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Stars Trek to ABQ Comic Con P age 25 2 • December 30, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS Editor’s a&e Picks ABQ FREE PRESS • December 30, 2015 • 3 ABQ Free Press Pulp News Journal Publisher-emeritus Dies ABQ FREE PRESS STAFF REPORT compiled by abq free press staff A&E: Three to See hompson H. Lang, long-time publisher of the are slipped inside, and the whole thing is zapped with Weathercast Albuquerque Journal, died on Dec. 26. He was 69. electricity to encourage everything to fuse. “To be honest, T [Page 25] #scifi A Chinese TV news channel has employed an artificial Lang took over the newspaper in 1971 at the age I don’t want them to be too similar to Dylan,” Jacques told of 24 upon the death of his father, C.T. Lang, and intelligence robot as a weather reporter on its live morning The Post. “My bond with Dylan … I’d never want these oversaw its modernization, its entry into the computer show, raising concerns among the country’s journalists puppies to be an exact replica. We’re not trying to replace age and its winning of a Pulitzer Prize. He turned over that it could threaten their jobs. “I’m happy to start my him.” control of the newspaper to his brother, Bill Lang, in We Keep Your Roof new work on the winter solstice,” robot XiaoIce said 2012, according to his obituary in the newspaper. Healthy and Watertight during her debut in December, the India Times-owned Not dead yet “Tom was very fortunate to be able to lead the website, Economic Times, reported. XiaoIce is actually a Albuquerque Journal for over 40 years, developing If you thought its massive data hack killed Ashley Madi- piece of software developed by Microsoft using the cloud new ventures along the way, Journal Center the most Call son, the cheating-spouses web site, think again. Since its 505-345-7663 and big data. In September, Chinese social and gaming notable, and at the same time raising very talented run-in with hackers who posted users’ names on the Web, twin daughters,” Bill Lang told the newspaper. giant Tencent published its first business report written by For Your Free Estimate the site has added 4 million subscribers, bringing its adul- Tom Lang was at the helm of the Journal when, af- ABQ Comic Con a robot, stoking fears among local journalists as it could tery-minded membership to 43 million – including 87,596 ter publication of an investigative series on organized make significant forays into the state-controlled media in For All your Roofing Needs… K-Ram Roofing is There women who joined in the last month of August alone, the crime, the paper was sued for defamation by local ABQ Convention Center China and cost them their jobs. attorney William C. Marchiondo. After a bruising legal Before and After The Storm… No Worries company said. battle that influenced state and local politics through Friday, Jan. 8 - Sunday, Jan. 10 Re-petting Free to donate? the mid-1980s, the Journal won the defamation case. We Offer High-Quality Residential Roofing Services: In the early 1980s, Lang moved the headquarters of [Page 30] #sculpture Dylan, a boxer, meant everything to Laura Jacques, a dog Gay rights activists say the Food and Drug Administra- the morning Journal and its afternoon joint-operating walker from West Yorkshire, England, so she cloned him partner, The Albuquerque Tribune, from Downtown • Roof Repair tion’s decision to lift its ban on blood donations from • Roof Installation when he died. After the 8-year-old canine died from a gay men falls short. The FDA announced in December it to what is now Journal Center. The Tribune closed in 2008. • Roof Replacement brain tumor, Jacques’ partner, Richard Remde, packed was replacing the lifetime ban with a new policy barring up some samples of Dylan’s tissue and got on a plane Lang was an avid pilot who used the Journal’s • Preventative Measures donations only from men who have had sex with a man corporate jet to fly reporters around the country on Anna Reser’s to South Korea. His destination was the Sooam Biotech Re- in the previous year. “I don’t know anyone who hasn’t stories and on employee-incentive getaways. He also “System Visions” We have been proudly servicing the search Foundation, which clones dogs for $100,000 a pup, had sex in the past year,” said Todd Larsen, a California piloted mercy missions and delivered zoo animals and Albuquerque area for more than 35 years. The Washington Post reported. On Dec. 26, the couple gay activist, told the Redwood Times newspaper. “I don’t out-of-town speakers to Albuquerque. GRAFT Gallery welcomed a new boxer into the family. A second clone see that this is any progress at all.” Blood donations from He is survived by daughters Brittany and Maggie and Friday, Jan. 8 - 3738 Arno Street • Albuquerque, NM 87107 of Dylan followed the next day. Sooam clones puppies gay men had been barred since 1983 after the discovery was preceded in death by his son, Tommy who died in by taking donor eggs and pulling the genetic material that HIV, which causes AIDS, was being transmitted an ATV accident in 2002. Saturday, Jan. 30 (505) 345-ROOF out of them. Then, cells cultivated from the donor dog through transfusions. [Page 26] #Americana Featured RENTAL Property Dave Rawlings Netherwood Park, Albuquerque Machine National Hispanic Cultural Center Monday, Jan. 11 A full-service residential and commercial property management brokerage serving both renters Outsider Art and property owners. 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Editor: [email protected] ABQ Free Press Local Briefs Associate Editor, News: [email protected] Why the APD Silence, Delays in Skate Park Shooting Probe? compiled by abq free press staff Michelle Lujan Grisham, say the according to documents released Associate Editor, Arts: [email protected] BY DAN KLEIN U.S. Department of Homeland by the city. “Detective Casaus Advertising: [email protected] Baby names Security can still get an exten- also admitted to participating unah Green has what should be a demanding that APD do so. A judge sided sion of the deadline for REAL in an ongoing game where he Top baby names for kids born in On Twitter: @FreeABQ Msimple request of the Albuquerque with Green and ordered it released. ID enforcement if Gov. Susana and several officers would slap New Mexico during 2015 were Police Department. The mother of the APD’s refusal to release the video until Martinez and the Legislature’s the genitalia of other officers,” Editor Noah, Elijah and Liam for boys slain 17-year-old Jaquise Lewis, the black ordered to by a judge raises more dis- leadership verify to DHS that said an Aug. 31, 2011 letter from Dan Vukelich and Mia, Sophia and Isabella for kid who was shot twice in the back at a turbing questions about its behavior and they agree on legislation that then-police chief Ray Schultz to (505) 345-4080. Ext. 800 girls, according to the New Mex- city skate park in March, just wants the motives. ensures REAL ID compliance. the director of the New Mexico ico Department of Health’s Bu- Associate Editor, News police to treat her like a human being. If the cops have already decided that Without the verification, as of Law Enforcement Training Acad- reau of Vital Records and Health Dennis Domrzalski Green also wants answers from the cops it was a case of self-defense and have Jan. 10, New Mexico drivers’ emy. “Casaus also admitted to Statistics. Next most popular (505) 306-3260 and everyone else. She wants to know refused to arrest the shooter, why didn’t licenses will no longer be consid- having sex while on duty several for boys were: Michael, Josiah, why police keep insisting that the man they release the video? What were they ered valid forms of identification times. Detective Shawn Casaus Alexander, Gabriel, Aiden, Jacob Associate Editor, Arts who shot her son did so in self-defense. afraid of? Who are they trying to protect? to enter federal facilities. was given an 80-hour suspension; and Daniel. Next most popular Samantha Anne Carrillo She wants to know why they haven’t 40 hours served and 40 hours for girls were: Ava, Olivia, Emma, (505) 345-4080 ext. 804 arrested the man who killed Jaquise, who ‘The [APD] treat us like held in abeyance or 6 months. In Sofia, Abigail, Aria and Emily. Frisky cop was shot while he was walking away addition, Casaus was transferred Design with his back to the shooter. we are not human beings. Three Albuquerque police out to the Criminal Nuisance Terry Kocon, C.S. Tiefa She wants to know why the cops appear These are supposed to Vital tree officers who passed the recent Abatement Unit.” to be protecting the killer and why be the people who help us sergeant’s test but weren’t pro- Photography they’ve portrayed her son as a monster. recycling Mark Bralley, Mark Holm, Juan Antonio Labreche, Liz Lopez, moted have lengthy disciplinary Green wants to know why African-Amer- out, but it’s the opposite’ School funding Adria Malcolm The City of Albuquerque and histories, according to documents ican organizations such as the NAACP — Green PNM offer free recycling of released by the Albuquerque A South Valley state senator has Contributors this issue and Black Lives Matter haven’t taken up Christmas trees and Christmas Police Department. But an attor- pre-filed a proposed constitu- Lisa Barrow, Andrew Beale, Joan Friedland, Paul Gessing, Jacquise’s cause. She wants the answers Who was the shooter? Police say they lights Jan. 2-10. No artificial trees ney for one of the officers said tional amendment that extends Gary Glasgow, Heath Haussamen, Juani Hopwood, for herself, for Jaquise and for his 6-year- know. Does he have law enforcement will be accepted. Trees will be ac- there is nothing in his client’s an increased draw from the State Ariane Jarocki, Megan Kamerick, Bob Klein, Dan Klein, old brother and 8-year-old sister. Especial- connections? Is he an informant? An im- cepted at the Montessa Park Con- disciplinary background that Land Grant Permanent Fund to Dan Mayfield, Sayrah Namasté, Robert Reich, ly the sister, who cries every day, draws portant person’s son? Hell, KOB TV aired venience Center, 3512 Los Picaros prevents him from becoming address a $120 million annual M. Brianna Stallings, Richard Stevens, Rene Thompson, pictures of Jaquise and asks, “When is he an interview with the shooter not too long Rd. S.E. (873-6607), the Eagle a sergeant under APD’s rules. funding gap starting in 2017. Tom Tomorrow, Alan Webber coming back?” after the incident. Why can’t the cops tell Rock Convenience Center, 6301 The disciplinary histories of That’s when a state constitutional But nine months after Jaquise was us who he is? Eagle Rock Ave. N.E. (857-8318), the three officers include minor amendment passed by voters in Copy Editors killed, Green has been given no answers Here are other huge problems with this 3401 Ladera Dr. N.W. The trees and major car crashes, abusing 2003 sunsets, meaning the public Wendy Fox Dial or information from APD about the case case: APD says this was a case of self-de- will be ground up for mulch. take-home car privileges, missing school system’s annual draw Jim Wagner that has raised so many questions and fense. But that’s not the department’s City officials warn that Christmas court dates and improper use of from the $15 million fund rolls generated so few answers. The only call to make. The only one who can make lights should not be disposed of force. But one officer, Det. Shawn back to 2003 levels. Sen. Michael Sales Director (505) 345-4080 scraps of detail that she has, she has had the determination that the shooting was in blue recycling bins. Casaus, played a bizarre game Padilla, an Albuquerque Demo- Pam Gutierrez x803 to fight for, and fight pretty much on her self-defense is the Bernalillo County of slapping his fellow officers’ crat, wants to make the increased own. District Attorney’s Office. But APD still Sales Representatives (505) 345-4080 testicles and penises, according to draw for schools permanent – or “The [APD] treat us like we are not hasn’t given Kari Brandenburg’s office the REAL ID Abby Feldman x802 Christian Horstmann x817 the documents. Casaus also ad- at least until New Mexicans vote human beings,” Green says as she cries files on the case. Cory Calamari x810 Teddy Mitchell x814 U.S. Senators Tom Udall and mitted to having sex on the job, to change it. The loss of $120 mil- when talking about her son’s case. “These And then there is the issue of whether Garrett Ferguson x809 John Wehner x812 Martin Heinrich and New an infraction that in some states lion in 2017 would mean the loss are supposed to be the people who help Jaquise ever fired a gun that night. I Mexico’s congressional repre- is grounds for revocation of an of about 2,000 school teachers, he Operations Manager us out, but it’s the opposite. From day looked at the video and didn’t see Jaquise sentatives, Ben Ray Luján and officer’s law enforcement license, said. Abby Feldman (505) 345-4080, Ext. 802 one, APD treated my son like he was the firing a gun, although there appears to predator, that he started it. They portray Dan Vukelich be something in his hand. It’s easy to see Minn. Escapee Joins ABQ BioPark’s Seal Team Published every other week by: my son as a monster. It really shocks me. because he wore a white glove. Great Noggins LLC Jaquise was a 17-year-old child. He was a Munah Green, photographed at the Los Altos Skate Park where her son was killed, wants answers This is important because Green said from APD. he ABQ BioPark has a new the zoo’s Seals and Sea Lions P.O. Box 6070 son, brother, grandson. It shocks me how the autopsy report said there was no Tanimal — a seal originally exhibit. Albuquerque, NM 87197-6070 they treated me and my family and how gunpowder residue on Jaquise’s hand or gun and walking toward another group of skate- housed at the Lake Superior Zoo “He’s doing very well,” said they have treated my son. It hurts.” the glove. No residue of gunpowder. If Jaquise had boarders. Whatever the truth, we would not have in Duluth, Minn. Shelly Dicks, ABQ BioPark Publishers Many have now seen the video of the fight that fired a gun, wouldn’t there be residue? seen the video but for Green’s tenacity and willing- “Feisty,” a 25-year-old harbor zookeeper supervisor. “He’s Will Ferguson and Dan Vukelich preceded the shooting and the shooting itself in ness to do battle with the police department. seal, escaped from the zoo when very mellow and laid back. Cover Illustration which approximately 30 shots were fired and seven In June, Green and her attorney, Ahmad Assed, it flooded in 2012. He was one While he was on quarantine, the Gary Glasgow people, including Lewis, were hit. Who was the shooter? of two seals and a polar bear trainers got to know him and went to APD headquarters and refused to leave Police say they know. that went on the lam when a his personality. He has a lot of Corrections policy: until they were shown the entire video. APD finally Does he have law enforcement late-night flash flood inundated trained behaviors, which makes It is the policy of ABQ Free Press to correct Green wants to know why relented, and days later they showed Green the errors in a timely fashion. Contact the editors video. It confirmed to her that Jaquise was slain as connections? Is he an informant? the zoo, allowing the animals to him great to work with and very at the email addresses on this page. African-American organizations swim out of their enclosures. Ellie Burchar interactive.” he walked away. such as the NAACP and “I would not have seen that video if I had not gone As zookeepers frantically Feisty, a harbor seal, was photographed Vivian, a harbor seal and And finally, there’s the issue of race and class. by a motorist during a rainstorm the Black Lives Matter haven’t to APD headquarters and demanded it,” Green said. searched for the escapees, Feisty Feisty’s fellow escapee, died Where to find What if the roles were reversed and Jaquise had shot night of his escape from the Lake Supe- “As a mother, I demanded it. If I had not demanded was spotted flopping across a from injuries suffered during taken up Jaquise’s cause a young white man in the back? rior Zoo in Duluth, Minn., in June 2012. our paper? it, they would never have shown it. That’s when I city street before being corralled. her brief bid for freedom. The “My son would have been arrested the very first List of more than realized it was my son being pursued, my son being He was later transferred to the polar bear was apprehended APD has its interpretation of what the video night,” Green says. “He would be in prison.” in November. 550 locations attacked. As his mother, it was important for me to Como Park Zoo and Conserva- unharmed and now resides in a shows, and Green has hers. She says it shows Now cleared from quaran- at freeabq.com make sure the public knew the truth.” tory in St. Paul, where he lived Kansas zoo, according to reports Jaquise being shot in the back as he walked away Dan Klein, a regular ABQ Free Press contributor, is a tine, Feisty has joined three APD also never would have shown or released before coming to Albuquerque from the Duluth news media. from a crowd. APD says it shows Jaquise firing a retired APD sergeant. He can be contacted via Facebook. other seals and one sea lion at the video if Green and Assed hadn’t filed a lawsuit 6 • December 30, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS OPINION ABQ FREE PRESS • December 30, 2015 • 7 Gay Priest Ministers to ABQ’s LGBT Catholics Gov. Martinez to N.M.: BY ANDREW BEALE e might look the part, but Father Let them Eat Pizza HFrank Quintana is not your typi- BY DAN VUKELICH cal Catholic priest. Quintana, 63, is openly gay and oice of Fe, that’s our humble attempt to intro- outspoken in his denunciation of what Vmovie trailer duce the first annual #PartyLikeSusana he sees as injustices on the part of announcer: “In writing contest. the church, the state and other power a world without Here’s the deal: Write 300-700 words structures. pity, one woman on “Pizz-zah-gate” or a related Susana Dressed in black and wearing a col- stands alone trying topic and get it to us by 5 p.m., Friday, lar, he’s frequently present at protests, to bring order to Jan. 8, and we’ll publish the winning chaos.” entry in the Jan. 13 issue – just in time including local demonstrations for for the opening of the 2016 Legislature gay rights and anti-police brutality 911 operator: “9-1- on Jan. 19. 