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ABQ Free Press Pulp News Editor: [email protected] compiled By abq free press staff VOL I, Issue 14, October 22, 2014 Still FREE After All These Months Associate Editor, News: Dennis Domrzalski Ebola’s threat psychotic killers. The latest example is (505) 306-3260 “Twisty the Clown,” a killer clown on Associate Editor, Arts: Outside of West Africa, the United the FX show “American Horror Story.” [email protected] States, France and the United Kingdom “We do not support in any way, shape Advertising: are most at risk for the spread of the or form any medium that sensational- [email protected] In This Issue Ebola virus, but they also are best izes or adds to coulrophobia, or clown [email protected] equipped to contain it. China and India fear,” the group’s president, Glenn [email protected]

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When workers used a hand sanitizer List of more than LOL when entering an office building and 400 locations The president of Clowns of America used cleaning wipes at their desks at freeabq.com International has complained that periodically during the day, the through movies and TV shows, amount of surface contamination On the cover: Valerie Plame, a former CIA operative turned author, has been active in New Mexico politics since moving Hollywood has made clowns out to be dropped by 80 percent. to Santa Fe with her husband, former ambassador Joe Wilson. (All photos of Plame in this issue by Norah Levine.) PAGE 4 • October 22, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS FROM THE EDITOR NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • October 22, 2014 • PAGE 5 APD Records Stonewalling APD’s Purchase of Assault Rifles Called ‘Borderline Illegal’ Costs ABQ Big Money BY PETER ST. CYR By Dan Vukelich he Albuquerque Police Department rushed think it’s borderline illegal based on our established Tthrough a questionable purchase of 350 military- procurement process,” he said. efore this Council shows the city paid more than style assault weapons within weeks of a U.S. Justice Garduño said if rules were violated, he’ll ask for Bnewspaper $48,000 in damages in three citizens’ Department report criticizing APD’s fondness for the deal to be rescinded and the guns returned to published its records cases between Oct. 1, 2013, such weapons. Albuquerque gun dealer Walter Bracken at BMC first issue back and June 30, 2014. The police department justified the rifles’ pur- Tactical, 2617 Coors Blvd. S.W., whose offer beat out in April, ABQ Colin Hunter, an attorney with the chase on the grounds that the Justice Department that of the only other bidder, a dealer from Texas. Free Press and Barnett Law Firm, who is representing mandated that it buy the AR-15 semi-automatic APD’s initial purchase request said the department Peter St. Cyr, this newspaper in its IPRA case against weapons. An ABQ Free Press inquiry found no such had identified as many as 60 dealers that had the an independent APD, said the denials are part of a legal federal mandate. weapon APD wanted. journalist who strategy by APD and the city. The DOJ confirmed to this newspaper there is nothing Sanchez – who previously asked State Auditor periodically writes “They are making a PR and calculated in its report of its year-long investigation into APD’s Hector Balderas to review APD’s sole-source for us, asked for risk assessment decision in denying An AR-15 similar to the 350 that APD bought. record of civil rights violations that could reasonably contract with Taser for lapel video cameras – said the Albuquerque Police Department’s these requests,” Hunter said, “hoping be construed to be a federal mandate. In fact, the DOJ the police department has an obligation to ensure inventory of its military-style weapons. that the requestors go away and that bid process. When we were refused, we sued APD only one in 10 will actually sue.” criticized the department’s culture of aggression and Six days later, in another interoffice memo to taxpayers are getting the best price. under the provisions of the New Mexico Hunter said he believes the city will officers’ “fondness for powerful weaponry.” the city of Albuquerque’s Purchasing Department, Inspection of Public Records Act. The seek to dismiss the newspaper as a “The Department of Justice did not recommend Thompson again attributed the need for the AR-15 ‘The Department of Justice case has been percolating along for plaintiff and cut its exposure under the that the Albuquerque Police Department acquire purchase to the DOJ. “The department has tested months, but quite shortly, depositions bad-faith portion of the IPRA statute, firearms of any kind as part of its April 2014 investi- different rifles and this particular item meets APDs did not recommend that the will be taken – by both sides. which calls for damages to be paid to all gative findings letter,” DOJ spokeswoman Elizabeth [sic] needs while adhering to the suggestions made Albuquerque Police Department The public records law, commonly plaintiffs wrongfully denied records. Martinez wrote in mid-October in an email response by the DOJ,” Thompson wrote. acquire firearms of any kind’ called IPRA, has protections built in to The records denials are the stick to the newspaper’s inquiry. The high-powered rifles, according to Peter Simon- – DOJ Spokeswoman protect the public from unreasonable in APD’s carrot-and-stick strategy in Instead of gun purchases, the DOJ’s initial son, executive director of the American Civil Liberties denial of public records. If found by a dealing with the news media – which is recommendations were designed to provide greater Union New Mexico, may send the wrong message judge or jury to have wrongly withheld play ball with us and we’ll spoon-feed controls and accountability by APD on its officers’ to the community because the AR-15 originally was “They rushed and acted prematurely,” Sanchez said. records, a governmental entity – like you access, stories, video, mug shots unconstitutional use of force, according to Martinez. developed for use on the battlefield. Former city of Albuquerque senior buyer Charles the City of Albuquerque and APD – can and story leads; ask difficult questions The DOJ’s April 10 report recommended a “The deadly weapons officers carry while on duty “Chuck” McCoy, who worked for the city 18 years, be liable for payment of the requestors’ and get the stick – no cooperation, no review of APD’s use-of-force policy “to place more should be viewed as a serious responsibility, not – as requested the APD purchasing documents under attorneys’ fees, costs, and up to $100 a access and a big “no comment.” emphasis on de-escalation techniques and require noted by the DOJ in its findings – a personal status the state’s Inspection of Public Records Act. McCoy day in damages. To be fair, other agencies do the same officers to consider less-intrusive alternatives before symbol for officers,” Simonson said. shared them with ABQ Free Press. Since we filed our case, KRQE thing. The governor’s people don’t employing force.” The ACLU believes officers should have the tools McCoy said the $1,000-per-weapon price tag Channel 13 filed a broader case. The answer questions they don’t like. Hell, Initially reluctant to answer questions about they need for law enforcement, Simonson said, “but wasn’t a bad price, but he said there are more than TV station’s suit alleges that APD they don’t even return phone calls from how APD interpreted the DOJ findings, a police we may legitimately ask whether every officer on five dozen vendors with similar weapons that has engaged in a pattern of wrongly media outlets they don’t like. spokeswoman said the department placed the gun the street needs these high-power rifles to conduct might have offered a better price had not APD’s gun withholding public records, including: But the APD records situation has order to implement a standardized APD weapons ordinary law-enforcement activities.” specifications been so exact. lapel-camera video; records related to become intolerable for a population that policy. In May, Police Chief Gorden Eden prohibited “They didn’t care about the price, and they just the James Boyd shooting; correspon- requires spin-free information to hold a The gun purchase raises questions about just how dence relating to the U.S. Department of troubled police department accountable. officers from using personal weapons or adding to seriously cultural and use-of-force reforms are being wanted to get going on it before somebody figured Justice’s probe of APD; records regard- Case law is against APD and the civil- or modifying department-owned firearms. considered at APD, Simonson said. out that mandate was bogus,” said McCoy, a certi- ing APD shootings since 1994; APD’s ians directing its policy. Taxpayers are A Rapid Purchase Report form completed by City Councilor Rey Garduño said he doesn’t fied purchasing expert. He also questioned the price dealings with former APD Chief Ray paying the financial price, but eventually, APD fiscal manager Aubrey Thompson on May understand why APD considered the firearms the city paid for ammunition. Schultz and Taser; APD’s 2013 review someone’s going to pay a political price. 16 and obtained by ABQ Free Press references the purchase to be urgent. He and City Council Presi- Local gun dealers who talked to ABQ Free Press of its use-of-force policy; SWAT team DOJ’s description of “systemic deficiencies” and dent Ken Sanchez previously said they would have for background information also said they believe reports of various incidents; surveillance This issue marks our sixth month of “DOL [sic] federal mandates” as justification for the preferred Chief Eden wait until after the DOJ issued the city got a good price on the weapons. They video of the Mayor’s Office during a publication. Our readership is growing $350,000 weapons purchase. its negotiated reform plan or after the DOJ and city said they decided not to bid on the deal themselves protest and sit-in; crime-scene photos; and, just as importantly, our advertis- “APD wishes to purchase approximately 350 rifles entered into a consent decree. because the city takes months to pay its bills. dash-cam footage; and an inventory of ing is picking up. People have told us to address this item,” Thompson wrote on the form, Garduño said the rifle purchase may have violated APD weapons. they’ve been looking for another media which requested immediate action and a shortened city procurement rules. “It’s not only egregious, I To contact the reporter, email: [email protected] The TV station asked for more records voice in our community. We hope we’re than I can list here – but you get the idea. providing that voice. In all cases, APD refused to release We could use your help in identifying the requested information or was not high-traffic business locations that would Ebola Fears Send Sales of Biohazard Suits Soaring benefit both you and them if ABQ Free fully responsive in what it did release. BY JIM WAGNER Some of the KRQE cases go back more Press were allowed to place a wire rack of America, the fear of Ebola is apparently turning Lysol’s disinfectant sprays are EPA-approved for than a year. inside or a weatherproof box outside Editor’s Note: Earlier this year ABQ Free Press reported regular folks into preppers. hospitals, the site says, but Lysol has not been for- their premises. When totaled up, should the city be on the “prepper” movement – people who stock up on CNBC.com reports that some Americans are mally tested on Ebola. The maker says that “based found in violation of the records act, We’ll gladly accept your suggestions. supplies and make plans for apocalyptic events, including preparing for large-scale contagion. Figures from on their ability to kill similar as well as harder-to-kill APD – or, more properly, Albuquerque All you need to do is talk to the manager war, civil unrest, famine and plague. This is an update. Amazon showed that by the first week of October, viruses, these products are likely to be effective taxpayers – could be on the hook for well or owner and ask them if they’d be “sales of a type of full-body protective suits were up against the Ebola virus.” over $100,000 for the KRQE case alone. willing to let us to distribute there. Send 131,000 percent and sales for one type of mask had This pattern of refusal to release public us an email with the business name, ome “preppers” – people who prepare for the What about Clorox? The maker says its bleach records is being used against the public, address and the person you talked to Sapocalypse – are doing little more than yawn- risen 18,000 percent in 24 hours.” Biohazard suits and disinfectant wipes also meet hospital-grade as well as the news media. Reports of and we’ll get it done. ing about the threat or fear of an Ebola epidemic, sell online for less than $50 to more than $500. criteria of the federal Centers for Disease Control settlements and case dispositions that because they’ve already prepared for calamity. Businessweek.com reports that Lysol’s Facebook and Prevention, Businessweek.com reports. The the administration of Richard Berry is Dan Vukelich is the editor of ABQ Free Food. Water. Matches. Bandages. Bullets, etc. page is jammed with questions about the effective- company recently shipped 12,000 bottles of bleach to required to give the Albuquerque City Press. Reach him at [email protected]. You name it, it’s already been stashed. For the rest ness of Lysol products in killing the Ebola virus. infected regions in West Africa, the site reports. cont. on page 11 PAGE 6 • October 22, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS POLITICS NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • October 22, 2014 • PAGE 7 The Secret to Negative Valerie Plame: On N.M., Susana, Gary, DWI, Schools TV Ads is They Work BY BETSY MODEL By JOE MONAHAN eapons of Mass Distraction” became an “Woft-seen bumper sticker throughout New New Plame Book Out Now politician relishes Man “preyed on women, stealing their Mexico and the rest of the country in late 2003. In the A nothing more live savings” and was sentenced to 34 following years it became a punch line for late night It’s a classic Mark Twain quote than to be able to years in prison. With menacing music in comedians and was picked up as a tag line by people that, even though penned a control the mes- the background, the spot reveals how around the world beginning to question the lives, century earlier, could certainly be sage – and they get Casanova hired a lobbyist to help him get money and resources being spent on the Iraq war. considered prescient to the life of ultimate control when his sentence reduced to five years and The obvious play on the words for the reason the New Mexico resident and author they produce TV how the lobbyist did so – with King’s help. Bush administration gave the world for the invasion Valerie Plame: spots that sprout up Never mind that King’s campaign said “Truth is stranger than fiction, but this time of year like Casanova had been released early by of Iraq – that the US had credible evidence that it is because Fiction is obliged to weeds after a good rain. a judge, not by King. The die had been Saddam Hussein had obtained access to weapons of stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” So what did the candidates come up cast. “Gary King stands for the powerful mass [nuclear] destruction and was a threat to the with this time that will be remembered few, not us,” the announcer declares with West and to his neighboring countries – was a sign If using the word “implode” more than a day after the election results certainty. that many had come to doubt why we were in Iraq. when talking about a CIA opera- are final? The timing of the spot was crucial, Doubts grew in the months that followed the tive whose job was identifying and determining the Even Republicans admit that a “caught coming in mid-September when vot- congressional hearings and media maelstrom threat level of nuclear weapons around the world feels a little smarmy, it’s bizarrely accurate. Plame’s life and on tape” moment made into a 30-second ers begin paying attention and when surrounding “Plamegate” – the outing in the media career did, in fact, implode following the 2003 White spot by U.S. Sen. Tom Udall was a each side tries to define the other. The of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson. The game-changer for the race. Not that the Casanova Con spots went unanswered House leak of her identity (see our cover story), and the media frenzy over Plame’s outing followed a June GOP’s Allen Weh has been a serious by King. In politics, an unanswered global media tsunami that ensued was captured rather threat to Udall, but until this particular charge is a charge believed. King had 6, 2003, op-ed published in The New York Times well in her 2007 account, “Fair Game: How a Top CIA ad hit the airwaves, Udall could feel him been polling in the low 40s, but after by her husband, diplomat Joe Wilson, who wrote it Agent Was Betrayed by Her Own Government.” breathing down his neck. Casanova Con made his appearance, he was highly unlikely that Saddam had ever had the Plame’s publishing company, Simon and Schuster, In a spot reminiscent of the one that fell into the 30s and even further out of resources or access to nuclear weapons. had to sue to get “Fair Game,” part biography and part revealed a video recording of Mitt Rom- contention. The congressional hearings and the global cover- exposé, published and the manuscript featured so much ney saying 47 percent of the population Not all ads have to be negative to help age of those hearings and the subsequent federal redaction as a result of a mandatory CIA review – which doesn’t pay taxes and therefore won’t change or cement the course of a race. conviction of then-Vice President Dick Cheney’s Simon and Schuster chose to include as large swaths vote for him, Weh is caught on audio State Auditor Hector Balderas, running Chief of Staff Irving Lewis “Scooter” Libby – the of blacked out lines – that it left many readers swearing tape arguing that no one below the age for attorney general, might have seemed Bush Administration official who outed Plame – cast they could detect the faint smell of a black marker. of 26 should get a minimum wage. He too soft for the tough-on-crime crowd. He further doubt on the Bush Administration’s