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The First Family Of New Mexico Film Page 22 Cooling Down In Beer Town Page 24 2 • July 27 – August 9, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS ABQ FREE PRESS • July 27 – August 9, 2016 • 3 news www.freeabq.com Spotlight Picks Editor: [email protected] News: [email protected] ABQ Free Press Pulp News Arts: [email protected] Start and end your day with us! compiled by abq free press staff On Twitter: @FreeABQ ¡Mueve a Jueves Jazz! On Facebook: facebook.com/abqfreepress Newt on Trump Charity Editor The Blue Parrot Cabaret in Morgantown, W.Va., is Move to Thursday Jazz! Newt Gingrich, at one time a candidate to be Donald Dan Vukelich giving some of its proceeds from lap dances to organi- BY M. BRIANNA STALLINGS Trump’s running mate, told Republicans at a closed- (505) 345-4080. Ext. 800 zations helping victims of West Virginia’s June floods, door meeting earlier this year that Trump is not a ip hop/R&B trio TLC may The Washington Post reported. 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privately oper- he way Beth Mohr sees it, the much more egregious offenses aren’t ated, multistory TAlbuquerque Police Department brought before the licensing board. facility of at least is acting like the Catholic Church Both Fine and attorney Tom Grover, 39,000 square when it transferred pedophile a former Albuquerque police officer, feet of com- priests from parish to parish with- said they think APD had refused to mercial space, an out warning parishioners that child go after the licenses of some officers entertainment molesters were in their midst. tenant, two other because it fears doing so could lead Mohr, who is chair of the city’s retail stores or to civil liability. Civilian Police Oversight Board, is restaurants, and “It is painfully clear that the City angry that APD lets some officers 60 residential of Albuquerque employs a very accused of major improprieties units. The publicly arbitrary and discriminatory process retire or quit instead of firing them. operated portion by which some officers are referred ork has begun Downtown In some of those cases, APD hasn’t of the site will be a mul- to the academy while others are not,” to make way for a proposed filed to revoke those officers’ laws W tistory, 429 space parking Grover said. “The city construes entertainment district at Copper garage. Construction of enforcement licenses. Avenue east of First Street Northwest. reporting officers’ misconduct as a the entertainment hub is If a bad cop is fired but keeps his The start of the project in mid- form of admitting that there has been expected to begin this fall. certification, there’s a good chance July involved eliminating the curved misconduct, and, in their analysis, The aerial image of he can get hired at other police de- one-block stretch where Central that is probably detrimental to pro- the project includes the partments in New Mexico or across connected with Copper west of the tecting the city from exposure to civil proposed Innovate ABQ the country. railroad tracks. The realignment liability.” center east of the railroad “To have that person have their allows for a better grid layout of If the city is indeed doing that, it is tracks. The center – funded credentials not even discussed in streets and will provide more space an “affront to the professionalism of by the University of New designed to attract a new generation First Baptist Church site purchased by a meaningful way is a shame and for future development. Mexico, City of Albuquerque and of students, faculty, researchers, UNM in 2014. sort of akin to the church sending law enforcement,” Grover said, add- The entertainment hub envisioned Bernalillo County – seeks to be the innovators, and entrepreneurs. It these priests who molest a kid, and ing that it means that cops who do by Mayor Richard Berry will include a — ABQ Free Press staff report core of a new entrepreneurial district will be built on the 7-acre former they just send them into the next arm, the Civilian Police Oversight woman, and he gets to resign. So this really bad things won’t face a license church, and they don’t tell anybody,” Agency, recommended that Tillman be resignation, there are no bad marks revocation proceeding form the city, Mohr said during a July 14 meeting of fired. APD agreed with that finding, on his record. How is anybody in law while those who commit relatively the oversight board. “We don’t want but then let Tillman resign. enforcement OK with that? How is minor things face decertification. ABQ Free Press Local Briefs to be in a position of doing that with APD spokeswoman Celina Es- anyone in the community OK with “It undermines the entire system of COMPILED BY ABQ FREE PRESS STAFF officers that are bad police officers.” pinoza said the department has no that? This is wrong on every level.” integrity of law enforcement officers control over when officers choose to Fine told ABQ Free Press that the because of the split message it sends,” BioPark funding sought reimbursement for cleaning “cone of depression” has formed case of the male inmate. The criminal resign. Officers are entitled to a pre- conversation at the CPOB meeting was Grover said. that was done at her home and not at around three extraction wells that probe in the other case is ongoing. If a bad cop is fired but disciplinary hearing, she said, and the a “precursor to examining what kind A reader of Joe Monahan’s daily the charter school that she heads, State have been pumping water contami- Both incidents were captured on department can’t violate an officer’s of impact we can have on this” and political blog posited that Mayor keeps his certification, ‘There was a consensus Auditor Tim Keller says. Maestas, nated with ethylene dibromide. It’s video. Neither has been publicly re- due process rights. Espinoza said the whether bad cops “are able to go and Richard Berry might go after the there’s a good chance on being aggravated by executive director of the La Promesa a sign that water is flowing toward ported. County Commissioner Wayne department is in the process of filing a be police officers somewhere else.” BioPark’s new 20-year levy to help Charter School Early Learning Center, those three wells and away from Johnson, who viewed the video of the he can get hired at other decertification case against Tillman. “There was a consensus on being the fact that we had really fund the Albuquerque Rapid Transit was reimbursed for $342.40 for clean- drinking water wells. The cone is incident involving the female inmate, APD’s handling of the Tillman case aggravated by the fact that we had project: “Diverting money is a favorite police departments in despicable behavior, and ing work done this past July, suppos- about 3,500 feet in diameter and cov- described it as “troubling.” outraged Fine, who said it was similar really despicable behavior, and there tactic of a mayor when an administra- there has been no action edly at the school at 5201 Central NW. ers the northern half of the under- New Mexico or across to the case of former APD Lt. Greg has been no action to prevent them tion wants to make sure it gets what — New Mexico In Depth But an audit earlier this year found ground plume. the country Brachle, who shot one of his own offi- from being a police officer somewhere to prevent them from a mayor wants. Voters need to be that the receipt submitted by Maestas cers eight times during an undercover else,” Fine said. being a police officer vigilant and watch what happens to In denial had been altered to reflect that the Jail force Mohr isn’t alone. CPOB board drug bust in early 2015. The Civilian the $250 million (over 20 years) that APD Forward, a coalition of civil Inconsistency somewhere else’ cleaning had been done at the school Allegations of excessive use of force in member Joanne Fine disagrees with Police Oversight Agency recommend- is slated for the BioPark if there is a rights advocates formed to review — oversight board member Joanne Fine and not her home, Keller said July 19 two instances at Bernalillo County’s APD’s practice of letting bad cops re- ed that Brachle be fired, but APD let This past October, ABQ Free Press $19 million shortfall for the ART bus the Albuquerque Police Department’s in releasing the findings of his office’s Metropolitan Detention Center have tire and not going after their licenses. him retire instead. APD Chief Gorden detailed how the process of decertify- project, if the federal grant is not fully effort to reform itself, says the latest review of the case. sparked internal and criminal in- The debate was sparked by the Eden didn’t file with the New Mexico ing police officers in New Mexico is Fine agreed. “My only supposition approved by Congress. The Berry report by APD’s U.S. Department of “The timeline of events indicate that vestigations. According to multiple case of APD officer Frank Tillman, Law Enforcement Academy to revoke inconsistent, illogical and rife with the is that they [the city] don’t want to get administration could go back and Justice monitor shows APD remains the executive director used school sources, the county has hired an out- who was found to have sent, while Brachle’s license. potential for abuse that isn’t tolerated sued, and that is so wrong on so many redesign the ART bus routes and build in denial. “The single biggest issue is funds to pay for work completed at side firm to review both incidents for on duty, hundreds of texts, some of in other states. levels,” she said. “And that is what bus stops at the BioPark attractions so that APD’s system for tracking and her home,” Keller said. “Efforts to use possible policy violations by guards. them sexual in nature, to a 24-year-old While police chiefs are required they can justify diverting money from responding to use of force incidents APD spokeswoman is making me so angry; they are not funds that belong in our classrooms In one, guards pepper-sprayed and woman he met while responding to to report to the New Mexico Law the BioPark to ART. Also, the Berry seems to be almost completely dys- supporting the officers that do it right. or personal expenses, in any amount, shocked a female inmate with an a domestic violence call. During one Celina Espinoza said Enforcement Academy — the licensing administration could reduce the exist- functional,” the group said in a report “Avoiding a lawsuit is not the way raise serious concerns of public trust.” electronic stun gun in September 2015. of his eight-hour shifts, Tillman spent the department has agency for cops in New Mexico — con- ing BioPark budget by $19 million and released on July 14. “An underlying to manage this problem. It is not the In the other, the firm is reviewing if three hours texting the woman. duct by their officers that could lead divert that money to ART, saying the problem is that APD