VOL I, Issue 15, November 5, 2014 Still FREE After All These Months

What You Changing APD’s Need to Know Culture of Aggression About Obamacare Could Take Years PAGE 7 PAGE 11

APD: We’re Missing an M16 Assault Rifle PAGE 5 The Great Gila River Diversion Boondoggle PAGE 9 PAGE 2 • November 5, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS

www.freeabq.com Falling Oil Prices Good for Drivers, ABQ Free Press Pulp News www.abqarts.com compiled By abq free press staff Bad for Public Schools, Universities Editor: [email protected] VOL I, Issue 15, November 5, 2014 Still FREE After All These Months Associate Editor, News: Dennis Domrzalski BY DAN VUKELICH Yucks for bucks in Glendale, Ariz., where Red Mesa Redskins’ supporters confronted Associate Editor, Arts: [email protected] hile New Mexico motorists are “We’ve looked at the smaller A comedy club in Barcelona, Spain, is protesters demanding that the NFL Advertising: Wreaping the benefit of lower gaso- agencies and are going to table their using facial recognition software on team stop using the name because it is [email protected] In This Issue line prices, New Mexico legislators budgets until we get a clearer picture audience members to charge patrons offensive, the paper reported. [email protected] preparing next year’s state budget are on the price of oil, and after we know by the laugh. Each laugh costs the [email protected] holding their breath. what the larger agencies will need,” equivalent of 38 cents, up to a maxi- On Twitter: An extra $285 million in new tax mum of $30.50, after which subsequent Vanity @freeabq Varela said. The LFC has two more NEWS revenues forecast to be available to hearings before the end of the year. laughs are free. The Teatreneu club An Ohio woman being sought for concocted the pay-per-laugh idea to armed robbery and kidnapping Falling oil prices could hit schools, colleges...... Page 2 the 2015 Legislature is rapidly disap- The Legislature convenes for a 60-day Editor pearing as the price of oil drops. session on Jan. 13. circumvent a tax increase the Spanish was so upset with her unflattering ABQ Free Press Pulp News...... Page 2 government imposed on the sale of mug shot on the Columbus Police Dan Vukelich The price of a barrel of oil in early The effect of a further drop in the (505) 345-4080. Ext. 800 APD admits it is missing an assault rifle...... Page 5 theater tickets, the U.K. newspaper, Department’s Facebook page, she November hovered around $82 – price of oil could ripple across New Domino’s going dine-in...... Page 10 down from $105 in July. For every Mexico’s economy because produc- The Guardian, reported. called and demanded that it be taken Associate Editor, News down. Police urged her to “come dollar drop in the price of oil, New tion at some wells in New Mexico Dennis Domrzalski Mexico loses between $8 million and would be abandoned if the price of oil Air supremacy on in and we’ll talk about it.” When (505) 306-3260 ANALYSIS $10 million in tax revenues annually. makes it uneconomical to pump it out she arrived at the police station, the A red-tailed hawk took down a “We’re watching the markets and of the ground. 34-year-old woman was arrested and Associate Editor, Arts COVER STORY: Your guide to Obamacare open enrollment ...... Page 7 quadrocopter drone being flown over waiting and hoping that prices don’t That would lead to oilfield job later indicted. Stephanie Hainsfurther Changing APD’s culture could take years...... Page 11 a Cambridge, Mass., park. The hawk drop dangerously low,” said Rep. losses, which in turn would lead to a (505) 301-0905 menaced the drone until its operator Luciano “Lucky” Varela, a Santa reduction in gross receipts tax collec- was forced to reduce power to its Hands up, don’t Fe Democrat and chairman of the tions in oil-producing areas, analysts Design OPINION propeller blades to avoid injuring the Legislative Finance Committee (LFC). have told the LFC. shoot Terry Kocon, Hannah Reiter, Cathleen Tiefa bird. The drone crash-landed in the From the Editor: Meet the man at APD who says “no” to the news media...... Page 4 The LFC has been holding hearings As a result of the falling price of oil, park but its GoPro camera captured Black teens are 21 times more likely to Photography Letters to the Editor...... Page since the summer as part of the budget- the price of gasoline in the Albuquer- 6 the attack and crash. In late 2013, a be shot and killed by police than white drafting process for the 2015 session. que area dropped from above $3 a Mark Bralley, Mark Holm, Juan Antonio Jerry Ortiz y Pino: The Great Gila River diversion boondoggle...... Page 9 New Zealand drone was attacked by a teens, ProPublica reported. “The 1,217 Labreche, Liz Lopez, Adria Malcolm The falling price of oil will likely be felt gallon earlier this year to as low as flock of birds that ripped out a battery deadly police shootings from 2010 to by public schools, colleges and universi- $2.65 a gallon in early November. cable, causing the operator to lose 2012 captured in the federal data show Contributors this issue ties and the Human Services Department, COLUMNS control and crash. Both drone attacks that blacks, age 15 to 19, were killed at Sabrina Autry, Barry Gaines, Jerry Ortiz y Pino, which together account for about 70 Dan Vukelich is editor of ABQ Free Press. were posted to YouTube. a rate of 31.17 per million, while just Richard Oyama, Peter St. Cyr, Saffron Tomato, Efrain Villa: Waiting for the bus to Mandalay...... Page 12 percent of the state’s $6 billion budget. Reach him at [email protected] 1.47 per million white males in that Efrain Villa age range died at the hands of police,” A little surprise ProPublica reported. Copy Editors ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT & MORE Jim Wagner A Spanish woman gave birth to a Calling All Pets...... Page 8 dwarf nine months after having sex Hair-B-Gone Wendy Fox Dial with a dwarf stripper who entertained Deep Dish: Restaurant news...... Page 13 Advertising at her bachelorette party, according to A Turkish cosmetics company used the Thirsty Gardener: Keep your rainfall close to home...... 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Radiation Kingston High School in Oklahoma. at freeabq.com On Oct. 22, the NFL Redskins gave from the sides is absorbed by the body the Red Mesa Redskins tickets to their before reaching reproductive organs, On the cover: New Mexico braces for the impact of the Affordable Care Act’s open enrollment period, which begins Nov. 15. game against the Arizona Cardinals the company says. (Photo by Andy Dean) PAGE 4 • November 5, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS OPINION NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • November 5, 2014 • PAGE 5 Meet the Czar of APD Records, DOD Probes Missing APD Assault Rifle The Man Without a Boss BY PETER ST. CYR By Dan Vukelich he Albuquerque Police Department agencies account for their missing Tis missing a semi-automatic rifle military weapons. APD was not ppar- came in a lawsuit filed last winter by this it received through a Department of sanctioned over the loss of the Aently, there newspaper and independent journalist Defense’s (DOD) equipment transfer weapon and remains eligible for is a man at the Peter St. Cyr. Before ABQ Free Press program. future DOD equipment loans, the Albuquerque published its first issue, we sought an The missing rifle, a model M16A1, DLA spokeswoman said. Police Depart- inventory of APD’s military weapons and started life as a fully automatic weapon On Aug. 23, President ment, sitting alone equipment. Chavez denied our IPRA when it left the manufacturer in the Barack Obama, in response to at his desk, talking request. late 1960s, but was converted to semi- publicity over the militarization of to no one else in Nothing about the sensitivity of a automatic operation only by APD’s local police departments, ordered his organization, records request by news media or the armorer, APD spokesman Tanner Tixier Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to denying public public influences his decision, he testi- said. conduct a comprehensive review records requests fied. Nor does the sensitive nature of In its original configuration, the Colt of the 1033 program. from the public and news media. any request compel him to seek counsel Some of these denials are for records from his police superiors or others in Firearms M16A1, the combat weapon “I think it’s probably requested by investigative reporters. City Hall or from city lawyers, he said. soldiers carried during the War in useful for us to review how the Some denials come in response to That’s Reynaldo Chavez’s story Vietnam, is capable of firing upwards funding has gone, how local requests by lawyers, including lawyers about how he handles the six or seven of 700 rounds a minute. Converted to law enforcement has used grant for the ACLU. Others come in response requests he gets, on average, each day, semi-automatic operation only, its rate dollars, to make sure that what to people with individual grievances every day of the week, 365 days a year. of fire is a fraction of that, with one bul- they’re purchasing is stuff that against the police. So, he must be one of the most powerful let fired per trigger pull from a 30-round they actually need, because there According to this people in city govern- magazine. It is similar in performance David Orcea is a big difference between our man, these denials Q. [ABQ Free Press attorney ment. to the civilian version of the M16, the military and our local law enforce- happen without con- Colin Hunter] You’re testifying We have yet to get AR-15. investigation won’t be closed until the weapon is ment and we don’t want those sultation with his police under oath here today that when the weapons inventory, found. The Defense Logistics Agency’s Office of lines blurred,” the President said this summer. superiors – lieutenants, you receive an IPRA request that even though we know Inspector General has also opened an investigation. Albuquerque City Councilor Isaac Benton said commanders, deputy may involve sensitive information it exists and even Records show the converted Investigators are prohibited from sharing details he is concerned that an APD assault rifle has gone chiefs, assistant chief and may be something that’s though we know it M16 disappeared sometime about its ongoing probe, a DLA spokeswoman said. missing, and he questioned the wisdom of arming or the chief. reported on by our local media must be reported to the between March 2011 and The missing weapon was one of 30 M16s con- local police officers with military-style weapons. They also occur has not – makes zero difference New Mexico Depart- verted to semi-automatic-only operation that APD So does the American Civil Liberties Union of New without his consulting to your calculation about whether ment of Public Safety the end of May 2012 received in March 2003, according to records from Mexico. with anyone over at or not you forward that request to and to the Department DPS. DPS is required to account for all DOD weap- “Fully automatic, military assault rifles like the of Defense, whose City Hall, including the City Attorney’s Office and to The weapon was on loan to APD from the Defense ons provided to police agencies within New Mexico. M16 do not belong in our local police departments’ the Mayor’s office, the anybody in the mayor’s office? weapons and equip- Logistics Agency (DLA), a unit within the Depart- APD also received three M14s – a predecessor to the arsenals,” said ACLU-NM Executive Director Peter Chief Administrative [Assistant City Attorney Jeff] ment are on loan to ment of Defense that equips local police depart- M16 – in April 2007, records show. Simonson. Officer or even – ex- DRIGGERS: Objection, form, APD. ments with surplus military equipment. Local neighborhoods, according to Simonson, are cept in rare instances compound. In our case, Chavez Records show the gun was assigned to Field not battlefields and police should not be equipped – lawyers at the City A. I think I’ve answered that. decided that telling State Police directed APD records Attorney’s office. us about the military Services Division Officer Michael Werner in No- like soldiers. In his time on the job, this man has weapons inventory would help terrorists. vember 2003. It disappeared sometime between a staff to report the missing rifle to handled 2,000 to 3,000 Inspection So, out came his big, red block-letter DLA-required biennial audit in March 2011 and the the National Crimes Information The inspector general of the unit of Public Records Act requests, he says. “DENIED” rubber stamp (I’m speaking end of May 2012, according to public records. Center, a national database the Pentagon that makes equipment His training for handling these rhetorically here). In June 2012, during a periodic APD audit requests, he says, was an intensive We believe that when the weapons conducted by then-APD Detective Duane Clark, loans to local police is investigating, “one-on-one” with former City Clerk Amy inventory is finally made public, it will now the director of a criminal justice program at The weapons are some of the 2,851 items trans- but the missing rifle will have no Bailey on public records laws. show that APD has lost some of the Southwest University in Louisiana, Werner’s gun ferred to New Mexico after Congress approved the The training may have also included DOD equipment – including, as we was determined not to be in APD’s inventory. National Defense Authorization Act of 1990-1991. impact on APD’s eligibility – although he’s not sure – attending report in this issue, an M16 assault rifle. Clark reported the missing weapon to the DLA on The acquisition value of those items is about $10 for future military equipment an IPRA training program. He says he Maybe Reynaldo Chavez’s denials June 6, 2012. It was unclear whether New Mexico million. is “vaguely” aware such training exists reflect the “old” APD and not the “new” State Police or the New Mexico Department of The equipment transfer program, known as the “The fact that the military is funneling weapons and “may” have actually attended such APD that Mayor Richard Berry and Public Safety were informed at that time. DPS is the 1033 program, authorizes more than 8,000 local law of war into our neighborhoods should be of grave a session or something “related closely Chief Gordon Eden say is committed to statewide liaison for DOD equipment loans. enforcement agencies to acquire DOD weapons concern to every citizen, as it only serves to further to it.” constitutional policing in this town. An incident report prepared by State Police Officer and gear, including armored vehicles. A preference militarize our local police departments, promote a This man, who has been on the job Maybe he’ll see the light and realize Nicholas Wheeler on July 27, 2012, shows that Werner is given to counter-drug and counter-terrorism culture of violence and aggression, and erode trust for four years, has cost the city tens of how much his big, red rubber stamp is said he had returned his gun to APD’s property unit. requests. within the communities they serve,” Simonson said. costing APD in public trust and taxpayer thousands of dollars in legal settlements Wheeler checked there, but a property officer stated The equipment is technically on loan to local Since the inception of the 1033 program, law over those records denials. dollars. they had no record of Werner turning it in. agencies and remains the property of the federal enforcement agencies have received a broad array And he gets to keep his job. And maybe we’ll get to see how Werner is still with APD and was exonerated government. None of the transferred equipment of equipment, including boats, helicopters, camping Meet Reynaldo Chavez. APD has accounted for all the military of any wrongdoing in connection with the disap- can be sold or disposed of without federal and state gear, body armor and mine-resistant vehicles valued If Chavez’s testimony in a deposition is weapons and equipment it has grown to be believed, he is the sole arbiter, the so fond of. pearance of his assigned M16, APD said, without approval. at more than $5.1 billion. Only about 5 percent of the judge, the decider, the Supreme Court, We doubt it. providing details of how that decision was reached. Albuquerque’s police department isn’t the only value of DOD equipment provided to police agen- the czar, the Caesar, the King Louis XIV Because while some things may be The department declined to make Werner available law enforcement agency found to have lost track cies has been weaponry. of what we are allowed to know about changing at APD, a lot is not at City Hall. for an interview. of military weapons. At least 145 police agencies the operation of the Albuquerque Police State Police directed APD records staff to report around the country have been suspended from the This story was co-reported with Dan Vukelich. Department. Dan Vukelich is the editor of ABQ Free the missing rifle to the National Crimes Informa- Pentagon’s program because of missing weapons. Reach him at [email protected]. Chavez’s deposition in late October Press. Reach him at [email protected] tion Center, a national database. Tixier said APD’s Three state programs are also on hiatus until Reach Peter St. Cyr at [email protected] PAGE 6 • November 5, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS letters NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • November 5, 2014 • PAGE 7

