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Parking Meter Ripoff in Nob Hill What Did the City PAGE 5 Council Do About APD’s Excessive Why All the Children? Use of Force? PAGE 8 PAGE 7

Joe Monahan: Momentum Shift in Gov. Race? Inside Antiques PAGE 9 Roadshow’s ABQ Visit PAGE 20 PAGE 2 • July 30, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS

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For Reporting Attacks BY FRANCHESCA STEVENS By Jeremy Reynalds roken parking pay stations around Nob Hill are Editor’s note: The can become even more ominous. Bripping you off – and the City of Albuquerque killings of two And it’s almost certainly under-reported. knows about it. After the three teenage alleged killers homeless men In response to complaints, ABQ Free Press claimed they have beaten up as many as on West Central tested six pay stations on Harvard Drive between Avenue thrust 50 homeless people, police appealed to Central and Silver avenues. We tried three ways to the plight of the homeless service providers to encourage pay – coins, bills and a credit card – for a total of 18 homeless into the their clients to come forward if they’ve transactions. The machines yielded only 11 parking headlines yet again. been the victim of any assaults. We invited Jeremy However, I doubt that many will do so. receipts, for a failure rate of more than 38 percent. Reynalds, of Joy In the situations described above, there Local merchants say it’s been going on for years. Junction, to address was a fear of retaliation by the perpetra- Walking away from a broken pay station without calls by the police for homeless shelters to tors. But that’s not the only reason. a receipt can result in a $10 parking fine. It’s bad urge their clients to speak up. A number of the most vulnerable for business and tends to drive people to shop homeless, some of whom have been elsewhere, Nob Hill merchants told us. he horrific recent killing of two home- banned by area shelters because of “They just don’t work,” said Richard Jimenez, Tless men in Albuquerque by three behavioral problems, have outstanding general manager at Sombreros, a restaurant at 120 teenagers has generated numerous warrants for minor offenses such as Harvard Drive S.E., which opened four months ago. opinions about the motivation for the loitering, panhandling or public urination. “(People) come looking for change. After they get senseless acts. So if you have a warrant and get change, they still don’t work. The credit cards don’t Sadly, homeless violence is not new beaten up or robbed, it’s quite likely that run. All the time, we get complaints against them.” and this kind of attack is not iso- you won’t report the crime because you Jimenez said he has reported the problem to cita- lated. According to a new report by the don’t want to face a trip to jail. tion officers and they’ve told him they don’t have National Coalition for the Homeless, in So what is the answer? the equipment to fix the pay stations and, “Why 2013 there was a 23.8 percent increase One solution is a better relationship don’t I call the mayor?” in attacks on the homeless from the between the homeless and local police. Another Nob Hill merchant, who asked not to be The homeless should be able to regard previous year. NCH said it was made identified for fear of retaliation, said he believes the police as a trusted resource in time ABQ Free Press Staff aware of 109 attacks in 2013, 18 of the city deliberately chooses not to fix broken pay which were fatal. of need, not a bully to be feared and Parking pay stations around Nob Hill are prone to failure, putting users at risk of a $10 ticket. The city plans to replace stations like this one near Central and stations because tickets bring in more revenue than a We asked a handful of people at Joy avoided. Carlisle as early as next month. functional pay station would. Junction homeless shelter whether they Citations – apparently given at an had experienced violence. officer’s discretion and which turn into “Now, I understand you have to generate revenue with the 80-odd pay stations scattered throughout A new senior lifestyle is coming to Rio Rancho with apartment One man said while he was sitting warrants when ignored – should be to pay for roads and pay your employees and Downtown and Nob Hill. Free Saturday Parking in Nob Hill? styles and amenities not offered in other area communities. on a park bench, four men walked up issued only when absolutely necessary. everything, fine,” the merchant said. “But, do it “We’re sick of maintaining them,” he said. and started to ask him about gangs. He Is it fair to cite a homeless person for legitimately. Don’t do it in a deceitful way by lying said, “I looked away and when I turned urinating in public when there are no to the public.” “But the good news, what’s coming up next, as a Notices on parking pay stations in Nob Hill say back around, I was facing the barrel of a public restrooms available? A top city official denied that City Hall is pur- replacement for those group meters, is the parking they’re active Monday through Saturday, but one .45-caliber pistol. They took my back- The horrifying problem of homeless posely leaving broken meters unrepaired. It’s simply division recently ordered over 400 single-head credit merchant we talked to said there has been no pack and hit me in the face with the butt violence in Albuquerque will not be that the equipment is nearing the end of its useful card machines,” he said. Saturday parking enforcement in Nob Hill for at of the pistol, nearly breaking my nose.” solved by one- or two-line vitriolic life. New meters are on the way, possibly as early as The new machines, which should start appearing least 10 years. Someone else wrote, “(We) were zingers on Facebook, but by realizing next month, the official said. in August, will replace the problematic pay stations “If I’m sitting out here reading the newspaper (on sitting behind a NAPA store when three this is a community issue which can be At Two Fools Tavern, 3211 Central Ave. N.E., and eventually will replace all existing single-head a Saturday) and I see somebody walk up to the young men ran towards us and beat us. lessened when caring people realize we bartender Alex Eclipse said the pay station problem meters. The new meters will be “smart meters that pay station and I’m not busy, I’ll walk over there and I’ll tell them, ‘Hey, just so you know, regardless They kicked us in the face and knocked have a responsibility to take action. dates back two years and that some of his patrons will tell us when they’re broken immediately,” of what it says on the meters or the pay stations, out a couple of our teeth. They stole Who’s up for the challenge? I’ll be the have been ticketed wrongly. Riordan said. the meter maids don’t work on Saturday,” he said. our purses that had our money and bus first volunteer. “Sometimes I’ll get no complaints from patrons at Asked about the claim that the city is choosing passes in them.” not to fix the pay stations as a way to generate “Ninety-five out a hundred will thank me for that all, and then sometimes they’ll ask me if the parking and not feed the meters and move on. And five Violence of any sort, whether a purse Jeremy Reynalds is executive director of Joy additional revenue from parking citations, Riordan meters are working fine and of course, I say, ‘I don’t percent of the people will get mad and not believe snatching or home invasion, is terrifying. Junction, an Albuquerque homeless shelter says, “That’s absolutely not accurate.” know, but I’d park somewhere else,’ and that gives me and say, ‘You know what? I’m going to feed However, when you’re homeless and he founded in 1986. “We’re here to be a public-service entity and The Neighborhood is scheduled to open in them a hassle because they put the money in the the meter anyway because I don’t want to get a more physically vulnerable than most, it we’re only here to charge parking for what the 2015, giving you time to consider how beautiful meter thinking that the ticket’s going to print out, ticket.’” value is, and the intent is it’s not supposed to be a your future can be. But you must act now. and sometimes it doesn’t,” he said. Does this merchant want parking officers to To arrange for Homeless Hate Crime Bill to Return Eclipse says he’s seen city workers make repairs, moneymaker. The intent is to make sure that the work Saturdays? No, he said. “I do want them to but the machines just break down again. He says the Downtown or EDo [East Downtown] or Nob Hill A new information center is now open at 4500 your visit, please call Sen. Bill O’Neill, a Bernalillo County Democrat, plans to reintroduce a bill in post the correct information on the meters so I situation frustrates his customers and him as well. businesses have customer turnover and a pleasant don’t have to tell anybody that they’re not working Arrowhead Ridge Drive SE in Rio Rancho the 2014 Legislature to make crimes against the homeless hate crimes. A bill he Ashley Trujillo at Keith Levine can relate. Over several years, he’s parking experience.” today,” he said. (one block west of the intersection of introduced in 2013 passed the Senate 29-5 but never got a hearing in the House. (505) 994-2266. gotten several unwarranted parking tickets because Someone who feeds a malfunctioning meter or Municipal Development Director Michael Riordan Highway 528 on Ridgecrest Drive SE). Supporters include the Coalition to End Homelessness and City Councilor Rey pay stations wouldn’t take his money, he said. pay station, Riordan said, has two options: Call the said parking officers don’t work on Saturdays, Garduño and Sen. Daniel Ivey-Soto, both Democrats. Reservations are now being taken for when the “You just accept your fate,” he said. “I’ve called number printed on the device and wait for a parking but, “We have the ability to enforce on Saturdays apartments become available for occupancy. them out on it. I’ve stood right there and given (the enforcement officer to “immediately” respond, or, whenever we want.” Correction parking enforcement officer) a piece of my mind. I “what we’ll do is ask people to park in a different Additionally, he said, Albuquerque Police An op-ed piece in the July 16 issue contained a misspelling of the name of one of was respectable, you know, as far as that goes.” parking spot until we can get that meter fixed.” Department officers have authority to issue parking the authors, Joan Friedland. The piece also misidentified the authors’ affiliation. Michael Riordan, the city’s Municipal Develop- citations around the clock, so it would behoove Joan Friedland and Sara Campos, both attorneys, wrote, “Mexican and Central ment director, whose department oversees parking Franchesca Stevens is a freelance writer who lives in motorists to “feed the meters.” American Asylum and Credible Fear Claims: Background and Context.” enforcement, said he’s as frustrated as everyone else Albuquerque. PAGE 6 • July 30, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS Letters NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • July 30, 2014 • PAGE 7 Letters to the editor What Did the City Council Do About APD’s Use of Force? BY PETER ST. CYR [O]n a weeknight, I was stand- front door and started pounding on limit and no one directing traffic. At the last few seasons to find only the most ing at the No. 66 stop [near Eubank] it. Others were right behind him and one point, I came to a complete stop, extreme fringes and hardcore elements because I wasn’t sure any more rapid were yelling for her to stop…. and a red car behind me honked at me, of the “Prepper” movement. I was hile the mayor’s office and police command buses were coming that late. When the I told her I was reporting her, at wanting me to move on, which I did. surprised to see this story in the Press. staff have been criticized for their slow 66 bus came into view, approximately which time she started mocking me All of a sudden, a police car was BTW: The .22 [cal. ammo] shortage Wresponse to civil rights violations by the five people began trotting down from by putting her hands over her mouth behind me and pulled me over for is not what you were led to believe. Albuquerque Police Department, what’s the record the rapid stop. The driver in question and saying, “Oh, my god” She also speeding, claiming I was going 35 How many rounds do you want? of the City Council on reforming APD? stopped the bus and opened the door. told me, “If you don’t like it, you can mph in a 25 mph zone. I said I didn’t – Tactical Shooters Supply ABQ Free Press asked the nine city councilors I told her additional people were get off” … think I was speeding, as I am not that what they have done since taking office to identify coming, at which point she said, “Are Clearly, this woman’s a hater and is the kind of driver. or correct problems within APD. Seven of the nine you getting on or not?” worst excuse of a public service provider I feel that the officer took advantage I enjoyed reading your informa- councilors have been in office since 2009. Four have After I boarded, she immedi- I’ve seen here or anywhere else. It’s a of my being from out of state, know- tive article [on prepping]. The AR-15 been in office since 2005. ately closed the doors … Myself and tough job. Don’t make it any tougher. ing that it was unlikely that I would is not an assault rifle, the M-16 is. Silvio Dell’Angela attends almost every council other passengers could hear the people – Lee Pikoulis come back to challenge this in court. Were I Joe, I certainly would not meeting. Recently, he was expelled from the cham- outside, who were now even with the If I lived in New Mexico, I would take advertise I possess an assault rifle bers after standing silent and holding an American middle of the bus, yelling for her to Editor’s note: ABQ Free Press contacted this to court, as I was not speeding. which, by the way, is a machine gun. flag upside down in protest of APD. stop. I called her on it, and her response ABQ Ride, which confirmed that Mr. I have contacted the Mayor’s Office Thank you. Dell’Angela believes councilors’ lack of leader- was, “They weren’t where they were Pikoulis reported three incidents in late and the police department, and no – Rkarpe ship has led to “more APD brutality.” He contends supposed to be,” and, “People need to February and followed up in April. A one wants to admit that I was ticketed councilors should have known about the problems take responsibility for themselves.” spokesman for ABQ Ride said a supervi- in error, claiming there is nothing that at the department and should have taken action [A second occurrence was almost sor met the bus after the third incident they can do. I just picked up the June 4 long before the U.S. Department of Justice in April identical to the first.] [In a third but could not confirm Mr. Pikoulis’ If this is the way out-of-state visitors are issue of your tabloid, somewhat released its report on APD abuses. occurrence] I was already on the bus account because the bus’s onboard treated, then I will not return to Moriarty curious about it since I had heard Mr. Families of people shot by police have protested when she pulled up at the Wyoming video system was not working. “It was again, and I will tell people about this Vukelich speaking on KKOB radio APD’s use of force at every City Council meeting stop where the rapid shelter and 66 a he-said, she-said situation,” the ABQ scam, which will only hurt the economy. about the start of this paper. I must since at least 2009 and have spoken in detail about stops are together. It was 10:20 p.m., Ride spokesman said, “but if someone is – Steve Krevisky, Middletown, Conn. say, what a disappointment. This is the pattern of abuse during the public comment and there were seven to 10 people passing up people, we want to know.” just another load of liberal bullshit period that precedes the twice-monthly meetings. sitting in the rapid shelter, some with – the Weekly Alibi without the nasty “These city decision makers are where the blame small children. They immediately got Your article [on prepping for advertising. At free, it’s overpriced. should really be placed and not solely within Mark Bralley up when the bus was approaching and I was ticketed in Moriarty and disaster] left out some very important – Clyde J. Aragon, Albuquerque APD, whose good officers suffer from their poor Public Safety Director Darren White reacts to criticism of his supervision of APD during the public-comment portion of a 2009 City Council meeting. Seated with started walking the approximately 20 paid the ticket under protest. On May information and considerations. leadership and what these city leaders blessed,” him is former APD Chief Ray Schultz. White resigned in 2011. feet from the shelter to where the bus 22, I was on my way to a math teach- Overall, a fairly good piece. Too bad ABQ Free Press welcomes letters to the Dell’Angela said. had stopped in front of the 66 sign. ers’ conference in Tucumcari. I left you only sought out the opinions from editor but reserves the right to edit them Following a summer break, the City Council with the DOJ should the DOJ choose on its own to Along with Councilor Trudy Jones, Sanchez The doors opened, one person I-40 in Moriarty to take a lunch break. people who are NOT pros in the field. for style and length. E-mail your letters begins its regular meeting schedule in August. investigate APD. That measure passed unanimously co-sponsored a $150,000 community outreach got off, and she immediately shut I proceeded cautiously through this Thanks for not making out this seg- to [email protected]. Please include a City officials are awaiting recommendations by the and was signed by the mayor. resolution last year to help formalize goals for the doors and took off. One person construction zone and was confused, ment of the population as “fanatics.” daytime phone number. Department of Justice for reforming APD. Sanchez said the City Charter doesn’t give council- APD and to fund the Albuquerque Collaborative outside the bus was even with the as there were not any signs of a speed Nat Geo has gone to great lengths in ors the power to hire or fire the police chief, but that on Police-Community Relations, which Sanchez District 1 – Ken Sanchez, Democrat, could change in November if a charter amendment said “will be the foundation for the healing process sponsored by Sanchez and Councilor Brad Winter is with our police officers and our police department. West Side, elected 2005 approved by voters. Nobody should be afraid to call 911 for service.” Albuquerque City Council President Ken Sanchez The proposed amendment would require the At Sanchez’s request, a special council meeting Horse Racing Returns to Albuquerque recognizes critics’ frustration with the pace of mayor’s choice for police chief or fire chief to be was held May 5 to allow the public five hours to BY BILL PREVITTI reforms at APD. He concedes more could have been confirmed by the City Council. The amendment also vent frustration over 40 police officer shootings since done to push the process, but he said he hasn’t been would empower the council to fire a police chief or 2010, 26 of which were deadly. henever live horse racing returns to the city, little under the age of 4. After you are a tad conservative and wager sitting on his hands. fire chief for “just cause” upon the vote of six of the Sanchez has scheduled a hearing to consider Wclots of gentlemen and ladies gather at the rail to that, he is a stallion, your pick to come in third, which Three summers ago, Sanchez, recalls that then- nine councilors. A similar amendment failed to reach an ordinance that he and Benton co-sponsored to burnish their