VOL II, Issue 3, February 11, 2015 Still FREE, thank goodness

How ABQ’s Crime Rate Stacks Up To El Paso’s PAGE 5

The Cost Of Free Speech What Right-to-work in N.M. Really Means PAGE 9 PAGE 14 More Details of the Gila Dam Boondoogle PAGE 13

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Advertising: [email protected] In This Issue On Twitter: @FreeABQ NEWS Editor ABQ Free Press Pulp News...... Page Dan Vukelich 4 (505) 345-4080. Ext. 800 The Calm of El Paso vs. the shooting gallery that is ABQ...... Page 5 Santolina development would cannibalize older parts of ABQ, study says...... Page 6 Associate Editor, News Attorney charges lawmaker used title unethically in court filing...... Page Dennis Domrzalski 8 (505) 306-3260 COVER STORY: Free speech in N.M. comes at a cost...... Page 9 Poll: N.M. believes legislators favor lobbyists in Santa Fe...... Page 11 Associate Editor, Arts APD has yet to standardize officers’ sidearms...... Page 11 Stephanie Hainsfurther Details emerge on potential “fatal flaws” in Gila Dam Project...... Page (505) 301-0905 13 Inside the right-to-work debate...... Page 14 Design Terry Kocon, Hannah Reiter, Cathleen Tiefa Photography COLUMNS Mark Bralley, Mark Holm, Juan Antonio Joe Monahan: Lobbyist-legislator coziness in Santa Fe...... Page Labreche, Liz Lopez, Adria Malcolm 7 Efrain Villa: Luck and fate on the road from Mombassa to Lamu...... Page 7 Contributors this issue Sabrina Autry, Tony Davis, Bill Diven, Joan Friedland, Barry Gaines, Gary Glasgow, Jim Hammond, Rocco Loverro, Betsy Model, OPINION Joe Monahan, Richard Oyama, Dennis Plummer, N.M. GOP’s position on immigrant driver’s licenses is fear mongering...... Page 12 Franchesca Stevens, Riley Stevens, Op-Ed: ABQ has no long-term strategy on ending homelessness...... Page Saffron Tomato, Peter St. Cyr, Efrain Villa 12 Op-Ed: Jerry Ortiz y Pino on the damage Susana caused to behavioral health...... Page 17 Copy Editors Editorial cartoons...... Page 17 Jim Wagner Wendy Fox Dial Sales Manager ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT & MORE Greta Weiner, (505) 345-4080, Ext, 803 Culture: First-ever survey of Jews in New Mexico...... Page 18 Operations Manager Special section: Travel To Your Heart Of The City ...... Page 19-20 Abby Feldman (505) 345-4080, Ext. 802 Special section: Cheap Dates, Place for Bromance...... Page 21 Special section: Sex Survey, Puppy Love/Kitty Kisses, ’50 Shades’...... Page 22 Published every other week by: Special section: For the Love of Wine and Art...... Page Great Noggins LLC 23 P.O. Box 6070 Film: ‘Citizenfour,’ ‘Two Days, One Night’...... Page 24 Albuquerque, NM 87197-6070 Theater: ‘Annapurna,’ ‘American Buffalo’...... Page 25 Music: Janis Ian and Guest at Jean Cocteau...... Page Publishers 26 Will Ferguson and Dan Vukelich Music: Lucinda Williams on a Lonely Road...... Page 27 Music Briefs...... Page 27 Events Calendar...... Page 28-31 Corrections policy: How to enter our Flash Fiction Contest...... Page It is the policy of ABQ Free Press to correct 30 errors in a timely fashion. Contact the editors Crossword Solution...... Page 31 at the email addresses on this page. Crossword Puzzle...... Page 32

On the cover: Ousted APS board member Kathy Korte considers her options after losing her board seat and her job because of her outspokenness on standardized testing. Where to find our paper? Corrections List of more than An article in the Jan. 28 issue about the possibility that Amtrak service to New Mexico could end incorrectly 550 locations identified the mayor of Las Vegas. He is Alfonso E. Ortiz. at freeabq.com An article in the Jan. 28 issue about New Mexico’s “Runaway Grand Jury” erroneously stated that the lack of an indictment in the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., led to criticism of the Staten Island, N.Y., district attorney. The criticism was directed at the St. Louis County, Mo., district attorney. PAGE 4 • February 11, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • February 11, 2015 • PAGE 5

Oxy-View Herrera School Buses ABQ Free Press Pulp News The Calm of El Paso vs. the Shooting Gallery We Call ABQ Eyewear compiled By abq free press staff BY BILL DIVEN Snowjob story when the driver pulled the tooth f Albuquerque took a chill pill, it beat cop who didn’t want his name out of his pocket. Imight be more like El Paso, Texas, used because he wasn’t authorized to These attractive eyeglass A New Jersey lawmaker plans to a metro area of similar size but with speak to the media. introduce a bill to allow kids to frames not only hold your only half the violent crime. Then there’s the culture of the shovel snow from sidewalks, free Malware pawns prescription lenses, they Albuquerque’s murder rate is El Paso Police Department where from government regulation. Two A new malware campaign called four times that of El Paso, a city 250 community policing and a respect for also deliver the oxygen teens were told by Bound Brook, N.J., “Operation Pawn Storm” is targeting miles down the Rio Grande opposite residents generally holds sway. Or, as you need in a way that borough police that if they wanted mobile devices running iOS 7 or older Cíudad Juarez, Mexico, according to the beat cop told the ABQ Free Press, to shovel snow after a recent heavy others will hardly notice operating systems. The malware hacks the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting snowfall they would have to buy a “You can’t go around being dicks.” into all apps on the infected mobile (UCR) for 2013. Albuquerque tallies $450 permit required of door-to-door “It’s tough when your police depart- device, collects geo-location data, rapes at more than double El Paso’s ...they’ll see only your solicitors. “I guess snow shoveling ment isn’t up to par,” banker Moreno contact lists, pictures and texts, and smiling face. has joined lemonade stands as the rate. Albuquerque annually records said, referring to Albuquerque. “We sends all of it to a central server. On new target of bureaucrats in the war 742 violent crimes per 100,000 popula- have better community relations iOS 8 devices, the user gets a warning against teaching kids the value of tion, twice the national number. here.” Call MULLER OPTICAL that an app is trying to launch itself. work,” said the lawmaker. The FBI report covers the Albu- Pineda compares his experiences Today for your FREE querque statistical area – which with demonstrations in Detroit and Unclear on concept includes 903,000 people spread across Washington, D.C., where police hos- Consultation Live and let live Bernalillo, Sandoval, Torrance and tilities escalated tension, to the tone A man stopped by police for entering Rather than kill the cockroaches that Valencia counties. El Paso includes of an El Paso rally on the birthday a carpool lane near the George infested his Canberra, Australia vegan one neighboring county and counts of labor and civil-rights leader Cesár Washington Bridge in Fort Lee, N.J. restaurant, Kingsland Vegetarian 842,000 residents. Chavez. “Even the folks who were said he did in fact have passengers, Restaurant owner Khanh Hoang In comparison to the Wild West Bill Diven sort of the loudest and making the and rolled down a rear-seat window chose to pay a $12,000 fine. Hoang shootout occurring almost nightly in Shoppers crowd the sidewalks along El Paso Street in Downtown El Paso. most political noise were respectful to of his SUV to prove it. Satisfied after said killing the roaches violated Albuquerque, El Paso might as well the police, and vice versa,” he said. seeing the other two occupants, the his vegan beliefs. PETA, the animal be Mayberry RFD. the worse the crime numbers look,” at the University of Texas at El Paso. Which brings us to Albuquerque. officer allowed the driver to leave, rights group, has counseled people El Paso’s low crime numbers Mays said. “The culture of the neighborhoods While the metro area is afflicted with but one of the people inside fled the 9000 Menaul NE who refuse to kill roaches to spread changed little in recent years despite Still, residents and people familiar contributes to safety,” said Pineda, an meth, connections between cops and car and told the officer he had been (505) 296-8187 bay leaves, which smell repugnant fears the war between rival drug with both cities describe distinctly El Paso native who writes on immi- culture began breaking down decades kidnapped. Police gave chase, caught to roaches. If that doesn’t work, or to cartels in Juarez would spill across the different vibes in culture and law gration and heads the Sam Donaldson ago with the police response to issues the driver and freed the other kidnap deal with a serious infestation, PETA river. The city responded by touting enforcement, with El Pasoans quick Center for Communication Studies. of the time. victim. says to try an insect growth hormone itself to tourists and business locators to dismiss the claim advanced by the “There’s not a neighborhood in El “It came to a head in the late 1960s regulator which interferes with the as one of the safest cities in the United 1972 novel, “The Stepford Wives,” Paso I’d feel uncomfortable in while and ‘70s,” said Michael Jerome Wolff, roaches’ reproductive cycle, causing Selfie deaths States. that naturally occurring lithium in walking through it.” visiting assistant professor of political them to produce sterile offspring. “I’ve lived in Houston and New science at the University of New A Polish tourist’s death in Seville, York, and El Paso is the safest city I’ve Mexico. “The ultimate effect of that Spain, was the third death of the year ever lived in,” banker and El Paso Albuquerque has paid out $23 million in civil lawsuits was that poorer people developed a Ditch cable on the Iberian peninsula caused by native Art Moreno said as he walked over police shootings. That works out to $41.33 for every cultural attitude of noncooperation selfies. The woman had gone out on Comcast has apologized and fired a through downtown El Paso at midday. with the police.” a ledge to get the shot when she fell. man, woman and child living inside the city limits customer service agent who changed “It’s always been safe.” Over the years, a toxic cycle Earlier, a Polish couple fell while pos- the name of customer Ricardo Brown Albuquerque, meanwhile, saw its developed with police tactics, political ing on a cliff’s edge in Cabo de Roca, to “A**hole Brown” on Brown’s crime rate climb amid a wave of fatal rhetoric and sensationalist news media Portugal. It wasn’t a selfie-induced their water tranquilizes everyone. El Paso has always been a smug- printed Comcast bill. The agent, police shootings that brought federal fanning each other’s flames as better-off death but on the island of Ibiza, a Instead, El Pasoans first cite the gling gateway, going back to the days officially known as a customer oversight and aroused black-eye neighborhoods demanded more Bulgarian woman fell off a cliff while massive post-9/11 secure-the-border gunrunners fed Mexico’s revolutions retention specialist, apparently took coverage in national and international presence of federal drug, security, early in the last century. Now the protection, Wolff said. issue with Brown’s demand that jumping joyously after her boyfriend media. intelligence, border and customs business is drugs. “That creates a general paranoia that Comcast cancel the TV portion of his proposed to her. Yet there’s a problem with the agents – plus armed police in schools “What I remember as a kid is that turns into a more conservative voting cable service. The consumer website numbers. Even the FBI cautions – as tamping down would-be trou- clearly the narcotics stuff is part of the pattern and more reactionary policies Elliott.org intervened with Comcast Skynet against using UCR statistics contrib- blemakers. The commanders of Fort bedrock of post-war El Paso,” Pineda by politicians,” Wolff said. after Brown’s wife contacted the site. uted by local departments to rank Bliss, a sprawling military base near said. “It was just a thing that wasn’t In Albuquerque, the early 1970s saw Comcast offered a two-year refund Microsoft founder Bill Gates believes one city against another, said G. Larry El Paso, also get credit for leaning on talked about.” Vietnam War protesters, Chicano ac- of cable TV charges. The offending robots pose a threat to the human Mays, a Tennessee cop who became a soldiers to behave better to the point Today, though, the drug pipelines tivists and pot-smoking young people employee “will no longer be working race. During a question-and-answer professor and led the Criminal Justice of military police trolling bars to keep appear to lead around El Paso to on one side and police on the other. on behalf of Comcast,” the company session on reddit.com, Gates said Department at New Mexico State intoxicated GIs out of their cars. distribution points such as Albuquer- New Mexico National Guardsmen said. in the short term robots will be able to do humans’ work but won’t be University until retiring in 2011. Yet even before 9/11, El Paso’s que, while anyone involved locally bayoneted protestors and a journalist smart enough to pose a problem. “A “The UCR is like an iceberg: 10 crime rate was trending downward tries to keep things calm. at UNM in May 1970, and a year later Loosa Tootha few decades after that though the percent above the water and 90 as Albuquerque’s climbed upward in “If there is money moving through the the Roosevelt Park riot erupted. percent below,” Mays said. “We call A 57-year-old trucker caused a miles- intelligence is strong enough to be UCR data dating to the mid-1990s. banking industry, you don’t want to draw The riot began, according to police, it the ‘dark figure of crime,’ the crime long backup on an interstate highway a concern. I agree with Elon Musk So what else is at play in El Paso? scrutiny,” Pineda added. when the weekend crowd in the park near Tuscaloosa, Ala., after he crashed and some others on this and don’t that’s not reported to police.” Culture, a parochial isolation from the El Paso has its drug problems: her- interfered with the arrest of four while trying to pull a loose tooth out understand why some people are not While the murder numbers tend rest of Texas, community policing, and oin in the barrio, cocaine in moneyed young people for alcohol offenses. of his mouth while driving. The driver concerned.” Stephen Hawking also to be accurate, rape is substantially perhaps the criminal underground circles and marijuana all over, but it Instead, a witness told The Albuquer- was using both hands to remove the has expressed concerns about artificial under-reported, as are property looking out for itself, according to Dr. lacks the flood of meth fueling psy- que Tribune, police tried to arrest two tooth when his truck jack-knifed. An intelligence, saying AI “could spell the crimes, he added. “I used to tell my Richard Pineda, an associate professor chotic rages elsewhere, said a bicycle young people after an errant Frisbee Alabama state trooper confirmed the end of the human race.” students the better work the police do, accidentally hit a squad car. cont. on page 10 PAGE 6 • February 11, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS COLUMNS ABQ FREE PRESS • February 11, 2015 • PAGE 7 Santolina Would Cannibalize Older Parts of ABQ Metro, Study Says Lobbyist-Legislator Relationships Luck and Fate on the Road BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI Getting Scrutiny at Roundhouse From Mombassa to Lamu he proposed 14,000-acre Santolina BY EFRAIN VILLA growth in both the county and the By JOE MONAHAN Tmaster-planned community on region.” ou are a lucky I was trapped inside a giant iguana the West Side will not create the jobs A recent study by the Pacific ow close is contributions and expenditures of the “Yman,” the hurtling toward a lava-filled crater. The its supporters claim and would draw Institute found that 80 percent of Htoo close? It’s lobbyists themselves, and the clients corpulent ticket seller unpaved portion of the road had begun. residents from other parts of the U.S. companies reported that water a question that’s they represent. told me while wiping The burqua-clad woman sitting next to metro area – basically cannibalizing availability has become an issue for raised the tempera- Unlike years past most of that informa- ketchup off one of his me lost her grip on her baby when we hit the older, built-up areas of the Metro their businesses, and that 63 percent ture inside the Santa tion is readily available, with Common chins. “The front seat an especially large bump. He went flying area, says an analysis prepared said water issues would affect Fe Roundhouse Cause and others continuing to push of the bus is best. in the air and landed on my lap. He was for opponents of the controversial future location decisions. this legislative for more disclosure. And with good The last three hours dripping wet – not with urine as I had project. Opponents of Santolina have cited session. It started reason. In days past, running for a seat to Lamu are not originally thought – but with sweat. The Santolina officials claimed in tight water supplies as a reason for when Albuquerque in the citizen Legislature was done on paved and the back mother took back her child and, using their master plan submitted to the Bernalillo County Commission Republican State Rep. Nate Gentry, the the cheap. Today candidates have been seats are bumpy and uncomfortable.” gestures, asked me if I had anything she the Bernalillo County Planning to reject the Santolina proposal. new (and aggressive) House Majority known to spend north of $100,000 to “Not that lucky,” I responded. “I don’t could use to cover her already heavily Leader, accused Rep. Ken Martinez, secure a spot in the unpaid Legislature. Commission that the 22-square-mile The Albuquerque Bernalillo want the best seat on the 10 a.m. bus, I swaddled baby. the former Democratic Speaker of the want to arrive earlier. Please, find me a To say that Kenya’s coast is just hot, is development on the West Mesa in County Water Utility Authority House, of allowing two lobbyists to space on the 7 a.m. bus. I’ll even take the like saying that Fox News presenters are the unincorporated area of Bernalillo (ABCWUA) has 96 drinking water set up shop in one of his offices as a Gentry charged that floor.” just bigoted. Yet, to Kenyans anything County would create 75,000 jobs wells in the metro area, but 36 “personal lobbying headquarters.” when Martinez was in “Sir, maybe in your country they sell cooler than the surface of the sun over the next 40 to 50 years and of them have been shut down Gentry charged that when Martinez power the lobbyists even spaces on the bus floor, and maybe even requires a jacket and even gloves. They 25,000 new jobs by 2035. because of high arsenic levels in the was in power the lobbyists even had on the roof, but here in Kenya we...” refer to this affinity for winter-wear as The 126-page Santolina Master water, said Water Utility Authority their own card key to the speaker’s had their own card key “I am American,” I bellowed with a “dressing smart.” Plan offers no support for the claim staff photo spokesman David Morris. At least office so they could have unfettered to the speaker’s office degree of petulance that surprised even of new 75,000 jobs. 13 of those shuttered wells are access. Martinez and the lobbyists so they could have me. “And I rode on the bus floor in your An economic study by Kelly on the West Side, according to an denied Gentry’s card key charge and very well-regulated country yesterday.” The first five hours were of the county will have a small positive impact on O’Donnell, a former deputy cabinet secretary for the ABCWUA map. he has yet to present public proof. But unfettered access “Some of our companies do not follow...” tolerable enough; I hardly the county’s revenue and a relatively large negative New Mexico Economic Development Department, In general, the water beneath the West Side has with or without a card key, there’s no “Fine, what if I arrive early tomorrow impact on the city’s [revenue]. lost