October 22, 2014

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October 22, 2014

VOL I, Issue 14, October 22, 2014
Still FREE After All These Months
DOJ Made Us
Buy AR-15s,
APD Says
PAGE 5
Joe Monahan:
Why Negative
TV Ads Work
PAGE 6
Judge Candidate
Is Traffic Ticket Magnet
PAGE 9
Will New Police Board Be Toothless?
PAGE 10
VALERIE PLAME SPEAKS OUT ON SUSANA, GARY
PAGE 7
NEWS
PAGE 2 • October 22, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS
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Ebola’s threat
Outside of West Africa, the United
States, France and the United Kingdom
are most at risk for the spread of the
Ebola virus, but they also are best
equipped to contain it. China and India
are less likely to see infected persons
because of lack of travel connections
to West Africa, but if they do, their
huge populations and poor health
systems could leave them open to
mass infection. “Doctors and nurses in
India, too, often don’t wear protective
gloves,” Peter Pot, who discovered and
named the virus, told the Guardian
newspaper. “They would immediately
become infected and spread the virus.”
Insuring risk
Insurance companies are developing pandemic business disruption
insurance products for the healthcare
industry in response to the spread of
Ebola out of Africa and the D68 Enterovirus across the United States. Since the
SARS pandemic of 2009, the insurance
industry has been crafting products to
insure against business-disease-related
disruption in the travel and hospitality
industries.
Pastor-B-Gone
An Alabama church has sued its pastor
to go away. The Shiloh Missionary
Baptist Church of Montgomery filed
suit against the Rev. Juan McFarland,
who refused to step down despite
having confessed to using drugs and
having sex with church members
after contracting AIDS, the New York
Daily News reported. Church board
members allege McFarland, who has
not commented, changed the locks of
the church and put bank accounts in
his name.
Spongebob
The U.S. Army and civilian scientists
are collaborating to develop new ways
to stop the bleeding from battlefield
wounds. Bandages now in use already
are coated with anticoagulants designed to stop bleeding. A new product
in development is a syringe that can
inject tiny sponges into small wounds.
When they come in contact with blood,
the sponges swell to fill the wound
space and stop bleeding.
LOL
The president of Clowns of America
International has complained that
through movies and TV shows,
Hollywood has made clowns out to be
psychotic killers. The latest example is
“Twisty the Clown,” a killer clown on
the FX show “American Horror Story.”
“We do not support in any way, shape
or form any medium that sensationalizes or adds to coulrophobia, or clown
fear,” the group’s president, Glenn
Kohlberger, told the Hollywood
Reporter. Kohlberger’s 2,500-member
organization may be fighting a losing
battle. In the 1970s, Chicago mass
murderer John Wayne Gacy, who
dressed up as “Pogo the Clown” as a
hobby, boasted, “Clowns can get away
with murder.”
Bypass cable
HBO will offer stand-alone streaming
of its programming in 2015 – meaning
viewers can bypass cable and satellite
channels. “All in, there are 80 million
homes that do not have HBO, and we
will use all means at our disposal to go
after them,” HBO CEO Richard Plepler
told an AOL Time Warner investor
meeting. Another threat to cable and
satellite looms in the form of a new
TiVo-like device. Roamio’s OTA box
allows users to collect over-the-air TV
signals and record network shows, as
well as plug in to Hulu, Netflix and the
like via the Internet. The device will sell
for $50 at Best Buy.
Fusion to go
Lockheed Martin has announced it has
plans to test within a year a fusion
reactor small enough to eventually fit
onto the back of a truck. The company
has determined it is feasible to build
a 100-megawatt reactor measuring
7 feet by 10 feet, about 10 times smaller
than current reactors, a company
spokesman told Reuters. Lockheed
Martin went public with the project in
hopes of attracting a funding partner to
offset a decline in military spending.
It expects to market the device within
five years.
Banning breaks
Researchers at the University of
Arizona have found that a virus on an
office doorknob can spread to up to 60
percent of the surfaces in a building
within a few hours. The experiment,
which used a harmless but traceable
virus, found that the place viruses
spread fastest is the office break room.
When workers used a hand sanitizer
when entering an office building and
used cleaning wipes at their desks
periodically during the day, the
amount of surface contamination
dropped by 80 percent.
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Still FREE After All These Months
VOL I, Issue 14, October 22, 2014
In This Issue
NEWS
ABQ Free Press Pulp News..............................................................................................................Page 2
Editor
Dan Vukelich
(505) 345-4080. Ext. 800
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Ebola updates...................................................................................................................................Page 5
COVER STORY: Ex-spy Valerie Plame on the state of N.M. politics............................................... Page 7
Metro Court candidate already knows her way around courthouse .................................................Page 9
Free speech doubts follow UNM “Sex Week” apology...................................................................Page 10
Will new APD ‘s new oversight board be better than the last?.......................................................Page 10
Increasingly dry Rio Grande bodes ill for Valley’s future................................................................Page 11
APD’s AR-15 purchase called “borderline illegal”............................................................................. Page
Associate Editor, News
Dennis Domrzalski
(505) 306-3260
Associate Editor, Arts
Stephanie Hainsfurther
(505) 301-0905
Design
Terry Kocon, Hannah Reiter, Cathleen Tiefa
Photography
Mark Bralley, Mark Holm, Juan Antonio
Labreche, Liz Lopez, Adria Malcolm
Contributors this issue
Sabrina Autry, Pat Davis, Dennis Domrzalski,
Barry Gaines, Thomas Grover, Jeffry Gardner,
Betsy Model, Joe Monahan, Richard Oyama,
Laura Paskus, Peter St. Cyr
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OPINION
APD’s pattern of records denials will cost us all................................................................................Page 4
Joe Monahan on politics: The power of negative political ads..........................................................Page 6
Susana’s transparency? Yeah, right..................................................................................................Page 8
APD veteran on why mental-health question must pass...................................................................Page 8
Letters...............................................................................................................................................Page 8
What Gov. Martinez has done for N.M. ........................................................................................Page 15
ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT & MORE
Calling All Pets...............................................................................................................................Page 15
Music: Pray for Brain tours the world.............................................................................................Page 18
Music: Spotlight on “Hamlet” opera................................................................................................Page 19
Music Briefs: Escort brings back the 70s, “We Are the In Crowd” comes to Sunshine..................Page 19
Theater: UNM’s spooky offering, “The Monkey’s Paw”..................................................................Page 20
Theater Briefs: Four picks for right now.........................................................................................Page 20
Arts & entertainment events................................................................................................... Page 21-23
Crossword Puzzle..........................................................................................................................Page 24
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On the cover: Valerie Plame, a former CIA operative turned author, has been active in New Mexico politics since moving
to Santa Fe with her husband, former ambassador Joe Wilson. (All photos of Plame in this issue by Norah Levine.)
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FROM THE EDITOR
APD Records Stonewalling
Costs ABQ Big Money
By Dan Vukelich
B
efore this
newspaper
published its
first issue back
in April, ABQ
Free Press and
Peter St. Cyr,
an independent
journalist who
periodically writes
for us, asked for
the Albuquerque Police Department’s
inventory of its military-style weapons.
When we were refused, we sued APD
under the provisions of the New Mexico
Inspection of Public Records Act. The
case has been percolating along for
months, but quite shortly, depositions
will be taken – by both sides.
The public records law, commonly
called IPRA, has protections built in to
protect the public from unreasonable
denial of public records. If found by a
judge or jury to have wrongly withheld
records, a governmental entity – like
the City of Albuquerque and APD – can
be liable for payment of the requestors’
attorneys’ fees, costs, and up to $100 a
day in damages.
Since we filed our case, KRQE
Channel 13 filed a broader case. The
TV station’s suit alleges that APD
has engaged in a pattern of wrongly
withholding public records, including:
lapel-camera video; records related to
the James Boyd shooting; correspondence relating to the U.S. Department of
Justice’s probe of APD; records regarding APD shootings since 1994; APD’s
dealings with former APD Chief Ray
Schultz and Taser; APD’s 2013 review
of its use-of-force policy; SWAT team
reports of various incidents; surveillance
video of the Mayor’s Office during a
protest and sit-in; crime-scene photos;
dash-cam footage; and an inventory of
APD weapons.
The TV station asked for more records
than I can list here – but you get the idea.
In all cases, APD refused to release
the requested information or was not
fully responsive in what it did release.
Some of the KRQE cases go back more
than a year.
When totaled up, should the city be
found in violation of the records act,
APD – or, more properly, Albuquerque
taxpayers – could be on the hook for well
over $100,000 for the KRQE case alone.
This pattern of refusal to release public
records is being used against the public,
as well as the news media. Reports of
settlements and case dispositions that
the administration of Richard Berry is
required to give the Albuquerque City
Council shows the city paid more than
$48,000 in damages in three citizens’
records cases between Oct. 1, 2013,
and June 30, 2014.
Colin Hunter, an attorney with the
Barnett Law Firm, who is representing
this newspaper in its IPRA case against
APD, said the denials are part of a legal
strategy by APD and the city.
“They are making a PR and calculated
risk assessment decision in denying
these requests,” Hunter said, “hoping
that the requestors go away and that
only one in 10 will actually sue.”
Hunter said he believes the city will
seek to dismiss the newspaper as a
plaintiff and cut its exposure under the
bad-faith portion of the IPRA statute,
which calls for damages to be paid to all
plaintiffs wrongfully denied records.
The records denials are the stick
in APD’s carrot-and-stick strategy in
dealing with the news media – which is
play ball with us and we’ll spoon-feed
you access, stories, video, mug shots
and story leads; ask difficult questions
and get the stick – no cooperation, no
access and a big “no comment.”
To be fair, other agencies do the same
thing. The governor’s people don’t
answer questions they don’t like. Hell,
they don’t even return phone calls from
media outlets they don’t like.
But the APD records situation has
become intolerable for a population that
requires spin-free information to hold a
troubled police department accountable.
Case law is against APD and the civilians directing its policy. Taxpayers are
paying the financial price, but eventually,
someone’s going to pay a political price.
This issue marks our sixth month of
publication. Our readership is growing
and, just as importantly, our advertising is picking up. People have told us
they’ve been looking for another media
voice in our community. We hope we’re
providing that voice.
We could use your help in identifying
high-traffic business locations that would
benefit both you and them if ABQ Free
Press were allowed to place a wire rack
inside or a weatherproof box outside
their premises.
We’ll gladly accept your suggestions.
All you need to do is talk to the manager
or owner and ask them if they’d be
willing to let us to distribute there. Send
us an email with the business name,
address and the person you talked to
and we’ll get it done.
Dan Vukelich is the editor of ABQ Free
Press. Reach him at editor@freeabq.com.
NEWS
ABQ FREE PRESS • October 22, 2014 • PAGE 5
APD’s Purchase of Assault Rifles Called ‘Borderline Illegal’
BY PETER ST. CYR
T
he Albuquerque Police Department rushed
through a questionable purchase of 350 militarystyle assault weapons within weeks of a U.S. Justice
Department report criticizing APD’s fondness for
such weapons.
The police department justified the rifles’ purchase on the grounds that the Justice Department
mandated that it buy the AR-15 semi-automatic
weapons. An ABQ Free Press inquiry found no such
federal mandate.
The DOJ confirmed to this newspaper there is nothing
in its report of its year-long investigation into APD’s
record of civil rights violations that could reasonably
be construed to be a federal mandate. In fact, the DOJ
criticized the department’s culture of aggression and
officers’ “fondness for powerful weaponry.”
“The Department of Justice did not recommend
that the Albuquerque Police Department acquire
firearms of any kind as part of its April 2014 investigative findings letter,” DOJ spokeswoman Elizabeth
Martinez wrote in mid-October in an email response
to the newspaper’s inquiry.
Instead of gun purchases, the DOJ’s initial
recommendations were designed to provide greater
controls and accountability by APD on its officers’
unconstitutional use of force, according to Martinez.
The DOJ’s April 10 report recommended a
review of APD’s use-of-force policy “to place more
emphasis on de-escalation techniques and require
officers to consider less-intrusive alternatives before
employing force.”
Initially reluctant to answer questions about
how APD interpreted the DOJ findings, a police
spokeswoman said the department placed the gun
order to implement a standardized APD weapons
policy. In May, Police Chief Gorden Eden prohibited
officers from using personal weapons or adding to
or modifying department-owned firearms.
A Rapid Purchase Report form completed by
APD fiscal manager Aubrey Thompson on May
16 and obtained by ABQ Free Press references the
DOJ’s description of “systemic deficiencies” and
“DOL [sic] federal mandates” as justification for the
$350,000 weapons purchase.
“APD wishes to purchase approximately 350 rifles
to address this item,” Thompson wrote on the form,
which requested immediate action and a shortened
An AR-15 similar to the 350 that APD bought.
bid process.
Six days later, in another interoffice memo to
the city of Albuquerque’s Purchasing Department,
Thompson again attributed the need for the AR-15
purchase to the DOJ. “The department has tested
different rifles and this particular item meets APDs
[sic] needs while adhering to the suggestions made
by the DOJ,” Thompson wrote.
The high-powered rifles, according to Peter Simonson, executive director of the American Civil Liberties
Union New Mexico, may send the wrong message
to the community because the AR-15 originally was
developed for use on the battlefield.
“The deadly weapons officers carry while on duty
should be viewed as a serious responsibility, not – as
noted by the DOJ in its findings – a personal status
symbol for officers,” Simonson said.
The ACLU believes officers should have the tools
they need for law enforcement, Simonson said, “but
we may legitimately ask whether every officer on
the street needs these high-power rifles to conduct
ordinary law-enforcement activities.”
The gun purchase raises questions about just how
seriously cultural and use-of-force reforms are being
considered at APD, Simonson said.
City Councilor Rey Garduño said he doesn’t
understand why APD considered the firearms
purchase to be urgent. He and City Council President Ken Sanchez previously said they would have
preferred Chief Eden wait until after the DOJ issued
its negotiated reform plan or after the DOJ and city
entered into a consent decree.
Garduño said the rifle purchase may have violated
city procurement rules. “It’s not only egregious, I
think it’s borderline illegal based on our established
procurement process,” he said.
Garduño said if rules were violated, he’ll ask for
the deal to be rescinded and the guns returned to
Albuquerque gun dealer Walter Bracken at BMC
Tactical, 2617 Coors Blvd. S.W., whose offer beat out
that of the only other bidder, a dealer from Texas.
APD’s initial purchase request said the department
had identified as many as 60 dealers that had the
weapon APD wanted.
Sanchez – who previously asked State Auditor
Hector Balderas to review APD’s sole-source
contract with Taser for lapel video cameras – said
the police department has an obligation to ensure
taxpayers are getting the best price.
‘The Department of Justice
did not recommend that the
Albuquerque Police Department
acquire firearms of any kind’
– DOJ Spokeswoman
“They rushed and acted prematurely,” Sanchez said.
