VOLUME 26 | ISSUE 19 | MAY 11-17, 2017 | FREE | 2017 11-17, | MAY 19 ISSUE | 26 VOLUME ARCHULETA ON PUBLIC CLOAK, DAGGER & HEY MISTER, PINK FREUD, CHICHARRA HEALTH AND GIVING BACK JESSAMYN LOVELL CHECK OUT SISTER! AND DEAF POETS PAGE: 7 PAGE: 13 PAGE 24 MAKIN’ OUT IN THE BACK ROW SINCE 1992 SINCE ROW BACK THE IN OUT MAKIN’ PAGE: 16 MAY 11-17, 2017 WEEKLY ALIBI [3] alibi VOLUME 26 | ISSUE 19 | MAY 11-17, 2017 EDITORIAL MANAGING EDITOR/COPY EDITOR: Renee Chavez (ext. 255) [email protected] FILM EDITOR: Devin D. 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Berry, Mayor. of Alternative Newsmedia [4] WEEKLY ALIBI MAY 11-17, 2017 March says they mostly discussed public safety, Johnson’s “apparent area of expertise.” Isn’t it the journalist’s job to research what he may think to be Letters should be sent with the writer’s name, “apparent,” rather than simply telling us address and daytime phone number via email to what the candidate wants us to believe? [email protected]. They can also be faxed to (505) What does March even think makes 256-9651. Letters may be edited for length and Johnson an expert in public safety? He clarity, and may be published in any medium; we doesn’t tell us. regret that owing to the volume of When Johnson says that the Air Force correspondence we cannot reply to every letter. base contributes $7 billion to the Word count limit for letters is 300 words. economy, March asks him to repeat what he just said without even questioning where Johnson gets his information from or discussing what else may be out there Tired, Conservative that contributes to the economy. Might Talking Points food stamps or Section 8 housing vouchers or Medicaid also contribute Dear Alibi, significantly to the economy, and should The August March interview with we increase that funding as well? mayoral candidate Wayne Johnson Johnson acknowledges an APD (April 20-26) is deeply disturbing for a staffing shortage of 250 officers, and then number of reasons, not least of which is he waffles on whether the city should the fact that March asks only softball actually eliminate the shortage. Is he questions and editorializes throughout in implying that we shouldn’t spend the favor of the candidate. The headline money on eliminating the shortage and alone reeks of bias: “New Sheriff, New just “work smarter,” despite the fact that Town; Wayne Johnson offers orderly and there is a virtual consensus in the city efficient solutions.” March tells us in the that we need many more officers in order first paragraph that Johnson “really is the for APD to do its job and do it well? law and order candidate.” The only March does not ask any critical questions solutions Johnson even hints at are tired, of the candidate so that readers can be conservative talking points: 1) giving tax better informed about his views. Instead incentives to “outside business forces” he allows (in fact, encourages) Johnson will produce lots of jobs and “steer to blame APD’s problems on the consent [Albuquerque] toward efficiency and decree and the “pandering politicians” economic self-sufficiency” (I guess we’re (whoever they may be). talking about the wonders of industrial March’s last line in the piece is, revenue bonds and/or income tax cuts, “Listen to the rest of this very, very which by Johnson’s logic, should already engaging interview at alibi.com.” What have revitalized the city but clearly did journalist uses an expression like “very, not); 2) increasing the military budget very engaging” to describe his own work (which is not exactly within the mayor’s or even a candidate for office? Is he or the City Council’s control); and 3) trying to emulate a certain president who getting rid of the consent decree and very, very frequently says “very, very”, for letting law enforcement police itself (no example, in referring to his “wonderful mention about the reason for the successes” and the “dishonest media”? consent decree and the prior DOJ The only thing that the written part of investigation of the unusual number of the interview engaged in me is my sense police shootings in Albuquerque; only a of outrage. I know the Alibi can do reference to APD being “under siege by better. pandering politicians”). —R. Weiner a MAY 11-17, 2017 WEEKLY ALIBI [5] path open for a horse named Cunning As A ODDS Tiger, who claimed first place. Dateline: Cambodia Popular Cambodian actress Denny Kwan has ENDS been banned from making movies for one year AND because the country’s culture bosses determined she is “too sexy.” The 24-year-old Kwan has more WEIRD NEWS than 300,000 Facebook followers and has made Dateline: Colombia several movies, but was dragged in to a “re- A 30-year-old woman reportedly ate at least education” session with the Culture and Fine $7,000 in cash during a domestic dispute with her Arts Ministry after it was determined she violated husband. According to doctors who surgically the government agency’s code of conduct. “In removed the money at the University Hospital of Cambodia there are many sexy artists. Some are , & Santander, the woman swallowed several rolls of even more than me when shooting, featuring $100 bills during the fight. Doctors said they were kissing and being erotic,” Kwan said in a recent able to extract 57 $100 bills from the woman’s interview. “I know it’s my right to dress how I stomach and intestines. The hospital’s Director of want, but our culture, Cambodian people, cannot Surgery, Juan Paulo Serrano, told reporters the accept it,” she told the Phnom Penh Post. “I will majority of the bills had been extracted, but now try not to be sexy as I usually am when I post several additional rolls would have to pass on Facebook.” The Culture and Fine Arts through the woman’s colon. The fact that the Ministry’s code of conduct aims to promote the rolls of bills were not wrapped or packaged in any “preservation, maintenance of arts, culture, way suggests they were not swallowed for any tradition and the identity of the nation” and form of illicit transport, Dr. Serrano said, but were “prevent any negative effects of the arts and likely ingested in an “act of desperation.” The tradition of the nation.” For the next 12 months, unnamed woman told Bogotá’s RCN television Ms. Kwan is prevented from “having any channel she had saved up the money for a activities in the entertainment industry ..