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Wrestling with Destiny page 31 2 • March 9, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS www.freeabq.com ABQ FREE PRESS • March 9, 2016 • 3 NEWS www.abqarts.com Editor’s a&e Pick Editor: [email protected] Arts: [email protected] Will the Real Bernie Sanders Stand Up? News: [email protected] Advertising: [email protected] A letter writer to the Washington Post questioned whether photos BY SA‘HastaMANTHA ANNE CARRILLO La Fantasía’ Classes for that presidential candidate Bernie Sanders published on his website On Twitter: @FreeABQ depicting him as an early advocate of Black civil rights in 1962 are Editor really him. Dan Vukelich WorK The photographer, Danny Lyon, who now lives in Bernalillo and (505) 345-4080. Ext. 800 ce is a contributor to ABQ Free Press, says they are in fact Sanders. Associate Editor, News Critics allege Sanders padded his resume and that the student in PlaY Dennis Domrzalski &What Will You learn todaY? these two photos is another activist named Bruce Rappaport, who (505) 306-3260 died in 2006. Managing Editor/Arts Editor Lyon, a student at the University of Chicago in 1962 and who, as Samantha Anne Carrillo the official photographer of the Student National Coordinating (505) 345-4080 ext. 804 Committee, documented the civil rights movement both in the North and South throughout the 1960s, says see for yourself. Online Editor Juani Hopwood From Lyon: “The slander that Bernie was not a very early leader for (505) 345-4080 ext. 816, [email protected] African American civil rights got so outrageous that persons went into the archives of the University of Chicago and changed captions Circulation Manager Steve Cabiedes on 1962 photos, claiming it was Bruce Rappaport standing in Bernie’s Courtesy of artist (505) 345-4080 ext. 815 clothing leading the demonstration in the administration building.” Vanessa Zamora Top: “Bernie Sanders” leading a sit-in in the winter of 1962 in the University of Design n her 25 years on Earth, Mexican pop star Vanessa Zamora has achieved an Chicago administration building over the school’s racial policies. Terry Kocon, C.S. Tiefa Iimpressive and buzzworthy international presence. Her formal musical Bottom: Bernie Sanders next to the University of Chicago President George Beadle, Photos credit: ABQ Free Press contributor Danny Lyon, courtesy Photography education began in earnest at age 8 with piano classes; from there, Zamora of Magnum Photos and the University of Chicago Archives moved on to guitar, drums and vocal work. as he addresses a student rally on housing sit-ins. Mark Bralley, Mark Holm, Juan Antonio Labreche, Liz Lopez, From shout-outs on NPR to a SXSW showcase, all signs point to an excited Adria Malcolm recommendation of this Tijuana native alt-pop singer’s gig in Albuquerque. Contributors this issue Mexico City resident Zamora enchants at the National Hispanic Cultural Center (1701 Fourth Street SW) on Tuesday, March 22, at 7:30 p.m. Presented as part of ABQ Free Press Pulp News Ty Bannerman, Andrew Beale, Jeff Berg, Pete Campos, Professional Development | Personal Enrichment | Online Training the Chispa: Latin Diva series, tickets to this all-ages recital are only $12. compiled by abq free press staff Gary Glasgow, Heath Haussamen, Juani Hopwood, Bill Hume, Ariane Jarocki, Dan Klein, Karie Luidens, Danny Lyon, Vanessa Zamora 505-277-0077 Trapped and trim plants and alert human Algeria, Indonesia, Malaysia and Ian Maksick, Joe Monahan, Sayrah Namasté, Joey Peters, Tuesday, March 22, 7:30 p.m. National Hispanic Cultural Center ce.unm.edu/Spring supervisors when a lettuce the United Arab Emirates, for Robert Pidcock, Robert Reich, M. 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The Placed by Deborah Kastman new world record holder credits 65, according to The Associated KSFR fm they returned to work on March Published every other week by: Press. UNM Extended Learning/Continuing Education 1. The walls of the elevator his win to regular training with Great Noggins LLC santa fe public radio 101.1 were covered with scratches the soft drinks and cold water. “And Stalking P.O. Box 6070 505-277-6216 [email protected] my beer fridge is always full,” he Albuquerque, NM 87197-6070 woman made trying to get out, With the cooperation of AT&T told UPI. Sharp said he learned according to local reports. and other mobile phone car- Publishers [Page 30] how to burp as a kid, from his riers, Clear Channel Outdoor Will Ferguson and Dan Vukelich #nirvana #microbrew Robo-veggies sister. The old record of 109.9 Americas is working on highway Cover Illustration Award winning news, decibels was set by a U.K. man Yoga+Beer = Pints & Planks A Japanese company is planning billboards that will track your in 2009. Gary Glasgow to build the first farm manned movements through your loca- Corrections policy: public affairs & talk radio by robots. The automated indoor tion-enabled mobile phone after Passports It is the policy of ABQ Free Press to correct farm will grow lettuce that you pass its billboards. The tech- errors in a timely fashion. Contact the editors will be planted, tended to and It’s not well-known but Amer- nology will be installed at tens at the email addresses on this page. picked by robots, according to icans can possess two U.S. of thousands of billboards Clear [Page 36] #WithinRange the website TechInsider.io. The passports at the same time. The Channel owns across the United streaming live duplicate is useful for people Where to find #concerts Eclectic music company estimates the farm States. The goal is to match the will produce up to 30,000 heads who need to send a passport number of billboard “impres- our paper? From nuevo tango to @ ksfr.org of lettuce every day. The robots off to a foreign consulate to get sions” with subsequent visits to List of more than will not be human-like but more a visa but need to travel in the advertisers’ stores or websites 550 locations post hardcore like “conveyor belts with arms,” interim. Journalists and business to measure the effectiveness of at freeabq.com Listener supported public radio according to the website. The people often use a second pass- the advertising, according to The robots will plant seeds, water port to travel to certain countries. New York Times. NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • March 9, 2016 • 5 Med Pot Comes to Hipster-ville BY DAN VUKELICH

ob Hill now has its own cardholders statewide, about Nmarijuana dispensary. half of them in Bernalillo County, Birdland the Hippie Store, Salgado said. 3213 Central Ave. N.E., has The average age of Ultra Health’s leased part of its space to Ultra customers is 50 – people who have Health, a medical marijuana tried unsuccessfully to treat pain grower. with traditional drugs. About half The co-located operations suffer from post-traumatic stress will sell tie-dyed shirts, pipes disorder, Salgado said. and items from the 1960s up Jay Steinberg, owner of Bird- front. Behind Birdland’s display land, said the pairing of the two counter is a brightly painted businesses in an iconic section of 1960’s VW van. Albuquerque was a natural. “The Farther into the store, behind neighbors have been so positive a locked door controlled by a and the response from some is that buzzer, is a modern showroom they think it will increase their with glass showcases to display dining business,” Steinberg said. large glass jars full of marijuana The sales floor of the dispensary products. is accessible only to a medical mar- At the time of our interview, ijuana cardholder and a caregiver. Leonard Salgado, director of While it’s warmly lit, the space is New Mexico operations for loaded with surveillance cameras Ultra Health, awaited a final fire and motion sensors. After hours, the inventory of 14 strains of mar- marshal inspection, the last step Dan Vukelich before New Mexico Department ijuana and edibles are locked in an of Health approval, to begin Birdland the Hippie Store, 3213 Central Ave. N.E., shares space with a medical marijuana dispensary. 800-pound safe bolted to the floor. sales to medical marijuana Ultra Health is operated by Sal- gado and Duke Rodriquez, former cardholders. Albuquerque store at 7401 Menaul Blvd. N.E. CEO of Lovelace Health Systems who served as “We sell medical cannabis, a Schedule 1 drug, to Ultra Health, based in Scottsdale, Ariz., grows secretary of health under former New Mexico Gov. people with a medical marijuana card, and we take marijuana for its New Mexico dispensaries in a Gary Johnson. Salgado was an administrator under our business as seriously as the Walgreen’s down 23,000-square-foot greenhouse in Bernalillo, Salgado the street,” Salgado said. said. Under state rules, the company can cultivate Rodriquez at Lovelace. One Free Salgado already oversees four Ultra Health no more than 450 plants at a time. Dan Vukelich is editor of ABQ Free Press. General locations in Hobbs, Bernalillo, Santa Fe, and another There are about 21,000 medical marijuana Reach him at [email protected] Admission Ticket Mayor’s Proposed APD Crisis Contract Could Be Illegal When Presenting This Ad BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI ayor Richard Berry’s administration is is coming from a U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance who presumably knew that CIT is run by APD Mworking to give a $131,000, federally funded grant that APD was awarded. Berry’s recommen- employees. contract for crisis intervention training for Al- dation will be heard before a Council committee, Berry’s spokesperson, Rhiannon Schroeder, did March 26th, 6 pm game buquerque police to a nonprofit company run by possibly later this month. not respond to a phone message and email from three APD employees, including two assigned to the Giving the contract to CIT could violate the city’s ABQ Free Press asking to talk with Perry about the department’s Crisis Intervention Unit. conflict-of-interest policy. It states the city can’t enter proposed contract. The deal appears to be a violation of the city’s into a contract for more than $1,000 with a business In a telephone interview, Tinney said city and conflict-of-interest rules and of federal purchasing in which a city employee has a controlling interest federal officials knew that CIT was owned by APD regulations. unless the deal has been put out to competitive bid, employees. The administration has recommended that the or the city’s chief administrative officer has waived He added that neither he nor his partners in CIT, contract for the video CIT training work go to Crisis that requirement. nor their families, can make money from the federal Intervention Team, Inc., a nonprofit formed in 2012. It could also violate federal purchasing rules. contract. “We can’t make any money off it for our State records show that CIT’s president is Nils A 2004 guide on contracting by the federal Office families, and we can’t even pay ourselves,” Tinney Rosenbaum, who makes $113,942 a year as APD’s of Management and Budget said, “Costs of profes- said. in-house psychiatrist. The firm’s secretary is Leah sional and consultant services rendered by persons He added that the contract, if approved, will be Acata, and its treasurer is Matthew Tinney. Both are who are members of a particular profession or used to hire a coordinator and buy equipment. APD officers who make $58,240 a year, according to possess a special skill, and who are not officers or Rosenbaum also said that he didn’t see a conflict city records. employees of the government unit, are allowable.” of interest. Tinney and Rosenbaum are currently members of The EC from Berry’s office made no mention “We have no intention of drawing any money the city’s Crisis Intervention Unit. of competitive bidding, conflict of interest or any from it [contract/grant]. That would be a horrible Berry’s office sent an executive communication, an waivers. conflict of interest,” Rosenbaum said. EC, to the City Council on March 7 recommending It was signed by CAO Rob Perry, APD Chief that the CIT non-profit get the contract. The money Gorden Eden and City Attorney Jessica Hernandez, Dennis Domrzalski is news editor of ABQ Free Press. 6 • March 9, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS COLUMNS ABQ FREE PRESS • March 9, 2016 • 7 You Thought they Balanced The Budget? Think Again BY JOE MONAHAN

ay someone half the state’s population — will qualify S offered you for Medicaid by July 2017. This is not a three or four dollars population with alternatives. if you showed them The recent legislative session ended you had a dollar bill? with a round of self-congratulations and A no-brainer, right? back-slapping, but now we are seeing Apparently not in that the budget that the Legislature ATTENTION: the befuddled halls crafted was made with popsicle sticks of the Roundhouse. and tissue paper. They dodged the Here’s the story: heavy lifting necessary to ensure proper The bean counters are now reporting funding for Medicaid or the rest of state that the state Medicaid budget is $86 government, for that matter. million short. The healthcare program for Behind this Medicaid crisis looms low-income New Mexicans was expanded political nonsense. Namely, the insistence ABQ business owners by President Obama and Gov. Susana by Martinez and her fellow Republi- Martinez signed off on it. cans that taxes can never, ever be raised Because the Feds give three matching for any reason. funds for every Medicaid dollar – plus Never mind if it could mean you get a the extra money the Feds are throwing ride to the cemetery instead of the ER. Don’t settle for less at us for the next couple years for Martinez reluctantly signed onto the Obamacare – if we don’t come up with Medicaid expansion. A number of other that $86 million pronto, the state will Republican governors refused. She had actually come up short $416 million. no choice because of the hundreds of • Why advertise in another local newspaper with barely half the circulation With the horrific economic impact such thousands in need here. If she had a drastic cut in spending would have on opposed the expansion she might have of ABQ Free Press? an already ailing economy, you’d think lost her re-election bid. Now that she is Santa Fe would be in a rush to fill the no longer running Martinez is pursuing • Reach our 60,000-plus readers for a fraction of what your business is paying budget gap, take the federal match and he national ambitions and has already keep Medicaid up and running at full put the state in her rear-view mirror. now. strength. Hope is not a sound budget strategy, But getting $86 million from a state but that’s what the governor and the • Tell us what you’re paying now, show us an invoice and we’ll better that budget already ravaged by the collapse Legislature have given us. They hope oil deal and guarantee your rate for up to six insertions. in oil revenue, weak tax collections from prices jump and they hope the economy a weak economy and years of excessive reinvigorates resulting in a leap in tax cutting, has the austerity hawks in the state revenue that — voila! — solves the Martinez administration and Legislature Medicaid crunch. looking at cutting Medicaid rather than If not, don’t worry. It’s just a bunch WHAT’S NOT TO LIKE? fully funding it – and, in the process, of poor people who don’t vote anyway. leaving that $416 million on the table. And they certainly don’t contribute to If reimbursement rates for medical campaigns because they’re too busy Email ABQ Free Press professionals are slashed dramatically, scrounging for money to pay for their imagine how many doctors will join meds. Sales Director Pam Gutierrez the exodus fleeing our state. Reducing The mismanagement in Santa Fe is bad at [email protected] today! care for the 850,000 low income New enough during good times, but in bad Mexicans who receive Medicaid benefits times like these, it is truly dangerous. could mean an even less healthy and True and responsible leadership in OUR NEXT ISSUE IS MARCH 23 less prepared work force. So much for Santa Fe would have a handful of House economic development. Republicans join with Democrats to raise Let ABQ Free Press help your business Ironically, healthcare has been one of the gasoline tax to begin solving the be known before it’s needed. the few sectors showing job growth. If this crisis. They could also have agreed to Medicaid debacle is not resolved, that’ll sweep into the budget millions of dollars end. And don’t forget, this state already for pet projects approved by the Legisla- has the highest jobless rate in the nation. ture but left gathering dust, sometimes Before the conservatives go off the for years. rails over Medicaid being too generous In these ever more challenging times, and that it can withstand severe the state desperately needs leadership, cuts, keep in mind that Medicaid covers but right now we’d settle for someone single adults who make up to $16,242 who knows that getting three or four a year. A family of four making up to bucks in return for spending one is a $33,465 qualifies. good deal. Our economy and wages are so deep Joe Monahan is a veteran of New Mexico in the cellar that it’s expected that well politics. His daily blog can be found at over 900,000 New Mexicans — nearly joemonahan.com 8 • March 9, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS news NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • March 9, 2016 • 9 Talk About Raucous: ABQ Weighs in on ART ART/BRT, Page 8 BY DAN VUKELICH What Nob Hill business owners say BQ Free Press readers are fairly Astro Zombies owner, Mike D’Elia: “Of and that has definitely been set back. I’m just Aevenly split on the City of Al- course we’re afraid of construction, anything that really trying to survive, and all I can do is embrace buquerque’s plan to build a bus rapid disrupts the flow in your neighborhood, but it is it at this point. I don’t believe the city cares about transit line along ten miles of Central inevitable to deal with these issues as a business the financial impact this will have on businesses up Avenue, our online poll shows. owner. Doing a project that is this lengthy, like the and down the Nob Hill district.” Almost half – 48.6 percent of the 724 Lead and Coal project that was only supposed to Owner of Ojo Optique, Jed Hoffberg: “I am readers responding – oppose the project take six months and ended up lasting 18 months, for it, and I think it will be great. I think that it’s while 40 percent support it. About 12 hardly any of those businesses down that corridor going to be really hard getting through it, but we percent had no opinion. survived that project. Every little shop over there must get accustomed to change and that takes Almost 70 percent of respondents say was crushed, but it’s really not the city’s concern, time. I think that what the result of the project is they never ride city buses, but when their only concern is their project. ... The only going to bring is definitely worthwhile. It’s going asked, “Would you ride the bus rapid people who benefit are the ones who will buy out to stimulate improvements here in general and transit?” – 50.55 percent said yes and all the empty properties once this project is over. will give a fresh perspective on the area, and 49.45 percent said no. Since there are more than 150 businesses opposed might encourage people to help keep it moving in The newspaper’s online poll ran from to this project, there should be more consideration an upward and onward direction.” Feb. 24 to March 4. Responses were for the public’s concerns. It’s clear we don’t have All is One Tattoo Shop owner Delano Garcia limited to one per IP address. say in this at all and that just blows my mind.” moved his business in preparation of the ART The newspaper posed several questions Off Broadway owner, Susan Ricker: I’ve been project to a better location off of a street with a in two ways, with the bus rapid transit against this thing for a long, long time, but this stoplight. “If people couldn’t turn left to my shop project presented as either “the City of thing is happening, so I want to be for it and to I would have lost out on a ton business. It just Albuquerque’s plan” or “Mayor Richard help make it the best it can possibly be, also so my reminds me of that Simpson’s episode with the Berry’s plan. Each version was presented business can survive this project. It has put a lot of Monorail and the sleazy, swindling salesman that to half the respondents. stress and strain on our business, and I was getting tries to take the whole town’s money, only in this More Online to the point that I would like to retire someday, case, the swindling salesman is our mayor.” Find detailed results What people who went to the ART meetings had to say of our online poll on the Chris Anderson: “I’m for it because Al- James Kurt: “I’m against it because I ride the Albuquerque Rapid Transit buquerque is really in need of a timely rapid tran- bus every day, and let me tell you, we do not have Rene Thompson on our website at sit, and also because there’s a lack of investment a reliable transit system here. I find this project An unidentified man gets in the face of City Councilor Isaac Benton at an ART meeting at Manzano Day School. on this corridor. I feel this project would bring to be redundant. I just don’t understand why freeabq.com more of that here and there would be more of a they would put this project on the one street benefit. This is going to bring jobs we desperately that already has Rapid Ride buses. Instead why Although responses were roughly the need here in Albuquerque. This federal money is not extend the Rapid Ride buses all over town on same for two of the questions, our read- going to bring us jobs, and it kind of pisses me off major streets.” ers appeared to be offering a referendum that people are trying to stand in the way of that Head Engineer of the ART Project, David of sorts on the mayor in response to this progress.” Leard on congestion: “Obviously when we take pair of questions: What is your overall Maria Batista attended all of the ART meet- a lane away, traffic is going to slow down, and opinion of the city’s/the mayor’s bus ings. At one, she grabbed City Councilor Isaac that’s just going to happen, so the level of service rapid transit plan.” Benton and threw papers: “I’ve lived here all my is going to increase because it will take people Strong opposition to the plan was life and I think it’s pretty disturbing that they have longer to move through. But right now, all data nearly nine percentage points higher – not included the community in the planning. Their shows that people will be able to get through 39.29 percent vs. 30.67 percent – when it feasibility studies are almost non-existent besides intersections quickly with set lights for better was labeled the mayor’s plan. research that was done from ‘05 to ‘07. They are traffic flow.” Readers told us the chief drawback of not taking the public’s safety into consideration.” the plan will be traffic congestion, while 20.17 percent said the project would harm Central Avenue businesses. Eighty-eight What people said in our online poll when they were percent of the people responding to the poll said they did not own businesses asked what would they tell Mayor Berry: along the Central Avenue corridor. “We need to build our economy first, rapid combined reporting laws, invest in the individuals The chief benefit of the project that read- transit later. The reason why rapid transit works who have staked their claim here, who like it here, ers cited from the choices we gave them in other regional cities is because they already who have ideas about how to make Albuquerque were “more public transit ridership along had a vibrant or semi-vibrant economy. We have better. While we appreciate how easy it is to get Central,” “making the Central Avenue nothing.” up and down Central, there are other neighbor- corridor more livable,” and “sprucing up “Get your chicken sh*t butt to the meetings!!!” hoods in Albuquerque.” Central.” Those three choices received “Recognize that there is more to Albuquerque “If Mayor Berry really insists on a Bus Rapid roughly the same number of responses. than the ‘Central Corridor.’ Instead of talking Transit plan, put it on Lomas Avenue. It will still Only 13.81 percent of the respondents to your rich buddies, talk to the small business service Downtown, Nob Hill, UNM, hospitals. cite the cost of the $119 million project as owners in your city. Eighty-seven percent of a local Lomas. Think about it. It’s a good idea if ART has its biggest drawback. Rene Thompson economy comes from small businesses. Instead to be.” ABQ Free Press staff writer Rene Thompson Central Avenue business owner Mike D’Elia makes his opposition to ART known through his business’ marquee. of courting out-of-state corporations that offer “It’s the only decent thing you’ve proposed since contributed to this story. low paying jobs and take advantage of our lax you’ve been in office.” c ont. on page 9 10 • March 9, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS newS NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • March 9, 2016 • 11 Plowing Through the Details of Police Oversight We’re Not Done with REAL ID, Not By a Long shot BY JOEY PETERS by Dennis domrzalski New Mexico Political Report

