VOL I, Issue 12, September 24, 2014 Wage Theft in N.M. Chile Fields PAGE 11

Joe Monahan: How the Peter Principle Applies to the Gary vs. Susana Race PAGE 7

N.M. is Taking Food from Hungry People PAGE 6

No Energy Boom for Farmington PAGE 8

Labor Leaders Charge Mayor is Union Busting PAGE 5 PAGE 2 • September 24, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS ABQ Free Press Pulp News

compiled By abq free press staff VOL I, Issue 12, September 24, 2014 www.freeabq.com www.abqarts.com Goldfish 911 eliminating the penny, as well as the nickel, several times – as recently as in Editor: [email protected] An Australian veterinary surgeon the current budget – but Congress has performed brain surgery on a refused. In 2013, the U.S. Mint lost $55 Associate Editor, Arts: Melbourne couple’s 10-year-old [email protected] In This Issue million making pennies. Canada got goldfish for the Australian equivalent rid of its penny last year. Advertising: of $180. The fish, named George, had [email protected] grown a brain tumor and was having [email protected] NEWS trouble eating and swimming and Quitting time? On Twitter: @freeabq was being bullied by other goldfish. One in four Americans wants their ABQ Free Press Pulp News ...... Page 2 “It was so impressive, everyone was state to secede from the union, Labor leaders accuse Berry of union busting...... 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Corrections Where to find our paper? A story in the Sept. 10 issue incorrectly attributed to Rio Grande Foundation List of more than President Paul Gessing a statement about the job-creation potential of legalization 400 locations of marijuana in New Mexico. The statement should have been attributed to the at freeabq.com Cato Institute of Washington, D.C. Because of a typographical error, the same story incorrectly stated the New Mexico tax on beer brewed in-state. The tax was ON THE COVER: A farm worker in a Southern New Mexico chile field typically starts the work day before sunrise. Some labor contractors have failed to pay the state minimum wage of $7.50, and some have failed to pay workers for time they spend in the fields reduced from 41 cents to 8 cents a gallon. waiting for it to get light enough to work. (Photo by Joseph Sorrentino) PAGE 4 • September 24, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS FROM THE EDITOR NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • September 24, 2014 • PAGE 5 Susana, Dianna Believe Labor: Berry Using Temps to Bust City Unions Less is More By PETER ST. CYR

By Dan Vukelich lbuquerque Mayor Richard Berry just gave 2,100 on temp workers may be a union- Acity employees a 3 percent pay increase. So why busting move by the administration. ov. Susana that she and government are not on do so many blue collar, clerical, transit and city “We believe it’s happening,” said GMartinez their side. security workers have sad faces? Miles Dylan Conway, AFSCME’s seems to be The employees are ready to accept the raise, communications director. “But we channeling Somewhere in the oath of office that but lawyers for the American Federation of State, don’t have a smoking gun.” Herbert Hoover. Secretary of State Dianna Duran took County and Municipal Employees want a judge to A spokeswoman for the mayor Why in must be hidden the following words: Do enforce other sections of the city’s Labor Manage- declined a request for an interview the world in a everything in your power to suppress the ment Ordinance. on the Adecco deal but agreed to time of increas- vote. In a request for a temporary restraining order and act as an intermediary with other ing poverty, Duran is planning on moving to purge preliminary injunction filed in Bernalillo County persistently high 186,000 New Mexico voters from the city employees. “Departments often unemployment voter rolls by 2017. She tried the same District Court on Sept 19, city unions asked that deal directly with a contract agency and negative job growth would she kick thing in 2012 and again in 2013, going Berry be barred from making changes to nonwage because the process of hiring is people off federal food assistance? so far as to notify long-time voters work rules that were in place when their collective faster through the agency,” wrote a Because it’s good for their souls? – including a Democratic state senator – bargaining agreements expired four years ago. city purchasing official in an email Because it will make them stronger? they hadn’t voted enough to retain their In their motion, the unions say Berry has forwarded to the newspaper by Less dependent on the government – registration. announced changes to promotion, disciplinary, Breanna Anderson, acting communi- the very government she runs? It has been standard practice in grievance and layoff procedures that were in force cations director. Here’s the deal. There has been a states controlled by Republicans to try when contracts expired. “The City has engaged in An Adecco spokeswoman in New work requirement for food assistance re- to disenfranchise minority voters likely bad-faith, regressive bargaining,” the unions said in York said she was not permitted to cipients for years, but there’s also been to vote Democratic – by citing voter the court filing. discuss the firm’s employees, safety an out – a waiver, which is what the feds fraud or demanding forms of ID that While city workers went without raises – the records or its contract with the city call it. In states with high unemployment, the elderly, minorities or poor might not mayor cut their wages by 2.2 percent in 2010 – city of Albuquerque. “It’s confidential,” state governments that administer have. records show that Berry was agreeing to steep said Vannessa Almeida Adamo, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s But the topper came this month when rate increases for temporary workers provided by Adecco Group spokeswoman. Miles Dylan Conway food-assistance program can waive the Duran refused to put advisory questions Adecco Staffing, a temporary labor contractor based Adecco employees working for Gary Allen, a Parks and Recreation Department employee who serves as the recording secretary work or job training requirement, which about marijuana decriminalization in in New York City. the city refused to talk to ABQ Free is what had been happening in New Bernalillo and Santa Fe counties on the for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 624, addresses the Documents obtained by ABQ Free Press show Press. “They’re terrified they’ll lose Albuquerque City Council on Sept. 15. Mexico. ballot as well as a tax question from that the city has paid $16.5 million to Adecco since their jobs,” Allen said. On Nov. 1, Martinez is unilaterally Bernalillo County. December 2008. Over the same period, the records Adecco first was retained during abandoning the waiver and by doing so, Last week, the New Mexico Supreme year. “It’s eroding the bargaining unit,” he said. show that Adecco’s billing rate has jumped close to the administration of former Mayor Martin Chavez, a mandating that the able-bodied among Court slapped her down and ordered City administrators regularly give overtime hours 25 percent for some temp positions. Democrat. Berry, a Republican, inherited that Adecco the 455,000 people who get benefits that all three questions be placed on the to Adecco’s employees – in violation of the expired through the USDA’s Supplemental Nutri- ballot. She had earlier tried to take the The rate for temporary general service workers, for relationship when he was elected in 2009 to his first collective bargaining agreements, which required tion Assistance Program, or SNAP, go case to a federal judge, but the judge example, increased from $9.78 an hour to $12.07 an term. He extended the contract through that term, bids for the extra shifts and overtime pay to be out and find jobs, sign up for job training basically told her lawyer, get out of my hour. Rates for temporary parking attendants jumped and later this year, the Adecco contract will be put out based on seniority, union leaders said. or perform community service. courtroom. from $8.50 to $12.19 on New Year’s Day 2013. to bid, Anderson said. AFSCME Local 624 President Casey Padilla said The federal government isn’t kick- Duran had argued that she isn’t bound Gary Allen, a Parks and Recreation Department Under the terms of Adecco’s existing contract, the extensive use of poorly trained temps poses a safety ing them off food assistance. Susana by law to put advisory questions to vot- employee who serves as the recording secretary for company is allowed to mark up its bill rates a maxi- threat to the public and employees. In response, the Martinez is doing it. ers. She also argued that the marijuana the American Federation of State, County and Mu- mum of 34 percent over hourly rates it pays its temps. city sent ABQ Free Press an email stating, “Temps Potentially 87,000 people, including vote was a Democratic ploy designed nicipal Employees Local 624, said Adecco employees Union leaders say the reliance on temps is cutting are given specific guidance to perform the functions mothers with children, would have to get out the younger left-leaning vote and he’s worked alongside have told him they haven’t into the number of permanent city employees. Accord- of the work required.” knock on doors, send out resumes, aid Democratic candidates. seen any of those increases in their take-home pay. ing to Allen, the Parks and Recreation Department, make telephone calls – for some, as She may have a point. Union officials believe the city’s increasing reliance which had 140 employees last year, is down to 92 this To contact the reporter, e-mail: [email protected] many as 24 employer contacts in two It would only be fair to put a couple months. more advisory questions on the ballot, That doesn’t sound too demanding, such as, “Should New Mexicans be except that some people can’t leave allowed to shoot the Lesser Prairie Pot Question Goes to Voters their children to go out and job-hunt. Chicken on sight?” The bird is the poster BY FRANCHESCA STEVENS Some are already working, but don’t child for conservationists trying to block have the 20 hours a week the governor oil drilling on Otero Mesa in Southern in lower law enforcement costs should go toward federal law. Attempts to remove marijuana from the wants them to have. Some can’t afford New Mexico. The bird is hated by Du- ow that the New Mexico Supreme Court has healthcare. federal list of controlled substances have failed to gas or bus money. The fact that the ran’s gun-toting, oil-drilling Republican Nordered that voters in Bernalillo and Santa Fe “No one has ever been documented to die from get through Congress. jobs aren’t out there seems to be an base. counties can voice their opinion on recreational marijuana, yet 100,000 people are diagnosed dying The nonbinding marijuana decriminalization inconvenient truth that this governor and Throwing in a question about the marijuana, the question remains whether decrimi- from prescription drugs every year,” Johnson said. questions will appear on the Nov. 4 ballot in Berna- her right-wing advisors seem willing to Mexican Gray Wolf ought to get the nalizing recreational pot is a good idea. “From a recreational standpoint, marijuana is a lot lillo and Santa Fe counties. overlook. ranchers involved. In fact, if we get a A 2010 report titled “The Budgetary Impact safer than alcohol.” Paul Holt, pastor of the First Baptist Church in At the height of the Great Depression, few more hot-button issues on the ballot of Ending Drug Prohibition” issued by the Cato Marijuana was a well-established medicine until Magdalena and host of an Internet radio talk show Herbert Hoover listened to his big- we might actually get upwards of half of Institute, a libertarian think tank in Washington, it was federally criminalized in 1937, according to on FGGAM.org, opposes decriminalization. “From business cronies rather than throw the New Mexico’s electorate back into the D.C., projected that legalizing all uses of pot would the Drug Policy Alliance, which is trying to end a biblical, Christian perspective, I believe that [using resources of government at the growing game. save about $8.7 billion annually through fewer America’s “War on Drugs.” marijuana] is contrary to the teachings of Scripture,” he economic catastrophe. Susana Martinez arrests, prosecutions and incarceration. Medicinal marijuana is legal in New Mexico said. “The Bible teaches against drunkenness or having appears to be doing the same thing, Dan Vukelich is the editor of ABQ Free Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, now and 22 other states and the District of Columbia. our minds altered by various chemical means.” telling people who are already struggling Press. Reach him at [email protected] CEO of a Nevada company that makes medical Recreational use is legal in two states – Colorado and recreational marijuana products, said savings and Washington – although it remains illegal under Franchesca Stevens is an Albuquerque freelance writer. PAGE 6 • September 24, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS POLITICS ABQ FREE PRESS • September 24, 2014 • PAGE 7 Governor: No Work, No Food Stamps for Many Martinez, King: Living Proof Weh’s Stealth Candidacy By DEDE FELDMAN Of the Peter Principle Punches Udall’s Reelection Ticket ov. Susana Martinez’s human side was show- The food-assistance program, formerly known as By JOE MONAHAN By JEFFRY GARDNER Gcased in mid-September in a TV ad touting a food stamps, is now called the Supplemental Nutri- Who’s Affected? school breakfast program for kids and a move by tion Assistance Program. It is administered through ne candidate males who, without a hint of irony, label e vewy, vewy Santa. Democrats love FDR, and, really, Starting in November, adults with dependents who doesn’t love Santa? her administration to curb the use of welfare cards a card known as an Electronic Benefits Transfer, or Owants to be it as “sexism” and “racism.” Bquiet. We’eh who want to continue receiving food-assistance vice president of Enough already! If you can’t handle wunning for Senate. Honestly, they are excellent campaign at casinos and bars. EBT, card. benefits must attend a job-readiness class and That seems to ads. One spot paints Udall as a huge But advocates charge that the ad is factually inac- the United States the criticism, Governor, start reading Under the administration’s plan, 26,000 childless, make at least 24 employer contacts within a be the theme of champion of the military; another as a curate and a deliberate distraction from what they but can’t master the your briefing books or stop talking. nondisabled adults would be required to find work two-month period; or perform community service; Republican Allen staunch protector of women. call “draconian” limits that the governor seeks to details of her fore- Then there is the feckless campaign or lose their SNAP benefits. The plan also would or enroll in job training. most policy initiative. of Democrat Gary King, exhibiting all the Weh’s campaign Nary a one mentions his lock step impose on people receiving federal food assistance also require mandatory job search and work activi- Exempted from the new requirements are The other candidate energy of a sleeping sloth. He secures against uber-liberal support of Barack Obama or, perhaps starting in November. ties for another 60,000 adults, including parents with parents over 59, pregnant women, people already apparently believes the Democratic nomination with the help Tom Udall. Not a more importantly, Harry Reid. Nor is The change in food-assistance requirements children 6 or older. working