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On the cover: Notah Begay III, now a journeyman TV golf announcer, on where his career is now (Photo by Don James) 4 • June 17, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • June 17, 2015 • 5 Santolina’s Road Ahead a Long One Residents Rebel Against Apartment Complex Rules By abq free press staff BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI on’t expect bulldoz- Ders at Santolina any ome residents of La Resolana Seniors Commu- time soon. The 14,000- Snity in Northeast Albuquerque have an idea they acre community on believe would show how the Section 8, rent-assisted the far West Mesa will facility is run by its owner and manager. remain vacant desert for They want to print up signs with the word “cell” years before anything is and put them above their apartment numbers. They built. complain managers run the complex like a prison That’s because Santo- and use intimidation and a system of snitches to lina’s owners, Western frighten them into compliance with ever-changing Albuquerque Land staff photo and increasingly restrictive rules. Holdings, have two more Bernalillo County Commissioners hear Santolina testimony. The complex at Chelwood Park Boulevard planning processes to go and Mountain Road Northeast has 166 federally through, and they will all subsidized apartments for the low-income elderly Sol, the 12,900-acre master planned be as lengthy as the first round, which and disabled. Its operation is overseen by the U.S. development on Albuquerque’s south took more than a year. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The commission’s exhaustive debate side. Before the recession, Mesa del La Resolana residents could once barbecue with on a Level A master plan for the giant Sol’s leaders figured it would take charcoal and electric grills. No more. Only grills that development was just a prelude. 40 to 50 years to fill it up with more use small, camping-size, one-pound propane tanks That’s only an outline for the project. than 30,000 homes and nearly 100,000 are allowed. Next come Level B and Level C master residents. Right now there are a little Wheelchairs and other assistive equipment many plans, which will include details of more than 150 homes out there. residents use to get around can no longer be stored where homes will be built and what And then there’s the money for the on patios. Residents of second-floor units have been they will look like. Both of those will roads and other infrastructure and told they can’t sit out in their enclosed walkways have to go through the Bernalillo where it will come from. Mesa del because of fire code restrictions. County Planning Commission and the Sol estimated its infrastructure cost at The complex went smoke-free in January, a situa- County Commission. $635 million, and it has TIDDS (Tax tion that has sparked some of the conflict between Then there’s the market. Right Increment Development Districts) residents and management. now there isn’t one for Santolina. to help pay for it. At this point, no Residents said they have been given 10-day notices The evidence for that is Mesa del TIDDS are planned for Santolina. of potential eviction based on hearsay. Management doesn’t verify the complaints for accuracy and it doesn’t give residents a chance to confront their John Lawler shot this photo of the screensaver at the public computer at La Resolana Senior Community’s clubhouse accusers, they said. shortly before it was taken down in June. Enforcement of management’s rules has led to turmoil at the 166-unit apartment Managers installed locks on the HVAC air filters in complex. Albuquerque’s some apartments, apparently in an attempt to catch smokers when the filters are changed out. Some infringement of residents’ rights. about what you say or do,” Hajduk said. Premier Facility residents said annual inspections of their apartments Company president Sam Carnes said in a written The 76-year-old Hajduk recently received a 10-day are overly strict and that the inspections are used to statement that the residents, many of whom are notice of violation for smoking and talking on the - for - hammer them into submission. smokers, have been angry since the complex went phone with her front door open that began with the One 85-year-old resident said he nearly failed an smoke-free in January. words, “It has been reported.” Hajduk fired back a inspection because there were bread crumbs under- “There are a very small number of residents who response to management that read: Mock Trials & neath his toaster. have been extremely disgruntled since the property “Your report is unsubstantiated, a fabrication and A 93-year-old woman with congestive heart failure implemented a no-smoking policy on the premises an insult. I have not smoked in my apartment as of and who needs a walker to get around was moved and banned the use or possession of large propane this year. I never talk on the phone with my front Focus Groups to a second-floor apartment from her ground-level tanks in the property in 2014,” Carnes wrote. door open, and as of April 13, my birthday, I have unit until management can locate a one-bedroom for “The owner of the property adopted these rule stopped using tobacco. Your information is faulty at • Trial planning and issue spotting, her on the first floor. changes to protect the safety, health and welfare best, and a violation of my privacy at worst. It seems in-house facilitators A 68-year-old resident said the president of the of the residents of this property, whose residents that this current administration continues to create • Mock jury services company that owns the complex took a five-gallon primarily are elderly and infirm, and should apply an environment of intimidation and ultimate stress, propane tank out of the bed of his pickup truck and • Witness preparation to all residents.” employing snitches and using hearsay as proof. then tried to evict him after he filed suit to get it Carnes also said that management investigates Please let me live in my apartment in peace.” • Simulated court and back. deliberation venues complaints that rise to the level of HUD or house And on June 5, management banned residents rule violations. • Political polling The propane tank from wearing sleeveless t-shirts or housecoats in “Management does what could be considered typi- public areas of the property. cal fact finding on the issue and then, if warranted, In 2014, management issued new house rules ban- Call 505-263-8425 or email prepares a 10-day notice of violation,” Carnes said. ning the use of charcoal and electric grills, as well as [email protected] Residents’ unrest “Each 10-day notice goes through several layers of on-property storage of five-gallon propane tanks. review before it is issued to a resident.” Resident Michael Lawler, then 67, objected. He 6608 Gulton Court NE, Alb. 87109 La Resolana is owned by New Mexico-American Residents disagree. They said management targets pointed out that the City of Albuquerque’s fire code Housing Foundation, Inc., which is based in allows for storage of five-gallon propane tanks on Virginia. The contract property manager, Carnes & those who challenge its rules and authority. Gloria Hajduk, who has lived at La Resolana since multi-family residential properties so long as they Co., Inc., of Albuquerque, said the company couldn’t are stored 10 feet from any building. His five-gallon discuss specific cases without written permission 1998, pulled no punches. “It’s starting to feel like a prison and a Gestapo camp. You can’t smoke, tank was safely stored in the bed of his 1991 Toyota from the seven residents who spoke to ABQ pickup truck 30 to 50 feet from any building. trialmetrixnm.com Free Press about their situations. He denied any everyone’s walking on eggs. You have to be careful cont. on page 13 6 • June 17, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • June 17, 2015 • 7

JOIN L’AMOUR BAKING COMPANY ABQ Free Press Local Briefs Notah Begay on His Golf Career, Version 2.0 compiled By abq free press staff FOR ITS GRAND OPENING ON BY DAN VUKELICH is $16,105 a year. For a family of four JUNE 20TH, 2015! Danger! it’s $32,913. The state’s Medicaid rolls ot many people can Chief Administrative Officer Rob began expanding in 2014 when the Nqualify for the term What Notah’s Doing Now Perry says a former city councilor’s state joined the expanded Medicaid “local hero,” but in this otah Begay is planning to play in several call for a house cleaning at the Albu- program which allowed low-income community, four-time Los Ranchos’ professional golf events this summer, but querque Police Department “danger- adults to qualify. New Mexico Human PGA Tour player Notah N he’s keeping his day job as a commentator for newest bakery ous.” In an interview with KOAT-TV, Services spokesman Matt Kennicott Begay III is one of them. the Golf Channel – which puts him a whisper Perry also said Pete Dinelli’s call said that when Medicare and vet- Begay, 42, who is part specializing in away from some of his friends and former for the firing of 53 APD top brass erans’ health care is added into the Navajo and part Pueblo French Macarons competitors on the PGA Tour. “asinine.” “Making statements like equation, well over 50 percent of the Indian and the first full- “The crossover to the media side means that, this, you know, to an underground state’s residents are on a government blooded Native Ameri- even being close to the top players I’ve known newspaper, a disgruntled, unelected healthcare program. can to win on tour, has for years, I have to be objective and even criti- political figure like this, is dangerous never forgotten his roots Bring in cal at times,” Begay said. because they come up with ideas in Albuquerque – going All rosy “I’m pretty close to it, I mean, I am only this ad and that can lead to very, very poor back to his days at The Botanic Garden at the ABQ five years away from playing out there, so it’s results,” Perry said. Dinelli, a former Albuquerque Academy, receive BioPark has a new exhibit, the High pretty close to home for me,” he said. city councilor who unsuccessfully when he’d hop the fence Desert Rose Garden that will serve Watching a player handling the emotions one FREE challenged Berry for mayor in 2013, at Ladera Golf course, as a grand entrance to the existing that come with getting close to his first win, told ABQ Free Press that in 1997 the the municipal course macaron! Sasebo Japanese garden. The exhibit or conversely, watching someone hit a career chief of APD tried to intimidate him not far from his West consists of more than 400 roses of 100 low, as he saw his friend and college teammate Limit 1 (one) per customer. into abandoning a police oversight Side home. Golf Channel Do not duplicate. Not valid with different types. The Rose Garden is Tiger Woods do recently, “is something I can proposal while Dinelli was a city For Pueblo kids any other offer. also home to several hundred peren- Notah Begay has made the transition from PGA Tour player to on-course TV commentator, identify with,” Begay said. Expires 07/31/2015 councilor. For the record, this “under- throughout New nials, 60 grasses, 30 trees, as well as which sometimes means critiquing the play of old friends. “I look two or three layers down, based on ground” newspaper is published on Mexico, he was a star other seasonal containers and hanging my own experiences, and can relate to these the second floor of an office building in the same universe as Pueblo, the first Native American to become a Class baskets. The steel post trellis system people putting themselves and their egos on 6920 4th Street NW, Los Ranchos De Albuquerque, NM, 87107 on San Pedro Boulevard Northeast. Tiger Woods over the last 15 years, starting with his A Golf Professional in the PGA of America, credits will grow out to provide a beautiful the line,” especially in this era of social media (505)345-0273 www.lamourbaking.co first PGA Tour win in 1999. Begay’s accomplishments with helping set him on | gateway to the Japanese Garden. where anyone with an phone or a laptop can Through his days on tour to his new life as a golf his life course. Like us on Facebook! www.facebook.com/lamourbakingco Tasty “Roses add color and fragrance to our claim to be an instant expert,” Begay said. course designer and golf commentator for NBC and “Growing up we had Tiger but Notah for me was M-F 7AM-5PM | SAT 7AM-3PM | SUN-CLOSED environment, and we wanted to be Each week, Begay commutes from Albuquer- Albuquerque’s water tastes pretty the Golf Channel, locals who have followed Begay’s the standout and the role model,” said Montoya, sure that the role roses can play in a que to the Golf Channel’s Orlando studio or to good. In fact, the city’s water tied career point to how he has given of his time and now a first assistant golf professional running the xeric climate was demonstrated,” said the PGA Tour’s next venue. His contract with Boston’s for third place in the energy here – most frequently on behalf of Native First Tee program at Talking Stick Golf Club, a Botanic Garden Manager Catherine NBC calls for him to be on the road 25 to 30 American Water Works Association American children who benefit from the work of his Native American-owned golf course near Scottsdale. Hubbard. weeks a year. Being away from his 5-year-old annual taste test competition earlier NB3 Foundation to combat childhood obesity. “As a Native American, he was the one who son and 7-year-old daughter is tough but being this month. The contest was held in Late this month, the NB3 Foundation and the motivated me to take my game to the next level off the rest of the year allows him to be a Anaheim, Calif., and 29 municipalities Jewish Community Center of Albuquerque will co- and now, as an adult, he’s been my motivation to Honored full-time, stay-at-home dad, he said. competed, the Albuquerque Bernalillo host the Rio Grande Charity Slam at Santa Ana Golf teach kids something that gets them outside besides A Baghdad-born Albuquerque man “It’s a trade off,” he said. “I miss soccer County Water Utility Authority said. Club at Santa Ana Pueblo. A variety of celebrities baseball and basketball.” has won a $25,000 National Heritage games and recitals, but when I’m home, I’m The Big Sky water system in Billings, will participate in the two-day event on June 25-26, Fellowship from the National Endow- there making them breakfast, getting them to Mont., had the best tasting water, including Begay’s broadcast colleague, U.S. Open Dan Vukelich is editor of ABQ Free Press. ment for the Arts, the nation’s highest school and taking them to soccer. It’s a chal- while Universal City, Texas, came in winner Johnny Miller. He previously edited Sun Country Golf magazine. honor in the folk and traditional arts. lenge, but I feel very lucky to be where I am in second. Albuquerque’s sample came Twenty-nine-year-old Jason Montoya of Santa Ana Reach him at [email protected] Rahim AlHaj plays and composes for life and still be involved in golf.” from a drinking fountain in the lobby the oud, a pear- of the City-County building down- shaped string town. Albuquerque’s drinking water instrument used Inside the Ropes is a combination of ground water in the Middle Other Golf News from the aquifer and surface water he secret to first-rate golf commentary from Three- and 5-wood are easy, with three or East. He has per- from the San Juan-Chama project. Tan on-course golf announcer at a PGA Tour five fingers pointing to the sky. Irons are a little Ladera Golf Course, long the neglected stepchild formed with jazz event is to offer context and insight, Notah harder. For long irons, three fingers pointing of the City of Albuquerque, returns to the rota- artist Bill Frisell, Begay says. upward means a 3-iron. For short irons, three tion of the Great Albuquerque City Men’s Golf More poverty Indian classical Now five years in and officially a journeyman, fingers pointing downward mean an 8-iron.A Championship, to be held July 3-5. New Mexico’s Medicaid rolls keep musician Amjad Begay regularly joins Mark Rolfing andR oger clenched fist means a pitching wedge. An “S” Once beset by maintenance, water and soil Ali Khan, the problems, Ladera is in the best shape it’s been in growing, an indication of an economy Maltie inside the ropes during Golf Channel and drawn in the air is a sand wedge and an “L” is a string quartet Kronos Quartet, and more than 15 years, thanks to new cart paths, a that is sorely lacking well-paying NBC broadcasts. The on-course commentators lob wedge. the rock band REM. AlHaj was born new irrigation system and reseeded fairways. Sam Jobs. In May, 798,937 New Mexicans generally stay just outside the TV frame, wearing “The best caddies, like Jim “Bones” McKay, in Baghdad, where he began study- Zimmerly, concessionaire at Ladera, just added a were on Medicaid, the federal/state a headset and vest with microphone, radio and who carries for Phil Mickelson, take it a step ing the oud at the age of nine. In fleet of new Yamaha golf carts. healthcare program for children from antenna, checking the lie, the stance and the further,” Begay said. “A thumb and index finger Notah Begay says Ladera, which opened in 1980 low-income families and low-income 1991, after the first Gulf War, AlHaj was forced to leave Iraq due to his obstacles facing a player on an impending shot. together mean ‘tiny’ for a shorter swing than near his childhood West Side home, “will always adults. That comes out to 38.3 percent be my home course.” activism against the Saddam Hussein Although Begay uses his own PGA Tour experi- normal,” he said. of the state’s population. To be eligible ence, he and other announcers get help from “It’s all about providing a backdrop, which After several years absence, it rejoins Arroyo for Medicaid, you have to make 138 regime. He lived in Jordan and Syria the players’ caddies. gives us something to focus on to give the del Oso and Los Altos golf courses as a venue for percent or less of the federal poverty before moving to the United States in the championship. Entry into all flights is $165. With one hand on the bag, caddies signal behind viewer the best possible viewing experience,” level. Here’s how little that is. For a 2000 as a political refugee. AlHaj has Deadline for entry is 6 p.m. June 30. Entry forms their back which club their player has pulled. Begay said. single person, 138 percent of the FPL released nine CDs, two of which have are available at any city golf course. received Grammy nominations. 8 • June 17, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS OPINION COLUMNS ABQ FREE PRESS • June 17, 2015 • 9 Testing: Adding Accountability Kari Brandenburg’s Political India, a Subcontinent Or Testing for Testing’s Sake? Star Fading Fast Of Endless Impossibilities By JOE MONAHAN BY EFRAIN VILLA Editor’s note: This is an email conversation between education to escape a life of poverty. They alk about formidable roadblocks. alk into a use my phone on local networks. “Not Alan Webber, a businessman who sought the 2014 constantly re-examine what they do. They hold things turn- Brandenburg has not made official her pharmacy possible,” was his immediate reply. Democratic nomination for governor, and Paul themselves accountable to the community, be- T W cause the students they’re teaching are future ing on a dime. A re-election decision, but two Democrats, in India and ask “Why not?” I asked. Gessing, a Libertarian who heads the Rio Grande for earplugs: “Not citizens. In return, they ask the community to few months ago, Ed Perea and Raul Torrez, already are He gave me a list of documents the Foundation. The topic was Gov. Susana Marti- possible.” contribute to the school. They take professional Bernalillo County hard at work on the campaign trial. government required as a counter- nez’s push for standardized testing of New Mexico Step into a bar and development seriously. District Attorney Given developments in the Romero terrorism measure: two passport-sized schoolchildren. request a margarita: These are all things we could do in New Kari Brandenburg case and the continued chaos at APD, a photos, a passport copy, an original “Very not possible.” Alan Webber: As the product of a good Mexico, if we tested less and taught more. was being heralded strong Republican could be expected to passport for verification, a filled-out Suggest a restau- education, I know that learning is the ladder of It’s great that a few public schools in poor for her stance in join the race. form (in triplicate) detailing place of rant owner grill up residence, purpose of travel, and I’m opportunity. As the father of two children with areas are performing well. But if “It’s being pursuing murder charges against two If she does forego re-election, Bran- a juicy burger from one of the countless pretty sure there was a line that said learning differences, I know that each child has done” in some schools, why isn’t it being done police officers in connection with the denburg might be able to take comfort sacred cows roaming the streets and his or her own way and pace of learning. consistently in New Mexico and across the that the heat over the Benner killing something about attaching a DNA fatal shooting of homeless camper alleys: “Very, very not possible!” That’s why education matters. That’s why country? It’s not like New Mexico schools were is probably not what she will be most sequencing certificate. James Boyd. If the pessimistic motto weren’t what we’re doing with testing in our schools is beating the world before Gov. Martinez came I returned the next day with all the In addition, she won fans for her remembered for. Her legacy is more invariably delivered with friendly smiles madness. Used correctly, testing is a tool, not along and destroyed the system. necessary materials. “I would like to buy display of spunk and determination in likely to be her historic decision to bring and cheery head wobbles, one could an end in itself. But we’re substituting testing a SIM card now,” I told the clerk. refuting questionable bribery charges charges against two APD officers for the easily assume it epitomizes a country of for teaching, punishing children, privatizing Gessing: Replicating success is the real chal- “Not possible.” brought against her by APD. Those Boyd slaying. endless impossibilities. public education lenge in educa- “Why not?” charges were shot down by Attorney That decision will influence future Yet there are the things that are only and driving away tion. School As he listed the items I needed, I General Hector Balderas, giving ad- district attorneys far into the future and possible in India – systems so utterly good teachers. choice works provided them. “There,” I said, once we ditional luster to her political star. An perhaps someday be seen as a turning miraculous in function that one almost It’s expensive consistently. had gone through all the paperwork. unprecedented fifth four-year term point in reining in the culture that led to has to resort to fable to understand and it’s not As reported by “You have everything needed. Now can as DA in 2016 seemed in the cards or the APD crisis. Meanwhile, the travails them. On a daily basis, Indian Rail- working. Let’s put the Friedman you please sell me a SIM card?” maybe even a run for the mayor’s office of Brandenburg are the latest stunning ways, one of the world’s largest train