VOL III, Issue 9, May 4 – May 17, 2016 Albuquerque’s Award-winning Alternative Newspaper Shocker! We Say Something Nice About ABQ PAGE 13 TV’s Dyson Signs Off PAGE 5 Did APD Lie To Us, DOJ? PAGE 6 Crowdfunding a Rock Opera PAGE 26 Beholding the Spectacle PAGE 24 New Mexico Food & Brew News PAGE 19 EDITor’s A&E PICK ABQ FREE PRESS • May 4 – May 17, 2016 • 3 A&E: Three to See [Page 28] #WithinRange #concerts Previews of touring jazz, hip-hop, post-rock and art-punk shows Why settle for less? New Mexico’s largest [Page 26] personal injury law firm #BoomBox #albums is looking for Reviews of new releases by high-powered litigators Aesop Rock, PJ Harvey and Rufus Wainwright who can stand up for what’s right. [Page 22] #NMFilmFocus #movies #TV If you’re ready for a change, Industry insider Christa Valdez we’re ready to listen. reports on the state of film in New Mexico Nice Guys, Tough Lawyers ‘100 % Ginuwine’ Ginuwine is back in the saddle. And his slot on the ’90s R&B revival tour circuit came courtesy of Hollywood and pop culture. Actor Channing Tatum played Michael “Magic Mike” Lane, a stripper at Xquisite, in a 2012 comedy. Tatum’s steamy perfor- mance to Ginuwine’s hook-up paean “Pony” was a zeitgeist trigger in and of itself. Then Jenna Dewan-Tatum gave her husband a lap dance to the song during a reality series lip-sync battle. Cue the comeback. Relive the Timbaland-pro- duced ’90s playground that defined a musical moment in time – a nostalgia I bet I’m not alone in indulging. Ginuwine appears at Posh Nightclub (405 Central NW) on Saturday, May 21. Jet City “Pop-N-B” up-and-comer Karlos Farrar and Southwest-based R&B stalwart David Wade are also on the lineup. Doors are at 6:30 p.m., and the concert wraps at 11:45 p.m. The chance to witness a live performance of one song, Ginuwine’s “Pony” – equestrian metaphor-strewn erotic lyrics and all – is worth the price of admission but expect other hits from his catalog to be repped. Tickets range from $25 to $120 for a meet-and-greet with VIP seating. Samantha Anne Carrillo is a situationist, a fourth-wave feminist and managing editor of ABQ Free Press. Email her at [email protected] SATURDAY, MAY 21 Shows: Ginuwine Ice Kream Man Tour 6:30-11:45 p.m., Posh Nightclub, 405 Central Ave NW, 721-8589, poshabq.com Corrections: In Heath Haussamen’s column in the April 23 issue, it was erroneously reported that Presbyterian Healthcare Services repaid the State of New Mexico $4 million in disputed behavioral healthcare services charges. The company that repaid the state $4 million was Presbyterian Medical Services. 4 • May 4 – May 17, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS COLUMNS NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • May 4 – May 17, 2016 • 5 Sorting Through Muslim Titles, ABQ’s Last TV Storyteller Gets Sent Home for Good BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI BaseballBY M. BRIANNA STALLINGS and Fossil Fuel tuart Dyson knows he’s for- “I think by birth and ancestry Stunate to have had a 40-year I’m an American southerner, owdy there, ea- state appointed while others are elected. career in the radio and TV news and in the South, Blacks and Hger beavers! This Indonesia, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka each business in Albuquerque. Whites enjoy a tradition of is The Sassy Lass, your have systems of collective mufti. It was a wild, crazy, fun and story telling,” Dyson said. friendly neighborhood Dear Sassy Lass: Why are baseball sometimes frustrating 40 years “Everything is a story. Even brainiac. There are games canceled when it rains but that saw him and his early radio respectable little old lady three questions on football players must slog it out on a colleagues reach new heights Baptist tells stories, and it’s with deck this time out, so muddy field? – or lows – in over-the-top humor, style and usually with let’s give ’em a whirl. It’s the nature of the games, Sports Fan, sensationalism and insensitivity. some grotesque elements. I’ve Dear Sassy Lass: or rather, how each game depends on It was a career that saw him usually been a guy who looks What’s the difference between these nature for maximum playability. When it celebrated for his blue-collar at situations upside down and Muslim titles we hear in the media: rains, a baseball field – which has a lot of sensibilities and storytelling inside out.” sheikh, emir, mullah, imam, ayatollah dirt – quickly becomes a muddy, unplay- abilities. and grand mufti? able mess. A temper And it was a career that threw