Former city of Albuquerque senior buyer Charles
“Chuck” McCoy, who worked for the city 18 years,
requested the APD purchasing documents under
the state’s Inspection of Public Records Act. McCoy
shared them with ABQ Free Press.
McCoy said the $1,000-per-weapon price tag
wasn’t a bad price, but he said there are more than
five dozen vendors with similar weapons that
might have offered a better price had not APD’s gun
specifications been so exact.
“They didn’t care about the price, and they just
wanted to get going on it before somebody figured
out that mandate was bogus,” said McCoy, a certified purchasing expert. He also questioned the price
the city paid for ammunition.
Local gun dealers who talked to ABQ Free Press
for background information also said they believe
the city got a good price on the weapons. They
said they decided not to bid on the deal themselves
because the city takes months to pay its bills.
To contact the reporter, email: Peter.StCyr@gmail.com
Ebola Fears Send Sales of Biohazard Suits Soaring
BY JIM WAGNER
Editor’s Note: Earlier this year ABQ Free Press reported
on the “prepper” movement – people who stock up on
supplies and make plans for apocalyptic events, including
war, civil unrest, famine and plague. This is an update.
S
ome “preppers” – people who prepare for the
apocalypse – are doing little more than yawning about the threat or fear of an Ebola epidemic,
because they’ve already prepared for calamity.
Food. Water. Matches. Bandages. Bullets, etc.
You name it, it’s already been stashed. For the rest
of America, the fear of Ebola is apparently turning
regular folks into preppers.
CNBC.com reports that some Americans are
preparing for large-scale contagion. Figures from
Amazon showed that by the first week of October,
“sales of a type of full-body protective suits were up
131,000 percent and sales for one type of mask had
risen 18,000 percent in 24 hours.” Biohazard suits
sell online for less than $50 to more than $500.
Businessweek.com reports that Lysol’s Facebook
page is jammed with questions about the effectiveness of Lysol products in killing the Ebola virus.
Lysol’s disinfectant sprays are EPA-approved for
hospitals, the site says, but Lysol has not been formally tested on Ebola. The maker says that “based
on their ability to kill similar as well as harder-to-kill
viruses, these products are likely to be effective
against the Ebola virus.”
What about Clorox? The maker says its bleach
and disinfectant wipes also meet hospital-grade
criteria of the federal Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, Businessweek.com reports. The
company recently shipped 12,000 bottles of bleach to
infected regions in West Africa, the site reports.
cont. on page 11
POLITICS
The Secret to Negative
TV Ads is They Work
By JOE MONAHAN
A
politician relishes
nothing more
than to be able to
control the message – and they get
ultimate control when
they produce TV
spots that sprout up
this time of year like
weeds after a good rain.
So what did the candidates come up
with this time that will be remembered
more than a day after the election results
are final?
Even Republicans admit that a “caught
on tape” moment made into a 30-second
spot by U.S. Sen. Tom Udall was a
game-changer for the race. Not that the
GOP’s Allen Weh has been a serious
threat to Udall, but until this particular
ad hit the airwaves, Udall could feel him
breathing down his neck.
In a spot reminiscent of the one that
revealed a video recording of Mitt Romney saying 47 percent of the population
doesn’t pay taxes and therefore won’t
vote for him, Weh is caught on audio
tape arguing that no one below the age
of 26 should get a minimum wage. He
declares in a voice dripping with derision:
“So what if they’re making four bucks an
hour? So what?”
Like the Romney 47 percent remark,
this one reinforces the worst fears about
modern Republicanism – that it holds in
contempt those who are not well off and
does so with a bold and cold arrogance.
Like Romney, Weh is a multimillionaire. He made his comments at the
ABQ Economic Forum, a group heavily
weighted with affluent business owners
and executives. The circumstances were
eerily similar to those of Romney, who
made his 47 percent comment before a
group of wealthy supporters.
As with the Romney ad, the Udall spot
has the feel of a campaign tipping point.
Sometimes your campaign trackers strike
gold. This may be one of those times.
The video of a working woman mopping
the floor as Weh’s comments are repeatedly aired drives the point home and
may have put the nails in Weh’s political
coffin.
A series of memorable TV and radio
ads also may be looked back upon as
another campaign tipping point. This
time it’s the race for governor. Dem
hopeful Gary King, struggling financially
in September and unable to have any TV
on the air, was hammered relentlessly by
Gov. Susana Martinez over the “Casanova Con Man.”
This hit had as its centerpieces the
perennial audience pleasers of sex and
political intrigue. In a gripping narrative,
viewers are told how the Casanova Con
Man “preyed on women, stealing their
live savings” and was sentenced to 34
years in prison. With menacing music in
the background, the spot reveals how
Casanova hired a lobbyist to help him get
his sentence reduced to five years and
how the lobbyist did so – with King’s help.
Never mind that King’s campaign said
Casanova had been released early by
a judge, not by King. The die had been
cast. “Gary King stands for the powerful
few, not us,” the announcer declares with
certainty.
The timing of the spot was crucial,
coming in mid-September when voters begin paying attention and when
each side tries to define the other. The
Casanova Con spots went unanswered
by King. In politics, an unanswered
charge is a charge believed. King had
been polling in the low 40s, but after
Casanova Con made his appearance, he
fell into the 30s and even further out of
contention.
Not all ads have to be negative to help
change or cement the course of a race.
State Auditor Hector Balderas, running
for attorney general, might have seemed
too soft for the tough-on-crime crowd. He
was last seen statewide in a primary race
against Martin Heinrich for U.S. Senate
– a race in which he often deferred to
Heinrich and ultimately lost. Balderas reemerged this year with a much sharper
edge.
“In every corner of New Mexico,
Auditor Hector Balderas is leading the
fight against corruption,” an announcer
intones with urgency. The ad gets
credibility by using actual TV news clips
about various Balderas investigations.
The ad proceeds at a compelling pace,
delivering these money lines: “Balderas
cracked down on corrupt politicians from
both parties” and “the independence to
protect the people of New Mexico.”
With that, Balderas separated himself
from corruption charges that have
haunted state Democrats in recent years
and that were employed against them in
the 2010 gubernatorial contest.
The Balderas ad makes the viewer
believe it should be a seamless and
natural transition for Balderas to continue
his battle against corruption as attorney
general. That’s controlling the message.
If you are offended that political ads
manipulate your emotions and lead you
to make false choices, consider this.
Campaign professionals say a viewer
needs about 10 exposures to a political
ad for it to have maximum effect – so just
call it quits after No. 9.
Joe Monahan is a veteran of New Mexico
politics whose daily blog can be found at
joemonahan.com
NEWS
Valerie Plame: On N.M., Susana, Gary, DWI, Schools
BY BETSY MODEL
“W
eapons of Mass Distraction” became an
oft-seen bumper sticker throughout New
Mexico and the rest of the country in late 2003. In the
following years it became a punch line for late night
comedians and was picked up as a tag line by people
around the world beginning to question the lives,
money and resources being spent on the Iraq war.
The obvious play on the words for the reason the
Bush administration gave the world for the invasion
of Iraq – that the US had credible evidence that
Saddam Hussein had obtained access to weapons of
mass [nuclear] destruction and was a threat to the
West and to his neighboring countries – was a sign
that many had come to doubt why we were in Iraq.
Doubts grew in the months that followed the
congressional hearings and media maelstrom
surrounding “Plamegate” – the outing in the media
of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson. The
media frenzy over Plame’s outing followed a June
6, 2003, op-ed published in The New York Times
by her husband, diplomat Joe Wilson, who wrote it
was highly unlikely that Saddam had ever had the
resources or access to nuclear weapons.
The congressional hearings and the global coverage of those hearings and the subsequent federal
conviction of then-Vice President Dick Cheney’s
Chief of Staff Irving Lewis “Scooter” Libby – the
Bush Administration official who outed Plame – cast
further doubt on the Bush Administration’s justifications for what became an eight-year war.
Plame acknowledges the rumor mill
that had Joe Wilson being
approached about running for
Governor in 2014 on a Democrat
ticket against Martinez was ‘true’
Plame, a covert CIA operative whose area of
expertise was the determination of who had what
nuclear technology and weapons within foreign
governments, and Wilson, a career diplomat and
outspoken former Ambassador to the African country of Gabon, spent the next couple of years writing
books that shared with the world their versions of
what happened.
The books happened in quick succession – Wilson’s “The Politics of Truth: A Diplomat’s Memoir:
Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed my
Wife’s CIA Identity,” came out in 2005, followed by
Plame’s “Fair Game: How A Top CIA Agent Was
Betrayed By Her Own Government” in 2007.
Why They are Here
Both Plame’s and Wilson’s books were bombshells
in Washington, D.C., as George Bush struggled
through his second term and the cost of the war in
Iraq escalated. In 2007, they moved to New Mexico.
Plame says she and her husband chose The Land
of Enchantment in part because of her former career
– she’d spent significant amount of time at Los
Alamos Nuclear Laboratory – and because, she says,
New Plame Book Out Now
It’s a classic Mark Twain quote
Ex-spy Valerie Plame outside her Santa Fe home
it all felt cleaner somehow – the weather, the skies
and a fresh start for their twin children who, even
at a young age, had witnessed how ugly it could
become when sides are taken.
Friendly with then-Gov. Bill Richardson, a former
secretary of the U.S. Energy Department, the Plame/
Wilsons were welcomed into Santa Fe and found
what Plame calls “that rare mixture of cultures and
intelligence” that made them feel like they could not
only exhale but dig in.
And, over the last seven years, dig in they have.
Wilson, a business consultant, has a reputation as
a sharp – if intensely blunt – go-to person for those
seeking advice on global affairs. Plame works at the
Santa Fe Institute when she’s not speaking around
the country on her personal passion, ending nuclear
proliferation.
‘How can we pick up the paper so
often and see stories about people
being arrested for their sixth,
seventh, eighth DWI violation?
Are you kidding me?!’
In 2010, Plame saw “Fair Game,” turned into a
big screen box office success starring Naomi Watts
and Sean Penn. Since then, in partnership with
Santa Fe-based mystery writer Sarah Lovett, she has
turned her attention to writing novels about – what
cont. on page 16
that, even though penned a
century earlier, could certainly be
considered prescient to the life of
New Mexico resident and author
Valerie Plame:
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but
it is because Fiction is obliged to
stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”
If using the word “implode”
when talking about a CIA operative whose job was identifying and determining the
threat level of nuclear weapons around the world feels
a little smarmy, it’s bizarrely accurate. Plame’s life and
career did, in fact, implode following the 2003 White
House leak of her identity (see our cover story), and the
global media tsunami that ensued was captured rather
well in her 2007 account, “Fair Game: How a Top CIA
Agent Was Betrayed by Her Own Government.”
Plame’s publishing company, Simon and Schuster,
had to sue to get “Fair Game,” part biography and part
exposé, published and the manuscript featured so much
redaction as a result of a mandatory CIA review – which
Simon and Schuster chose to include as large swaths
of blacked out lines – that it left many readers swearing
they could detect the faint smell of a black marker.
Just a few years later, Plame chose to try writing
again – this time fiction. With a more-than-capable
writing partner in Santa Fe mystery writer Sarah Lovett,
the two turned out the 2013 spy thriller “Blowback.”
Featuring a covert female CIA operative by the name of
Vanessa Pierson who travels the globe tracking down
dangerous nuclear arms dealers, the book was well
received by critics and nicely endorsed by peer authors
including Douglas Preston,
David Baldacci and Lee
New Mexico readers
Child.
can pick up a copy of
The second title in
“Burned” and meet
the Vanessa Pierson
the authors during
series, “Burned,” (Blue
readings and signings
Rider Press/Penguin, hard
at 6 p.m. Nov. 5 at
cover, $26.95) is now hitting
Santa Fe’s Collected
bookstores. Readers will
Works, 202 Galisteo
once again get to follow the
St.; and at 7 p.m. Nov.
covert ops officer – this time
6 at Albuquerque’s
from Paris to Amsterdam
to Venice to Istanbul – as
Bookworks, 4022 Rio
she hunts down Bhoot,
Grande Blvd. N.E.
the world’s most notorious
nuclear arms dealer.
While Twain was right about truth often being
stranger than fiction, Plame and Lovett have done
enough skillful blending that readers may well be left
wondering whether the world and the world’s safety
really is in the hands of the few as opposed to the many,
as well as where fiction and the truth merge.
An author and speaker who loves engaging with her
readers and her audience, Plame grins when asked if
there’s a wink-wink, nudge-nudge component to the
Vanessa Pierson series that allows those who attend
her readings and book signings not only to ask questions but to feel as if they’re privy to an inside joke.
– Betsy Model
OPINION
Martinez Administration
Is as Transparent as Mud
APD Veteran Calls for ‘Yes’
On Mental Health Question
BY PAT DAVIS, ProgressNowNM.org
BY THOMAS GROVER
S
usana Martinez came into office
promising to run “the most transparent administration in history.” If you ask
her staff, they’ll tell you she’s done just
that. Maybe she has, but she sure has a
funny way of showing it.
Just weeks into her administration,
a New Mexico Supreme Court battle
erupted over her administration’s use of
private emails to let dairy industry lobbyists write orders turning back pollution
rules designed to protect air and water.
Lobbyist Pat Rogers set up meetings
with the governor’s chief of staff to
discuss his clients’ contract managing
lottery games – using those same “off
the record” email accounts. They got
Rogers in trouble, too, after his emails to
the governor’s staff denounced planned
meetings with Native Americans as
“disrespectful” to the memory of notorious Indian-killer Gen. Custer.
Martinez’s official staff was included
on them all, as was Martinez on a few.
Since then, Martinez’s appointed secretary of the Department of Corrections
told the press that she was directed
to use personal emails to avoid public
records requests for communications.
Want to know how the administration
spent millions of dollars on an “audit” of
behavioral health providers that supposedly uncovered fraud? Nope. The
administration says that’s private, even
after the New Mexico attorney general
checked the math and found no fraud in
the first few cases he’d checked.
Want to know whether the governor
stays in the presidential suite of the Four
Seasons or in the corner room of the Motel
6 when she travels on our dime? No, thank
you. The governor won’t give that up, even
after newspapers sued her to get it.
To be fair, the governor has had the
chance to make new law when it comes
to transparency.
So far, I’ve counted almost a halfdozen times that newspapers and
reporters have sued the governor or
her administration for failing to give up
public records that show how her administration is working. The Las Cruces
Sun-News, New Mexico In Depth, even
the New Mexico Foundation for Open
Government, have gone to court to get
public records she squirreled away.
When reporters seeking her travel
records asked the state Supreme
Court to step in, her lawyer made the
audacious claim that the governor is
exempt from public records laws and
that the court has no jurisdiction over her
unilateral decision to grant herself this
new status.