our money where Foundation for He stared blankly at the back of my lesson in how fast political fortunes can networks, moves more than 23 million it can make a Educational in 2017. passport without moving. rise or fall. people across vast deserts, Himalayan difference: early Choice, “Twelve But Brandenburg’s star fast became a “Sir,” I said, clenching my teeth. mountains, roaring rivers, lush jungles, childhood educa- empirical studies falling one when shots rang out in Rio “Whatever you are looking for will not —————————————————— and densely populated urbanscapes. tion for every have examined Rancho in late May claiming the life of be found on the back of my passport. Inside the trains, one can have shoes New Mexican. academic police officerG regg Benner. Now insid- Please, the SIM card!” he blight produced in Albuquerque repaired, fortunes told, and I am pretty outcomes for ers are saying Brandenburg is unlikely “Not possible.” by the Great Recession even found sure I once saw a medical consultation school choice to seek re-election. That would mean a T “Why not?” Paul Gessing: its way into the city’s more affluent taking place. Dabbawallas, a team of participants fresh face in the DA’s office for the first “I ran out of SIM cards two months I understand neighborhoods, including Four Hills and mostly illiterate food couriers, use trains using random time since she took the helm in 2001. ago.” Alan’s frustrations its shopping center at Tramway and to deliver more than a million lunch with testing. But assignment. Of What happened to Brandenburg is I eventually did find someone to sell Central. boxes per week with almost no errors today’s testing is these, 11 find me a SIM card, probably on a train. It simple. She got caught in the debate The mall has been in disrepair for or interruptions – even during monsoon a result of past that choice im- stopped working a few weeks later. over who was responsible for Andrew years but now is seeing new life as floods.I mpromptu concerts are also frustrations with proves student I walked into a storefront with a sign Romero, the alleged killer of Benner, developers bring in a movie theater common en route, with or without our educational outcomes. One above it that said, “We Repair SIM being out on the streets at the time of complex as well as a new grocery store. audience consent. system’s lack of accountability and performance. study finds no visible impact. No empirical Cards.” The old lady behind the counter Benner’s murder. The Four Hills Country Club also is seeing On a Delhi-bound train I was woken One-size-fits-all testing regimes are not ideal, study has found a negative impact.” did not speak English, so I simply In her first take on what happened, a rebirth as the Canyon Club after nearly up by a young boy who held his but that’s because government-run monopo- Brandenburg assumed “partial blame” outstretched palm near my face. “I’m showed her my phone, dialed a number, Webber: The Friedman Foundation, Paul? Next going out of existence. listic educational systems are ill-equipped to for Romero’s freedom. She noted that not giving you money for waking me hit send, and handed it to her when serve the diverse needs of students of varying you’ll quote “The Fox Foundation in Favor of A recent drive though the area shows nothing happened. She ushered me out a plea bargain her office arranged on up,” I told the beggar. abilities and with different learning styles. Unguarded Henhouses.” that homes behind the shopping center of her store, apparently needing privacy earlier charges Romero faced did not He stood in front of me, not budging. If you want to solve American education, try Here’s an objective source: The Council of and near the country club remain to work on my phone. put him behind bars. Instead, he was I ignored him and tried to go back to offering school choice and empowering parents Chief State School Officers and Scholastic, Inc. in good shape. The affluence is not I returned a half-hour later. The lady ordered to a drug rehab program he sleep. After dozing off again, I opened with education dollars. Parents, not bureau- polled 56 of the nation’s best teachers and perhaps what it once was, given the was very excited, but I had no idea what never reported to. my eyes when I felt him zipping up my crats (especially) in Washington, but even in found that student success depends more on quiet but persistent federal budget she was saying. She grasped at words in However, only days later Brandenburg jacket. Santa Fe, can better judge which schools are factors outside the classroom than inside. Pov- cuts to the labs that fuel so many high- her mind and finally began to communi- said she wanted to “walk back a little” My jacket zipper had been broken for succeeding and which are failing. erty and the problems that accompany poverty, income Albuquerque households, and two months. He had replaced it with cate a diagnosis via interpretive dance. her earlier assumption of blame. She then Our educational struggles are nothing new. family stress and learning differences all shape the less wealthy neighborhoods around a new one in my sleep and was simply Holding up one closed hand in the air went on to blame the entire criminal jus- It’s time to end the one-size-fits-all government how – and whether – students learn. the area took an even bigger hit during trying to collect for his service. she said, “You SIM.” tice system for what soon became labeled monopoly. It’s not school choice. It’s food, healthcare, a the long downturn. “How much?” I asked. “My SIM,” I repeated. as Romero’s “sweetheart plea deal.” safe home, counseling. It will take a $5 million investment by He put up a finger. She put up her other closed hand in Webber: Talk about muddying the waters! No Testing won’t address these factors. Testing Never mind that Brandenburg made the developers to restore the shopping “Ok,” I said. “One hundred rupees.” the air and said, “You mobile.” more straw men, Paul. Let’s talk about what doesn’t even consider them. We need to stop a persuasive case that the blame should center (the theater complex is already “No,” a man next to me interjected. “Ok, my mobile.” works. doing things we know don’t make sense and indeed be shared and that Attorney open). Whether the economic storm has “He wants ten rupees (about 20 Ameri- She crashed her two fists together A terrific book called “It’s Being Done” offers develop a made-in-New Mexico education General Balderas announced he is entirely passed is very much open to can cents).” dramatically. “They is fighting!” a comprehensive look at high-performing strategy. Education is still the ladder of op- convening a task force to study that very question, but it’s nice to see a patch of Things off the train, on the other “Ah, my SIM card and mobile aren’t schools in low-resource communities. portunity. That’s what our children deserve. problem. The political retribution was clear sky emerge from the clouds. hand, are sometimes frustratingly dif- compatible! One new SIM card, then.” These schools have high-expectations for fast and furious with public comments ficult.I n Kolkata, I walked into a She smiled and said, “Not possible.” their students, because they know how high For a related news story on testing, excoriating the DA on social media Joe Monahan is a veteran of New Mexico storefront with a sign above it that the stakes are: These students need a good see Page 14 and talk radio and making clear that politics. His daily blog can be found at read: “We Sell SIM cards.” I asked the Reach Efrain Villa through his website, her future political career now faces joemonahan.com clerk for a SIM that would allow me to aimlessvagabond.com 10 • June 17, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • June 17, 2015 • 11 TYPEWRITER, PAGE 10 Planning Dept. Demotes Typewriter Torment, Dreadful Disease cylinders, and then music boxes and cash registers And while no one really makes typewriter parts BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI and so much more, including a massive, circular anymore, Lewis isn’t worried. His thousands of Two in Fake Sick slide rule. machines provide the spare parts. A local machin- ohn Lewis has so much backlogged work that he Why has he amassed thousands of machines? ist makes ribbon spools out of Bakelite. A guy in Note Scheme “They’re available. Why does a guy grab another the Netherlands makes decals for the front of the Jcould close his Albuquerque business tomorrow BY PETER ST. CYR and have enough work for two years. beer? Because it’s there, and you don’t want the machines. A company in upstate New York will Lewis’ customers come from all over the United other guy to get it,” Lewis said. rebuild the platens (typing surface). Lewis can make wo City of Albuquerque Planning Department States and even from other countries, and customers his own key pads with resins. Temployees have been demoted for their roles in will pay pretty much whatever Lewis asks, and they People love them improperly protecting a city inspector’s job while he was jailed in connection with a rape charge. will wait in line for his services. Some history While we are now in the computer and Internet Former Planning Director Debbie Stover – who has Lewis isn’t a web designer, network security guy age, Lewis has found that people will pay a lot Lewis really can’t stop talking about typewriters, admitted submitting fake doctor’s note to save her son or a data analyst. He’s a 72-year-old typewriter of money to get their old machines restored. One and his knowledge of them is vast. Early typewrit- Levi Criswell’s job – remains a city contractor. repairman, and he’s the last one in Albuquerque. customer in Louisiana sent in a machine that needs ers, for instance, were known as “blind,” or “under- City Council Director John Zaman told ABQ Free Press “If I locked that front door right now, I probably major work. “I told the guy that I could sell him stroke typewriters” because the operator couldn’t that Stover continues to earn $35.10 an hour helping wouldn’t have to open again for two years,” Lewis one for much cheaper than fixing this one, and he see what he or she was typing. That’s because the councilors put together a uniform city planning code. said, shaking his head somewhat amazed. “I have said, ‘Well, this one belonged to my grandfather.’ I typebars were arranged under the platen and typed Zaman would not say if Stover’s professional services people call me all the time and say, ‘Let me help you estimated the bill at $2,300, and he has already sent on its bottom. Typists had to lift up their carriage to agreement will be renewed at the end of the month. increase your business.’ I just laugh and tell them I me half,” Lewis said. see what they had typed. He refused to comment on Stover’s role in the don’t need it.” A customer from Jacksonville, N.C., sent Lewis a “Underwood came out with the first front-strike cover-up. Stover also remains an elected member of the Stepping into Lewis’ 7,400-square-foot shop, machine that he restored. Unfortunately, the frame typewriter, and their publicity man was brilliant,” Albuquerque Metropolitan Arroyo Flood Control Au- Mechanical Antique Repair, at 4805 Menaul Blvd. broke during shipping on the way back to the guy, Lewis said. “He said, ‘We don’t make blind typewrit- thority Board. Citing health issues, Stover has refused to N.E., is like walking into a mechanical wonderland and the customer is thinking of having it repaired ers,’ and at that point all the other typewriters became comment on her role in the fake note scheme. of antique manual typewriters, spring-driven music again. “His typewriter was a $30 typewriter when ‘blind typewriters.’ It took Remington 10 years to Criswell resigned his city job in January. The fake doctor’s note scheme arose when Criswell was jailed for boxes and phonographs, cash registers and adding he sent it to me; that’s what I would have paid for it come up with a typewriter that was a front-strike.” failure to take a drug test required as a condition of his machines. There are more than 100 lovingly restored if I saw it, but it’s a family machine,” Lewis said. Lewis has been at this game for 50 years and release on the 2012 charge that he raped a 4-year-old girl. machines in a part of the building that once was a is looking to retire. He’s hoping to find a young His mother feared he was in danger of running out of typewriter museum, and in the backrooms of the Getting them working military veteran or anyone else with strong hands place are thousands upon thousands of typewriters personal leave, according to emails she sent to herself. willing to learn the trade and continue fixing and The rape case is pending in District Court. just waiting for someone to fix them or scavenge Juan Antonio Labreche For $375, Lewis can get most machines to function restoring these old mechanical wonders. them for parts. as they did just out of the factory. That includes City Councilor Ken Sanchez said he was aware of the “Kids come in here today, and they look at these fraudulent doctor’s note but he declined to comment There are old Remingtons, Olivettis, Hammonds, John Lewis has been repairing typewriters since 1966, when he went to work at an Anchorage, Alaska, office supply store. washing them (often with Windex) and getting old phonographs and the typewriters, and they say, on prospects of Stover’s continued service because he Underwoods, and even a typewriter from India. He and his wife moved to Albuquerque in 1977 and started Business Systems and Machines, which grew to four stores and the gunk and dust out of the keys and levers. ‘Who would want to use one of those,’” Lewis says. considers it a personnel matter. There are machines that type music and Braille, and 46 employees. For machines in worse shape, Lewis will have to “Well, at the time, they were state of the art.” Matthew Conrad and Ramona Andrade-Miranda, the there’s a 75-pound adding machine that was built in dismantle the thing, wash and de-rust any parts, two planning department employees, were found in an 1895. Lewis explained as he began a two-hour-long tour German, you turn the wheel around,” Lewis said. make new key pads, put on new decals and paint Dennis Domrzalski is an associate editor at ABQ Free investigation by city hearing officer and Assistant City And if you’re really crazy about manual typewrit- of his shop. “She was the Ann Landers for the office. There was another way to type in different it. An intense refurbishing and rebuilding job could Press. Reach him at [email protected] Attorney Peter Pierotti to have failed to report “highly ers and the thrill of lifting metal levers through the I’ve got all her paperwork for the tests she took, and languages in those days: removable keyboards in take up to a week. critical information” regarding Criswell’s misconduct power of your fingertips, there is one of the greatest when you read how the typing tests go off, it’s just different languages. “On the IBM, you change the and abuse of sick leave. Both were demoted after finds of all: the typewriter used by Margaret B. amazing. They take 10 words off for one mistake. ball. On this one, you change the whole keyboard,” Pierotti determined they also hindered an investigation Owen, who held the world typing championship She finished her first contest with 126 words [per he said. and failed to perform their supervisory duties and from 1913 through 1915. minute] after mistakes. Lewis got his start in typewriters and business responsibilities. “We got the typewriter from her son and daughter. “She toured with Underwood Typewriter, and this machines in 1966 when he and his wife, Darlene, After reviewing Pierotti’s findings, Director of Plan- She [Owen] wrote about the secret of typing speed, machine has been modified for her. The return key moved to Anchorage. They had celebrated their first ning Suzanne Lubar notified Associate Planning Direc- and she wrote a column for the Chicago Tribune,” lever is hanging down wedding anniversary, and Lewis was unemployed. tor Matthew Conrad that there was “just cause to issue and the space bar has “I went down the street looking for a job. They discipline” despite his exemplary work record. Lubar been cut off at both ends were hiring for a trainee in a typewriter company demoted Conrad to a code enforcement supervisor in so she didn’t jam her up there, Yukon Office Supply, and I got the job and May. His salary has been reduced almost 8 percent – fingers.” moved up in the company and up in electronics,” from $42.22 an hour to $38.90 an hour. Personnel OfficerR amona Andrade-Miranda was And lest anyone think Lewis says. demoted from a $26.47-an-hour personnel officer and that manual typewriters In 1977, the couple came to Albuquerque and transferred to the Solid Waste Department to work as were clunkers that started Business Systems and Machines, which at a human resource analyst. Her salary was cut almost 5 couldn’t do much, Lewis one point had four stores in the state and 46 employ- percent to $25.22 an hour. explained how that ees. They’ve been at their current location since 1991. Andrade-Miranda had argued she did not know that wasn’t and still isn’t the the doctor’s note submitted as an excuse for Criswell’s case. He’s got several Collecting machines absence was falsified. models from the early Chief Administrator OfficerR ob The collecting bug hit Lewis early. He got his 1900s that allowed their Perry told ABQ Free Press that the allegations “espe- first few typewriters in Astoria, Ore., in 1970 while users to type in different cially related to preferential treatment” have been languages. helping an 85-year-old man clean his basement. “We fully investigated. One Hammond on went into the basement, and there were shelves of “In this case, we did just that,” Perry said. “We think display has a rubber half typewriters, an Olivetti and a Hammond, and I said, it sends a message that everyone needs to be treated circle, or shuttles, with ‘What are you going to do with all of these typewrit- equally and we expect professionalism and ethics in our ers? How much do you want?’ and he said two or Juan Antonio Labreche letters on it, one in front Juan Antonio Labreche workforce.” and one on the back. “So three bucks apiece,” Lewis said. Lewis also repairs antique phonographs and musical devices like this music box, if you wanted to type in After that, it was old phonographs, especially Most typewriters he refurbishes simply need a good cleaning, but Lewis often scavenges damaged machines for parts or relies Peter St. Cyr is an independent journalist which uses a metal disc. English or write home in the old cylinder machines that played ceramic-like on specialists around the world who fabricate specific parts. in Albuquerque. Reach him at [email protected] cont. on page 11 12 • June 17, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS/ANALYSIS NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • June 17, 2015 • 13 AIM Commemoration, World Entrepreneur to ABQ: COMPLEX RULES, PAGE 5 Management disagreed, and on the afternoon of crumbs underneath his toaster. Oct. 14, Carnes and Brant Baber, president of the Pierce said the property’s on- Refugee Day Events Planned Drop the Can’t-do Attitude company that owns La Resolana, decided to take site manager, Martie Masten, BY Sayrah NAMASTÉ by dennis Domrzalski action. According to witnesses Sandra King and was doing an inspection of his Roselyn Strohl – both La Resolana residents – Carnes apartment. “She wrote down ere are some querque proclamation kicks off the day’s ndy Lim has And it’s not as if our 70-year depen- and Baber went to Lawler’s pickup and looked [on an inspection checklist] Hcoming events of celebrations at 11:45 a.m., Saturday Asome advice dency on the feds has led to a utopia of interest to grassroots June 20 at the Cesar Chavez Community for Albuquerque’s high-paying jobs and wealth. It’s just the underneath the tarp that covered the pickup’s bed. that I had crumbs around my activists or anyone Center, 7505 Kathryn Ave. S.E. Food, business community: opposite. Nearly 800,000 New Mexicans, Carnes went into the complex’s office and Baber toaster,” Pierce recalled. “I had interested in social dancing, music, art, soccer and informa- Stop whining, stop or 38 percent of the population, are on took the propane tank out of the truck. just finished breakfast. I guess justice in Albuquerque: tion tables will continue through 2:30 making excuses, and Medicaid, the federal-state healthcare Lawler saw what was happening and confronted you have to be a friend or a Stand for Leonard p.m. If you would like to volunteer, stop relying on the program for children from low-income Baber. Baber elbowed him and stepped on his feet, relative to pass [an inspection]. Peltier! At 3 p.m. email: [email protected] government. Believe families and low-income adults. Someone Lawler said, then made off with the propane tank. It’s kind of aggravating.” Friday, June 26 at the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County in yourselves and on Medicaid is someone who’s got a job Lawler called it theft and in February filed a case in Pierce said his troubles with Pete V. Domenici U.S. District Court- Comprehensive Plan: The City of your companies and get your asses in gear that pays just above the poverty level Metropolitan Court to get it returned. La Resolana management began after he house, 333 Lomas Ave. N.E., activists Albuquerque and Bernalillo County and make something that people in other or who comes from a family that makes responded by filing a countersuit that sought signed a petition requesting can stand in solidarity with the Oglala want to hear from you about how our places will want to buy. almost no money. Lawler’s eviction. that Masten be fired. Masten commemoration to mark the 40th community should look, feel, and grow. It isn’t empty talk from Lim; he has done Carnes said the ban on large propane tanks is did not return a phone call anniversary of the shootout that led to Public input is especially needed as what he advises. ‘People here, mostly they necessary because the complex consists of 166 requesting comment for this Dan Vukelich the imprisonment of American Indian developers and corporations continually In the past few years Lim has become wood-framed apartments without sprinklers that story. The entrance to La Resolana is at the intersection of Mountain Road and Chelwood Movement (AIM) activist Leonard Peltier. attempt to pressure elected officials to something of an entrepreneurial celeb- don’t believe, or they are occupied by elderly and disabled residents. “We Esther Harrison is 93 and has Park Boulevard Northeast. At the behest of Peltier, the Indig- approve their plans. rity in Albuquerque. His point-of-sales have a negative attitude. determined not to take a chance on someone failing lived at La Resolana for five enous Rights Center in Albuquerque was Public workshops to help update the software company Lavu, Inc., which he Naah, I can’t do that. The DeWitt’s apartment where they removed her clothes, recently created to continue AIM’s work. Comprehensive Plan are scheduled for: began in 2010 at his kitchen table, now to properly use their large propane tanks or other years. Until earlier this year Peltier was sentenced to two life terms • 5:30-7 p.m. Tuesday, June 23, at the sells its products in 85 countries. The firm attitude is thatthis is not open flame devices – charcoal grills, etc.,” Carnes she shared a two-bedroom, ground-floor apartment laid her down on a living room couch and started for first-degree murder in the shooting Manzano Mesa Multigenerational just got a $15 million investment from a really a place for startups’ said. with her son. But the two decided to split up and get hand-picking the needles out of her body. Then they deaths of two FBI agents during the Lawler represented himself in the case. On May their own apartments. Harrison, who can walk only got a surprise. center, 501 Elizabeth St. S.E.; Washington, D.C.