VOL III, Issue 17, Aug. 24 – Sept. 6, 2016 Dispensing Journalistic Justice Since 2014 ART is Already Killing Us, BusinessPAGE 5 Owners Say Tapping the ATM At City Hall PAGE 2 Nob Hill’s Cobbler PAGE 9 ‘We Are This City’ Force PAGE 14 Beer Fest Season Begins PAGE 18 2 • August 24 – September 6, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS ABQ FREE PRESS • August 24 – September 6, 2016 • 3 nEwS www.freeabq.com SPotlight PickS Editor: [email protected] News: [email protected] Arts: [email protected] Your Tax Dollars at Work? Really? On Twitter: @FreeABQ BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI Some Like It Hot On Facebook: facebook.com/abqfreepress BY CORY LEYBA ity Hall paid out $12.6 million The biggest settlement was for tow truck driver Jerry Rodriguez, ou are sweating C in lawsuit settlements and $3.4 million and involved a 2005 who said he was thrown to the Editor Yprofusely through judgments in the 18 months that eminent domain action the city ground by APD plain-clothes Dan Vukelich every pore on your body (505) 345-4080. Ext. 800 ended March 31 — an average filed against a company, Home officers in December 2010 after and no amount of water of $700,000 per month — with a Stewart LLC. The company coun- leaving a local restaurant. The Associate Editor, News can stop the burn, yet you fifth of all payouts stem- police were apparently Dennis Domrzalski can’t help but try every type ming from cases against looking for a vehicle that (505) 306-3260 of salsa at this year’s 12th annual Salsa Fiesta. the Albuquerque Police had been involved in a Associate Editor, Arts The family friendly event Department. homicide. Cara Tolino will sweep through Historic Those figures, provided Some other settlements (505) 345-4080 ext. 809 Old Town Plaza on Saturday, to the City Council by the by the city included: Circulation Manager Sept. 10 from noon to 7 p.m. city’s legal department, Glory Foods • $20,000 to a 13-year-old Steve Cabiedes Every dish at the event will didn’t include the city’s boy who was arrested at (505) 345-4080 ext. 815 be handmade by the various competitors. Judging will begin promptly at 2:30 $6.5 million settlement Jackson Middle School. p.m. to bestow the “best salsa” title. A wide variety of freshly made salsa prod- Design with former APD officer • $617,500 to a man who ucts will be available for your sampling pleasure, but salsa lovers beware: there Terry Kocon, C.S. Tiefa Jacob Grant, who was shot said he was injured when are a limited number of free tasting passes and those tend to run out early. eight times by his own his bicycle struck a bump Photography The event will also offer salsa for your ears – this year’s festivities are being lieutenant in January 2015. on a bike path near Ting- Mark Bralley, Mark Holm, Juan Antonio Labreche, headlined by vocalist Frankie Morales, and salsa band Sabor Canela will also The city settled that case ley Pond. Liz Lopez, Adria Malcolm perform during the tasting. on March 30 but didn’t • $312,500 to a woman Contributors this issue Historic Old Town Salsa Fiesta pay Grant until later. who hit a pothole while Ty Bannerman, Irene Entila, Gary Glasgow, Dan Gutierrez, Saturday, Sept. 10, 12–7 p.m. The cases offer a riding her bicycle. She Bill Hume, Ariane Jarocki, Jim Kenney, Dan Klein, Cory Leyba, Albuquerque Old Town Plaza glimpse into who sues the was then struck by a Julia Mandeville, Joe Monahan, Sayrah Namasté, Peter St. Cyr, Free; tasting passes available on first-come, first-served basis city and for what reasons. vehicle. Christa Valdez, Johnny Vizcaino cabq.gov/culturalservices/historic-old-town/salsa-fiesta By far, APD is the big- CLIPARTS.CO • $10,000 to a woman Copy Editors gest target, with 34 of 100 who said an APD horse Wendy Fox Dial, Jyllian Roach, Jim Wagner settlements or verdicts stepped on her foot after coming in cases that involved the terclaimed the city for breach of its rider negligently maneuvered Director of Sales and Events department and its officers. a road construction contract, and the animal. Abby Feldman x802 But people have sued, and the city settled the case during the • $15,500 to a man who said he Sales Representatives (505) 345-4080 Marc Maron Returns received settlements from the second quarter of fiscal year 2015. was injured while being trans- Sherri J. Barth x813 BY CORY LEYBA city, for sewage backups, being The City Attorney’s Office gave ferred to the Metropolitan Deten- Ian Maksik x812 arc Maron is more hit by buses and garbage trucks, the quarterly litigation reports tion Center. The man said the Cara Tolino x809 than just a comedian falling into a six-foot-deep