handicapping skills and cheer on their picks. although in some circles is the “show” position, you collect Albuquerque Police Chief Ray Schultz told him the ballot this past fall. suspend operation of the Police Oversight Commis- recommendations made by a Washington think tank Sanchez said he also supported a resolution that Well, the time of the horse is upon us. Some 1,500 he simply becomes a money if the horse wins, comes in sion until a new system is developed. Critics say the “horse.” Most always to curb officers’ use of deadly force were working. resulted in creation of a Police Oversight Task Force. POC is ineffectual. thoroughbreds and quarter horses are stabled at second or third. Expo New Mexico in anticipation of resumption of in races, the girls run “But they weren’t strong enough to deal with all the He voted to table the group’s recommendations, One last thing to remember: you’re racing at the Downs of Albuquerque Aug. 2 through against the girls, and problems,” Sanchez said. however, until after the councilors see what the DOJ not betting against the track. You’re District 2 – Isaac Benton, Democrat, Oct. 26. the boys compete Unsatisfied, Sanchez, along with Councilor Isaac will require of APD. betting against the other folks at the Except for the 12 consecutive days of the State Fair against other boys. Benton and then-Councilor Debbie O’Malley, intro- During council meetings, Sanchez questioned Central Albuquerque, elected 2005 Race Meet, (Sept. 10-21), there are 10 races daily Thoroughbred track who’ve selected a different duced a resolution directing Mayor Richard J. Berry’s Chief Administrative Officer Rob Perry, various Isaac Benton isn’t convinced that an increase in on Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. races are measured horse in the race you’ve bet on. The administration to retain a second consultant. In their police chiefs, APD command staff and city lawyers police shootings beginning in 2010 represented a Weekday races start at 1:30 in the afternoon. On in “furlongs,” which is track could care less; its job is to August 2011 resolution, they also directed council about the operation of APD. He has invited the significant turning point in APD. The council, he staff to request a Department of Justice investigation. mayor to attend council meetings to discuss APD, Saturdays and Sundays, they leave the gate one-eighth of a mile. handle the money, take a cut and said, had heard much earlier from the community “It’s unfortunate that the mayor vetoed it, because but the mayor has declined. at 12:30 p.m. A six-furlong race is distribute the rest to the players. action group Vecinos United and other critics of we lost time,” Sanchez said. When councilors tried After Sanchez learned that only 28 percent of Race fans have two venues: the Grandstand on three-quarters of a mile. My mom loved a day at the races. She was a fine APD misconduct. Quarter horse races are measured in yards, so a to override the mayor’s veto, four councilors – APD officers were certified in crisis intervention the Fairgrounds or The Casino at The Downs, best handicapper. One of her secret methods was to bet on “I have always sensed that there was a disturbing 400-yard race is just that, 1,200 feet. A quarter horse Trudy Jones, Brad Winter, then-councilor Michael techniques, he helped find money for additional entered at Louisiana and Central. the horse sporting the longest tail. edge to the Albuquerque Police Department. As a can whiz by you going 50 miles an hour. Cook and Don Harris – voted no. training. “We put an extra million dollars in the Here are some of the basics of horse racing: Caucasian Anglo, I never experienced this edge in On the betting side, when you bet on the horse to After the override attempt failed, Sanchez voted budget for that training this year,” Sanchez said. a personal interaction, but it has become more clear The animal comes to us two ways, as a boy or a Bill Previtti is a marketing consultant to several for an amended resolution co-sponsored by Coun- That should have happened after the outside con- win, it must win for you to collect. If you bet the horse over my last six years on the council,” Benton said. girl. The female is known as a filly under the age of 4. to place, which is second place, you pick up the Albuquerque-area casinos. cilors Rey Garduño and Dan Lewis calling for the sultant’s report was released, he said. “We assumed cont. on page 10 After that she is considered a mare. The male is a colt winnings if the horse wins or comes in second. And if city “to work cooperatively and collaboratively” that these things were all being done,” he said. PAGE 8 • July 30, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS OPINION COLUMNS ABQ FREE PRESS • July 30, 2014 • PAGE 9 Why Are Central America’s Children Coming? Has the Susana-Gary Race On Philosophy, Italian Food Decades of U.S. intervention caused this Each issue, we ask two Obama and Harry Reid are behind it Reached a Tipping Point? And Exploding Goldfish Let’s fix bayonets and head down to the border I started using the term goat rodeo some time back By JOE MONAHAN BY EFRAIN VILLA and do some kid-stickin’! political operatives because it’s far less offensive than cluster f***. That’s Or maybe just scare ‘em a little. Brra-aaa-pppp. to put on their lucha libre reserved for special occasions. funny thing call an “optics” problem. talians treat guests My hometown friends accept my Dance, you little niños! Dance! Like the flood of illegal immigrant children across Ahappened on the She has been nowhere near the Ithe way foie gras condition and are quite supportive. In The tragedy of a bazillion kids on our border can masks and tackle an Issue. our southern border. way to the 2014 race scene of the news disasters we outlined producers treat Italy, however, they were determined be summed up by the Bible verse, “For they sow the Cluster. for governor. It did not above, obviously thinking it won’t stick geese. If an Italian to find a cure. Not surprisingly, the first wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.” ABQ Free Press chose this one. New Mexicans have a grandstand seat to this event. end in June. Nor did it to her if she’s not seen at the scene. But has ever invited words I learned in Italian were: “Sono On and off for 100 years, the United States has The rest of the nation knows only what they get from end in July. In fact, as there comes a point when leadership is you for dinner, you pieno.” It means, “I am full.” Not used mucked around in Central America solely for evening newscasts – reports akin to tossed salads we moved into August, expected – where the public expects the know what it is like to saying this phrase in English, much political pros were talk- problems to be embraced, discussed military, corporate and political profit – never for mixed from bouquets of sentimentalism and salacious to be a victim of less in Italian, it was frustrating to realize ing about momentum and ultimately solved. Saying it isn’t so moral profit, and never for the benefit of the people attacks on those who aren’t crazy about this craziness. their hospitality. that it was useless to me in Italy. Italian A case can be made that this river of youths is and how Republican Gov. Susana Martinez doesn’t make it so. You understand the pain of having your guests must eat. Period. of Central America. appears to have lost hers. The governor often is seen posing the result of an orchestrated effort between the stomach stretched far beyond its limits. All around me, my host’s cousins, We have destabilized regimes in our hunt for cheap No longer is it about scoring a with school-age children, nurturing and White House and the Harry Reid-led Senate. By his Perhaps, you have awoken in a cold aunts, uncles, and grandparents yelled at coffee and bananas; we have propped up oppressive triumphant, blowout victory; now it’s encouraging them, and receiving the own account frustrated with the whole checks and sweat, recalling that moment of panic each other from one side of the table to regimes in our hunt for cheap coffee and bananas. about navigating through the next three attention with wide smiles. But there balances thing, the President feels justified giving when you seriously began to contem- the other. Had it not been for the intermit- And we’ve wrapped it all in the global fight against months against an increasingly sordid has been no such Gov. Love for the plate the physical possibility of explod- tent outbursts of scandalous laughter, I communism, predecessor to the global war on terror. House Republicans a prostate exam sans KY. and sour news backdrop that would give thousands who have lost their jobs After all, didn’t George W. Bush initially propose ing. “Why do you not eat more?” they would have thought I was sitting at the Few people realize we invaded Nicaragua in 1912 any politician a migraine. in the ongoing recession here. Nor is asked you after your third helping. “Why table with the Capulets and Montagues. what is roughly the current legislation being and occupied it through the 1920s. Some might That late July Rasmussen poll that there open concern expressed about so shy? Do you not like my cooking?” After my sixth plate of lasagna, cannel- bandied about that would “fix” our illegal immigra- remember that in the 1980s, we conducted a covert showed the governor’s race all tied the increasing poverty and violence that They stared at you expectantly when loni, and involtini di pesce, not to mention tion “crisis”? Sorta. war against that country, funneling money to rightist up with Martinez and Dem nominee plagues the state. It is that deliberate asking that last question, as if you might the countless glasses of grappa I drank rebels known as “contras.” The Reagan administra- The updated version of the “Dream Act” comes Gary King both getting 43 percent was disconnect that has more voters asking, be about to reveal that you believe the to sooth my nerves, I began sweating, tion got the money for that gig, by selling missiles to with even more benefits to those seeking the dismissed as too optimistic for the “Just what is going on here?” and this is soup was poisoned. and my vision blurred. My friend’s father American, eh, dream. And that’s saying something. our frenemy, Iran – another country we destabilized. Dems, but it was a gift for King because opening a window of opportunity for King. You are not alone. I, too, have been to sat next to me with his arm around my In 2007, when the Bush-supported, Jon Kyl-Ted it changed the conversation from an During the 1980s, we based troops in Honduras to Italy. I remember looking around the table shoulder, yelling directly into my ear. His Kennedy bill appeared on the verge of passing, inevitable Martinez re-election to, “Just protect Hondurans from the evils of socialism exported Forbes Magazine is for an ally only to realize that they were assumption that I had nothing to say the White House and Congress were flooded with what is going on here?” from Nicaragua. And in El Salvador, we provided all in on the cruel conspiracy. “You will meant that he never had to pause for phone calls from across the nation. We, the people, And what has been going on here has been forecasting that of 200 military assistance to the government as it terrorized offend my wife if you do not eat more,” my response. It was lost on him that my were pissed; that bill crashed and burned. an incumbent’s nightmare. We started the metro areas in the United the old man sitting next to me said. So disengagement was due mostly to the its own citizens during a 12-year-long civil war. That would be the fate of this legislation today. Not year with the Albuquerque murder of 9-year- States, the Albuquerque I submitted to my fate and in broken fact that I did not understand a single The United States started waging war against because of the immigrants involved – though, sadly, old Omaree Varela that shocked the state. Italian, whispered, “ancora un po’ di piu.” word of his Venetian dialect. Guatemala’s left-leaning government way back in Metro area will have the I’m sure that weighs into the equation for some people Then there are the ongoing fatal The literal translation is, “just a bit more,” At some point in the night, either the 1950s. We eventually installed a pro-U.S. govern- slowest job growth of any – but because Americans have heard this all before. Albuquerque police shootings, followed by but the true interpretation to an Italian is, because of the alcohol or the intoxica- ment, which we propped up in the 1960s with the Let’s set the Wayback machine to 1986. Ronald the gruesome slayings of two Albuquerque of them through 2016. “Bring me twice my weight in food.” tion of overeating, I began to understand homeless men, with three crazed teenag- help of Green Berets. In the process, we managed Reagan was the president. Congress was dominated Now, when it comes to eating, I am Italian. My friend’s father had just told ers charged in the killings. Then there’s the And let’s not forget the New Mexico to turn a blind eye to the disappearance of nearly by Democrats. Low and behold great bipartisan neither shy nor a proponent of modera- me, “Blah, blah, blah ... having a child state’s 49th ranking for child well-being. House of Representatives. With the gov- 200,000 Guatemalans. love was made and the immigration bill “to fix the tion. As a child, I learned that if I fed my changes a man’s life ... blah, blah, blah.” So, what’s all that got to do with kids at the border? Last but far from least is the state and ernor no longer waltzing to re-election but pet goldfish too much, they would overeat I looked at him and mustered the problem once and for all,” the Immigration Reform city’s persistent lagging economy. Forbes having to do a more complex fox trot, the Well, for all our efforts – we managed to export and Control Act (IRCA), was passed. themselves to death. Upon this discovery, courage to interrupt his monologue. Magazine is forecasting that of 200 metro prospect of the Republicans taking over I remember thinking, “I am like a goldfish.” “Yes,” I slurred. “A child can change a something to Central America, but it wasn’t democracy. Goat rodeo ended, yes? We exported torture through the “School of the areas in the United States, the Albuquer- the state House are being reassessed. My capacious stomach and my gluttonous man’s life.” He quieted for the first time IRCA promised first and foremost a secure border. que Metro area will have the slowest The assumption has been that a big Americas,” a training academy for Latin American abandon to keep it full borders on being a that night. “What?” he asked with a look That was the key element. Uh huh. More than 4 million job growth of any of them through 2016. win by Martinez would have coattails military officers in Fort Benning, Ga. And starting verifiable medical condition. of shock. Thinking I had wowed him with illegal immigrants were given amnesty. Deja vu, eh? That’s dead last in job growth in the state and usher in the first GOP-controlled my Italian, I loudly, and proudly, repeated in the 1980s, we deported ultra-violent Salvadoran, IRCA was a joke. It paved the way for what we’re where our official slogan is “It grows as it House in more than 60 years (Dems Honduran and Guatemalan street gangsters from what I said to the entire table. Abrupt seeing today … a cluster. goes.” Imagine that. currently control the chamber 37 to 33). silence followed. Everyone stared at me. L.A. back to their home countries. After my sixth plate of What is at the same time disgusting and brilliant Martinez and Republican Albuquerque That could still happen. Don’t forget that My breathing quickened. I could feel my T≠he initial Made-in-the-USA “maras” grew into Seth Taylor about today’s manufactured crisis is the foresight to Mayor Richard Berry have largely escaped Martinez has $4 million to spend and lasagna, cannelloni, and face flush, and in my inebriated state, drug, arms, kidnapping and human-trafficking send waves of children first. the political consequences of this dire back- King is still underfunded – but a GOP involtini di pesce, not to I recognized another rare sensation cartels that now ruthlessly conscript children into We’re not going to turn children away. We’re just drop by essentially ignoring it – choosing to takeover appears less likely. besides being full: I was about to cry. their service as mules, enforcers and prostitutes. not, so everyone needs to come to terms with that. I talk about what they want to talk about. But One card that could be played against mention the countless As the first tear began to stream down In short, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala mean, there’s a reason these masses aren’t settling in facts, as they say, are stubborn things. the Rs seeking seats in the urban and glasses of grappa I drank my cheek, everyone erupted in laughter. are horrible places to be a child – not because there Mexico, say. Martinez and the Republican Gov- more liberal Albuquerque Metro area is to sooth my nerves, I My friend’s father stood and declared are no economic opportunities, but because there is But let’s make no mistake: This isn’t the great ernors Association spent $1 million the national Republican brand and how that from that point forward I was to be no childhood to be had. pre-Civil War Irish immigration. It’s not the massive hammering King with negative TV ads it has turned off young women voters. began sweating, and my known as Il Filosofo (The Philosopher). We created all that misery ostensibly to combat European inflow of the late 19th-early 20th centuries. in June and July, throwing everything The Hobby Lobby Supreme Court vision blurred In Italian, “bambino” means child. In a singular communist boogeyman: Cuba. So, Those groups, who were also met with racism they could at him, including the prover- decision and abortion and contraception my overzealousness to correctly pro- bial kitchen sink. But the tortoise King rights all come into play. If those issues after nearly 100 years of U.S. intervention in Latin and animosity, came at a time when we opened the nounce Italian, I had pumped up those continues to plod along while the hare are effectively hung around the necks of America, who is better off – the people we were gates, counted souls, and buttoned up when we’d Add to this my aversion to wasting Bs to Ps. “Pompino” means fellatio, and Martinez can’t pull away. the Rs, it could be the yoke that weighs claiming to save or the people we were claiming to reached what we thought we could support. We food, my obsessive compulsion to much like an Italian meal, I suppose it That’s not totally unexpected. This is them down and keeps the speaker’s save them from? controlled our borders. finishing everything on my plate (from can change a man’s life. a Dem-dominated state, and any GOP gavel out of their hands. left to right), and my passionate love Kids are showing up on our border because Uncle Today that idea is passé, or worse, yawn, racist. governor who has held up as well as for everything culinary, and it’s easy to Reach Efrain Villa at his website, Sam broke Central America, just like we’re breaking So is the notion, I guess, of fairness to those Martinez has done something right. But Joe Monahan is a veteran of New Mexico see how I arrived at a self-diagnosis of aimlessvagabond.com. Iraq and Afghanistan. Is this a great country or immigrants who’ve come here seeking citizenship Martinez may be facing not only a reality politics whose daily blog can be found at Seth Taylor Goldfish Eating Disorder. what? the old fashioned way – legally. problem but what the political hotshots joemonahan.com.