1. What’s the nature of the emergency?” marches. Show us your creative side and your “I’ve been involved in demonstra- Caller: “Pizz-zah.” understanding of the dynamics affecting tions where I foolishly – well, no, not Operator: “I’m sorry, Ma’am. I didn’t New Mexico politics and public policy in foolishly, but I was shaking in my hear you.” these turbulent times. The winner and boots – called on the police present authors of any runners-up we publish Caller: “This is Governor Susana Marti- to put down their weapons,” he said. will receive gift certificates to Aldo’s nez. Chucky won’t pass the Parmesan “To quit the killing. To recognize that New York Style Pizza – er, “Pizz-zah.” they’re coming from among their cheese. Get some cops over here to make brothers and sisters and they’re killing him do it. It’s bad enough I have to eat their brothers and sisters and to stop, these friggin’ anchovies.” What “Pizz-zah” Means to N.M. in the name of God! Stop!” Operator: “I’m sorry, Ma’am, but that We expect the governor to call the As an ordained priest and founder doesn’t qualify as an emergency.” bullpen and bring in Lt. Gov. John of the Blessed Oscar Romero Catholic Sanchez during the next several weeks, Caller: “I’m here with my husband and as she heads out of state to repair her Community, Quintana preaches a my disabled sister and we’re eating tattered national image, especially gospel of justice rooted in the Latin pizz-zah and drinking cokes. I’m the among her GOP gubernatorial peers and American tradition of liberation governor of New Mexico. Give it to me. Andrew Beale a handful of Republican presidential theology. He came to Albuquerque Now.” candidates who might be persuaded last year to start the growing parish (it Operator: “Ma’am …” she’s not damaged goods. attracted around 50 people for Easter Since his arrival in Albuquerque, Father Frank Quintana has been a fixture at social justice marches, like this one February. It seems the safest place for her these Caller: “Look, sonny. Don’t make me Sunday) on behalf of the Ecumenical days is out of state, anyway, away from come over there. The last time I dealt Catholic Communion network. pesky New Mexico reporters who want with you people and those weasel Santa He named his congregation for the more than a standing for the freedom St. Peter’s Square, he says the church need to. I created you as you are.” to know about the provable lies she and Fe cops, it went badly for everyone. I Salvadoran Bishop Oscar Romero, of people, self determination, the still has a long way to go. Quintana left the priesthood when her staff told during that night at the got trashed in the media, the cop who assassinated in 1980 for speaking out voice of the people, and liberation “While I applaud a lot of the things he came out as gay and spent ten Eldorado Hotel and in the days after. taped me is facing discipline, the hotel against atrocities committed by the theology also has a certain slant on that the Pope has said, and many of the years working for the phone com- No slamming doors on KOB-TV lost its liquor license, the hotel clerk is photographers, no ducking calls from government of El Salvador. the oppressive nature of capitalism,” things he’s done, he’s still, you know, pany. He sang in the Denver Gay being audited by tax and rev and the national reporters – at least not yet. Quintana said. “We stand against this he’s actually really changed nothing, Men’s Chorus. “Then one Sunday I woman who phoned in that bogus noise As Joe Monahan noted in his blog, ‘Liberation theology consumeristic, acquisitive, hoarding of up to this point,” Quintana said. was on my way to buy a newspaper, complaint has disappeared. ... You get discontent is growing among New wealth to the detriment of those who and I saw this mass being conducted my drift?” is nothing more than a Mexicans tired of waiting for any see nothing [from it].” Blessed Oscar Romero Catholic outdoors, which in the Roman Church Operator: “But, ma’am, you were positive change to come after five years standing for the freedom Quintana, like Romero, extends his Community meets every Sunday at was never really done, and so out of trashed.” of Susana’s reign. We’re No. 1 on the list of people, self criticism of injustice to the Catholic 11 a.m. at 211 10th St. S.W. curiosity I stopped and checked out of worst-run states; we have the highest Church itself. Marching in Al- For more information, visit what was going on,” he said. Caller: “Don’t interrupt me! And the determination, the voice unemployment, yet the governor insists buquerque’s first Indigenous People’s blessedoscarromerocatholiccommunity.org He had stumbled upon a congre- people that allegedly, and I stress, of the people’ Day parade on Oct. 12, he described gation from the Ecumenical Catholic allegedly, threw beer bottles off the on cutting food assistance to the poorest people. — Father Frank Quintana the role the church played in the con- Communion, a network of interlinked balcony of room 465 have been fired. This is what former New Mexico radio quest and oppression of native people It’s perhaps natural for Quintana to but separate parishes preaching a So don’t make me send Jay over there personality, Jana Lee Aspin wrote to Joe Romero’s sermons and teachings across the Americas. be opposed to some church policies. progressive version of the gospel or you’ll be trying to qualify for food stamps – unsuccessfully I might add.” recently from her new home in Hawaii: helped inspire the liberation theology “There were a number of papal Many of the church’s policies through- throughout the nation. “I think of Governor Martinez as the Operator: “I just can’t do it. It’s wrong.” movement, an interpretation of the documents and bulls which estab- out history have been opposed to him. He started attending mass and after Nero who fiddles while Rome is burning. Bible that teaches a vision of Jesus lished the doctrine of discovery, which Raised Roman Catholic and trained in a time decided to rejoin the priest- Caller: “Dammit [to someone away from As you pointed out: highest unemploy- as a revolutionary figure helping the stated that European conquerers had a Roman Catholic seminary, Quin- hood. Because he was openly gay, the phone]. Hanna. Call my security ment rate in the country, schools failing, poor fight back against oppression. the right to lay claim to the lands that tana was ordained in the Anglican neither the Roman Catholic nor Angli- detail and see if they can go over to and I like to add the fact that Fortune Liberation theology was instrumental they invaded,” he said. “The conquer- Catholic Church in his early 20s, and can churches would accept him, but Kaune’s and get me some damned has named Albuquerque the worst place in several popular revolutions across ors had the right to subjugate those spent many years trying to repress his the Ecumenical Catholic Communion cheese. Doesn’t anyone in this miserable in the country for home ownership. I left Latin America, and was widely de- that lived here. And that’s immoral. attraction to men. welcomed him warmly. After spend- state realize I’m the governor of New Albuquerque a year and a half ago after nounced by church leaders including That’s absolutely antithetical to the “Most of my adult life, I would ing time at a parish in Tulsa, the ECC Mexico?” it became clear to me that things aren’t going to change until there are visionary, Pope John Paul II. Gospel of Jesus Christ.” cry myself to sleep asking God to asked him to come to Albuquerque. ** The Vatican recently reversed its po- While he sees Pope Francis as a pos- change me,” he said. After more than The Ecumenical Catholic Commu- honest leaders running the state. I’m not sition on Oscar Romero, however, and itive force for change in the church, 20 years as a priest, he finally heard a nion does not pay Quintana, and he Channel Your Inner Monahan holding my breath.” he was beatified in May of this year. noting that the Vatican recently reply, and he believes God told him: subsists on payments from an annuity With Joe Monahan taking a break from Dan Vukelich is editor of ABQ Free Press. “Liberation theology is nothing opened its own homeless shelter on “I didn’t change you because I didn’t he cashed in when he rejoined the the flood of news gushing out of Santa Reach him at [email protected] cont. on page 8 8 • December 30, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS COLUMNS/NEWS NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • December 30, 2015 • 9 Understanding Land Reform in Brazil, gay priest, page 6 Could Sandia’s Nuclear Waste Landfill Blow Up? Cesar Chavez Day and the Life of Trudell BY BOB KLEIN by sayrah namastÉ 2.6-acre unlined nuclear waste and reform: “Our vision is a community that Adump on Kirtland Air Force Base LThe Southwest knows its history, celebrates together, poses a danger of fire and explosion Organizing Project understands the importance of service, that could scatter nuclear waste across (SWOP) is hosting a is actively engaged in improving the life Albuquerque, says Dave McCoy, a dinner and discus- opportunities of its people and strives for long-time critic of Sandia National sion with Alessandro justice for all,” said Michael Casaus, long- Laboratories, the former operator of Mariano of the time volunteer and former RCCC chair. the dump. Brazilian Landless For the past five years, the RCCC has Workers Movement, partnered with La Plazita Institute and A fire and explosion is exactly what one of the largest social movements in Bernalillo County Open Space to host the occurred in October at a radioactive Latin America. annual Cesar Chavez Day of Service and waste disposal facility in Beatty, Nev. The movement is internationally famous Learning during which hundreds of local Metallic sodium buried in drums for its success in the 1980s in occupying students participate in working the land filled with oil came in contact with large estates in Brazil’s countryside, then at La Plazita Gardens in the South Valley. water and blew up. pressuring the government to redistribute Aimed to inspire a new and existing “The drums that the stuff was land to more than 1 million landless farm- generation to actively participate in buried in 40 years ago corroded, the ers. The movement’s goal is to provide a their communities, the Day of Service oil leaked out and water got in,” self-sustainable way of life for the poor in and Learning provides youth with the Nevada’s state fire marshal told the rural areas while fighting sexism, racism, knowledge, skills and opportunities to Las Vegas Sun. “That’s what caused income inequality and media monopolies. improve their lives and the conditions of the explosion.” Mariano, director of the movement’s their communities. As part of the commit- Although officials said no radiation National Education Collective, will speak tee, I have enjoyed going into the schools was released in the Beatty incident, about their lesser known educational to explain the history of the farmworker such an explosion and fire could initiatives. Over the past 30 years, the movement and teaching students about happen here, said McCoy, executive movement’s leaders have drawn on labor unions, migrant farmworkers, boy- director of Citizens Action New Mex- diverse educational theories to encourage cotts and strikes. My own mother worked youth to stay in the countryside, nurture on the lettuce boycott for the United Farm ico, which has challenged Sandia’s collective forms of work and participate Workers, and one of my father’s most assertions that the landfill poses no in political struggle. Activists engage in prized possessions is one of the Christmas threat. actions to support their educational ideas cards that Cesar Chavez sent us. Andrew Beale Metallic sodium is believed to be part of the nuclear stew simmering in and facilitate community discussions, Remembering John Trudell: It has Father Quintana at a candlelight service. organize teacher trainings and write been a time for mourning and remem- the Sandia landfill. It explodes when curricula. brance in Indian Country with the passing priesthood. He doesn’t know what in not being, the Church not shep- it comes in contact with water and Tiero Mariano helps to administer 11 public of John Trudell, an American Indian he’ll do when the annuity runs out, herding them, in the ways of spiritu- burns in contact with air. “It’s been A stock image illustrating disposal drums of radioactive waste. schools that are within the Brazilian Land- Movement leader, poet and musician. For but he has faith things will work out. ality. Their spiritual welfare has been there for about as long as Beatty’s less Workers’ land occupations. He’ll talk those who want to learn more about this “As corny as it may sound to you, I neglected,” Gutierrez said. “I’m very has,” McCoy said. buried here, Sandia’s own internal drums of plutonium waste-contain- discuss the relative danger of leaving about how the movement has succeeded icon, the documentary film “TRUDELL” really am trusting the Lord to provide happy that Father Frank is stepping in both occupying land and occupying the will be shown at 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15, at What’s in Sandia’s landfill? memos dating to the mid-1990s ing sutures and vials from animal nuclear waste products generated for my needs,” he said. “And maybe into this role. I saw that there’s a big show that, as defined by the Nuclear research carried out at the Inhalation from reactor meltdown experiments Brazilian school system. the Peace & Justice Center, 202 Harvard I’ll prove myself foolish, but maybe need in the community for communi- Sandia’s mixed-waste landfill, which closed Regulatory Commission, high-level Toxicity Research Institute are buried in shallow, unlined trenches versus Brazil is in a critical moment with right- Drive S.E. not. I think not, let me tell you that.” ties like Father Frank’s, communities in 1988, contains nuclear fuel pins, enriched wing forces calling for the impeachment The film documents Trudell’s impover- radioactive waste was buried in two in the landfill’s Trench E. trying to retrieve them. that are responding to social-justice uranium, debris from the Nevada Test Site, of the president and rumors of a looming ished childhood in Omaha, his leadership pits in violation of U.S. Department of Comparing the actual radioactive needs.” rods from the Space Nuclear Auxiliary Program, coup. SWOP is hoping that community in the American Indian Movement, ‘While I applaud a lot of Energy regulations. and toxic material disposal sheets Quintana’s message of equality and fission products and cladding, and an irradiated Meltdown experiments members and organizations interested in starting with the occupation of Alcatraz, fire truck. The memos, obtained by CANM against the lab’s 2002 nuclear ma- the things that the Pope justice reaches beyond the Catholic “During the period of 1997-98, I began meeting land issues, agrarian reform, education, and his later life as an acclaimed musician Also in the landfill are unknown materials through the Freedom of Information terials inventory shows that the community. Avowed atheist Gene with Mr. Cox at Sandia to determine the waste in political and community organizing and and poet. has said, and many of in four canisters in Pits 35 and 36 that are Act, reveal leftovers from the Cold eight-page inventory “intentionally Candelaria has been a supporter of the MWL by type, volume, and location. Mr. Cox building international solidarity will Considered a subversive by the FBI, the things he’s done, “classified” and have no disposal sheets and are Quintana’s work since the two met War — radioactive fuel pins [U-235 escorted me into the building in Technical Area neglects to mention the disposal of the attend at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 6, at 202 Trudell was extensively investigated and not listed in Sandia’s inventory. he’s still, you know, he’s while volunteering at various “tent pellets placed inside metal cladding], V. … He told me that experimental meltdown pins and rods” in Pits 35 and 36 and Harvard Drive S.E. surveilled by the FBI. His FBI intelligence Yet Sandia memos obtained by Citizen Action city” homeless encampments around multiple fission products — all defin- packages containing fuel pins irradiated in the other high-level waste documented Organizing Cesar Chavez Day: One file exceeds 17,000 pages. Hours after actually really changed New Mexico reveal canisters in those pits with itive evidence, CANM alleges, that Annular Core Research Reactor (ACRR) were in disposal sheets, said Eric Nuttall, of my favorite groups to work with is Trudell burned an American flag in front Albuquerque. He was especially high levels of radiation that are suspected of nothing, up to this point’ material in the shallow trenches was put into the MWL. The meltdown packages University of New Mexico emeritus the Recuerda a Cesar Chavez Committee of the FBI headquarters, his pregnant impressed by Quintana’s habit of containing metallic sodium. Liquid metallic — Quintana irradiated in a nuclear reactor and contained spent fuel from exposure to radiation. professor of chemical and nuclear (RCCC), which each spring in Albuquerque wife, three children, and mother-in-law spending nights at the encampment, sodium has been used as a coolant in certain I was aware that Sandia had disposal sheets honors the legacy of farmworker orga- died in a suspicious house fire. The sleeping on the street among the types of nuclear reactors. thus qualifies as high-level nuclear engineering. nizer and civil rights leader Cesar Chavez. tragedy led him to write poetry and later Before Quintana, known as Father homeless. waste. for the MWL, but Mr. Cox was unable to obtain Nuttall is a long-time critic of what them for me.” – Dinwiddie Starting Jan. 5, volunteers meet at 6 p.m. music. Filmmaker Heather Rae used de- Frank, started the Blessed Oscar “I have such a high respect for In the dark he calls the lab’s “cover-up” of the nu- every Tuesday at the National Hispanic cades-old video footage to show us a man Romero Catholic Community, there Father Frank, because the way he is Sandia’s critics argue that the clear dump near the southern border Cultural Center to plan the annual march “whose spirit and words have awakened wasn’t a congregation in Albuquerque as a preacher, a Catholic preacher, is landfill basically has all the ingredi- The memos indicate that lab offi- of Kirtland Air Force Base. He called and fiesta. the Native consciousness.” catering to gay Catholics, said Jimmy so different from most preachers, you ents of a dirty bomb — sodium as cials provided an incomplete inven- The memos also show that Sandia the lab’s actions “internal, pre-medi- The RCCC was founded in 1993, upon Gutierrez, who had belonged to a gay know? So he really tries to, I think, be the explosive, plus a wide variety of tory of the landfill’s contents in a 2002 and the U.S. Department of Energy tated deception by design.” Chavez’s death, and is comprised of a Sayrah Namasté is an organizer with Catholic congregation in Washington, as Jesus was. Or as we perceive Jesus highly radioactive waste that could published radionuclide inventory and have no idea exactly where in the McCoy added, “Given the presence diverse group of dedicated volunteers. the American Friends Service Committee D.C., before coming to Albuquerque. to be as a symbol of helping the poor, spread a plume of radioactivity across that Sandia appeared to mislead two landfill some of the debris is located. of explosive metallic sodium mixed This year’s celebration will take place Sat- in Albuquerque. She writes about events “I think that for many [LGBT] social justice,” he said. Albuquerque. congressional review panels as to the The memos were emailed among with radionuclides such as Plutonium urday, March 26, at the National Hispanic Catholics, they don’t have a spiritual of interest to Albuquerque’s activist Andrew Beale is an Albuquerque freelance Despite Sandia’s repeated denials landfill’s contents in 2000 and 2002. a select group of lab and U.S. De- and Americium, the only alternative Cultural Center, 1701 Fourth St. S.W. home, and there’s been a lot of neglect community. journalist. that there is no high-level waste Sandia documents show that 119 partment of Energy recipients. They that is protective of human health and cont. on page 10 10 • December 30, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS news analysis ABQ FREE PRESS • December 30, 2015 • 11