any sensation in my found the project would create only 23,100 new jobs higher arsenic levels than the aquifer east of the Rio question that the lobbyists in question Back in the 1960s liquor lobbyist and check to see if there’s a no-show on “By contributing to the supply of housing and legs. I was even able over the next 50 years “The Level A Master Plan Grande, Santolina opponents said. And, geology is were provided with more than routine Pancho Padilla was famously heard the 7 a.m. bus, will you trade my 10 a.m. commercial property at a time when population hospitality by the then-Speaker. But to boasting, “I own the Legislature!” He ticket for their seat?” anticipates high rates of population growth and also an inhibiting factor for further West Side water to doze off, despite the is declining and good jobs are increasingly scarce, Gentry’s dismay, a few days later it was was banned from the Capitol. Today Every seat on every bus going job creation in western Bernalillo County over the development, they added. development at Santolina could preclude other, shown how this cuts both ways. there is no need to talk about owning anywhere in Kenya sells out during the hip-hop music blaring next 20 to 50 years. In reality, however, New Mexico Near Santolina, crews would have to bore through potentially less costly and more beneficial develop- In a case of instant karma, one of the Legislature. The Wild West cam- end-of-year holidays as people who have in the lime green interior is experiencing net out-migration of working-age at least 1,000 feet of rock to even get to water, said ments, including mixed use and infill projects that Gentry’s favored Republican lobbyists paign laws in which just about anything migrated to different cities and towns adults, due, in large part, to an economy that cannot Paul Lusk, who served as the principal planner for of the bus have high jobs-to-housing ratios simply because was busted by an advocacy group goes clearly show who has the real card try to reunite with family and friends. I sustain enough good jobs to keep them here,” Bernalillo County and the city of Albuquerque from they are located close to the county’s existing for taking over the House majority’s keys to the capitol. was trying to head 175 miles northeast O’Donnell’s report says. 1968 through 1978. from Mombassa to the island of Lamu, “I think your baby is asphyxiating,” I told employment centers.” conference room for meetings with other Despite all the attention given lob- “In addition, New Mexico’s population is aging lobbyists. The lobbyist even posted his byists during the legislative sessions, which lies about 400 miles southwest of my infanticidal friend. O’Donnell’s report also noted that the metro area faster than those of many other states and its name on the door with the notation that veterans of the trade will tell you it is Mogadishu, Somalia. I was hell-bent on “Yes,” she nodded. “Much cold.” She currently has a surplus of office and industrial space working age population is rapidly shrinking. The The Bernalillo County Commission it was “reserved” for him. Now that’s away from Santa Fe and the legislative not having to search for a hotel room in then closed the window of the bus and and that Santolina would only add to it. Albuquerque [Metro area’s] recovery from the reces- will hold a hearing on the chutzpah. session where they actually get much the dark, which meant I had to begin the cut off our only supply of oxygen and “Albuquerque’s commercial vacancy rates – 20 sion lags that of the nation, and the area’s economic This little tempest does raise the of their work done. One of the longtime eight-hour journey to the Mokowe jetty as ventilation. percent for office space, 12 percent for retail and 10 Santolina master-planned community weaknesses are systemic, not temporary, suggesting question of just how you accommodate Roundhouse wall-leaners remarked: early as possible. The man in front of me overheard my percent for industrial space – indicate excess supply, The route is listed in government concerns over the baking baby. “Heat further population declines and continued anemic at 1:30 p.m. on March 26 535 lobbyists who, according to the “This place can get pretty hectic and not surplus demand,” the report says. advisories as one of the most dangerous make baby grow faster,” he said. job growth. in the City Council chambers Secretary of State, are registered to you risk becoming a nuisance during the There also are concerns that there is enough water lobby at this year’s two-month legislative session. A lobbyist will lay the ground- in the region; al-Shabaab, the al-Qa- “I think that only works on tomato “A major driver of job losses and out-migration is at Albuquerque’s City Hall. to support another city the size of Rio Rancho. session. Do you put them in some kind work for the session by nurturing their ida-affiliated terrorist organization, has a plants,” I replied. the region’s heavy reliance on government employ- “Development at Santolina will further stifle eco- of bullpen so they can’t taint the Round- relationships with legislators by visiting strong presence in the area south of the Then, reasoning that I actually know ment. With federal employment down significantly nomic develop- house offices with their deal making? with them in their hometowns and Somali border. nothing about babies, I gave her a shirt and further pending cuts likely, job losses will There have been kidnappings, I had in my bag. She nodded her thanks ment throughout Do you have them rent office space as attending interim committee meetings continue well into the future. In fact, Bernalillo shootouts, and the typical religious-based and wrapped her baby’s soaked head the middle Rio some news organizations do? where things are much less rushed.” County’s population growth rate is expected to keep violence that makes Americans sneer at in the shirt. Through the fabric of her Grande region This may fall into that time-honored No professional credentials are needed sliding and reach about 0.8 percent from 2035 to 25 category of a solution in search of a to become a lobbyist. The handful of the mess happening “over there” while we burqua, I could hear her softly humming by heightening Petroglyph Rio Grande 2040.” problem. Lobbyists got their names “super lobbyists” who sport multiple conveniently ignore our own headlines along to the bus’s music. This I found concerns about National Rather than draw new people and job opportu- Monument from hanging out in lobbies outside of clients can gross over $250,000 a year. featuring children mowing down entire especially weird because the lyrics were: the adequacy of ALBUQUERQUE nities to the planned 38,000 homes and apartments legislative chambers. They still hang classrooms with assault weapons and “Her booty like two planets. Wiggle ... the area’s current police officers killing unarmed people. wiggle ... wiggle.” and businesses envisioned for Santolina, the people in the hallways but most of their time Rolling Stone follows on the heels of and future supply University 40 I showed up for the 7 a.m. bus at “No wonder they hate us,” I thought, will come from the City of Albuquerque and other is consumed by lengthy committee a New Yorker magazine piece (8,000 of water,” O’Don- 40 of New Mexico 8 a.m., just in time to score the only and I indulged in daydreams of how areas of the county, O’Donnell’s report says. 66 hearings. They’ve never really needed words) with nearly 7,000 words about nell’s report says. open seat as it departed the station. wonderful life would be if I had kept my “Two-thirds of Santolina’s businesses and home- full-fledged offices and in this day of the troubles of the ABQ police depart- “Uncertainty smart phones and laptops the need is ment. The APD crisis may be costing Fortunately, my lackadaisical sense of front seat on the 10 a.m. bus. owners are expected to have come from elsewhere in punctuality syncs perfectly with “African That evening, the 6 o’clock news about the long- Albuquerque even less. the city millions in lawsuits and lost Bernalillo County, primarily Albuquerque,” the re- time.” Unfortunately, I got a rear seat. reported that al-Shabaab had opened fire term cost and International Does allowing a lobbyist to hang out economic opportunities but it sure sells port says. “Another 20 percent of residents are likely Sunport The first five hours were tolerable on the 10 a.m. bus and boarded it looking availability of in your legislative office and take a magazines. to have relocated from neighboring communities SANTOLINA enough, I lost hardly any sensation in for non-Muslims to kill. water is already meeting or two in it demonstrate that outside of Bernalillo County, many from Rio Rancho. my legs and was even able to doze off I am a lucky man. 25 you are in his or her pocket? No. If you Joe Monahan is a veteran of New Mexico the single most despite the hip-hop music blaring across The relocation of a business from the incorporated want to see the depth of a relationship in politics. His daily blog can be found at serious challenge the lime green interior of the bus. Reach Efrain Villa through his website, part of Bernalillo County to the unincorporated part Santa Fe just check the public campaign joemonahan.com to economic I jerked awake from a dream in which wanderingvagabond.com PAGE 8 • February 11, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • February 11, 2015 • PAGE 9 Attorney Charges ABQ Senator Used Title Unethically in Court Filing Martinez Critic Vows to Carry On Despite APS Loss BY PETER ST. CYR BY FRANCHESCA STEVENS amily members of deceased attorney Mary Han argue but late-night computer software and document format of “Inside the New Mexico Senate: Boots, Suits, and Fthat a law firm invoked the prestige of state Sen. Jacob problems prevented the firm’s response from being Citizens” (and a writer for this newspaper) said she ew Mexico hasn’t heard the last story about her calling a Republican Candelaria’s elected office in an excuse for its untimely submitted on time. After the deadline was missed, the doesn’t believe lawmakers should be allowed to use Nof former Albuquerque school legislator a “traitor” on her Facebook filing of a court document in a civil rights lawsuit. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals notified the French law their positions “to make excuses, seek special treatment, board member Kathy Korte. page. It was alleged that she made Attorney Rosario Vega Lynn, who has been retained firm it would be required within 10 days to explain why or exert their influence.” Despite losing her own job and the post during working hours. She by Han’s daughter, Katherine Han-Noggle, in a lawsuit the response was late. “There are rules, and there are oaths that they take on possibly costing her husband, a has sued UNMH, alleging it violated against the city of Albuquerque and the Albuquerque In that motion, Hausler describes the primary reasons opening day, but what we are finding is those oaths are state employee, his because of her her right to free speech. Police Department, said she is considering lodging for the delay, but she also lists Candelaria as a state meaningless because there is no enforcement,” Feldman outspokenness, Korte vows to carry Earlier this month, Korte’s an ethics complaint against Candelaria for disclosing senator. In his own affidavit, Candelaria also mentions said. on her campaign against overuse of husband lost his job as a public his role as a state senator on an affidavit attached to a his pre-legislative work. Feldman wants lawmakers to set up an independent standardized testing in New Mexico information officer for the state motion on behalf of the law firm for which he works. “I have been out of town for a pre-legislative work schools. Korte lost her seat repre- General Services Department, one of Candelaria, a Democrat from Albuquerque who session from Jan. 9, 2015, to Jan. 12, 2015, which has ethics commission to hold legislators accountable. After articles surfaced this past summer about Senate senting Northwest Albuquerque Martinez’s cabinet agencies. Korte serves as the Senate majority whip, works as a law delayed the filing of this affidavit,” Candelaria wrote. on the Albuquerque Public Schools believes he was fired in retaliation Corporations Committee Chairman Phil Griego earning clerk for French & Associates. He said the reference In Vega Lynn’s view, the Governmental Conduct board to Peggy Muller-Aragon, a for her opposition to the governor’s was in explanation of why the firm missed a U.S. Court Act prohibits legislators from using their position for a real estate commission on the sale of a state building retired teacher, on Feb. 3. education reform initiatives. of Appeals filing deadline, was not inappropriate and personal gain or in pursuit of private interests. The act he had voted to sell, Feldman called for the Interim To say that Korte rocked the boat “My husband was an amazing violated no law or ethics rule. says public officials, including legislators, shall treat Legislative Ethics Committee to hold Griego account- during her four years on the APS employee. He did a good job and he Vega Lynn contends that Candelaria’s work for the their government positions as public trusts and use the able. Griego is chairman of the committee. No action board is an understatement. was fired just to try and shut me up firm should be separate from the “job that voters trust powers and resources of their offices only to advance the was taken. Korte organized a grass-roots even more,” Korte said. him to do in the public interest.” public interest. “Once the leadership has closed ranks to protect one “Using his state senate title shows that he is leveraging The lawmaker said he didn’t sign the affidavit as campaign, Stand4KidsNM, to “The mainstream media and the of their own, it’s extremely demoralizing, I think, to the oppose testing – she railed against it governor have colluded to destroy the prestige of his office for personal gain. This is a seri- a senator and didn’t print the affidavit on legislative general public,” Feldman said. ous matter that should be investigated by the legislative stationery. The Legislative Council Service sides with in public, on Facebook, on Twitter, my family, my name, my character, Mary Han died on Nov. 17, 2010. APD and the New Liz Lopez ethics committee,” Vega Lynn told ABQ Free Press. Candelaria. in the newspaper, on TV and at no doubt about it,” she said. “But Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator concluded her Candelaria, a second-year law student at the “The senator’s reference to his pre-session work is APS board meetings. She has been Kathy Korte turns to social media to regroup after her Feb. 3 APS board election loss. She’s planning an “Education Powerhouse” I have filed a lawsuit alleging they University of New Mexico School of Law, said his title appropriate based on a 1996 Interim Legislative Ethic death was a suicide. The Han family sued, charging the criticized by other board members conference in Santa Fe for opponents of overuse of standardized testing. have violated my constitutional and prelegislative session work in early January was Committee advisory opinion that states legislators case was poorly investigated. The family cites forensic for her rhetoric and for reprimand- right to advocate and to express my mentioned in an affidavit in explanation of the missed properly hold the title of Senator or Representative, inconsistencies and deviations by police from standard ing an APS employee. She fears that as more of New Mexico’s public political opinions on my own time.” deadline. It came in response to a motion filed by and the legislator is perfectly entitled to be identified as operating procedure on the day her body was found. Korte has alleged that Gov. Susana Martinez’s schools are given failing grades, parents with finan- Korte is a former journalist who graduated attorney Philomena Hausler demanding that the French such,” John Yaeger, a spokesman for the Council Service, education reform platform is designed to open the cial means will pull their kids from public schools. from the University of Texas at El Paso in 1993. firm show “good cause” for its tardiness. wrote on behalf of Candelaria. Peter St. Cyr is an independent reporter based in door to give for-profit education companies a piece Allowing parents to use public money, or vouchers, She worked for The Associated Press and several Hausler’s response was due before midnight on Jan. 5, Former New Mexico Sen. Dede Feldman, author Albuquerque. Email him at [email protected] of the $3 billion New Mexico spends annually on to pay for private schools, has been a cornerstone of newspapers, including The Albuquerque Tribune, as schools. Republican education policy for decades. a copy editor. The result, Korte said, is that “the haves will be in In 2013, she co-founded Stand4KidsNM as a social Korte’s attacks on the private and charter schools and the have-nots will be media movement for parents opposed to standard- relegated to public schools – when our public schools ized testing and other elements of the governor’s governor and her education today are the best bastions of equality in our society,” education policy. In 2014, the group endorsed Gary secretary-designate, she said. King in the governor’s race. In January, following Hannah Skandera, likely led the “My children have done very well in public an inquiry by a Republican legislator, the office of schools. I believe very much in public schools,” Korte the Seretary of State ruled that Stand4KidsNM was governor to take the said. a political action committee and had to register as unprecendented step of getting “This is about the future of America. What do we a PAC with that office, even though its finances personally involved in a local want? Do we want money interests to rule the day amount to the cost of t-shirts and fliers. or do we want our voices and equal opportunity to “If this is a PAC, then everyone who voices their school board race be available to our children and our grandchildren? opinion is being stifled by the government” is a PAC, For me, it’s equal opportunity and so, that’s why I’m Korte said. Korte’s attacks on the governor and her education fighting this so hard.” Korte said friends in the Republican Party warned secretary-designate, Hannah Skandera, likely led the During the school board campaign, Muller-Aragon her three weeks before the school board election governor to take the unprecendented step of getting alleged that Korte’s re-election team placed cam- “what was coming my way,” and “it all played out personally involved in a local school board race. paign fliers on the vehicles of mourners attending exactly as it was told,” she said. Earlier this month, Martinez recorded a robo-call the funeral of Muller-Aragon’s daughter last month. “The ugliness that happened in the last month and message in support of Muller-Aragon. Korte said the fliers were placed on cars parked next the malicious and horrid lies that were told about me Korte, who has written op-ed pieces on standard- door to the funeral home, in the parking lot of the and my campaign team – many of them my friends ized testing for this newspaper, believes the money Peter Piper Pizza restaurant frequented by families – were absolutely disgusting. But we never went to the state spends to conduct the tests would be better with school-age children. that level. My campaign stayed positive. It stayed on spent on resources that “offer the kind of programs “None of us knew that there was a funeral that my issues.” that make kids want to learn.” day,” Korte said. “It was an unfortunate coincidence The governor’s spokesman did not return a call “We don’t have enough arts, we don’t have enough that we were out on that day and that these people seeking comment for this story. extra-curricular activities, we don’t have counselors were parked in overflow in these other lots.” “It’s pretty disgusting – in a school board race that can sit down and help kids through the prob- Korte, the mother of four, said she is in a “healing that’s supposed to be non-partisan and about lems that they face at home,” she said. process” following her election loss. “I’m going children – that the governor herself poked her head Despite $2.5 billion spent in the U.S. each year through the typical stages of mourning. I get sad and her dark money machine into this race and on standardized testing, “no test is ever going to some days.” She also is unemployed, as is her fought this race for my opponent,” Korte said. improve our schools,” she said. “What will improve husband, Tim, of 20 years. our schools is what will make a child feel whole,” Korte was ousted from her community relations job Franchesca Stevens is an Albuquerque freelance writer. Korte said. at the University of New Mexico Hospital last July after the Albuquerque Journal published a PAGE 10 • February 11, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS news ABQ FREE PRESS • February 11, 2015 • PAGE 11