PAGE 10 • July 30, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS news PETS ABQ FREE PRESS • July 30, 2014 • PAGE 11 APD Cont. from Page 7 He supports abolition of the current Police Over- to approve the tax increase in November. proposed a series of public meetings to review the CALLING sight Commission, which he described as “toothless In June, Peña offered Benton and Winter a POC, and they secured funding for an independent and ineffective.” substitute bill to fund a $30,000 study on the gaps in analyst to ensure that the commission had access to Benton voted to override the mayor’s veto calling homelessness, mental health and substance abuse data needed to instigate reforms. ALL PETS on the DOJ to intervene with APD. He wants voters services. The money was approved. In March 2013, Lewis publicly told Chief Schultz to give the council the authority to remove the police Peña, whose district mostly lies south of Central he should resign. A day later, Schultz submitted his chief or fire chief. and west of Coors Boulevard, wants to see APD resignation to the mayor. In June, Benton and Councilor Brad Winter recruit more young people from her district. “When Since then, Lewis said he has supported the co-sponsored a resolution to work with Bernalillo they graduate, they can do community policing in formation of a police oversight task force and has County to address jail recidivism rates and provide neighborhoods where people already know them,” made his highest priority the funding of the DOJ’s supportive housing for homeless residents. He co- Peña said. eventual recommendations to reshape APD. sponsored another resolution to pay for $30,000 for After reading an email from the former chief a study on the gaps in homelessness, mental health District 4 – Brad Winter, Republican, telling Taser International, the maker of Taser stun and substance abuse services. weapons, that the city’s purchase of the devices was After the shooting of homeless camper James Boyd Northeast Heights, elected 1999 “greased,” Lewis asked the city’s inspector general in March, Benton held a news conference to urge Last year, Brad Winter initiated a process to review to investigate the planned $1.9 million procurement coordination of services for people who suffer from the mechanisms of the Police Oversight Commis- and Schultz’s role in the purchasing process. Shultz behavioral disabilities, substance abuse, post- sion. His goal is to establish a POC task force that later said he used a poor choice of words. traumatic stress disorder, and homelessness. isn’t “dysfunctional.” Lewis is chairman of the council’s budget commit- His plan for a bipartisan, multi-jurisdictional task “I hope that we get something in that does have tee. The 2014 budget, introduced in May, includes Robin Hunn sent us this photo If your pet is this cute, we want to force is now in place. Benton expects the group teeth. Because it doesn’t work now,” Winter said. investment in mental health services “to assist the of Guzzard, a female lab in see a picture; send us a high- to produce within three months an assessment He said he originally sponsored this past fall’s city’s most vulnerable population.” The budget also resolution jpeg as an email of service gaps and set up a “triage” process and charter amendment to involve the City Council in provides more funds for APD training. Another $2 the gray hoodie on the left, attachment with a description of supportive housing for vulnerable residents. “That the hiring of the police chief, “just like we do with million has been set aside for DOJ-mandated changes. and Mr. Poo, a male in the what he or she is doing in the photo. will inherently reduce unsatisfactory encounters the city attorney and city clerk.” He ultimately voted pink pullover sweater on the with law enforcement,” Benton said. against the measure because it was amended to give District 6 – Rey Garduño, South Central Behind the scenes, he said he met with former councilors a say in the firing of a chief, which he right. “They have a funny soap Send it to police chiefs Ray Schultz and Allen Banks and other does not support. and Southeast Heights, elected 2007 opera-type relationship and [email protected] command staff. “I was one of the first two councilors Winter said he was unhappy with the mayor’s Rey Garduño has met with shooting subjects’ fami- I have written songs about Include your name, phone number, and to publicly call for Shultz’s resignation,” Benton said. choice of Eden as police chief in February. lies and attended memorial services, marches, rallies your pet’s name, and we’ll try to reserve He also was the first councilor to question new He also said that more than a dozen years ago, he and protests. He has met with representatives of the them,” Robin wrote. their spot in the pet parade. Chief Gorden Eden’s declaration that the Boyd sponsored a resolution to supply the department Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice and the shooting was justified. Since then, Benton said Eden with Taser electronic stun weapons “as an alterna- Martin Luther King Jr. Task Force for Public Safety. has cancelled two meetings with him. tive to lethal force.” APD has been accused by the “It’s my duty to listen and empower my constitu- “He does not appear to desire a dialogue,” Benton said. DOJ of abusing those devices, too. ents and members of the community,” Garduño He said he has met with former police officers and Winter has questioned APD over reports that lapel said. “I’ve been committed to being accessible and Albuquerque Police Officers Association representa- video cameras have failed to record lethal force open to ideas that will help ensure that APD regains tives to “frankly discuss these issues, including incidents “What do you mean, they didn’t work?” the community’s trust.” the needs for discipline, selectiveness in recruiting, He also said he hasn’t talked privately with Working with Councilor Sanchez, Garduño helped mentorship of subordinate and younger rank and families of shooting subjects. His constituents tell clear the group’s April 7 agenda to allow for a long file officers, and public oversight.” him they still “love the police.” public discussion about APD. Benton has spoken with shooting victims’ families, “They want law and order,” he said. “Reducing Following release of the DOJ report that concluded he said. property crime is their top concern.” that APD had engaged in a pattern of excessive force, Garduño sponsored a resolution to retain an District 3 – Klarissa Peña, Democrat, District 5 – Dan Lewis, Republican, expert to study APD’s use-of-force training and make recommendations based on national “best Southwest Side, elected 2013 Northwest Side, elected 2009 practices.” In her campaign for council last fall, Klarissa Dan Lewis may be a conservative Republican, but Garduño offered the amendment that directed Peña advocated for public safety and for giving the the youngest member of the City Council doesn’t al- council staff to prepare the DOJ investigation council a role in selecting the police chief. ways agree with the Berry administration. In fact, request. He co-sponsored a resolution that offered As vice president of governmental and community Lewis has often questioned the administration’s council support for that probe. affairs at Youth Development Inc., Peña said she has “bunker mentality.” Along with Winter, Garduño co-sponsored a bill to been acutely aware of problems with mental health, In August 2011, he joined four Democrats and set up the 11-member Police Oversight Task Force. drug addiction and homelessness in the community. voted in support of a resolution requesting the DOJ The measure required that the task force hold three She wants to secure funding to replace social investigate APD’s potential civil rights violations town hall meetings to allow the public to provide programs that were eliminated when a portion of and excessive use of force. When the mayor vetoed suggestions for improvements at the POC. the city’s gross receipts tax was cut in 2007. She that measure, Lewis was the only Republican to vote Garduño also sponsored a proposed charter proposes an eighth-cent gross receipts tax increase to override the veto. When the override failed by amendment to allow voters to elect the chief of that would generate $16 million annually to pay for one vote, Lewis co-sponsored another resolution to police every four years. The council killed the mental health services. require the council and mayor to work cooperatively proposal by a vote of 8- 1 in May. “We must invest in prevention/intervention with any DOJ review. It passed. programs as well as accessible inpatient and out- In May 2012, when District Attorney Kari Bran- District 7 – Diane Gibson, mid-North- patient mental health services. Without addressing denburg appeared before the council to defend her these needs and the lack of other services relating to review of police shootings, then-Council President east Heights, Democrat, elected 2013 homelessness and the developmentally disabled, the Lewis questioned Brandenburg about her investiga- Since winning a tough runoff election with problems in our community will persist,” Peña said. tory grand jury process. Berry-appointed Councilor Janice Arnold-Jones If councilors adopt her plan, voters will be asked Last year, Lewis and Councilor Don Harris cont. on page 12 PAGE 12 • July 30, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • July 30, 2014 • PAGE 13 APD Cont. from page 10 Meet the Web Tracking Tool Almost Impossible to Block in November, Diane Gibson hasn’t sponsored any ultimately persuaded her that some oversight District 9 – Don Harris, Far Southeast BY JULIA ANGWIN, PROPUBLICA legislation regarding APD. She said she’s worked in was better than nothing. She and other councilors This article was co-published with Mashable. the background “even though I may not get credit have opted not to write legislation to create a new Heights, elected 2005 for it.” oversight body until after the DOJ investigation and Don Harris, who served as the council’s vice president in 2006 and president in 2011, declined new, extremely persistent type of how their data will be used is “not the 13 million websites on which its Shortly after winning her seat, Gibson said she and final report, she said. How You Can Try to Thwart her assistant met with Berry to discuss APD. “I told “We’ve just been kind of inactive on it,” Jones said. to return our survey seeking a list of APD-related Aonline tracking is shadowing visi- best privacy assurance.” technology appears but is considering him that I wouldn’t tolerate any officer’s misuse of “This is a tough one.” legislation he introduced. He also declined our tors to thousands of top websites, from Device fingerprints rely on the fact Canvas Fingerprinting ending its test soon. “It’s not uniquely request for an interview. WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.com. that every computer is slightly dif- identifying enough,” Harris said. force,” Gibson said. She voted against the resolution calling for the • Use the Tor browser (Warning: can First documented in a forthcoming ferent: Each contains different fonts, AddThis did not notify the websites After the Boyd shooting, she privately met with DOJ investigation, she said, “because it was ambigu- “I want to frame things in a broader perspective,” be slow) Chief Gorden Eden and told him she’s less con- ous about what was going to happen.” She worried Harris wrote in an email that included a clipping paper by researchers at Princeton different software, different clock on which the code was placed because • Block JavaScript from loading in cerned with justified shootings and more concerned about the federal government taking over the police from The New York Times coverage of the Boyd University and KU Leuven University settings and other distinctive features. “we conduct R&D projects in live shooting that referenced the difficulties police face in Belgium, this type of tracking, Computers automatically broadcast your browser (Warning: breaks a lot environments to get the best results “with desired outcomes.” department. “That is something we absolutely did of websites) In April, three members of the Police Oversight not want,” she said. “I thought we needed to clean while working as “psychiatric social workers.” called canvas fingerprinting, works by some of their attributes when they from testing,” according to a spokes- Commission resigned. That left the POC, which al- our own house.” Harris has supported funding for APD’s Crisis instructing the visitor’s Web browser connect to another computer over the • Use NoScript browser extension woman. ready had three vacancies, with just three members. Jones said she’s concerned that the DOJ has talked Intervention Team, and he helped secure additional to draw a hidden image. Because each Internet. to block JavaScript from known She added that the company does Gibson is considering who she should nominate to only to a small number of residents and has refused money for the department to contract with a psy- computer draws the image slightly Tracking companies have long fingerprinters such as AddThis not use any of the data it collects – (Warning: requires a lot of research the POC to represent District 6. “There’s not a long to meet directly with city councilors, who will be chiatrist. He backed Benton and Winter’s legislation differently, the images can be used to sought to use those differences to whether from canvas fingerprints or and decision making) line of people who are willing to commit the time asked to approve funding for any reforms the DOJ to fund a mental health study. He co-sponsored a assign each user’s device a number uniquely identify devices for online traditional cookie-based tracking – to serve or who would make good commissioners,” recommends. measure with Lewis to create a data analyst position that uniquely identifies it. advertising purposes, particularly • Try the experimental browser ex- from government websites, including Gibson said. She has narrowed her