continues to fail no control over when way to build credibility in the com- Kirtland spill guards went too far when they took to decertification, there is no enforce- new gross receipts tax is available to to take responsibility for the reform ef- munity. If you want to have a good The Kirtland Air Force Base fuel leak a male inmate to the ground in late Not the first time officers choose to resign ment mechanism. make up the difference.” fort and own the problems that led to relationship with the community here, cleanup effort has reached a major April, possibly knocking him uncon- And it wasn’t the first time that illT - There are no penalties for failing the need to change its organizational you had better start doing the right milestone – pulling an underground scious. The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s man had been in trouble for sending “That’s not OK with me,” Fine said to file and no incentives to do so. Invoice altered culture in the first place,” the group thing for the right reason every time.” plume of contaminated water back Office launched criminal investiga- inappropriate texts. In 2012, he texted during the July 14 meeting. “This guy As a result, cops who have commit- Albuquerque Public Schools Board said in its analysis of DOJ monitor toward the base and away from city tions of both incidents, a spokeswom- a pregnant 17-year-old girl whom he [Tillman] was caught doing this with ted seemingly minor infractions of Dennis Domrzalski is an associate editor member Analee Maestas might have James Ginger’s third report. drinking water wells. Air Force and an for that agency said. Investigators had pulled over for a traffic stop. a teenager, nothing happened then. department policy can face decertifi- at ABQ Free Press. Reach him at broken four state laws when she state environment officials said a found no criminal wrongdoing in the The CPOB, and its investigative And now he does it again to another cation proceedings while officers with [email protected] 6 • July 27 – August 9, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS newS columnS ABQ FREE PRESS • July 27 – August 9, 2016 • 7 Boxing Bear Takes Home Bear Encounters Homeowner, Political Blogger Turns Psychic, Bear Loses, Cubs Orphaned Predicts 2017, 2018 Title as N.M.’s Best IPA ABQ FREE PRESS STAFF REPORT BY JOE MONAHAN BY TY BANNERMAN e’re not September 2018. With just three months Cloudcroft man shot and killed bear. The woman’s husband arrived endowed with left in her final term, Gov. Martinez has he month-long New Mexico Brewer’s At 5 o’clock, after several hours of W a bear after it attacked two of his armed with a .22-caliber pistol and psychic powers, but revealed some of her plans for the future. Guild 2016 IPA Challenge hit its A T the judges’ eager and ever-more-joyful dogs outside his home. fired a single shot in the bear’s direc- based on what’s been She says she will partner with former final round, and one champion emerged “consideration,” Brewers Guild Direc- The adult female bear had two cubs, tion, Peralta said. going on around here Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White to victorious: Boxing Bear Brewery. tor John Gozigian took to the makeshift which were captured at the scene The bear ran off and collapsed about this sizzling summer expand the medical marijuana business he As the temperature flirted with the stage and announced that the results and placed in the care of Dr. Kathleen 40 yards away, dead from an apparent of ’16 we think we is involved in and will also be a spokes- 100-degree mark, drinkers and judges were in. Boxing Bear had claimed Ramsay, an Española-area veterinar- gunshot wound, Peralta said. One of have a pretty good woman to legalize the recreational use of crowded into Tractor Brewery’s Wells its spot at the top with a beautifully ian specializing in rehabilitating sick the cubs was found near the house, idea of the stories you marijuana in the state. Park taproom on North Fourth Street balanced pale. The Canteen, formerly and injured wildlife. and the other was found in a tree. will be seeing in the June 2018. Conservative Republican and did their best to drink the heat ABQ Free Press in the next couple of years. known as Il Vicino Canteen, was nip- The July 19 incident occurred when “This is a very unfortunate inci- New Mexico U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce has away. Some poor souls even thumbed In no particular order, here’s a sneak peek. won the Republican nomination for ping at its heels, only two votes shy of the man’s wife heard her two small dent,” Peralta said. “The homeowner their noses at the sun’s wrath and took May 2017. A ninth Central Avenue governor. He decided to give up his con- first place. Farmington’s Three Rivers dogs barking and went outside to reacted in defense of his dogs.” seats in the fenced off parking lot, risk- discover two cubs on her patio, said The homeowners kept a clean yard, business has closed its doors and declared gressional seat when polling showed that Brewery came in third. ing heat stroke in their dedication to Marcelino Peralta, a New Mexico De- free of typical bear attractants such as bankruptcy, blaming the city’s rapid Lt. Gov. John Sanchez and Albuquerque Boxing Bear’s head brewer, Justin transit plan known as ART. Six of the be- local beer excellence. partment of Game and Fish conserva- bird feeders, compost piles or bar- Mayor Berry, his two potential foes, were - - leaguered businesses were restaurants hit After four previous events, the compe- Hamilton, was clearly pleased as he held tion officer. becue grills, Peralta said. The home unpopular with likely Republican voters. especially hard by the year-and-half con- tition to determine the state’s best India the trophy aloft. And why wouldn’t he The startled cubs bawled out for is in a sparsely populated rural area Pearce credited his win to his support for struction project that Mayor Richard Berry Pale Ale had been whittled down to 15 be? This victory is only the latest in a their mother, which then came run- bordered by forest land that is home failed 2016 presidential candidate Donald insists will spark economic development. New Mexico breweries, which made for string of honors Boxing Bear has taken ning around the corner. The woman to many bears and other wildlife. Trump and his fierce opposition to the - Restaurant owners banded together to a pretty full tray of samples. home over the past year, including a fled into her house, but her two small The two bear cubs will join two policies of President Hillary Clinton. Once a participant managed to bal- fight Berry’s bus plan, warning of the World Beer Cup gold medal for the dogs slipped out the open door. other orphan cubs being cared for by economic fallout, but their pleas fell on ance their tray all the way to the table, brewery’s Chocolate Milk Stout. And A fight ensued between the adult Ramsay. It will cost approximately deaf ears. Berry reacted to the business Conservative Republican the process was as straightforward frankly, every beer lover in Albuquerque bear and the dogs, during which the $6,000 to rehabilitate each cub for closings by arguing, “ART will mean as they come: drink the samples and New Mexico U.S. Rep. should be proud that our city is home to woman attempted to scare away the future release into the wild. bigger and better restaurants once it’s choose a favorite. The one with the Steve Pearce has won the the kind of high quality breweries that completed.” He urged the bankrupt most votes takes the prize. The offerings Republican nomination for make a competition like this so lively restaurant owners to “hang in there.” ranged from floral West Coast-style hop - and wonderful to be a part of. March 2017. The New Mexico Legisla- governor bombs to more classic bitter and straw- ture completed its 60-day session but the colored varieties fit for a voyage to the Ty Bannerman is a beer drinker, co-host ABQ Metro Shows Job Growth budget it crafted for the year starting April 2018. Payments to settle lawsuits subcontinent. July 1 is seen as kicking the can down of the City on the Edge podcast, and BY ABQ FREE PRESS STAFF against APD since 2010 totaled more than Celebrating All were fine examples of the craft the road. Gov. Susana Martinez refused $40 million in mid-2016, but with a rash — well, except for one that quickly ac- author of “Forgotten Albuquerque” as he Albuquerque metro area’s grew by 3,500 jobs, or 5.8 percent, to support broad-based tax reform that of recent settlements, that number has quired infamy among the judges as the well as a forthcoming memoir. He most would raise lagging state revenues, economy surged in the 12 and construction increased by 500 climbed to $58 million. Also, a federal judge “bacon beer” and whose brewer shall recently served as feature and food editor T saying, “Anything that even looks like 25 months that ended June 30, adding jobs, or 2.4 percent. this month found the city in contempt of Years of Service remain nameless. at Weekly Alibi. a tax increase is going to see the ink of 9,100 jobs for a 2.4 percent growth The four-county area’s economy court for not abiding by a settlement with my veto pen.” More layoffs at the state’s rate and its best performance in the U.S. Department of Justice to reform was blasted by the recession and universities and a downsizing of state nearly a decade. began shedding jobs at the tail end APD. “Years of stonewalling simply must Judge: Welfare Dept. Lacks Leadership, government is expected as the budget end in order to professionalize APD and - The growth was widespread, with of 2008. The losses continued until crisis continues. give the city the department it deserves,” - seven industry they bottomed September 2017. The national recession the judge wrote. APD Chief Gorden Eden, Should Face Contempt of Court sectors adding out in January BY NM POLITICAL REPORT that began to take hold in June 2017 has who Berry kept on after his successful jobs and just 2012. Since then, hit New Mexico harder than most states. 