justifica- Just a few years later, Plame chose to try writing declares in a voice dripping with derision: was last seen statewide in a primary race tions for what became an eight-year war. again – this time fiction. With a more-than-capable “So what if they’re making four bucks an against Martin Heinrich for U.S. Senate Ex-spy Valerie Plame outside her Santa Fe home writing partner in Santa Fe mystery writer Sarah Lovett, hour? So what?” – a race in which he often deferred to the two turned out the 2013 spy thriller “Blowback.” Like the Romney 47 percent remark, Heinrich and ultimately lost. Balderas re- Plame acknowledges the rumor mill this one reinforces the worst fears about emerged this year with a much sharper it all felt cleaner somehow – the weather, the skies Featuring a covert female CIA operative by the name of modern Republicanism – that it holds in edge. that had Joe Wilson being and a fresh start for their twin children who, even Vanessa Pierson who travels the globe tracking down contempt those who are not well off and “In every corner of New Mexico, approached about running for at a young age, had witnessed how ugly it could dangerous nuclear arms dealers, the book was well does so with a bold and cold arrogance. Auditor Hector Balderas is leading the become when sides are taken. received by critics and nicely endorsed by peer authors Like Romney, Weh is a multimil- fight against corruption,” an announcer Governor in 2014 on a Democrat Friendly with then-Gov. Bill Richardson, a former including Douglas Preston, lionaire. He made his comments at the intones with urgency. The ad gets ticket against Martinez was ‘true’ secretary of the U.S. Energy Department, the Plame/ New Mexico readers David Baldacci and Lee ABQ Economic Forum, a group heavily credibility by using actual TV news clips Wilsons were welcomed into Santa Fe and found can pick up a copy of Child. weighted with affluent business owners about various Balderas investigations. The second title in Plame, a covert CIA operative whose area of what Plame calls “that rare mixture of cultures and “Burned” and meet and executives. The circumstances were The ad proceeds at a compelling pace, the Vanessa Pierson expertise was the determination of who had what intelligence” that made them feel like they could not the authors during eerily similar to those of Romney, who delivering these money lines: “Balderas series, “Burned,” (Blue only exhale but dig in. readings and signings made his 47 percent comment before a cracked down on corrupt politicians from nuclear technology and weapons within foreign Rider Press/Penguin, hard group of wealthy supporters. both parties” and “the independence to governments, and Wilson, a career diplomat and And, over the last seven years, dig in they have. at 6 p.m. Nov. 5 at cover, $26.95) is now hitting As with the Romney ad, the Udall spot protect the people of New Mexico.” outspoken former Ambassador to the African coun- Wilson, a business consultant, has a reputation as Santa Fe’s Collected bookstores. Readers will has the feel of a campaign tipping point. With that, Balderas separated himself try of Gabon, spent the next couple of years writing a sharp – if intensely blunt – go-to person for those Works, 202 Galisteo once again get to follow the Sometimes your campaign trackers strike from corruption charges that have books that shared with the world their versions of seeking advice on global affairs. Plame works at the St.; and at 7 p.m. Nov. covert ops officer – this time gold. This may be one of those times. haunted state Democrats in recent years what happened. Santa Fe Institute when she’s not speaking around 6 at Albuquerque’s from Paris to Amsterdam The video of a working woman mopping and that were employed against them in The books happened in quick succession – Wil- the country on her personal passion, ending nuclear Bookworks, 4022 Rio to Venice to Istanbul – as the floor as Weh’s comments are repeat- the 2010 gubernatorial contest. son’s “The Politics of Truth: A Diplomat’s Memoir: proliferation. Grande Blvd. N.E. she hunts down Bhoot, edly aired drives the point home and The Balderas ad makes the viewer Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed my the world’s most notorious may have put the nails in Weh’s political believe it should be a seamless and Wife’s CIA Identity,” came out in 2005, followed by nuclear arms dealer. coffin. natural transition for Balderas to continue ‘How can we pick up the paper so While Twain was right about truth often being A series of memorable TV and radio his battle against corruption as attorney Plame’s “Fair Game: How A Top CIA Agent Was ads also may be looked back upon as general. That’s controlling the message. Betrayed By Her Own Government” in 2007. often and see stories about people stranger than fiction, Plame and Lovett have done enough skillful blending that readers may well be left another campaign tipping point. This If you are offended that political ads Why They are Here being arrested for their sixth, time it’s the race for governor. Dem manipulate your emotions and lead you seventh, eighth DWI violation? wondering whether the world and the world’s safety hopeful Gary King, struggling financially to make false choices, consider this. Both Plame’s and Wilson’s books were bombshells really is in the hands of the few as opposed to the many, in September and unable to have any TV Campaign professionals say a viewer in Washington, D.C., as George Bush struggled Are you kidding me?!’ as well as where fiction and the truth merge. on the air, was hammered relentlessly by needs about 10 exposures to a political through his second term and the cost of the war in An author and speaker who loves engaging with her readers and her audience, Plame grins when asked if Gov. Susana Martinez over the “Casa- ad for it to have maximum effect – so just Iraq escalated. In 2007, they moved to New Mexico. In 2010, Plame saw “Fair Game,” turned into a there’s a wink-wink, nudge-nudge component to the nova Con Man.” call it quits after No. 9. Plame says she and her husband chose The Land big screen box office success starring Naomi Watts This hit had as its centerpieces the Vanessa Pierson series that allows those who attend of Enchantment in part because of her former career and Sean Penn. Since then, in partnership with perennial audience pleasers of sex and Joe Monahan is a veteran of New Mexico her readings and book signings not only to ask ques- – she’d spent significant amount of time at Los Santa Fe-based mystery writer Sarah Lovett, she has political intrigue. In a gripping narrative, politics whose daily blog can be found at tions but to feel as if they’re privy to an inside joke. Alamos Nuclear Laboratory – and because, she says, turned her attention to writing novels about – what viewers are told how the Casanova Con joemonahan.com – Betsy Model cont. on page 16 PAGE 8 • October 22, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS OPINION NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • October 22, 2014 • PAGE 9 Martinez Administration APD Veteran Calls for ‘Yes’ Metro Court Candidate Knows the System – Maybe Too Well Is as Transparent as Mud On Mental Health Question BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI Albuquerque’s hile it’s almost impossible 21, 1996, when she was 19. She BY PAT DAVIS, ProgressNowNM.org BY THOMAS GROVER Premier Facility Wto get through life with- was charged with driving on usana Martinez came into office after newspapers sued her to get it. or eight years, I patrolled the streets should be to reduce law enforcement’s out getting parking or traffic a suspended license, no auto - for - Spromising to run “the most transpar- To be fair, the governor has had the Fin the Valley as an Albuquerque police encounters with the mentally ill. The tickets, one candidate for insurance, no vehicle registration ent administration in history.” If you ask chance to make new law when it comes officer. For me, interacting with people in existing policy of not having any policy Bernalillo County Magistrate and improper use of evidence her staff, they’ll tell you she’s done just to transparency. various states of mental health disorders has been painfully expensive, as we’ve Court judgeship has racked up of registration. She failed to Mock Trials & that. Maybe she has, but she sure has a So far, I’ve counted almost a half- was not a daily or weekly incident but seen with the Hyde and Boyd incidents. a decent string of tickets since appear for a court hearing and funny way of showing it. dozen times that newspapers and truly was an hourly occurrence. In contrast, San Antonio and Bexar 1996. a warrant was issued in the case Just weeks into her administration, reporters have sued the governor or And as I look back over the past County, Texas, have become a model Vidalia Chavez, the by Judge Theresa Gomez. Focus Groups a New Mexico Supreme Court battle her administration for failing to give up decade, most of the high-profile for addressing underlying issues of men- Democratic candidate for Chavez and her ex-husband, erupted over her administration’s use of public records that show how her ad- incidents involving our community’s law tal illness. Their “smart justice” program the Division 14 Metro Court Encinias, were sued on Dec. • Trial planning and issue spotting, private emails to let dairy industry lob- ministration is working. The Las Cruces enforcement agencies involved persons diverts people with serious mental seat, has been ticketed on 14 4, 2013, in Bernalillo County in-house facilitators byists write orders turning back pollution Sun-News, New Mexico In Depth, even with mental health issues. Nearly 10 illness out of jail and into treatment. City different dates, sometimes for District Court for allegedly fail- • Mock jury services rules designed to protect air and water. the New Mexico Foundation for Open years ago, John Hyde went on a killing and county agencies and nonprofits multiple offenses, over the last ing to repay $36,000 in student • Witness preparation Lobbyist Pat Rogers set up meetings Government, have gone to court to get spree and killed five people, including there came together and created a 18 years, Metro Court records loans. The attorney who filed with the governor’s chief of staff to public records she squirreled away. two Albuquerque police officers. This “Restoration Center,” which offers a 48- show. the suit, Darren Tallman, did • Simulated court and deliberation venues discuss his clients’ contract managing When reporters seeking her travel past spring, we had the incident involv- hour inpatient psychiatric unit, outpatient While most of the tickets not return several phone calls lottery games – using those same “off records asked the state Supreme ing James Boyd up in the foothills, which services, detox and substance abuse were routine parking viola- inquiring about the case. • Political polling the record” email accounts. They got Court to step in, her lawyer made the brought national attention to our city and treatment, and assistance with housing. tions, other charges included Gruber said his wife didn’t Rogers in trouble, too, after his emails to audacious claim that the governor is the state’s largest police force. The results have been telling. Jails parking on a sidewalk, run- know about the lawsuit because Call 505-263-8425 or email the governor’s staff denounced planned exempt from public records laws and I was on duty the day Hyde went on are less full, people are getting the ning a stop sign, driving she had not been served with pa- [email protected] meetings with Native Americans as that the court has no jurisdiction over her his rampage, and I know first-hand the help they need, and the community has without insurance and driving pers regarding it. “Perhaps they “disrespectful” to the memory of notori- unilateral decision to grant herself this effect it had on APD as an institution. As saved more than $50 million in the past on a suspended license. And discovered they were Mario’s 6608 Gulton Court NE, Alb. 87109 new status. five years. Vidalia Chavez for Metro Court Facebook page ous Indian-killer Gen. Custer. a street officer, I often wondered how in several cases, judges had to loans and not hers,” Gruber said. Martinez’s official staff was included Add all of this to new revelations that, many could-be “John Hydes” I en- On Nov. 4, Bernalillo County has issue warrants for Chavez’s Vidalia Chavez, a candidate for Metro Court, leads her campaign contingent in the Mario Encinias could not be on them all, as was Martinez on a few. weeks before a nonpublic audit was countered – whether it was the woman an opportunity to vote in support of a State Fair Parade last month. failure to appear in court or reached for comment. Since then, Martinez’s appointed sec- even complete, members of her admin- running around naked in Civic Plaza; 1/8 cent gross receipts tax advisory pay the tickets, records show. retary of the Department of Corrections istration secretly traveled to Arizona to the disoriented man lost in the library at question that would promote a similar the 14 instances in which Chavez was Dennis Domrzalski is an associate editor told the press that she was directed meet with firms they later would appoint Fifth and Copper; or the catatonic male mental-health triage center here. If the Chavez eventually paid all fines in ticketed came after her graduation at ABQ Free Press. Reach him at trialmetrixnm.com to use personal emails to avoid public to take over behavioral health firms who continued to walk up Eighth Street advisory question passes, the Bernalillo connection with all the tickets. from law school, with three occurring records requests for communications. targeted by their audit. Not to mention refusing to talk or stop for officers as he County Commission is committed to In addition, Chavez and her ex- in 2013 and 2014. [email protected] Want to know how the administration new allegations that hard drives full of continued on his deliberate path that led moving forward on legislation in 2015. husband, Mario Encinias, have been Chavez didn’t respond to several spent millions of dollars on an “audit” of emails from the governor and her staff to an elementary school. Increased mental health funding will sued in state District Court for their inquiries about her string of tickets. behavioral health providers that sup- were “intentionally destroyed” after Sadly in the Albuquerque area, when make our community safer for individu- alleged failure to repay more than Her husband, Chad Gruber, also an posedly uncovered fraud? Nope. The she left the Doña Ana County District law enforcement officers encounter als, families and, in turn, will help law $36,000 in student loans. attorney, said parking tickets weren’t administration says that’s private, even Attorney’s Office. people with mental health disorders, our enforcement do their job. It will result in that big of a deal. after the New Mexico attorney general Like I said, if this is transparency, options are limited. We either transport taxpayer savings by reducing the high Chavez’s tickets include “Ms. Chavez is a very well-qualified checked the math and found no fraud in Susana Martinez sure has a funny way them to UNM’s mental health hospital or costs of incarceration and hospitalization parking on a sidewalk, candidate. She is in the middle of a the first few cases he’d checked. of showing it. they get booked into the jail. Today, and also get those in crisis the treatment very busy campaign and I would think they need. driving on a suspended Want to know whether the governor Bernalillo County’s Metropolitan Detention that a number of parking tickets is not stays in the presidential suite of the Four Pat Davis is the executive director of Center is overcrowded. Half the people I ask you to join me and vote “yes.” license, driving without a very pressing matter,” Gruber said. Seasons or in the corner room of the Motel ProgressNowNM, a nonpartisan there are receiving psychiatric services. Chavez’s opponent, Metro Court 6 when she travels on our dime? No, thank progressive group that has been critical Now, as a lawyer, I realize there is no Thomas Grover is an attorney and a former insurance, running a stop you. The governor won’t give that up, even of the Martinez administration. easy solution. As a community, our goal APD sergeant. sign and no vehicle Judge Peg Holguin, former executive director of the New Mexico Judicial registration. In several Standards Commission, was ticketed To the Editor Dear Editor: Both my parents had to work, pay for their education, cases she failed to on Jan. 27, 2006, for not having proof of In your article entitled “Susana, Dianna Believe Less get jobs and raise their children, all without welfare appear in court insurance, Metro Court records show. (via voicemail) is More,” in the Sept. 24 issue by Dan Vukelich, it was assistance. stated that it was an unreasonable request to expect There are options and solutions to consistently being My name is Chris. I’d really like to know how come Chavez, 38, graduated from the ‘Ms. Chavez is a very generation upon generation upon generation on welfare, i.e., go back to school. There are programs out here in Albuquerque (I’m from out east, I’m in University of New Mexico’s School of of welfare and food stamp recipients to work. where they will watch your children, etc., so at least well-qualified candidate. Georgia) you say you’re a free press, but I read stuff in Law in 2006 and is a former member Well, as a taxpayer, I am fed up with having to pay for make an attempt. Why should the working public pay She is in the middle of a your paper, and you are clearly liberal. of the Albuquerque Police Oversight uneducated [people], having welfare mentalities and not for others to have children and care for them when we You are clearly a homo and you like homos, and that’s Commission. very busy campaign and I wanting to do more than keep having babies that they have our own families to support. I do not feel sympathy “My dedication to the Law and to fine, if that’s what you want. But a lot of us Americans, cannot afford to take care of just to get additional food for these individuals who are living off of welfare and would think that a number the people of New Mexico is why I we don’t go for that sort of thing. If you put out a free stamps and