-based venture capital — Andy Lim 1975 siege on the Pine Ridge Indian • 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Wednesday, June firm and it hopes to grow by five to 10 20, after brief trial, Metro Court Judge Rosie Lazcano with a walker, requested to stay in the apartment Resident Tobias Katz, a La Resolana employee who Reservation in South Dakota. Peltier has 24, at the Central Unser Library, 8081 times in the next 18 months. In 2012, 71 percent of the births in the Allred dismissed the eviction case against Lawler. until a single bedroom unit opened up on the first is supposed to respond to smoke alarm calls and always maintained his innocence and is central Ave. N.W.; “I try to change the mentality that state were paid for by Medicaid. That’s Lawler has had other trouble with management. floor. Her request was denied. Harrison, who has considered a political prisoner by many, resident lockouts, was peering in the apartment’s • 5:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday June 24 at people can’t be successful here and that one of the most frightening statistics Earlier this year, two police officers showed up at his congestive heart failure, was put in a second-floor including Amnesty International. front window. He allegedly pushed the front door in the Alamosa Community Center, 6900 people can’t make big things happen,” out there. It means we’re a state of poor apartment investigating the alleged use of mari- unit in March. The IRC is dedicated to improving the and entered the apartment, King said. gonzales Rd. S.W.; Lim says, echoing a theme that he has people. It means that the economy here lives of indigenous peoples of North juana. The two officers said they had been called and “They said that if I stayed in the two-bedroom • 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 25 at harped on for several years. “We have sucks. It means that if we don’t want “I said, ‘Get him out of here,’” King recalled. “Roz America. Its co-directors are Chauncey told that the smell of pot smoke was coming from apartment I would have to pay $920 a month,” the Holiday Park Community Center, great people here. We have great support everyone with talent and skills to leave, [Strohl] said, ‘What are you doing here?’ and he said Peltier, Leonard’s oldest son, and Peter his apartment, Lawler said. He denied having used Harrison said. 11710 Comanche Rd. N.E. from local communities, we have great we have to change the economy. he wanted to find out if she [DeWitt] knew that her Clark, a local resident and one of many marijuana that day. He wasn’t arrested or charged. “I cannot walk without a walker and I have an A sad departure: The activist commu- talent and we have the highest percent- It means that we have to develop an export, clothes were outside.” people who have tried to free Peltier. injured right knee and I can’t walk long distances,” nity is saddened by news that the Media age of Ph.Ds. per capita anywhere in the or economic base, economy; an economy King and Strohl had received 10-day smoking The IRC has several programs: Harrison said. “I believe they were forcing me to Literacy Project will close its doors after entire world. that exports goods and services and imports Targeting dissent • The International Leonard Peltier take the second-floor apartment.” violation notices shortly after Katz entered DeWitt’s 27 years of media justice work locally “How can people just not be looking in money. It is only through that importation Defense Committee is working to Lawler said he’s a target of management because apartment. They said they weren’t smoking. They and internationally. The staff and board here? It just kind of boggles me. You of money by selling stuff to people in other Harrison had another shock from management in persuade President Obama to grant he challenges their rules. Trouble for him began believe Katz reported them. of advisors made the difficult decision to can do it, anybody can; stop with the places that an economy can grow. April when she spent two weeks in a hospital. Peltier clemency. People supporting a couple of years ago, when he said management Katz responded to an ABQ Free Press phone close at the end of this month. excuses.” Albuquerque needs a different “I called [an office employee] and I said, ‘I’m in clemency should call the White House was breaking its own rules by entering residents’ The website, medialiteracyproject.org, Albuquerque and New Mexico need economy, but because of its long-term the hospital and I’m going to be a little late with the message about the situation and directed the paper at (202) 456-1111. will remain functional so that the people like Lim and his attitude, which dependency it doesn’t know how to apartments on the pretext of safety concerns. The rent,” Harrison said. “Then she said, ‘If you’re late to call his employer, Carnes & Co. • The Wind Chases the Sun Corrections resources and curricula can be accessed. runs counter to the prevailing business at- create one. That’s where Lim comes in. rules allow unauthorized entry only for emergen- you will have to pay an extra five dollars.’ And I Carnes said only a small number of disgruntled Project supports religious freedom The project’s work will live on through cies, Lawler said. for native people in prison. Lenny titude here, which is to rely on the federal He’s not from here and he’s not burdened said, ‘Where is the compassion?’ and she said, ‘We residents have complained about conditions at partners Generation Justice and the “I was a target because I was outspoken about Foster, Peltier’s spiritual advisor, government for business and jobs. with the prevailing can’t-do attitude. He don’t go by compassion; we go by rules and regula- La Resolana. But on July 26, 2013, more than 30 the rules and had tagged them more than once for conducts sweat lodges and pipe New Mexico Digital Justice Coalition. Its That 70-year run of dependency has arrived from Taiwan in 2000 and couldn’t tions.’” residents met with a HUD representative on the going into apartments without the requisite 24-hour ceremonies in prisons. The IRC has partner, Quote Unquote, Inc. will house led to a horrible outcome: Albuquerque’s speak English. But he learned quickly and ABQ Free Press spoke with that employee by property to discuss their grievances. They laid out Radio Burque, a low-power FM radio sta- business people never learned how to used his computer and business skills to notice,” Lawler said. small grants available for families telephone and she declined to comment. Carnes 14 complaints, including retaliation. tion expected to be up and running soon. compete for and get business outside the create a company that exports stuff and Management has twice offered to return Lawler’s of incarcerated Native Americans, said management has “followed all applicable HUD The unease appears to be lingering. On June 5, especially those imprisoned more than This is from project staff: “The simple state and outside the government. They imports money. In just four years, he has propane tank, but only if he signs a receipt for it. rules” in Harrison’s case. “And all of our residents and short reason is that we don’t have never developed the skills or the attitudes developed a global customer base. Lawler turned on the public computer in the media 500 miles from their homes. Lawler has refused the offer and said he won’t sign on the second floor have access to a walkway and to the resources that we need to sustain it takes to compete in the real world. “People here, mostly they don’t believe, room of La Resolana’s clubhouse. The screen- • The IRC’s Holiday Gift Drive and a receipt to get back property that he believes was elevators.” General Assistance Program provides our organization. We have struggled That dependency and lack of know-how or they have a negative attitude. Naah, I stolen from him. saver had been changed. That morning it flashed a warm clothing, blankets, and financial to navigate foundation funding in the is now hurting the city and state. The can’t do that. The attitude is that this is Eighty-five-year-old Don Pierce has lived at La message that said: “If you don’t like living here, midst of losing a large percent of our Barging in assistance for the people of Pine federal government has cut back and not really a place for startups,” Lim says, Resolana for around five years, and in that time MOVE!” earned income. continues to cut back on spending at the “and that is far from the truth. ridge and Turtle Mountain, Peltier’s he has passed only one apartment inspection. He In April, resident Verrill DeWitt fell into a cactus “This is a pattern of conduct designed to intimi- “We know we are not alone. We have national labs and military bases. That has “It’s like when you ask for help from home. has short-term memory loss and doesn’t remember on the grounds. Needles penetrated her clothes and date,” Lawler said. “It’s a hostile living environ- watched with trepidation and sadness as meant fewer government contracts and a the government,” Lim adds, shaking his • The Wind Chases the Sun Youth exactly when he almost got busted for having bread body. Strohl and King took the 68-year-old DeWitt to ment.” Suicide Prevention Project works organizations near and dear to us have stagnant economy. head. “You’ve got to make things happen to address the alarmingly high Native been forced to close over the past few People are leaving New Mexico and yourself. You’ve got to create the best american youth suicide rate. years. We are now in a position where Albuquerque for other states. If the product that people will take note of and If you are interested in supporting, our work and the resources we need to outflow continues, the city could enter you have to work a little bit harder.” To Advertise: donating, or volunteering on behalf maintain it has become unsustainable.” a death spiral where its young, talented of the Indigenous Rights Center, email: and skilled people leave and never return. Dennis Domrzalski is an associate editor Reach Albuquerque’s Contact Seth Mossman [email protected]. Sayrah Namasté is an organizer with the Companies won’t move to a place that’s at ABQ Free Press. Reach him at (505) 345-4080, Ext. 803 World Refugee Day: A naturalization American Friends Service Committee in losing its young people. [email protected] most informed audience [email protected] ceremony followed by a City of Albu- Albuquerque 14 • June 17, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • June 17, 2015 • 15 Teachers Say PED’s Testing System Designed to Fail Them TEACHER, PAGE 14 BY JOEY PETERS teachers and the Public Education possible 100 points. The New Mexico Political Report Department, said she has three Again, the data from this configura- inquiries into the state department tion came from measuring three years t 26 and with four years of teach- or subjects that can’t be meaningfully regarding middle school music teach- worth of growth in math and English Aing music at Eisenhower Middle linked to the SBA.” ers who weren’t graded on their own standardized test scores from Jackson School in Albuquerque under his belt, State teacher evaluations, therefore, EOC results, but rather on the school Middle School’s lowest-performing 25 Nick Prior is ready to take his career are supposed to analyze different test grade data. percent of students. to its next phase. scores for Group B teachers. For these three inquiries, Greene Snowden, 38, said he doesn’t put We Keep Your Roof That would mean advancing from Group B teachers are fairly said she “cannot see that they have any stock into his score. He has been a state-certified Level 1 instructor widespread and aren’t limited to any end of course exam data in them.” teaching for 11 years, and he said that Healthy and Watertight to Level 2, which would bump his just electives like art and music. “I believe firmly if the teacher has if the current state evaluation model Please Call (505) 273-9593 for Your Free Estimate modest salary from $30,000 a year to They include all middle school administered an EOC, that is what stays the same, he will retire after $40,000 a year. Prior leads six choir social studies and science teachers. they should be graded on,” Greene putting in a minimum of 25 years at groups at the school, half of which High school language arts and math told New Mexico Political Report in a the district. have earned state awards. teachers for freshmen and seniors recent interview. “I was evaluated on stuff I don’t For All your Roofing Needs… K-Ram Roofing is There One of the groups that Prior leads are also lumped into this category, as Snowden’s situation isn’t as dire as teach,” Snowden said. “It doesn’t Before and After The Storm… No Worries even took home a Best Showmanship well as 12th grade science teachers Prior’s. Overall, his teacher evaluation mean anything to me.” and a Best Musicianship award when and career and technical education found him “effective,” which means Prior maintained that if things stay We Offer High-Quality Residential Roofing Services: it competed nationally at the Los instructors. his score this year wouldn’t prevent the same, he’ll leave New Mexico and Alamitos “Xtravaganza” last year in Each Group B teacher is supposed him from applying to the next teacher teach someplace else. • Roof Repair California. to be evaluated on his or her own licensure level. “Teaching is what I know, it’s what • Roof Installation He isn’t modest in talking about the End of Course exam (EOC), subject The student achievement portion I’m good at, it’s what I’m passionate • Roof Replacement honors his choir groups have earned. to the topics they teach in class. But of his score still significantly brought about,” Prior said. “For $30,000 a year • Preventative Measures “With the success that my program for those Group B teachers who don’t his total evaluation down. For its I work a 60-hour workweek for a state has had, there’s not really much room have their own End of Course exams, Q1 students, Jackson Middle School and a district that tells me I’m a poor We have been proudly servicing the for improvement,” Prior said in a the state Education Department gave scored 9.84 out of 20 in its school teacher and I can’t keep my license.” the tests he gives his students. Albuquerque area for more than 35 years. recent interview. Eisenhower’s “Q1” score came to 6.65 out of 20 school districts “fallback options,” according to grade this year – an “F.” That meant This year, Prior scored just 112 out of 200 possible Carla Greene, a special projects director at Albuquer- that just like Prior, half of Snowden’s Contact the reporter at possible points this year, according to the school’s 3738 Arno Street • Albuquerque, NM 87107 points on his state-mandated teacher evaluation, grade, a low enough ranking for an “F.” So half of que Public Schools. A few of the options included score came from simply multiplying [email protected] or ranking him “minimally effective.” Prior’s evaluation came from simply multiplying using the “Q1” student test score material from the 9.84 by five to get 49.20 out of a (505) 226-3190. (505) 273-9593 It’s also a dramatic drop from last year’s that 6.65 number and the 20 possible points by five. school grades. evaluation, in which Prior scored “highly effective” That comes to his score of 33.25 out of 100. APS ultimately chose the “Q1” student test score ranking. That’s because this year, half of Prior’s Prior scored better on the other half of his evalu- data to evaluate teachers in this situation because evaluation is based on improvements in student ation, which was based primarily on his classroom “those are the students most likely to see growth,” standardized test scores. observations and attendance. according to school district spokesman Rigo Chavez. High Court: Gov. Stiffed Workers, In the category marked “student achievement,” “All those score marks were above the state and Yet New Mexico music teachers do, in fact, give Prior scored a 33.25 out of a possible 100 points, district average,” he said. “Once they added in the out their own end of course music exams, which too low for him to be able to apply for a Level 2 school grade from subjects I don’t teach and kids I consist of a written evaluation and a performance Denied Them Prevailing Wages license this summer. If his ranking doesn’t improve don’t have, that’s what made me receive such a low evaluation. compiled By abq free press staff by next year, Prior’s teacher license will expire. In score.” that situation, he must apply for an extension, teach Exam confusion Now he has to work another year on Level 1 pay, a he New Mexico Supreme Court for the administration had told the somewhere else or drop teaching altogether. prospect he describes as “awful.” But Prior is especially irritated that the testing Neil Swapp, a past president of the New Mexico Tsays foot-dragging by the Martinez state’s five Supreme Court justices a Music Educators Association, who currently heads administration led to underpayment new set of rates could be in place “in portion of his evaluation isn’t actually based on any A disconnect tests or class material he gave to his students. Nor is the music department at New Mexico School for the of workers employed on New Mexico four or five months.” Arts in Santa Fe, helped put the EOC together for Prior’s score based on just his own students’ scores. For critics of education reform, most of the atten- public-works projects over the last Under New Mexico’s version of the state music teachers. Instead, it comes directly from a portion of the tion revolves around the controversy of dispropor- five years and the court ordered the federal Davis-Bacon Act, local, county grade score that Eisenhower’s student population tionately using scores from high stakes standardized He said that he knows for sure state Education administration to comply with the Department didn’t use EOC performance data for or state construction projects must earned – another controversial program imposed tests to hold teachers accountable. But what happens so-called “Little Davis-Bacon Act” teacher evaluations for this year. But beyond this, he use prevailing wages – as determined by the state Public Education Department that is when that accountability isn’t related to any material within 30 days. has run into plenty of confusion over music EOCs. by pay and fringe benefits outlined designed to improve accountability in the education that a teacher deals with directly? By refusing to set new prevailing “I’m contacted on a regular basis by teachers in existing local collective bargain- system. It’s a situation many Albuquerque arts and elec- wage rates since 2010 and simply who’ve been told by their administrators that they ing agreements – in determining The state gave Eisenhower an overall “B,” which tives teachers – particularly in middle schools – now “reissuing” the same prevailing wage either don’t have to give an EOC or they have to how much workers will be paid on represents an above average grade just like it would find themselves in. rates that were in effect in 2010 – the give an EOC to every student,” Swapp said. “It’s not public-works projects worth more on a student’s report card. But the segment of the This logic, in the words of Jackson Middle School administration effectively denied school’s grade that made up half of Prior’s evalu- music teacher Steve Snowden, is akin to firing a clear what the process is.” than $60,000. New Mexico Political Report contacted the state workers on New Mexico public-works ation came from the average of standardized test school custodian based on a music teacher’s out-of- Three justices concurred in the Education Department multiple times to find the jobs any raises for five years. scores from the school’s lowest performing quarter tune clarinets. opinion written by Justice Petra extent of how many music teachers were actually In its ruling issued on June 15, the of students over a period of three years up to 2014. “The biggest issue I have – I don’t teach math, I Jimenez Maes. Justice Richard Bosson, In local education jargon, this demographic is evaluated on music test scores this year, as opposed high court found that the administra- don’t teach English.” he said. “I may have some Q1 who announced he would retire later known as “Q1” students. students, but many of these students I’ve never met to Math and English scores like Prior and Snowden. tion’s inaction led workers to be paid this year, recused himself. The case Their test score data come from the Standards before.” After both written and verbal exchanges, depart- 5 to 35 percent less than they should the court ruled on was brought by Based Assessment (SBA), New Mexico’s flagship To the Public Education Department, Prior and ment spokesman Robert McEntyre did not provide have been. standardized test for its public schools until 2014. Snowden fall within a bureaucratic hierarchy known any answers to the questions. The court’s order called the admin- several unions. The lead plaintiff These tests measured reading and math skills – as Group B. According to the department’s defini- Greene [APS’s special projects director], who is istration’s delays “inexcusable” and was the New Mexico Building and nothing related to the music lessons Prior teaches or tion, that means teachers who “teach grades and/ essentially acting as a go-between for Albuquerque noted pointedly that in 2010 a lawyer Construction Trades Council. cont. on page 15 16 • June 17, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • June 17, 2015 • 17 Evidence Mounts that MRI Chemicals Are Toxic Do You Know Where Your Coffee Comes From? BY JEFF GERTH BY JOSEPH SORRENTINO ProPublica