at least 30 hours a week, disabled he can be elected by allowing himself to of $500,000 in contributions from his Tom Udall fan? Me, neither. Who am I there a mention of Udall being the lead take effect a little more than a month after the U.S. Under the Martinez plan, people who do not meet people and people responsible for the care of a be outspent by better than 25 to 1. own bank account, but now that he has kidding, eh? I’m guessing this audience sponsor of an amendment that would Census Bureau announced that another 22,000 New the new requirements could lose SNAP benefits for child under the age of 6. So goes the 2014 campaign for an actual chance to become governor is wild about Tom. curb the First Amendment solely to chill Mexicans fell into poverty last year. The state now one to three years. Nondisabled adults without dependents who governor, otherwise known as the Rio he poses as a pauper. The result? And this audience is probably de- the speech of conservatives. That, my ranks 49th in the United States in income with 21.9 Earnest said there also will be exemptions for want to continue receiving food-assistance Grande Delusion. Martinez’s TV ads have driven the nar- lighted that it’s growing more and more apparent, New Mexico’s Udall version percent of the population living below the poverty counties and tribes with high unemployment rates. benefits will have to perform community service; The second she dropped her hand rative for the entire campaign, including Weh and the state GOP line. Only Mississippi, with about one in four people or enroll in job training; or get a job and work at (Colorado has its own) will be returning He said he thought 87,000 was on “the high side.” after taking the oath of office on Jan. this crucial month of September. needed to strike early living in poverty, ranks lower. least 20 hours a week. 1, 2011, Susana Martinez has been to Washington, D.C., where all of our The stricter work requirements will be rolled out on hopes and dreams come true. At full implementation, the governor’s plan could Among this second group, people exempted continually mentioned (and promoted by and define Tom Udall Nov. 1 in Bernalillo, Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Santa King secures the Why? Incumbency? Can’t hurt. affect as many as 87,400 people – almost 20 percent from the new requirements are those who are her operatives) as a possible 2016 vice Fe, Sandoval and Valencia counties. Other counties However, this year Democrat incum- friends, takes balls. of the program’s recipients, said Brent Earnest, older than 50, disabled people, people the state presidential candidate. By virtue of her Democratic nomination will follow starting in March 2015. bents are in more danger than Daffy Duck It’s not Udall’s job to mention little deputy director of the New Mexico Human Services defines as “unfit for employment,” pregnant standing as the nation’s first Hispanic, The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that with the help of $500,000 during wabbit season. And rightly so. things like that. It’s Weh’s. And from Department. women and people living in a household with a female governor and the desperation of New Mexico’s unemployment rate was 6.5 percent in contributions from his Senate Democrats, in honor of global Weh’s team comes … chirp. Chirp. In The change is coming about because the Martinez child under the age of 18 who is not a dependent. the GOP to appeal to Hispanic voters in June. The U.S. unemployment rate in June was warming or climate change or whatever some cultures crickets are good luck. administration is rejecting a statewide waiver The state has a separate set of exemptions who spurn their policies, the Martinez own bank account, but the nom de guerre is at this writing, We do not live in those cultures. allowed by the federal government since 2008. The 6.1 percent. from the work and training requirements for name continues to be floated. now that he has an New Mexico will be the only high-unemployment Native Americans with and without dependents. have moved at glacial speed to enact Rather, we live in the good ol’ U.S. of waiver allows states to exempt recipients in high- But Martinez is about as ready for actual chance to become legislation that might accidentally help, A., and a campaign isn’t a gentleman’s unemployment areas from a federal 20-hour-a-week state to impose the work requirement. “We’re doing Those exemptions are based on the tribe’s or a spot on the national ticket as former this to engage a segment of the population Pueblo’s unemployment rate. governor he poses er, anything. You pick – the economy; domain. Weh needed to come out of work requirement. governors Gary Johnson and Bill the job market; our immigration mess; the gate this summer mentioning those cont. on page 13 Richardson, both of whom were similarly as a pauper? our national security (see return of the unmentionable things Senator Udall seduced by the national spotlight – only Cold War and ISIS quest to return the doesn’t want, eh, mentioned. to crash and burn when the TV lights King will hit back with some kind world to the 7th century). Too late? Probably. Weh’s first spot were turned up. A similar fate seems to of media campaign in October, but to That’s a lot to lay at the feet of the sought to introduce him via his wife’s await Martinez if she presents herself as what effect? He has run through three Democrats, true. But Harry Reid has testimonial. Never anything wrong with a national player. campaign managers as he sinks further hundreds of bills lying around his lavish identifying yourself as a war veteran and Speaking before a group of sheriffs in the polls because of his refusal to Hart Senate Office Building office in loving husband. recently, she gave us a preview of fund his campaign. Adding insult to Washington, where all of our hopes and Yet, the economy sucks, still. Wash- the crash to come. Discussing her injury, a “major” labor union fund-raiser dreams come true. Lying around doing ington’s spending isn’t just out of control, proposal to repeal the law allowing for King in Washington, D.C., had tickets what, you say? Doing nothing. it’s insane. driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants, going for a mere $100 a pop. What? With all of that in the wind, combined The nation’s workforce is basically the Martinez said the repeal is necessary Did they think he was running for the La with the massive voter discontent with same size it was when Jimmy Carter in part because illegals can get a New Cueva High School student council? Congress, the president, and Wash- left office. Russia’s off the hook; ISIS is Mexico license and then go to Georgia, Like Martinez’s national ambition ington in general, one might think New slicing and dicing and savaging, and in Florida and New York and exchange it fantasy, this candidate simply can’t be Mexico’s GOP candidate for Senate, both cases the United States appears to for licenses there. The claim was easily taken seriously. It’s not as if King, who Weh, might be mounting a furious “whip be suffering from ED. discredited by a media fact check and hails from a wealthy ranching family, Tom Udall’s butt” campaign. And you’re running against the most Martinez was again exposed as Sarah didn’t know that his chief problem would Think again. liberal member of the Senate. I mean, Palin the Second – a symbolic politician be raising funds against a governor who I’m no fan of Udall – ranked by the come on. without portfolio. was polling as well as Martinez. The National Journal as the most liberal Weh and company’s second spot Keep in mind that repealing the licenses rational presumption was that he would member of the Senate – that doesn’t attempts to point that out. Attempts. has been a near obsession for Martinez pony up and make a race of it. If he mean I don’t appreciate a good cam- There’s a rolling script of America’s who began campaigning on the issue in wasn’t ready to do so, why even run? paign. To date, Tom Udall’s media is, misery – in silence. This should have 2010. She has tried unsuccessfully to The governor’s race has been a in a word, I’m swallowing hard here, been read aloud by a commanding repeal the law at every legislative session bust because we have two candidates brilliant. voiceover talent attaching every bit of since she took office. Her campaign arm who are unprepared to deal with the Running against an incumbent in an this misery to Obama/Udall/Reid. has vigorously attacked Democrats who transformative issues facing the state. election season of discontent, Weh and Instead, there’s only Allen Weh giving opposed the repeal. As the campaign deteriorates into argu- state GOP sorts needed to strike early a rough, though polite, read calling for This has played out over four long ments about the Casanova Con and the and define Tom Udall as, well, Tom Udall change. years, Governor, and you still don’t governor’s underwear order revealed – out of touch with virtually all of New He’s right – if nothing changes, noth- know what the law you so fiercely on leaked emails, the public reacts by Mexico – not counting the UNM area, ing changes. But being vewy, vewy quiet about it won’t get the job done. Sadly, in advocate to repeal actually does? And lowering its expectations, and the the North Valley, much of Santa Fe, and the Flying Star eateries. this year of GOP opportunity, Weh has we’re supposed to believe you are vice Rio Grande Delusion continues. That didn’t happen. Instead, Udall brought a spoon to a knife fight. presidential material? has run a collection of very good, very Of course such criticism of the Joe Monahan is a veteran of New Mexico touchy-feely ads that portray him as a Jeffry Gardner is a Republican political governor is immediately deflected by politics whose daily blog can be found at cross between Franklin Roosevelt and consultant. her Praetorian Guard of nearly all Anglo joemonahan.com PAGE 8 • September 24, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • September 24, 2014 • PAGE 9 While One Oil Patch Booms, the Other Can Only Watch Balloons, Traffic, Crime – One Metro Judge Gets Neutral Rating BY BILL DIVEN and Money – Descend on City from Evaluation Panel rom his hillside home, a petroleum BY ABQ FREE PRESS STAFF Fengineer scans the San Juan River ll judges in the Albuquerque fill a vacancy, candidates must face from Bloomfield to Farmington and Metro area were recommended for a partisan campaign, but after that, sees a murky future. A retention in the Nov. 4 election, with voters are asked only whether they “There’s a well over there just the exception of one Metropolitan should stay on the bench. beyond that tree,” he motions from his Court judge, who received a “no In the case of Walton, the commis- driveway. “And another up the hill opinion” evaluation by the panel that sion posted the results of evaluations behind the house.” rates sitting judges statewide. of the judge by individuals who come But they’re few and far between. Metro Judge Susan Walton received the in contact with her, including other In the four New Mexico counties “no opinion” rating because eight of the judges, attorneys, court staff, jurors, that lie atop the gas-rich San Juan 15 members of the New Mexico Judicial and resource staff such as members Basin, only a handful of drilling rigs Performance Evaluation Commission of law enforcement, probation and are active, and they’re hunting oil, not could not agree on a rating for her. parole officers, and interpreters. gas, which for decades has fueled the The commission recommended that Fifty-two percent of the lawyers who Four Corners economy. Even fossil-fuel voters not retain two sitting judges practice in front of Walton recom- behemoth BP, the state’s fifth-largest elsewhere in the state, District Judge mended she not be retained, while 40 gas producer, has hung “For Sale” signs Sheri A. Raphaelson of Santa Fe and percent said she should, and 8 percent on its 2,200 wells in the region, saying it District Judge Lisa Claire Schultz of expressed no opinion. will pursue profits elsewhere. Dan Vukelich Las Cruces. Under the New Mexico She fared better in her evaluation Unlike the earth-punching, oil-pump- Constitution, 57 percent of the voters by jurors, court staff, and by police ing frenzy underway in the Permian Tens of thousands of spectators will crowd into the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta for nine days Oct. 4-12. must vote to retain a sitting judge in officers and others who testify in her Basin in the southeast corner of New BY FRANCESCA STEVENS order for them to keep their job. court. Well above 95 percent said she Mexico, the gas-drilling boom in the In all, 85 state and Metro Court should be retained. engineer’s Bloomfield neighborhood hat began in 1972 as a 50th birthday Along with the Fiesta comes an uptick judges were evaluated by the com- Walton, a Republican, has been on the and nearby Farmington has busted out. Wcelebration for what is now KKOB- in crime, drunken driving and traffic- mission, which was formed in the Metro Court bench since 1999. Before By contrast, Carlsbad and Hobbs are 770 radio has evolved into New Mexico’s related offenses. To combat car thefts and 1980s to take partisan politics out of that, she was an assistant attorney experiencing an old-fashioned, early most popular and biggest money-making break-ins, the Albuquerque Police Depart- judicial re-elections. In their initial general. She previously worked for the 20th Century-style oil boom. Both tourist event – the Albuquerque Interna- ment positions bait cars – cars designed bid for office, or at the next election New Mexico Department of Corrections cities are awash in consumer spending tional Balloon Fiesta. to be stolen and remotely disabled, plus “The Balloon Fiesta is a tremendous cars loaded with tempting tools and after they have been appointed to and the Albuquerque Police Department. and tax revenue. Both are practically Bill Diven begging for more workers and housing benefit to not only the city of Albuquerque electronics – around local hotels, said but really to the entire state of New Mexico,” APD spokesman Tanner M. Tixier. to meet demand. A drilling rig near Lybrook, N.M., is one of the few active oil-drilling operations in the Four Corners area, which lacks to the transportation capacity that drillers in Southeast New Mexico enjoy. said Tania Armenta, vice president of New this year are three camera trailers Tourists visiting Carlsbad Caverns marketing, communications and tourism for that will be placed in and around Balloon National Park find a night at the share of the state gross receipts tax. That’s more than The price of a unit of natural gas – an Mcf, or 1,000 the Albuquerque Convention and Visitors Fiesta Park; each has four cameras nearest Motel 6 sets them back $100, twice the rate of Las Cruces, a city twice its size. Carlsbad now ranks cubic feet of gas – dropped from a peak of $10 in Bureau. “There is a lot of pride here.” linked to APD’s crime center, “so if we a typical Motel 6 room in Albuquerque. In Carlsbad fourth in New Mexico in collection of lodgers’ taxes 2008 to around $4. As the price of gas dropped, A 2011 study by CRC & Associates, a have a missing child, if there’s a burglary itself, affordable housing is scarce and mobile home – the local tax on hotel and motel rooms. producers shut in their wells. marketing research agency in Albuquer- in progress, if there’s something going parks are full. The city’s sewage treatment plant, Farmington, by contrast, is collecting about 10 In contrast, the price of oil has remained above que, concluded the event injects $100 on, we