Add all of this to new revelations that,
weeks before a nonpublic audit was
even complete, members of her administration secretly traveled to Arizona to
meet with firms they later would appoint
to take over behavioral health firms
targeted by their audit. Not to mention
new allegations that hard drives full of
emails from the governor and her staff
were “intentionally destroyed” after
she left the Doña Ana County District
Attorney’s Office.
Like I said, if this is transparency,
Susana Martinez sure has a funny way
of showing it.
Pat Davis is the executive director of
ProgressNowNM, a nonpartisan
progressive group that has been critical
of the Martinez administration.
To the Editor
(via voicemail)
My name is Chris. I’d really like to know how come
out here in Albuquerque (I’m from out east, I’m in
Georgia) you say you’re a free press, but I read stuff in
your paper, and you are clearly liberal.
You are clearly a homo and you like homos, and that’s
fine, if that’s what you want. But a lot of us Americans,
we don’t go for that sort of thing. If you put out a free
press, why don’t you put out everyone’s opinion instead
of citing those on your side.
Thank you very nice. I would actually respect you for
the opposite opinion. I have no respect for you now.
— Chris
Editor’s note: We received Chris’
voicemail after we ran a cover image of Neil Patrick Harris in
drag following his Tony award win for his role in “Hedwig and
the Angry Inch.”
F
or eight years, I patrolled the streets
in the Valley as an Albuquerque police
officer. For me, interacting with people in
various states of mental health disorders
was not a daily or weekly incident but
truly was an hourly occurrence.
And as I look back over the past
decade, most of the high-profile
incidents involving our community’s law
enforcement agencies involved persons
with mental health issues. Nearly 10
years ago, John Hyde went on a killing
spree and killed five people, including
two Albuquerque police officers. This
past spring, we had the incident involving James Boyd up in the foothills, which
brought national attention to our city and
the state’s largest police force.
I was on duty the day Hyde went on
his rampage, and I know first-hand the
effect it had on APD as an institution. As
a street officer, I often wondered how
many could-be “John Hydes” I encountered – whether it was the woman
running around naked in Civic Plaza;
the disoriented man lost in the library at
Fifth and Copper; or the catatonic male
who continued to walk up Eighth Street
refusing to talk or stop for officers as he
continued on his deliberate path that led
to an elementary school.
Sadly in the Albuquerque area, when
law enforcement officers encounter
people with mental health disorders, our
options are limited. We either transport
them to UNM’s mental health hospital or
they get booked into the jail. Today,
Bernalillo County’s Metropolitan Detention
Center is overcrowded. Half the people
there are receiving psychiatric services.
Now, as a lawyer, I realize there is no
easy solution. As a community, our goal
Dear Editor:
In your article entitled “Susana, Dianna Believe Less
is More,” in the Sept. 24 issue by Dan Vukelich, it was
stated that it was an unreasonable request to expect
generation upon generation upon generation
of welfare and food stamp recipients to work.
Well, as a taxpayer, I am fed up with having to pay for
uneducated [people], having welfare mentalities and not
wanting to do more than keep having babies that they
cannot afford to take care of just to get additional food
stamps and welfare. This has gone on too long.
New Mexico is like a “leech state” sucking the blood
from others to maintain a status of “mañana,” not
wanting to work nor educate themselves, just counting
the number of welfare babies that they have introduced
into society.
I am not a big fan of Susana Martinez but it is about
time that someone does something with the bloodsuckers who prey on the system while working people pay
for them to do absolutely nothing. If you don’t have
anyone to watch your children stop having children.
should be to reduce law enforcement’s
encounters with the mentally ill. The
existing policy of not having any policy
has been painfully expensive, as we’ve
seen with the Hyde and Boyd incidents.
In contrast, San Antonio and Bexar
County, Texas, have become a model
for addressing underlying issues of mental illness. Their “smart justice” program
diverts people with serious mental
illness out of jail and into treatment. City
and county agencies and nonprofits
there came together and created a
“Restoration Center,” which offers a 48hour inpatient psychiatric unit, outpatient
services, detox and substance abuse
treatment, and assistance with housing.
The results have been telling. Jails
are less full, people are getting the
help they need, and the community has
saved more than $50 million in the past
five years.
On Nov. 4, Bernalillo County has
an opportunity to vote in support of a
1/8 cent gross receipts tax advisory
question that would promote a similar
mental-health triage center here. If the
advisory question passes, the Bernalillo
County Commission is committed to
moving forward on legislation in 2015.
Increased mental health funding will
make our community safer for individuals, families and, in turn, will help law
enforcement do their job. It will result in
taxpayer savings by reducing the high
costs of incarceration and hospitalization
and also get those in crisis the treatment
they need.
I ask you to join me and vote “yes.”
Thomas Grover is an attorney and a former
APD sergeant.
Both my parents had to work, pay for their education,
get jobs and raise their children, all without welfare
assistance.
There are options and solutions to consistently being
on welfare, i.e., go back to school. There are programs
where they will watch your children, etc., so at least
make an attempt. Why should the working public pay
for others to have children and care for them when we
have our own families to support. I do not feel sympathy
for these individuals who are living off of welfare and
food stamps at the taxpayer’s expense.
New Mexico is almost No. 1 in the nation with people
receiving welfare and getting social security disability.
The majority of these individuals have never worked a
day in their lives. So why should we, the individuals that
have been working for years, support these individuals
financially all while depleting our social security funds
from those who have worked to earn these benefits.
Food stamps and welfare was first established as
emergency funding, not a way of life.
— Sherrie Lynn Sanderson
NEWS
Metro Court Candidate Knows the System – Maybe Too Well
BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI
W
21, 1996, when she was 19. She
hile it’s almost impossible
was charged with driving on
to get through life witha suspended license, no auto
out getting parking or traffic
insurance, no vehicle registration
tickets, one candidate for
and improper use of evidence
Bernalillo County Magistrate
of registration. She failed to
Court judgeship has racked up
appear for a court hearing and
a decent string of tickets since
a warrant was issued in the case
1996.
by Judge Theresa Gomez.
Vidalia Chavez, the
Chavez and her ex-husband,
Democratic candidate for
Encinias, were sued on Dec.
the Division 14 Metro Court
4, 2013, in Bernalillo County
seat, has been ticketed on 14
District Court for allegedly faildifferent dates, sometimes for
ing to repay $36,000 in student
multiple offenses, over the last
loans. The attorney who filed
18 years, Metro Court records
the suit, Darren Tallman, did
show.
not return several phone calls
While most of the tickets
inquiring about the case.
were routine parking violaGruber said his wife didn’t
tions, other charges included
know about the lawsuit because
parking on a sidewalk, runshe had not been served with paning a stop sign, driving
pers regarding it. “Perhaps they
without insurance and driving
discovered they were Mario’s
on a suspended license. And
Vidalia Chavez for Metro Court Facebook page loans and not hers,” Gruber said.
in several cases, judges had to
Vidalia Chavez, a candidate for Metro Court, leads her campaign contingent in the Mario Encinias could not be
issue warrants for Chavez’s
State Fair Parade last month.
reached for comment.
failure to appear in court or
pay the tickets, records show.
the 14 instances in which Chavez was
Dennis Domrzalski is an associate editor
Chavez eventually paid all fines in
ticketed came after her graduation
at ABQ Free Press. Reach him at
connection with all the tickets.
from law school, with three occurring
dennis@freeabq.com
In addition, Chavez and her exin 2013 and 2014.
husband, Mario Encinias, have been
Chavez didn’t respond to several
sued in state District Court for their
inquiries about her string of tickets.
alleged failure to repay more than
Her husband, Chad Gruber, also an
$36,000 in student loans.
attorney, said parking tickets weren’t
Chavez’s tickets include
parking on a sidewalk,
driving on a suspended
license, driving without
insurance, running a stop
sign and no vehicle
registration. In several
cases she failed to
appear in court
Chavez, 38, graduated from the
University of New Mexico’s School of
Law in 2006 and is a former member
of the Albuquerque Police Oversight
Commission.
“My dedication to the Law and to
the people of New Mexico is why I
am running for Metropolitan Court
Judge,” Chavez’s campaign website
says. “After years of work as an
attorney at the Metropolitan Court,
handling jury trials, bench trials,
hearings and years of working on the
Metropolitan Court Rules Committee,
I hope to bring my experience to the
position of Metropolitan Court Judge.”
Despite that dedication, eight of
that big of a deal.
“Ms. Chavez is a very well-qualified
candidate. She is in the middle of a
very busy campaign and I would think
that a number of parking tickets is not
a very pressing matter,” Gruber said.
Chavez’s opponent, Metro Court
Judge Peg Holguin, former executive
director of the New Mexico Judicial
Standards Commission, was ticketed
on Jan. 27, 2006, for not having proof of
insurance, Metro Court records show.
‘Ms. Chavez is a very
well-qualified candidate.
She is in the middle of a
very busy campaign and I
would think that a number
of parking tickets is not a
very pressing matter’
– candidate’s husband
Holguin said she had no knowledge
of Chavez’s ticket history and
wouldn’t comment other than to say,
“That’s something the voters would
have to make a decision about.”
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NEWS
UNM ‘Sex Week’ Apology
Will New Police Board Be
More Effective than Old One? Raises Free Speech Doubts
BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI
A
lbuquerque’s new police oversight
agency has the potential to be as
toothless and ineffective as its discredited predecessor, the Police Oversight
Commission (POC).
It also has the opportunity to bring a
new and higher level of oversight to the
Albuquerque Police Department.
We won’t know what will happen until
early next year when the new Police
Oversight Board (POB) and the Civilian
Police Oversight Agency begin operating, but we can look at the new agency’s
structure and how it might do business.
First, the downside.
The POB and its staff will have the
authority to investigate civilian complaints against the police department,
make recommendations for disciplinary
action against cops, as well as recommend policy changes for APD. But no
one — not the mayor, not the police
chief and not individual police officers
— has to listen to or do what the board
recommends. It’s all voluntary, just as it
was under the POC.
That concerns activist Danny Hernandez, who says the oversight process
should be stronger.
“It’s kind of halfway between what
was going on and what those of us who
would like to see real reform would like.
It is still advisory and has no teeth,”
Hernandez said. “It can investigate
more than the previous one did, but
I would like to see an oversight committee that has the ability to subpoena,
investigate and indict, completely
separate from city government and
without city government having any
oversight over its decisions.”
The upside, according to City Council
President Ken Sanchez, is that the POB
will be somewhat isolated from political
influence from the mayor’s office and
the City Council. It also has a mandate
that the POC lacked.
“One of the things we recommended
was that 51 percent of their duties
would be to look at policies within the
APD,” Sanchez said. “Their focus will
no longer be to listen to cases but to set
new policies and directions, which is not
being done now.”
And while the POB is charged with
setting new policies for APD, the
department isn’t required to implement
those recommendations. Here’s a look
at some differences between the new
police oversight effort and what was
previously in place:
BY SABRINA AUTRY
The board selection process
Under the old system, each city
councilor appointed a member from his
or her district to the board. While that
ensured citywide representation on the
nine-member board, it left open the idea
that councilors could appoint friends
and favorites who basically would be
representing individual councilors and
not city residents.
Under the new process, the City Council
staff will screen applicants for the ninemember POB. Council staff will send a list
of up to 18 candidates to the council, which
then will choose the board members.
While the new selection process removes
some power from city councilors, it gives
lots more authority to the council staff.
Dedicated funding source
The old POC’s budget could change
from year to year, depending on the
desire to properly fund it. One way to
ensure that a police oversight system
doesn’t oversee anything is simply to
not fund it. Now, the POB and its staff
will have a dedicated funding source of
one half of 1 percent of APD’s operating
budget, which for the POB will amount
to about $750,000 a year. That makes it
immune from politics.
Policy role
The ordinance that created the POB
says that 51 percent of the agency’s
time and resources must be devoted to
examining APD policies and to making
recommendations to change them. The
former POC had no such authority. APD
brass won’t have to listen or act on those
policy recommendations, but it won’t be
able to silently ignore them.
“The chief of police shall respond
in writing within 45 days to any such
policy recommendations by the [Police
Oversight Board] and indicate whether
they will be followed through standard
operating procedures or should be
adopted as policy by the City Council,
or explain any reasons why such policy
recommendations will not be followed
or should not be adopted,” the ordinance creating the agency reads.
City Councilor Brad Winter said that
while the new oversight process isn’t
perfect, it’s far better than what had
been in place. “What we had before
did not work at all,” Winter said.
Dennis Domrzalski is an associate editor
at ABQ Free Press. Reach him at
dennis@freeabq.com
W
ithin a period of two days, UNM
defended Sex Week, then after coverage by the news media and pressure
from a conservative group, expressed
regret and issued a public apology.
The episode has students and organizers wondering about the future of free
speech at the university.
Sex Week was a voluntary event Sept.
29-Oct. 2 hosted by UNM’s Women
Resource Center at the Student Union
Building. Summer Little, director of
the WRC, was quoted on UNM’s news
site prior to the event as saying, “Sex
Week is part of the Women’s Resource
Center’s strategy to prevent sexual
violence from occurring on campus.”
On Oct. 1, the UNM administration
renounced support for the event. The
apology made headlines around the
United States.
Hunter Riley, a Sex Week coordinator
who works as a manager at Self-Serve
Sexuality, a Nob Hill sex accessories
shop, criticized the university for
apologizing and for calling topics of the
event “sensational and controversial.”
Riley has started a petition in support
of Sex Week that has garnered more
than 1,000 signatures.
“If you look at any Sex Week that has
happened at universities elsewhere, it is
really typical to see some sort of negative backlash, and that is how we know
it is important to have these conversations,” Riley said. “However, I was not
prepared for UNM’s administration to
apologize for it.”
The petition’s purpose is to give
students a way to support Sex Week
going forward and to show the UNM
administration that its apology did
a “disservice to survivors of sexual
assault” by undermining the teaching of
honest and vital sex education.
“By calling topics of normal adult
sexuality ‘sensational and controversial,’” UNM administrators and officials
promote fear, shame, and judgment,
the petition says. “The prevalence of
shame and silence has led directly to the
alarming frequency of sexual assault in
our society at large and New Mexico
especially,” it says.
Riley said most opposition to the
event came from people who didn’t
attend Sex Week. She noted that she
didn’t see any UNM administrators at
any of the workshops.
Sex Week was a four-day seminar
hosted by the Women’s Resource
Center that offered information about
consensual safe sex through a series
of seminars. Seminar titles included:
“How to be a Gentleman and Get Laid,”
“Sexy Mamas,” “I Heart Orgasms,” and
“O-Face Oral.”
Reid Mihalko, a relationship and sex
expert who has appeared on Oprah,
VH1 and CBS, spoke at the UNM
event. “It used to be where students
were encouraged to have controversial
discussions,” he said of the UNM
apology.
Official UNM policy does encourage
controversial discussions. UNM’s Business Policies and Procedures Manual
Policy 2220 states:
“The exchange of diverse viewpoints
may expose people to ideas some find
offensive, even abhorrent. The way that
ideas are expressed may cause discomfort to those who disagree with them.
