitutional
amendment to
change the state’s bail-bond laws will
pass.
Speaking to a journalism group this
month, Justice Charles Daniels said the
proposal passed by the 2016 Legislature
nearly died because of intense pressure
from the bail bond industry, which
would suffer economically if the amendment were to pass.
The proposal has two parts. The first
would change the bail bond requirement to allow a judge to keep an
accused in jail until trial if the defendant
poses a flight risk or, based on his background, demonstrates a likely danger to
society if released.
The second part, the one that most
likely will cut into bail bondsmen’s
income, states that people who don’t
pose a flight risk and aren’t dangerous
“shall not be detained solely because
of financial inability to post a money or
property bond.”
The New Mexico Constitution currently
says all defendants, regardless of the
charge against them, are entitled to bail.
The bail bond industry lobbied heavily
to defeat the proposed amendment,
Daniels told a June 13 luncheon meeting
of the Albuquerque Press Women. At
one point, he said, after a blistering
editorial by the Albuquerque Journal,
the leadership of the House – which
had appeared prepared to side with the
industry to kill the proposed amendment – relented and allowed it to go to
the floor, where it passed 69-0.
Daniels said keeping people in jail
until trial solely because they can’t raise
cash amounts to a modern-day “debtors’
prison.”
Conversely, the current constitutional
bail requirement forces judges to set
unrealistic high bonds for dangerous
people in the hope that they won’t be
able to raise the money.
letters/cartoons
To the Editor:
In recent days the Albuquerque Journal
has devoted a plethora of news ink about
Hillary’s emails. The Saturday Journal
had an editorial “Inspector General Slams
Clinton’s Private Email Use.”
The Sunday Journal had “Clinton’s email
lies premeditated.” The Monday Journal
had “Hunkered Hillary Blew it Again.” The
Tuesday Journal had “Punish Clinton for
Breaking Law.”
On Friday May 27, the Republican
nominee for President railed against the
“Mexican” judge! According to Reid Epstein
from the Wall Street Journal, Trump went
off for 12 full minutes! “I have a judge who
is a hater of Donald Trump, a hater. He’s a
hater. His name is Gonzalo Curiel,” Trump
said, as the crowd of several thousand
booed. Trump also told the audience, which
had previously chanted the Republican
standard-bearer’s signature “build that
wall” mantra in reference to Trump’s proposed wall against the Mexican border, that
Judge Curiel is “Mexican.” “What happens
is the judge who happens to be, we believe,
Mexican, which is great. I think that’s fine.”
Judge Curiel was born in the USA.
In the Saturday May 28 edition of the
Journal, on page A6, “No Drought in California, Trump says,” “Hispanics for Trump,”
and stories about #CrookedHillary/GOP
support for #NeverHillary. Also May 27, a
federal judge ordered the release of internal
Trump University documents.
Yet, the Journal failed to report on any
of these events swirling around the GOP
Nominee. The Journal wrote an editorial
about 30 Trump protesters, but made no
mention of his attacks on Gov. Susana Martinez, the first Latina governor elected in
U.S. History. The Journal has not mentioned
Trump’s attacks on “sleazy” journalists for
doing their job.
If the Journal is so concerned about email
etiquette, why didn’t it report on UNM
Regent President Rob Doughty deleting his
non-transitory emails about UNM’s takeover of the Health Sciences Center?
On April 5, 2016, Chris Quintana from
the Journal wrote “Emails reveal opposition efforts to stop Health Science Center
restructuring,” citing emails obtained by
the Albuquerque Journal. Ten days later
Trip Jennings from New Mexico In Depth
reported “Doughty’s missing electronic
communications were discovered after
NMID reviewed hundreds of pages of regents’ e-mails from Feb. 1 through March 14,
which the university provided in response
to a public records request.”
The Journal, the Daily Lobo, KOB-TV,
KOAT-TV and KRQE-TV never followed
up. The Journal has a staff of nearly 100
people, yet it got scooped by one journalist!
The Albuquerque Journal is the New Mexico
paper of record. It should step up its game! – Brian Fejer
To the Editor:
Chief Gorden Eden has shown absolute
arrogance and a total resistance to any
kind of civilian police oversight by the
Albuquerque City Council with his refusal
to stop the controversial practice of reverse
sting operations of selling drugs taken from
the APD evidence room to sell to low level
drug users.
This is the kind of poor law enforcement
policy you get when you appoint a chief
with absolutely no prior experience managing a municipal police department. Mayor
Berry and Chief Eden have learned absolutely nothing from the shooting of Officer
Jacob Grant who was shot eight times by
his own supervisor in a $60 drug bust gone
bad, costing the city $6.5 million in taxpayer
dollars to settle.
The decision to do the reverse sting
operations comes out of Berry’s police
department and his appointed command
staff, and Chief Eden does not have the
professional judgment nor common sense
to stop it.
APD has no business doing “reverse sting
operations,” let alone asking for permission
from a District Court judge in an affidavit
to manufacture “crack” for sale. The individuals arrested in the recent reverse sting
operation were probably more dangerous to
themselves than the general public.
“Reverse sting operations” are dangerous, ill advised and should be stopped
immediately. Reverse sting operations are a
pathetic use of very scarce police resources.
APD has 850 sworn police officers but
only 404 to 435 sworn officers are in field
services, spread out over 3 shifts, handling
and responding to 69,000 priority one, 911
emergency calls per year.
Reverse drug sting operations also create
liability to the city if APD sells “tainted
drugs” or the drugs are used resulting in
death from a drug overdose. Until APD
develops better plans to target and go after
major drug dealers, the entire APD Narcotics Unit needs to be ordered back into their
uniforms to patrol our streets.
If Chief Gorden Eden won’t stop the
practice of reverse sting operations, the City
Council needs to demand that he step down
immediately and ask the mayor to appoint
a police chief that can do the job.
– Pete Dinelli
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UNM Shouldn’t Look at Baylor,
It Should Look in the Mirror
BY richard stevens
T
here is a
subculture
in collegiate and
professional sports
that exists for
obvious reasons:
because the people
in authority, who
should know better,
allow it to exist.
The subculture is how universities and
their leaders turn their heads and ignore – and perpetuate by ignoring – this
culture of sexual harassment, assault
and even rape by the male athletes who
win games.
Sure, it’s mostly football and basketball because that’s where the money is,
but the latest news involves a Stanford
swimmer. He was convicted of raping an
unconscious woman and probably will
spend about three months in prison.
The outrage is enormous.
Of course, this is swimming – not one
of the pampered sports; not a sport
that brings fame and fortune to athletic
departments.
The scandal at Baylor University
involving the Bears’ football program
thrust this problem to the forefront in a
dramatic way – again.
And again there will be rattling of
swords, some justifiable punishment,
and then this subculture will be
allowed to continue because there are
games to be won. Oh, the cowardly
administrators, who turn their heads,
will make a lot of noise and show the
appropriate concern, but once the
waters have calmed, it will be the same
old, same old.
The good-old boys of athletics will
protect their athletes because the
athletes win games, create bonuses,
save jobs.
At Baylor, they decided to fire the
school’s president, the athletic director
and the football coach. Good decisions.
However, the president will stay at
Baylor as a law professor and football
coach Art Briles is probably looking at a
huge buyout, and some other university
will scoop him up because he knows
how to win football games.
Now, Baylor is working to improve
its national image. Didn’t they do this
a few years ago when a former New
Mexico basketball coach, Dave Bliss,
embarrassed the Bears’ basketball
program and the school by becoming
the poster child for what can go wrong
in athletics?
I was listening to a sports talk show
on the radio, and one of the Golden
Throats on the show said he understood
why the president and the athletics
director were fired, but he didn’t think
the football coach (Briles) should be
fired because “he was the one winning
games.”
Wow. How do you even respond to a
mentality with such a warped sense of
values?
Probably this attitude exists on every
college campus where football or
basketball is king. It existed at Baylor.
The problem of sexual violence against
women exists at the University of New
Mexico, and it’s easy and fair to place
much of the blame at the feet of three
men: President Robert Frank, Vice
President of Athletics Paul Krebs, and
football coach Bob Davie.
They need to be stronger, braver and
more decisive in punishing male athletes
involved in violence against women. So
far, they have failed by turning their
heads. Frank probably thinks it’s Krebs’
problem. Krebs can pass the buck to
Davie. Davie will do what’s right for
Davie.
At UNM, you might recall the football
player involved in an incident with one
of the star women basketball players.
Her apartment was broken into, and
she was battered. Ask Frank, Davie or
Krebs how many football games that
player missed. They will have to tell
you, “None.” How do you think this
went over with UNM’s former head
women’s basketball coach, Yvonne
Sanchez? What was the message sent to
UNM’s women athletics? What was the
message sent to women?
There was another incident at UNM
when a front-line football player was
accused of raping a woman. If there
was talk at UNM about whether this
athlete should be removed from the
team, I did not hear it. I did hear talk
about detailing the car. I did hear talk
about discrediting the reputation of the
woman involved.
It makes you wonder about the value
system of Frank, Krebs and Davie. It
makes you wonder what happened to
these leaders where they fail to see the
importance of their role in helping to
dismantle a subculture that is allowed
to prey on women.
At Baylor, they investigated. People
were fired. But the message to women
is still the same: the athlete comes first.
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.
Protesting the War Machine
by sayrah namastÉ
“W
ar is good
business.
Invest your sons,”
wrote counterculture poet Allen
Ginsberg.
The University of
New Mexico wants
to get even more involved in the business
of war. On June 20-21, UNM will host a
national meeting of the Strategic Deterrent Coalition Symposium, which involves
the heads of the U.S. Strategic Command,
the U.S. Global Strike Command and the
National Nuclear Security Administration.
UNM also seeks to be a partner in
managing Sandia National Laboratories.
Some of the largest war profiteers,
Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman,
are sponsoring meals for the elite group.