welfare. This has gone on too long. food stamps at the taxpayer’s expense. of parking tickets is not a am running for Metropolitan Court press, why don’t you put out everyone’s opinion instead New Mexico is like a “leech state” sucking the blood New Mexico is almost No. 1 in the nation with people very pressing matter’ of citing those on your side. from others to maintain a status of “mañana,” not receiving welfare and getting social security disability. Judge,” Chavez’s campaign website Thank you very nice. I would actually respect you for wanting to work nor educate themselves, just counting The majority of these individuals have never worked a says. “After years of work as an – candidate’s husband the opposite opinion. I have no respect for you now. the number of welfare babies that they have introduced day in their lives. So why should we, the individuals that attorney at the Metropolitan Court, — Chris into society. have been working for years, support these individuals handling jury trials, bench trials, Holguin said she had no knowledge Editor’s note: We received Chris’ I am not a big fan of Susana Martinez but it is about financially all while depleting our social security funds hearings and years of working on the of Chavez’s ticket history and voicemail after we ran a cover image of Neil Patrick Harris in time that someone does something with the bloodsuck- from those who have worked to earn these benefits. Metropolitan Court Rules Committee, wouldn’t comment other than to say, drag following his Tony award win for his role in “Hedwig and ers who prey on the system while working people pay Food stamps and welfare was first established as I hope to bring my experience to the “That’s something the voters would the Angry Inch.” for them to do absolutely nothing. If you don’t have emergency funding, not a way of life. position of Metropolitan Court Judge.” have to make a decision about.” anyone to watch your children stop having children. — Sherrie Lynn Sanderson Despite that dedication, eight of Chavez got her first tickets on June PAGE 10 • October 22, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • October 22, 2014 • PAGE 11 Will New Police Board Be UNM ‘Sex Week’ Apology Silvery Minnow is Rio Grande’s Canary in the Coal Mine Raises Free Speech Doubts By Laura Paskus More Effective than Old One? ven if most people living in Albuquerque backwaters, the tiny fish steers clear of the main BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI BY SABRINA AUTRY Edon’t make it to the banks of the Rio Grande channel. As a fact sheet from the New Mexico lbuquerque’s new police oversight The board selection process ithin a period of two days, UNM “O-Face Oral.” all that often – peering over the Montaño bridge Department of Game and Fish points out, “the defended Sex Week, then after cov- Reid Mihalko, a relationship and sex while struck in traffic doesn’t quite count, nor species does not need a large quantity of water Aagency has the potential to be as Under the old system, each city W toothless and ineffective as its discred- erage by the news media and pressure expert who has appeared on Oprah, does walking your dog along the irrigation but it does need continuous flow.” councilor appointed a member from his ditches – the river’s role here is critical. ited predecessor, the Police Oversight from a conservative group, expressed VH1 and CBS, spoke at the UNM In recent years, however, not enough water has or her district to the board. While that Some of the city’s water comes from the Rio Commission (POC). regret and issued a public apology. event. “It used to be where students been left in the river to ensure survival of the ensured citywide representation on the Grande, via the Albuquerque Drinking Water three-inch long fish. Each year, when the river It also has the opportunity to bring a The episode has students and organiz- were encouraged to have controversial nine-member board, it left open the idea Project, which came online in 2008. The river also dries, biologists survey the channel, seining new and higher level of oversight to the ers wondering about the future of free discussions,” he said of the UNM that councilors could appoint friends speech at the university. provides sustenance for fields and orchards and puddles for minnows. The live ones are scooped Albuquerque Police Department. apology. and favorites who basically would be Sex Week was a voluntary event Sept. Official UNM policy does encourage habitat for wildlife. It’s the reason humans have out, dropped into makeshift tanks on the backs We won’t know what will happen until representing individual councilors and 29-Oct. 2 hosted by UNM’s Women controversial discussions. UNM’s Busi- lived in this valley for thousands of years. of ATVs and trucked to a section of the river early next year when the new Police not city residents. Resource Center at the Student Union ness Policies and Procedures Manual According to an environmental history of the that’s flowing. Oversight Board (POB) and the Civilian Under the new process, the City Council Building. Summer Little, director of Policy 2220 states: Middle Rio Grande, the riparian cottonwood So few minnows survive in the Middle Rio Police Oversight Agency begin operat- staff will screen applicants for the nine- the WRC, was quoted on UNM’s news “The exchange of diverse viewpoints forest – the bosque – along the river has existed Grande today that biologists also collect eggs ing, but we can look at the new agency’s member POB. Council staff will send a list site prior to the event as saying, “Sex may expose people to ideas some find here for about two million years. in the spring for hatcheries and then stock the structure and how it might do business. of up to 18 candidates to the council, which Week is part of the Women’s Resource offensive, even abhorrent. The way that It wasn’t surprising then, that when Mayor young fish in the river each fall. Last fall, when First, the downside. Center’s strategy to prevent sexual then will choose the board members. ideas are expressed may cause discom- Richard Berry came out with his “Rio Grande biologists sampled for minnows at 20 sites from The POB and its staff will have the violence from occurring on campus.” While the new selection process removes fort to those who disagree with them. Vision” – a plan to boost recreational use of the north of Bernalillo south to Elephant Butte they authority to investigate civilian com- On Oct. 1, the UNM administration some power from city councilors, it gives The appropriate response to such speech bosque – response from the local chapter of the found the species at only three sites. plaints against the police department, renounced support for the event. The lots more authority to the council staff. is speech expressing opposing ideas and Sierra Club and valley neighborhood associa- This summer, things were a bit better: They apology made headlines around the continued dialogue, not curtailment of make recommendations for disciplinary tions was swift: many people don’t want to see found one or two minnows at about half the sites. Dedicated funding source United States. speech.” action against cops, as well as recom- any development, commercial projects, paved Despite its mandate to enforce the Endangered mend policy changes for APD. But no Hunter Riley, a Sex Week coordinator On Sept. 29, in the “Inside UNM” The old POC’s budget could change who works as a manager at Self-Serve trails or boat ramps. They worried the mayor’s Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service one — not the mayor, not the police from year to year, depending on the section of the university’s website, Mara Sexuality, a Nob Hill sex accessories - plan didn’t protect wildlife or prevent non- legally allows the Rio Grande to dry from the chief and not individual police officers desire to properly fund it. One way to Kerkez, a UNM publicist, acknowl shop, criticized the university for edged: “The provocative nature of the native plants from continuing to overtake the Pueblo of Isleta all the way to Elephant Butte — has to listen to or do what the board ensure that a police oversight system apologizing and for calling topics of the titles of the workshops has spurred a lot cottonwood groves. Reservoir. Gensler points out that cooperative recommends. It’s all voluntary, just as it doesn’t oversee anything is simply to event “sensational and controversial.” of conversations about the appropriate- Lively debate over the health of the bosque – efforts among agencies prevented that sort of was under the POC. not fund it. Now, the POB and its staff Riley has started a petition in support ness of sex education on campus. and how to spend taxpayer money maintaining drying from occurring this year. That concerns activist Danny Her- will have a dedicated funding source of of Sex Week that has garnered more “UNM’s policy on free speech it – is well and proper. But both sides left the This spring, the minnow is doing better than nandez, who says the oversight process one half of 1 percent of APD’s operating than 1,000 signatures. describes why a college campus is a cor- most pressing problem out of the discussion – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2012 or 2013. But Thomas Archdeacon, a fish should be stronger. budget, which for the POB will amount “If you look at any Sex Week that has rect venue for debate and controversial that is, that the Rio Grande itself is imperiled. When biologists rescue endangered silvery minnows from the dry Rio Grande riverbed and biologist with the New Mexico Fish and Wildlife “It’s kind of halfway between what happened at universities elsewhere, it is to about $750,000 a year. That makes it topics,” Kerkez wrote. Legally, water managers must ensure the relocate them to other wet stretches of the river, other species – including carp, red shiners, Conservation Office, points out that its popula- really typical to see some sort of nega- was going on and what those of us who immune from politics. But on Oct. 1, Eliseo “Cheo” Torres, river flows year-round through Albuquerque. mosquito fish, and catfish – are left to die. tion is nowhere close to its pre-drought status. tive backlash, and that is how we know would like to see real reform would like. vice president of UNM student affairs, But south of the city, the state’s largest river is Last year, biologists stocked almost 300,000 Policy role it is important to have these conversa- It is still advisory and has no teeth,” wrote in the school’s official apol- allowed to run dry during irrigation season, miles of the river in southern New Mexico are silvery minnows in the river; this year, they’ll tions,” Riley said. “However, I was not Hernandez said. “It can investigate The ordinance that created the POB ogy, “The initiative did not have clear as the river’s waters are siphoned into the valley’s sandy almost 9 months out of the year – if not for a prepared for UNM’s administration to stock another 271,000. Despite hopes for a decent more than the previous one did, but says that 51 percent of the agency’s oversight or close enough supervision to apologize for it.” canals and ditches for farmers. rare fish that’s been protected since 1994 under the snowpack and spring runoff to boost the river’s I would like to see an oversight com- time and resources must be devoted to prevent the inclusion of topics that are The petition’s purpose is to give Summer rains helped keep the river wet this year, federal Endangered Species Act. flows, Archdeacon isn’t overly optimistic: “It’s a mittee that has the ability to subpoena, sensational and controversial.” examining APD policies and to making students a way to support Sex Week said David Gensler, hydrologist with the Middle Habitat for the Rio Grande Silvery Minnow used pretty horrible situation out there,” he said. The UNM Students for Life group led investigate and indict, completely recommendations to change them. The going forward and to show the UNM Rio Grande Conservancy District. So, too, did the to include about 3,000 miles of the Rio Grande and Say what you will about the fish – that they don’t opposition to the event when it posted separate from city government and former POC had no such authority. APD administration that its apology did release of supplemental water by the U.S. Bureau of its tributary, the Pecos River. Today, the minnow is matter, they’re not good eatin’– but their low num- a flier with the Sex Week event schedule without city government having any brass won’t have to listen or act on those a “disservice to survivors of sexual Reclamation from upstream reservoirs. confined in the Middle Rio Grande to a 173-mile bers do say something about the health of the river. on Facebook with the caption, “We oversight over its decisions.” policy recommendations, but it won’t be assault” by undermining the teaching of And yet, more than 20 miles of the Rio Grande stretch of river that’s divided by dams and diver- And perhaps the three-inch-long fish even says cannot believe that UNM is hosting an The upside, according to City Council able to silently ignore them. honest and vital sex education. south of Albuquerque still dried this season. Last sions into three separate sections. (A few years ago, something about our own future in the valley. event like this! We have already sent President Ken Sanchez, is that the POB “The chief of police shall respond “By calling topics of normal adult year, about 30 miles dried. In 2012, it was more than the fish was also reintroduced in a stretch of the a letter to the Dean and the President will be somewhat isolated from political in writing within 45 days to any such sexuality ‘sensational and controver- 50 miles. river in Big Bend National Park in Texas.) Laura Paskus is an independent journalist who lives expressing our concern, and we encour- influence from the mayor’s office and policy recommendations by the [Police sial,’” UNM administrators and officials age you to do the same.” The drying wouldn’t be a big deal – some 200 Living in shallow eddies, oxbows, and silty in Albuquerque. Oversight Board] and indicate whether promote fear, shame, and judgment, the City Council. It also has a mandate Katherine Schweizer, president of that the POC lacked. they will be followed through standard the petition says. “The prevalence of Students for Life, attended the Sex Week Jim Wagner is a freelance reporter who lives in In monkey studies, transfer of antibodies isolated “One of the things we recommended operating procedures or should be shame and silence has led directly to the Ebola Fears, Page 5 seminar titled, “O-Face Oral.” “I was Albuquerque. Reach him at daddywagsediting.com from the blood of animals that have survived infec- was that 51 percent of their duties adopted as policy by the City Council, alarming frequency of sexual assault in our society at large and New Mexico disappointed that they didn’t really Some advice: Be more sanitary than you’ve ever tion is very effective in protecting other monkeys would be to look at policies within the or explain any reasons why such policy especially,” it says. address how to prevent sexual assault,” been. Wash your hands. Keep a bottle of hand Here’s an update on Ebola from Steven Bradfute, an Ebola infected with Ebola virus. This treatment is more ef- APD,” Sanchez said. “Their focus will recommendations will not be followed she said. Riley said most opposition to the sanitizer handy. Wipe down doorknobs and toilet vaccine researcher with UNM Department of Internal ficient the sooner it is given, but has been remarkably no longer be to listen to cases but to set or should not be adopted,” the ordi- In response to UNM’s apology, UNM event came from people who didn’t seats and anything else we typically touch. Of Medicine and Center for Global Health: protective in most studies. So it’s an experimental yet new policies and directions, which is not nance creating the agency reads. student Shelby Page said, “I think that attend Sex Week. She noted that she course, avoid direct contact with an infected person very promising approach to treating sick patients. being done now.” City Councilor Brad Winter said that the university should go into the next didn’t see any UNM administrators at or animal; it’s their blood, bodily fluids, and tissue hen people are infected with Ebola virus and There are several vaccines that have been effective And while the POB is charged with while the new oversight process isn’t year with pride and confidence and any of the workshops. transmission that infects. Wsurvive, they develop proteins that specifically in protecting monkeys from Ebola virus. Two of these setting new policies for APD, the perfect, it’s far better than what had understand that there are some students Sex Week was a four-day seminar An extreme option would be locking yourself bind to and neutralize Ebola. These antibodies – as are now in early Phase I clinical trials in humans. department isn’t required to implement been in place. “What we had before hosted by the Women’s Resource that don’t see the positivity in the in your home so that you don’t come into contact well as T cells, which can kill virus-infected cells There has been some talk of using experimental those recommendations. Here’s a look did not work at all,” Winter said. Center that offered information about event.” with anyone. Of course, that option could be a – are what give the survivors immunity to future vaccines in populations that are at high risk for Ebola at some differences between the new consensual safe sex through a series lifesaver, but only if you’ve “prepped” sufficiently infection. The antibodies are found in the blood, and infection, but it’s too early to tell if that will occur. Dennis Domrzalski is an associate editor of seminars. Seminar titles included: Sabrina Autry is a Central New Mexico police oversight effort and what was to outlast the pandemic that sent you indoors in the are present in plasma or serum isolated from the previously in place: at ABQ Free Press. Reach him at “How to be a Gentleman and Get Laid,” Community College student and journal- [email protected] “Sexy Mamas,” “I Heart Orgasms,” and ism intern at ABQ Free Press. first place. blood of Ebola virus survivors. District 2_ABQFreePress_6x11.625_101014.pdf 1 10/13/14 11:35 AM District 2_ABQFreePress_6x11.625_101014.pdf 2 10/13/14 11:35 AM