EL PASO VS ABQ, Page 5 “Where you get an increase in police killings, you get a decrease in APD’s Transition to Standardized residents, poor residents, working Poll Finds Voters Believe News accounts recorded dozens of with police and a general corrosion of injuries, some from shotgun birdshot Officer Sidearms Delayed state legitimacy,” Wolff said. that police fired into the crowd. Legislature Favors Lobbyists Wolff, who has spent time in BY PETER ST. CYR After the event, APD’s police chief BY ABQ FREE PRESS STAFF Brazil, said he sees a parallel between equipped every squad car with shot- Albuquerque and Rio de Janeiro, a ine months after Albuquerque Police ing the wrong holsters. Those holsters have guns. The shooting deaths six months Brazilian city of more than 6 million ver get the feeling that your state Harrison said. NChief Gorden Eden decided to been returned and APD staff is waiting later of two Chicano activists by city, people. There, police swept into Elegislator, city councilor or county But even that is difficult because the standardize officer’s duty weapons, the for the vendor to exchange them. Once county and state officers staking out drug- and gun-infested slums with a commissioner is more interested in volunteer state lawmakers don’t have transition to 9 mm Glocks and Smith & the new holsters arrive, officers will be an explosives shed at a construction pacification program in advance of the sitting down to an expensive dinner with official offices where they can be found Wesson semi-automatic pistols has still not required to qualify on the new weapons at site added to ongoing tension. 2014 World Cup with an eye on the a lobbyist than in talking with you and when the Legislature is not in session, been completed. the department’s gun range before they’re Riot police returned to Central 2016 Olympics. your neighbors about issues you care she said. According to APD spokesman Tanner Tixi- allowed to carry the 9 mm guns on duty. Avenue in 2003 heaving tear gas and “Some areas did not work as well,” about? The poll of 450 randomly selected vot- er, the new weapons have been purchased, Tixier did not know how much the new firing pepper-spray rounds at pro- he said. “In some, you see dramatic You’re not alone. ers also found that 92 percent of those but a problem with holsters has slowed the guns cost. testors assailing the invasion of Iraq. shifts in relations where a good A new poll by Common Cause New surveyed supported the idea of requiring transition. The equipment exchange and Last May, officers objected to the new Police deployed again, although with police commander has been able to Mexico found that 63 percent of New all large political contributions, whether mandatory gun range qualification will not be policy, saying handling unfamiliar weapons Juan Antonio Labreche more restraint, during protests last use community policing to improve Mexicans believe from individuals, finished until March or April. could be dangerous. After blasting the year over fatal police shootings. An Albuquerque police officer pulls down crime scene tape on Central Avenue near the Rio Grande after APD officers relations. that the state’s companies, PACs, For now, officers with a preference for new gun policy as a “knee-jerk” reaction Wolff, who researches organized shot at a fugitive wanted by the U.S. Marshals Service in April 2014. “On a city scale, it takes a leader. elected officials are In 2013, the most recent unions and non- higher-caliber weapons continue to carry last spring, Albuquerque Police Officer criminal violence and government That suggests it’s possible to improve more responsive 60-day legislative session, profits, be made their own personal weapons. Two officer-in- Association President Stephanie Lopez responses to dissent in Latin America, the situation.” MSA Population Violent Violent Murder** Rape Robbery Aggravated Property to lobbyists than there were approximately six public. The poll had volved shootings in January involved 1911 said she’s ordered a Glock. said the shooting of civilians by When the U.S. Justice Department crime crime assault crime rate* total rate* to voters. Only 19 registered lobbyists for each of a margin of error of model .45-caliber firearms. A U.S. Department of Justice report, Albuquerque Police Department stepped in last year, it blistered APD percent believe that Officer Lou Golson unloaded shots at issued in April, said the more powerful New Mexico’s 112 legislators. 4.5 percent. officers – 42 with 29 fatalities since over a pattern of civil-rights abuses, United States 316 million 368 14 million 14,196 79,770 345,031 724,149 2,731 public officials are suspect Christopher Cook from his .45 after weapons were part of APD’s “culture of January 2010 – only widened the “longstanding deficiencies” and a Albuquerque MSA 902,627 742 6,700 53 573 1,239 4,838 4,484 Lobbyists and their employers Some 63 percent Albuquerque city 558,165 775 4,325 37 439 1,046 2,803 5,47 more responsive of those polled being shot during a traffic stop on Jan. 3. aggression” in which officers considered divide. Authorities deemed all but “culture of aggression” that places El Paso MSA 842,271 347 2,925 12 236 496 2,181 2,176 to voters than to currently register and report Less than a week later, on Jan. 9, under- them as “status symbols.” citizens at risk and alienates commu- El Paso city 679,700 371 2,522 10 176 457 1,879 2,289 supported imposing one of the deaths justified, although lobbyists, the poll through the Secretary of State’s cover narcotics Detective Jacob Grant was Last summer, ABQ Free Press discovered nities within the city. The city and Farmington MSA 127,552 490 625 6 94 60 465 2,160 limits on the the city has paid out more than $23 Las Cruces MSA 215,083 333 716 8 76 91 541 2,967 found. gravely wounded after he was struck by that APD had expedited the purchase of 350 feds have agreed on an independent Office, but access to meaningful amount of money million so far to settle civil lawsuits. Santa Fe MSA*** 145,880 362 528 6 25 138 359 3,733 “I think the public .45-caliber bullets fired by Lt. Greg Brachle. AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifles, citing a During that same time, El Paso monitor to oversee a consent decree information is difficult, postings that individuals sees the lobbyists Golson was released from the hospital and federal mandate to make the purchase, but logged eight fatal officer-involved dictating reforms, but a federal judge * per 100,000 inhabitants Albuquerque MSA includes Bernalillo, Sandoval, are delayed, and records are can give to political ** includes non-negligent manslaughter Valencia and Torrance counties making campaign is recovering at home. Grant was hospitalized Department of Justice officials said there was shootings, one by an off-duty officer has yet to approve the deal. candidates. Two- *** 2012 data. Santa Fe not in 2013 report El Paso MSA includes El Paso and Hudspeth counties contributions and removed after only a few years. in critical, but stable condition. no such mandate. in a traffic altercation, another of a Farmington MSA includes San Juan County thirds of voters said see the lobbyists The delay in getting the array of officers’ handcuffed suspect, according to Bill Diven is a freelance journalist who Data is by MSA, Metropolitan Statistical Area Las Cruces MSA includes Doña Ana County they support the Calendar year 2013 Santa Fe MSA includes Santa Fe County buying dinner for personal weapons off the street, according Peter St. Cyr is an independent journalist. online news accounts. lives in Placitas. creation of an independent commission committee members and taking them to Tixier, is partially due to a vendor send- Reach him at [email protected] to redraw the boundaries of the state’s out, and the average citizen just can’t legislative districts. Voters said that spend those kinds of resources,” said would be better than having legislators Viki Harrison, executive director of draw their own district boundaries. Common Cause. “That creates the Legislative redistricting historically has perception of this uneven playing field.” favored protection of incumbents of the One reason the public believes that majority party. elected officials would rather spend time Some 89 percent of the voters with lobbyists is the way the legislative session is set up, Harrison said. surveyed said they thought it was a good idea to require lobbyists to publicly Proudly Serving New Mexico For Over 30 Years “Our Legislature was designed to keep the public out. It’s in Santa Fe in the disclose the bills or issues they’re lobby- winter for one or two months. There’s no ing for or against, rather than just listing parking,” Harrison added. “When they the identities of their clients. created the Legislature, it was like it was “Transparency,” Harrison said, can purposely designed to have no public change the public’s perception of the participation. You have sessions going cozy relationship between legislators on in the middle of the week, and if you and special interests. do manage to get up there for a bill in “The more we ensure that everybody committee, it is never heard on time.” knows what is going on and who is The crazy paces of the state’s 30-day spending what and who is benefitting, and 60-day legislative sessions are the better. Then everybody can make another reason for the public’s percep- their own educated decision about tion, Harrison said. whether to support a legislator or a “We have an unpaid Legislature, and particular piece of legislation,” she said. they have no real staff; they don’t have bill Lobbyists might always have an analysts, and they don’t have the time” to advantage over regular voters, especial- meet with regular voters, Harrison said. As ly by way of taking lawmakers to dinner a result, lobbyists and other professional or lunch, Harrison said. Specializing in advocates provide lawmakers details and “As a citizen, I might want to say to A+ Rating information about bills, and that’s who the my legislator, ‘I want to talk to you about legislators talk with, she said. this, but I’m not going to take you to Custom (505) 247-0736 “If you want to reach a legislator, you dinner,’” Harrison said. “I don’t think it 417 Summer Avenue NW have to do it outside of the session would occur to most people to even because the session is a madhouse,” want to do that.” Driveshafts albuquerquedriveshaft.com PAGE 12 • February 11, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS OPINION NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • February 11, 2015 • PAGE 13 N.M. GOP’s Position on REAL ID ABQ Lacks a Long-term Is Gila Diversion Dam Project ‘Fatally Flawed’? is Mean-Spirited Fear Mongering Approach to Homelessness BY TONY DAVIS BY JOAN FRIEDLAND BY DENNIS PLUMMER n the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s guide statement on the project. It will put off the to making decisions, it defines “fatal flaw” fatal flaw discussion until getting into the he Martinez can use other documents as identifica- omelessness can go unnoticed a separate intake for every service you I Tadministration’s tion for official federal purposes. Hbecause, in fact, many people need in one day: one for accessing as a problem or conflict that will destroy a nuts and bolts of the EIS. fear-mongering In keeping with REAL ID, New Mexico experiencing homelessness look just emergency shelter, one for healthcare, solution or a process – a negative effect that While the bureau’s new stance hardly campaign to repeal could choose a path that preserves like you and me. They serve us in one for behavioral healthcare, one for can’t possibly be offset by other benefits. means clear sailing for the project – a stream the driver’s license eligibility for a license, regardless of restaurants, sit beside us in our faith connecting to case management, one “Fatal flaws are foreseeable train wrecks…” commission consultant wrote this past fall law spotlights the immigration status. For example, New communities and take classes with us in for accessing disability benefits. All of the bureau says on one of its websites. that permitting will be “prolonged and chal- REAL ID Act. But Mexico could keep a driver’s license school. Being homeless means simply this occurs at separate locations, without “Negative effects may be real or perceived. In lenging” – just getting started on it will be a contrary to the that is open to citizens and immigrants that: being without a home. a car, without storage for your documen- either case, the result is the same – the option big step forward and a setback for opponents. administration’s and also offer a REAL ID-compliant At its most basic, the cause of home- tation and, sometimes, is thwarted by a won’t work.” The bureau’s indecisiveness comes as claims, New Mexico is not under the gun identification card that can be used lessness is a lack of affordable housing mental illness. That definition seems clear. How it should project costs mount, stirring continued fears to repeal the license law, which allows for federal purposes. The State of and access to it. Substance abuse and be applied, however, has become a flash point from the opposition that its water will prove drivers to get a license regardless of Washington is contemplating a similar behavioral health issues often develop For every dollar invested in the debate over the proposed Gila River prohibitively expensive for Southwest New immigration status. proposal, keeping its current license for and worsen as coping mechanisms and Diversion Project slated for the Gila River Mexico residents and farmers to buy. In fact, the REAL ID Act itself doesn’t citizens and documented and undocu- as a result of living on the street, rather in quick fixes, we have Valley near the towns of Gila and Cliff in require New Mexico to take licenses mented immigrants alike, and making its than serve as the sole cause of one’s one less dollar available Southwest New Mexico. Wildly varying cost estimates away from undocumented immigrants. passport-like enhanced driver’s license becoming homeless. for permanent housing Most of the public attention on the Gila That anti-immigrant move would leave an optional REAL ID-compliant license. “Tent City” has had perhaps an project has focused on the Interstate Stream This past April, Bohannon-Huston Inc., a them without the ability to get car unintended role in making this shared and services Commission, the agency that agreed to consultant for the stream commission, wrote a insurance or register their cars or the In fact, the REAL ID Act problem visible. The recent tent city proceed with the dam in November. But it report saying its preferred alternative for the ability to legally drive their kids to school itself doesn’t require crisis is not our first, nor will it be The New Mexico Coalition to End is the Bureau of Reclamation, the nation’s project would cost $437 million to build, up and anywhere else. our last, unless we work together for Homelessness is developing a coordi- premier water-project builder, that ultimately from $350 million in January 2014. A month Here are the facts. On Dec. 29, 2014, New Mexico to take systemic change. nated assessment system to resolve must decide whether to build it. Seven years later, RJH’s “fatal flaw” document warned the U.S. Department of Homeland Se- licenses away from We must invest in helping people to such redundancies and to expedite ago this month, it appeared to set a high bar that this estimate was probably 25 percent to curity (DHS) extended the date for New gain access to and maintain housing, undocumented immgrants service delivery. This is good news and for even starting to analyze it. 50 percent low. Mexico and most other states to comply rather than in warehousing people heads us in the right direction. Mary Reece, a bureau official in Phoenix, In November, Bohannon-Huston published with the REAL ID Act to Oct. 1, 2020. Bills that the Governor supported through our emergency shelters. But, we still need high-level real- essentially told New Mexico environmentalist a second report, pegging the construction cost That’s just the latest in a long string of in the past and are now before the Community providers – both civic and location of resources so that, when Todd Schulke in an email back then that for at $744 million – 70 percent higher. Adding extensions: the law’s first implementa- Legislature again would repeal New nonprofit – are working together through coordinated assessment identifies our the project to survive a future gantlet of feder- more than $200 million in lifetime operating tion deadline was 2008. When and if Mexico’s license law and take licenses targeted outreach to get resources to most needy neighbors, we can respond al environmental reviews, it needed to show costs, Gaume estimates a $1.1 billion total REAL ID fully kicks in, federal agencies away from drivers who are undocument- people in need. Collaborative, ongoing with help. Mayor Richard Berry and the in advance that New Mexico had considered price tag. will accept as identification for “official ed. One of them, HB 32, has narrow efforts utilize the best of us all. Organi- City Council are strong supporters and the project’s cost and environmental impacts The stream commission, in response to an federal purposes” only the licenses and requirements that would prevent many zations such as the Veterans’ Integration have invested real money, time and identification cards that DHS has certi- lawfully present immigrants from getting ABQ Free Press question, said this month Center, Albuquerque Health Care for the resources. They have allowed us to test well enough to determine that it has no fatal fied as REAL ID-compliant. That means licenses, including victims of domestic that in November, an independent team of Homeless, Supportive Housing Coalition a model of community collaboration, and flaws. meeting a long list of requirements, only violence, asylum applicants, and parents eight professional engineers had separately of New Mexico, St. Martin’s Hospitality through Albuquerque Heading Home we Under the 2004 Arizona Water Settlements one of which has to do with immigration of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent Center, Barrett House, Heading Home calculated the project’s cost at just under $600 have proven effectiveness. This shared Act, which authorized spending $66 million status. residents who will receive deferred and others, together with the Albuquer- million – 37 percent higher than the original effort has housed more than 430 people in federal money on this and other Southwest But in the meantime, federal agencies action under the President’s administra- que Police Department (particularly its BHI estimate. The team went through what who were chronically living on the New Mexico water projects, the bureau must will continue to accept all licenses from tive action plan. Crisis Outreach and Support Team and Stock photo was called a Value Engineering workshop in streets and have serious medical illness- make a final decision on the project by 2019, states that DHS has declared compliant Other states – including states that the Crisis Intervention Team) reach out Although not as big as Cochiti Dam north of Albuquerque, the Gila River Diversion Project has October to shave more than $100 million from es. More than 80 percent remain housed unless it can be shown that a delay is out of (many of whose residents still have DHS has declared compliant with REAL together daily to people living on the mobilized environmentalists who oppose damming the last “wild” river in New Mexico. what Bohannon-Huston had estimated during after 12 months. Jail costs reduced by New Mexico’s control. noncompliant licenses) or that have ID – are moving in a different direction streets to establish relationships and its second go-round. 