To the Editor Despite the evidence, Jeff blithely ignores the about APD officers to speak, present evidence, or Your Guide to Obamacare Open Enrollment secret police’s documented use of torture instru- present witnesses at the civilian oversight proceed- BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI To the Editor: ments, dissidents brutally interrogated, torture and ings about their complaints. The new ordinance What a surprise to see the byline of my old long-term imprisonment for reading or possessing responds to this outrageous state of affairs by Breaking Down Your Rights, Obligations under the ACA sportswriter friend Jeff Gardner at the top of a forbidden books, etc. changing absolutely nothing. his could go easy for people, or it could end Continuing to shove the facts aside, he then The Department of Justice report also pointed up driving them crazy. recent political column in the ABQ Free Press T o help you navigate the open-enrollment process, to get into [a] new health insurance policy that is nonchalantly writes with, I presume, a straight face out as a crucial flaw that the chief-paid staffer for (Oct. 8, 2014). Jeff was my favorite staff sports- It’s the upcoming open enrollment period for TABQ Free Press prepared this primer on the most guaranteed to be issued until a year from now. You that the Iranians nonetheless “did have clean air the oversight body has historically been biased in writer when I edited the sports section of the late, people to buy health insurance either through important things that individuals and small com- cannot just expect to buy a policy any time during and water.” He doesn’t clarify if he was referring favor of the police. To correct this, the ordinance unlamented New Mexico Sun. The paper folded the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange or panies need to know about the Affordable Care Act the year. If you are diagnosed with an illness and after six months, and I haven’t seen Jeff since then. here to the dead or merely the tortured, but he gives the POB more authority over the paid on the open market. (ACA), open enrollment and how to get covered. injury you won’t be able to buy insurance. You can does make it appear that Iranians in general – not staffers. However, the ordinance also strips the He knew his sports, wrote knowledgeably and The stakes are high. More than 300,000 New The following is based on conversations with only buy during the open enrollment period.” just the shah’s wealthy buddies – had their thirst POB of access to the work product of the paid staff. reported them well. He was a fun guy to schmooze Mexicans still don’t have health insurance, and insurance brokers, healthcare experts and research Special enrollment with. But what really endeared him to me, and why and breathing needs well taken care of. In effect, the POB is responsible for supervising the and information from various organizations and if they don’t get it during the three-month-long I remember him after all these years, is an excerpt The reality, however, is otherwise. According to paid staff but lacks the authority to find out what firms, including the U.S. Department of Health and This is a 60-day time outside of the open enroll- open enrollment period – barring marriage from a novel he hoped to publish. As I recall, it a 1989 study by Misagh Parsa, “Social Origins of the paid staff is doing. Human Services. ment period during which you and your family the Iranian Revolution” (Rutgers University Press), In the face of a years-long wave of APD shoot- or divorce, job change or other significant life was a madcap scene involving masturbation with a Insurance under the ACA have a right to sign up for health coverage. Certain clothes dryer (or maybe it was a washing machine). 42 percent of Tehran’s residents during the shah’s ings, this ordinance sets the stage for more long event – they’ll have to wait another year before life events can qualify you for special enrollment, Though it didn’t approach the level of any of reign lived in inadequate housing, marked by years of ineffective oversight. This was a blown getting it. The ACA has changed health insurance. Insurers things like moving to another state, losing or Portnoy’s complaints, it was nonetheless hilarious shantytowns with no running water, no electricity, historic opportunity to really fix the oversight That means if they get sick and need care can no longer deny individuals insurance based changing jobs, getting married, or getting divorced as hell and one of the funniest I’ve ever read. public transportation, garbage collection, health process. City Council could have – and should they can’t pay for, hospitals – and pretty much on pre-existing conditions. That’s called guarantee or pregnant. If you change jobs and lose your insur- issue. ance, you can get on your spouse’s or life partner’s And now it seems, Jeff’s turned to another sort care, or education. have – done more. It still can. everyone else – will be stuck with the bills. The report further points out, which Jeff not Insurers can no longer ask individuals or small policy through their employer during this period. of pornography – Republican obfuscation. What a Hospitals are reimbursed for much of the un- groups questions about their medical history, which You have 60 days from the event to enroll or you’ll shame. surprisingly doesn’t, that 80 percent of the city’s — Alan Wagman compensated care they provide, but not all of it. was known as medical underwriting. The only thing be ineligible to enroll until the next open enrollment Let me take the most egregious example in his budget was “allocated to provide services for the To make up those losses, they wind up charging rates are based on now are age, geography and period. AFP column, one that puts his writing in lockstep wealthy inhabitants of northern Tehran.” Ah, so that’s where the clean air and water Jeff insurance companies and their customers more tobacco use. with other conservative, history-phobic apologists To the Editor: advertises are located, their restricted presence for care in a process that’s called cost-shifting. Your out-of-pocket expenses in 2015 will be who seem to believe that murderous criminal Years back, I was involved in a third-party Thirty-four thousand New Mexicans masterfully concealed by the sleight of hand of a Some estimates say that 25 percent of the cost capped at $6,600 for individuals and $13,200 for dictators like the shah of Iraq and Saddam Hussein campaign, and after receiving the election report families. who enrolled through New Mexico’s talented Republican consultant. Matters were even of private health insurance premiums is due to didn’t deserve to be serially ditched by the United from the Secretary of State, we were entering Insurers can no longer cap the amount they’ll pay insurance exchange will have worse outside major cities. You can look it up. that cost-shifting and making people with insur- States – the kind of stuff likely taught in Repub- returns data by precinct to evaluate the effects of for your medical bills in any year. Personally, I think Jeff should go back to to re-enroll lican Political Consultancy 101. Dutifully, Jeff our campaigning. ance pay for those who don’t have it. Policies offered on the exchange must now cover writing laundry room sex scenes. I wish him the quickly and shamelessly fingers Jimmy Carter (D) I noticed that the votes cast were fewer than Here’s another reason to have insurance: go- what are deemed 10 essential health benefits. They best. Out-of-pocket expenses as the culprit in the former’s demise but tellingly the ballots cast. I’ve since heard this referred to ing without it can cause financial ruin. Accord- include emergency services, hospitalization, pre- — Bob Klein doesn’t name George W. Bush (R) as the villain in as “undervote,” and heard allegations that votes ing to New Mexico Superintendent of Insurance scription drugs and pregnancy and maternity care. These expenses are the amount of money you the latter case who made the “mistake” of “bring- weren’t being counted. John Franchini, 50 percent of all bankruptcies in Small businesses – 50 or fewer employees – don’t have to pay for health care outside of your monthly have to provide their employees health insurance. premiums, for things that aren’t reimbursed by ing down” “rotten to the core” Saddam Hussein. Having not voted in certain races myself, I’ve as- New Mexico are the result of medical bills. Along the way, he omits some crucial Iranian Businesses with 50-99 full-time equivalent your insurance company. These include deductibles, To the Editor: sumed the discrepancy is mostly a “none of the above” It isn’t just the perennially uninsured who history that better explains, but doesn’t support, employees (FTE) will need to start insuring workers coinsurance and copayments. For policies sold on The City Council should have voted down the vote, and I believe it should be reported. Failure to have to pay attention to open enrollment. The the conservative storyline. The United States new police oversight ordinance, but the ABQ report it is a way to make those opinions disappear…. by 2016. Those with 100 or more will need to start the insurance exchanges, the maximum out-of- 34,000 people who bought insurance through funded and led a CIA-backed coup d’etat in 1953 Free Press story (“Will New Police Board Be More So, I don’t like hiding the evidence that either the providing health benefits to at least 70 percent of pocket expense in 2015 for an individual is $6,600 the NMHIX in 2013 and earlier this year have their FTEs by 2015 and 95 percent by 2016. and $13,200 for a family plan. When the amount that toppled the popular national hero and demo- Effective than Old One?” – Oct. 22, 2014) missed candidates are not inspiring or that the campaign you’ve paid for deductibles and other expenses cratically elected Iranian President Mohammed the boat about the reasons why. The story men- process did not distribute adequate information. to make sure they re-enroll in their plans – a reaches these limits, the insurance company then Mosaddegh. (A year later, the CIA did the same tioned only one criticism of the new ordinance: the Reporting the election results could entail relat- process the federal government says will be A poll found that two-thirds of the pays 100 percent of your covered care. thing with Guatemala’s democratically elected inability of the Police Oversight Board to enforce ing the number of eligible voters, the number of automated. But, as we’ll touch on later, there uninsured say they know ‘only a president, but that’s another story.) A year after the its decisions. In a perfect world, that could legiti- registered voters, the number who turned out, and could be problems with that effort. Metal tier plans coup, the shah, now back in power, rewarded the little’ or ‘nothing at all’ about Obam- mately be seen as the major flaw in the ordinance. what votes those folks did and didn’t cast. This is Another 30,000 New Mexicans will lose their These are pretty much the key to the ACA and United States with a 40 percent stake in Iran’s oil acare insurance exchanges However, this is not a perfect world. In this the report I’d love to see. individual plans on Dec. 31 because those the insurance exchanges, or online marketplaces. industry. In 1957, with the CIA’s help, he world, the City Charter will not allow this level policies don’t meet the coverage requirements They come in four levels: bronze, silver, gold and established SAVAK, a creative blending of ruthless — Laura Schillke Open enrollment of power in the oversight process. It is useless to of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Those people platinum. Here’s how they work: KGB, Gestapo and SAVAK-inspired tactics. complain that City Council did not do what the This is the period during which individuals must Bronze is the lowest-level plan and it offers a 60-40 Editor’s note: In the just-completed election, the extraor- will have to get new policies and generally will That’s the brief history; Jeff then goes on to City Charter will not allow it to do. It makes more buy their health insurance, with some exceptions. It split between you and the insurance company. It dinary length of the Nov. 4 ballot likely contributed to have to do so during open enrollment. whitewash it. “In the midst of this [Iranian] sense to talk about what the City Council could runs from Nov. 15 through Feb. 15, 2015. If you don’t means that if you need care, you pay 40 percent of the phenomenon the letter writer describes. Timing of A recent poll by the Henry J. Kaiser Family revolution it came to light that the shah of Iran’s have done and should have done but did not do. buy a policy during this period, you’ll have to wait its cost until you reach the maximum out-of-pocket publication of this issue of ABQ Free Press prevented us not-so-secret police force the SAVAK wasn’t kind Yes, as the story notes, the ordinance does Foundation found that almost nine out of 10 another year to get insurance, even if you get sick or from an examination of the election results, which will spending allowed by the ACA. Bronze plans have to his enemies.” of uninsured Americans don’t even know that include improvements over the dismal past. How- be taken up in the Nov. 19 issue. seriously injured in the interim – an event that could lower premiums than the other policies, but you’ll Wasn’t kind to his enemies? That’s as disingenu- ever, the ordinance still falls short in absolutely open enrollment begins Nov. 15. bankrupt you. be stuck paying higher, up-front, or first-dollar, Anne Sperling, a broker with Daniels Insurance, ous and offensive as saying Hitler wasn’t kind to the crucial areas. Overall, this ordinance is a historic ABQ Free Press welcomes letters to the editor and bylined In addition, the poll found that “two-thirds costs. And if you’re in a low-paying job you might Jews. Jeff then tries to sugarcoat the whole thing by failure to address the APD crisis. opinion pieces, subject to editing by the newspaper of the uninsured say they know ‘only a little’ or Inc., in Santa Fe puts it this way: not be able to afford those up-front costs. for style and length. Letters may appear in print on the “If they [miss] the open enrollment in November noting that SAVAK’s unkindness somehow “came Concerning that crisis, the Department of Justice ‘nothing at all’ about the marketplaces (insur- Silver plans have a 70-30 split, gold ones an 80-20, to light.” That may be true, but the shah, despite newspaper’s website, www.freeabq.com. Writers should then they won’t be able to get into a new health and platinum a 90-10 split. Platinum plans have the report pointed out crucial flaws in Albuquerque’s include their full name and a daytime phone number that ance exchanges) where people who don’t get the light, did nothing to end SAVAK’s murderous insurance policy that is guaranteed to be issued until highest premiums. civilian police oversight system. One was the lack the newspaper’s editors can use to contact them. Submis- coverage through their employers can shop for excesses (or dismantle SAVAK). of opportunity for civilians who file complaints sions should be sent to [email protected] a year from now. You cannot just expect to buy a Which one should you buy? insurance.” policy any time during the year. If you’re diagnosed According to various experts, go with