offee production is hard villages. When farmers in Chiapas, ith a family history of breast cancer, Marcie set off alarms because work. Coffee grows at high C Mexico wanted new patios to dry WJacobs decided in June 2001 that an MRI they show that even altitudes in tropical regions that their coffee, Guttromson funded screening was her best preventive option. patients with healthy are hot, humid, usually inacces- it. In Ethiopia, her money went to As is common with MRIs, Jacobs was injected kidneys are retaining sible to vehicles and virtually build a new library. beforehand with a contrast agent, a drug that helps gadolinium from Om- impossible to mechanize. The Prosum Roasters’ location, 3228 sharpen the resulting images. But after a few of niscan and Magnevist. small-scale coffee growers Los Arboles Ave. N.E., is an unlikely these treatments, she began noticing strange cogni- Estimates are that about providing much of the world’s place for a coffee shop and, actually, tive effects. Jacobs began missing meetings. Over one-third of the 20 million gourmet coffee do the work by it isn’t one. There are a couple of the next several years, she had additional MRIs. The MRIs in the United States hand, their most important tool chairs at a counter. The roaster math skills that were crucial to her job as finance each year use one of the being the machete hanging from hums nearby. But the coffee’s manager started deteriorating, she said. nine contrast agents. their belts. available around town, including Jacobs eventually wound up on disability. She Doctors now routinely Coffee beans grow on low at Café Bella, Humble Coffee and stopped worrying about cancer – and started worry- screen MRI patients for bushes, inside small green pods Boiler Monkey. ing about imaging drugs. kidney problems before that turn red when they’re Espresso Fino at 222 Gold Ave. This month, two prominent experts in the radiol- injecting them with ripe. Each pod (or cherry) is S.W. exclusively sells Agapao ogy community joined in the concern, calling for contrast agents, and picked by hand, bagged in the (Greek for “love”) Coffee, which is more research into the possible health risks after scientists believe that field and typically carried on roasted in Denver. Agapao, owned three recent studies found that gadolinium, a NSF has essentially someone’s back to their home, by Santa Fean David Black, offers potentially toxic metal, wound up in the brain tissue disappeared. The new where they’re washed, the beans 24 fair trade and seven coffees that of MRI patients who used two different contrast studies don’t speak to the separated from the flesh and agents. clinical effects, if any, of New research shows that the heavy metal in contrast agents injected into patients prior to Black calls “farm-to-cup,” another magnetic resonance imaging exams can accumulate in the brain, leading to impairment. spread out on concrete to dry. name for direct trade. gadolinium in the brain. “That’s what I love about Although all coffee at Espresso The new studies cited by Kanal But in an interview, Kanal coffee,” said Dave Rodriquez, Fino is fair trade, owner Greg Flores said the findings ought to the 39-year-old owner of Blunt and Tweedle have set off alarms Joseph Sorrentino is low-key about it. make radiologists think Brothers Coffee, 4400 Central “We do make people aware because they show that even twice about which agents Ave. S.E. “Every bean I sell is A coffee grower harvests beans in Pueblo, Mexico. Much fair-trade coffee is “shade-grown,” to prescribe. meaning the coffee beans come from bushes that grow in a natural setting, as opposed to on we’re selling fair trade coffee,” patients with healthy kidneys touched by hand.” “We can use an agent hillsides or coffee plantations that have been clear cut of other vegetation. Flores said, “but we don’t push it. What he doesn’t love is that the are retaining gadolinium today that does not retain We’re not real political. Fair trade people growing the coffee are gadolinium in the brain is good for coffee growers, good among the poorest in the world, Editorializing in the journal Radiology, Dr. to the degree that those for the planet.” That’s because so Rodriguez and a number Emanuel Kanal of the University of Pittsburgh other agents do,” he said, most, but not all, fair trade coffee of coffee roasters and shops in Medical Center and Michael Tweedle of Ohio State referring to Omniscan is organic and shade-grown. With Albuquerque are selling fair- University, said the studies “called into question” and Magnevist. Given shade-grown, trees aren’t cut down trade coffee. the “safety of at least some” of these agents. The two that the alternatives are wholesale to make room for coffee Fair trade pays coffee growers urged radiologists to change their prescribing habits “at least as efficacious” as plants, which saves habitat for birds a higher price for their coffee although not to stop using the drugs because of their the other two, he asked, and also guarantees a stable and other animals. proven benefits to patients. “Why are some still price for the growing season, Michelle Franklin, La Montañita Nine gadolinium-based contrast agents are prescribing the agents so growers can estimate how Co-op’s distribution center director, sold in the United States. The two in question, that do accumulate in much they’ll earn in a particular said there’s been a steady increase Omniscan, made by GE Healthcare, and Magnevist, the brain over the other season. in interest in fair-trade coffee. La manufactured by Bayer HealthCare, once dominated options?” There are no brothers and no Montañita sells Equal Exchange the contrast agent market. Both GE and Bayer, in Jacobs has no medical one named Blunt at Rodriguez’s coffee and other fair-trade coffees, statements, said they were monitoring the issue and proof, but she’s con- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it is “carefully reviewing” new studies show- ing that gadolinium, a heavy metal in MRI contrast agents, is being retained by patients. coffee shop. “The name is a play which are also available at Natural noted the new studies had not found any clinical vinced the two drugs are on our personalities,” he said. Grocers and Whole Foods. impact, such as brain injury. behind her problems. “We’re very blunt people.” If you’re curious if your coffee Contrast agents like Omniscan had been on the As her symptoms wors- remove gadolinium from her body. That’s clear when he’s asked why shop offers fair trade, just ask. For market for years when, in 2006, they were linked ened, Jacobs said she underwent a series of tests Researching on the Internet, Jacobs found a he sells fair trade coffee. “You’re example, Flying Star and Satellite to a crippling, sometimes fatal condition called that found accumulated traces of gadolinium in her support group around the issue. Then in March, either helping people or [screwing] Joseph Sorrentino owner Jean Bernstein said her blend nephrogenic systemic fibrosis, or NSF. The Food and breast, thigh, liver and brain. Doctors were puzzled a radiology journal, Health Imaging, featured the Drug Administration put a “black box” warning on because she had no history of kidney disease and them over,” he said. “We care Dave Rodriguez of Blunt Brothers Coffee, 4400 Central Ave. S.E., says he sells fair-trade is 70 percent fair trade. Michael group in an article on the new gadolinium research. the drugs the following year, saying patients with did not fit into the identified at-risk group. about humans; others are more coffee “because we care about humans.” Thomas Coffee Co., 1111 Carlisle That same month, Jacobs started a Facebook group than happy to exploit people.” Blvd. S.E., offers 12 fair trade coffees. kidney impairment may be at risk of NSF because that is now composed of researchers as well as they were unable to excrete the gadolinium. Rodriguez has his own coffee Fair-trade coffee costs more but it dozens of patients with similar gadolinium experi- ProPublica first disclosed in 2009 that the agency blend that’s all Fair Trade USA- fair trade a step further. In direct trade, there’s a closer benefits the people bringing it to us Doctors now routinely screen MRI ences and no evidence of kidney disease. ignored two of its own medical reviewers who certified. There’s no place to sit at Blunt Brothers. connection between the coffee buyer and growers; and it benefits the planet because fair-trade growers patients for kidney problems before Jacobs said the new studies “confirm that the wanted to ban Omniscan for patients with severe Customers buy at the walk-up or drive-through Guttromson, and other direct trade coffee purveyors, tend to use organic and sustainable farming methods. linear gadolinium-based contrasting agents such kidney disease. In 2010, the FDA did act, recom- injecting them with contrast agents windows because Rodriguez doesn’t want the hassle actually visit the farmers providing the beans. Espresso Fino’s Greg Flores is blunt in his support of as GE’s product Omniscan and Bayer’s product mending that GE’s drug and two other agents that comes with a coffee shop. He has one purpose: “I know and see exactly where the money goes,” it. “You have to be an idiot or cheap not to buy fair Magnevist are being retained at much higher levels shouldn’t be used in patients with impaired kidneys. She recovered old records and determined that “I’m here to give you the greatest cup of coffee of she said. “I know the money is getting to the farm- trade coffee,” he said. than radiologists and the FDA have acknowledged.” The other drugs were Magnevist and Optimark, sold she received Omniscan for her first 11 imagings and your life.” ers, that they’re getting paid fairly for their work.” She hopes the FDA might pull the two agents from by Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals. Magnevist before the last, in 2007. Jacobs said she Cindy Guttromson, owner of Prosum (Latin for “to be In addition to paying growers more for their Joseph Sorrentino is an Albuquerque freelance writer. the market. The new studies cited by Kanal and Tweedle have eventually began a difficult, extended program to useful”) Roasters sells direct trade coffee, which takes coffee, Guttromson helps with special projects in the Reach him at [email protected] In a statement, an FDA spokesperson said the cont. on page 18 18 • June 17, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS ANALYSIS ABQ FREE PRESS • June 17, 2015 • 19

MRI, PAGE 17 agency is “carefully reviewing” the of the original research studies “to Killing the Colorado River Time for Texas To Get A Grip on Reality BY ROBERT REICH new studies to “better understand the clarify their findings,” even though Excerpted from ProPublica.org potential consequences to determine “none of these studies indicate any s extreme current drought, the North’s record what further action is needed, which clinical implications.” The company BY ABRAHAM LUSTGARTEN weather winter snowfall, and flooding may include taking steps to ensure the said it was continuing to monitor the A marked by elsewhere. public is aware of these preliminary situation. couple of miles outside the town modern wonder. It drives a set of tornadoes But you’d have to be nuts not findings.” Aof Page, Ariz., three 775-foot-tall, pumps 325 miles down the Colorado GE and Bayer have confidentially and flooding to be at least curious about such a Kanal, who has been advising the caramel-colored smokestacks tower River that heave trillions of gallons settled hundreds of lawsuits – many continues to connection and its relationship to FDA and also chairs the American like sentries on the edge of northern of water out of the river and send it involving deaths – while denying sweep across the carbon dioxide humans have Board of MR Safety, said the new Arizona’s sprawling red sandstone shooting over mountains and through liability for their contrast agents. Texas, Gov. been spewing into the atmosphere. studies have “the entire international wilderness. At their base, the Navajo canals. That water – lifted 3,000 In 2013, one case went to trial in Greg Abbott has Consider also the consequences radiological community – and the Generating Station, the West’s largest vertical feet and carried 336 miles – Cleveland and resulted in a $5 million requested – and President Obama for the public’s health. Several FDA – on edge, as this is an entirely power-generating facility, thrums has enabled the cities of Phoenix and verdict against GE. A federal appeals has granted – federal help. deaths in Texas have been linked to unanticipated finding.” ceaselessly, like a beating heart. Tucson to rapidly expand. court upheld the verdict last year. By Football-field-length conveyors con- This achievement in moving water, I don’t begrudge Texas billions of the extreme weather. Many Texans GE Healthcare told ProPublica that then, the plaintiff, who had NSF, had dollars in disaster relief. After all, have been injured by it, directly as part of its commitment to safety, stantly feed it piles of coal, hauled 78 however, is gained at an enormous died. miles by train from where huge shovels cost. we’re all part of America. When or indirectly. Poor residents are in a new company internal task force The contours of the contrast agent and mining equipment scraped it out Every hour the Navajo’s generators some of us are in need, we all have particular peril because they live in reviewed the studies and other data market have changed in recent years. of the ground shortly before. Then, like spin, the plant spews more climate- a duty to respond. areas prone to flooding or in flimsy and continues its work. Both Magnevist, once the leading a medieval mortar and pestle machine, warming gases into the atmosphere But the flow of federal money houses and trailers that can be After finding “no signs or symptoms agent, and Omniscan, also a top seller, wheels crush the stone against a large than almost any other facility in the poses a bit of awkwardness for the washed or blown away. of potential injury to the brain” associ- have lost market share since the FDA bowl into a smooth powder that is United States. Alone, it accounts for Lone Star State. Kanin Studio What’s Texas’ response? Texas ated with Omniscan and “no evidence restrictions in 2010. GE said its market sprayed into tremendous furnaces – 29 percent of Arizona’s emissions After all, just over a month officials continue to turn down of cytotoxicity (cell toxicity) in ago, hundreds of Texans decided share was about 10 percent last year; some of the largest ever built. Those from energy generation. The Navajo Many Texans believe the federal government, the same entity to which Texas is applying for disaster federal funds to expand Medicaid published autopsy studies,” the task that a pending Navy Seal/Green under the Affordable Care Act, Bayer declined to cite a figure. furnaces are stoked to 2,000 degrees, station’s infernos gobble 15 tons of aid, is set to invade their state. force concluded that “continued use heating tubes of steam to produce coal each minute, 24 hours each day, Beret joint training exercise was thereby denying insurance to more of Omniscan according to approved really an excuse to take over the Yet even before the current floods, Texas had than 1 million people and prevent- Jeff Gerth is a senior reporter at enough pressure to drive an 80-ton rod every day. ... product labeling” is appropriate, GE of steel to spin faster than the speed of state and impose martial law. And they claimed received more disaster relief than any other state, ing the state from receiving an estimated $100 billion ProPublica. Previously, he worked as an said. sound, converting the heat of the fires For a link to the entire article go to the Federal Emergency Management Agency was according to a study by the Center for American in federal cash over the next decade. investigative reporter at The New York Bayer told ProPublica that patient into electricity. ProPublica.org or visit our site, erecting prison camps and readying Walmart stores Progress. That’s not simply because the state is so I don’t want to pick on Texas. Its officials are not safety is its “primary concern” and Times. Twice, his work has been honored The power generated enables a FreeABQ.com as processing centers for political prisoners. large. It’s also because Texas is particularly vulner- alone in hating the federal government, denying that it had reached out to the authors with the Pulitzer Prize. able to extreme weather – tornadoes on the plains, climate change and refusing to insure its poor. Texas’ governor, Greg Abbott, hurricanes in the Gulf, flooding across its middle added to that particular outpouring and south. Texas officials continue to turn Given this, you might also think Texas would take down federal funds to expand of paranoia by ordering the climate change especially seriously. But here again, Featured RENTAL Property Texas State Guard to monitor there’s cognitive dissonance between what the state Medicaid under the Affordable Care the military exercise needs and how its officials act. Act, thereby denying insurance to Among Texas’ infamous climate-change deniers is more than 1 million people 400 Copper NE, Albuquerque Lamar Smith, chairman of the House Committee on There are nut cases everywhere, but Texas’ gover- Science, Space, and Technology, who dismissed last nor, Greg Abbott, added to that particular outpour- year’s report by the United Nations’ Intergovern- And I certainly don’t want to suggest all Texans ing of paranoia by ordering the Texas State Guard mental Panel on Climate Change as “more political are implicated. Obviously, many thoughtful and to monitor the military exercise. “It is important than scientific” and the White House report on the reasonable people reside there. that Texans know their safety, constitutional rights, urgency of addressing climate change as designed Yet Texans have elected people who seem not to A full-service residential private property rights and civil liberties will not “to frighten Americans.” have a clue. Indeed, Texas has done more in recent be infringed upon,” he said. In other words, he’d Smith is still at it. His committee just slashed by years to institutionalize irrationality than almost and commercial protect Texans from this federal plot. more than 20 percent NASA’s spending on Earth anywhere else in America – thereby imposing a property management brokerage Now, Abbott wants federal money. And FEMA is science, which includes climate change. huge burden on its citizens. serving both renters gearing up for a major role in the cleanup – includ- How many natural disasters will it take for the ing places like Bastrop, Texas, where the Bastrop Lone Star State to wake up to the disaster of its and property owners. State Park dam failed – and where, just five weeks You might also think Texas would elected officials? ago, a U.S. Army colonel trying to explain the take climate change especially pending military exercise was shouted down by Robert B. 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A row of them towers to different parts of the diagram, the where cruelty toward fat people subreddits, so its removal has attracted lective lust for movie theater popcorn squeeze past you down over a tired-looking Ms. clerk is patient as she explains, “Green was the norm. The forum’s deletion the most attention,” wrote the website runs. I was ignorant of the popcorn- the row can all wreck date Pac-Man/Galaga combo seats are the vibration sensation, blue followed Reddit’s June 10 decision to craveonline.com. shaped hole in the lives of so many night or a family outing, near a basketball arcade are the electric recliners. Red has been ban hate speech. “Or maybe it has been more roundly of us, a breach that clearly cannot be especially one in which game. So there’s room for purchased already, and the purple Until then, the site, often called “the defended because the shaming of filled by microwaveable bags or the a decent-sized chunk of improvement, certainly, but seats are the handicap spots.” front page of the Internet,” was unadul- overweight people is more morally flavor-packed powders available on change has been invested the cinema’s real test lies in I’m not always a snappy decision- terated free speech on anything from acceptable than flagrant racism and grocery store shelves. Every time I’ve for the privilege. the movie experience. maker. Stalling for time, I ask what the firearms to underarm hair – with no homophobia,” craveonline.com wrote. mentioned “unlimited refills” and Happily, Icon Cinema When I arrive with vibrating seats do, and she tells me regard to cultural norms or sensitivity. Within days of the crackdown, “popcorn” in the same sentence to my avoids these common my husband on opening they shake along with action in the The Fat People Hate subreddit disgruntled Redditors decamped en friends, they have paid rapt attention pitfalls in every way. The weekend, already a little late movie. Boldly, I make a decision – we (FPH for short) was devoted solely to masse to a Swiss-based clone of Reddit and begun to salivate. interior remodel has given for the 5:15 p.m. showing are recliner people – and select a couple ruthless criticism of fat people. It had called Voat, which struggled to deal The prospect of never-ending it a pleasing coat of new- of Spy, the first thing we of spots on Row E. She runs my card 150,000 subscribers, many of whom with the increased traffic, the U.K. popcorn may woo many to the newly ness, but what seems more germane do is crane our necks for the ticket for $32.50 (that’s $10.75 per adult ticket, called themselves “shitlords,” Internet newspaper, the Guardian, reported. opened theater in the Four Hills Shop- is the intelligence of their approach counter. There isn’t one. We approach $6.50 for the popcorn tub and $4.50 slang for people who engage in racist, In response to the deluge, Voat, ping Center at Tramway and Central to luxury. Entering through the glass the snack counter – no lines, at least for the large drink, comparable to sexist, homophobic or other demean- which mimics Reddit’s design and – I include myself – but honestly, doors out front, you come upon a three employees making eye contact other cinemas in town) and hands us ing dialogue. layout (albeit using “subverses” there’s a limit to the amount of salty lobby that is nice, very nice, but not and ready to help – and discover that our containers to fill ourselves at the FPH subscribers were especially re- rather than “subreddits”) was forced snack food that can be devoured over fancy. High ceiling, decidedly un-tacky all preliminaries happen in this single spacious snack area. lentless in their Internet “trolling,” or to ask for bitcoin donations to keep the course of a single movie, even by floor tiles, electronic menu board location. And thus ends the hardest part of CALLING ALL PETS online stalking. In one case, a woman the site live. the most dedicated chompers among hovering over the long, well-stocked We name our movie, and the hardest the experience. (It wasn’t that hard.) posting about her battle with her “We are sorry to see us. Even when it’s washed down by counter – nothing here suggests an part of the evening begins when the Soon after, armed with a heaping weight was followed onto YouTube, theguardian.com/technology/reddit” Send it to soda refills that are also delightfully attempt to distract you with pointless clerk turns a small monitor screen bucket of popcorn, a Diet Coke and the her videos were voted down, and she change like this, in this way, in such limitless. bells and whistles. toward me. It displays a map of color- glorious knowledge that we can refill was subjected to death threats. an accelerated fashion. We would [email protected] No quantity of popcorn will make That’s especially true in the ful interlocking squares. This is the either at our slightest whim, we get “The [FPH] subreddit was banned have never anticipated such events,” Include your name, phone number, and your pet’s name, up for an otherwise poor experience. games area, which isn’t especially theater floor plan, and it’s up to me our tickets ripped in the hallway and and we’ll try to reserve their spot in the pet parade. alongside the likes of r/hamplan- Atko, Voat’s founder and chief ethatred, r/transfags, r/neofag, and technology officer, told the Guardian. cont. on page 31