To show resistance, a grassroots
coalition of local peacemakers invites the
public to participate in a “Disarmament
Teach-In,” to be held from 8:30 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 21, in Meeting Rooms Lobo A and B of the UNM
Student Union Building.
The event is organized by UNM Peace &
Justice Studies Program, the Los Alamos
Study Group and Students Organizing
Actions for Peace. Guest speakers include
Dr. Jamal Martin of UNM, Greg Mello of
the Los Alamos Study Group and Carol
Miller of the Peaceful Skies Coalition.
The coalition plans a demonstration
near the opening reception of the symposium from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Monday, June
20, at the National Museum of Nuclear
Science and History, 401 Eubank Blvd. SE.
“President Obama is poised to leave
office having launched the biggest
nuclear arms race since Ronald Reagan,”
organizers explain in their literature.
“New Mexico is playing a central role in
this, both in political support (through
our senators, especially) and as a design,
production, and testing site. New Mexico
is being seen from Washington as – and
is offering itself as – a pliant, nuclear
military colony,” they say.
The following week, Mello will give a
talk, “The Need for Full-Scale Mobilization” from 6:30-8 p.m., Monday June 27,
at the Albuquerque Center for Peace and
Justice, 202 Harvard Drive SE. Mello is cofounder of the Los Alamos Study Group,
which has led the push for environmental
enforcement at Los Alamos National
Laboratory. A full schedule of events can
be found at lasg.org.
Sayrah Namasté is an organizer with the
American Friends Service Committee in Albuquerque. She writes about events of interest to
Albuquerque’s activist community.
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drink
Beer Town: Will the
‘Beer Bubble’ Burst?
by TY BANNERMAN
M
arble Brewery opened its doors in 2008. Back then, Albuquerque was home to just two other craft
brewers: Kelly’s and Il Vicino. As of
this writing, that number has more
than dectupled to 31, and more are on
the way.
Obviously, this is an amazing time
for Albuquerque craft beer lovers,
but such a rapid expansion also
raises worrisome questions. Surely,
the beer boom has to end sometime,
right? And with the memory of the
2008 housing crisis still fresh on our
minds, it’s not a reach to worry what
might happen when the Albuquerque
“beer bubble” bursts.
According to UNM Department of
Economics Chair Janie Chermak, the
craft beer explosion doesn’t resemble
the usual definition of an economic
bubble.
With breweries, the expansion
seems to be fueled by factors other
than a belief in the continuing increase in the price of the commodity.
“It does seem to be in a boom, with
a rapid expansion of the number of
breweries,” she said. “I’m not sure
if this is driven by an expectation of
unmet demand, an expectation of
product differentiation, simple love
of brewing, or a large amount of
investment dollars.”
In any case, unless those investor
dollars spur an overvaluing of property, the so-called boom will settle
once the supply exceeds consumer
demand, leading to some breweries
closing and others merging but not a
catastrophic “crash” like we saw in
the mid-2000s.
David Facey, co-owner of Quarter
Celtic Brewery, isn’t too worried
“My simple answer would be no.
The current expansion of breweries
in Albuquerque would not be an
economic bubble,” Chernak said.
Professor Chernak pointed out
that a classic speculative bubble is a
“situation where market prices are
unrealistic relative to the true value
of the asset.” For instance, during
the run-up to the housing crash, real
estate was wildly overvalued due to
a huge influx of investor dollars and
an unrealistic expectation of everincreasing prices.
about a looming ale-pocalypse either.
As far as he’s concerned, there’s
always room for one more brewery.
“In short, I don’t feel — and a lot
of brewers in town don’t feel — that
we’re anywhere near the saturation
point,” Facey said.
“And the reason is that … people
who drink craft beer support many
different craft breweries. We share
more business than we compete for.”
In his view, Albuquerque beer
drinkers aren’t giving their allegiance
to just one brewery but rather to the
S
industry as a whole. “Now, maybe
some [customers] like Marble or La
Cumbre more than they like us, but
they’ll still come here and try [our
beers.]”
According to Facey, when it comes
to sustaining the industry, the quality
of the beer matters more than the
quantity of breweries.
“We all believe there’s plenty of
room in this town for good beer,”
he said. “Where the saturation point
happens is with mediocre or inferior
breweries. … For people who don’t
have much experience in the industry, there’s [now] a steep learning
curve to get to the level that people in
this town expect out of their beer.”
Chris Jackson, editor of the New
Mexico Dark Side Brew Crew website, nmdarksidebrewcrew.com,
agrees that Albuquerque isn’t close to
its saturation point.
“The best comparison I have is
to Asheville, N.C.,” he says. “Their
metro area is about 440,000 people.
[Albuquerque] is over 900,000. They
have 60 breweries. We have 30.”
Like Facey, Jackson pointed out
that the industry is changing.
“The days of Bob the business man
and Joe the homebrewer opening
their own place and being successful
are over,” Jackson said. “[Now] you
have to have a specific kind of business savvy to run a brewery, and you
need professional experience.”
The next generation of breweries,
Jackson said, will be founded by
people with experience working in
existing craft breweries.
Additionally, Jackson said that
new breweries may have to focus
on offering styles different from the
traditional stand-bys.
“If all you’re offering up is a wheat,
an IPA, a red and a stout, well, I
can get better ones over here at La
Cumbre — where they’ve been doing
it longer and are more established,”
Jackson said. “In the future, we’ll see
more specialization. If you want to
move into Nob Hill or Downtown,
you’re going to need to do a very
different kind of beer than what’s
already available.”
Jackson predicts that we’ll see
about 50 breweries in Albuquerque
within five years, “but they’ll be more
spread out across town. We’ll have
some more specialty breweries. …
I think we’ve filled up Downtown,
[and] Nob Hill is pretty full. But there
will be another area to fill up. There’s
probably room for four or five on the
Westside or up on Montaño. You’ll
see them filling in the gaps.”
“There’s a ton of room in this town
for good breweries,” Jackson said.
“The smartest breweries are going to
survive — the ones that have business
savvy and good beer. People aren’t
going to accept ‘Oh! It’s craft beer!’
The standard is higher now. You’ll
have to bring your A game.”
No one can know the future, but for
now, it seems likely that Albuquerque’s beer scene will continue booming for a few more years at least. Plus,
“peak beer” remains comfortably far
off in the future. That’s good news for
brewers and drinkers alike.
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 feature and food editor at
Weekly Alibi.
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Hospitality: What’s the Hops?
how to
BY IAN MAKSIK
I
n Albuquerque, we’ve got beer,
beer everywhere and lots of drops
to drink. Contributor Ty Bannerman regularly reports on this local
phenomena for ABQ Free Press in his
“Beer Town” column. And some of us
locals have a favorite watering hole.
We often wind up in a place, à la
TV’s “Cheers, “where everybody
knows your name.” In ABQ’s macro
vs. micro contest, I’ve found that
micro/craft breweries and pubs are a
winning choice.
Even the best beer can be ruined by
subpar service. Of utmost importance
in the service of beer is a clean glass.
Hand-washed and dried glassware is
best for beer; machine detergents can
ruin the taste and can impact the foam.
As in fine wine presentation, pubs
ought to present bottled beer as a sort
of beer ballet, emphasizing the romance
of its service. Like fine wine, make sure
bottle labels face guests when pouring.
Patrons enjoy reading the label.
Tilt an ultra-clean glass or mug
45 degrees and pour down its side
to form foam when pouring from a
bottle or keg; continue pouring down
the middle until a one-to-two-inch
head forms near the glass rim. As with
wine, the lighter the beer, the lower
the serving temperature.
There are proper glasses for various
types of beer. Do you use a mug, pilsner, goblet, or snifter for stout, lager,
ale, or porter? Beyond its mere beauty,
beer’s effervescence distributes aromas. As foam forms, dissolved carbon
dioxide, which can make consumers
feel overfull or bloated, gets released.
Last week, I visited two of my
“Cheers,” namely Quarter Celtic
Brewpub (1100 San Mateo NE) and
Nob Hill Bar & Grill (3128 Central SE).
At Quarter Celtic, it was SRO, and
the guests all shared two commonalities: a beer and a smile. McKeown
brothers Ror and Brady have more
than 25 years of award-winning brewing experience. Ror McKeown spent
half his time table-hopping to check
on guests and the other half expediting orders near the open kitchen.
Ror still made time to greet me with
“slainte” (pronounced “slawn-cha”),
which means “health” or “cheers.”
All of McKeown’s recipes boast at
least a hint of beer. My favorite is the
Shephard’s Pie, while one of my ABQ
Free Press colleagues reports that their
Reuben is “to die for.” Check the Beer
Board for the day’s special brews.
At Nob Hill Bar & Grill, I observed
owner Nicole Kapnison also expediting orders near their open kitchen.
The upscale joint was jam-packed,
but she made time to discuss an event
with a client standing nearby. Nicole’s
father is renowned local restaurateur
Nick Kapnison, who owns El Patron,
Nick & Jimmy’s, and Mykonos.
While Nicole may have been born
into the business, she does her own
thing at Nob Hill Bar & Grill, where
you can dress casually and dine
elegantly. At Nicole’s joint, cuisine is
presented in a five-star manner to appreciative guests.
Comfortable, elegant indoor and
alfresco seating is available, and hip, romantic tunes soundtrack the experience.
This Nob Hill eatery is the place for a
first date or special occasion, whether
social or corporate. Here’s a place that
you can arrive at dressed in sneakers to
receive tuxedo-level service.
Try out upscale comestibles served
by smiling staffers. Nicole and I
discussed her commitment to serving very special limited-edition craft
beers with her gourmet burgers; as
evidence, Nob Hill Bar & Grill has
been voted one of the top craft beer
bars in America. That’s the hops for
now. “86”
Ian Maksik is a Cornell Hotel School
graduate and a former Hilton GM.