choice to four Jones wants the public to know they’ll get to see for the Independent Review Office and the POC. Like other tracking tools, canvas as Web users are increasingly using tension Chameleon that is designed WhiteHouse.gov, for ad targeting or people but has decided not to send anyone’s name the final DOJ recommendations but warns they Harris wants to ensure the police department has a fingerprints are used to build profiles ad-blocking software and are deleting to block fingerprinting (Warning: personalization. to the mayor’s office until the DOJ makes its recom- won’t be able to rewrite them. sufficient number of officers with appropriate train- of users based on the websites they cookies. recommended only for tech-savvy The company offered no such assur- mendations for reforming APD. “The DOJ will not even allow the inclusion of ing. “As we expect more from our police officers, we visit – profiles that shape which ads, In May 2012, researchers at the users at this point) ances about data it routinely collects Gibson also has offered to help outspoken com- the City Council on this thing,” Jones said. “If we need to compensate them appropriately,” he wrote. news articles, or other types of content University of California, San Diego, • Install opt-out cookies from known from visitors to other sites, such as munity members secure their own public access won’t allow the people who are elected to represent He also wrote that he sponsored funding for a displayed to them. noticed that a Web programming fingerprinters such as AddThis YouPorn.com. YouPorn.com did not television show on uPublic TV to address APD the citizens to make any changes or be involved survey comparing APD salaries and staffing levels But fingerprints are unusually hard feature called “canvas” could allow (Warning: fingerprint likely will still be respond to inquiries from ProPublica reform and other issues. in it, I think it would be very difficult to say that with those of other regional law enforcement agen- to block: They can’t be prevented by for a new type of fingerprint – by collected; companies simply pledge about whether it was aware of Ad- any citizen off the street has the right to read and cies. He also co-sponsored a measure to provide a 5 using standard Web browser privacy pulling in different attributes from a not to use the data for ad targeting dThis’ test of canvas fingerprinting on percent increase for APD officers, he wrote. settings or using anti-tracking tools typical device fingerprint. or personalization) its website. District 8 – Trudy Jones, Far Northeast perhaps be involved in the negotiations.” Jones doesn’t believe the council should have “I believe it is of the utmost importance to move such as AdBlock Plus. In June, the Tor Project added a Heights, elected 2007 involvement in the hiring or firing of the police forward with community input,” Harris wrote. “We The researchers found canvas feature to its privacy-protecting Web fingerprinting computer code, browser to notify users when a web- Council Vice President Trudy Jones doesn’t list chief. She opposed electing the police chief. She need to increase APD training, while providing our law primarily written by a company site attempts to use the canvas feature APD reform as a recent accomplishment on her city supports more funding to help people with mental enforcement with the support and resources they need to called AddThis, on 5 percent of the and sends a blank canvas image. Web page. illness or behavioral health problems. keep the community safe and secure. At the same time, top 100,000 websites. Most of the code But other Web browsers did not add “It’s embarrassing,” Jones said. “I’m sure you are She wants to get police officers involved in the we must do a better job of ensuring that police officers do was on websites that use AddThis’ notifications for canvas fingerprinting. finding that the council hasn’t done much.” community, she said, to help rebuild damaged not engage in unconstitutional acts of excessive force.” social media sharing tools. Other A year later, Russian programmer After she concluded the POC wasn’t working, relationships. “Not just out patrolling,” she said. fingerprinters include the German Valentin Vasilyev noticed the study she and Winter sponsored legislation to suspend “We need to bring families into substations to meet Peter St. Cyr is an independent journalist who lives in digital marketer Ligatus and the and added a canvas feature to freely the group. “It’s just a farce,” she said. Constituents and talk with the officers in uniform. We’ve got to Albuquerque. stop this escalating fear.” Canadian dating site Plentyoffish. available fingerprint code that he had Rich Harris, chief executive of posted on the Internet. The code was AddThis, said that the company immediately popular. began testing canvas fingerprinting But Vasilyev said the company he earlier this year as a possible way to was working for at the time decided replace “cookies,” the traditional way against using the fingerprint technol- that users are tracked, via text files ogy. “We collected several million installed on their computers. fingerprints, but we decided against “We’re looking for a cookie alterna- using them because accuracy was 90 tive,” Harris said in an interview. percent,” he said, “and many of our He said the company considered customers were on mobile, and the the privacy implications of canvas fingerprinting doesn’t work well on fingerprinting before launching the mobile.” test but decided “this is well within Vasilyev added that he wasn’t the rules and regulations and laws worried about the privacy concerns and policies that we have.” of fingerprinting. “The fingerprint He added that the company has itself is a number which in no way is used the data collected from canvas related to a personality,” he said. fingerprints only for internal research AddThis improved upon Vasilyev’s and development. The company code by adding new tests and using won’t use the data for ad targeting the canvas to draw a pangram “Cwm or personalization if users install fjordbank glyphs vext quiz” – a the AddThis opt-out cookie on their sentence that uses every letter of the computers, he said. alphabet at least once. This allows the Arvind Narayanan, the computer sci- company to capture slight variations ence professor who led the Princeton in how each letter is displayed. research team, countered that forcing AddThis said it rolled out the users to take AddThis at its word about feature to a small portion of the PAGE 14 • July 30, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS FILM film ABQ FREE PRESS • July 30, 2014 • PAGE 15 War as Extreme Sport: “Korengal” Film & TV Briefs: Now Filming in New Mexico

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t has been a good year for film pro- (“Becoming Eduardo”) has just will be filming in some familiar “True Detective” series). A drug Celebrating 50 years Iductions here, a trend that has seen entered the editing stage, and McCall neighborhoods in Albuquerque. kingpin frames Gibson’s daughter in Old Town an uptick since part of the incentive hopes to complete the piece in time to for stealing a fortune in cartel cash. program slashed by Gov. Martinez enter it in the Sundance Film Festival, Supporting actor is William H. Macy. has been brought back and put to where his first two films premiered. Local KOB-TV news anchor Tom Joles good use. Here are a few upcoming Newcomer Gabriel Chavira plays the plays, um, an anchorman. films and TV episodes in current or title character, a mysterious young post-production mode. man who comes to a border town. The CENTS: Albuquerque’s Christopher storyline evokes memories of Peter Boone (“Preschool’s A Bitch”) is now SICARIO: A feature film being shot in Sellers in “Being There” and John editing “Cents,” the film made from an the Albuquerque and Los Lunas areas, Travolta in “Michael.” award-winning screenplay he wrote “Sicario” stars Emily Blunt as a police about a high school girl with mad math- officer who teams up with mercenary BURNING BODHI: A new feature ematical abilities. Sammy encounters Manhattan Benicio del Toro and CIA agent Josh film by writer/director Matthew difficulties with nearly everyone in her Staff Sergeant Elliot Alcantara of Second Platoon in overwatch near Loy Kalay. Image courtesy of Outpost Films. Brolin to neutralize a Mexican cartel. McDuffie of Albuquerque has just life when she tries to turn the school’s “Sicario” means “hit man.” started shooting in the Duke City area, MANHATTAN: Principal shooting fundraiser into something bigger. BY Richard Oyama of everything,” one says. “Every day starring Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting of “The has been completed on the one-hour was a firefight,” another soldier says. IN A VALLEY OF VIOLENCE: With Big Bang Theory.” A man’s high school drama we previewed in the July 2 is- TE ATA: Supported by funding from ar is the ultimate, head-banging “I never thought I’d make it out of Ethan Hawke and John Travolta, this friend has died, and now he must sue. It focuses on the personal stories the Chickasaw Indian Nation, “Te Yuniquely Wrush. It’s the sound of bullets snap- the valley alive.” film just wrapped shooting here. It tells make sense of life. Landon Liboiron of the scientists who built the atomic Ata” is the story of noted Chickasaw ping past your helmet—death metal. It’s Is it any wonder they become the Old West story of an 1890’s drifter (from the Netflix original “Hemlock bomb, who lived in Los Alamos with entertainer, Mary Frances Thompson, the bond of friendship and teamwork Yucca! wedded to their weapons? The logic who seeks vengeance for the death of Grove”) plays Dylan, who comes home their families. The set resides at the who toured all over the world with her thicker than blood since you risk shed- of kill or be killed is unassailable. his friend. James Ransone from “The to New Mexico to figure it out. Local old campus at Santa Fe University of one-woman show of American Indian ding real blood. It’s the Super Bowl. (505) 247-8931 Despite the filmmaker’s refusal to Wire” will play Travolta’s son. actor Tatanka Means appears as Lucas. Art and Design. heritage and culture. Cast auditions That’s the vulgar truth of Sebastian 206 1/2 San Felipe explore the politics of the Afghan have been held in Oklahoma, Albu- Junger’s documentary, “Korengal,” (Old Town Patio Market) War, the soldiers’ remarks eerily echo BETTER CALL SAUL: The prequel BLOOD FATHER: Just wrapping querque, Dallas and Los Angeles. released July 11, that follows a pla- Vietnam. They describe a forbid- spinoff from “Breaking Bad,” starring up production is another feature film, facebook.com/YuccaArtGallery toon fighting in the Korengal Valley ding rocky region where they haul one of the more popular supporting this one starring Mel Gibson and Jeff Berg is a film historian and critic. YuccaArtGallery.com of Afghanistan where 42 Americans characters, “lawyer” Saul Goodman, Erin Moriarty (from the very popular died before the U.S. military with- 75-pound packs and heavy weaponry, drew in April 2010. while the sheeted Taliban move “Korengal” is the follow up to ghostlike through a land they know Academy-Award nominated “Re- “plainer than their backyard.” They strepo,” both directed by filmmaker/ are “awesome fighters.” journalist Junger. Like all good Some evince sympathy for the movies, it provokes a lot of trouble- Pashtun, likening them to people some questions. whose house is being invaded—of The film intercuts between somber course they’ll fight. They’re caught footage of the soldiers in their spartan between a rock and a hard place. base camp, images of a But what of those mountainous landscape, “Korengal” is troublesome ques- and studio interviews. showing now in tions? What of the only black soldier Hemingway famously Albuquerque. in the platoon who wrote, “Abstract words Check local theater listings Johnny takes “plenty of shit,” such as glory, honor, for dates and times. courage, or hallow yet knows that in JOHNNY: A drama about noted were obscene beside the a pinch those same New Mexico boxer Johnny Tapia is concrete … numbers of regiments and combatants would say, “I’ll take him also shooting in the region. Based on dates.” These warriors are more likely in a firefight.” Are there ways for the life of the talented but troubled to use the language of Eminem: “Fuck young American males to bond other fighter, it stars Shiloh Fernandez of hearts. Fuck minds.” than through peak, nerve-shredding “Evil Dead.” The film catches the bipolar rhythms rituals of violence, this passion for of war from the adrenaline high of a extremes? Celebrity interviews LONGMIRE: The popular cable firefight to the “boxed up” boredom Let me give the last word to Sgt. television series about a modern-day where soldiers have six-hour argu- Brendan O’Byrne. “Does God hate sheriff in Wyoming (New Mexico ments about whether George Clooney me?” he asks. “War makes you do coming soon... doubles as The Equality State) has just or Fabio would win a fight. The irrita- terrible things. You do them and then wrapped its third season of shooting. tion arises from living next to someone you have to live with them. People Watch for an upcoming interview for a 15-month deployment: “He say you did what you had to do. I Journalist Betsy Model is creating a series of interviews with with actor Bailey Chase (Deputy smells worse and sounds stupider.” hate that comment. I didn’t have to Branch Connally) in ABQ Free Press stars who have a New Mexico connection, exclusively for The ennui finds outlet in mock fights, do shit. Is that what God is going to in August. ABQ Free Press. Get to know Bailey Chase, playing Deputy ass-kickings, smashed guitars. say? I don’t think so.” “Korengal” captures the paranoia of Branch Connally in “Longmire,” in the August 13 issue. JIM: A new feature film shot in Las a patrol through a village of jerrybuilt Richard Oyama is a poet and freelance writer. Cruces by filmmaker Rod McCall houses and rubble. “You’re suspicious PAGE 16 • July 30, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS EVENTS EVENTS ABQ FREE PRESS • July 30, 2014 • PAGE 17 CALENDAR CALENDAR CASINOS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 rights, Rebilt, God’s Got A Gun AUGUST 1 & WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13 AUGUST 23 Seeds BOOKS August 14, 9 pm, $5, Noctiphetamine, Echoes August 26-28, 4 pm, 6:15 and 8:30 pm, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7 CROSBY, STILLS & NASH Of Fallen, Laminectomy, Fallen Prophets, ZOO MUSIC TERRI HENDRIX & LLOYD MAINES ALBUQUERQUE LATIN DANCE FESTIVAL Patema Inverted JULY 31-AUGUST 30 Sandia Resort & Casino Amphitheater, Forever Formless Rio Grande Zoo & BioPark, 903 Tenth SW, cabq. The Cooperage, 7220 Lomas Blvd NE 2014 August 29-September 4, 4:30 and 6:30 pm, SUGAR RAY, BLUES TRAVELER AND 30 Rainbow Rd August 18, 8 pm, $10, Cage & Sadistik, gov/culturalservices/biopark/zoo Grammy Award winning musicians. National Hispanic Cultural Center, 2014 Sundance Film Festival Shorts SMASH MOUTH 8 pm, $45-55, 796-7500, sandiacasino.com, Maulskull August 1, Greensky Bluegrass; August 8, 7:30 pm, 21+, $17-22, ampconcerts.org 1701 4th Street SW, Plaza Mayor August 29-September 4, 8:30 pm, Frank ticketmaster.com Sonny Landreth Featuring Toby Love and Son Como Son, Route 66 Casino, Legends Theater August 20, 6:30 pm, $12, Slaves, Myka Re- THURSDAY, AUGUST 14 August 30-21, noon, Shane 14500 Central Ave SW locate, Alive Like Me, Nightmares, Heartist, General lawn seating. Blankets, lawn chairs with live salsa, bachata, merengue, and cha September 6, 1 pm, Sign Painters THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 and picnics are welcome, but please do not cha cha. Food and drink concessions are 8 pm, $30-62, Rt66casino.com, 352-7866 Youth In Revolt, Painting Promises SUMMER NIGHTS CONCERT SERIES September 7, 1 pm, Pantani: The Accidental bring glass containers, sharp knives or alco- available; children 10 and under are admitted August 25, 7:30 pm, $20, Kottonmouth Kings, Albuquerque Bio Park, 2601 Central Ave. NW Death of a Cyclist WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13 holic beverages into the Zoo. Food, beer and free. Covered seating is provided for an all- Imperial Soundclash, Pilot Touhill, Chucky “Prairie Home Companion” favorites Robin wine are available for purchase. Tickets: $3-10 weather event. Chuck, C4 and Nicky Gritts, Ghetto Blast & Linda Williams promote their new CD AUGUST 2-4 YES at website above or at any BioPark cashier. 6:30 pm-Midnight, $37-40, 724-4771, August 26, 9 pm, Nick Britt & Black Market “Back 40.” Route 66 Casino, Legends Theater abqlatinfest.org THE AUTEURS FILM SERIES Research, Cowboys & Indian, The Lymbs $3-10, 768-2000, cabq.gov 14500 Central Ave SW AUGUST 1-9 CCA Cinematheque, August 30, 9 pm, $15, Nik Turner’s Hawkwind, Performing their 1971 blockbuster “Fragile,” SEPTEMBER 5-13 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe Witch Mountain, Hedersleben, Black Maria SUNDAY, AUGUST 24 and greatest hits. SALSA UNDER THE STARS Celebrating the work of the cinema’s es- September 3, 8 pm, $13, Stick Figure, Pacific Albuquerque Museum Amphitheater, DRACULA 8 pm, $25-250, Rt66casino.com, 352-7866 CHATTER CABARET: sential artists, sponsored by St John’s College Dub, Hirie 19th & Mountain Rd NW North 4th Theatre, 4904 Fourth St NW JAMES D’LEÓN, PIANIST Film Institute. Andrei Tarkovsky: “Andrei Read our interview with Jo-Ann Mapson on page 23 in SATURDAY, AUGUST 16 September 6, 8 pm, $5, Beard, The Lymbs, New Mexico Jazz Workshop presents a line- Presented by elite Dance Company of New Mexico. Hotel Andaluz, 125 2nd St NW, Rublev” this issue. The Howlin’ Wolves, Fire To The Rescue, The up of stars: The classic tale of love versus death, or Casablanca Room $8.50-9.50, film passes available, show times AARON LEWIS Danger Lines August 1, $12-14, Calle 66 unending life. Modern and classical music in a nightclub vary, (505) 982-1338, ccasantafe.org Isleta Amphitheater, The Showroom September 7, 8 pm, $15, The Skatalites, Crazy August 2, $14-16, Brazilian night with Jazz Fri, Sept. 5 and Sept. 12, 7 pm; Sat, Sept. 6, 2 BOOK SIGNINGS AT BOOKWORKS setting. Food and drink extra. 5601 University Blvd SE Fool Brasileiro & Friends, Jackie Zamora Brazilian pm; and Sat, Sept. 13, 7 pm. Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande NW, Free, 5 pm, $25, brownpapertickets.com, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6 Solo songs and hits from his career with September 13, 9 pm, $10-15, Burlesque Noir Sextet $18, 344-8299, elitenm.net bkwrks.com ChatterABQ.org Staind. Presents: Keepin’ It Classy August 8, $12-14, Son Como Son FREE MOVIE AT SBCC: ZOO KEEPER July 31, 7 pm, Jo-Ann Mapson, “Owen’s Daughter” 8 pm, $30-40, 452-5100, holdmyticket.com August 5, 7 pm, August 9, $14-16, Pat Malone Quartet, Ar- SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 FILM South Broadway Cultural Center, Livia King Blackburne, “Mid- AUGUST 1-AUGUST 29 naldo Acosta Quintet 1025 Broadway SE night Thief” TUESDAY, AUGUST 19 2 pm, more info: call 311, cabq.gov/sbcc August 6, 7 pm, Lynn Valverde, “Sweet PATIO MUSIC SERIES LYLE LOVETT AND HIS LARGE BAND AUGUST 1-SEPTEMBER 7 SATURDAY, AUGUST 2 Downs of Santa Fe, 27475 W Frontage Rd, Reverence” ZZ TOP & JEFF BECK Prairie Star Restaurant & Wine Bar SANTANA: THE CORAZÓN TOUR Santa Fe (Between Exits 271 & 276 off I-25) MONDAY, AUGUST 11 August 7, 7 pm, Steve Fox, “Odyssey: Love and Sandia Resort & Casino Amphitheater 288 Prairie Star Rd, Santa Ana Pueblo OVER THE RHINE Sandia Resort & Casino Amphitheater, 30 Singer/songwriter, acoustic guitarist and Terror in Greece” 30 Rainbow Rd (505) 867-3327, mynewmexicogolf.com National Hispanic Cultural Center, THE GIVER Rainbow Rd actor Lyle Lovett wraps up his summer tour. August 9, 3 pm, Land of Enchantment Ro- 7 pm, $55-70, 796-7500, sandiacasino.com, August 1, Frankly Scarlet 1701 4th Street SW Cottonwood 16 and Albuquerque Rio 24 8 pm, $65-85, 796-7500, sandiacasino.com, 7 pm, $48-79, Kids $12, ampconcerts.org, mance Writers of America ticketmaster.com August 8, DCN Project Songwriting duo of Karin Bergquist and The Red Carpet premiere of the movie about ticketmaster.com heathconcerts.org August 10, 3 pm, Margaret Randall, “About FRIDAY, AUGUST 22 August 15, Judge Bob and the Hung Jury Linford Detweiler. a dystopian future with Meryl Streep, Jeff Charlie Lindbergh and Other Poems” August 29, The Real Matt Jones 8 pm, $27, 724-4771, ampconcerts.org SEPTEMBER 19-20 Bridges, Taylor Swift, Katie Holmes, Brenton August 11, 7 pm, Carolyn Meyer, “Victoria LOS LONELY BOYS CLUBS & PUBS Thwaites and author Lois Lowry. Rebels” Isleta Amphitheater, The Showroom AUGUST 4 – SEPTEMBER 23 SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 ¡GLOBALQUERQUE! 7 pm, fathomevents.com, check theater listings August 12, 7 pm, Lois Rudnick, “Intimate JULY 30-AUGUST 23 SUNSHINE THEATER, 120 Central Ave SW, National Hispanic Cultural Center, and prices: Cinemark.com 5601 University Blvd SE CHATTER SUNDAY: CRANES AND Memories: The Autobiography of Mabel SISTER THE BAR, 407 Central Ave NW, 242- Info & Tickets: sunshinetheaterlive.com 1701 4th Street SW With special guest Del Castillo. SONGBIRDS Dodge Luhan” 4900, sisterthebar.com Aug 4, 8 pm, Black Label Society, Wovenwar, Albuquerque’s favorite music fest, in its 10th WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15 8 pm, $35-45, 452-5100, holdmyticket.com Kosmos Performance Space at the Factory on August 14, 7 pm, Benjamin Radford, “Mysteri- July 30, 9 pm, The Coathangers, White Fang, The Ground Beneath annual celebration of global music. 5th, 1715 Fifth St NW FREE MOVIE AT SBCC: FINDING NEMO ous New Mexico” SATURDAY, AUGUST 23 Abandoned Mansions Aug 24, 8 pm, Queensryche Farewell Tour For information, line-up and tickets, go to: Chamber music, poetry and coffee, in an South Broadway Cultural Center, August 16, 3 pm, John Nichols, “Conjugal July 31, 9 pm, Bathhouse, Weakwick, Hollow starring Geoff Tate globalquerque.org Bliss” HUEY LEWIS AND THE NEWS informal, acoustically excellent setting. 1025 Broadway SE Tongue September 17, 8 pm, $28.50, Porter Robinson August 17, 3 pm, Zora O’Neill, “Moon’s Guide Route 66 Casino, Legends Theater Doors open 9:30 am, $15 at the door, 2 pm, more info: call 311, cabq.gov/sbcc Aug 2, 9 pm, Black Flag “Worlds” Tour to New Mexico” 14500 Central Ave SW ChatterABQ.org DANCE Aug 5, 9 pm, Nick Waterhouse September 23, 8 pm, $25, Conor Oberst, August 18, Susan Slater, “Rollover” 8 pm, $35-75, Rt66casino.com, 352-7866 Aug 9, 9 pm, Xiu Xiu/Circuit des Yeux Jonathan Wilson, Refried Ice Cream TUESDAY, AUGUST 5 AUGUST 1-2 FESTIVALS AND FIESTAS August 19-20, 7 pm, Kevin Fedarko, “The SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 Aug 12, 9 pm, He Whose Ox Is Gored, Bath- Emerald Mile” house, Icelous SATURDAY, AUGUST 9 RAY LAMONTAGNE SATURDAY, AUGUST 2 August 24, Paul O’Connor, “Taos Portraits” SPARX & LORENZO ANTONIO Aug 13, 9 pm, Omotai, Ronoso, Distances SPAFFORD Downs of Santa Fe, 27475 W Frontage Rd, August 27, Sherri Burr, “A Short and Happy Aug 14, 9 pm, Santa Fe (Between Exits 271 & 276 off I-25) Sandia Resort & Casino Amphitheater Futilitarian, Ghosts Of Gla- Low Spirits, 2823 2nd St NW SECOND ANNUAL TASTE OF ABQ Guide to Financial Planning 30 Rainbow Rd ciers, Cassovita, Cicada This band delivers Electro-Funk Therapy by With The Belle Brigade. ABQ Uptown – Q Street, 2200 Q St. NE August 28, Hampton Sides, “In the Kingdom 8 pm, $45-60, 796-7500, sandiacasino.com, Aug 23, 8:30, Corrosion Of Conformity, Bl’ast, driving rock, funk, dance, and light. 6:30 pm, $43-65, Kids $14, ampconcerts.org, Family-friendly food festival with entertain- of Ice” heathconcerts.org ticketmaster.com Brant Bjork, Lord Dying 8 pm, Info & Tickets: lowspiritslive.com ment and a fashion show. August 30, 3 pm, Max Evans 90th Birthday Bash Read our interview with Max Evans in the Au- JULY 31-SEPTEMBER 2 SATURDAY, AUGUST 9 12-4 pm, $20-35 to sample food; Get tickets SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 FRIDAY, AUGUST 22 for food sampling at the event, or in advance at gust 13 issue of ABQ Free Press. EL REY THEATRE, 622 Central Ave SW, 510- MALA MAÑA simon.com/mall/abq-uptown. Purchase tickets TRAVIS TRITT 2582, elreyabq.com WAY BITCHEN’ 80’S LIVE! AUGUST 12-19 Ernie Pyle Library, 900 Girard SE FILMS AT THE GUILD online and receive a Trader Joe’s gift bag full of Isleta Resort & Casino, The Showroom July 31, 8:30 pm, Lee Foss in Concert “Into Low Spirits, 2823 2nd St NW Popular local female band in AMP Concerts’ The Guild Cinema, 3405 Central Ave NE exclusive discounts at ABQ Uptown retailers. 5601 University Blvd SE the Deep End” Blame it on Rebekkah, A Band Named Sue, BOOK SIGNINGS AND OTHER EVENTS AT 100th Library Show. $5-10, 255-1848, guildcinema.com Info: (505) 899-6918. “The Calm After…” tour. August 6, 8:30 pm, Groundation “The Com- Youngsville and Endless Agenda. PAGE ONE 12-1 pm, Free but go to ampconcerts.org to August 1-7, 6 pm, Gore Vidal: The United 8 pm, $25-35, 452-5100, holdmyticket.com ing Home Tour” 8 pm, Info & Tickets: lowspiritslive.com Page One Books, Free unless otherwise noted, register; More info: 256-2065 States of Amnesia AUGUST 9 August 9, 8:30 pm, Wolfgang Gartner in 5850 Eubank NE, page1book.com FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 August 1-7, 3:45 pm and 8 pm, Venus in Fur Concert 9TH ANNUAL DXS DANCE EXPERIENCE DOWNTOWN SUMMERFEST August 12, 6:45 pm, Adobe Walls Open Mic MUSIC SUNDAY, AUGUST 10 August 2, 1 pm, Typeface August 23, 8:30 pm, Pandamonium Iii South Broadway Cultural Center, Downtown, Central Ave Night ALABAMA August 3, 1 pm, Code Black (photo) September 2, 8 pm, DJ Castle Vania CHATTER SUNDAY: 1025 Broadway SE Sheila E, Grammy-nominated singer, August 16, 2:30 pm, Loretta Hall, “Space Sandia Resort & Casino Amphitheater JULY 31-AUGUST 10 August 8-11, 3:45 pm and 8:30 pm, Hellion BEETHOVEN-ADAMS-STRAUSS Hip hop, jazz and contemporary dance drummer and percussionist, will perform. Pioneers: In Their Own Words” 30 Rainbow Rd August 8-11, 6 pm, The Last Sentence JULY 31-SEPTEMBER 13 SANTA FE DESERT CHORALE SUMMER Kosmos Performance Space at the Factory on performance, with local musicians. Partial Food, shopping, children’s activities and August 19, 6:30 pm, Susan Slater, “Rollover” 8 pm, $60-80, 796-7500, sandiacasino.com August 9-10, I pm, “Speedy” plus Buster LAUNCHPAD, 618 Central Ave SW, 764-8887, FESTIVAL 5th, 1715 Fifth St NW proceeds benefit the New Mexico Animal local artisans. ticketmaster.com Keaton’s “The Goat” with live film score launchpadrocks.com, closed Mondays The Classical Series, at various locations in Chamber music, poetry and coffee, in an Friends (no-kill) Organization. 5-10:30 pm, Free. COMEDY August 12-14, 4 pm, 5:45 and 7:30 pm, The SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 July 31, 9 pm, $12, Zepparella Albuquerque and Santa Fe. informal, acoustically excellent setting. 