he Albuquerque Civilian Police Oversight Board by the Civilian Police Oversight Agency (CPOA). the CPOA and the board have been wading through hen the governor signed the bill that state Currently, DHS is enforcing only 18 requirements into,” said Senate Minority Leader Stuart Ingle, a T(CPOB) is up against the clock when it comes And since the board only meets once a month, many a backlog of cases from the old police oversight pro- Wlawmakers passed last month establishing a to deem states compliant with Real ID, which in- Portales Republican. to police abuse cases it’s supposed to review. The days, or even weeks, could pass before the board cess, and the window of being able to recommend two-tier driver’s license system in New Mexico, all clude making ID applicants undergo a facial image Ingle, a key player in the driver’s license legis- nine-member board is under extreme and confusing reviews a case and makes a recommendation for discipline has long passed. But they could present involved congratulated themselves for ending a capture, sign under penalty of perjury they are not lation, said the lawmakers will “cross that bridge time constraints in which to review cases against discipline. problems in the future as the CPOA and the board years-long, contentious debate over driver’s licenses giving false information, and requiring documenta- when we get there.” officers and make recommendations for discipline. That short time frame has some CPOB members move forward on new cases. for immigrants who are in the country illegally. tion for birth dates, legal status, address and Social “At some point, if it’s necessary, other things will worried that the city’s new civilian police oversight As the oversight process moves forward, the The key reason the Legislature passed the bill this Security number. come up and I don’t know if we can handle it ad- ‘People have said there are death process might be doomed to fail, at least when it CPOA and the CPOB have vowed to be transparent year was to comply with a controversial federal law The question is whether and when DHS will start ministratively or if we’ll have to do kind of a change comes to the board’s ability to review police shoot- and to listen to members of the community. passed 11 years ago in the wake of the 9/11 terror squads and that they won’t even enforcing the other benchmarks. in some kind of a law,” Ingle said. ing and excessive use of force cases in a manner that attacks in 2001. Largely absent from the discussion “DHS came with a material compliance checklist,” A spokesman with the New Mexico Taxation and call the police. On the other side gives them enough time to weigh in with disciplin- was how compliance with various provisions in the Jim Harper, a senior fellow with the Cato Institute, Revenue Department, which will oversee imple- ary recommendations. The Civilian Police Oversight is that the APD can do no wrong. law will impact New Mexico in future years. libertarian Washington D.C. think tank, said in an mentation of the state’s compliance with Real ID, “The question is whether or not it is doable, and Board has 30 days to recommend The Real ID Act establishes national standards for interview. “That’s not full compliance with the law.” did not return a phone call or email seeking com- Those are the extremes’ we don’t know if that is doable,” CPOB member discipline to the chief of police state identification cards in an effort to crack down One controversial benchmark that currently isn’t ment before press time. — oversight agency head Ed Harness Joanne Fine said, adding that the process might be on fraud and identity theft. The law is one of the being enforced is a requirement that all states share A spokesman with the federal DHS referred NM “structurally flawed.” “I want the public to know that we want to know national security reforms that came out of recom- driver’s license information in an interstate network. Political Report to the department website’s section Board member Jeffery Scott Wilson said during what they know,” Harness said. “We want to be of mendations from the 9/11 Commission. Currently just four states are complaint and share on frequently asked questions about Real ID, which For instance, although the board technically has 30 a recent board meeting that he was worried the service to the public so that we can be part of getting Critics lament the law’s potential chilling effect on Real ID databases with each other. says the law does not create a national identification days to review findings in completed police shoot- confusing deadlines, schedules and time constraints some trust back to the community.” privacy. “At some point later, DHS is going to come back ing cases and make disciplinary recommendations, could set the process up for failure. “I hear a wide range of allegations against the card and gives states autonomy to maintain records “It’s essentially moving towards a national ID and say New Mexico is not compliant until the state and control “who gets access to those records and in reality, because of meeting schedules and other And CPOA Executive Director Ed Harness said police department,” he continued. “People have said card,” state Rep. Antonio “Moe” Maestas, an Al- puts data into the [interstate] system,” Harper said. under what circumstances.” issues, it’s only five to seven days. that some of the timelines get “dicey.” there are death squads and that they won’t even call buquerque Democrat, said in an interview. “That’s going to be the next step.” Regardless of what the law’s impact will be here, In less serious cases like those involving officers The timelines are basically dictated by the police the police. On the other side is that the APD can do Real ID established nearly 100 requirements that The text of this part of the law is vague, reading Maestas laments that Real ID was really “never part being rude, or violations of police department policy, union contract that says the police chief has 30 days no wrong. Those are the extremes. We would like to states need to follow in order to comply with the that all states must “provide electronic access to all of the debate” over the driver’s license issue. the board has 30 days to recommend discipline to to decide on discipline against police officers after a know what the reality is and we can’t know what law. In the decade since it went into effect, not all other states to information contained in the motor Gov. Susana Martinez praised the bill for ending the chief of police. But that 30-day clock starts tick- completed investigation, Harness said. the reality is unless we get cooperation from the states jumped on board. Seventeen states pushed vehicle database of the state.” Harper warns that the a state law that she contended made New Mexico ing once those investigations have been completed So far, the timelines haven’t meant much because public.” back and passed laws opposing compliance with language compels even states with two-tier systems “a magnet for illegal immigrants from all over the Real ID. The federal Department of Homeland Se- to share all information in the interstate network. world who come here to grab that driver’s license curity, which enforces Real ID, has pushed back its For now, some state lawmakers don’t seem too and then leave our state to go elsewhere.” deadlines for compliance numerous times, although concerned about how New Mexico will meet future CALL NOW! it rejected extensions requested by New Mexico and compliance with future benchmarks. Andy Lyman of NM Political Report contributed SALES ENDING SOON! Washington State late last year. “That sort of thing, that’s something I don’t get reporting for this story. Alas, Poor GOP, I Knew Him Well BY robert reich

’m writing to Trumpoids who love The Donald and Sometimes it did them with diffi- Republican colleagues. I you today to an- are becoming convinced the greatest culty, as when it strained to choose Without a Republican Party, it’s just nounce the death threats to their wellbeing are Muslims, Abraham Lincoln in 1860, Barry us and them. And one of them could of the Republican Blacks, and Mexicans. Goldwater in 1964, and Mitt Romney even become the next President of the Party. It is no longer Each of these tribes has its own sep- in 2012. United States. a living, vital, ani- arate political organization, its own But there was always enough of a Robert B. Reich, chancellor’s profes- mate organization. distinct sources of campaign funding, Republican Party to do these impor- sor of public policy at the University of It died in 2016. its own unique ideology – and its own tant tasks – to span the divides, give California at Berkeley and senior fel- RIP. candidate. force and expression to a set of core low at the Blum Center for Developing It has been replaced by warring What’s left is a lifeless shell called beliefs, and come up with a candidate tribes: the Republican Party. But the Grand around whom Party regulars could Economies, was secretary of labor in the Evangelicals opposed to abortion, Old Party inside the shell is no more. enthusiastically rally. Clinton administration. Time magazine ¡Plan Familiar TV Programming Home Internet gay marriage, and science. I, for one, regret its passing. Our na- No longer. And that’s a huge prob- named him one of the 10 most effective Libertarians opposed to any govern- tion needs political parties to connect lem for the rest of us. cabinet secretaries of the 20th century. NEW He has written 13 books, including the de llamadas only ment constraint on private behavior. up different groups of Americans, sift Without a Republican Party, more than Market fundamentalists convinced through prospective candidates, delib- nothing stands between us and bestsellers “Aftershock” and “The Work of ilimitadas a casas $29.99/mo! the “free market” can do no wrong. erate over priorities, identify common a veritable Star Wars barroom of Nations.” His latest, “Beyond Outrage,” y celulares de 200 channels LOCATION! Corporate and Wall Street titans principles, and forge a platform. self-proclaimed wanna-bes. is now out in paperback. 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His blog is And white working-class 1924, and Ronald Reagan in 1980. even if he’s a knave detested by all his robertreich.org 12 • March 9, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS newS NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • March 9, 2016 • 13 Expert: APD Following Wrong Path in Crisis Intervention ABQ Free Press Local Briefs BY ABQ FREE PRESS STAFF BY ANDREW BEALE Holm loses the harvest jumped to 66,700 tons departments, and whether ATF New jobs? he man who set up the nation’s “social worker” interdiction approach from 58,700 tons in 2014, the New considers how potentially dangerous Holly Holm’s reign as the UFC Presbyterian Health Plan is looking first Crisis Intervention Team – is dangerous. Mexico Department of Agriculture or violent a suspected criminal is T bantamweight champion didn’t last for business outside the state. The has a message for Albuquerque: “What they [APD’s crisis unit] do reported. The value of that crop was when determining when to arrest a long – less than four months. On insurer has signed a letter of intent You’re following the wrong model. is really a case-management function $41.1 million compared to $38.7 suspected criminal during undercover March 5, Miesha Tate took down to provide Medicaid managed care Sam Cochran, a 30-year veteran in order to sort of encourage, coerce, million in 2014. While New Mexico operations. Holm in the fifth round of their title services to a group of 11 health sys- of the Memphis police force before persuade people to take treatment, to farmers planted more chile last year, bout with something called a rear- tems in North Carolina. The prospect he retired, was charged with stay home, stay sober, go to the day they harvested the same number of New brewery naked choke. Apparently realizing of new business has Presbyterian implementing the first CIT program program if they have one, you know, acres –7,700 – as they did in 2014. she was losing on all the judges’ A brewery of the people and by the considering a $20 million expansion in the country following what to just kind of keep them on the scorecards, Tate went for it in the final people is taking shape in Cedar Crest. to its corporate headquarters in he describes as a “tragic event” straight and narrow so that we don’t Webster slaying round. She jumped onto Holm’s back, The idea behind the Ale Republic is Albuquerque. If the deal is approved that may sound all too familiar to end up with a future crisis,” Cubra slipped her right under the champ’s U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham to have customers help the owners by federal and North Carolina Albuquerque residents. said. chin and choked Holm until she went wants answers from the federal gov- decide what kind of beer to brew. regulators, it could bring 600 jobs to In 1988, Memphis police shot and That’s different from a team that re- unconscious. Holm was honest about ernment about why it let a dangerous Brewery co-founder Zach Gould Albuquerque. killed Joseph DeWayne Robinson, sponds to an ongoing crisis, he said. the defeat. “I let my guard down convicted felon stay on Albuquerque’s said he’ll invite customers to help 27, who suffered from paranoid “I would happily say for the record and it cost me the fight,” she said in streets. Davon Lymon, is alleged to develop beers. Once that’s done, those No sick leave schizophrenia, after his mother that what Albuquerque has done has her post-fight news conference. It have fatally shot Albuquerque Police customers will vote on what beers the called 911 for help with her suicidal been contrary to all of the principles Here’s some lousy news for New was only last November that Holm Officer Daniel Webster last October, Ale Republic should have on tap. The son. of crisis intervention teams,” Cubra Mexico workers: Nearly 50 percent stunned the UFC world by defeating about three weeks after he sold a gun owners are completing the permitting The City of Memphis responded said. “And it’s quite dangerous and of private-sector workers in the state Ronda Rousey in Australia. to federal agents and could have been process and the brewery should be by seeking – and listening to – the needs to stop.” arrested. In a March 3 letter to the U.S. open later this year. don’t receive paid sick leave – the advice of advocacy groups and APD spokesman Tanner Tixier, More chile Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms lowest rate in the nation, according family members of the mentally ill, contacted for this article, directed the and Explosives, Lujan Grisham asked DA says: ‘No mas’ to a study by New Mexico Voices for including the National Alliance on ABQ Free Press to email questions There’s some good news for New Children. It means that workers can’t if the ATF has written guidelines on District Attorney Kari Brandenburg, Mental Illness. to him. He then failed to respond to Mexico chile lovers and growers. stay home when they’re sick, nor can when to arrest a suspected criminal Bernalillo County’s longest-serving Their solution: a highly special- repeated emails over several days. After years of steady decline, chile they take the time to go see a doctor, during undercover operations. She head prosecutor, said she will not seek ized group of highly trained, highly production in the state jumped by 2.5 or take their children to get better, Outside review also wants to know if the ATF shares a fifth term. Three candidates have motivated officers within the de- percent in 2015. The number of acres without forfeiting wages. Stock image by Aaron Amat information regarding its undercover announced. Brandenburg did not rule partment tasked with responding to Ed Harness, director of Al- planted grew to 8,300 from 8,100, and operations with state and local police out a run for another office. calls involving a person in mental buquerque’s Civilian Police Over- crisis to keep them from escalating Portland Police Bureau’s crisis intervention model. sight Agency, said his agency hasn’t into gunfire. “While we commend PPB for training all officers had a chance yet to review Albuquerque’s crisis Cochran is quick to point out the strengths he on crisis matters, this approach assumes incorrectly intervention policies. The agency is in the process sees in the Albuquerque Police Department. He’s that all PPB officers are equally capable of safely of hiring a data analyst, he said, and he was unable Ask A Professional enthusiastic about the work done by APD’s crisis handling crisis situations and fails to build greater to provide specific information about APD’s crisis outreach officers, and he has nothing but praise capacity among qualified officers,” the report states. training process. Odes Armijo-Caster has the distinction of being the sole person in New Mexico with dual Solar Photovoltaic and Solar Thermal for the officers he encountered on a recent visit to APD’s path Cochran said APD Lt. Glenn St. Onge, who over- Albuquerque. sees crisis training for the department, “did express technology. He has also provided presentations, workshops and But Cochran said he can’t shake the feeling that Paradoxically, the U.S. Justice Department settle- his preference for the Portland model as opposed seminars on solar energy systems throughout the world. our city is making a mistake in the way it handles ment agreement with APD over its history of exces- to the Memphis model” during a presentation that crisis intervention. sive use of force seems to take the opposite direction Harness attended. I currently have a gas heater of what the DOJ concluded in Portland. It’s not Cochran’s first time in the Duke City. He Come in 6-pack of Q: that makes my swimming pool with this ad Competing models “I think there’s not a flaw in what [Albuquerque played a minor role in establishing Albuquerque’s LED bulbs with Sacred Power today & receive every free home is] trying to do. I think people are trying to best very expensive to heat. Are LED lightbulb Nationally, there are two models for handling first (and now disbanded) Crisis Intervention Team 1501 12th St. NW consultation & promote as much training as possible to elevate the special! this ad! crisis situations: the “Memphis model” that Cochran in 1997 during a period when APD was first pushed Albuquerque, NM 87104 there solar systems can heat helped create and the “Portland model.” The most officers to a better awareness,” Cochran said. to develop nonlethal approaches to crisis events (505) 242-2292 my pool, and if so, how much important difference between the two is the number “But training is only going to carry you so far,” – use of verbal judo, bean-bag rounds and stun do they generally cost? of officers specifically designated as crisis interven- he said. Not all police officers are suited for or are devices. tion specialists. even interested in crisis work with the mentally ill. That approach was eventually eclipsed by APD’s A: Absolutely! There are two types of solar hot water heating systems that In the Portland model, all officers in a department An example of the flaw in APD’s approach, Cochran preference to use heavily armed SWAT teams, can be used for swimming pools and hot tubs. 1) If you have an outdoor are given training in crisis intervention and are said, is that there’s no clear on-scene leader in such armored vehicles and shootings, which in turn pool, you can use a UV stabilized polypropylene solar pool collector: expected to respond to crisis calls. In the Memphis events. fueled APD’s “culture of aggression” that led to lightweight, easy to install and a super economical way to heat your pool. model, a small group of specialized crisis officers “That’s a serious flaw, right there,” he said. “If DOJ’s intervention to stop the department’s pattern These systems usually cost around $4000 installed and will extend your within a department, who work closely with com- everybody is trained, [there’s a] lack of clarity of of unconstitutional policing that left up to 30 people outdoor pool heating season by a least a couple of months compared to not munity advocacy groups, is summoned to all crisis who is the leader, and I’m saying in a crisis event, dead. having (or limiting) the use of a gas or electric pool heating system. 