PAGE 12 • October 22, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS ABQ FREE PRESS • October 22, 2014 • PAGE 13 Retention Report to Voters Retention Report to Voters Statewide Statewide 2nd Judicial District: Bernalillo County 2nd Judicial District: Bernalillo County (page 1) (page 2)

The Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission makes The Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission makes the following summary recommendations to voters: the following summary recommendations to voters:

Honorable Edward L. Chavez Honorable Christina P. Argyres Honorable Charles W. Brown Honorable Jacquline Dolores Flores Honorable Alan M. Malott Honorable Deborah Davis Walker New Mexico Supreme Court 2nd Judicial District Court 2nd Judicial District Court 2nd Judicial District Court 2nd Judicial District Court 2nd Judicial District Court

100 100 100 100 100

80 Insufficent time in current 80 97% 100% 98% 80 Of those surveyed, Of those surveyed, 80 Of those surveyed, 80 Of those position to evaluate. Of those 87% 88% 88% 87% 61% of attorneys, 87% of attorneys and 78% of attorneys and surveyed, 60 surveyed, 84% 60 78% 60 81% 71% 60 60 87% of JPEC Rules allow for an evaluation only if 68% of 71% of court staff 88% of court staff 88% of court staff a judge has served at least two years in 68% and 47% of 61% recommended recommended attorneys, 40 attorneys, 40 40 40 40 97% of court staff, 100% of the current position or has sufficient data to achieve a 84% of court staff and 81% of resource staff recommended 47% retaining Judge Malott. retaining Judge Walker. appellate judges and 98% of 20 statistically valid sample. Judge Argyres has served on the resource staff recommended 20 retaining Judge Flores. 20 20 20 district judges recommended Second Judicial Court since January 2013. retaining Judge Brown. retaining Justice Chavez. 0 0 0 0 0 Attorneys Court Appellate District Attorneys Court Resource Attorneys Court Resource Attorneys Court Attorneys Court Staff Judges Judges Staff Staff Staff Staff Staff Staff

Honorable Cynthia A. Fry Honorable Shannon Bacon Honorable Carl J. Butkus Honorable Alisa Ann Hadfield Honorable Nan G. Nash Honorable Stan Whitaker New Mexico Supreme Court 2nd Judicial District Court 2nd Judicial District Court 2nd Judicial District Court 2nd Judicial District Court 2nd Judicial District Court 100 100 100 100 100 100

80 80 100% 80 80 97% C 97% 96% C 80 80 Of those 92% 80% 88% Of those 60 Of those 86% Of those surveyed, 84% Of those surveyed, Of those surveyed, surveyed, 60 81% 60 81% M surveyed, 80% 79% surveyed, 75% M 74% of attorneys and 60 74% 88% of attorneys and 60 72% of attorneys, 60 81% of 75% 72% 40 of attorneys 40 of attorneys 84% of court staff 100% of court staff 97% of court staff Y attorneys, 40 Y and 79% of and 86% of recommended 40 recommended 40 and 81% of 40 97% of court staff, 92% of CM 20 court staff recommended 20 court staff recommended CM retaining Judge Hadfield. retaining Judge Nash. resource staff recommended appellate judges and 96% of 20 retaining Judge Bacon. retaining Judge Butkus. 20 20 retaining Judge Whitaker. 20 MY district judges recommended 0 MY 0 0 retaining Judge Fry. Attorneys Court Appellate District Attorneys Court Attorneys Court 0 0 0 Attorneys Court Attorneys Court Attorneys Court Resource CY Staff Judges Judges Staff Staff CY Staff Staff Staff Staff

CMY CMY Honorable Linda M. Vanzi Honorable Denise Barela-Shepherd Honorable Clay Pace Campbell Honorable Valerie A. Huling Honorable William E. Parnall Honorable Elizabeth Whitefield K New Mexico Court of Appeals 2nd Judicial District Court 2nd Judicial District Court K 2nd Judicial District Court 2nd Judicial District Court 2nd Judicial District Court

100 100 100 100 100 100 91% 80 97% 80 80 80 100% 80 80 Of those surveyed, 92% Of those surveyed, Of those surveyed, 90% Of those 92% 93% Of those Of those surveyed, 92% of attorneys and 80% of attorneys, 80% 90% of attorneys and 60 surveyed, 60 surveyed, 86% 60 60 75% 60 79% 79% 78% 60 97% of court staff 75% of court staff 91% of court staff 79% of 79% of attorneys, 74% of attorneys 74% 65% attorneys, recommended 40 and 65% of recommended 40 39% of court 40 and 86% of 40 40 40 retaining Judge Huling. resource staff recommended retaining Judge Whitefield. 92% of court staff, 100% of staff and 78% of resource staff court staff recommended 20 retaining Judge Parnall. 20 20 appellate judges and 93% of 20 recommended retaining 20 39% retaining Judge Campbell. 20 district judges recommended Judge Barela-Shepherd . retaining Judge Vanzi. 0 0 0 0 0 0 Attorneys Court Appellate District Attorneys Court Resource Attorneys Court Attorneys Court Attorneys Court Resource Attorneys Court Staff Judges Judges Staff Staff Staff Staff Staff Staff Staff

Honorable Jim Wechsler Honorable Beatrice J. Brickhouse Honorable Benjamin Chavez Honorable Gerard J. Lavelle Honorable John J. Romero, Jr. Honorable Briana H. Zamora New Mexico Court of Appeals 2nd Judicial District Court 2nd Judicial Distrcit Court 2nd Judicial District Court 2nd Judicial District Court 2nd Judicial District Court 100 100 100 100 Insufficent time in current Insufficent time in current position to evaluate. 98% 80 100% 80 80 92% 80 96% position to evaluate. Of those 96% Of those Of those surveyed, Of those surveyed, 88% surveyed, 89% 80% 60 85% surveyed, 71% 60 JPEC Rules allow for an evaluation only if 92% of attorneys and 60 88% of attorneys, 60 JPEC Rules allow for an evaluation only if 85% of of attorneys 71% 70% a judge has served at least40% two years in 98% of court staff 96% of court staff a judge has served at least two years in attorneys, 40 and 70% of court 40 the current position or has sufficient data recommended 40 and 80% of 40 the current position or has sufficient data 89% of court staff, 100% of staff recommended retaining to achieve a statistically valid sample. Judge Chavez has retaining Judge Lavelle. resource staff recommended to achieve a statistically valid sample. Judge Zamora has appellate judges and 96% of 20 Judge Brickhouse. 20 served on the Second Judicial Court since January 2013. 20 retaining Judge Romero. 20 served on the Second Judicial Court since January 2013. district judges recommended retaining JudgeWechsler. 0 0 0 0 Attorneys Court Appellate District Attorneys Court Attorneys Court Attorneys Court Resource Staff Judges Judges Staff Staff Staff Staff

ABOUT JPEC AND OUR REPORT TO VOTERS ABOUT JPEC AND OUR REPORT TO VOTERS The New Mexico Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission (JPEC) is a nonpartisan commission that surveys groups that The New Mexico Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission (JPEC) is a nonpartisan commission that surveys groups have contact with each judge to make our recommendations to voters. We rely on personal interviews with each justice or www.nmjpec.org that have contact with each judge to make our recommendations to voters. We rely on personal interviews with each www.nmjpec.org judge standing for retention along with select courtroom observations. 1-800-687-3417 justice or judge standing for retention along with select courtroom observations. 1-800-687-3417 DON’T VOTE WITHOUT THE INFORMATION YOU NEED DON’T VOTE WITHOUT THE INFORMATION YOU NEED District 2_Metro-ABQ Free Press_6x11.625_101014.pdf 1 10/13/14 10:30 AM PAGE 14 • October 22, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS OPINION ABQ FREE PRESS • October 22, 2014 • PAGE 15 Retention Report to Voters Come on, Libs, Give Susana Metropolitan Court (Bernalillo County) Her Due on Taxes, Education BY JEFFRY GARDNER

The Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission makes the friend’s biggest Americans are out of work. And while Acomplaint with the unemployment figure has curiously following summary recommendations to voters: Susana Martinez is dipped below 6 percent just in time for “she really hasn’t the elections, it’s worth noting that a done anything.” good part of this “decline” is from people Honorable Henry A. Alaniz Honorable Kevin L. Fitzwater Honorable Victor E. Valdez That’s not entirely simply giving up. Metropolitan Court Metropolitan Court Metropolitan Court accurate. It’s just King has also attacked Martinez 100 100 100 that what she has on education, with a TV ad that says 80 in the vaguest way possible – typical 90% 80 94% 91% 80 89% done hasn’t come Of those 84% Of those 81% Of those 80% 87% with a shiny new train attached to it, of campaign ads – that New Mexico surveyed, 60 73% surveyed, 60 surveyed, 60 or a big Star Wars-looking creation in students have “some of the lowest test 84% of attorneys, 81% of attorneys, 80% of attorneys, 90% of court 40 94% of court 40 87% of court 40 the desert. scores in the nation.” I’ll bet they do. staff and 73% of resource staff and 91% of resource staff and 89% of resource One thing she truly hasn’t done – left Probably some of the highest, as well. staff recommended retaining 20 staff recommended retaining 20 staff recommended retaining 20 state taxpayers holding the bag trying Martinez touts higher graduation Judge Alaniz. Judge Fitzwater. Judge Valdez. 0 0 0 to pay for the shiny train or Richard rates, particularly among minorities, as Attorneys Court Resource Attorneys Court Resource Attorneys Court Resource Branson’s playpen. a feather in her cap. New Mexico high Staff Staff Staff Staff Staff Staff Forgotten over the last four years schools have a 70 percent graduation Honorable Rosie Lazcano Allred Honorable Yvette K. Gonzales Honorable Sharon D. Walton were the 500 million pieces of misery rate in 2012-2013, up from 63 percent Metropolitan Court Metropolitan Court Metropolitan Court 90% Bill Richardson left as his legacy. $500 the year prior. 100 100 CALLING ALL PETS 97% 100 million in red ink. Debt. Improvement, yes, but far from stellar, 80 80 92% 73% And, and, to put us $500 mil in the of course. Professional education Toby the cat lounges on a bed, says Jose Lopez, who brought Toby, a 86% 80 Of those Of those 79% Of those surveyed, hole, Richardson had to blow through associations –which see dollar signs in one-and-a-half-year-old male, to Albuquerque from Kansas City recently. 60 surveyed, 60 81% C surveyed, 40% of attorneys, 81% 60 the $1 billion surplus his predecessor, everything – claims, yawn, that Martinez’ 86% of attorneys 63% of attorneys, 63% 81% of court “He’s actually pretty active and doesn’t lie around sleeping all day,” Jose says. 40 40 “cuts” in education funding have dam- M and 97% of 92% of court Gary Johnson, left behind. staff and 81% 40 court staff recommended staff and 79% of resource of resource staff recommended So when considering the merits of giv- aged our schools. But New Mexico’s Send it to [email protected] Y 20 staff recommended retaining 20 40% retaining Judge Allred. retaining Judge Walton. Under JPEC 20 ing Susana Martinez another four years per student average of $11,073 is just Judge Gonzales. Include your name, phone number, and your pet’s name, CM rules, eight members must agree in as governor, perhaps we should heed a touch above the national average of 0 0 and we’ll try to reserve their spot in the pet parade. Attorneys Court Attorneys Court Resource order to make a recommendation of 0 the words of billionaire Mark Cuban: “I $10,938. MY Staff Staff Staff either Retain or Do Not Retain. Eight Attorneys Court Resource members did not agree on either Staff Staff vote for the candidate who I think will do At the low end of the scale is Utah at CY recommendation; therefore, the JPEC the least.” $7,852, yet it graduates 81 percent of Honorable Edward L. Benavidez Honorable Daniel E. Ramczyk CMY Metropolitan Court Metropolitan Court makes no recommendation as to Judge Walton. Perhaps it doesn’t seem like much to its students. The District of Columbia 100 100 some, but pulling the state out of debt spends nearly $30,000 – yes, $30,000 K has to count for something. Martinez – per head and graduates about 60 80 80 94% Of those 82% 84% Of those 84% 83% ABOUT JPEC AND OUR REPORT TO pulled it off. Doing it with a Democrat- percent of its students. surveyed, 60 76% surveyed, 60 VOTERS run legislature makes it even more At the end of the day, the education 82% of attorneys, 84% of attorneys, The New Mexico Judicial Performance Evaluation noteworthy. unions’ mantra has been and always 84% of court 40 94% of court 40 Commission (JPEC) is a nonpartisan commission that In 2013, Martinez and same-said will be, “Mo’ money, mo’ money, mo’ staff and 76% of resource staff and 83% of resource staff recommended retaining 20 staff recommended retaining 20 surveys groups that have contact with each judge to Democrat-controlled legislature came money.” It’s like an old Wayans Brothers Judge Benavidez. Judge Ramczyk. make our recommendations to voters. We rely on to terms on a tax package that included routine. And along with the bottomless 0 0 personal interviews with each justice or judge Attorneys Court Resource Attorneys Court Resource a reduction in the state’s corporate tax promise that more money will yield Staff Staff Staff Staff standing for retention along with select courtroom rate. That made the state a tad more better results comes the caveat – “And observations. competitive with our neighbors (though please don’t hold us accountable.” Honorable Maria I. Dominguez Honorable Linda S. Rogers Texas has ZERO corporate tax and, Martinez has butted heads with state Metropolitan Court Metropolitan Court 100 100 to be fair, it also has a minimal profits- teachers unions. But what if she hadn’t? based franchise tax). What if she’d just rolled over and gave 80 80 Of those 84% 90% Of those 89% Will this corporate tax thing make a the unions all they wanted? Do you think surveyed, 60 78% surveyed, 60 difference in New Mexico? Well, it made for one minute they would not side with 84% of attorneys, 61% of attorneys, 61% 64% no difference during the attempt to the Democrat nominee, no matter who it 90% of court 40 89% of court 40 woo Tesla. One expects, however, that was? That, sadly, is a rhetorical ques- staff and 78% of resource staff and 64% of resource tion. staff recommended retaining 20 staff recommended retaining 20 whatever the state offered the carmaker Judge Dominguez. Judge Rogers. came with enough ribbons and bows to Ultimately, the governor’s doing a 0 0 make the corporate tax negligible. fine job. She’s not going to win the Attorneys Court Resource Attorneys Court Resource Staff Staff Staff Staff But cutting the state’s corporate tax praise of the usual suspects; in fact, one 90% should help small businesses, and, per- expects more Mother Jones-like attacks Honorable Sandra Engel Honorable Frank A. Sedillo haps that will help create jobs. Martinez over the next two years leading up to Metropolitan Court Metropolitan Court 100 100 has been knocked by King for the state’s the presidential election. Martinez is a www.nmjpec.org poor job growth. It may be that King is Hispanic female Republican, and that 80 89% 84% 80 86% unfamiliar with the disastrous economic has her in the national spotlight. The first Of those Of those policies – in the broadest sense of the female Hispanic governor in the country surveyed, 60 76% surveyed, 60 73% 1-800-687-3417 76% of attorneys, 86% of attorneys term – fashioned by Barack Obama. is – a Republican. That’s like fingernails 89% of court 40 and 73% of court 40 Nearly seven years into Obama’s tenure on a blackboard to liberals.

staff and 84% of resource 20 staff recommended retaining 20 and Democrats are still blaming Bush for staff recommended retaining Judge Sedillo. DON’T VOTE WITHOUT THE their failings. Jeffry Gardner is a Republican Judge Engel. 0 0 INFORMATION YOU NEED Attorneys Court Resource Attorneys Court More than 55 million able-bodied political consultant. Staff Staff Staff PAGE 16 • October 22, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • October 22, 2014 • PAGE 17