2017 re-election bid, termed the contempt two losing them, the recovery has A federal magistrate has recom- that it took over [30] hours of status Federal spending is flat and no longer finding a “technicality” and told reporters - according to the been slow and mended that the state Human Ser- conferences, over [500] pages of joint shields the state from such downturns, that reforms are going “full speed ahead.” U.S. Bureau of vices Department be held in contempt status reports submitted to the Court, sporadic. The last and the state’s unemployment rate has July 2018. Controversy broke out at this Labor Statistics. time the area saw again soared to among the highest in the of court for its behavior in an ongoing three days of evidentiary hearings” Belts • month’Alternatorss meeting • Air of Conditioningthe Albuquerque • Brakes City • Differentials • Transmissions • Fuel The losers were a year-over-year nation. Property crime in Albuquerque is & Automotive Services Inc. case of alleged food-stamp fraud by and fraud allegations from HSD PumpsCouncil • Front as councilorsEnds • Shocks moved • to Diagnostics divert tax • Engines • Axles • Electrical • Suspen manufacturing, growth rate above hitting multiyear highs as the recession top HSD officials. employees to convince the depart- sionrevenue • Hoses approved • Coolers by voters • Struts for BioPark • Water Pumps • Starters • Batteries • Belts • Alterna rages. In response, Mayor Berry said, “It In recommending the contempt down 4.8 percent, 2 percent was in improvements at the 2015 election. The “FIVE STAR SERVICE!” ment “to discuss making these types and financial services, which was December 2006. was a lot worse in the 1990s.” tors • Air Conditioning • Brakes • Differentials • Transmissions • Fuel Pumps • Front finding to federal judges hearing the lawmakers want to put $5 million into of changes.” off 0.6 percent, according to the Despite the gains, the metro area October 2017. Mayor Berry has won Ends • Shocks • Diagnostics • Engines • Axles • Electrical • Suspension • Hoses • food-stamp fraud case, Magistrate APD and other city departments strug- In her contempt recommendation, BLS’s numbers, which were not still hasn’t regained all the jobs one of two runoff slots in the city’s Coolers • Struts • Water Pumps • Starters • Batteries • Belts • Alternators • Air Con Carmen Garza wrote that it is “appro- gling to make ends meet. The BioPark 10% Off Any Service Garza wrote that “it is apparent that seasonally adjusted. it lost during the recession. The mayoral election, as turnout flirted with ditioning • Brakes • Differentials • Transmissions • Fuel Pumps • Front Ends • Shocks priate to ensure” that HSD come into tax is a 15-year levy that is generating HSD and its officials have not ex- One of the big winners was the jobs numbers peaked at 401,500 in historic lows. Berry, who had toyed with more than $20• Diagnosticsmillion a year. • The Engines mayor • Axles • Electrical • SuspensionOr • RepairHoses • Coolers Up• Struts To compliance with federal law. the idea of seeking the 2018 gubernato- hibited the leadership, oversight, or professional and business services December 2007. As of June, the area said that because• APDWater provides Pumps “much • Starters • Batteries • Belts • Alternators • Air Conditioning • Brakes In a May hearing on a longstand- rial nomination, backtracked when mem- coordination necessary to implement sector, which includes architects, had 387,400 jobs. security” for the BioPark,• Differentials diverting the• Transmissions • Fuel Pumps • Front Ends • Shocks • Diagnostics • ing lawsuit against HSD, department bers of his own party rebelled against the Court Orders.” HSD has been lawyers and engineers, and which New Mexico’s economy also had tax is not an illegal moneyEngines grab •but Axles • Electrical • Suspension • Hoses • Coolers • Struts • Water Pumps • employees testified that poor New him. The runoff election will be held in $100 under court order for 26 years to bring is considered a key indicator of a good showing over the past year. “really what the taxpayersStarters had in mind.” • Batteries • Belts • Alternators • Air Conditioning • Brakes • Differentials • Mexicans seeking emergency food November, with Berry a heavy favorite its Medicaid and food aid processing an economy’s health. That sector It added 14,000 jobs for a 1.7 percent The future or fantasy? StayTransmissions tuned. • Fuel Pumps • Front Ends • Shocks • Diagnostics • Engines • Axles • aid had their applications falsified by to win a third term. Democratic analysts www.quictrans.com into compliance with federal law. added 2,500 jobs for a 4.4 percent growth rate. 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• Alternators • Air Conditioning • Brakes • Differentials • Transmissions • Fuel Pumps 8 • July 27 – August 9, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS columns/features NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • July 27 – August 9, 2016 • 9 Groups Come Together to Heal the Spiritual Wounds of Recent Violence Female Viagra: Barely Works, Makes Users Pass Out by sayrah namastÉ BY DAVID EPSTEIN PROPUBLICA ome people to go about life as usual. political perspectives that have con- While cynics would dismiss it, S respond by “I’m so tired. Tired of the killings. tributed to divisiveness or disunity it has actually been powerful and his is a new, (experimental) offer- no longer watch- Tired that nothing is changing. And I among individuals, families and heartening for those who’ve par- Ting by ProPublica highlighting ing the TV news. just can’t go to work and act like ev- broader communities,” the organiz- ticipated. The requests to keep it under-exposed accountability journal- Others decide erything is fine,” cried one woman. ers explain in their online descrip- ongoing are heard from many. ism. We’ll distill the important infor- they’ll limit their Locally three groups have come tion of the gatherings. The organizers’ vision is a needed mation from investigative reporting you probably missed, and deliver it to social media together to offer a shared space to “We are in a critical time. More one: “By coming together as an intake to positive support those grieving and to pro- than ever, communities of diverse you in three-minutes-or-less worth of interfaith and multicultural com- things only. mote peace in these troubled times. backgrounds need to come together reading. Sign up at ProPublica.org to munity, we hope that Standing in The recent wave of violence, “Standing in Light and Love” is a to cope and heal. This can only have it delivered to your inbox. (You including the mass shooting in Or- weekly gathering at 10:30 a.m. each happen by opening our hearts with Light and Love can promote the idea can, of course, unsubscribe at the first lando, the multiple police killings of Friday in Tiguex Park, 1800 Moun- recognition, respect and honor of our that peace is possible despite social, whiff of a bad joke.) African Americans caught on videos tain Rd. NW. Generation Justice, common humanness.” cultural, religious, spiritual and Plato tells us that the philosopher by bystanders, the murders of police RAICES (Community Education of The collaborative effort started in political differences.” Sophocles was once asked if he was officers by veterans, and even the Traditional Medicine) and the South- early July and will continue through More information can be found on upset at being too old to make love. vitriolic speeches during the politi- west Organizing Project invite every- August and possibly longer. The Facebook or by contacting any of the Sophocles responded that he was cal conventions have stunned and one to come together as an interfaith response so far has been tremen- three organizations. happily free of his libido, as “it is like anguished many. and multicultural Albuquerque. dous. People of every race, ethnicity, escaping from bondage to a raging At a recent Black Lives Matter “Our communities have sadly religious affiliation, the elderly and Sayrah Namasté is an organizer with the madman.” rally in Albuquerque, speaker after experienced the aftermath of hatred, children attend. Community mem- American Friends Service Committee in Well, Sophocles would’ve made speaker talked about how painful violence and tragedy. As we are bers are invited to mediate, pray, Albuquerque. She writes about events of a garbage pharmaceutical rep. He the past few weeks have been, with well aware, there are diverse social, light a candle, sit in silence or engage interest to Albuquerque’s activist should’ve said: “Bro, can you please the common feeling of being unable cultural, religious, spiritual and in other peaceful practices together. community. classify this as a disease and develop an incredibly expensive, moderately dangerous and mostly useless drug to treat me even though I just told you I’m doing great?” sexual dysfunction, with many lack- on drugs made for women. The “satisfying sexual events per month” According to an investigation by ing an interest in sex. (Totally weird, downside — I know, so ProPublica, compared with a placebo. Well, that Why Did We Take This Photo? the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and since all of their partners probably always looking for a downer — was sounds … halfway nice? (According MedPage Today, that’s sort of like starred in Hamilton and go to the that some of the subjects suffered to the Journal-Sentinel/MedPage what happened with the drug Addyi, gym every day.) The study didn’t ask mondo blood pressure drops and Today, Valeant said that most women intended to treat women for a lack ell us what this thing is and win four tickets to the Albuquerque Isotopes. the Sophocles question: Are you upset passed out. In fairness, the 23 men in won’t pass out from Addyi, and that housed a moped shop, a thrift of interest in sex. (Full disclosure: If The “thing” in the photo is something publicly visible around town. If you about it? According to the Journal the study were lacking a female sex further studies are ongoing.) T store, a body shop, and an army you’re not interested in this newslet- know what it is, tell us with as much detail and context as you can. Send your Sentinel/MedPage Today, “A dimin- drive, so it was worth the risk. surplus store, according to the ter, just hang in there a few weeks; answers to [email protected] by 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 5. ishing interest in sex naturally occurs brew pub’s website. The Jones I’m developing a drug to make you Wait, there’s more? Addyi was actually Motor Company building was as people age. It is not life-threaten- interested.) Here are your six Ws: According to the investigation, an rejected by the FDA officially designated as an his- ing.” How about speak for yourself, FDA staff member reviewing the drug toric building in 1993, and Kelly’s Journal-Sentinel/MedPage Today. twice, and then noted that female nondrinkers may moved in in 1999. It has been a Before you take ‘the little What should I know? have an even more severe reaction. approved, thanks to mainstay of the Nob Hill social pink pill’ — they made it Before you take “the little pink Ok, I think I get it: Addyi is danger- an editorial in a major scene ever since. o one figured out the Mystery pink, because everyone pill” – they made it pink, because ous for women who’ve had a drink medical journal by an N Photo in the July 13–26 issue everyone knows women only take and for women who haven’t. And of ABQ Free Press, even though knows women only take advocacy group that pink pills — just know that pink pills — just know that if you have also for men. But those idiot men it’s in plain