Known as “America’s Service Guru,”
Maksik has keynoted, lectured and
trained owners, management and staff of
hospitality facilities in 21 countries and
at industry conferences. Contact him at
(954) 804-5413 or ian@usawaiter.com.
film
Jeff Goldblum Talks ‘Independence Day’ Redux
BY SUZY MALOY
THE INTERVIEW PEOPLE
S
uzy Maloy: What was it like to [revisit
“Independence Day”]?
Jeff Goldblum: It was
fun 20 years ago, and it
was fun this time around.
To work with Roland
Emmerich is always a
blast. Everybody was
devoted and passionate.
I loved getting together
with the previous cast,
and at the same time,
with the younger crew.
You don’t seem to age
at all. You still look like
you did 20 years ago
when the first ID [film]
came around. What’s
your secret?
There is no secret,
really. I go to bed on
time. I try to take good
care of myself. I have a
new kid at home. My
son, Charlie, was born on
Independence Day last
year. He keeps me young
as well. I am a happy
camper; maybe that’s
the secret to looking
younger.
You are not just an actor
but a musician as well,
right?
Yes, I play piano every
week. I play at the Rockwell in LA, if you ever
want to come by.
Jeff Goldblum
Why did it take 20 years
to do another “Independence Day”?
I think they wanted to do more
earlier, but Roland had other things to
do. I think he wanted to only do it if
it was right. It might be more relevant
today. Everybody likes a good fight,
don’t you think?
They say you don’t have to have
seen the first one to enjoy this one. I
think people still have an appetite for
this kind of movie material. Religion,
politics has ascended, and we have
finally united to fight together.
It’s necessary to all come together
and realize that we share a common
humanity. That’s relevant to me.
Technology has really changed in the
last 20 years. How much of a “tech”
person are you?
I started to post a thing or two. But
I have never tweeted. I just look at my
baby’s pictures on my phone. He’s a
The Interview People
good kid. He’s sleeping through the
night; he doesn’t cry. His teeth are
coming in now. It’s like my character. I
am responsible to keep the planet safe.
What does that have to do with being
a father?
Because my job is the same at home.
The baby-proofers came last week to
make the house safe. It’s a little bit
like my character.
My character was an environmentalist, and I am happy to take the technology from the alien ship to combine
it with our current tech. And I had to
build up the arms system. That’s not
my favorite thing to do.
The question in this movie is: “Am
I up to the task; did I do a good job?”
It’s all on my shoulders.
We rarely realize how precious our
environment and the people in it are
until we lose them. “Independence
“Independence Day: Resurgence” will be
released in U.S. theaters on June 24.
Day” shows us — in dramatic fashion
— what can happen when the world
is destroyed. Does it make you ponder life’s fragility?
Certainly. You said it right; we only
realize how precious our world is
when we start losing it and the people
that are in it. I think in the first movie
we lost like three billion people. We
have never seen that kind of destruction and the grief.
Did you build the story over the last
20 years?
I went back to watch the old movie
again. It was, for me, to catch up and
to be able to refer to what had happened. Other things happened in the
meantime.
Will Smith’s character obviously
is dead now, and my wife has died
in the meantime. Besides relying on
the information we got from the old
movie, I also was fed a lot of info by
Roland.
What’s it like to see your younger
self on screen after so many years?
It is what it is. You need to be accepting. It’s not like I sit there and cry.
It’s easy for me to say because things
are fine, everything is good. Things
can go any time or fall apart quickly.
That’s the way it goes. The wise
people tell us to better accept it.
As a musician, did you talk to
Charlotte Gainsbourg about music?
I know she plays a part in this film
as well.
I talked to her about music a lot. I
really enjoy her music, and I invited
her to come and join me at one of my
Cont. on page 24
film
NM Film Focus: Celebrity, Community & Cowboys
by CHRISTA VALDEZ
F
olks love celebrity gossip.
Among local cast and crew,
set stories abound, but they
typically remain there. Recent
retellable mitote includes Paul
Rudd scoring major points with
cast, crew and Santa Fe residents
for being “a doll” while shooting
“An Ideal Home.”
Other actors are known for
being less jovial. One frequent
New Mexico production star is
widely reported to be dismissive or “curt” on set. Here’s the
thing: he’s here to work, and
he’s outstanding at his job. He
won’t be a goodwill ambassador
for our state anytime soon, but
“Preacher” prime mover Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper)
his projects succeed, bringing
enhanced visibility, and thus
grant. Submissions for the third anmore work, to The Land of Enchantnual competition are open through
ment.
Sept. 15. For more info, visit nmfilm Some industry enthusiasts live for
foundation.org/grants/grrm-grant
tales of congenial celebs around town.
Getting cast as background talent
Chatter about negative stories often
is a great way to break into the local
gets more press, but the best New
production world. Paul Rudd’s “Ideal
Mexico-celebrity interactions are the
Home” is expected to film through
ones that result in genuine communiJuly. An untitled drama dubbed
ty. Fantasy author George R.R. Martin,
“Granite Mountain” is looking for IRL
whose novels spawned international
firefighters, young children and an
TV phenom “Game of Thrones,”
array of general and specialty types
chose New Mexico as his home and
through September.
an investment.
Feature film “Cowboy Drifter,”
Martin’s screenwriting grant stands
starring acclaimed character actor
among his many contributions to the
Chelcie Ross (“Mad Men,” “Drag Me
local scene. In partnership with New
to Hell”), films in Belen before headMexico Film Foundation, Martin
ing to Santa Rosa later this month. At
least one Western and one miniseries
funds a yearly $5,000 sci-fi/fantasy
goldblum, Page 23
performances. She did come, and we
had a good time. She brought her two
little daughters.
Do you listen to music as you prepare your character?
Yes, music means a lot to me. I
warm up with it. It opens me up
anyway when I am acting, and I was
interested in what kind of music we
had for certain scenes in this film. I
think music really informs the character. Fellini used to play music on the
set. I really like that.
Were you shocked how much technology has changed in the past 20
years?
I tried to remember how we shot
the first movie. It wasn’t any easier to
shoot this one, even though we had
better technology. This time around,
(more are
coming) will
need oodles
of “cowboys”
for expansive
scenes.
Speaking
of cowboys,
summer’s a
perfect time
to acquire
special skills
training.
From horseback riding
and firearms
Matthias Clamer/AMC
training
to playing
sports or musical instruments, productions frequently need
background actors with specific skill
sets. Monique’s Movie Ranch in Corrales, N.M., is an excellent resource for
actors interested in being an asset on
sets where equine prowess is prized.
Staycation and enroll in classes.
Thespian and technical hopefuls alike
can benefit from an acting class, crew
training or simply researching local
film resources and organizations. As
I’ve mentioned, success in the industry won’t come knocking; you have to
get out there and earn it.
One upcoming opportunity is this
year’s 48 Hour Film Project. Albuquerque teams will create a short film
from concept to post-production in
just two days, July 15-17. It’s an epic
crash course in local filmmaking. Join
up at their website, 48hourfilm.com
It’s a fluid industry. Some incoming production tips fizzle, and others
reach fruition. That results in local
workboots and talent on the ground
and the silver screen. It also offers local businesses a chance at production
dollars. Here’s what’s set to roll.
Now filming: “Cowboy Drifter,”
“An Ideal Home,” “Godless,” an
untitled project nicknamed “Granite
Mountain,” “Longmire,” “The Night
Shift” and “From Dusk Till Dawn”
Filming soon: “Better Call Saul,”
“Midnight Texas” and “Hostiles”
Now playing: “Preacher” airs Sundays on AMC. “The Night Shift” airs
Wednesdays on NBC.
On the horizon: Contemporary
dramedy “Villa Capri” is scheduled
to start production here by the end of
July. The film stars Tommy Lee Jones
and Morgan Freeman, actors who’ve
worked in New Mexico before. Jones
and Freeman play rival residents of a
Palm Springs retirement home who
must join forces. In forthcoming series
“Bettyville,” which will film in our
state, former Santa Fe resident Shirley
MacLaine is slated to star as mother to
son Matthew Broderick.
New Mexico film expert Christa Valdez,
of OneHeadlightInk.com and ChristaValdez.com, reports on movie industry news
for ABQ Free Press.
they could show us how
things would look like
on the screen. That was a
little different.
Would you ever revisit a character like Seth
Brundle from “The Fly”?
Well, my character
ended up being dead. But
that doesn’t mean much
in Hollywood these days.
I guess it would depend
on what the story would
be like and who would do
it. But I am not rejecting
it right out of the gate. I
loved playing that character. And it’s become iconic
over the decades.
Suzy Maloy conducts
celebrity interviews for The
Interview People.
20th Century Fox
A still from “Independence Day: Resurgence”
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farmers’ market to buy fresh fruits
and vegetables without undertaking
a pilgrimage? If so, count yourself
lucky. Many people can’t, for lots of
reasons, including mobility issues,
a lack of affordable food and the
absence of stores.
According to a U.S. Department of
Agriculture report, around 23.5 million American households without access to a vehicle live over a mile from
the nearest supermarket. Ironically,
because they have less money, the
poor spend up to 37 percent more on
groceries. An Albuquerque resident
might spend $55 on food, while someone living on the Pueblos may spend
$85 on the same basket of groceries.
But what if the farmers’ market
came to you? That’s the mission of
New Mexico’s MoGro, LLC. Mobile
grocery stores have already been serving isolated communities internationally for about five years. MoGro is just
one of them.
Founded in 2011 by former Sysco
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driving a 50-foot-long, temperaturecontrolled truck to the Pueblos and
other rural communities; that operation proved cost-prohibitive and
organizationally daunting.
Shortly after MoGro ownership and
management transferred to the Santa
Fe Community Foundation, MoGro
and SFCF changed their organizational model and launched the MoGro
Food Club. With this club, people
place online or in-person orders for
organic, reduced-price deliveries of
Skarsgard Farms produce and other
groceries.
These orders, which include nutritional information and recipe suggestions, are then available at community
pick-up sites or by delivery. MoGro
Food Club boxes are $20 at the regular
rate and $10 for food stamp recipients.