PLAME INTERVIEW, Page 7 being arrested for their sixth, seventh, PLAME INTERVIEW, Page 16 as opposed to your people – the eighth DWI violation? Are you kidding people of New Mexico – doesn’t that else – a female CIA operative who me?! “I’d like to see us tackle (drunk tell you something?” tracks nuclear arms dealers across the “Our state is so wonderful but driving) and the state has to, of course, A Future in Politics? globe. Her first novel, “Blowback” we need so many things and my tackle the creation of jobs. I wasn’t came out last year and the second, deepest disappointment with our happy with the corporate tax cut Plame acknowledges the rumor titled “Burned,” is hitting bookstores current governor is her lack of action passed by the Legislature last year but mill that had Joe being approached now. on anything that’s truly meaningful. then … it goes back to education again! about running for Governor in 2014 Over a number of difficult years, I believe that government can be a If you have good education then on a Democrat ticket against Martinez Proudly Serving New Mexico For Over 30 Years hounded by a press sometimes force, the force, for social good. What people will stay here. We want people – “true,” she says – but laughs when welcomed, sometimes not, Plame I see in the current administration is to stay here – not leave – and create asked if, together with her growing developed a media aplomb that, New Mexico’s very own Sarah Palin. lives here. There are so many people, profile in the media and media savvi- together with her startling good looks, She’s attractive, she’s Latina, she has a very talented people, who might want ness, politics is a course of action that has made her a popular interview great back story of being a tough DA. to come work here in New Mexico but might be next up for her. subject on topics as diverse as “I’m a newcomer but what I’ve then they hear about the schools and “You know, never say never. I’m not post-partum depression and the role gathered is that (New Mexico) is say ‘yeah, not so much.’” going to say it will never, ever, happen of the American people in holding not an intensely partisan state. It’s but I think it’s more likely for Joe. their leaders and their government very western, very practical-minded, ‘There are so many He’s not your typical diplomat but the accountable. very problem-solving except that way his mind works on foreign policy under this administration we’ve people, very talented and politics is really astonishing. He’s ‘Our state is so wonder- demonstrated, well, absolutely people, who might want politically very astute and grasps ful but we need so many nothing! And how we handled our to come work here in politics better than I do. behavioral health issue is immoral. New Mexico but then “And I so don’t think of myself as things and my deepest Absolutely immoral. No one likes the media savvy! When the leak of my disappointment with our idea of Medicare fraud but how we they hear about the name happened in 2003 I really felt current governor is her proceeded was to shut down clinics schools and say like a deer in the headlights ... like I’d and leave New Mexicans in desperate ‘yeah, not so much’’ fallen down Alice’s rabbit hole. I was Specializing in lack of action on anything need. How dare they!” still working for the CIA, and so of A+ Rating that’s truly meaningful’ What Needs to Be Done course I couldn’t even respond. Joe Plame is passionate about ending (505) 247-0736 had to carry the water for both of us.” Custom Which includes the leaders and With the Nov. 4 election nearing, nuclear proliferation and is a primary Thank goodness, Plame says, Joe 417 Summer Avenue NW the government of the state she now Plame bursts out laughing when speaker for Global Zero, the non-profit knows how to carry water pretty well. albuquerquedriveshaft.com proudly calls home. asked if she wants to place any bets on organization that advocates eliminat- “Joe is smart. He’s belligerent Driveshafts While Plame has an edit button – an outcome. ing, globally, all nuclear weapons by (laughs) when need be, but it all fell on and based on her former career skills, “It always surprises me when 2030. She readily admits that the irony him for some time. But when my book one suspects she has the ability to people have different opinions than I of living miles away from Los Alamos (“Fair Game”) came out in 2007, well, redirect a conversation should she do,” she jokes. “Isn’t that the way of and in the state that was home to The there’s nothing like learning to swim choose to – she is disarmingly direct the world?!? Gary King is a man of Manhattan Project isn’t lost on her. after being dumped into the deep end even when she fully realizes she’s go- integrity but – and I think he would Neither, she jokes, is the irony that of the pool! My first interview was live ing to whip up some nasty dust with agree with me on this – isn’t a strong Karl Rove and the Koch brothers are on “Good Morning America” and ... a particular response or a question of candidate this time around. It’s frequent visitors to Santa Fe. you learn. You have to.” her own. unfortunate because we, most likely, “I mean, I get it. They’re here in have four more years of a do-nothing support of the current administration. New Mexico resident and former NPR/ Adjusting to New Mexico administration.” The outside money coming in, in BBC correspondent Betsy Model has Plame admits that while she and What does she want to see changed? support of the administration, is just written and produced for more than 40 her family are truly committed to their an example of how flimsy it really is. international outlets including Forbes, adopted home in New Mexico, there ‘Gary King is a man of If you have to rely on that amount of Marketwatch, Playboy, Details, Biography were a few culture shocks. A biggie integrity but – and I think outside money and political support and the International Herald Tribune. for her, having two children, was the education system. he would agree with me A new senior lifestyle is coming to Rio Rancho “The biggest shock, for Santa Fe on this – isn’t a strong Antiques Roadshow Spoiler Alert with apartment styles and amenities not offered being such a caring and progressive candidate this time community in so many ways, is in other area communities. ack in July, Antiques Roadshow few high-priced appraisals to be shown that the education we provide our around. It’s unfortunate The Neighborhood is scheduled to open in 2015, giving you time to consider Bcame to Albuquerque. More than on the local episodes, according to children is so substandard. When you because we, most likely, 5,000 people assembled downtown at KNME-TV/New Mexico PBS: how beautiful your future can be. But you must act now. step back and look at this picture it’s have four more years of a the Albuquerque Convention Center to nothing short of depressing. I like A new information center is now open at 4500 Arrowhead Ridge Drive SE inRio have their treasured items assessed. Jane Peterson oil painting, bought for [Santa Fe Public Schools Supt.] Joe do-nothing administration’ Rancho (one block west of the intersection of Highway 528 on Ridgecrest Drive SE). Some of them made it onto one of the $150, appraised by Debra Force for Boyd, I think he’s making progress, three Albuquerque episodes, which will $300,000 at retail. but there’s a deep-seated culture of “Off the top of my head? Look into be aired next fall. the whole education system being using the Permanent Land Grant Chinese Snuff Bottles, appraised by run as a jobs program for the adults Fund to fund pre-K (pre-kindergarten) For a preview of the 2015 season, go James Callahan for $50,400 to $60,400 as opposed to actually attempting to but do it prudently. Exactly what to: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/ at auction; just one of them is worth the video/promo_season_19.html educate the children,” she says. rainy day fund are we waiting for to bulk of that amount. Reservations are now being taken for when the use that $15 to $20 million dollars for The new season starts at 7 p.m. on The other big culture shock? The apartments become available for occupancy. state’s drunken driving problem. our kids? You know, every politician Monday, Jan. 5, on Ch.5.1, New Mexico Sonic Blue Fender Stratocaster, PBS. Watch for updates in ABQ Free owned by a guitar player for 52 years, “How can we pick up the paper so says ‘children are our future’ but, To arrange for your visit, please call often and see stories about people well, that includes educating them! Press. appraised by Richard Johnston for In the meantime, here’s a preview of a $45,000 at auction. Ashley Trujillo at (505) 994-2296. cont. on page 17 PAGE 18 • October 22, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS MUSIC MUSIC ABQ FREE PRESS • October 22, 2014 • PAGE 19 Spotlight on Opera Southwest: In Crowd at Oxy-View Take Five: Mustafa Stefan Dill of Pray For Brain Sunshine BY Richard Oyama ‘Hamlet (Amleto)’ by Franco Faccio We Are The In Crowd’s Eyewear new hit single, “Manners,” Q: I immediately noticed the close interplay between you his production is the relationship with every has been featured on iTunes These attractive eyeglass and drummer Jefferson Voorhees at the Roost concert. TAmerican premiere other character in the “Single of the Week.” How did Pray for Brain come together with the addition of “Hamlet (Amleto).” play, for that matter) frames not only hold your Led by vocalist Taylor of bassist Christine Nelson? Over the past 10 years, has been analyzed Jardine, the band has quickly prescription lenses, they A: Jefferson and I worked as Sama Duo for about 10 years, OSW’s Music Director more than Hamlet gained popularity since the lyrics with heavy rock, and they have also deliver the oxygen which is where we developed that synergistic telepathy. Anthony Barrese himself!” release of its 2010 debut EP, “Guar- an incredible repertoire of hit after hit. you need in a way that The Duo evolved to a point where we were putting more recreated the score From Scenic Designer anteed To Disagree.” The band just It’s no surprise they’ve been asked of Franco Faccio’s Carey Wong: “David others will hardly notice structure around the improvisations, writing “songs,” if released its new album, “Weird Kids,” to tour with Mayday Parade or to you will. Still, we weren’t actively seeking or auditioning a masterpiece, not Bartholomew wanted a placing 29 on The Billboard 200 Chart. perform at major music festivals such bass player. Over the years, we had invited other bass play- performed since 1871. scenic environment for With Jardine and Jordan Eckes sing- as Leeds and Warped Tour. ...they’ll see only your ers in before, but none of them quite jelled. So we weren’t Barrese will conduct. “Amleto” that could ing verses, Robert Chianelli impres- Halfway through their worldwide smiling face. committed to bringing anyone in. The plot is faithful to appear to be spacious sively banging the drums, and Mike tour, the band’s going to be at the But along comes Chris. She met Jefferson on a pickup gig; Shakespeare’s play. with a few people on Ferri and Cameron Hurley icing over Sunshine Theater on Oct. 30 with New Call MULLER OPTICAL he was intrigued. He calls me and says, “There’s an interesting From Stage Director stage, but also some- with the bass and electric guitar, this Found Glory and Fireworks. bass player. … Let’s invite her to do a session, just for fun.” David Bartholomew: what claustrophobic band has found the formula for epic Today for your FREE She blew me out the first note, literally. She plays with “It is a thrill to be Dennis Chamberlain and smothering when sound. They have developed a unique Sabrina Autry is an editorial intern for such depth and conviction – and keep in mind, she’d never working with such Alex Richardson sings the role of larger groups ap- style by incorporating hard-hitting ABQ Free Press. Consultation heard us, never played that improvisationally before, but a fine group of sing- Hamlet in “Amleto.” peared. … To that end, she was perfect. PERFECT. ers. ‘Amleto’ is the the scenic design for biggest challenge that the opera consists of I looked at him after she left that first night and said, Oct. 26 – Nov. 2 “This changes everything. Everything we’ve done for 10 OSW has ever faced. a two-level, semicircular As you know, there Hamlet (Amleto) cast iron structure that On the Air years was just in prep for this.” Watch our arts segment on The are critics coming from sits atop a floor on Q: You’ve described your music as a hybridizing of Led National Hispanic Morning Brew with Larry Ahrens, around the globe to see which a marble pattern Zeppelin, Miles Davis, Johnny Cash, Isaac Hayes, Tagore Cultural Center, 1701 Tuesday mornings at 7:32 on this opera that Anthony suggesting a compass and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. I hear John McLaughlin’s 4th Street SW Public Access Channel 27 and later Barrese has discovered, Sunday, October 26, 2 rose and details of an Mahavishnu Orchestra in there too. Could you talk about on YouTube. 9000 Menaul NE and we certainly p.m.; Friday, October old map are painted. … the South Asian and Middle Eastern influences, including want to make a strong 31, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, Hamlet attempts to find Clan Tynker Renaissance Fair performers and (505) 296-8187 your performance on fretless guitar and oud? impression. November 2, 2 p.m. out the truth in order to Amanda Crocker from El Rancho de las Golondrinas. A: It is quite a mash-up, isn’t it? I was attracted to Indian “I set the production Tickets: $12-82; follow the right course music when I was young, delved into it, played sarod for in the period of time operasouthwest.org, of action, but the world many years with Sama Duo, till my tinnitus got the better when Freudian analysis 243-0591; of the Danish court is off of it and made it untenable. That’s when I migrated to was at a peak – around nhccnm.org, 724-4771, course – adrift in a sea fretless guitar. Oud has been in my life since 2001 or so. I Courtesy of Mustafa Stefan Dill 1912. After all, what vendini.com of criminality – its moral feel quite connected to it as well. character (and his compass compromised.” I grew up in a fairly cross-cultural environment – Mexi- that’s where music lives and magic happens, for me. can mother with Lebanese-Syrian family ties on that end, Composing varies. ... Sometimes we’ll just be improvising, [a] childhood in France, which exposed me to some Middle and something happens, and we latch on to it and build a Eastern and gypsy flamenco environments. But on the structure around that. Sometimes someone will bring in a other hand, I was a rock ‘n’ roll kid, too. Got into jazz and line or rhythm or just a feel, and we develop it together. It’s a Music Briefs fusion, later went deep for free jazz in my college days; very collaborative process, which is a joy to work in. BY Sabrina AUTRY that informed the work as well. It all seems to be integrat- Q: Pray for Brain’s Outpost concert Saturday, Nov. 8, at ing now, these past few years, in what’s hopefully a very 7:30 p.m., is a send-off of sorts before your December tour How Deep Is Your lineup of horns and strings. organic and honest process. of India. How did that concert tour happen? The band was featured in Rolling There’s a certain perspective with age. I’m 51. At a certain Love for the ‘70s? Stone’s 50 Best Albums of 2012 and point, you stop trying and start simply being, start allowing A: Somehow what we do goes over very well in India. We Escort awakens the flickering disco gained a huge following because of yourself to be, rather than working at being something or have 10,000 Facebook followers, and about 90% of that base ball inside us. Based out of New its unblemished live performances. idea or concept of who you are or an agenda or ideology you is in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and the Middle East. Not York, they are the reincarnated sassy At these shows, they can have up want to embody. You let go and give yourself permission. many in the U.S. So a fellow who organizes things in India version of the Bee Gees with a fusion to 12 seasoned band members on I’m not trying to be an Indian classical musician or force a friended us on Facebook, and the conversations to bring us of modern pop that’s so perfectly stage. With lead vocalist Adeline world-music agenda, because Amjad Ali Khan is just as much over started there. We’re looking forward to going. arranged, you’re going to want to get Michèle leading the pack, things are a part of me as Jimmy Page or Cecil or Miles. To deny any part Jefferson and I scored an independent art film from India out those dusty dancing shoes. hot, dancing is infectious, and you’ll of what shaped me is to be inauthentic to who I am, so I just in 2006, a very cool project. I met a lot of people in Kolkata Capturing the feel-good funk of the find yourself seriously considering a play how I hear and feel it, and it all comes out in the wash. on that trip, so we’ll end the tour there. ‘70s, paired with a flawless ensemble feathered look. Q: What are the group’s plans and dreams for 2015? Q: Pray