Landfill, page 9 materials dug up and buried in a repository deep under- ground. N.M.’s Wild and Woolly 2015 in Review safety is excavation of the MWL, safe by DENNIS DOMRZALSKI storage and deep geologic disposal.” N.M. misled? A spokesman at Sandia has asserted ere’s our take on 10 of the biggest, 3. Nothing 5. New Mexico’s economy doesn’t 7. Living in New Mexico can be repeatedly to ABQ Free Press that Robert “Stu” Dinwiddie Hgoofiest stories in New Mexico shouts scan- receive the coverage it deserves from depressing considering that we make headed the Permits Man- there is no high-level nuclear waste in in 2015. Let’s hope 2016 gives us a dal and goofy the mainstream media, probably the top of the bad lists and the bottom agement Program for the the landfill. respite, or else we’ll have to order decisions because of the good ones. But here’s one great New Mexico Environment “Sandia has been forthcoming about more rolls of yellow newsprint. more than they New Mexico accomplishment you Department’s Hazardous & the Mixed Waste Landfill (MWL) two words: don’t can shout to the world about and be Radioactive Materials Bureau 1. The Albuquerque Police Depart- and adheres to all regulatory require- “school under- proud of: In 2015, the state ended from 1995 to 1999. He also ment continued to be the big story in ments for public participation. Sandia stand the practice of civil asset forfeiture, 2015 as it struggled to reform itself board.” provides interested members of the worked as the supervisor what’s and stop shooting (mostly) unarmed And the public with the opportunity to review for the U.S. Department actually people. Albuquerque and comment on documents prior to of Energy’s Permitting & going And the Public Schools did not disappoint approval by the New Mexico Environ- Corrective Action Projects on. And biggest in 2015. Looking to move on from ment Department (NMED). Sandia’s for the NMED Hazardous & what’s going on hasn’t been good. news of the Winston Brooks fiasco of 2014, record of regulatory compliance at the Radioactive Materials Bureau While the state added jobs during the the year APS hired Luis Valentino as super- MWL is documented in the extensive from 1994 to 1995. year, the rate of increase fell to a sickly absolutely intendent. And in that single move, administrative record that is publicly Dinwiddie told ABQ Free 0.4 percent in the year that ended Nov. Press that at the time of the This screen grab of a TV image shows explosions on Oct. 18 at a nuclear waste landfill in Beatty, Nev.T he Nevada rocked the APS stepped in a bigger pile than available through the NMED,” a lab state fire marshal found that metallic sodium in corroded steel drums had come into contact with water and 30. The situation is so bad that the issuance of a critical Septem- depart- the Brooks stinker could ever be. spokesman said in a written response exploded and caught fire. Officials said no radioactivity was released but activists claim monitors in Las Vegas, 100 state has yet to recover all the jobs it better known as “Policing for Profit.” ment. In August, two now-former to questions posed by ABQ Free Press. ber 1997 state proceeding, miles away, showed a spike in gamma radiation after the fire started. Valentino selected Jason Martinez as lost during the recession. It gets worse APD officers — Keith Sandy and The bill passed the Legislature with “Contrary to recent allegations re- NMED was completely his No. 2. Who woulda thunk that when you consider that for the past unaware of the four Sandia Dominique Perez — were held over near-unanimous support, and Gov. lated to the inventory, Sandia did not An April 1, 1997, memo repeats sheets lead me to the conclusion that Martinez was an accused child mo- few years, people have been fleeing management memoranda. for trial on second-degree murder Susana Martinez signed it. Other withhold information,” the spokes- the warning: “If metallic sodium is high-level nuclear mixed waste was lester from Colorado? APS never did New Mexico. In the year that ended “Canisters from meltdown experi- charges for the March 2014 fatal states are following our lead. It means man wrote. present, as suspected, sampling could disposed of in the MWL and that a background check. The mess led to July 1, the state had a net outmigra- ments could not be readily examined shooting of homeless camper James that law enforcement authorities can’t be very dangerous as a result of this Sandia was not forthcoming with Valentino’s firing in August after only tion of 9,721 people, meaning that due to the reactivity of metallic Boyd. It was the first time any APD seize your property unless you’ve Past practices metal’s reactivity.” any documentation of the high-level a few months on the job. APS couldn’t many more people left than came sodium. Sandia did not provide any officer had faced criminal charges in been convicted of a crime. There is The memo states, “Since Pit 36 … mixed waste.” even keep its firing of Valentino free here. Since 2010, that net outmigration It was standard policy and practice to dispose of the four memos to me during that any of the 30 fatal police shootings some downside to the story, though. of canisters in the mixed-waste landfill from the is considered to be the worst-case As a state nuclear waste regulator, from lunacy; it decided to give him has totaled 27,115 people. Add to period,” Dinwiddie told this newspa- since 2010 — and the first time in Albuquerque and other cities and meltdown experiments containing uranium-235 exposure scenario. … Based on the Dinwiddie said, “Had I known of $80,000 to go away. that that the state’s personal income per. nearly 40 years a cop here had been counties continue to seize the vehicles fuel pins and metallic sodium. Sandia found above considerations, we recommend the memoranda and disposal sheets, growth in the third quarter ranked If he had been provided the memo- charged for an on-duty death. The last 4. Sixteen years after discovering of suspected drunken drivers, even if itself “between a rock and a hard place when it that Pits 35 and 36 be backfilled with I would never have allowed Sandia 47th among the states and you might randa and disposal sheets at the time time that occurred was in 1977 when that a giant blob of aviation fuel was those people haven’t been convicted. could not continue the practice,” according to clean soil and the canisters remain in to obtain Corrective Action for what start asking yourself why you’re still of the 1997 review, Dinwiddie said, Officer James Babich was acquitted of heading toward Albuquerque drink- Two legislators have sued the city Sandia’s 1984 Excess Special Nuclear Materials the pits along with the other waste constitutes the disposal of high-level here. he never would have allowed Sandia an involuntary manslaughter charge ing water wells from an underground seeking to end the practice. document. items in the landfill.” nuclear mixed waste in the MWL.” to obtain approval (called Corrective for striking and killing a man with a pipe leak at Kirtland Air Force Base, 6. In a normal year, this might have “Canisters from meltdown experi- 8. Environmental disasters always Action) for disposal of mixed waste in flashlight. the Air Force and the New Mexico been the top story of 2015, but because The danger of not knowing ments could not be readily examined make top news, and the Gold King the dump. most news organizations drool over The debate over what is buried in due to the reactivity of metallic Environment Department finally Mine spill just south of Silverton, Critics contend Sandia has disin- In 2004 testimony, Marvin Resnikoff, an 2. Public outrage grew as an apparent the landfill hinges on the definition of sodium,” Dinwiddie said. “Sandia did started cleaning up the mess. In June, Colo., in August was no exception. genuously used a limited definition of independent nuclear waste expert, addressed crime wave swept across the city, “high-level waste.” not provide any of the four memos to the Air Force’s first extraction well Contractors for the U.S. Environmen- high-level waste in its denials and has the problem of not knowing the contents of Pits fueled, in part, by repeat violent The Nuclear Regulatory Commis- me during that period.” began pumping contaminated water tal Protection Agency breached a dam ignored DOE Order 435.1, which it is 35 and 36: offenders sion’s legal and regulatory definition In December 2004, Marvin Res- out of the ground and sending it to a holding back water in a tailing pond obliged to follow, that defines high-level “As an example of important missing infor- returning of high-level waste encompasses “the mation [from Sandia], consider the following. nikoff, a nationally recognized temporary treatment facility on base. and sent 3 million gallons of orange waste as including “highly radioactive to the highly radioactive materials produced Pit 35 has very high direct gamma rates at the toxic-waste storage expert, testified By November, the well had pumped water gush- waste that requires permanent isola- streets as a byproduct of the reactions that surface. … What accounts for these high direct at a public hearing in Albuquerque more than 16 million gallons of ing down tion.” Fuel pins and fission products are after being occur inside nuclear reactors.” gamma readings? Pit 35 contents are listed that Sandia’s dump has been seriously contaminated water. By December’s examples of high-level waste. arrested. the Animas According to the NRC, “High- as 686 kg depleted Uranium (DU) and 203 Ci mismanaged and that that illustrates end, two more extraction wells were In one of the four Sandia memos, Total River past level wastes take one of two forms: Tritium. Neither of these materials accounts for the need for a change in lab culture. ready to go online as the Air Force dated March 20, 1997, W.B. Cox, B. crimes in reports of crime, shootings, nuttiness Durango (1) Spent (used) reactor fuel when high gamma readings.” Without a firm understanding of Botsford, and B. Forbes wrote to G.K. 2014 (latest figures available) rose 1.5 in government and general mayhem and into it is accepted for disposal; (2) Waste what’s in the landfill and where in the Laskar about the danger to workers percent, while major crimes, including — it wasn’t. Mark 2015 as the year New Mex- materials remaining after spent fuel is landfill it’s located and what kind of who might be tasked with trying to auto theft, robberies and aggravated that New Mexico’s years-long drought ico, Utah, reprocessed.” Jerry L. Peace, author of one of the containers it’s stored in, “it is difficult identify what exactly is in the landfill. assaults, were up 14 percent. The ended (for the time being, at least). the Navajo That’s different from “highly memos, punctuates the danger lurk- to judge remediation alternatives,” “There may be hazardous constit- “boomerang thug” story coincided And if you ain’t got water, you don’t Nation and active” radioactive materials, which ing in the landfill. “There are no doubt Resnikoff testified. “I therefore recom- uents in the [Pit 35 and 36] canisters. with the deaths of two area police offi- have life. So it’s a big deal. January onward can generate high levels of radioac- additional cans [of waste] in the land- mend that Sandia devote resources Each canister would have to be cers, Nigel Benner of Rio Rancho and through June was the fourth wettest toward Nevada. The toxic slop was tivity but were not created as a result fill but their location is unknown,” to determining the full radionuclide dismantled, sampled and analyzed Daniel Webster of Albuquerque, who period in the state’s history, and that filled with heavy metals such as of the operation of a nuclear reactor. Peace wrote on Feb. 20, 1997. inventory of the MWL, as has been … for suspected hazardous constitu- were shot in the line of duty. Both erased the drought in about half the cadmium and lead. The EPA’s failure Such waste could include debris from Nuttall said, “That’s proof they’re done at other DOE facilities [such as ents. … [A]nd the necessary handling deaths sparked grief, support and state. As of November, there was no to notify anyone of the spill until 24 nuclear blasts and other experiments, lying. Because they can’t verify what’s the Idaho National Engineering and completed a more permanent treat- to obtain the sample will result in outrage, and underscored the increase short-term drought anywhere in the hours after it occurred didn’t help its which Sandia has acknowledged do in the canisters by inspection of the Environmental Laboratory].” personnel radiation exposure to the in crime. Webster’s death highlighted ment plant. The progress drew mostly state, a situation that hasn’t existed public image. The river was closed, reside in the landfill. canisters. They don’t even know sampling personnel.” Bob Klein’s investigation of the Veterans’ the manpower crisis at APD and cheers from critics who had accused since November 2010. Snow and rain Lab officials have proposed cover- where they are.” and farmers were told not to irrigate The memo continues, “If metallic Administration, “Wounded Men, Broken called into question Mayor Richard the Air Force of dragging its feet. It’s helped fill parched reservoirs, raise ing the landfill with a “bio-intrusion” Dinwiddie said the “combination with its water. Eventually, the river sodium is present, as suspected, Promises: How the Veterans’ Adminis- Berry’s competence. The department estimated that between 6 million and underground water levels, reduce the barrier to prevent water from reach- of the high levels of radiation and was opened, but people in the Four sampling could be very dangerous tration Betrays Yesterday’s Heroes,” was now has approximately 830 sworn 24 million gallons of aviation fuel risk of wildfire and make people and ing it, then covering it with native metallic sodium, the four Sandia Corners area are still worried about [emphasis in original] as a result of named a Robert F. Kennedy Book Awards officers, down from nearly 1,100 in leaked into the underground aquifer cattle happy. Now we’ll have to wait vegetation and soil. CANM wants the 1997-98 memoranda, and the disposal long-term effects. this metal’s reactivity.” finalist in 1981. 2009 when Berry took office. from the compromised pipe. to see what 2016 brings. cont. on page 19 12 • December 30, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS news letters/editorial cartoons ABQ FREE PRESS • December 30, 2015 • 13