hole to the council on June 14. The re- injury occurred when the city van M Office Administrator and radio and television at the National Hispanic Cultural ports are supposed to be filed on taking him to the jail struck a cow. Cory Leyba (505) 345-4080, Ext. 817 personality. His twice weekly Center, obstructions on bicycle a quarterly basis with the council, • $500,000 to a female pedestrian Published every other week by: podcast, “WTF with Marc paths and having seats break on but delays caused the city to give who was hit by a city bus. Great Noggins LLC Maron” has revolutionized them at Isotopes Park. the council reports from seven • $27,500 to a woman who was P.O. Box 6070 the podcast landscape. The city paid $1.3 million in quarters at once. injured at an Isotopes game when Albuquerque, NM 87197-6070 When it first started in damages for suits against the The biggest payout involving the seat of her chair broke. September 2009, many bus system, or ABQ Ride, and APD was $500,000 and was the Publishers thought it wasn’t going Dennis Domrzalski is an associate Will Ferguson and Dan Vukelich $700,000 for lawsuits against the result of a combination verdict editor at ABQ Free Press. Reach him to work, but by the time Solid Waste Department. and settlement in a lawsuit by at [email protected] On the cover: his podcast hit six million wtfpod.com The work of local artist David Santiago is available at downloads a month there A Good Sign. See the article on Page 14 to learn more was no question that Maron was a hit. about Santiago. A comedic performer for 20 years, Maron has done everything from starring in his own show “Maron” on the IFC, to being a comedic guest on Conan O’Brien ABQ Free Press Local Briefs more than 40 times. BY ABQ FREE PRESS STAFF Maron will be in town on Sept. 3 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center for “An Evening with Marc Maron.” The show will benefit the Endorphin Power out of the University of Michigan. Lyft Sexual assault Company. Ride sharing service Lyft resumed The University of New Mexico Special session operations in Albuquerque after said a new survey shows that it is Corrections policy: An Evening with Marc Maron Gov. Susana Martinez said she’ll It is the policy of ABQ Free Press to correct more than a year’s absence. The doing a good job when it comes Saturday, Sept. 3; Doors at 7 p.m., show at 8 p.m.; $37 call the Legislature into special errors in a timely fashion. Contact the editors company’s smartphone app and to taking sexual harassment and at the email addresses on this page. National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 Fourth St SW session sometime in September wtfpod.com drivers went live at 9 a.m. on assault seriously on its campuses. to deal with a $600 million dollar Aug. 18. Lyft left New Mexico last The survey said that 82 percent of shortfall in the state’s budget. The May after the state regulators re- the school’s students believe that special session will cost taxpay- Where to find Corrections: fused to approve regulations that UNM takes sexual assault serious- ers $50,000 a day. Martinez has our paper? In a column by Joe Monahan in the Aug. 10 issue, it was erroneously reported that Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry won election in 2009 in a run-off election. There was the company wanted. In January, ly and that 66 percent think the insisted that she won’t support List of more than the Legislature approved a bill school is doing well in its efforts no run-off that year. Berry defeated two opponents in a single round of balloting. tax increases to close the budget 550 locations laying out rules under which Lyft to prevent sexual assault. The gap. Earlier this month, she or- In a story on the Albuquerque Rapid Transit project in the Aug. 10 issue, ABQ Ride at freeabq.com spokesman Rick de Reyes was quoted inaccurately. De Reyes said there are no minutes from and other ride sharing services survey was done by the National dered state agencies to slash their 2012 public meetings on ART, but this newspaper was welcome to file a records request for can operate. Campus Climate Survey group budgets by 5 percent. sign-in sheets from those meetings. 4 • August 24 – September 6, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS nEwS nEwS ABQ FREE PRESS • August 24 – September 6, 2016 • 5 West Side Salon Owner on ART: ‘If my business goes under, that’s it’ BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI chorus of West Central Avenue Our ART poll A merchants is asking why eco- nomic development should equate After everything you’ve seen and with their going out of business.