for Brain’s CD “None of the Above” (7D Media) of trumpets, strings, keys, bass and Having grown up with KC and the is an excellent representation of the band’s fervent, A: Work, work, work! I’m already in the process of setting the sax, their new single, “If You Say Sunshine Band, Earth Wind and Fire, complex sound. Can you talk about the band’s composing up European dates for the spring. We may be back in India So,” has hit the ground running. and Stevie Nicks, I’d be the first to process? How much of the music is improvised, and how in March. We have to keep the machine turning, and I want Eugene Cho and Dan Balis met in chew up and spit out any band that much is “through-composed?” to work hard at keeping as busy as we can. I believe music college and founded the band in 2006. fails to duplicate that ‘70s essence. Yet A: There’s only one piece in the repertoire that’s entirely is about activating hearts – that’s our job – so the mission is It gained notoriety when they released I find myself scrambling to describe through-composed, and it didn’t make it on the CD. We’ll see to activate as many hearts as possible, bring the love out. “Starlight” and “All Through the the sensation of this unique blend of where that goes. I have to have some improvisation in what Night,” upbeat expressions com- eras. There’s nothing quite like it. we do, that telepathy, that dialogue. It’s a crucial element; Richard Oyama is a poet and novelist. plimented by synths and a tasteful Paid for by John Ingram PAGE 20 • October 22, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS THEATER EVENTS ABQ FREE PRESS • October 22, 2014 • PAGE 21 Wishes Lead to Macabre Twists of Fate Theater Briefs usical Theatre CALENDAr MSouthwest is CASINOS November 16, 8 pm, 10 Drink Minimum Podcast November 4, 9:30 pm, $8, O’Death, November 15, 8 pm, $23, Arch Enemy, Kreator, staging the 1993 Tony w/ Chris Burnett, Bill Bellmont & guests Lonesome Leash, Human Behavior Huntress Award-winning Best WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22 November 17, 9 pm, Whiskey Business November 5, 9 pm, Cahalen Morrison and November 20, 7 pm, $29.50, People Keep Talk- Musical “Kiss of the Karaoke! at The Blackbird – Happy Hour Country Hammer, The Gregg Daigle Band ing Tour: Hoodie Allen, Chiddy Bang, Spider Woman” at its FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH All Night! November 11, 9 pm, $15, Horse Feathers Taylor Bennett Santa Ana Star Center, Center for Theatre November 18, 10 pm, Groove the Dig w/ November 18, 9 pm, Water Liars November 23, 6:30 pm, $17, The Ghost Inside, 3001 Civic Center Cir NE, Rio Rancho, Old School John Every Time I Die, Architects (UK), Hundredth, under the direction of Touring with Volbeat, Hellyeah and November 19, 7 pm, Open Mic Night with OCTOBER 24-DECEMBER 12 Backtrack Eric Trujillo Bill Potenziani. This Nothing More. Felix Peralta LAUNCHPAD November 25, 7 pm, $20, Monster Energy Out- unusual musical, set in 6:10 pm, $40-45, 891-7300, November 21, 7 pm, Michael Weaver 618 Central Ave SW, 764-8887, break Tour presents Attila, Crown The Empire, santaanastarcenter.com a Latin American prison, has a book by Terrence McNally Live Jukebox launchpadrocks.com Like Moths To Flames, Sworn In FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24 November 21, 10 pm, Fresh Fridays with October 24, 9 pm, Thee Sanctuary: December 9, 6:30 pm, $18, Eternal Enemies based on the novel by Argentine Manuel Puig. Dj Cello & Guests Bloodsuckers Bazaar Tour: Emmure, The Acacia Strain, Stray From Music and lyrics are by Kander and Ebb. Through Nov. 2. MTS JAY LENO: THE HOUSE JACKS November 23, 7 pm, Sexy Sunday featuring The Path, Fit For A King, Kublai Khan Center for Theatre, 6320 Domingo Road NE, Suite B. Friday and Route 66 Casino Hotel, Legends Theater, Wae Fonkey October 25, 9 pm, $5, Night of the Living Cover December 14, 8 pm, $18, Toontrack presents November 24, 9 pm, Whiskey Business Bands! The Coma Recovery as Depeche Mode, Abstract Reality Tour: Devin Townsend Project Saturday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 4 p.m. Tickets: $20-22. Box office: 14500 Central Ave SW The man just can’t stop working and that’s Karaoke! at The Blackbird – Happy Hour distances as Garbage, Double Plow as Queen and Animals As Leaders, Monuments 265-9119 (musicaltheatresw.com). OK with the audience. All Night! October 26, 8 pm, $18, Hold It In Tour: Melvins, December 15, 7 pm, $28, Hot Topic presents 8 pm, $42-95, rt66casino.com November 25, 10 pm, Try vs. Try – Bi-weekly Le Butcherettes Black Veil Brides, Falling In Reverse, Set It Off, he original ’50s rock ’n’ roll musical, “Grease,” had Open Mic October 28, 7:30 pm, $12, Being As An Ocean, Drama Club Gideon, Wolves At The Gate, Incarnate, Ta record-breaking Broadway run in the 1970s. CLUBS & PUBS November 26, 7 pm, Open Mic Night with Felix Peralta Seconds To End Henry Avery is directing a young, energetic cast on MUSIC OCTOBER 22-NOVEMBER 30 November 27, 10 pm, Fractal Frequencies w/ November 1, 9 pm, $12, Secret Chiefs 3, the Albuquerque Little Theatre stage. Shelly Andes is Kate Star Cherry Atomic Ape BLACKBIRD BUVETTE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23 November 28, 6 pm, Low Life Happy Hour w/ November 2, 8 pm, $13, MC Chris, MC Lars, musical director, and the choreography is by Edye and 509 Central Ave SW, 243-0878, DJ Caterwaul Spose BASSEKOU KOUYATE & Erin Allen. Enough said. blackbirdbuvette.com November 28, 10 pm, “Leftover Soul” w/ November 6, 7:30 pm, $10, Rotting Out, THE NGONI BLUES BAND Never a cover; no minimum. Through Nov. 2. Albuquerque Little Theatre, 224 San DJ Leftovers Nomads, Homewrecker, Pharoah, Loathe Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE October 22, 7 pm, Open Mic Night with Pasquale SW. Thursday, Oct. 23, Friday, Oct. 24, and Sat- November 30, 8 pm, 10 Drink Minimum Podcast November 7, 9:30 pm, $5, The Lymbs, Bassekou Kouyate is one of the true masters Felix Peralta urdays at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, Nov. 1 and Sundays at 2 p.m. w/ Chris Burnett, Bill Bellmont & guests Red Light Cameras, Great States of the ngoni, an ancient traditional lute found October 23, 10 pm, Fractal Frequencies w/ November 8, 9:30 pm, $8, Koffin Kats, throughout West Africa. Tickets: $12-24. Box office: 242-4750 Kate Star Cherry OCTOBER 22-DECEMBER 3 Russian Girlfriends 7:30 pm, $15-20, 268-0044, outpostspace.org (albuquerquelittletheatre.org). October 24, 6 pm, Low Life Happy Hour w/ SISTER THE BAR November 9, 7:30 pm, EYEHATEGOD, DJ Caterwaul 407 Central Ave NW, 242-4900, Today Is The Day, Black Maria, Econarchy FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24 October 24, 10 pm, “Leftover Soul” w/ sisterthebar.com November 15, 9 pm, Stoic Frame Reunion asterful director DJ Leftovers, Vinyl Only Rare Groove & JACKY TERRASSON TRIO Photo courtesy of UNM Department of Theatre and Dance. October 22, 9 pm, $10, Macabre, Ringworm, Show!, Reviva Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE MJames Cady is Soul Dance Party Panzerfaust November 18, 8 pm, $10, 10th Anniversary October 25, 7 pm, Billy Crooze and Pianist Jacky Terrasson, a significant figure in BY Barry Gaines staging a production October 23, 9 pm, $5, Decker, Sad Baby Wolf, Tour: Intronaut, Anciients, Bathhouse, Distances The Dinglehoppers jazz for over 20 years, will be joined by Dave of “The Member St. Petersburg November 23, 8 pm, The Reckoning Tour: Robaire, bass; and Jamire Williams, drums. October 25, 10 pm, _Hash¡sh¡n _Soundclash: October 29, 9 pm, $10, Tera Melos Blood On The Dance Floor, Whitney Peyton, very year, some Albuquerque theaters join in the “I have been to Fulham a couple of times so I of the Wedding,” Left_Handed_Electrønics 1.0 featuring: Dj Imeh 7:30 pm, $20-25, 268-0044, outpostspace.org Carson McCuller’s November 5, 9 pm, $7, Iceage Sweet Ascent Eterror-fest surrounding Halloween. I wonder, can help everyone with background knowledge,” El Yonquero Hosomi no otoko VHS TEA November 11, 9 pm, $12, Dum Dum Girls & November 29, 9 pm, mr. Gnome, Young Tongue SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 however, what it will take to frighten an audience Earle says. She also is able to give her fellow actors 1950 dramatization October 26, 7 pm, Sexy Sunday featuring Ex Cops December 8, 7:30, $13, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Wae Fonkey accustomed to daily threats from Ebola, ISIS, global “insight on what certain English words mean” and of her 1946 novel. December 3, 9 pm, $10, Pallbearer Mustard Plug, Dan Potthast BIRDS OF CHICAGO The play illuminates October 27, 9 pm, Whiskey Business Karaoke! December 12, 8:30, $20, Swamp Leper Stomp Music in Corrales, Old San Isidro Church, warming, hurricanes, school shootings and mid- is looking forward to being “the only British person at The Blackbird - Happy Hour All Night! OCTOBER 23-31 the juncture of childhood and adolescence against the 2014: Death DTA, Torture Victim, Suspended, 966 Old Church Rd, Corrales term elections. in a British play.” October 28, 10 pm, Try vs. Try – Bi-weekly LIZARD RODEO LOUNGE Impaled Offering Popular American Roots music group. intersection of the lives of Blacks and Whites in the SCRAP Productions, a UNM student organization “The Monkey’s Paw” has become an iconic Open Mic The Range Café, 925 Camino Del Pueblo, 7:30 pm, $22-25, brownpapertickets.com, American South. October 29, 7 pm, Open Mic Night with Bernalillo OCTOBER 25-DECEMBER 15 musicincorrales.org that works in association with the Department of demonstration of the maxim “Be careful of what Felix Peralta Adobe Theater, 9813 4th St. NW, Oct. 24 through Nov. 16, October 23,Open Mic/Jam hosted by DeRangers SUNSHINE THEATER Theatre and Dance to create all-student theater, is you wish for.” This tale has been filmed at least five October 30, 9:30 pm, Hello Dollface (Colo. soul) October 24, Quality Retreads, Irish Deltabilly 120 Central Ave SW, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26 Fridays and Saturdays 7:30 p.m., Sundays 2 p.m. Tickets: October 31, 7 pm, Quietly Kept trying a different approach. SCRAP times (the latest, last year) and has October 25, Breaking Blue, folk Info & Tickets: sunshinetheaterlive.com FROM INDIAN LAKES $13-15. Box office: 898-9222 (adobetheater.org). October 31, 10 pm, Planet Rock – Funky October 31, Redlight Ramblers, folk October 25, 7:30 pm, Carnifex, Inhuman Hands, The Gasworks, 2429 Quincy St NE is staging “The Monkey’s Paw,” a been adapted by such TV programs Dance Party A Malicious Plague, Vale Of Miscreation The band just released their new album, 1902 short story by W. W. Jacobs OCT. 24 – NOV. 2 as “The Twilight Zone,” “Tales from November 1, 7 pm, Russell Turek Classical OCTOBER 24-NOVEMBER 1 dmond Rostand’s 1897 October 27, 6 pm, $25, Too Zany welcomes G- “Absent Sounds,” on Oct. 7 via Triple Crown dramatized by Louis N. Parker the the Crypt,” “Are You Afraid of the Guitar...Electrified SNEAKERZ SPORTS BAR & GRILLE, EAZY w/ IAMSU & Jay Ant, THE MONKEY’S PAW EFrench classic “Cyrano Records. 7 pm, $10, fromindianlakes.com following year. Dark?,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” November 1, 10 pm, The Goldsteins (cabaret) 4100 San Mateo Blvd NE, 837-1708, Bay To Universe Tour SCRAP Productions at the de Bergerac” is being November 2, 6 pm, Stephanie Wilson sneakerzsportsbar.com ABBA MANIA Director Caedmon Holland and a Halloween episode of “The October 28, 7 pm, $17, New Politics, Bad Suns, UNM Experimental Theater, presented by Mother Road Art Opening October 24, 6-9 pm, Ravinswood Band, SomeKindaWonderful Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus, explains: “In a modern world filled Center for the Arts, lower level , Simpsons.” An operatic version Theatre Company in a November 3, 9 pm, Whiskey Business Karaoke! Happy Hour October 29, 7 pm, $30, Matisyahu, Radical 203 Cornell Dr NE at The Blackbird – Happy Hour All Night! Celebrating the music of ABBA, reviving with movies and stories of serial UNM Campus premiered in 2011. new, small-cast adaptation October 25, 6 pm, UFC 179 Something, Cisco killers, monsters, etc., that create Oct. 24, 25, 30, 31, Nov. 1 at November 4, 10 pm, Groove the Dig w/ October 31, 9 pm, Karaoke Halloween Party October 30, 7:30 pm, $18, Glamour Kills Tour memories of when the band ruled the airwaves. You can see what all the fuss is and translation by Michael Old School John 3 pm, 925-5858, unmtickets.com, 7:30 and 9 p.m.; and Oct. 26, Specials and prizes presents New Found Glory, We Are The In bloodbaths and have body counts about by attending “The Monkey’s Hollinger and Aaron Pos- November 5, 7 pm, Poetry ‘n Beer Open Mic November 1, 9 am, Brendan’s Cause Crowd, Fireworks, Better Off popejoypresents.com Nov. 2 at 2 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. of victims, it was refreshing to see Paw” in the intimate setting of ner. This is the immortal Poetry Slam Fundraising Volleyball Tournament November 1, 8 pm $20, Eternal Tour 2014: Tickets: $10, $7 seniors, UNM November 6, 10 pm, KGB Club CARAVAN OF THIEVES a horror story breaking the modern UNM’s Experimental Theater. story of Cyrano—swords- November 1, 9 pm, Third Element Band Gwar, Decapitated, American Sharks The Cooperage, 7220 Lomas Blvd NE faculty, staff, students; November 7, 10 pm, Zealous Grooves CD November 3, 7 pm, $21-75, YELAWOLF + Gypsy jazz, vocal harmony, theater and a conventions of horror and still “Creating an uncomfortable mood man and poet, soldier and Release + guests OCTOBER 24-NOVEMBER 18 925-5858, unmtickets.com RITTZ + Big Henry + DJ Klever really good time. remaining a horror story.” and a heavy atmosphere mixed in would-be lover, with an enormous nose and even bigger November 8, 10 pm, Live, Local Music LOW SPIRITS November 9, 7 pm, $27.50, Rockstar Energy 7:30 pm, $17-20, ampconcerts.org, Showcase 2823 2nd St NW, lowspiritslive.com, “The Monkey’s Paw” is a simple with very creepy visuals and sounds heart—who helps a younger, more handsome suitor Drink Presents Pierce The Veil and Sleeping Hold My Ticket, 505-886-1251 story of a rural English family, Mr. and Mrs. White may not have an audience member jumping from court his own beloved. November 9, 7 pm, The Weeksend w/ prices subject to change With Sirens , Beartooth, This Wild Life Wae Fonkey & guests October 24, 9 pm, Night of the Living CHATTER SUNDAY: HONORING While I have not yet seen this adaptation, the play is November 10, 8 pm, $20, Check Yo Ponytail and their son, Herbert, whose contact with the their seat but it will have the audience avoiding dark November 10, 9 pm, Whiskey Business Cover Bands Anniversary Tour: The Presets, Le1f, Chela, FELIX WURMAN supernatural unexpectedly costs them dearly. alleys and feeling chills up their spines when they almost perfect in its construction and is among my very Karaoke! at The Blackbird – Happy Hour October 25, 8 pm, $5, Dia de los Grateful Franki Chan Kosmos Performance Space at the Factory The director is fortunate to have found Sophie leave the theater,” promises director Holland. favorites. All Night! Muertos featuring Top Dead Center, November 11, 7 pm, $20, These Days Tour: on 5th, 1715 Fifth St NW November 11, 10 pm, Try vs. Try – Bi-weekly 600 Pounds of Sin Chatter Sunday remembers cellist and teacher Louise Earle to play Mrs. White. Earle is a visiting Tricklock Performance Lab, 110 Gold Ave. SW, Oct. 24 AB Soul Open Mic October 30, 9 pm, Run Boy Run November 12, 6:30 pm, $16, The Word Alive, Felix Wurman, who founded Church of student from the small town of Virginia Water, Barry Gaines has covered Albuquerque theater for the past through Nov. 9, Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m., November 12, 7 pm, Open Mic Night with October 31, 9 pm, $12, il sogno del marinaio The Color Morale, Our Last Night, Dead Rab- Beethoven. Chamber music, poetry and coffee, outside of London. 