For more information on MoGro, call
216-8611 or visit mogro.net
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ABQ Free Press. Email her at brianna@
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The Rational Astrologer: June 2016
BY ELGAR B. HICKS, PHD
Aries
Concerned over Mercury in retrograde? Let’s face facts. Newton’s
equation shows that the mushy
grapefruit in your fridge has more
gravitational pull on you than the
fastest planet, by orders of magnitude.
You should be more concerned about
your federal tax extension than that
pathetic, pockmarked planet. Eat the
damn grapefruit, Aries, and get on
with your life.
Taurus
Jupiter is square with Neptune,
but that alignment won’t prevent
your blowhard uncle from trolling
you on Facebook with his admiration
for Donald Trump and his hatred of
Hillary Clinton. Those leftover beers
aren’t looking too bad ... though it’s
not yet 10 a.m. Go ahead and indulge,
Taurus. What difference does anything make anymore?
Gemini
In states like New Mexico, community property law has pluses and
minuses. Speaking of, did nobody
warn you Virgos are, for the most
part, vile thieves? And you ought to
more closely examine the invoices
your (Capricorn?) divorce attorney
is submitting. While you’re fighting
with your future ex-spouse, he’s been
overbilling you.
Cancer
The moon in Cancer conjuncts
Saturn in Sagittarius this month at 17
degrees, 58 minutes. This astrological
phenomenon emphasizes your powerful desire to work, socialize with and
be surrounded by people who admire
you and treat you with kindness and
respect. Those are nice daydreams,
but what fantasy world are you living
in? Sheesh, Cancer, best of luck.
Leo
Venus, the planet of love and
beauty, rises through Leo this month.
Romance and love surge throughout
the solar system. Given your moon
landing conspiracy theories and the
fact that desired partners are repulsed
by your appearance, will this have
a beneficial effect on your love life?
Chillax, Leo. Don’t attract another
restraining order.
Virgo
The new moon in Virgo symbolizes exaltation. Celebrate but be
warned this is not an optimal time to
spend money at casinos or be in close
proximity to law enforcement. Your
natural tendency toward kleptomania
will be heightened, especially toward
month’s end. Be especially wary of
one-way mirrors,
security cameras
and loss prevention
specialists, Virgo.
Libra
Jupiter aligns with
Libra at 14 degrees,
21 minutes, so move
forward in the direction Jupiter desires.
But you don’t give a
damn what Jupiter,
or any planet in
the solar system,
wants; the idea is ludicrous, as you’re
a rational person. Anyway, you have
more important worries this month, as
you’ll likely go broke. Hang in there,
Libra.
questioned, as court records clearly
show. You might be downgraded to a
dwarf someday too. It’s time to step
off your high horse, Capricorn.
Scorpio
Later this month, the fourth quarter
moon appears in Aquarius. The center
of your solar sector births a dynamic
cycle where you find yourself babbling endlessly about films and books
that bore your friends. Curb your
extraordinary enthusiasm, Aquarius.
If it takes longer to tell someone about
a movie than it does to screen it, that’s
a problem.
The sun in Gemini opposes Scorpio
with retrograde Mars energy. Translation: Relatives and acquaintances will
beg you for rides, cash, weed and
liquor more frequently. Your friends
are total leeches, Scorpio. Move to a
different country ... or change your
phone number. Spend more time
alone, lest your infamous temper get
the best of you.
Sagittarius
Saturn will enter Sagittarius at 7
degrees, but you can’t enjoy watching anything happen in the night sky
while your neighbor has four Klieg
lights blazing in his backyard. It’s a
shame you can’t afford to live in a
better neighborhood, Sagittarius. You
should have become a doctor, like
your parents advised.
Capricorn
In June, messenger Mercury
intertwines with Pluto in Capricorn
at 14 degrees. Pluto’s legitimacy as a
bona fide planet has been called into
question by professional astronomers;
your legitimacy has been similarly
Aquarius
Pisces
The Sun in Pisces conjoins Venus in
Gemini (aka your domestic zone) and
dutiful Saturn (your career zone), increasing your innate, inquisitive social
nature. Such oppositions of energy
between Venus and Saturn call for a
better work-life balance, Pisces. Avoid
eye contact with your superiors; they
probably already suspect you of communist sympathies and/or excessive
partying.
Dr. Elgar B. Hicks received a PhD in
hagiography from the Sheboygan Divinity
Institute. The author of 27 self-help books,
Hicks frequently time-travels; he is currently incarcerated in the year 1864 at the
Confederate prison in Andersonville, S.C.
CALENDAr
DEFINITIVE DADS’ DAY
SATURDAY, JUNE 18
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JULY 2– 4
1 SCREENS: Movie under the Wings:
Top Gun
5 EATS: Pork & Brew
Santa Ana Star Casino, 54 Jemez Canyon
Dam Rd, Santa Ana Pueblo, 867-0000,
santaanastar.com
5:30 pm, National Museum of Nuclear
Science & History, 601 Eubank Blvd SE, at
the entrance to Sandia Science & Technology
Park, 245-2137, nuclearmuseum.org
SUNDAY, JUNE 19
2 EVENTS: Old Town Father’s Day
MONDAY, JULY 4
6 EVENTS: Freedom 4th feat.
Lonestar
4 pm, Balloon Fiesta Park, 5500 Balloon
Fiesta Parkway, 311, cabq.gov
Celebration
1 pm, Free, Historic Old Town, Rio Grande
Blvd & Central Ave NW, 768-2000,
cabq.gov
3 OUTDOORS: Father’s Day Fiesta &
Zoo Dad’s Discovery Day
9 EVENTS: July Fourth 2016 Field of
Arts Festival
11
9 am, Free, Edgewood Soccer Field, Exit
187, Route 344 N, (505) 414-1292,
route66artsalliance.org EATS: Pancakes on
the Plaza
7 am, Santa Fe Plaza, Santa Fe,
pancakesontheplaza.com
12
5 pm, Anderson Abruzzo Balloon Museum,
9201 Balloon Museum Dr NE, 768-6020,
balloonmuseum.com
10
7 EVENTS: Fourth of July Parade
10 am, Southern Blvd, Rio Rancho,
891-5015, rrnm.gov/parades
8 EVENTS: Independence Day in
Noon, ABQ BioPark Zoo, 903 10th St SW,
768-2000, abqbiopark.com
4 TUESDAY, JUNE 28
Old Town
2 pm, Free, Historic Old Town, Rio Grande
Blvd & Central Ave NW, 768-2000,
cabq.gov
OUTDOORS: Night Walk at the
Botanic Garden
EVENTS: Red, White and
Balloons
EVENTS: Star Spangled
Celebration
Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort &
Casino, 287 Carrizo Canyon Rd,
Mescalero, (800) 545-9011,
innofthemountaingods.com
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SHOWS
JUNE 17–24
Low Spirits
2823 2nd St NW,
344-9555, lowspiritslive.com
June 17, The Lonn Calanca Band,
Wagogo
June 19, Red Elvises
June 22, Great States, So Help Me’s
June 23, Marsupious, La Fin Absolute
de Monde
June 24, Running with the Rumblers
Pre Party
JUNE 17–25
Sister Bar
407 Central Ave SW, 242-4900, sisterthebar.com
June 17, Funk Things: 45s and LPs
all Nite
June 25, Nothing
JUNE 17–30
Dirty Bourbon
9800 Montgomery Blvd NE, 296-2726,
thedirtybourbon.com
June 17-18, Rebel Heart
June 23-24, Laura Walsh Band
June 25, Kyle Martin
June 30, Border Avenue
JUNE 17–JULY 1
Launchpad
618 Central Ave SW, 764-8887,
launchpadrocks.com
June 17, Jaime Trujillo Memorial Show
June 18, Lydia, Kid Dinosaur
June 21, Red Wizard, Prey for Kali
June 22, Never Shout Never, Hundred
Handed
June 23, Mic Club Killa Bee Edition
June 25, Deforme & Impaled Offering
CD Release
June 26, Metalachi, Goddamn Son of
a Bitch
June 27, Twin Peaks, Ne-Hi
June 30, Authority Zero, The Riddims
July 1, Katastro, Mouse Powell
JUNE 18
SATURDAY, JUNE 18
SUNDAY, JUNE 19
FRIDAY, JUNE 24
The Smokers Club w/Camron
The Underacheivers
Alchemie
Bill Engvall
Clark Libbey
Sunshine Theater, 120 Central Ave SW,
764-0249, sunshinetheaterlive.com
6 pm, La Cumbre Taproom,
3313 Girard Blvd NE, 872-0225,
lacumbrebrewing.com
7 pm, Broken Trail Spirits & Brew,
2921 Stanford Dr NE, 221-6281,
brokentrailspirits.com
THROUGH JUNE 19
artSLAM— The Ultimate Variety Show
Part of Father’s Day Celebration
8 pm, Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort
& Casino, 287 Carrizo Canyon Rd,
Mescalero, (800) 545-9011,
6 pm, Keshet Center for the Arts,
4121 Cutler Ave NE, 227-8583,
keshetarts.org
John Mayall
7 pm, Santa Fe Brewing,
35 Fire Pl, Santa Fe, ampconcerts.org
Part of Music at the Museum
5:30 pm, New Mexico Museum of Art,
107 W. Palace Ave, Santa Fe,