2) If there needs to be a designated leader.” calls. After visiting the city this year, Cochran said the you have an indoor pool or hot tub, you will need to use an insulated solar Albuquerque attorney Peter Cubra, who has APD is following the Portland model and is giving officers he interacted with left him with the same collector with a copper tubing/absorber plate and a low iron glass cover- litigated major cases involving the rights of disabled all officers 40 hours of crisis training, but it is not optimism he had 19 years ago. ing, which traps the heat inside the collector on cold winter days. This type people, helped bring Cochran to Albuquerque last developing a specialized unit to respond to danger- “I am leaving Albuquerque with the same feelings of solar system is quite a bit more expensive primarily because there are ous crisis events. month. Cubra praised APD’s progress but said as and expectations of when I left Albuquerque in now constituted, its crisis unit does not have the more components required, including special fluids and heat exchangers to In a public presentation Cochran gave in Al- 1997,” he said. “And that was a good feeling.” protect the system from freezing. Be aware however, these systems may not buquerque last month, he pointed to a U.S. De- same duties as a specialized Crisis Intervention Andrew Beale is an Albuquerque freelance journalist qualify for State/Federal solar tax credits due to swimming pools being partment of Justice review of the City of Portland’s Team. and frequent contributor to ABQ Free Press. labeled as a “luxury item” in the tax code. performance. The review specifically rebukes the He said the path APD is taking – following a PAID ADVERTISEMENT 14 • March 9, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS pets/columns analysis ABQ FREE PRESS • March 9, 2016 • 15 Helping the ABQ Indian Center, The Link Between Gun Violence and Police Shootings And is a Special Session Likely? BY BILL HUME by sayrah namastÉ 24-year-old Army contemporaries – civil- Aveteran accosted at ian or police – than was hat the seen at roadsides where a person has died. gunpoint at an Al- ever the case in the late Wheck hap- It is illegal to destroy a descanso, so local buquerque ATM pulled 20th century. The result pened at the activists hope police will stop removing his own sidearm and is more separation, Roundhouse? Sen. tributes that remind people of his killing. chased the would-be more latent hostility Jerry Ortiz y Pino, The vigil and placement of the memorial armed robber back to in interpersonal inter- an Albuquerque is set for 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 16 at his car. With the veteran actions. In minority Democrat, offers the spot in the foothills where Boyd was and his friend, armed communities, these his annual post-leg- killed, not far from the trailhead east of with a knife, approach- islative town Tramway Boulevard at Copper Avenue N.E. tendencies are greatly hall on the 2016 Bringing scholars and community to- ing, the would-be robber magnified. legislative session and policies that affect gether: A common problem for university sped away, shooting and Police tactics Albuquerque residents. The event is 1 p.m. scholars and researchers is a disconnect killing the veteran. CALLING Sunday, March 13 at the Hotel Blue, 717 Gun violence yet I remember many from the local community, resulting in Central Ave. N.W. work that doesn’t serve the public. again on the streets of years ago when I “I hold town halls at least four times a Aiming to change that is the Raza Albuquerque. watched a confrontation year to get feedback from constituents Graduate Student Conference’s annual The nagging question between an apparently ALL PETS about issues that are important to them,” event starting at 8 a.m. on both Thursday, is: If the veteran hadn’t drunk man armed with John Wombacher sent us this photo of Bucky W., a 3-and-a-half-year-old Ortiz y Pino said. “I think the highlight will March 24 and Friday, March 25 at the had a gun, would this a pistol and a group of mixed-breed training to be a therapy dog with the Warm Hearts Network be a frank discussion of just how serious UNM Student Union Building. episode have more APD officers. I heard our economic situation is, and how likely of New Mexico. “I convinced his owners to let me adopt him when he was The event is titled “Atl-Tlachinolli: likely ended with an officers, crouched be- we are to require a special session to deal 8 weeks old,” John said. “Soon he’ll be certified and I’ll share him with Decolonized Healing.” Atl-Tlachinolli angry vet having been hind their car, pointing with falling revenues,” he said. even more folks. Also, I’m training him to be in show business.” is a Nahuatl, or Aztec, term that means their pistols at the man, More impact from the economic robbed – but still alive? “burning water.” It symbolizes the downturn: There are many homeless Guns on both sides of shouting, “Drop the coalescing of contradictions that creates a Native Americans in Albuquerque and they a confrontation are a gun, drop the gun.” Send it to balanced union from which neither force need vital help like a place to pick up their virtual guarantee of a Another officer tiptoed overpowers the other. [email protected] Social Security check or VA benefits, or a violent conclusion. around the corner of “As scholars of color we often struggle Include your name, phone number, and your pet’s name, place they can go simply to use the phone. Gun violence in this the building, quietly up to balance our identities with the realities The Albuquerque Indian Center, located country has increased behind the man – and and we’ll try to reserve their spot in the pet parade. of academia,” said one of the organizers, familiarity. There are drastically more cases of in the International District at 105 Texas St. exponentially in recent years, highlighted by sense- deftly grabbed the pistol out of his hand. The others Melina Juarez. persons shooting strangers. It keeps the public con- S.E., has served those needs for more than rushed up, holstering their arms, and none too “My experience at the beginning of grad less multiple homicides by firearms. For many, the stantly concerned that these things are a palpable 25 years, helping Native Americans who gently took the man to the ground and handcuffed school was really difficult. There was not obvious remedy is to curtail access to guns – partic- risk. Proliferation of licenses for concealed carry has lack housing or are experiencing poverty. him – alive. support for non-traditional grad students ularly by those with histories of violence or mental blossomed. The center provides counseling, free illness. meals, legal help, and domestic violence and it made me want to quit. So I sought And then there’s the new, more hardened percep- and batterers’ treatment, and AA meet- out a support system from other students tion of law enforcement. The wave of police shoot- The wave of police shootings ings. Also available are Internet and email of color through Raza Graduate Student For many, the gun is only the tool; ings in recent years has turned on its head the image in recent years has turned on access, and hygiene kits. Association, shared what was going on the shooter is the problem. of a policeman as a benign authority figure. But this year, the center is facing and the idea of the conference came People read of persons shot to death by police in its head the image of a policeman financial problems and it needs support to about,” she said. “If Guns Kill, Spoons Make situations in which in retrospect it seemed unnec- as a benign authority figure pay its water and utility bills until funding The conference brings together people Rosie O’Donnell Fat!” is the not essary. The public – especially the Albuquerque of color, non-traditional graduate students comes through. public – grew accustomed to seeing the almost daily and the local community. illogical bumper sticker assertion It’s hard to imagine today’s APD risking a ma- The center is holding a benefit concert at deployment of SWAT teams – groups of officers The public is encouraged to attend neuver like that. But at the same time, they work 6 p.m., Saturday, March 12 at Warehouse armed and uniformed like heavies from a war zone 508, located at 508 First St. N.W. The event the free conference and learn about in meaner streets, with their quick use of guns For many others, the gun is only the tool; the traveling in armored military vehicles. is titled “Native Voices Showcase” and will topics that include “Historical Trauma; shooter is the problem. “If Guns Kill, Spoons Make matched by their more violence-prone adversaries. feature Grammy nominee and former Miss Indigenous struggles and methodologies” Rosie O’Donnell Fat!” is the not illogical bumper View of police When one citizen in the 100 that an officer encoun- Navajo Nation, Radmilla Cody. and “(De)Colonization politics and theory.” sticker assertion. The net result is that people have changed their ters during a shift presents an actual deadly threat, For more, go to facebook.com/ There will be a social justice panel with By way of background, this writer came of age the officer must still use some measure of precaution grassroots activists. attitudes toward police. Call police when a family events/1715419282026797 in a small New Mexico town. My father taught me with the other 99 as he goes about his business. Harassment of the homeless: One “Academics can get insulated and this member is distraught? Maybe not. Experience warns to shoot with the family .22 bolt-action rifle. If we It seems to me that guns don’t cause violence, but overlooked and continuing problem is a way for scholars and researchers to that there’s a real possibility it might end in death. had the family car at school, there might easily have people’s attitude about others’ proclivity for their that homeless people have to deal with produce work that is valued and needed The red- and blue-marked police vehicles of the use certainly does. And the increased threat of gun is police harassment. Two years ago, the by the community,” Juarez said. been firearms in the trunk. I bought my first gun community policing era are being phased out for violence to police officers increases officers’ quick fatal shooting by police of homeless As part of the event, a healing center at 16 years of age in an Albuquerque department sinister gray-black cruisers that look like special camper James Boyd as he tried to sleep will be set up during the event’s second store, without parental participation. The only effects from a police state movie. “Protect and Serve” use of deadly force – which in turn increases the in the foothills became an international day offering four hours with free requirement was that I showed a driver’s license is segueing perhaps to “Protect Ourselves from likelihood that somebody with a gun will be quick news story. massages, traditional limpias, and other and produced $64. Those We Serve.” to use his. Somehow, we have to nurse this fear/acceptance Boyd’s shooting galvanized sustained healing work. Grab your gun It goes without saying that the actions painting the protests against Albuquerque Police For more, visit: black eye on police are perpetuated by an exceed- of gun violence out of our everyday attitudes on Department violence, and Bernalillo facebook.com/events/157932074567505 Restrictions on purchasing, anxieties about ease of ingly small minority of the force – but they form the both sides of the badge and among all strata of our County District Attorney Kari Brandenburg ownership – and incidents of gun atrocities – were public’s impression. Instead of being perceived as society. Only through something like that will we eventually filed murder charges against Sayrah Namasté is an organizer with virtually nonexistent in the 1950s and ’60s. So what’s a benign authority figure, the officer is increasingly ever exorcise the gun violence scourge. two police officers. the American Friends Service Committee different today? seen as a sinister adversarial force to be feared. The anniversary of Boyd’s death will in Albuquerque. She writes about events Bill Hume is a former editorial page editor of the One factor, I think, is that use of guns in the street So, the average informed citizen of today has a be marked with a vigil and placement of of interest to Albuquerque’s activist Albuquerque Journal and later served as a policy adviser has acquired an uncertain legitimacy through much greater sense of personal threat from armed to former Gov. Bill Richardson. a “descanso,” a traditional marker often community. 16 • March 9, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS opinion opinion ABQ FREE PRESS • March 9, 2016 • 17 By Any Measure, the APS-CNM Bond Election Was Rigged Let’s Call ART What It is, Coming soon: Your Flying Car BY ROBERT PIDCOCK

have been asked by ABQ Free Press A Victory for Our Ruling Class Iwhy I chose to file a lawsuit against BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI the Albuquerque Public Schools and the Central New Mexico Community College here are only a plan; and that it’s Berry’s way of throwing concerning the tax and bond election held Tfew things that gobs of public money at his pals, our pals, stir my soul to joy, in the contracting business and in NAIOP on Feb. 2, 2016. gratitude and ecstasy: and nothing more. Some people would look the other way a cold 15-pack on a Of course that’s what it is. And so what? if they saw a child being abused. Some Saturday morning, That’s the way things operate. That’s would not. Some people would walk past an ICBM streaking how money is made. The little people if they saw an old person on the street in through the night need to get used to it. The politicians, trouble. Some would not. sky from Vandenberg bureaucrats, planners and developers run Some people would just say, “It’s New Air Force Base, and this town. Mexico” if they saw repeated and sys- the moving words of that great leader Here’s another way this thing is the temic failure in their schools and a failed who once proclaimed, “Government of absolute gorgeous embodiment of election process. I did not. the bureaucrats, by the planners, for the government by and for the bureaucrats. The success I have found as a lawyer af- developers and contractors shall not perish Did anyone see any mobs of people fords me the opportunity to do “the right from the earth.” storming City Hall and the mayor’s office thing” in ways that others are unable. I Unfortunately, all great concepts mutate demanding Bus Rapid Transit down Cen- have been gifted with a law license and over time into the horrific opposite of tral? Did Berry’s office receive thousands, hundreds, or maybe even tens of letters wonderful clients over the years. Now, I their original meaning and intent. Such has it been with that noble concept of from citizens demanding BRT? have the opportunity to give my work to government by the bureaucrats, which is Are the CEOs of IBM, Microsoft, Boeing wo men from Slovakia have been testing a two-seat flying car with collapsible wings the public when I see the need. and other global corporations in New being perverted by the people. since 2014 and plan to put it on sale this year for delivery within three years. I will not discuss the specific legal issues Puny little people – pathetic troublemak- York, Chicago and Silicon Valley, firing off T in the lawsuit, since those would best be urgent messages to their boards, saying, Aeromobil’s “Flying Roadster” (shown in flight above and road configuration below) can ers who never learned their place to bow reach a top speed of 124 miles an hour in the air and 99 miles an hour on land. A sport pilot’s understood by reading the complaint. “Thank God almighty! They’re building a subserviently before their kings – have license will be needed to fly it. No price has been announced. However, the issues are numerous and created in their defective minds a warped 10-mile-long BRT system in Albuquerque. The TF-X, another car-plane being developed by Massachusetts-based Terrafugia, will have substantial, including: It’s what we’ve been waiting for. We move and so disfigured view of our beloved a top speed of 200 miles an hour on the ground and 500 in the air. When it finally hits the • APS changing the tax mill levy rate on bureaucratic oligarchy that they believe to Albuquerque now!” market several years from now, the TF-X will have a reported priced tag of $261,000. the ballot just 12 days before the election, that it’s supposed to be government of Of course not. when the law requires the ballot issues to the people, by the people and for the This wasn’t on anyone’s mind until our be published 50 days before the election; people. bureaucrats realized there were pots of • No individual projects to be funded Sickening, to be sure. Dangerous. federal grant money to be had, money that could be thrown at our best people, were listed on the ballots, which forced The slovenly masses have failed to the developers and contractors. voters to accept all spending by APS understand that it is their place to be have been written 30 years ago. Stories of poor grad- not so for the other 458,000 eligible voters of the The bureaucrats and planners – un- and CNM or reject everything, just to get the small governed by the rich, powerful and uation rates, top-heavy administration that earns too general public. connected, and from these unwashed doubtedly – with the input of wise portion that they may think is really needed; much and does too little, perpetually disgruntled And this year, it all worked as it has for years. masses has arisen the stench of dissent developers – saw that money and hatched • The vague wording on the ballot gave APS and the plan that would benefit the noble teachers that want higher pay but no more work, Roughly 19,000 people voted to give APS the that had threatened the bank accounts of CNM the legal ability to ignore any statements city’s oligarchy. Of course BRT isn’t needed, and a seemingly clueless APS Board of Education, authority to tax everyone $375 million and borrow our noble ruling class. www.ruizdelatorre.com they made prior to the election to fund any specific But now, thanks to strong leadership, but if we governed and acted on the basis have been repeated over and over for decades. $200 million, and that far exceeded the roughly projects and spend the money on any buildings they things are changing back to their proper, of need and what’s right instead of what’s The public is simply numb to it all, and very few 10,000 people who voted against the issues. wish. and hopefully, permanent alignment. best for our pals, our pals would never bother to vote on the requests for obscene amounts (505) 544-5400 In 2014, Manzano High School had a four-year Nearly 20,000 people voted for the CNM bond That glorious concept of government by make the kind of money we want them to. of money for “replacing leaking roofs” and “pencils graduation rate of only 57.2 percent. Six percent issue while roughly 9,000 voted against. CNM’s bureaucrats, and not by farmers, factory Now, some losers are whining that the Have you been seriously injured? of the school’s students there dropped out in 2013 in the classrooms,” when the money for roof patch- share of the bond issue would have passed if just workers, car mechanics and retail workers, city’s ART meetings were a sham because Are you being charged with a crime? alone. ing and pencil purchases actually turns into a $5 37 percent of the CNM student body alone walked has reasserted its authority within the City the project was a done deal. They’ve This year, APS has decided to spend $21.9 million million private health clinic for administrators and down the hall from class and bothered to vote. of Albuquerque. The loud and unenlight- complained that during meetings they Have you been wrongfully convicted? were forced into separate groups so as at Manzano, but when you voted last month, if you employees or $55 million for athletic facilities, as in Nor did APS or CNM governing boards bother to ened masses are being – properly – put in to divide them and dilute their voices of thought the planned spending would be on science the most recent election. advertise the election. their place. To thank for this righteous return to opposition to ART. or computer labs or a better library for research and In election after election, whatever amount APS CNM spent a total of just over $62,000, according the divine right of the bureaucrats and Well, that’s