“A lazy day at home,” writes Cheryl Wolff in describing this photo of Ely and Oscar (two dogs), Harvey and Neo (two cats) and Jessie (single dog). CALLING ALL PETS Send it to [email protected] Include your name, phone number, and your pet’s name, and we’ll try to reserve their spot in the pet parade. 22 • June 17, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS ARTS SCREENS ABQ FREE PRESS • June 17, 2015 • 23 State of the Art: One Hell of a Saturday To a Blossom World: On ‘Love & Mercy’ BY LISA BARROW BY RICHARD OYAMA

Touch wood African mahogany to zebrawood discovered at Downtown boutique Visitor Center (6500 Coors NW) aims ritic Greil Marcus noted that there with materials that are full of artistic The Octopus and the Fox (514 Central to unveil how deeply the famed “three was affection in The Beach Boys’ Despite its name, the 1st Annual C potential and please the senses. “When SE). The purveyors of handcrafted sisters” of agriculture are interwoven sound ... even at their most desperate. World of Wood Artists Festival isn’t you buy exotic hardwood,” von and vintage goods are committed to into New Mexico’s Pueblo culture and The opening montage of Bill Pohlad’s just about selling art made out of dead Winckel explains, “you’re buying it for bringing unusual local artistry to light history. The Three Sisters: A Pueblo “Love & Mercy,” a biopic about trees. On Saturday, June 27, from 10 the aesthetic. The working qualities not only in their shop, but by hold- Perspective shakes out on Saturday, bandleader Brian Wilson, gorgeously a.m. to 4 p.m., Albuquerque Exotic of the wood are secondary to how it ing two Octofairs a year, once each June 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Talks, evokes the buoyancy of those early Woods (4224 Menaul NE) opens its looks, how it feels, what it smells like.” spring and fall. This year, though, the kids’ activities and traditional pueblo Beach Boys’ hits. But that’s mere parking lot to local artisans of every Customers often remark on the heady weather chose not to cooperate; the dances make it a day of festive fun prelude to what happened when stripe for an outdoor “makersplosion.” aromas of olivewood, cedar, juniper, original Spring Octofair on May 9 was grounded in learning about the crucial the wildly successful pop group – Expect leather workers, fine art paint- sandalwood and more filling the shop, plagued by nasty winds and unsea- role played by these staple foods of marked by familial harmonies and ers, ceramicists, fiber artists, jewelers, she says. For more information about sonably cold weather, forcing many the Southwest. Chuck Berry rhythms – morphed into stained glass artists, glassblowers and the store and its unusual stock, visit artists to shut down their booths Originally displayed at the National something else during a late-decade more in addition to woodworkers abqexoticwoods.com. before they blew away. Hispanic Cultural Center, the Three period of creative ferment. of the turning, burning and carving The festival is free to attend, which Octofair 2: The Revenge corrects the Sisters exhibit educates viewers about Young Brian, played by a note- varieties. Stay cool with something means you can save your cash for wrongs of the inclement-weathered how corn, beans and squash have perfect Paul Dano, is a SoCal boy tasty from the Pop Fizz ice cream cart something beautiful. Spaces for past with a crafty do-over on Satur- played out in botanical history and imbued with a naked vulnerability while choosing from an abundance of vendors are still available; call 293-9663 day, June 27, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. medicinal use in Mesoamerica, the and innocence, an unmediated quality locally made, one-of-a-kind goodies. or email [email protected] to As always, expect a relaxed, family- cultural region stretching from about that never allowed him to keep safe. Plus, take in exhibition tables that offer sign up through June 26. “Any kind of friendly, carnival atmosphere with central Mexico through Central Amer- He was at once emotionally available woodworking demos and a chance crafter or artisan is welcome to set up a food trucks like Cheesy Street, Pop ica that flourished before Spanish and frightfully unprotected. That is to see “people just working on stuff,” booth for free,” says von Winckel. Fizz and Soo Bak, and live music from colonization. Saturday’s event, which to say, he was an American artist. says festival organizer and wood shop Sage and Jared’s Happy Gland Band, stems from a partnership between the Accompanying Wilson’s hymns to volunteer Holly von Winckel. Billy Crooze and the Dinglehoppers, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center and sun, girls and surf, there was always Albuquerque Exotic Woods isn’t Fair weather Billy Bellmont, Faye Lynn Richards the Open Space Visitor Center, seeks a plaintive undercurrent in his like your typical lumber store. Most Courtesy of Roadside Attractions Everything from recycled- and more. The fair is free to attend; to bring “a Pueblo perspective to this songs – notably “In My Room.” And of its stock consists of hard-to-find sweater fox pins to Thomas Tomlinson booths for vending cost $25. For more exhibit,” according to the event page, for good reason. His stage-manager John Cusack plays Brian Future in “Love & Mercy,” a new biopic about the life of The Beach Boys’ prime mover, Brian Wilson. items, spanning the alphabet from laser-cut wall art is waiting to be information, call 203-2659, email “and provide lessons in sustainability father Murry (Bill Camp) tyrannized [email protected] or and stewardship.” and beat his sons brutally. In a visit theoctopusandthefox.com. To see the full schedule of free real-life episode not included in the It’s a familiar trope that genius lies close to mad- guru whose chief claim to fame is authorship of hip- events, which include a discussion film, Murry removed his glass eye to show Brian ness. Wilson suffers a breakdown on a plane flight pie jargon manual “The Underground Dictionary.” O sister, where with farmer Obsidian Caz of Jemez the hollow socket in his skull. There is no mention and withdraws from touring. He enacts the same Landy is an out-and-out scoundrel and charlatan Pueblo, a make-your-own planter of his brother Dennis’ friendship with an aspiring move The Beatles will make in 1966, leaving him who misdiagnoses Brian as paranoid schizophrenic art thou? activity for the rugrats and hands-on songwriter named Charles Manson either. Brian was free to experiment in the studio: He drops LSD and and keeps him under virtual house arrest. Giamatti cultivation activities in the Traditions descends into the maelstrom. The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pep- isn’t allowed much range as the heavy, but to his Corn, beans and squash are more deaf in one ear as a result of his father’s abuse. There Garden, visit the Facebook event page per’s” is the white whale Wilson pursues, but the than a delicious filling for your next was Gothic horror in the California sunshine. credit, he manages to render even Landy’s geniality at on.fb.me/1GoDPbK. burrito. An exhibit at the Open Space Some of “Love & Mercy’s” most pleasurable resulting “Smile” sessions are shelved indefinitely. (and hairpiece) as sinister. scenes are set in the recording studio; after firing his They will finally be released in 2011, a half-century “Love & Mercy” smoothly crosscuts between a manager/father, an emboldened Wilson rehearses later. Wilson takes to his bed for three years, only young Wilson and an older version (John Cusack) songs that will become the talismanic album “Pet occasionally venturing out in his bathrobe. It sounds in the 1980s. Cusack’s physical dissimilarity was Spotlight: Rivetheads Rejoice! Sounds.” The documentary style of these scenes a hell of a lot like clinical depression. disconcerting at first but to a remarkable degree, the Dark docs at Guild communicates a musician’s working process as well After his crack-up, another controlling father actor captures Wilson’s near-affectless, naïve speech, as anything I’ve seen in a feature film. Wilson sought figure enters Wilson’s orbit in the person of Dr. his facial tics and mannerisms and his stooped BY M. BRIANNA STALLINGS to replicate the “sounds inside his head,” and it’s Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti), a cultish therapist/ carriage. Wilson’s spacey conversation with ummer’s here and the time is right Giger, who died in 2014, opens up his clear that head was orchestrally oriented and saleswoman Melinda Ledbetter (Elizabeth for films in theater seats. Sitting in sketchbooks, home, and museum full of open to serendipitous accident. As session Banks) in a Cadillac showroom blossoms S drummer Hal Blaine tells Wilson, “You’re the dark, surrounded by noise, reveling monstrous marvels for a final glimpse into a geeky romance. It’s a tender, touching touched.” “Good Vibrations” is a pocket in the joy of large machines pumping into his unprecedented creative vision. moment. Ledbetter’s trophy model looks symphony to God, while “God Only Knows” out recirculated air – it reads like a day Meanwhile, “Industrial Soundtrack belie her steely nerves. She will become is a religious song. trip to Paradise for the typical industrial For The Urban Decay” (52 minutes), Brian’s second wife and his fearless advocate. Wilson encounters resistance to his new fan. Between the afterglow of “Mad directed by Amelie Ravalec and Travis Together Dano and Cusack complete a wholly Max: Fury Road” and the anticipation music within the group from Mike Love (Jake Collins, is billed as a must-see 2015 film credible portrait of a beloved musician. of “Terminator: Genisys,” 505 lovers Abel), the obnoxious frat boy cousin some of by websites Noisey and Uncut. Through See the heart-tugging Love & Mercy for the of all things black and bleak can catch us love to hate. Love complains that Wilson interviews with such genre luminaries as story of a damaged El Lay angel named Brian two critically acclaimed documentaries is messing with the conventional Beach Boys Genesis P. Orridge (Throbbing Gristle), Wilson who once passed through our world courtesy of The Guild Cinema (3405 Cen- “formula.” Murry agrees. There is less and Graeme Revell, Cabaret Voltaire and tral NE) from Friday, June 26 through less “Fun, Fun, Fun” and more “I Wasn’t during a halcyon age and left us a bunch of Monday, June 29. With “Dark Star: H. Boyd Rice, “Industrial Soundtrack” Made for These Times,” an anthem for misfits. sun-lit, celestial songs. R. Giger’s World,” (95 minutes) director shares the rich, dissonant history of a For all its strange beauty – sleigh bells, Belinda Sallin gives viewers an intimate genre shaped by crumbling factories, barking dogs, trains and all – “Pet Sounds” Smile. glimpse into the life and work of the worker discontent, and Thatcher-era is a profoundly sad album. Wilson begins to Courtesy of Roadside Attractions Oscar-winning Swiss artist who scared Europe. Ravalec is also responsible for fear he’s “losing it,” plunging headfirst into a Richard Oyama took a Greyhound from Manhattan to the piss out of filmgoers over thirty the 2012 documentary “Paris/Berlin: 20 dreamlike David Hockney underwater ballet. Paul Dano portrays Brian Past. California on the strength of Beach Boys songs alone. years ago with his beasts in “Alien.” Years of Underground Techno.” 24 • June 17, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS SCREENS SCREENS ABQ FREE PRESS • June 17, 2015 • 25 ‘The Life of Riley’: Speech Drowns Out King’s Sound Standing Room Only: ‘Sense8’ Commodifies Lifestyle BY RICHARD OYAMA

on Brewer’s patchwork documen- during performance Jtary “B.B. King: The Life of Riley” footage. Compare this doesn’t trust the music enough to tell to Martin Scorsese’s the story, whereas B.B. did. Just one inclusion of Muddy month ago, the iconic bluesman died Waters’ riveting “Man- at age 87. The Guild Cinema (3405 nish Boy” performance Central NE) hosts a tribute screening in “The Last Waltz.” on Sunday, June 21, at 12:30 p.m. When the viewer wants It isn’t that Brewer lacked ample to toggle to YouTube to material for a worthy film. “Life of watch concert numbers, Riley” makes use of archival footage a documentary is not of interviews with King himself and satisfying its audience. an overabundance of talking heads Born Riley B. King to – friends, relatives, wives, business Mississippi Delta share- managers and “rock legends” – who croppers, his formative sing hosannas to one of the most memories included influential blues musicians to have gospel music, hard labor ever lived. Intermittent narrator and the lynching of a Morgan Freeman falls out, only to be reincarnated as yet another com- black man by Southern mentator. Do we need to hear from whites. At 14 he began Bill Cosby and Bruce Willis? Really? work as a sharecropper himself. King calculated I’m not sure “The Life of Riley” is well Clockwise from left: Daryl Hannah brings star power served by Carlos Santana’s Krishna that he walked 30 miles Courtesy of Syndctd Entertainment to “Sense8.” From right, trans woman and hactivist consciousness either. a day, plowing a field Nomi Marks (Jamie Clayton) embraces her girlfriend Amanita (Freema Agyeman). Courtesy of Netflix Brewer never allows the audience to behind a mule. During marriage, King moved to Memphis, King’s truest heir before bad drugs his lifetime, he walked enough to experience a full performance by the Tenn., rapidly becoming a popular slew him. What follows in “Riley’s” BY HUGH ELLIOTT master at work, instead cutting away make a circuit around the Earth. King DJ on WDIA. Rufus Thomas, who assemblage is a predictable roster – to interview segments and even more made $5 a day on the plantation. followed a similar career arc, appears Clapton, Bono, a Beatle drummer and f there’s one thing the Internet loves, it’s making posters. “I’m not just a me, I’m also a we,” the trans Cards” onto magazine covers. There are no breakout egregiously inserting a voice over After a stint in the Army and a first in this film. Thomas is an electric a debauched-looking Mick Taylor. up new names for everything. “Normcore,” lesbian dramatically intones to her video journal at parts here and certainly no Laverne Cox. There presence, and I wanted to hear more I Rock royalty pays obeisance to the “dadbod,” and recently “Yuccies” or “Young Urban one point. Of course you are, dear. Even the episode from him. King was successively nick- aren’t any huge stars except Darryl Hannah, who originator. The litany of presidential Creatives” are being touted as the Next Big Thing. titles themselves, like “Death Doesn’t Let You Say named the Beale Street Blues Boy, then makes a brief appearance, apparently reviving her honors is dutifully recited. King opens The term “Yuccies” originated with a Mashable Goodbye” (something a character actually says) are Blues Boy, then B.B. – the poetry of role from “Blade Runner.” Her cameo is one of the stadium shows for U2. article [bit.ly/yuccieorigin] that explains they are just maudlin homilies disguised as deep thoughts. the blues. Among the influences he as- dog whistles for sci-fi fans, like when they use the But what about the music? My “borne of suburban comfort, indoctrinated with the All that’s missing is pictures of puppies and a Sarah similated were big band sounds, jump emo version of “Mad World” in “Donnie Darko.” friend KJ once asked me which of the transcendent power of education, and infected by McLachlan song. blues – an uncredited Louis Jordan Here, “Sense8” insists, is where you can satisfy your Kings was my favorite: B.B., Freddie the conviction that not only do we deserve to pursue Halfway through watching the series, I went on is shown briefly – and guitarists like maudlin Coppertop feelings. Charlie Christian and T-Bone Walker. or Albert. It would have to be B.B. He our dreams; we should profit from them.” Good the Internet to see how other people were reacting was the sparest of guitarists, playing grief. In other words they are fussy, smartypants to the show. Much of the expectation surrounding And that manipulation, that inability to let the As music critic Peter Guralnick noted, viewer breathe and discover the subtlety of emotion, King widened the audience for blues a Gibson he dubbed Lucille. King hipsters with a purpose. In fact reading this review “Sense8” is owed to the Wachowskis’ involvement is where the show disappoints. “Sense8” desperately with “the urbanity of his playing, the intuited that the blues was “a feeling, might actually plop you down in the midst of this and their fan base’s cautious hopes for more ground- tries to cajole us into feeling connected. It wants to absorption of a multiplicity of influ- not a thousand notes” – the error of newly named demographic, so gird your loins. breaking special effects. People are still crazy about ences ... along with a graciousness of many otherwise virtuosic rock gods. The good news is that Yuccies now have their “The Matrix” and that whole red pill/blue pill thing. “indoctrinate us with the transcendent power of manner and [his] willingness to adapt Like Miles Davis, one note is all that’s own sci-fi series, and that show is “Sense8” [bit. These superfans call themselves “Freeminds” and/ education,” an education grounded in remnants to new audiences.” required to identify, as King said, “the ly/senseeight], the new 12-episode Netflix drama or “Coppertops,” which certainly has a better ring to of the ‘60s and ‘70s revolutions that were roiling King played 275 one-nighters on the sound I hear.” Vocally, King’s sweet, from Lana and Andy Wachowski, the infamous it than Yuccies. when the Wachowskis were growing up. It wants to Courtesy of Syndctd Entertainment hoarse cry is equally distinctive. He siblings who brought us “The Matrix.” The octet of Lana Wachowski came out as transgender several hammer home those ideals of free love and transfor- could embody both sophisticated main characters in “Sense8” reads like a New York years ago, and “Sense8” seizes the opportunity to mational connection over and over, at the expense of urbanity and gutbucket raunch with Times article about South by Southwest, including school everyone about the fluidity of sexual identity. logic and plot. equal aplomb. a DJ, an actor and a so-called “hacktivist.” They’re It’s a noble lesson but I would guess that if you’re In an interview about the series, Darryl Han- all young, good looking and fashionably run the watching this show, you probably already got the Visit the Guild Cinema to honor B.B. nah said, “The thing about ‘Sense8’ is that it’s gamut of sexual identities from gay to trans. They’re memo. Personally I’m quite aware of how sex works King; since the blues is our heritage, paradigm-breaking on multiple levels.” [bit.ly/ certainly comfortable in their San Francisco lofts and (gay or straight, thank you very much) but “Sense8” the theater ought to be packed. After- hannahquote]. Mexican penthouses. They have abundant access to ward, listen to “Live at the Regal” and is eager to provide erotic examples, lest we have any recreational drugs. They’re also incredibly fit and lingering questions. Is this just the new normal now, Nice try, but no. It’s a TED talk given by super- you’ll never forget what it’s like for chitlin’ circuit – amid Jim Crow, flop- have little issue with nudity and wild sex, so plan everybody naked and doing it on teevee? It was models, a group hug for the cool kids. But then a bluesman to exist in perfect com- houses and shotgun shacks – before your wardrobe accordingly. Oh you’ll want to be a brushed aside in the PR for “Sense8” which is too again, for most Yuccies that probably sounds like munion with his audience. being embraced by a young, white Sense8, trust me. bad as it couldn’t have hurt. heaven on Earth. audience who came to the blues by The main problem occurs when they speak. The What the series never really got was that Richard Oyama is a novelist and poet who way of British rock musicians like The script is incredibly pretentious, trading in platitudes binge-worthy buzz that pushed other Netflix series Hugh Elliott is a writer and artist living in California Rolling Stones and Fleetwood Mac’s has longed to light out for the territory in the more suitable for 12-step meetings or inspirational like “Orange Is The New Black” and “House of who rarely uses his Twitter handle @wehogayman Peter Green; the latter was arguably heart of the Delta, following Huck and Jim. 26 • June 17, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS food food ABQ FREE PRESS • June 17, 2015 • 27 Thai Eatery Adds Spice to Northeast Heights Deep Dish: Dollars to Donuts BY SAFFRON TOMATO hyperlocal version. restaurant on the block anymore. A new In fact Dee’s was indepen- ramen-centric restaurant, Naruto, will he last time I was here, I ordered dent and sued and won the open for business at 2110 Central SE in Ta green chile cheeseburger. That’s right to use the name and Mint Tulip’s old spot, perhaps as early because Thai Spice (7441 Paseo Del keep the other Cheesecake as late-summer. Naruto is owned by the Norte) occupies the spot that a burger Factory from setting up shop same family who operates Santa Fe’s joint used to call home. Burger Rush in the city. Due to the ruling, Shohko Café, Hiro and Shohko Fukuda. closed several months ago, and the The Cheesecake Factory The new place is expected to specialize building that houses Mario’s Pizzeria couldn’t open any locations in ramen, but will also serve sushi, bento & Ristorante now has a new tenant. here so long as Dee’s was in boxes and their own take on tapas. Chef Restaurants are often fine-tuning business. But co-owner Lisa Shohko has developed her own fusion both their menu and service at the Mager wanted to retire in cuisine items for Shohko Café, including 2014, which allows the chain green chile tempura and the Santa two-month mark, but 8-week-old Thai to come to Albuquerque. Fe roll, which weds green chile with Spice seems to have already hit its Initially The Cheesecake Fac- shrimp tempura and avocado. It will stride. tory’s corporate office said be interesting to see what they have in I stumbled on the restaurant’s they had no immediate plans store for Albuquerque. website, thaispiceabq.com, one to open a restaurant in New afternoon during a Google search. The Mexico. And there’s certainly very thought of Thai food immedi- nothing on their website to Betting on brews ately primed my pre-dinner jitters for Courtesy of Donut Mart indicate they’re headed this Local architects Dan Herr and Joe the rich, bold taste of peanutty curry. way. But The Cheesecake Slagle and their wives are hard at work owned small business with no small I scoped the online menu and headed BY SAFFRON TOMATO Factory did file a permit in on a new beer venture. It will be called amount of donut sales. They have their way. I was already eager for an Clockwise from left: The Thai iced tea is served June 2015 to build at Coronado Center. Sidetrack Brewing Co., and they Thai Spice with a straw adorned with an origami flower. eep-fried. Sugary. Glazed. Filled. I’m several stores around the city, and their early (4 p.m.) dinner when the sweet Stay tuned. Cheesecake may still be in expect to open sometime this summer. 