sight, right at eye level any alcohol it might cause a danger- shouldn’t even be taking it, except for Sprout Pharmaceuticals for patrons walking into Kelly’s if you have any alcohol it ous drop in blood pressure and you when the maker of the drug enrolls funded Brew Pub, 3222 Central Ave. SE. might cause a dangerous might pass out. Huh, a drug that them in a study and they pass out. It’s part of the logo on one of the drop in blood pressure makes women pass out when added Why did the FDA approve it? Texaco gas pumps just a few steps to a little alcohol. I’m thinking so hard They said It from the sidewalk. Kelly’s is the and you might pass out right now and I really just can’t figure Addyi was actually rejected by An FDA spokesperson, on the fact former home of the Jones Motor out who the market for that will be. the FDA twice, and then approved, that the drug barely seems to work: Company, a combination service What? Come on brain, work … alcohol, drug, thanks to an editorial in a major “As with all medications, some station and Ford dealership that increasing sexual desire, making medical journal by an advocacy patients will obtain more benefit opened in 1937 and operated there Addyi has been called the “female women pass out … nope, I’ve got group that Sprout Pharmaceuticals than others. Because (the condition) for 20 years. Viagra.” Except, it’s not a good anal- nothing. Seems like this puppy is safe. funded. That got several geniuses is symptomatic, patients can gauge At the time, there was virtually ogy, because Viagra treats erectile in Congress to pressure the FDA to What else? whether they have meaningful ben- no development east of what is dysfunction in men who want to approve the drug. Within 48 hours of efit from Addyi.” And here I thought now Nob Hill, so the Jones Mo- have sex. Addyi, for $800 a month, is The FDA ordered Sprout Pharma- approval, Sprout was purchased for the FDA’s raison d’être was to keep tor Company was one of the first meant to treat the lack of want, not ceuticals, maker of Addyi, to conduct $1 billion by Valeant, which is being patients from having to test drugs buildings motorists driving west previously felt to be an illness. The a study on that little passing out investigated for price gouging and themselves. on Route 66 saw as they descended Journal-Sentinel/MedPage Today issue. So Sprout rounded up 25 sub- mail-order pharmacy shenanigans. into the Rio Grande Valley. investigation notes that a 1999 study jects, including — Nice work, Sprout! ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning After the Jones Motor company — conducted by researchers tied to — two actual human women. Score Wait, does it work though? independent, non-profit online news moved out in 1957, the building drug companies — reported that 43 one for diversity in medical research An independent study found that source that produces investigative percent of women have some form of Addyi produced just 0.5 additional journalism in the public interest. 10 • July 27 – August 9, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS columns COLUMNS ABQ FREE PRESS • July 27 – August 9, 2016 • 11 U.S. Police Being Used by the Rich Hillary Needs to Move Toward N.M. Budget Woes Highlight Need As Enforcers to Keep Poor in Line For Transparency in Roundhouse BY dan klein Bernie, Not Toward the Middle BY HEATH HAUSSAMEN BY ROBERT REICH ew Mexico’s mittee predicts another “gloomy” fiscal itizens protest- line? Just like Ferguson, when the Gretna oes Hillary Clin- be confined to the political left. Now, state lawmak- Cing murders court system gets its hands on a poor ton understand according to the Pew Research Center, N situation during the 2018 budget year. D ers scrambled to by police and the person, it will choke every last penny out that the biggest people who say free-trade deals are I don’t understand why some lawmak- murders of Dallas rewrite the budget A Cop’s of them. Rightfully, the poor ask why the divide in American bad for America are more likely to lean ers – Democrats and Republicans – view and Baton Rouge earlier this year rich aren’t treated the same way. politics is no longer Republican. transparency as something to work View police officers have when revenue In New York City, where “stop and between the right The problem isn’t trade itself. It’s a around, rather than as a tool that helps exposed an ugly estimates worsened frisk” was enacted under the guise of pro- and the left but is political-economic system that won’t them make better decisions. side of America. in the middle of tecting the poor communities, the result between the anties- cushion working people against trade’s These are tough times. We need the The wealthy across has been civil rights complaints and anger their session. During tablishment and the downsides or share trade’s upsides. In Legislature at its best. this country are out of touch with real- toward cops. NYPD doesn’t stop and frisk closed-door meet- establishment? other words, a system that’s rigged. The New Mexico Foundation for ity. They care more about Taylor Swift on Wall Street. It doesn’t happen in the ings, a group of legislators decided to I worry she doesn’t – at least not yet. Most basically, the antiestablishment Open Government has been pushing and Kim Kardashian feuding than they Hamptons. The rich are directing a war place much of the burden on public A Democratic operative I’ve known wants big money out of politics. This was care about their country. The rich look against poor neighborhoods. They say it is universities by cutting their funding. the House Appropriations and Finance since the Bill Clinton administration told the premise of Bernie Sanders’ campaign. at the poor and wonder, “Why are those to keep the peace, but in actuality, it’s to They did so without real opportunity Committee and the Senate Finance me “now that she’s won the nomination, It’s also been central to Donald (“I’m people so mad?” keep the poor in line. for public input or scrutiny. Which gives Committee to do their work in full view Hillary is moving to the middle. She’s so rich I can’t be bought off”) Trump’s Why, indeed? Nationwide, child sex workers, chil- us a good illustration of why keeping of the public. Past closed-door meetings going after moderate swing voters.” appeal, although he’s now trolling for big In Santa Barbara, Calif., playground of dren, are being arrested and prosecuted. the public out of budget discussions is violate the act, according to FOG. Presumably, that’s why she tapped Tim money. wealthy movie stars, police are searching A child prostitute is a victim, not a Kaine to be her vice president. Kaine is as A recent YouGov/Economist poll found wrong. for homeless people. Merchants and criminal, but that’s not how the laws are vanilla middle as you can get. that 80 percent of GOP primary voters Most state universities, including We’re facing a shortfall wealthy residents don’t want them written and enforced. In fairness, Hillary is only doing what who preferred Trump listed money in the University of New Mexico, raised living in Santa Barbara. To appease the American citizens are in need of in the current, 2017, she knows best. Moving to the putative politics as an important issue, and a tuition to cover their resulting budget wealthy, Santa Barbara police enforce food assistance at levels not seen since center is what Bill Clinton did after the Bloomberg Politics poll shows a similar shortfalls. New Mexico State Univer- fiscal year that some say laws directed at the homeless at one the Depression. Yet the wealthy in this Democrats lost the House and Senate sity has instead been making cuts, of the highest levels in the nation, percentage of Republicans opposed to could be as high as country are purposely out of touch with in 1994 – signing legislation on welfare including eliminating jobs, to cover an according to FBI statistics. Police in Santa the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United $500 million. The this reality of starvation. reform, crime, trade and financial estimated $12.1 million shortfall. To be Barbara are used as enforcers against decision. I am reminded of the coal and steel deregulation that enabled him to win fair, NMSU’s problems were created by a Legislative Finance the poor, at the behest of the rich. Getting big money out of politics is of strikes of the turn of the 20th century re-election in 1996 and declare “the era combination of factors, including state Not long ago, Albuquerque city lead- growing importance to voters in both Committee predicts when the leaders of police and National of big government” over. cuts and declining enrollment – not ers told police officers to “take the gloves major parties. A June New York Times/ another ‘gloomy’ fiscal Guardsmen were bought off by the rich In those days, a general election was entirely caused by policymakers in off” when dealing with people feeding CBS News poll showed that 84 percent and powerful — the coal mine and steel like a competition between two hot-dog Santa Fe. situation during the the hungry — to appease area merchants. of Democrats and 81 percent of Repub- mill owners. It led to open warfare in vendors on a boardwalk extending from How did lawmakers make the decision APD recently did a reverse drug sting in a licans want to fundamentally change or 2018 budget year Pennsylvania, West Virginia and along right to left. Each had to move to the to shift burden for the state’s budget poor part of town, arresting six homeless completely rebuild our campaign finance the Rockies by poor miners against the woes onto the backs of college students Budget decisions, FOG Executive Direc- people and recouping $30. Drugs are middle to maximize sales. If one strayed system. authorities. In some cases, it was halted and employees? We don’t know. Was tor Susan Boe told me, “touch on every everywhere, but APD targets only poor too far left or right, the other would In January, a Des Moines Register poll only when President Teddy Roosevelt the Legislature’s decision correct? We area of state and local government – users, not the rich addicts. move beside him and take all the sales on of likely Iowa caucus-goers found 91 ordered in federal troops. didn’t get a genuine chance to weigh in. from schools to art museums.” In Ferguson, Mo., population 21,000, the rest of the boardwalk. percent of Republicans and 94 percent of American law enforcement leaders Budget committees don’t only shut the “The public needs to hear how our authorities issued 33,000 arrest warrants, Nowadays, it’s the boardwalk versus Democrats unsatisfied or “mad as hell” must start saying NO to the powerful in public out. They often close the doors mostly for minor infractions. Ferguson the private jets on their way to the about money in politics. elected leaders are making the hard their communities. on other lawmakers. Some