64 percent once these people were To make that deadline, “We would expect received extensions. New Mexico is one to ensure that all of their drivers can trust. We walk the street. We introduce about endangered fish or birds but about technical Now, Anthony Gutierrez, chair of a South- housed, and hospital inpatient costs that New Mexico would have identified a plan that of many states with an extension. Only be licensed, tested and insured. Eight ourselves. We learn a name and concerns: reservoir water seepage through highly west New Mexico water commission that’s angling decreased by 84 percent. is sufficiently detailed that we could move forward the seven states that DHS has deemed states, plus the District of Columbia recognize a face. We acknowledge a porous soils, sediment clogging up the works and to be the New Mexico entity that builds this project, We need an effort equivalent to the on the EIS process without delay,” wrote Reece. noncompliant are currently subject and Puerto Rico, passed laws in 2013 real person in need. questions of water availability. city of Albuquerque’s and our service “One way to do that is through a thorough planning says his goal will be to get the costs down more by to a phased enforcement schedule to expand license eligibility to drivers We then build upon that. We connect The stream commission now says these potential providers at the county and state levels process that identifies a reasonable range of alterna- “simplifying” it. He adds that “everyone against the limiting the documents acceptable for regardless of their immigration status. people to options that fit their particular problems have been found resolvable, through and across sectors. These significant, tives and their impacts.” project wants to use the highest number they can.” entering DHS headquarters, nuclear Vermont’s new law, for example, allows experience. For some, that’s reconnect- follow-up studies and a workshop that looked proven savings need to translate facilities, and some semi-restricted citizens and lawfully present immigrants ing to family, and we provide a bus pass at them in more detail. Opponents of the project, into real housing and service dollars. The bureau’s indecisiveness federal facilities. And licenses from all to choose the same license that to home when it is certain that help is The bureau must make a final including former Interstate Stream Commission states – compliant, with extensions, or undocumented immigrants have or to Savings in our jail, in our hospitals and there. For some, it is a motel voucher Director Norman Gaume say no, the project still has comes as project costs mount, non-compliant – continue to be accepted get a REAL ID license. in our emergency system must begin decision on the project by 2019, to provide a stabilized environment fatal flaws. stirring continued fears from the for boarding a plane. The administration argues that repeal and a chance to connect to services to fund proven methodology and action unless it can be shown that a delay Now, the next big hurdle the project must clear The key fact is that REAL ID itself of the law isn’t anti-immigrant. But and permanent housing. For some, it that works. We need to expand our opposition that its water will prove is out of New Mexico’s control is for a public entity to form a New Mexico unit doesn’t make states take licenses away repeal would take licenses away from is temporary emergency shelter. In all focus to include children, families and of the Central Arizona Project by November 2015 prohibitively expensive for from undocumented immigrants. One immigrants who live in New Mexico, instances, the goal should be permanent other subpopulations facing housing that would plan, design and build this project. Southwest New Mexico residents of its provisions explicitly allows states effectively making their daily activities housing. instability. Fatal flaws identified to issue licenses that can’t be used for illegal. That’s anti-immigrant and would But, not all cases achieve that goal. Only then will we see tent cities actual- That would come in time to meet a legal deadline and farmers to buy federal identification. DHS’s own policy undermine public safety for all. That’s due, partly, to limited resources. ly disappear because of solutions and Fast-forward to May 2014, when RJH Consultants imposed by the 2004 Water Settlements Act. statements recognize these licenses For every dollar invested in quick fixes, not merely because of a shift of location. Inc., a consultant for the stream commission, But the bureau now is waffling on the fatal flaw “Our commission has made a note to the stream and acknowledge that they are not Joan Friedland, former managing attorney we have one less dollar available for warned in a little-noticed report that this project issue. It told ABQ Free Press recently that once the commission that we thought there was too much evidence of immigration status. And if for the National Immigration Law Center in permanent housing and services. It is Dennis Plummer is CEO of Heading Home, indeed had several potential fatal flaws, or at least New Mexico unit is formally created, the bureau will of a project and we want to simplify it, to reduce states choose not to issue licenses that Washington, D.C., is a New Mexico lawyer due, partly, to our need for improvement a nonprofit that works to decrease “significant technical challenges.” They were not be ready to start work on an environmental impact the overall debt service and the potential increase comply with REAL ID, their residents and immigration policy consultant. of our own systems of service. Imagine homelessness. cont. on page 15 PAGE 14 • February 11, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • February 11, 2015 • PAGE 15 Right-to-Work’s Role in Economic Development Not so Clear Cut gila dam, Page 13 in O&M [operating and maintenance] costs,” said barely mentioned in the follow-up reports that Bo- month later, after a commission meeting had been BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI Gutierrez, the Gila-San Francisco Water Commis- hannon-Huston and Value Engineering published in cancelled and four days before the commission was sion’s chairman. “We feel as the years go on, the November. When the stream commission later laid to vote to proceed with the project, another judge hy the big fight over something Mexico not overall value of the water will increase. In Arizona In New Mexico, no worker is required out its agenda for the first half of fiscal year 2014- dissolved the restraining order. Wthat, according to the numbers, being a right- to join a labor union, but in some cases and California, the value right now compared to 15, all it said about the RJH document was, “RJH That meant that by the time Gaume’s suit comes probably doesn’t justify the intensity, to-work state non-union members must give a portion even five years ago is five times as much,” he said. Consultants Inc. conducted an independent review to trial, it will be after the commission made its emotion and the ill will that is being on recruit- of their paychecks to a union. If they of the (Bohannon-Huston) study and confirmed it decision, making his effort to delay the vote moot. generated or the draining, hours-long ment of don’t pay up, they’ll be fired. Cheaper alternatives was adequate for conceptual level project planning. Another month later, the commission countersued committee hearings in Santa Fe? out-of-state That’s right, fired. The RJH evaluation recommended additional Gaume. It claimed he had improperly obtained the Union membership in New Mexico companies. It’s called “Fair Share,” and if you are To illustrate the high cost, consider that the Value geotechnical studies at diversion and storage sites.” restraining order without even notifying commis- in a bargaining unit that has negotiated is miniscule and shrinking. Only Albu- Engineering team concluded that it would be $200 There was no mention of fatal flaws. sion officials that he was trying to get it and sought a Fair Share agreement, you have to pay million cheaper to start the project at the existing 43,000, or 5.7 percent of the state’s querque the union. The idea is that as a non-union a wide range of unspecified damages. They include San Carlos Reservoir along the Gila in east-central 751,000 workers, belong to unions. lawyer-lob- member you still receive the benefits of Seepage of the project water attorney’s fees and costs to fight the restraining Arizona rather than build a new one. A set of Most of those members are in the byist and the union’s negotiations, so you ought to through the soils, combined with order, expenses connected with cancelling the Oct. public sector. In the private sector, long-time pay for it. pipelines would ship the water more than 100 miles 27 meeting and expenses associated with expert union membership is almost nonexis- Democrat The contract between the state of from San Carlos to the Cliff-Gila Valley and Deming evaporation losses, could lose preparation time for that meeting. New Mexico and AFSCME Council 18 tent – just 2.8 percent of all workers. David Bu- for farms and cities to use. But the American Civil Liberties Union of New is one that includes a Fair Share clause. more water than the low-end So why are state lawmakers, union chholtz said That would eliminate the pricey infrastructure Mexico has entered the case on Gaume’s behalf, and AFSCME members pay $15.32 every two planned for New Mexico. But the engineers rejected 10,000 acre-feet per year that the people and business leaders going to New Mexico weeks in dues to the union. The money is the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government the mat on this? is losing deducted from their checks by the state the idea due to the high operating cost and energy project could be expected to yield says the countersuit has a chilling effect on free There is the need and desire of the economic and forwarded to the union. The Fair needed to ship the water as well as the fact that speech. governor to enhance her possible development Share payment for non-union members is “legal and physical aspects of this project are really When ABQ Free Press asked the stream commis- “Governments shouldn’t use the courts to bully vice-presidential resume with a win oppor- $12.50 every pay period. challenging.” sion about this report, it replied that this past fall, concerned citizens into silence,” Daniel Yohalem, The Fair Share contract language on an issue important to the national tunities. In its “fatal flaw” report, the Denver-based RJH the concerns were reviewed during the weeklong cooperating attorney for ACLU-NM, said in a news between the state and AFSCME Council hammered most fiercely at the reservoirs. GOP, as well as to her core constitu- Companies we only want to be in right-to-work 18 states: Value Engineering workshop – led in part by the release. “People in our country have a fundamental Bohannon-Huston’s preferred plan would start ency here in New Mexico. And there’s simply check New Mexico off their [states],’” Sweeney said. “Upon written request by the Union, same RJH company. The working group concluded right to petition their government concerning the need for the state’s unions – fueled lists for relocation projects because it Tracey Hyatt Bosman, managing a bargaining unit member who has with a diversion structure downstream of the “that these issues are surmountable and the project matters of public importance. When the ISC files by out-of-state union money – to draw isn’t right-to-work, he said. director of Biggins Lacy Shapiro & Co. completed his/her probationary period confluence of the Gila and Turkey Creek. Water is technically feasible,” the stream commission said. a lawsuit seeking exorbitant amounts of money in a line here in the New Mexico sand. “It continues to be clear to me that in Chicago, said right-to-work comes and who is not complying with the ‘fair would be diverted into a tunnel, then into a series of Value Engineering’s written summary of the retaliation for the simple act of speaking out, it has a The irony is that New Mexico we are in a jobs crisis. We don’t get a up mostly with her manufacturing share’ provisions of this article shall be closed conduits to take it to the off-stream dam and workshop reads a little differently: that “the overall chilling effect on the ability of citizens to participate terminated by the Employer” if the ar- already has a form of right-to-work quarter of the opportunities that we four reservoir sites. clients. rearage isn’t paid within 15 days and the concept of diversion and storage is technically in public processes.” (see sidebar). would otherwise get because they “As a general rule of thumb, union requests in writing that the State feasible.” (Gaume’s rejoinder: “Putting a man on The ACLU contended that Gaume was engaging Right-to-work supporters say [companies] don’t check the box,” probably 40 percent of the manufac- Personnel Director fire the employee. With more than $200 million the moon is a concept that’s technically feasible.”) in constitutionally protected speech by seeking the passage of right-to-work is imperative Buchholtz said. turing projects we have seen over the Not every union contract contains a in lifetime operating costs, It added that the workshop had not evaluated the restraining order “until the ISC restored transpar- for the state to attract new business to “Why would we not give ourselves years have used right-to-work as a Fair Share clause. Albuquerque Public project’s economic viability or conducted an inde- ency to the planning process.” ACLU called the rebuild its sick economy; and that it’s a chance to be considered for a quarter filter. You’re either in or you’re out,” Schools, for instance, doesn’t have such the diversion’s total price pendent cost estimate of the project design. countersuit a SLAPP suit (short for strategic lawsuit an agreement with the Albuquerque needed to build a private sector that more of the jobs? Unfortunately, the Bosman said. tag rises to $1.1 billion The summary said workshop participants dis- against public participation) meant to retaliate Teachers Federation, said Karen Rudys, doesn’t exist merely to serve the feder- issue is politicized at a national level Jerry Szatan, founder and principal cussed the various issues raised by the earlier report against his constitutionally protected activity. interim assistant superintendent for Hu- RJH’s concern centered on the highly porous Gila al government. They claim the state and it’s an issue that is fought bitterly of Szatan and Associates in Chicago, man Resources at APS. Thus, non-union but generally said nothing about how they were is automatically cut out of at least 30 by unions and management. I would said, “In the last five years all I APS teachers don’t have to pay anything soils there that would be used as dam embankment resolved. The main exception: It concluded that the percent of business relocation projects hope that circumstances in New have done is manufacturing and to the union. material and dam abutment and foundation soils. project could deliver an annual “firm yield” in the Management of sediment could be because it is not right-to-work. Mexico would overcome that, because distribution projects, and of the last 10 — Dennis Domrzalski Seepage of the project water through the soils, 5,600 to 7,000 acre-feet range, depending on the rate technically challenging and Union officials acknowledge that we are in a jobs crisis.” projects I have done, only one client combined with evaporation losses, could lose more of seepage. Firm yield is the amount that can be very expensive, both in terms they inhabit an ever-shrinking Economic developers in the state has asked for right-to-work states.” water than the low-end 10,000 acre-feet a year that delivered at a constant, year-round rate year in and Declining union universe in the state, but they say are fond of saying that New Mexico “If I work for a company that needs the project could be expected to yield, the report year out. of capital cost and operations membership in New Mexico unions are needed to keep the state is automatically rejected from at least a site that is served by rail, then that is said. Also, deep dam foundation cutoffs in highly That compares to a total water right for the project and maintenance costs from sinking lower in terms of 30 percent of relocation deals because what they need first and nothing else Union Percent of permeable soils are difficult and normally very of 14,000 acre-feet. (Gaume and a partner did their poverty, wages and overall well being. it isn’t right-to-work. No one really matters,” Szatan said. Year members workforce expensive to build, RJH said. own study, using stream commission data, and esti- But by requesting a temporary restraining order to “Even though we are a small universe, knows whether that’s true. But site “If not properly addressed, the highly permeable mated a “firm yield” of approximately 5,450 acre- prevent the commission from holding public meet- 2000 58,000 8.1 we still hold up the floor [in terms selection consultants told the ABQ Dennis Domrzalski is an associate editor dam abutment soils at the selected Alternative 2B feet.) If you loosen the rules on reservoir operations ings about the Gila River, “Mr. Gaume attempted of wages and benefits],” said Miles Free Press that right-to-work states do with ABQ Free Press. 2001 57,000 7.9 dam and reservoir sites represent not only a signif- some, the “average annual yield” becomes 8,000 to to deprive the citizens of Grant, Hidalgo, Luna and Conway, American Federation of get more looks from companies than 2002 49,000 6.8 icant source of reservoir seepage, but a significant 9,000 acre-feet, the Value Engineering report said. Catron counties of the opportunity for additional State, County and Municipal Employ- their non right-to-work counterparts. 2003 57,000 7.6 dam safety risk,” the report said. water and federal funding,” the commission told ees (AFSCME) Council 18 spokesman. “We don’t keep precise statistics, but Public and private-sector 2004 49,000 6.7 The report also took Bohannon-Huston to task for ABQ Free Press in explaining its countersuit. union membership failing to take a clearer look at the net water yield of A lawsuit over process The logic is that if a private, a strong majority of our manufactur- 2005 63,000 8.1 “In fact, by preventing public meetings, Mr. non-unionized business is across the in New Mexico, 2012 the project after accounting for evaporation, seepage In the middle of these studies and counter-studies, ing clients in the beginning express 2006 62,000 7.8 Gaume’s conduct temporarily chilled the free-speech street from a unionized firm, or a a strong interest in right-to-work losses and losses associated with diverting, storing Gaume and the stream commission got into a legal rights of both the citizens of Southwest New Mexico Union 2007 62,000 7.7 government entity, its workers will states,” said Mark Sweeney, senior Union and delivering project water. conflict that also shows little sign of resolution. membership and those of the Interstate Stream commissioners. see union members being paid better principal at McCallum Sweeney members 2008 58,000 7.2 On sediment, the report warned that sedimenta- In September 2014, Gaume sued the commission, rate, percent If a public citizen is allowed to manipulate the and enjoying better benefits. If that Consulting in Greenville, S.C. 2009 51,000 6.7 tion in diverted waters “could have a significant charging that it had violated the State Open Meet- restraining order process under the auspices of ‘free non-unionized business doesn’t want “We will typically recommend that Public sector 2010 55,000 7.3 impact on the design, sizing and feasibility of the ings Act, in part by having a subcommittee carry out speech,’ the work of state government, including its diversion, conveyance and storage reservoirs. public business such as hiring consultants without to lose its employees to the union instead of making it a pass/fail item 34,977 15.3 2011 49,000 6.8 obligation to conduct public meetings, could come public votes. shop or to the government, it will that they just bring it down to scored 2012 50,000 6.5 Management of sediment could be technically to a screeching halt every time a private individual Private sector challenging and very expensive, both in terms of He got a judge’s restraining order in late October, raise its wages and increase benefits, criteria. Our advice is that they don’t 2013 46,000 6.2 disagrees with the decisions of a public body,” the Conway said. make right-to-work a prerequisite. 