Religious Freedom Bill Would Strip Gay, Lesbian Civil Rights To the Editor: educating the judiciary in New Mexico BY RENE THOMPSON If anyone had told Muhammed Ali as about these rules. That would be a great a strong confident young boxer that he first step. The second step would be to fix bill pre-filed for introduction everybody except gays,’” Davis said. would later suffer for many years because the politically corrupt judge selection and A in the 2016 Legislature would “We’re not trying to build a reputation of blows to his head – able only to speak appointment system. That way, this state allow merchants to refuse services as a state that welcomes bigots, but and move slowly, how would he have could have some semblance of compe- to gays and lesbians because of the that’s what this bill does.” believed it? tence behind those black robes. merchants’ religious beliefs. Amber Royster, executive director of A dear friend, now dead, was “punch — Anonymous former prosecutor Republican Reps. David Gallegos of Equality New Mexico, said religious drunk” from boxing. He told me he Eunice and Nora Espinoza of Roswell exemption laws open the floodgates did not want his children to be boxers. Dear Editor: filed HB 55 on Dec. 17, which states to legal chaos and would make the Repeated blows to the head can damage Jewish Voice for Peace-Albuquerque it’s “An act relating to religious free- state open to frivolous lawsuits that the brain permanently, even if the person has been appearing before City Council dom; amending the human rights act ultimately would cost taxpayers. is not knocked out. during general public comment for the last to prohibit the application of any law “We are of the opinion that freedom I damn all boxing and MMA – for adults three months, calling on the City Council that burdens the exercise of religion.” of religion is very important. It’s a and kids, for men or women. I would be to terminate Albuquerque’s sister city The bill calls for sexual orientation part of what makes our country great, ashamed as hell to bruise, bloody or injure relationship with Rehovot, Israel. and gender identity to be removed but that’s also why freedom of reli- myself and other men as a boxer or MMA Our first speakers pointed out that from New Mexico’s Human Rights gion is already protected by the First fighter. Albuquerque’s sister city is built on the Act, which forbids any entity to deny Amendment,” Royster said. The only material possession we each ruins of Zarnuqah, a Palestinian village services based solely on a person’s Royster said members of the LGBTQ have from birth to death is our own body. destroyed in 1948 when Israeli soldiers sexual orientation. community are people who contribute No other material possession can give us entered the village, blew up the local The bill also would allow persons to the community, pay taxes, and more misery or more pleasure. We all will mosque – killing the imam and his wife to withhold or deny any “state grant, Renaschild serve in the military. “They [legis- die but until I die I strive to live healthy. – and rounded up all of the residents at contract, subcontract, cooperative lators] are there to make sure that The White House lit up in rainbow colors to celebrate gay rights. Now at 70, I exercise vigorously one- gunpoint and ordered them out of Israel. agreement, loan, license, certification, everyone is treated equally under the and-a-half hours every day at home. I This was part of a mass ethnic cleansing accreditation, employment or other law, so it’s especially disheartening have ridden in no car for 14-and-a-half that expelled over 700,000 Palestinians in status from or to a person.” not on the list. turning away economic development when we have elected officials who years. I walk many miles. Sometimes I ride order to ensure Jewish control of the new Legislators will begin the 30-day “No business worth its salt is going from anyone, Davis said. When Indi- don’t want to fulfill their oath of state. 2016 session on Jan. 19. to move to New Mexico if we pass a ana passed a similar measure, some office,” Royster said. the city bus. I eat only raw plant foods. At subsequent City Council meetings, Albuquerque City Councilor Pat bill like this,” Davis said. companies closed up shop in protest I drink no booze. I take no prescription speakers pointed out the following: that Davis, who is gay, said that of all the As the national leader in unemploy- and moved elsewhere, he said. Rene Thompson is a staff writer at drugs and no illegal drugs. I eat no meat, things the state Legislature needs to ment, New Mexico’s religious free- “Our New Mexico True campaign ABQ Free Press. Reach her at no dairy, no crap. the Six-Day War in 1967 was not a de- deal with, rolling back civil rights is dom fighters don’t have the luxury of should not be ‘New Mexico True for [email protected] Sadly, many parents would rather their fensive war responding to any imminent adult son damage his own body and other threat, but rather it was a war of Israeli men’s bodies as a boxer or MMA fighter choice, aggression, and conquest; that the than for him to be in love and make love 2005 withdrawal from Gaza was not a CALL NOW! with men. move toward peace but a calculated and Yes to health, physical fitness, compas- successful attempt to destroy the peace SALES ENDING SOON! sion and affectionate hot sex. Absolutely process; that Israel unnecessarily started no to boxing, MMA, football and all the war on Gaza in 2014. brutality. In addition, speakers have described for — Don Schrader the City Council the ongoing crimes com- mitted by Jewish Israeli civilians – such To the Editor: as the Jewish lynch mobs roaming East In response to Judge Roderick Kenne- Jerusalem looking to kidnap and murder dy’s article on Dec. 2: I left my job as a Palestinians – and the Israeli military’s prosecutor precisely because I was sick illegal collective punishment policy of and tired of district judges letting out destroying the homes of innocent family dangerous felons from jail, even after I members of Palestinians suspected of consistently and vehemently argued to committing crimes. keep them in jail pursuant to those very In the coming weeks we intend to go rules referred to by Judge Kennedy. deeper into the injustices and also go into Most of these judges preferred one factor the Israeli arms industry’s use of Palestin- over everything else when determining ians as guinea pigs to test civilian-control whether an accused felon should stay in weapons which are then marketed around NEW jail pending trial – whether the defendant the world, including to police in this ¿Quieres más? posed a flight risk. 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He didn’t died.” save Carrillo. do you think the governor is doing on: A flood of memories took me back to I soon became a patrol sergeant, and Feb. 22, 1987. I was a divorced APD de- Messimer went into the SWAT team, call tective, one of the first [Repeat Offender sign 515. We worked around each other Economic Development The Environment Project] detectives, and work consumed and spoke on occasion. I considered Education Social Welfare and Justice my life. I loved every minute of it. Messimer a friend but not a close one. Sometime after midnight, I was awak- From a distance and over time, I realized Taxes Cleaning Up Government ened by my department-issued beeper. that Messimer was his best when he was The number was an APD dispatch in SWAT and working. He was a great supervisor. I shook the slumber off and SWAT officer. His problems, doubts and called in. The supervisor could barely pain seemed to come when he wasn’t at speak. She was sobbing as she told me work. that Officer John Carrillo had been slain. Messimer married Terry, an APD cop, Go online to What I didn’t know that night was that but try as she might, Terry couldn’t exor- Carrillo’s partner, Officer John Messimer, cise the demons that haunted Messimer freeabq.com also was killed; it just took him 28 years from that February night. Throughout to die. his APD career, he would ride a roller or Messimer was a rookie cop the night coaster of highs and lows. He turned to he and Carrillo responded to the domes- alcohol, and it would be a deadly choice. facebook.com/ABQFreePress tic disturbance that took Carrillo’s life. In time, he and Terry would divorce, a After Carrillo was mortally wounded, situation that happens all too frequently and tell us what you think. Messimer pulled his body to safety as to cops. the offender, Merrill Chamberlain, a When he was diagnosed with the Sandia National Laboratories physicist, illness that would kill him, it was Terry was shooting at him. Messimer placed who would care for him in his final days, himself over Carrillo’s body, protecting an expression of love and compassion it, while he returned fire. Back then, worthy of her own Medal of Valor. APD issued a piece of crap of a revolver, Immediately following Messimer’s the Smith & Wesson Model 10. After six death, many officers posted public shots, Messimer’s gun was empty, but comments. Jack Tibbets, a retired APD Chamberlain was still shooting. homicide detective, wrote, “I stood Messimer was reloading when Cham- in awe of his courage that night and berlain came at him, gun in hand, down forever after.” the hallway. Reacting like a seasoned Terry’s post was the most poignant of officer, Messimer closed the cylinder all: “All these years of pain and doubt on his revolver and pointed the gun at and forever fighting those demons Carrillo’s murderer. Chamberlain ran should never have happened to you. Find your mate on back into a bedroom. Messimer’s gun Foolish words spoken in grief. A rookie had been empty; he hadn’t had time to cop got a good cop killed. Where were freeabq.com/dating/ reload it. you running down the stairs? Why didn’t On the night of Carrillo’s death, you shoot him, even though he had Messimer had been with APD barely one year. That included months in the given up? Those words have haunted training academy. He was in his 20s you all these years. … and had just recently been allowed to “Blaming yourself for all these years patrol alone, a rookie cop in a squad of for doing something that wasn’t your officers who had known each other for fault has taken your life as surely as if years. Those fellow officers arrived, and you had taken that bullet all those years Chamberlain was arrested. Immediately, ago. I pray that … you see John Carrillo, the slow death of John Messimer began. and he will embrace you and tell you The cops in Carrillo’s unit began asking what happened that night was not questions that would haunt Messimer your fault, that you should never have NEW YEAR the rest of his life: Why didn’t you kill blamed yourself and that you will finally him? How could you let him die? Where believe.” were you when he was shot? Why didn’t Two very good men died on Feb. 22, you follow procedure? They were ques- 1987. − NewLove tions directed to a rookie cop who had Call sign 515, go on home, your shift tried to save his partner’s life. They were is done. Let ABQ’s Best Alternative Newspaper questions let loose in anger, sadness and Help You Find Your Soulmate pain that wound up destroying a man. Dan Klein is a retired Albuquerque police Just as painful was APD’s decision to sergeant. He can be reached via Facebook. 16 • December 30, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS analysis ANALYSIS ABQ FREE PRESS • December 30, 2015 • 17 GOP Becoming the Party of Haters Stop Misrepresenting Susana’s Pizz-zah Party Shows BY RObert reich Need for Ethics Commission n November, The REAL ID Act BY HEATH HAUSSAMEN I14 people were BY JOAN FRIEDLAND ov. Susana resources to campaign for re-election. A killed at a social Martinez’s lawmaker used public money to fund a services agency in he Albuquerque identification by law enforcement and for G recent abuse of college club sport team he worked with San Bernardino, TJournal and the other daily activities. REAL ID limits the power demon- instead of projects for his constituents. Calif. The shooters administration of acceptance only of noncompliant licenses strates the need Another legislator appropriated public were Muslim and Gov. Susana Mar- for “official federal purposes.” States for an independent money to an education program run influenced by ISIS. tinez have spread can continue to recognize their driver’s commission to by his wife, who spent the money on a In light of this, misinformation and licenses as identification for every other set standards for private, invitation-only party. and of the Paris bombings, the FBI fear about the REAL purpose, even if they won’t be accepted ethical conduct In these situations and too many oth- reports a sharp upturn in threats on ID Act and New as identification for official federal pur- in state government and investigate ers, public money vanished into a black mosques and to Muslims in the U.S. Mexico driver’s licenses. complaints. poses. hole instead of benefiting the public. In Connecticut, police are investi- Here are some facts to help clarify the Martinez can be heard on several law You don’t need a REAL ID-compliant And too many of these offenders gating reports of multiple gunshots issues for New Mexicans: enforcement recordings inappropriately license to enter a federal courthouse or to have gone unpunished. So their actions fired at a local mosque. Two Tampa New Mexico can opt to continue pressuring police to drop an investiga- present to federal law enforcement. REAL instead have been absorbed into our Bay-area mosques in Florida received issuing its current license in the interest tion into a noise complaint after her ID does not apply to all federal purposes. culture of government as permissible threatening phone messages. One of of public safety and fairness. The REAL Christmas party earlier this month. She As DHS has made clear in “REAL ID En- conduct. the calls threatened a firebombing. ID Act specifically allows states to issue forcement in Brief,” “[a]ccess for activities has admitted to drinking one to one In an Austin suburb, leaders of the licenses that will not be acceptable for directly relating to safety and health or and a half cocktails but says she wasn’t Islamic Center of Pflugerville discov- certain official federal purposes (a non- life preserving services, to law enforce- intoxicated. Another legislator The governor has apologized for her ered feces and torn pages of the Quran. compliant license). And if New Mexico ment, and to constitutionally protected actions. That’s a step up from some past appropriated public is granted a REAL ID extension or is cer- activities, including legal and investiga- officials’ lack of repentance after being money to an education The hatefulness and tified as REAL ID-compliant, its current tive proceedings will not be affected.” licenses will be acceptable for all official caught abusing law enforcement. program run by his wife, Even if you don’t have a REAL But it’s not enough. New Mexico hateful responses extend federal purposes until at least October ID-compliant license, you will be able policymakers have refused for a decade, who spent the money beyond the tragedies in 2020. to use other ID with federal agencies. in spite of constant revelations about on a private, New Mexico can offer two (or more) Paris and San Bernardino Driver’s licenses and passports are not corruption and misbehaving, to create a invitation-only party tiers of licenses in compliance with REAL the only documents that federal agencies commission focused on raising the bar in ID. The federal Department of Homeland can accept as identification. According to our ethically challenged state. House Democrats are pushing for The hatefulness and hateful re- Security (DHS) has certified as REAL DHS, “[e]ach agency determines whether Forty-two states have ethics commis- the creation of an ethics commission in sponses extend beyond the tragedies ID-compliant several states that issue identification documents are needed for sions. New Mexico has an independent the 2016 legislative session that begins in Paris and San Bernardino. both a REAL ID-compliant license that the purpose it oversees and, if applicable, group watching our judicial branch, Jan. 19. Martinez will decide whether Two weeks ago, a gunman killed inflammatory rhetoric is contributing at one of his campaign rallies, Trump candidate is directly to blame for hate is acceptable for certain federal official which documents are acceptable. REAL and it’s made a real difference. But three at a Planned Parenthood clinic to allow consideration of ethics-reform to a climate of hate and fear. said, “maybe he should have been purposes and a noncompliant license. ID only applies if a person is presenting our executive and legislative branches crimes erupting across America. proposals in the 30-day session, which is in Colorado. Later, in explaining his Some candidates are fomenting roughed up.” New Mexico can continue to issue remain unchecked. The Legislature has But by virtue of their standing as a driver’s license or state-issued identi- focused on the budget. motive to the police, he said “no more animus toward Muslims. Trump began his campaign last June its current license, available to citizens a committee to investigate complaints presidential candidates, their words fication card for official purposes.” Even A handful of Democrats announced baby parts” — a reference to videos Mike Huckabee says he’d “like for by falsely alleging Mexican immi- and immigrants alike, as well as a REAL against lawmakers, but that body has carry particular weight. They have a in these cases, individuals with noncom- their ethics proposals two days before that wrongly claimed that Planned Barack Obama to resign if he’s not grants are “bringing crime. They’re ID-compliant license. Under REAL ID, a pitiful record of policing its own. The responsibility to calm people with the pliant licenses may be able to use other Thanksgiving – which isn’t the most Parenthood was selling body parts of going to protect America and instead rapists.” states have great latitude in deciding who executive branch lacks any real oversight truth rather than stir them up with lies. forms of identification. effective way to launch a media blitz. fetuses. protect the image of Islam.” can obtain a license that is not acceptable for misdeeds that don’t rise to the level In suggesting that the staff of New Mexico residents do not need to Rather than actually enacting reform, It’s a lie that Carly Fiorina continues Ben Carson says allowing Syrian for official federal purposes. They can of criminal activity. Instead of condemning rush to get a passport in order to fly with- Martinez has rejected arguments for I fear some of them are focused on to restate. refugees into the United States is Planned Parenthood, Muslims, Black offer the same noncompliant license in the United States. DHS has not yet set creating an ethics commission. “Corrup- being able to say they pushed reform A week before the shooting at analogous to exposing a neighbor- that brutality, Trump Lives Matter protesters, and Mexican to U.S. citizens and lawfully-present a deadline — even for states it considers tion is a crime, not an ethical dilemma,” when trying to retake the House from Planned Parenthood, gunmen opened hood to a “rabid dog.” Last September immigrants are guilty of venal acts, immigrants that they offer to persons excused it by saying, noncompliant with REAL ID — for any she said during her 2011 State of the Republicans in next year’s election. fire on Black Lives Matter protesters Carson said he “would not advocate these candidates are fanning the who cannot prove they are lawfully ‘people who are following changes to accepting driver’s licenses to State Address. For a decade, some Democrats in the in Minneapolis who were demanding that we put a Muslim in charge of this flames of hate. present in the United States. Why would board airplanes. And if you do not have There are all sorts of shenanigans Legislature have joined many Repub- action against two white Minneap- nation.” me are very passionate. This itself is despicable. someone choose a noncompliant license? the ID documents listed on its website, that aren’t and maybe shouldn’t be licans in rejecting ethics commission olis police officers involved in the Trump has advocated registering They love this country According to DHS, “personal preference, Robert B. Reich, chancellor’s professor of the Transportation Security Adminis- prosecuted as crimes. Martinez’s plan for legislation. fatal shooting of Jamar Clark, 24, an all Muslims in the United States and religious conviction, or the