According to data released in 2015 by Puddles on the infield mean that the ball him too many times up against Along with Dyson’s eye for Pew Research, there were 1.6 billion Mus- won’t roll. Conversely, a football field – what he politely calls “manage- a different side to a story came lims in the world as of 2010; Islam is also which typically is all grass – can get soaked rial density.” what some call his refusal to the world’s fastest growing religion. With and shredded six ways to Sunday, and the suffer fools and what others this in mind, it’s important to distinguish game can still roll on. Also, more baseball And now that he has retired call a bad temper. Years ago, between Islamic sects and associated termi- games are played during a given season, from the TV news business at nology. In addition, remember these aren’t which means there’s likely to be another age 64, and after spending 30 TV, radio and newspaper news- all “Muslim” titles ... because “Muslim” game on that same field the next day. years with KOB-TV Channel 4, rooms were places where peo- and “Arabic” are not synonymous. Fewer football games means the field has Dyson pulls no punches about ple swore and shouted at each A sheikh is a man of vast power. It’s an time to heal. his career, his antics or his other and sometimes fought, as honorific title for a tribal ruler, inherited Baseball players aren’t weenies, though, run-ins with, well, just about well. And Dyson participated, from the father. While “sheikh” can be any more than football stars are superhe- everybody. at least verbally. “I have never been the shy used for a learned Muslim man of faith, roes. Major League Baseball teams will play “If there were any ethics or Dennis Domrzalski as a word, it is independent of religion. in light to moderate rain, while NFL games standards in this business, if type, and if I think something It is used by Arab Christians as a term for will be delayed for severe thunderstorms is stupid, I will say it’s so. And there were any justice, I would After spending 40 years in news, Stuart Dyson said he intends to spend his retirement playing music and watching his important elder men. or hurricanes, as would a baseball game. have never been allowed to 401(k) evaporate. if I think something is a bad An emir is a commander, general or Dear Sassy Lass: Scientists say one of move on,” Dyson recalled of his decision, I will criticize it,” prince. It is a noble title of high office. early days in radio when he and Dyson said. He added that his the health threats of burning coal is Radio where he toned down the sensationalism but Although it is one of the names of the mercury contamination. But if coal is two other colleagues ran wild at a small Albuquerque first fight with management came at his first radio found odd angles on stories. “DID YOU KNOW” prophet Muhammad, “emir” is not an a “fossil fuel” derived from decayed station on the AM dial. job at KUNM-FM 89.9 Radio, which is owned by the “Even back then, he had a very unique way of exclusively Muslim title and has been held prehistoric jungles or dinosaurs, University of New Mexico. Albuquerque’s seeing a story and writing and telling it,” said Frank by Christians. In certain Muslim armies, where did the mercury come from? Murder City It was the mid-1970s, and Dyson was covering EYEZENOxy-View Haley, a 56-year radio veteran who worked with Dy- “Amir” was also an officer rank. It’s element-ary, my dear science buff. It was the late 1970s, and Dyson and co-conspira- sports for the station when a UNM student killed Premier Facility A mullah is a vicar, master or guardian. Literally. Mercury is a naturally occurring tors Lisa Breeden and Peter Wellish threw everything son at KOB Radio. “I was blown away by his ability another student. Dyson knew them both and knew Eyewear The title is commonly given to local Islamic to see an angle to a story that no one else could get.” LENSES: element of the Earth and is present in they had at the news on KRKE-AM 610 as they tried that the incident involved a fight over a woman, These attractive eyeglass clerics or mosque leaders, but it has been - for - super-low levels in the biosphere. As a to boost ratings on the end-of-the-dial station and In 1982, he was hired at KOB-TV Channel 4 by Dick also a UNM student. He wrote the story up and put used among some Sephardic Jews to refer framesRelaxes not onlyYour hold Eyes your result, it gets absorbed by plants, which is overtake the runaway ratings leader at the time, Knipfing.