The appropriate response to such speech
is speech expressing opposing ideas and
continued dialogue, not curtailment of
speech.”
On Sept. 29, in the “Inside UNM”
section of the university’s website, Mara
Kerkez, a UNM publicist, acknowledged: “The provocative nature of the
titles of the workshops has spurred a lot
of conversations about the appropriateness of sex education on campus.
“UNM’s policy on free speech
describes why a college campus is a correct venue for debate and controversial
topics,” Kerkez wrote.
But on Oct. 1, Eliseo “Cheo” Torres,
vice president of UNM student affairs,
wrote in the school’s official apology, “The initiative did not have clear
oversight or close enough supervision to
prevent the inclusion of topics that are
sensational and controversial.”
The UNM Students for Life group led
opposition to the event when it posted
a flier with the Sex Week event schedule
on Facebook with the caption, “We
cannot believe that UNM is hosting an
event like this! We have already sent
a letter to the Dean and the President
expressing our concern, and we encourage you to do the same.”
Katherine Schweizer, president of
Students for Life, attended the Sex Week
seminar titled, “O-Face Oral.” “I was
disappointed that they didn’t really
address how to prevent sexual assault,”
she said.
In response to UNM’s apology, UNM
student Shelby Page said, “I think that
the university should go into the next
year with pride and confidence and
understand that there are some students
that don’t see the positivity in the
event.”
Sabrina Autry is a Central New Mexico
Community College student and journalism intern at ABQ Free Press.
NEWS
Silvery Minnow is Rio Grande’s Canary in the Coal Mine
By Laura Paskus
E
ven if most people living in Albuquerque
backwaters, the tiny fish steers clear of the main
don’t make it to the banks of the Rio Grande
channel. As a fact sheet from the New Mexico
all that often – peering over the Montaño bridge
Department of Game and Fish points out, “the
while struck in traffic doesn’t quite count, nor
species does not need a large quantity of water
does walking your dog along the irrigation
but it does need continuous flow.”
ditches – the river’s role here is critical.
In recent years, however, not enough water has
Some of the city’s water comes from the Rio
been left in the river to ensure survival of the
Grande, via the Albuquerque Drinking Water
three-inch long fish. Each year, when the river
Project, which came online in 2008. The river also
dries, biologists survey the channel, seining
provides sustenance for fields and orchards and
puddles for minnows. The live ones are scooped
habitat for wildlife. It’s the reason humans have
out, dropped into makeshift tanks on the backs
lived in this valley for thousands of years.
of ATVs and trucked to a section of the river
According to an environmental history of the
that’s flowing.
Middle Rio Grande, the riparian cottonwood
So few minnows survive in the Middle Rio
forest – the bosque – along the river has existed
Grande today that biologists also collect eggs
here for about two million years.
in the spring for hatcheries and then stock the
It wasn’t surprising then, that when Mayor
young fish in the river each fall. Last fall, when
Richard Berry came out with his “Rio Grande
biologists sampled for minnows at 20 sites from
Vision” – a plan to boost recreational use of the
north of Bernalillo south to Elephant Butte they
bosque – response from the local chapter of the
found the species at only three sites.
Sierra Club and valley neighborhood associa This summer, things were a bit better: They
tions was swift: many people don’t want to see
found one or two minnows at about half the sites.
any development, commercial projects, paved
Despite its mandate to enforce the Endangered
trails or boat ramps. They worried the mayor’s
Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
plan didn’t protect wildlife or prevent nonlegally allows the Rio Grande to dry from the
native plants from continuing to overtake the
Pueblo of Isleta all the way to Elephant Butte
cottonwood groves.
Reservoir. Gensler points out that cooperative
Lively debate over the health of the bosque –
efforts among agencies prevented that sort of
and how to spend taxpayer money maintaining
drying from occurring this year.
it – is well and proper. But both sides left the
This spring, the minnow is doing better than
most pressing problem out of the discussion –
in 2012 or 2013. But Thomas Archdeacon, a fish
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
that is, that the Rio Grande itself is imperiled.
biologist with the New Mexico Fish and Wildlife
When biologists rescue endangered silvery minnows from the dry Rio Grande riverbed and
Legally, water managers must ensure the
Conservation Office, points out that its popularelocate them to other wet stretches of the river, other species – including carp, red shiners,
river flows year-round through Albuquerque.
tion is nowhere close to its pre-drought status.
mosquito fish, and catfish – are left to die.
But south of the city, the state’s largest river is
Last year, biologists stocked almost 300,000
miles of the river in southern New Mexico are
allowed to run dry during irrigation season,
silvery minnows in the river; this year, they’ll
sandy almost 9 months out of the year – if not for a
as the river’s waters are siphoned into the valley’s
stock another 271,000. Despite hopes for a decent
rare fish that’s been protected since 1994 under the
canals and ditches for farmers.
snowpack and spring runoff to boost the river’s
federal Endangered Species Act.
Summer rains helped keep the river wet this year,
flows, Archdeacon isn’t overly optimistic: “It’s a
Habitat for the Rio Grande Silvery Minnow used
said David Gensler, hydrologist with the Middle
pretty horrible situation out there,” he said.
to include about 3,000 miles of the Rio Grande and
Rio Grande Conservancy District. So, too, did the
Say what you will about the fish – that they don’t
its tributary, the Pecos River. Today, the minnow is
release of supplemental water by the U.S. Bureau of
matter, they’re not good eatin’– but their low numconfined in the Middle Rio Grande to a 173-mile
Reclamation from upstream reservoirs.
bers do say something about the health of the river.
stretch of river that’s divided by dams and diver And yet, more than 20 miles of the Rio Grande
And perhaps the three-inch-long fish even says
sions into three separate sections. (A few years ago,
south of Albuquerque still dried this season. Last
something about our own future in the valley.
the fish was also reintroduced in a stretch of the
year, about 30 miles dried. In 2012, it was more than
river in Big Bend National Park in Texas.)
50 miles.
Laura Paskus is an independent journalist who lives
Living in shallow eddies, oxbows, and silty
The drying wouldn’t be a big deal – some 200
in Albuquerque.
Ebola Fears, Page 5
Some advice: Be more sanitary than you’ve ever
been. Wash your hands. Keep a bottle of hand
sanitizer handy. Wipe down doorknobs and toilet
seats and anything else we typically touch. Of
course, avoid direct contact with an infected person
or animal; it’s their blood, bodily fluids, and tissue
transmission that infects.
An extreme option would be locking yourself
in your home so that you don’t come into contact
with anyone. Of course, that option could be a
lifesaver, but only if you’ve “prepped” sufficiently
to outlast the pandemic that sent you indoors in the
first place.
Jim Wagner is a freelance reporter who lives in
Albuquerque. Reach him at daddywagsediting.com
Here’s an update on Ebola from Steven Bradfute, an Ebola
vaccine researcher with UNM Department of Internal
Medicine and Center for Global Health:
W
hen people are infected with Ebola virus and
survive, they develop proteins that specifically
bind to and neutralize Ebola. These antibodies – as
well as T cells, which can kill virus-infected cells
– are what give the survivors immunity to future
infection. The antibodies are found in the blood, and
are present in plasma or serum isolated from the
blood of Ebola virus survivors.
In monkey studies, transfer of antibodies isolated
from the blood of animals that have survived infection is very effective in protecting other monkeys
infected with Ebola virus. This treatment is more efficient the sooner it is given, but has been remarkably
protective in most studies. So it’s an experimental yet
very promising approach to treating sick patients.
There are several vaccines that have been effective
in protecting monkeys from Ebola virus. Two of these
are now in early Phase I clinical trials in humans.
There has been some talk of using experimental
vaccines in populations that are at high risk for Ebola
infection, but it’s too early to tell if that will occur.
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Retention Report to Voters
Statewide
2nd Judicial District: Bernalillo County
(page 1)
Statewide
2nd Judicial District: Bernalillo County
(page 2)
The Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission makes
the following summary recommendations to voters:
Honorable Edward L. Chavez
New Mexico Supreme Court
100
Of those
surveyed,
87% of
attorneys,
97% of court staff, 100% of
appellate judges and 98% of
district judges recommended
retaining Justice Chavez.
80
60
87%
Honorable Christina P. Argyres
2nd Judicial District Court
0
Insufficent time in current
position to evaluate.
Honorable Shannon Bacon
60
81%
97% 92% 96%
40
20
0
Of those
surveyed, 80%
of attorneys
and 79% of
court staff recommended
retaining Judge Bacon.
Honorable Linda M. Vanzi
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Of those
surveyed,
79% of
attorneys,
retaining Judge Vanzi.
80
60
79%
92%
100% 93%
20
Of those
surveyed,
79% of attorneys,
39% of court
staff and 78% of resource staff
recommended retaining
Judge Barela-Shepherd .
Attorneys Court Appellate District
Staff Judges Judges
Honorable Jim Wechsler
New Mexico Court of Appeals
100
Of those
surveyed,
85% of
attorneys,
retaining JudgeWechsler.
80
60
85% 89%
40
20
0
79%
40
20
20
40
39%
20
0
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Staff Judges Judges
Of those
surveyed,
74% of attorneys
and 86% of
retaining Judge Campbell.
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71% 70%
74%
86%
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60
74%
40
20
80
92% 97%
40%
20
60
40
80
60
80
60
40
20
0
72%
80% 75%
20
0
Attorneys Court Resource
Staff
Staff
Honorable Elizabeth Whitefield
65%
Of those surveyed,
88% of attorneys,
96% of court staff
and 80% of
resource staff recommended
retaining Judge Romero.
Attorneys Court
Staff
Of those surveyed,
90% of attorneys and
91% of court staff
recommended
retaining Judge Whitefield.
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60
80
90%
91%
60
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20
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88% 96% 80%
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Attorneys Court
Staff
92% 98%
60
Attorneys Court
Staff
Honorable John J. Romero, Jr.
100
97%
80
100
Honorable Gerard J. Lavelle
Of those surveyed,
98% of court staff
recommended
retaining Judge Lavelle.
40
0
Of those surveyed,
80% of attorneys,
75% of court staff
and 65% of
retaining Judge Parnall.
Attorneys Court
Staff
100
Of those surveyed,
72% of attorneys,
97% of court staff
and 81% of
retaining Judge Whitaker.
Honorable William E. Parnall
0
Attorneys Court
Staff
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a judge has served at least two years in
the current position or has sufficient data
to achieve a statistically valid sample. Judge Chavez has
served on the Second Judicial Court since January 2013.
40
0
100%
60
Attorneys Court
Staff
Honorable Valerie A. Huling
Of those surveyed,
97% of court staff
recommended
retaining Judge Huling.
88%
80
Of those surveyed,
100% of court staff
recommended
retaining Judge Nash.
88%
Honorable Stan Whitaker
100
84%
78%
60
Attorneys Court
Staff
Honorable Nan G. Nash
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have contact with each judge to make our recommendations to voters. We rely on personal interviews with each justice or
judge standing for retention along with select courtroom observations.
Of those surveyed,
84% of court staff
recommended
retaining Judge Hadfield.
20
Honorable Benjamin Chavez
2nd Judicial Distrcit Court
80
20
0
Staff
Staff
100
Attorneys Court
Staff
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Of those surveyed,
88% of court staff
recommended
retaining Judge Walker.
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86%
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61%
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100
60
100
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71%
100
80
Of those surveyed,
88% of court staff
recommended
retaining Judge Malott.
Honorable Alisa Ann Hadfield
Honorable Clay Pace Campbell
100
Of those
surveyed, 71%
of attorneys
and 70% of court
staff recommended retaining
Judge Brickhouse.
Of those
surveyed, 75%
of attorneys
and 86% of
retaining Judge Butkus.
60
Honorable Deborah Davis Walker
100
80
0
Staff
Staff
Attorneys Court
Staff
Honorable Beatrice J. Brickhouse
100% 96%
40
80
Honorable Denise Barela-Shepherd
40
0
80%
60
0
68%
60
Of those surveyed,
61% of attorneys,
71% of court staff
and 47% of
retaining Judge Flores.
84% 81%
100
80
Staff Judges Judges
100
100
Honorable Carl J. Butkus
100
Honorable Alan M. Malott
Honorable Jacquline Dolores Flores
80
0
100
Of those
surveyed,
81% of
attorneys,
retaining Judge Fry.
Of those
surveyed,
68% of
attorneys,
84% of court staff and 81% of
retaining Judge Brown.
Staff Judges Judges
Honorable Cynthia A. Fry
New Mexico Supreme Court
80
Honorable Charles W. Brown
the current position or has sufficient data to achieve a
statistically valid sample. Judge Argyres has served on the
Second Judicial Court since January 2013.
20
The Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission makes
the following summary recommendations to voters:
100
97% 100% 98%
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Attorneys Court
Staff
Honorable Briana H. Zamora
the current position or has sufficient data
to achieve a statistically valid sample. Judge Zamora has
served on the Second Judicial Court since January 2013.
Staff
Staff
ABOUT JPEC AND OUR REPORT TO VOTERS
www.nmjpec.org
1-800-687-3417
The New Mexico Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission (JPEC) is a nonpartisan commission that surveys groups
that have contact with each judge to make our recommendations to voters. We rely on personal interviews with each
justice or judge standing for retention along with select courtroom observations.
DON’T VOTE WITHOUT THE INFORMATION YOU NEED
www.nmjpec.org
1-800-687-3417
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Come on, Libs, Give Susana
Her Due on Taxes, Education
BY JEFFRY GARDNER
The Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission makes the
following summary recommendations to voters:
Honorable Henry A. Alaniz
Metropolitan Court
Honorable Kevin L. Fitzwater
Metropolitan Court
100
Of those
surveyed,
84% of attorneys,
90% of court
staff and 73% of resource
Judge Alaniz.
100
84% 90%
80
60
73%
40
20
0
Honorable Rosie Lazcano Allred
Metropolitan Court
100
86%
80
Of those
surveyed,
86% of attorneys
and 97% of
retaining Judge Allred.
97%
40
20
100
82% 84% 76%
80
60
40
20
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60
40
20
60
Staff
Staff
92%
80
60
40
63%
80
60
79%
Staff
Staff
84%
94%
83%
40
20
0
76%
80% 87%
Of those
surveyed,
61% of attorneys,
89% of court
Judge Rogers.
Staff
Staff
40
20
0
Staff
Staff
90%
73%
81% 81%
80
Of those surveyed,
40% of attorneys,
60
81% of court
staff and 81%
40
of resource staff recommended
retaining Judge Walton. Under JPEC
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rules, eight members must agree in
order to make a recommendation of 0
either Retain or Do Not Retain. Eight
Staff
Staff
members did not agree on either
recommendation; therefore, the JPEC
makes no recommendation as to Judge Walton.