15,360 2.8 capital cost and operations and maintenance costs.” which could have prevented the commission from 2014 43,000 5.7 stream commission said in a statement. Not everyone buys that argument. About 25 percent of our clients will The report generated little press coverage and was voting to move forward with the project. About a Source: Center for Economic and Policy Research In response, Gaume said he’s doing what he’s Supporters point to the effect of New say ‘Thank you for that advice, but Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics cont. on page 16 PAGE 16 • February 11, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS OPINION ABQ FREE PRESS • February 11, 2015 • PAGE 17 GILA DAM, Page 15 Susana Hides Head in Sand doing because he wants to see some or all of the Gaume said. be built, if there was a sugar daddy with pockets federal money approved in the 2004 Arizona Water Also, if the asphalt comes in direct contact with the deep enough to build it,” Gaume said. “There’s Settlements Act – $66 million – go to non-diversion, reservoir water, Gaume doubts that it would meet not much water, and it’s extremely expensive. The In Crisis She Helped Create more economical water projects rather than what federal rules protecting water used for drinking whole need for the project in the ISC’s mind is the BY JERRY ORTIZ Y PINO he sees as the wasteful, pork-laden Gila Diversion or groundwater recharge, due to its oil and toxic need to have a dam for the river.” Project. materials. Environmentalist Schulke, an environmentalist wo years after blowing work and real follow-through on her part. But if with the Center for Biological Diversity and who TNew Mexico’s communi- she’s serious about running this State she has ty behavioral health system was the recipient of the bureau’s 2008 “fatal flaw” to tackle them or risk total irrelevance. The Bureau of Reclamation’s position to smithereens and bringing First, there is a true emergency occurring re- missive, said he’s not surprised by the changed Norm Gaume sued the commis- When ABQ Free Press asked the Bureau of Recla- in companies from Arizona garding payments to the local providers who do position. sion, charging that it had violated mation about reservoir lining, the bureau said it’s to replace it, spending $27 the actual work with clients for Medicaid. One million in the process, our the State Open Meetings Act in part premature to discuss its practicality because of the year into the new “Centennial” managed-care lack of data. “Site specific geologic investigations ‘It’s unaffordable and unfeasible Governor included nary a system, it appears that the $590 million for mention of the behavioral by having a subcommittee carry and seepage analyses have not been performed behavioral health that is given to the four even if it could be built, if there health topic in her State of the State speech. to date,” wrote Vivian Gonzales, a bureau water HMO’s that run it, are mostly sitting in those out public business, such as hiring was a sugar daddy with pockets Nor did any of the press releases that resources planner. companies’ bank accounts. They certainly aren’t consultants without public votes accompanied her proposed budget for next year getting out to where services are needed. But studies that evaluated the potential for deep enough to build it’ mention the topic. It is not the subject of any The result is that some providers are closing hydrocarbon leaching from asphalt indicate the – Norm Gaume legislative proposals sent down from the Fourth their doors. Others are laying off staff. All are concern about using asphalt as a reservoir liner may Floor. She has no position on Albuquerque and Water losses through seepage wasting inordinate amounts of time arguing with be valid, Gonzales wrote, adding that the bureau “They’ve retreated to a safe and passive political Bernalillo County’s efforts to address the needs the HMOs about the accuracy of their billings of the mentally ill and addicted populations, In its follow-up evaluation of the project in No- would recommend more research before considering position. I think the spirit of Mary (Reece’s) email is or the need for services. An involved chief vember, Bohannon-Huston never mentioned RJH’s asphalt lining. which include requests for additional taxes here still true – that for them to finish by 2019 following executive would bring the HMOs in and read concern about fatal flaws. But it did an analysis When asked if the bureau believed that this and and for increased legislative appropriations for those criteria would have been prudent,” Schulke them the riot act. Their failings are making her of the sediment issue and found it would not be a other issues raised by the RJH report and project services. said. “But as they said, and consistent with our look bad. Worse, they are ripping off the people problem. It redesigned one of the reservoirs to the critics were potential fatal flaws, Gonzales replied experience, the ISC chose to go a different route. of New Mexico who are paying for services, not point where now even critic Gaume agrees that the that until the formal federal review begins, “An endless red tape. “It remains to be seen whether that was a good If her administration sediment can be handled. evaluation of the project is neither appropriate nor Second, the Governor needs to get onboard idea, but it certainly makes it more difficult to get to had not taken such a But the issue of reservoir seepage has not been cost effective.” the legislative initiative to expand behavioral a record of decision by 2019. Then we’ll see how the resolved. And when asked if the bureau thinks the state has reckless role in creating our services through non-Medicaid sources. A pack- bureau and Interior interpret ‘reasons outside of the Bohannon-Huston and Value Engineering rec- shown that its plan is viable enough so that no fatal current behavioral health age of six funding bills was cobbled together control of the State of New Mexico.’” ommended lining the reservoirs with impermeable flaws will be discovered, Gonzales didn’t directly before the session to increase our capacity to The Gila water commission’s Gutierrez, however, mess, this lack of attention to plastic to prevent seepage. Bohannon-Huston also respond. provide services statewide in phases over five said that alleged fatal flaws such as water availabili- fixing it might be excused recommended a double-lined system using clay “New Mexico adopted the decision-making years. The administration is silent on this plan to strengthen the liner, while Value Engineering process they thought most appropriate to make ty aren’t that big of a concern to him. so far. If she doesn’t like it, she needs to come up with her own. But she should take a stand. suggested a second layer of soil or asphalt. their determination on whether or not to pursue a “The environmental community has their No, it seems that behavioral health; the gaps We don’t need a leader who hides her head in In its report, Bohannon-Huston said that dam New Mexico Unit,” Gonzales wrote. “The (Interior) consultants and they do their studies, and ISC has in our addiction, alcoholism and mental health the sand in the face of this crisis. liners have been used for more than 45 years Secretary and Reclamation will now move forward consultants and they’ve done their studies. services; the mounting demand for court-related worldwide and that a geo-technical industry trade to fulfill our (Arizona Water Settlements Act) “Some years, you may not be able to take water; services; the glaring holes which shred the system; the financial distress of many of the magazine found that as of 2006, 265 dams had responsibilities.” some years you get an overabundance. Last year, This state needs a chief service provider agencies which have survived plastic liners. As for asphalt, the Value Engineering Reacting to the bureau’s change, Gaume said it we had 30,000 cubic feet per second in floods on the Gila River during the monsoon, and right now and the growing call for prevention and diver- executive who might be study said it can resist erosion much better than means the project proponents will continue to waste sion, which are largely non-existent currently it’s 300 cfs,” said Gutierrez, who doubles as Grant willing to spend time realis- pure soil in liners and could reduce the need for money analyzing it. In its work plan for the second – all of that has just not risen to the level of County’s planning director. more expensive filtering materials. half of FY 2014-15, the stream commission wrote that concern sufficient to draw Gov. Martinez’s tically facing [the need for Gaume, a retired engineer who ran the Interstate it will spend about $1.75 million in that period on He said he’s more concerned about the valley’s attention. behavioral health services] Stream Commission from 1996 to 2002, blasts the top of $3.3 million it budgeted for the first half. growth, which in recent years has brought five Instead, she has chosen to focus on other instead of occupying herself reservoir lining idea as unrealistic. First, he noted It will hire an engineering firm to begin work on developments that lack municipal water supplies, worries more critical to her: repealing drivers’ that Bohannon-Huston’s original report acknowl- getting the project about 30 percent designed. It will requiring a total of 300 to 500 homes to be on private licenses for the undocumented; requiring photo with yet more of the reading edged the lack of clay material in the area, meaning spend $500,000 on its legal dispute with Gaume and wells. identification for voters and resisting all efforts sessions with school kids a lot would have to be trucked in. in preparing for other, expected litigation. From “Since it’s now the most popular, wonderful place at replacing faltering oil and gas tax revenues that have become clichés “If you assume a reservoir area of 600 surface now until 2022, the commission will get $9 million in the world, people are moving there, and the first with any new revenue sources. She is Spartan acres, the surface area would be more than 26 a year ($6.6 million in 2004 dollars) from the federal thing they do is drill a well and put in a septic tank.” in her fiscal stance, preferring austerity over seeking any new way to finance the services we Finally, the Governor supports longer sen- million square feet. A clay liner of that area 12 inches government under the 2004 Arizona water act for don’t now have, no matter how bad the need. tences for people convicted of crimes. But time thick would require 26 million cubic feet of clay. This Tony Davis is a reporter for the Arizona Daily Star. use on studies and permitting of the Gila project and If her administration had not taken such a in prison becomes wasted time or time spent is approximately 1 million cubic yards, or 100,000, on less controversial nondiversion projects. He previously covered environmental issues for reckless role in creating our current behavioral only on honing criminal skills if our Department 10-yard dump trailer loads, with no known source,” “It’s unaffordable and unfeasible even if it could The Albuquerque Tribune. health mess, this lack of attention to fixing it of Corrections program doesn’t offer effective might be excused. But, oh, how this State could mental health and addiction treatment. Even use that wasted $27 million now! And, oh, how better (because it is less expensive and less this state needs a chief executive who might damaging to future lives) is to divert drug- and be willing to spend time realistically facing this alcohol-dependent offenders away from prison Missed an issue? need instead of occupying herself with yet more and into community treatment. Want to read back issues? of the reading sessions with school kids that We don’t have a lot of new money for new have become clichés. programs this year. But shifting money from Go to our website for all ABQ Free Press issues There are three things the Governor needs to prisons to treatment doesn’t take new money – do in the next few months that would signal she and it works a lot better. is prepared to work at salvaging our behavioral health system. These suggestions aren’t photo Jerry Ortiz y Pino is a state senator www.freeabq.com ops. Rather, they require real attention, real from Albuquerque. PAGE 18 • February 11, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS SPOTLIGHTS SPECIAL ABQ FREE PRESS • February 11, 2015 • PAGE 19 Survey of ‘An Ancient Heritage in a Modern Community’ Travel to Your Heart of the City BY STEPHANIE HAINSFURTHER

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Innovations of Pueblo Women Artists,” from the point of Museum & Dine on selections from the full menu what you’re eating at this superlative view of the artists themselves. Cultural Center of at MÁS – Tapas y Vino and let the establishment. Part of citywide art project “On the Map,” the exhibit New Mexico will explore the often overlooked experi- curtains fall as you ply your sweetie The starters are pure steakhouse, now at the KiMo Theatre Art Gallery was assembled ence of African American teachers in Indian Schools. with fine wine and… did I mention with Blue Crab Cakes and Vernon’s by curator Deborah A. Jojola. It includes the works of Three African American educators who taught in the there is room for up to eight people Classic Scallops coming out ahead. nine prolific artists, some with national and international Indian Service — Dr. Lenton Malry, Tommie Jewell Sr. in each casbah? Call the host station People tell me the Adult Mac and reputations. 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PAGE 22 • February 11, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS SPECIAL SPECIAL ABQ FREE PRESS • February 11, 2015 • PAGE 23 31 Percent of Americans Unsatisfied with Their Sex Lives Award Winners Are Local Couple Loves BY ROCCO LOVERRO Married to Winemaking to Make Art ccording to a recent Survata survey hormones naturally decline with age, increased energy and sex drive, there BY JIM HAMMOND BY STEPHANIE HAINSFURTHER Acommissioned by Nava Health & Survey methodology starting as early as the late 20s or early are also long-term benefits related to Vitality Center, close to one-third (31 30s,” said Dr. Douglas Lord, medical heart, bone and brain health, too.” hen Jerry Burd of Black Mesa oann Francomano and Jim Cole art and piece of furniture is chosen for percent) of Americans ages 35 and older This survey was conducted by director at Nava Health and Vitality For more information on these survey Wreceived the results of the latest Jdo lots of things together: go to its cultural references. It’s almost like are either “a little satisfied” or “not at all Survata, an independent research Center. “We see so many people come to results or hormone therapy, visit Jefferson Cup Invitational Wine Com- film festivals, walk to any number of being inside one of the meticulously satisfied” with their overall sex lives. firm in San Francisco. Survata us with the same issues — my sex drive NavaCenter.com. petition, he turned to his wife Lynda wonderful restaurants from her condo done Cole and Francomano rooms. • Half of respondents (49 percent) interviewed 400 respondents online is too low, I’m having trouble focusing and said, “We received two Jefferson in Nob Hill, spend relaxing weekends at reported having sex twice per month or Jan. 15-16, 2015. Respondents or sleeping, I’m anxious, I keep gaining Rocco Loverro writes for Nava Health & Cup medals and were nominated for a his home in the Northeast Heights. One Stephanie Hainsfurther is an associate third. Wow!” fewer, with 30 percent saying they aren’t were reached across the Survata weight — and many of them have Vitality Center in Columbia, Md. of the things they do, separately and editor for ABQ Free Press. The invitation-only competition is having sex at all. publisher network, where they usually chalked these up to the expected together, is make art. named after our viticulturist, third OPENING FEBRUARY 21 • Even though close to one-third take a survey to unlock premium side effects of aging, but they don’t have “I was working on an art project, content, such as articles and president, who was passionate about making tiny clothing and finding (31 percent)of baby boomers and to.” ROOM FOR ART ebooks. Respondents have the future of American-made wines. vintage ‘60s Barbie and Ken shoes for Generation Xers rated their sex drives as For getting libido back on track, Palette Contemporary Art and Craft received no cash compensation for For a winemaker, medaling in the Tasting the wines them, and Jim asked if he could help 7400 Montgomery Blvd. NE “extremely” or “very” low, seven of 10 a growing health trend points to Jefferson Cup is like winning an Oscar their participation. More information Black Mesa also grows their own me,” said Francomano. The artists will be in attendance on (71 percent) said sex remains important bio-identical hormone optimization as a for Best Picture. on Survata’s methodology can be grapes in Velarde, home to their winery “She said, ‘OK, make me a closet,’” Feb. 21 from 3-6 p.m. 855-7777 to them. potential therapy for naturally returning Jerry and Lynda Burd have been at found at survata.com/methodology. and first tasting room. Located along said Cole. palettecontemporary.com • And while there’s room for improve- the body’s hormones to optimal levels the helm of Black Mesa Winery since highway 68 on the road to Taos, Velarde You can catch the stunning closet, ment, people may be looking for more and addressing the symptoms, such as 2000. In that time is the last sleepy vil- among other miniature rooms, at their natural treatments, as close to nine of However, more men than women said loss of sex drive, that most people mis- they have made the FEBRUARY 14-15 lage one views before joint exhibit “Room for Art” opening at 10 respondents (87 percent) said they sex was still important to them (58 takenly identify as the expected parts winery one of New the steep canyon walls Palette Contemporary on Saturday, Feb. percent compared to 39 percent). Mexico’s favorites. 