legislators is poor and predominately Black. What Hamptons, and the most powerful force Hillary Clinton doesn’t need to move decisions dividing up the pie,” she said. They have allowed the rich to use view that as an intentional attempt to crime have these residents committed? in American politics today is anties- toward the “middle.” In fact, such a “What competing factors are being police officers as enforcers against other control the outcome. Jay walking is the No. 1 ticket issued in tablishment fury at a system rigged by move could hurt her if it’s perceived to be considered? What trade-offs are being citizens whose only crime is that of be- That’s not good government. And it’s Ferguson. That and other minor offenses big corporations, Wall Street and the compromising the stances she took in the made?” ing poor. The wealthy don’t want their inconsistent with the New Mexico Open gain these citizens membership in the super-wealthy. primaries. “It makes no sense that the public is “Twitter” world upset by having to deal There are no longer “moderates.” Meetings Act, which recognizes that criminal justice gulag, where the life is She needs to move instead toward the being shut out of the most critical prob- with poor people. Police chiefs must There’s no longer a “center.” There’s public scrutiny and debate helps our drained out of them. antiestablishment – forcefully commit- lem facing the state – the economy,” refuse to enforce laws strictly aimed at legislators and local governing bodies Once in this web, the court system authoritarian populism (Trump) or ting herself to getting big money out of the poor. Boe said. never releases them. If these people democratic populism (Bernie’s “political politics and making the system work for make better decisions. When chiefs of police and sheriffs stop New Mexico is at or near the bottom have a job, it pays very little, so often revolution”). the many rather than a privileged few. “In recognition of the fact that a using their officers for every problem a of too many important lists. Our budget they have to decide whether to pay a If Hillary Clinton and the Democratic representative government is depen- politician sees, and instead demand that Robert B. Reich, chancellor’s professor of woes threaten to worsen the situation. fine or eat. If they decide to eat, then Party don’t recognize this realignment, dent upon an informed electorate, it business and political leaders and the public policy at the University of California All New Mexicans have a right and they get more warrants out for their they’re in for a rude shock – as, I’m afraid, is declared to be public policy of this wealthy start fixing communities, this responsibility to be involved in finding arrest for not paying their fine. is the nation. Because Donald Trump does at Berkeley and senior fellow at the Blum state that all persons are entitled to the country will change for the better. It’s a cycle that pits poor residents recognize it. His authoritarian (“I am Center for Developing Economies, was secre- greatest possible information regarding solutions. Police officers serve all of us, not just against police officers. The laws are your voice”) populism is premised on it. tary of labor in the Clinton administration. the affairs of government and the offi- We must demand that policymakers the powerful. Communities must start bad, but the cops enforce them, well, “In five, 10 years from now,” Trump Time magazine named him one of the cial acts of those officers and employees give us a seat at the table so we’re there funding their police departments and because their funding depends on it. says, “you’re going to have a worker’s 10 most effective cabinet secretaries of the who represent them,” the meetings act to remind them who gave them their courts through taxes, not through fees In Gretna, La., the Gretna Police party. A party of people that haven’t had 20th century. He has written 13 books, states. seats. It’s time to open legislative budget and fines stacked against those who Department made 6,566 arrests in a a real wage increase in 18 years, that are including the bestsellers “Aftershock” and Such transparency is so important committee meetings to the public. can’t afford them. community of 18,000, according to the angry.” “The Work of Nations.” His latest, “Beyond as the state grapples with the effects America doesn’t have bad police of- FBI. Gretna is another poor town, where Trump has decried politicians and Outrage,” is now out in paperback. He is also of lower oil and gas prices. Our state Heath Haussamen runs NMPolitics.net, ficers. What we have are very bad laws the residents are Black. Are they wrong financiers who have betrayed Americans a founding editor of the American Prospect government ended the last fiscal year an online news organization that seeks being enforced very well. to believe the police are being used as by “taking away from the people their magazine and chairman of Common Cause. on June 30 in the red. We’re facing a to inform, engage and build community. enforcers by the rich and powerful to Dan Klein is a retired Albuquerque police means of making a living and supporting His newest film, “Inequality for All,” is shortfall in the current, 2017, fiscal year Reach him at [email protected], pad city coffers and keep the poor in sergeant. Reach him through Facebook. their families.” available on Netflix, iTunes, DVD and that some say could be as high as $500 on Facebook at /haussamen, or on Worries about free trade used to On Demand. His blog is robertreich.org million. The Legislative Finance Com- twitter @haussamen. 12 • July 27 – August 9, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS news News ABQ FREE PRESS • July 27 – August 9, 2016 • 13 Explosions, Fires Consume 36 Oil Tanks at Fracking Site UNM Researchers Say BY LORRAINE CHOW ECOWATCH

n oil field in San Juan County about a week before the fire broke out. More Cannabis Needed Aerupted in flames last month and The cause of the fire was unknown. BY PETER ST. CYR burned so intensely that firefighters “We think that in the next couple of decided to let it burn itself out. weeks to months, we will have that behavioral scientist The fire broke out at approximately information and will be able to share A and an associate 10:15 p.m. on July 11 at a fracking site that with the public,” WPX San Juan professor of health econom- owned and operated by WPX Energy, Asset Team manager Heather Riley ics at the University of New setting off several explosions and told KOAT-TV Channel 7. Mexico want the college to temporarily closing N.M. 550. Fifty- There were no reported injuries or be a pioneer in the advance- five local residents were forced out of damage to nearby property. Most of ment of medical cannabis their homes. the evacuees returned home, but 10 research, but they contend The site – located in the Mancos families were lodged in a hotel several federal barriers make it shale deposit area and known as the days after the fire, The Farmington nearly impossible. 550 Corridor and a part of Greater Daily Times reported. Jacob Miguel Vigil and Chaco Canyon – contains six new oil Environmental advocates are speak- Sarah Stith, who wrote an wells and 30 temporary oil storage ing out about the explosion. editorial for Science Maga- tanks holding either oil or produced “The site that exploded is a brand Kendra Pinto zine’s June issue, claim an water. All 36 storage tanks caught fire new facility that consists of six wells Intense heat led firefighters to let a fire burn at a WPX Energy fracking site near Chaco Canyon. arduous federal application and burned, the Tulsa, Okla., energy drilled to shale formations that have process “is a mere nuisance” compared to getting government Mexico Medical Cannabis Program company said. never been adequately analyzed for Farmington Field Office gave final ap- has put in at least $160 million in increased 93.3 percent. “The fire is being allowed to burn impacts and safety concerns.” Mike proval to drill the land in December. developing oil plays in 2014 on its permission to purchase high-potency cannabis needed for laboratory studies. Bernalillo County, the state’s most itself out due to the intensity of the Eisenfeld, the Energy and Climate “In a leap before looking scenario, 60,000 leased acres, the Santa Fe New populous, led the state with 9,952, or heat, the number of oil tanks involved Program manager at the San Juan the federal Bureau of Land Manage- Mexican reported. U.S. scientists’ access to cannabis is currently restricted to material sup- 14.70 patients per 1,000 people. and to contain petroleum fluids on Citizens Alliance, told EcoWatch in an ment in Farmington, New Mexico, has The rise of hydraulic fracturing has Sierra County, with 333 patients, or WPX’s 5-acre site, predominantly in email. allowed WPX to proceed with these aided a U.S. energy boom, but the en- plied from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and limited to a maxi- 29.22 per 1,000 people, had the largest the storage tankage,” WPX said. WPX was given approval in Septem- shale facilities, discounting the inher- vironmental impact of the technology percentage of residents enrolled in WPX stopped drilling for natural ber to develop the site from the New ent danger that has now become clear is under intense dispute, from pollut- mum tetrahydrocannabional level of 12.4 percent – significantly lower the program. McKinley County, with gas and oil in the area in May. The Mexico Oil Conservation Division. with the explosion,” Eisenfeld said. ing drinking water to earthquakes. only 3.23 per 1,000, had the smallest. company had been producing for The U.S. Bureau of Land Management “This highlights the failure to have Last year, WPX Energy itself, with than strains already being consumed by medical cannabis patients that Five New Mexico counties, includ- adequate safeguards in place to pro- its fracking operations, came under register as high as 35 percent. ing Santa Fe County (with 3,321 tect local communities and also raises scrutiny for failing to disclose how it “As long as clinical research on Can- patients), had more than 20 people serious questions about chemicals and is managing its impacts on communi- nabis is controlled by regulators ex- per 1,000 residents legally permitted toxicity associated with the explo- ties and the local environment. pressly opposed to any increase in its to use cannabis to treat 22 different Albuquerque’s sion,” he said. “Emergency response “WPX Energy scored near the consumption, health care cost reduc- medical conditions, including cancer, for this explosion was hours away. A bottom of the industry in a recent tions may be missed, and intoxication epilepsy, AIDS and severe chronic thorough investigation is necessary. scorecard report published by inves- Premier Facility and long-term effects