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FEATURE: VOLUME 28 | ISSUE 15 | APRIL 11-17, 2019 | FREE 2019 | ISSUE 15 APRIL 11-17, 28 VOLUME SEEKING ASYLUM FINDING MERCY PAGES 8 AND 9 PHOTO BY ERIC WILLIAMS BY PHOTO THE INESCAPABLE STORY VEGAN SOUP BoBM WINNER OF ONE IN TWO FOR THE SOUL M.O. MUSIC ARTS: PAGE 19 FOOD: PAGE 21 MUSIC: PAGE 27 STIRRING THE MELTING POT SINCE 1992 SINCE 1992 POT THE MELTING STIRRING [ 2] WEEKLY ALIBI APRIL 11-17, 2019 APRIL 11-17, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [3] alibi VOLUME 28 | ISSUE 15 | APRIL 11-17, 2019 EDITORIAL MANAGING EDITOR/ FILM EDITOR: Devin D. O’Leary (ext. 230) [email protected] MUSIC EDITOR/NEWS EDITOR: August March (ext. 245) [email protected] FOOD EDITOR: Email letters, including author’s name, mailing address and daytime phone number to [email protected]. Dan Pennington (Ext. 255) [email protected] Letters can also be mailed to P.O. Box 81, Albuquerque, N.M., 87103. Letters—including comments posted ARTS AND LIT.EDITOR: Clarke Condé [email protected] on alibi.com—may be published in any medium and edited for length and clarity; owing to the volume of COPY EDITOR: correspondence, we regrettably can’t respond to every letter. Samantha Carrillo (ext. 223) [email protected] CALENDARS EDITOR: Ashli Kesali [email protected] STAFF WRITER: Joshua Lee (ext. 243) [email protected] Methane Goes Bust the gas pump. Why should citizens have to SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR: Samantha Carrillo (ext. 223) [email protected] have lung-destroying toxics forming in New CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Dear Editor, Mexico’s air? Those are fugitive emissions Robin Babb, Rob Brezsny, Carolyn Carlson, Samantha On “Methane Goes Boom!” [Alibi v28 i14]: Carrillo, Desmond Fox, Maggie Grimason, Steven Luthy, going on for decades. FLIR those too! Hosho McCreesh, Mayo Lua de Frenchie Allowing waste of natural resources is a bad Finally, for the NM administration trying PRODUCTION thing in a state dependent on those natural to ramp up enforcement, I have a suggestion ART DIRECTOR: resources. But the industry is responsible for based on the work of a former Green Party Ramona Chavez (ext. 268) [email protected] ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR: more than just methane capture and having a candidate for NM governor in 1994, former Corey Yazzie [email protected] rule. GRAPHIC DESIGNER: Lt. Governor Roberto Mondragon. The NM Xanthe Miller [email protected] The Green Party has been asking for a Dept. of Agriculture has over 100 employees. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER: fracking moratorium for years now, ever since Almost one-third do weights and measures for Eric Williams [email protected] CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS: the Thrust Energy permit application in gasoline and diesel fuels. Those should most Max Cannon, Michael Ellis, Ryan North, Mike Sandoval County reared its head. We do not appropriately be funded by the oil and gas Organisciak, Jen Sorensen think it’s adequate enough to just say no to industry and the well inspections added to SALES fracking by Chaco Canyon. We have a climate SALES DIRECTOR: their work. Let agriculture do agriculture. And Tierna Unruh-Enos (ext. 248) [email protected] emergency and see failures of both Congress let’s have that agriculture be organic, of ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES: and our own State Legislature to act on a Kittie Blackwell (ext. 224) [email protected] course. Bioremediation with hemp would be Dan Pennington (Ext. 255) [email protected] moratorium on more carbon outputs. There is good, too. Thanks. a John Hankinson (ext. 235) [email protected] also a failure to address New Mexico’s role as a Stephen Verchinski, ADMINISTRATION major national carbon contributor. We cannot Green Party US PUBLISHER: do the unsustainable increase in production to New Mexico Delegate Constance Moss (ext. 222) [email protected] CONTROLLER: the 10 million barrels a day by 2030 and meet Eco-Action Committee Courtney Foster (ext. 257) [email protected] the Paris agreement. Greta from Sweden International Committee SYSTEMS MANAGER: Albuquerque Kyle Silfer (ext. 242) [email protected] would tell you that. WEB MONKEY: We have a school in the vicinity of John Millington (ext. 238) [email protected] Letters should be sent with the writer’s name, fracking operations that has shut down time OWNERS: address and daytime phone number via email to Christopher Johnson and Daniel Scott and again from fugitive emissions including [email protected]. They can also be faxed to (505) ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE: methane. When it disrupts classroom learning Courtney Foster (ext. 257) [email protected] 256-9651. Letters may be edited for length and as at Counselor, there should be an automatic CIRCULATION clarity, and may be published in any medium; we requirement that corporations pay for whole CIRCULATION MANAGER: regret that owing to the volume of correspondence Chris Silva (ext. 252) [email protected] school air filtration systems. You don’t get to we cannot reply to every letter. Word count limit for CIRCULATION SPECIAL FORCES: impact our children’s education. Darrell Sparks [email protected] letters is 300 words. Also, on the end use fron, we are still a INFORMATION state that has no venting capture devices at PRINTER: The Santa Fe New Mexican IN LOVING MEMORY: Doug Albin, Martin Candelaria, Michael Henningsen, Gretchen Hudson, Eric Johnson, Greg Medara, Chico Ramirez, Mina Yamashita INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER: Southwest Cyberport (232-7992) [email protected] NATIONAL ADVERTISING: VMG Advertising (888) 278-9866 www.vmgadvertising.com NUCITY PUBLICATIONS, INC. P.O. 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According to KFSM in Arkansas, on repeat from a speaker placed near a cage of Charles Eugene Ferris and Christopher Hicks female mosquitoes who’d gone 12 hours without were arrested last week after Ferris was admitted eating. The cage also included a virgin male to the hospital complaining of chest pain. A mosquito and a restrained hamster. Every 10 Benton County sheriff’s deputy took a report minutes, a group of 10 female mosquitoes was from Ferris at the hospital. Ferris said he’d been removed and replaced by a new batch. When hired to protect an “asset,” who’d paid Ferris to compared to a control group of mosquitoes who follow him into the woods at Hobbs State Park underwent the same cycle in silence, the group to meet someone. According to the statement he that was exposed to Skrillex’s song sucked gave to police, Ferris and the “asset” entered the significantly less blood from the hamster and had woods late in the evening and met the third less sex. It was discovered that these mosquitoes man. A gunfight supposedly broke out and Ferris took longer to start looking for food—two or said he was struck six time by a bullets. He three minutes, compared to 30 seconds—and claimed to have fired back at the man before made fewer feeding attempts than the control successfully extracting the “asset” and escaping group. They also had five times less sex than the situation in his vehicle. Soon after telling those in silence. It is believed that these police his story, however, Ferris’ wife arrived at behavioral changes were the result of the the hospital and told investigators that her mosquitoes’ confusion, caused by the song’s husband and Hicks had shot each other while constantly rising pitch and excessive noisiness. drinking on the back porch of Ferris’ home. According to the study, “both males and females Ferris eventually admitted that he’d made the produce sounds through the beating of their whole story up to protect Hicks from legal wings. For successful mating to occur, the male trouble. According to Ferris’ second story, he and must harmonize its flight tone with that of its Hicks had been drinking when put on a partner using auditory sensitivity.” The bulletproof vest and asked Hicks to shoot him introduction of loud and disorienting music with a .22-caliber semi-automatic rifle. The vest presumably interrupts this ability and hampers protected Ferris, but the gunshot still caused him attempts at reproduction. pain. Ferris said he became “pissed” and “unloaded the clip into Christopher’s back.” Dateline: The Moon Hicks was also wearing a bulletproof vest at the time and reportedly only suffered minor bruising NASA scientists want to study feces left on the as a result.