5th ANNUAL have never taken any prescription or of the aging process. These symptoms carved by the Rio 21. The show runs through March 31. Among the survey respondents, men The variety and BARREL TASTING over-the-counter medcations to improve include not only low libido or sex drive Grande and the river Francomano is an artist who special- also reported their sex drives as just styles of wines they their sex drive or address any sexual but also weight gain, fatigue, brain fog, Black Mesa Winery, 1502 NM road’s twisting turns izes in the clear, eye-popping colors and make are impressive 68, Velarde, (505) 852-2820 dysfunction. slightly higher than women, with an irritability, anxiety and insomnia. command the driver’s hip subjects of the 1960s. Warhol, Yves and all are hand Wine tasting in the Barrel Room According to the survey, seniors 65 average rating of their current sex drive “With Valentine’s Day around the full attention. St. Laurent and Rudi Gernreich are some crafted. The dry, with local cheeses and choco- and older are the most satisfied with as “6” compared to “5” for women (on corner, it’s a great time for people to When asked how of her inspirations for this show. off-dry and sweet lates, live music by Bittersweet their sex lives (22 percent “Extremely” a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the highest). think about their sexual health and many winemaking Cole is a 40-year maxillofacial surgeon wines are all well Highway. 12-5 p.m., $25, register And while 90 percent of females report duties Jerry takes on satisfied) while those ages 35- 44 are whether or not it could use some help, made and show at blackmesawinery.com with a carpentry hobby he has turned never having taken medications or he said, “Well, they the least satisfied (30 percent “Not at but it’s also a good time to think about continual improve- into an art, making decorative items and prescriptions to improve sex drive or let me taste the wine.” all” satisfied). What’s more, women are your heart health,” said Dr. Mark ments over the years. children’s pull-toys out of beautifully performance, only 78 percent of men He is being modest more satisfied with their sex lives, with Sivieri, medical advisor at Nava Health For example, after much paperwork carved wood. His inspirations are Frank here. Jerry is still the uber-winemaker, but 45 percent saying they were “Extreme- can make that claim. and Vitality Center. “Studies have and bureaucratic stalling, Jerry was Lloyd Wright and Gerrit Rietveld, focuses on planning and management, ly” or “Very” satisfied with their sex “We often find that symptoms such shown that in addition to the immediate finally allowed to go from imitation to designer of the Red and Blue Chair and allowing Karl and Craig to make the lives, compared to 39 percent of men. as a low sex drive or libido can be due benefits of hormone optimization, like real chocolate in their popular Black the Zig-Zag Chair (popularly called wine. to a hormonal imbalance, as everyone’s Beauty dessert wine. the “Z” chair), both of which figure Commenting on the blending of prominently in “Room for Art.” Sourcing the grapes wines, Jerry said, “It’s like arm wres- Their largest room is just 12.5 inches in tling with four or five of us commenting length and 10.5 inches high. Each piece The Black Mesa 2012 Burd Vineyard on each blend and what tastes best. is envisioned as a room in a hip home Montepulciano and 2011 Cabernet ‘50 Shades of Grey’ Usually I’ll have to decide when we’ve or art gallery. In general, Cole makes the Sauvignon received Jefferson Cup done enough with a wine.” shell (floor, walls, other wooden pieces) Whether you loved the book or hated it, awards and the Cosecha Ultima was a The Velarde tasting room at 1502 NM and Francomano makes the art. Their nominee for a third Cup. What is even 68 is packed with art as well as wine you’re buying advance tickets in record more impressive is that they use locally Andy Warhol Factory room is a fanciful and Lynda is the artist of the wine reconstruction of the artist’s famous numbers to see the film version of sourced grapes: the Montepulciano labels. She provides visual temptation was sourced from Velarde grapes, the studio and ‘60s hangout for the chic, the “50 Shades of Grey.” If you’re not to the wines with arresting images hip and the Bohemian. Cabernet from Deming grapes, and reflecting New Mexico culture and art. Cole and Francomano discuss a plan already in line, wait and read our the late harvest dessert wine from Las Visitors to the tasting room might also for each tiny room before retreating to Parras Vineyard in Abiquiú. Sourcing catch sight of the 10 cats they adopted review on Facebook and in the next their separate studios to work. Most of requires constant evaluation of each that roam their property along with the materials are raw, then handmade issue of ABQ Free Press. lot of grapes for brix (sugar content), one dog, Boo The Cat Herder. As if cats to scale. For example, Cole has crafted quality of fruit, level of ripeness and could be herded. The online store sports Puppy Love, Kitty Kisses tiny floor planks, lacquered and buffed flavor profile, not to mention the photos of their “cat”-egories of wines, differences in weather and terroir. to a high shine, for most of the rooms. 61% of women tell their problems to their pets; each with a pet posing with a product. Winemaker Karl Johnsen and Asst. The newer Taos tasting room at 241 Very few things, like the aforementioned 31% of them believe their pets are better Winemaker Craig Dunn receive grape Ledoux Street includes small plates of vintage Barbie and Ken shoes, are found listeners than their spouses. lots from over a dozen locations, from food to accompany the wines. Black Mesa art. 14% of men think their pets show them Abiquiú in the north to just above El wines are also available at local wine “We are very careful to make each more affection than their loved ones do. Paso in the Mesilla Valley. They must shops. Wine Club Only offerings are room original and not simply plug items consider what kind of wine can be into them,” Francomano said. — Purina Pet Survey 2014 exclusive to members, but Barrel Tastings made from each load of grapes even are open to the public. The next one is on They are also very careful to spend 33% of pet owners let their pets sleep on the bed. before the crush. Runs of just 30 to 100 Valentine’s Day Weekend. time apart as needed to create. When 25% would rather spend time with their cases mean each wine receives great they get together, usually at Franco- Joann Francomano and Jim Cole collaborated on the pieces for their art show, “Room for Art,” opening at pets than with people. attention and care before the Black Jim Hammond is The Southwestern mano’s studio, it’s a party. Her condo Mesa label is affixed. reflects her curatorial eye: each work of Palette Contemporary. Photos: Stephanie Hainsfurther. — National Geographic Poll 2013 Wine Guy. PAGE 24 • February 11, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS FILM THEATER ABQ FREE PRESS • February 11, 2015 • PAGE 25 ‘Citizenfour’: Liberty, Privacy and the NSA FUSION: Couple Dances on a Broken Ledge room in 2013. There she met Snowden along with so pervasive and invasive — wiretapped phones, By Barry Gaines journalists Glenn Greenwald (now her co-editor of collection of metadata, killer drones, the circum- “The Intercept”) and The Guardian’s D.C. Bureau vention of law. The image of Snowden cloaking his laywright Sharr White takes his audience on a I don’t find this Sharr White play as challenging Chief, Ewen MacAskill. The week of revelatory head in a red hood to conceal his laptop from sight Procky climb up Mount Marriage as he explores as his “The Other Place,” performed by FUSION a interviews they conducted with Snowden form the is chilling. Yet Snowden finds his situation “scary, the lives of Emma and Ulysses, wonderfully por- year ago, but the acting is equally as strong. Once trayed by Jacqueline Reid and Gregory Wagrowski again, Jacqueline Reid presents a kaleidoscope of core of the film. but liberating.” in FUSION Theatre Company’s production at The emotions as the damaged Emma whose tenderness The film’s portrait of Snowden is not that of a Let’s see if we can challenge the dominant narra- Cell Theatre. fights with her anger over the events that sent her Bolshevik or Islamist zealot, but someone who was tive for once. Assume the War on Terror after 9/11 Ulysses was a cowboy poet and professor and running from Ulysses. Reid glows and blazes in a seriously concerned about the unchecked expansion has engaged the U.S. in unwinnable wars of counter- of state power through NSA’s system of spying. Emma fell hard for him. They were married for fine performance. insurgency in Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries 10 years and had a son, Sam. Ulysses drank too Gregory Wagrowski is excellent as Ulysses. He Journalist Greenwald says the agency’s reach is in the Middle East, as The Atlantic’s James Fallows “sweeping and indiscriminate.” Nor does Snowden much and wrote too little, and one drunken night presents his character’s cowboy roots and wry BY RICHARD OYAMA contended, at an estimated cost of $1.5 trillion. appear to be a publicity Emma left with the boy. Ulysses couldn’t remember humor with skill, and his squinty-eyed smirk and At the same time, under Obama’s watch, the NSA anything about that night, and Emma cut off all condescending chuckle are just what the playwright oes anyone remember the phrase “abuse of hound or megalomaniac. “Citizenfour” will be extended its system of global surveillance, even to contact. For years he wrote letters to his son and sent ordered. power”? Nominated for an Academy Award He articulates well his shown on HBO on D the extent of monitoring German Chancellor Angela them to his wife’s mother, the only address he had, Acted without intermission, “Annapurna” builds suspicion about “modern Monday, February 23 Harrison Sim for best documentary, Laura Poitras’ film about Merkel’s email, and abridging the right of free but received no reply. tension until the final pieces of this family puzzle NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden evokes the media’s focus on Gregory Wagrowski as Ulysses and Jacqueline Reid as Emma play personalities” and wants speech many claim to hold dear in the wake of the The play begins 20 years after Emma’s hasty de- divorced partners in FUSION Theatre Company’s “Annapurna.” are in place, and the characters come alive through memory of Watergate. “Citizenfour’s” exploration of to downplay his own role in the story. In fact, we’re Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris. parture. Ulysses, now dying from lung cancer, lives first-rate acting. the NSA spying scandal has much to say about the I can’t begin to describe the chilling effect of Big in a squalid and filthy trailer in a small Colorado roughly one-quarter into the film before he sheds his bark of “the ugly, mostly blind demon dog” that lives future of privacy, freedom and agency in American town he describes as “the ass-crack of the Rockies” Barry Gaines is the theater critic for ABQ Free Press. eponymous cover name and comes out. Brother surveillance on arts and culture. outside. However, the three lines delivered offstage in life. — a personally apt description considering that he He is a Professor Emeritus at UNM and Administrator Snowden notes that the Internet was once free There’s a telling shot of a mound of torn-up bits a child’s voice are annoyingly unintelligible. presents a southern view while wearing nothing but of the American Theater Critics Association. For her third film in a 9/11 trilogy, Poitras had the and unrestrained, but that the fear of surveillance of paper. One of the journalists had shredded his I assume that director Thomas suggested the slippers, oxygen pack and apron. directorial good sense to allow a compelling story has caused citizens to self-police their own views. written communication. Nepalese prayer flags that are festooned behind To Ulysses’ amazement, Emma knocks on his door, to tell itself. The story first came to her. She received As someone says, his tale is as riveting as a novel Is that free speech? the trailer in honor, I suppose, of the treacherous brings in luggage and groceries, and announces that an encrypted email from an unidentified stranger by John le Carré — or perhaps George Orwell. It Annapurna peaks in the Himalayas. THROUGH FEBRUARY 20 she plans to stay with her ex for a while. She has left and traveled to Hong Kong to meet him in his hotel isn’t only that the multi-agency spying network is Richard Oyama is a novelist and poet. The tone of the unhappy couple varies. In the her second husband. ANNAPURNA beginning, as they spar with each other and seek All of this exposition is provided during the The Cell Theatre, 700 First St NW, answers for past wrongs, the dialogue is sharp and couple’s conversations. Veteran director Laurie 766-9412, FUSIONabq.org sardonically funny. Despite long-nurtured hatreds Thomas keeps the characters in motion performing and hurts, the two sporadically display affection. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, ‘Two Days, One Night’ Personalizes Economic Fallout tasks around the trailer. But we learn that Emma has not journeyed to The Lensic Performing Arts Center, BY STEPHANIE HAINSFURTHER Scenic and lighting designer Richard K. Hogle has Colorado to nurse her dying former husband. Sam is 211 W San Francisco St, Santa Fe, provided a realistic trailer interior — grungy and planning a visit and she wants to make Ulysses and 988-1234, lensic.org knowledgeable friend reminded me Most scenes in the film add up, cluttered. Sound designer Brent Stevens adds the his surroundings suitable for their son. Athat foreign films are very different except an ill-timed suicide attempt that from American movies. In the way it tells is distracting. But just so you know, in a story, “Two Days, One Night” (“Deux France you can swallow “a whole box Jours, Une Nuit”) varies so much from of Xanax,” get your stomach pumped, Hollywood filmmaking that I found it enjoy a lovely carrot soup in your private Bumbling Burglars Blurt Blasphemy in ‘Buffalo’ hard to settle into its rhythm. On second room, and be out of l’hôpital in time to viewing, however, I understood how pester a few more people. By Barry Gaines deftly the story had been told. In an American version of the plot, we Sandra (Marion Cotillard) is a young would be manipulated by an over- can’t believe that it has been almost 45 Franz and Sean Nelson. into the elliptic and indeterminate year they’re buying everything that they wife and mother getting ready to come wrought score (this movie has none) Iyears since David Mamet’s “American The play’s single set is Don’s Resale dialogue. For example, the buffalo nickel can lay their hands on.” The reference is back to work after having been hospital- and plagued by characters explicating Buffalo” exploded on Broadway like a Shop, a seedy junkshop filled with of the play’s title, minted between 1913 to the Century of Progress, the World’s ized for depression. On the Friday be- plot points we’ve already figured bomb — an F-bomb many thought. The “things” and “stuff,” two of the char- and 1938, features a rugged Native Fair that Chicago held to celebrate its fore she is to return, her office manager out. Jean-Marc’s dirty secrets would impact of “American Buffalo” (along with acters’ favorite words. A stranger was American face on the observe and an centennial. and friend Juliette calls to tell her a vote be uncovered, and a conspiracy of “Sexual Perversities in Chicago” and willing to pay $90 for an old buffalo “American buffalo” on the reverse. Both Waves of immigrants crossed America has been imposed on her coworkers: Sandra’s friends would scheme to have “Glengarry Glen Ross” among others) nickel and Don now feels that the coin were slaughtered and almost decimated in pursuit of “things” and “stuff,” the vote for their 1,000 euro bonus or vote his job downsized instead of hers. The on the language of American drama must be worth quite a bit more. He plots as “Americans” moved westward. And American dream of accumulation and for Sandra to keep her job. A foreman, present understated, uplifting end would is undeniable. “American Buffalo” still with his young helper/disciple Bob to Chicago, Mamet’s home town, figured wealth. Yet Don’s Resale Shop is a glum Jean-Marc, has been telling the workers Rongione) persuades her to see each Things are looking up. turn into a happy-clappy love fest, with retains a strange power. steal the customer’s coin collection. prominently in the western migration. reminder of dreams deferred. Don and that if Sandra keeps her job, not only one face to face. Over and over, Sandra The slice-of-life film is suspenseful be- Sandra gaining back her job because Mother Road Theatre Company is When regular kibitzer Teach hears the The character Teach asks Don about Teach want some of the bounty of free won’t they get their bonuses, but one explains that she needs her job. Each cause of the ticking clock with Monday she is such a nice, persistent sort. staging this three-man play opening plan, he wants to replace Bob — who is a compact on display, and Don tells him enterprise, but they are hostages to their of them must go instead. The majority person tells her why the 1,000 euros is morning looming. Sandra gathers more Instead, “Two Days, One Night” is a February 13 at the Tricklock Perfor- not the brightest bulb on the porch and that it came from the 1933 “thing,” “the limitations, embodied in their language. have voted against Sandra, who needs going to help him or her hold it together; yeahs and nays, goes through emotional familiar story, matter-of-factly told. If mance Laboratory. Company cofounder lacks experience in petty crime. This thing, it ran for two years, and they had Mamet provides the characters an her job to pay the mortgage. one friend won’t see her at all. She is ups and downs and even gets slugged the film at times seems repetitious and Vic Browder will be directing Ryil ineffectual trio ends up fighting among (I don’t know) all kinds of people every idiom rich in its barrenness, eloquent Juliette and Sandra speak with Mr. downcast but, buoyed by her husband’s in the process. Along the way we learn plodding, it is because a worker’s life Adamson, Paul Ford and Michael themselves as they try to plan the heist. in its inarticulateness, and poetic in its Dumont, the company owner, to tell him can feel the same. Guajardo in a production I am looking Their macho bravado and inept sugges- obscenity. Words overlap, thoughts tail that the foreman has poisoned the work- gentle urging, she carries on. why the others need the bonus: to keep FEBRUARY 13-MARCH 1 About 45 minutes into the film, Sandra a child in a good school, to make ends forward to seeing. tions are funny in a sad way. off, meaning eludes. Terse and enigmat- ers’ minds with a lie. Dumont agrees to Stephanie Hainsfurther is an associate editor Chicago-born Mamet premiered So much for the plot. The play, AMERICAN BUFFALO ic, the dialogue mesmerizes. Moreover, take the vote again on Monday morning. goes to coworker Timur’s soccer game meet for a one-income family, to repair for ABQ Free Press. “American Buffalo” in that city in 1975, however, is more than plot. It is nothing Tricklock Performance Mamet urges his actors not to analyze Hence, Sandra has the weekend to and asks him to vote for her. He bursts an old house. It’s not a great deal of and two years later it opened a run on short of an interrogation and decon- Laboratory, 110 Gold Ave SW, their lines—leave that to the critics—but convince her colleagues to keep her job into tears and pours out his guilt, money; it’s a Band-Aid. Everybody lives The film is playing at High Ridge 8 Broadway. It was also made into a 1996 struction of the “American Dream.” 