platinum with an illness or injury then you won’t be able or gold if you use a lot of health care because your cont. on page 8 PAGE 8 • November 5, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS ANALYSIS ABQ FREE PRESS • November 5, 2014 • PAGE 9 NMHIX, Page 7 Who Will Benefit from Massive Gila Dam Project? up-front costs will be lower. If a doctor’s visit costs In 2016, the maximum penalty will be $695 per BY JERRY ORTIZ Y PINO $100, under the platinum plan you’ll pay $10 for the person. What You’ll Need to Enroll visit and $40 under a bronze plan. You’ll pay the penalty on your federal income tax t was almost 30 not to build a new dam on the Gila River The clincher is that the federal money water rate customers in the region for Silver and bronze plans are good choices if you return. You can begin shopping on Nov. 15 for health Iyears ago that Marc and how to finance it. available to New Mexico to help with hundreds of millions of dollars. Reisner compellingly And it is the ISC which seems to construction of the dam is between need to keep your monthly premiums lower and NMHIX insurance on the New Mexico Health Insurance you don’t use a lot of health care. Exchange at bewellnm.com. Here’s the documented the have laid the groundwork for defiantly $100 million and $134 million. In the information you’ll need to enroll: dangerous, counter- deciding to build that diversion structure event that the ISC decided not to build The Gila dam would Deductibles The New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange began life in April 2013. It is tasked with setting up productive and – despite the recommendations of most the dam, a little over half of that amount cost the equivalent of would be available to pursue other A deductible is the total amount that you have to a state-based, online insurance marketplace where • Birth dates and Social Security numbers of ill-fated public policy of the consultants they have used. approaches. Those include increasing eight spaceports, pay out-of-pocket before your insurance kicks in. For individuals and small businesses can buy health all family members of damming rivers A previous ISC director, Norm Gaume, to stimulate urban is so upset over this extraordinary water conservation and protection of the four Rail Runners, example, if you have a plan with a $3,000 yearly deduct- insurance. It’s also there for people who can’t get • Document numbers for immigrants growth in the desert Southwest. misstep that he filed suit to try to head it river flow through watershed restoration. ible it means you have to pay that amount before your affordable insurance through their employers. The • W-2 and income information for you and six Paseo del Norte family members His book, “Cadillac Desert,” led to a off. He testified before a recent meeting But from an estimation of a total insurance company pays a penny for your care. agency operates its own small business, or SHOP exchanges, a dozen • Policy numbers for any insurance plans four-part PBS documentary on the sub- of the Legislature’s interim Water and project cost for the dam of $500 million Higher deductibles mean lower premiums, but exchange, but will rely – again – this year on the that family members have ject in 1996, and he recently updated Natural Resources Committee meeting given to legislators earlier this year – UNM Pit renovations or they trip up people who then get angry when they federal website, healthcare.gov, to enroll individuals. the topic in a new edition (2008) of the that while the AWSA at first reading leaving the state and local users on the three hundred state jets realize they must pay the deductible before the If the federal site has another botched rollout, it will For assistance and more information, call the book. Now I’m wondering if we might seems to be providing additional water hook for almost $400 million – it now coverage begins. Many people have chosen high- mean more waiting and frustration for individuals. NMHIX at: 1-855-996-6449. soon be reading another revision, this for New Mexico’s Gila River basin users, seems likely that the actual cost, without deductible plans without realizing they can’t afford NMHIX CEO Amy Dowd said the exchange at Go to bewellnm.com for free, one-on-one one focusing just on New Mexico’s effort it’s not likely to happen. inflation, could top $1 billion. An enormously expensive but leaky those deductibles, experts said. bewellnm.com “is the only place that individuals assistance from an insurance agent, broker or to replicate the mistakes of Phoenix, In that case, the federal share stays dam that holds little water ought to be an can come and shop and get premium assistance health care guide. The exchange has a broker Las Vegas and Southern California. Our state water gurus at $134 million, and New Mexico has unattractive project for the ISC – unless ‘If you are diagnosed with an illness based on their income.” and guide locator. Incredibly, our state water gurus ap- to come up with at least $870 million. its members are planning for a Cadillac Five insurers are selling individual policies on pear poised to make an environmental appear poised to make That’s equal to the cost of eight space- Desert-style speculative land develop- or injury you won’t be able to buy the exchange and they’re offering more than 100 blunder of epic proportions, one that will an environmental ports, four Rail Runners, six Paseo del ment for Southern New Mexico. insurance. You can only buy during different plans. cost New Mexicans as much as Norte exchanges, a dozen UNM Pit Devastating a river that is a national blunder of epic the open enrollment period’ The exchange will have 200 to 300 enrollment Subsidies to Offset Premiums $1 billion, do irrevocable harm to a renovations or three hundred state jets. treasure simply to fill developers’ pock- counselors across the state available to help people watershed, lead to more expensive proportions, one that Is that a bargain, or what? ets is unworthy of the ISC even if it were ­— Anne Sperling, insurance broker through the process. In addition, the exchange’s Premium subsidies for the 34,000 New Mexicans water in the southwest corner of the will cost New Mexicans For that investment, we would get – affordable. With a billion-dollar price tag website has a locator tool that will help you find an who bought health insurance plans through the state and actually produce less useable what exactly? attached it becomes an opportunity for Premium subsidies insurance broker or health care guide. NMHIX have averaged $214 a month, or $2,568 water than is currently available for as much as $1 billion It’s a question that the ISC’s appointed Gov. Martinez to demonstrate rational Brokers say the exchange was set up to do two a year. Those subsidies, on average, covered people down there. members and Gov. Susana Martinez, and fiscal leadership by executive veto. The ACA was designed primarily for the unin- the elected official who appointed things: qualify people for Medicaid and determine 64 percent of monthly premiums, according Now that may sound like a truly tough River flow has been so negatively sured. As a result, the law offers premium subsidies them, need to answer before they ask Jerry Ortiz y Pino is a state senator if people are eligible for premium subsidies. If you to the U.S. Department of Health and Human feat to pull off, but the New Mexico impacted by our drought that in only to lower-income people to help them pay for their Interstate Stream Commission seems one out of every three years will there the Legislature, the taxpayers and the from Albuquerque. know you don’t qualify for a subsidy, stay away Services. policies. The subsidies come in the form of tax dead set on doing precisely all of that. be sufficient water in the Gila to permit from the exchange, they said. That’s because all the credits and are available in New Mexico to people Eight of the ISC’s nine members diversion under the act. Whenever the personal information you are required to give on the Here’s a subsidy example for a family of four in who make between 138 and 400 percent of the the Albuquerque area for a silver plan: are named to staggered terms by the downstream San Carlos Reservoir in federal poverty level (See accompanying chart). exchange automatically goes to the government. governor. The State Engineer, our pri- Arizona dips below 30,000 acre feet, no Five insurance companies are selling individual According to the U.S. Department of Health and Adults: 2 mary water official, serves as secretary water can be diverted in New Mexico. policies on the exchange: New Mexico Health Human Services, 78 percent of the 34,000 New Children: 2 and is automatically a member. Thus And in any case, the ASWA caps New Mexicans who bought insurance through the state’s Connections, Presbyterian Health Plan, Blue Cross Annual household income: $50,000 the current Commission reflects the Mexico’s average annual consumption insurance exchange this year were eligible for and Blue Shield of New Mexico, Molina Healthcare Regular monthly price: $455.83 environmental priorities of the current to 14,000 acre feet; we have to pay to subsidies. Those annual subsidies for New Mexicans of New Mexico and CHRISTUS Health Plan. Monthly discount: $384.74 governor. deliver an acre foot of water to Arizona averaged $2,568, HHS said. Family pays monthly: $71.09 The members select a director to for every acre foot we use over 14,000. However, the subsidies can pose some problems, Fifty percent of all bankruptcies conduct its operations, currently Estevan Incidentally, reservoir evaporative loss experts said. The plan you currently have might not be offered Lopez. It is this body which has been (20 percent or more in some reservoirs) counts as usage by New Mexico. First, you won’t get a check from the government in New Mexico are the result this time around. Or if it is, it might cost more working for almost seven years to decide how to make the most of the opportunity Finally, according to Gaume, engi- to help you pay for insurance. Once you select a plan of medical bills because the insurer raised the price. Or, it might afforded our state by the federal Arizona neering studies carried out on the three and are deemed eligible for a subsidy, the govern- cost more because you’re a year older. If you don’t – New Mexico Superintendent of Water Settlement Act of 2004. likeliest possible sites for a dam all ment will basically send a check to your insurer to check things out, you could be in for a painful Insurance John Franchini It is the ISC which is charged with show retention to be negligible due to surprise. offset the full price of the policy. making a final decision on how to soil conditions that would allow so much Insurers are supposed to send auto-enrollment The subsidies are based on income, which means proceed with spending the Federal seepage that it would be a rare year in Re-enrollment notices to members giving them details of any that if your income changes and you make more in money available to New Mexico through which much, if any, dammed water could a year than you originally predicted, you will be on If you’re one of the 34,000 people who got insur- changes and offering other plans if their current the act. It is the ISC which has until the be sent through a pipeline or channel to the hook to repay some of those subsidies. It will all ance through the New Mexico insurance exchange plans have been canceled. end of this year to decide whether or potential users. be figured out by the IRS through your tax return. this year, you have to re-enroll this year and every “The considerable complexities of this first The insurance companies won’t be forced to repay year. Policies run only for one year. The feds said re-enrollment period are nearly certain to create any inappropriate subsidies, you will, brokers said. they have automated the re-enrollment process so confusion,” The Commonwealth Fund said. “It is essential that consumers go to the marketplace Penalties that you won’t have to do much. But, since this is the first time this has been tried, and because the websites and/or call the phone numbers listed on The ACA requires everyone to have health government is doing it, there will most likely be these notices.” insurance. If you don’t, you’ll have to pay a penalty. problems, brokers said. Provider networks Penalties for companies that fail to offer affordable “This ‘re-enrollment’ will be a first-time experi- health insurance will be delayed for a year. The ence for the marketplace and consumers, and it will These are hugely important and may possibly maximum penalties – the government calls them be administratively complex,” The Commonwealth affect your choice of which insurer to go with. Dif- Coming Nov. 19: How a charity founded by the developer fees – for individuals in 2015 are $325 per person Fund said in a recent report. ferent insurers have different networks of doctors, who built much of Albuquerque left New Mexico in its rear-view and $162 per child under 18 years old. The maxi- Aside from potential technical glitches, there could nurses and specialists. If you like your doctor, make mum penalty per family will be $975, HHS said. be other problems. sure he or she is in your insurer’s network. These mirror decades ago. cont. on page 10 PAGE 10 • November 5, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • November 5, 2014 • PAGE 11

NMHIX, Page 8 things vary by the type of policy you choose, mean- to preferred provider organizations and more. They most importantly, they’re free. Brokers are paid Reforming Culture at APD Could Take Years ing an HMO, PPO or something else, but in general, come with different deductibles, copayments, coin- on commission by the insurance companies for BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI if your doctor isn’t in the insurer’s network, the surance levels, drug plans and provider networks. the business they bring in, so make sure you ask a company won’t pay for you to see that doctor. If you If you’re confused by the choices, you can try to go broker to provide you options from several different wind up wanting to see your out-of-network doctor with the exchange’s health care navigators, or assis- companies. im Baca remembers when, as mayor of Albuquer- anyway, you’ll have to pay the full price. Even if tors. Compared to brokers, those folks have almost no You don’t get charged extra if you buy a policy Jque in the late 1990s, he was walking Downtown you get a receipt and take it to your insurer, it won’t training in the ACA’s complexity, and they can only through a broker. Conversely, you don’t get a one night with then-Police Chief Jerry Galvin when count against your deductible. help you navigate the system; they are forbidden by cheaper price if you buy a plan on your own. You they encountered two Albuquerque Police Depart- The Role of Insurance Brokers law from giving you advice on what to buy. can look up brokers on the Internet, or can find them ment sergeants who had formerly been instructors at In contrast, insurance brokers and agents have through the NMHIX website. the city’s police academy. The five insurers that are selling individual policies spent their careers in insurance and know the ACA Earlier in his term, Baca had hired Galvin to head on the NMHIX are offering more than 100 plans. well enough to give you advice on what would Dennis Domrzalski is an associate editor at ABQ Free APD in a bid to reduce police shootings and bring They range from health maintenance organizations be the best fit for you or your company. And, Press. Reach him at [email protected] community policing to the city. In the process, the two men revised the curriculum at the academy to Income Guidelines for Subsidies make it less militaristic. The change involved the Number of New Mexicans Qualifying for Subsidies reassignments of many personnel, including the two Income levels determine whether you’re eligible for Medicaid or for subsidies sergeants. through the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange. If you make up to Number of New Mexicans enrolled in policies through NMHIX...... 34,000 Baca tried to shake the sergeants’ hands, but both 138 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL), you’re eligible for Medicaid. refused, he said. If you make between 138 percent and 400 percent of the FPL, you’re eligible Percent eligible for a federal premium subsidy...... 