can immediately get eyes on that built to handle 6,000 gallons of sewage a day, is million into the economy and generates situation,” Tixier said. percent less in gross receipts taxes than it did before $100 a barrel, thanks to instability of foreign oil taking in 50,000 gallons a day. In Hobbs, a city of $20 million in local tax revenue. Crime associated with the Fiesta the recession, forcing city government to reduce its sources, and New Mexico oil production has 45,000 five miles from Texas, hotel and restaurants But for all the happy talk about balloons appears to be going down, according to workforce by leaving vacant jobs unfilled. doubled since 2009. can’t attract and retain enough staff. Four years ago, this time of year, there are the usual APD statistics. There were 31 Balloon “We lost jobs primarily in the natural-gas industry, Oil and gas prices once moved more or less in Hobbs’ population was about 35,000. complaints about the event’s impact on Fiesta-related service calls in 2011, 21 so for the last five years we’ve been in recovery unison with a 6-to-1 ratio of $30 per barrel of oil to “The additional population is coming in fifth- life in Albuquerque during the nine-day calls during 2012 and only 15 calls during mode,” said Farmington Mayor Tommy Roberts, an $5 per Mcf of gas. Now, the ratio tilts is 25-to-1, and wheel and travel trailers,” said Sen. Carroll Leavell, event. Complaints include crowded 2013. Incidents included traffic stops, oil-and-gas attorney. “We are recovering in terms of gas has shrunk from 80 percent of New Mexico’s restaurants, traffic snarls around balloons suspicious persons or vehicles, a couple a Jal Republican. “Every recreational vehicle facility gaining jobs, but it’s a very slow process.” petroleum tax revenues to barely 50 percent. landing around town and an inability to of 911 hang ups, two cases of aggravated in the area is full.” Why the fortunes of the Four Corners and Little The wash of oil cash is being felt in the state simply get to work using I-25, Alameda assault, one family dispute, a missing Even though they’re bursting at the seams, Hobbs Texas are so divergent can be found in fundamental budget. Of New Mexico’s $6 billion in annual tax Road or Paseo del Norte. person, one case of vandalism, some loud needs still more people. differences between the oil and gas markets, as well revenue, about 16 percent comes directly from oil Steve Wentworth, vice chairman of music calls, a residential burglary, and 11 In July, the Hobbs Chamber of Commerce as how what gets pumped out of the ground gets and gas, the Department of Finance and Administra- the Balloon Fiesta Park Commission and traffic accidents, three with injuries. launched a “Hobbs Jobs” campaign in Albuquerque where it needs to go. tion reports. The New Mexico Tax Research Institute, president of the Alameda North Valley The Balloon Fiesta itself employs more than targeting mostly lower-wage jobs – bartenders, Natural gas has been in a six-year price slide, which cites its own study funded by the New Neighborhood Association – the area west 100 paid security agents and 250 volunteers restaurant staff, healthcare workers, even newspaper and south of Balloon Fiesta Park – said who patrol the grounds during the event. thanks in part to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, Mexico Oil and Gas Association, contends the actual reporters – needed to service the flood of oilfield noise and traffic have topped the neigh- “I can’t begin to tell you how crime free which has opened up previously unreachable gas amount could be twice that if the effect of various workers. The chamber also is trying to recruit borhood’s complaint list over the years. it is out there,” said the Fiesta’s security fields elsewhere in the United States and made gas personal and business taxes and interest from the building contractors. The Fiesta, he added, has “gone chief, retired APD Lt. Al Tetreault. “We’re more plentiful. state’s permanent funds are included. “We have the work and the demand for a couple out of their way to try to work with the really on top of everything as much as Oil and gas taxes “pretty much sustained us” of thousand apartment units for the service work- community in a very good manner and we can. Knock on wood. I won’t say that during the recession, said Legislative Finance ers here,” chamber CEO Grant Taylor said. “For Reporting for this story was done before recent in a forthright manner,” he said. “They’ve nothing couldn’t happen, but I will say that Committee Chairman Rep. Luciano “Lucky” Varela, tried to address everything from parking we’re on top of it and if it’s something that Albuquerque developers, the issue is distance. They flooding in Southeastern New Mexico killed an a Santa Fe Democrat, but he added, “We can’t totally to traffic control. You name it. Noise. causes a danger to the public, I think we assume they can subcontract some trades, but here oilfield worker in Eddy County and forced the or primarily depend on that.” They’ve turned down their noise – their PA can respond quickly.” you have to bring your own crews.” evacuation of at least 110 Carlsbad homes. Some of the people displaced by flooding are oilfield workers Drillers in the Permian Basin who look longingly systems – and all sorts of things over the So much oil cash is gushing through Hobbs, the living in area campgrounds and RV parks. at the frenzy of activity in the Permian Basin hope course of the years – and they’ve greatly Franchesca Stevens is an Albuquerque city is collecting $7 million a month through its current exploration of the Mancos Shale underlying improved the Fiesta.” freelance writer. cont. on page 10 PAGE 10 • September 24, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • September 24, 2014 • PAGE 11

OIL PATCH, Page 8 its resource-management plan in the face of 60 or so exploratory wells that The Dark Side the San Juan Basin could lead to a have been drilled over the last two of the Oil Boom Underpayment of N.M. Chile Pickers Violates Law Albuquerque’s years in the Lybrook-Counselors area, an increase in oil production in the Eddy and Lea counties tallied BY JOSEPH SORRENTINO which is about 10 miles from Chaco. Four Corners. Activity is up. About 28 highway deaths through August, The BLM broadened its environmen- Premier Facility a dozen big-company drill rigs are double the number from the same uring harvest season, the workday tal studies as part of a 2010 settlement producing, compared to two or three period last year, and 12 percent Dfor many chileros, the workers who of a 2003 lawsuit brought by the San - for - a year ago. of New Mexico’s 33-county total, pick New Mexico’s prized green chile, Juan Citizens Alliance in 2003. Officials hope that oil can be according to the New Mexico Traffic begins around 2 a.m. when they start “We’ll give the BLM the opportu- tapped without the infrastructure Safety Bureau. filing onto El Paso Street in El Paso. Mock Trials nity to do a more thorough analysis, Maybe they’ll buy a burrito or two & and social costs faced in Southeastern “We’re experiencing about one to but it’s going to come to a head soon,” New Mexico. “I don’t know that three deaths a week,” said Sen. Car- from a small stand. Then they’ll wait an says Mike Eisenfeld, the alliance’s Focus Groups we’d be quite measuring up to the roll Leavell, a Jal Republican. “Traffic hour or two, hoping to get hired by a New Mexico energy coordinator. contratista Where do I pick Permian, but there’s a lot of potential is just heinous in some parts of those , a labor contractor, for the day. here for the play to ramp up and “You can’t call the current develop- “You have to get up early to do this • Trial planning and issue spotting, fields.” ment ‘explorations’ when they’re up in-house Trial facilitators Metrix? then expand,” says John Byrom, Workers extracting oil and gas work,” said Miguel Silva, a 66-year-old president of independent producer laying pipelines and adding equip- worker from El Paso who has done farm • Mock jury services die on the job at a rate seven times ment and tanks.” D.J. Simmons. Advances in efficiency the national industrial rate with road work his whole life. “If you get up late, • Witness preparation Also ahead is a debate over water and technology are “building at least crashes outpacing equipment-related everything is full. There are no more • Simulated court and consumption by drillers and possible a mini boom in the next couple of injuries and oilfield fires and explo- positions and you do not work.” deliberation venues water contamination by fracking years” in the Four Corners, he said. sions. Workers never know if they’ll be hired chemicals. Horizontal drilling – • Political polling But for that mini boom to happen, A state study also found increas- on any given day. “Getting work depends which allows one well to radiate production companies will have to ing levels of violence in reported on a lot of things,” said Maria Guer- underground horizontally from the Call 505-263-8425 or email overcome several hurdles, including domestic-violence cases in the area rero. “especially, did you work for them wellhead as much as a mile from the [email protected] serious environmental concerns. since the fracking boom started in before? You gotta know somebody.” well’s bottom – uses far more water As exploratory drilling in search of Southeastern New Mexico. Workers refer to this system as “Tu sí, 6608 Gulton Court NE, Alb. 87109 oil creeps closer to Chaco Culture over its lifetime, according to critics. tu no.” You yes, you no. If they do get National Heritage Park, a UNESCO Industry advocates cite smaller water hired, workers are often taken by the World Heritage Site and designated usage numbers and say producers Corners, not oil. Attempts to gain contratista’s bus or van to the chile fields International Dark Skies Park, op- are finding it cost effective to use and legislative approval for such a railway in Hatch, Las Cruces or Deming – rides position appears to be mounting. recycle brackish water. have failed in the past. that can take two to three hours. The Bureau of Land Management, The solution may lie underground, It’s still dark when they arrive in the trialmetrixnm.com which controls most of the public in an old pipeline. fields so they sit on the bus or stretch land in the Four Corners, is updating So much oil cash is El Paso-based Western Refin- their legs in the cool morning air while gushing through Hobbs, ing – which operated a refinery in waiting another hour or more until it’s Bloomfield until closing it five years light enough to work. Workers aren’t the city is collecting Joseph Sorrentino ago –is about to reactivate a 60-year- entitled to pay for the time they wait on more in gross receipts old pipeline that once moved crude El Paso Street or the hours they spend In southern New Mexico chile pickers, or chileros, wait in a chile field to be paid at the end of the day. Not paying them for their wait time is illegal. taxes than Las Cruces, oil from the Permian Basin to the commuting, but if an employer requires Bloomfield refinery. a worker to be at the workplace or, as in a city twice its size president of the New Mexico Chile Association, said, The company plans to reverse the this case, they’re taken to the fields by a contratista, least $7.50 an hour.” “If they’re paying $7.25 an hour, the [labor contrac- direction of flow and move 10,000 by law, they’re supposed to be paid from the mo- That didn’t have much of an effect, either. tors] are assuming that’s right. They’re not trying to “For years we were told horizontal to 15,000 barrels of crude oil a day ment they arrive. This April, it was found that workers were still exploit workers. Probably just a phone call will solve drilling wasn’t feasible,” Eisenfeld at first, and up to 100,000 barrels a But chileros picking the green chile sold at getting paid $7.25 an hour. It was only after a state the problem.” added. “Now it seems pretty standard.” day at full capacity, from Bloomfield Albuquerque groceries almost never are, and it has investigation in late June, prompted by Wilkes, Turns out it took almost a year and more than just contratista Another hurdle is getting Four southeast, around the north side of the cost some of the lowest-paid workers in the United uncovered a still paying the lower federal a phone call. Corners oil to refineries. “We go about Sandia Mountains, and then onward States a significant amount of money over the last minimum wage that the Department of Workforce María Martínez Sánchez and Tess Wilkes are contratistas extracting the product in the same to Artesia. If a proposed, 75-mile five years. Solutions took any action, and some Albuquerque attorneys who have worked for farm manner” as gas producers, said Glen pipeline segment from Artesia to El A 2012 survey of 273 New Mexican farm workers started paying the state minimum wage. The workers’ rights. Last year, Martínez Sánchez wrote Papp, president of the Independent Paso is approved – which is likely – the by the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty increase amounted to $8 to $10 a week for workers. a letter to Department of Workforce Solutions, Petroleum Association of New transportation puzzle for getting San found their average household income to be less “I could buy some food for myself,” said Susana informing them that workers weren’t getting paid Mexico. “Once we get it to the surface Juan Basin oil to market may be solved. than $9,000, well below the federal poverty line of Lopez, a big, gregarious worker from Juarez. “Or the proper minimum wage. is where the similarities end.” It’s a story we’ve heard before. $11,670 for a one-person household. That survey those soups that are ten for a dollar. I could buy

In Southeast New Mexico, there is Analysts who looked at why Tesla also found that almost 70 percent of the workers them and send them to my daughter in Juarez.”