7441 Paseo Del Norte NE Massaman curry with tofu is accompanied by talking about donuts, and they’re website is donutmartusa.com. smell of jasmine rice greeted me as D Albuquerque’s future. Saffron has been told that it’s a neigh- Albuquerque, NM 87113 jasmine rice. Thai Spice’s modern interior what’s for dessert. And Albuquerque’s I entered. Before morphing into my incorporates Thai design elements. borhood tavern concept. The focus will (505) 503-1521 donut shops are on a mission to make Duke City Donuts server and taking my drink order, the Photos Courtesy of Saffron Tomato be on beer and brewing. sure everyone knows about the One Open seven days a week, Duke City Battle of the ramen houses? unfailingly friendly hostess swiftly 413 Second Street SW Ring to rule them all. Donut’s daily stash sells out quickly. Get simple, vital beverage. O Ramen and Curry House (2114 sidetrackbrewing.net offered me a table. I communicated definitive Thai flavor. My meal had the While cakes, pies and cupcakes are Paper rose or no, the tea there as early as possible, because once Central SE) won’t be the only ramen my desire for a Thai iced tea ($2.95), chef’s uninterrupted attention, but even widely considered dessert, the humble was spot on. Boasting a a variety is gone, you’ve missed that which I always invite to join me when so, it was clear he was no rookie when it donut (or if you wanna be really annoy- delicious chocolate cake donut or other keen hint of Ceylon and explore Thai Spice’s range, I also put dining Thai. The tea’s quality is often comes to Thai creations. ing about it, the “doughnut”) has been tasty variety until the sun rises again. just the right amount of sweetness, in an order for a stir-fried dish called a reliable benchmark for gauging If you’ve ever been to Thailand, you relegated to a “fast food” usually eaten 3005 Eubank NE Thai Spice’s iced tea is made the way Pad Ma Muong Him Mapan ($9.95). expectations of the meal. know American-Thai food tends to with coffee. What sparked this rumina- 294-2470 it was intended. The quality of my It consists of sautéed cashews, onions, I barely had time to note Thai rely more heavily on meat, and less tion was the news that Dunkin’ Donuts dukecitydonuts.com aspects of the dining room décor – a drink enhanced my hopes for dishes carrots, bell peppers, dried chili and plans to open nine more locations in on herbs and spices. In contrast, Thai Buddha statue and an elaborately that mirrored its perfection. your choice of chicken, beef, pork or and around Albuquerque; that figure in- food in Thailand leans heavy on herbs Krispy Kreme Doughnuts carved room divider – and the exhibi- The menu offers traditional shrimp. Piled atop my Pad Thai and cludes four outlets that will also include Compared to our local purveyors of do- and is lighter on meats. Thai Spice  global vision  knowledge  stewardship  diversity  citizenship  tion kitchen when my tea arrived. An American-Thai dishes plus a few stir fry, the Massaman Curry ($9.95) a Baskin-Robbins. The first location is set nuts, these fatty treats don’t stand much meets this double-standard right in at Mesa del Sol hard-to-pronounce plates you won’t with tofu would further satisfy my to open in 2016. of a chance, but if you’re interested, origami flower folded from a soda       the middle with a balanced combina- Dunkin’ Donuts is open late, makes global vision knowledge stewardship diversity citizenship straw wrapper adorned the serving find on typical Thai menus. I opted nutty spice craving. This entree is they have several locations2014 here in -­‐2015 town. Quality of Education Survey Results at Mesa del Sol Surveys distributed: 225 tion of both herbs and meat. Choice fresh donuts throughout the day, and straw. How meta! The meticulous for a Thai staple: Chicken Pad Thai comprised of simmered potatoes, Surveys returned: krispykreme.com 191 2014 -­‐2015 Quality of Education Survey Results the franchise offers some tasty variet- Surveys distributed: 225 presentation showed respect for the ($9.95) spiced at the 3-star level. To peanuts, tomatoes and onions – all garnishes including chopped peanuts, Response Rate: 84.88% Surveys returned: 191 ies. But the Duke City has some stellar Response Rate: 84.88% drowned in peanut-saturated curry. dried chili and paste; limes and bean . . sprouts are offered up in bowls. homegrown donut shops. 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If all that feels daunting, consider better sex for longer. attending one of our oral sex classes for Theater on the Farm’s audience shares the unconventional, earthy stage with actors at Farm & Table. pest problems. There are many others, Rosemary but let’s start with those that are easiest Powdered rosemary leaves can be used For example, erection rings (commonly ideas on where to start and where to go; known as cock rings) are designed to be classes are online at selfservetoys.com. BY LISA BARROW to find and use. as an all-natural flea and tick repellent. Simply dust the powder onto your pets worn a couple different ways. One of Our classes are the like the sex education Beer or the areas where they sleep. Rosemary the most common and effective ways is you never got in school. t rained earlier today. The air remains damp, but I spoke with director Erin Theater on the Farm tenderness of the zucchini and Believe it or not, beer is an incredibly essential oil aids in controlling lice. behind the scrotum and over the shaft; Masturbation practice can help you last Ithe afternoon has been a hot one. We’re under Phillips by phone about the show feat. Tricklock Company squash enclosing tangy heirloom effective substance for controlling this means both shaft and balls go longer under your own control, but it may an open sky, seated on benches and hay bales and a few days prior. “This play is and Duke City Repertory cherry tomatoes, the flavors some pests. Soak a rag in beer and lay Sugar through the ring. When worn, it applies take more time and investment. I think blankets. 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Basically, the blood If you were training for another intense by rows of growing vegetables, sunflowers and a love and how complicated those 7:30 pm (performances) squash from Silver Leaf Farms in dispatched. Set saucers filled with beer wasps and yellow jackets by cutting the is temporarily trapped in the erection, physical event, you wouldn’t strut into the wide green field. In the field a man and a woman are get,” she says. “It’s also just a Farm & Table / Sol Harvest Farm Corrales, tomatoes from Jemez out in your yard, and you will attract top off an empty 2-liter bottle, inverting which makes it more engorged. Once gym and immediately begin lifting the moving toward one another. They are approaching really lush, lovely space to absorb 8917 Fourth Street NW Valley Live, goat cheese from Old snails and slugs as well. These mollusks it inside the bottle to create a funnel you’re accustomed to the sensation, the heaviest weight. 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Instead of doing the same thing you of Paseo Del Norte, this much-lauded North Valley her apparent newborn – except we believe how close we are to the abrades the waxy coating on insects’ Then wrap some duct tape around the cont. on page 33 establishment owned by Cherie Montoya is famed know, because we have just witnessed her wrapping smoke shops and laundromats of Fourth Street. exoskeletons. This wax coat is used to re- jar so the ants can climb up and in. for its seasonal, hyperlocal ingredients, many of it, that the blanket holds nothing more than a pile of Also served at the mingle were tiny, exquisitely tain water; without it, the insect quickly which come directly from the 2-acre produce farm dry, lifeless dirt. golden Argentinean empanadas filled with Farm dies from dehydration. When mixed in Vinegar Are you 60 years of age or older and out back. “It’s doing a really interesting thing to be able to & Table beef and traditional spices. I don’t eat beef baits, it can control ants, cockroaches White vinegar is an effective pesticide are concerned about your alcohol use?Are you 60 years of age or older and That’s where we are now, at Sol Harvest Farm, just be sort of in the earth. Like, at rehearsal every night, myself, but my husband went back for seconds, and and other insects. The insects also and deterrent against ants. Apple cider are concerned about your alcohol use? beyond the restaurant’s spacious patio, watching dealing with bugs, getting bug bites and getting later I overheard a woman lamenting the fact that ingest the material while grooming and vinegar attracts and catches fruit flies, Volunteers are invited to participate in a study “Rain Follows the Plow” unfold first in an adjacent itchy, because you’re actually in the hay.” Phillips the empanadas kept disappearing as fast as servers subsequently die. Boric acid will remain fungus gnats and wasps. If neighbor- that looks at Volunteers are invited to participate in a study that looks at field and then on the nearby “farm deck,” a small laughs. “It’s a perfect fit for the show.” could bring trays out. We munched on cherry- effective indefinitely in a dry environ- hood cats are mistaking your front yard the effectiveness of a behavioral treatment designed the effectiveness of a behavioral treatment designed ment. Mix boric acid with any food for a litter box, spray the ground with for elderly individuals who report wooden stage directly in front of us. During intermission, I heap another paper basket bourbon bread pudding bites for dessert, drizzled in for elderly individuals who report “Rain Follows the Plow” is a one-act play created full of popcorn mouthwateringly seasoned with caramel and offered with cherries from RCJ Orchard roaches or ants eat, including peanut white vinegar to repel them. You can significant alcohol use problems. significant alcohol use problems. by Tricklock Company and initially performed by basil, sage, rosemary and plenty of salt. Farm & and Henry’s Farm, both in Albuquerque. butter, jelly, sugar, syrup or honey. You also combine one gallon vinegar with creators Drew Morrison and Diana Delgado as part Table’s brand-new executive chef Carrie Eagle had After intermission, Ezra Colón of Duke City can mix it with ground beef to control one cup dishwashing liquid to create a If you qualify, you will be: If you qualify, you will be: of the Revolutions International Theatre Festival also spoken to me by phone before my visit, telling Repertory Theatre (DCRT) takes the stage to deliver wasps. While boric acid doesn’t contrib- nontoxic weed-killing spray.  compensated for your time and effort compensated for your time and effort ute to cancer, birth defects, allergies or in January. Told largely in a physical language that me, “One of my signatures as a chef has always been “Groundwork.” It’s a monologue written by Derek  and your confidentiality will be protected and your confidentiality will be protected other ailments like typical pesticides, it There are many other safe products falls somewhere between dance and pantomime, different types of popcorn.” I can see why. Davidson and Mike Ostroski that begins quietly, To learn more about this study is toxic if ingested and should not be you can use to control pests, and I will To learn more about this study the piece portrays a young, idealistic couple caught But I’m also already kind of missing the zuc- humorously, and begins to build. taken internally. So keep any baits you discuss them in future columns. As I please call please call in the catastrophe of the Dust Bowl. The dialogue is chini and summer squash involtini served at the Colón plays Paul, an orderly, likeable working make out of reach of children and pets. mentioned earlier, please contact me (505) 697-0784 Or (505) 697-0953 stylized and poetic. There are flashes of humor and $20 “mingle” before tonight’s show. During our actor who resolves one day, in a thunderbolt of if you have pest questions, and I will (505) 697-0784 Or (505) 697-0953 moments of pathos. They were, the pair tells us and interview, Eagle mentioned, almost off-handedly, inspiration, to have a garden. As he’s rattling off Diatomaceous earth help as best I can. I also do termite each other, “a couple who renewed their vows every “It’s just going to be a simple grilled vegetable the details – the urbanite’s epiphany that “before I frequently recommend the use of inspections and as I don’t own a termite morning.” stuffed with other vegetables and wrapped.” These you have a garden, you have to grow one,” the diatomaceous earth (DE) for controlling company, I have no vested interest in We get the feeling they’re in for disappointment. humble words left me unprepared for the perfect enthusiastic acquisition of gardening books, the a variety of pests. If you use this prod- finding termites. Department of Psychiatry UNM HRRC # 13-580 cont. on page 33 Department of Psychiatry UNM HRRC # 13-580 MUSIC ABQ FREE PRESS • June 17, 2015 • 31 The Great Beyond: Inbox Clearinghouse BY SAL TREPPIEDI

rom time to time, I must clean out my inbox. The up- “the cruelest game to play.” Imagine the hero from a Yukon Blonde Fside to this chore is letting you know about releases, fantastic movie, say “The Matrix,” wandering around bands and shows of interest. This column is one of despairing and hopeless before ultimately coming to those occasional cleaning-out-the-inbox columns. the realization that all’s well. That’s the feeling this EP evokes from beginning to end. Worth a listen. (iusand- • Mac DeMarco is prepping for the August 2015 weband.com; FB: iusandwe) release of a mini-LP titled “Another One”: eight songs recorded between tours at his home in the Far Rocka- • In Mario Puzo’s iconic “Godfather” trilogy, Virgil Sol- way neighborhood of Queens, N.Y. This EP-plus comes lozzo was the narcotics man affiliated with the Tatta- on the heels of critically acclaimed and commercially glia family. Sonny Corleone notes that Sollozzo is “good successful album “Salad Days.” The first single is “The with a knife,” but later reveals to consigliere Tom Way You’d Love Her,” a Jimmy Buffett/Jack Johnson Hagen, “I don’t like violence, Tom. I’m a businessman. island hook folded into a shoegaze melody. Visit my Blood is a big expense.” On her new album “Sprinter,” blog The Great Beyond to watch the video. (TW: @ blood is exactly what Mackenzie Scott aka Torres spills Msldemarco; FB: Mac-DeMarco) by the bucketful. As she proclaims on “New Skin,” “I’m Mac DeMarco just trying to take this new skin for a spin / Pray for • Many of the best releases that come across my me, would you?” Many of the included songs deal with desk originate off the beaten path. They’re releases Scott’s present-day and childhood religious experiences. that bring something so left-field to the table that Torres delivers the tracks with a fervor and ferocity that it might wind up missing the table completely. One leaves one inclined to believe she thrives on bathing such collective is Snarky Puppy from Denton, Texas. in the blood she spills. Like a folksy, alt-rock Countess This instrumental ensemble features musicians playing Bathory. Still, confession is good for the soul, and I, instruments like guitar, piano, keyboard, brass, wood- for one, feel cleansed. (torrestorrestorres.com; TW: @ winds, percussion and strings. On their latest release torreslovesyou; FB: torresmusicofficial) “Sylva,” the group collaborates with the acclaimed Netherlands jazz-pop orchestra Metropole Orkest, who • When I threw on In Letter Form’s “Reflecting The has previously performed with artists like Elvis Costello Rain,” my first thought was that I mistakenly put on and Tori Amos. The songs on “Sylva” were specifically The Cure’s “In Between Days” or any number of tunes written to be performed with an orchestra, and those by New Order or Joy Division. The band readily admits Kopecky renditions do not disappoint. Feel like a road trip? the song was “influenced” by Modern English’s “I Melt Snarky Puppy and Metropole Orkest play Red Rocks With You.” Still, these polished melodies and silky Amphitheatre in Golden, Colo. on Friday, Sept. 18. (TW: vocals make listening to this track a palpable, visceral @RealSnarkyPuppy; FB: snarkypuppy) pleasure. The other single, “Wait Now,” reminds one of The Sisters of Mercy and their terrific single D“ ominion/ • Straight from ‘80s new wave comes Yukon Blonde Mother Russia.” Check them out and judge for yourself. and their forthcoming album “On Blonde.” It’s slated (inletterform.com; TW: @inletterform; FB: InLetterForm) for a June 16 release on the Dine Alone label. Lead single “Saturday Night” is a catchy dance-pop tune • Lastly we have Kopecky, formerly known as Kopecky that’s poised to strike a match and set the world on Family Band. For Kopecky’s band members, it’s been fire.I t’s the sort of tune that makes you wonder why a tumultuous time riddled with personal hardships of the crap you hear on the radio doesn’t have people late. But from amid all that chaos came two exquisite running to the ear, nose and throat specialist complain- releases. Full-length “Drug For The Modern Age” and Photos: Courtesy of artists ing of a dull, waxy build-up. (yukonblonde.com; TW: @ four-track tour disc “Quarterback” boast bouncy, dance yukonblonde; FB: yukonblonde) floor-ready pop tunes with an adrenaline rush and two Check out music videos from the bands featured in this shots of espresso thrown in for good measure. Need to column and get your independent music fix between issues by heading over to the Great Beyond Music Blog • Known collectively as I, Us & We, Californian band know how to transform heartache into triumph? The at greatbeyondmusic.wordpress.com. Follow on Twitter of brothers Jordan, Evan and Aaron Doverspike just answer lies within these discs. Kopecky is on tour this @GreatBeyondBlog and Facebook at facebook.com/ released an elegant debut EP titled “Mono.” These four summer, but no Southwest dates are scheduled. (kopec- greatbeyondmusicblog. Email comments, suggestions songs are dreamy synth-pop numbers repping love as kymusic.com; TW: @KopeckyMusic; FB: kopeckymusic) and tips to [email protected].

ICOn, PAGE 21 head to our theater. substantial armrest, inspires confidence. The movie’s great; picture and sound ICON CINEMA ALBUQUERQUE Here, finally, is the fancy. It’s immedi- A simple two-button control system quality are both sharp throughout, and 13120-A Central S.E. • 814-7469 ately clear that the luxury money was operates the roomy recliners, and no one tries to rush us out before the albuquerque.iconcinemas.com far better spent in the theater than in soon my husband and I are blissfully credits are over. the lobby or on the games. Beneath a stretched out for the movie. Even in an age of instant streaming TICKET PRICING high ceiling and understated décor, the The room’s design is not only sump- and Apple TV, there’s still something Matinees $7.50 (Monday-Thursday only) recliners run in solid banks of brown, tuous and relaxing but smart. Sacrific- special about going to the movies. Adult $10.75 fluffy seating – each one falling aestheti- ing seat count for customer comfort, the It’s an outing, an event, a pleasurable Child $7.50 cally somewhere between a La-Z-Boy rows are wide – really wide. Later on, Senior (60+) $7.50 communal adventure. Icon Cinema, and the captain’s chair on “Star Trek.” another patron on a popcorn run will Military $9.75 (Monday-Thursday only) brought to us by the Snell family, The vibrational seats are more stream- be able to brush past my fully extended Student $9.75 (Monday-Thursday only) minimizes annoyances and maximizes lined but still look cushy. Illuminated feet without even touching me. (And to 3D Upcharge $3.50 floor markings make our seats easy to think, I didn’t have to pay a premium pleasure, bringing the magic back to the find. Even the cupholder, sunk into the to avoid anyone’s butt in my face.) experience. 32 • June 17, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS MUSIC ABQ FREE PRESS • June 17, 2015 • 33 Boom Box: Reviews of New Music theater on the farm, PAGE 28 BY NATE MAXSON