ABOUT JPEC AND OUR REPORT TO
VOTERS
The New Mexico Judicial Performance Evaluation
Commission (JPEC) is a nonpartisan commission that
surveys groups that have contact with each judge to
make our recommendations to voters. We rely on
personal interviews with each justice or judge
standing for retention along with select courtroom
observations.
89%
80
60
40
64%
61%
20
0
89% 84%
Staff
Staff
90%
20
Staff
Staff
80
Of those
surveyed,
86% of attorneys
and 73% of court
Judge Sedillo.
89%
40%
100
Of those
surveyed,
84% of attorneys,
94% of court
Judge Ramczyk.
60
100
20
0
80
Honorable Sharon D. Walton
Metropolitan Court
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100
40
0
0
Honorable Frank A. Sedillo
Metropolitan Court
100
Of those
surveyed,
76% of attorneys,
89% of court
Judge Engel.
20
Honorable Daniel E. Ramczyk
Metropolitan Court
Staff
Staff
Honorable Sandra Engel
Metropolitan Court
80
40
Of those
surveyed,
80% of attorneys,
87% of court
Judge Valdez.
100
84% 90% 78%
80
94% 91%
100
Honorable Linda S. Rogers
Metropolitan Court
100
0
Of those
surveyed,
63% of attorneys,
92% of court
Judge Gonzales.
Staff
Staff
Honorable Maria I. Dominguez
Metropolitan Court
Of those
surveyed,
84% of attorneys,
90% of court
Judge Dominguez.
60
81%
100
Attorneys Court
Staff
Honorable Edward L. Benavidez
Metropolitan Court
Of those
surveyed,
82% of attorneys,
84% of court
Judge Benavidez.
80
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Honorable Victor E. Valdez
Metropolitan Court
Honorable Yvette K. Gonzales
Metropolitan Court
60
0
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Of those
surveyed,
81% of attorneys,
94% of court
Judge Fitzwater.
Staff
Staff
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86%
73%
1-800-687-3417
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20
0
Attorneys Court
Staff
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INFORMATION YOU NEED
friend’s biggest
complaint with
Susana Martinez is
“she really hasn’t
done anything.”
That’s not entirely
accurate. It’s just
that what she has
done hasn’t come
with a shiny new train attached to it,
or a big Star Wars-looking creation in
the desert.
One thing she truly hasn’t done – left
state taxpayers holding the bag trying
to pay for the shiny train or Richard
Branson’s playpen.
Forgotten over the last four years
were the 500 million pieces of misery
Bill Richardson left as his legacy. $500
million in red ink. Debt.
And, and, to put us $500 mil in the
hole, Richardson had to blow through
the $1 billion surplus his predecessor,
Gary Johnson, left behind.
So when considering the merits of giving Susana Martinez another four years
as governor, perhaps we should heed
the words of billionaire Mark Cuban: “I
vote for the candidate who I think will do
the least.”
Perhaps it doesn’t seem like much to
some, but pulling the state out of debt
has to count for something. Martinez
pulled it off. Doing it with a Democratrun legislature makes it even more
noteworthy.
In 2013, Martinez and same-said
Democrat-controlled legislature came
to terms on a tax package that included
a reduction in the state’s corporate tax
rate. That made the state a tad more
competitive with our neighbors (though
Texas has ZERO corporate tax and,
to be fair, it also has a minimal profitsbased franchise tax).
Will this corporate tax thing make a
difference in New Mexico? Well, it made
no difference during the attempt to
woo Tesla. One expects, however, that
whatever the state offered the carmaker
came with enough ribbons and bows to
make the corporate tax negligible.
But cutting the state’s corporate tax
should help small businesses, and, perhaps that will help create jobs. Martinez
has been knocked by King for the state’s
poor job growth. It may be that King is
unfamiliar with the disastrous economic
policies – in the broadest sense of the
term – fashioned by Barack Obama.
Nearly seven years into Obama’s tenure
and Democrats are still blaming Bush for
their failings.
More than 55 million able-bodied
Americans are out of work. And while
the unemployment figure has curiously
dipped below 6 percent just in time for
the elections, it’s worth noting that a
good part of this “decline” is from people
simply giving up.
King has also attacked Martinez
on education, with a TV ad that says
in the vaguest way possible – typical
of campaign ads – that New Mexico
students have “some of the lowest test
scores in the nation.” I’ll bet they do.
Probably some of the highest, as well.
Martinez touts higher graduation
rates, particularly among minorities, as
a feather in her cap. New Mexico high
schools have a 70 percent graduation
rate in 2012-2013, up from 63 percent
the year prior.
Improvement, yes, but far from stellar,
of course. Professional education
associations –which see dollar signs in
everything – claims, yawn, that Martinez’
“cuts” in education funding have damaged our schools. But New Mexico’s
per student average of $11,073 is just
a touch above the national average of
$10,938.
At the low end of the scale is Utah at
$7,852, yet it graduates 81 percent of
its students. The District of Columbia
spends nearly $30,000 – yes, $30,000
– per head and graduates about 60
percent of its students.
At the end of the day, the education
unions’ mantra has been and always
will be, “Mo’ money, mo’ money, mo’
money.” It’s like an old Wayans Brothers
routine. And along with the bottomless
promise that more money will yield
better results comes the caveat – “And
please don’t hold us accountable.”
Martinez has butted heads with state
teachers unions. But what if she hadn’t?
What if she’d just rolled over and gave
the unions all they wanted? Do you think
for one minute they would not side with
the Democrat nominee, no matter who it
was? That, sadly, is a rhetorical question.
Ultimately, the governor’s doing a
fine job. She’s not going to win the
praise of the usual suspects; in fact, one
expects more Mother Jones-like attacks
over the next two years leading up to
the presidential election. Martinez is a
Hispanic female Republican, and that
has her in the national spotlight. The first
female Hispanic governor in the country
is – a Republican. That’s like fingernails
on a blackboard to liberals.
Jeffry Gardner is a Republican
political consultant.
CALLING ALL PETS
Toby the cat lounges on a bed, says Jose Lopez, who brought Toby, a
one-and-a-half-year-old male, to Albuquerque from Kansas City recently.
“He’s actually pretty active and doesn’t lie around sleeping all day,” Jose says.
Send it to
petphotos@freeabq.com
Include your name, phone number, and your pet’s name,
and we’ll try to reserve their spot in the pet parade.
NEWS
PLAME INTERVIEW, Page 7
else – a female CIA operative who
tracks nuclear arms dealers across the
globe. Her first novel, “Blowback”
came out last year and the second,
titled “Burned,” is hitting bookstores
now.
Over a number of difficult years,
hounded by a press sometimes
welcomed, sometimes not, Plame
developed a media aplomb that,
together with her startling good looks,
has made her a popular interview
subject on topics as diverse as
post-partum depression and the role
of the American people in holding
their leaders and their government
accountable.
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‘Our state is so wonderful but we need so many
things and my deepest
disappointment with our
current governor is her
lack of action on anything
that’s truly meaningful’
Which includes the leaders and
the government of the state she now
proudly calls home.
While Plame has an edit button –
and based on her former career skills,
one suspects she has the ability to
redirect a conversation should she
choose to – she is disarmingly direct
even when she fully realizes she’s going to whip up some nasty dust with
a particular response or a question of
her own.
Adjusting to New Mexico
Plame admits that while she and
her family are truly committed to their
adopted home in New Mexico, there
were a few culture shocks. A biggie
for her, having two children, was the
education system.
“The biggest shock, for Santa Fe
being such a caring and progressive
community in so many ways, is
that the education we provide our
children is so substandard. When you
step back and look at this picture it’s
nothing short of depressing. I like
[Santa Fe Public Schools Supt.] Joe
Boyd, I think he’s making progress,
but there’s a deep-seated culture of
the whole education system being
run as a jobs program for the adults
as opposed to actually attempting to
educate the children,” she says.
The other big culture shock? The
state’s drunken driving problem.
“How can we pick up the paper so
often and see stories about people
being arrested for their sixth, seventh,
eighth DWI violation? Are you kidding
me?!
“Our state is so wonderful but
we need so many things and my
deepest disappointment with our
current governor is her lack of action
on anything that’s truly meaningful.
I believe that government can be a
force, the force, for social good. What
I see in the current administration is
New Mexico’s very own Sarah Palin.
She’s attractive, she’s Latina, she has a
great back story of being a tough DA.
“I’m a newcomer but what I’ve
gathered is that (New Mexico) is
not an intensely partisan state. It’s
very western, very practical-minded,
very problem-solving except that
under this administration we’ve
demonstrated, well, absolutely
nothing! And how we handled our
behavioral health issue is immoral.
Absolutely immoral. No one likes the
idea of Medicare fraud but how we
proceeded was to shut down clinics
and leave New Mexicans in desperate
need. How dare they!”
What Needs to Be Done
With the Nov. 4 election nearing,
Plame bursts out laughing when
asked if she wants to place any bets on
an outcome.
“It always surprises me when
people have different opinions than I
do,” she jokes. “Isn’t that the way of
the world?!? Gary King is a man of
integrity but – and I think he would
agree with me on this – isn’t a strong
candidate this time around. It’s
unfortunate because we, most likely,
have four more years of a do-nothing
administration.”
What does she want to see changed?
‘Gary King is a man of
integrity but – and I think
he would agree with me
on this – isn’t a strong
candidate this time
around. It’s unfortunate
because we, most likely,
have four more years of a
do-nothing administration’
“Off the top of my head? Look into
using the Permanent Land Grant
Fund to fund pre-K (pre-kindergarten)
but do it prudently. Exactly what
rainy day fund are we waiting for to
use that $15 to $20 million dollars for
our kids? You know, every politician
says ‘children are our future’ but,
well, that includes educating them!
cont. on page 17
NEWS
PLAME INTERVIEW, Page 16
“I’d like to see us tackle (drunk
driving) and the state has to, of course,
tackle the creation of jobs. I wasn’t
happy with the corporate tax cut
passed by the Legislature last year but
then … it goes back to education again!
If you have good education then
people will stay here. We want people
to stay here – not leave – and create
lives here. There are so many people,
very talented people, who might want
to come work here in New Mexico but
then they hear about the schools and
say ‘yeah, not so much.’”
‘There are so many
people, very talented
people, who might want
to come work here in
New Mexico but then
they hear about the
schools and say
‘yeah, not so much’’
Plame is passionate about ending
nuclear proliferation and is a primary
speaker for Global Zero, the non-profit
organization that advocates eliminating, globally, all nuclear weapons by
2030. She readily admits that the irony
of living miles away from Los Alamos
and in the state that was home to The
Manhattan Project isn’t lost on her.
Neither, she jokes, is the irony that
Karl Rove and the Koch brothers are
frequent visitors to Santa Fe.
“I mean, I get it. They’re here in
support of the current administration.
The outside money coming in, in
support of the administration, is just
an example of how flimsy it really is.
If you have to rely on that amount of
outside money and political support
as opposed to your people – the
people of New Mexico – doesn’t that
tell you something?”
A Future in Politics?
Plame acknowledges the rumor
mill that had Joe being approached
about running for Governor in 2014
on a Democrat ticket against Martinez
– “true,” she says – but laughs when
asked if, together with her growing
profile in the media and media savviness, politics is a course of action that
might be next up for her.
“You know, never say never. I’m not
going to say it will never, ever, happen
but I think it’s more likely for Joe.
He’s not your typical diplomat but the
way his mind works on foreign policy
and politics is really astonishing. He’s
politically very astute and grasps
politics better than I do.
“And I so don’t think of myself as
media savvy! When the leak of my
name happened in 2003 I really felt
like a deer in the headlights ... like I’d
fallen down Alice’s rabbit hole. I was
still working for the CIA, and so of
course I couldn’t even respond. Joe
had to carry the water for both of us.”
Thank goodness, Plame says, Joe
knows how to carry water pretty well.
“Joe is smart. He’s belligerent
(laughs) when need be, but it all fell on
him for some time. But when my book
(“Fair Game”) came out in 2007, well,
there’s nothing like learning to swim
after being dumped into the deep end
of the pool! My first interview was live
on “Good Morning America” and ...
you learn. You have to.”
New Mexico resident and former NPR/
BBC correspondent Betsy Model has
written and produced for more than 40
international outlets including Forbes,
Marketwatch, Playboy, Details, Biography
and the International Herald Tribune.
Antiques Roadshow Spoiler Alert
B
ack in July, Antiques Roadshow
came to Albuquerque. More than
5,000 people assembled downtown at
the Albuquerque Convention Center to
have their treasured items assessed.
Some of them made it onto one of the
three Albuquerque episodes, which will
be aired next fall.
For a preview of the 2015 season, go
to: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/
video/promo_season_19.html
The new season starts at 7 p.m. on
Monday, Jan. 5, on Ch.5.1, New Mexico
PBS. Watch for updates in ABQ Free
Press.
In the meantime, here’s a preview of a
few high-priced appraisals to be shown
on the local episodes, according to
KNME-TV/New Mexico PBS:
Jane Peterson oil painting, bought for
$150, appraised by Debra Force for
$300,000 at retail.
Chinese Snuff Bottles, appraised by
James Callahan for $50,400 to $60,400
at auction; just one of them is worth the
bulk of that amount.
Sonic Blue Fender Stratocaster,
owned by a guitar player for 52 years,
appraised by Richard Johnston for
$45,000 at auction.
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To arrange for your visit, please call
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which is where we developed that synergistic telepathy.
The Duo evolved to a point where we were putting more
structure around the improvisations, writing “songs,” if
you will. Still, we weren’t actively seeking or auditioning a
bass player. Over the years, we had invited other bass players in before, but none of them quite jelled. So we weren’t
committed to bringing anyone in.
But along comes Chris. She met Jefferson on a pickup gig;
he was intrigued. He calls me and says, “There’s an interesting
bass player. … Let’s invite her to do a session, just for fun.”
She blew me out the first note, literally. She plays with
such depth and conviction – and keep in mind, she’d never
heard us, never played that improvisationally before, but
she was perfect. PERFECT.
I looked at him after she left that first night and said,
“This changes everything. Everything we’ve done for 10
years was just in prep for this.”
Q: You’ve described your music as a hybridizing of Led
Zeppelin, Miles Davis, Johnny Cash, Isaac Hayes, Tagore
and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. I hear John McLaughlin’s
Mahavishnu Orchestra in there too. Could you talk about
the South Asian and Middle Eastern influences, including
your performance on fretless guitar and oud?
Q: Pray for Brain’s CD “None of the Above” (7D Media)
is an excellent representation of the band’s fervent,
complex sound. Can you talk about the band’s composing
process? How much of the music is improvised, and how
much is “through-composed?”
A: There’s only one piece in the repertoire that’s entirely
through-composed, and it didn’t make it on the CD. We’ll see
where that goes. I have to have some improvisation in what
we do, that telepathy, that dialogue. It’s a crucial element;
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Q: I immediately noticed the close interplay between you
and drummer Jefferson Voorhees at the Roost concert.