243-2596, motherroad.org simply to speak them. Let’s see how and lose their bonuses. then blesses this second chance and on the edge these days, and there are a and Downtown Century 14. movie with Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Images and ideas are carefully woven these actors handle “Mametspeak.” Sandra’s husband Manu (Fabrizio promises he will vote against the bonus. million ways to cling to it. PAGE 26 • February 11, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS MUSIC MUSIC ABQ FREE PRESS • February 11, 2015 • PAGE 27 Janis Ian Performs, Talks with George R.R. Martin Lucinda Wiliams on Heartbreak, Loss and Life BY BETSY MODEL BY BETSY MODEL or Lucinda Williams fans, her “It’s not like I was reinventing the just say ‘Honey, I think it wants to be hile her most cover what she herself Fvoice — reminiscent of the gravel wheel — there are only so many a song,’” she said. Wfamous lyrics viewed as a “stunning and dirt roads she traveled between things you can write about, (like) love, A native of Lake Charles, La., might include the upset.” She received the gigs in the early years — is one that sex, death, redemption, and they’re all Williams has a sound like a mix of words “I learned the award – and sparked resonates of unvarnished truth, here — but I felt like I was really in a blues, country, folk and soul. Concert- truth at 17 ...” more thundering laughter firsthand heartbreak and the longing groove here.” goers are certain to hear not just the than four decades later – by saying “There for a better day, a better love, a better That groove included the recording cuts from the latest album but chart singer-songwriter Janis must be a joke in here life. of “West Memphis,” in which successes, often recorded by others Ian continues to produce somewhere. An ex-pres- For some 30 years, Williams has Williams tackles the heavy subject of such as Emmylou Harris, Tom Petty music that, like the lyrics ident, a First Lady and been singing of heartbreak, loss and of the wrongly convicted West Memphis and Mary Chapin Carpenter, such to her chart-topping “At three lesbians go into a the injustices of life and, on Wednes- Three. Then she took a sharp left as “Sweet Old World,” “Passionate Seventeen,” touches a bar. …” day, Feb. 18, she’ll bring that signature turn when she turned one of her Kisses,” “Drunken Angel” and “Get chord with her fans and Ian’s sharp wit belies sound to The Lensic Performing Arts late father’s poems into a song titled Right With God.” sells out venues. her having left high Center in Santa Fe. “Compassion.” Ian, who will be school at 10th grade but At 62 and still playing to sold-out Miller Williams was an award-win- Betsy Model specializes in investigative playing live at Santa Fe’s at an age when most of audiences, the Grammy-award win- ning poet, and her translation of the pieces and personality profiles. She is a Jean Cocteau Cinema us were still debating ning Williams released her 11th album poem into song occurred not long regular contributor to ABQ Free Press, February 22 and 23, will whether we fell into the this past fall. Titled “Down Where the before his death. If the tribute was and her work has appeared in Rolling contemporaries and uses her distinct, be creating a unique “cool,” “nerd” or “jock” Spirit Meets the Bone,” the release a long time coming, “Compassion” Stone, Vanity Fair and other national earthy voice to draw in her listeners show format with category on campus, Ian is pure Williams: long on longing might be one of the gentlest songs that publications. for a closer look. long-time friend, venue had already recorded and short on the pop influences that Williams has recorded. Her father “I felt like I was really on a roll owner and “Game of her first album (at age have come to permeate much of what loved the concept and encouraged his WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18 when we started working on the Thrones” creator George 13) and was nominated comes out of Nashville these days. daughter’s songwriting and her way album,” Williams said. “I usually LUCINDA WILLIAMS R. R. Martin as they mix for her first Grammy As a songwriter, Williams has few with words. He also encouraged her have enough songs to fill an album, up an evening of music Award, and touring with peers and, co-produced with her to be true to what was inside of her. The Lensic Performing Arts and maybe a couple more, but when I (hers), discussion of Donovan no less, by 16. husband Tom Overby, “Down Where “He had always maintained that Center, 211 West San Francisco started writing for this, the inspiration St., Santa Fe science fiction writing Now 63 and having the Spirit Meets the Bone” doesn’t there’s a clear differentiation between just kept coming, and the people I Presented by Heath Concerts. (his and hers) and, for Courtesy of Jean Cocteau Cinema set album sales records fall into the easy-listening category, songs and poems. When I showed was working with kept telling me the 7:30 p.m., $46-74, 988-1234 lucky VIP ticket holders, on foreign shores, either. Williams focuses on deeper, him something I thought might songs were worth keeping. lensic.org a meet-and-greet with postman’s pick-up of more than 140 turned the record darker subjects than many of her become a poem, he [would] always Sunday, February 22 and Monday, both. music-enclosed envelopes. industry upside down with her early The evening, Ian promises, will be That kind of stuff, Ian acknowledg- February 23 buy-in, and very public speaking out eclectic but she’s looking forward on, the power and benefits of allowing es, comes with saying you want to be Janis Ian to mixing up the songs played – a independent and do things your own downloaded music, and having won Music Briefs combination of 40 years of fan and Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 her latest Grammy Award some 46 way — including producing albums Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, 7 pm. ississippi Indie Rock band Young Since the ‘90s, Ronson has been work- Grammy Award-winning favorites years following her first nomination, and books on your own without General admission tickets are $50, MBuffalo plans to release an elev- ing hard on re-creating great music from mingled with some of the music from labels or publishing houses or people Senior and Student tickets are $35 she is, she says, ready to focus on en-track album, “House,” on March 3 via the past. From working with Ghostface her latest, independently produced who’ll tell you what to do – but she jeancocteaucinema.com. what floats her own boat. Votiv. It’s a full-length colorful production Killah to producing for Amy Winehouse, album “Strictly Solo” — and that still laments the time it takes her away A limited number of $75 VIP “I stop touring in early summer and that shares a similar style and musical he doesn’t seem to mind the genre, just the song she describes as “my new from doing the one thing that gives tickets are available for a 6 pm that’s it for me for the foreseeable fu- execution to Arcade Fire and Vampire as long as it sounds great. meet-and-greet with Janis Ian and favorite” will be on the agenda. her the most fulfillment: writing. ture. It’s nice having people still love Weekend. For the past two years, Ronson Entitled “I’m Still Standing,” the George R. R. Martin prior to the show to hear the music live but I also need The different personalities and tastes has been working hard on his newly “My goal? To stay at home and and include a drink ticket and VIP song’s lyrics celebrate getting a bit less distraction from my writing,” of the five band members perfectly released album “Uptown Special.” With write. Just write. I enjoy touring to a seating. These special tickets are older, a bit wiser and appreciating she said. “The thing about the Santa compliment the relaxed sound of it comes a gold mine of chart-topping point but what I really do best in life not available online and can only be what time has brought to the table. is write.” purchased directly by calling Fe shows is that George and I are old “House” and offer a more upbeat and hits. The album is a time machine of The song, embraced by fans who When pressed what she’d focus (505) 466-5528. friends — he and his wife were at my explorative feeling to this album than what music used to be, and what music have themselves perhaps gotten a on based on her interest in music, wedding ceremony in 2003 — and their past work. For example, “Sykia” should be. little older and a little wiser alongside we’re both pretty passionate about opens up with heavy drums and a fresh Ronson is the one who released science fiction, poetry and magazine 2008-penned autobiography “Soci- Ian, have driven the demand for (and writing and about science fiction. electric guitar solo that is balanced by the extremely catchy “Uptown Funk” editorials and features, she answers ety’s Child: My Autobiography” won sale of) “Strictly Solo” at her concert “So what will be fun for these the distinctive timbre of vocals. It’s more featuring Bruno Mars, a powerhouse immediately and concisely. “All of it.” the Grammy for “Best Spoken Word.” venues and, at the moment of our shows, and unique, is that we’ll play refined and softer than past songs such of big-band music with Mars’ incredible While there are millions of people Not an easy feat, that, considering interview, Ian is debating the virtues a half-concert, break for a 30-minute as “Nature Boy” or “Catahpilah.” voice. It’s no surprise the song quickly who’d agree she’s a brilliant writer — her audio recording was up against of having produced the album herself talk on stage — just George and I in Young Buffalo released a video to shot to #1 on Billboard’s top 100 and her song lyrics have been embraced none other than former president Bill which means, she sighs, mailing them chairs we drag out on the stage — and accompany “Sykia” and it seems to be doesn’t show any signs of moving. not only by fans all over the globe but Clinton, Rachel Maddow, First Lady conceived straight out of the ‘80s, fea- The next heavy-hitter on Ronson’s out when demand is high. then we’ll play the second half of the by artists as diverse as Bette Midler, Michelle Obama and Ellen DeGeneres. turing the glories of living in artsy-fartsy new album is the smooth and upbeat We caught up with Ian at her home concert. So if you want to hear two Roberta Flack, Amy Grant and Mel Ian, who even prior to starting Oxford, Miss. “Feel Right” featuring Mystikal. Ronson’s in Nashville and, during the final days writers talk about writing, be there or Tormé — Ian’s been a prolific writer of her own “Rude Girl Records” label “My Place” is the attention grabber of guitar and drums accompanied with of a sale where the proceeds from be square!” features and books for years. was known throughout the music the album. It has an iconic sound that Mystikal’s heavy and aggressive voice the new solo album go to the Pearl She’s been a contributing columnist industry as someone who spoke her features catchy hooks and a melodic create a funky tune. Funk isn’t Ronson’s Foundation (a non-profit Ian estab- Betsy Model specializes in investigative to both The Advocate and Performing mind regardless of the consequences range of synths, vocals and guitar. only specialty. The album includes some lished in her late mother’s name to pieces and personality profiles. She is a Songwriter magazines for a decade, (“I don’t play well with others,” she The album is available for pre-order on heavy influences of R&B, Soul and benefit older students pursuing their regular contributor to ABQ Free Press and has published or contributed to acknowledges), was stunned at the Amazon and iTunes. Electronic. Kevin Parker, Bruno Mars, education) Ian and her wife Patricia her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, multiple books and anthologies and, win. While not a newbie to winning Mark Ronson is on a mission to Mystikal and Stevie Wonder are but a Snyder are staring down the gun of a Vanity Fair and other national publications. in 2013, the audio version of her awards, she relied on her dry wit to revive classic music, and he’s not alone. few of the names featured. cont. on page 31 PAGE 28 • February 11, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS EVENTS EVENTS ABQ FREE PRESS • February 11, 2015 • PAGE 29 CALENDAr CALENDAr CASINOS FEBRUARY 12-28 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21 SUNDAY, MARCH 8 THROUGH MARCH 15 THROUGH FEBRUARY 28 FEBRUARY 27-MARCH 8 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14 LAUNCHPAD DRAG QUEEN BINGO NATION BEATS CARNAVAL CARAVAN BRENTANO STRING QUARTET PANDAS: THE JOURNEY HOME NOIR POINT BLANK HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE 618 Central Ave SW, 764-8887 Tractor Brewing Wells Park WITH CHA WA St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Lockheed Martin Dyna Theater, New Mexico Foul Play Café, 2600 Louisiana Blvd NE UNM’s Experimental Theatre ALL-4-ONE DINNER & SHOW launchpadrocks.com 1800 Fourth St NW, 243-6752, getplowed.com National Hispanic Cultural Center Art, 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe Museum of Natural History, Old Town, 841-2800, Dinner Theater. Fri-Sat 7:30 pm, Reservations UNM Main Campus, Center for the Arts Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort & Casino February 12, Burlesque Showcase For the benefit of Truman Health Services. 1701 Fourth St SW 3 pm, Santa Fe Pro Musica, (505) 988-4640, nmnaturalhistory.org, ngpandas.com required: 377-9593, foulplaycafe.com Presented by SCRAP Productions and the (505) 988-1234, santafepromusica.com UNM Dept. of Theatre & Dance. 287 Carrizo Canyon Rd, Mescalero, February 13, Leeches of Lore, Black Maria, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20 Local band Racine Kreyol opens. THROUGH MARCH 1 (800) 545-9011, ticketmaster.com Rock Jong Il 7: 30 pm, 724-4771, nhccnm.org FRIDAY, MARCH 13 FESTIVALS, FIESTAS & FAMILY 925-5858, unmtickets.com SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 February 14, The Toasters, The Blue Hornets MALA MAÑA ALBUQUERQUE JAZZ ORCHESTRA THE WHIPPING MAN Bandido Hideout, 2128 Central SE Eldorado H.S. Performing Arts Center SEVEN LAST WORDS FROM THE CROSS THROUGH MARCH 12 The Vortex Theatre CHARLIE PRIDE Cathedral of St. John, 318 Silver SW 2900 Carlisle Blvd NE, 247-8600, vortexabq.com $3 cover, all ages, 242-5366 7 pm, featuring trumpeter Clay Jenkins, SCIENCE IN THE SKY Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort & Casino 7 pm, Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico, After the Civil War, a story of master and slaves. nmjazz.org Albuquerque Balloon Museum 287 Carrizo Canyon Rd, Mescalero, 8 pm, ONGOING polyphonynm.com CANADIAN BRASS 9201 Balloon Museum Drive NE, 768-6020, FEBRUARY 12-22 (800) 545-9011, ticketmaster.com ZINC CELLAR BAR Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus SUNDAY, MARCH 15 balloonmuseum.com 3009 Central Ave NE, 254-9462, zincabq.com THE LAST 5 YEARS SATURDAY, MARCH 14 203 Cornell NE Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, enjoy THE WAILIN’ JENNYS FEBRUARY 14-MAY 10 Musical Theatre Southwest DWIGHT YOAKAM 8 pm, 925-5858, unmtickets.com KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW, 6320-B Domingo NE good music, tasty food and great drinks in the XOXO: AN EXHIBIT ABOUT LOVE Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort & Casino MUSIC IN CORRALES: GAELLE SOLAL ampconcerts.org See this two-person musical play before the cellar bar. Live music on Tuesday features blues & FORGIVENESS 287 Carrizo Canyon Rd, Mescalero, 8 pm, Historic Old San Ysidro Church movie comes out. duos from 8 pm to 11 pm. On Thursday and SATURDAY, MARCH 21 Explora, 1701 Mountain Rd NW, 224-8323, (800) 545-9011, ticketmaster.com Saturday nights, larger bands perform from 9:30 966 Old Church Rd, Corrales 265-9119, musicaltheatresw.com February 15, Albuquerque Battle of the Bands explora.us SATURDAY, MARCH 21 pm to 12:30 am. During Sunday brunch, enjoy the A guitarist of extraordinary passion and virtuosity. MUSIC IN CORRALES: CRAICMORE FEBRUARY 13-14 Finals live music of solo artists in the main dining room 7:30 pm, musicincorrales.org, Historic Old San Ysidro Church FEBRUARY 20-MARCH 1 AARON LEWIS February 17, I, The Breather; Exotype, from 11 am until 2 pm. brownpapertickets.com 966 Old Church Rd, Corrales CARNAVAL 2015: PORT TO PORT DISNEY’S THE LITTLE MERMAID JR. FEBRUARY 27-MARCH 22 Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort & Casino Forevermore, Come the Dawn Contemporary and traditional Celtic music. National Hispanic Cultural Center February 18, Live on Stage Jonathan Richman SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22 VSA North 4th Theatre, 4904 Fourth St NW, 287 Carrizo Canyon Rd, Mescalero, 8 pm, 7:30 pm, musicincorrales.org, 1701 Fourth St SW THE KING AND I w/Tommy Larkin MUSIC cardboard-playhouse.org (800) 545-9011, ticketmaster.com CHATTER SUNDAY: brownpapertickets.com 724-4771, nhccnm.org Albuquerque Little Theatre THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12 GOLDBERG VARIATIONS SATURDAY, MARCH 28 SATURDAY, MARCH 28 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21 FEBRUARY 13-15 224 San Pasquale Ave SW, 242-4750, Kosmos Performance Space albuquerquelittletheatre.org WORLD-RENOWNED VIOLINIST MIDORI PARENTS’ NIGHT OUT BUCKCHERRY at the Factory on 5th, 1715 Fifth St NW HAPA 1ST ANNUAL QSOLO FESTIVAL Sue Cleveland High School Explora, 1701 Mountain Rd NW MARCH 5-15 Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort & Casino Chamber music, poetry and coffee, in an infor- KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW, Aux Dog Theatre 4800 Laban Road NE, Rio Rancho 5:30-10 pm, 224-8341, explora.us 287 Carrizo Canyon Rd, Mescalero, 8 pm, mal, acoustically excellent setting. ampconcerts.org 3011-3015 Monte Vista Blvd NE Presented by Music in Corrales; 6:30 pm, GEORGE ORWELL’S ANIMAL FARM (800) 545-9011, ticketmaster.com Doors open 9:30 am, chatterabq.org MARCH 6-8 Solo performances by local actors. musicincorrales.org SUNDAY, MARCH 29 Duke City Repertory Theatre at The Cell Theatre, 254-7716, auxdog.com 700 First St NW, 797-7081, dukecityrep.org PLACITAS ARTISTS SERIES CONCERT NATIONAL FIERY FOODS & BARBECUE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14 CHATTER CABARET: CHARLES IVES CLUBS & PUBS Las Placitas Presbyterian Church SHOW FEBRUARY 13-MARCH 1 Hotel Andaluz MARCH 7-22 NM PHILHARMONIC: 7 Paseo de San Antonio, Placitas, 3 pm, Sandia Resort & Casino FEBRUARY 12-24 125 2nd St NW, Casablanca Room AMERICAN BUFFALO A PERFECT VALENTINE 867-8080, placitasartistsseries.org 30 Rainbow Rd A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY Modern and classical music in a nightclub setting. Tricklock Performance Laboratory SISTER THE BAR Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus The 27th year for this popular fiesta. TO THE FORUM FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 5 pm, $25, Food and drink extra, chatterabq.org 110 Gold Ave SW, 243-0596, motherroad.org 407 Central Ave SW, 242-4900 203 Cornell Drive, Fri 4-8 pm, Sat 11 am-7 pm, Sun 11 am-6 pm, Rodey Theatre By David Mamet, produced by the folks at February 12, Chicharra, You, The Holy Glories 6 pm, 925-5858, unmtickets.com, nmphil.org CLAIRE LYNCH BAND SUNDAY, MARCH 29 fieryfoodsshow.com UNM Main Campus, 925-5858, unmtickets.com Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE Mother Road Theatre Company. February 13, Baracutanga, B-Side Players GROUNDWORK: MIKE OSTROSKI SUNDAY, MARCH 8 February 19, Mic Club 27 8 pm, ampconcerts.org THE CYPRESS STRING QUARTET February 14, Reighnbeau DJ Set Aux Dog Theatre, 3011 Monte Vista Blvd NE GARDENS FEBRUARY 19-MAY 17 February 20, The Porter Draw CD Release Party Simms Center for the Performing Arts REINVENTING RADIO: AN AFTERNOON February 24, Cursive Solo show; 254-7716, auxdog.com SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 February 21, Post War Germany Album Release Albuquerque Academy, 3 pm, THROUGH APRIL 26 SIEMBRA: LATINO THEATER FESTIVAL WITH IRA GLASS FEBRUARY 12-28 Show SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15 NM PHILHARMONIC: chambermusicabq.org National Hispanic Cultural Center Popejoy Hall Presented by Chamber Music Albuquerque. MORPHING NATURE 1701 Fourth Street SW, 724-4771, nhccnm.org LOW SPIRITS February 22, Metalachi, James Whiton A NIGHT OF MOZART UNM Main CampusCenter for Arts LOVE & ROMANCE Santa Fe Botanical Garden715 Camino Lejo, February 19-22, Chicanos with Guns, 2823 Second St NW, lowspiritslive.com February 23, DRI, Genocide, Econarchy, Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus Award-winning host of ‘This American Life.’ Albuquerque Marriott Pyramid North SATURDAY, APRIL 11 Santa Fe, NM February 26-March 1, Chicanos with Guns February 12, Rocco DeLuca, Johnathan Thomas Doomed to Exist 203 Cornell NE 3 pm, 925-5858, unmtickets.com 5151 San Francisco NE Students from the Institute of American Indian March 19-22, Semillas del Corazon Wright aka JIII, Old Man February 24, Jacob Whiteside 6 pm, 925-5858, unmtickets.com MUSIC IN CORRALES: MARCH 13-APRIL 5 February 26, Luke Wade, No Dry County Saxophonist Warren Hill and vocalist Marc THOMAS PANDOLFI Arts and the Santa Fe University of Art and March 26-29, Semillas del Corazon CARLOS NÚÑEZ February 27, Expressway to Yr Skull! Staggers in tribute to Luther Vandross and Historic Old San Ysidro Church Design are creating site-specific sculptures made April 16-19, Bless Me Ultima National Hispanic Cultural Center THE GLASS MENAGERIE February 28, Anesthesia CD Release Party Joe Sample. 966 Old Church Rd, Corrales from recovered plant materials cleared from the April 23-26, Hembras de Pluma 1701 Fourth St SW The Vortex Theatre 7 pm, (214) 641-7695, 1037theoasis.com The young American pianist. site of the Botanical Garden’s next phase, and April 30-May 3, Hembras de Pluma 8 pm, ampconcerts.org 2900 Carlisle Blvd NE, 247-8600, vortexabq.com FEBRUARY 13-28 7:30 pm, musicincorrales.org, other found objects. May 7-10, The Sad Room CHATTER SUNDAY: SATURDAY, MARCH 14 Ned’s Bar & Grill THE COFFEE CANTATA SUNDAY, MARCH 1 brownpapertickets.com Free, Winter hours: Thurs-Sun 11-3, May 14-17, The Sad Room 2509 San Mateo Boulevard NE, 884-4680, Kosmos Performance Space (505) 471-9103, santafebotanicalgarden.org NEW MEXICO SYMPHONIC CHORUS & FEBRUARY 20-MARCH 15 STORMY WEATHER: THE STORY OF nedsnm.com at the Factory on 5th ORCHESTRA FILM SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21 SOUVENIR LENA HORNE February 13, Euphoria, Ravenous 1715 Fifth St NW First United Methodist Church Adobe Theater Popejoy Hall February 14, Heartless, Sons of Icarus Chamber music, poetry and coffee, in an THE PLIGHT OF URBAN TREES 314 Lead Ave SW Read ABQ Free Press film reviews on page 9813 Fourth Street NW, 898-9222, UNM Main Campus, 203 Cornell Dr NE, February 20, Double Plow, Fat City informal, acoustically excellent setting. Open Space Visitor Center 3 pm, NMSChorus.org or Brown Paper Tickets 24 in this issue. adobetheater.org 925-5858, popejoypresents.com February 21, Fat City Doors open 9:30 am, chatterabq.org 6500 Coors Blvd NW at the end of Bosque at (800) 838-3006 THROUGH MARCH 3 Meadows Road The story of a rich woman who thought she SUNDAY, MARCH 15 February 27, Shit Happens NM PHILHARMONIC PROTÉGÉ SERIES Joran Viers, city urban forester, will speak and could sing. February 28, SourPuss National Hispanic Cultural Center TUESDAY, MARCH 3 HMS PINAFORE FILMS AT THE GUILD lead a tree tour. 1701 Fourth St SW SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22 Popejoy Hall Cool Water Fusion ALBUQUERQUE JAZZ ORCHESTRA The Guild Cinema, 3405 Central Ave NE 9-11:30 am, free but call to register: 897-8831, February 13, Bitter Fest, Paris a Go Go 724-4771, nhccnm.org, nmphil.org UNM Main Campus, 203 Cornell Dr NE Wyoming Mall The Cooperage, 7220 Lomas Blvd NE 255-1848; for more movies: guildcinema.com xericgardenclub.org AWARDS NIGHT IN HOLLYWOOD Burlesque 925-5858, popejoypresents.com 2010 Wyoming Blvd NE, 332-2665 BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE 7:30 pm, no cover, no minimum Through February 15, New Mexico Italian Film KiMo Theatre February 17, Downtown Brown, Gravestoners, February 13, 6-8 pm, Peter Bonner KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW, 7:30 pm, Festival 423 Central NW Whiskey Driven THEATER MARCH 19-22 February 14, 9-11 pm, Comedy Showcase ampconcerts.org February 14, Bonnie & Clyde – Dress up and watch the Oscars on the big screen. February 19, Penny & Sparrow February 20, 6-8 pm, Willy J HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY! THROUGH FEBRUARY 21 6 pm, 768-3544, kimotickets.com CAMELOT February 20, The Old Man February 21, 9-11 pm, Comedy Showcase TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17 February 14, She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry, Popejoy Hall February 21, Wildwood and Ags Connolly hosted by Mary Byrd 1 pm only ANNAPURNA FEBRUARY 26-MARCH 8 UNM Main Campus, 203 Cornell Dr NE February 22, Red Light Cameras, Fairy Bones, Holy Water and Whiskey February 27, 6-8 pm, Cole Raison February 16-19, Amira & Sam The Cell Theatre NOT QUITE RIGHT 925-5858, popejoypresents.com Beard, Lilah Rose East Mountain Library February 28, 9-11 pm, Comedy Showcase February 16-19, The Organizer 700 First St NW, 766-9412, liveatthecell.com Teatro Paraguas February 26, Spiritual Rez 1 Old Tijeras Rd, Tijeras, 12 pm, Free, February 20-22, Sin Fronteras Film Festival FUSION Theatre Company brings in a hot 3205 Calle Marie, Santa Fe February 27, The Cold Hard Cash, FEBRUARY 18-24 ampconcerts.org February 22, The Vessel new play. An upbeat family comedy. The Shadowmen SUNSHINE THEATER Holy Water and Whiskey February 23-26, Human Capital Read the review by Barry Gaines on page 25 (505) 424-1601, teatroparaguas.org February 28, DRE Z’s Earthlight and 120 Central Ave SW, sunshinetheaterlive.com Taylor Ranch Library, 5700 Bogart NW, 6 pm, February 26, Bad Penguin Comedy Show, in this issue. Album Release Show Free, ampconcerts.org February 18, Logic 10:15 pm THROUGH FEBRUARY 22 February 24, Napalm Death, Voivod, Exhumed, February 27-March 3, Beloved Sisters Iron Reagan, Phobia, Black Crown Initiate February 27-March 3, Song of the Sea GHOSTS Aux Dog X-Space 3011 Monte Vista Blvd NE BRENTANO STRING QUARTET 254-7716, auxdog.com PAGE 30 • February 11, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS EVENTS EVENTS ABQ FREE PRESS • February 11, 2015 • PAGE 31 CALENDAr CALENDAr COMEDY & IMPROV SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21 RECURRING DAILY, YEAR ROUND THROUGH MARCH 22 ANIMAS, CRYSTAL FOREMAN MARCH 6-27 THROUGH MAY 17, Rodin to Warhol THROUGH MAY 17, Regarding Ruscha CIRQUE DU SOLEIL: GHOST RANCH VIEWS DSG Fine Art, 510 Fourteenth St SW, 266-7751, FEBRUARY 13-15 GRAND SLAM ENCHANTMENT BOSQUE BIKE TOUR CLAY AND INK II: WILLI SINGLETON THROUGH JULY 26, Paul Villinski: Burst Varekai Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (by appointment only), dsg-art.com The Cell Theatre, 700 First St NW Routes Bicycle Rentals & Tours Weyrich Gallery, 2935-D Louisiana Blvd NE, FEBRUARY 18-JUNE 21, Design, Fashion, MAGIC SHOW/WHAT WOMEN REALLY 217 Johnson St, Santa Fe DISTRACTED BY HAPPINESS Decide which poets go to the National Poetry 404 San Felipe St NW 883-7410, weyrichgallery.com Theater and All The Rage in Paris WANT Slam in California. This two-hour ride showcases beautiful scenery, (505) 946-1000, okeeffemuseum.org Mariposa Gallery, 3500 Central Ave SE, Max’s Magic Theatre 7 pm, $10, 766-9412, liveatthecell.com flora and fauna as our professional tour guides 268-6828, mariposa-gallery.com ARTWARD BOUND PHOENIX MUSEUM OF ART 3205 Central Ave NE, Suite 101, Nob Hill THROUGH APRIL 26 1625 North Central Avenue, Phoenix, Ariz., identify the many historic and significant land- HOLLYWOOD He said, she said, hilariously. DENVER ART MUSEUM (602) 257-1222, phxart.org marks along the trail. ELECTRICITY: SPARK YOUR CURIOSITY CC&C Gallery, 1419 Central Ave NE, Downtown, 255-2303, maxsmagictheatre.com, TOURS 100 W 14th Ave Pkwy, Denver, Colo., THROUGH MARCH 1, All That Glitters is Not 10-2 pm, $28, 933-5667, routesrentals.com National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, 203-9059 hedatesshedates.com THURSDAYS, FRIDAYS AND 601 Eubank Blvd SE, at the entrance to Sandia (720) 865-5000, denverartmuseum.org Gold: Platinum Photography FLY THE INDIGO SKIES WITH FEATURED ARTISTS THROUGH MARCH 15, Brilliant: Cartier in the THROUGH MARCH 8, Sacred Stories/Images of SATURDAYS, YEAR ROUND WORLD BALLOON Science & Technology Park, 245-2137, nuclearmuseum.org Yucca Art Gallery, 206 1/2 San Felipe NW, 20th Century the Buddha ALBUCREEPY DOWNTOWN GHOST WALK World Balloon, 6390 Coors Blvd NW Old Town, 247-8931, yuccaartgallery.com THROUGH MAY 17, William Matthews: Trespassing THROUGH MARCH 15, Fashioned in America Our adventure will take place over the course THROUGH APRIL 30 THROUGH APRIL 1, Resonance of Clay By ABQ Trolley Co., start at Hotel Andaluz, JUAN WIJNGAARD MCNAY MUSEUM 125 Second St NW of approximately three to three-and-one-half THROUGH APRIL 5, Platinum Contemporary MODERNISM MADE IN NEW MEXICO Corrales Bosque Gallery, 4685 Corrales Rd, 6000 North New Braunfels Avenue, Led by an experienced paranormal investigator, hours beginning with you arriving at the launch Photography Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Corrales, 898-7203, corralesbosquegallery.com San Antonio, Tex., (210) 824-5368, mcnayart.org Albucreepy features historic (and reportedly site in time to inflate the balloon while enjoying THROUGH APRIL 19, Mysteries from Europe a beautiful New Mexico sunrise over the Sandia 217 Johnson St, Santa Fe THROUGH MARCH 1 THROUGH MAY 10, World War II Photographs haunted) sites, including the KiMo Theater, Kiva (505) 946-1000, okeeffemuseum.org Auditorium, old Bernalillo County Courthouse, Mountains. PEEPSHOW Wool Warehouse, and the former red light district Everyday at sunrise, $99-159, 293-6800, THROUGH MAY 10 Stranger Factory, 109 Carlisle Blvd NE, known as “Hell’s Half Acre.” Rated PG13. worldballoon.com VISUALIZING ALBUQUERQUE 508-3049, strangerfactory.com music brIEfs Page 27 8 pm, 90 minutes, $25 with valet parking and free GHOST TOUR OF OLD TOWN ALBUQUERQUE Albuquerque Museum of Art & History appetizers at Ibiza or MAS, albucreepy.com History & Ghost Tours of Old Town TINA MION 19th & Mountain Rd NW, 243-7255, Salt Lake City native Breanna Kennedy moments in time since before history 303 Romero St NW-N120 David Anthony Fine Art, 132 Kit Carson Road, FRIDAYS, SATURDAYS, SUNDAYS, cabq.gov/museum is a red-headed 21-year-old missing was captured with pen and paper. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20 Legends, folklore, ghost stories and history come Taos, (575) 758-7113, davidanthonyfineart.com Showcasing the area’s diverse artists and how MONDAYS, YEAR ROUND to life as you depart on an intriguing excursion the mark in her musical career. Her Whether it is the soft country song that a InBETWEEN: SKETCHES & they transcend their differences through art. THROUGH MARCH 29 latest single, “Why Can’t I Love You” via couple danced to on their wedding night, IMPROVISATIONS BREAKING BAD RV TOURS through 300 years of haunted history. Old Town was founded in 1706, and for more than three ED MIECZKOWSKI: THE AESTHETICS OF Orpheum Arts Space 1919 Old Town Rd THROUGH AUGUST 15 J.O.T.S Records, is a cookie-cutter track or the loud rock song that was playing in centuries people have lived and died around the GEOMETRY 500 Second St SW, Apt 21 BOOKS & POETRY Behind La Hacienda Restaurant for an artist who has worked with Jimmy the bar when the two had their first kiss, Old Town Plaza. Professional tour guides escort AFROBRASIL: ART AND IDENTITIES Lewallen Gallery, 1613 Paseo de Peralta, Presented by Ecotone Physical Theatre. Miss Breaking Bad? Now you can relive the Harry, Billy Steinberg and Tony Kanal these songs remain the photographs THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12 you on a 90-minute, lantern-lit adventure. National Hispanic Cultural Center Santa Fe, (505) 988-3250, lewallengalleries.com 8 pm, 715-2602, orpheumabq.com, experience in an RV just like the one used by 8 pm, $10-20, 246-8687, toursofoldtown.com 1701 Fourth St SW, 246-2261, nhccnm.org (No Doubt). The country song opens that were never taken. ecotonephysicaltheatre.com DREAMSPLAINING: AN EVENING WITH Walt and Jesse. THROUGH MARCH 31 Folk artists Drew Holcomb and The 10 am, $65, 205-7294, breakingbadrvtours.com OPENS FEBRUARY 14 up with breathy vocals intended to set ST. GODIVA BROS. Neighbors provide perfect soundscapes SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21 & 28 Tortuga Gallery, 901 Edith Blvd SE MUSEUMS A WALL OF DOLLS a soulful and serious mood, but instead FRIDAYS, SATURDAYS, YEAR ROUND CASA SAN YSIDRO: PIMENTEL GUITARS Rainbow Artists Collective, ONE NIGHT STANLEYS 7:30 pm, 369-1648, tortugagallery.org create a very sloppy, post-hangover pop to make memories with on their newly THROUGH FEBRUARY 27 Casa San Ysidro Off Center Art Gallery, 808 Park Ave SW, The Box Performance Space and Improv Theatre TOAST A GHOST! HAUNTED PUB CRAWL feel. The song lacks a good hook, and released album “Medicine.” In the SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14 973 Old Church Road, Corrales, 897-8828, 247-1172, offcenterarts.org 100 Gold Ave SW, theboxabq.com History & Ghost Tours of Old Town INTRAURBAN: THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT cabq.gov instead sounds like it belongs in a young opener, “American Beauty,” subtle guitar MORE PET FRIENDS BOOK SIGNING 303 Romero St NW-N120 Tamarind Institute THROUGH APRIL 30 girl’s room decorated with posters of boy picking paired with Holcomb’s voice cre- A three-hour ghost walk that visits Old Town OPENS FEBRUARY 15 Anderson Abruzzo Balloon Museum 2500 Central Ave SE, 277-3901, bands and horses. Breanna Kennedy ates a catchy yet soft sound. It’s quaint 9201 Balloon Museum Dr NE Albuquerque’s haunted bars, pubs and saloons. tamarind.unm.edu WHERE-WEAR: ANN DUNBAR and Adults only, 9 pm, $10 not including drinks, taxes, INDIAN COUNTRY: THE ART OF MIDDLESCAPES has a powerful voice but with wishy- and familiar like a favorite classic movie. To honor Terrie Q. Sayre and support animal A selection of lithographs from the collection, DAVID BRADLEY charities; books signed by Travelin’ Jack, or gratuities, 246-8687. guest curated by Brendan Picker. April Price Projects Gallery washy melodies and predictable guitar “She was Deja-vu / She was a Catch 22 Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 201 Third St, Suite G, Downtown Hyatt, 573-0895 New Mexico’s dog ambassador. Museum Hill, Santa Fe, (505) 476-1269, riffs, her vocals are drowned out by the / She was an American Beauty” go the 11 am-2 pm, 768-6020, balloonmuseum.com indianartsandculture.org FEBRUARY 20-APRIL 18 battling sounds. well-written lyrics. “Why Can’t I Love You” is one of On “Medicine” there’s a song for every FEBRUARY 15-MARCH 25 OPENS MARCH 6 JOHN CHERVINSKY: AN EXPERIMENT BOOKWORKS Enter our Flash Fiction Contest IN PERSPECTIVE many singles under Kennedy’s belt, mood and every season. In “Shine Like 4022 Rio Grande NW, 344-8139, bkwrks.com COLORS OF THE SOUTHWEST photo-eye Bookstore + Project Space a smart move in the music industry: Lightning,” listeners can find encourage- Free unless otherwise noted; some events take Submission Deadline: New Mexico Museum of Art 376 Garcia St, Suite A, Santa Fe, on a 10-track album, many songs go ment in difficult times. “You’ll Always Be 107 West Palace Ave, Santa Fe place at other venues as noted. (505) 988-5152, photoeye.com unnoticed. Other notable releases are My Girl” is the perfect pick-me-up for a February 15, 3 pm, James Penner, “Timothy Friday, February 27, 2015 Part of the “Summer of Color” citywide celebra- Leary: The Harvard Years” tion, through September 13. FEBRUARY 25-APRIL 21 “4th of July” and “Fuel for the Fire.” They rainy day. Drew Holcomb now lives in February 17, 7 pm, Catherine Dowling, “Radical (505) 476-5072, nmartmuseum.org offer a more sophisticated sound than Nashville, Tennessee with his wife, Ellie GIVING VOICE TO IMAGE Awareness” Write short, and write fast. Enter the Vivo Contemporary, 725 Canyon Road, Santa her other singles and are a glimmer of a Holcomb, also a notable singer. Drew February 19, 7 pm, Philip Connors, “All the ABQ Free Press Flash Fiction Contest for ARTSPREE Fe, (505) 982-1320, vivocontemporary.com brighter future. Holcomb’s songs have been featured on Wrong Places” a chance to win $75 and publication in February 21, 10:30 am, Hester Bass, “Seeds of THROUGH FEBRUARY 28 FEBRUARY 27-APRIL 10 Arguably the best indie rock band to TV in “House, M.D” and “How I Met Your Freedom” our March 11, 2015 issue. come out of Britain, Kaiser Chiefs is Mother,” which is no surprise because DANCE February 21, 1:30 pm, Michael Shermer, “The Only unpublished short stories no longer THE LANGUAGE OF HUMANITY, THE HUMAN DRIFT: BART PRINCE, making yet another splash on the indie his music certainly tells a story. With Moral Arc” than 650 words submitted by email or JERI MOORE STEVE BARRY AND T. FITZALLAN world. They released standalone single intricate lyrics and Holcomb’s attention FEBRUARY 11-15 Presented with the NM Coalition for Excellence Act One Gallery SCA Contemporary Art, 524 Haines NW, snail mail will be accepted. Any subject 218 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos, 228-3749, scacontemporary.com “Falling Awake” to tide fans over until to detail, “Medicine” will prove to be his CIRQUE DU SOLEIL: VAREKAI in Science & Math Education, Unitarian Church, (575) 758-7831, actonegallery.com their upcoming album comes out (no best work yet. Santa Ana Star Center 3701 Carlisle NE matter, but keep the words clean. No February 22, 3 pm, James McGrath Morris, “Eye 3001 Civic Center Circle NE, Rio Rancho DOG AND PONY SHOW, LAURA WACHA Crossword Puzzle appears on page 32 date yet). Vocalist Ricky Wilson told Bob Dylan’s latest venture has him on the Struggle” matter how short, your submission cirquedusoleil.com/varekai, (888) 694-4849; Matrix Fine Art, 3812 Central Ave SE, 268-8952, PopMatters that they had written the turning down a different path: he covers February 25, 7 pm, Gabrielle Zevin, “The Storied should be a complete story, with a santaanastarcenter.com, 891-7300 matrixfineart.com song just after their last record. Frank Sinatra. That’s right, the entire Life of AJ Fikry” beginning, middle and end. FEBRUARY 20-MARCH 1 February 26, 7 pm, Jocelyn Buckley, HEROES, SAINTS AND EXPEDITIONS, “Falling Awake” is superb in its transi- album is a collection of Frank Sinatra’s “Submerged in the Prophetic” No entry fee. Multiple entries OK. Include RAY MASEMAN tions and the throbbing synths are the hit songs. Dylan doesn’t sing like Sinatra SPIN: FACULTY DANCE CONCERT March 1, 7 pm, Kim Gordon, “Girl in a Band” your name, email and phone number. New Grounds Printmaking Lab, 3812 Central perfect soundscape for Wilson’s hooks, or do big-band, upbeat music, but that UNM Dept. of Theatre & Dance, Rodey Theatre, UNM SUB Ballrooms B&C, Tickets: bkwrks.com Ave. SE, 268-8952, newgroundsgallery.com UNM Main Campus Entries will be judged by a panel of a staple of the band from its formation. doesn’t stop him from trying. The songs March 10, 7 pm, Lisa See, “China Dolls” 35TH ANNIVERSARY SHOWCASE 7:30 pm, 277-4332, theatre.unm.edu March 12, 7 pm, Hannah Nordhaus, “American professional writers whose decisions But the question on everyone’s minds is, are well produced but Sinatra’s voice Sumner & Dene, 517 Central Ave NW, “Do they ever sleep?” With soon-to-be was so crooning and beautiful. Dylan’s SATURDAY, MARCH 7 Ghost,” In Conversation with Sharon Niederman are final. 842-1400, sumnerdene.com Catch her interview with the author in the five albums, platinum record sales, and distinctive voice is raspy and off-pitch. SPARTACUS Feb. 25 issue of ABQ Free Press. HOMEBOUND: THE ART OF ISOLATION over a decade of hit singles, Kaiser Dylan, like Sinatra, is an icon. But this DEADLINE: Entries must be emailed or snail mailed by midnight Mountain time, Friday, OffCenter Community Arts Project Popejoy Hall March 26, 7 pm, Michael Finklestein, “Slow Medicine” Chiefs continues to wow audiences and album is like having Black Sabbath cover UNM Main Campus, 203 Cornell NE March 25, 7 pm, Kirstin Valdez Quade, “Night at February 27, 2015. No exceptions. Email to [email protected] or snail mail to Flash 808 Park Ave SW, 247-1172, offcenterarts.org still makes room for touring, currently Katy Perry songs. It’s just not right. NM Ballet Company and NM Philharmonic in a the Fiestas” Fiction Contest, ABQ Free Press, PO Box 6070, 87197-6070. Winners will be notified by THE LANDSCAPE OF MEDITATION New Mexico premiere. through Europe, North American, and Friday, March 6. No phone calls, please. 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