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VOL II, Issue 21, October 21, 2015 New Mexico’s best alternative newspaper ABQ Still Policing For Profit PAGE 12 When N.M. Cops Go Bad Stevens: PAGE 5 On Lobos And the Media PAGE 17 Court Slams Helicopter Pot Raid PAGE 18 Our Primer on Halloween, Día de los Muertos PAGES 20-21 2 • October 21, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS www.freeabq.com ABQ FREE PRESS • October 21, 2015 • 3 NEWS www.abqarts.com A+E CommuNiQué Editor: [email protected] Dear Readers, ABQ Free Press Pulp News Associate Editor, News: [email protected] emigrated to the Land of Enchantment from Texas — it is a whole other country — in COMPILED BY ABQ FREE PRESS STAFF Associate Editor, Arts: [email protected] I 2002. When I first claimed nuevomexicano citizenship, I had only experienced New Mexico via history, literature and pop culture. Once in residence, I began to explore the Iron Man network of deep ocean currents of Chernobyl is a nature preserve Advertising: [email protected] state (of my heart) in earnest. My career in journalism began in college at CNM and that circulate warm water from teeming with elk, deer, wolves UNM with respectively lengthy and brief tenures at those colleges’ newspapers. Real-life “Iron Man” U.S. soldiers the South Atlantic to the ocean’s and wild boar, according to the On Twitter: @FreeABQ Via American studies coursework at UNM — Religious Ritual in New Mexico, The should be hitting the battlefield northern latitudes. If the flow is journal Current Biology. Some Nuclear West, New Mexico Literature et al. — I discovered my preconceived notions within two years, thanks to a disrupted by further warming 1,600 square miles around the Editor about New Mexico and the entire U.S. Southwest were at best, overly simplistic and new electrically activated “liquid of the Atlantic, replenishment of Soviet nuclear reactor are a Dan Vukelich at worst, verged on quasi-Orientalism. Compared with distinguished scholars and pro- ceramic” body armor that stiffens the North Atlantic’s warm water people-no-go zone. “When (505) 345-4080. Ext. 800 fessors I studied with at UNM, my own study of New Mexico — its culture and history within milliseconds. “It transi- would stop, triggering the deep humans are removed, nature — are in their infancy. But I’ve learned enough to know that the most important facet of a conversation is listening. tions when you hit it hard,” said freeze. “The basic scenario of flourishes — even in the wake Associate Editor, News With newsrooms shrinking all over, I am blessed by the opportunity to work at Norman Wagner, a University of the AMOC as a result of global of the world’s worst nuclear Dennis Domrzalski an honest-to-goodness independent newspaper. At ABQ Free Press, award-winning Delaware chemical engineering accident,” said Jim Smith, a (505) 306-3260 warming is not completely out of investigative reporting and informed opinion are still valued and invested in. That’s a professor. “These particles specialist in earth and envi- the blue or unthinkable,” Sybren Associate Editor, Arts radical proposition in this day and age. And four months in, I am regularly achieving organize themselves quickly, ronmental sciences at Britain’s Drijfhout, author of a study Samantha Anne Carrillo my goal of working with talented arts writers to unearth essential and meaningful arts locally, in a way that they can’t published in the journal Nature University of Portsmouth. (505) 345-4080 ext. 804 & entertainment info and events from a sea of noise and signal crossover. flow anymore, and they become Scientific Reports, told The Every two weeks, we reserve a copy of ABQ Free Press for you — a fan of a real, like a solid.” The exoskeleton, Washington Post. Snooping Design live alternative newspaper in the digital age, and a reader who expects to engage called the Tactical Light Operator Terry Kocon, C.S. Tiefa A government report concludes thoughtful coverage about film in addition to police reform, art as well as politics. Suit, or TALOS, is powered to Carrier killer Please email critiques or suggestions to [email protected]. give the soldier wearing it greater scores of Secret Service em- Photography strength. TALOS is on schedule to The recent unveiling of a new ployees improperly accessed Mark Bralley, Mark