78 Baca’s recollection of the encounter shows how for premium subsidies through the exchange. difficult it likely will be for APD to change its culture Average yearly premium subsidy in New Mexico...... $2,500 and reduce the department’s use of deadly force that Here are the federal poverty levels: Persons in household FPL U.S 138% 400% has resulted in 26 fatal police shootings since 2010. No. of New Mexicans estimated to be eligible for subsidies...... 180,000 Galvin, a longtime proponent of community 1 $11,670 $16,105 $46,680 policing, along with corporate change experts, said 2 $15,730 $21,707 $62,920 No. of New Mexicans on Medicaid...... 730,000 it could take as long as a decade to permanently 3 $19,790 $27,310 $79,160 change the culture at APD. 4 $23,850 $32,913 $95,400 New Mexico population 2013...... 2,085,287 5 $27,910 $38,516 $111,640 “Change takes time. Organizations can take five 6 $31,970 $44,119 $127,880 Open enrollment this year...... Nov. 15-Feb. 15 to 10 years to change,” said Paula Wynnyckyj, an 7 $36,030 $49,721 $144,120 Albuquerque-based corporate change expert and Juan Labreche 8 $40,090 $55,324 $160,360 Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Census Bureau, New Mexico Human Services Department president of Wynn Consulting Solutions. Police in riot gear prepare to confront protesters gathering near City Hall last March 30 to protest the shooting of a homeless man in the Sandia Foothills. “People don’t change easily and systems don’t Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services change easily,” she said. Baca, who served as mayor from 1997-2001, said Galvin, now the police chief in Mendota, Calif., Some of the Changes APD Must Make said it generally takes seven to 10 years to fully he and Galvin tried to steer APD’s training regimen away from military tactics. The goal of the agreement between the City of implement community policing. Albuquerque and the U.S. Department of Justice is “We changed the curriculum. Instead of trying to New Pizza Concept Coming to ABQ “A lot of cops don’t like it; they would rather to prevent the use of excessive force by Albuquerque turn out U.S. Marines, we were trying to turn out By Sabrina Autry chase guys with guns and wear tactical vests,” Gal- Police Department officers and to provide constitu- vin said. “It’s a difficult thing to do. Talking about public servants, and these guys really resisted,” Baca tional policing to city residents. omino’s Pizza is reinventing community policing is talking about a philosophy.” recalled. The two parties “share a mutual interest in officer Ditself using the concept of “pizza Wynnyckyj said APD will face many barriers to safety and accountability; constitutional, effective theater” to convert takeout stores to Eden will have to determine who permanently changing its culture. policing; and high-quality police services,” the agree- dine-in establishments. “The old culture does not want to die; it served a ment says. Brian Bailey, who owns 10 Domi- embraces the proposed changes purpose in its time and if it has been around for 10 The settlement focuses on police training in a no’s in Albuquerque and who expects and who tries to derail them years, it is not going to change in a year or two,” number of areas, accountability, and community involvement. to own 37 stores in New Mexico by – corporate change consultant Wynnyckyj said. “Some employees will say, ‘We the end of the year, eventually plans The first pizza theater concept store can wait it out.’ The general name of it is called The heart of the settlement is the use-of-force to adopt the pizza theater concept at will open in Albuquerque by the end Karen Collins Rice, an organizational consultant resistance.” policy that it outlines. Here are some of those of March. all his stores. in Seattle, Wash., said the easiest part for APD Any change will have to start at the top. principles: The new concept could trigger a Pizza theater allows patrons to leadership and Mayor Richard Berry was agreeing APD Chief Gorden Eden and his managers will • Officers “shall use advisements, warnings, watch pizza being made. “It has an pizza war of sorts. “We want to be to reach a legal settlement with the U.S. Department and verbal persuasion, when possible, before have to fully buy into the cultural change before open kitchen concept so that the better than Dion’s,” Joy said. “Dion’s of Justice regarding excessive use of force by police resorting to force.” they can begin preaching it to the rank-and-file, kitchen and work are the show,” better be on their Ps and Qs,” he said. officers. Making the actual changes and making • Officers have to give people time to submit to Wynnyckyj said. And then, Eden will have to said Lawrence Joy, a spokesman for Dion’s is not impressed. “We don’t them stick could be more difficult. arrest before using force. determine who embraces the proposed changes and Bailey’s company, Domino’s Team see Domino’s as a competitor,” said “The hardest part does come next,” Rice said. • APD must prohibit neck holds, leg sweeps and who tries to derail them. Resistors might have to go. New Mexico. Jennifer Brower, assistant of market- Galvin illustrated the difficulty of changing police arm-bar takedowns, and officers can’t use force When the new 54-seat pizza theater ing at Dion’s, which operates 11 stores department culture with an observation from his “It does mean that people have to leave, both against people in handcuffs. • Shooting at or from moving vehicles is floor plan was paired with a “pizza in the Albuquerque Metro area. The current job. Police officers are often hired to provide voluntarily and forcefully. That’s another reason prohibited unless the occupant of the fleeing CALLING ALL PETS tracker” app that informs patrons of floor plans of Dion’s stores also allow security at Friday night high school football games there has to be strong leadership at the top,” Wyn- the progress of their pizza, Domino’s patrons to see their pizza being made. nyckyj said. vehicle is using lethal force, and officers can only in his area, he said. carry APD-approved firearms and ammunition Amy Walkowiak sent us this photo of her dog, Holly Go Lightly, Team New Mexico broke the Domino’s Galvin said APD has to build trust with the com- “What do they do? They usually congregate while on duty. lounging by the pool wearing her swimsuit. national record for opening-week sales Sabrina Autry is a journalism intern at munity. But, he added, “You don’t do that with the together at one end of the field and talk BS rather • Tasers and other electronic control weapons at its Lovington store in June, Joy said. ABQ Free Press. than engage with the crowd,” Galvin said. “It’s a shootings you’ve had in Albuquerque.” can only be used to protect an officer, the Send it to [email protected] perfect opportunity to engage. Most cops are good subject or another person from physical harm; Include your name, phone number, and your pet’s name, Political analyst Joe Monahan took this issue off to work the election. guys, but we lose so many opportunities to engage Dennis Domrzalski is an associate editor at ABQ Free they can’t be used solely as a compliance and we’ll try to reserve their spot in the pet parade. He’ll be back in the Nov. 19 issue of ABQ Free Press. the community in a positive setting.” Press. Reach him at [email protected] technique or to overcome passive resistance PAGE 12 • November 5, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS COLUMN LIVING ABQ FREE PRESS • November 5, 2014 • PAGE 13 Waiting for the Bus Deep Dish To Mandalay Garden, 6910 Montgomery Blvd. NE, We’re looking into it for you. Read 814-0014, heimathouse.com our Nov. 19 issue for a solution to the BY EFRAIN VILLA mystery. hen I grow up “No,” I answered. Stop at The Shop I want to be “Then, yes. That one is mine.” “W In a variation of Mark Bittman’s Recent restaurant a tourist,” he said. I “It must weigh a ton!” “VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 to Lose had not noticed his “I don’t pick it up,” he laughed. “It has openings in the Weight and Restore Your Health presence until he wheels.” Northeast Heights: spoke. He sat next “Oh, right. Why do you want to be a for Good,” I am thinking of writing to me as I stared at tourist?” my own cookbook, “The Coffee Mykonos the sunrise silhouett- “Your people are strong, smart, Shop Diet: Eat Anything You Want ing the sprawling beautiful,” he said, then paused to point for Breakfast and Lunch.” (A light Recently remodeled by new owners. complex of ancient temples scattered at my iPod before adding, “and rich. My supper is recommended; there will be Greek American food with full bar. across the landscape beneath us. people are weak, dumb, poor, and ugly.” suggested recipes.) 5900 Eubank Blvd NE, 291-1116, Our legs dangled off the highest “I disagree. Most of my people only I have quite a collection of breakfast- mykonosabq.com terrace of Shwesandaw Pagoda, one of speak one language. We don’t have and-lunch-only spots – Cinnamon the most visited temples in the Bagan the decency to wear thanaka. And I Sugar & Spice Café, Milly’s, the Rock & Brews Archeological Zone. A bus ticket to am pretty sure most of us would have venerable Weck’s and Tim’s Place, to A chain co-owned by Gene Simmons Mandalay poked out of my shirt pocket. a hard time pulling that cart even one name a few. To them add The Shop, Every neighborhood needs its pub. Ponderosa Brewing and Paul Stanley of KISS and other I looked at my iPod to check the time meter. So, really, we can’t be that Company is at east end of Bellamah Road northwest of Old nestled into the former home of partners, offering 50 beers on tap and and try to relish every last moment on strong. As for wealth – I don’t think most Town. Photo by Stephanie Hainsfurther. Chocolate Café. the usual accompaniments. the ledge. “How long will it take me to of us are rich, but we do have a lot of Chef and co-owner Israel Rivera BY SAFFRON TOMATO 4800 Montgomery Blvd NE, 881-4248, get to the bus stop for Mandalay?” I access to unnecessary stuff.” to Chuck E. Cheese’s, but for adults, serves local Ohori’s Coffee and New rockandbrews.com asked him. “Like Oreos?” with food, video games, and a bar with Mexico Tea Company products, and a “You are strong,” he said, grabbing “Yeah. You like Oreos?” Neighborhood Bar multiple TV screens, all packed into fan of The Shop tells me that’s reason the hem of the traditional fabric I had “I love them. Tourists always have just over 25,000 square feet. enough to enjoy a visit. The breakfast Haru Sushi cinched around my waist, Burmese cookies.” with Eats Their menu includes an array of and lunch menu items are a nice Sashimi, sushi and other traditionally style. “Wearing this longyi, it will take “Yeah, we like stuff that makes us fat.” starters, pasta, steaks, burgers and Ponderosa Brewing Company, mix of Southwest, Down South and Japanese entrees, with beer and wine. 20 minutes. You need thanaka on your more. The bar offers its own array of tucked away in the Sawmill neighbor- Back East. Rivera told me he couldn’t 1035 Juan Tabo Blvd. NE, 200-9152, face,” he said as he brought his fingers standard and unique drinks. ‘I know what you are go- hood northeast of Old Town, is a little think up a more interesting name abqharu.com to his cheeks, where he had drawn Football season should add to their white swirls using the cosmetic paste. off the beaten path, but its beer and for his place, but I have one for him: ing to say. You will not popularity with those large screens, “A little thanaka and you will really food offerings are hard to beat once Paradise. buy from me because but their video games are another look like us – but more handsome, of you get there. The walls of the brew The Shop is closed Mondays; hours are lure, with their Power Card keeping course.” buying from children pub and restaurant are decorated 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. digital record of the number of credits I was used to flattery, it tends to be makes us sell things with a parquet-like array of sawn The Shop, 2933 Monte Vista Blvd. NE, a salesman’s go-to tactic. Local touts board ends, a tribute to the revitalized available for play. They also offer 433-2795, theshopbreakfastandlunch.com Albuquerque’s usually complimented my “beautiful hair” instead of go to school’ neighborhood it serves. half-price games on Wednesday and and called me “rock star,” right before Ponderosa brews its own lagers, free game plays for every $100 spent It Just Gets Better Premier Facility demanding that I buy a trinket. I braced “Better than being skinny. Look at ales, stouts and IPAs. Both the bar and on food, beverages and games when myself for the sales pitch. It never me, I can even see my bones!” he lifted restaurant offer a full menu of Ameri- your registered Power Card is swiped Farina Alto is now stocking a full - for - came. He simply stared at the sunrise in his shirt and jabbed at his abdominal can cuisine. A happy hour special with these purchases. bar, offering craft cocktails and silence with me. muscles with his finger. includes pulled-pork and beef sliders. Hours are 11 a.m. to midnight Sunday- high-end liquor and liqueurs along “How old are you?” I asked. “Those aren’t bones, buddy. That’s The restaurant’s French fries, cut from Thursday, 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Friday- with the beer and wine they have Mock Trials & “Thirteen,” he said. called a six-pack. You’re like Superman!” fresh russet potatoes, are first rate. Saturday. always served. According to owner “Why aren’t you in school?” He pulled his shirt back down and Since it opened two months ago, Dave & Buster’s, 2100 Louisiana Blvd. Terry Keene, a new bar snacks menu Focus Groups “I know what you are going to say. shook his head, assured that I really Ponderosa’s clientele has steadily NE, 348-5157, daveandbusters.com will roll out soon to complement the You will not buy from me because buy- wasn’t as smart as he thought I was. grown, thanks to management’s full bar. Happy hour is from 3-6 p.m. ing from children makes us sell things A commotion from behind us got our • Trial planning and issue spotting, emphasis on reasonably priced food, a every day. instead of go to school. Don’t worry. attention, and we both stood up. “What’s Weeks Old, Already in-house facilitators competitive beer menu and attentive By the time you read Deep Dish, Right now, I’m on holiday like that?” I asked. Popular the new dinner menu may also be on • Mock jury services you. No selling.” “A tour bus just arrived. They are service. As cold weather approaches, offer, pending approval from Chef Pat • Witness preparation “Your English is amazing,” I remarked. coming. Holiday is over.” He pulled out a the brewery is working on a plan for The German restaurant Heimat Keene. The new dinner menu already “Where did you learn?” stack of postcards from his back pocket. heating its patio. House Restaurant & Beer Garden is • Simulated court and previewed in their special dishes, so “With the monks and tourists. Now “Have a nice time in Mandalay.” Ponderosa is open from 11 a.m. to 11 doing quite a business. I tried to get deliberation venues I am voting for the Pasta Bolognese. if I want to keep learning, I must pay. I I watched as he approached an p.m. Monday through Saturday, and from in for dinner on a Friday night but the • Political polling need money for school and school to American couple. “Charles, don’t give 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Sunday. wait was 45 minutes, with a line out Terry Keene says the new dinner Ponderosa Brewing Company, items will be served no later than the make money.” He sighed, put his hands him money,” the woman yelled at her the door. Owner Carri Phillis (Effex Call 505-263-8425 or email 1761 Bellamah Ave. NW, 639-5941, week of November 10. behind his head and leaned back to get husband as he reached for his wallet. Nightclub, Adieux Café) suggests [email protected] a better view of the puffy clouds that “It encourages them to not be in school. ponderosabrewing.net reservations if you don’t want to wait. Farina Alto, 10721 Montgomery Blvd. had begun illuminating in hues of pink There are Oreos in the backpack. Give I hear the schnitzels are authentic and NE, 298-0035, farinaalto.com 6608 Gulton Court NE, Alb. 87109 above us. him some cookies.” Dave & Buster’s European beers are on tap. Watch this “Is that your cart down there?” I He turned to me. Smiled. And ac- space