(505) 476-5072, nmartmuseum.org
The DCN Project
Slipknot
Power Drive
6 pm, Pueblo Harvest Café,
2401 12th St NW, 724-3510,
indianpueblo.com/puebloharvestcafe
6:30 pm, Isleta Resort & Casino,
11000 Broadway SE, 724-3800,
isleta.com
Eryn Bent
Sloan Armitage
Part of Summertime in Old Town
7 pm, Free, Historic Old Town,
Rio Grande Blvd & Central Ave NW,
768-2000, cabq.gov
Part of Art in the Afternoon
2 pm, Free, Albuquerque Museum of
Art & History, 2000 Mountain Rd NW,
242-4600, albuquerquemuseum.org
Part of Bloody Sundays Brunch and
Bloody Mary Bar
11 am, Broken Trail Spirits & Brew,
Ryan McGarvey
JUNE 21–26
Part of Salsa Under the Stars Concert
7 pm, Albuquerque Museum of Art &
History, 2000 Mountain Rd NW,
242-4600, cabq.gov/museum
Hairspray
Albuquerque Little Theatre,
224 San Pasquale Ave SW, 242-4750,
albuquerquelittletheatre.org
THROUGH JULY 3
The Nance
The Vortex Theatre, 2900 Carlisle NE,
247-8600, vortexabq.org
JUNE 16–19
New Mexico Classical Guitar
Festival feat. Jorge Caballero,
Tantalus Guitar Quartet,
Calvin Hazen
UNM Main Campus,
newmexicoclassicalguitarfestival.org
FRIDAY, JUNE 17
Calle 66
Part of Salsa Under the Stars
Lindley Creek Family Band
7 pm, Free, Old Town Gazebo,
303 Romero St NW, 311, cabq.gov
NMGMC: Boys of Summer
7:30 pm, Hiland Theater, 4800 Central
Ave SE, 872-1800, nmgmc.org
Young Dubliners
Part of Zoo Music
6 pm, ABQ BioPark Zoo, 903 10th St SW,
768-2000, abqbiopark.com
JUNE 17–JULY 10
Beyond the Shadows
The 10601 Performance Space,
10601 Lomas Blvd NE, 489-5092,
blackouttheatre.com
Glitter Vomit, Star Canyon,
Vassilus
8 pm, Ghost, 2889 Trades West Rd,
Santa Fe,
facebook.com/ggghhhooosssttt
Hierbabuena
768-2000, cabq.gov
Howl and be Heard — Dana Lyons to benefit Animal
Protection Voters
7:30 pm, Outpost Performance Space,
210 Yale Blvd SE, 268-0044, apvnm.org
Jorge Caballero — Classical
Guitar
7:30 pm, Keller Hall, UNM Main Campus,
Juneteenth: African Roots of
Jazz, Dangerous Creation — A Tribute to Johnny Otis
242-4600, nmjazz.org
Saudade
9 pm, Scalo Northern Italian Grill,
3500 Central Ave SE, 255-8781, scalonobhill.com
Disney’s Newsies
Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus,
203 Cornell Drive NE, 925-5858,
unmtickets.com
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22
Remember the Time: Dance
Concert
7 pm, National Hispanic Cultural
Center, 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771,
nhccnm.org
Summer Concert – Albuquerque Concert Band
7 pm, Free, Anderson Abruzzo Balloon
Museum, 9201 Balloon Museum Dr NE,
768-6020, balloonmuseum.com
THURSDAY, JUNE 23
Incendio
Part of Summer Nights
7 pm, ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden,
abqbiopark.com
Theater on the Farm
8 pm, Farm & Table, 8917 4th Street
NW, 530-7124, farmandtablenm.com
Pat Malone
Part of Zoo Music
7:30 pm, ABQ BioPark Zoo, 903 10th
St SW, 768-2000, abqbiopark.com
Son Como Son
SATUDAY, JUNE 25
Chris Nolan – One Man Band
7 pm, Elena Gallegos Picnic Area,
452-5200, cabq.gov
Megan Metheney and
Rebekah West
7 pm, Historic Old San Ysidro Church,
966 Old Church Rd, Corrales,
brownpapertickets.com
New Mexican Marimba Band
Part of Art in the Afternoon
2 pm, Free, Albuquerque Museum of
Art & History, 2000 Mountain Rd NW,
Paul Oakenfold
9 pm, Santa Ana Star Casino,
54 Jemez Canyon Dam Rd, Santa Ana
Pueblo, 867-0000, redfishent.com
The Road to the Isles: The High
Desert Pipes and Drums
Hiland Theater, 4800 Central Ave SE,
220-5706, hdpd.org
CALENDAr
Ryan Montano & Powerslyde
Part of Jazz Under the Stars
Tanya Griego
768-2000, cabq.gov
SUNDAY, JUNE 26
Yay Carl Peterson
Bloody Mary Bar
2921 Stanford Dr NE, 221-6281, brokentrailspirits.com
James McMurtry
7 pm, Dirty Bourbon, 9800 Montgomery Blvd NE, 296-2726, thedirtybourbon.com
Jason Aldean
5 pm, Isleta Amphitheater, 5601 University Blvd SE, ticketmaster.com
MONDAY, JUNE 28
Maxwell
7 pm, Sandia Resort & Casino, 30 Rainbow Rd, 796-7500, sandiacasino.com
THURSDAY, JUNE 30
Darden Smith
Part of Summer Nights
7 pm, ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden,
abqbiopark.com
Sage and Jared’s Happy Gland
Band
Noon, Free w/RSVP, Main Library, 501
Copper Ave NW, 768-5170, ampconcerts.org
FRIDAY, JULY 1
Judge Bob and the Hung Jury
Part of Summer Stomp
107 W. Palace Ave, Santa Fe, (505)
476-5072, nmartmuseum.org
Kill the Noise
9 pm, Effex Nightclub, 420 Central SW,
redfishent.com
Paul Taylor
Part of Zoo Music
7:30 pm, ABQ BioPark Zoo, 903 10th
St SW, 768-2000, abqbiopark.com
JULY 1–24
Priscilla Queen of the Desert:
The Musical
National Hispanic Cultural Center,
1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, nhccnm.org
SUNDAY, JULY 3
DJ AudioBuddha
Bloody Mary Bar
2921 Stanford Dr NE, 221-6281, brokentrailspirits.com
SCREENS
JUNE 17–JULY 8
Center for Contemporary Arts
Cinematheque
1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, (505)
982-1338, ccasantafe.org
Starts June 17, Sunset Song
Starts June 17, Paths of the Soul
June 18, The Thin Blue Line
June 23, Parched
June 24, Julie Taymor’s A Midsummers
Night’s Dream
June 25, Black Girl
Starts July 1, Chevalier
JUNE 17–JULY 11
SATURDAY, JUNE 25
Guild Cinema
2nd Annual Feline Film Festival
3405 Central Ave NE, 255-1848,
guildcinema.com
June 17-23, Belladonna of Sadness
June 17-23, Dheepan
June 18, Burning Bodhi
June 18, Morning Toons
June 24-27, Argentina
June 24-27, Our Last Tango
June 25-26, Boy and The World
June 25, Morning Toons
June 28-30, I Don’t Belong Anywhere:
The Cinema of Chantal Akerman
June 28-30, No Home Movie
July 1-2, Cat in the Brain
July 1-4, L’Attesa
July 1-4, Sunset Song
KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW,
768-3544, animalhumanenm.org
JUNE 17–24
Jean Cocteau Cinema
The Indie Scene
7 pm, National Hispanic Cultural Center,
SUNDAY, JUNE 26
Lilo & Stitch
Part of Sunday Under the Stars
6 pm, Free, Inn of the Mountain Gods
Resort & Casino, 287 Carrizo Canyon
Rd, Mescalero,(800) 545-9011,
THROUGH JULY 31
Guardians of The Galaxy
The Neverending Story
Part of Movies on the Plaza
Dusk, Free, Civic Plaza, 1 Civic Plaza
NW, 3rd St NW and Marquette Ave
NW, albuquerquecc.com
FRIDAY, JULY 1
(Spanish w/English Subtitles)
2 pm, Free, South Broadway Cultural
Center, 1025 Broadway Blvd SW,
848-1320, southbroadwaytickets.com
FRIDAY, JUNE 17
EVENTS
Ironman 3
THROUGH JUNE 18
Center, 1025 Broadway Blvd SW, 8481320, southbroadwaytickets.com
SATURDAY, JUNE 18
Pixels
Festival Flamenco 29
National Hispanic Cultural Center,
1701 4th St SW, 724-4771,
nhccnm.org
THROUGH JUNE 19
Part of Movies in the Park
Dusk, Free, Vista Grande Community
Center, #15 La Madera Rd, Sandia
Park, NM, 314-0477, bernco.gov
New Mexico Classical Guitar
Festival
Zardoz
SATURDAY, JUNE 18
Part of Up Late at the Cocteau
11:15 pm, Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418
Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, (505) 4665528, jeancocteaucinema.com
SUNDAY, JUNE 19
Home
BY SAMANTHA ANNE CARRILLO
Dusk, Free, Paradise Hills Community
Center, 5901 Paradise Blvd NW, 3
14-0477, bernco.gov
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29
Institute of American Indian Arts, 83
Avan Nu Po Rd, Santa Fe, iaia.edu
Alt. Latin Sparks
Max
418 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, (505)
466-5528, jeancocteaucinema.com
June 17-23, The Last King
(Birkebeinerne)
June 17-23, Dragon Inn
June 17-23, A Touch of Zen
June 18, Zardoz
June 24, Independence Day
IAIA Student Filmmaker
Showcase
Keller Hall, UNM Main Campus,
Destiny Wrestling’s Summer
Festivus
6 pm, Vista Grande Community Center, 15 La Madera Rd, Sandia Park,
dwowrestling@yahoo.com,
facebook.com/dwowrestling
Ceci Bastida
T
he inaugural Festival Chispa, an all-day alt.Latin and
Hispanic culture fest, happens Saturday, June 25, at the
National Hispanic Cultural Center (1701 Fourth Street SW).
The free, all-ages day programming begins at 10:30 a.m.
and concludes at 3:30 p.m. Workshops on Latin music and
performing arts, and Hispanic art and culture run throughout the day.
The ticketed concert begins at 6 p.m. at the Plaza Mayor.
Local bands on the lineup include Mala Maña, Baracutanga
and The Big Spank. Solo electronica project Mexican
Institute of Sound reps the vision of DJ/producer Camilo
Lara. Hailing from LA (by way of Tijuana), Spanish-language
synth-pop diva Ceci Bastida closes out the evening.