Holm, Juan Antonio Labreche, Liz Lopez, Best, Samantha Anne Carrillo be introduced for use by August “carrier-killing” ballistic missile the decade-old job application Adria Malcolm ABQ Free Press Associate Editor, Arts 2018, the Pentagon announced by China during a massive of a congressman investigating Contributors this issue early this month. military parade commemorating scandals inside the agency. Rep. the end of its war with Japan Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican Lisa Barrow, Jeff Berg, Hugh Elliott, Dede Feldman, Barry Gaines, Editor’s Picks Gary Glasgow, Viki Harrison, Juani Hopwood, Bill Hume, in 1945 should worry the U.S. and head of a House oversight Big chill Ariane Jarocki, Dan Klein, Dan Mayfield, Joe Monahan, • The 23rd Annual South Valley Día de los Muertos Marigold Parade on Sunday, more than anyone else. Analysts committee, launched an inquiry Sayrah Namasté, Joey Peters, Peter St. Cyr, M. Brianna Stallings, Nov. 1. Learn more on pages 20 and 21 of this issue. Remember the 2004 movie, “The in India who keep close tabs on into drunken behavior by Secret Day After Tomorrow,” when a Service agents. Within minutes Richard Stevens, Rene Thompson, Tom Tomorrow, Jim Wagner • The Skinny Puppy concert on Monday, Nov. 2, at Launchpad. Read M. Brianna China’s military say the missile Stallings’ interview with industrial icon/founding Puppy member cEvin Key on polar vortex descended across of the start of the hearing, an — Dongfeng (East Wind) — has Copy Editors page 27 of this issue. Europe and North America and assistant director of the Secret a range of some 900 miles and is Wendy Fox Dial • Screenings of Miguel Llansó’s Afrofuturist sci-fi film “Crumbs,” wherein junk man plunged millions into a deep Service was improperly viewing capable of sinking U.S. aircraft Jim Wagner Candy “Gagano” re-visions the Hero’s Journey by searching for Santa Claus freeze? Once reviled as the most carriers, according to the Times Chaffetz’s 2003 application for in Ethiopia. Get more details on the film’s run at the Guild — Monday, Oct. 26 to counter-scientific movie ever of India. a Secret Service job. As many Sales Director (505) 345-4080 Thursday, Oct. 29 – on page 28 of this issue. made, scientists now believe the as 45 employees viewed the Pam Gutierrez x803 phenomenon depicted in the film Flourishing file — which could be a criminal is possible. The culprit would be violation of privacy laws. Some of Sales Representatives (505) 345-4080 a collapse of the Atlantic Merid- Almost 30 years after the world’s the information was later leaked Abby Feldman x802 Garrett Ferguson x809 A Burqueño Epiphany ional Overturning Circulation, a worst nuclear accident, the city to the Daily Beast. BY ARIANE JAROCKI Cory Calamari x810 Teddy Mitchell x814 ave you heard of Green Jeans Farmery John Wehner x812 Haka that new shipping container To Our Readers: community? Epiphany Espresso is up and Operations Manager running there with a limited menu until Free Press is about newspaper. Abby Feldman (505) 345-4080, Ext. 802 the plaza’s grand opening on Tuesday, to transition from a Additionally, as part of the ABQ Oct. 27. I stopped by to get the scoop Published every other week by: third-party distribution system to continuing learning curve for our after seeing their quirky coffee mugs Great Noggins LLC a new delivery system that will be 18-month-old newspaper, we’re on Facebook. Owners Eric and Tony are P.O. Box 6070 partly served by the newspaper’s examining the performance of passionate about two things: coffee and Albuquerque, NM 87197-6070 own contract drivers. some of our 550 locations. We may Burqueño pride. move some of our indoor racks and It’s possible there will be bumps Publishers Both have ties to New Mexico and left outdoor boxes to higher-traffic loca- In an email, send us your phone the state to pursue careers. Inspired by along the way. You may experience Will Ferguson and Dan Vukelich tions in order to reach the greatest number, the name and address of Denver’s city pride, they realized that they a disruption in the availability of Ariane Jarocki number of readers. the business and the name of the Corrections policy: were part of what’s missing from ABQ’s our paper at locations where you similar community. 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