Kamasi Washington Both have played together with “The Epic” Arcade Fire. Stetson has released a (Brainfeeder) string of impressive solo albums in his “New History Warfare” series over the past few years – as well as a less-than-stellar collaboration with Mats Gustafsson – but “Never Were the Way She Was” is an odd duck. It employs Stetson’s recording methods, miked instruments (that pick up every possible sound) and eschews overdubs, but it isn’t as visceral as his earlier work. Bobby Gonzales That’s likely Neufeld’s contribution. Courtesy of Bobby Gonzales “The Epic” isn’t saxophonist Kamasi Her violin work has an electronic tinge Washington’s first release. It’s not to it. It makes the whole thing feel like even the first album he’s worked on a scene from “Blade Runner,” painted measuring of the plot – we, on our hay “Groundwork.” (It’s my own fault for this year; that honor goes to his string in gloom and steel. The title of this bales and blankets, are enjoying the failing to take advantage of the bug arrangement and performance contri- record is telling. “On Never Were the last minutes of gold-laced dusk. White spray thoughtfully provided by Farm bution on Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp Way She Was,” Stetson is as brilliant twinkle lights suffuse the stage with & Table.) I can almost believe they’re A Butterfly.” But it is his solo, label as ever but the unknown factor here is soft luminescence that becomes richer uncredited performers in the DCRT debut, and he has absolutely arrived. Neufeld, and she is the catalyst. These with each passing moment. production – an irritating reminder of “The Epic” is a jazz album that instrumental tracks have an incantatory The director of “Groundwork,” Amelia paradise’s limits just as Paul is dealing feels truly dangerous – something quality, like smoke or shadowy figures Ampuero, spoke with me about the play. with the grim realities of his own Ornette obituary + photos (In Box tomorrow, Saturday) the youth of today probably isn’t running through the woods – blink and Paul is “trying to right some wrongs and garden’s pest problem. He grows rueful: even aware is possible. Its title is they’re gone. undo some sort of karmic damage that “I want to grow things, not kill them.” completely appropriate. It’s three he has collected and inflicted,” she says When it ends, we are surprised hours long and presents an endless with a laugh. “The cool thing about this that night has fallen so completely. Sharon Van Etten landscape of innovation. There are show is that the audience is really a part The bright expanse of the evening’s “I Don’t Want to Let You Down” elements of traditional jazz, progres- of the story. That’s not to say that there’s, beginning – wide-open fields and the sive rock and Wagnerian bombast. I (Jagjaguwar) like, that awkward audience participa- aroma of warm earth – has contracted kid you not: There’s a Debussy cover tion – but that fourth wall is broken. He to this single bright point, this story of toward album’s end that is unlike is absolutely talking to the people who which we are now an inseparable part anything else on this planet. These have congregated there to watch him.” with its preoccupations about life and are long songs that sprawl out like She has anticipated the intimacy we death, against a backdrop of black sky. vintage King Crimson. Washington’s now feel. A real sky, the same one we live under. playing alternates between a furious Colón’s immersive portrayal of Paul Seek out the magic of this intensely local roar and sensual menacing through- has him frenetic at times, hilarious at collaboration when it repeats two more out. Yet he doesn’t hog the spotlight. others, careening between reflection Wednesdays this month, June 17 and 24. That would be difficult as there’s also and distraction. He assures us he is an orchestra, a gospel choir, virtuosic hopeful; we sense him teetering over a Lisa Barrow is a member of the Dirt City bassist Thundercat and the smoking pit of despondency. “You make a plot Writers collective, tweets with exceeding vocalizations of jazz singer Patrice Folk-rocker Sharon Van Etten’s new to control the outcome,” he tells us, irregularity from @OhLisaBarrow and Quinn. This is an uncompromising, EP “I Don’t Want To Let You Down” is but the chaos is creeping in. most recently served as Arts & Lit Editor rebellious new kind of jazz record. a distillation of her sound at its purest. Three mosquitoes bite me during and Web Editor at the Alibi. Her songs are the almost-last gasps of weary romantics who somehow Colin Stetson and Sarah manage to keep on going. The SEX Q&A, PAGE 29 Neufeld opener is an inverted plea wherein the always do to get yourself off, I encourage with a partner. “Never Were the Way She Was” singer claims to have gone through you to approach masturbation with a play- This practice might take time, and you (Constellation) “crazy hell” and wails about going ful mindset. Start off soft and slow, and see must be relaxed, take deep breaths, overboard. Van Etten is a simple how that feels. Use sex toys to diversify the and tune into your arousal level. Pay songwriter who relies on meat-and- sensations you’re experiencing. Save that attention to what your muscles are potatoes, Tom Petty-ish rhythms, special stroke, speed and grip until the very doing during each phase of your but it feels like they emanate from end. I recommend making a playlist with sexual response. By listening to your someplace real and pure. The song at least four songs. Use each song as a cue body—without pressuring it to act any “Just Like Blood” flirts with country to level up to a different type of stimula- specific way—you are well on your way horror and the closer, a live version tion. You’re essentially allowing your body to getting the results you want. of the song “Tell Me,” is thrilling. Van time to enjoy each phase of your sexual Etten’s latest album “Are We There” response cycle. You will become increas- Hunter Riley is the manager of Albuquer- came out last year; this is a stopgap ingly proficient at knowing when “the que’s best-voted, woman-owned sex shop, moment of no return” will happen. That’s Self Serve Toys, and runs a sex education Speaking of jazz musicians known between records, but it’s a solid one the moment when no matter what you do, blog, hunterrileysexeducation.com. Follow as supporting players who’ve come and serves as a fine introduction to a singer-songwriter in her prime who you will climax. Knowing what it feels like her on Twitter @hunteroriley. Send your sex into their own, Colin Stetson’s latest right before that moment lets you know shows no signs of slowing down. questions to [email protected] is a collaboration with Sarah Neufeld. when to stop or change up your moves 34 • June 17, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS DRINK MUSIC ABQ FREE PRESS • June 17, 2015 • 35 ABeerQ: Local Microbreweries Set Bar High In Memoriam: Within Range: From Trap and Blues to Southern Gothic Rap and Beyond BY EFRAIN VILLA Why Ornette Matters BY SAMANTHA ANNE CARRILLO BY RICHARD OYAMA nother microbrewery has opened up in your he nuevomexicano music scene is Garcia, Kimo ook, you would-be hipster with your group made nine records for Atlantic. and others rock in Jim’s neighborhood. You, along with everyone else vast – a limitless expanse for fans A hat, facial hair and smartphone, you Consider the audacity of the title T honor. Friends and fans should bring in town, may be thinking: “I like beer. I like food L ought to know why Ornette Coleman The Shape of “Things to Come,” the and scholars to explore. From Pueblo a $5 donation. As Jim and Hunter S. trucks. I should open a brewery!” Well, not so fast. matters. Ornette was one of a handful quartet’s first major-label record. Here work songs and traditional corridos to Thompson might have said, “Buy the Although Albuquerque is a brewer’s mecca, there of jazz musicians readily identifiable by were four incredibly sensitive, attuned Norman Petty Studios in the ‘50s and ticket, take the ride.” beyond, one could spend a lifetime are factors other than location to consider before you his first name or a single note. The alto musicians in total communication On Saturday, June 27, Songs that immersed in the diverse sounds of dip into the sudsy world of professional microbrew- saxophonist-composer was an innovator without the safety net of prearranged Make You Laugh, Love and Cry ing. Justin Hamilton, veteran brewer and co-owner who blew open the door of post-bop’s changes. The band was a smoothly flow- New Mexico. Our state has a storied history of such attention and inquiry. brings a slew of talented local musi- at Boxing Bear Brewing Co., stresses that newcomers possibilities. He died this month at 85. ing unit of collective improvisation. cians together at Launchpad (618 to the brewing business need to do their homework Indigenous and Hispanic folk music Coleman was born in Fort Worth, Alongside Coltrane, Cecil Taylor and Central SW). A friend hipped me to to ensure they can hold their own in a market that Texas in a house by the railroad tracks. others, Coleman became associated archivist John Donald Robb comes the shredfest that is Mother Death is flush with high-quality beers. “Albuquerque is He was saturated with the blues. Self- with the free jazz movement. He was to mind, as does UNM Professor Emeritus Peter White’s work Queen. I believe he said they one of the best brewing cities – not just in the nation taught, he played alto and tenor in R&B an American modernist. On the album preserving musical heritage. rocked his face off. MDQ but in the world,” said Hamilton. “The brewing bands in the area. Coleman was “the cover of “Free Jazz” was a Jackson Seeking to understand the past drummer Cara Tolino (The community here is very tight-knit, and many of us elemental land change,” Amiri Baraka Pollock painting. Ornette performed wrote, “the migratory earth man, the with Beat novelist William Burroughs is a worthy endeavor but don’t Hopefuls) tells me that band- have been brewing with each other for more than a forget that the here and now is decade. We take our jobs very seriously.” country blues person of old come in the and performance artist Laurie Anderson. mate Ella Brown (Edith) mused city with a funkier wilder blues.” He Watch Shirley Clarke’s quirky 1985 film equally worthwhile. about campfire songs, sung in the Hamilton believes there is still room for growth, as Forthcoming hot tickets include loved Charlie Parker’s phrasing. “Ornette: Made in America” to under- carefree, trusting way friends can. long as start-up breweries are willing to bring their an electronic/experimental hoedown A-game. “The market is far from saturated, but we While on tour, a gang of musicians stand the price he paid. Tolino, Brown and vocalist/guitarist once beat him up outside a dance hall Think of Ornette’s music as the sonic and a blues fest honoring the father are always mindful of newcomers because bad beer Amy Clinkscales will all play solo in Baton Rouge, La. His unorthodox equivalent of abstract expressionism – figure. On Saturday, June 20, local art can ruin the reputation we’ve worked so hard to and as Mother Death Queen. It’s the sound displeased them. They smashed his jittery, dirge-like, wailing. “Coleman’s collective Nothng Forevr and Sister create in New Mexico. It can even negatively affect first time in 20 years that professional saxophone. It was serious business learn- screams and rants are only musical,” (407 Central NW) debut bimonthly badass Jen Sincero has landed on tourism and other industries. As long as newbie ing to play on your own. Moving to Los Baraka wrote, “once one understands dark electro party Shrimp Night. brewers produce quality beer, we will be here to Angeles in 1953, Coleman discovered a the music his emotional attitude seeks This twerk-friendly premiere features a lineup with former bandmate embrace them.” marginally more congenial environment. to create.” His brooding concerto “Skies live performances by BK Beats, The Clinkscales. Other performers playing Quality beer is something that Boxing Bear Brew- Most players shunned him. He looked like of America” was performed by the Lon- 1960 Sci-Fi Era and soulwave act their favorite cover songs include ing Co., open less than a year, is already nationally a “long-haired, black Jesus.” But there don Symphony Orchestra. It has been LeDouix, and a DJ set by homegrown Darrell Sparks (Pawn Drive), Kimo, Above, a Bosque Brewing known for. Earlier this month their Hefeweizen he met sympathetic cohorts who would said that Coleman’s melodies resemble swervegaze icon Bryce Hample of Mauro Woody (Lady Uranium), Co. beer poses alongside REIGHNBEAU. The 21-plus electro/ (Hairy Mit Hefe) and Bohemian Pilsner (Body pelletized hops (left) and manifest his early music: trumpeter Don children’s songs. But it’s my belief the Marty Crandall (Sad Baby Wolf), The bass bash starts at 10 p.m., and there’s Czech) took silver medals in the North American barley grains (right). Cherry, drummers Ed Blackwell and Billy composer was a tragedian on the order Lymbs and at least eight other acts. no cover. Beer Awards competition; their Chocolate Milk Stout Below, a Boxing Bear Higgins, and bassist Charlie Haden. In of Melville or Charles Ives. Listen to the This 21-plus gig is five bucks. Arrive Want to get (literally) higher? Make brought home the bronze. This event is sanctioned Brewing Co. cerveza 1954 he married poet Jayne Cortez who ominous climate of feeling on “Skies.” by 9 p.m. by the North American Brewers Association to refuses to share the bore him a son named Denardo. Recorded in 1972, it sure as hell sounds the 45-minute pilgrimage to higher (708 feet, to be precise) elevations A Geto Boys concert is a serious determine which brews are the best in the country. spotlight. In 1959 Coleman’s quartet played at like the present moment. in Madrid for the Father’s Day shouldn’t-miss for all Gen X-ers, espe- If you want to taste the winners, the Boxing Bear Courtesy of Boxing Bear the Five Spot Café in Manhattan, N.Y., Coleman purchased an industrial Blues Festival. Forty New Mexico cially OG gangsta rap fans. I spent my taproom is located in Northwest Albuquerque on Brewing Co. and were suddenly famous. The two- building on Prince Street in SoHo. Call- musicians, including Chris Dracup, teen years near Houston and grokking the sandy banks of the Rio Grande (10200 Cor- week engagement extended to two- ing it Artists House, he produced Todd Tijerina, Hillary Smith and Dirty South was as vital to one’s cred rales Road N.W.). Call ahead to 897-2327 if you’re and-a-half months. By all accounts, every concerts and formed a new group that Scale Tipper IPA, twice JD Sipe, will play this four-hour jam as getting the importance of BBQ. interested in taking a free tour of their facilities. jazz musician of note attended those included tenor saxophonist Dewey Red- more in 2015. Citra performances, though critical opinion man. It was a precursor to the ‘70s loft session. New Mexico Jazz Workshop It’s been a decade since they released While enjoying their patio or indoor pub, you can trademarked hops are was violently divided. Trumpeter Miles jazz scene, when many clubs closed in an organized the fest, which tunes up an album, but Geto Boys (presently also partake in other goodies they produce onsite, a rare, aromatic variety Davis claimed Ornette was “sick.” The almost-bankrupt New York. at 2 p.m. at Oscar Huber Memorial Scarface, Willie D and Bushwick Bill) such as wine, cider, food and small-batch specialty that are in extremely New York Times’ John S. Wilson wrote Ornette’s “Prime Time” featured two Ball Park (State Road 14, Madrid). beers. You may see Boxing Bear beer flowing from a are together again and crowdfunding high demand. that Coleman’s playing was “shrill, electric guitarists, including an acquain- Arts & crafts and food vendors will tap near you soon, as they’re hard at work expand- the release of latest “Habeas Corpus.” Fortunately Bosque meandering and repetitious.” tance of mine, Bern Nix. The band’s be on hand. Twenty bucks gets you in, ing their wholesale operations. This summer their which works out to 50 cents per act. Kickstarter rewards range from fan Brewing Company is Tenor saxophonist John Coltrane dense, jagged sound occupied the same featured seasonals are the Black-eye IPA and Sucker Talk about value. club membership on the low end working tirelessly to begged to differ. “Coltrane loved the space as James Blood Ulmer and influ- Punch Double IPA. Visit their website, boxingbear- Here in town the following to barhopping with Bushwick Bill reduce any potential ideas operating behind Coleman’s enced post-punk bands like Minutemen. brewing.com, to learn more. your soul. Maybe you’re one of those do-gooders quartet,” Ben Ratliff wrote, “the notion As often happens to major artists in weekend, a concert at Low Spirits (who’s an ordained minister), golfing for craft beer scarcity in our state. Earlier this You might be wondering what’s with all these who must make the world a better place with every of playing without a pianist or any other this country, plaudits were showered (2823 Second Street NW) celebrates with Scarface (who posts hilarious year, they opened taprooms in Las Cruces (901 E. steroidal IPAs hop, hop, hopping to the heavens. action you take. Fret not. Bosque Brewing Company chord-based instrument; the band’s on Coleman late in his career. He was the life of local musician and writer tour photos on Instagram) or having “Albuquerque is known for being an IPA town,” University) and Albuquerque’s Nob Hill (106 Girard allows Good Samaritans to drink for a worthy intuitive ways of getting around strictly awarded an NEA Jazz Master fellow- Jim Phillips. We met as colleagues, Willie D host your party on the said Hamilton. “We do hoppy very well here.” We Blvd. S.E.). “It was exhausting to open two new cause. Every month, one dollar from each featured delineated rhythm, and changing tonal- ship, a MacArthur genius grant and the and I instantly recognized the soul higher end. The most absurd perk do hoppy so well, in fact, that local breweries have taprooms in different parts of the state within a span beer sold is donated to a preselected charitable ity in the middle of a tune.” Pulitzer Prize for “Sound Grammar.” of an artist and the manners of a true on offer is a custom-designed Geto to jump through impressive hoops to ensure they of just three weeks, but they are both doing well,” organization. There are also commemorative glasses Coleman coined the term “harmolod- “One of the most baffling things about Southern gentleman. Jim wrote about Boys coffin. (Of course I want it.) The love and loss. The forms varied: lyrics have enough hops on hand to keep cranking out said Myers. “In fact we will soon be expanding the patrons can buy to remind them of their good deed ics,” a portmanteau that combined America is that despite its essentially vile original Southern gothic/horrorcore for his band Lousy Robot, journalism, the beers New Mexicans love. “Increased demand Las Cruces taproom by moving to another location long after the alcohol-induced warm and fuzzies harmony, movement and melody, to profile,” Baraka wrote, “so much beauty crew graces Sister (407 Central NW) parables, allegories, stories. There for hops throughout the country means we have in the same strip mall. That will give us three times have faded away. Nonprofit organizations seeking explain his conception. Ratliff again: continues to exist here.” Coleman was a was a compulsive honesty in his on Monday, June 29. This 21-plus to contract with suppliers years in advance,” says the space we currently have.” The new location will to apply for funding can find more information on “Coleman and Cherry soloed together maker of strange, haunting, subversive work. He had many friends, and they hip-hop shouldn’t-miss will run you Jessica Myers, general manager at Bosque Brewing feature a full kitchen and a layout similar to their their website at bosquebrewingcom. harmoniously yet loosely.” Haden made beauty. Pipe Ornette into Wal-Mart’s system and see what happens. gather to pay tribute and help his $20, and the show starts at 9 p.m. Company. She adds that they have enough Citra Nob Hill taproom. the music “cohere by creating a strong tonal center.” The frontline wove wife Elisa raise funds for his medical Your mind is not playing tricks on hops to brew their National IPA Challenge winner, Maybe drinking beer simply isn’t enough to pacify You can reach Efrain Villa at aimlessvagabond.com around the drummer’s pulse. That classic Richard Oyama is a poet and novelist. bills. Starting at 9 p.m. on Friday, you, and yes, it does feel damn good June 26, Merma & Roberta, Becca to be a gangsta. 36 • June 17, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS EVENTS EVENTS ABQ FREE PRESS • June 17, 2015 • 37

CALENDAr List your CALENDAr JUNE 19-21 TUESDAY, JUNE 23 event THURSDAY, JUNE 18 World Party THROUGH AUGUST 29 JUNE 18-JULY 2 8 pm, Skylight, 139 W San Francisco St, Santa Fe, The Gregg Daigle Band Murder at the Abilene Saloon The Guild Cinema DEFINITIVE DOZEN 5 ART: Nature Art through Paper 9 OUTDOORS: Night Walks at the in the (505) 886-1251, ampconcerts.org Part of Summer Nights concert series Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown, 3405 Central Ave NE, 255-1848; WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 Show Botanic Garden ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden Show Room, 7:30 pm, ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden, 2601 6 pm, ABQ BioPark, 2601 Central Ave NW, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24 2600 Louisiana Blvd NE, 377-9593, for movie times: guildcinema.com MUSIC: Marble Brewery Benefit 2601 Central Ave NW, 768-2000, Central Ave NW, RSVP: 848-7180, cabq.gov ABQ F 764-6200, abqbiopark.com foulplaycafe.com June 18, Rockers 1 ree P Ticklefish Rocks! for Project PeacePal with Pawn abqbiopark.com ress The Melvins June 19-20, Kung Fu Killer Shop Poster Boys WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24 10:15 am, Tony Hillerman Library, FRIDAY, JUNE 19 June 19-23, Charlie’s Country calendar 7 pm, Taos Mesa Brewing, 20 ABC Mesa Rd, 8205 Apache Ave NE, 291-6264, abclibrary.org 5 pm, Marble Brewery, 111 Marble Ave NW, SATURDAY, JUNE 20 FAMILY: Stories in the Night Sky El Prado, (575) 758-1900, taosmesabrewing.com Tim McGraw, Billy Currington, June 21, BB King: The Life of Riley 243-2739, marblebrewery.com 10 June 24, The Pace That Thrills!; The Black Rider 6 ARTWARD BOUND: & ABQ Concert Band Email event info, including THURSDAY, JUNE 25 Chase Bryant FANTASE Fest 6 pm, Anderson Abruzzo Balloon Museum, JUNE 18-21 7 pm, Isleta Resort & Casino, June 25, Cool Runnings THURSDAY, JUNE 18 Eliza Gilkyson June 26, Midnight Swim 9201 Balloon Museum Dr NE, 768-6020, event name, date, time, New Mexico Classical Guitar Festival 11000 Broadway SE, 724-3800, isleta.com Art projections, music, performance, and Part of Summer Nights concert series June 26-29, Dark Star: H.R. Giger’s World 2 FOOD: Salud y Sabor: Spain downtown vibrancy balloonmuseum.com Keller Hall, UNM Main Campus, 203 Cornell Drive, 5:30 pm, Free, National Hispanic address and contact phone 6 pm, ABQ BioPark, 2601 Central Ave NW, JUNE 19-JULY 12 June 26-29, Industrial Soundtrack for Downtown Santa Fe; creativesantafe.org 450-4917, guitarnewmexico.org 764-6200, abqbiopark.com Cultural Center, 1701 Fourth St SW, JUNE 26-27 The Sunshine Boys The Urban Decay STAGES: Pride Concerts: number or website, to 724-4771, nhccnm.org 7 SCREENS: ABQ Internet FRIDAY, JUNE 19 Watermelon Mountain Jug Band The Adobe Theater, 9813 Fourth Street NW, June 27, Doomsdays I Love the Eighties 11 June 27-28, Ernest & Celestine TALKS: Getting Men to the Cat Video Festival 2015 [email protected] 5:30 pm, North Valley Library, 898-9222, adobetheater.org 3 KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW, Bebe La La June 30-July 2, Neil Young Double Feature: Moon — Behind-the-scenes South Broadway Cultural Center, 7704 Second St NW, 897-8823, abclibrary.org 768-3544, nmgmc.org one month in advance of 1 pm, Los Griegos Library, 1000 Griegos Rd NW, JUNE 19-21 Human Highway, Rust Never Sleep Stories with Loretta Hall 1025 Broadway Blvd SE, 761-4020, abclibrary.org/losgriegos FRIDAY, JUNE 26 southbroadwaytickets.com, animalhu- Fiddler on the Roof 7 pm, New Mexico Natural History Museum, SUNDAY, JUNE 21 publication. Calixto Oviedo’s Latin Train JUNE 19-29 manenm.org The Revelers Lensic Performing Arts Center, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, nmnaturalhistory.org Part of Salsa Under the Stars concerts 8 FIESTA: Father’s Day Fiesta Part of Zoo Music 211 W San Francisco St, Santa Fe, CCA Cinematheque 7 pm, Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, FRIDAY, JUNE 19 at the Zoo SATURDAY, JUNE 27 6 pm, Rio Grande Zoo, 903 10th Street SW, (505) 988-7050, lensic.org 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, (505) 982-1338, Noon, Rio Grande Zoo, 903 10th St SW, 2000 Mountain Rd NW, 243-7255, ccasantafe.org MUSEUMS: Candomblé, BOOKS & POETRY: Dennis Herrick: 764-6200, abqbiopark.com 4 764-6200, abqbiopark.com 12 cabq.gov/museum Starts June 19, Sunshine Superman Dress & Design: Dr. Paulo Lima Winter of the Metal People/ Son Como Son SUNDAY, JUNE 21 June 20-22, Auteurs 2015 Series: The General 6 pm, Free, National Hispanic Cultural Center, The Tiguex War of 1540-1542 The Infamous Stringdusters Part of Salsa Under the Stars concerts Daedalus String Quartet Starts June 26, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Art Museum, 1701 Fourth St SW, 724-4771, Noon, Free, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, 8 pm, Taos Mesa Brewing, 20 ABC Mesa Rd, 7 pm, Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, 4 pm, Albuquerque Academy, Simms Center for Reflecting on Existence nhccnm.org 2401 12th St NW, 843-7270, indianpueblo.org El Prado, (575) 758-1900, taosmesabrewing.com 2000 Mountain Rd NW, 242-4600, the Performing Arts, 6400 Wyoming Blvd NE, June 27-29, Auteurs 2015 Series: Touch of Evil Funk of the West cabq.gov/museum Frank Caliendo Part of Summertime in Old Town Tom Adler and The Fast Peso Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort & Casino, JUNE 20-26 Marble Brewery June 25, Low Life Vids ‘n’ Vinyl 7 pm, Free, Historic Old Town Plaza, CLUBS & PUBS JUNE 24-29 String Band 287 Carrizo Canyon Rd, Mescalero, Jean Cocteau Cinema 111 Marble Ave NW, 243-2739, June 29, Geto Boys 303 Romero St NW, 768-3556, cabq.gov Sunshine Theater Part of Music at the Museum (800) 545-9011, ticketmaster.com, 418 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, (505) 466-5528, marblebrewery.com July 25, Ancient