exactly what went on. So WE HELP LAW MAKE SENSE learning, you would have been mistaken. and CNM request to tax, borrow and spend virtu- to CNM documents, to obtain $84 million. the politically connected to impose their what? The money will actually be spent on a new athlet- ally always passes – thanks to the small number of APS has not provided the total of what it spent, will, we have Mayor Richard Berry and his Remember, it’s government of the Personal Injury Criminal Defense ics complex. voters and CNM’s and APS’ hide-the-ball strategy of but from the documents they have produced in bureaucrats, by the planners, for the selecting voting locations. Albuquerque Rapid Transit project. Civil Rights Appeals CNM says it will spend some of its share of the response to requests, the school district produced It is beautiful to watch. developers and contractors. The little Five of the initial 30 voting sites for the most recent Foreclosure Habeas Corpus bond money on a new “wine and beer academy.” proof of only about $16,000. In return, they’ll get The tiny minds and squeakers are now people, the ones who pay the bills, get no election were put on CNM campuses. There were voice and have no power. We do! Even though I enjoy wine and beer, in a state with $575 million. whimpering that they never had a say Estate Planning Extraordinary Writs nearly 485,000 eligible voters in the election and It was Abe Lincoln who spouted that the level of alcohol-related issues we have, it is Maybe this can all be changed. in the $119 million project that will rip Divorce Drug Possession particularly irresponsible for a public-funded there are about 27,000 CNM students of all types, garbage about government of the people One thing I know: We have to try. We have to up Central Avenue for months and will educational institution to choose to spend taxpayer full time and part time. probably drive many small companies out not perishing from the Earth. Well, who Entertainment Law Murder require APS and CNM to comply with the law so needs Lincoln when you’ve got Richard J. money on such a program. CNM may as well use Instead of using sites convenient to voters, voting of business; that they were never asked Family Law DWI voters can make informed choices. That would be a Berry? tax dollars to teach farmers how to grow tobacco for was held in hard-to-navigate school locations, often whether they wanted or needed the good beginning. cigarettes. without general parking. By contrast, the selection project; that they feel dictated to; that Dennis Domrzalski is an associate editor Se Habla Español I have lived in Albuquerque for 30 years. It seems of voting sites was incredibly convenient for the Robert Pidcock is an Albuquerque attorney who the deal is the definition of a mayor who at ABQ Free Press. Reach him at that the news stories about APS written today could 27,000 CNM students, faculty and employees, but unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2008. doesn’t have a real economic development [email protected] 18 • March 9, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS columns news ABQ FREE PRESS • March 9, 2016 • 19 Mr. Mayor, Repeating a Lie Why Did We Shoot This Photo? Doesn’t Make it True hat’s in this photo? Why the hell did BY dan Klein Wwe shoot it? This is the start of a new ABQ Free Press photo feature of places and t appears neither the mainstream Next up: New Mexico State Police things around Albuquerque that may have IAlbuquerque media nor our govern- Chief Pete Kassetas. My survey of the some sort of significance — historical, ment officials care about the truth. New Mexico State Police,conducted cultural, or notorious. A story from KRQE-TV on Feb. 25, 2016, after they graduated a new class in early proclaimed, “It’s a problem all across the December, revealed that that agency Whether it’s locations or details from state, agencies struggling to fill their was 100 percent staffed, at 678 officers, “Breaking Bad” or “Better Call Saul” or just police academies. The same problem goes with no openings. close-ups of everyday things that an for New Mexico State Police.” That led Pete Dinelli, Albuquerque’s observant Burqueño should recognize, An Albuquerque Journal editorial former director of Albuquerque’s public we’ll be out there with our smartphones. stated that because the Legislature safety task force, in testimony before failed to approve Mayor Richard Berry’s a House committee less than a month Your job is to identify “it” and send us double-dipping bill for retired police, later, to praise Kassetas for achieving your answer, plus a little bit of detail and citizens who need a cop should “try 100 percent staffing. context. Each issue’s winner will be the calling your state senator.” Kassetas responded by telling Dinelli, person who our judges believe provided the Both KOB-TV and KOAT-TV stations “How dare you say my agency is 100 most entertaining explanation in 150 words chimed in with their own statewide percent filled!” I guess Kassetas doesn’t police-shortage reports. Berry is now or less. We’ll publish the winning answer take compliments very well. Then, threatening to raid smaller departments the following issue. Kassetas’ boss, Greg Fouratt, secretary of by offering signing bonuses to later- the New Mexico Department of Public al-transfer officers – because APD is in Send your entries to [email protected] Safety, testified before another House a hiring crisis. The media drinks this with the subject line “Mystery Photo” by committee that NMSP was down 81 rhetoric like a Berry-flavored Kool-Aid, 5 p.m. the Wednesday after each issue’s officers. never bothering to check the facts. publication date — in this case, March 16. Fouratt – now headed to Las Cruces to If they did, they would know it’s a lie. be a U.S. magistrate – never explained I naively thought the truth would be This issue’s prize: Two tickets to the why his head count was in conflict with reported after an ABQ Free Press survey March 23 Gladiators arena-football game what NMSP told us. He just dumped a Dan Vukelich of 60 police agencies in New Mexico at Tingley Coliseum. this past October proved there is no number out there, and no one in the shortage of police officers outside of mainstream media challenged him. Just Albuquerque. days after Fouratt’s testimony, Kassetas I honestly thought this urban legend appeared on KRQE-TV and stated, “I’m “DID YOU KNOW” perpetuated by Berry would end and probably down 52 officers.” that the mainstream media would use So which is it? Is NMSP 100 percent our survey to put an end to the myth of staffed or short 81 officers or short 52 THERE MAY BE MONEY a statewide police shortage. Instead, they officers? In less than 90 days, the leaders AVAILABLE TO YOU ignored it. Nor did they ask Berry for of NMSP floated three different staffing proof of the statewide “cop-acalypse.” figures. Why is the truth so difficult? FOR EYEWEAR AFTER I can only assume the news editors And why does the mainstream media CATARACT SURGERY? found it was easier to repeat what Berry ignore this? was selling them rather than fact-check APD is graduating 38 new officers, Must be 65 Years of Age How will you lead ? him. bringing its numbers to 852 sworn ce With that in mind, allow me to officers. APD has another 30 cadets on fact-check the local media as well. In an track to graduate in June. This will bring Whether you are aspiring to obtain a PMI® credential or looking for project You May be Eligible editorial, the Journal blamed the Senate APD close to 90 percent staffing. Why management experience, UNM Continuing Education offers four certificate Democrats for the failure of Berry’s hasn’t anyone in the news media, other options and a range of classes to build and polish your project management skills. Improve your organization’s project results measured in cost, time, and quality return-to-work bill. 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Placed by Deborah Kastman UNM Extended Learning/Continuing Education 505-277-6216 [email protected] 20 • March 9, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS EDitorial cartoons/ANALYSIS editorial ABQ FREE PRESS • March 9, 2016 • 21 How Long Must We Wait For We’re for Kasich — the Sane One BY DAN VUKELICH Santa Fe to Clean Up its Act? f there must be a Republican in the White Fresh-faced Marco Rubio, hoping to be the By HEATH HAUSSAMEN IHouse, please, God, let it be John Kasich. GOP establishment alternative, has been clearly We agree with him that in the recent Repub- outclassed by his rivals. We reluctantly agree with ribery. Fraud. Perjury. statements. It would require lican presidential debates, he’s been “the only Trump that Rubio — who has the backing of Gov. BTampering with public those who have consulting busi- adult on the stage.” Susana Martinez — is a lightweight. records. Violating the ethical nesses or spouses with consulting That’s why we’re endorsing him in the GOP But we’ll go further and suggest Rubio will principles of public service. businesses to disclose informa- primary. Too bad there’s a chance he’ll likely be be little more than a stooge for the GOP estab- Former Sen. Phil Griego is tion about clients who paid them out of the race before New Mexico’s Republicans lishment, which includes Wall Street, the War charged with egregious abuses of more than $1,000. vote in June, but we can only hope. Machine and the fossil fuel industry. the public trust. As a lawmaker The legislation comes partly in This newspaper endorsed Hillary Clinton within When we look at Ted Cruz, we see a religious he pushed a bill to let a private response to an issue I reported a week of her announcement last year. We stand zealot who will roll back 75 years of progress on company buy a historic Santa Fe on in 2015. State Auditor Tim behind that endorsement, although we get an civil rights. And then there’s the likeability factor. building from the state. What Keller, when he was a senator, email a week urging us to “feel the Bern.” Quoting Cruz’s fellow Republican, South Carolina Griego didn’t disclose, the attor- failed to disclose that he did work But back to the Republicans. Sen. Lindsey Graham, “If you killed Ted Cruz on Who can support Donald Trump with his ney general alleges, is that the for Laguna Pueblo. He actually the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the boorish, junior high insults and race-baiting company paid Griego more than claimed the opposite. Senate, nobody would convict you.” behavior and call themselves a fair-minded, $50,000 for his assistance. Keller’s Laguna work created That leaves Ohio Gov. Kasich. While there’s tolerant American? If it’s true, Griego should be a potential conflict. He repeat- much not to like — his stands on labor and In a recent phone call, a friend in Maine punished. edly criticized the Martinez abortion, for example — he has bolstered the pointed out that Trump’s rhetoric mirrors But what then? We’ve been Administration’s awarding of a economy of a faltering Rust Belt state and perfectly that of Adolf Hitler as he rose to power convicting and ousting misbe- 25-year lease to The Downs at straightened out Ohio’s finances. In Congress, in Germany in the 1930s: “Let’s Make Germany Albuquerque to operate a casino while the ranking member of the House Budget having state government officials Great Again.” for more than a decade. It doesn’t and racetrack at the state fair- Committee, he helped balance the U.S. budget. Trump’s speeches echo another Hitlerian theme: Rather than throw insults, Kasich talks about seem to be reducing corruption grounds. Laguna Pueblo was the Our nation’s problems are the machinations of or helping our state rise from the losing bidder. jobs and working with the other side of the aisle. “others.” Not Jews, but Mexicans and Muslims. That’s what the United States of America needs bottom of important lists. Keller had reason to scruti- Even Trump’s demand that his crowds raise their now. I believe the vast majority of nize the questionable deal. The hands to swear they’ll vote creepily echoes the New Mexico’s 112 legislators fairgrounds are located in the stiff-armed salute of the Nazis. Dan Vukelich is editor of ABQ Free Press. and other government officials Senate district that as a state sen- The other choices are hardly more appealing. Reach him at [email protected] and employees are hard-working, ator he represented at the time. good people. But Keller also had a business But systemic, structural flaws relationship with Laguna that he discourage ethical behavior. We didn’t disclose. What N.M. Needs Next don’t pay lawmakers or give The situation highlights a seri- BY SEN. PETE CAMPOS them adequate resources to do ous problem: Many of our unpaid their jobs. We choose to let them lawmakers have to seek other believe we can diversify our economy and begin examining exemptions and credits and whether be dependent on campaign employment that creates conflicts. I to stabilize state revenues by: they are functioning as intended. I have served donors and lobbyists. In the extreme that can lead to • Strengthening our support of the film industry; in the Legislature for over 25 years, and in that Paying legislators alone won’t Griego’s alleged crimes. • Promoting our natural attractions; time, I don’t think I have ever seen a proposed fix this mess. There must be Our weak laws sometimes • Cutting red tape and focusing on what tax exemption that wasn’t sold to the Legislature stronger accountability — includ- don’t require transparency. How works best for small businesses, particularly as economic development. ing a commission that sets ethical many others act unethically in in rural areas; and We need to take a close look at those exemp- • Expanding the clean energy industry; and standards for government and secret? tions to determine whether they still represent • Improving our statewide broadband helps police violations — and Keller and Martinez have economic development. Tax reform is going to technology system by shoring up dead spots better transparency. made mistakes, but they’re mean some hard choices for the Legislature, but in rural communities. It’s noteworthy that archived among those working for change. this session showed that our dependence on too We should discuss making the best use of video of a 2014 Senate Rules Both support increased financial few sources of revenue can get us into trouble. our water and strengthening our agricultural Committee hearing, recorded disclosure. We need to develop innovations that are industry, too. by the Governor’s Office, helps We must work together to genuinely tailored to meet the needs of New It’s true that these measures will help us make the case against Griego. build a system that encourages Mexicans. I firmly believe that we have the brain diversify our economy, which should translate to The amateur recording shows ethical behavior. Voters should power, experience and ability to develop the a more stable, predictable budgeting process (at Griego presenting the resolu- embrace amending the state kind of innovations we will need to diversify our least as far as revenues are concerned). tion authorizing the real-estate Constitution to pay our legisla- economy and reform our tax system. There is an even greater benefit to these In addition to diversifying our economy and tax transaction. tors. Policymakers must accept measures, though: well-paying jobs. Growing the Fortunately, House members widespread reforms to increase reform, we should begin immediately to carefully film and clean energy industries and promoting review our budget. Analysis should be conducted finally voted this year to begin transparency and accountability. small businesses will equal more jobs for New publicly archiving video of their That will help the best among to assess current and trending public needs, like Mexicans. public education and health care. It is critical hearings. But senators continue us lead. It will enable govern- Plus, small businesses help make up the fabric resisting archiving their webcasts. ment to act in the interest of all that we get started as early as possible on this of all New Mexico communities, particularly the and that we stay committed to it throughout the Webcast archiving isn’t New Mexicans. It’s how we’ll smaller, rural ones. Helping them grow and be enough. New Mexico needs begin to rise from the bottom of interim. able to hire people has always been a top priority I began the 2016 legislative session with a many reforms. For example, important lists. of mine. Gov. Susana Martinez and some message of hope. I will not give up on that hope, Haussamen runs NMPolitics.net, To me, there is no better source of hope than a especially now, when there is so much work yet Republicans have pushed a bill job with a decent wage or owning a business that an online news organization. to be done and the vision for our path forward that would require all candidates functions as a vital part of the community, both in Reach him at [email protected], has never been more clear. for legislative and statewide terms of goods and services and in employment on Facebook at /haussamen, or on offices and many other offi- of others. twitter @haussamen Sen. Pete Campos is a Democrat from Las Vegas cials to file financial disclosure We also have to re-evaluate our tax base by who sits on the Senate Finance Committee. sports ABQ FREE PRESS • March 9, 2016 • 23 Is This Finally the Year For Birmingham’s Lobos? BY RICHARD STEVENS

he sky is fall- very little on the mound. In 1998, UNM “Ting! The sky is hit .332 at the plate and yielded an ERA falling!” That was of 9.04. That’s awful. Birmingham’s last the cry of Chicken four seasons produced an ERA under Little, who really 5.00. That’s pretty good. did believe the sky His Lobos of 2016 have the chance to was falling. The produce the right combination at the cowardly chicken plate and on the mound. Birmingham was wrong. has a strong core of hitters back. Better Lobo baseball coach Ray Birmingham yet, he returns nine of 11 pitchers from has a yearly cry, too: “The road to 2015. Omaha. The road to Omaha.” The The Lobos under Birmingham are 3-8 optimistic New Mexico coach believes in NCAA play going 1-2, 0-2, 1-2 and 1-2. his Lobos will make it to Omaha some The Lobos also have missed the NCAA day. This is the site of the College World tourney the past two seasons. UNM Series. It’s where the big boys of college went 32-27 in 2015, finishing 17-13 in baseball go to play. the Mountain West (fourth place) – with So far, Birmingham has been wrong a young team. about reaching that lofty destination, The Lobos might have the balance and you can’t help but wonder if to make a little more noise in the first Chicken Little’s prediction will come true round of NCAA play, but there are issues first. that could roadblock Birmingham’s stroll It’s not that Birmingham’s Lobos down the lane to Omaha: the home- aren’t doing well. They have wedged field advantage. their foot onto the NCAA path four Usually, of course not always, the times from 2010 to 2013, which is a home team advances. Birmingham’s tremendous achievement and a credit to Lobos have been sent on the road each UNM’s shoot-from-the-hip (Ah, shucks, time – partly because of their status I’m from Hobbs) coach. The Lobos’ last in the NCAA pecking order but also NCAA bid prior to Birmingham came in because of their facility. the 1960s. Lobo Field – now called Santa Ana Birmingham has done a lot of good at Star Field – is a work in progress. It UNM since his hire in 2008 was pushed is a far cry from the days when UNM through by a lot of wise politicians and played in Isotopes Park, which had to be powerful money men, who put the lean considered one of the premier college on the UNM administration to pluck sites in America. Isotopes Park has Birmingham away from New Mexico stadium seats, modern concession stands, Junior College. decent restrooms, and is protected Birmingham had won 75 percent of from the wind, rain and sun. It was his games at NMJC and won a national fan friendly, and a lot of fans attended JC title. He also had the reputation of Lobo games for the same reason they building his squads with New Mexico attend Isotopes’ games – for the venue. talent. A lot of Lobo fans like to see Now, you go to Lobo games only for New Mexico talent on UNM rosters. the Lobos. On a bad weather day, that Birmingham has a nice squad in 2016, might not be enough. too. His Lobos clawed their way into the The Santa Ana Star Field is something Top 25 earlier this season, and they have you might expect to find in . . . well, the potential to move in and out of let’s say it’s not something you would those rankings all year. expect to find as an NCAA site. Because Birmingham has pitching. So, are Birmingham’s Lobos doomed The backbone of Birmingham’s success and destined to die on the NCAA road? at UNM has been his sticks. His Lobos hit Maybe not this year! The Lobos have baseballs the way Donald Trump smacks hitting. The Lobos have pitching. The around political opponents. But in base- Lobos have Birmingham. ball, you often hit for show and pitch to Maybe the sky will fall on somebody advance in NCAA play. The Lobo hitting else. can be overrated, too. The Lobos have always hit the ball. From 1971, UNM had Richard Stevens is a former sports 40 seasons hitting .290 or higher. From writer for The Albuquerque Tribune. 1991, UNM had 24 of 25 seasons above More recently, he was an insider at the .300 at the plate. Lobo athletic department. Reach him at But a lot of those Lobo teams had [email protected] ABQ FREE PRESS • March 9, 2016 • 25 Ruiz de la Torre Law Firm: We Help Law Make Sense 1801 Rio Grande Blvd. NW, Suite C Albuquerque, NM 87104 Open Mon–Fri, 9 am–5 pm (505) 544-5400 Our March 23 ABQ Free Press Small Business Spotlights and ruizdelatorrelaw.com Carlos Ruiz de la Torre may seem young at 36, but he Taxes special issue will feature: has more than ten years of experience defending clients in criminal cases. He meticulously investigates his cases and he ensures his clients have a good understanding of the law.