for more about their menu, as Something new? pointed at a small wagon with a pyramid cepted the Oreos. Opens soon as I can get through the door. “The Cellar,” says the punched of souvenirs piled high atop the wheels. Hours are 10:30 a.m. until 11 p.m., On November 3rd the long-awaited metal sign on Lomas, downtown, near “Is there a donkey next to it?” He Reach Efrain Villa through his website, seven days. asked without bothering to sit up. aimlessvagabond.com opening of Dave & Buster’s in Winrock Lowe’s Corner Market at 11th St. NW. Heimat House Restaurant & Beer trialmetrixnm.com finally happened. It’s been compared It also says “Wine Bar and Tapas.” PAGE 14 • November 5, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS living dvd/TV ABQ FREE PRESS • November 5, 2014 • PAGE 15 Thirsty Gardener: Don’t Let Your Water Run Off Let Them Eat Bread: Local Assistance Dogs and Trainers By Stephanie Hainsfurther Two Documentaries Trot Out Their Skills for the Camera e call rain barrels ‘the gateway By Richard Oyama By Stephanie Hainsfurther “Wdrug to water harvesting,’” said Hunter Ten Broeck, owner of Waterwise Lynch, Bloomberg. Traders were he found- Landscapes, Inc. “Once people try them, required to make 10 percent profit, no Ters of the they want to save even more water.” questions asked. nonprofit Paws After the rains of last summer kept There’s a clip of a congressional and Stripes my garden alive without any help from hearing in which an unidentified Sen. found friend- me, Ten Broeck and I trudged around Carl Levin (D-Michigan) queries bank ship while my yard, looking for further ways to executives about the “shitty deals” filming a redirect water run-off to plants and trees. We both favor a low-tech approach, they cut. The system’s “disconnection documentary, otherwise known as benign neglect, a from social processes,” Voss says, “Dogs of War,” concept I endorse like Gloria Steinem is “institutionalized,” decisions are about their endorses Hillary Clinton. made “in uncertainty” because the services and Ten Broeck was full of surprising ontext is everything. Its absence is system has grown too complex, and the people who facts and ideas. For example, a typical Cwhat makes the Icarus Films docu- the speed and volume of transactions need them. 1,800-square-foot patio home like mine mentaries “Master of the Universe” caused the financial crisis to go viral. “At first it has about 1,000 square feet of roof. Owner Hunter Ten Broeck of Waterwise Landscapes and “Slow Food Story” problematic. Similarly, the 1 hour and 15 minute takes a little When Albuquerque gets one inch of walks the walk when it comes to water harvesting. Both address eminently worthy “Slow Food Story” centers on the getting used rain, I can capture 500 gallons of water issues — the first, the flaws and Italian Carlo Petrini, one of the to, having a from roof run-off. their very strong rain streams because Photos by Stephanie Hainsfurther emotional repercussions of the bank- founders of the Slow Food movement person right “Dogs of War” premieres My 100-gallon rain barrel started the soil erodes from the force of the ing system; the second, the Slow Food in reaction to fast-food franchises and behind your Veterans Day, Tuesday, November 11 at 10/9 to look fairly lame. I always park a water. movement to promote regional and the homogenized cuisine of corporate back,” said wheelbarrow under the drainage valve, “Dig a hole one-foot deep or use a traditional cuisine. Both lean heavily restaurant chains. Again, all good. But co-founder Jim Central on A&E. but that overflows, too. Next spring, cistern to capture roof run-off,” Ten on a central charismatic figure, rather then why the newsreel footage of Pe- Stanek. “But Paws and Stripes, I’ll redirect the overflow into a nearby Broeck said. “You could also redirect like on a cult of personality, but that in trini engaged in various radical causes then you real- 4041 Barbara Loop SE, garden with a hose attached to the with rain chains or gutters.” He also itself raises questions. in Italy when his aim to produce ize the crew’s Rio Rancho, barrel’s spigot. suggested a small butterfly roof over the The eponymous figure of “Master of “good, fair, clean” food hardly seems hearts are (505) 999-1201 pawsandstripes.org So we moved on to the canales (water garage doors to direct water away from the Universe” is Rainer Voss, a German a revolutionary proposition? Quite the with you and ducts) from the roof that empty into the the house and into the hell-strip garden former investment banker who isn’t opposite. Petrini hobnobs with Prince the program, side yard. I’ve never planted beneath beside the driveway. identified until the end credits. Why? Charles and an entrepreneur who and it’s like hanging out with your Voss is often shot in an empty boardroom builds a multistory food complex. friends. They respected the local in isolation, an Everyman, a functionary What seems to be left out of Petrini’s veteran population.” in a vast system. Clear enough. mission statement is “affordable.” Hearts and minds are definitely Yet it doesn’t help that filmmaker CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: An 1,800-gallon cistern waits for rain to Alice Waters, founder of Chez Panisse behind Paw and Stripes. The orga- slide through the canale perched above.; A butterfly roof catches Marc Bauder provides little corrobora- in North Berkeley, is one of the nization rescues shelter dogs and rainwater, which gushes through a canale into the 1,800-gallon cistern.; tion for Voss’s statements and doesn’t prominent talking heads who touts trains them to be assistance animals Gabion “walls” made of metal mesh and rocks send rainfall directly into offer much context for why the viewer biodiversity and local farming. As for veterans suffering from Post- the soil, among other uses. should care. It eventually becomes a former Berkeley resident, how- Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or clear that the film alludes to the 2008 ever, this reviewer never ate at Chez Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). financial crisis, European debt and the Panisse, whose prix fixe was even too Based in Rio Rancho, co-founders Rain chains can be fancy, “You might cut into the roots a bit to dig, decline in Asian stock markets, and rich for my blood. Jim and Lindsey Stanek work with copper creations by local artists, or they but a swale is shallow so they’re [only] how the banking system has grown No question Petrini is a forceful, Animal Humane New Mexico and Stills from the documentary show veterans and dogs can be lengths of chain from Lowe’s fibrous roots that will grow back.” more globalized and interconnected. gregarious advocate for slow food Veterans United Foundation to being trained together. Photos courtesy of A&E or Home Depot. Either way, chains A French drain is a swale with rocks Networks. But watching the film is a little like encourage run-off to drip down directly piled up to reach ground level, and against the accelerated “velocity” of bring together the dogs and combat playing connect the dots. into the ground, garden or container. helps water seep into the soil instead our globalized culture. But it’s curious veterans. The cost to veterans and Along with rehabilitation and Visually, Bauder wants to emphasize Attach them to canales or hang them of running off. Waterwise uses weed- that in a film about gastronomical their families is small, but the benefits companionship, Paws and Stripes the cold, insular environment of above rain barrels to direct rainwater barrier fabric to line the French drain pleasure, sensuous scenes of food are huge. dogs provide mobility assistance, and high finance — Voss describes it as a Live Now. away from the roof. and then fills it with rocks. preparation and dining are rare. “We have great people around us,” medical alerts when meds are needed “closed system that leads you further “ I appreciate living here because we have not only met new friends, but You can modify driveways, patios and We know it as a garden design ele- Probably, few would disagree with said co-founder and CEO Lindsey or a seizure or panic attack is about to other hard surfaces through low-tech from reality” — so there are count- became reunited with family as well. The opportunity and choice of many ment called a dry river bed. Ten Broeck Petrini’s advocacy, but as someone Stanek. “Since 2010 we have served 85 strike. landscaping to capture water and keep it less pans across the flat, totalitarian meaningful activities makes each day delightful. My husband and I enjoy the calls it a “gravel burrito.” who has witnessed the gentrification veterans and their family members, “Some disabled veterans also need a away from outside walls of the dwelling. surfaces of steel-and-glass high-rises peace of mind that can only come from living in a LifeCare Community. ” Rainwater is best for plants, Ten by foodies of entire neighborhoods, graduated more than 50 dogs, and little additional personal space when Digging shallow swales or French drains of Frankfurt. This can be effective, as Broeck said. City water has chemicals I’m more than a little suspicious about rescued about 60 dogs.” out in public,” said Lindsey Stanek. –Mary Jane Moffitt, La Vida Llena resident to direct water away from the house that kill biotics, so plants won’t thrive as in an overhead shot of a glass wall the class implications of the Slow The film shows veterans and dogs “The dogs help that happen.” and toward thirsty plants is a simple they do on rainwater, which contains reflecting the cars below, a through- Food movement. receiving training, separately and The no-script documentary is a technique, said Ten Broeck. elements like nitrogen that are essential the-looking-glass effect. But the Let those on food stamps eat (bad) together. The Staneks started Paws proud moment for Jim Stanek and his A swale is a slight, sloped depression to plant growth. filmmaker’s visual strategies starved bread. and Stripes when Jim Stanek, a own longtime assistance dog, who in the ground that encourages water to my appetite for the image. volunteer firefighter in New York City travel downhill. You can use a swale to had no problem around the cameras. Contact The Thirsty Gardener at If you choose to believe him, Voss Richard Oyama is a populist freelance who assisted in the 9/11 cleanup there focus water on a particular tree, he said. “Sarge is kind of a ham,” Jim Stanek [email protected]. has interesting things to say. He writer with a hearty appetite. and served three tours of duty in Iraq, said. To schedule a personal presentation, call 800.922.1344 or 505.293.4001. discusses the fierce work ethic in returned from the war with PTSD and 10501 Lagrima de Oro NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 banking and its apolitical nature. The Master Gardeners Hotline for Bernalillo County is closed until March. Their The two films mentioned will be released TBI. When he could not readily obtain Stephanie Hainsfurther is an website has useful info; consult the FAQs at abqmastergardeners.org or call He refers to names familiar to us all: on DVD on Nov. 18. (icarusfilms.com). an assistance dog, he and his wife La Vida Llena, a leader for over 30 years in New Mexico associate editor for ABQ Free Press. senior living, is part of Haverland Carter Lifestyle Group. the Bernalillo County Cooperative Extension Service (CES) at 243-1386. Goldman Sachs, Citibank, Merrill Lindsey started Paws and Stripes. PAGE 16 • November 5, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS MUSIC THEATER ABQ FREE PRESS • November 5, 2014 • PAGE 17 Dance in the Aisles to This Music Briefs Classic ‘Cyrano’ Retold by Mother Road Theatre Company

BY SABRINA AUTRY Singer/Songwriter’s Music By BARRY GAINES a unique sound with the exception of BY RICHARD OYAMA Streets of Laredo one thing – the vocals. Lead singer he Mother Road Theatre and is about to open his own Patricia Thompson portrays Roxane’s nurse and This seven-member group is from he North American folk Marissa Paternoster has a predictable TCompany, a homeless heart to her when Christian is another role with verve. Robin Holloway does well New Zealand, where three siblings and sound – excessive vibrato with a nasally revival had its parallel in and wandering crew, is killed with Cyrano’s last letter with the thankless role of dim-witted Christian. T a few friends had a vision to bring an overtone – that sounds like Jim Carrey Nueva Canción (New Song) performing an adaptation to Roxane in his pocket. Nicholas Ballas has fun giving dimension to the iconic folk sound to North America. They in “The Cable Guy,” where he does a in Latin America, associated of the romantic, swashbuck- The play’s final, melancholy powerful villain Le Comte de Guiche, “a lecherous are currently touring here. rendition of “Somebody to Love” by with social revolution and the Their first full-length album “VOLUME ling favorite “Cyrano de scene occurs fourteen years lord with a large libido.” Jefferson Airplane. Overall the sound, Bergerac” at the Tricklock later and provides resolution. Micah Linford narrates the play as Cyrano’s friend Le human rights movement in the I & II” debuted on The New York Times’ while exceptional, is overpowered by Performance Laboratory “Cyrano” became my favor- Bret. Linford is strong and confident in the part. As the 1960s. Nano Stern, a Chilean Press Play and was released in October the screaming female. singer-songwriter and multi- just in time for the wind change. They downtown. ite play when José Ferrer’s play begins, Le Bret picks up a wide-brimmed black hat instrumentalist, is steeped in have an organic sound of fiery horns, Edmond Rostand’s 1897 Oscar-winning portrayal of with a jaunty white feather attached and introduces the that tradition. He will perform at upbeat clapping and faint echoed har- Lewis Watson French verse play has been Cyrano was the first film that plays central pun. The plume is known as a “panache,” the Bank of America Theatre at Gonzalo Donoso monies that would be best accompanied given a modern, American brought me to tears. I was in which also means “a flamboyant confidence of style,” “a the National Hispanic Cultural by a cup of coffee and a crackling fire. translation by Michael high school. Since then I have dashing display.” Cyrano has both. Center on Sunday, Nov. 9, as remarked that “There is no revolution The hit track “Hey Rose” blends country Hollinger and adapted for seen many performances, Katie Becker Colón’s off-putting costume does part of the Chispa: New Latin Series without songs.” Most of the artistic and rock roots into an epic lyric that the stage by Hollinger and including a trip to New York not keep her from conveying Roxane’s changing program. manifestations that came to be around might be the anthem of the season. Aaron Posner. Called simply to see Kevin Kline in the role. emotions — from superficial attraction to genuine Stern was born in Santiago de Chile. that period were associated with folk “Cyrano,” this version is So how does Mother Road’s love to a mature appreciation. She speaks her lines culture, reinterpreting that tradition highly satisfying as directed “Cyrano” is played by Christopher Holloway in a new, small-cast production stack up? First, Mi- with musical spirit. After moving to Europe in 2004, Octave Minds production. Courtesy of Mother Road Theatre Company. he embarked on a solo career that and giving it new content. by Staci Robbins. chael Hollinger’s translation and Finally, Christopher Holloway presents a very hu- “One foot in the door, one foot in the included two albums, and he toured When the democratically elected The romanticised plot adaptation simplify the plot and man Cyrano. He handles his sword and his panache grave.” Octave Minds is a collaborative socialist government of Allende was revolves around Cyrano de Bergerac, a 17th-century modernize the language. The verse has some allitera- nicely, yet his self-conscious pain is never far beneath extensively. While living in Amster- project between producer and DJ Boys crushed by the military and the CIA, French soldier, poet, swordsman and wit who tion and rhyme, but it is accessible. The set is minimal, the surface. At times he finds himself and his poses dam, he jammed with different bands Noize, and self-proclaimed musical that spanned styles from Colombian anything folk related was banned. harbors a secret love for the beautiful, accomplished