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FREE VOLUME 28 | ISSUE 18 | MAY 2-8, 2019 | FREE 2019 2-8, | ISSUE 18 MAY 28 VOLUME PHOTOGRAPH BY JESSICA ROYBAL BY PHOTOGRAPH NOW WITH LESS GLYPHOSATE STREET-LEVEL VARA LAUNCHES BUT MORE HEINRICH AND DAVIS NEW MEXICO NEW KITCHEN NEWS: PAGES 6 THRU 9 ARTS: PAGE 18 FOOD: PAGE 20 A LITTLE HIGHER SINCE 1992 A LITTLE HIGHER SINCE 1992 [ 2] WEEKLY ALIBI MAY 2-8, 2019 MAY 2-8, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [3] alibi VOLUME 28 | ISSUE 18 | MAY 2-8, 2019 EDITORIAL MANAGING EDITOR/ FILM EDITOR: Devin D. O’Leary (ext. 230) [email protected] MUSIC EDITOR/NEWS EDITOR: Email letters, including author’s name, mailing address and daytime phone number to [email protected]. August March (ext. 245) [email protected] FOOD EDITOR: Letters can also be mailed to P.O. Box 81, Albuquerque, N.M., 87103. Letters—including comments posted Dan Pennington (Ext. 255) [email protected] on alibi.com—may be published in any medium and edited for length and clarity; owing to the volume of ARTS AND LIT.EDITOR: correspondence, we regrettably can’t respond to every letter. Clarke Condé [email protected] COPY EDITOR: Samantha Carrillo (ext. 223) [email protected] CALENDARS EDITOR: Ashli Kesali [email protected] downside by August March in Alibi. Perhaps STAFF WRITER: Hate Thy Neighbor, Love Joshua Lee (ext. 243) [email protected] there might have been an idea proposed that SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR: Thy Gun volunteers head back with migrants to their Samantha Carrillo (ext. 223) [email protected] originating countries offering aid, time and CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Dear Editor, Robin Babb, Rob Brezsny, Carolyn Carlson, Samantha Congratulations Alibi editors. … You excel effort towards upgrading conditions there. Carrillo, Desmond Fox, Maggie Grimason, Steven Luthy, Hosho McCreesh, Mayo Lua de Frenchie in preaching to your choir. In the April 11 In the same issue, an article, “The Last PRODUCTION issue [v28 i15] your features made all the Gun Show,” uses multiple images to support ART DIRECTOR: correct points your liberal/progressive readers the latest New Mexico law to limit and deny Ramona Chavez (ext. 268) [email protected] ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR: want to hear. In “On Assignment With the gun rights. The writer assumes that this law Corey Yazzie [email protected] to require background checks for private gun GRAPHIC DESIGNER: Asylum Seekers,” August March writes about Xanthe Miller [email protected] the feel good hospitalities afforded to a group sales and surrender of weapons by domestic STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER: abusers will hopefully effect future gun shows Eric Williams [email protected] of migrants in Albuquerque. Interviews with CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS: volunteers related the plight of the migrants where even now guns are zip tied open. After Max Cannon, Kayla Church, Michael Ellis, Alyssa Metoyer, Ryan North, Mike Organisciak, who traveled “on the road for two or three demeaning sheriffs who will not enforce the Jen Sorensen new law, we are reminded, rather graphically weeks,” “they are downright hungry, SALES dehydrated” … “not had chance to bathe.” in recalling the Sandy Hook Elementary SALES DIRECTOR: School shooting, of the “danger of guns in Tierna Unruh-Enos (ext. 248) [email protected] “sleep on cement floors.” In other words we ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES: are told, expected to be in abject sympathy, public places.” Nowhere is it suggested that Kittie Blackwell (ext. 224) [email protected] Dan Pennington (ext. 255) [email protected] with their self-imposed conditions during yes, guns in public places can stop mass David Casaus (ext. 270) david@alibi and after their march, under ICE control and shootings. Shooters are allowed to mow John Hankinson (ext. 235) [email protected] upon release. In the end one volunteer states down their targets with no challenge because ADMINISTRATION PUBLISHER: there are two parts to this, there’s mercy and those governing public places do not allow Constance Moss (ext. 222) [email protected] justice and the justice part of this is to ask armed guards or staff. The article makes no CONTROLLER: mention of that solution nor the fact that Courtney Foster (ext. 257) [email protected] why is this happening? It is happening SYSTEMS MANAGER: because of monetary payment and the second amendment of the United States Kyle Silfer (ext. 242) [email protected] Constitution guarantees citizens the right to WEB MONKEY: encouragement from progressive and radical John Millington (ext. 238) [email protected] organizations intent on busting US bear arms, period. To deny any type of OWNERS: Christopher Johnson and Daniel Scott immigration law. Nowhere in the article is purchase or use of guns is plain and simply ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE: there any reference to this other side of this unconstitutional. Courtney Foster (ext. 257) [email protected] coin. We are expected to believe that Alibi editors you do your job well assuring CIRCULATION readers that what they read will exclusively CIRCULATION MANAGER: thousands of migrants