7:30 pm, $15, 301-8800, holdmyticket.com Painting August 2, 9 pm, $7, North, Futilitarian, Solt- July 31 and August 1: A Romantic Evening Doors open 9:30 am, $15 at the door, AUGUST 23 THROUGH NOVEMBER 4 August 15-18, 4:15 and 8:30 pm, Mood Indigo 7th ANNUAL ALBUQUERQUE HOPFEST erra, Casso Vita, Siddhartha with Brahms ChatterABQ.org AUGUST 15-17 August 15-18, 6:15 pm, We Are the Best WESTSIDE SUMMERFEST Isleta Resort & Casino, 5601 University Blvd SE August 3, 5:15 pm, $10-15, Underground August 2: The New World: Music of the OH, SUSANA! BALLET PRO MUSICA FESTIVAL August 16, 1 pm, Homesick, with Director Cottonwood Drive between Old Airport Road 2-6 pm, $10-50 depending on event, go to Hype Artist Showcase Americas TUESDAY, AUGUST 12 The Box Performance Space, 100 Gold Ave SW National Hispanic Cultural Center, Susan Abod and Ellison Drive holdmyticket.com; isleta.com for room deals and August 4, 8 pm, $10, Phobia, Early Graves, August 5: Spanish Mystics Featuring Guitar- This original satire takes a look at what it MALA MAÑA 1701 4th Street SW August 17, 1 pm, Resistance: Not All Germs The event will include free kids’ activities, coupons. Theories, Econarchy, DJ Breathalyzer ist/Lutenist Richard Savino truly means to be a citizen of the 47th state Cherry Hills Library, 6901 Barstow NE Members of the Jalisco Ballet of Mexico dance Are Created Equal a variety of food trucks, a market with local August 7, 6:30 pm, $12, Scale the Summit, August 7, 9 and 10: Mozart Requiem Featur- (which also happens to be our national rank- Local band and food trucks, too. to chamber music by La Catrina Quartet with August 19-21, 2 pm, 4:45 and 7:30 pm, Wel- artisans and neighborhood businesses, and Glass Cloud, Erra, Reflections, Monuments ing Mezzo Soprano Susan Graham ing in education). Conceived and directed 6-7 pm, Free but go to ampconcerts.org to pianist Jacquelyn Helin. come to the Space Show more. The headlining artist, Morris and August 10, 8 pm, $15-20, Grendel, Ludovico $17-100 depending on event; Tickets and Info: by Cody Dove, an alumnus of Second City. register; More info: 857-8321 Opening night gala reception, Fri 6:30 pm ($127 August 22-25, 6 pm, Brasslands! the Day and Time, will take the stage from Technique, Diverje, DJ Electronic Commando desertchorale.org, (505) 988-2282 Through Election Tuesday; check show times. for gala and show); Performances Fri-Sat 8 pm, August 22-25, 3:30 and 8:15 pm, Finding Fela 9-10:30 pm. August 12, 8 pm, $12, 7 Seconds, The Copy- 9 pm, $17.50, 404-1578, theboxabq.com Sun 2 pm, $37-57, 724-4771, nhccnm.org. August 24, 1 pm, Open Sesame: The Story of 5-10:30 pm, Free. PAGE 18 • July 30, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS EVENTS EVENTS ABQ FREE PRESS • July 30, 2014 • PAGE 19 Experimental Setting for ‘Hamlet’ Brings Fresh Angle to Shakespeare CALENDAR BY BARRY GAINES SATURDAY, AUGUST 2 newest mystery. We all know what happens MUSEUMS THROUGH SEPTEMBER 21 when you marry into the mob, but what hap- have been teaching the plays of William AUG. 14-17, 21-24 AN EVENING OF LATINO COMEDY pens when you want to get a divorce? FRIDAY, AUGUST 22 NATIVE AMERICAN BOLO TIES: VINTAGE IShakespeare to university students for National Hispanic Cultural Center, Fri-Sat 7:30pm, $56.50 per person for 4-course AND MODERN ARTISTRY JAMES CADY’S HAMLET 1701 4th Street SW Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, more than 40 years, and “Hamlet” is my dinner and performance. Reservations required: CHRISTO: FREE LECTURE 19th & Mountain Rd NW Musical Theatre Southwest Center for Local comedians Paul Panas, Casey FitzGer- foulplaycafe.com; Info: 377-9593. Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, favorite play. My license plate honors “To ald and Jude Montoya in a benefit for the 19th & Mountain Rd NW Celebrating the art, history and popular be or not to be,” the most famous line in Theatre, 6320 Domingo Rd NE, Suite B Children’s Miracle Network. This show AUGUST 8-31 Christo and his late wife Jeanne-Claude have culture of the bolo tie with an exhibit of 370 literature: 2BR02B. Thurs-Sat at 7:30 pm; Sat-Sun contains material and language that may not spent more than 40 years creating celebrated bolos. Although the bolo has been worn in matinees at 2 pm As an Albuquerque theater critic, I be suitable for all audiences. BANG, BANG, YOU’RE DEAD works of art worldwide. Reservations, re- New Mexico for decades, the act making it Tickets: $20 general/$18 seniors (62+) 8 pm, $17-27, 724-4771, nhccnm.org Desert Rose Playhouse, 6921 Montgomery Blvd New Mexico’s official neckwear passed here quired for the lecture and book signing, will have found James Cady’s direction and ATG/TLC members/$15 students. NE (NW corner Montgomery & Louisiana) be taken beginning August 1; we suggest you in 2007. of such American classics as Arthur FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 Fri-Sat, 8 pm, Sun 2 pm, $12, 881-0503, With museum admission, 243-7255, Group rates available for 10 or more. buy your choice of books prior to the event at Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” and [email protected] the Museum bookstore. cabq.gov/museum Reservations: jlchamlet.bpt.me or LEWIS BLACK: THE RANT IS DUE Eugene O’Neill’s “A Moon for the Brown Paper Tickets (800) 838-3006. Route 66 Casino, Legends Theater, AUGUST 15-31 Please call 338-8760 on August 1 to make 14500 Central Ave SW a reservation for tickets. LIMIT: 2 TICKETS. Tick- ARTWARD BOUND Misbegotten” among the absolute 8 pm, $35-75, Rt66casino.com, 352-7866 AS YOU LIKE IT ets will be available for pickup at the Museum best I have encountered. So when I Michael Weppler. Cady’s instruction Aux Dog Theatre Nob Hill X-space, between 5-5:45 pm on the date of the event THROUGH SEPTEMBER 21 heard that Cady was going to direct 3015 Monte Vista Blvd NE unless otherwise notified. If the event is sold to them: “Play the emotional side of THEATER BEYOND POP ART: A TOM WESSELMANN a production of “Hamlet,” I was Shakespearean comedy, featuring Jessica out, and you wish to be placed on a waiting list, the women, not the physical side.” please come to the Museum at 5 pm on August RETROSPECTIVE understandably excited. But as the THROUGH AUGUST 3 Osbourne and Q. Michael Mander; A co- From left to right, Brennan Foster, Marc Lynch and Ed Chavez each play a version of the title role in “James Cady’s Ham- Clearly, this will not be your production of Aux Dog Theatre Nob Hill and 22. More info: contact the Museum at 243-7255; Denver Art Museum, 100 W 14th Ave Pkwy, Denver, Colo. Aug. 14 opening of its 10-day run let.” Photo by Alan Mitchell Photography. TITANIC THE MUSICAL the Santa Fe Shakespeare Society. cabq.gov/museum teacher’s “Hamlet.” While Shake- Organized chronologically, the exhibition fol- draws closer, I read and hear things Musical Theatre Southwest, MTS Black Box Fri, Sat, Sun 7:30 pm, $12-15, 254-1776, auxdog.com speare’s tragedy contains a play THROUGH SEPTEMBER 3 lows the development of Wesselmann’s work, Performance Space, 6320-B Domingo NE that suggest that I should leave my series by series, from the earliest abstract within a play, Cady’s production The musical examines the lives of passengers SEPTEMBER 17-OCTOBER 5 expectations at the door. CHRISTO & JEANNE-CLAUDE: THE TOM collages to his well-known series, “The Great Fueled by this concept, Cady continued to de- will be a play within a play within aboard the doomed luxury liner, while the WICKED GOLDEN COLLECTION American Nude,” and still lifes of his Pop I asked director Cady about his concept for what I have construct “Hamlet.” He cut the text, as the inmates ship speeds toward its fate. Winner of five a play. Twelve inmates — men who have commit- Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, Period, to the cut-steel drawings and “Sunset called “the most discussed piece of art in the world.” Tony Awards. might cut it, to a 90-minute running time. Broadway’s biggest blockbuster, tickets on 19th & Mountain Rd NW Nudes” of his late work. With museum admis- ted heinous crimes, gotten caught, and are being Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 4 pm, $20-$22, 265-9119, He recalls that as “a young actor trying to be James “I took out everything that didn’t speak to the sale now. An expansive collection of the works of sion, Free general admission on the first Sat- punished — will explore Hamlet’s conflicts as he musicaltheatresw.com Dean,” he dreamed of playing the role of Hamlet Tickets can be purchased at the UNM Ticket Christo & Jeanne-Claude. urday of every month, courtesy of Target and relationships between the main characters — the core must reluctantly undertake “murder most foul, as in With museum admission, 243-7255, and was moved by the portrayals of stars such THROUGH AUGUST 30 Offices and select area Albertsons locations, or made possible by the citizens who support the of the play,” he said. The set (20 cubes, 18 inches each) the best it is.” online at popejoypresents.com or unmtickets. cabq.gov/museum Scientific and Cultural Facilities District. as Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton and Nichol and music (directed by Lorri Oliver) are unusual. Shortell/Claudius is amazed that the “high DIVORCING THE MOB com. To charge by phone, call (877) 664-8661 Hours: Closed Monday; Tue-Thurs 10-5 pm; Fri Williamson. Cady never played the part, but as he Foul Play Café, Sheraton Uptown, or (505) 925-5858. Group orders for 20 or more 10-8 pm; Sat-Sun 10-5 pm; denverartmuseum.org As Philip J. Shortell, who plays Claudius, told me, emotions, great language and situations, though matured as a director, experiencing “more of the 2600 Louisiana Blvd NE may be placed by calling 344-1779. “The actors simultaneously build, destroy and trans- seemingly far removed, are remarkably understand- See Theater Briefs on page 19 for more events. world — heartbreak, joy, the tragedy of it all,” he Join Foul Play Cafe for dinner, and our form the set by ourselves while doubling as musicians able and relevant to our lives — accessible.” began to think about directing “Hamlet.” and even the musical instruments we play.” Tim MacAlpine, playing three roles, says, “This “From the beginning, I wanted to do an all-male Cady has cast three actors — Ed Chavez, Brennan has been a unique creative experience.” version of the play, but how could I justify it in 2014 Foster and Marc Lynch — to portray Hamlet, or A few lines after “Denmark is a prison,” Hamlet without making it look like a novelty?” aspects of Hamlet. Part of Hamlet’s appeal is that observes: “There is nothing either good or bad, but In the text of the play, Cady found Hamlet’s he has rational and emotional forces simultane- thinking makes it so.” Visit James Cady’s “Hamlet,” cryptic line to his school friends, “Denmark is a ously warring within himself. I am sceptical of the and see what you think. prison.” Why not “set it in an all-male prison where, tripartite Hamlet, but Foster considers it “a gift to in prisons throughout the country, ‘Hamlet’ is often explore the classics via new productions that take Barry Gaines has covered Albuquerque theater for the past performed by inmates as part of their therapy.” The bold chances with their source material.” 13 years. He is a professor emeritus at UNM and prisoners “all consider themselves as some kind of Hamlet’s mother and girlfriend, Gertrude and administrator of the American Theater Critics Association. Hamlet: victim and avenging angel and killer.” Ophelia, will be portrayed by Bradd Howard and Theater Briefs No-stress giving, Ragsdale. (Tickets: $10 or $15 for two Georgia, Georgia Lloyd will play R.P. McMurphy and Nurse performances, Fri.-Sat. 8 p.m., Sun. 2 Ratched. Season tickets are still available high-value getting p.m., adobetheater.org, reservations: New Mexico theatergoers will enjoy for a greatly reduced rate, or just commit “O’Keeffe!” by Lucinda McDermott, who The Adobe Theater has such fun (800) 838-3006. to “Cuckoo’s Nest” and pay $18-$22 per also inaugurated this one-woman show. and clever ways to hook and keep its person. Plan on attending Aug. 29-Sept. This time around, Texas actor Carolyn audience. Staged readings scheduled 14. (Fri.-Sat. 7:30 p.m., Sun. 2 p.m., plus You can’t go home again Wickwire takes on the 50-something for Aug. 1 through Aug. 24 will serve Thurs. Sept. 11, 7:30 pm. Box office: 242- Georgia O’Keeffe, letting us in on her as a fundraiser for necessary theater Raul Garza won the 2007 National 4750 x 2, albuquerquelittletheatre.org) art and love life. There are just four improvements. “Love Letters” by A.R. Latino Playwriting Award bestowed by performances of the play at Aux Dog’s Gurney will feature local luminaries such Arizona Theatre Company for his first full- Mainstage in Nob Hill, so get your tickets as former Lt. Gov. Diane Denish, BIG length play. You can catch “Fantasmaville” Spotlight on: ($18-$22) for Aug. 20-23. (Weds.-Thurs. 98.5 morning host Chaz Malibu, KKOB from July 31 through Aug. 10 at the per- “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” by Steve 7:30 p.m., Fri. 8 p.m., Sat. 2 p.m. By weekend host Terrie Q Sayre, and our fectly sized Wells Fargo Auditorium at the Martin, Sept. 5-28, directed by Martin Flower & Bone Productions; 254-7716, own theater critic, Barry Gaines, among National Hispanic Cultural Center. Celeste Andrews at The Vortex Theatre. Get to Auxdog.com). actors you will recognize from the Adobe and Martin return to the city of their youth see the new playhouse at 2900 Carlisle and other theaters. On Friday, Aug. 22, where they find the old neighborhood NE. Read Barry Gaines’s preview of this and Sunday, Aug. 24, special readings of undergoing changes. The couple grapples Crazy is as crazy does character-filled comedy in our Aug. 27 “Driving Miss Daisy” by Alfred Uhry will with gentrification and the spirit(s) of place Albuquerque Little Theatre kicks off its issue. For more information: 247-8600, be performed by local-theater favorites in this comedy/drama. (Thurs-Sat 8 p.m., 85th season with “One Flew Over the vortexabq.com. Jane Hoffman, Gene Corbin and Tom Sun. 2 p.m., nhccnm.org.) Sponsored by Cuckoo’s Nest.” Mark Hisler and Joni L. the NHHC and Fuego Productions. PAGE 20 • July 30, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS FOOD & DRINK MUSIC ABQ FREE PRESS • July 30, 2014 • PAGE 21 Do they know it’s Strange names electronic elements to this music, but Scenario: Inside the Roadshow A Rose is a Rose is a Rosé Music Briefs it never sinks into post-Kid A gloom, “Christmas Is- indeed it only flirts with darkness. It’s an By Stephanie Hainsfurther by Jim Hammond BY NATE MAXSON land”? (AJ Jihad) Post rock basically gets the same bad album that may require repeated rap now that prog rock got 30 years listening because whether it’s uplift- hile swamp sweet style. Black Mesa Rosé is dry, as his guy the appraisers waited at tables backed ago: over-intellectualized and soulless, ing or doomed is something that is doesn’t by colorful banners that announced Wcoolers and is the Tularosa Dry Rosé, and both are All that’s funny “T all about technique over feeling. And never revealed, an ornate puzzle for know what he the categories –Pottery, Jewelry, Toys, refrigerated-air good barbeque wines, but the field of about peace, love of course, there are plenty of bands