will remain un- pain. Almost half of the patients There should be a moratorium on tors benchmarking 35 companies on known,” Vigil and Stith wrote. “Most enrolled in the program as of June these new wells until BLM completes their disclosed efforts to mitigate key - for - important, many severely ill patients suffer from symptoms associated a legally proficient Resource Manage- impacts, and has faced controversy may suffer unnecessarily because no with post-traumatic stress disorder. ment Plan Amendment/Environmen- in the past over allegations that it ir- tal Impact Statement for the Mancos one knows the true risks and benefits Drive-through cannabis Mock Trials & reparably contaminated local drinking of consuming Cannabis sativa.” Shale/Gallup formations.” water in Pennsylvania,” the advisory Patients with PTSD who suffer The New Mexico environmental firm Green Century Funds wrote. By the numbers anxiety while they wait in crowded Focus Groups nonprofit WildEarth Guardians WPX Energy has defended its Even with scarce research available, dispensary lobbies will like a plan noted in a statement to EcoWatch operations and even helped produce new patient applications continue to by Organtica founder David Romero • Trial planning and issue spotting, that the BLM Farmington Field Office a glossy, 26-minute documentary, pour through the Medical Cannabis White to open a drive-through win- in-house facilitators has leased more than 90 percent of “Down Deep,” as a way of “spreading Program’s doors in Santa Fe every day. dow at his new clinic when it opens • Mock jury services the lands it oversees to oil and gas the message that fracking is safe and At the end of June, 12.5 people per this fall in Albuquerque’s Northeast companies and plans to auction off • Witness preparation necessary for the U.S. energy future,” 1,000 New Mexico residents were Heights. additional acres for fracking during • Simulated court and the Tulsa World wrote of the film. registered to purchase medication “Many of our patients say they feel the January 2017 lease sale. The office deliberation venues Still, as WildEarth Guardians point- from 35 licensed growers. That’s up anxious when they go to pick up their manages a total of 1.8 million acres of medication. We’re going to let them • Political polling ed out, the recent oil field explosion in from 9.4 patients in March 2016 and public land. San Juan County serves as a sobering slightly higher than the national aver- preorder online and then set it up “Enough is enough,” said Kendra reminder of the urgent need to build age of 8.6 patients per 1,000 residents. so they can zip through in their car Call 505-263-8425 or email Pinto, a Counselor Chapter outreach safe, clean and renewable energy in The New Mexico Department of without having to interact with a lot [email protected] intern. “It seems like every month place of fossil fuels. Health reported 26,568 active patients of people. We think this will make it Let Us Help we see more wells here, and things were enrolled in the program on June more comfortable for them when they 6608 Gulton Court NE, Alb. 87109 are going to get worse if the drilling Reprinted with permission by EcoWatch. You Find Your 31, 2016. Another 1,480 applied for go out to pick up their medication,” doesn’t stop. At this rate, what will com, one of the nation’s leading envi- Soulmate the first time in June. White said. be left here for our children? The land ronmental news sites providing original The acceleration of interest is Peter St. Cyr has covered medical can- www.freeabq.com/dating/ has changed.” content and aggregating and curating seen in the year-over-year growth. nabis in New Mexico since the state WPX Energy has invested millions news from more than 50 media partners Between June 2015 and June 2016, legalized it in 2007. Reach him at to drill into the tight shale formations and hundreds of environmental and sci- trialmetrixnm.com the number of patients in the New [email protected] in the San Juan Basin. The company ence organizations from around the world. 14 • July 27 – August 9, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS news news ABQ FREE PRESS • July 27 – August 9, 2016 • 15 Cop Who Shot Mary Hawkes Takes Fifth 130 Times Why Do People Buy Water from Vending Machines? BY JEFF PROCTOR BYY EMIL ASHBY NEW MEXICO IN DEPTH AND DENNIS DOMRZALSKI

’m going to invoke my Fifth Dear even in- t’s baking outside – 102 degrees – “I Amendment right.” voked the Fifth Ithe steering wheel is hot, the car Former Albuquerque police Amendment seats are hot, everything is hot. officer Jeremy Dear uttered that when Kennedy It’s so damn hot that you start beg- phrase — and others very much like asked whether ging passersby to douse your head it — more than 130 times recently as he knew what it with liquid nitrogen – and then you he was being deposed by an attorney meant. see it – an inviting blue vending ma- for the family of a 19-year-old young In all, he chine in the grocery store parking lot woman Dear fatally shot in April invoked the that has a drawing of a penguin and 2014. privilege more promises refreshing “Glacier Water.” Shannon Kennedy, whose law firm than 130 times, Glacier water! That’s got to be cold, represents the family of shooting a transcript right? Especially if they just melted victim Mary Hawkes in a federal civil of the July 19 it. And it’s got to be the purest water rights lawsuit, asked Dear a wide deposition there is, and better than that junky range of questions about his history shows. Dear did city water, right? at APD, the shooting, his behavior in answer 15 ques- You push your five-gallon jug un- its aftermath and other matters. tions, including derneath the machine’s spout, plunk He didn’t answer any of them. one in which down your buck-and-a-half in change Kennedy’s firm has litigated he stated his into the slot, fill your bottle and dozens of police shooting cases over name, one about congratulate yourself for making such the course of decades. She had never his start date a healthful and economical purchase. seen anything like it. at APD, three You’re buying glacier water! “We’ve never had a shooting about whether Well, you definitely got some glacier officer assert the Fifth like that,” Ken- he would like water, but it wasn’t recently towed nedy told New Mexico In Depth. some water – he from the Arctic, and it wasn’t recently Dear’s attorney, David Roman, did declined — and melted. It melted 15,000 to 25,000 not respond to requests for com- Kagenmi another about years ago and it came straight from ment on why Dear invoked the Fifth whether he was where pretty much everyone else in Amendment so often. 2014 to 25 from Jan. 1, 2015 through Dear and falling down when he shot taking the Fifth the area gets their water – from the Kennedy offered two possible July 7 of this year. her, according to the analysis. on the advice of his legal team — he was. pipes of the municipal water system. explanations. That number includes former Albu- Police Chief Gorden Eden fired Dear Kennedy said Roman’s advice to And if you think five gallons of The first: Dear may believe that querque Police Department officers six months after the shooting for his Dear was “good lawyering.” water was a bargain at $1.50, consider a criminal prosecution is imminent, Keith Sandy and Dominique Perez, repeated failure to turn on his body- “I also think it’s a reflection of the this: For just 16.5 cents more you and he does not want to make any Dennis Domrzalski who will go on trial for murder later worn camera, including at the time of age we live in,” she said. “It’s en- could have bought 748 gallons from potentially incriminating statements, this summer in the shooting death of the Hawkes shooting. Dear has since couraging that officers now are being the Albuquerque Bernalillo County For $1.50, a Glacier water machine will give you five gallons of city water that the company says the machine treats further to remove contaminants. she said. The Fifth Amendment gives homeless camper James Boyd. won his job back following a decision treated a little bit more equally for the Water Utility Authority, which is people the option of not incriminating Kennedy said law enforcement by the city personnel board. The city taking of a human life. … I think we where your vending machine glacier At the Smith’s grocery at San Pedro in his quest to quench his thirst and to of it comes from the underground themselves in such situations. agents are investigating the Hawkes is appealing that decision, and Dear is will see more officers pleading the water came from. and Lomas, a guy named John said stay hydrated. He drinks a gallon of aquifer. The water in that aquifer was shooting, which occurred less than not working or being paid by APD in Fifth going forward.” The California-based Glacier Water buying his water from the machines water per day, and said the machine indeed deposited by melting glaciers, After the shooting, Dear two weeks after the U.S. Department the meantime. Services, Inc. has several of its blue gives him piece of mind regarding his is handy. “It’s easy to get a gallon of but those glaciers melted 15,000 to told investigators that of Justice issued a harshly critical Kennedy asked Dear a series of Dear did answer 15 vending machines in the Albuquerque health. water here. I fill up one of these every 25,000 years ago, said Albuquerque report of APD that found the depart- questions during last week’s deposi- questions, including one area. And, based on the giant red “What people don’t understand in day.” water geologist John Hawley, who has Hawkes, whom police ment had a pattern of using excessive tion about the discrepancies between letters that spell “Glacier” one might New Mexico is that radiation doesn’t Glacier says the water you buy from been studying Albuquerque’s aquifer suspected of driving a force, a “culture of aggression” and his statement and the scientific in which he stated his think, or maybe even hope, that the go away. It stays for thousands of their machines goes through a six-step for more than 40 years. stolen truck, turned to leaders who ignored it. evidence. name, one about his start company is somehow towing chunks years. So a lot of people are getting filtration process that includes reverse “The water in our aquifer is geo- face him during a foot She would not say which agencies Each time he pleaded the Fifth. date at APD and three of glaciers from the North Pole or sick and getting cancer,” John said. osmosis, micron filtering and a double logically old water,” Hawley said. are investigating. What about inconsistencies in state- about whether he would maybe Greenland down to where they “There’s a lot of radiation here, and zapping by ultraviolet rays. The filter- “Much of the water we’re pumping chase, then pointed a gun What Dear told investigators ments he made about a 