are walking thousands Chris Silva (ext. 252) [email protected] of miles with the word asylum on their lips promote the liberal and progressive line. CIRCULATION SPECIAL FORCES: by their own will. There is no way that all of And rightly so. In this day and age of Darrell Sparks [email protected] a sudden such a large number of people up diminishing media it is best not to alienate INFORMATION your reader … unless, of course, you wish to PRINTER: and decide to march to the US. But no The Santa Fe New Mexican matter. … We generous Americans should present all sides of an issue for the sake of IN LOVING MEMORY: a Doug Albin, Martin Candelaria, Michael Henningsen, ignore the scam and award these invaders education. Gretchen Hudson, Eric Johnson, Greg Medara, Chico with all of their basic needs and a big With regards, Ramirez, Mina Yamashita welcome. There is no mention that aid Carol Adams INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER: Albuquerque Southwest Cyberport (232-7992) [email protected] benefitting migrants deprives our own NATIONAL ADVERTISING: VMG Advertising (888) 278-9866 citizens. It is reported that a group of www.vmgadvertising.com migrants in Las Cruces were housed in a Letters should be sent with the writer’s name, NUCITY PUBLICATIONS, INC. recreation center causing a youth T-ball address and daytime phone number via email to P.O. Box 81 Albuquerque, NM 87103 BUSINESS HOURS: 10AM–5PM MON–FRI registration scheduled there to be canceled. [email protected]. They can also be faxed to PHONE and FAX: (505) 346-0660 Appeals have been made for health care (505) 256-9651. Letters may be edited for Alibi (ISSN 1088-0496) is published weekly 51 times per year. The content of this issue is Copyright © 2019 by NuCity Publications, Inc., and may not be professionals to meet medical screening length and clarity, and may be published in any reprinted in part or in whole without written consent of the publisher. All rights are reserved. One copy of each edition of Alibi is available free to county residents requirements. Migrants with health issues medium; we regret that owing to the volume of and visitors each week. Anyone caught removing papers in bulk will be prosecuted on theft charges to the fullest extent of the law. Yearly subscription $100, back are taken to hospital emergency rooms. How issues are $3, Best of Burque is $5. Queries and manuscripts should include a correspondence we cannot reply to every letter. self-addressed stamped envelope; Alibi assumes no responsibility for many of our citizens health issues were and Word count limit for letters is 300 words. unsolicited material. will be impacted by migrant health needs for Association of Alternative free treatment. No reference to any Newsmedia In last week’s issue, we misidentified the second place Best of Burque winner in the Best Cannabis Edible category as “Mountain High Suckers” rather than the actual winner, Mountaintop Extracts Suckers. Weekly Alibi regrets the error, which occurred in editing. [4] WEEKLY ALIBI MAY 2-8, 2019 which authorities have yet to name, was taken into custody by officials with the nation’s ODDS Environmental Police and sent to Teresina’s Zoobotânico. The bird will be released after it spends three months incarcerated and learning to fly. According to police and journalists who AND ENDS have visited the avian drug trafficker, the parrot remains silent and refuses to speak to WEIRD NEWS anyone. Despite the presence of multiple police officers, the bird has not repeated the Dateline: Ohio warning that was heard during the raid, An Ohio church has apologized after an leading police to believe it was trained to incident in which a pastor asked students to recognize law enforcement vehicles. spit on him and cut him with a steak knife. According to CNN, Impact City Church part- Dateline: Finland time associate pastor Jaddeus Dempsey went Fans of both aggressive music and textile arts on Facebook to publicly apologize after have been invited to participate in Finland’s numerous students posted videos of the first Heavy Metal Word Knitting incident on different social media platforms. Championships. According to the official The church posted a video of Dempsey seated website, organizers of the event say Finland with lead pastor Justin Ross, in which Ross has a deep history with both art forms. “There told viewers that the part-time pastor “had the are 50 heavy metal bands per 100,000 Finnish opportunity to share a message about Easter citizens,” the site reads, “which is astonishingly and he chose to use an illustration to explain a many and actually more than anywhere else in very important topic—about the crucifixion— the whole world. The number of needlework but the illustration went too far, and it was enthusiasts is equally high, as according to inappropriate.” According to Ross, Dempsey even the most modest estimates, there are was leading a group of students as part of the hundreds of thousands of people in Finland church’s weekly “After School Student who are immersed [in] various kinds of Hangouts” program when he allegedly told needlework crafts, knitting included.” them they could spit in his face “without Participants are asked to download “Fight or repercussions.” Some students did.