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Thanks be something that would roll off the tongue, fruit, any combination you can think pleasure. choose-your-own-adventure in an assortment of ble on Fridays and Saturdays; the complex is closed bwe who appeared in “Fela!”, a Broadway musical for waiting!” Let’s face it: There’s something that just sounded good when you passageways within “an imaginative multiverse of Monday and Tuesday. For arts patrons with pockets about Nigerian music legend Fela Kuti; and Mexico of.” Berries, bananas and Nutella?! One glance at Breve’s Instagram really nothing more American than said it.” unexpected environments.” too light to invest in the $2,000 Lifetime Pass, a native Chuy Martinez, a musician and former host Vive la France! feed (instagram.com/breve) reveals service with a smile. On the menu: “People eat with their eyes Thursday’s $250 VIP gala includes dinner, drinks, $150 annual family pass that’s good for up to five of TV show “Lo Maduro De La Cultura.” Examine Breve’s design more how breathtakingly bouquet-like their So, is it more French or American? first, which is why we work so hard to make the family members is also available. For more info, “Story Space” is moderated by folklorist and closely, and it’s plain to see Garrison creations are. That unparalleled visual On first bite of my crispy-soft pancake and entertainment. The public opening starts at 2 crêpes pretty.” p.m. on Friday, March 18. Although “The House” call (505) 395-6369 or visit urban/regional planner Wade Patterson and pre- and partners Billy Nguyen and Teddy component is thanks to chef Friedman, and its melting Nutella, it was clear will be open and available until 2 a.m., the music meowwolf.com/tickets sented in conjunction with 516 ARTS exhibition “At Friedman are doing more than merely who brings more than a decade of that Brevē offers the best of both portion of the evening (Palmer and Webley) quickly ‘Story Space’ Home in the World” which runs through April 16. Espresso machines are now rel- emulating chic French eateries. Bagels, culinary experience to the Brevē team. worlds. As for the wait, don’t fret; Friedman assured me they’re getting sold out, as did the next night’s The Handsome People leave their homelands for a variety of Five-dollar tickets for “Story Space” are available at atively commonplace in American complete with green chile cream “We’re always looking for inspira- a second griddle soon. Family concert. reasons, including extreme poverty, religious and holdmyticket.com. To learn more, call 268-0044 or cafés, but Breve offers an even rarer cheese, are also on the menu. tion,” Friedman says. “We’re going Exhibition hours on Sunday, March 20 run from ethnic persecution and perpetual war. In their flight, visit outpostspace.org sight, a genuine crêpe griddle. The The potted succulents rep to do crêpe cakes as well — layered Karie Luidens is an Albuquerque-based c ont. on page 27 cooks spread batter over its 16-inch the Southwest, not the south of crêpes with buttercream frosting.” writer of criticism, commentary, current surface and flip it with a careful flick France. Alongside the Nutella sits She’s also experimenting with a crêpe events, and semiconnected musings.

ABQ Free Press matters of art, Page 26 song embellishes the tales. This is the sec- is now hiring ond year of “The Chupacabra Cantina,” ‘The Chupacabra Cantina’ written by Soledad Hindi. It was first per- Account Executives formed in 2015 at the National Hispanic Las Meganenas (“the big girls”) is a Latina Cultural Center. (salary plus commission) repertory troupe operating on the core belief that its Presented by Atlixco Productions as members hold a unique position in society, that of part of N.M. Women & Creativity Month, storytellers. Company founder, Atrisco neighbor- the play boasts performances from Hindi, hood native, actress, filmmaker, photographer and Contact Pam Gutierrez: Valerie Borrego, Vivian Fernandez Gellín, “Chupacabra” director Alicia Lueras Maldonado is Nicole Gramlich, Juanita Roberts, Jaime [email protected] something of a Renaissance woman. Pardo, JoAnn Ulibarrí, Olivia Baldwin- The troupe, which has already received two Geilín, Miranda Sol Urrea and Lita (505) 345-4080, ext. 803 McCune grants, presents “The Chupacabra Cantina” Sandoval. at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 10 and 17; Friday, Thursday tickets are $10. For Friday March 11 and 18; Saturday March 12 and 19; and at through Sunday shows, general admis- 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 13 and 20, at VSA North sion is $18. Students and seniors save Fourth Art Center (4904 Fourth Ave NW). three bucks. For more info, visit hold- The production includes stories from around the myticket.com/event/233562 globe, from Palestine to Tierra Amarilla, a ghost town in Northern New Mexico. Live music and M. Brianna Stallings writes so you don’t Courtesy of Las Meganenas Now Hiring: have to. 28 • March 9, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS living DRINK ABQ FREE PRESS • March 9, 2016 • 29 On Service: The Boss Is Coming To Dinner Beer Town: The View from Barley Peak by TY BANNERMANN BY IAN MAKSICK ow many more breweries and tap everywhere: the rooms can our city handle? I’ve stink and roar of MG! Your better half invited H leaving the base plate free so salad the guide glass, and it always touches below the tine or bowls) and knives heard people asking that question and nearby traffic. their boss and spouse to dinner. O can be preset; this leaves more time the tip of the dinner by the waist (between blade and have asked it myself for a couple years It doesn’t hurt They’re from New Mexico but have for conversation with everyone at the knife, while the wine glass touches handle). Grab glasses by the stem or now; so far, the answer has repeatedly that the beer and traveled extensively and dined in fine table. (See TTT sample setting online.) the water glass. Never lift a glass or base. These spots are least likely to come back as “More, more, more!” food here are excel- restaurants worldwide. You met them Like a catered affair, set the table That’s no problem from where I’m lent as well. Pair the at the holiday party and company pic- in advance. If you remember that sitting, somewhere near the top of fish and chips with nic. They’re great, but you haven’t had the boss drank Corona at the picnic, balmy Barley Peak. But while taking a pint of Scottish ale any special guests over in a while, and kick off small talk by asking a in the hop-scented breeze, I’ve stum- to really soak in the you want to make a great impression. related trivia question: “Does any- bled upon a theory. In order for the Celtic vibe. body know the reason why lime To access an expanded version of this beer bubble to continue expanding, Meanwhile, is served in a bottle of Corona?” article, with Professor Service’s place setting breweries will have to orient them- Firkin Brew House (Answer: To keep the flies away.) download, visit freeabq.com and browse selves away from the novelty of the has quietly opened It’s always a nice ice-breaker. beer itself and toward the community at 3351 Columbia Living, How To subcategories. Get out the good linen or use that supports it. NE. The prohibi- placemats for a less formal feeling. We’re long past the point where tion-themed joint If you’re really nervous about the most people will drive across town for has been slinging Professor Service says, “KISS: lefts and rights of service, remem- the sheer excitement of trying a micro- brews since Feb. 5, Keep It Service Simple.” Don’t try to ber to serve food with the left hand brewed ale. Instead, as the taprooms though they only compete with restaurants. Instead, from the left, pour beverages from anchor themselves in new neighbor- just appeared on add New Mexico touches to standard the right with the right hand and hoods, let them adapt to serve those my radar. Come on, American fare. Use the good china, if clear everything from the right neighborhoods and become comfort- guys, hit me up at you have some. If not, make sure all with the right hand. In any case, Bow & Arrow Brewing Co. able, family friendly gathering spots, the email at the bot- items are spotlessly clean and nothing it’s always LL/RR; whatever you with clientele that actually reflects the tom of the column. is chipped. do from the left of the guest, use neighborhood. In their defense, President Jim Hargrove, the plan probably already aware of the kombu- If you’re fretting about setting your left hand and from the right, the grand opening isn’t until March is to use the bar’s license for a new cha craze. This lumpy, slightly bubbly the table, re-watch that scene ¡Bienvenidos! 19, when you can show up in your location of its more substantial Draft tea has been ascribed a wide variety of from “Pretty Woman” where the With that in mind, it makes perfect best roaring ’20s duds for a chance Station concept. healing properties by its proponents, hotel manager tells Julia Roberts, sense that this issue’s offerings start at winning prizes. Get more info at ranging from gastrointestinal relief to, “We always eat from the outside be touched by guests, thus less- with Quarter Celtic Brewpub (1100 trissell.wix.com/thefirkinbrewhouse. well, immortality. in.” A good KISS menu is a Cae- ening the spread of germs. Got a hot tip on Albuquerque’s beer scene? San Mateo Blvd. NE), a place I’m sure On the horizon, we’ve got Monk’s sar salad, a duo of roasted-grilled Dessert and coffee can be Know of a seasonal draft I’ve simply got to try? The scientific and medical commu- to frequent, as it offers all the precise Lab Brewery, Ale Republic and, oh, Drop me a line at [email protected]. beef overlapping grilled chicken offered at the table, but serve nities haven’t exactly endorsed these qualities I extolled above. about 238 more breweries set to open breast — no worries about it in the living room or on a claims, but you can get a draft pint of The warmly appointed interior sometime this spring. the mystery liquid at Bow & Arrow rare, medium or well-done patio or porch to mix it up. Set design, an expansive patio, boasts The fighting hop-heads Brewing Co. (608 McKnight NW). preferences — complemented it up buffet style. As a parting friendly staff and a casual atmosphere. Bye-bye, Microbar Our city’s love of hops is making Why not? It probably won’t kill you. by potatoes and vegetables and gift, offer a bottle of water The semihidden location, inside the On a less cheerful note, Chama waves on the national stage. The word a dessert pie. For beverages, for the road adorned with a ACE Hardware Courtyard in the spot River’s Downtown Microbar, located DIY Dog from the tireless reporters at Darkside provide bottled water, wine and ribbon and a thank-you-for- previously occupied by Fremont’s in the Sunshine Theater Building for Here’s some exciting news for beer. Have ice cream on hand, coming card attached. Fine Foods, reinforces the relaxed the past decade, closed in early March. Brew Crew (nmdarksidebrewcrew. homebrewers. Scotland-based Brew along with diet soda and sugar When we’re out of some- outdoor seating by providing a What? Why? That place was always com) is that Turtle Mountain’s Adrift Dog, perhaps best known for its Punk substitutes. thing in the service industry, buffer from the bane of patio dining packed. According to Chama River IPA, Bosque Brewing’s Scale Tipper To look like a mind-reader, call we say “86,” but that’s a IPA and Boxing Bear’s Bear Knuckle IPA, just released every single one of the boss’ assistants or co-workers whole ’nother story. In my IPA have advanced to Round 4 of its beer recipes in a free, open-source to glean inside info on their food next column, learn to add Brewing News’ National IPA chal- document. preferences, allergies and sensi- pizzazz features to make the lenge, beating rivals from all over the That’s more than 200 beers that you tivities — think gluten-free — so boss coming to dinner an even country. Check out brewingnews.com can start brewing up right away, from you’re prepared for all contin- more memorable occasion. to cheer for our brewing brawlers. simple pale ales to oak-aged barley gencies. Serve a dynamite bread That’s an “86” for now from Brew of the fortnight wines. Each recipe has been scaled item. For a touch of New Mexico, Ian Maksik, “Professor of down to homebrew proportions, and serve warm tortillas and a choice Service.” The beer that tantalized my taste the booklet, available for download at of garlic croutons or tortilla chips *TTT (Touch Touch Touch) buds this time around is a rye offering brewdog.com, includes instructions with the Caesar salad. Some hot is copyrighted by Ian Maksik, from Chama River. Smooth and crisp, for all-grain brewing. New Mexican appetizers wouldn’t be use your right. This method of serving cup and saucer off the table to pour. “Professor of Service.” with a touch of fruit and a beauti- That’s it for now, Albuquerque. amiss here. Use imaginative garnish ensures you’re always maintaining Use a napkin splash-guard with your Ian Maksik is a Cornell Hotel School ful red luster, Rye-kus is a fine, 6.3 Until next time, I’ll see you, in spirit if aka plate décor because presentation open body language and eye contact left hand — a rectangular fold will graduate, former Hilton general manager percent ABV beverage for enjoying naught else, at your neighborhood or is what makes simple special. As a and never backhanding or putting stop anything — between the glass and catering editor for New York maga- a gentle spring breeze on the Chama backyard taproom. centerpiece, fill a sombrero with cacti your elbow in someone’s face. and guest when pouring water or zine CUE. Known as “America’s Service River Draft Station’s patio (1720 Ty Bannerman is a beer drinker, co-host or flowers. Use the base plate — or a nap- wine with your right hand. Guru,” Maksik has keynoted, lectured and Central Ave. SW). Tip one back to the of City on the Edge podcast and author The secret to setting a table is TTT kin folded in a 10-inch by 10-inch Show you care about your guest’s trained owners, management and staff of memory of the Downtown Microbar. of “Forgotten Albuquerque” as well as (Touch Touch Touch*) so every setting square — as the template with forks safety by using a 10-inch round plate hospitality facilities in 21 countries and at Kombucha, man a forthcoming memoir. He most recently is identical. Tuck a simple rectangular touching the left of the napkin, knives as a splash-guard to prevent hot “ouch” notable industry conferences. Contact him Quarter Celtic Brewpub served as managing, feature and food napkin fold under the base plate touching the right and dessert flatware splashes. So germs shall never mix, at [email protected] or (954) 804-5413. If you’re a fan not only of beer or place a pyramid fold to the left, touching the top. The water glass is always hold flatware by the neck (just A beer class at Quarter Celtic but all things fermentable, you’re editor at Weekly Alibi. 30 • March 9, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS drink sports ABQ FREE PRESS • March 9, 2016 • 31 Pints & Planks Fuses Yoga and Beer Destiny Readies to Rumble BY rene thompson BY TY BANNERMAN

ntoxication and exercise don’t n March 19, Destiny Wrestling Organization’s What do you find so I necessarily go hand in hand. Yet Oheavyweight champion, the wickedly scraggly compelling about a new trend fuses these activities Johnny K, will defend his title from homegrown wrestling? together in an unlikely way. It’s catch- baby-face Thunder at the Westside Community It’s definitely the ing on in breweries throughout the Center (1250 Isleta Blvd. SW). stories. In boxing, it’s country, including Albuquerque. just two guys fighting. Destiny Wrestling’s next match, Gimmicks Are Forever, In mixed martial arts, Pints & Planks starts at 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 19, at the it’s just two guys Where: Rio Bravo Brewery Westside Community Center (1250 Isleta Blvd. SW). fighting. There’s no 1912 Second Street NW set-up. With wrestling, Visit facebook.com/DWOwrestling for more info. When: Sundays at 11 a.m. there’s a back story to Cost: $5 donation it. I like how there’s Meanwhile, take-no-prisoners tag team Brute a dramatic reason for Rio Bravo Brewing Co. (1912 66 will dish out pain to rivals The Keepers of the these matches to take Second Street NW) and YogaZo Faith. And you can bet your ass that Hobo Hank place. teamed up to offer these hybrid yoga and DWO’s Director of Competition Matthew classes every Sunday at 11 a.m. A $5 Roblez’s long-standing feud will continue unabated Who are your fans? donation for the Pints & Planks class — especially after Roblez arranged for Hank to get We have something comes with a $2 discount from Rio assaulted outside the ring at the last match. for everyone. Kids Bravo on the student’s first pint. Wait, what? Listen up. If you haven’t attended love us. We have DWO’s Albuquerque wrestling matches, you’ve many female fans, as YogaZo owner/instructor Ashley Rene Thompson Fathergill says that while pairing beer honestly been missing one of the most entertaining well. We wanna make shows in town. The bouts offer all the fun of WWE- Nick Cvjetkovich aka Sinn Bodhi once called WWE SmackDown home. and yoga might sound strange, people Pints & Planks: Fitness trend brings yoga and beer to a whole new frontier everybody aware that are beginning to love the idea of doing style match’s oversized gimmicks and theatrics this is something you without the crass commercialism of Vince McMa- can bring your family yoga while enjoying a brewski on presently being donated to Animal most reasonable classes offered. After setting, these well-rounded all-level Plus these guys are going out there, and they’re hon’s empire. to. It’s something different. It’s absolutely the oppo- Sunday mornings. Humane New Mexico. They’re also only a handful of classes, a real sense classes feature themed, upbeat sound- giving you 110 percent. It’s something that gives us Best of all, DWO