2011 shooting can be melted and then shipped to people don’t think about it. This water ing is supposed to remove chlorine, is between 10,000 to 30,000 years old. at him immediately after the shooting has he witnessed by a fellow officer, Ken- like some water Albuquerque. I drink. I’ll drink it.” rust, dirt, salts and other impurities, The bulk of the water in the aquifer come under scrutiny as the family has nedy asked. The company’s LinkedIn page tells Wide availability is one reason the machines say. was recharged during the last ice age conducted its own investigation. Dear pleaded the Fifth. the real story. Albuquerque resident Danielle uses But water utility spokesman David between 15,000 and 25,000 years ago.” The second is that Dear’s choice Still, she said, Dear’s decision to After the shooting, Dear told inves- She asked about Dear’s trips to “Glacier Water machines function the machines. At the Walgreen’s Phar- Morris said the Metro area’s water, Hawley said that not only is the may be a sign of the times: The num- take the Fifth is frustrating for the tigators that Hawkes, whom police Hooters and a Chinese massage parlor like mini bottled water treatment and macy at Montgomery and Wyoming, which comes from the aquifer and ABCWUA’s water a good buy at $1.65 ber of officers charged with crimes for Hawkes family. suspected of driving a stolen truck, with another officer in the days after filtration plants to turn municipal she said, “There are a lot of locations from the Rio Grande, is as clean as can for 748 gallons – the amount that on-duty shootings around the country “We wanted to confront him with turned to face him during a foot chase, the Hawkes shooting. and it’s convenient.” be. forms the utility’s basic billing unit – has skyrocketed amid the increased water into great-tasting filtered water then pointed a gun at him. Dear says Again, Dear invoked the Fifth. his lies and the forensic evidence,” it tastes good, too. availability of video and a national that is vended into refillable contain- Danielle also said that buying water “From a strictly economic stand- he fired several shots. Kennedy peppered Dear with Kennedy said. “Now, we can’t do that. “The ABCWUA is one of the best debate about police use of force. ers,” the company’s page reads. from a vending machine reduces her point, residents are getting a better A forensic ballistics analysis con- questions about the use of confidential I felt sad to have to tell the family that quality water supply in the western In the past 18 months, the number So why would anyone spend $1.50 family’s waste. “We used to buy water deal with the authority,” Morris said. ducted by an expert hired by Hawkes’ informants by APD officers, including we wouldn’t be able to continue our part of the United States,” Hawley of officers charged with murder or for five gallons of vending machine bottles, and we would get tired of all “Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, family rebuts Dear’s version. No Dear. quest for the truth.” said. “It’s one of the shining lights of manslaughter in America has tripled, water that they could get from their the buildup. We had so many bottles we have to adhere to stricter stan- fingerprints or DNA were found on Whether he or other officers knew Jeff Proctor is a reporter with New Mexico municipal government.” according to an analysis by the Wash- kitchen faucet? We asked a few people around the house. We were wasting a dards than bottled water.” the gun recovered near Hawkes’ body, Hawkes before the shooting. In Depth, a nonprofit, online news agency ington Post, from 47 between 2005 and who were buying water from Glacier lot,” she said. Because Glacier’s water comes from Emily Ashby is an ABQ Free Press and Hawkes was turning away from Each time, he invoked the Fifth. that can be found at nmindepth.com machines. For Daniel, using the machines aids the water utility, it means that much editorial intern. 16 • July 27 – August 9, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS cartoons/letters Opinion/cartoons ABQ FREE PRESS • July 27 – August 9, 2016 • 17

To the Editor: live out the true meaning of Donald Trump is now in the its creed: “We are white, we PED Needs to Face the Reality middle of making the biggest are rich and we are better than bet of his life. He is betting you.” that fear, anger, hatred, and I have a dream that one day In Our Urban Public Schools insult will propel him to the in the high towers of Trump, BY HEATHER McGUIRE presidency of Trump Casino the sons of former slave own- USA. So far he is winning his ers will come to my casino his teenager doesn’t know how to put headphones — just like any other American bet. There is always a large and sit down together at the Theadphones in. He has never used a com- teenager. But his success story won’t be re- number of citizens who agree table of poker. puter. He hasn’t attended school in years. flected in Highland’s test results or gradua- with or can be readily swayed I have a dream that one day He doesn’t speak English. He is a refugee tion rates. by this approach. even the state of Ohio, a state who has been in the United States for only 17 When the No Child Left Behind Act was His targets have been Mexi- sweltering with the heat of days. But he’s here now, in the computer lab, passed in 2001, its mission was 100 percent can immigrants, Muslims, horny Republicans trolling for taking the PARCC exam, because every stu- student proficiency in reading and math by some women, China, trade under-age prostitutes, swelter- dent must attempt it three times. 2014. This set off more than a decade-long sys- agreements, “a rigged system” ing with the heat of liberals, Despite Gov. Susana Martinez’s comments tem of testing and accountability. Schools were (something he knows well), will be transformed into an about keeping Syrian refugees out of our graded on student test scores, and the lowest oasis of greed and debauchery. and his 16 primary opponents, state, local officials have no say in federal re- performing schools faced frightening conse- just to name a few. He is now I have a dream that my en- settlements. The refugees who have been re- quences, such as a takeover or shutdown. focusing his attack on Hillary titled sociopathic children will settled in New Mexico recently have mostly Clinton, his remaining election one day live in a nation where been from war-torn areas in Africa and the opponent. Expect this effort they will not be judged by the Middle East. Albuquerque is the new home Of the refugees who are high to be unprecedented, outra- color of their skin but by the to 100 percent of these refugees, and we are school age, about 75 percent geous, and relentless. money in their wallets. scheduled to accept approximately 350 more This strategy has been used I have a dream today! of them attend Highland High next year. any number of times in the I have a dream that one day, School because it is near the Of the refugees who are high school age, recent past with success in down in North Carolina, with Central Avenue bus line and the short run and dire conse- its vicious bathroom laws, about 75 percent of them attend Highland quences in the longer term. with its governor having his High School because it is near the Central low-income housing Examples that come to mind lips dripping with the words Avenue bus line and low-income housing. include Italy in the 1920s, of “inclusion” and “transgen- Highland High proudly embraces its refu- Germany in the 1930s, a U.S. der” – one day right there in gee students and hopes to become a mag- Schools such as Highland, located in ur- senator’s quest in the early North Carolina transgender net school for all international students. ban areas and accepting nontraditional stu- 1950s, the Vietnam War, and children will be able to join However, this is a different mission than dents, end up being the “low-performing” the War in Iraq. hands with their gay and the one required by the New Mexico Public schools, thanks to No Child Left Behind. Each of these were the LGBTQ brothers and sisters as Education Department’s emphasis on teacher However, after years of student and teacher result of a ginning up of some we march them off to holding evaluations and standardized testing. protest, even President Obama realized combination of fear, anger, cells. Before any student can qualify for an “al- that No Child Left Behind “didn’t always hatred, and insult that led one I have a dream today! ternative demonstration of competence,” the consider the specific needs of each commu- population or another to go I have a dream that one student must attempt the PARCC exam three nity.” This past December, in an effort to be along with a plan that they day every valley shall be times. Although the “alternative demonstra- less prescriptive and to give back local con- had come to agree with but privatized, and every hill and tion of competence” allows the student to trol, Congress wrote and President Obama which turned out to be based mountain shall be owned by graduate, PARCC scores are what will count signed the Every Student Succeeds Act. on fear and lies fostered by a me, the rough places shall toward the PED’s letter grade assignment to This teenager is successful. He has lived leader who promoted himself also be owned by me, and the the student’s school. through more than most American adults as the person who understood crooked places will be sold to Each year, Highland’s grade reflects the 33 could ever imagine. He has a new beginning. the problem and what needed the poor at a huge markup; percent of its student population whose pri- He is learning about a whole new world. to be done to solve it. and the glory of my vast mary home language is not English — who He dreams about going to college. But, this This is the situation we find fortune shall be revealed and are forced to take a high-stakes assessment in teenager still has to attempt (and likely fail) ourselves in today. We will all flesh shall see it together.” a language they did not grow up speaking. the PARCC exam three times before New find out in November whether This is my hope, and this This teenager won’t pass the PARCC exam, Mexico’s public education department will Mr. Trump won his bet. But is the faith that I go back to recognize his progress. one thing you can bet on is Washington with. Now that the Every Student Succeeds Act that anything that is based on And if anyone thinks I Despite Gov. Susana has returned some state control over edu- a false assumption, whether a plagiarized one word of Martinez’s comments about cation policy, it is time for New Mexico’s society, a corporation, an in- this speech, you can go f*** keeping Syrian refugees out Public Education Department to reconsider vention, a war, or a country, is yourself. the mission of the state’s schools. It is time bound to fail