How did Pray for Brain come together with the addition
of bassist Christine Nelson?
A: It is quite a mash-up, isn’t it? I was attracted to Indian
music when I was young, delved into it, played sarod for
many years with Sama Duo, till my tinnitus got the better
of it and made it untenable. That’s when I migrated to
fretless guitar. Oud has been in my life since 2001 or so. I
feel quite connected to it as well.
I grew up in a fairly cross-cultural environment – Mexican mother with Lebanese-Syrian family ties on that end,
[a] childhood in France, which exposed me to some Middle
Eastern and gypsy flamenco environments. But on the
other hand, I was a rock ‘n’ roll kid, too. Got into jazz and
fusion, later went deep for free jazz in my college days;
that informed the work as well. It all seems to be integrating now, these past few years, in what’s hopefully a very
organic and honest process.
There’s a certain perspective with age. I’m 51. At a certain
point, you stop trying and start simply being, start allowing
yourself to be, rather than working at being something or
idea or concept of who you are or an agenda or ideology you
want to embody. You let go and give yourself permission. I’m not trying to be an Indian classical musician or force a
world-music agenda, because Amjad Ali Khan is just as much
a part of me as Jimmy Page or Cecil or Miles. To deny any part
of what shaped me is to be inauthentic to who I am, so I just
play how I hear and feel it, and it all comes out in the wash.
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that’s where music lives and magic happens, for me.
Composing varies. ... Sometimes we’ll just be improvising,
and something happens, and we latch on to it and build a
structure around that. Sometimes someone will bring in a
line or rhythm or just a feel, and we develop it together. It’s a
very collaborative process, which is a joy to work in.
Q: Pray for Brain’s Outpost concert Saturday, Nov. 8, at
7:30 p.m., is a send-off of sorts before your December tour
of India. How did that concert tour happen?
A: Somehow what we do goes over very well in India. We
have 10,000 Facebook followers, and about 90% of that base
is in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and the Middle East. Not
many in the U.S. So a fellow who organizes things in India
friended us on Facebook, and the conversations to bring us
over started there. We’re looking forward to going.
Jefferson and I scored an independent art film from India
in 2006, a very cool project. I met a lot of people in Kolkata
on that trip, so we’ll end the tour there.
Q: What are the group’s plans and dreams for 2015?
A: Work, work, work! I’m already in the process of setting
up European dates for the spring. We may be back in India
in March. We have to keep the machine turning, and I want
to work hard at keeping as busy as we can. I believe music
is about activating hearts – that’s our job – so the mission is
to activate as many hearts as possible, bring the love out.
Richard Oyama is a poet and novelist.
his production is the
relationship with every
American premiere
other character in the
of “Hamlet (Amleto).”
play, for that matter)
Over the past 10 years,
has been analyzed
OSW’s Music Director
more than Hamlet
Anthony Barrese
himself!”
recreated the score
From Scenic Designer
of Franco Faccio’s
Carey Wong: “David
masterpiece, not
Bartholomew wanted a
performed since 1871.
scenic environment for
Barrese will conduct.
“Amleto” that could
The plot is faithful to
appear to be spacious
Shakespeare’s play.
with a few people on
From Stage Director
stage, but also someDavid Bartholomew:
what claustrophobic
“It is a thrill to be
and smothering when
Dennis Chamberlain
working with such
larger groups apAlex Richardson sings the role of
a fine group of singpeared. … To that end,
Hamlet in “Amleto.”
ers. ‘Amleto’ is the
the scenic design for
biggest challenge that
the opera consists of
Oct. 26 – Nov. 2
OSW has ever faced.
a two-level, semicircular
As you know, there
cast iron structure that
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are critics coming from
sits atop a floor on
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around the globe to see
which a marble pattern
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this opera that Anthony
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rose and details of an
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and we certainly
old map are painted. …
p.m.; Friday, October
want to make a strong
31, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday,
Hamlet attempts to find
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impression.
out the truth in order to
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Music Briefs
BY Sabrina AUTRY
How Deep Is Your
Love for the ‘70s?
Escort awakens the flickering disco
ball inside us. Based out of New
York, they are the reincarnated sassy
version of the Bee Gees with a fusion
of modern pop that’s so perfectly
arranged, you’re going to want to get
out those dusty dancing shoes.
Capturing the feel-good funk of the
‘70s, paired with a flawless ensemble
of trumpets, strings, keys, bass and
the sax, their new single, “If You Say
So,” has hit the ground running.
Eugene Cho and Dan Balis met in
college and founded the band in 2006.
It gained notoriety when they released
“Starlight” and “All Through the
Night,” upbeat expressions complimented by synths and a tasteful
lineup of horns and strings.
The band was featured in Rolling
Stone’s 50 Best Albums of 2012 and
gained a huge following because of
its unblemished live performances.
At these shows, they can have up
to 12 seasoned band members on
stage. With lead vocalist Adeline
Michèle leading the pack, things are
hot, dancing is infectious, and you’ll
find yourself seriously considering a
feathered look.
Having grown up with KC and the
Sunshine Band, Earth Wind and Fire,
and Stevie Nicks, I’d be the first to
chew up and spit out any band that
fails to duplicate that ‘70s essence. Yet
I find myself scrambling to describe
the sensation of this unique blend of
eras. There’s nothing quite like it.
In Crowd at
Sunshine
We Are The In Crowd’s
new hit single, “Manners,”
has been featured on iTunes
“Single of the Week.”
Led by vocalist Taylor
Jardine, the band has quickly
gained popularity since the
release of its 2010 debut EP, “Guaranteed To Disagree.” The band just
released its new album, “Weird Kids,”
placing 29 on The Billboard 200 Chart.
With Jardine and Jordan Eckes singing verses, Robert Chianelli impressively banging the drums, and Mike
Ferri and Cameron Hurley icing over
with the bass and electric guitar, this
band has found the formula for epic
sound. They have developed a unique
style by incorporating hard-hitting
On the Air
Watch our arts segment on The
Morning Brew with Larry Ahrens,
Tuesday mornings at 7:32 on
Public Access Channel 27 and later
on YouTube.
Clan Tynker Renaissance Fair performers and
Amanda Crocker from El Rancho de las Golondrinas.
lyrics with heavy rock, and they have
an incredible repertoire of hit after hit.
It’s no surprise they’ve been asked
to tour with Mayday Parade or to
perform at major music festivals such
as Leeds and Warped Tour.
Halfway through their worldwide
tour, the band’s going to be at the
Sunshine Theater on Oct. 30 with New
Found Glory and Fireworks.
Sabrina Autry is an editorial intern for
ABQ Free Press.
THEATER
Wishes Lead to Macabre Twists of Fate Theater Briefs
M
usical Theatre
Southwest is
staging the 1993 Tony
Award-winning Best
Musical “Kiss of the
Spider Woman” at its
Center for Theatre
under the direction of
Eric Trujillo Bill Potenziani. This
unusual musical, set in
a Latin American prison, has a book by Terrence McNally
based on the novel by Argentine Manuel Puig.
Music and lyrics are by Kander and Ebb. Through Nov. 2. MTS
Center for Theatre, 6320 Domingo Road NE, Suite B. Friday and
Saturday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 4 p.m. Tickets: $20-22. Box office:
265-9119 (musicaltheatresw.com).
T
he original ’50s rock ’n’ roll musical, “Grease,” had
a record-breaking Broadway run in the 1970s.
Henry Avery is directing a young, energetic cast on
the Albuquerque Little Theatre stage. Shelly Andes is
musical director, and the choreography is by Edye and
Erin Allen. Enough said.
Through Nov. 2. Albuquerque Little Theatre, 224 San
Pasquale SW. Thursday, Oct. 23, Friday, Oct. 24, and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, Nov. 1 and Sundays at 2 p.m.
Tickets: $12-24. Box office: 242-4750
(albuquerquelittletheatre.org).
Photo courtesy of UNM Department of Theatre and Dance.
BY Barry Gaines
E
very year, some Albuquerque theaters join in the
“I have been to Fulham a couple of times so I
terror-fest surrounding Halloween. I wonder,
can help everyone with background knowledge,”
however, what it will take to frighten an audience
Earle says. She also is able to give her fellow actors
accustomed to daily threats from Ebola, ISIS, global
“insight on what certain English words mean” and
warming, hurricanes, school shootings and midis looking forward to being “the only British person
term elections.
in a British play.”
SCRAP Productions, a UNM student organization
“The Monkey’s Paw” has become an iconic
that works in association with the Department of
demonstration of the maxim “Be careful of what
Theatre and Dance to create all-student theater, is
you wish for.” This tale has been filmed at least five
trying a different approach. SCRAP
times (the latest, last year) and has
is staging “The Monkey’s Paw,” a
been adapted by such TV programs
1902 short story by W. W. Jacobs
as “The Twilight Zone,” “Tales from
OCT. 24 – NOV. 2
dramatized by Louis N. Parker the
the Crypt,” “Are You Afraid of the
THE MONKEY’S PAW
following year.
Dark?,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,”
SCRAP Productions at the
Director Caedmon Holland
and a Halloween episode of “The
UNM Experimental Theater,
explains: “In a modern world filled
Simpsons.” An operatic version
Center for the Arts, lower level ,
with movies and stories of serial
premiered in 2011.
UNM Campus
Oct. 24, 25, 30, 31, Nov. 1 at
killers, monsters, etc., that create
You can see what all the fuss is
7:30 and 9 p.m.; and Oct. 26,
bloodbaths and have body counts
about by attending “The Monkey’s
Nov. 2 at 2 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
of victims, it was refreshing to see
Paw” in the intimate setting of
Tickets: $10, $7 seniors, UNM
a horror story breaking the modern
UNM’s Experimental Theater.
faculty, staff, students;
conventions of horror and still
“Creating an uncomfortable mood
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remaining a horror story.”
and a heavy atmosphere mixed in
“The Monkey’s Paw” is a simple
with very creepy visuals and sounds
story of a rural English family, Mr. and Mrs. White
may not have an audience member jumping from
and their son, Herbert, whose contact with the
their seat but it will have the audience avoiding dark
supernatural unexpectedly costs them dearly.
alleys and feeling chills up their spines when they
The director is fortunate to have found Sophie
leave the theater,” promises director Holland.
Louise Earle to play Mrs. White. Earle is a visiting
student from the small town of Virginia Water,
Barry Gaines has covered Albuquerque theater for the past
outside of London.
13 years. He is a professor emeritus at UNM and adminisThe play is set in Fulham, in southwest London a
trator of the American Theater Critics Association.
half hour away.
M
asterful director
James Cady is
staging a production
of “The Member
of the Wedding,”
Carson McCuller’s
1950 dramatization
of her 1946 novel.
The play illuminates
the juncture of childhood and adolescence against the
intersection of the lives of Blacks and Whites in the
American South.
Adobe Theater, 9813 4th St. NW, Oct. 24 through Nov. 16,
Fridays and Saturdays 7:30 p.m., Sundays 2 p.m. Tickets:
$13-15. Box office: 898-9222 (adobetheater.org).
E
dmond Rostand’s 1897
French classic “Cyrano
de Bergerac” is being
presented by Mother Road
Theatre Company in a
new, small-cast adaptation
and translation by Michael
Hollinger and Aaron Posner. This is the immortal
story of Cyrano—swordsman and poet, soldier and
would-be lover, with an enormous nose and even bigger
heart—who helps a younger, more handsome suitor
court his own beloved.
While I have not yet seen this adaptation, the play is
almost perfect in its construction and is among my very
favorites.
Tricklock Performance Lab, 110 Gold Ave. SW, Oct. 24
through Nov. 9, Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m.,
Sundays at 2 p. m. Tickets: $20-22. Box office: 243-0596 or
reservations@motherroad.org
— Barry Gaines
EVENTS
CALENDAr
CASINOS
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH
Santa Ana Star Center,
3001 Civic Center Cir NE, Rio Rancho,
Touring with Volbeat, Hellyeah and
Nothing More.
6:10 pm, $40-45, 891-7300,
santaanastarcenter.com
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24
JAY LENO: THE HOUSE JACKS
Route 66 Casino Hotel, Legends Theater,
14500 Central Ave SW
The man just can’t stop working and that’s
OK with the audience.
8 pm, $42-95, rt66casino.com
CLUBS & PUBS
OCTOBER 22-NOVEMBER 30
BLACKBIRD BUVETTE
509 Central Ave SW, 243-0878,
blackbirdbuvette.com
Never a cover; no minimum.
October 22, 7 pm, Open Mic Night with
Felix Peralta
October 23, 10 pm, Fractal Frequencies w/
Kate Star Cherry
October 24, 6 pm, Low Life Happy Hour w/
DJ Caterwaul
October 24, 10 pm, “Leftover Soul” w/
DJ Leftovers, Vinyl Only Rare Groove &
Soul Dance Party
October 25, 7 pm, Billy Crooze and
The Dinglehoppers
October 25, 10 pm, _Hash¡sh¡n _Soundclash:
Left_Handed_Electrønics 1.0 featuring: Dj Imeh
El Yonquero Hosomi no otoko VHS TEA
October 26, 7 pm, Sexy Sunday featuring
Wae Fonkey
October 27, 9 pm, Whiskey Business Karaoke!
at The Blackbird - Happy Hour All Night!
October 28, 10 pm, Try vs. Try – Bi-weekly
Open Mic
October 29, 7 pm, Open Mic Night with
Felix Peralta
October 30, 9:30 pm, Hello Dollface (Colo. soul)
October 31, 7 pm, Quietly Kept
October 31, 10 pm, Planet Rock – Funky
Dance Party
November 1, 7 pm, Russell Turek Classical
Guitar...Electrified
November 1, 10 pm, The Goldsteins (cabaret)
November 2, 6 pm, Stephanie Wilson
Art Opening
November 3, 9 pm, Whiskey Business Karaoke!
at The Blackbird – Happy Hour All Night!
November 4, 10 pm, Groove the Dig w/
Old School John
November 5, 7 pm, Poetry ‘n Beer Open Mic
Poetry Slam
November 6, 10 pm, KGB Club
November 7, 10 pm, Zealous Grooves CD
Release + guests
November 8, 10 pm, Live, Local Music
Showcase
November 9, 7 pm, The Weeksend w/
Wae Fonkey & guests
November 10, 9 pm, Whiskey Business
Karaoke! at The Blackbird – Happy Hour
All Night!
November 11, 10 pm, Try vs. Try – Bi-weekly
Open Mic
November 12, 7 pm, Open Mic Night with
Felix Peralta
November 14, 6 pm, Happy Hour with
Carlos The Tall
November 15, 6 pm, “It Wasn’t Me” hosted by
Jim Phillips, A Music Showcase
November 16, 8 pm, 10 Drink Minimum Podcast
w/ Chris Burnett, Bill Bellmont & guests
All Night!