inability or de- and they want this country public policy at the University of California tration (TSA) allows you to prove your cleaning up state government is sorely Regardless, House Democrats are unarmed black man, on Nov. 15. putting American mosques under cision not to provide original documents at Berkeley and senior fellow at the Blum identity with a variety of documents, lacking when it comes to addressing currently a step ahead of Martinez, who Evidence shows the accused shoot- surveillance. to be great again’ needed to verify identity, citizenship, or Center for Developing Economies, was including credit cards. TSA can even con- such issues. hasn’t indicated she sees the need for ers were linked to white supremacist He’s also claimed that Mus- lawful status in the United States” can secretary of labor in the Clinton adminis- firm your identity through means such as Over the years, a seemingly endless an ethics commission. Perhaps having to organizations operating online. lim-Americans in New Jersey cele- Weeks later in Boston, two brothers legitimately underlie that decision. stream of elected officials and gov- tration. Time magazine named him one of publicly available databases if you have apologize to the people of New Mexico Hate crimes will never be eliminat- brated by the “thousands” when the beat with a metal pole and urinated New Mexico can call its noncompliant ernment employees – Republicans and the 10 most effective cabinet secretaries of no ID documents at all. for her recent transgression will help the ed entirely. A small number of angry, World Trade Center was destroyed on on a 58-year-old homeless Mexican license a “driver’s license” (rather than Democrats alike – have come under the 20th century. He has written 13 books, Want to check these facts for yourself? governor see the light. deranged people inevitably will vent September 11, 2001, although there’s national. They subsequently told the a driving certificate or driving privi- media scrutiny for misbehaving. Check out the DHS’s Security’s “REAL their rage at groups they find threat- no evidence to back that claim. police “Donald Trump was right, all including the bestsellers “Aftershock” and lege card). DHS has certified as REAL A few examples: A legislator worked ID Frequently Asked Questions for the ening. Some will do so violently. Indeed, much of Trump’s campaign these illegals need to be deported.” “The Work of Nations.” His latest, “Beyond ID-compliant states that describe their as a contractor for a company whose Heath Haussamen runs NMPolitics.net, Public” and “REAL ID Enforcement in But such hatefulness is being is built on hatefulness. And Trump Instead of condemning that brutality, Outrage,” is now out in paperback. He is driver’s licenses that are not acceptable project he helped fund with public mon- a news organization devoted to Brief,” (on the DHS website), or visit the encouraged by Republican politicians. not only fails to condemn violence he Trump excused it by saying, “people also a founding editor of the American Pros- for official federal purposes as “driver’s ey. The former state land commissioner hard-hitting, fair exploration of politics TSA website for more information. Perpetrators of hate crimes often provokes but finds excuses for it. who are following me are very passion- pect magazine and chairman of Common licenses.” (They are not required to give had the office’s government-funded and government that seeks to inform, take their cues from what they hear After a handful of white supporters ate. They love this country and they Cause. His newest film, “Inequality for All,” these licenses different names.) Joan Friedland is a New Mexico lawyer attorney defend him against a speeding engage and build community. Reach him in the media. And the recent incli- recently punched and attempted to want this country to be great again.” is available on Netflix, iTunes, DVD and New Mexico can continue to allow and immigration policy consultant to the ticket. The former Senate president pro at [email protected], on Facebook at nation of some politicians to use choke a Black Lives Matter protester I’m not suggesting any presidential On Demand. His blog is robertreich.org all of its licenses to be accepted as National Immigration Law Center. tem inappropriately used government /haussamen, or on twitter @haussamen. 18 • December 30, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS OPINION NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • December 30, 2015 • 19 What Will it Take to Grow N.M.’s Economy? ‘Fun is the Bottom Line’ at New THERAPY Space Editor’s note: This is an email conversation between Alan Webber, a businessman who them or other educated young people here. BY DAN MAYFIELD sought the 2014 Democratic nomination for governor, and Paul Gessing, a Libertarian who We also spend plenty on higher education. According to the National Education Associa- heads the Rio Grande Foundation. The topic was New Mexico’s ups and downs in 2015. tion, New Mexico spends more per capita on higher ed than all but six states. he former ArtBar space at the corner of Second The lease on THERAPY is for just three months, The rest of these items, high-speed Internet, flights, and capital show up when investors TStreet and Gold Avenue is getting a new lease on enough time to give the project enough runway to see Paul Gessing: To say that New Mexico’s economy is in the dumps would be an under- can make money. Until we have a more dynamic private sector, these will lag and there’s really nothing Santa Fe can do about it. life. if it works, but not so long that it would it preclude statement. The latest unemployment shows New Mexico at 6.8 percent, the highest rate Though the Downtown space has been empty for Rennie from leasing it again in the summer if it doesn’t. in the nation. For too long we have relied on volatile oil and gas markets and federal Which brings me back to my original points about the New Mexico Senate blocking spending. State economic policies have hampered the development of a strong private needed reforms. about 18 months, the former bar opened Christmas “We have a 90-day use agreement. If it works, I night with an art show – and a new attitude. Max don’t care,” Rennie said. “We want someone to be sector. Webber: Let’s talk about making New Mexico’s economy better. Baptiste, a computer game developer and a serial successful there. I’ve been looking for someone.” The good news is that in 2015 the Republican House passed more If we really want more private-sector jobs, we need a total re-write than a dozen good bills – many passed with bipartisan support that of New Mexico’s tax code. The gross receipts tax is a backward-looking entrepreneur, is taking over the space, renaming it Baptiste knows he’ll have a tough road to hoe, would free up New Mexicans’ entrepreneurial spirits and make our tax approach, a reflection of our historic dependence on federal jobs. THERAPY. however. The space is well known for the two previ- state more attractive for business. The bad news is that the Democrat- Over the years, it’s been carved away by special-interest tax breaks. As “The idea is to get people through here, to get it ously-failed bars that tried to make a go there. Almost controlled Senate refused to even vote on them. a consequence, entrepreneurs and small- and medium-sized companies breathing again,” Baptiste said. six years ago, the space opened as Downtown’s first We have a path forward for reform in 2016. We need the Senate are punished instead of being rewarded. THERAPY will feature a juice bar with specialty hot swanky jazz club, the Jazzbah. It featured $14 cock- to at least vote on these important reforms. To get more private sector jobs, we need a state tax code that looks to teas, special events and a ton of art and art-related tails, a dress code, and live music almost every night. Alan Webber: I’m in favor of bipartisanship. I’m in favor of entrepre- the future instead of the past. events. While expensive cocktails are part of an evening out neurship. It’s what I championed for 10 years at Fast Company maga- That takes leadership from the governor. New Mexico is overdue for “It’s very experimental. But, one thing I learned in Manhattan, they didn’t fly in the Bud Light culture zine, and what I work on for New Mexico now. a total tax overhaul that will reward companies that are here for their growth and stimulate new companies to start up. That’s real reform the from the game business, is fun. Fun is the bottom of much of Downtown’s nightlife. What do entrepreneurs want? Talent. A well-trained, well-educated line,” Baptiste said. Not long after Jazzbah closed, the space was re-opened workforce. Ideas. A well-funded, supportive system of higher edu- governor could propose. cation. Technology. High-speed internet connectivity in every part of the state. Access. Baptiste’s latest ventures into the art world have as the ArtBar, an alternative to the rowdy Downtown Gessing: I’m stunned! Alan and I agree 100 percent! It is high time for serious tax reform been based on fun, and his ABQ Balloon Blast show nightlife – and it still had the swanky leather couches Frequent, dependable airplane service. Money. Access to investment capital. in New Mexico. But reforming the tax code is easier said than done and there are going to made an impression on the city, as has his “We Are and avant garde lighting that made Jazzbah. It boils down to people, ideas, money. be tremendous political obstacles. All those special-interest loopholes were lobbied for We need to invest in people, champion ideas and use our public money to leverage at great time and expense. This City” project, which is bringing together cre- ArtBar opened in early 2013 as a nonprofit private private money. The gross receipts tax is anti-entrepreneur in some very pernicious ways that harm this atives from across Albuquerque to create a grass-roots bar, much like the Albuquerque Press Club or a VFW Interestingly, virtually none of this involves the Legislature. state economically. marketing campaign to tell the story of the city’s post, but without the indoor smoking. Nonprofit It requires bold, creative leadership from the governor and her team. And, while we’re at it, I’ll throw out a framework. Reform should not be a govern- creatives. clubs usually have a cause they support, and the With real leadership, the components begin to line up. ment cash grab. It should be close to revenue neutral. It should also be pro-growth “There’s a major change in Albuquerque and the ArtBar was supporting arts causes. Without leadership, nothing keeps happening. with taxes levied on consumption, not work and investing. creative culture is taking over, and a few see it,” Bap- Artbar was a new concept that many supported, Gessing: Alan is a smart guy, but he’s confused. We have a talented workforce. New I do think there is “lower-hanging-fruit” in the form of “right to work,” economic tiste said. “There are ways to accelerate it. We have but it was closed after the owners felt harassed by the Mexico has more PhDs per capita than any other state. They are drawn by high-paying deregulation, and school choice. And while we’re in agreement, it is time to follow the city behind the tech world, for example, but who state Special Investigations Division that, at the time, jobs at the labs and spinoff businesses. What we don’t have are private sector jobs to keep Colorado’s lead in legalizing pot. we are is a creative culture, and it angers me that it’s Dan Mayfield shut down the bar and fined the owners for advertis- not expressed on a national level.” ing shows. Private clubs are not allowed to advertise Though the state is known as an art Mecca, Baptiste Max Baptiste is trying a new concept, THERAPY, in the space for- events, and promoters made flyers and posted to is going to focus on what he calls “low-brow” art, or merly occupied by the ArtBar at Second Street and Gold Avenue Facebook, which SID considered advertising. the work that’s gaining popularity across the world Southwest. Regardless, the space has been empty since June of 2014. thanks to artists like Banksy and Shepard Fairey as Since then, Rennie said, he’s been looking for the which operates several properties for the McCune well as locals like Jaque Fragua. right type of owner to take over the space. Charitable Foundation. After the success of his ABQ Balloon Blast show, “From asking me the right questions, and the way “I had supported the Balloon Blast project, and I where hundreds of kids lobbed balloons at fiberboard we did the deal, I know Max isn’t going to start some- was happy to help him find a space,” Rennie said. that was then cut up and distributed to local artists to thing that won’t be good,” Rennie said. The two toured several of the spaces available paint on, Baptiste saw the need for a space that could Downtown, Rennie said. Dan Mayfield is an Albuquerque freelance journalist. accommodate more projects like that. “I pointed at the ArtBar and said, ‘What’s up with Most recently, he was a reporter for Albuquerque Busi- That’s when he turned to Rick Rennie, the asset that?’” Baptiste said. “It was furnished and ready to ness First. Reach him at [email protected] manager for Historic District Improvement Company, go. That’s what I was looking for.” or through his website, TheDanMayfield.com

review, Page 11 ATM machines at casinos and was that she and her disabled sister were accused of violating the very cam- eating “pizz-zah” and drinking Cokes paign finance laws she was supposed and disturbing no one. It seemed that 9. New Mexicans are used to their to enforce. Duran pleaded guilty to six Martinez was throwing her guberna- public officials doing dumb and ille- charges of converting approximately torial weight around, and she became gal things, but when the news hit in $13,000 in campaign funds to her the butt of jokes across social media. August that Secretary of State Dianna personal use. She resigned her office Her enemies gleefully declared that Duran had been charged with em- on Oct. 22 and was sentenced to 30 any aspirations she might have had to bezzling campaign funds to support days in prison. be the Republican Party’s vice pres- idential nominee were dead. Here’s If you have ingested any mind-al- party for her staff and friends at 10. another lesson from Pizz-zah-gate: tering substances, stay away from Santa Fe’s Eldorado Hotel. Her noisy Don’t lie about the amount you’ve recording devices, don’t post anything and rowdy guests took to throwing had to drink. Martinez said she had on Facebook or Twitter, don’t call or bottles off a hotel balcony, which led drunk about a cocktail and a half dur- text anyone, and basically sit on the a hotel clerk to call the Santa Fe police ing several hours at the party, but few couch and stare straight ahead until to complain about the noise. That’s who heard the tapes believed her. your head clears. Despite five years when a riled-up and “inebriated” in office, it appears that Gov. Susana governor went to the front desk to Dennis Domrzalski is an associate editor a gambling habit, it was huge. Duran Martinez hadn’t learned that lesson by demand that dispatchers call off the at ABQ Free Press. Reach him at withdrew huge amounts of cash from Dec. 14 when she threw a Christmas cops. Martinez slurred into the phone [email protected] SPORTS/EDITORIAL ABQ FREE PRESS • December 30, 2015 • 21 Some Lobos (Hint: the Neals) Need to Put Egos Aside BY RICHARD STEVENS

he fishbowl in Johnson Gym in a pick-up game of potential, but Neal might want to making – with an assist from dad. Tcalled The Pit wannabes. There was no postseason in introduce his team to honest-effort Cullen Neal did not step into The shrinks around 2014-15. No dreams of finally, finally, basketball on the defensive end. Wash- Pit as the hometown hero. He is no Coach Craig Neal. finally watching a Lobo team reach ington State had five starters in double Mike Winters, Kenny Thomas or Greg The water deepens. NCAA sweetness. figures as UNM finished dead last in Brown. He disrespected opponents The Pit sharks are The Lobos now drift into the 2016 the eight-team Diamond Head Clas- – and the game – in high school and circling about – Mountain West wars in a stumble. The sic – a skid that revealed a 9-16 record was Public Enemy No.1 in high school baring their teeth loss to Rice in The Pit was ... what? over UNM’s past 25 games. gyms across New Mexico because of as the dismal losses mount. Let’s go with inexcusable. The Lobos Coach Neal talks a good game – his that punkish attitude. Can Neal handle it? ended their Hawaii vacation at 0-4 ego roars – but has yet to turn the talk He has matured at New Mexico, There are reasons to suspect “Noo- with a final 82-59 collapse to Washing- into disciplined Xs and Os – or quality but still swaggers onto the court with dles” needs to be thrown a life jacket. ton State, a game marred by 18 UNM wins. He lectures Lobo fans about his attitude and immature posturing. He He has rabbit ears. He is sensitive. He turnovers. They lost by 30 points to basketball pedigree and his uncanny whines too much. He looks at Daddy is a Helicopter Dad turning too quickly Brigham Young. On his postgame ability to recognize the skills needed to too much. He hot-dogs too much. It into a Helicopter Coach, and this is not radio show, Neal said his Lobos have play “the point.” probably would have been in his best going unnoticed by New Mexico fans. “some issues.” Ah, the point. interest to play ball somewhere else, For sure, Coach Neal has an out – Really? Yes. It is a program with At this point, the job of point falls but it didn’t happen. one used by Coach Bob Davie and issues. The Pit turnstiles no longer spin into the sometimes-capable hands of The way out of his dilemma for Coach Yvonne Sanchez to quiet the at the same rate or the same excite- Neal Junior – Daddy’s Boy, as Cullen Cullen Neal is, simply stated, to start Lobos’ critics. The Mountain West is ment. The disconnection of Lobos with Neal is often referred to on fan sites playing with class and maturity – to mediocre. It can be exploited. But Neal the Albuquerque community continues and even by grumbling tongues found grow up. In fact, the “grow up” theme didn’t exploit it last year. As much as to grow under the tired leadership in The Pit’s overpriced Sky Suites. is a good one for all these Lobos. If anything, his Lobos became one of the of Paul Krebs, UNM’s overpaid vice Cullen Neal has talent. He plays with they embrace it, the season of 2015-16 whipping boys of a below-average president of Athletics. courage, and he can shoot. His defense might avoid the dismal label. conference. There are things to like about Neal’s needs work. His court vision is good, The season of 2015-16 is a crucial 2015-16 Lobos, however. but his decisions are not always of the Richard Stevens is a former sports writer one for Neal. He inherited a potential They are young and should get better. same caliber. He had 22 turnovers in 95 for The Albuquerque Tribune. More Sweet 16 team two seasons ago from Transfer guard Elijah Brown has the minutes of playing time in Hawaii. He recently he was an insider at the Lobo Steve Alford, but Neal lost to Stanford ability to be first team All-MWC and is on pace to become the most disliked athletic department. Reach him at in the NCAA first round. Those seniors the star of this team – if Neal allows Lobo ever, which is a label of his own [email protected] seemed more than ready and willing to it. Under-used Jordan Hunter could escape the Neal family of basketball. give UNM depth at the point – again, if Neal’s second season fell somewhere Neal allows it. Forward Tim Williams between abysmal and embarrassing. can be sensational inside – if the Lobo The team had about as much chemistry guards allow him to touch the ball. and purpose as what you might find This Lobo team has offensive 22 • December 30, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS ANALYSIS Food ABQ FREE PRESS • December 30, 2015 • 23 How to: The Basics of Buying Tires for Your Car 505 Entrée: Freight House Delivers Goods BY RENE THOMPSON by Ariane Jarocki