is 100 percent Albuquerque. In site of what you’ll get at an Isotopes or basketball Part of those $5 donations goes hosting a monthly pet adoption event. of community has already begun to tracks. Fathergill encourages everyone an edge over WWE, if you’re deciding whether to advance of the March 19 bout, ABQ Free Press sat game. People love it, and people are loud. You saw toward non-profit organizations in Fathergill’s master plan includes form, Fathergill says, because the class to take beverage breaks aka “the beer watch a TV show or come to a DWO show. I think down with DWO Commissioner Adam Merrick people were loud that night [you attended]. need. “That’s the reason I wanted to donating to a number of organizations, genuinely brings people together to pose” between yoga poses. to talk about the organization’s roots and why he it’s a no-brainer. do Pints & Planks,” says Fathergill, so participants contribute to making socialize in a different way, one that When the class ends at noon, it’s thinks it’s even better than WWE. Definitely. When you came out in your suit, every- Ty Bannerman co-hosts City on the Edge podcast, “because I want to start getting non a real impact on a variety of causes in was lacking in The Duke City. business as usual at the Rio Bravo one went a little crazy. And then the guy with the freelances for publications like ABQ Free Press and Atlas -profits involved to … give back to the New Mexico. The atmosphere is laidback, Brewery when regular patrons are ABQ Free Press: Tell me about Destiny Wrestling sunglasses? Obscura, and authored “Forgotten Albuquerque” and a community but also because I want to The beer and yoga trend runs whereas some yoga studios could allowed entry and food trucks begin Organization. Where did it come from? Matthew Roblez! He’s our director of competition. forthcoming memoir. He most recently served as manag- have this be a community based event.” $10–$15 per class in some other cities, prove a bit intense or intimidating filling the street outside. At present, Adam Merrick: Honestly, it was an idea I came up ing, features and food editor at Weekly Alibi. Pints & Planks proceeds are making Pints & Planks one of the for beginners. In a fun, comfortable three instructors rotate classes. with in high school. Me and some friends just did it Right! He’s this sort of sleazy cheater. At one point, Whether someone’s a veteran yogi, for fun. We didn’t take it seriously at all. Then a few he bopped somebody on the head or something a complete beginner or merely a beer years later, I’d say 2006, I came across some guys like that, and the crowd was booing like crazy. connoisseur, Fathergill says these who were really into wrestling. And they were really Yeah, he’s always getting involved. He’s in charge classes are designed for all practition- passionate about it. They wanted to pursue it and of the matchmaking at Destiny Wrestling. He’s ers over age 21. “You can do as much try and bring it back because Albuquerque has a rich been a great asset, plain and simple. As far as the or as little as you want. If people just history with wrestling. storytelling side of it, I think he’s a great. You saw want to sit and watch, they can do how involved he was at Day of Destiny [in October that too,” Fathergill said. Does it? 2015]. He cost Martin Casaus his match, but he got In the warmer months, Fathergill There used to be events at the Convention Center what was coming to him during that match with plans to hold the event outdoors, back in the ’70s with Ricky Romero. He was really Hobo Hank — when the Sheik blinded him with the where attendees can enjoy the beer popular. Unfortunately, those events stopped. Mike fireball. So he can take a beating. I don’t like mix- garden patio and even bring their dog London was a huge promoter here in Albuquerque ing it up with these wrestlers because I know how along. She also hopes to incorporate during the ’70s. This is all stuff we learned along the ferocious these guys can get, especially in the heat of the outside class with other events Above: Local fans can purchase innovative merch, like way. And we knew there were other fans here be- battle. So I try to stay away from that stuff. I only get wrestler-adorned prayer candles. held at Rio Bravo, adding a raffle for a cause every time we went to a WWE show at the Pit involved if it’s really needed. free growler during every class which or the Star Center, there were thousands of people. Below: DWO ring girls interact with fans. will include a $5 gift card toward So there was a fan base for it already. Why should somebody go see a Destiny Wrestling fill-up. event rather than stay home and watching the The minimal class cost boasts the Who is “we” exactly? WWE on TV? added bonus of giving back to the That would be myself and three other gentlemen Getting the interaction with the wrestlers! When community. The prospect of having who were [and are] wrestlers. That’s the DeathRage you’re watching it on TV, you’re not gonna have a frosty cold one while stretching Cartel [Josh Pain, Dextor Deranged and Johnny K John Cena come out and slap your hand while it all out may entice you to try out Das Boot]; we originally put this together. This is you’re sitting on the couch. At DWO, you get that Albuquerque’s newest wellness trend. kind of our baby. I was the one who didn’t have interaction. You can say “Hey, Johnny K, you suck!” You really can’t go wrong by trying aspirations to wrestle. I was more intrigued with and you might get a reaction from Johnny. Who out this fitness craze … at least once. behind-the-scenes stuff — doing whatever I could to knows? You can sit out there and cheer for Dom Rene Thompson is a staff reporter for be a part of the show — and they were more into the Vitalli. ABQ Free Press. wrestling part. And Dom Vitalli might give you a thumbs up. All photos courtesy of Isaac AlaridPease 32 • March 9, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS film/music film ABQ FREE PRESS • March 9, 2016 • 33 N.M. Film Focus: Seeing, Being Stars Hello, ‘Doris’: May-December Romance Spans Generations by CHRISTA VALDEZ BY JEFF BERG

High Desert production Foxtrot,” starring Tina DiCaprio finally nabbed the Best Ac- t age 69, Academy Award-win- Antonoff, and YouTube New Mexico is packed to the rafters Fey and now playing in tor Oscar at the 88th annual Academy Aning actress Sally Field is the comedy star Anna Akana. with spring productions. The AMC theaters nationwide. Awards. prime theatrical mover in what may John is naturally flirta- series “Preacher” is filming its first Later in March, New Farewell, A&M be the indie romance of the year: tious, leading Doris to fall full season in Albuquerque. Television Mexico will be well dis- “Hello: My Name is Doris.” further head-over-heels. pilot “Midnight Texas,” based on a su- guised as an otherworldly For the better part of the past The film’s titular character is a single After a casual date and pernatural fiction series, is being shot fortress in the widely decade, three Screen Actors Guild- sixty-something living and working innuendo lost in transla- alongside the third season of the NBC anticipated flick “Batman franchised talent agencies have called in Manhattan. Her job in a large firm’s tion, Field and Fremont’s medical drama “The Night Shift.” v Superman: Dawn of our state their home base. On April accounting department is nothing to physical comedy chops In other parts of the Duke City, an Justice.” Albuquerque 4, 2016, just two will exist here. After write home about. She seems lonely brilliantly illustrate the and goes to therapy but somehow untitled sci-fi series pilot comes to can also be seen playing years as the head of Santa Fe-based absurdity of not just a May- avoids opening up while not seeming town in mid-March, and El Rey net- herself in the second sea- A&M Talent House, talent agent Jody December romance but withdrawn. After a transformative really any human relation- work series “From Dusk Till Dawn” son of “Better Call Saul,” Black announced the agency’s closure self-help seminar, Doris finally feels ship. When Doris asks John trades its Texas home for the Land of airing Mondays on AMC in late February. The remaining SAG- to re-inflate the ergonomic Enchantment. through April 18. franchised talent agencies are Mitchell ball that’s replaced her Up north in Santa Fe, lawman Walt & Presley Talent Group and The Homegrown talent “Hello, My Name is Doris” office chair, total hilarity Longmire is ready to climb back in O’Agency. opens on Friday, March 18, ensues. the saddle, and he’s not the least bit Lakota-Sioux actor- Film 101 at Century 14 Downtown in Albuquerque Misconstrued cues and lonesome. Later this month, produc- precedent setter-director Roadside Attractions Pro-tip: There is no such thing as a and the Violet Crown in Santa Fe. entirely unsubtle clues tion commences on the fifth season of Amber Midthunder “casting agent.” The term is frequently Visit fandango.com for showtimes. prevail throughout. Deceit Doris Miller (Sally Field) and John Fremont (Max Greenfield) stroll down lover’s lane in “Hello: My Name is Doris.” the character’s namesake series. recently made national headlines with misused, usually in an attempt to urged on by adoration A new western series set in the is projected to film in Albuquerque the news that she landed a co-starring describe either the position of either nearly always proves dan- 1800s is also expected to start produc- starting in April. The cruelest month role opposite Dan Stevens and Aubrey debuted at SXSW in March 2015 and In a bedazzled nutshell, Doris’ time- will also boast Hugh Jackman sight- Plaza in the FX network series pilot a casting director or a talent agent. A motivated to get what she wants. But gerous. Doris’ 13-year-old niece helps was quickly snapped up by Roadside less love story is worthy of moviego- tion in Santa Fe this summer. Sci-fi is what is that exactly? ings all over New Mexico. The third “Legion.” casting director is hired by produc- her make a phony Facebook profile. Attractions. The quirky romantic ers ranging from mature to Millennial. slated to return to the City Different Is she content rambling around This act proves a major problem later installment of the Wolverine franchise On Oscar night, the world caught tions to cast talent in background dramedy won the coveted headliner by summer’s end, in the form of a the “Hoarders” set she and her late in the game, one that leads Doris to Jeff Berg is New Mexico’s foremost film will be shot here from late April a glimpse of Bosque High School stu- or leading roles. A talent agent audience award, so don’t be shocked series titled “Red Mars.” Remember, mother called home? Her brother continue to see John’s intentions as historian, and he writes about movies for through the end of July. dent Forrest Goodluck. Albuquerque represents contracted clients, namely if much of the blue hair in its theater our state’s capital city played host to Todd (Stephen Root) and his grating she hopes they are. ABQ Free Press. teen Goodluck’s role opposite actors, in seeking out such roles and audience was achieved with a bottle the Fox series “Cosmos: A Space Time spouse Cynthia (Wendi McLendon- Greenfield, star of TV show “New Southwest scene Leonardo DiCaprio was literally front negotiating professional fees. of Manic Panic. Odyssey” in 2013. Covey) urge Doris to clean up and sell Girl,” also had a role in this year’s Albuquerque proves a stellar stand- and center at the awards ceremony, New Mexico film expert Christa Valdez, the house, perhaps eyeing a percent- Oscar winner “The Big Short.” Big-screen dreams in for the Middle East in the political as a clip from “The Revenant” fea- of OneHeadlightInk.com, reports on age. The always whip-smart Tyne Greenfield fleshes out the character A teen drama known as “Star Girl” journalism comedy “Whiskey Tango turing Goodluck played right before movie industry news for ABQ Free Press. Daly plays Doris’ loyal work BFF. of John as a genuinely nice guy who Dressed like a colorblind gumdrop, unintentionally misleads Doris while the otherwise gray mundanity of deeply involved with a woman closer Rock Out with Your Co-op Doris’ existence builds to a crescendo, to his own age. BY M. BRIANNA STALLINGS and she’s overdue some well-de- Director Michael Showalter based served excitement. Doris meets the “Doris” on a short film directed by firm’s new art director, John Fremont co-screenwriter Laura Terrus, and he own to drink, jam and stroll? Then Doll Skin hails from Arizona; when (Max Greenfield), in a crowded-ele- shot the movie in just three weeks. downtown Albuquerque is your this foursome pops into Albuquerque D vator meet cute. Instantly and thor- Showalter’s usual stomping ground rockin’ bar-hopping destination. But on Saturday, March 12, the third stop oughly twitterpated, she has no idea is TV, including the 2015 miniseries what if you’re a diehard music fan on their 2016 tour, they’ll have played John is headed to his first day of work “Wet Hot American Summer” and, Submit your purr-fect who’s under 21? There are plenty of two shows in their home state, opening … at her office. more recently, an episode of the hit venues with all-ages nights but those for legendary punk malcontents Dead cat videos by April 30 A lovestruck Doris manufactures Netflix comedy “Grace and Frankie.” spots also sling booze. Enter The Co-Op, Kennedys. far-fetched excuses to get closer to “Hello, My Name is Doris” checks a new venue entirely devoted to all- That makes sense; although Doll Submit entries to: John. His gregarious responses seem all the requisite boxes for a film that’ll [email protected] AnimalHumaneNM.org ages shows. Skin’s members are all teenagers, this to emanate from kindness, but she rate with adults of all ages. The movie It’s housed in the old Freed Company all-female group is as loud, fast and out mistakenly reads Prizes to be awarded at the event: storefront (415 Central NW), a space of control as their punk elders. Opening them as a reciproca- $250 Best in Show Cash Prize that once traded in exquisite imported acts include On Your Doorstep, Sheep tion of romantic in- Gift Baskets for 2nd & 3rd Place oddities and was also the home of as Wolves and the Albuquerque School terest instead. Never now-defunct, all-ages Amped Perfor- of Rock Performance Band. Doors are minding the (age) Guidelines available at: mance Space. at 6:30 p.m., and the show starts at 7. gap, Doris becomes AnimalHumaneNM.org/FelineFilmFestival So far, The Co-Op is a hit with young Tickets are $10 via holdmyticket.com. convinced John is music lovers. Recently, it was one On Tuesday, March 22, The Co-Op Courtesy of artist gently pursuing her. of many national stops on the Three welcomes My Body Sings Electric, Standout support- Headed Monstour with Hawthorne a poppy post-hardcore quintet from Doll Skin members pose for a photo with Dave Grohl. ing and cameo Heights, Mest and The Ataris, and Denver whose crisp sound earned them roles include Peter tickets are already sold out for “Young a “Buzzworthy” nod from MTV in 2014. their roots to busking for tourists in As ever, doors are at 6:30 p.m., with Gallagher, Natasha Americans: An All-Ages Tribute to Da- They share the bill with twin sisters Sarasota, Fla., but Good Graeff also has music at 7. Ten-dollar tickets are avail- Lyonne, Elizabeth vid Bowie,” happening Friday, March Brooke and Brit of the duo Good Graeff. a loyal fanbase in Vietnam where the able at holdmyticket.com. Reaser, Bleachers 11. Don’t despair, though: The Co-Op Brooke’s on guitar, Brit’s in charge of sisters both moved to teach English and For more information about The frontman Jack Roadside Attractions still has some great shows coming up. cello, and both sing. They can trace offer motorcycle tours. Co-Op, visit facebook.com/coopabq film ABQ FREE PRESS • March 9, 2016 • 35 The Oscars or: How I Learned to Love Jenny Beavan by SAMANTHA ANNE CARRILLO

hether consumed sincerely or Wironically, the 88th Academy Awards proffered quite the spectacle. Leonardo DiCaprio finally scored one of those really fancy paperweights. Host Chris Rock must have felt the #OscarsSoWhite protest pressure, but he performed and provoked more than ably.

For an expanded, link-infused version of this list, including technical, editing and documentary Oscar winners, visit the Film category of our website, freeabq.com