November 18, 10 pm, Groove the Dig w/
Old School John
Felix Peralta
November 21, 7 pm, Michael Weaver
Live Jukebox
November 21, 10 pm, Fresh Fridays with
Dj Cello & Guests
November 23, 7 pm, Sexy Sunday featuring
Wae Fonkey
All Night!
November 25, 10 pm, Try vs. Try – Bi-weekly
Open Mic
Felix Peralta
November 27, 10 pm, Fractal Frequencies w/
Kate Star Cherry
November 28, 6 pm, Low Life Happy Hour w/
DJ Caterwaul
November 28, 10 pm, “Leftover Soul” w/
DJ Leftovers
November 30, 8 pm, 10 Drink Minimum Podcast
w/ Chris Burnett, Bill Bellmont & guests
OCTOBER 22-DECEMBER 3
SISTER THE BAR
407 Central Ave NW, 242-4900,
sisterthebar.com
October 22, 9 pm, $10, Macabre, Ringworm,
Panzerfaust
October 23, 9 pm, $5, Decker, Sad Baby Wolf,
St. Petersburg
October 29, 9 pm, $10, Tera Melos
November 5, 9 pm, $7, Iceage
November 11, 9 pm, $12, Dum Dum Girls &
Ex Cops
December 3, 9 pm, $10, Pallbearer
OCTOBER 23-31
LIZARD RODEO LOUNGE
The Range Café, 925 Camino Del Pueblo,
Bernalillo
October 23,Open Mic/Jam hosted by DeRangers
October 24, Quality Retreads, Irish Deltabilly
October 25, Breaking Blue, folk
October 31, Redlight Ramblers, folk
SNEAKERZ SPORTS BAR & GRILLE,
4100 San Mateo Blvd NE, 837-1708,
sneakerzsportsbar.com
October 24, 6-9 pm, Ravinswood Band,
Happy Hour
October 25, 6 pm, UFC 179
October 31, 9 pm, Karaoke Halloween Party
Specials and prizes
November 1, 9 am, Brendan’s Cause
Fundraising Volleyball Tournament
November 1, 9 pm, Third Element Band
LOW SPIRITS
2823 2nd St NW, lowspiritslive.com,
prices subject to change
October 24, 9 pm, Night of the Living
Cover Bands
October 25, 8 pm, $5, Dia de los Grateful
Muertos featuring Top Dead Center,
600 Pounds of Sin
October 30, 9 pm, Run Boy Run
October 31, 9 pm, $12, il sogno del marinaio
(with Mike Watt)
November 1, 9 pm, $10, Halloween Hoedown:
Paris A Gogo Burlesque, The MLC, Blame it on
Rebekkah, Kimo
November 4, 9:30 pm, $8, O’Death,
Lonesome Leash, Human Behavior
November 5, 9 pm, Cahalen Morrison and
Country Hammer, The Gregg Daigle Band
November 11, 9 pm, $15, Horse Feathers
November 18, 9 pm, Water Liars
LAUNCHPAD
618 Central Ave SW, 764-8887,
launchpadrocks.com
October 24, 9 pm, Thee Sanctuary:
Bloodsuckers Bazaar
October 25, 9 pm, $5, Night of the Living Cover
Bands! The Coma Recovery as Depeche Mode,
distances as Garbage, Double Plow as Queen
October 26, 8 pm, $18, Hold It In Tour: Melvins,
Le Butcherettes
October 28, 7:30 pm, $12, Being As An Ocean,
Gideon, Wolves At The Gate, Incarnate,
Seconds To End
November 1, 9 pm, $12, Secret Chiefs 3,
Atomic Ape
November 2, 8 pm, $13, MC Chris, MC Lars,
Spose
November 6, 7:30 pm, $10, Rotting Out,
Nomads, Homewrecker, Pharoah, Loathe
November 7, 9:30 pm, $5, The Lymbs,
Red Light Cameras, Great States
November 8, 9:30 pm, $8, Koffin Kats,
Russian Girlfriends
November 9, 7:30 pm, EYEHATEGOD,
Today Is The Day, Black Maria, Econarchy
November 15, 9 pm, Stoic Frame Reunion
Show!, Reviva
November 18, 8 pm, $10, 10th Anniversary
Tour: Intronaut, Anciients, Bathhouse, Distances
November 23, 8 pm, The Reckoning Tour:
Blood On The Dance Floor, Whitney Peyton,
Sweet Ascent
November 29, 9 pm, mr. Gnome, Young Tongue
December 8, 7:30, $13, Voodoo Glow Skulls,
Mustard Plug, Dan Potthast
December 12, 8:30, $20, Swamp Leper Stomp
2014: Death DTA, Torture Victim, Suspended,
Impaled Offering
SUNSHINE THEATER
120 Central Ave SW,
Info & Tickets: sunshinetheaterlive.com
October 25, 7:30 pm, Carnifex, Inhuman Hands,
A Malicious Plague, Vale Of Miscreation
October 27, 6 pm, $25, Too Zany welcomes GEAZY w/ IAMSU & Jay Ant,
Bay To Universe Tour
October 28, 7 pm, $17, New Politics, Bad Suns,
SomeKindaWonderful
October 29, 7 pm, $30, Matisyahu, Radical
Something, Cisco
October 30, 7:30 pm, $18, Glamour Kills Tour
presents New Found Glory, We Are The In
Crowd, Fireworks, Better Off
November 1, 8 pm $20, Eternal Tour 2014:
Gwar, Decapitated, American Sharks
November 3, 7 pm, $21-75, YELAWOLF +
RITTZ + Big Henry + DJ Klever
November 9, 7 pm, $27.50, Rockstar Energy
Drink Presents Pierce The Veil and Sleeping
With Sirens , Beartooth, This Wild Life
November 10, 8 pm, $20, Check Yo Ponytail
Anniversary Tour: The Presets, Le1f, Chela,
Franki Chan
November 11, 7 pm, $20, These Days Tour:
AB Soul
November 12, 6:30 pm, $16, The Word Alive,
The Color Morale, Our Last Night, Dead Rabbits, Miss Fortune
November 13, 8 pm, $29, Dropkick Murphys,
Blood Or Whiskey
November 15, 8 pm, $23, Arch Enemy, Kreator,
Huntress
November 20, 7 pm, $29.50, People Keep Talking Tour: Hoodie Allen, Chiddy Bang,
Taylor Bennett
November 23, 6:30 pm, $17, The Ghost Inside,
Every Time I Die, Architects (UK), Hundredth,
Backtrack
November 25, 7 pm, $20, Monster Energy Outbreak Tour presents Attila, Crown The Empire,
Like Moths To Flames, Sworn In
December 9, 6:30 pm, $18, Eternal Enemies
Tour: Emmure, The Acacia Strain, Stray From
The Path, Fit For A King, Kublai Khan
December 14, 8 pm, $18, Toontrack presents
Abstract Reality Tour: Devin Townsend Project
and Animals As Leaders, Monuments
December 15, 7 pm, $28, Hot Topic presents
Black Veil Brides, Falling In Reverse, Set It Off,
Drama Club
MUSIC
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23
BASSEKOU KOUYATE &
THE NGONI BLUES BAND
Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE
Bassekou Kouyate is one of the true masters
of the ngoni, an ancient traditional lute found
throughout West Africa.
7:30 pm, $15-20, 268-0044, outpostspace.org
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24
JACKY TERRASSON TRIO
Pianist Jacky Terrasson, a significant figure in
jazz for over 20 years, will be joined by Dave
Robaire, bass; and Jamire Williams, drums.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25
BIRDS OF CHICAGO
Music in Corrales, Old San Isidro Church,
966 Old Church Rd, Corrales
Popular American Roots music group.
7:30 pm, $22-25, brownpapertickets.com,
musicincorrales.org
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26
FROM INDIAN LAKES
The Gasworks, 2429 Quincy St NE
The band just released their new album,
“Absent Sounds,” on Oct. 7 via Triple Crown
Records. 7 pm, $10, fromindianlakes.com
ABBA MANIA
Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus,
203 Cornell Dr NE
Celebrating the music of ABBA, reviving
memories of when the band ruled the airwaves.
3 pm, 925-5858, unmtickets.com,
popejoypresents.com
CARAVAN OF THIEVES
The Cooperage, 7220 Lomas Blvd NE
Gypsy jazz, vocal harmony, theater and a
really good time.
7:30 pm, $17-20, ampconcerts.org,
Hold My Ticket, 505-886-1251
CHATTER SUNDAY: HONORING
FELIX WURMAN
Kosmos Performance Space at the Factory
on 5th, 1715 Fifth St NW
Chatter Sunday remembers cellist and teacher
Felix Wurman, who founded Church of
Beethoven. Chamber music, poetry and coffee,
in an informal, acoustically excellent setting.
Doors open 9:30 am, $15 at the door,
chatterchamber.org
EVENTS
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EVENTS
CALENDAr
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16
THROUGH MARCH 15
NOVEMBER 22-23
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29
HOME FREE
TIME FOR THREE
PANDAS: THE JOURNEY HOME
CHRISTMAS AT CLEAR LIGHT
LIFE-SIZE MONSTERS
KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW
Award-winning a cappella country group
on their Crazy Life Tour.
8 pm, $20-30, holdmyticket.com
JIM MALCOLM
The Cooperage, 7220 Lomas NE
Traditional songs of Scotland and his own
music by a fine singer.
7:30 pm, $17-22, ampconcerts.org, or
Hold My Ticket, 505-886-1251
LATIN DIVA SERIES, ANI CORDERO’S
“RECORDAR”
National Hispanic Cultural Center, Bank of
America Theatre, 1701 4th St SW
Cordero is a well-known Latin alternative singer,
drummer, and bandleader.
7:30 pm, $17, 724-4771, nhccnm.org
RALPH ALESSI’S BAIDA QUARTET
Trumpeter Ralph Alessi’s latest project features
pianist Gary Versace; bassist Mark Helias; and
drummer Nasheet Waits.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
ONEBEAT ALBUQUERQUE AT THE
RAIL YARDS
Albuquerque Rail Yards, 777 1st St SW,
Music & art: 25 musical artists from 17 countries,
visual artists from Albuquerque curated by Billy
Joe Miller, food trucks and activities for the
whole family. A collaboration between 516 Arts
and Found Sound Nation. $5 donation,
5-9 pm, 516arts.org
NEW MEXICO PHILHARMONIC
POPEJOY CLASSICAL SERIES
203 Cornell Dr NE
November 1, Rodrigo’s Guitar Concierto de
Aranjuez
6 pm, 925-5858, unmtickets.com, nmphil.org
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER
203 Cornell Dr NE
The concert celebrates the full spectrum of
their remarkable 40-year musical career.
popejoypresents.com
ORCHID ENSEMBLE
A cultural exchange between Asian and
Western musicians. 3 pm, $22-27,
ampconcerts.org, holdmyticket.com
NOVEMBER 8-9
TRANSFIGURED NIGHT
St. Francis Auditorium (New Mexico Museum
of Art), 107 W Palace Ave, Santa Fe
Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra, Thomas
O’Connor, conductor, with Deborah Domanski,
mezzo-soprano.
Saturday, 4 pm, Sunday 3 pm, $20-65,
(505) 988-4640, The Lensic (505) 988-1234,
santafepromusica.com
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9
CHATTER CABARET: COMPOSERS FROM
THE GOLDEN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD
Hotel Andaluz, Casablanca Room,
125 2nd St NW, Downtown
Only five Sundays per year; tickets available 8
weeks in advance.
5 pm, $25, appetizers and drinks additional,
ChatterABQ.org
Bach, Brahms, The Beatles and current pop.
3 pm, $28-42, ampconcerts.org, holdmyticket.
com, kimotickets.com, 768-3544
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21
LA SANTA CECILIA
La Fonda Hotel Ballroom,
100 E San Francisco St, Santa Fe
2014 Grammy winners for Best Latin Rock,
Urban, or Alternative Album. 8 pm, $22-27,
ampconcerts.org, holdmyticket.com
NEW MEXICO PHILHARMONIC
POPEJOY CLASSICAL SERIES
203 Cornell Dr NE
Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of
Paganini.
6 pm, 925-5858, unmtickets.com, nmphil.org
NETSKY
El Rey Theatre, 622 Central Ave SW
Band from Europe with a blend of heavy dance
floor bass + beats.
8:30 pm, $15-20, 18+, 510-2582, holdmyticket.
com, elreyabq.com
NOVEMBER 29-30
DE PROFUNDIS
St. Therese Catholic Church, 4th & Mildred NW
Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 114 Carlisle SE
The 14-voice a cappella men’s ensemble
greets the holiday season with Conrad Susa’s
enchanting “Carols and Lullabies: Christmas in
the Southwest.” Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 3 pm, $10-15,
266-4240, depro.org
MONDAY, DECEMBER 1
DAKHABRAKHA
The Dirty Bourbon, 9800 Montgomery Blvd NE
Presented by ¡Globalquerque!, “ethno-chaos” in
Eastern European roots music.
7:30 pm, $17-22, ampconcerts.org, holdmyticket.com, 296-2726
Look for our interview with the band in the
November 19 issue.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4
LEO KOTTKE
Coffeehouse folk-rock guitarist and singer/songwriter of “Twelve String Blues” and “Mudlark.”
7:30 pm, $25-35, ampconcerts.org,
holdmyticket.com, kimotickets.com, 768-3544
FILM
THROUGH NOVEMBER 9
FILMS AT THE GUILD
The Guild Cinema, 3405 Central Ave NE
$5-10 unless otherwise listed, 255-1848,
for more movies: guildcinema.com
October 24-29, 3 pm and 7:30 pm, 1,000 Times
Goodnight
October 24-29, 5:30 pm, Alive Inside
October 25-26, 1 pm, Awake: The Life of
Yogananda
October 30-31, check website for times,
Double Feature: A Voice in the Dark: Svengali
(1931) and Phantom of the Opera (1925)
October 31-November 1, 10:15 pm, Dead Snow
2: Red vs. Dead
November 7-9, 4 pm and 8:15 pm,
Bjork: Biophilia Live
Lockheed Martin Dyna Theater, New Mexico
Museum of Natural History, Old Town
About the efforts made all over the world to save
the Giant Panda.
11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm; times will change in
December; 841-2800, nmnaturalhistory.org,
ngpandas.com
A BETTER LIFE
National Hispanic Cultural Center, Bank of
America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW
Starring Demián Bichir (“The Bridge”), this film
portrays the struggles of an undocumented immigrant who wants to give his son a better life in
the United States.