Presale tickets are $22, and the fee jumps $5 at the door.
For more info or to buy tickets, visit nhccnm.org or call
724-4771.
Festival Chispa, Sat., June 25, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 p.m.,
National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 Fourth Street SW,
724-4771, nhccnm.org, festivalchispa.org
Samantha Anne Carrillo is a situationist, fourth-wave
feminist and managing editor at ABQ Free Press. Email her at
samantha@freeabq.com
Part of Sunday Under the Stars
6 pm, Free, Inn of the Mountain Gods
Resort & Casino, 287 Carrizo Canyon
Rd, Mescalero, (800) 545-9011, innofthemountaingods.com
Guns into Gardens: From
Weapons of Destruction to
Tools of Construction
COMMUNITY
10 am, La Plazita Institute,
831 Isleta Blvd SW, abqmennonite.org
THROUGH JULY
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22
JUNE 18 –19
Back to the Future
Part of Movies on the Plaza
Dusk, Free, Civic Plaza, 1 Civic Plaza
NW, 3rd St NW and Marquette Ave
NW, albuquerquecc.com
Indie Q
7 pm, Free, KiMo Theatre, 423 Central
Ave NW, 768-3544, kimotickets.com
FRIDAY, JUNE 24
Antman
Center, 1025 Broadway Blvd SW, 8481320, southbroadwaytickets.com
Maleficent
Dusk, Free, Mariposa Park, 4900
Kachina St NW, 314-0477, bernco.gov
The Paradise Case
768-3544, kimotickets.com
Herb & Lavender Fair
10 am, El Rancho de las Golondrinas,
334 Los Pinos Rd, Santa Fe,
(505) 471-2261, golondrinas.org
2016 Sagebrush Auto Show
Free, Sagebrush Church, 6440 Coors
Blvd NW, 922-9200, sagebrush.cc
SATURDAY, JUNE 25
Festival Chispa
10:30, Free for daytime, National
Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 4th St
SW, 724-4771, nhccnm.org
JULY 8 –10
The International Folk Art
Market
Museum Hill, Santa Fe,
(505) 886-1251, market.folkalliance.org
Volunteers needed for NM
Veterans’ Museum
New Mexico Veterans’ Memorial,
1100 Louisiana Blvd SE, 256-2042,
nmvetsmemorial.org
THROUGH JULY 7
Meditations for Healing Body
& Mind
Thursdays, 7 pm, Kadampa Meditation
Center, 142 Monroe St NE, 292-5293,
meditationinnewmexico.org
SATURDAY, JUNE 18
Junior Ranger Day
10 am, Free, Petroglyph National
Monument, 6510 Western Trail NW,
899-0205, nps.gov/petr
TUESDAY, JUNE 21
Zoo to You
2 pm, Loma Colorado Main Library,
755 Loma Colorado Blvd NE,
Rio Rancho, 891-5013x3033,
riorancholibraries.org
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22
Exotics of the Rainforest
10 am, Esther Bone Memorial Library,
950 Pinetree Rd SE, Rio Rancho,
891-5012 x3128, riorancholibraries.org
SATURDAY, JUNE 25
A Night in the 40’s: Big Band
Swing
7 pm, New Mexico Veterans’ Memorial, 1100 Louisiana Blvd SE, 256-2042,
nmvetsmemorial.org
SUNDAY, JUNE 26
Taoist QiGong Class
3:30 pm, By Donation, Open Space
Visitor Center, 6500 Coors Blvd NW,
897-8831, cabq.gov/openspace
WEDNESDAY, JULY 1
Certifications for Federal Government Contracts
1 pm, Free, CNM Workforce Training
Center, 5600 Eagle Rock Ave NE,
nmtap.org
‘Directors’ Director’
Double Feature
BY SAMANTHA ANNE CARRILLO
WEDNESDAYS
CALENDAr
SUNDAYS
JUNE 22–26
ABQ Jazz Trio Open Jam
Salsa Sunday
5 pm, Free, Lizard Tail Brewing,
9800 Montgomery Ave NE,
lizardtailbrewing.com/home
2 pm, St. Clair Winery and Bistro,
901 Rio Grande Boulevard NW,
243-9916, stclairwinery.com
Vintage Albuquerque to
benefit AYSP, NDI-NM, NM Jazz
Workshop, NM Phil, Art in the
School
Stories in the Sky with Laurie
Magovern
Sunday Family Fun
9:30 am & 11 am, Anderson Abruzzo
Balloon Museum, 9201 Balloon Museum
Dr NE, 768-6020, balloonmuseum.com
1ST AND 3RD THURSDAYS
Drinking Liberally — Cedar Crest Chapter
5 pm, Greenside Café, 12165 NM-14,
Cedar Crest, 264-1368,
drinkingliberally.org
THURSDAYS
Latin Gold: Salsa Lessons &
Dancing
Icarus Films
C
hantal Akerman is (definitely) the most important
feminist filmmaker you’ve (probably) never heard of.
From 1968 to 2015, the prolific Belgian auteur produced a
body of filmic work focused on women’s private-sphere lives.
From Tuesday, June 28, through Thursday, June 30, The Guild
Cinema (3405 Central NE) screens new doc “I Don’t Belong
Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman” and Akerman’s
final film “No Home Movie.”
Akerman’s most significant cinematic contribution was
“Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.”
That 1975 film examines the banality of its eponymous
housewife’s domestic existence. As a widowed single parent,
Jeanne is headquartered in the kitchen (cooking for her son)
and bedroom (making ends meet via prostitution). Akerman
committed suicide on Oct. 5, 2015.
To illustrate Akerman’s impact on contemporary American
culture, consider a contemporary fan. Head Bernie Sanders
campaign videographer Arun Chaudhary noted in a Daily
Forward essay that his work as a former Obama White House
videographer was informed by one of Akerman’s signature
techniques: “glacially slow, rigidly formal and gently creeping takes.” Visit guildcinema.com to learn more.
“I Don’t Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal
Akerman” and “No Home Movie”
June 28 –30, various showtimes
The Guild Cinema, 3405 Central NE
255-1848, guildcinema.com
FRIDAYS
Salsa En La Bodega
9:30 pm, The Cell Theatre, 700 1st St
NW, 766-9412, liveatthecell.com
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
2ND SATURDAYS
American Veterans Post 7
Meeting
1 pm, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
401, 2011 Girard Blvd SE, 366-3032
2ND & 4TH SATURDAYS
Coder Dojo
10 am, ages 7-17, Quelab, 680 Haines
Ave NW, coderdojoabq.github.io
Downtown Walking Tours with
Albuquerque Historical Society
1ST WEDNESDAYS
TUESDAYS
Book to Art for Kids
Saturday Night Swing Dance
NM Foreclosure Study Group
6:30 pm, Cuidandos Los Ninos,
1500 Walter St SE, Rm 214, 310-9638,
dontmoveout.com
2ND TUESDAYS
Korean War Veterans Open
Meeting
1 pm, New Mexico Veterans’ Memorial,
1100 Louisiana Blvd SE, 256-2042,
nmvetsmemorial.org
Drinking Liberally —
ABQ Chapter
6 pm, O’Niell’s NE Heights,
3301 Juan Tabo Blvd NE, 264-1368,
drinkingliberally.org
Sportsmen and Women’s Meeting: NM Wildlife Federation
6 pm, Tractor Brewing – Wells Park,
1800 4th St NW,
facebook.com/nmwildlife
The Neon Run Albuquerque
6 pm, Balloon Fiesta Park,
5500 Balloon Fiesta Parkway,
768-6050, theneonrun.redpodium.com
Pollinator Celebration
10 am, ABQ BioPark, 2601 Central Ave
NW, 764-6200, abqbiopark.com
Wildlife Festival
10 am, Wildlife West Nature Park,
87 N. Frontage Rd, Edgewood,
(505) 281-7665, wildlifewest.org
SUNDAY, JUNE 19
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
11 am, Civic Plaza, 1 Civic Plaza NW,
3rd St NW and Marquette Ave NW,
albuquerquecc.com
WEDNESDAYS
Talin Market Food Truck
Round Up
11 am, 88 Louisiana Blvd SE
FRIDAYS
Coffee Education and Tasting
6:30 pm, Prosum Roasters,
3228 Los Arboles Ave NE Ste 100,
379-5136, prosumroasters.com
SATURDAYS
Downtown Growers’ Market
7 am, Robinson Park, 8th and Central,
252-2959, downtowngrowers.org
Santa Fe Farmers Market:
Railyard
8 am, 1607 Paseo de Peralta at Guadalupe, Santa Fe,
farmersmarketsnm.org
SUNDAYS
8:30 am, Free w/RSVP, Encantado Rd
NE, 452-5222,
cabq.gov/parksandrecreation
Rail Yards Market ABQ
SATURDAY, JUNE 25
WORD
Acequia Talk and Walk
10 am, Free, Parking lot of Holy Family
Church, 562 Atrisco Dr SW, cesoss.org
Flintknapping Workshop: The
Art of Making Stone Tools
10 am, Free, Open Space Visitor Center,