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O’Connell said the best of your performance or all-wheel drive; and knife, taunting me to take a mountain tire set actually should go on the rear Matt DiGregory, the mastermind whether you plan on keeping the of meat and spice by strategy. Fried wheels. behind iconic local restaurants The vehicle for a long time. Telling the tire jalapeno rings and ghost pepper-cheese “Your best tires – if you don’t have an Range Café and Standard Diner, salesman all those things will help in raise the temperature further. all-wheel drive – should be on the rear has done it again. DiGregory’s new getting the set you need within your Ariane Jarocki No amount of squishing made The because you can steer the front and not concept inhabits the old 7,500-square- budget. Firebox burger vulnerable to a two- the rear, so if you get into conditions foot Flying Star building in Berna- Above: Freight House’s The Firebox, a massive, fiery burger, more than lives up to its name. O’Connell said brands can be catego- handed pick-up maneuver. Trust me where the roads are slick under severe lillo. Freight House has a modern, Below: Freight House’s Beer Battered Fish + Chips are dying to meet roasted, sweet red pepper rized as good, better, or best. But you when I say the fork-and-knife attack Putting a vehicle on a lift is part of the process of offering an estimate. Just because your car is on the breaking, you could potentially go into industrial feel yet maintains an air of remoulade and traditional tartar sauce. may not necessarily want or need the lift doesn’t mean you’re obligated to go forward with that shop. is less about accepting defeat than it a 360 and the car can get out of con- warmth and intimacy with a roaring best, depending on your vehicle and is about getting this burger into your trol,” O’Connell said. He recommends fireplace, oversized booths and cozy how much you drive. mouth. It’s all about the seamless patty, dry area where we live, tires dry out useable tread and they have thrown rotating tires every 5,000 to 7,000 miles. taproom seating. “The average miles most people kimchi’s vinegar-and-veggie pop and and the sun dries them out here, so they away tires they never really got the Alignment can affect the life of your The old Flying Star order counter drive is anywhere from 10,000 to 12,000 has been transformed into a bar, and the ghost pepper and aioli duet. miles a year, and if you only drive only have a life of about six or seven mileage out of, so buy an appropriate tires and their inflation pressures. “If years,” he said. tire,” he said. the wear is even all the way and it’s standing tables outfitted with wooden 10,000 miles a year, you don’t need to renditions of classic games — think buy 90,000-mile tires. Because of the “We see people who have tires that Tire life driving straight, the alignment should Freight House’s hottest are cracked but they have a lot of be fine, so those (rotation and align- chess and checkers. Wander past the burger, The Firebox, O’Connell keeps track of tire ratings ment) go hand in hand,” he said. bar, and you’ll find generous seating by Consumer Reports but he believes The inflation number, expressed in throughout. showed up speared with customers should not base their pur- pounds per square inch, or PSI, on the Don’t dismiss Freight House simply for a knife, taunting me to chases on the magazine’s recommenda- sidewall of a tire is the maximum the its distance from the city center. It’s worth take a mountain of meat tions alone. tire can take. You can double check that every minute of the half-hour drive from “I found out the hard way when I number against the tire information on Albuquerque. Make the trek for their and spice by strategy sold tires that Consumer Reports said the driver’s door panel. expansive selection of local craft beer and were the best and it was clear that haute, made-from-scratch noms. The fries here are hand-cut, double-bat- they weren’t, because those tires were Don’t get ripped off After a pleasant drive, I was in the tered perfection served with homemade wearing out at 20,000 miles and had a “If someone has given you an esti- mood for a leisurely meal. The crackling ketchup. If you’re worried about spitting 60,000-mile warranty, so just because mate and they tell you your car needs fireplace oozed ambiance as I mulled flames, try the coleslaw as a side. someone says it’s good, it may not be a lot of work, get a second opinion, over the drink list and appetizer menu. Ariane Jarocki Not into breathing fire? Go for the the best to use,” he said. because there’s no reason to believe Uncommon options on the drink Beer Battered Fish + Chips. Two large In today’s economy, people are buy- the first,” O’Connell said. “We’ve seen menu are caffeinated creations that pieces of golden whitefish goodness ing used tires. O’Connell said there’s it many times where somebody has play on classic cocktail recipes. Fueled accompany a heaping helping of fries nothing wrong with buying used, but gotten an estimate for $700 to do front by Villa Myriam’s Nitro cold-brew, the and FR8 slaw. Dipped in roasted, make sure the tires have been properly brakes, and we do front brakes jobs Coffee Old-Fashioned tempted, but sweet red pepper remoulade or tradi- inspected before purchasing them. for $160 and that’s all it needed, so I settled on the lighter flavors of the tional tartar sauce, the fish was moist, Flat know-how when someone says, ‘You have to do Freight Hopper. flaky and buttery inside its batter this right now,’ or ‘You’re in danger,’ The namesake Freight Hopper mixes crust. A sriracha cocktail sauce breaks CALLING ALL PETS Knowing where to take your car there’s no reason why you can’t drive it La Cumbre IPA with pineapple shrub, up the fried-on-fried color palette. when you get a flat is vital to the life of somewhere else in town to get another Rhumbero rum and orgeat syrup. The Freight House also offers superlative Michelle sent us this picture of Rossi, her 3-year-old Welsh your tires. Some shops will just plug a estimate.” sweet notes in this concoction balance vegetarian offerings. Try the Grilled Corgi. “She loves to cuddle. Belly rubs are her ultimate hole and can actually cause more dam- Don’t be fooled into believing that out the bitter IPA tang and highlight Panela Cheese + Crispy Cauliflower favorite hobby. She spends her days sunbathing and age to your tires. O’Connell said to look once your car is on the lift you’re sour grapefruit notes. If such mixers Tacos topped with pickled onions, relaxing on the porch. We cannot say ‘biscuit’ or ‘walk’ for shops that patch the leak from the obligated to go forward with that shop. are outside your comfort zone, the tap FR8 slaw and salsa verde. If a more in our house as her little feet get excited and her corgi inside, because plugging is a temporary shuffle goes out of control,” Michelle said. Putting a car on a lift is a normal part of list is constantly evolving but always substantial meal is in order, you can’t repair that can break the cords through- the estimate process. You have the right offers 24 local beers and a flight option. go wrong with the Maple Roasted out the tire and make it useless. to request that the shop give your car The Freight Hopper paired beau- Butternut Squash with Creamy Grits Using Fix-a-flat or a spare is perfectly back before any repairs included in the tifully with my appetizer, the Warm or the Mac N’ Cheese Relleno. Send it to fine for getting you where you need estimate are made. BBQ Chips. When the app arrived, I to go to get a permanent repair. But he Resident foodie Ariane Jarocki fearlessly [email protected] was in awe of the presentation. When explores and reports on Albuquerque’s sees too many New Mexicans driving Rene Thompson is a staff writer at unassuming chips and dip are plated Include your name, phone number, and your pet’s name, Ariane Jarocki restaurant, food truck and bakery scenes on spares or tires temporarily fixed. ABQ Free Press. this well, it’s a labor of love. and we’ll try to reserve their spot in the pet parade. At Freight House Kitchen + Tap, the Warm BBQ Chips are ready for their close-up. for ABQ Free Press. 24 • December 30, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS theater ENTERTAINMENT ABQ FREE PRESS • December 30, 2015 • 25 Revolutions Sans Limit: Theater Defies Borders Stars Trek to ABQ Comic Con Albuquerque Comic Con by Megan Kamerick Friday, Jan. 8–Sunday, Jan. 10 Palestinian woman and a stranger for conversation before shows, around delve into the Aclash over shelter, resources and shows and after shows. We try to create male psyche water — all without words. A soldier an environment where we can ask those in crisis with Albuquerque Convention Center hides from a war amid the ruins of questions; it’s intimate enough that “Butcher Hol- 401 2nd Street NW a circus. A group of men struggle to [audience members] feel they can speak ler Here We albuquerquecomiccon.com. survive in a collapsed mineshaft. Polish to our artists,” Kaufman says. “It’s not Come.” This women explore the bright rooms and just going to the show. It’s becoming performance Hours: Fri: 4-9 p.m. dark corners of motherhood. involved in the conversation.” promises to be Sat: 10 a.m.-8 p.m. That’s just a sampling of what’s on an immersive Sun: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. tap for the 16th annual Revolutions In- “The festival is about experience ternational Theatre Festival. Given the cutting edge — it’s about where the Tickets: Ages 13+ fear around borders and international audience visitors sweeping the nation lately, it different, newer,” says shares a sense Day pass: $15-$25 couldn’t come at a more opportune time. Revolutions Artistic of the claus- Three-day pass: $55 Along with Globalquerque, the Director Juli Hendren. trophobia VIP packages: $100-$300 Revolutions fest is a signature event and darkness “We do not do traditional Ages 7-13/ $5 that makes Albuquerque feel a bit more that miners Police, military, fire fighters w/ ID cosmopolitan. Among this year’s par- American theater” trapped ticipants are artists from Palestine and underground & ages 6 and under / Free Colombia who join a growing roster of Palestinian company Ashtar Theatre experience. Lucho Guzman Cardozo’s “Ceniza” alums from all over the world. promises to be most provocative. The Paper Doll Revolutions Artistic Director Juli group took part in an international theater Militia, whose music. Tricklock will perform “Her Hendren says the fest’s mission — em- symposium Tricklock created over the members hail from Scotland and the Murder Ballad,” a work they pre- powering communities and connecting past year. Ashtar specializes in the genre United States, will enact a “silk and miered this fall, and host a workshop people — has remained consistent known as Theatre of the Oppressed, using chain” aerial show titled “LoopsEnd.” for its first co-designed, community- throughout shifts in company leader- the art form to explore vital, volatile issues The group’s origin story involves a cup -created piece “Desert City.” ship and members. “Now more than such as the impact of Israeli occupation. of coffee, poetry by Tim Burton and Blackout Theater’s “The Show,” ever, this is the kind of thing we need,” Ashtar’s show, “48 Minutes for Palestine,” splashes of Trent Reznor, according to a local improv showcase, is also on Hendren says. explores these themes with two actors the New Orleans Advocate. That may the schedule, as is the ever-evolving offer insight into what’s in store for Reptilian Lounge. (Pro tip: Bring lots of witnesses to the Militia’s show, where change for Target Girl.) “The festival is gravity is more suggestion than law. about cutting edge; it’s about different, Tricklock alum Kate Schroeder newer,” says Hendren. “It goes against returns to Albuquerque with a faux- the grain. We do not do traditional -theatrical documentary by company American theater.” Nellie Tinder titled “Emily Climbs (Ma- Tricklock debuted Revolutions just before our world became more fearful chine Méchant).” In the film, a woman Wikimedia Commons named Emily Climbs is reborn in the after 9/11, and the group has often future and emerges as three people, all struggled to get visas for performers Nichelle Nichols as Uhura on the original “Star Trek” TV series and raise enough funds to cover costs. exploring the burdens of individualism BY RENE THOMPSON and the American Dream. Money comes from a variety of sources, Colombian newcomer Lucho Guz- including the City of Albuquerque, the Urban Enhancement Trust Fund, New he Albuquerque Comic Con schedule to ensure you’ll catch your man Cardozo’s show, “Ceniza,” relates Treturns for its sixth year with more favorite otherworldly icons. Bring Ron Perlman of the Hellboy the story of a soldier fleeing war, Mexico Arts, individual donors and Jack Guy celebs and Q&A panels than ever extra cash and wear comfy shoes for film franchise hiding among circus remnants, hoping ticket sales (which raise $20,000 of the before. This epic three-day conference scoring autographs and photos. to be rescued. $100,000 budget). I interviewed Hendren in early De- takes place the weekend of Jan. 8-10 at Three separate dealer areas will Comedian and Citizen Nation the Albuquerque Convention Center podcast host Jamie Kilstein will be the cember, and she revealed Revolutions boast hundreds of vendors. Everyone (401 Second St. NW). This year’s con face of the Free Speech Comedy Series. was facing a $12,000 funding gap. “I’m from local comic artists to nationwide brings a plethora of big names from T eatr Kana’s “Mother: The Project” This component of Revolutions was definitely in that mode where I wake outlets will have an array of comic, the sci-fi and pop culture genres. created years ago by one of the event’s up in state of panic,” she said. “And gaming, science fiction and cosplay Standout guests include original Having attended nearly every year using only physical action and music. founders, Joe Perrachio, and come- I have to say, ‘It will work out. You’ll paraphernalia for sale. Events include “Star Trek” series icon Nichelle since 2004, each iteration of Revolu- Teatr Kana hails from Poland and dian Paul Provenza. Kilstein’s Rock figure it out. It’s a great community a foosball tourney, a costume contest, Nichols (Uhura) and “The Next tions has delivered at least one amaz- will explore ambivalence around moth- Rants combine standup with guitar and there’s help. Somehow it always speed dating, and celebrity and indus- kind of works out.’” Generation” fixture Michael Dorn ing experience for me — usually more. erhood. On the company’s website, licks. People such as Noam Chomsky, try Q&A panel. The festival kicks off Wednesday, Jan. (Worf); Marky Ramone, drummer for One of my most vivid memories is of member Bibianna Chimiak reveals that Janeane Garofalo and the late Robin An after-party is scheduled for 9 a collaborative piece Tricklock created she wanted to delve into her own dif- Williams have praised Kilstein while 12, and runs through Thursday, Jan. 31, American punk band The Ramones; at venues around Albuquerque, includ- “Star Wars” actor Peter Mayhew p.m. to 1 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 9, years ago with a German company; it ficulties after her child was born. She Glenn Beck called him a doofus. It Downtown at the DoubleTree (201 required the audience to go through felt alone, overwhelmed and at a loss sounds promising. ing Theatre X at the University of New (Chewbacca); and legendary thespian Marquette NW). This year’s conven- “immigration hearings” and walk about what to do. Realizing she was Local spoken-word artists will also Mexico, North Fourth Arts Center and Ron Perlman, known for roles in the tion was planned in coordination with through different immigration scenar- far from alone, her thoughts turned to show off their artistic chops. Poets Tricklock’s home base (110 Gold Ave. Hellboy film franchise, the “Sons of ios at a local high school. the cultural taboos around admitting Hakim Bellamy and Carlos Contreras SW). For more information and a full Anarchy” series and French art flick the Albuquerque Film Festival (Jan. Hannah Kaufman, Tricklock’s associ- the hardships of motherhood. “Mother: and emcee and singer-songerwiter schedule of events, visit tricklock.com. “The City of Lost Children.” 