the curious ear to mull. has,” whispered Furniture, etc. It’s not surprising that the machines are dry Rosé wines is very limited here and that, like good little modernists, Leigh Keno, one Tribal Art line was by far the longest. whining in the dominated by the blush style. and understanding “Silent Treatment” is available now of the well-known Outside the banners, about 5,000 people background, Both the Gruet Rosé and the Gruet embrace this description. Scottish So here we are at last: Morrissey’s first through Riot Factory Records. appraisers of waited for hours throughout the day before many of us are Grand Rosé vintage sparkling wine instrumentalist/one-man-band Apos- album in five years, “World Peace Is Antiques Road- they got to the tables. I talked to a young finding our big are dry and excellent. The Grand Rosé tolos Karounos is not one of those. None of Your Business.” Morrissey has show™ (along with man with his great-grandfather’s silver red wines are has a delicately floral aroma with lots His new eight-song record is pas- been busy lately. He wrote a scathingly The Bird and The his twin, Leslie). belt buckle (or possibly two shoe buckles too big and heavy for our heat-throttled of cherry, apple, spice and a hint of sionate post rock. It’s complex but not funny autobiography, went on tour He gently turned me away from the fastened together); a couple with very well- palates. White wines are more heav- marzipan to go with a mouth-filling cold and resembles late ‘90s indie rock Bee (Cameron Diaz and cancelled most of the shows out of “guy” in question, who had brought what preserved Navajo Two Grey Hills and Teec ily consumed in hot months for many mousse. Many California sparkling wine as much as it does his nerdy math- illness (again), and he made this record. and Jason Segel he called a “document” to the Albuquer- Nos Pos rugs; and a woman in a wheelchair obvious reasons, but there is another houses like Schramsberg and Roederer rock brethren. The title track of “5 As a diehard fan of his, I’ve often Every punk band has that one al- que Convention Center. Keno, working who brought a crystal punch bowl and class of wines that provides variety, make very good Rosé sparklers. Hour Drive” has a downright funky from the movie) bum, the departure album, the sellout the Folk Art line, identified it as a Penn- platter strapped into another wheelchair. Not refreshment and great food-pairing Spanish Rosado wines are typically found myself defending him against slap bass leading the way over swirls record when their sound softens and Inara George and Greg Kurstin sylvania Dutch Fraktur from Lancaster one complained about the wait. options: Rosé. off-dry using the Garnacha (Grenache) accusations of being a self-righteous of crisp guitar, no feedback here and fans depart. The new album by folk are an intriguing pop duo I’ve County, Penna., worth $8,000-12,000. “I As much fun as they have, the apprais- Rosé is also the most misunderstood or Mourvèdre grape, but with the kind of vegetarian scold. Of course it doesn’t no singing either. The song “Break help that he is one, but the music punkers The Andrew Jackson Jihad is been aware of for a while, and now don’t want him to overhear us because ers (who are all volunteers and receive class of wines. We even have to put power one expectsx of a red wine. Rosé Me” is crisp and light on its feet, only makes up for it most of the time. probably going to be considered one they’re contributing to a strange sort I want to get his genuine reaction when no payment) do run into “heartbreakers,” the accent over the “e” so no one thinks d’ Anjou wines are also slightly sweet, with three minutes long. All of these songs In previous albums, where there of these because they’ve signed with a of phenomena: good songs on the we tape it.” as did Ken Sanders, the Books and we’re talking about flowers. colors ranging from bright raspberry to pale are short, and the lead guitar has Virtually any red wine grape can be pink. The aromas of gooseberry, straw- were random touches of sweetness major label and have fewer banjos and soundtracks of movies I never intend Meeting the familiar faces of Antiques Manuscripts appraiser. He’d had two flavors of the American Southwest in done in a blush or Rosé style, but Old berry, and white pepper become rich red and compassion, here there is no re- kazoos. However, I rather enjoy it and to see. Their new single, “Undone,” is Roadshow on Saturday, July 19, heartbreakers that day, he told me – a it. I wonder what these tracks would World Rosé grapes are grown and berries on the palate, with lively acidity. At spite. This is Morrissey declaring war. don’t care that they now sound more on the soundtrack to the new rom- made me love my job. Of course, the Georgia O’Keeffe watercolor that he sound like if their creator didn’t have couldn’t authenticate on the spot, but selected to be Rosé, using special under $15, these wines are an exceptional It’s a scorched-earth policy with no like a traditional rock band. com “Sex Tape,” starring Cameron person who has the best job ever is an astonishing level of restraint. WGBH Boston’s Executive Producer referred to a curator at the Georgia fermentation techniques. Blush wines, value and are always in my wine cellar. being left un-eviscerated. The opening Mind you, I’m not into the whole Diaz and Jason Segel. With lyrics such This is cinematic music; it never Marsha Bemko, and she knows it. Her O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe; and while exhibiting the same colors as The Rosé wines of Provence and Tavel title track declares how he feels about punk orthodoxy and the backlash as “Lay your head on my heart or stands still or wallows in its own enthusiasm for the show, the people a purported signed copy of Thomas Rosé, are typically fermented differently, (southern Rhone Valley) are dry and politics: “Each time you vote, you against bands that hit it big. And you could just pull my body apart,” cleverness. If you’re curious about who participate and the items they bring Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow.” and many are sweet or off-dry (see fruity. The Tavel region wines are all Rosé support the process.” It’s still funny, this record deserves to hit it big. I wonder if it’s a summation of the post rock but are put off by 15-minute knows no limit. “Everybody identifies J.D. Salinger sidebar). Many domestic Rosé wines using Grenache, Cinsault, Syrah and of course, but it’s very sharp. Lyricist Sean Bonnet has never been film’s plot. If so, I’m marginally more long songs, this is a neat place to start “One of the things I saw that I really as the great reclusive writer who never are fermented dry and are labeled as Mourvèdre grapes, which are also found He lays down the gauntlet on every as clever or inflammatory as he is here interested in seeing it (not really). Still, such to differentiate them from White in the red Cotes du Rhone wines. Rosé and rewards close listening. liked was a Raymond Jonson oil paint- signed his books,” he said. “But Thomas track here, railing against beatniks, declaring on one of my favorite songs this is a good song full of playfully Zinfandel and its brethren. is what they drink in Provence for lunch, ing,” she told me. Pynchon was even more reclusive. No children, marriage (in the hilarious “they’re gonna beat me till I’m black twee double entendres that this band New Mexico Rosé wines range from after work break, dinner and late into the Apostolos Karounos released his new col- When I gasped and mentioned the one knows what his signature looks like.” “Kick the Bride down the Aisle”), and blue/ give me a Kokopelli face specializes in. I asked Toys Appraiser sweet to off-dry to dry by contrast, evening. Oh, to be in Provence now! lection of songs, “5 Hour Drive,” under UNM connection, she bullfighting, university students and tattoo and I’ll tell you a secret: Christ said, “See, you know Noel Barrett if he’d seen because sweeter wines are very popular Rosé wines are great picnic and bar- the name of All the Strange Names, and old people, toxic masculinity yet only is German for Williams.” “Undone” by The Bird and The Bee is what’s here. What I have anything uniquely Albu- here. As with any other class of wine, beque wines that pair with almost anything once moralizing about vegetarianism it is available for streaming and download There’s desperation and humor here, available on iTunes right now; “Sex Tape” seen so far [in Albuquer- querquean during the day. there are a variety of styles to suit al- thrown on the grill and much of the support (as he is obligated to do). on his Bandcamp page. and darkness, too. The song “Getting is in theaters Aug. 1. que] is a predominance He tugged at his Mickey most everyone. Many New Mexico pink staff of cheeses, salads, pasta salads and A line about growing older elicits one Naked and Playing with Guns” makes of artists of worldwide Mouse tie and said, “As far wines are blush and off-dry or sweet. dips that predominate. The drier styles offer of the funniest turns of phrase present, Norwegian soul a nightmarish farce out of school reputation. You have the as I know, there are no toys Some classed as Rosé are done in a the broadest range of pairings. in the song Oboe Concerto: “The older Gigantic harmonies shootings and other horrors, but it’s The pop music of the Nordic countries Taos artists’ community that come exclusively from A Spanish Rosado and most tapas generation have tried, sighed and not shock rock and it’s not vicious entrances me, and here’s another record “Fee Fi Foh Fum” is the new collec- and the Native American Albuquerque.” (Contradict dishes are heavenly together. Try a died/which pushes me to the front of for the sake of ugliness. These songs to add to the list. The second album by tion of songs by Flagship Romance, community before them. him if you must; email me at White Zinfandel is Provence Rosé with Jamón Ibérico or the queue.” Now in his mid-50s, the virtually any cold meats (cold cuts) and Highasakite, “Silent Treatment,” is a deep, a folk duo from Keystone, Fla. I can’t I mentioned [Ernest] [email protected].) not Rosé former Smiths front man has begun are about the way a lot of young, you’ll find yourself irretrievably hooked. rich-sounding 10 songs. Lead singer stand either of these voices alone, but Blumenschein’s name Bemco had to run to the to resemble a musical Don Quixote disaffected people see the world. Like White Zinfandel began as a dry, Seared ahi or grilled shrimp and Tavel Ingrid Helene Havik has the soaring when they’re singing together, they at a talk I gave the other Marsha Bemko of WGBH Boston truck to review and edit the complete with Spanish guitars, but as the best punk rock, there is very little Rosé-like wine made by Sutter Rosé are happy as clams together. Try voice of a pop star but uses it to much hit this weird sweet spot somewhere be- day and mispronounced is executive producer of Antiques day’s tapes. Before she he once put it while admiring his hair sacred to The Andrew Jackson Jihad, Roadshow. Home in 1972. To increase the d’ Anjou Rosé with prosciutto and melon greater effect than the majority of her tween Bon Jovi and some of the punkier it – and everybody in the went back to work, I asked in a mirror, “’Twas ever thus.” and “Christmas Island” pushes the intensity of their signature red or conch fritters (a Key West treat) and American contemporaries, singing cryptic folk I’m fond of. It doesn’t sound like room corrected me,” she if there was any high-value Soundwise, the album is par for the limits of even my not-so-good taste. Zinfandel, the first run-off juice was be ready to order another bottle. story-songs over instrumentations of music from this decade, so kudos to said with a laugh. “It’s a item so far. By 3 p.m., she course, his band is competent playing But there’s real compassion at the said, the highest value was from the kept separate and later bottled And did I mention this is a great turkey- electronics, xylophones, zithers and horns them for that. rich heritage and your community is very rock music, flamenco and Dean Martin- same time. If Kurt Vonnegut fronted aware of it.” Asian Art line: a chunk of jade estimated as White Zinfandel, but with little day wine? Make a note for November. that never overwhelm the melody. Standout track “Gravedigger” gets esque, big-band sounds, though the a rock band, it might have been Bemko is the person to whom Keno at $50,000. interest from consumers. In 1975, The track “Hiroshima” is about spooky and incorporates elements of horns that kick in sometimes sound like something like The AJJ. On opener had to pitch his Fraktur find, and she You’ll have to watch Antiques Road- a stuck fermentation led to a much Jim Hammond is The Southwest Wine Guy. someone trying to dig his way to Asia country music; again, those harmonies the ones Harpo Marx kept in his pants. “Temple Grandin,” the phrase “in the said yes, so you’ll see it on one of three show to see if something even more sweeter version and sales took Catch his radio segment, The Spirits of New to find his lost sweetheart. “Since Last make the song. The lyrics are decent, Morrissey’s voice, that golden, days before the damage no one knew Albuquerque episodes next year. After valuable came in later in the day. In the off, so much so that Sutter Home Mexico, on KIVA 1600AM and 95.9FM. He Wednesday” evokes the feeling of and the guitar playing gets in some nice luscious instrument of destruction, is that we were damaged” has made me an item is identified as a literal show- meantime, writer and Hispanic art expert became a White Zin house, growing is also the author of “Wines of Enchantment as rich and wonderful as it ever has think for the past few weeks about suburban discontent pioneered by The acoustic riffs every so often, for some piece, taping takes place in the inner Barbe Awalt wrote about her appraisal the grapes specifically for White II: A Guide to Finding and Enjoying the what that means. “Thunderdome/ Arcade Fire over the past few years; solid middle of the road folk