6500 Coors Blvd NW, 897-8831,
cabq.gov/openspace
Straw Bale Gardening:
Cathryne Richards
2 pm, Free, Placitas Community Library,
453 Hwy 165, 867-3355,
placitaslibrary.com
EATS
THURSDAY, JUNE 18
9th Annual Field to Food
7 pm, Center for Ageless Living,
3216 Hwy 47 South, Los Lunas, NM,
865-8813, growageless.com
Wildlife West Chuckwagon
Dinner & Music Show
6 pm, Wildlife West Nature Park,
87 N. Frontage Rd, Edgewood,
(505) 281-7665, wildlifewest.org
3RD SUNDAYS
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22
Family Fun Day
Frybread Making Workshop:
Level II
1:30 pm, New Mexico History Museum,
113 Lincoln Ave, Santa Fe,
(505) 476-5200, nmhistorymuseum.org
TUESDAYS
Southern Foothills Hike
Garden Party
ONGOING
2ND WEDNESDAYS
Abstract Nature: Photography
Workshop w/Chris Meyer
Lyme Get Together
10:30 am, National Hispanic Cultural
Center, 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771,
nhccnm.org
6 pm, National Hispanic Cultural
Center, 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771,
nhccnm.org
11 am, Free w/RSVP, Ages 6 –14, Open
Space Visitor Center, 6500 Coors Blvd
NW, 897-8831, cabq.gov/openspace
3RD SATURDAYS
SATURDAYS
Española, NM
Truckin’ Tuesdays
10 am, Petroglyph National Monument,
6510 Western Trail NW, 899-0205,
nps.gov/petr/
12, Free, location varies, more info:
304-9411
Garlic Festival
Monsters & Bird Baths & More
OH MY! — Open Space Kids
Explorer Series
10 am, Free with RSVP, Open Space
Visitor Center, 6500 Coors Blvd NW,
897-8831, cabq.gov/openspace
New Mexico Natural History Museum,
1801 Mountain Rd NW,
nmnaturalhistory.org
SATURDAY, JUNE 25
ONGOING
1ST FRIDAYS
First Friday Fractals
Various Locations, Albuquerque,
323-3915, vintagealbuquerque.org
WEDNESDAYS THROUGH
JULY 27
SATURDAY, JUNE 18
Jugamos Juntos — Children’s Event
10 am, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center,
2401 12th St NW, 843-7270,
indianpueblo.org
OUTDOORS
8 pm, Free, Q Bar-Hotel Albuquerque,
800 Rio Grande Blvd NW, 225-5928,
qbarabq.com
10 am, Free, meet at Central and 1st
by Century Theater, 289-0586
Casino del Rueda Dance Class
10 am, Bachechi Open Space,
9521 Rio Grande Blvd NW, 314-0398,
bernco.gov/openspace
5:30 pm, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center,
2401 12th St NW, RSVP:
724-3510, indianpueblo.org
10 am, Free, 777 1st St SW,
railyardsmarket.org
JUNE 17– July 17
Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande
NW, 344-8139, bkwrks.com
June 17, Fernanda Santos, The Fire
Line: The Story of Granite Mountain
Hotshots and One of the Deadliest
Days in American Firefighting
June 18, Sharon Nir, The Opposite of
Comfortable: The Unlikely Choices of
an Immigrant Career Woman
June 19, Charles Blanchard, Postive
Piano
June 21, Robert Kidera, Get Lost
June 22, Margaret Randall, She
Becomes Time
June 23, John Biscello, Raking the
Dust
June 24, James Campbell, Braving it: A
Father, A Daughter, and an Unforgettable Journey into the Alaskan Wild
June 25, Donald Levering, Coltrane’s
God
June 26, Shelley Armitage, Walking
the Llano: A Texas Memoir of Place
June 28, Wingbeats Poetry Workshop
June 29, Brain Keene, Pressure
June 30, Tony Reevy, The Railroas
Photography of Jack Delano
July 1, Arte Bennett, Poopendous
July 5, William Auten, Pepper’s Ghost
July 6, Richard T. Worthen, Death at
Pharoh’s Palace: 5000 Year Search for
Pharoh’s Last Scarab
July 7, JL Greger, Murder...A Way to
Lose Weight
CALENDAr
SATURDAY, JUNE 18
Book Sale Library Fundraiser
Trapping and Trekking with
Mountain Man James Pattie
9 am, Free, New Mexico Museum of
Art, 107 W. Palace Ave, Santa Fe,
6:30 pm, Free, Petroglyph National
Monument, 6510 Western Trail NW,
899-0205, nps.gov/petr
Insects of New Mexico:
Sandra Brantley
SUNDAY, JUNE 26
7 pm, Free, Elena Gallegos Picnic Area,
452-5200, cabq.gov
The Spirit of Flamenco: From
Spain to New Mexico:
Nicolasa Chavez
2 pm, National Hispanic Cultural Center,
Jewish Rite of Death — Stories
of Beauty and Transformation:
Richard A Light
3 pm, Page One Books, 5850 Eubank
Blvd NE Ste B-41, 294-2026,
page1book.com
TUESDAY, JUNE 28
Yip Harburg — Broadway’s Social Conscience: Jane Ellen
Police Information Exchange:
Chief‘s Night Out
2 pm, Placitas Community Library,
453 Hwy 165, 867-3355,
placitaslibrary.com
5:30 pm, Free, Loma Colorado Main
Library, 755 Loma Colorado Blvd NE,
Rio Rancho, 891-5013x3033,
SUNDAY, JUNE 19
Coyota in the Kitchen — A
Memoir of New and Old
Mexico: Anita Rodriguez
Blvd NE Ste B-41, 294-2026,
page1book.com
¡ÓRALE! Border Low & Border
Slow: Denise Chavez
2 pm, New Mexico History Museum,
113 Lincoln Ave, Santa Fe, (505)
476-5200, nmhistorymuseum.org
MONDAY, JUNE 20
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29
Flying Saucers — The Evidence:
Stanton Friedman
Rio Rancho, 891-5013x3033,
THURSDAY, JUNE 30
Washed Up — Transforming a
Trashed Landscape:
Alejandro Duran
JUNE 24–JULY 23
THROUGH JUNE 19
THROUGH JULY 22
Cat’s Whiskers, Part 1:
Francis Di Fronzo
Along the Pecos: A Photographic and Sound Collage
Surface: Emerging Artists of
New Mexico
Reception, Friday, June 24, 5 –7 pm
Evoke Contemporary, 550 S Guadalupe
St, Santa Fe, (505) 995-9902,
evokecontemporary.com
New Mexico History Museum,
Harwood Art Center, 1114 7th St NW,
242-6367, harwoodartcenter.org
SATURDAY, JUNE 25
Up Close with Sally Black
Noon, Free w/RSVP, Indian Pueblo
Cultural Center, 2401 12th St NW,
FRIDAY, JULY 1
Gilbert Martinez — Opening
Reception
7 pm, Broken Trail Spirits & Brew,
How to Have a Good Time: the
Minimum Wage Edition
6 pm, The Small Engine Gallery,
1413 4th St SW,
thesmallenginegallery.com
Luis Tapia – Gallery Talk
JULY 1–31
Mysteries from Lost Worlds &
Forgotten Dreams:
Star Liana York
Poet Wil Gibson
6 pm, Free, 516 ARTS, 516 Central Ave
SW, 242-1445, 516arts.org
7 pm, Free, Tortuga Gallery, 901 Edith
Blvd SE, 369-1648, tortugagallery.org
SATURDAY, JULY 2
Reception, Friday, July 1, 5 –7:30 pm
Sorrel Sky Gallery, 125 W. Palace Ave,
Santa Fe, (505) 501-6555, sorrelsky.com
NM Romance Authors — Hot,
Sultry Summer of Love
JULY 7–10
TUESDAY, JUNE 21
Route 66 in New Mexico: Bruce
Shaffer
6:30 pm, Esther Bone Memorial Library, 950 Pinetree Rd SE, Rio Rancho,
891-5012x3128, riorancholibraries.org
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22
Historic Architecture of Route
66: Kaisa Barthuli
Rio Rancho, 891-5013x3033,
THURSDAY, JUNE 23
Medicare Basics: Gary Forrest
Crazy Wisdom Poetry
4 pm, Free, OffCenter Arts, 808 Park
Ave SW, 247-1172, offcenterarts.org
6 pm, Free, Loma Colorado Main
Rio Rancho, 891-5013 x3033,
CULTURE
FRIDAY, JUNE 24
6 pm, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center,
2401 12th St NW, 843-7270,
indianpueblo.org
Bad Mouth w/Erin Adair-Hodges, Marty Crandall, Mike Smith
7 pm, The Tannex, 1417 4th St SW,
badmouthreadingseries.wordpress.com
Maps that Won the West:
Imre Joseph Demhard
LAST THURSDAYS
Indigenous Culture‘s Night Out
FIRST SATURDAYS
THROUGH SEPTEMBER
El Rito Open Studios
5 pm, Free, New Mexico History
Museum, 113 Lincoln Ave, Santa Fe,
10 am, Free, Follow the Signs, El Rito,
NM, (505) 927-8461,
facebook.com/ElRitoOpenStudios
SATURDAY, JUNE 25
JUNE 17–SEPTEMBER 2
Total Arts Gallery, 22-A Kit Carson Rd,
Taos, (575) 758-4667,
totalartsgallery.com
Justin Favela: Visiting Artist
and Community Artmaking
New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W.