7-10) with discounted tickets avail- able toward both events. Learn more ate artistic director, describes the event The Project” was born. Colin Diles Hazelbaker will offer up Megan Kamerick is an independent radio Many celebrities only attend one as “cultural diplomacy.” “What’s so Aztec Economy, a company from Just Verb, a live on-the-spot creation and print journalist and producer at New day of the fest (usually Saturday), so at albuquerquecomiccon.com and important for us is providing that space Brooklyn, reframes a mine collapse to comprised of dance, paint, poetry and Mexico PBS. coordinators advise consulting the abqfilmfestival.com 26 • December 30, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS MUSIC CALENDAr ABQ FREE PRESS • December 30, 2015 • 27 A Friend of a Friend: On Dave Rawlings Machine by M. Brianna Stallings D EFINitive DOZEN Your dynamic with Gillian remains Dave Rawlings Machine FRIDAY, JANUARY 1 JANUARY 8–10 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13 Monday, Jan. 11, 8 p.m. authentic and powerful after all List your even 1 Screens: The Jerk & The Man with Fairs, Festivals & Fiestas: Music: Cascada de Flores National Hispanic Cultural Center these years. What’s your secret to 5 9 Two Brains: Steve Martin Double Albuquerque Comic Con Part of Chispa: New Latin Music Series in the T 1701 Fourth St. SW working successfully together long- Feature Albuquerque Convention Center, 401 2nd St 7:30 pm, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Tickets: $34 via bit.ly/DRMinABQ or term? Guild Cinema, 3405 Central Ave NE, NW, 768-4575, albuquerquecomiccon.com 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, nhccnm.org 255-1848; guildcinema.com ABQ F 246-2261 We came in on the same page about JANUARY 8–28 JANUARY 15–17 ree Press things. It was fun for us when we were JANUARY 1–3 6 Artspree: The Race: 10 Food and Drink: starting out because we didn’t know 2 Screens: The Masters: Patrick Nagatani Santa Fe Foodie Classic calenda Have y’all ever played The Duke City? anybody else who was interested in Exhibition on Screen—Matisse Harwood Art Center, 1114 7th St NW, Various locations, Santa Fe, Email event info,R I don’t think we’ve ever played some of the country duos — the brother CCA Cinematheque, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 242-6367, harwoodartcenter.org santafefoodieclassic.com including event name, date, Santa Fe, (505) 982-1338, ccasantafe.org Albuquerque proper. We played teams as they were called from the SATURDAY, JANUARY 9 SATURDAY, JANUARY 16 time, address and contact the Paramount in Santa Fe in 1999, 1930s and ’40s. I didn’t know anybody SATURDAY, JANUARY 2 7 Performances: Paris a GoGo: 11 Music: Lonn Calanca Band, phone number probably to support Gillian’s album else that listened to that kind of stuff. 3 Music: Elephant Revival Talkin’ ‘Bout Bad Girls Pink Freud “Hell Among the Yearlings.” Then we We were both interested in the 8 pm, Taos Mesa Brewing, 20 ABC Mesa Rd, 9 pm, Fire & Ice, 9800 Montgomery NE, Low Spirits, 2823 2nd St NW, 344-9555, or website, to played the Lensic in 2012. El Prado, (575) 758-1900, facebook.com/parisagogo lowspiritslive.com [email protected] sounds that we could make with a taosmesabrewing.com couple of instruments and a couple of 8 Talks: The Lebanese/Syrian THROUGH JANUARY 16 one month in advance What went into the creation of Community: Monika Ghattas JANUARY 3–9 Museums: Indian Country: “Nashville Obsolete”? vocals. I think that with any writing Part of People Create Cities Series 12 of publication. 4 Word: The Institute of American The Art of David Bradley relationship, it’s not something that 10:30 am, Special Collections Library, I guess it started with the shows we Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Indian Arts Writers Festival: 423 Central NE, 848-1376 abclibrary.org did in 2014. I was really surprised to is very smooth. Even though that Nightly Readings Museum Hill, Santa Fe, (505) 476-1269, see that our audience had expanded happens when Gillian and I write 6 pm, Free, Institute of American Indian indianartsandculture.org even though we hadn’t been touring together, I don’t think we’ve ever put Arts, 83 Avan Nu Po Rd, Santa Fe, iaia.edu very much. More people were coming out a song that one of us liked and the to the shows, and we were having a other one didn’t. great time playing together. Please tell Gillian that I love sing- CLUBS & PUBS January 15, Wayne Hancock, MONDAY, JANUARY 11 PERFORMANCES SUNDAY, JANUARY 31 Once we got back off the road ing “Orphan Girl” and “The Way It Cowboys and Indian Dave Rawlings Machine Ever the Twain: Shakespeare in JANUARY 1–9 January 16, The Lymbs, Cactus Tractor THROUGH JANUARY 3 and were still working on songs, Goes.” 8 pm, National Hispanic Cultural Mark Twain’s America we thought it would be fun if I sang Launchpad Center, 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, The Little Mermaid 7 pm, Lensic Theater, We’re happy when the songs find 618 Central Ave SW, MUSIC nhccnm.org African American Performing Arts 211 W. San Francisco, Santa Fe, them. “The Trip” was one of the first homes. The Americana Music Associ- 764-8887, launchpadrocks.com FRIDAY, JANUARY 1 Hail the Sun Center, 310 San Pedro, 265-9119, (505) 988-1234, lensic.org songs that was fairly complete, so ation gave us a Lifetime Achievement January 1, Tusk, Under Exile 7 pm, Amped Performance Center, musicaltheatresw.com Eric McFadden that was a little bit of a signpost for January 2, Supergiant, Oryx 415 Central Ave NW, holdmyticket.com SCREENS Award. The thing that was so interest- 8 pm, Taos Mesa Brewing, 20 ABC JANUARY 8–31 the rest of the material. “The Trip” is January 4, Odd Folks, Shekinah ing about it was realizing that, as much January 5, Laughing Dog, Mesa Rd, El Prado, (575) 758-1900, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13 Deathtrap JANUARY 1–11 the lyrical heart of this record — or at taosmesabrewing.com as we go around and play, that award Creatordestroyer Granger Smith feat Earl Adobe Theater, 9813 Fourth St NW, Guild Cinema least it touched on a lot of things that basically exists because so many other January 8, Leftover Crack, Pears SATURDAY, JANUARY 2 Dibbles Jr 898-9222, adobetheater.org 3405 Central Ave NE, 255-1848; January 9, Throw the Temple, 8 pm, Sunshine Theater, 120 Central guildcinema.com the other songs touch on in smaller ways. people have taken our songs and done Wagogo Anesthesia Ave SW, 764-0249, JANUARY 8–FEBRUARY 7 January 2-6, Janis: Little Girl Blue 6 pm, Pueblo Harvest Café, The song “Bodysnatchers” reminds stuff with them, spread them all out a sunshinetheaterlive.com Hamlet January 2-6, The Winding Stream— lot further than we could. It’s an honor JANUARY 1–12 2401 12th St NW, 724-3510, The Vortex Theatre, 2900 Carlisle NE, The Carters, The Cashes, and the me of the 1955 film “Night of the indianpueblo.com/puebloharvestcafe when anybody learns a song of ours, The Mine Shaft Tavern THURSDAY, JANUARY 14 247-8600, vortexabq.org Course of Country Music Hunter.” How do you imagine the 2846 NM-14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743, so thank you for that. SUNDAY, JANUARY 3 Zolopht January 9-11, Peggy Guggenheim: Dave Rawlings, the man, not the Machine narratives for your songs? themineshafttavern.com 9 pm, Duke City Sound, JANUARY 9–10 Art Addict; Troublemakers: The Story Elliot Simpson: Classical Guitar When we’re working on songs, we January 1, Aaron Stephens & 2013 Ridgecrest Dr SE, Buyer and Cellar of Land Art M. Brianna Stallings writes so you don’t 10:30 am, Las Puertas Event Center, don’t necessarily know the first line ... Court Nance dukecitysound.com Musical Theater Southwest Black Box, here’s a specific musical landscape “The Trip,” “Nashville Obsolete” have to. January 2, Andra Taylor & Nate Dodge 1512 1st St NW, chatterabq.org 6320 Domingo Rd NE Ste B, JANUARY 1–15 that is really gonna connect with you. January 3, Shiners Club Jazz Band Tinhabited by the likes of Dave boasts Gillian Welch on guitar and THURSDAY, JANUARY 7 FRIDAY, JANUARY 15 brownpapertickets.com CCA Cinematheque Rawlings. Eloquent but not florid, A lot of times, you’re working January 8, Merideth Wilder Carnage 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, vocals and outstanding fiddle work The Lymbs on something and just spinning January 9, Dandelion Liberation Front El Rey Theater, Stereo Bar, MONDAY, JANUARY 11 (505) 982-1338, ccasantafe.org equal parts ’30s Appalachia and by young virtuoso Brittany Haas. 8 pm, Tractor Brewing Wells Park, January 12, Cactus Slim & the 622 Central Ave SW, elreyabq.com Dave Rawlings Machine Starts January 8, Hitchcock/Truffaut Laurel Canyon circa 1971, Rawlings’ Rawlings, Welch and company things out. At some point, maybe Goatheads 1800 4th St NW, 243-6752, Jermaine Dupri: DJ Set 8 pm, National Hispanic Cultural Starts January 15, Troublemakers: Americana is as haunted and expan- are slated to appear at the National you hit upon one small piece of getplowed.com Center, 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, The Story of Land Art JANUARY 1–15 9 pm, Santa Ana Star Casino, 54 sive as the sound he conjures from his Hispanic Cultural Center’s Journal lyric that really has a connection. nhccnm.org Low Spirits FRIDAY, JANUARY 8 Jemez Canyon Dam Rd, Santa Ana JANUARY 1–18 You can kind of see that spider Pueblo, 867-0000, santaanastar.com 1935 Epiphone Olympic guitar. Theater (1701 Fourth St. SW) at 8 p.m. 2823 2nd St NW, 344-9555, Calle 66 JANUARY 12–31 web start to spin out. The most Jean Cocteau Cinema An award-winning guitarist, singer, on Monday, Jan. 11. Rawlings chatted lowspiritslive.com 6 pm, Pueblo Harvest Café, Mark Starr 16th Annual Revolutions Inter- 418 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, (505) songwriter and producer, Rawlings by phone with ABQ Free Press about important thing for me is to keep January 1, The Barnyard Stompers, 2401 12th St NW, 724-3510, 9 pm, Effex Albuquerque, 420 Central national Theatre Festival 466-5528, jeancocteaucinema.com indianpueblo.com/puebloharvestcafe Ave, facebook.com/digitaldesert.events is best little-known as the typically the making of “Nashville Obsolete,” the narrative flowing. Hell’s Acre Tricklock Performance Laboratory, January 1, H8ful Eight January 7, Double Plow, Dead Rebels SATURDAY, JANUARY 16 110 Gold Ave SW, 254-8393, January 15, The Amazing Nina un-billed half of indie star Gillian the “Frown Tour” and longtime Is there less pressure on this January 9, Meganoke, Mic Deli SATURDAY, JANUARY 9 tricklock.com Welch’s work; he also has worked songwriting and performance partner group than say, Gillian Welch as January 12, American Aquarium Insubordinate Youth 10 Year Clay Walker FRIDAY, JANUARY 1 Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort & with Old Crow Medicine Show and Gillian Welch. an artist? January 14, The Shacks, Wasted Inc Reunion FRIDAY, JANUARY 15 Dreams Rewired January 15, Spoonfed Tribe, 7 pm, Amped Performance Center, Casino, 287 Carrizo Canyon Rd, Peking Acrobats Jean Cocteau Cinema, Ryan Adams. In 2009, Dave Rawlings I don’t know. I can say it’s nice Mescalero,(800) 545-9011, ABQ Free Press: So how’s the tour Merican Slang 415 Central Ave NW, holdmyticket.com Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus, 418 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, (505) Machine debuted with the album “A that people were willing to listen Jacky Zamora innofthemountaingods.com going? JANUARY 2–5 203 Cornell Drive NE, 925-5858, 466-5528, jeancocteaucinema.com Friend of a Friend,” featuring Welch, to the first record because of the 6 pm, Pueblo Harvest Café, Madrid Winter Prom unmtickets.com John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) and Dave Rawlings: We started in Santa work that we do together. [In Zinc Cellar Bar 2401 12th St NW, 724-3510, 8 pm, The Mine Shaft Tavern, JANUARY 7–10 Barbara in October. Then we played 3009 Central Ave NE, 254-9462, indianpueblo.com/puebloharvestcafe 2846 State Hwy 14N, Madrid, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16 Albuquerque Film Festival Punch Brothers members. terms of Dave Rawlings Machine,] zincabq.com (505) 473-0743, themineshafttavern.com our way north, went to New York Nafay’s Casino Cabaret Various locations, abqfilmfestival.com This past September, Dave Rawl- we might let different things January 2, Hello Dollface SUNDAY, JANUARY 10 1 pm, The Guild Cinema, ings Machine released “Nashville City, then played our way down to through. I think there’s a different January 5, Nate Dodge & Andra Taylor NM Philharmonic Afternoon JANUARY 16–17 3405 Central Ave NE, 255-1848, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14 Concert: The Four Seasons of TCMG presents Play It Forward Obsolete,” a manifesto for a new Knoxville and Nashville. We covered filter as far as what we think is go- JANUARY 14–16 guildcinema.com RiffTrax Live: Starship Troopers a lot of miles. In fact, on a map, it Buenos Aires Harwood Museum of Art, 238 Ledoux 7:30 pm, Cinemark 14 Downtown, generation of contemporary country ing to work for each project, and Sister Bar 2 pm, National Hispanic Cultural St, Taos, (575) 758-9826, taoscham- looks like a big frown. We call it the 100 Central Ave, 243-955, artists. Crowned by acclaimed single that’s part of the fun of it for us. Dave Rawlings and Gillian Welch, of Dave Rawlings 407 Central Ave SW, 242-4900, sister- Center, 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, bermusicgroup.org fathomevents.com “The Weekend” and sprawling epic Frown Tour. [laughs] Machine thebar.com nhccnm.org January 14, Low Life Vids N Vinyl 28 • December 30, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS ABQ FREE PRESS • December 30, 2015 • 29

Origami Adventures CALENDAr CALENDArSATURDAY, JANUARY 16 JANUARY 9–APRIL 17 SATURDAY, JANUARY 9 ONGOING 2 pm, Tony Hillerman Library, Health, Wellness & Fitness Coffee Education and Tasting Designing Your Garden for New Territories: Laboratories 8205 Apache Ave NE, 291-6264, Expo 2016/Guardians of the Fridays, 6:30 pm, Prosum Roasters, Beauty and Wildlife: for Design, Craft, and Art in New Year’s abclibrary.org Children Fundraiser 3228 Los Arboles Ave NE Ste 100, Wes Brittenham Latin America Straight Outta Peking 11 am, Free, Albuquerque Garden Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16 10 am, Free, Nativo Lodge, 379-5136, prosumroasters.com 6000 Pan American Frwy NE, 435-8382 Center, Patio Room, 10120 Lomas NE, 2000 Mountain Rd NW, 242-4600, by lisa barrow Steampunk Crafts: Game Pints & Planks Yoga Class xericgardenclub.org cabq.gov/museum Board Sundays, 11 am, donation, Rio Bravo Rezolutions OUTDOORS Brewing Company, (937) 671-8917, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16 2 pm, Tony Hillerman Library, riobravobrewing.com WORD by lisa barrow 8205 Apache Ave NE, RSVP: 291- THROUGH JANUARY 2 Bean Pot Cooking Demonstra- 6264, abclibrary.org JANUARY 2–16 tion: Therese Tohtsoni Glow: Winter Lights Events ONGOING Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande NW, 1 pm, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Santa Fe Botanical Gardens, 715 Cam- ONGOING 344-8139, bkwrks.com 2401 12th St NW, 843-7270, ino Lejo, Santa Fe, (505) 471-9103, TUESDAYS January 2, Denise Kahn, Hot Air indianpueblo.org Coder Dojo Truckin’ Tuesdays santafebotanicalgarden.org January 3, Charles Hunt, The Perfect Second and fourth Saturdays, 10 am, 11 am, Civic Plaza, 1 Civic Plaza NW, River of Lights Human Diet ONGOING ages 7-17, Quelab, 680 Haines Ave 3rd St NW and Marquette Ave NW, NW, coderdojoabq.github.io 6 pm, ABQ BioPark, 2601 Central Ave January 5, Brenda Drake, Thief of Lies NW, 764-6200, abqbiopark.com albuquerquecc.com THROUGH JANUARY 3 Stories in the Sky with January 6, Kelly Yenzer, The Disambi- guation of Katydids Atomic Steam Photography Laurie Magovern THROUGH JANUARY 3 WEDNESDAYS Wednesdays, 9:30 am and 11 am, January 7, Joe Badal, Death Ship Show Ice Skating at Civic Plaza Talin Market Food Truck Anderson Abruzzo Balloon Museum, January 9, Janis Pullen, Lose Weight National Museum of Nuclear Science & Civic Plaza, 1 Civic Plaza NW, 3rd St Round Up 9201 Balloon Museum Dr NE, for Life History, 601 Eubank Blvd SE, NW and Marquette Ave NW, 768- 11 am, 88 Louisiana Blvd SE 768-6020, balloonmuseum.com January 10, Gary Herron, Rio Rancho 245-2137, nuclearmuseum.org 4575, albuquerquecc.com January 12, Darynda Jones, The Dirt Storytime Saturday FRIDAYS Electric Train Exhibit on Ninth Grave Santa Fe Children’s Museum, 1050 Old 2 pm, Free, Page 1 Books, 5850 ABQ Food Fridays THROUGH JANUARY 17 January 14, Jay Cutts, Death by Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, (505) 989-8359, Eubank Blvd NE #B41, 294-2026, 4 pm, Civic Plaza, SW Section, Kadomatsu Japanese Garden Haggis santafechildrensmuseum.org page1book.com ABQ BioPark, 2601 Central Ave NW, 1 Civic Plaza NW, January 16, Ray de Aragon, Billy the Sunday Family Fun 3rd St NW and Marquette Ave NW, The NAACP-100 Years of Wikimedia Commons 764-6200, abqbiopark.com Kid Meets His Ghost Sundays, 10 am, Bachechi Open Space, civicplazapresents.com Dedicated Service Tom Meinhold Photography 9521 Rio Grande Blvd NW, 314-0398, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1 SATURDAY, JANUARY 9 African American Performing Arts Cen- ave two months of holiday feasting and family pressures bernco.gov/openspace TALKS ter, 310 San Pedro Dr NE, 222-0785, Dry Land Gardening Tech- Brenda Drake, Thief of Lies aapacnm.org left you bloated and discouraged? s a culture — maybe as a species — we lack lengthy attention spans. (Squirrel!) We’re apt H Toddler Time niques Thursday, January 7 2 pm, Barnes & Noble Coronado, The latest activity tracker doohickey can feed you data Tuesdays, 9 am, Explora, 4 pm, South Valley Library, 3904 Isleta 6600 Menaul Blvd NE, 883-8200, Pottery of the US South: A to forget entertainment sensations before the next iPhone update. That makes a 30th Environmental Resiliency & Living Tradition A about all the running you’re not doing. Or you could look 1701 Mountain Rd NW, 224-8300, Blvd SW, 877-5170, abclibrary.org barnesandnoble.com anniversary tour pretty remarkable. explora.us Nonlinear Creative Research: Museum of International Folk Art, to the wisdom of a respected, local medicine man who has FRIDAY, JANUARY 15 Nina Elder & Lucy Lippard SUNDAY, JANUARY 10 706 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, (505) Imagine — gymnasts, trick cyclists, tumblers and jugglers practicing a 2000-year-old tradi- spent a lifetime learning and teaching the ways of traditional COMMUNITY Aquarium Overnight 7 pm, 516 ARTS, 516 Central Ave SW, Rich Field, From the Sands of 476-1200, internationalfolkart.org tion of Chinese acrobatics and managing to wow international audiences for three decades well-being. Joseph Brophy Toledo of Jemez Pueblo speaks 6:30 pm, ABQ BioPark Aquarium, 242-1445, 516arts.org the Arena: Ancient World Trivia Unsuspected Possibilities running. on “Wellness, Healing & Traditional Foods” at 5:30 p.m. on THROUGH APRIL 2601 Central Ave NW, 764-6200, for the 