Assisted by Tracy Morgan and Whoopi Goldberg, Rock slayed in a sketch about black character tropes in film. For me, though, the 2016 Oscars was all about the convention-defying red carpet style and unshakeable con- fidence of Jenny Beavan, who won the Oscar for best costume design Oscar for her work on “Mad Max: Fury Road.” Unencumbered by 3-inch heels At this year’s Academy Awards, Leonardo DiCaprio won Best Actor for his role as American frontiersman Hugh Glass in “The Revenant.” and strategically placed gaffer’s tape, Beavan unabashedly strutted from the nosebleed section (read: tech- to visually body-check, giggle and style and comfort rather than solely column on page 32 to learn more nical award nominee seating), past blanch at Beavan’s decidedly un-prin- paying tribute to the fairy tale branda- about homegrown talent being show- A-list actors and directors in all their cessy garb; see the Vine that started it palooza that is the Oscars and related cased on the screens all over. smoldering product-placement glory. all at bit.ly/BeavenVine. media coverage. (Thing is, I can never 2016 Academy Award Highlights Directors seated near the aisle appear Beavan audaciously dressed for remember who Leo was wearing. A list of the winners for best, well, Funny that!) everything, begins here; visit freeabq. 2016 Academy Awards Highlights Speaking of DiCaprio, Albuquerque com for the complete, hyperlinked teen actor Forrest Goodluck scored version. Best picture: “Spotlight” Oscar screentime when his role oppo- Samantha Anne Carrillo is a situation- Best actor: Leonardo DiCaprio: “The Revenant” site this year’s Best Actor was spot- ist, fourth-wave feminist and managing Best actress: Brie Larson, “Room lighted prior to Leo’s long-awaited win. editor at ABQ Free Press. Email her at Read this issue’s N.M. Film Focus [email protected] Best supporting actor: Mark Rylance, “Bridge of Spies” Best supporting actress: Alicia Vikander, “The Danish Girl” Best director: Alejandro G. Inarritu, “The Revenant” Best original screenplay: “Spotlight,” by Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy Best adapted screenplay: “The Big Short,” by Charles Randolph and AdamMcKay Best foreign-language film: “Son of Saul” (Hungary) Best costume design: “Mad Max: Fury Road” (Jenny Beavan) Best production design: “Mad Max: Fury Road” (Production design by Colin Gibson; set decoration by Lisa Thompson) In his role opposite DiCaprio, Albuquerque actor Forrest Goodluck shines as Hugh Glass’ teenage son Hawk. 36 • March 9, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS music CALENDAr ABQ FREE PRESS • March 9, 2016 • 37 Within Range: March In! by M. BRIANNA STALLINGS D EFINitive DOZEN SATURDAY, MARCH 12 THROUGH MARCH 13 FRIDAY, MARCH 18 The Austin Piazzolla Quintet wrote songs like “A Boy Named Sue” Caladh Nua: “New Haven” for March 20 at Popejoy Hall, UNM Cen- List your even 1 Events: Mind Body Spirit 2016 5 Artspree: Painting the Divine: 9 Shows: Albuqadabra — An Evening Argentine musician Astor Piaz- and had illustrations printed regularly traditional Irish music ter for the Arts. Tickets are $36, $46 4:30 pm, Free, Santa Fe Farmers’ Market, Images of Mary in the New World of Magic in the T in “Playboy,” you’re bound to have a and $54 via popejoypresents.com. 1607 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe 7:30 pm, South Broadway Cultural Center, zolla was a revolutionary composer, New Mexico History Museum, 113 Lincoln Irish musicians Caladh Nua once 1025 Broadway Blvd SW, 848-1320, lot of diverse influences under your 2 Community: The Makerstate Ave, Santa Fe, (505) 476-5200, transforming tango into an all-new gave a lovely live performance of Rich- My Gold Mask southbroadwaytickets.com ABQ F own belt. Initiative: 3D Printing & Scanning nmhistorymuseum.org ree P genre, nuevo tango, through his 11 am, Taylor Ranch Library, 5700 Bogart St Screens: Only Yesterday ress Since its formation in 2000, Cana- ard Thompson’s “Beeswing” at the Before their lives in Chicago, My 10 incorporation of jazz and classical resplendent Castle Gurteen in County NW, RSVP: 897-8816, abclibrary.org TUESDAY, MARCH 15 CCA Cinematheque, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, calenda dian post-hardcore band Silverstein Gold Mask founding members Gretta Santa Fe, (505) 982-1338, ccasantafe.org sounds. Piazzolla died in 1992, but 3 Shows: Strings ‘n Beats: Shambhavi 6 Word: The United States National Email event info,R – that’s right, named Waterford. The band name means Rochelle and Jack Armondo each Dandekar, Shakir Khan, Harshad Gem Collection: MONDAY, MARCH 21 including event name, date, for the “New Haven” in Gaelic. lived in Albuquerque. Neither one Kanetkar Dr. Jeffrey Edward Post Word: Slam of Enchantment It’s a fitting one, given knew that, however, until they’d each 7:30 pm, Outpost Performance Space, 7 pm, New Mexico Natural History Museum, 11 time, address and contact late Shel 210 Yale Blvd SE, 268-0044, outpostspace.org 1801 Mountain Rd NW, nmnaturalhistory.org 7 pm, Tortuga Gallery, 901 Edith Blvd SE, Silver- how seamlessly these moved on to the Windy City. It’s clear 369-1648, tortugagallery.org phone number five blend traditional that no matter where they met, the MARCH 12–13 THURSDAY, MARCH 17 stein – has THROUGH MARCH 25 or website, to Irish music with contem- 4 Artspree: Women as Creators & 7 Shows: One Night of Queen released two were destined to come together to Artspree: Encompass: Harwood’s [email protected] porary British folk. Keepers of Tradition performed by Gary Mullen & 12 a body make music. The pair formed My Gold Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, 2401 12th St 25th Anniversary Celebration The members of The Works one month in advance of work Mask shortly after meeting in 2008. Its NW, 843-7270, indianpueblo.org 7:30 pm, Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus, The Elementary Students of Escuela del Sol Montessori that deftly Caladh Nua all hail from eponymous debut album came out the 203 Cornell Drive NE, 925-5858, unmtickets.com of publication. neighboring southern Site Specific Installations: Nanibah maneu- following year. 8 Eats: Salud y Sabor: Bolivia Chacon, Lance Ryan McGoldrick 5:30 pm, National Hispanic Cultural Center, vers from counties in Ireland. The Described on AllMusic as “fusing Harwood Art Center, 1114 7th St NW, Courtesy of artist 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, nhccnm.org hardcore to emo to group features five artists with breath- goth pop drama and garage rock en- 242-6367, harwoodartcenter.org The Austin Piazzolla Quintent heavy metal: from ergy,” My Gold Mask released two “When Broken Is EPs in 2010, then in 2013 brought in a third member, drummer his innovative legacy lives on thanks Easily Fixed,” the group’s 2003 James Andrew, in 2013. Second to the musical artistry of the Austin debut, to 2015’s “I Am Alive in full-length, “Leave Me Midnight,” Piazzolla Quintet. Everything I Touch.” came out shortly thereafter in the Founded in 2009 in Austin, Texas Along the way, Silverstein same year. Now, My Gold Mask by violinist James Anderson, the has recorded a wide swath of tours in support of their latest quintet also features pianist Jonathan covers, including OneRepublic, record, “Anxious Utopia,” released Geer; Mike Maddux on accordion and Green Day, NOFX, Fleetwood on March 4 by Moon Sounds. March 18, Cactus Tractor, bandoneon; cellist Tony Rogers; and Mac and Kanye West, and CLUBS & PUBS SATURDAY, MARCH 12 MARCH 12–27 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16 Rochelle and Armondo drop in Ali Holder & Little Brave artSLAM: The Ultimate My Fair Lady Ekachai Jearakul played the Vans Warped Tour March 22, Lollipop records Caravan bassist Pat Harris. These five esteemed MARCH 12–22 Variety Show Rodey Theatre, UNM Main Campus, 7:30 pm, Keller Hall, to Low Spirits (2823 Second Street Showcase musicians specialize in one-of-a-kind and Australia’s Soundwave Sunshine Theater Part of Women & Creativity 2016 203 Cornell Drive, 925-5858, UNM Main Campus, March 23, Diarrhea Planet, Music Band Festival. Now Silverstein plays NW) on Thursday, March 24. 120 Central Ave SW, 764-0249, 7 pm, Keshet Center for the Arts, unmtickets.com 203 Cornell Drive, arrangements of Piazzolla’s works, as March 24, My Gold Mask, Great States Polished local indie act Great sunshinetheaterlive.com 4121 Cutler Ave NE, 227-8583, newmexicoclassicalguitarfestival.org well as passionate improvisations and right here in the 505, at Sun- March 25, BloodStone The Art and March 12, Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, keshetarts.org SUNDAY, MARCH 13 shine Theater (120 Central SW) States opens. With its combination Sound of Metal Pouya with The Buffet Boys original compositions. Courtesy of artist Cryptopsy The Austin Piazzolla Quintet on Wednesday, March 16. of lustrous piano, versatile harmo- Ekco Poets-Dance and Dancers & Suicide Boys The Quintet released their first Caladh Nua March 15, Born of Osiris, Veil of Maya, MARCH 13–23 3 pm, Tricklock Performance 7:30 pm, Outpost Performance Space, 7 pm, Warehouse 508, 508 1st St NW, In keeping with Silverstein’s nies and creative lyrics on debut After the Burial 210 Yale Blvd SE, 268-0044, album, 2010’s “Libertango,” to rave Sister Bar Laboratory, 110 Gold Ave SW, 296-2738, warehouse508.org eclectic sensibilities, the band is full-length “Gatsby,” Great States March 16, Silverstein, Being As An 254-8393, womenandcreativity.org outpostspace.org reviews and sold-out performances Ocean, Emarosa 407 Central Ave SW, 242-4900, seems poised to be the Next Big Radio Green Velvet Carl Peterson THURSDAY, MARCH 17 around Texas. 2013’s “Lo Que Vendra” touring with an international roster of March 21, blessthefall, Miss May I, sisterthebar.com taking range and skill: Brian Mooney 9 pm, The Stage, Part of Bloody Sundays Brunch Uxia and Narf fellow heavies including Cali’s Being Thing to come out of Burque. The Plot in You March 13, Bongzilla, Black Cobra saw the group’s audience expand to a Santa Ana Star Casino, 54 Jemez and Bloody Mary Bar Noon, Free, North Valley Library, (banjo, bouzouki, whistles); Lisa Butler March 22, Fear Factory March 17, EN Young As An Ocean; Kentuckians Ema- Doors to this 21-and-up show are at Canyon Dam Rd, Santa Ana Pueblo, 11 am, Distillery 365, 7704 2nd St NW, 897-8823, national level. (lead vocals, fiddle); Paddy Tutty (fid- March 18, Conan w/Serial Hawk, rosa; Japanese metalcore screamers 8 p.m., and the show starts at 9. Ticket MARCH 12–25 Sandia Man 867-0000, santaanastar.com 2921 Stanford Dr NE, 221-6281, ampconcerts.org APQ’s latest release, fittingly titled dle, viola, bodhran); Derek Morrissey distillery365.com Coldrain; and fellow Canucks Rarity. prices aren’t listed at press time, but Launchpad March 21, Weedeater, Author Jake Shimabukuro “APQ,” includes original compositions & Punisher, Today is the Day Chatter Cabaret: FRIDAY, MARCH 18 (button accordion); and Caoimhín Ó visit lowspiritslive.com to get that info. 618 Central Ave SW, 764-8887, 7:30 pm, Albuquerque Academy, by Anderson and Geer, as well as Piaz- Doors to this 13-plus show open at 6 March 23, Head Wound City Rare + Romantic Eryn Bent Fearghail (guitar, flute, vocals). “Irish launchpadrocks.com Simms Center for the Performing Arts, p.m., and the hardcore sounds kick off 5 pm, National Hispanic Cultural 7 pm, Distillery 365, 2921 zolla’s “Michelangelo 70,” “Soledad,” M. Brianna Stallings writes so you don’t March 12, Beard Cd Release Show 6400 Wyoming Blvd NE, Music Magazine” characterizes the Ca- Center, 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, Stanford Dr NE, 221-6281, at 6:30. Tickets are $18. For more info, have to. March 13, Skizzy Mars SHOWS ampconcerts.org “Retrato de Milton,” and “Kicho.” chatterabq.org distillery365.com visit sunshinetheaterlive.com ladh Nua sound as “solid traditional March 14, Prayers, Plague Vendor 2nd Annual Rock and Rhythm Revel in the nuevo tango sounds of Masterworks — Polyphony: music with plenty of flair and lots of March 15, New Years Day, Blinddryve THROUGH MARCH 19 Foundation Benefit Concert Dreamflights Voices of New Mexico the Austin Piazzolla Quintet on Sun- March 16, Koffin Kats, Russian The Philadelphia Story 2 pm, South Broadway Cultural Center, 1:30 pm, AirDance ArtSpace, musical imagination.” 7 pm, Cathedral of St John, day, March 13, at Outpost Girlfriends The Vortex Theatre, 2900 Carlisle NE, 1025 Broadway Blvd SW, 848-1320, 3030 Isleta Blvd SW, 842-9418, With influences 318 Silver Ave SW, 821-1956, March 17, Pouya, Fat Nick and the 247-8600, vortexabq.org southbroadwaytickets.com airdance.org Performance Space (210 polyphonynm.com ranging from classics Buffet Boys Frederick Frahm: Neighbor- Yale SE). Doors are at 7 THROUGH MARCH 20 Shinedown like The Chieftains March 18, Intronaut, Scale the Summit Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort hood Concert of Organ Music The Curtis Institute of Music The Chupacabra Cantina Brass Sextet: Music from p.m., and the music starts and Planxty to March 19, Butcher Babies, Anesthesia & Casino, 287 Carrizo Canyon Rd, 3 pm, St. Luke Lutheran Church, at 7:30. All ages are wel- March 20, Violent J, Nova Rockafeller VSA North 4th Theatre, 4904 4th St Mescalero, innofthemountaingods.com 9100 Menaul Blvd NE, 323-4343, Angel Fire modern counterparts March 21, The Contortionist, NW, vsartsnm.org nmphil.org Noon, Free, come. Tickets range from Tal National New Mexico Museum of Art, like Altan, Danú And Monuments Julius Caesar 7:30 pm, Skylight, 139 W. San Francisco Jackie Greene $15 to $20. Learn more at 107 W Palace Ave, Santa Fe, Solas, this vibrant en- March 22, Denzel Curry, Duke City Repertory Theatre, 700 1st St St, Santa Fe, (505) 982-0775 Taos Mesa Brewing, 20 ABC Mesa Rd, outpostspace.org Allan Kingdom NW, 797-7081, dukecityrep.com El Prado, (575) 758-1900, (505) 476-5072, semble from Ireland’s nmartmuseum.org March 23, Secrets, Palisades, Real Women Have Curves MARCH 12–13 taosmesabrewing.com In the sun with southland is sure to Too Close to Touch Part of Siembra: Latino Theatre Festival Aliento — State Street Ballet: Mozart & Kurtag Uxia and Narf March 25, Ab the Thief, MXM have you singing National Hispanic Cultural Center, Carmen 10:30 am, Las Puertas Event Center, Noon, Free, Cherry Hills Library, Silverstein 6901 Barstow St NE, 857-8321, Low Spirits 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, nhccnm.org National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1512 1st St NW, chatterabq.org “Erin go Bragh!” this ampconcerts.org 2823 2nd St NW, 344-9555, 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, When you name yourself Courtesy of artist St. Patrick’s season. THOURGH MARCH 27 Courtesy of artist lowspiritslive.com nhccnm.org TUESDAY, MARCH 15 Randy Houser after a beloved children’s Silverstein Caladh Nua performs March 12, Gilded Cage Burlesk & West Side Story Zuni Olla Maidens Peña Feminina: ¡Noche Flamenca! 8 pm, Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort book author who also at 3 p.m. on Sunday, My Gold Mask Varieté presents Sideshow Spectacular Albuquerque Little Theatre, 224 Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Part of Women & Creativity 2016 & Casino, 287 Carrizo Canyon Rd, March 13, Possessed by Paul James San Pasquale Ave SW, 242-4750, 2401 12th St NW, 843-7270, 7:30 pm, Las Amapolas, Mescalero, (800) 545-9011, March 17, Dilescielo, Zack Freeman, albuquerquelittletheatre.org indianpueblo.org 6909 Menaul NE Ste G, innofthemountaingods.com Esme Olivia womenandcreativity.org 38 • March 9, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS ABQ FREE PRESS • March 9, 2016 • 39

Flute + Guitar CALENDArBrooklyn Hard Bodies March 18–24, Awakening in Taos: CALENDArRio Grande Arts & Crafts Kid’s Future Paleontologist SATURDAYS 10:30 am, Las Puertas Event Center, Male Revue The Mabel Dodge Luhan Story, Festival — Spring Show Class Downtown Walking Tours with 1512 1st St NW, chatterabq.org 9 pm, Effex Nightclub, 420 Central SW, Creative Control Expo New Mexico, 300 San Pedro Dr NE, 10 am, Mama’s Minerals, Albuquerque Historical Society 222-9700, riograndefestivals.com 800 20th St NW, RSVP: 266-8443, Lunasa with Tim O’Brien 842-8870, effexabq.com March 25–31, Mountain Men 10 am, Free, meet at Central and 1st Meow Wolf Ascends You Rock, Rock! mamasminerals.com BY ARIANE JAROCKI by Century Theater, 289-0586 BY ARIANE JAROCKI 7:30 pm, KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Cirque de la Symphonie MARCH 13–25 THROUGH MARCH 31 Ave NW, 768-3544, kimotickets.com Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus, 203 International Folk Dancing CCA Cinematheque Women & Creativity 2016 TUESDAY, MARCH 15 D’Santi Nava Cornell Drive NE, 925-5858, nmphil.org 7 pm, Lloyd Shaw Dance Center, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, Various locations, Albuquerque, AARP Smart Driver Course Part of Bloody Sundays Brunch Deorro 5506 Coal Ave SE, 299-0332, (505) 982-1338, ccasantafe.org womenandcreativity.org 1 pm, Loma Colorado Main Library, & Bloody Mary Bar.11 am, Distillery 9 pm, The Stage at Santa Ana Star abqfolkdance.org March 13, Wedding Song 755 Loma Colorado Blvd NE, 365, 2921 Stanford Dr NE, 221-6281, Casino, 54 Jemez Canyon Dam Rd, March 16, Au Revoirs Les Enfants SATURDAY, MARCH 12 Rio Rancho, RSVP: 891-5013x3033, Saturday Night Swing Dance distillery365.com Santa Ana Pueblo, redfishent.com Starts March 18, River of Fundament ShamRock Fest 2016 riorancholibraries.org 7:15 pm, Rhythm Dance Company, Willy Sucre and Friends: Trios Max Gomez March 20, Les Heritiers 11 am, Anderson Abruzzo Balloon 3808A Central Ave SE, 250-6146, for Piano, Violin and Viola 6pm, New Mexico Museum of Art, Starts March 25, Embrace of the Museum, 9201 Balloon Museum Dr NE, SATURDAY, MARCH 19 abqswing.com 3 pm, Las Placitas Presbyterian Church, 107 W. Palace Ave, Santa Fe, Serpent 768-6020, balloonmuseum.com Basic Necklace & Earring 7 Paseo de San Antonio, Placitas, (505) 476-5072, nmartmuseum.org Making Class OUTDOORS 867-8080, placitasartistsseries.org 10th Annual Moustachio THROUGH MARCH 20 MARCH 18–19 1 pm, Free, Mama’s Minerals, 800 20th St NW, RSVP: 266-8443, ENROLLMENT NOW OPEN MONDAY, MARCH 21 Bashio A French Film Mini-Fest: Kicker Arenacross and 8:30 pm, El Rey Theater, Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival Freestyle Motocross Show mamasminerals.com Las Huertas Farmer Training Rudest Priest, Absolutely Not, 622 Central Ave SW, elreyabq.com Santa Ana Star Center, and Incubator Program Various locations, Santa Fe, Parenting Class Caity Kennedy The Baby Magic New Mexico Actors Showcase santafejff.org 3001 Civic Center Circle NE, 10:15 am, donation, Body’s Peace Rio Grande Community Farm, Aspen Eyes concept art 7 pm, The Tannex, 1417 4th St SW, 3 pm, South Broadway Cultural Center, 891-7300, santaanastarcenter.com Place for Kids, 333 W. Cordova Rd, 916-1078, riograndefarm.org thetannex.com 1025 Broadway Blvd SW, 848-1320, THROUGH JULY 31 Santa Fe, (203) 788-1993, hen buildings are abandoned, they often decay until MARCH 18–20 peaceplaceforkids.com SATURDAY, MARCH 12 TUESDAY, MARCH 22 southbroadwaytickets.com IAIA Student Filmmaker they’re bulldozed to house a used car lot or strip Showcase Treasures of the Earth 2016 Home Composting Basics W Stratus Phear Trans + Queer Thrive Education Vanessa Zamora Noon, Free, Manzano Mesa mall. The old Silva Lanes in Santa Fe has been spared that 6 pm, Pueblo Harvest Café, Institute of American Indian Arts, Gem and Mineral Show Conference Part of Latin Diva Concert Series Multigenerational Center, 2401 12th St NW, 724-3510, 83 Avan Nu Po Rd, Santa Fe, iaia.edu 10 am, Expo New Mexico, Creative 8:30 am, Dane Smith Hall, fate — local art collective Meow Wolf has breathed new life he Albuquerque Gem & Mineral Club hosts Treasures of 7:30 pm, National Hispanic Cultural 501 Elizabeth St SE, RSVP: 275-8731, indianpueblo.com/puebloharvestcafe Arts Center, 300 San Pedro Dr NE, UNM Main Campus, more info/RSVP: into the space. Tthe Earth, the 47th annual AGMC show, at Expo New Center, 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, SATURDAY, MARCH 12 222-9700, exponm.com register@nm composters.org Tabularasa facebook.com/tqthriveconference With the help of investors like “Game of Thrones” author Mexico (300 San Pedro SE), on the weekend of Friday, March nhccnm.org A Thousand Voices 8 pm, Taos Mesa Brewing, SUNDAY, MARCH 13 George R.R. Martin, you can choose your own adventure at 18, through Sunday, March 20. 