Palace Ave, Santa Fe, (505) 476-5072,
nmartmuseum.org
JULY 8 –24
Nagakura Kenichi
Reception, Friday, July 8, 5 –7pm
TAI Modern, 1601 Paseo de Peralta,
Santa Fe, (505) 984-1387,
taimodern.com
JULY 8–AUGUST 27
Chris Gustin, Tony Marsh,
SunKoo Yuh
Santa Fe Clay, 545 Camino de la Familia,
Santa Fe, (505) 984-1122,
santafeclay.com
ONGOING
THROUGH JUNE 18
History of the Armijo
Neighborhood: Clara Peña
FRIDAY, JUNE 24
Map Mania Symposium
9:30 am, Free, New Mexico History
Museum, 113 Lincoln Ave, Santa Fe,
7: 30 pm, Harwood Museum of Art,
Arthur Bell Auditorium, 238 Ledoux
Street, Taos, (575) 758-9826,
harwoodmuseum.org
Rhythmical Arrangements:
Petra Class
Patina Gallery, 131 W. Palace Ave,
Santa Fe, (505) 986-3432,
patina-gallery.com
THROUGH JUNE 28
Into the Wild-Collage Inspired
by Nature’s Paradise: April
Fletcher
Blue Lily Atelier, 3209 Silver Ave SE,
263-6675, bluelilyatelier.com
Western Wonders: Frank A
Marich & Tim Gifford
The Gallery ABQ, 8210 Menaul Blvd
NE, 292-9333, thegalleryabq.com
THROUGH JUNE 30
Akunnittinni — A Kinngait
Family Portrait: Pitseolak
Ashoona, Napachie Pootoogook,
Annie Pootoogook
Forward: Eliza Naranjo Morse
Lloyd Kiva New: Art, Design,
and Influence
Museum of Contemporary Native Arts,
Helen Hardin Media Gallery,
108 Cathedral Pl, Santa Fe,
iaia.edu/museum
Come Together: Collage,
Assemblage & Community
OFFCenter Community Arts Project,
808 Park Ave SW, 247-1172,
offcenterarts.org
THROUGH AUGUST 27
The New Mexico Watercolor
Society Exhibition
Open Stories — Finding Art
in All the Right Places: Chris
Meyer
Page Coleman Gallery, 6320-B Linn
Ave NE, 238-5071, pagecoleman.com
Part of Stories of the Middle Rio Grande
10:30 am, Gutierrez-Hubbell House,
6029 Isleta Blvd SW, RSVP: 314-0398,
gutierrezhubbellhouse.org
Stranger Factory, 3411 Central Ave NE,
508-3049, strangerfactory.com
THROUGH JULY 31
THROUGH AUGUST 28
Andrew Fearnside: The Desert
Gail Gering: The Fires and The
Floods
New Media NM Video Night
Desiree Fessler, Jasmine Becket
Griffith & Stephan Webb
photo-eye Gallery, 541 S. Guadalupe St,
Santa Fe, (505) 988-5152,
photoeye.com
Two Person Show: Carrie Fell &
Cody Sanderson
Tamarind Institute, 2500 Central Ave SE,
277-3901, tamarind.unm.edu
Color Coded
THROUGH JUNE 26
Inherit the Dust: Nick Brandt
Sierra Club Gallery,
2215 Lead Ave SE, 243-7767
10 am, Sanchez Farm Open Space,
Arenal and Lopez, cesoss.org
Atrisco Acequia
Peyton Wright Gallery, 237 E Palace Ave,
Santa Fe, (505) 989-9888,
peytonwright.com
James Kelly Contemporary,
1611 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe,
(505) 989-1601, jameskelly.com
JULY 8 –10
Honoring the New Mexico
Landscape: Ken Daggett &
Damien Gonzales
WEDNESDAYS
Under Glass: Master Works
on Paper
Sculpture, Drawings,
Lithographs: Susan York
(505) 988-8883, artsantafe.com
ONGOING
7 pm, Tractor Brewing Wells Park,
1800 4th St NW, 243-6752,
getplowed.com
768-3544, kimotickets.com
THROUGH JULY 23
Reception, Sunday, June 12, 2– 4 pm
JCC, 5520 Wyoming, 892-378,
nmwatercolorsociety.org
ART Santa Fe 2016
Poetry and Beer
Discern: Laurel Lampela &
Tom Richardson
Paintings, Sculptures &
Drawings of Hammon Buck
Blvd NE Ste B-41, 294-2026,
page1book.com
1ST WEDNESDAYS
ICONIC: Summer Group
Exhibition
Evoke Contemporary, 550 S Guadalupe
St, Santa Fe, (505) 995-9902,
evokecontemporary.com
Sorrel Sky Gallery, 125 W. Palace Ave,
Santa Fe, (505) 501-6555, sorrelsky.com
THROUGH JULY 2
Open Space Visitor Center,
6500 Coors Blvd NW, 897-8831,
cabq.gov/openspace
John Beckelman, Bede Clarke,
Candice Methe
THROUGH SEPTEMBER 5
Santa Fe Clay,
545 Camino de la Familia, Santa Fe,
(505) 984-1122, santafeclay.com
Secret File: Lance Letscher
TAI Modern, 1601 Paseo de Peralta,
Santa Fe, (505)
984-1387, taimodern.com
THROUGH JULY 4
The Narrative Figure:
Esteban Cabeza de Baca,
Michael Dixon, Jeffrey Hargrave
David Richard Gallery,
1570 Pacheco St Ste A1,
Santa Fe, 983-9555,
davidrichardgallery.com
New Paintings: Jeff Kahm
Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, 558
Canyon Rd, Santa Fe, (505) 992-0711,
chiaroscurosantafe.com
THROUGH JULY 9
Words & Images: The Rainbow
Artists
Reception, Saturday, June 11, 6 pm
Tortuga, 901 Edith Blvd SE, 506-0820,
tortugagallery.org
THROUGH JULY 16
Transformers Transformed: Lee
Montgomery & Sogno (Dream):
Carmelo Midili
Central Features, 514 Central SW, 2433389, centralfeatures.com
The Buzzsaw Sharks of
Long Ago
New Mexico Natural History Museum,
1801 Mountain Rd NW,
nmnaturalhistory.org
THROUGH SEPTEMBER 11
Assumed Identities: Photographs by Anne Noggle
Self-Regard: Artist Self-Portraits from the Collection
New Mexico Museum of Art,
(505) 476-5072,
nmartmuseum.org
cont. on page 32
Puzzle on page 32
Calendar/CROSSWORD
Crossword
Dis and Dat
by Myles Mellor and Sally York
cont. from page 31
Across
THROUGH SEPTEMBER
11
THROUGH SEPTEMBER
27
THROUGH FEBRUARY
27, 2017
Back to Life: The Community of Historic Fairview Cemetery
The House on Mango
Street: Artists Interpret
Community
Original Instructions:
Pueblo Sovereignty and
Pueblo Governance
Albuquerque Museum of Art
& History, 2000 Mountain Rd
NW, 242-4600,
cabq.gov/museum
National Hispanic Cultural
Center, 1701 4th St SW,
724-4771, nhccnm.org
1 pm, Indian Pueblo Cultural
Center, 2401 12th St NW,
THROUGH SEPTEMBER
30
THROUGH MARCH 5,
2017
Flamenco — From Spain
to New Mexico
Lowriders, Hoppers, and
Hot Rods: Car Culture of
Northern NM
THROUGH SEPTEMBER
15
Landscape of an Artist
— Living Treasure:
Dan Namingha
Museum of Indian Arts and
Culture, 710 Camino Lejo,
Santa Fe, (505) 476-1269,
indianartsandculture.org
THROUGH SEPTEMBER
17
706 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe,
(505) 476-1200,
internationalfolkart.org
THROUGH OCTOBER 10
Con Cariño: Artists
Inspired by Lowriders
As We See It: Works by
Ten Contemporary
Native American
Photographers
Finding a Voice: The Legacy of
Lloyd Kiva New and IAIA
New Mexico Museum of Art,
(505) 476-5072,
nmartmuseum.org
516 ARTS, 516 Central Ave SW,
242-1445, 516arts.org
THROUGH OCTOBER 2
THROUGH SEPTEMBER
18
Santa Fe Faces:
Alan Pearlman
(505) 476-5200,
nmhistorymuseum.org
THROUGH SEPTEMBER
25
America’s Road: The
Journey of Route 66
National Museum of Nuclear
Science & History, 601 Eubank
Blvd SE, 245-2137,
nuclearmuseum.org
Route 66: Radiance, Rust
& Revival on the Mother
Road
Albuquerque Museum of Art &
THROUGH DECEMBER
30
A New Century: The Life
and Legacy of Cherokee Artist and Educator
Lloyd “Kiva” New
Museum of Indian Arts and
Culture, 710 Camino Lejo,
Santa Fe, (505) 476-1269,
indianartsandculture.org
(505) 476-5200,
nmhistorymuseum.org
THROUGH APRIL 9,
2017
Chimayó: a Pilgrimage
through Two Centuries
Museum of Spanish Colonial Art,
750 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe,
(505) 982-2226, spanishcolonial.org
THROUGH APRIL 16,
2017
Jicarilla: Home near the
Heart of the World
Wheelwright Museum of the
American Indian, 704 Camino
Lejo, Santa Fe, (505) 982-4636,
wheelwright.org
THROUGH JULY 31,
2017
Visions and Visionaries
Museum of Contemporary
Native Arts, Helen Hardin
Media Gallery,
108 Cathedral Pl, Santa Fe,
iaia.edu/museum
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5. Ne plus ___
10. Vitreous substance
14. After-lunch sandwich
15. Sweet rice wine
16. Narrow street
17. Let-downs
20. Didn’t straphang
21. Come-ons
22. Dostoyevsky novel, with “The”
23. Fish-fowl connection
24. ___ weight
26. 2005 Best Picture nominee
29. Blowhard
34. Available
35. Homegrown artifact
38. Martinets
41. Finnic people
42. ___ frog
43. Geometric figures: var.
44. African grazing areas
46. Many an office has one
49. Grp. involved in “the Troubles”
50. Adjust
54. Handles
56. Garden worker?
59. Decays
62. Steep
63. Stock
64. Cut short
65. Positive
66. Chances upon
67. Countercurrent
Down
1. Hephaestus and Demeter
2. Part of a score, maybe
3. Lie
4. Stole
5. Jocko Conlan, for one
6. Rear half of a griffin
7. Prosecuted
8. Flush
9. Antenna holder
10. Split
11. Punjabi royal
12. Digging, so to speak
13. Feeler
18. Paranoiac’s worry
19. Above ground level
23. Sarge, e.g.
25. Old Mogul capital
26. Computer
programmer
27. Unoriginal
28. Marinara alternative
30. Old World plant
31. Bleated
32. City in Scotland
33. Short pants
35. ___ maison: Fr.
36. Time div.
37. Starfleet Academy grad.
39. Natural
40. Home to the Palazzo
Gambacorti
44. Some organs
45. While lead-in
47. In ___ parts
48. It’s located on Lake George
50. Annexes
51. In ___ of
52. Bygone despot
53. De Valera’s land
55. Social group
56. Fearless
57. Children’s author Blyton
58. Glimpse
60. Tease wool
61. Bump off
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