plenty of rail and pipeline capacity Motors chose Nevada over New Mexico interviewed were victims of wage theft. It’s impossible to calculate how much workers If workers were paid for to move oil to Texas refineries. In for its lithium-ion battery “gigafactory” Wage theft is perpetrated in several ways. Until have lost in wages since the state minimum wage the Farmington area, there’s no cited lack of transportation capacity in this year, farm workers were paid the federal all their wait time, they’d be earning was raised to $7.50 an hour on Jan. 1, 2009 – perhaps railroad. Two haulers have tried using New Mexico as one likely reason why minimum wage of $7.25 when paid hourly for work at least $90 a week more a few hundred dollars. But a 25-cent difference is Chileros semi-tractor trailer trucks to deliver the Land of Enchantment lost out. like weeding, but they should have been paid New only part of the story. are not being paid for oil along U.S. 550 to railheads in Lamy Ironically, the same lack of transpor- Mexico’s slightly higher minimum wage of $7.50. the time they wait in the fields before the sun comes In response, Jason Dean, Division Director of and Bernalillo, but the idea of crude tation capacity for one of the oldest When harvesting crops, workers are paid for what up. Labor Relations for the Workforce Solutions Depart- oil-laden tankers rumbling through and most important industries in they pick but, by state law, they should earn at least Jaye Hawkins, executive director of the New ment, informed his workers in an email in October, their towns has spurred opposition. New Mexico helps explain why – for $7.50 an hour. Very small farms may be exempt from Mexico Chile Association, said in an email, “Mostly 2013 that, “As an agency we should not unilaterally A state-funded study now under- the moment – Farmington can only paying the state minimum wage, but the exemption the workers want to take advantage of the cool times be telling all farm workers they are only entitled to way ponders building a railroad from look wistfully at the economic boom was being applied on almost all farms across the of the day.” the federal minimum wage.” Dean then sent a letter the BNSF Railway line in McKinley underway in the oil patch 500 miles to state. “Most of this is to accommodate the workers,” she in February of this year informing all registered County to Farmington, but that the southeast. Last year, when told that workers weren’t being wrote. “Early mornings and agricultural (sic) have New Mexico contratistas that “the majority of farm proposed line was conceived more to paid the proper minimum wage, Dino Cervantes, always gone hand in hand.” move coal strip-mined from the Four Bill Diven is a freelance writer in Placitas. worker employees ... should be paid an average of at The workers aren’t taking advantage of the cool cont. on page 13 PAGE 12 • September 24, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • September 24, 2014 • PAGE 13 Socialists Convene in ABQ CHILE PICKERS, Page 11 BY JIM MOORE times of the day. Instead, they’re sitting in a bus or should be paid for that time, too, Martínez Sánchez The Economics of Chile f you’ve heard a little more left-wing Chris Banks, an Albuquerque resident van waiting because they can’t work in the dark. said. If workers were paid for all their wait time, Italk around town lately – the rich and Socialist Party member, said the Not paying them violates a federal law called the they’d be earning at least $90 a week more. Last year, New Mexico’s chile crop was 65,000 getting richer, that sort of thing – you’ve term does carry baggage from that era, Portal to Portal Act, which states that workers are to Dean was clear in the letter he wrote to contratis- tons and valued at just under $50 million. In 2012, heard it right. but the “younger generation does not be paid for that time. tas: “Employees who are transported to the fields chile generated a statewide economic impact of Socialists converged on Albuquerque have a negative connotation – they’re “There’s a strong case to be made that farm and then not allowed to begin work are entitled to $400 million. In 2013, chile was named America’s for a conference – 125 of them, at curious. They’re taught it’s supposed workers are required to report at a specific time be paid the state minimum wage of $7.50 an hour for number one iconic food in a USA Today survey. last count – to debate and discuss an to be bad, but no one knows why it’s when they’re driven to the field by the contratista,” the entire time they are present at the work site.” To protect its brand, the New Mexico Chile As- economic philosophy that has been supposed to be bad.” said Sarah Rich, an attorney with experience on farm sociation filed for a trademark for the name, “New overshadowed in the United States by Banks said the best way to describe worker law. Mexico Certified Chile” in July. free-market capitalism for more than 70 a Socialist today is as “a person that “They can’t go anywhere and there’s nothing else ‘The department will continue to years. wants society meeting people’s needs for them to do but wait. Their employer brought investigate all wage claims brought from Durango, Mexico, lives in a shelter operated Lisa Crane of the Party for Socialism instead of profit. The current system them to the job site, therefore, their waiting time to the Labor Relations Division’ by the Sin Fronteras Organizing Project in El Paso. and Liberation said she invited people prioritizes profits over needs.” should be compensable because their workday has Like the other workers staying there – there are from Arizona, Colorado, Texas, and The Socialist Party opposes all forms of already begun.” – N.M. Department of Workforce Solutions official California to the Southwest Regional oppression and bigotry based on gender or around 150 during the peak of the chile harvest – he Jorge Matién is a 53-year-old worker from Ciudad sleeps on a thin blanket spread out on a linoleum Socialism Conference. sex, origin or race, Banks said. Issues the In that letter, he also informed them that his depart- Juarez. “Sometimes we get [to the fields] about 5 but floor. Just so we’re clear, we’re not talking party has taken stands on include police ment might conduct random field audits. It doesn’t we need to wait so we can see,” he said. “So we wait “I do not have enough money for rent,” he said. communism. We’re talking about an eco- brutality, undocumented workers, gender appear that that’s being done. In response to an email one hour, a couple hours.” He added that he’s paid, “I work all week but cannot afford an apartment. nomic and political philosophy described rights and equal pay for equal work. “nothing” for that time. The New Mexico Center for asking what the department was doing to enforce this by Merriam-Webster as “any of various “People can see it in paying women [People] should see how we live. They think it is Law and Poverty 2012 study found he’s not alone – particular law, Deputy Secretary of the Department economic and political theories advocating 70 cents on the dollar, or on race, or fan- money to get drunk but, no, it is money to live.” 95 percent of workers interviewed weren’t paid for of Workforce Solutions Joy Forehand answered, “The collective or governmental ownership and ning flames of hatred” regarding sexual their wait time. department will continue to investigate all wage claims administration of the means of production identity, he said. Joseph Sorrentino is an Albuquerque freelance writer. This and distribution of goods.” Crane said the socialism convention is The same goes for the hour or so workers typically brought to the Labor Relations Division.” article was published in partnership with The Investigative There are subsets of socialism, being held in Albuquerque because the wait to be paid at the end of the day. Under law, they José Luís Terrazas, a 63-year-old chile picker Fund at The Nation Institute. but mainline socialists espouse a Duke City “has a tradition of progressive philosophy closer to that of the Occupy struggle dating back to the Native Ameri- Movement – Why can’t we all get along, can resistance to colonialism. One of the SNAP BENEFITS, Page 6 work together and narrow the economic most vibrant labor movements was right Fact Check: The Martinez Breakfast Ad CALLING ALL PETS divide – than to the view of class warfare here in the early 1900s. [Socialism] was in work and employment activities that will help hunger in New Mexico.” She made that assertion de- espoused by Karl Marx. part of that.” them in the long run,” Earnest said. spite statistics indicating that New Mexico is one of The Governor Claims: And it’s definitely not the bleak The last time the Socialists had a Sara Nelson sent us this photo of Ojo, In a presentation to a legislative committee on the most “food insecure” states in the nation – with She started a program that “ensures every child interpretation of Marx’s philosophy – candidate on the New Mexico ballot was her one-eyed cat. Sept. 11, Earnest stated that the program changes one in five New Mexicans and one in three children gets a good breakfast – Breakfast After the Bell, communism, which calls for the violent in 1912 when Eugene Debs unsuc- will offer “additional assistance to individuals to in the state struggling to attain an adequate diet. meals for low-income children.” “He’s hanging out in this photo,” Sara told us. overthrow of capitalism, no classes, no cessfully ran for president. “It’s not a money, and state control of, well, pretty laziness factor that 50 percent or less of help them build skills and find work.” Advocates for the poor say the new regulations The Reality: “Only those that are physically able to meet the much everything. Yet, somehow, during Americans don’t vote,” Banks said, “but will be complex, costly to administer and will be Breakfast After the Bell has been on the books for the middle 20th century, the concepts a disenchantment – it doesn’t matter requirements must participate,” he wrote in his enforced by a state agency that has a poor record 20 years and was jump-started in 2011 as a result Send it to of cooperative socialism and dictatorial who’s elected, nothing will change.” presentation to the committee. administering the existing SNAP program. of Senate Bill 144, sponsored by Sen. Cynthia communism became synonymous. Ed Bolen, senior policy analyst for food-assistance “I don’t have any confidence in the capability Nava, a Doña Ana Democrat. The program was [email protected] Espousing either would get you hauled Jim Moore is an Albuquerque freelance policy for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, of the Human Services Department,” said Ruth redesigned and championed by New Mexico Include your name, phone number, and your pet’s name, before a congressional committee. writer. told the same committee that the new requirements Hoffman of the Lutheran Advocacy Ministry-New Appleseed, a nonprofit organization. Nava’s bill and we’ll try to reserve their spot in the pet parade. would cause hardship for the most vulnerable New Mexico. passed the Senate unanimously, and it passed the Mexicans in light of a 4.2 percent decrease in jobs in Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Agricul- House with 10 “no” votes,” all Republicans. It later Marchers Demand Action on Climate Change the state since 2008. ture, which funds SNAP and oversees the states’ was signed by the governor. This year, the program New Mexico lags behind most of the United States implementation if it, reported that New Mexico had was authorized for middle school and high school in re-creating jobs lost during the recession. “Only a backlog of unprocessed SNAP applications and students in a bill sponsored by House Speaker Ken Alabama, Arizona and Nevada have seen greater de- a high error rate. The USDA concluded that “the Martinez, a Grants Democrat, but no funding was creases in job creation, and all have taken statewide state is not effectively and efficiently administering included in the budget to implement the expansion. SNAP waivers,” Bolen testified. the SNAP program,” which led to a court order to The Governor Claims: According to the Center for Law and Poverty, remove barriers to SNAP enrollment. “While I believe in a strong safety net for those in a mother and child with no income who is now If the stricter requirements are implemented as need, we can’t allow adults to abuse the system. getting $347 per month in food assistance would get planned, New Mexico’s economy could lose the That’s why we prohibit the use of welfare cards at $189 per month. Such a family most likely would direct impact of $10.2 million a month in SNAP places like bars and casinos. We can help those in have to join the 40,000 New Mexicans who already funds next year. Applying the USDA’s economic need and protect taxpayers.” The Reality: seek help from private food banks every week, multiplier, the new rules could cost the state as This claim turns on who “we” refers to. A 2012 fed- anti-poverty advocates said. much as $18.3 million a month in economic activity. eral law (PL 112-96 the Middle Class Tax Relief and Statewide, nearly 455,000 people out of “I think this move is really a philosophical belief Job Creation Act) required states to implement rules New Mexico’s population of 2 million receive coming from the secretary that these people should to prohibit the use of EBT cards in liquor stores, federal food assistance. A little more than half are not be on these programs but out finding work,” casinos and adult entertainment venues or risk children, according to Earnest’s presentation to the said Sovereign Hager of the New Mexico Center losing 5 percent of their Temporary Assistance for committee. for Law and Poverty, whose organization earlier Needy Families block grants. New Mexico has had Last year, long before the TV ad on the breakfast brought suit against Martinez. language in its gaming compacts with the state’s program began airing, Human Services Department Indian tribes that prohibit the use of EBT cards at Sierra Club Secretary Sidonie Squier said that “there has never Dede Feldman is a former state senator and author of the book, tribal casinos. In March, in compliance with the About 400 people marching in Downtown Albuquerque on Sept. 20 to demand action on climate change pass by Im- been and is not now any significant evidence of “Inside the New Mexico Senate: Boots, Suits and Citizens.” 2012 federal law, the New Mexico Human Services maculate Conception Catholic Church, 619 Copper Ave. N.W. The marchers called on the Public Service Company of Department issued the EBT prohibition as a rule. New Mexico, state utility regulators and Gov. Susana Martinez to abandon coal-fired electricity production. BY NATE MAXSON

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(former owner of Terra) run a beauti- • Rugosa roses don’t have to be the ful business. Plenty of light and lots Enjoy your neighbors’ roses in bloom Caruso’s Table only type you plant. A floribunda (lots of this fall, and dream of how your own of white marble make you feel as if Send food & drink news and questions to flowers) popular here is ‘Nearly Wild.’ garden could look next year. I try to enjoy you are in Italy. But glance out the Beginning Oct. 9, MÁS Tapas y Vino Saffron Tomato at [email protected]. It’s a sweet little two- to three-footer with Tony’s rose bushes, but he trims them window in the entry or the bar and at Hotel Andaluz will offer a Chef’s pink blooms and lots of thorns, bound to into a shape that resembles a Dalek you’re in a quiet residential area in Table for just 16 people. This five- snag a sneaky trick-or-treater if planted course, tapas-tasting dinner option is Pre-theater Dining standing on its head. (Maybe he mutters your own hometown. The Lukes do in rows. ‘The Fairy’ is a pink rose with “Exterminate!” while he’s spraying for available on Thursdays and Fridays, everything to make you feel comfort- Elaine’s “Wicked” prix fixe menu a more traditional look, not much larger beetles.) The larger top part shades the with seatings at 6 p.m. or 9 p.m. Very able and welcome: Maggie greets you than ‘Nearly Wild,’ and does very well in struggling flowers below, so the few buds special dishes are promised, and chef for ticketholders seeing the show at at the door, Peter waves from the open Popejoy Hall, through Oct. 5; Tues.