13 years. He is a professor emeritus at UNM and adminis- Sundays at 2 p. m. Tickets: $20-22. Box office: 243-0596 or Felix Peralta (with Mike Watt) bits, Miss Fortune in an informal, acoustically excellent setting. The play is set in Fulham, in southwest London a trator of the American Theater Critics Association. [email protected] November 14, 6 pm, Happy Hour with November 1, 9 pm, $10, Halloween Hoedown: November 13, 8 pm, $29, Dropkick Murphys, Doors open 9:30 am, $15 at the door, Carlos The Tall Paris A Gogo Burlesque, The MLC, Blame it on Blood Or Whiskey chatterchamber.org half hour away. November 15, 6 pm, “It Wasn’t Me” hosted by Rebekkah, Kimo — Barry Gaines Jim Phillips, A Music Showcase PAGE 22 • October 22, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS EVENTS EVENTS ABQ FREE PRESS • October 22, 2014 • PAGE 23 CALENDAr CALENDAr TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16 THROUGH MARCH 15 NOVEMBER 22-23 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29 GREASE NOVEMBER 22-DECEMBER 7 ARTSPREE Albuquerque Little Theatre, HOME FREE TIME FOR THREE PANDAS: THE JOURNEY HOME CHRISTMAS AT CLEAR LIGHT LIFE-SIZE MONSTERS 224 San Pasquale SW GYPSY THROUGH OCTOBER 31 KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW Lockheed Martin Dyna Theater, New Mexico Clear Light • The Cedar Company, 7 miles east Juan Tabo Library, 3407 Juan Tabo NE Popular musical inspired by the 1978 film. The Rodey Theatre, UNM Main Campus Award-winning a cappella country group Bach, Brahms, The Beatles and current pop. Museum of Natural History, Old Town of Placitas Village on Highway 165, look for the Kids and tweens, we’re making life-size mon- The “Pink Ladies” are back. The memoirs of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee by FACE THE MUSIC and LYRICAL on their Crazy Life Tour. 3 pm, $28-42, ampconcerts.org, holdmyticket. About the efforts made all over the world to save red signs. A juried art show and sale. Admission sters (or whatever else you can imagine). We’ll Thurs-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm, $24, 242-4750, Landmark Musicals, starring the indomitable LANDSCAPES 8 pm, $20-30, holdmyticket.com com, kimotickets.com, 768-3544 the Giant Panda. and parking are free, and refreshments will be trace your shape and then you create a painting albuquerquelittletheatre.org stage mother, Rose. New Mexico Art League, 11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm; times will change in available.10-5 pm, Free, 867-2381, clcedar.com of the creature you’ve always wanted to be! Fri-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm, $20-24, 925-5858, JIM MALCOLM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21 3409 Juan Tabo Blvd NE The Cooperage, 7220 Lomas NE December; 841-2800, nmnaturalhistory.org, Ages 6+, 3-4:30 pm, 291-6260 THROUGH NOVEMBER 29 unmtickets.com, landmarkmusicals.org Music and musicians by Portrait Society of ngpandas.com SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20 Traditional songs of Scotland and his own LA SANTA CECILIA FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31 SPIRITS OF SUSPICION America artists; 40 Maggie Price landscapes music by a fine singer. La Fonda Hotel Ballroom, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23 GILDAN NEW MEXICO BOWL Foul Play Café, Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown, COMEDY and florals presented in her memory by the 7:30 pm, $17-22, ampconcerts.org, or 100 E San Francisco St, Santa Fe University Stadium, University Blvd SE & STORYSPACE: SPOOKY STORY NIGHT 2600 Louisiana Blvd NE League. Free, hours: newmexicoartleague.org Hold My Ticket, 505-886-1251 THROUGH NOVEMBER 4 2014 Grammy winners for Best Latin Rock, A BETTER LIFE Avenida Cesar Chavez WITH THE SPOOKULELE BAND Fun and mystery, with dinner. THROUGH DECEMBER 30 Urban, or Alternative Album. 8 pm, $22-27, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Bank of It’s Mountain West Conference vs. Conference Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE Friday-Saturday 7 pm, $56.50, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30 OH, SUSANA! ampconcerts.org, holdmyticket.com America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW USA at this 9th annual New Mexico college An evening of well-loved children’s stories $35 for children, 377-9593, foulplaycafe.com The Box Performance Space, 100 Gold Ave SW LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED Starring Demián Bichir (“The Bridge”), this film football bowl, which will be broadcast on ESPN. transformed into song by the Spookulele Band. LATIN DIVA SERIES, ANI CORDERO’S This original satire takes a look at what it truly Jewish Community Center, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 portrays the struggles of an undocumented im- Kickoff: 12:20 pm MT, $25-400+, 925-5999, 7:30 pm, Free for kids 12 and under and anyone FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24 “RECORDAR” means to be a citizen of the 47th state (which 5520 Wyoming Blvd NE migrant who wants to give his son a better life in unmtickets.com, gildannewmexicobowl.com wearing a costume (glitter-free, please!) National Hispanic Cultural Center, Bank of NEW MEXICO PHILHARMONIC MINDS INTERRUPTED also happens to be our national ranking in edu- Opening Reception, October 16, 5-7 pm. the United States. $5 for others; 268-0044, outpostspace.org America Theatre, 1701 4th St SW POPEJOY CLASSICAL SERIES KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW cation). Conceived and directed by Cody Dove, Mark M. Feldman Stone Sculpture 7 pm, Free ticketed event; tickets available one Cordero is a well-known Latin alternative singer, Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus, DAY OF THE DEAD/HALLOWEEN KIDS’ HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARADE Stories of lives affected by mental illness. an alumnus of Second City. Through Election Showcase. Free, jccabq.org for open hours, hour before show, 246-2261, nhccnm.org drummer, and bandleader. 203 Cornell Dr NE Ernie Pyle Library, 900 Girard SE 7 pm, $15, kimotickets.com Tuesday; check show times. markmfeldmansculptor.wix.com 7:30 pm, $17, 724-4771, nhccnm.org THROUGH NOVEMBER 1 Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of OCTOBER 25 and NOVEMBER 2 Come to Ernie Pyle and show off your 9 pm, $17.50, 404-1578, theboxabq.com OCTOBER 24-25 Paganini. OCTOBER 24-NOVEMBER 16 RALPH ALESSI’S BAIDA QUARTET QUARANTINE: COLLAPSE Halloween costume! We will read a couple of 6 pm, 925-5858, unmtickets.com, nmphil.org MADE IN NEW MEXICO FILM CLIP SERIES Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE (HAUNTED HOUSE) spooky stories and march around the library in THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING DANCE 13TH ANNUAL EL DORADO ARTS & October 25, East Mountain Library, Trumpeter Ralph Alessi’s latest project features Rio Grande Community Farm, our costumes. For kids 0-8 years old. The Adobe Theater, 9813 4th St NW CRAFTS FALL SHOW pianist Gary Versace; bassist Mark Helias; and SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29 1 Old Tijeras Rd, Tijeras, 2 pm 1701 Montaño Dr. NW No registration required. 10:30-11 am, 256-2065 Friday-Saturday 7:30 pm, Sundays 2 pm, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7 St. John’s United Methodist Church, drummer Nasheet Waits. November 2, Placitas Library, NETSKY Blackout Theatre Company presents a haunted Thursday November 13, 7:30 pm; $15, 1200 Old Pecos Trail at Cordova Rd, Santa Fe 7:30 pm, $15-20, 268-0044, outpostspace.org 453 Highway 165 Placitas, 2 pm SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2 PILOBOLUS El Rey Theatre, 622 Central Ave SW house that puts the audience in the story. 898-9222, adobetheater.org A variety of work on sale by 46 artists. A compilation of clips from movies that have Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus, Band from Europe with a blend of heavy dance 6:30 pm, $20, 672-8648, quarantineabq.com DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS CELEBRATION Read Theater Briefs on Page 20 in this issue. Friday 3-7 pm, Saturday 9-5 pm, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1 been partially shot within New Mexico, pre- 203 Cornell Dr NE floor bass + beats. South Broadway Cultural Center, Free, eldoart.org sented by film historian Jeff Berg. $5, 466-1634 OCTOBER 30-NOVEMBER 1 Molding bodies into poetry, amazing shapes ONEBEAT ALBUQUERQUE AT THE 8:30 pm, $15-20, 18+, 510-2582, holdmyticket. THROUGH NOVEMBER 9 1025 Broadway SE and beautiful movement. RAIL YARDS com, elreyabq.com Live music and dance, art, ofrendas honoring THE CHILDREN’S HOUR TOURS NOVEMBER 22-23 BEWITCHING IV 8 pm, 925-5858, unmtickets.com, Albuquerque Rail Yards, 777 1st St SW, loved ones, and more. Wear your costumes! Warehouse 21, 1614 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe Stranger Factory, 109 Carlisle Blvd NE www.popejoypresents.com Music & art: 25 musical artists from 17 countries, NOVEMBER 29-30 FIRST ANNUAL PUEBLO FILM FESTIVAL Two women who run a school are brought down THURSDAYS, FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS, Opening reception, Friday, October 10, 6-9 pm. 12 noon-6 pm, Free, more info: call 311, visual artists from Albuquerque curated by Billy Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, 2401 12th St NW by a student’s rumor. 7 pm, $10, DE PROFUNDIS Halloween group show of all things dark cabq.gov/sbcc NOVEMBER 7-9 YEAR ROUND Joe Miller, food trucks and activities for the 843-7270, indianpueblo.org (505) 310-4194, nmschoolforthearts.org St. Therese Catholic Church, 4th & Mildred NW and spooky. whole family. A collaboration between 516 Arts OTHER WORLDS ALBUCREEPY DOWNTOWN Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 114 Carlisle SE Free, 508-3049, strangerfactory.com THEATER and Found Sound Nation. $5 donation, OCTOBER 30-NOVEMBER 16 AirDance ArtSpace, 3030 Isleta Blvd SW GHOST WALK 5-9 pm, 516arts.org The 14-voice a cappella men’s ensemble FESTIVALS, FIESTAS & FAMILY By ABQ Trolley Co., start at Hotel Andaluz, greets the holiday season with Conrad Susa’s THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23 CLOSING OCTOBER 25 DEATH AND THE MAIDEN Aerial dance in a new production with 12 aerial- ists, 4 musicians and stunning choreography. 125 2nd St NW NEW MEXICO PHILHARMONIC enchanting “Carols and Lullabies: Christmas in SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 3205 Calle Marie, Santa Fe SALUD Y SABOR: DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm, $10-15, 842-9418, Led by an experienced paranormal investiga- POPEJOY CLASSICAL SERIES the Southwest.” Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 3 pm, $10-15, THE TRANS-SIBERIAN EXPRESS Directed by Rick Vargas. Preview Thursday, BIRTHDAY BASH AND HARVEST National Hispanic Cultural Center, airdanceartspace.com tor, Albucreepy features historic (and reportedly Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus, 266-4240, depro.org MURDERS October 30. FESTIVAL Domenici Education Bldg, 1701 4th Street SW Vista Grande Community Center, haunted) sites, including the KiMo Theater, Kiva 203 Cornell Dr NE Fri-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm, $12-15, La Montañita Westside Co-op, An evening of food, art, and entertainment 15 La Madera Road, Sandia Park FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14 Auditorium, old Bernalillo County Courthouse, November 1, Rodrigo’s Guitar Concierto de MONDAY, DECEMBER 1 (505) 424-1601, TEATROPARAGUAS.ORG 3601 Old Airport Ave NW aimed at providing families with an opportunity Wool Warehouse, and the former red light dis- Aranjuez Murder mystery musical comedy that takes SACRED BODY DAKHABRAKHA Music, Local foods, Grilling on the patio, Free to connect around nutrition, cooking, healthy trict known as “Hell’s Half Acre.” Rated PG13. 6 pm, 925-5858, unmtickets.com, nmphil.org place in 1941. Dinner theatre Fri-Sat 6:30 pm, NOVEMBER 7-16 Lensic Performing Arts Center, The Dirty Bourbon, 9800 Montgomery Blvd NE birthday cake, and Costume contest. lifestyles, and culture, with a Day of the Dead 8 pm, 90 minutes, $25 with valet parking and show only 7 pm, $15-$35, 286-1950, emct.org 211 W. San Francisco St, Santa Fe SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2 Presented by ¡Globalquerque!, “ethno-chaos” in 11-4 pm, Free, 503-2550, lamontanita.coop/ theme. 5:30 pm, Free, 246-2261, nhccnm.org ¡BOCÓN! free appetizers at Ibiza or MAS, albucreepy.com A benefit performance of music and dance, with Eastern European roots music. ws-birthday-bash CLOSING OCTOBER 26 Working Classroom, 423 Atlantic Avenue SW art exhibit, for a young adult scholarship. THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER 7:30 pm, $17-22, ampconcerts.org, holdmytick- OCTOBER 24-NOVEMBER 2 One-act adventure story about a boy who flees Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus, Lobby opens at 6 pm, performance 7:30-9:30 et.com, 296-2726 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26 THE BOXCAR his home country for L.A. Along the way, he 203 Cornell Dr NE THE MONKEY’S PAW NHCC’s Wells Fargo Auditorium, pm, $25-60, (505) 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org, Reach ABQ’s most Look for our interview with the band in the meets La Llorona. Various times and deals, The concert celebrates the full spectrum of 24th ANNUAL ALBUQUERQUE UNM’s Experimental Theatre, 1701 4th St SW sacredbodysantafe.com November 19 issue. $10-25, 242-9267, workingclassroom.org informed audience their remarkable 40-year musical career. EQUESTRIAN CUP Center for the Arts, UNM Campus Part of the Siembra Latino festival. In 1987, a 3 pm, 925-5858, unmtickets.com, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4 EXPO New Mexico, State Fairgrounds Dairy Presented by SCRAP Productions and The group of men set out in search of a better life by NOVEMBER 7-23 BOOKS & POETRY popejoypresents.com Barn, 300 San Pedro Dr NE UNM Department of Theatre and Dance, the entering into the United States as undocument- To Advertise: LEO KOTTKE 26 MILES Contact ORCHID ENSEMBLE Horse jumping competition, auctions, artists, classic horror story that has taught generations ed immigrants looking to make a dollar or two. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW National Hispanic Cultural Center, Donavan Mosley Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE food and beer, vendors, along with a kids’ corral the meaning of “Be careful what you wish for.” Thurs- Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm, $18, 724-4771, Coffeehouse folk-rock guitarist and singer/song- 1701 4th Street SW A cultural exchange between Asian and and a Dude Room. Runs 45 minutes, two shows per date, times nhccnm.org ESTEVAN ARELLANO BOOK LAUNCH (505) 345-4080, writer of “Twelve String Blues” and “Mudlark.” 11:30 am-6 pm, $35-$75, 298-1700 ext. 31, vary. $10, 925-5858, unmtickets.com A new play by Quiara Alegría Hudes, part of National Hispanic Cultural Center, ext. 806 Western musicians. 3 pm, $22-27, CLOSING OCTOBER 31 ampconcerts.org, holdmyticket.com 7:30 pm, $25-35, ampconcerts.org, abqec.org the Siembra Latin Theatre Festival. Also will be 1701 4th Street SW [email protected] holdmyticket.com, kimotickets.com, 768-3544 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 shown December 4-14 at Teatro Paraguas in The author and traditional farmer signs THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP NOVEMBER 8-9 Santa Fe. Thurs-Sat, 7:30 pm, Saturday 2 pm, “Enduring Acequias,” about irrigation and sus- ALBUQUERQUE’S THRILL THE WORLD Vortex Theatre, 2900 Carlisle NE NOVEMBER 11-16 $15-18, 724-4771, nhccnm.org tainable farming practices. Crossword Puzzle appears on page 24 TRANSFIGURED NIGHT FILM Keshet Center for the Arts, 4121 Cutler Ave NE The play is a hilarious and chilling satire of HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS! several theatrical, literacy, and film genres. 2 pm, Free, nhccnm.org St. Francis Auditorium (New Mexico Museum THROUGH NOVEMBER 9 Thrill The World Albuquerque is looking for NOVEMBER 7-30 of Art), 107 W Palace Ave, Santa Fe THE MUSICAL dancing zombies to participate in the 6th annual Fri-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm, $22, 247-8600, OCTOBER 27-DECEMBER 2 vortexabq.org THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra, Thomas FILMS AT THE GUILD Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus, world-wide simultaneous Thriller dance for char- The Vortex Theatre, 2900 Carlisle NE O’Connor, conductor, with Deborah Domanski, The Guild Cinema, 3405 Central Ave NE 203 Cornell Dr NE ity. Zombies will rise up on Oct 25 at exactly 4 COMMUNITY LECTURES THROUGH NOVEMBER 2 The classic comedy tells the story of a small mezzo-soprano. $5-10 unless otherwise listed, 255-1848, Inspired by Dr. Seuss’ original illustrations, pm at Keshet Center for the Arts parking lot. No Albuquerque Academy, Ohio household forced to house a larger-than- Saturday, 4 pm, Sunday 3 pm, $20-65, for more movies: guildcinema.com audiences are transported to the world of dance experience is necessary. All ages and skill KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN Simms Center for the Performing Arts, Bldg 13, life personality as he recuperates after an ac- (505) 988-4640, The Lensic (505) 988-1234, October 24-29, 3 pm and 7:30 pm, 1,000 Times Whoville. 925-5858, unmtickets.com, levels are welcome. Musical Theatre Southwest, 6400 Wyoming Blvd NE, 828-3200; cident. Fri- Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm, $22, santafepromusica.com Goodnight For times: www.popejoypresents.com 1-4 pm for rehearsal, costuming and 6320-B Domingo NE All talks are 6:30-8 pm, and free, but you must 247-8600, vortexabq.org October 24-29, 5:30 pm, Alive Inside performance, Free, donations to Keshet are In a Latin American prison, Molina shares his register to attend at: aa.edu/communityacademy SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 Read Barry Gaines’s Theater Feature in the October 25-26, 1 pm, Awake: The Life of accepted; Eventbrite registration: TTWABQ2014. fantasies about an actress who, in one October 27, Alvin Townley, “Defiant: America’s November 5 issue of ABQ Free Press. Elite Vietnam POWs and the Extraordinary CHATTER CABARET: COMPOSERS FROM Yogananda MY NAME IS RUMPELSTILTSKIN eventbrite.com of her roles, is a Spider Woman who kills with a Women Who Fought for Them” THE GOLDEN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD October 30-31, check website for times, North 4th Theater, 4904 4th St NW kiss. 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