3 pm, Free, Indian Pueblo Cultural SATURDAY, MARCH 26 ONGOING THURSDAY, MARCH 24 20 ABC Mesa Rd, El Prado, Center, 2401 12th St NW, 23rd Annual César Chávez Day Geology Hike Meow Wolf’s new art space. It begins with “The House of This event has been running nearly five decades, and it (575) 758-1900, taosmesabrewing.com Buika 843-7270, indianpueblo.org 10:30 am, National Hispanic Cultural 2ND TUESDAYS 11 am, Cerrillos Hills State Park, Eternal Return,” a full-scale model of a Victorian home features more than 50 rock and mineral dealers hawking Part of Chispa The Temporary Tattoos Center, 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, Korean War Veterans 37 Main St, Cerrillos, NM, belonging to a Southern family. From there, it could go any everything from amethyst cathedrals to zebra rocks. The 7:30 pm, National Hispanic Cultural 6 pm, Marble Brewery Westside, MARCH 17–20 nhccnm.org (505) 474-0196, cerrilloshills.org Open Meeting fantastical place, even an aspen grove that’ll stare right back kids can bring mystery rocks for the club to ID. Three silent Center, 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, 5740 Night Whisper Rd NW, Movies & Meaning: The Q’s OUTstanding Awards 1 pm, New Mexico Veterans Memorial, SATURDAY, MARCH 19 at you. auctions are held per day. nhccnm.org 508-4368, marblebrewery.com A Dream Space 7 pm, Sandia Resort & Casino, 30 1100 Louisiana Blvd SE, 256-2042, Home Composting Basics This magical, interactive space opens the weekend of March The AGMC will also be joined by the New Mexico Bureau globalFEST On the Road: MARCH 26–27 KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW, Rainbow Rd NE, 873-8084, abqpride.com nmvetsmemorial.org Creole Carnival 768-3544, kimotickets.com 10 am, Free, Albuquerque Garden 18 with a gala, concerts and other cool events. For more info of Geology & Mineral Resources, who will offer educational Southern Slam Dancers (Zuni) 7:30 pm, Lensic Theater, MARCH 26–27 2ND WEDNESDAYS Center, 10120 Lomas Blvd NE, on opening weekend goings on, see our rundown in Matters displays, maps, books and guidebooks to attendees. 211 W. San Francisco, Santa Fe, Noon, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23 296-6020, Rio Rancho Home & Drinking Liberally — of the Art, page 26, or visit meowwolf.com Learn more at agmc.info (505) 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org 2401 12th St NW, 843-7270, A Night of Generation Justice Remodeling Show Albuquerque Chapter RSVP: [email protected] indianpueblo.org Part of NM PBS Community Cinema Santa Ana Star Center, 6 pm, O’Niell’s NE Heights, Meow Wolf: House of Eternal Return FRIDAY, MARCH 25 3301 Juan Tabo Blvd NE, 264-1368, EATS Treasures of the Earth 2016 SUNDAY, MARCH 27 7 pm, Free, KiMo Theatre, 423 Central 3001 Civic Center Circle NE, 1352 Rufina Circle, Santa Fe, NM, (505) 395-6369, Expo New Mexico, 300 San Pedro NE, 222-9700, agmc.info Live Stand up Comedy: Keith Ave NW, 768-3544, kimotickets.com 891-7300, santaanastarcenter.com drinkingliberally.org Brekenridge, Rachel Hroncich, David Crosby SATURDAY, MARCH 12 meowwolf.com Fri-Sat, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Sunday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. T-Gram 7:30 pm, Lensic Theater, THURSDAY, MARCH 24 APRIL 15–17 WEDNESDAYS 24th Annual Chocolate Wed–Sun, 10 a.m.– 8 p.m., later Fri–Sat Guild Cinema, 3405 Central Ave NE, 211 W. San Francisco, Santa Fe, Fastball New Mexico International ABQ Jazz Trio Open Jam Fantasy: Cosmic Soirée 255-1848, guildcinema.com (505) 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org 7 pm, KiMo Theatre, Auto Show 5 pm, Free, Lizard Tail Brewing, 6:30 pm, Sandia Casino, Masterworks — Polyphony: 2ND SATURDAYS MARCH 13–24 MARCH 18–APRIL 10 Max Graham Peri Pakroo 423 Central Ave NW, 768-3544, Albuquerque Convention Center, 9800 Montgomery Ave NE, 30 Rainbow Rd, 796-7500, Voices of New Mexico Los Ranchos Growers’ Market Collected Works Santa Fe The Graduate 9 pm, El Rey Theater, Part of Bloody Sundays Brunch and kimotickets.com 401 2nd St SW, 768-4575, lizardtailbrewing.com/home sandiacasino.com 7 pm, San Miguel Chapel, 10 am, 6718 Rio Grande Blvd NW, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, Aux Dog Theatre, 3011 Monte Vista 622 Central Ave SW, elreyabq.com Bloody Mary Bar, 11 am, Distillery 365, nmautoshow.com 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe, farmersmarketsnm.org (505) 988-4226, Blvd NE, 254-7716, auxdog.com 2921 Stanford Dr NE, 221-6281, FRIDAY, MARCH 25 1ST AND 3RD THURSDAYS SUNDAY, MARCH 19 821-1956, polyphonynm.com The Pink Floyd Experience collectedworksbookstore.com distillery365.com Strangers on a Train (1951) SUNDAY, APRIL 17 Drinking Liberally — Cedar Southwest Chocolate & 8 pm, Route 66 Casino, SATURDAYS March 13, Booksigning — Douglas SATURDAY, MARCH 19 The Motet Solo Violin and Voices Part of Hitchcock Hits La Montañita Co-op’s Earth Fest Crest Chapter Coffee Fest 14500 Central Ave SW, 352-7866, Santa Fe Farmers Market: Atwill & Walter Cooper Calle 66 8 pm, Taos Mesa Brewing, 10:30 am, Las Puertas Event Center, KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW, Nobhillis100.com/events 5 pm, Greenside Café, 10 am, Expo New Mexico, rt66casino.com Railyard March15, J. Michael Orenduff, The Pot 6 pm, Pueblo Harvest Café, 20 ABC Mesa Rd, El Prado, 1512 1st St NW, chatterabq.org 768-3544, kimotickets.com 12165 NM-14, Cedar Crest, 300 San Pedro Dr NE, 222-9700, Quietly Kept Nob Hill is 100 Unleashed: 8 am, 1607 Paseo de Peralta at 2401 12th St NW, 724-3510, (575) 758-1900, taosmesabrewing.com 264-1368, drinkingliberally.org exponm.com Thief Who Studied Georgia O’Keeffe 7 pm, Distillery 365, Pet Parade and Fair Guadalupe, Santa Fe, indianpueblo.com/puebloharvestcafe NM Philharmonic Classics WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30 March 16, Sedena & George Cappan- 2921 Stanford Dr NE, 221-6281, SCREENS Nobhillis100.com/events farmersmarketsnm.org nelli, Concert: Olga Rocks Punk’s Dead: SLC Punk 2 THURSDAYS ONGOING 14th Annual Farfesha Student distillery365.com The Best is Yet to Be — How to Age Showcase Rachmaninoff MARCH 12–27 7:30 pm, KiMo Theatre, Latin Gold: Salsa Lessons Raven and the Sweet Potato COMMUNITY TUESDAYS SUNDAYS Wisely and Fall in Love with Your 7 pm, South Broadway Cultural Center, 6 pm, Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus, Guild Cinema 423 Central Ave NW, 768-3544, & Dancing Pie Band Truckin’ Tuesdays Pints & Planks Yoga Class Life ... Again 1025 Broadway Blvd SW, 848-1320, 203 Cornell Drive NE, 925-5858, 3405 Central Ave NE, 255-1848, kimotickets.com 8 pm, Free, Q Bar-Hotel Albuquerque, 6 pm, Pueblo Harvest Café, THROUGH MARCH 11 am, Civic Plaza, 1 Civic Plaza NW, 11 am, donation, March 19, Patricia J. Conoway, Listen- farfesha.com nmphil.org guildcinema.com 800 Rio Grande Blvd NW, 225-5928, 2401 12th St NW, 724-3510, Conquer Anger 3rd St NW and Marquette Ave NW, Rio Bravo Brewing Company, (937) ing with My Eyes: An Abused Horse, a Saudade March 12–13, Triplets of Belleville THURSDAY, MARCH 31 qbarabq.com Hairspray and Hitmen: A indianpueblo.com/puebloharvestcafe Thursdays, 7 pm, Kadampa Meditation albuquerquecc.com 671-8917, Mother with Alzheimer’s 9 pm, Scalo Northern Italian Grill, Silver Ochre: Who Are US 2016 Tribute to John Waters and March 12–14, Embrace of the Center, 142 Monroe St NE, 292-5293, riobravobrewing.com March 24, James R Scarantino, The 3500 Central SE, 255-7871, scalonobhill.com Thriftworks — Observations from the 21st 1ST SATURDAYS Quentin Tarantino Serpent, Sembene mediationinnewmexico.org WEDNESDAYS Drum Within Sister Bar, 407 Central Ave, March 15–17, Gabo, Janis: Little Girl Century American Road The Organ Transplant 8 pm, Fire & Ice, 9800 Montgomery Red Willow Farmers Market MARCH 19–20 facebook.com/digitaldesert.events Blue 7 pm, Guild Cinema, Awareness Program of WORD Blvd NE, facebook.com/parisagogo THROUGH APRIL 10 am, 885 Star Rd, Taos Pueblo, How Love Wins March 18–19, The Hunger 3405 Central Ave NE, 255-1848, New Mexico John Gorka Volunteers needed for NM farmersmarketsnm.org MARCH 13–22 2 pm, National Hispanic Cultural Cen- MARCH 25–APRIL 10 March 18–21, Creative Control, silverorchre.com 10:30 am, Erna Fergusson Library, 7:30 pm, Historic Old San Ysidro Veterans’ Museum ter, 1701 4th St SW, 506-9038, The Quality of Life The Club 3700 San Mateo Blvd NE, Talin Market Food Truck Bookworks Church, 966 Old Church Rd, New Mexico Veterans’ Memorial, Puzzle on page 40 theperformers.org Keshet Center for the Arts, 4121 Cutler March 19, The Messenger FRIDAY, APRIL 1 more info: 344-0512 Round Up 4022 Rio Grande NW, 344-8139, Corrales, brownpapertickets.com 1100 Louisiana Blvd SE, 256-2042, bkwrks.com TCMG presents Into the Light Ave NE, 227-8583, motherroad.org March 20, Still Dreaming Dial M For Murder 11 am, 88 Louisiana Blvd SE Kansas nmvetsmemorial.org 2ND & 4TH SATURDAYS March 13, Derek Cressman, Harwood Museum of Art, March 22–24, Ingrid Bergman — In KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW, 8 pm, Inn of the Mountain Gods MARCH 25–APRIL 17 Coder Dojo When Money Talks 238 Ledoux St, Taos, (575) 758-9826, Her Own Words 768-3544, kimotickets.com Resort & Casino, 287 Carrizo Canyon SATURDAY, MARCH 12 10 am, ages 7–17, Quelab, FRIDAYS March 17, J. Michael Orenduff, taoschambermusicgroup.org Caesar‘s Blood March 25–27, Sin Fronteras Film Rd, Mescalero, (800) 545-9011, The Adobe Theater, 9813 4th Street Festival 2016 Basic Necklace & Earring 680 Haines Ave NW, ABQ Food Fridays The Pot Thief Who Studied innofthemountaingods.com Tewa Dancers (Ohkay Owingeh) NW, 898-9222, adobetheater.org EVENTS Making Class coderdojoabq.github.io 4 pm, Civic Plaza, SW Section, Georgia O’Keeffe Noon, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, K’s Choice Noon, Free, Mama’s Minerals, 1 Civic Plaza NW, March 19, Richard William Smith, 2401 12th St NW, 843-7270, MARCH 12–31 THROUGH MARCH 13 7:30 pm, The Bridge at Santa Fe Brewing Terra Nova 800 20th St NW, RSVP: 266-8443, 3RD SATURDAYS 3rd St NW and Marquette Ave NW, The Moor, the Mason and the Alien: indianpueblo.org Jean Cocteau Cinema Baca Rodeo Series Company, 37 Fire Place, Santa Fe, (505) The Vortex Theatre, 2900 Carlisle NE, mamasminerals.com Lyme Get Together civicplazapresents.com A Call to Action 418 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, Southwest Event Center Arena, 424-3333, ampconcerts.org 247-8600, vortexabq.org How to Become an Addiction 12, Free, location varies, Coffee Education and Tasting March 20, Paul Secord, Bandelier SUNDAY, MARCH 20 (505) 466-5528, jeancocteaucinema.com 24 Dalies Rd, Los Lunas, Counselor in New Mexico more info: 304-9411 6:30 pm, Prosum Roasters, National Monument Lunasa and Tim O’Brien Caladh Nua March 12–17, 17th Annual Interna- southwesteventcenter.com SATURDAY, MARCH 26 10 am, Free, UNM Continuing Education 3228 Los Arboles Ave NE Ste 100, March 22, James Scarantino, 7:30 pm, Lensic Theater, 3 pm, Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus, tional Animation Show of Shows, Ran Bloodstone Building, 1634 University Blvd NE, 379-5136, prosumroasters.com The Drum Within 211 W. San Francisco, Santa Fe, 203 Cornell Drive NE, 925-5858, March 15–16, Psycho Pass: The Movie (505) 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org unmtickets.com 5 pm, Burt’s Tiki Lounge, 313 Gold Ave SW 277-0077, RSVP: ce.unm.edu 40 • March 9, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS calendar Crossword THROUGH MAY 3 ARTSPREE by Myles Mellor IAIA Library Readings Various dates and times, Institute of American SUNDAY, MARCH 13 Across 52. Itinerant, British var. 24. Omen Indian Arts, 83 Avan Nu Po Rd, Santa Fe, iaia.edu A View in the Collection: Pablita, 56. Fox competitor 26. Drudge Helen & Margarete 1. Pretense SATURDAY, MARCH 12 1 pm, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, 4. Chips ___ 59. Expression of pride? 28. No longer working: The Literary History of Poets in Placitas: 2401 12th St NW, 843-7270,indianpueblo.org 8. Like some kitchens 60. Baroque Abbr. Larry Goodell & John Roche 61. Military approaches 29. Cold capital 11 am, Placitas Community Library, FRIDAY, MARCH 18 13. Vamp’s accessory 453 Hwy 165, 867-3355, placitaslibrary.com Meow Wolf! House of Eternal Return: 14. Narthex neighbor 64. Hindu wives 30. Eye problem Lucy Lewis: Celebrating the Legacy Public Opening 65. They may be wild 31. Brute Meow Wolf!, 1352 Rufina Cir, Santa Fe, 15. Unite 1 pm, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, 66. Consult 32. Didn’t stand pat 2401 12th St NW, 843-7270, indianpueblo.org (505) 395-6369, meowwolf.com 16. They were intro- 67. Fur capitalist 33. Freshwater fish MARCH 18–31 duced by Sohmer & SUNDAY, MARCH 13 68. ___ Who 35. Radiohead tune Storytime — What Makes a Snowflake: RSVP: James Joseph Co. in 1884 Ross Van Dusen The Small Engine Gallery, 19. Out 69. Much spam 36. Stalk 1413 4th St SW, thesmallenginegallery.com 2:30 pm, Page One Books, 5850 Eubank Blvd NE 20. Cousin of a canvas 38. Cliff’s pal on Ste B-41, 294-2026, page1book.com Down MARCH 18–MAY 20 back “Cheers” MONDAY, MARCH 14 WOMAN 21. Big bang producer 1. Old Jewish scholars 39. Chaos The Art of Zuni: Bronwyn Fox and Edition One Gallery, 1036 Canyon Rd, 2. Go downhill, maybe 40. Bon mot Robin Dunlap Santa Fe, (505) 570-5385, editionone.gallery 22. Appropriate 2 pm, Wheelwright Library, 704 Camino Lejo, 23. Computer instruc 3. Put off, as a motion 46. Means of escape Santa Fe, (505) 982-4636, wheelwright.org SUNDAY, MARCH 20 4. “Measure for 47. Like some vases Imaginary Friends and Fools: tions TUESDAY, MARCH 15 Artist Talks 25. Web page Measure” villain 49. Big cheese Your Dazzling Brain presentation 3 pm, Tortuga Gallery, 901 Edith Blvd SE, 27. Money transferring 5. Dwell 50. Dude by UNM Researchers 369-1648, tortugagallery.org 6. Female gametes 51. Pointer 6:45 pm, Albuquerque Academy, Simms Center Placitas Artists Series February systems for the Performing Arts, 6400 Wyoming Blvd NE, Visual Artist Reception 31. Uneven 7. “Fiddler on the 53. Bangladesh dough 272-8085, RSVP: aa.edu 2 pm, Las Placitas Presbyterian Church, 34. Stumblebum Roof” role 54. Charger 7 Paseo de San Antonio, Placitas, 8. Afterword 55. Toadies’ replies SATURDAY, MARCH 19 867-8080, placitasartistsseries.org 36. Most immense Made in Albuquerque FIlms: Jeff Berg Ryan Singer & Liz Wallace Gallery 37. In a pompous style 9. C.S.A. state 56. Old Mogul capital 10:30 am, Special Collections Library, 423 Central Reception 41. Pull back 10. TV control 57. Support group? NE, 848-1376 abclibrary.org 5 pm, Free, Jean Cocteau Art Gallery, 11. Desktop feature 58. Jargon Making Micaceous Clay: Shari Holmes 418 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, 42. Heater 2 pm, Genuine Southwest Arts & Gifts, (415) 517-9782, jeancocteaucinema.com 43. Kind of skin 12. Birth place 60. Camp Swampy dog 1919 Old Town Rd NW, Ste 2, 15. Debate (with) 62. Liberal leader? 243-1410, genuinesouthwest.com MARCH 20–SEPTEMBER 15 44. Some painted 17. “Sure” 63. Spa sound O’Keeffe — Close Up and Faraway: Landscape of an Artist-Living Treasure: vessels Deborah Blanche Dan Namingha 45. New couple 18. Datebook abbr. 7 pm, Historic Old San Ysidro Church, 966 Old Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, 23. Kind of ticket Church Rd, Corrales, corraleshistory.org 710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, (505) 476-1269, 48. Frilly hat of long ago Answers on page 39 indianartsandculture.org Silk Stockings: Susi Wolf — Storyteller 7 pm, Tortuga Gallery, ONGOING 901 Edith Blvd SE, 369-1648, tortugagallery.org Spain’s Contribution to the American THROUGH MARCH 12 Revolution: Dr. Thomas Chavez Failure of Modernity: Kent Monkman 2 pm, Placitas Community Library, Peters Projects, 1011 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, 453 Hwy 165, 867-3355, placitaslibrary.com (505) 954-5800, petersprojects.com Under a Triumphant Sky, a Bike Across America Story: Steve Garufi THROUGH MARCH 19 1 pm, Taylor Ranch Library, 5700 Bogart St NW, Sacred Realm: Blessing & Good Fortune 897-8816, abclibrary.org Across Asia Museum of International Folk Art, 706 Camino Lejo, SUNDAY, MARCH 20 Santa Fe, (505) 476-1200, internationalfolkart.org Three Promises for Jane — A True Story of Madness and THROUGH MARCH 20 Redemption: AJ Liese Gustave Baumann and New Mexico 3 pm, Page One Books, New Mexico Museum of Art, 5850 Eubank Blvd NE Ste B-41, 107 W. Palace Ave, Santa Fe, 294-2026, page1book.com (505) 476-5072, nmartmuseum.org WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23 THROUGH MARCH 31 Gabrielle Walker with Chris Williams Taylor Oliver Part of In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom lecture series Jean Cocteau Cinema, 7 pm, Lensic Theater, 211 W. San Francisco, 418 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, (505) 466-5528, Santa Fe, (505) 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org jeancocteaucinema.com ONGOING THROUGH APRIL 18 From Cubes to Cutouts: 1ST WEDNESDAYS Alejandro Moralez & Nacho Jaramillo Poetry and Beer KiMo Gallery, KiMo Theatre, 7 pm, Tractor Brewing Wells Park, 423 Central Ave NW, 768-3544, kimotickets.com 1800 4th St NW, 243-6752, getplowed.com THROUGH APRIL 20 WEDNESDAYS Aesthetic Empathy Crazy Wisdom Poetry Holocaust & Intolerance Museum of New Mexico, 4 pm, Free, OffCenter Arts, 808 Park Ave SW, 616 Central Ave SW, 247-1172, offcenterarts.org 331-0036, nmholocaustmuseum.org