-Sat. the ground or in containers. that get sun are scattered across the James Campbell Caruso will be on Climbing roses that bloom twice in one season are rare. ‘The Albrighton Rambler’, above, is a twice-blooming cultivar kitchen. If you must wait for a table, 5-7 p.m., $27 per person, $10 for wine debuting this winter. Below, top, apricot-flowered ‘The Lady Gardener’ has an abundant clove scent. Below, bottom, • Rambling roses are a favorite of top of the shrub. It looks like my grand- deck to serve up exclusive details of there is comfortable seating in front of pairings. Eye the bewitching selection ‘Thomas á Becket’ fulfills all red-rose promises. All roses by David Austin, available in January. Copyright © 2014 people with pergolas and portales. ‘Lady mother’s ratty old Easter bonnet. the picture window. and “large plates” (Grandi Piatte) if each dish to cap this singular experi- at elainesnobhill.com, 433-4782, 3503 GardenNewsBreak, All Rights Reserved. Banks,’ a light-yellow that bleaches to No Japanese beetles, though. Thanks, Piattini’s lunch menu lists items you’d like a hot lunch. For dinner, ence. Fee is $75 per person, wine Central Ave. NE. white in strong sun, and velvet-red ‘Dublin Tony. perfect for sharing. Seafood is offered Gamberoni (shrimp Fra Diavolo) and pairings are additional, free valet By Stephanie Hainsfurther Bay’ are real standouts here. A new in the form of Frutti di Mare, Calamari crab-and-corn cakes Puttanesca are parking. By reservation only. Open now cultivar by David Austin Roses is ‘The Stephanie Hainsfurther feels a special af- and Ceviche Italiano with scallop, just the dishes to try with their selec- “Sweet desert rose/This memory of Eden Albrighton Rambler,’ a lightly scented finity toward the last rose of summer. Send shrimp and tuna. Beats a retro shrimp tion of Italian wines. Or go casual and 125 2nd St NW, 923-9080, hotelandaluz.com Einstein Bros. Bagels haunts us all/This desert flower/This rare per- climbing rose with a pink flower that will be your gardening questions to her at cocktail any day. There are six differ- have a Fungi & Tartufo pizza with Fresh-baked bagels with 12 kinds of fume, is the sweet intoxication of the fall …” available in January. Unlike most climbing [email protected]. ent 11” pizzas, five pasta dishes and mushrooms, gruyere and truffle oil. Say Yes to Beer and shmear, artisanal coffee, paninis, catering. -from “Desert Rose” by Gordon Sumner roses, this rambler blooms twice. many salads to choose, with Panini And the desserts … trust me, try them 6231 Riverside Plaza Lane NW (near (Sting) and Mohammed Khelifati Cookies Coors/Montaño), 899-9699, (800) BAGELME, einsteinbros.com. Golden Crown Panaderia Neighbor- y next door neighbor moved here from hood Bakery just got its license to MNew Jersey 30 years ago and still sprays serve beer and wine. They’ve gone SEPTEMBER 24-28 his roses against Japanese beetles. “Hey, Tony, I’ve never seen a Japanese local on the suds with Marble’s Red, 24th Annual Santa Fe Wine & Amber, IPA (yes!) and Oatmeal Stout beetle here,” I said to him one summer day. “That’s because I spray,” he replied. and want to go local with wines as Chile Fiesta Faulty logic and delusions of grandeur well. General manager Chris Morales Five days of tastings, chef luncheons, aside, Tony learned how to garden back East is asking for customer input. Go to wine dinners, cooking demos, Gruet Golf and hasn’t picked up any new information. Classic, a bike ride and much more. Go to their Facebook page to suggest your Japanese beetles are making slow and steady favorite beer, winery and grape. Just santafwineandchile.org for a full roster of events and all other details. progress westward, but they’re not here yet. kidding about the beer and cook- The worst pests for Southwest roses are ies – this place is famed for its tasty aphids and thrips, easy enough to control sandwiches and pizza, too. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 with natural remedies such as neem oil and Foris Vineyards Wine Tasting insecticidal soaps. The devastation from 1103 Mountain Rd NW, 243-2424, aphids and thrips can rival even that of goldencrown.biz Prairie Star Wine Bar, 288 Prairie Star Japanese beetles if left unchecked, so if you Road, Santa Ana Pueblo see a few of these pests on your rose stems Live Now. Pinot gris, gewurztraminer, pinot noir and foliage, blast them with a hose regularly. “ I appreciate living here because we have not only met new friends, but “Soaring into Para- and more from this family-owned Oregon Leafcutter bees may strike your roses, but winery, accompanied by appetizer platters became reunited with family as well. The opportunity and choice of many dise” 23rd Annual by Chef Olsen. they’ll only punch nice, even holes in the meaningful activities makes each day delightful. My husband and I enjoy the 1:30 pm, $25+, 867-3327 for reservations, leaves and leave the blooms alone. Hands peace of mind that can only come from living in a LifeCare Community. ” Chocolate Fantasy© prairiestarrestaurant.com off these hardworking little guys: They are –Mary Jane Moffitt, La Vida Llena resident It’s not too early to save the date: very efficient pollinators. Saturday, March 14, for the black-tie SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4 With so much sun, an alkaline soil and gala at Sandia Resort & Casino. The close-packed homes for wind protection, theme ties it to the “Birds of Paradise: Los Poblanos Property Tour Albuquerque is the sweet spot for roses. Amazing Avian Evolution” National Right now, repeat bloomers are enjoying a Los Poblanos Historic Inn and Organic comeback all over town, thanks to the recent Geographic Traveling Exhibition to Farm, 4803 Rio Grande Blvd. NW, Los rains and cooler temps. 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Canadian Explorer™ series named after PAGE 16 • September 24, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS EVENTS EVENTS ABQ FREE PRESS • September 24, 2014 • PAGE 17 CALENDAR CALENDAR CASINOS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24 October 28, 7:30 pm, $12, Being As An Ocean, SEPTEMBER 25-DECEMBER 3 October 19, 7 pm, $15, Watsky w/ Kyle and JAZZ BRASILEIRO SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 Gideon, Wolves At The Gate, Incarnate, Anderson .Paak, All You Can Do Tour Tony Hillerman Library, 8205 Apache NE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 JAY LENO: THE HOUSE JACKS Seconds To End SISTER THE BAR October 20, 6:30 pm, $17, Tomorrow We Die Contemporary Brazilian jazz and bossa nova MOSTLY BACH CÉSAR BAUVALLET AND TRADICIONES Route 66 Casino Hotel, Legends Theater, November 1, 9 pm, $12, Secret Chiefs 3 , 407 Central Ave NW, 242-4900, Alive 2014 US Tour: Born Of Osiris, Thy Art classics. National Hispanic Cultural Center, Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE ALABAMA 14500 Central Ave SW Atomic Ape sisterthebar.com Is Murder, Betraying The Martyrs, Within The Free, 12 noon, 291-6264, 1701 4th Street SW Albuquerque bandleader trombonist, percus- Sandia Resort & Casino Amphitheater, The man just can’t stop working and that’s November 2, 8 pm, $13, MC Chris, September 25, 9 pm, $5, Merchandise, Ruins, Erra abclibrary.org/tonyhillerman Part of the New Mexico Philharmonic Sunday sionist, composer and arranger César Bauvallet, 30 Rainbow Rd OK with the audience. MC Lars, Spose Lower, Bigawatt October 21, 8 pm, $18, Bam Margera with Afternoon Classics series. who also leads Son Como Son, Albuquerque’s 8 pm, $60-80, 796-7500, sandiacasino.com, 8 pm, $42-95, rt66casino.com November 6, 7:30 pm, $10, Rotting Out, September 25, 9 pm, $5, James Whiton, F&@kface Unstoppable, Lionize, Polkadot FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 2 pm, 724-4771, nhccnm.org, nmphil.org premier salsa band, brings his dynamic seven La Cage Aux Folles Burlesque, piece Tradiciones ensemble to Outpost. ticketmaster.com Nomads, Homewrecker, Pharoah, Loathe Cadavar, Until Chaos CHATTER SUNDAY: BREAKING BRASS Le Chat Lunatique MATANA ROBERTS ANTHEM QUARTET 7:30 pm, $10-$15, 268-0044, outpostspace.org CLUBS & PUBS November 7, 9:30 pm, $5, The Lymbs, October 22, 7 pm, $22.50-95, Joey Bada$$ Kosmos Performance Space WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 October 2, 8 pm, $20, KRS One Outpost Performance Space Red Light Cameras, Great States October 25, 7:30 pm, Carnifex, Inhuman at the Factory on 5th, 1715 Fifth St NW October 3, 8 pm, Free, Zombie Bar Crawl 210 Yale SE OCTOBER 11-NOVEMBER 22 SEPTEMBER 24-DECEMBER 12 November 8, 9:30 pm, $8, Koffin Kats, Hands, A Malicious Plague, Vale Of Miscreation Chamber music, poetry and coffee, in an infor- CROSBY, STILLS & NASH October 9, 8 pm, $3, Biome, Crix Saiz, Westy, Chicago-born, New York-based alto Russian Girlfriends October 27, 6 pm, $25, Too Zany welcomes mal, acoustically excellent setting. NEW MEXICO PHILHARMONIC Sandia Resort & Casino Amphitheater, LAUNCHPAD Mittens, 13 Pieces saxophonist Matana Roberts with Gabriel Guer- November 9, 7:30 pm, EYEHATEGOD, G-EAZY w/ IAMSU & Jay Ant, Doors open 9:30 am, $15 at the door, POPEJOY CLASSICAL SERIES 30 Rainbow Rd 618 Central Ave SW, 764-8887, October 10, 9 pm, $10, Ex Hex & Speedy Ortiz rero, piano; Kevin Tkacz, bass; and Today Is The Day, Black Maria, Econarchy Bay To Universe Tour chatterabq.org Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus, 8 pm, $45-55, 796-7500, launchpadrocks.com October 12, 5 pm, Free, Happy Hour Show: Tomas Fujiwara, drums. November 15, 9 pm, Stoic Frame Reunion October 28, 7 pm, $17, New Politics, Bad Suns, 203 Cornell Dr NE sandiacasino.com, ticketmaster.com September 24, 9 pm, $17, Palms, Boyfrndz Joe and Vicki Price 7:30, $10-15, 268- 0044, outpostspace.org ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTET Show!, Reviva SomeKindaWonderful October 11, Beethoven’s Ninth September 26, 9:30 pm, $12, Metalachi October 17, 8 pm, $10, Eddie And The Hotrods St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 November 18, 8 pm, $10, 10th Anniversary October 29, 7 pm, $30, Matisyahu, Radical November 1, Rodrigo’s Guitar Concierto de September 28, 7:30 pm, $13, Butcher Babies, October 22, 9 pm, $10, Macabre, Ringworm, Museum of Art, 107 W Palace Ave, Santa Fe Tour: Intronaut, Anciients, Bathhouse, Distances Something, Cisco Aranjuez Anti-Mortem, Blinddryve, Inhuman Hands Panzerfaust Presented by Santa Fe Pro Musica. SANTANA: THE CORAZÓN TOUR November 23, 8 pm, The Reckoning Tour: Blood October 30, 7:30 pm, $18, Glamour Kills Tour November 22, Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a September 29, 9 pm, $10, Sham 69, October 23, 9 pm, $5, Decker, Sad Baby Wolf, 3 pm, $20-65 Santa Fe Pro Musica Box Office Sandia Resort & Casino Amphitheater, On The Dance Floor, Whitney Peyton, Sweet presents New Found Glory, We Are The In Theme of Paganini Total Chaos, Brassknuckle Boys, St. Petersburg (505) 988-4640, Santa Fe at the Lensic 30 Rainbow Rd Ascent Crowd, Fireworks, Better Off 6 pm, 925-5858, unmtickets.com, nmphil.org 8 pm, $65-85, 796-7500, We Are The Revenants November 29, 9 pm, mr. Gnome, Young Tongue October 29, 9 pm, $10, Tera Melos November 1, 8 pm $20, Eternal Tour 2014: (505) 988-1234, or santafepromusica.com sandiacasino.com, ticketmaster.com September 30, 9 pm, $17, Yellowman, November 5, 9 pm, $7, Iceage December 8, 7:30, $13, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Gwar, Decapitated, American Sharks TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12 I. Conscious Mustard Plug, Dan Potthast November 11, 9 pm, $12, Dum Dum Girls & November 3, 7 pm, $21-75, YELAWOLF + FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 October 1, 7:30 pm, $16, Let It Enfold You Ex Cops CHATTER SUNDAY: SCHEPPS December 12, 8:30, $20, Swamp Leper Stomp RITTZ + Big Henry + DJ Klever AN EVENING OF INDIAN CLASSICAL 10 Year Anniversary Tour: Senses Fail, December 3, 9 pm, $10, Pallbearer SCHWARTZKOPF DUO 2014: Death DTA, Torture Victim, Suspended, November 9, 7 pm, $27.50, Rockstar Energy MUSIC KINGS OF LEON No Bragging Rights, To The Wind, Knuckle Puck Kosmos Performance Space at the Factory Impaled Offering Drink Presents Pierce The Veil and Sleeping Lensic Performing Arts Center, Isleta Resort & Casino Amphitheater, October 2, 8 pm, $18, Against Me! SEPTEMBER 26-OCTOBER 4 on 5th, 1715 Fifth St NW With Sirens , Beartooth, This Wild Life 211 W San Francisco St, Santa Fe 5601 University Blvd SE October 4, 9 pm, $7, Illumina A.D., SEPTEMBER 25-NOVEMBER 18 Chamber music, poetry and coffee, in an “Mechanical Bull Tour” with SNEAKERZ SPORTS BAR & GRILL November 10, 8 pm, $20, Check Yo Ponytail World’s best tabla performances by Sorry Guero!, Carrion Kind, Inhuman Hands, Anniversary Tour: The Presets, Le1f, Chela, informal, acoustically excellent setting. Young the Giant and Kongos. LOW SPIRITS 4100 San Mateo NE, 873-1708, Zakir Hussain (tabla), with Kumaresh Rajagopa- The Sweet Struggle Franki Chan Doors open 9:30 am, $15 at the door, 7 pm, $34-100+, 452-5100, isletaamphitheater. 2823 2nd St NW, lowspiritslive.com, sneakerzsportsbar.com lan (violin) and Jayanthi Kumaresh (veena). October 5, 8 pm, $10, K Flay, Night Riots November 11, 7 pm, $20, These Days Tour: chatterabq.org net (800) 456-8499, ticketliquidator.com prices subject to change Happy Hour with free live music. Under 21 wel- 7pm, $20-50, The Lensic Box Office AB Soul September 25, 9 pm, $10, Red Elvises come with parent or guardian until 10 pm. (505) 988-1234; The Outpost Box Office November 12, 6:30 pm, $16, The Word Alive, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 September 26, 9 pm, $7, Let It Grow, September 26, 6-9 pm, Donohoe and Grimes (505) 268-0044; or online at The Color Morale, Our Last Night, Dead Rabbits, Mondo Vibrations October 3, 6-9 pm, Desert Soul TicketsSanta Fe.org. GET THE LED OUT Miss Fortune September 27, 8 pm, J. Scott G’s Big October 4, 7 pm, Cissy Ryder and Sapphire Route 66 Casino Hotel, Legends Theater, November 13, 8 pm, $29, Dropkick Murphys, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8 40th Birthday Party! Birthday Bash 14500 Central Ave SW Blood Or Whiskey September 28, 8 pm, Red Light Cameras, Led Zeppelin tribute band. SEPTEMBER 26-OCTOBER 4 November 15, 8 pm, $23, Arch Enemy, RIBAB FUSION Charlene Yi 8 pm, $10-35, 352-7866, rt66casino.com Kreator, Huntress The Dirty Bourbon, 9800 Montgomery NE, October 1, 9 pm, Lumpz One!, Sublmnl THE STUMBLING STEER November 20, 7 pm, $29.50, People Keep Talk- 296-2726 Rnsons, Kron Jeremy, Cryogenik Styles SEPTEMBER 26-27 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2 3700 Ellison Rd NW, 792-7805, ing Tour: Hoodie Allen, Chiddy Bang, Dance to ‘70s Funk and modern Afropop from October 3, 9 pm, $8, Saintseneca, thestumblingsteer.com Taylor Bennett Morocco. 7:30 pm, $17-22, ampconcerts.org, BOBCAT GOLDTHWAITE Busman’s Holiday, Plain Jane Glory ALBUQUERQUE UKEKOPELLI FESTIVAL Live Music, Friday-Saturday, 7-10 pm November 23, 6:30 pm, $17, The Ghost Inside, Concerts and musicians, instructors and Hold My Ticket, 505-886-1251 The Stage at Santa Ana Star Center, October 4, 9 pm, $12, B Side Players September 26, Boulevard Lane Every Time I Die, Architects (UK), Hundredth, workshops. 54 Jemez Canyon Dam Road, October 5, 8 pm, $12, Rocco Deluca THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9 September 27, Ravin Hills Backtrack Daylong festivities, $100/weekend, Santa Ana Pueblo October 6, 8:30 pm, $15, Symmetry In Black October 9, $5, Bishop Allen October 3, Ravin Hills November 25, 7 pm, $20, Monster Energy ABQUkeFest.com ALLISON MILLER’S BOOM TIC BOOM 7 pm & 9:30 pm, $15-35, 771-5353, North American Tour 2014: Crowbar, October 10, 9 pm, $5, Lovers and Madmen October 4, The Twisted Owls Outbreak Tour presents Attila, Crown The Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE holdmyticket.com, thestageatthestar.com Revocation, Havok, Fit For An Autopsy, CD release party! The Real Matt Jones, OCTOBER 16-17 Empire, Like Moths To Flames, Sworn In THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2 NYC-based drummer, Allison Miller defies all Armed For Apocalypse Carlos The Tall SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 December 9, 6:30 pm, $18, Eternal Enemies boundaries and brings her individual sound to DAVID FRANCEY October 7, 8 pm, $12, Busdriver, clipping., October 11, 9 pm, $8, Rose’s Pawn Shop GRACIAS CHOIR CHRISTMAS CANTATA ABQ SLAMS CITY CHAMPIONSHIP Tour: Emmure, The Acacia Strain, Stray From diverse musical genres. October 16, Tony Hillerman Library, Milo, Kenny Segal (Team Supreme) October 15, 9 pm, Cowboys and Indian, TOUR 2014 LAS VEGAS ALL-STAR VARIETY REVUE! Tractor Brewing Company Wells Park, The Path, Fit For A King, Kublai Khan 7:30 pm, $15-20, 268-0044, outpostspace.org 8205 Apache NE, 12 pm October 9, 9 pm, $25, Doug Stanhope, The Ditchrunners Tingley Coliseum, NM State Fairgrounds, Route 66 Casino Hotel, Legends Theater, 1800 4th St NW December 14, 8 pm, $18, Toontrack presents October 17, North Valley Library, Kevin Kennedy, Black Mike October 17, 9 pm, $10, Minimum Overdrive 300 San Pedro Dr NE 14500 Central Ave SW Spoken word battle of a dozen local poets, with Abstract Reality Tour: Devin Townsend Project 7704 2nd St NW, 12 pm October 10, 9 pm, $15, Home Away From Tour: Austin Lucas, Jon Snodgrass, Northcote, The Gracias Choir brings the message of Billed as The Best Vegas Variety Show in NM. DJ “In the Mix” following. and Animals As Leaders, Monuments Award-winning Canadian folk singer-songwriter. Home Tour: Brother Ali, Bambu & Jayke Orvis, Caleb Caudle hope and peace through music, and an early 8 pm, $10, rt66casino.com 6-9 pm, Free but donations appreciated, December 15, 7 pm, $28, Hot Topic presents Both events are free, but reservations are rec- DJ LAST WORD October 18, 9 pm, The Gilded Cage Burlesk Christmas, to Albuquerque; presented by the 243-6752, abqslams.org, getplowed.com Black Veil Brides, Falling In Reverse, Set It Off, ommended. Info is available from ampconcerts. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17 October 11, 9 pm, $15, Dirty Deeds Burlesque & Varieté presents “Attack of the Creepshow International Youth Fellowship. Drama Club org, 232-9868. Presents: Dia De los Muertos Peepshow” 7 pm, Free, graciaschoir.com LEGACY 36: SEPTEMBER 27-30 October 12, 8 pm, I Conscious, October 21, 9 pm, $12, Cyanotic, Author and THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16 CODY EAST VS. VERNON LEWIS Yard Squad Band Punisher, The Rabid Whole, Diverje CORRALES BISTRO BREWERY FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3 Route 66 Casino Hotel, Legends Theater, October 24, 9 pm, Night of the Living Gioco October 14, 7 pm, $10, Son Real 4908 Corrales Rd, 897-1036, cbbistro.com ROUST THE HOUSE TEEN ERIC VLOEIMANS’ OLIVER’S CINEMA 14500 Central Ave SW Cover Bands 4310 Central Ave SE (next to O’Niell’s) October 16, 6:30 pm, $13, Not Your American 6 pm, Free PERFORMANCE NIGHT Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE The main event, and other contenders male October 25, 8 pm, $5, Dia de los Grateful FOOTBALL FACTS FOR FEMALES Idols Tour: Capture The Crown, For All Those September 27, Glen Murata Trio Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE Trumpeter Eric Vloeimans is one of the stars of and female. Muertos featuring Top Dead Center, Subtitled “Or If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em,” a Sleeping, Ice Nine Kills, Pallisades, September 28, Roger Jameson Local teen bands and soloists, in many genres. the vibrant European jazz scene and has been 7 pm, $20-200, rt66casino.com 600 Pounds of Sin handbook penned by Albuquerque writer Susan Myka Relocate, Youth In Revolt September 29, B-Man and the MizzBeeHavens 7:30 pm, $3 at the door. described as having “a melodic style evocative WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22 October 18, 8 pm, Kirsten Memorial Show!! October 30, 9 pm, Run Boy Run September 30, Eileen and Cross Country Cooper for the rest of us. She wants to share her OCTOBER 10 and OCTOBER 12 of late-period Miles Davis.” SuperGiant, Anesthesia, Requiem Mass, October 31, 9 pm, $12, il sogno del marinaio wisdom with sports fans. JOHNNY BOYD 7:30 pm, $15-$20, 268-0044, outpostspace.org FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH Illumina A.D., The Ground Beneath, (with Mike Watt) SEPTEMBER 29-DECEMBER 15 4:30-6:30 pm, Free, The Cooperage SOUNDS AND SWEET AIRS: SONGS OF Fallen Prophets November 1, 9 pm, $10, Halloween Hoedown: just before the Packers-Vikings game. 266-2127. 7220 Lomas NE SHAKESPEARE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17 Santa Ana Star Center, SUNSHINE THEATER October 21, 8:45 pm, $13, Rubblebucket, Paris A Gogo Burlesque, The MLC, Blame it on Cute crooner with a broad repertoire. Quintessence Choral Artists of the Southwest’s 3001 Civic Center Cir NE, Rio Rancho, 120 Central Ave SW, Info & Tickets: LE CHAT LUNATIQUE & WILDEWOOD Landlady, Hank and Cupcakes Rebekkah, Kimo 8 pm, $17-20, ampconcerts.org, October concert. Touring with Volbeat, Hellyeah and sunshinetheaterlive.com MUSIC Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE October 22, 7:30 pm, $13, The Contortionist, November 4, 9:30 pm, $8, O’Death, Hold My Ticket, 505-886-1251 October 10, Friday, 7 pm, Keller Hall, Nothing More. September 29, 8:30 pm, $23, Fitz and the Popular and eclectic ABQ group 6:10 pm, $40-45, 891-7300, Intervals, Polyphia Lonesome Leash, Human Behavior WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 UNM Main Campus Tantrums OCTOBER 4-5 Le Chat Lunatique performs with local American santaanastarcenter.com October 24, 9 pm, THEE SANCTUARY: November 5, 9 pm, Cahalen Morrison and October 12, Sunday, 3 pm, St John’s United Country Hammer, The Gregg Daigle Band September 30, 8 pm, $29, Gov’t Mule BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO folk rock band. Bloodsuckers Bazaar THE COOKERS Methodist Church, 2626 Arizona NE November 11, 9 pm, $15, Horse Feathers October 9, 7 pm, $20, Twiztid Santa Fe Farmer’s Market, 7:30 pm, $10-15, 268-0044, outpostspace.org October 25, 9 pm, $5, Night of the Living Cover Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE $30-45, quintessence-abq.com November 18, 9 pm, Water Liars October 12, 7 pm, $18.50, The Wonder Years, 1607 Paseo de Peralta, Railyard District, Bands! The Coma Recovery as Depeche Mode, Hard Bop featuring Billy Harper, Donald The Story So Far, Modern Baseball, Gnarwolves Santa Fe distances as Garbage, Double Plow as Queen Harrison, David Weiss, Eddie Henderson, October 18, 8 pm, $12, Ryan McGarvey Dance to the music of Stanley “Buckwheat” October 26, 8 pm, $18, Hold It In Tour: Melvins, George Cables, Cecil McBee and Billy Hart. CD Release Party Dural Jr. and his piano accordion. Le Butcherettes 7:30 pm, $25-30, 268-0044, outpostspace.org 7:30 pm, $25-30, southwestrootsmusic.org PAGE 18 • September 24, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS EVENTS EVENTS ABQ FREE PRESS • September 24, 2014 • PAGE 19 CALENDAR CALENDAR SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 JIM MALCOLM October 30-31, check website for times, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18 NOW-NOVEMBER 29 BOOKS & POETRY THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5 The Cooperage, 7220 Lomas NE Double Feature: A Voice in the Dark: Svengali CHATTER SUNDAY: ZOFO PIANO DUO Traditional songs of Scotland and his own music (1931) and Phantom of the Opera (1925) 2nd ANNUAL SOUTHWEST BACON FEST SPIRITS OF SUSPICION SEPTEMBER 24-OCTOBER FOOTBALL FACTS FOR FEMALES ABQ WOW POETRY SLAM Kosmos Performance Space at the Factory by a fine singer. October 31-November 1, 10:15 pm, Dead Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Foul Play Café, Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown, Gioco, 4310 Central Ave SE (next to O’Niell’s) CHAMPIONSHIP on 5th, 1715 Fifth St NW 7:30 pm, $17-22, ampconcerts.org, Snow 2: Red Vs. Dead Balloon Museum, 9201 Balloon Museum Dr NE 2600 Louisiana Blvd NE BOOK SIGNINGS AND OTHER EVENTS Subtitled “Or If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em,” a Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE Chamber music, poetry and coffee, in an infor- Hold My Ticket, 505-886-1251 November 7-9, 4 pm and 8:15 pm, Bjork: $7 adult admission, passes are $25 and Fun and mystery, with dinner. AT BOOKWORKS handbook penned by Albuquerque writer Susan WOW stands for “Women of the World,” present- mal, acoustically excellent setting. Biophilia Live include food, 880-0500, ABQBacon.com Friday-Saturday 7 pm, $56.50, Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande NW, Cooper for the rest of us. She wants to share her ing some of our best female performance poets: Doors open 9:30 am, $15 at the door, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30 $35 for children, 377-9593, foulplaycafe.com Free unless otherwise noted, bkwrks.com wisdom with sports fans. Albuquerque Poet Laureate Jessica Helen chatterabq.org SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26 September 24, 7 pm, Erika Wurth, 4:30-6:30 pm, Free, Lopez, Jasmine Cuffee, Brooke von Blomberg, RALPH ALESSI’S BAIDA QUARTET OCTOBER 2-12 MOZART’S SOLEMN VESPERS 24th ANNUAL ALBUQUERQUE “Crazy Horse’s Girlfriend” just before the Packers-Vikings game. 266-2127. Emily Bjustrom, Eva Crespin, Mercedez Holtry, Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE MOVIE MATINEES Susanna Rinderle, Sara Roman, and Gigi Bella. First United Methodist Church, EQUESTRIAN CUP THE DROWNING GIRLS September 25, 7 pm, Michael Maddox, Trumpeter Ralph Alessi’s latest project features Open Space Visitor Center, “Porter and Ike Stockton” WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22 7:30 pm, $5-10, 268-0044, outpostspace.org 314 Lead Ave SW pianist Gary Versace; bassist Mark Helias; and 6500 Coors Blvd NW EXPO New Mexico, State Fairgrounds Duke City Repertory Theatre, New Mexico Symphony Chorus concert. Dairy Barn, 300 San Pedro Dr NE The Cell Theatre, 700 1st St NW September 27, 3 pm, Laura Pritchett, MOLLY ANTOPOL, “THE UNAMERICANS” drummer Nasheet Waits. (Midway between Montaño & Paseo del Norte “Stars Go Blue” 3 pm, $25-45, (800) 838-3006, Horse jumping competition, auctions, artists, Thursday-Saturday 8 pm, Sunday 2 pm, Jewish Book Festival, Jewish Community 7:30 pm, $15-20, 268-0044, outpostspace.org at the end of Bosque Meadows Rd) September 28, 3 pm, Debra Bloomfield, brownpapertickets.com, nmschorus.org food and beer, vendors, along with a kids’ corral 797-7081, dukecityrep.com Center, 5520 Wyoming Blvd NE September 27, 1:30 pm, Babe “Wilderness” FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31 and a Dude Room. Sponsored by and for the Read the article by Barry Gaines in the The National Book Foundation recently named COUNTRY & WESTERN SHOWCASE Family friendly and free, 897-8831, September 30, 7 pm, Mike Smith, “Tin House” benefit of Rotary Club of Albuquerque, Share October 8 issue of ABQ Free Press. Antopol one of the five best writers in the country Crossword Puzzle appears on page 24 South Broadway Cultural Center, abq.gov/openspace Tribes issue reading STORYSPACE: SPOOKY STORY NIGHT Your Care Adult Day Services and Explora. under 35. Her collection of short stories of the John Lewis Theatre, 1025 Broadway SE October 4, 3 pm, Judy Chicago, “Institutional WITH THE SPOOKULELE BAND SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 11:30 am-6 pm, $35 each or two for $50, VIP OCTOBER 9-19 Jewish diaspora takes readers from country to A showcase for classic-country musicians Time & The Dinner Party: Restoring Women to Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE tickets $75, Children 12 and under Free, 298- country throughout time to discover characters from New Mexico. THE MUSICAL ADVENTURE OF MIMI AND History” An evening of well-loved children’s stories trans- THE WIND 1700 ext. 31, abqec.org and situations both touching and harrowing. 2-4 pm, $5-7, 848-1320, THE GHOSTS formed into song by the Spookulele Band. KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW For more information: 332-0565, jccabq.org cabq.gov/south-broadway-cultural-center 7:30 pm, Free for kids 12 and under and any- A silent film starring Lillian Gish, with a live mu- SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20 VSA North 4th Theatre, 4904 4th St NW SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 A new musical by local playwright Jason Witter, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23 one wearing a costume (glitter-free, please!), sic score played by The Invincible Czars quartet, ABQ SLAMS CITY CHAMPIONSHIP MONDAY, OCTOBER 27 $5 for others; 268-0044, outpostspace.org to help celebrate the KiMo’s 87th birthday. GILDAN NEW MEXICO BOWL with 26 local actors between the ages of 8-18. University Stadium, University Blvd SE Opening night Make-A-Wish Fundraiser perfor- Tractor Brewing Company Wells Park, CHUCK PALAHNIUK BASSEKOU KOUYATE & 7 pm, $15, 768-3544, KiMoTickets.com 1800 4th St NW & Avenida Cesar Chavez mance Thursday, October 9, 6:30, $15. University of New Mexico Student Union, THE NGONI BLUES BAND Spoken word battle of a dozen local poets, with FILM It’s Mountain West Conference vs. Conference Friday-Saturday 7 pm, Sunday 2 pm, $10, UNM Main Campus Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE DJ “In the Mix” following. FESTIVALS, FIESTAS & FAMILY USA at this 9th annual New Mexico college cardboard-playhouse.org “Fight Club” author Palahniuk speaks and Bassekou Kouyate is one of the true masters 6-9 pm, Free but donations appreciated, NOW-MARCH 15 football bowl, which will be broadcast on ESPN. entertains. His new book, “Beautiful You,” is a of the ngoni, an ancient traditional lute found SEPTEMBER 26-OCTOBER 5 243-6752, abqslams.org, getplowed.com Kickoff: 12:20 pm MT, $25-400+, OCTOBER 10-NOVEMBER 2 satire of the sex toy industry. Co-sponsored by throughout West Africa. He has collaborated PANDAS: THE JOURNEY HOME (505) 925-5999, unmtickets.com, Bookworks and the UNM Student Union. with many musicians in and outside of Mali. His Lockheed Martin Dyna Theater, New Mexico TAOS FALL ARTS FESTIVAL KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN DEDE FELDMAN gildannewmexicobowl.com 7 pm, Admission requires purchase of signed 4-piece ensemble features Bassekou Kouyate, Museum of Natural History, Old Town 40th anniversary of the popular film, art, crafts, Musical Theatre Southwest, Under Charlie’s Covers, hardcover book, ticketholders can bring one lead ngoni; Amy Sacko: lead vocal; Mamadou About the efforts made all over the world to save music and multimedia events. Various locations. 6320-B Domingo NE 120 U.S. 550, Bernalillo guest for $5 additional. Kouyate, ngoni bass; and Moctar Kouyate, the Giant Panda. Details: taosfallarts.com THEATER In a Latin American prison, Molina shares his Speaking and signing her book, Tickets: bkwrks.com/chuck-palahniuk calabash. 11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm; times will change fantasies about an actress, Aurora, who in one “Inside the NM Senate.” 7:30 pm, $15-20, 268-0044, outpostspace.org in December; 841-2800, nmnaturalhistory.org, SEPTEMBER 27-28 CLOSING SEPTEMBER 28 of her roles is a Spider Woman who kills with a 11 am, Free, 404-2097, Read our music story in the October 8 issue of ngpandas.com kiss, with his cellmate, Valentin. undercharliescovers.com CORRALES HARVEST WEEKEND PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE ABQ Free Press. Friday-Saturday 8 pm, Sunday 4 pm, $20-$22, Historic Casa San Ysidro, Guiterrez/Minge The Vortex Theatre, 2900 Carlisle NE SEPTEMBER 27- OCTOBER 4 265-9119, musicaltheatresw.com FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24 House, 973 Old Church Road, Corrales (between Menaul and Candelaria) Performances, food, art, rides, music; park in the $15-22, Fri.