but the low ceiling at Tricklock makes balcony scenes ridiculous, yet he is sensitive and passionate. genius Chilly Gonzales. The two have British YouTube star Lewis Watson cumbia and vallenato to gypsy swing. Some musicians, like Victor Jara, were Roxane. His love is secret because Cyrano believes somewhat awkward. The men’s costumes are success- Holloway’s Cyrano knows that his pride and even come to gather to create a wonderful has turned into a pop icon since Stern collaborated with Manuel murdered and many others exiled. that his overly large nose renders him ugly and ful, but Roxane seems to be wearing vanity will defeat him in the end. In combination of electronic synthetics with releasing his first full-length album this García and Catalonian musician Others eventually left because the unworthy of love. a T-shirt that is neither attractive nor the last scene he says, “The battle’s a heavy dose of pure, blissful piano. past summer, entitled “The Morning,” country had become a cultural desert. When Roxane and a handsome new cadet, Chris- historical beneath her gown. THROUGH NOVEMBER 9 more beautiful when it’s futile.” Guillamino on “eXile,” an album The self-titled album is mostly instru- which climbed to No. 3 on iTunes’s Repression was a daily occurrence. tian, are smitten with each other, Cyrano offers to Michael Blaisdell has given At Cyrano’s final invocation of his that explored in part the poetry of mental. However, one song features the Singer/Songwriter Chart. He signed CYRANO You could be taken prisoner and provide love letters and dialogue to the creatively Cyrano a nose – a creation of cantile- “panache,” after 50-plus years, I felt Pablo Neruda written while he was in noted Chance, the Rapper. “Tap Dance” with Warner Brothers in 2012 and has Tricklock Performance barren hunk. Cyrano’s heartfelt verses and stirring vered cartilage – of epic proportions. the tears again. hiding after a warrant was issued for tortured for months if found with is a lively, uplifting tune combining all dropped five glossy EPs leading up to Laboratory, 110 Gold Ave SW letters win Roxane’s love – for Christian. The strength of this production his arrest. “subversive” material — anything of the artists’ skills to create a song this long-awaited release. By Edmond Rostand, translated When the men go off to war in Spain, Cyrano is the acting. Ten actors play all of Barry Gaines has covered Albuquerque Q: Among your influences are from books to LPs. It’s taken 40 years that just makes you want to move. With Watson’s sophisticated, whimsical by Michael Hollinger, adapted — 20 of them living under a pseudo- almost one million plays on soundcloud. sound resembles that of Ed Sheeran, keeps writing letters to Roxane, unbeknownst to the roles. Matthew Van Wettering, by Michael Hollinger and Aaron theater for the past 13 years. He is Violeta Parra and Victor Jara. Would Posner. Thurs-Sat at 8 pm; democracy — for Chilean com, the latest Octave Minds release is the Paper Kites, with a hint of Ben Christian, and she grows to love the soul behind the Mark Hisler, Brian Haney and Kelly a Professor Emeritus at UNM and you talk about the Nueva Sun 2 pm. $20-22, 243-0596, culture to reconnect with something special. Howard. The album features euphoric writer rather than Christian’s attractive appearance. O’Keefe provide fine support in a Administrator of the American Theater Canción movement of SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9 motherroad.org its long-repressed roots. soundscapes featuring xylophones, In a powerful scene, Cyrano learns of this change variety of characters. Critics Association. which they were a part? NANO STERN Q: Latin music is defined gentle guitar picking and the airy refined A: The Nueva Canción National Hispanic The Screaming by indigenous, African vocals of Watson, whose lyrics reflect Chilena is a musical Cultural Center, 1701 Females the maturity far beyond his years. Don’t 4th St SW and European elements. movement that emerged let Watson’s powdery young cheeks 7 pm, $12, 724-4771, How does that hybrid New Jersey’s indie-punk rock in Chile during the fool you; this UK heartthrob is covering Crow for This Dramedy with Serious Undertones 1960s, which combined nhccnm.org blend figure in your band trio is a little rough around the edges and not in a good way. Their new ground. His American tour is already By BARRY GAINES elements of folk music work? single “Wishing Well” contains beautiful underway. from Chile and South A: When you’re playing instrumentals, a tropical guitar feel, and USION Theatre Company continues boss Philipa belittles and shames him, entertaining. The relationships are often America with a strong social message. Latin American folk music, you precise percussions that piece together Sabrina Autry is an editorial intern for Fits practice of bringing plays directly then comes home to his slovenly mother corrosive but always intriguing. cannot avoid incorporating those Violeta Parra was at the front of a ABQ Free Press. to Albuquerque from New York City. With and her catatonic dog. Director Worley believes that the play generation that took folk music into a elements. I´ve been lucky to travel, “Year of the Rooster,” opening Novem- With Odie, Gil is a cocker, and a fulfills “a need for modern storytelling: new, more urban and socially aware playing with amazing musicians from ber 6 at The Cell Theatre, FUSION of- match between Odie and the champion something that speaks to us on our level context. Victor Jara was an incredible all corners, so I’ve learned directly fers local playgoers yet another regional cock owned by rich bully Dickie could in our own time with our own voices.” musician, actor and theater director. from European, African and indig- premiere. “Year of the Rooster” is written change everything. He was the biggest symbol of Nueva enous American musicians. by 20-something playwright Eric Dufault, Levi Shrader, impressive last season in – Barry Gaines Canción for his amazing legacy of Q: What can the audience expect at Pick up and it features a cocky rooster named FUSION’s “Tribes,” will play Odysseus. songs and as a martyr of General your concert at the NHCC? Odysseus Rex (“Odie” to his owner, Gil) Ana Romero “The personification of the rooster is Pinochet’s fascist dictatorship. our Nov. 19 issue that captivated New York critics. Levi Shrader plays the cockfighting rooster, Odysseus easily the most challenging aspect of the NOVEMBER 6-16 A: They can expect me to play my Rex, in FUSION’s regional premiere of “Year of the Local actor/director Aaron Worley is play,” said Worley. “You want the rooster Q: Your press release talks about heart out, to leave my whole soul on Rooster.” YEAR OF THE ROOSTER and read about pleased to be directing. to be unique and bird-like, but you don’t “Chile’s long-repressed roots music.” stage, to sing, to cry and laugh, to “‘Year of the Rooster’ is a quality cockfighting provides the background want the performance to drift into the The Cell Theatre, 700 1st Would you elaborate on that history? share stories and tunes, and hopefully people and books example of modern playwriting,” he of this fowl play. Odie is a gamecock, comical and absurd.” Street NW A: During the ‘60s and early ‘70s, expect to leave that room a little bit said. “This play signifies Dufault’s bold a fighter selectively bred and merci- FUSION favorites Paul Blott and Peter By Eric Dufault. Thurs. at 8 Chile lived through intense times, transformed, more aware, sensitive, in Design new voice as a theatrical storyteller, and lessly trained for the cock pit, unable Diseth will play Dickie and Gil. Frequent pm; Fri. Nov. 7 at 6 pm; Fri., both socially and artistically. The happy. audiences can appreciate that there is to understand the anvil of anger in his visitors Elizabeth Huffman and Skye Nov. 14 at 8 pm; Sat. at 2 pm unique movement that put Salvador and Fashion. still fresh life in the world of playwriting. heart that makes him a killer. Watterberg portray Lou and Philipa. & 8 pm; Sun. 6 pm. $35-40, Allende in power was full of art, Richard Oyama is a novelist and poet. Bold, brash tales await us.” His owner Gil has a stultifying life: he Huffman is also designing the costumes. 766-9412, liveatthecell.com color and music. He commonly The violent underground world of works at McDonald’s where his teenage “Year of the Rooster” is offbeat and PAGE 18 • November 5, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS BOOKS EVENTS ABQ FREE PRESS • November 5, 2014 • PAGE 19 Book Briefs COMPILED BY ABQ FREE PRESS STAFF CALENDAr The Worms Go In, cemetery crying “Come to me! 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The Helsinki Sun-Thurs 8 pm-12 am, Fri-Sat 9:30 pm-1:30 Don’t be am, Sun 11 am-11 pm Peralta December 8, 7:30, $13, Voodoo Glow Skulls, 7:30 pm, $10-15, 268-0044, outpostspace.org old woman who seems like a friendly collection has way too many umlauts in November 21, 7 pm, Michael Weaver Live Mustard Plug, Dan Potthast daunted by Bien Shur Lounge, 9th floor, weekend NOVEMBER 8-9 neighbor to a young man, until night the writers’ names, but you’re bound to entertainment & restaurant. Jukebox December 12, 8:30, $20, Swamp Leper Stomp the 700-plus November 21, 10 pm, Fresh Fridays w/ DJ Cello 2014: Death DTA, Torture Victim, Suspended, falls. Lovelorn Bibiana, although she TRANSFIGURED NIGHT find new favorites under the dots. BUFFALO THUNDER & Guests Impaled Offering pages. 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Jackson and Charlize Theron CLUBS & PUBS BRILLIANCE Peralta With Sirens, Beartooth, This Wild Life The Kosmos, 1715 5th St NW and black among other recognizable voices, November 27, 10 pm, Fractal frequencies w/ November 10, 8 pm, $20, Check Yo Ponytail THROUGH DECEMBER 3 Live music, poetry and coffee, in an informal, ops, spymasters and politics, it seems “You Have To F**king Eat” will be Kate Star Cherry Anniversary Tour: The Presets, Le1f, Chela, acoustically excellent setting. SISTER THE BAR November 28, 10 pm, “Leftover Soul” w/ DJ Franki Chan that Hayes has told us everything he recorded after casting is complete. 10:30 am, $15, 463-5824, brownpapertickets. 407 Central Ave NW, 242-4900, Leftovers November 11, 7 pm, $20, These Days Tour: AB knows. But he must have something com, chatterabq.org The text, of course, deals with parents sisterthebar.com November 30, 8 pm, 10 Drink Minimum Podcast Soul more up his sleeve: The ending makes vs. kids in the battle of getting healthy November 5, 9 pm, $7, Iceage w/ Chris Burnett, Bill Belmont & guests November 12, 6:30 pm, $16, The Word Alive, CHATTER CABARET: COMPOSERS FROM clear there will be a sequel. food down the little darlings’ throats. November 11, 9 pm, $12, Dum Dum Girls & December 1, 9 pm, Whiskey Business Karaoke! The Color Morale, Our Last Night, Dead Rab- THE GOLDEN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD Ex Cops Happy Hour Night Original author Adam Mansbach calls bits, Miss Fortune Hotel Andaluz, Casablanca Room, November 12, 9 pm, Free, Babes and Lilah December 7, 6 pm, Inkfried Art by Bailey November 13, 8 pm, $29, Dropkick Murphys, 125 2nd St NW, Downtown True-life Plot with eating “the other universal source of Rose Johnson Blood Or Whiskey Only five Sundays per year; tickets available parental anxiety” along with bedtime, November 29, 9 pm, $5, Anthony Leon and December 8, 9 pm, Whiskey Business Karaoke! November 15, 8 pm, $23, Arch Enemy, Kreator, 8 weeks in advance. Happy Hour Night Lurking Danger and the book comes with the same The Chain, Cowboys and Indian Huntress 5 pm, $25, appetizers and drinks additional, December 3, 9 pm, $10, Pallbearer December 15, 9 pm, Whiskey Business disclaimer as the first one: “You prob- November 20, 7 pm, $29.50, People Keep chatterabq.org Former New Mexican Lucinda Karaoke! Happy Hour Night Talking Tour: Hoodie Allen, Chiddy Bang, Taylor THROUGH DECEMBER 9 December 21, 8 pm, 10 Drink Minimum Podcast Delaney Schroeder wrote “A Hunt for ably shouldn’t read it to your kids.” Bennett WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12 Undoubtedly. Mansbach uses humor w/ Chris Burnett, Bill Belmont & guests November 23, 6:30 pm, $17, The Ghost Inside, Justice: The True Story of a Woman LOW SPIRITS December 22, 9 pm, Whiskey Business BEBE LALA and dirty words as he expresses what 2823 2nd St NW, lowspiritslive.com, prices Every Time I Die, Architects (UK), Hundredth, Los Griegos Library, 1000 Griegos Rd NW Wildlife Undercover Agent” to docu- Karaoke! Happy Hour Night Backtrack every parent is really thinking during subject to change December 29, 9 pm, Whiskey Business Combining Maryse Lapierre’s French influences ment her thrilling, life-threatening job November 5, 9 pm, Cahalen Morrison and November 25, 7 pm, $20, Monster Energy Out- the daily skirmish. If all else fails, you Karaoke! Happy Hour Night with Alicia Ultan’s original folk-rock inspired art as an undercover agent who tracked Country Hammer, The Gregg Daigle Band break Tour presents Attila, Crown The Empire, songs. an international ring of wildlife could promise the kids that, if they November 11, 9 pm, $15, Horse Feathers NOVEMBER 7-15 Like Moths To Flames, Sworn In 5 pm, Free, 761-4020, ampconcerts.org eat the food in front of them, you’ll November 18, 9 pm, Water Liars November 28, $35, Nobody’s Smiling Tour: poachers in the Alaskan wilderness. SNEAKERZ SPORTS BAR & GRILLE Common, Jay Electronica, Fly Union THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13 let them read this book. Aloud. At the November 21, 9 pm, Lovers and Madmen, In “Plunder of the Ancients: A True Eric + Erica 4100 San Mateo Blvd NE, 837-1708, December 9, 6:30 pm, $18, Eternal Enemies Story of Betrayal, Redemption and table. (akashicbooks.com) November 24, 9:30 pm, Big Sandy & His Fly sneakerzsportsbar.com Tour: Emmure, The Acacia Strain, Stray From DOUG LAWRENCE’S GRUPO DE JAZZ Rite Boys, The Shadowmen November 7, 9 pm-1 am, Cissy Ryder Band The Path, Fit For A King, Kublai Khan NUEVO MEXICANO December 1, 9 pm, Jerry Joseph November 8, 9:30 am, American Diabetes December 14, 8 pm, $18, Toontrack presents Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE December 9, 9 pm, Jessica Hernandez and Fundraising Tourney Abstract Reality Tour: Devin Townsend Project 7:30 pm, $15-20, outpostspace.org To list upcoming events in our calendar, email complete the Deltas November 14, 6-9 pm, Happy Hour with Electric and Animals As Leaders, Monuments Edric Band December 15, 7 pm, $28, Hot Topic presents event information to [email protected]. Space is limited; please send November 14, 9 pm-1 am, Karaoke Black Veil Brides, Falling In Reverse, Set It Off, your listing at least two weeks before the event date. November 15, 9:30 am, St Jude’s Children’s Drama Club Hospital Fundraising Tourney November 15, 9 pm, Shit Happens PAGE 20 • November 5, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS EVENTS EVENTS ABQ FREE PRESS • November 5, 2014 • PAGE 21 CALENDAr CALENDAr SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30 FILM SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8 THEATER NOVEMBER 11-16 November 8, 5 pm, Max Early, “Ears of Corn: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14 Listen” TIME FOR THREE CHATTER SUNDAY: RAHIM ALHAJ + THROUGH MARCH 15 YE OLDE CHRISTMAS FAIRE THROUGH NOVEMBER 16 HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS! November 8, 6:30 pm, Skype with author WANDERING POET KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW QUARTET Assistance League of Albuquerque, THE MUSICAL Claudia Gray. KiMo Theatre, 421 Central Ave NW 87102 Bach, Brahms, The Beatles and current The Kosmos, 1715 5th St NW PANDAS: THE JOURNEY HOME 5221 Lomas Blvd SE ¡BOCÓN! Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus, November 9, 3 pm, Gyasi Ross, “How to Say I Reading and discussion by the Palestinian- pop. Live music, poetry and coffee, in an informal, Lockheed Martin Dyna Theater, New Mexico Enjoy wine & hors d’oeuvres as you shop for Working Classroom, Paul Carpenter y Salazar 203 Cornell Dr NE Love You in Indian” American poet, Naomi Shihab Nye. 3 pm, $28-42, 768-3544, ampconcerts.org, acoustically excellent setting. Museum of Natural History, Old Town holiday decor and fashions. Theater, 423 Atlantic SW Inspired by Dr. Seuss’ original illustrations; audi- November 9, 5 pm, CB McKenzie, “Bad Country” 7 pm, free, 633-7370, [email protected] holdmyticket.com, kimotickets.com 10:30 am, $15, 463-5824, brownpapertickets. About the efforts made all over the world to save 5 pm, $20, assistanceleagueabq.org A bilingual fable filled with humor, magical ences are transported to the world of Whoville. November 11, 7 pm, Graphic Novel Book Club. com, chatterabq.org 925-5858, unmtickets.com for prices; for dates FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5 CHATTER SUNDAY: JUDITH GORDON + the Giant Panda. realism & song. November 11, 7 pm, Lois Abraham, “Circus Girl” SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15 and times: popejoypresents.com DAVID FELBERG FRED STURM AND FRIENDS 11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm; times will change in Times vary, $10 (special tickets are $25-50), November 12, 4:30 pm, The Whoodunit Mystery ABQ WOW POETRY SLAM December; 841-2800, nmnaturalhistory.org, 242-9267, workingclassroom.org The Kosmos, 1715 5th St NW Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE ABQ UPTOWN’S TREE LIGHTING Book Club. CHAMPIONSHIP ngpandas.com DECEMBER 5-24 Live music, poetry and coffee, in an informal, 3 pm, $10-15, 268-0044, outpostspace.org ABQ Uptown, 2200 Louisiana Blvd NE THROUGH NOVEMBER 29 November 12, 7 pm, Bookworks Book Club Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE acoustically excellent setting. NOVEMBER 7-DECEMBER 26 ABQ Uptown will kick off the holiday season IRVING BERLIN’S WHITE CHRISTMAS November 12-14, Quivira Coalition Conference, WOW stands for “Women of the World,” present- 10:30 am, $15, 463-5824, brownpapertickets. MONDAY, DECEMBER 1 with the lighting of its 45-foot Christmas tree. SPIRITS OF SUSPICION Albuquerque Little Theatre, Takes place at Embassy Suites, ing some of our best female performance poets: 5-8 pm, Free, 792-1929, 224 San Pasquale Ave SW 1000 Woodward Place NE Albuquerque Poet Laureate Jessica Helen com, chatterabq.org DAKHABRAKHA FILMS AT THE GUILD Foul Play Café, Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown, The Guild Cinema, 3405 Central Ave NE facebook.com/ABQUptown 2600 Louisiana Blvd NE Based on the beloved, timeless film, this heart- November 13, 10:30 am, Gingerbread Story Lopez, Jasmine Cuffee, Brooke von Blomberg, The Dirty Bourbon, 9800 Montgomery Blvd NE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19 $5-10 unless otherwise listed, 255-1848, Fun and mystery, with dinner. warming musical adaptation features seventeen Time with Contessa Connie Emily Bjustrom, Eva Crespin, Mercedez Holtry, Presented by ¡Globalquerque!, “ethno-chaos” WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL for more movies: guildcinema.com Fri-Sat 7 pm, $56.50, classic Irving Berlin songs. November 13, 7 pm, Heather Strang, “The Susanna Rinderle, Sara Roman, and Gigi Bella. CALIFORNIA GUITAR TRIO in Eastern European roots music. FUNDRAISER November 7-8, 10:30 pm, ABC’s of Death 2 $35 for children, 377-9593, foulplaycafe.com Fri-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm, $12-24, 242-4750, Quest” 7:30 pm, $5-10, 268-0044, outpostspace.org The Lodge at Santa Fe, Maria Benitez Theater, 7:30 pm, $17-22, ampconcerts.org, African-American Performing Arts Center, November 7-9, 4 pm and 8:15 pm, Bjork: albuquerquelittletheatre.org November 14, 1 pm, Second Cup of Coffee 750 N St Francis Dr, Santa Fe holdmyticket.com, 296-2726 310 San Pedro NE Biophilia Live NOVEMBER 5-9 Book Club DECEMBER 12-13 The group has merged with the Montreal Guitar Look for our interview with the band in the Come and enjoy a performance by Matunda, DECEMBER 5-28 November 14, 1 pm, Our World Home School November 7-9, 6:30 pm, Rocks in my Pockets MARK NEPO Trio to offer rock, jazz, global and classical November 19 issue of ABQ Free Press. the Albuquerque Children’s Refugee Choir; an WILLY WONKA, JR. Book Club November 8-9, 1 pm, Trouble in Paradise The KiMo Theater, 423 Central Ave NW FORBIDDEN BROADWAY Albuquerque Center for Spiritual Living, music. Produced by Southwest Roots Music. African drumming performance and dance class November 14, 7 pm, Naomi Shihab Nye, reading THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4 November 10-12, 6:30 pm, Art and Craft Wonka and his band of Oompa Loompas lead The Adobe Theater, 9813 4th Street NW 2801 Louisiana Blvd NE 7:30 pm, $25-29, (800) 838-3006, by Wamba; homemade African foods; and a Takes place at KiMo Theater, 423 Central November 10-12, 4:30 and 8:30 pm, Levitated you into the incredible world of Wonka’s factory. Broadway’s greatest musical legends meet Author talk and book signing. brownpapertickets.com screening of “Beyond Right and Wrong,” actual Avenue NW LEO KOTTKE Mass Sat-Sun 2 pm, $12, 821-8055, KiMoTickets.com, Broadway’s greatest satirist in this hilarious, lov- 6:30 pm, $30-100, 881-4311, abqcsl.org stories of truth and reconciliation after killings in November 15, 3 pm, Toby Smith, “Bush League THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20 KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW November 17-18, 6:15 pm, Dog Day Afternoon nmyoungactors.org ing, and endlessly entertaining tribute to some of 3 countries. Boys” Coffeehouse folk-rock guitarist and singer/song- November 19, 7 pm, Behind the Blue Veil the theatre’s greatest stars and songwriters. MICHAEL ANTHONY QUARTET 4-8 pm, $10-20, 994-2862 November 15, 4 pm, Teen Book Club. Pick a TOURS writer of “Twelve String Blues” and “Mudlark.” November 19, 9:15 pm, Pulp NOVEMBER 6-16 Fri-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 1:30 pm, $12-15, Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE book! 7:30 pm, $25-35, ampconcerts.org, November 20, 6:15 pm, Dog Day Afternoon SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16 898-9222, adobetheater.org THURSDAYS, FRIDAYS AND 7:30 pm, $15-20, 268-0044, outpostspace.org holdmyticket.com, kimotickets.com, 768-3544 November 21-26,4:45 and 8:30 pm, Days and THE YEAR OF THE ROOSTER November 16, 3 pm, Jerry Mitchell, “The Height Nights MADE IN ALBUQUERQUE HOLIDAY The Cell Theatre, 700 1st St NW SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13 of Secrecy” SATURDAYS, YEAR ROUND FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21 MONDAY, DECEMBER 8 CRAFT SHOW Meet Odysseus Rex. Not the man, but the bird!! November 16, 5:30 pm, Elaine Hampton, “Solar November 21-26, 3 and 6:45 pm, Pelican ALBUCREEPY DOWNTOWN GHOST PB&J Family Services, 209 San Pablo SE He is a rooster of super-human strength who MARIACHI CHRISTMAS Noon” LA SANTA CECILIA Dreams WALK RYAN ADAMS Buy unique, hand-crafted, Made In Albuquer- gladly enters the ring of life, taking on all the Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus, November 17, 7 pm, “Reading Purls” La Fonda Hotel Ballroom, November 21-November 22 10:30 pm, V/H/S By ABQ Trolley Co., start at Hotel Andaluz, Kiva Auditorium, 401 2nd St NW que gifts just in time for holiday giving: jewelry, world can sling at him 203 Cornell Dr NE November 18, 7 pm, Susan Croce Kelly, “Father 100 E San Francisco St, Santa Fe Viral 125 2nd St NW North Carolina-born singer/songwriter’s will kaftans, tote bags made from recycled rice bags, Thurs-Fri 8 pm, Sat 2 pm and 8 pm, Sun 6 pm, The show rings in the holiday season with exu- of Route 66” 2014 Grammy winners for Best Latin Rock, November 27-28, 5 and 7:30 pm, Alice’s Led by an experienced paranormal investiga- present his new album. Event with Jenny Lewis. crocheted and knitted hats and scarves, and $40, 766-9412, liveatthecell.com berant mariachi music and dance to represent November 19, 4:30 pm, American Girl Book Urban, or Alternative Album. Restaurant tor, Albucreepy features historic (and reportedly 7:30 pm, $35-61, 886-1251, ampconcerts.org more. Read our preview by Barry Gaines on page 17 the traditions of Mexico at Christmastime. Club. 8 pm, $22-27, ampconcerts.org, November 28-29, 10:30 pm, Christmas with the haunted) sites, including the KiMo Theater, Kiva 10-5 pm, Free, 994-2862, irrva.com of this issue. 8 pm, 925-5858, unmtickets.com, November 19, 7 pm, Robert T. Wood, “The Post- holdmyticket.com SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13 Dead Auditorium, old Bernalillo County Courthouse, popejoypresents.com war Transformation of Albuquerque” November 29-30, 4 and 8 pm, Forbidden Planet Wool Warehouse, and the former red light dis- ROUST THE HOUSE TEEN SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 NOVEMBER 7-16 November 20, 10:30 am, Thank goodness for CHRISTMAS FROM IRELAND WITH December 1-4, 6 pm, Level 5 trict known as “Hell’s Half Acre.” Rated PG13. PERFORMANCE NIGHT SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14 Story Time! LUNASA & KARAN CASEY December 1-4, 8:30 pm, Love: A Documentary MY NAME IS RUMPELSTILTSKIN THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING 8 pm, 90 minutes, $25 with valet parking and Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE November 20, 5-9 pm, Elegant Autumn at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, about painter Beth Moore-Love North 4th Theater, 4904 4th St NW The Adobe Theater, 9813 4th St NW THE KINGSTON TRIO CHRISTMAS free appetizers at Ibiza or MAS, albucreepy.com 7:30 pm, $3 at the door, 268-0044, Shops on Rio Grande. 1701 4th St SW December 7-11, 6 pm, Bird People A classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale about an This coming-of-age play also explores the Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus, outpostspace.org November 20, 7 pm, Katie Singer, “Electronic Contemporary Irish music in a Celtic December 7, 1 pm, Searching for Bobby Fischer irascible wizard who, in order to gain power, intrinsically enmeshed lives of whites and 203 Cornell Dr NE Silent Spring” MUSEUMS celebration of the holidays, with guest folk singer December 7-11, 4 and 8:45 pm, White Bird in a must possess a child of royal birth. blacks in the American South, 1945. Directed by Celebrate the holidays with The Kingston Trio, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 November 21, 6:30 pm, Kimberley Griffiths Little, Karan Casey. Blizzard 6 pm and 7:30 pm, $5, 821-8055, James Cady. performing from their Christmas album. “Forbidden” THROUGH DECEMBER 7 RACHMANINOFF RHAPSODY 8 pm, $27-32, 724-4771, ampconcerts.org December 12-13, 10:30 pm, Dumb and Dumber nmyoungactors.org Fri-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm, Thurs November 13, 3 pm, $34-44, 277-4569, unmtickets. December 13-14, 1 pm, Tokyo Story November 22, 3 pm, Harvey Girls Premiere with New Mexico Philharmonic Classical Series at LOS CHAVOS 7:30 pm; $15, 898-9222, com,popejoypresents.com MINIATURES & MORE December 12-15, 4:30 and 7:30 pm, Force DECEMBER 4-21 Carolyn Meyer Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus South Broadway Cultural Center, adobetheater.org Albuquerque Museum of Art, Majeure FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19 Takes place at KiMo Theater, 423 Central Pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk headlines, 1025 Broadway SE Work for sale by local artists as a fundraiser for December 16-19, 8:30 pm, 20,000 Days on ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS MY NOVEMBER 7-23 Avenue NW conducted by Oriol Sans. The fusion of New Mexico and Tejano music the Museum. Earth TWO FRONT TEETH AN IRISH CHRISTMAS November 22, 3 pm, Don Usner, “Chasing 6 pm, $20-68, 925-5858, unmtickets.com, creates a unique sound. Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus, 842-0111, albuquerquemuseum.org December 16-19, 4:30 and 6:30 pm, This Ain’t Duke City Repertory, The Cell Theatre, 26 MILES Dichos through Chimayo” UNM Bookstore, Albertsons supermarkets 7 pm, $15, more info: call 311, cabq.gov/sbcc 203 Cornell Dr NE No Mouse Music: The Story of Chris Strachwitz 700 1st St NW National Hispanic Cultural Center, November 23, 3 pm, Dick Bakken, “The Whiskey THROUGH DECEMBER 20 An Irish Christmas celebrates the rich traditions SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23 and Arhoolie Records Come and see our Resident Acting Company 1701 4th Street SW Epiphanies” of Ireland. DANCE December 20, time t.b.a, Dark Matters Presents: take on their biggest acting challenge yet – the A new play by Quiara Alegría Hudes, part of November 25, 4:30 pm, Magic Treehouse Book DAVID MAISEL/BLACK MAPS: AMERI- 8 pm, $20-54, unmtickets.com, CHATTER SUNDAY: JUDITH GORDON, Horror Bites! An Annual Event of Short Movies! roles of seven-year-old children. the Siembra Latin Theatre Festival. Also will be Club. CAN LANDSCAPE AND THE APOCALYP- popejoypresents.com WIND QUINTET + PIANO NOVEMBER 6-8 December 21-23, 3:30 and 8:30 pm, Being Thurs-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm, $12-20, 797-7081, shown December 4-14 at Teatro Paraguas in November 29, Small Business Saturday/Indies TIC SUBLIME; LUZ RESTIRADA: LATIN The Kosmos, 1715 5th St NW There dukecityrep.com Santa Fe. First. AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY; PERMA- Live music, poetry and coffee, in an informal, Yjastros: Vivimos! December 21-23, 6 pm, Brother From Another Thurs-Sat, 7:30 pm, Sat 2 pm, $15-18, BOOKS & POETRY November 29, 3 pm, Mark Stevens, “Trapline” NENT COLLECTION, JONSON GALLERY; acoustically excellent setting. National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 4th St SW SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 Planet 724-4771, nhccnm.org November 30, 1 pm, Jennifer Jacobson reads and THE GIFT 10:30 am, $15, 463-5824, brownpapertickets. Yjastros and the National Institute of Flamenco December 26-30, 4:30 and 8:30 pm, Awake: The CRAFT SHOW IN EDGEWOOD NOVEMBER 5-DECEMBER 31 Tarot. UNM Art Museum, 1 University of New Mexico com, chatterabq.org present their first performance since the fire that NOVEMBER 7-30 Life of Yogananda $10 for 10-15 minute session. November 30, 5 With donation, 277-4001, unmartmuseum.org destroyed the NIF’s building. Edgewood Senior Center, 114 Quail Trail, BOOKWORKS December 26-27, 10:30 pm, Halloween- The pm, Harry Potter Book Club. NOVEMBER 29-30 Thurs 7 pm, Fri-Sat 8 pm, $15-45, 724-4771, Edgewood, NM 87015 THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER 4022 Rio Grande NW, 344-8139, bkwrks.com THROUGH JANUARY 4 Original 1978 Fright! The Vortex Theatre, 2900 Carlisle NE December 1, 5 pm, Vamos a Leer Book Club. nhccnm.org Music, crafts, food, and hands-on fun for Free unless otherwise noted, some events take DE PROFUNDIS December 26-30, 6:30 pm, Strange Little Cat The classic comedy tells the story of a small December 1, 7 pm, Renato Rosaldo, “The Day everyone. place at other venues as noted. GODS AND HEROES: MASTERPIECES St. Therese Catholic Church, 4th & Mildred NW Ohio household forced to house a larger-than- of Shelly’s Death” NOVEMBER 7-9 9-3:30 pm, 459-9346 November 5, 7 pm, Tony Hoagland, “Twenty FROM THE ECOLE DES BEAUX-ARTS, Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 114 Carlisle SE life personality as he recuperates after an December 2, 7 pm, Paul Citrin, “Lights in the FESTIVALS, FIESTAS & FAMILY Poems that Could Save America and Other PARIS The 14-voice a cappella men’s ensemble greets OTHER WORLDS SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20 accident. Forest” Essays” Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, the holiday season with Conrad Susa’s AirDance ArtSpace, 3030 Isleta Blvd SW Fri- Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm, $22, 247-8600, December 3, 7 pm, Linda Tigges, “Spanish THROUGH NOVEMBER 30 GILDAN NEW MEXICO BOWL November 6, 7 pm, Valerie Plame, “Burned,” a 19th & Mountain Rd NW enchanting “Carols and Lullabies: Christmas Aerial dance in a new production with vortexabq.org Colonial Lives” University Stadium, University Blvd SE & Vanessa Pierson thriller Includes 140 paintings, sculptures, and works in the Southwest.” 12 aerialists, 4 musicians and stunning ANNUAL JEWELRY, CRAFT AND GIFT December 4, 7 pm, Jim Albrecht, “Stupid Haiku” Avenida Cesar Chavez November 6, 7 pm, Radley Balko, “Rise of the on paper dating from the 17th through 19th Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 3 pm, $10-15, 266-4240, choreography. SHOW SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9 December 7, 3 pm, Nasario Garcia & Dolores It’s Mountain West Conference vs. Conference Warrior Cop” centuries. depro.org Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm, $10-15, 842-9418, Sumner & Dene, 517 Central Ave NW, Aragon, Tamales USA at this 9th annual New Mexico college WUTHERING HEIGHTS South Broadway Cultural Center, ACLU/APD Tues-Sun 9-5 pm, Free, 243-7255, airdanceartspace.com Downtown December 9, 7 pm, Kim Krisco, “Sherlock football bowl, which will be broadcast on ESPN. Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus, Forward event, cabq.gov/sbcc cabq.gov/museum NETSKY It’s all about crafts: ceramic, glass, fabric, resin, Holmes,” “The Golden Years” El Rey Theatre, 622 Central Ave SW Kickoff: 12:20 pm MT, $25-400+, (505) 925- 203 Cornell Dr NE November 7, 7 pm, Ron Pevny, “Conscious gold and silver, oh my. Band from Europe with a blend of heavy dance 5999, unmtickets.com, Aquila Theatre brings to life Emily Brontë’s Living, Conscious Aging” Free, Weekdays 10-6, Sat 10-5, Sun 12-4, floor bass + beats. gildannewmexicobowl.com classic story of all-consuming passion. November 8, 10:30 am, Big on Animals. 842-1400, sumnerdene.com 8:30 pm, $15-20, 18+, 510-2582, holdmyticket. 3 pm, $20-54, 925-5858, unmtickets.com, November 8, 3 pm, Gayle Lauradunn, “Reaching com, elreyabq.com popejoypresents.com for Air” PAGE 22 • November 5, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS EVENTS FILM ABQ FREE PRESS • November 5, 2014 • PAGE 23 Passion and Rage: ‘The Blue Room’ Film Briefs CALENDAr and ‘Listen Up Philip’ My Brave Face: THROUGH JANUARY 5 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9 THROUGH DECEMBER 2 NOVEMBER 21-ONGOING On “St. Vincent” BY RICHARD OYAMA NATIVE AMERICAN PORTRAITS: POINTS ANTI-SEMITISM: THEN AND NOW NANCY DWYER: WHAT STILL EARTH OF INQUIRY Congregation Albert, 3800 Louisiana Blvd NE David Richard Gallery, Railyard Arts District, photo-eye Gallery, 541 S Guadalupe, Santa Fe he French do it better. The erotic policier, that is. literature is filled with monsters like Picasso and Pol- The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Labo- The Holocaust & Intolerance Museum of New 544 S. Guadalupe St, Santa Fe The work of Mitch Dobrowner. Reception: Friday, TIn the opening credits to “The Blue Room,” there lock. Philip’s contempt for the women in his life belongs ratory of Anthropology, Museum Hill, 710-708 Mexico remembers the 76th Anniversary of Free, (505) 983-9555, davidrichardgallery.com November 21, 5-7 pm Camino Lejo, (off Old Santa Fe Trail), Santa Fe Kristallnacht, The Night of Broken Glass, with Free, (505) 988-5159, photoeye.com are establishing shots of the eponymous hotel and its to the machismo of Hemingway and Mailer, and his More than 50 images from the Palace of Gover- speakers and Holocaust survivors. THROUGH DECEMBER 30 appointments, tableaux of fervid, naked bodies and filmic mentor Ike Zimmerman (Jonathan Pryce). Ike has DECEMBER 1-31 nors Photo Archives, spanning 100 years. 2 pm, Free and open to the public, LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED an off-screen female voice asking, “Did I hurt you?” A a barbed relationship with his daughter, his own history With museum admission, (505) 476-1250, nmholocaustmuseum.org Jewish Community Center, BILL TONDREAU PANORAMIC drop of blood blossoms on a sheet. The classical music of infidelities and vaguely resembles Saul Bellow. indianartsandculture.org DECEMBER 7-ONGOING 5520 Wyoming Blvd NE ALBUQUERQUE PHOTOGRAPHS throbs and swells. This is a film about sexual passion. What makes all of this less supportable is that writer- THROUGH JANUARY 21 Mark M. Feldman Stone Sculpture Sumner & Dene, 517 Central Ave NW, Julien (Mathieu Amalric) and Esther (Stéphanie director Alex Ross Perry places “Listen Up Philip” in our SETTING THE STANDARD: THE FRED Showcase Downtown EVERYBODY’S NEIGHBOR: HARVEY COMPANY AND ITS LEGACY Free, jccabq.org for open hours, Free, Weekdays 10-6, Sat 10-5, Sun 12-4, Cléau) meet for their clandestine affair through secret post-feminist present, not in Roth’s pre-feminist Sixties VIVIAN VANCE and TELLING NEW MEXICO: STORIES markmfeldmansculptor.wix.com 842-1400, sumnerdene.com notes and signals. At first Amalric’s Julien, with his when the novel still mattered. One feels a sour, acrid Albuquerque Museum, 19th & Mountain Rd NW FROM THEN AND NOW bug-eyed gaze, irritated me, but director Amalric won taste to Philip and Ike’s hermetic, sealed-off world like NOVEMBER 7-DECEMBER 12 DECEMBER 4-27 She got her start at the KiMo Theatre and The New Mexico History Museum, out, since Julien’s surly bemusement in the face of a a hangover from a bad party. There’s a conspicuous Albuquerque Little Theatre, and you can view 113 Lincoln Ave, Santa Fe SECOND HAND PLANTS FEMALE GAZE/MALE FIGURE police interrogation comes to seem exactly right. He lack of warmth. My guess is that even a monumental her mementos and participate in this multimedia Opening events: Sunday, December 7, Inpost Artspace, Outpost Performance Space, Matrix Fine Art, 3812 Central Ave SE barely knows his own mind. writer like Ike Zimmerman has to go down to the local Bill Murray’s face saves the day in “St. Vincent.” exhibit. 10 am-5 pm 210 Yale SE How do women view men? Is it through the lens With museum admission, 243-7255, Free with admission; Sundays free to NM How does such an affair start? It begins with a barbershop and chew the fat once in awhile. But Perry He may’ve performed variations of his character The work of Christa Dalien. Reception: Friday, of desire or objectivity? What does it mean to Vincent, an unrepentant grouch who smokes, cabq.gov/museum residents; children 16 and under free daily, November 7, 5-8 pm, Free, 268-0044, reverse the roles and examine how women look chance encounter on a roadside under golden trees. resuscitates the cliché of the solitary artist. (505) 476-5200, nmhistorymuseum.org gambles and drinks, but it’s the topography of scars THROUGH JANUARY 31 outpostspace.org at men? Esther reminds Julien that when they were young he When Elizabeth Moss, who plays Ashley, Philip’s Wed-Sun 10-6 pm, Tues 10-4, Free, 268-8952, and pouches and creases in Murray’s sad-sack mug ARTWARD BOUND NOVEMBER 7-DECEMBER 13 did not court her. She invites him to kiss, a delirium photographer girlfriend, appears on screen, she lights FRED HARVEY AND THE MAKING OF THE matrixfineart.com reminiscent of Hitchcock’s “Vertigo.” up the miasmic gloom. Ashley proves to be the most that gives his Brooklyn lay-about needed heft. The AMERICAN WEST NOVEMBER 16-MARCH 15 SWAY. SHIFT. VERSION 4.0 DECEMBER 4-27 Esther is married to Nicolas (Olivier Mauvezin), an likeable, compelling figure in a dour bunch of writers curmudgeon-and-kid plot is the best Hollywood Millicent Rogers Museum, 1504 Millicent Rogers SCA Contemporary, 524 Haines Ave NW Rd, Taos, (575) 758-2462 ailing pharmacist. Julien lives with a wife Delphine (Léa and academics traipsing their own desperations and offers nowadays to a 64-year-old actor like Murray. BRILLIANT: CARTIER IN THE 20th (1 block S. of I-40 between 5th & 6th) 2014 INTERNATIONAL JURIED PRINT Harvey family items, jewelry and pottery sold in CENTURY Presented by Geomorphic Tank. Reception and EXHIBITION Drucker) and their daughter Suzanne (Mona Jaffart) ambitions. There’s a remarkable moment when, after But he’s had an interesting late career in films the shops, the role of the railroad. Denver Art Museum performance by Shola Cole: Friday, November New Grounds Printmaking Lab, in a modernist glass house that signifies bourgeois another dismissive argument with Philip, the camera such as Sofia Coppola’s “Lost in Translation,” With museum admission, millicentrogers.org Precious objects, the history of the company 7, 5-8 pm, Free, 228-3749, 3812 Central Ave SE success and entrapment. lingers as an array of emotions moves over Moss’s Wes Anderson’s “Rushmore” and Jim Jarmusch’s THROUGH FEBRUARY 15 and its rise to prominence. scacontemporary.com Reception: December 4, 5-8 pm The stealth assignations take place amid the banality face. Her exquisite turn hijacks the movie. It should “Broken Flowers.” Some of what Murray conveys in Free, 268-8952, newgroundsprintshop.com With museum admission, (720) 865-5000, of farm machinery and chemists’ shops. Lust irradiates have been about Ashley. WOODEN MENAGERIE: MADE IN NEW denverartmuseum.org NOVEMBER 7-DECEMBER 20 his eyes is an inexpressible sadness, while the nicks DECEMBER 5-31 the mundane. MEXICO CARTE BLANCHE and MANDALA and dead patches indicate a history of excess and Museum of International Folk Art, 706 Camino ARTSPREE Central Features, 109 5th St NW SOUTHWEST SPLENDOR At first Stephanie Cléau’s Esther was hurt. He’s one of the few American actors who is Lejo, Santa Fe, (505) 476-1200 30+ artists and their collages; photography Purple Sage Galeria, 201 San Felipe NW, something of a blank to me, but she capable of a wry drollery. That has to do with Mur- 107 artworks by masters of the wood-carving CLOSING NOVEMBER 7 and video from Hillerbrand+Magsamen. Old Town proves more the aggressor than Julien, craft. ray’s stillness. The comedian has made himself into Reception: November 7, 6-8 pm, Free, Free, Call for hours, 450-4059, passing him notes and arranging the With museum admission, internationalfolkart.org ART FROM BEIJING 243-3389, centralfeatures.com purplesagegaleria.com a superb character actor in lead roles, a minimalist Park Fine Art, 323 Romero St NW meetings. Her cool exterior is matched by whose economy of means manages to signify more. THROUGH MARCH 29 Free, 764-1900, parkfineart.com NOVEMBER 7-JANUARY 13 DECEMBER 6-31 Julien’s inarticulate desire. She is a femme Writer-director Theodore Melfi gives Vincent a PAINTING THE DIVINE: IMAGES OF MARY fatale with guile. CLOSING NOVEMBER 9 ANNUAL HOLIDAY SHOW WILLIAM DAVIS: A SOUTHWEST handful of slapstick moments and clever ripostes, IN THE NEW WORLD There are a couple of quietly terrifying Corrales Bosque Gallery, EXPLORATION IN GLASS while Naomi Watts plays a tough Russian “lady of New Mexico History Museum, BEWITCHING IV 4685 Corrales Rd, Corrales Act I Gallery, 218 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos moments on a beach and at Christmas 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe Stranger Factory, 109 Carlisle Blvd NE Opening reception: Friday, November 7, 5-8 pm 10-5 PM, (575) 758-7831, actonegallery.com that dramatize an unpleasant truth: love the night.” Chris O’Donnell is a clever Irish priest Religious art that survived from churches in Halloween group show of all things dark and Celebrate this co-op gallery’s 20th anniversary who’s more exemplary than defrocked. Vincent’s Mexico, Peru and New Mexico. spooky. and murder can be entwined like a sailor’s and grab great gifts and ornaments. redemption is a bit over-the-top, though I admit to With museum admission, (505) 476-5200, Free, 508-3049, strangerfactory.com 898-7203, corralesbosquegallery.com knot. Based on a George Simenon novel, nmhistorymuseum.org Reach ABQ’s most “The Blue Room” hurtles to its tragic, being a sentimentalist at heart and tearing up a bit. CLOSING NOVEMBER 10 NOVEMBER 9-30 THROUGH MAY 2015 informed audience bilious fate. The end credits provide the most hilarious use of a IN•STRUCT TRICIA LOVE and MARY SUNDSTROM False equivalency Dylan song I’ve ever seen. – Richard Oyama SECRETS OF THE SYMBOLS VSA North Fourth Art Center, 4904 4th St NW GRAMER Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, Artwork by artist teachers, administrative staff To Advertise: Most movies about novelists are The Old Schoolhouse Gallery, 12504 N Hwy 14 unsatisfying, since they fail to exteriorize in poetic or Whenever this reviewer sees a movie that purports to 750 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe and volunteers of VSA/North Fourth Art Center. (1/4 N of Frost Rd), San Antonito Contact It’s back and it’s not bad What signs and symbols, colors and motifs Monday-Friday 10-4 pm, Free, vsartsnm.org New work from both artists. Reception: Friday, Donavan Mosley equivalent images the interior struggle of the writing dramatize a writer’s life, my ear is alert to tonal lapses meant in Spanish colonial art. We resisted seeing the “The Hundred-Foot CLOSING NOVEMBER 22 November 9, 5-8 pm, Free, 281-1250, (505) 345-4080, process. Pulling out a sheet of paper from the type- and falsities like a dog. I cannot help it. It’s what I do. With museum admission, (505) 982-2226, theoldschoolhousegallery.com ext. 806 writer, balling it up and tossing it into the wastebasket Perry’s script is often smart and knowing, but his film Journey” the first time it was released in August, spanishcolonial.org EUGENE NEWMANN, SELECTIONS: [email protected] NOVEMBER 14-16 was the standard cliché. The alcoholic lost weekend risks the danger of not being entirely convincing with fearing it was a predictable chick flick with no real FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7 THEN AND NOW was another. “Barton Fink” was a cartoon. its nagging voiceover, telling the viewer what to think conflict to keep the modern-day Romeo and Juliet David Richard Gallery, Railyard Arts District, ALDEN MARIN BENEFIT FOR HUNTING + GATHERING: NEW ADDI- 544 S. Guadalupe St, Santa Fe Crossword Puzzle appears on page 24 “Listen Up Philip” presents the portrait of the novel- rather than allowing her to discover it for herself. At one apart. It is. ST. MARTIN’S HOPE CENTER ist as misanthrope and creep. Jason Schwartzman, point, Philip responds to Ike’s invitation to his country TIONS TO THE MUSEUM COLLECTION Free, (505) 983-9555, davidrichardgallery.com Page Coleman Gallery and Scott Michael Beautiful scenes of the French countryside NM Museum of Art, 107 West Palace Ave, Gallery behind Manson-like facial hair and coal-like eyes, house by saying, “I emphatically accept.” That’s one (although the main action is obviously filmed on Santa Fe, NM CLOSING NOVEMBER 30 Page Coleman Gallery, 109 California St seethes a lot. As he awaits the publication of his word too many. The phrase betrays itself as written a sound stage in California) can’t save it, but the Tues-Sun 10-5 pm, Free, (505) 476-5041, 23rd ANNUAL NATIONAL PASTEL NE/6320 Linn Avenue NE (near NE corner nmartmuseum.org blockbuster second novel, he infects those around him rather than spoken. It felt false. immigrant twist (Indian family comes to France) PAINTING EXHIBITION of San Pedro and Central in the International with displaced rage. In the end the only reason to care about a sad, lonely, NOVEMBER 8- JANUARY 4 Expo New Mexico, 300 San Pedro Dr NE District) and the town folks’ solidarity against the racist For more information: pastelsnm.org Scott Michael Gallery, 681-5669, scottmichael- The film invites the viewer to connect the title mean, miserable man named Philip was the work actions of a few make the plot seem fresher than it ATOMIC STEaM PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW gallery.com; Page Coleman Gallery, 238-5071, character to novelist Philip Roth, most notably through itself. But where are the preoccupations with Jewish- REBECCA MANNSCHRECK: is. The young-couple-in-love storyline is expected, National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, pagecolemangallery.com CREATURES, TAME & WILD Philip’s corrosive tongue and the Pop Art-y font of his ness, scabrous, life-enhancing sexuality and age, the 601 Eubank Blvd SE, at the entrance to Sandia Opening reception: Friday, November 14, but the older couple (Helen Mirren and Om Puri) Act I Gallery, 218 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos book covers. The voiceover by Eric Bogosian is meant scandalous satire? What if “Listen Up”’s Philip had Science & Technology Park 5-8 pm, Free forge a hard-won bond made all the sweeter by their 10-5 pm, Free, (575) 758-7831, to invest the film with a literary quality, though I found actually written “Goodbye, Columbus” and “Portnoy’s Individuals shared their photographic talent and Contemporary artist Alden Marin has generously initial enmity. actonegallery.com it mostly intrusive in a story that pretends to be more Complaint”? eye for everything science, technology, engi- donated 218 pieces of original work. 100% of With an established French restaurant up against neering, art and mathematics (STEaM). sales will help fund mental health services for complex than it is. But he didn’t. Daily 9-5 pm, Admission: $8 for adults, $7 for the homeless in Albuquerque through the work Essentially, Philip is artist-as-monster. The question its exotic new neighbor, Maison Mumbai, you’ll feel seniors and youth, nuclearmuseum.org of St. Martin’s. is why we should care, since the history of art and Richard Oyama is a novelist. the need to cook something fabulous afterward, from any culture. – Stephanie Hainsfurther PAGE 24 • November 5, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS CROSSWORD

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