21st Century SITE Santa Fe, 1606 Paseo de Peralta, The Peking Acrobats bring their family-friendly, gasp-inducing physical precision and daring SATURDAY, JANUARY 9 Santa Fe, (505) 989-1199, Wednesday, Jan. 20, at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Volunteers needed for NM abqbiopark.com 3 pm, Page 1 Books, feats to Popejoy Hall (203 Cornell NE) at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 16. Veterans Museum Looking Forward Looking 5850 Eubank Blvd NE Ste B-41, sitesantafe.org (2401 12th Street NW). SATURDAY, JANUARY 16 Back: Ligia Bouton, Angela 294-2026, page1book.com Minted in 1986 but consistently innovating, the show includes musicians playing traditional New Mexico Veterans Memorial, 1100 THROUGH JANUARY 10 Toledo will share time-honored knowledge for a healthful Louisiana Blvd SE, 256-2042, Composting with Worms (Ver- Ellsworth, Micol Hebron Chinese instruments such as the pipa and the dizhi. Specialized light effects and silky costumes life right here on the Earth we inhabit — and within our nmvetsmemorial.org micomposting) 11 am, New Mexico Museum of Art, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14 From New York to New Mex- enhance showmanship and the carnival atmosphere. Tickets range from $20 to $49. Visit connection to it. His talk is part of the Cultural Center’s 1:30 pm, Open Space Visitor Center, 107 W Palace Ave, Santa Fe, Anne Key: Burlesque Yoga Sex ico: Masterworks of American popejoypresents.com soon, because they’re going fast. SATURDAY, JANUARY 2 6500 Coors Blvd NW, 897-8831, cabq. (505) 476-5118, nmartmuseum.org and Love Modernism from the Vilcek Counter-Narrative (formerly Coffee & Conversation). Catch Foundation Collection Café Bella Coffee & Cars Janu- gov/openspace Something in the Aria – Pas- 6:30 pm, Page One Books, Peking Acrobats 30th Anniversary Tour the series for free the third Wednesday of each month. sion Predicament, Revenge: 5850 Eubank Blvd NE Ste B-41, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 217 ary Edition Saturday, Jan. 16 8 am, Café Bella Coffee, MARKETS Oliver Prezant 294-2026, page1book.com Johnson St, Santa Fe, (505) 946-1000, Counter-Narrative: Wellness, Healing & Traditional Foods 2115 Golf Course Rd SE, 994-9436, 9:30 am, Harwood Museum of Art, okeeffemuseum.org 8 p.m., $20 to $49 FEBRUARY 1–15 Wednesday, January 20, 5:30 p.m., FREE cafebellacoffee.com SATURDAYS YEAR ROUND Arthur Bell Auditorium, 238 Ledoux St, Poetics of Light: Pinhole Popejoy Hall, 203 Cornell NE, 277-9771, popejoypresents.com Taos, (575) 758-9826, Let’s Read Shakespeare! Photography Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, 2401 12th Street NW, 843-7270, Santa Fe Farmers Market: SATURDAY, JANUARY 23 Railyard harwoodmuseum.com 6 pm, Free, Santa Fe Public Libraries, New Mexico History Museum, indianpueblo.org 8 am, 1607 Paseo de Peralta at Santa Fe, 113 Lincoln Ave, Santa Fe, (505) 476- Mementos THROUGH FEBRUARY 28 THROUGH APRIL 4 BeWellNM Assistance SUNDAY, JANUARY 10 1 pm & 4 pm, Taylor Ranch Library, Guadalupe, Santa Fe, farmersmar- internationalshakespeare.center/events 5200, nmhistorymuseum.org Tamarind Institute, 2500 Central Ave Starry Night The Artistic Odyssey of Higinio 5700 Bogart St NW, 897-8816, ketsnm.org Being Non-Christian in Al- SE, 277-3901, tamarind.unm.edu ONGOING THROUGH JANUARY 17 Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, V. Gonzales: A Tinsmith and FRIDAY, JANUARY 15 JANUARY 16–17 abclibrary.org buquerque 750 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, Poet of Territorial New Mexico THROUGH MARCH 10 am, Congregation Albert¸ 3800 Between Two Worlds: Folk Art- THROUGH JANUARY 30 Rebecca Albuquerque Home & 1ST WEDNESDAYS (505) 982-2226, spanishcolonial.org Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, ONGOING Red Willow Farmers Market Louisiana Blvd NE, 883-1818, ists Reflect on TheI mmigrant Mexico at the Hour of Combat: 2000 Mountain Rd NW, 242-4600, Part of Hitchcock Hits Remodeling Show Wednesdays, 9 am, 885 Star Rd, Taos congregationalbert.org Poetry and Beer Experience Sabino Osuna’s Photographs of THROUGH MARCH 13 cabq.gov/museum 6 & 8:30 pm, KiMo Theatre, Expo New Mexico, 300 San Pedro Dr TUESDAYS 7 pm, Tractor Brewing Wells Park, Pueblo, farmersmarketsnm.org The Jewish Legacy in New Museum of International Folk Art, the Mexican Revolution Painting the Divine: Images of 423 Central Ave NW, 768-3544, NE, 222-9700, exponm.com Casino/Cuban-Style Salsa and 1800 4th St NW, 243-6752, Mexico History 706 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, (505) ¡Viva la Revolución!: The Legacy of the Mary in the New World THROUGH APRIL 17 kimotickets.com Rueda de Casino getplowed.com THROUGH APRIL 3 pm, Free, Congregation Albert, 476-1200, internationalfolkart.org Mexican Revolution at the University of New Mexico History Museum, Connoisseurship and Good Pie: JANUARY 16–18 6 pm, National Hispanic Cultural Los Ranchos Growers’ Market 3800 Louisiana Blvd NE, 883-1818, Georgia O’Keeffe in Process New Mexico 113 Lincoln Ave, Santa Fe, Ted Coe and Collecting SATURDAY, JANUARY 16 Chama Chili Ski Classic and Center, 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, WEDNESDAYS 2nd Saturdays, 10 am, 6718 Rio congregationalbert.org Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, (505) 476-5200, nmhistorymuseum.org Native Art Jaws (1975) Winter Fiesta nhccnm.org Crazy Wisdom Poetry Looking Forward Looking Back UNM Main Campus, 500 Redondo Dr Grande Blvd NW, farmersmarketsnm. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Wheelwright Museum of the American 2 & 6 pm, KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Chama, (575) 265-0590, skichama.com 4 pm, Free, OffCenter Arts, 808 Park SE, 277-4405, unm.edu/~maxwell org MONDAY, JANUARY 11 217 Johnson St, Santa Fe, THROUGH MARCH 20 Indian, 704 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, Ave NW, 768-3544, kimotickets.com 2ND TUESDAYS Ave SW, 247-1172, offcenterarts.org Korean War Veterans Open The Japanese Market for Na- (505) 946-1000, okeeffemuseum.org THROUGH FEBRUARY 14 Gustave Baumann and (505) 982-4636, wheelwright.org The Met Live: Les Pecheurs de FAMILY SUNDAY, JANUARY 3 tive American Jewelry: Cody New Mexico Perles Meeting MUSEUMS SWAIAs Moving Image Class X THROUGH MAY 2 SATURDAY, JANUARY 2 1 pm, New Mexico Veterans Memorial, Corrales Growers’ Market Sanderson THROUGH JANUARY 24 New Mexico Museum of Art, Cinemark 14 Downtown, 100 Central 11 am, 500 Jones Rd & Corrales Rd, 2 pm, Wheelwright Library, Winners 2015 107 W Palace Ave, Santa Fe, Turquoise, Water, Sky: The Lady Pancake & Sir French 1100 Louisiana Blvd SE, 256-2042, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8 Charles Strong: A Celebration Ave, 243-955, fathomevents.com farmersmarketsnm.org 704 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, Institute of American Indian Arts, (505) 476-5072, nmartmuseum.org Stone and Its Meaning Toast Storytime nmvetsmemorial.org of Life and Art 83 Avan Nu Po Rd, Santa Fe, iaia.edu Lensic Theater, 211 W. San Francisco, (505) 982-4636, wheelwright.org First Friday Fractals Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, 11 am, Barnes & Noble Coronado, Lisa Burge Santa Fe, (505) 988-1234, lensic.org 6 pm, New Mexico Natural History THROUGH MARCH 27 710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, 6600 Menaul Blvd NE, 883-8200, FUNDRAISERS FOOD AND DRINK THROUGH FEBRUARY 21 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13 Museum, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Pressing Through Time New Mexican Portraiture Now (505) 476-1269, indianartsandculture.org barnesandnoble.com FRIDAY, JANUARY 15 The French in New Mexico: 841-2800, nmnaturalhistory.org Harwood Museum of Art, 238 Ledoux An American Modernism National Hispanic Cultural Center, FAIRS, FESTIVALS & MONDAY, JANUARY 4 St, Taos, (575) 758-9826, New Mexico Museum of Art, Star Wars Snowflake Craft Beer for a Better Burque— WinterBrew 2016 Francois-Marie Patorni 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, THROUGH MAY 22 FIESTAS JANUARY 8–FEBRUARY 14 harwoodmuseum.com 107 W Palace Ave, Santa Fe, 2 pm, South Broadway Library, Non ProfitN ight 5 pm, Santa Fe Farmers Market, 1607 Part of Brainpower & Brownbags nhccnm.org Hard Edge Abstraction 1025 Broadway Blvd SE, 764-1742, Fiber Rocks! (505) 476-5072, nmartmuseum.org FRIDAY, JANUARY 8 Tractor Brewing Wells Park, 1800 4th Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, nmbeer.org Lunch Lectures THROUGH JANUARY 29 Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, abclibrary.org Noon, New Mexico History Museum, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, THROUGH APRIL 2 2000 Mountain Rd NW, 242-4600, Miss New Mexico US Interna- St NW, 243-6752, getplowed.com THROUGH FEBRUARY 26 SATURDAY, JANUARY 16 Meem Community Room, 555 Camino De La Familia, Santa Fe, Barelas: A Community Chasing the Cure: Tuberculosis cabq.gov/museum tional SATURDAY, JANUARY 9 Reimagining Echoes of the Civil War WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13 Healthy Eating: Stick to Your 113 Lincoln Ave, Santa Fe, (505) 992-0591, elmuseocultural.org Came to Albuquerque Noon, Quality Suites ABQ Airport, Free, National Hispanic Cultural Center, New Mexico History Museum, I’ll Never Let You Go Storytime Art Fusion for a Cause Resolution (505) 476-5200, Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, 1501 Gibson Blvd SE, 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, 113 Lincoln Ave, Santa Fe, 11 am, Barnes & Noble Coronado, 7 pm, Tractor Brewing Wells Park, 11 am, Free, Los Griegos Library, 1000 nmhistorymuseum.org 2000 Mountain Rd NW, 242-4600, missusinternational.com nhccnm.org (505) 476-5200, nmhistorymuseum.org 6600 Menaul Blvd NE, 883-8200, 1800 4th St NW, 243-6752, Griegos Rd NW, 761-4020, abclibrary. cabq.gov/museum barnesandnoble.com getplowed.com org/losgriegos 30 • December 30, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS CALENDAr CALENDAr ABQ FREE PRESS • December 30, 2015 • 31 JANUARY 15–FEBRUARY 20 THROUGH JANUARY 15 THROUGH JANUARY 21 Original Mimic: Recent Paintings: Paul Huxley Collages: Mary Mito All That Glitters: A Winter Armond Lara Gebert Contemporary, 558 Canyon Rd, Group Exhibition Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, All Systems Go Serenade: Michele Bubacco 435 S Guadalupe St, Santa Fe, Santa Fe, (505) 982-1100, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, New Year, Heads and Hands — New Ceramic by lisa barrow gerbertcontemporary.com 554 S Guadalupe St, Santa Fe, (505) 982-8111, Sculptures: Monte Coleman (505) 989-8688, zanebennettgallery.com David Richard Gallery, 1570 Pacheco St THROUGH JANUARY 16 charlottejackson.com Ste A1, Santa Fe, 983-9555, Between Water & Sky: THROUGH TUESDAY, New Work davidrichardgallery.com Chaco Terada THROUGH JANUARY 23 FEBRUARY 9 JANUARY 15–MARCH 12 photo-eye Gallery, 541 S. Guadalupe Amanda Jaffe & Suzanne Kane Soft BY ARIANE JAROCKI St, Santa Fe, (505) 988-5152, Edition One Gallery, Failure of Modernity: Hundreds of CUPS! photoeye.com 1036 Canyon Rd, Santa Fe, Kent Monkman Santa Fe Clay, 545 Camino de la ew Grounds and Matrix Fine Art reconvene to celebrate Small Works/The Holiday Show (323) 422-8306, Peters Projects, 1011 Paseo de Peralta, Familia, Santa Fe, the New Year with a bang. Fine art ranging from New Mexico Art League, editionone.gallery N Santa Fe, (505) 954-5800, (505) 984-1122, mixed-media prints to egg tempera icons will be on display. petersprojects.com 3409 Juan Tabo NE, 293-5034, santafeclay.com THROUGH FRIDAY, newmexicoartleague.org Participating artists include Pamela Wesolek, Jorge Tristani, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16 Lines in My Eyes: Bill Jacobson MARCH 11 THROUGH JANUARY 17 James Kelly Contemporary, Art of Devotion: Julia Lambright, Sarah Hartshorne and Mauricio Ramirez, Artist Talk: Paul Huxley 1611 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, OFFCenter’s Holiday Gift Historic Art of the Americas among many others. The opening reception happens on Friday, 2 pm, David Richard Gallery, (505) 989-1601, 1570 Pacheco St Ste A1, Santa Fe, Bazaar Peyton Wright Gallery, Jan. 1, from 5 to 8 p.m., and the exhibit is on display through jameskelly.com 237 E Palace Ave, Santa Fe, 983-9555, davidrichardgallery.com OFFCenter Community Arts Project, Jan. 30. 808 Park Ave SW, 247-1172, (505) 989-9888, Artist Talk: Michele Bubacco THROUGH JANUARY 31 offcenterarts.org peytonwright.com See new work from old favorites or make good on your 3 pm, David Richard Gallery, Hilo: Group Show of Textile resolution to become an art collector. 1570 Pacheco St Ste A1, Santa Fe, THROUGH JANUARY 18 Artists 983-9555, davidrichardgallery.com Inpost Artspace, Outpost Performance Material Matters Space, 210 Yale Blvd SE, Puzzle on page 32 VIVO Contemporary, 725 Canyon Road, To the left: “No Higher than a Garden Grows” by Sarah ONGOING 268-0044, nna Reser’s preoccupations include the wonders of Santa Fe, (505) 982-1320, outpostspace.org Hartshorne, 2015. This oil on canvas painting catches Aparacord, sundry small objects of Project Apollo and THROUGH JANUARY 1 vivocontemporary.com the carnivorous beauty of pitcher plants using a split the contrast between technology and organic media. The Mementos: 55 Years of complementary color scheme adding a strong visual UNM alum’s life’s work exists at the intersection of art and Memorabilia contrast that is also inviting the viewer to explore the science. Tamarind Institute, 2500 Central Ave SE, 277-3901, tamarind.unm.edu garden and potentially inviting you into your downfall. Reser earned a master’s in the history of science, technol- ogy and medicine and now pursues doctoral studies on the THROUGH JANUARY 2 New Works by Matrix Artists American space program, the built environment and modern Holiday Group Show Friday, Jan. 1, 5–8 p.m. art. She also edits a monthly e-newsletter, “Lady Science.” Venus: Peter Millett Matrix Fine Art, 3812 Central SE, Ste. 100-A&B, 268-8952, These interests collide in new sculptures and paintings at Chiaroscuro, 558 Canyon Rd, Santa Fe, matrixfineart.com GRAFT (1415 Fourth St. SW). “System Visions: New Works by (505) 992-0711, chiaroscurosantafe.com Anna Reser” opens from 6–9 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 8. Explore THROUGH JANUARY 3 new visual and spatial frontiers with this intelligent observer Winter Salon Group Exhibition of humankind’s relationship with the cosmos, and catch the Stranger Factory, 3411 Central Ave NE, show later in the month by emailing [email protected] 508-3049, strangerfactory.com for an appointment. THROUGH JANUARY 4 “System Visions: New Works by Anna Reser” opening Printervention reception VSA North 4th gallery, 4904 4th St NW, vsartsnm.org Friday, Jan. 8, 6–9 p.m. GRAFT Gallery, 1415 Fourth St. SW, bit.ly/SystemVisions THROUGH JANUARY 8 DUKE CITY BINGO Coming Home: Mary (Muller) Moore Bailey THROUGH JUNE 19 ARTSPREE OASIS Art Gallery, 3301 Menaul Blvd NE Ste 18, 884-4529, oasisabq.org, Along the Pecos: A Photo- We play bingo EVERY DAY and EVERY NIGHT marypaints.com graphic and Sound Collage JANUARY 1–30 New Mexico History Museum, New Year New Work Small Scale, Big Ideas 113 Lincoln Ave, Santa Fe, Sumner & Dene, 517 Central Ave NW, Tansey Contemporary, 652 Canyon Rd, (505) 476-5200, nmhistorymuseum.org 842-1400, sumnerdene.com Santa Fe, (505) 995-8513, tanseycontemporary.com CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED ATM THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30 New Works by Matrix Artists — New Works and New Year’s THROUGH JANUARY 9 Flamenco—From Spain to Celebration Bewilderness: Scott Greene New Mexico Matrix Fine Art, 3812 Central Ave SE, EXTENDED PARKING • SECURITY OFFICERS • ALL AGES CAN PLAY • CLEAN BUILDING • SMOKING/NON-SMOKING AVAILABLE 706 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, (505) Ste 100A&B, 268-8952, matrixfineart.com Rise: Beau Carey 476-1200, internationalfolkart.org 516 ARTS, 516 Central Ave SW, JANUARY 1–31 242-1445, 516arts.org THROUGH FEBRUARY 27, Winter Wonderland Group Show The Perfect Piece PACKS FOR ANY WE PAY UP TO ALL PROCEEDS GO 2017 Sorrel Sky Gallery, 125 W. Palace Ave, Contemporary Art Gallery, HIGH-DEFINITION Original Instructions: Pueblo Santa Fe, (505) 501-6555, sorrelsky.com 4009 Central Ave NE, 545-2030, BUDGET OR $300,000 MONTHLY IN BACK TO SUPPORT Sovereignty and Pueblo Gov- sixtysixgallery.com MONITORS ernance FRIDAY, JANUARY 8 FAMILY BUDGET “CASH PRIZES” LOCAL NON-PROFITS 1 pm, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, System Visions: Anna Reser THROUGH JANUARY 10 2401 12th St NW, 843-7270, Graft Gallery, 1415 4th St SW, The Colors of Claire Kahn indianpueblo.org graftgallery.com Patina Gallery, 131 W. Palace Ave, Santa Fe, (505) 986-3432, THROUGH JULY 31, 2017 JANUARY 8–28 patina-gallery.com • EACH SPEEDY PAYS $100 • TWO $1000 COVER ALLS EACH DAY Visions and Visionaries Pluperfect: Evey Jones, Janet Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Shagam, Harriette Tsosie THROUGH JANUARY 14 Helen Hardin Media Gallery, Harwood Art Center, 1114 7th St NW, Narcissus Exhibition: 108 Cathedral Pl, Santa Fe, 242-6367, harwoodartcenter.org Diane G Rolnick • DOORS OPEN AT 11am • DAY SESSION STARTS AT 12:30pm, NIGHT AT 7pm iaia.edu/museum Santa Fe Community Gallery, Courtesy of artist JANUARY 8–FEBRUARY 26 201 W Marcy St, Santa Fe, Urban Landscapes: Richard Estes (505) 955-6705 DUKECITYBINGO.NET • 505.293.5676 • 11342 LEXINGTON NE, ABQ NM 87123 Richard Levy Gallery, 514 Central Ave Sun. Jan. 3 @ Las Puertas: Elliot Simpson show. 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Engine type attic storage, xeriscaped front & Districts Elementary: La Mesa, There is a Credit/Criminal/Eviction 7. Country home 41. Single 57. Annoying neighbor huge fenced yard with big trees, Middle: Hayes, High School: High- & Employment Verification; tenant 8. Gun cleaner brick patio. NO Smoking Please! land. Short term lease available. pays utilities and a 1-year lease. 42. ____ and breathes quality Pets Negotiable! e $1300/MO Credit Criminal Eviction Check, 425/MO $300/DD 1723 Edith SE 9. Over and ___ 44. Mining discovery 61. Fermented juice of $1200/DD 1717 Cagua NE $825/MO $800/DD 246 Mesilla NE Available January! Studio $395/ 10. Admiral’s command MO $300/DD 45. Platinum, e.g. the grape NOB HILL 2BD & OFFICE 1/BA 1CG NE HEIGHTS CONDO - 2/BD 1/BA 11. Lab work 48. Ballet move 63. Hourglass contents 1240/SF Cove ceilings, hardwood 860/SF Privacy, location & Sandia UNM SOUTH/RIDGCREST/SI- 13. 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