-Sat. 7:30 p.m., Sun. 2 p.m., OCTOBER 24-NOVEMBER 16 BOOK SIGNINGS AND OTHER EVENTS JACKY TERRASSON TRIO Village and take a hay ride to the site. 247-8600, vortexabq.org AT PAGE ONE Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE 10 am-4 pm, Free. Pay-What-You-Will is Sun., Sept. 7. THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING Page One Books, Pianist Jacky Terrasson, a significant figure in Talkback with cast and Director Martin Andrews The Adobe Theater, 9813 4th St NW Free unless otherwise noted, jazz for over 20 years, will be joined by Dave OCTOBER 4-12 on Sun., Sept. 14 after the show. Carson McCullers’ touching and poignant play 5850 Eubank NE, page1book.com Robaire, bass; and Jamire Williams, drums. centers around Frankie Addams, a twelve- September 27, 3 pm, Steven Gould, ALBUQUERQUE INTERNATIONAL SEPTEMBER 25 and SEPTEMBER 27 “Exo: Jumper 4” 7:30 pm, $20-25, 268-0044, outpostspace.org BALLOON FIESTA year-old white girl caught between childhood innocence and the throes of adolescence. This October 4, 2:30 pm, Nasario García, Albuquerque’s iconic event, with lots of fun and OUTSIDE MULLINGAR SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 coming-of-age play also explores the intrinsi- “Grandpa Lolo and Trampa” activities for the family. FUSION Theatre Company at various venues. cally enmeshed lives of whites and blacks in the BIRDS OF CHICAGO All information: balloonfiesta.com, Times and prices vary. SEPTEMBER 30-OCTOBER 19 American South, 1945. Directed by James Cady. Music in Corrales, Old San Isidro Church, (505) 821-1000, 1-888-422-7277 Call 766-9412, or go to FUSIONabq.org Friday-Saturday 7:30 pm, Sundays 2 pm, 966 Old Church Rd, Corrales SEPTEMBER 26-NOVEMBER 9 for details. AUTHOR APPEARANCES AT Thursday November 13, 2 pm; $15, 898-9222, Popular American Roots music group. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4 September 25, KiMo Theatre, 421 Central NW JEAN COCTEAU CINEMA FILMS AT THE GUILD adobetheater.org Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma Ave, 7:30 pm, $22-25, brownpapertickets.com, The Guild Cinema, 3405 Central Ave NE COSMIC CARNIVAL September 27, The Lensic Performing Arts musicincorrales.org Center, 211 W San Francisco St, Santa Fe Santa Fe $5-10 unless otherwise listed, 255-1848, Open Space Visitors Center, COMEDY (505) 466-5528, jeancocteaucinema.com SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26 for more movies: guildcinema.com 6500 Coors Blvd NW, at the end of Bosque NOW-OCTOBER 5 September 30, Kim Harrison, September 26-29, 6 pm, Closed Curtain Meadows Rd. between Montaño and THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2 “The Witch with No Name” CHATTER SUNDAY: FELIX’S BIRTHDAY September 26, 10:30 pm, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Paseo del Norte THE JAMMER October 13, Lev Grossman, CELLO CELEBRATION (1920), a live score by the touring Invincible Family activities celebrating astronomy. Aux Dog Theatre, Main Stage, BOBCAT GOLDTHWAITE “The Magician’s Land” Kosmos Performance Space at the Factory Czars 1-5 pm, Free, taas.org 3011 Monte Vista Blvd NE, Nob Hill The Stage at Santa Ana Star Center, October 19, Max Evans, “Goin’ Crazy with on 5th, 1715 Fifth St NW September 26-29, 3:30 and 8:15 pm, Fifi Howls A production by Mother Road Theatre Company 54 Jemez Canyon Dam Road, Sam Peckinpah and All Our Friends” Chamber music, poetry and coffee, in an from Happiness SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5 of the play about a 1959 Roller Derby team. Santa Ana Pueblo September 27, 10:30 pm, God Help the Girl informal, acoustically excellent setting. RUN FOR SCIENCE/BOSQUE BOOGIE Thursday-Saturday, Sunday 2 pm & 6:30 pm, 7 pm & 9:30 pm, $15-35, 771-5353, OCTOBER 19-29 September 27-28, 12 pm, Weekend Western Doors open 9:30 am, $15 at the door, Rio Grande cottonwood bosque corridor be- and October 4 at 2 pm, $20-22, 243-0596, holdmyticket.com, thestageatthestar.com series: Winchester 73 2014 JCC BOOK FEST chatterabq.org tween Montaño and Paseo del Norte motherroad.org, auxdog.com September 30-October 2, 5 pm and 9:15 pm, NOW-NOVEMBER 4 AND AUTHOR SERIES 10k, 5k and kids’ 1k fun run for the benefit of CARAVAN OF THIEVES Down By Law, with Stranger Than Paradise NICKEL AND DIMED Jewish Community Center Explora. Mad scientist costumes encouraged. The Cooperage, 7220 Lomas Blvd NE (7:15 pm only) Adobe Theater, 9813 4th St NW OH, SUSANA! of Greater Albuquerque, Costs vary for individuals and teams, Register at Gypsy jazz, vocal harmony, theater and a really October 3-9, 6 pm, Song of the New Earth Friday-Saturday 8 pm, Sunday 2, $13-15, The Box Performance Space, 5520 Wyoming Blvd NE 87109 runningguru.com, 224-8326, explora.us good time. October 3-9, 3:45 and 8 pm, The Trip to Italy 898-9222, adobetheater.org 100 Gold Ave SW Prices and events vary; 332.0565, jccabq.org 7:30 pm, $17-20, ampconcerts.org, October 4-5, 1 pm only, The Man Who Laughs OCTOBER 10-12 See our Theater feature on page 22 This original satire takes a look at what it truly Sunday, October 19, 3 pm, Allen Salkin Hold My Ticket, 505-886-1251 October 10-19, Twelfth Annual Southwest Gay of this issue. means to be a citizen of the 47th state (which Wednesday, October 22, 7 pm, Molly Antopol also happens to be our national ranking in & Lesbian Film Festival, schedule: swglff.com QUILT FIESTA WICKED Thursday, October 23, 7 pm, Nicole Mones TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28 education). Conceived and directed by Cody October 20-23, 6:45 pm, Memphis Santa Fe County Fairgrounds Exhibit Hall, Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus Sunday, October 26, 3 pm, Gail Sheehy Dove, an alumnus of Second City. Through Elec- HOME FREE October 20-23, 4 and 8:30 pm, Midnight 3229 Rodeo Road, Santa Fe Broadway’s big blockbuster. (of “Passages”) tion Tuesday; check show times. KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW Cowboy Traditional and contemporary quilts for sale and Tickets can be purchased at the UNM Ticket Wednesday, October 29, 11:30 am, 9 pm, $17.50, 404-1578, theboxabq.com Award-winning a cappella country group on October 24-29, 3 and 7:30 pm, 1,000 Times raffle by members of the Northern New Mexico Offices and select area Albertsons locations, or Juliana Maio their Crazy Life Tour. Goodnight Quilt Guild. online at popejoypresents.com or unmtickets. 8 pm, $20-30, holdmyticket.com October 24-29, 5:30 pm, Alive Inside Friday-Saturday 10-5 pm, Sunday 10-4 pm, com. To charge by phone, call (877) 664-8661 October 25-26, 1 pm, Awake: The Life of $5 at the door, nnmqg.org or (505) 925-5858. Group orders for 20 or more Yogananda may be placed by calling 344-1779. 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too, but the music doesn’t descend Don’t-miss Show at Art Museum for Lovers of Classical Art Jazz as Life-Force: Music Briefs into gimmicky ‘90s swing-revival BY NATE MAXSON irritation. She has fun on songs such On Critic Nat Hentoff as “The Doctor,” explaining “If your Crush Songs, No heart’s about to pop,” you know who BY RICHARD OYAMA Dancing to call (one wonders if she’s a Doctor Who fan, hmm?). The song “2 Good ne doesn’t watch “The Karen O has made a musical career 2 B True” mashes doo-wop with OPleasures of Being Out of out of having as many personas as modern culture, not quite like pop Step: Notes on the Life of Nat she’s capable of projecting on her 2014, but it really swings. Hentoff” for its visual beauty finely tuned rock-and-roll music, Jazz over time lost its ability to or unwieldy title but rather for whether it’s as punk rocker, dance- have fun, but Erin Hall is hell-bent on the eloquent authority of the party raver or whatever last year’s adding back the playful. legendary jazz critic’s elegant Yeah Yeah Yeahs delightfully incom- prose, the iconoclastic veer of prehensible album “Mosquito” was. “Petits Bisous” is a self-release; purchase it at his thought and the unbeliev- Her new solo album is closest to the erinandhercello.com. Click on the red “Shop” ably rich variety of a brave life. roots rock she exhibited in 2004 on button to the right on the home page. Hentoff got his start on the “Show Your Bones.” Other than her college newspaper and went to work on various film soundtracks, it Et Tu, U2? work at his hometown’s Boston is also her first solo album without the City Reporter. In Boston, he other Yeahs. It may be helpful for fans of U2 to A still from the documentary on the life and work of Nat Hentoff. develop a certain level of cognitive hosted a jazz radio show before Used with permission. There’s a lot of acoustic guitar here, moving to New York to grab and it all sounds like it was recorded dissonance: “There are two bands called U2 – one was a bestselling, the editorial reins of Down- his foot to an angular composition or on a four-track. On “Beast,” she plays groundbreaking Irish post-punk Beat, the premier jazz magazine at the an exquisite Billie Holiday giving an a truly haunting guitar while singing group that started in the 1980s, wrote From Left to right: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, “Disdain,” 1850, Oil on canvas, 21 5/8 x 18 1/8 in., École des Beaux-Arts, Paris (TEP 28). Courtesy American Federation of Arts. Jacques Phillippe Joseph de Saint Quentin, “Death of time. (The magazine celebrated its 80th adoring look to the saxophonist she about being in love with a man whose Socrates,” 1762, Oil on canvas, 43 7/8 x 54 1/2 in., cole des Beaux-Arts, Paris (PRP 10). Courtesy American Federation of Arts. David d’Angers, “Pain,” 1811, Plaster, 26 5/8 x 12 x 10 1/4 in., cole des Beaux-Arts, Paris (TES 4). Courtesy gorgeously earnest love songs and É É anniversary in July 2014.) nicknamed Prez, Lester Young. humanity is in question, a subject American Federation of Arts. even experimented with electronic Artie Shaw’s “Nightmare” was the Hentoff appeared to have an she has returned to again and again. music. Then there’s these guys.” first jazz recording that opened his unerring instinctual gift for spotting There’s an echo to these songs, a BY STEPHANIE HAINSFURTHER These guys are the U2 of the past ear. Hentoff said jazz was “life-force” major dissident figures in the explod- dreamlike quality and a delicacy. In 25 OCTOBER 11-JANUARY 4 3rd Thursday: Ooh La La minutes of music and 15 songs, Karen 15 years: corporate, bland and led he opera and classical art have something in com- in which an ensemble of musicians ing post-war culture, such as Lenny O the Folky is born. Karen O the Dance by The Most Important Man in the Tmon: They each depict human emotions within a GODS AND HEROES: MASTERPIECES Thursday, October 16, 5 - 8:30 p.m., Free gathers together, listens intently and Bruce and Bob Dylan. When Hentoff Queen is not present in any fashion, World. Opening “Songs of Innocence” highly wrought form that elevates (or debases) the FROM THE ÉCOLE DES BEAUX-ARTS, French culture, gypsy jazz, basic French instruction, a improvises. Critics Amiri Baraka, interviewed Dylan, the “song and bilingual puppet show. Take a French wine tasting class but she more than makes up for it with is “The Miracle (of Joey Ramone),” people in them to another level. PARIS Dan Morgenstern and Stanley Crouch dance man,” as was his mercurial for an extra fee. which exemplifies everything wrong Albuquerque Museum, 19th and Mountain Road NW, give the viewer historical context and wont, improvised a made-up past, this collection of beautiful songs. When you hear Pavarotti singing, you know if with modern U2: huge choruses, Old Town Free Wednesday Gallery Talk Hentoff’s role in that history. Baraka riffing hilariously like a jazzman. The he’s in love or despair, or both, because you have name-dropping nostalgia and hammy Open 9-5 Tuesdays through Sundays; closed Mondays, especially is in rare form. critic managed to get every single “Crush Songs” is available on Cult Records. experienced those extremes yourself. When you Wednesdays, November 5 and December 3, 11 a.m. lyrics about “chasing down a day that Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day. Admis- Remarkably, the writer appeared to word onto the page. contemplate a classical sculpture or painting, you Hear all about the exhibition. disappears.” sion: $1-4, check the website for free-admission days have met and befriended the central More sobering is the writer’s understand the human form as celebrated model and times. When Bono didn’t fashion himself Beaux-Arts Architecture Talk figures in jazz, such as Louis Arm- espousal of socially conservative and recognize the legends of history evoked. So too (505) 243-7255, cabq.gov/culturalservices/albuquerque- a poet but a pop star, everything was Sunday, November 16, 1 p.m., Free strong, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, views on women, gays and abortion a collective mythology is summoned, with all its museum good in the world. For a band that Christopher Mead, a professor in the School of Archi- John Coltrane and Charles Mingus. and his eventual firing from The Voice pantheistic symbols, though they may be wrapped tecture and Planning at UNM and former dean of the was once truly groundbreaking, the Public Opening: Gods and Heroes: Master- He was, someone says, not merely a in 2008. His wife identifies a desire to in Christian veils. College of Fine Arts, talks about Beaux Arts Architecture song “Raised by Wolves” could be a pieces from the École des Beaux-Arts, moldy fig but “a friend of the music.” be “absolutist” in his principles to ac- Art lovers will be able to view masterworks of and Charles Garnier, student of the École de Beaux- by-the-numbers Coldplay song, all Perhaps inevitably, Hentoff’s love of count for his later perspectives, which meaning and transcendent craft at “Gods and Paris Arts and architect of the Paris Opera. manufactured sincerity. What could this quintessentially American art and he upholds still on WorldNetDaily. Heroes: Masterpieces from the École des Beaux-Arts, Saturday, October 11, 2 - 5 p.m., Free be worse? U2 teamed up with Apple 3rd Thursday: So You Think You Can’t Draw? his friendships with African American com (WND.com) each Tuesday. Paris” being presented in October at the Albuquer- Emmanuel Schwartz, curator at École de Beaux-Arts, to put these songs on their fans’ Thursday, November 20, 5 - 8:30 p.m., Free musicians led him into the fray of Hentoff poses this question early on que Museum of Art & History. will speak; drop-in activities and music will be presented iTunes collections, without asking for in the main lobby. Make art in the Gods and Heroes gallery, watch local civil liberties issues, including his 1977 in the documentary: “Can democracy “I think everybody enjoys really good draftsman- permission, which is both egotistical artists create drawings of modern-day heroes, and listen defense of a scheduled Nazi march in exist in a country of madmen?” With ship, drawing, application of paint and sculpting,” and disconcerting. to a talk about the exhibition. Skokie, Ill., on the constitutional grounds the enormous net of NSA surveillance, Curator of Art Andrew Connors said. “This is a Why not distribute it the way Radio- that the rights of the minority must be the abridgment of privacy rights and really good exhibit of skill.” head did with “In Rainbows”? Make it protected. He is widely considered an the targeting of American civilians The École des Beaux-Arts collected antiquities available as a download on the band’s authority on the First Amendment. with drone strikes, this may well be a so its students could learn classical subject matter Poster Girl website, and ask fans to pay what they and artistic rendition. Hence, the oldest item in the A hallmark of his career was question that resonates as much now as New Mexican Ashley Parker, 16, has won will. People loved them for it. collection is a set of male and female Roman marble Hentoff’s writing in The Village it did when he first articulated it. Nat a national contest. Her poster design for Ah well, music fans will forgive carvings from the 1st century B.C. The “newest” is a Voice, a groundbreaking publication Hentoff wrote news that stayed news. Erin and Her Cello “Lights On Afterschool,” a countrywide rally co-founded by Norman Mailer that anything an artist does if the music