rock. circle, where camera operators, light experience – but you’ll have to wait for a Zinfandel. Wines of New Mexico.” been, even as he uses it to declare war on the world for the 1,000th time. broken home/everybody dies alone;” the song is about a young man who and sound people, and producers duck future issue of ABQ Free Press to see if disappears. Some of these are love “Fee Fi Foh Fum” is available on Gator- boom mikes to focus on the appraiser, she made it onto the show. Many years ago, he declared that he This is rock and roll, it’s not dead and used to be a sweet boy, but I have it kinda hurts, but oh boy, it is just songs, but they’re never quite happy bone Records. the item and its owner. The video is with being just love songs, always laced Stephanie Hainsfurther is associate editor grave doubts about that after this what the counterculture needed. immediately uploaded to a production Thank you to Jubilation with disquiet even when the piano is Nate Maxson is a poet and truck parked outside. for ABQ Free Press. thrillingly corrosive collection. Wines and Spirits for the playing downright sunny melodies. performance artist. Circled around the knot of activity, The Andrew Jackson Jihad’s new album, demo wines on the Morning Morrissey’s new record, “World Peace Is “Christmas Island,” is available now on On the song “Darth Vader,” the CHECK BACK WITH ABQ FREE PRESS IN DECEMBER FOR THE DATES AND TIMES OF THE THREE Brew with Larry Ahrens! None of Your Business,” is available now Sideonedummy records. question is cheekily asked: “Am I UPCOMING ALBUQUERQUE EPISODES OF “ANTIQUES ROADSHOW” ON NEW MEXICO PBS. on Harvest/Capital records. the real Darth Vader?” There are PAGE 22 • July 30, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS ARTS BOOKS ABQ FREE PRESS • July 30, 2014 • PAGE 23 New Novel Roams Fictional Artspree New Mexico All events are free unless otherwise noted. BY WOLF SCHNEIDER AUGUST 1-31 FRIDAY, AUGUST 22 THROUGH AUGUST 23 ew Mexico author Jo-Ann Mapson’s behaves could be affected by something THE SIDESHOW and REAL LIVE CHRISTO: FREE LECTURE PLUS & MINUS N12th novel, “Owen’s Daughter” that happened a long time ago. Circus Posterus/Stranger Factory, Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, 19th & KiMo Theatre, KiMo Gallery, 417 Central Ave 109 Carlisle Blvd NE Mountain Rd NW NW entry, Downtown (Bloomsbury), is an emotionally reso- Q: You have some great lines from The Sideshow in the gallery room is a group Christo and his late wife Jeanne-Claude have Works of Rod Replogle and Roger Green nant tale of several characters whose her point of view, like how, “History exhibit of circus-themed work; Real Live, in the spent more than 40 years creating celebrated explore subtractive and additive processes lives interconnect in Santa Fe, most of is trapped in every object, no matter Project Room, shows new works by Leecifer; works of art worldwide. Reservations, re- in art. them striving to put their pasts behind 508-3049, strangerfactory.com quired for the lecture and book signing, will Free, Weds-Sat 11-8 pm, Sun 11-3 pm, cabq. how small,” and, “Story lurks in be taken beginning August 1; we suggest you gov/kimo them and create better futures. There’s empty places,” and, “A wall’s pur- AUGUST 1- 31 buy your choice of books prior to the event at a young mother who renames herself; pose is to separate and to hold things the Museum bookstore. Please call 338-8760 THROUGH AUGUST 23 Skye, a recovering alcoholic; Skye’s in, so why should it surprise you JIM KOPP and THE NATURE OF BRUSHWORK on August 1 to make a reservation for tickets. father, who is trying to make amends that rooms contain secrets?” Do you Mariposa Gallery, 3500 Central SE, Nob Hill LIMIT: 2 TICKETS. Seating is limited and GREGORY BOTTS: SELECTIONS FROM for abandoning her; and a middle-aged Jim Kopp’s painted, recycled furniture parts reservations will be taken in the order they THE MADRID GROUP think every place contains secrets? Angus Macpherson, “Gilded” acrylic on canvas, 28” x 36” woman, alone for too long, who recon- (downstairs) and Asian-themed ceramics and are received. Tickets will be available for David Richard Gallery, Railyard Arts District, 544 A: I’m sure every place contains secrets. paintings by Pat Marsello pickup at the Museum between 5-5:45 pm on S Guadalupe St, Santa Fe nects with a past lover. FRIDAY, AUGUST 1 268-6828, mariposa-gallery.com the date of the event unless otherwise noti- Abstract Landscape Paintings of Madrid, When we sold our house in California, I fied. If the event is sold out, and you wish to New Mex. Q: Skye is just getting out of the Cot- went around and kissed every wall and ANGUS MACPHERSON PAINTING be placed on a waiting list, please come to the (505) 983-9555, davidrichardgallery.com tonwoods rehab facility near Shiprock, said “thank you.” Maybe that’ll make good ROUNDUP & BARBEQUE SUNDAY, AUGUST 17 Museum at 5 pm on August 22. having been treated for alcohol things happen for the people that move in. Sumner & Dene, 517 Central NW, Downtown ART IN THE PARK More info: contact the Museum at 243-7255; addiction. Is Cottonwoods modeled Annual summer exhibit of the paintings of THROUGH SEPTEMBER 1 I almost always smudge a new place. Entrada Park (NW corner of Corrales and La cabq.gov/museum after anywhere that really exists? Angus Macpherson, with all the BBQ trim- Entrada roads), Corrales THE ART OF NATURE, AND ALL THAT IS Q: You observe in the book that “it’s mings at the opening. Show runs through 10th season of art, live music, food, demon- SATURDAY-SUNDAY, AUGUST 30-31 NATURAL A: No, but I imagined it being set on easier to love an animal than another August 30. strations, in the shade and family friendly. Encaustic Art Institute, Pyramid Gallery Navajo-leased land, where it would be 5-9 pm, 842-1400, sumnerdene.com human.” Why do you think that is? More info: corralesartists.org ARTS AT THE PARK Interpretations of the natural world, in en- dry, alcohol-wise, and I’d be able to Wildlife West Nature Park, I-40 & Hwy 344, caustic/wax medium. have some characters A: Animals are more comfortable with AUGUST 1- 31 THURSDAY, AUGUST 21 Edgewood eainm.com their intuition than people Bear Barn Art Gallery presents a juried art who were Navajo, and it THEATER OF LIFE LANDMARKS festival with food vendors and live music. would be so isolated that are. I’ve seen that played Tortuga Gallery, 901 Edith SE THROUGH SEPTEMBER 13 Tamarind Institute, UNM, 2500 Central Ave SE A percentage of all proceeds, after expenses, a person who might want out with my animals and The artwork of Eliza Schmid. Indigenous Australian and Native American will go to benefit Wildlife West Nature Park REVERIE something they were trying Reception Aug. 1, 6-8 pm, with live music, 369-1648 to walk away from it would artists explore connections to the land in this bearbarngallery.com photo-eye Gallery, 541 South Guadalupe St, to get me to notice. Then I unique project. Railyard Arts District, Santa Fe have a big, long walk. ONGOING EXHIBITS realized they saw it coming Artists’ reception open to the public, 5:30-7 pm, Photographer Tom Chambers modernizes Q: When Skye is released 277-3901, tamarind.unm.edu Renaissance painting techniques with his or knew it was happening. THROUGH AUGUST 10 camera. from Cottonwoods, her I have Italian greyhounds. (800) 227-6941, photoeye.com cowboy dad arrives there DEAR ERIN HART on horseback, ponying an- Q: How do you describe Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos other horse for her because your writing style? Best- Trail, Santa Fe he remembers how much selling women’s literary Artist Jessamyn Lovell’s identity was stolen fiction? by a woman named Erin Hart. She did a she loved horses. Were photo essay about it, including images of the you concerned about how A: Am I a literary writer? I thief. realistic travel by horse- think I am, kind of. I’m also (505) 982-1338, cccasantafe.org back is in today’s world? really commercial because THROUGH AUGUST 15 A: Not really. I thought I I write about women the way we are. I try to write made the place distant THURSDAY, JULY 31 DOG DAZE enough that there would about women who take Framing Concepts Gallery, 5809-B Juan Tabo be enough land to go Book signing for care of themselves, about Blvd NE love and being honest. A solo art show for artist and animal lover through with the horses. “Owen’s Daughter.” Katy Widger, a painter of pet portraits in oils. Anne Farrell, “Abstrak - 35”, mixed media creation on iPad Q: “Owen’s Daughter” Bookworks, Q: Albuquerque figures Receptions: July 5 and July 19, 1-4 pm, 294- 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW into this book, and 3246, framingconceptsgallery.com, katywidger. is set in Santa Fe, THROUGH SEPTEMBER 27 7 pm, free, 344-8139, com near Shiprock, and you describe it as NATURAL PROCESS and ABSTRAKS in fictional Blue Dog, bkwrks.com “surrounded on the THROUGH AUGUST 17 Page Coleman Gallery, 6320-B Linn Ave. NE New Mexico, which you east side by the Sandia “Natural Process”: woven wire structures by imagined to be… Mountains, home to the Maria Ross. “Abstraks”: archival, limited edi- balloon festival, and north to south, 5 SANTA FE COLLAGE ARTISTS tion, pigment prints by Anne Farrell; A: Oh, sort of south of Shiprock and Axle Contemporary, Farmers Market Shade 238-5071, pagecoleman.com crouched over the Rio Grande.” Do Structure, Railyard north of Española and on the edge of the you figure those are the three most Different materials, all collage, from Ai THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30 Navajo Reservation. It was a town I made important things about Albuquerque? Krasner, Craig Anderson, Brenda Euwer, up for “The Wilder Sisters” years ago. Kathamann, and John Voorhees. Axle Con- CLETUS SMITH SOLO EXHIBITION A: Oh gosh, I don’t know. I wanted to temporary is a moveable art gallery. Act I Gallery, 218 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos Q: Your book brings back the ghost provide a visual. Location posted daily at axleart.com. Modern romanticism in painting. Dolores, who visits a home where she Opening reception: Aug 2, 5-7 pm, (575) 758- used to live a century ago. She has a Q: What are your favorite Albuquer- 7831, actonegallery.com wisdom accumulated over time and que hangouts? tries to help the people who live there A: I like walking around Nob Hill. There’s now, trying to help them realize they a place with a lot of Day of the Dead Reach ABQ’s To Advertise: can change their lives. I really like her. stuff I go to. Contact Sherri Barth A: She’s one of my favorite characters most informed ever. Because she isn’t tied to any one Wolf Schneider writes about literary arts for (505) 261-5686 ABQ Free Press and can be followed audience [email protected] time period, she can tell you what things were like in other eras. The way she @wolfschneider1 on Twitter. PAGE 24 • July 30, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS LIFESTYLE Thirsty Gardener: Smoke Up Your Front Yard

By Stephanie Hainsfurther

really hate to waste your time, so I’ll tell you up view from beneath your portal, picture adding Coti- Ifront: This is not a column about growing mari- nus and these other small trees to the landscape. juana. Cannabis spp. does have that lush-green thing going on, but there are drawbacks to planting • Desert Willow: They grow on traffic medians all it in your front yard. over the city, so Desert Willow (Chilopsis linearis) Instead I’ll tell you about Smoke Bush (Cotinus will survive wind and benign neglect in your yard. coggygria), a friendly perennial that would never Water regularly to establish it in the first growing saddle you with a $10,000 fine and nine years in jail. season, then quit in the winter. After that, it can Felony-free Smoke Bush (also called Smoket- survive on our skimpy rainfall. ree) is a versatile shrub or small tree. Cotinus is terrific as a hedge when planted in multiples, or • Chaste Tree: If you’re watching a lilac bush alone as a specimen plant (see photo). We don’t struggle in the desert, put it out of its misery and use it much here – I’ve seen it more often in New replace it with Vitex agnus-castus. The long, purple England and the Midwest – but it’s entirely suited panicles of this shrub mimic the look of lilacs (but to our climate. Drought tolerant and amenable to not the smell, darn it). You can trim it up like a tree clay soil, Smoke Bush is very attractive to high- or let it grow into its natural, bushy form. desert gardeners but not at all to deer. Smoke Bush can grow 10-15 feet high depending • ‘Baby Blue Eyes’ Spruce (Picea pungens): on how you prune it (or don’t). You can limit height Even though it’s a semi-dwarf, this cultivar of Blue by cutting back on water after the first growing Pink “clouds” of Smoke Bush add summer color Spruce can still get up to 30 feet high and 15 feet season. Doing so, you might stunt the bloom of wide. But it’s a slow grower, and we’re old, so who yellow flowers from May through July, but they are yellow or orange, and sometimes to an even deeper cares? Let the grandchildren deal with it. very small and don’t make a big difference to the look of purple, depending on the cultivar. This is a deciduous the plant. shrub, so it will drop its leaves before winter and leave Missing from my list is one locally popular shrub/tree: What will make a huge difference in your garden is a sculptural shape behind. Crepe Myrtle. I’ve killed so many, it’s a crime. the four-season beauty that Smoke Bush offers. Its Whether you plant Smoke Bush as a smoke screen dark-burgundy-to-plum foliage sets off the small, yellow – such as a windbreak, to shade a patio or cancel your Stephanie Hainsfurther is Associate Editor for ABQ blooms in spring. In summer, it explodes into that pink view of the meth lab next door – or as an accent, place it Free Press. Send photos of your garden to her at or burgundy smoke shown in the photo. Fall color is near a window so you can enjoy the show. [email protected]. irresistible as the leaves turn from dark blue-green to Fall is for planting, so as you consider the late-summer