7 pm, Free ticketed event; tickets available one
hour before show, 246-2261, nhccnm.org
OCTOBER 25 and NOVEMBER 2
MADE IN NEW MEXICO FILM CLIP SERIES
October 25, East Mountain Library,
1 Old Tijeras Rd, Tijeras, 2 pm
November 2, Placitas Library,
453 Highway 165 Placitas, 2 pm
A compilation of clips from movies that have
been partially shot within New Mexico, presented by film historian Jeff Berg. $5, 466-1634
NOVEMBER 22-23
FIRST ANNUAL PUEBLO FILM FESTIVAL
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, 2401 12th St NW
843-7270, indianpueblo.org
FESTIVALS, FIESTAS & FAMILY
BIRTHDAY BASH AND HARVEST
FESTIVAL
La Montañita Westside Co-op,
3601 Old Airport Ave NW
Music, Local foods, Grilling on the patio, Free
birthday cake, and Costume contest.
11-4 pm, Free, 503-2550, lamontanita.coop/
ws-birthday-bash
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26
24th ANNUAL ALBUQUERQUE
EQUESTRIAN CUP
EXPO New Mexico, State Fairgrounds Dairy
Barn, 300 San Pedro Dr NE
Horse jumping competition, auctions, artists,
food and beer, vendors, along with a kids’ corral
and a Dude Room.
11:30 am-6 pm, $35-$75, 298-1700 ext. 31,
abqec.org
NOVEMBER 11-16
HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS!
THE MUSICAL
203 Cornell Dr NE
Inspired by Dr. Seuss’ original illustrations,
audiences are transported to the world of
Whoville. 925-5858, unmtickets.com,
For times: www.popejoypresents.com
MY NAME IS RUMPELSTILTSKIN
North 4th Theater, 4904 4th St NW
A classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale about an
irascible wizard who, in order to gain power,
must possess a child of royal birth
6 pm and 7:30 pm, $5, 821-8055,
nmyoungactors.org
Clear Light • The Cedar Company, 7 miles east
of Placitas Village on Highway 165, look for the
red signs. A juried art show and sale. Admission
and parking are free, and refreshments will be
available.10-5 pm, Free, 867-2381, clcedar.com
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20
GILDAN NEW MEXICO BOWL
Juan Tabo Library, 3407 Juan Tabo NE
Kids and tweens, we’re making life-size monsters (or whatever else you can imagine). We’ll
trace your shape and then you create a painting
of the creature you’ve always wanted to be!
Ages 6+, 3-4:30 pm, 291-6260
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31
University Stadium, University Blvd SE &
Avenida Cesar Chavez
It’s Mountain West Conference vs. Conference
USA at this 9th annual New Mexico college
football bowl, which will be broadcast on ESPN.
Kickoff: 12:20 pm MT, $25-400+, 925-5999,
unmtickets.com, gildannewmexicobowl.com
STORYSPACE: SPOOKY STORY NIGHT
WITH THE SPOOKULELE BAND
DAY OF THE DEAD/HALLOWEEN
KIDS’ HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARADE
THROUGH NOVEMBER 1
QUARANTINE: COLLAPSE
(HAUNTED HOUSE)
Rio Grande Community Farm,
1701 Montaño Dr. NW
Blackout Theatre Company presents a haunted
house that puts the audience in the story.
6:30 pm, $20, 672-8648, quarantineabq.com
THROUGH NOVEMBER 9
BEWITCHING IV
Stranger Factory, 109 Carlisle Blvd NE
Opening reception, Friday, October 10, 6-9 pm.
Halloween group show of all things dark
and spooky.
Free, 508-3049, strangerfactory.com
An evening of well-loved children’s stories
transformed into song by the Spookulele Band.
7:30 pm, Free for kids 12 and under and anyone
wearing a costume (glitter-free, please!)
$5 for others; 268-0044, outpostspace.org
Ernie Pyle Library, 900 Girard SE
Come to Ernie Pyle and show off your
Halloween costume! We will read a couple of
spooky stories and march around the library in
our costumes. For kids 0-8 years old.
No registration required. 10:30-11 am, 256-2065
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2
DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS CELEBRATION
South Broadway Cultural Center,
1025 Broadway SE
Live music and dance, art, ofrendas honoring
loved ones, and more. Wear your costumes!
12 noon-6 pm, Free, more info: call 311,
cabq.gov/sbcc
THEATER
CLOSING OCTOBER 25
SALUD Y SABOR: DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS
THE TRANS-SIBERIAN EXPRESS
MURDERS
National Hispanic Cultural Center,
Domenici Education Bldg, 1701 4th Street SW
An evening of food, art, and entertainment
aimed at providing families with an opportunity
to connect around nutrition, cooking, healthy
lifestyles, and culture, with a Day of the Dead
theme. 5:30 pm, Free, 246-2261, nhccnm.org
THE MONKEY’S PAW
UNM’s Experimental Theatre,
Center for the Arts, UNM Campus
Presented by SCRAP Productions and The
UNM Department of Theatre and Dance, the
classic horror story that has taught generations
the meaning of “Be careful what you wish for.”
Runs 45 minutes, two shows per date, times
vary. $10, 925-5858, unmtickets.com
ALBUQUERQUE’S THRILL THE WORLD
Keshet Center for the Arts, 4121 Cutler Ave NE
Thrill The World Albuquerque is looking for
dancing zombies to participate in the 6th annual
world-wide simultaneous Thriller dance for charity. Zombies will rise up on Oct 25 at exactly 4
pm at Keshet Center for the Arts parking lot. No
dance experience is necessary. All ages and skill
levels are welcome.
1-4 pm for rehearsal, costuming and
performance, Free, donations to Keshet are
accepted; Eventbrite registration: TTWABQ2014.
eventbrite.com
HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR:
BREAKING BOO!
Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus
Put on your best costumes and bring the kids.
Bryon Herrington conducts the NM Philharmonic, with movie scores from Beetlejuice to Psycho.
6 pm, $20-68, unmtickets.com, nmphil.org
Vista Grande Community Center,
15 La Madera Road, Sandia Park
Murder mystery musical comedy that takes
place in 1941. Dinner theatre Fri-Sat 6:30 pm,
show only 7 pm, $15-$35, 286-1950, emct.org
CLOSING OCTOBER 26
THE BOXCAR
NHCC’s Wells Fargo Auditorium,
1701 4th St SW
Part of the Siembra Latino festival. In 1987, a
group of men set out in search of a better life by
entering into the United States as undocumented immigrants looking to make a dollar or two.
Thurs- Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm, $18, 724-4771,
nhccnm.org
CLOSING OCTOBER 31
THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP
Vortex Theatre, 2900 Carlisle NE
The play is a hilarious and chilling satire of
several theatrical, literacy, and film genres.
Fri-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm, $22, 247-8600,
vortexabq.org
THROUGH NOVEMBER 2
KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
Musical Theatre Southwest,
6320-B Domingo NE
In a Latin American prison, Molina shares his
fantasies about an actress who, in one
of her roles, is a Spider Woman who kills with a
kiss. Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sunday 4 pm, $20-$22,
265-9119, musicaltheatresw.com
GREASE
Albuquerque Little Theatre,
224 San Pasquale SW
Popular musical inspired by the 1978 film.
The “Pink Ladies” are back.
Thurs-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm, $24, 242-4750,
albuquerquelittletheatre.org
THROUGH NOVEMBER 29
SPIRITS OF SUSPICION
Foul Play Café, Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown,
2600 Louisiana Blvd NE
Fun and mystery, with dinner.
Friday-Saturday 7 pm, $56.50,
$35 for children, 377-9593, foulplaycafe.com
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24
MINDS INTERRUPTED
Stories of lives affected by mental illness.
7 pm, $15, kimotickets.com
THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING
The Adobe Theater, 9813 4th St NW
Friday-Saturday 7:30 pm, Sundays 2 pm,
Thursday November 13, 7:30 pm; $15,
898-9222, adobetheater.org
Read Theater Briefs on Page 20 in this issue.
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR
Warehouse 21, 1614 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe
Two women who run a school are brought down
by a student’s rumor. 7 pm, $10,
(505) 310-4194, nmschoolforthearts.org
DEATH AND THE MAIDEN
3205 Calle Marie, Santa Fe
Directed by Rick Vargas. Preview Thursday,
October 30.
Fri-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm, $12-15,
(505) 424-1601, TEATROPARAGUAS.ORG
NOVEMBER 7-16
¡BOCÓN!
Working Classroom, 423 Atlantic Avenue SW
One-act adventure story about a boy who flees
his home country for L.A. Along the way, he
meets La Llorona. Various times and deals,
$10-25, 242-9267, workingclassroom.org
NOVEMBER 22-DECEMBER 7
GYPSY
The Rodey Theatre, UNM Main Campus
The memoirs of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee by
Landmark Musicals, starring the indomitable
stage mother, Rose.
Fri-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm, $20-24, 925-5858,
unmtickets.com, landmarkmusicals.org
COMEDY
THROUGH NOVEMBER 4
OH, SUSANA!
The Box Performance Space, 100 Gold Ave SW
This original satire takes a look at what it truly
means to be a citizen of the 47th state (which
also happens to be our national ranking in education). Conceived and directed by Cody Dove,
an alumnus of Second City. Through Election
Tuesday; check show times.
9 pm, $17.50, 404-1578, theboxabq.com
DANCE
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7
PILOBOLUS
203 Cornell Dr NE
Molding bodies into poetry, amazing shapes
and beautiful movement.
www.popejoypresents.com
NOVEMBER 7-9
OTHER WORLDS
AirDance ArtSpace, 3030 Isleta Blvd SW
Aerial dance in a new production with 12 aerialists, 4 musicians and stunning choreography.
Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm, $10-15, 842-9418,
airdanceartspace.com
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14
SACRED BODY
Lensic Performing Arts Center,
211 W. San Francisco St, Santa Fe
A benefit performance of music and dance, with
art exhibit, for a young adult scholarship.
Lobby opens at 6 pm, performance 7:30-9:30
pm, $25-60, (505) 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org,
sacredbodysantafe.com
NOVEMBER 7-23
BOOKS & POETRY
26 MILES
1701 4th Street SW
A new play by Quiara Alegría Hudes, part of
the Siembra Latin Theatre Festival. Also will be
shown December 4-14 at Teatro Paraguas in
Santa Fe. Thurs-Sat, 7:30 pm, Saturday 2 pm,
$15-18, 724-4771, nhccnm.org
NOVEMBER 7-30
THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER
The Vortex Theatre, 2900 Carlisle NE
The classic comedy tells the story of a small
Ohio household forced to house a larger-thanlife personality as he recuperates after an accident. Fri- Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm, $22,
247-8600, vortexabq.org
Read Barry Gaines’s Theater Feature in the
November 5 issue of ABQ Free Press.
ESTEVAN ARELLANO BOOK LAUNCH
1701 4th Street SW
The author and traditional farmer signs
“Enduring Acequias,” about irrigation and sustainable farming practices.
2 pm, Free, nhccnm.org
COMMUNITY LECTURES
Albuquerque Academy,
Simms Center for the Performing Arts, Bldg 13,
6400 Wyoming Blvd NE, 828-3200;
All talks are 6:30-8 pm, and free, but you must
register to attend at: aa.edu/communityacademy
October 27, Alvin Townley, “Defiant: America’s
Elite Vietnam POWs and the Extraordinary
Women Who Fought for Them”
November 5, “Old Time Music with
Alan Jabbour”
November 19, Brad Yablonsky, “Savvy Social
Security”
December 2, Debbie Millman, “Why We Brand,
Why We Buy”
ARTSPREE
THROUGH OCTOBER 31
FACE THE MUSIC and LYRICAL
LANDSCAPES
New Mexico Art League,
3409 Juan Tabo Blvd NE
Music and musicians by Portrait Society of
America artists; 40 Maggie Price landscapes
and florals presented in her memory by the
League. Free, hours: newmexicoartleague.org
THROUGH DECEMBER 30
LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED
Jewish Community Center,
5520 Wyoming Blvd NE
Opening Reception, October 16, 5-7 pm.
Mark M. Feldman Stone Sculpture
Showcase. Free, jccabq.org for open hours,
markmfeldmansculptor.wix.com
OCTOBER 24-25
13TH ANNUAL EL DORADO ARTS &
CRAFTS FALL SHOW
St. John’s United Methodist Church,
1200 Old Pecos Trail at Cordova Rd, Santa Fe
A variety of work on sale by 46 artists.
Friday 3-7 pm, Saturday 9-5 pm,
Free, eldoart.org
TOURS
THURSDAYS, FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS,
YEAR ROUND
ALBUCREEPY DOWNTOWN
GHOST WALK
By ABQ Trolley Co., start at Hotel Andaluz,
125 2nd St NW
Led by an experienced paranormal investigator, Albucreepy features historic (and reportedly
haunted) sites, including the KiMo Theater, Kiva
Auditorium, old Bernalillo County Courthouse,
Wool Warehouse, and the former red light district known as “Hell’s Half Acre.” Rated PG13.
8 pm, 90 minutes, $25 with valet parking and
free appetizers at Ibiza or MAS, albucreepy.com
Reach ABQ’s most
informed audience
To Advertise:
Contact
Donavan Mosley
(505) 345-4080,
ext. 806
donovan@freeabq.com
Crossword Puzzle appears on page 24
CROSSWORD
Tricolored By Myles Mellor
Across
1. Driven transport
5. Jewish teacher
53. Big laugh
19. Old weapon
58. Choker
24. Taste, e.g.
55. Astronomer
10. Kind of instrument
62. Destination of the 15. Betelgeuse’s
65. Dirty coat
14. “By yesterday!”
constellation
disgruntled?
32. “South Pacific” hero
69. 1980’s-90’s ring 22. Annexes
70. Cut down
26. Chop (off)
29. Piques
31. Can’t stand
35. “The ___ Daba Honeymoon”
36. Andrea Doria’s domain
38. Arabic for
“commander”
39. Fab Four film
43. Otherwise
44. Character
champ
Down
1. Golden Triangle
country
34. Foot the bill
37. Dislike intensely
40. Flyers
41. Like old recordings
42. Obliquely
47. Slay
4. “La Bohème,” e.g.
54. Licks
3. Disabling spray
52. Compassion
5. Howard of “Happy 55. Cultivate
Days”
56. Long, long time (var.)
6. Victorian, for one
57. Sonata, e.g.
8. Dense mass
60. “Buona ___” (Italian 7. Food collectors?
9. Accustomed
49. Goose speech
12. These may be inflated
51. Froth
33. Trig functions
48. Most healthy
10. Learn again
50. Time zone
30. Pole position?
2. “___ She Lovely?”
45. Poetic meadow
46. Mideast capital
marks
68. Barley beards
20. Back
25. Dates
27. Ancient editorial 28. Buddy-buddy
67. Ball field covering
21. Outdo
26. Cake part
66. Sea gear
16. “Cogito, ___ sum”
17. Rarely
23. Attracted
59. Daunting exam
greeting)
61. Glimpse
11. “Aeneid” figure
62. Fed. construction 13. Family head
63. Blood group system
18. Deep blue
overseer
64. Gabriel, for one

October 22, 2014

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