painting from 1894 by Georges Rouault, an École des “Out of Step” is a writer’s movie. Erin Hall is a New York-born cellist for the Afterschool Alliance to take place on virtually defined the term “alternative continues to be magical. There is Beaux-Arts classmate of Henri Matisse. playing a sort of pop music not often Oct. 23, was chosen from hundreds of sub- weekly” for its critique of mainstream nothing magical about Bono’s middle- The exhibit is curated by the American Federation Richard Oyama is a jazz fan who grew up practiced over the past 50 years. Once missions. Parker made her art at Blended press and media. aged, ego-hollering platitudes. I’ll of Arts, which in 2010 brought “Turner to Cézanne: Zine at the Farmington Public Library, a reading Nat Hentoff’s album-liner notes upon a time, jazz was pop music. The most stirring archival footage give him this much: His voice is still Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National program that also teaches students how to and columns for The Village Voice. Hall’s new recording, “Petits Bisous,” in this documentary is from “The Soul as strong as it once was. He just has Museum Wales” to the Albuquerque Museum. produce a publication. Learn about the art- is delightfully anachronous. less to say. of Jazz,” a TV show Hentoff hosted. “The Pleasures of Being Out of Step: “I feel so fortunate to be at an institution where we ist, the Afterschool Alliance and after-school Her cello has a gentle but mis- Crouch astutely observes that he had Notes on the Life of Nat Hentoff” can bring these wonderful things to Albuquerque,” programs in New Mexico in our Oct. 8 issue chievous sound that fits with her “Songs of Innocence” is on iTunes, the good sense to get out of the way recently aired at The Guild Cinema and Connors said. in an article by writer Nan Elsasser, founding voice, even when she’s singing in whether you wanted it or not. and let the music speak for itself. And is not yet scheduled for DVD release. director of Working Classroom. French, such as in the song “Bonbons Nate Maxson is a poet and performance Stephanie Hainsfurther is associate editor for speak it does, whether it’s pianist The- Read ABQ Free Press to stay up to date on its availability. Chocolat.” Pianos and horns show up, artist. ABQ Free Press. lonius Monk doing a shuffle beat with PAGE 22 • September 24, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS THEATER BOOKS/POETRY ABQ FREE PRESS • September 24, 2014 • PAGE 23 Theater Briefs Hard Work and Low Wages Actor Bob Odenkirk Delivers on ‘Load of Hooey’ The Vortex Theatre through the thrills and spills of roller Reported with Humor and Anger derby and relationships.” Newlyweds BY BETSY MODEL Check out the NEW Vortex Theatre Julia Thudium and Vic Browder of BY BARRY GAINES and the production of “Picasso at the Mother Road direct. ou just Jesus and Lazarus,” “Obituary for the Q: At what point in your life did you an absolute indulgence. I guess some Lapin Agile” Steve Martin’s first play. Tickets: Aux Dog Theatre, Thur.-Sat. 8 Ygotta love the Creator of Mad-Libs” and, sprinkled know that you had the funny gene? of it could be considered provocative In 1904, young Albert Einstein and ith its exploration of p.m., Sun. 2 p.m. thru Oct. 5, $22, word “hooey.” among this craziness, a new twist on subject matter but, really, it’s all as equally young Pablo Picasso chew the Wwages and employ- A: Sixth grade. I knew in sixth grade auxdog.com, 254-7716 It’s one of some world-famous quotations. Our silly as it can be. Imagining a dinner fat, so to speak, at the Nimble Bunny ment at the bottom of the when I had a teacher named Mr. those goofy favorite? “Know thyself. Come on. party with Hitler? Imagining a con- Bar (my translation) where they meet economic spectrum, Joan Ciardullo who had us kids do little words that our Hurry up. We’re waiting. Oh, forget versation between Jesus and Lazarus? a representative of the twentieth Popejoy Hall Holden’s politically charged plays, little sketches, on history or docudrama is still timely. grandparents it, Socrates.” geography or social studies. I did Some people won’t find comedy century. They talk science and art and A national touring company of “Nickel and Dimed” is based used before Tracking Odenkirk down these days three of them, one on the Chicago about an idol of theirs like Martin a lot more in a humorous yet thought- “Wicked” is performing that bewitch- Luther King or something about Jesus on the 2001 non-fiction swear words isn’t easy – the filming for “Better fire, one on Abe Lincoln, one on the ful play. In the process they set the ing musical. This long-running Broad- funny no matter what. These are icons bestseller by Barbara Ehren- became the Call Saul” is running weeks later than country of Ghana. They were infor- foundations for the twentieth century. way hit chronicles the back stories and some people can’t stomach the reich. Ehrenreich, a biologist norm, a word that the Random House initially planned – but just in time for mative but funny. People laughed, I Playing through September 28, Fri.-Sat. of two friends, Elphaba and Glinda, notion of a comedy where the word turned journalist, wrote her Dictionary refers to as an “American- a pre-publication book reading and got A+ on them and that was really 7:30 p.m., Sun. 2:30 p.m., $22, vortexabq. who become “The Wicked Witch of “Jesus” is used. I get that. My mom book on the undercover ism, origin uncertain” and that, used signing September 27 at Bookworks, the start. It wasn’t until I was maybe org, 247-8600 the West” and “The Good Witch of the is one of them. She’s never going to experiences she had while in Scrabble, will earn you a whopping we snagged him long enough to chat 18 and in college that I wondered if I North” in L. Frank Baum’s immortal (laughs) read this book. writing the book. 11-point word value. about, well, “A Load of Hooey.” could possibly make a living from it. I “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” George A. Williams FUSION Theatre The writer tried to make A little hooey in the hands of Q: Give us your definition of Hooey. grew up in Naperville, Ill., and that’s Tickets: Popejoy Hall, Tuesdays thru Colleen McClure as Barbara, and Linda Williams in one of her six roles. comic writer and actor Bob Odenkirk? New Mexico resident and former NPR/ Company ends meet while working A: It’s entertaining and somewhat a looong way from show business. Thursdays 7:30 p.m., Fridays 8 p.m., Priceless. BBC correspondent Betsy Model has a series of low-wage jobs: a provocative diversion. It’s hogwash. Q: So are the topics in “A Load of “Outside Mullingar” (previewed in Saturdays 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Sundays 1 and several of her bosses. As a comic screenwriter Odenkirk written and produced for more than 40 waitress at a café chain (“Kenny’s”), It’s baloney. It’s typically what you Hooey” simply an adult reliving his the September 10 issue) is superbly p.m. and 6:30 p.m. through October 5, Carolyn Hogan plays characters is best known for penning the funny international outlets including Forbes, a motel maid in Florida, a nursing hear when you hear politicians 6th grade “wonder years?” acted by four cast members under the $57.50-$170, popejoypresents.com/wicked as diverse as Carlie (a hotel maid) stuff for folks like Conan O’Brien, Market Watch, Playboy, Details, Biogra- home dietary aide (dishwasher), speaking! You ask them a tough sensitive direction of Jacqueline Reid. and Philip (the moustachioed petty Ben Stiller and Dennis Miller. As an A: Yes! I have to say that the book is phy and the International Herald Tribune. a housecleaner in Maine (“Merry question and what you get back is … There are only two performances of dictator at Kenny’s). Linda Williams actor, he played bit roles galore until Tricklock Performance Maids”), and finally a mega-chain hooey! There’s a lot of talking around John Patrick Shanley’s play remain- plays six roles including Melissa, the two series created roles that Odenkirk Laboratory store employee in Minnesota (“Mall- issues and talking ing. Mall-Mart worker who has found so captured that KiMo Theatre, Sept. 26, Fri. 7:30 p.m., Mart”). In each of these situations she about empty stuff “Big Love,” Charles Mee’s radical Jesus and offers Barbara a place to viewers were must find affordable housing, keep as though it was $40, kimotickets.com; The Lensic Theatre, reconstruction of “The Danaids” by captured by him – herself fed and put up with a variety stay—if she doesn’t mind a pair of meaningful. It’s all ABQ Poet Wins National Award 211 W. San Francisco, Santa Fe, Sept. 27, ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus as Bill Oswalt in the of on-the-job indignities, usually from attack dogs and an abusive husband hooey. Sat. 7:30 p.m., (505) 988-1234 has opened. It promises “nudity, male supervisors. with a room full of guns. TV series “Fargo” he first New Mexican ever nomi- flying objects, incredibly loud music, Q: You’ve done The results are physically and Margie Maes is effective as veteran and in the role of Tnated for a National Poetry Award and is not appropriate for minors a little bit of came through with flying colors at the Aux Dog Theatre and emotionally devastating, not so much waitress Gail and distraught mini- Saul Goodman in under 16.” Dodie Montgomery everything in Hol- 5th annual convention in Norfolk, Va., Mother Road Theatre from the labor (exhausting as it is) as maid Marge, who phones home to see “Breaking Bad” and directs. if her children are safe. Marina Sage its spin-off prequel, lywood – writing, on August 30. Company from “the corrosive effect of humili- producing, acting Tickets: Tricklock Performance Labora- is not always recognizable because “Better Call Saul.” “It was a real moment of pride,” ation.” The subtitle of the book that – and you’ve even Jointly produced, “The Jammer” by tory, 110 Gold Avenue SW, Thursdays- she plays a staggering eleven roles. The success of said Zachary Kluckman, who won the resulted from Barbara’s experiment won a couple of Rollin Jones is a play set in the almost- Saturdays 8 p.m. through October 4, My favorite is Holly, the housekeeper “Breaking Bad” title of 2014 Slam Artist of the Year. “I in social criticism is telling: “On (Not) Emmy Awards. thought, ‘New Mexico is here!’” forgotten world of Roller Derby. It is $18-$20, biglove.bpt.me, 414-3738 afraid to tell her husband or her boss and the filming Getting By in America.” Now you’ve got a The award is given for performance billed as “a sweet, live action cartoon that she is pregnant. of “Better Call The Adobe new book. What’s and writing. Kluckman was nominated for adults—a comedy that takes us -Barry Gaines Barbara is incensed Saul” has kept Theater’s production THROUGH OCTOBER 5 by his peers who have seen him per- Odenkirk a mite with the multi- is directed by Brian by the injustices she form slam poetry around the country NICKEL AND DIMED busy the last year talents? On the Air Hansen on a minimal encounters, but she and heard him on radio programs Adobe Theater, 9813 4th St NW, or two but not so A: Well, you’ve set consisting of a gets to leave the during tours. Watch our arts segment on The Morning Brew with Larry Ahrens, 898-9222 heard the old term limpid, lime-colored ranks of the “work- busy that he hasn’t “They asked me to perform as a Tuesday mornings at 7:32 on Public Access Channel 27 Friday-Saturday 8 p.m., “Jack of all trades, wall with two ing poor” and return continued penning featured poet. I had no idea I was and later on YouTube. Sunday 2 p.m. thru Oct. 5, $13-$15, master of none?!” windows, four chairs to her affluent and funny bits. And nominated until I looked at the list,” he Mark Fischer adobetheater.org Well, (laughs) one and two benches. respected life. The the funny thing said. “Four or five of my friends were Photo courtesy of Zachary Kluckman. of these days I And the wall disap- others don’t. about funny bits finalists in the slam category. I looked SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 want to master one of pears at intermission. The play is not is that, collected, they at the list and said ‘No way in hell am I is available at local bookstores and on BOB ODENKIRK them. I like switching Just as lonesome and forlorn is particularly subtle about its mes- helped create a whole going to win.’ I’m still kind of in shock.” Amazon.com. He is the author of two BOOK SIGNING it up. Most of what the song we heard before the actors sage, and it would be difficult not book of laugh-out-loud Kluckman has performed his poetry poetry books, “Animals in Our Flesh” you find in the book entered—the plaintive anthem of the to have your awareness raised and silliness. Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande for more than eight years and twice and “Some of It Is Muscle.” Blvd. NW was written at a time Great Depression, “Brother, Can You your complacency challenged in this “A Load of Hooey” competed with the Albuquerque Kluckman teaches writing, and says 1-3 pm, Free, 344-8139 when I was writing for Spare a Dime.” humorous yet serious drama. As the (McSweeney’s, $20, National Poetry Slam Team and indi- he has received a few more offers to bkwrks.com television shows and The acting is strong. Only Colleen play ended, the woman sitting next to hard cover) is Oden- vidually. He organized One Thousand work with students since winning the movies and acting only McClure, who plays Barbara with me turned to her friend and said, “I kirk’s first book and, Poets for Change, the largest U.S. po- award and “a lot of love from the local occasionally. I wrote a etry reading to date. His work appears anger and guilt, plays a single feel so guilty.” if the term “book” is poetry community.” In his day job, couple of pieces for The New Yorker in Dos Passos Review, Red Fez, New character. The other cast members used loosely here, it’s 144 pages of Kluckman works for a social justice and then began doing a monthly York Quarterly and other publications, portray multiple characters. Barry Gaines has covered Albuquerque vignettes – 34 little sketches – loaded nonprofit concerned with climate page in Vice magazine but when the and is variously anthologized. Ruben Muller, the only male in the theater for the past 13 years. He is a with the absurd and the ridiculous. change. “It’s a poet’s job to speak up With no topic or personality off-limits, acting picked up with “Breaking Bad” His latest anthology and editing for change.” cast, uses subtle changes in accent and Professor Emeritus at UNM and project, “Trigger Warning: Poetry Odenkirk’s brilliantly bizarre mind and then “Fargo,” I wrote less. What Stephanie Hainsfurther body language to represent Barbara’s Administrator of the American Theater Saved My Life,” is out now from Swim- imagines “Martin Luther King’s Worst you’re seeing in the new book is a -Stephanie Hainsfurther Clan Tynker Renaissance Fair performers and Amanda Crocker from El Rancho de las Golondrinas. frustrated boyfriend, her quirky editor Critics Association. ming with Elephants Publications and Speech Ever,” “The Second Coming of compilation from all of those things. PAGE 24 • September 24, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS CROSSWORD Rock & Brews Opens in Heights

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Gene Simmons (left) and Paul Stanley, co-founders of the band KISS, flank a U.S. Air Force senior airman at a Sept. 16 benefit for veterans at Rock & Brews, 4800 Montgomery Blvd. N.E. The Albuquerque location is the seventh franchise restaurant and pub opened by the former band members.

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