River, Sun Dog JUNE 17-21 120 Central Ave SW, 764-0249, 5:30 pm, Free, New Mexico Museum of Art, innofthemountaingods.com jeancocteaucinema.com June 18, Jade Masque SATURDAY, JUNE 20 Burt’s Tiki Lounge sunshinetheaterlive.com 107 W Palace Ave, Santa Fe, (505) 476-5072, Marc Chagall: June 20-24, The Apple Pushers June 20, Le Chat Lunatique JUNE 19-27 James McMurtry 313 Gold Ave SW, 247-2878 June 24, In This Moment, 36 Crazyfists, nmartmuseum.org Creativity and Healthy Narcissism June 26, Forbidden Games, Set Fire to the Stars June 27, Cali Shaw Band 8 pm, Skylight, 139 W San Francisco St, Santa Fe, June 17, Freaky Tiki Bass Coolwater Fusion The Defiled 11 am, Lensic Performing Arts Center, Wyoming Mall, 2010 Wyoming Blvd NE, (505) 886-1251, ampconcerts.org SATURDAY, JUNE 27 June 18, Merican Slang JUNE 18-30 June 27, Halestorm 211 W San Francisco St, Santa Fe, NOW PLAYING June 19, Billy Crooze 332-2665, coolwaterfusion.com June 29, Dizzy Wright Jazz Brasileiro Marlon Magdelena, Red Thunder Bear (505) 988-7050, lensic.org Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Secret Ocean 3D June 20, Fourskin, I am Hologram The Jam Spot June 19, 6 pm, Peter Bonner Part of Summertime in Old Town and the Thunder Rebels Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric June 21, North, Hallow Tongue 239 San Pedro NE, 440-2600 June 20, 9 pm, Comedy Showcase ONGOING 7 pm, Free, Historic Old Town Plaza, Part of Hit the Road concert series WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24 Planet 3D June 18, Gommora, Torture Victim hosted by Lucas Brickyard Pizza 303 Romero St NW, 768-3556, cabq.gov 11 am, Free, Jemez Historic Site, State Hwy 4, Vans Warped Tour Tiny Giants 3D June 20, T-Zank, E3, Joey Breakdown June 26, 6 pm, Willy J JUNE 17-28 2216 Central Ave SE, 262-2216 The Rio Grande String Band 43 miles north of Bernalillo, Jemez Springs, Isleta Resort & Casino, Amphitheater, 11000 Lockheed Martin Dynatheater, June 22, Harrison Wirston June 27, 9 pm, Comedy Showcase Tractor Brewery: Wells Park Tuesdays, 9 pm, Open Mic Night, Part of Saturday Sunset series RSVP: nmhistoricsites.org, (575) 829-3530 Broadway SE, 724-3800, isleta.com New Mexico Museum of Natural History, June 24, Jess J Jones, Aldoni, Calvin Rose hosted by Keith 1800 Fourth St NW, 243-6752, getplowed.com RSVP: brickyardpizza.com/events 7 pm, Elena Gallegos Picnic Area, 452-5200, Sol Calypso Steel Drum Band 1801 Mountain Rd NW, 841-2800, June 26, Mike Stezzy Skylight JUNE 26-AUGUST 2 nmnaturalhistory.org June 17, Kamikaze Karaoke Draft Station ABQ cabq.gov Part of Saturday Sunset series June 27, WhiteNoise 139 W San Francisco St, Santa Fe, June 18, 8 pm, Mondo Vibrations 1720 Central SW, draft-station.com The Susan Abod Trio 7 pm, Elena Gallegos Picnic Area, 452-5200, Nunsense June 29, Brassknuckle Boys, 99 Bottles, (505) 982-0775, skylightsantafe.com THROUGH JUNE 21 June 18, 10 pm, 3rd Thursdays Comedy Contest Tuesdays, 7 pm, The Draft Sessions, live local indie Part of Art in the Afternoon cabq.gov Aux Dog Theatre Nob Hill, 3011 Monte Vista Blvd Annihilate, Class War, Infirmary June 19, Emiarte Flamenco June 19, Art Fight Round 8 2 pm, Free, Albuquerque Museum of NE, 254-7716, auxdog.com/wordpress/ Fulldome Programs June 30, Scum June 20, James McMurtry Gecko’s June 20, In the Mix: Nicolatron Art & History, 2000 Mountain Rd NW, SUNDAY, JUNE 28 Part of New Media New Mexico, June 23, World Party with David Duffy 5801 Academy Rd NE, 821-8291, geckosbar.com June 25, pLOUD Music Series Low Spirits 242-4600, cabq.gov/museum Chatter Sunday: Samuel Barber, SATURDAY, JUNE 27 currentsnewmedia.org June 27, In the Mix: BuddhaFunk 2823 Second St NW, 344-9555, lowspiritslive.com June 24, Open Mic with Jason Reed, Tuesdays, Karaoke Edgard Varese, Terry Riley Institute of American Indian Arts, Wednesdays, Live Entertainment Tommy Castro and the Painkillers A Flower Child Summer ­— June 28, I’ll Drink to That June 18, The Magic Beans, Brothers Gow Swing Dance! Kosmos Performance Space at the Factory on 5th, 83 Avan Nu Po Rd, Santa Fe, iaia.edu Thursdays, Texas Hold’em Poker League Part of Zoo Music Belly Dance Halfa! June 19, Leiahdorus, The Glass Menageries, June 26, Joaquin Gallegos CD Release 1715 Fifth St NW Saturdays, 8 pm, Live Entertainment 6 pm, Rio Grande Zoo, 903 10th Street SW, 3: 30 pm, Anasazi Field Winery, JUNE 17-30 Rawrr! June 27, Cameron Esposito 10:30 am, second performance 3 pm, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 764-6200, abqbiopark.com 26 Camino De Los Pueblitos, Placitas, Launchpad June 20, Dirty Bourbon River Show Sneakerz Sports Grille chatterabq.org 867-3062, isalanstudios.com Experimental Documentary June 21, Fairy Bones, The Broken Fables, Whole Lotta’ Rhythm Goin’ Down Series: Shorts 618 Central Ave SW, 764-8887, 4100 San Mateo Blvd NE, 837-1708, MUSIC The Tumbleweeds Little Big Town The Talking Hours sneakerzsportsbar.com Part of Something New Under the Stars concerts Part of New Media New Mexico, launchpadrocks.com 7 pm, Arte de Placitas, 221 Hwy 165, Placitas, Sandia Resort & Casino, 30 Rainbow Rd, June 22, Foy Vance, Ryan McMullan 7 pm, Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, currentsnewmedia.org June 17, Regicide CD Release Show June 19, 9 am, Fundraising Volleyball Tourney ONGOING 867-5383, artedeplacitas.com June 23, Larva, Tempest Diaspora, Diverje, 796-7500, sandiacasino.com June 18, $1000 Mic Club June 19, Smoke and Honey Band Latin Jam Sessions 2000 Mountain Rd NW, 243-7255, 7 pm, Violet Crown Cinema, 1606 Alcaldesa St, Andrako cabq.gov/museum June 19, Anesthesia, Eagle Claw June 20, 9 am, Semper Fi Wounded Marines Thursdays, 7 pm, Ben Michael’s, TUESDAY, JUNE 30 Santa Fe, (512) 495-9600, June 20, Stoic Frame, Reviva June 28, Bob Log III Benefit: Motorcycle Prize Run STAGES facebook.com/violetcrownsantafe 2404 Pueblo Bonito NW, 224-2817 Nickelback June 21, Nothing More, Wilson, Red Sun Rising June 30, Jimmy Thackery June 20, Noon, Semper Fi Wounded Marines JUNE 20-21 Jazz N’ Blues Brunch Isleta Resort & Casino, Amphitheater, June 22, Motopony, Great States Zinc Cellar Bar Benefit: Bands Windrider Music Fest THROUGH JUNE 27 THURSDAY, JUNE 18 Sundays, 11 am, Embassy Suites Hotel, 11000 Broadway SE, 724-3800, isleta.com June 23, The Picturebooks 3009 Central Ave NE, 254-9462, zincabq.com June 27, 9 am, NM Games Senior Ski Apache, 1286 Ski Run Rd, Alto, Xanadu Jr LuTo 1000 Woodward Place NE, 245-7100 June 24, Sorry Guero and Whiskey Driven Tour June 18, 9:30 pm, Hank Erwin Volleyball Tourney more info: skiapache.com VSA North 4th Theatre, 4904 Fourth St NW, 7 pm, Free, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Kickoff Show!, Hate Engine June 21, 11 am, Jack Hansen June 27, 8 pm, Primal Panic Band Showcase Jesus Bas cardboard-playhouse.org SCREENS 1701 Fourth St SW, 246-2261, nhccnm.org Thursdays, 7 pm, Hotel Andaluz, MÁS, SUNDAY, JUNE 21 June 25, Broken Diamond Burlesque presents June 21, 6 pm, Jim Almand Your Day is My Night: Experimental JUNE 18-30 125 Second St NW, 242-9090, hotelandaluz.com THROUGH JUNE 28 Cosplay Our Way June 23, 8 pm, Sean Farley Chatter Sunday: Violin, Cello and Piano JUNE 17-25 Documentary Feature June 28, Otep, Illumina AD, Feud of Temptation, June 25, 9:30 pm, Hilary Scott Ned’s Bar & Grill Piano Music Kosmos Performance Space at the Factory on 5th, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told Fathom Events, at selected movie Part of New Media New Mexico, Throw the Temple June 27, 9:30 pm, Youngsville 2509 San Mateo Boulevard NE, 884-4680, Thursdays, 11 am, North Valley Senior Center, 1715 Fifth St NW The Desert Rose Playhouse, theaters, fathomevents.com currentsnewmedia.org June 30, Hemlock, Knuckles Deep, Echoes of June 28, 11 am, Dan Dowling nedsnm.com 3825 Fourth St NW, 761-4025, cabq.gov/seniors 10:30 am, chatterabq.org 6921 Montgomery Blvd NE, RSVP: 881-0503, June 17, 2015 DCI Tour Premiere 7 pm, Violet Crown Cinema, 1606 Alcaldesa St, Fallen June 30, 8 pm, Matt Campbell June 18, 5 pm, Freddie Chavez desertroseplayhouse.net June 21, Jaws Santa Fe, (512) 495-9600, June 19, 5:30 pm, Crystal Inferno WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 MONDAY, JUNE 22 June 22, A Midsummer Night’s Dream facebook.com/violetcrownsantafe JUNE 18-27 JUNE 18-JULY 25 June 19, 9 pm, Ravenous The Magic Beans Navy Band Southwest THROUGH JULY 5 June 23, Exhibition on Screen: The Dirty Bourbon Sister Bar June 20, 8 pm, Hartless 6 pm, Taos Mesa Brewing, 20 ABC Mesa Rd, 6 pm, Cherry Hills Library, 6901 Barstow St NE, Julius Caesar Girl with a Pearl Earring FRIDAY, JUNE 19 9800 Montgomery Blvd NW, 296-2726, 407 Central Ave SW, 242-4900, sisterthebar.com June 21, 3 pm, Danger Zone Karaoke El Prado, (575) 758-1900, taosmesabrewing.com 857-8321, abclibrary.org The Taming of the Shrew June 24, Jaws Bless Me Ultima dirtybourbon.com June 18, The Howlin’ Wolves, Bellemah, June 23, 6 pm, Picosso Various Thursdays-Sundays, 7:30 pm, June 25, The Audience 1 pm, Free, Los Lunas Museum of Heritage June 18-20, Asphalt Cowboys Sloan Armitage June 25, 5 pm, Freddie Chavez JUNE 17-21 TUESDAY, JUNE 23 Albuquerque Civic Plaza, 400 Marquette Ave NW, and Arts, 251 Main St SE, Los Lunas, 352-7720 June 25-27, Rebel Heart June 23, Sage Francis, Akword Actwrite, June 26, 9 pm, Shit Happens Cruizin’ Central History of Folk Music in the 247-8600, vortexabq.org Dahhm Life June 28, 3 pm, Danger Zone Karaoke National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 Fourth St SW, 20th Century with Jennings & Keller June 24, Leftover Soul June 30, 6 pm, Picosso 724-4771, tickets: nhccnm.org 6:30 pm, Lomas Tramway Library, 908 Eastridge Dr NE, 291-6295, abclibrary.org 38 • June 17, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS EVENTS EVENTS ABQ FREE PRESS • June 17, 2015 • 39 CALENDAr CALENDAr Earth to Echo June 20, 4:30 pm, Teen Book Club, Noggin by THURSDAY, JUNE 25 FRIDAY, JUNE 19 Nob Hill Growers Market FRIDAY Prehistoric Weaponry of the Southwest: Grateful Life Yoga Part of Movies in the Park John Corey Whaley 3 pm, Morningside Park, Ron Fields Sundays, 9 am, Open Space Visitor Center, Open Space Story Hour: Sabra Steinsiek Los Poblanos Farm Tour ABQ Food Fridays Dusk, Free, Raymond G Sanchez Community June 24, 4:30 pm, Magic Treehouse Book Club: Lead Ave SE & Morningside Dr SE 2 pm, Sandoval County Historical Society Museum 6500 Coors Blvd NW, 897-8831, 10 am, Free, Open Space Visitor Center, 6500 10 am, Los Poblanos Historic Inn & Organic Farm, 4 pm, Civic Plaza, SW Section, 1 Civic Plaza NW, Center, 9800 Fourth St NW, 314-0477, bernco.gov High Tide in Hawaii (DeLavy House), 151 Edmond Road, Bernalillo, cabq.gov/openspace, Coors Blvd NW, 897-8831, cabq.gov/openspace 4803 Rio Grande Blvd NW, 344-9297, Third St NW and Marquette Ave NW, June 25, 10:30 am, Story Time: Summer Time! SATURDAYS 771-9493, kuaua.com 30% benefits Open Space Alliance Grease lospoblanos.com civicplazapresents.com Part of Railyard Park Movie Series June 27, 10:30 am, Big on Animals: Frogs! 3 pm, FRIDAY, JUNE 26 Downtown Growers’ Market June 19, Chef Ernesto of Café Bien Guided Meditation Sage and Jared’s Happy Gland Band 8 am, Robinson Park, 8th & Central, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24 8 pm, Free, Santa Fe Railyard Park, Hands of Enchantment: SATURDAY, JUNE 20 Coffee Tasting Sundays, 9 am, Free, Albuquerque Meditation downtowngrowers.com Brown Bag It with MoCNA: 740 Cerrillos Rd, Santa Fe, ampconcerts.org Face It, You’re a Hero Composting with Worms 6:30 pm, Free, Prosum Roasters, 3228 Los Arboles Group of Self Realization Fellowship, THROUGH AUGUST 11 June 20, Piano Man Larry Freidman; 10 am, Eliza Naranjo Morse Sci-Fi Sequels: Revenge of the Creature 10:30 am, Ernie Pyle Library, 900 Girard SE, (Vermicomposting) Ave NE, 379-5136, prosumroasters.com 1704 Moon St NE, 298-3640, yogaananda-srf.org Open Space Explorer Series Salad Mixer Contest Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Helen 6pm, 8:30 pm, KiMo Theatre, 256-2065, abclibrary.org 1 pm, Open Space Visitor Center, 6500 Coors Blvd Siddha Yoga Meditation Tuesdays, ages 5-11, Open Space Visitor Center, June 27, The Missing Parts Hardin Media Gallery, 108 Cathedral Pl, Santa Fe, 423 Central Ave NW, 768-3522, kimotickets.com NW, 897-8831, [email protected] WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 Wednesdays, 7pm, Siddha Yoga Meditation 6500 Coors Blvd NW, RSVP: 897-8831, JUNE 26-28 iaia.edu/museum Oak Flat Public Star Party SUNDAYS Bosque Brewing Beer Dinner Center, 4308 Carlisle Blvd NE #201, 291-5434, SATURDAY, JUNE 20 cabq.gov/openspace 54th Annual New Mexico Music Business Workshops on The Vans 6 pm, Free, Oak Flat Picnic Grounds, Highway Pueblo Harvest Café, 2401 12th St NW, siddhayoga.org Arts & Crafts Fair Rail Yards Market (Barelas) Warped Tour Hotel Transylvania WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 337, Tijeras, 254-8227, taas.org 724-3510, indianpueblo.com/harvestcafe Tai Chi Expo New Mexico, Manuel Lujan Jr Exhibition 9 am, 777 First St SW, railyardsmarket.org More info: thinktei.com/albuquerqueworkshops Part of Movies in the Park Thursdays, 6 pm, Free with weeding exchange, Adult Night: Sustainable Science Complex, 300 San Pedro Dr NE, 222-9700, Pollinator Celebration at the June 21, Solstice Sun-day: Donne Lewis, Chloe Tasting: Lavender Tea Dusk, Free, Prado del Sol (Twin Parks), Erda Gardens & Learning Center, 1305 Blake SW, 6:30 pm, 18+, Explora, 1701 Mountain Rd NW, exponm.com Botanic Garden Nixon and the Band, Bandwidth No Name 10 am, Free, Los Poblanos Historic Inn & Organic SATURDAY, JUNE 27 4300 Avenida Mañana NE, 314-0477, bernco.gov Farm, 4803 Rio Grande Blvd NW, 344-9297, 610-1538, erdagardens.org 224-8300, explora.us 10 am, ABQ BioPark, 2601 Central Ave NW, June 28, Wellness Day: New Mexico Academy of 12th Century Music of Hildegard of Movie Under the Wings: Back to the lospoblanos.com Explora: Kaleidoscope-crazed SATURDAY, JUNE 27 768-2000, abqbiopark.com Rock and Blues, Eryn Bent, Celia Gary Bingen: Jane Ellen Tuesday Night Swing Dance with Future 2 pm, Central & Unser Library, 8081 Central Ave Autism Society Summer BBQ Powered by the Sun 2 pm, Free, Placitas Community Library, 453 Hwy The Calming Four 7:30 pm, The National Museum of Nuclear Sci- THURSDAY, JUNE 18 NW, 768-4320, RSVP: abclibrary.org 5 pm, Free, Haynes Park, 2006 Grande Blvd SE #A, Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge, 165, Placitas, 867-3355, placitaslibrary.com Tuesdays, 7 pm, Heights Community Center, 823 ence & History, 601 Eubank Blvd SE, FOOD TRUCKS & FOOD Rio Rancho, RSVP: nmasbbq2015.eventbrite.com 7851 Second St SW, 248-6667 Izanami + Niigata Sake Dinner Buena Vista SE, 710-3840, thecalmingfour.com nuclearmuseum.org Life Cycle of the Butterfly Conchita’s Creations 5 pm, Ten Thousand Waves, Izanami, 3451 10:30 am, South Broadway Library, Jugamos Juntos: Summer Bosque Wildlife Festival Santa Fe in Motion conchitascreations.net Hyde Park Rd, Santa Fe, RSVP: (505) 982-9304, COMMUNITY 1025 Broadway Blvd SE, 764-1742, abclibrary.org 10:30 am, Free, National Hispanic Cultural Center, 10 am, Wildlife West Nature Park, 87 N Frontage BOOKS & POETRY 2 pm, Free, New Mexico History Museum, June 17, 11 am, 2300 Menaul Blvd tenthousandwaves.com 1701 Fourth St SW, 724-4771, nhccnm.org Rd, Edgewood, 281-7655, wildlifewest.org June 23, 11 am, Truckin’ Tuesday, Civic Plaza WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 113 Lincoln Ave, Santa Fe, (505) 476-5200, THURSDAY, JUNE 18 JUNE 17-30 nmhistorymuseum.org Octofair 2: The Revenge June 24, 6 pm, Stories in the Night Sky, SATURDAY, JUNE 20 Backgammon Instruction and Match JUNE 20-21 Bookworks Open Space Story Hour: Ana Baca and 10 am, Free, The Octopus and the Fox, Albuquerque Balloon Museum New Mexico Food Truck 6 pm, Free for beginners, Flying Star Café, 4022 Rio Grande NW, 344-8139, bkwrks.com THURSDAY, JUNE 25 Noel Chilton 514 Central Ave SE, theoctopusandthefox.com Herb & Lavender Fair July 8, 6 pm, Stories in the Night Sky, and Local Craft Beer Festival 723 Silver SW, 244-8099, abqbackgammon.com Free unless otherwise noted; some events take 10 am, Free, Open Space Visitor Center, 10am, El Rancho de las Golondrinas, Albuquerque Balloon Museum Balloon Fiesta Park, 5500 Balloon Fiesta Parkway, En La Estancia place at other venues as noted. 6500 Coors Blvd NW, 897-8831, cabq.gov SUNDAY, JUNE 28 334 Los Pinos Rd, Santa Fe, (505) 471-2261, Gedunk Food Truck fresquezproductions.com FRIDAY, JUNE 19 7 pm, National Hispanic Cultural Center, June 17, 7 pm, Katie Snapp, Brave Transitions: Third Thursday: Family Night Adobe Summer: Sand-cast Your Hands golondrinas.org twitter.com/gedunkfoodtruck Dad You are My Super Hero 1701 Fourth St SW, 724-4771, nhccnm.org A Woman’s Guide for Maintaining Composure 5 pm, Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, 1:30 pm, New Mexico History Museum, Every other Tuesday, 11 am, Truckin’ Tuesdays, JUNE 24-27 10:30 am, Free, North Valley Senior Center, SUNDAY, JUNE 21 Through Changes in Work and Life FRIDAY, JUNE 26 2000 Mountain Rd NW, 242-4600, 113 Lincoln Ave, Santa Fe, (505) 476-5200, Civic Plaza Vintage Albuquerque Food & Wine Week 3825 Fourth St NW, 761-4025, cabq.gov June 18, 7 pm, Carol Aronoff, Blessings from an cabq.gov/museum nmhistorymuseum.org World Giraffe Day Wednesdays, 11 am, Talin Market, Various locations, Paddington Dear Old Dad Luncheon Unseen World; Max Early, Ears of Corn: Listen 8 am, Rio Grande Zoo, 903 10th St SW, 88 Louisiana Blvd SE more info: vintagealbuquerque.org Part of Movies in the Park 2nd Annual Bike for Brain Trauma Wine 11:30 am, Free, Manzano Mesa Multigenerational June 20, 10:30 am, Jean Reagan, FRIDAY, JUNE 19 768-2000, abqbiopark.com Thursdays, 11 am, Sandia Science & Technology Dusk, Free, Bachechi Open Space, Tour & Festival Center, 501 Elizabeth St SE, RSVP: 275-8731, How to Surprise a Dad Park, 10600 Research SE SATURDAY, JUNE 27 9521 Rio Grande Blvd NW, 314-0477, bernco.gov Explora: Get Your Motor Running 11 am, St. Clair Winery & Bistro Albuquerque, manzanomesacenter.com June 20, 3 pm, Sharon Neiderman & Kitty Leaken, TUESDAY, JUNE 23 Gruet Winery Tour 3 pm, Tony Hillerman Library, 901 Rio Grande Blvd NW, bikeforbraintrauma.com Hot Off The Press, The New Mexico Farm Table Cookbook Sci-Fi Second Takes: Night Walks at the Botanic Garden 2 pm, Gruet Winery, 8400 Pan American Frwy NE, Papa’s Day Luncheon 8205 Apache Ave NE, 291-6264, abclibrary.org facebook.com/HotOffThePressFoodTruck June 21, 3 pm, David Gurule, Tortillas and Butter The Thing from Another World 7:30 pm, ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden, 2601 821-0055, gruetwinery.com 11:30 am, Free, Los Volcanes Senior Center, 6500 TUESDAY, JUNE 30 Mondays, 11 am, UNM Cancer Center, June 21, 5 pm, Alfred Goldhaber, Quantum Mo- 6:30 pm, 8:30 pm, KiMo Theatre, SATURDAY, JUNE 20 Central Ave NW, RSVP: 848-7180, cabq.gov Los Volcanes Road NW, RSVP: 836-8745, cabq.gov 423 Central Ave NW, 768-3544, kimotickets.com Life-Size Board Game 1201 Camino de Salud ment Community Days: Sustainability 3 pm, Tony Hillerman Library, 8205 Apache Ave Every other Tuesday, 11 am, Truckin’ Tuesdays, SATURDAY, JUNE 20 June 23, 7 pm, Meredith and Win Blevins, Them SUNDAY, JUNE 28 TALKS Noon, Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, NE, RSVP: 291-6264, abclibrary.org Civic Plaza Darkness Rolling 1 pm, Free, Los Lunas Museum of Heritage Cherry Hills Toastmasters 2000 Mountain Rd NW, 243-7255, Fearless Vegetable Gardening 4: Wednesdays, 11 am, Talin Market, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 June 24, 7 pm, Richard Melzer, A River Runs and Arts, 251 Main St SE, Los Lunas, 352-7720 The Leaves of Your Labor 3 pm, Albuquerque Center for Spiritual Living, cabq.gov/museum 88 Louisiana Blvd SE Coffee & Conversation: Reviving Through Us: True Tales of the Rio Abajo FUNDRAISERS 2 pm, Modern General, 637 Cerrillos Road, 2801 Louisiana NE, 298-3682, 1 Drum Making Demonstration Thursdays, 11 am, Sandia Science & Technology Traditions with San Ildefonso Potter June 25, 7 pm, Don Winslow, The Cartel SATURDAY, JUNE 27 Santa Fe, (505) 930-5462, moderngeneralnm.com 111940.toastmastersclubs.org 10 am, Free, Petroglyph National Monument, Park, 10600 Research SE Erik Fender June 26, 7 pm, Orlando White, Letterrs; The Perfect Game SATURDAY, JUNE 20 6510 Western Trail NW, 899-0205, The Four Hills Hike Saturdays, 7 pm, The Historic El Rey + Stereo Bar, 5:30 pm, Free, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, SUNDAY, JUNE 21 Sherwin Bitsui, Flood Song Part of Movies in the Park Survivors MC Clean & Sober National 8:30 am, Four Hills, RSVP: 452-5222, 622 Central Ave SW nps.gov/petr/index.htm 2401 12th St NW, 843-7270, indianpueblo.com Lyme Get Together: New Mexico Lyme June 28, 1 pm, Jennifer Jacobson, Soul Cards Dusk, Free, Mile High Little League, Run 2015 to benefit The Endorphin cabq.gov/openspace Jugamos Juntos: Cuentos en la Cocina; The Lunch Box Food Truck Inside the NM Senate: Disease Support Tarot Readings 725 Juan Tabo Blvd NE, 314-0477, bernco.gov Power Company June 28, 3 pm, Linda Silk, Survival Manual for the Storytelling and Cooking facebook.com/THELUNCHBOX505 A Political History Noon, Free, RSVP and more info: Diane 304-9411 9 am, Indian Motorcycle of Albuquerque, MONDAY, JUNE 29 Modern Mystic 10:30 am, Free, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Wednesdays, 11 am, Noon, Free, New Mexico History Museum, 4509 Alameda Blvd NE, survivorsmc.org The Six Healing Sounds: Qigong June 30, 7 pm, JD March, Dance with the Devil, FESTIVALS, FIESTAS & FAMILY 1701 Fourth St SW, 246-2261, nhccnm.org El Camino Real Garden Tour Sandia Science & Technology Park, Washington Ave doors, 113 Lincoln Ave, 9 am, Poblano Fields, RSVP: 452-5222, Devil’s Own #1 SATURDAY, JUNE 27 and Open House 10600 Research SE Santa Fe, nmhistorymuseum.org ONGOING Mama’s Minerals 10th Annual 10 am, Barelas Senior Center, 714 Seventh St SW, Thursdays, 11 am, UNM Hope Bldg, cabq.gov/openspace Arts and Crafts Fair Duke City Roller Derby Coder Dojo 764-6436, cabq.gov 933 Bradbury SE THURSDAY, JUNE 18 Special Sunday Dance: Father’s Day FRIDAY, JUNE 19 10 am, Mama’s Minerals, 800 20th St NW, Pancake Fundraiser 1:30 pm, Men Free, North Valley Senior Center, 2nd and 4th Saturdays, 10 am, ages 7-17, Quelab, Thursdays, 4 pm, Albuquerque Brewing Co., Getting Men to the Moon — Behind- The Last Unicorn: A Search for 266-8443, mamasminerals.com 8 am, Applebee’s, 10600 Lomas Blvd NE, TUESDAY, JUNE 30 3825 Fourth St NW, 761-4025, cabq.gov/seniors 680 Haines Ave NW, coderdojoabq.github.io 8600 Pan American NE the-scenes Stories with Loretta Hall One of Earth’s Rarest Creatures: Rockin’ the Library with Mr. Stinky Feet dukecityderby.com Fridays, 11 am, UNM Cancer Center, William Debuys Giraffe and Lorikeet Feeding Landscape Irrigation and Drip Irrigation 7 pm, New Mexico Natural History Museum, 10:30 am, Central & Unser Library, 1201 Camino de Salud TUESDAY, JUNE 23 5:30 pm, New Mexico History Museum, Daily, ABQ BioPark Zoo, 903 10th Street SW, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 9 am, Free, CNM Workforce Training Center, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, nmnaturalhistory.org 8081 Central Ave NW, 768-4320, abclibrary.org 113 Lincoln Ave, Santa Fe, nmhistorymuseum.org 764-6200, abqbiopark.com 5600 Eagle Rock NE, Room 101, 888-1772 ABQ NOW Chapter Meeting 2015 Strike Out Homelessness ONGOING SATURDAY, JUNE 20 6:15 pm, Erna Fergusson Library,

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