in the long run. – Jason Darensburg of our state, local officials for us to consider the specific needs of each – Robert DiGiulio have no say in federal of our communities. It is time to eliminate unnecessary and punitive testing. It is time To the Editor: resettlements ABQ Free Press welcomes letters to reward schools for accepting all students. Hot off the presses! Through to the editor and bylined opinion an email hack, we came across pieces, subject to editing by the This teenager isn’t a refugee anymore. He newspaper for style and length. can’t read Shakespeare, or divide polynomi- found his home at Highland. The next time this transcript of the accep- Letters may appear in print on tance speech Donald Trump the newspaper’s website, als but still is smiling. He is grateful to be you read an article about APS graduation www.freeabq.com. Writers should here. Just a couple months ago, he was more rates or test scores, think of this teenager. had originally planned to give include their full name and a at the RNC! Truly inspiring daytime phone number that the concerned with survival than with education. Heather McGuire is a teacher at Highland newspaper’s editors can use to Now, he is receiving a healthy free breakfast words! contact them. Submissions should High School. I have a dream that one day be sent to [email protected] and lunch. Now, he is learning English. Now, this nation will rise up and he is starting to surf the internet and wear 18 • July 27 – August 9, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS opinion SPORTS/features ABQ FREE PRESS • July 27 – August 9, 2016 • 19 Retching through Wretched Days A View of the Conventions Delusional, Maybe, but Big 12 BY BILL HUME t’s alternately hard to keep a straight We have a federal magistrate recom- Through the Lens of a Strategist Expansion Launches Lobo Dreams CALLING ALL PETS I face or to keep one’s breakfast down mending that the secretary of the state BY STEPHAN HELGESEN BY richard stevens as one peruses watches, reads or surfs Human Services Department be held ell, it’s official. Donald Trump is by party loyalists and celebrities. Both the news these days. in contempt of court for perpetuat- he possibility the Aggies make a progressive jump. It now the Republicans’ choice to parties do it, but not with equal fervor How about that reality-show ing a practice of denying prompt aid W just depends on “who” the Big 12 pulls mix it up with Madam Secretary, Hillary and relish. Tof Big 12 ex- miniseries the Republican National to impoverished New Mexicans by in. The problem for the Big 12 is there Clinton. The Republicans’ first night The Republicans will try their best to pansion has the Convention? It is still going strong as falsifying their applications. Keeping are a lot of decent candidates but really was a cage match between the Rules link Clinton with her former boss and New Mexico Lobos I write this, but it is already a classic. straight with the federal bureaucracy Committee, party leadership and the no- swear up and down that she had no standing on the no prom queen. The teams attractive to The shouting hyperbole of the speak- is a higher priority than serving clients, Trumpers and proved, once again, that mind of her own (and followed him sidelines waving the marquee conference are already in Many pet owners ers — from the geriatric Rambo Rudy apparently. the GOP elephant has a long memory and blindly down the wrong path) and that their hands, jump- some other marquee conference. secretly wonder if Giuliani to the exhortations of a cage- Then there’s the Albuquerque Police can make a blood-curdling trumpeting she personally made wrong decisions on ing up and down, their dogs or cats fighting luminary, we were regaled Department. Its leadership under Chief noise when threatened – even in its own a whole host of topics. They will call her and shouting, “Pick me, pick me,” like are voyeurs, the with warnings that the barbarians are Gorden Eden pushes back against the circus tent. a pathological liar for Benghazi and for an overweight, nerdy kid in a pickup way they follow us at the gate, through the borders and U.S. Department of Justice reform It proved, too, that Republicans are “Servergate.” They’ll portray her as an en- game at the local park. around — every- mingling among us — and only El Cid mandates. APD almost never gives ready to take on their own in an open emy of the Constitution and of traditional where. Suzy Caplan Trump can lead us to salvation. out information on officer-involved But the Lobos are not heavyweights. forum with the whole world watching. American values. They’ll point to her many sent us this photo But what must go down in political incidents without FOIA pressure — un- The Big 12 members can glance over Call me crazy, but I believe that kind of scandals, her poor judgment and her lust of her MorkiePoo, history as the greatest unintended less the video or records make APD their haughty shoulders and dismiss openness speaks volumes about a party for power as the coup de grâce. Bruno, who “loves irony of all time was the revelation that look good. New Mexico with several cruel phrases: often accused of being too restrictive. The Democrats will intensify their to keep me company Melania Trump lifted lofty prose from It bemoans its difficulty in recruiting 1. Have you seen your football team There was behind-the-scenes maneu- campaign on behalf of the reasonable when I take a bath.” a speech made eight years earlier by new personnel to its dangerously de- play? vering to get the nine states’ delegates Hillary, the calm cool and collected Hillary If anything, Big 12 expansion could Michelle Obama — wife of the arch- pleted ranks — even as it runs an organi- 2. We have high school fields as nice that wanted rules changes and a roll call and the Hillary for all people and all hurt the Lobos because it could hurt the villain of the entire GOP proceeding. zation so disorganized and demoralized as University Stadium and with more vote to fall away to only five, but that’s seasons. She will be placed on a pedestal Mountain West. The top candidates from The contradictory explanations and it is difficult to contemplate anybody of warm bodies in the seats buying hot called politicking. Both parties have foot on the moral high ground above the evil, the MW are Boise State and Colorado rationalizations by varying spokes- sound mind wishing to sign up. dogs. soldiers who go behind the scenes to dangerous, racist, megalomaniac, Trump. State, which is throwing more than $200 people from the Trump organization Let us note, however, that the roster 3. Will you get 70,000 or 80,000 fans Send it to work their magic, and both parties rarely From her perch, she will shower million into football improvements. By were reminiscent of the “who’s on first” of field officers is overwhelmingly when Oklahoma comes to play? emerge from a convention without a few supporters with the right Democrat poll- contrast, the Lobos probably will add a [email protected] routine of Abbott and Costello. made up of men and women of good bruises. The Republicans are different tested buzz words, delivered in carefully 4. And, if they want to get nasty, aren’t The Donald himself hadn’t yet character and motivation who want to blow-up, jumping bouncy house to the Photo should be hi-res, 250 kb or bigger. Include your name, from the Democrats in that they do their coached measured tones until it’s time to you the guys who fired Rocky Long and weighed in on this plagiarism debacle do the right thing. But they work under tailgate lot this season. phone number, and your pet’s name, and we’ll try to reserve their blood-letting in the open. ratchet up the rhetoric (watch the poll hired Mike Locksley? as of this writing (although the flunkie inconsistent management policies, The Aggies have an outside chance numbers for the switch). Then, she and Simply put, the Lobos are not play- spot in the pet parade. responsible for the larcenous language mixed signals on support — and in an of landing a home after their football- her campaign will plunge the knife in for ers on the national level. When (or if) offered to resign), but it simply added increasingly hostile street environment. only membership with the Sun Belt Some call conventions the kill. the Big 12 expands, the conference will to the breadth of this mound of steam- It is sometimes easy to look away or Conference expires after the 2017 sea- This approach will be timed perfectly be looking for a large fan base for foot- ing political disaster. think negatively when one of those a slaughterhouse son. For now, the Aggies are slated to be Baby Powder, and accompanied by an avalanche of ball, a competitive football program, Adopted from (Melania Trump, it should be noted, sinister-looking black-and-white police an independent in 2018. environment where the TV ads and surrogate speeches given by national relevance, and a program that Animal Humane carried off her speech with grace and cruisers goes by. But its occupant most It’s possible that Big 12 expansion darlings of the Left. Clinton will portray appeals to what really is the heartbeat aplomb – unaware, we would assume, likely is a good person trying to do opposition candidate is could open a door for the Aggies into herself as the only one who can heal that her ghost writer had set her up for a complex job in which the boring brought in on the hoof and of the major conferences: TV money. Conference USA or the Sun Belt or, America’s wounds, bring us together, stop the ensuing kettle of ripe fish.) tedium, occasional nasty interpersonal If the Big 12 wants to nudge itself drum roll, please, into the Mountain then systematically cut the racial strife and keep us safe because Gov. Susana Martinez couldn’t bring contact and rare but palpable heart- closer to the SEC and the Big 10 in West. Another reality is that the Aggies she listens while Donald Trump only talks. herself to even mention The Donald’s stopping fear of imminent death must to pieces by a carefully TV bucks, it needs to bring in a prom are so far down the list that the Big 12 Our conventions must look to the name — she delegated the vote all be handled with the same cool, stage-managed butchering queen, not an ugly duckling. might have to expand by at least four outside world like shark feeding frenzies announcement to the state’s youngest measured judgment and reaction. Heck, it’s doubtful the Lobos could teams in order for any conference to by party loyalists and to those tuning in to Sky News, BBC or delegate. But if one turned away from This is what we expect of our even come up with the buy-in mon- look at the Aggies. Deutsche Welle (or even CNN Internation- the garish spectacle in Cleveland for officers. And that’s what they deliver celebrities ey, unless UNM athletics continues to The Aggies’ best shot might be pig- al). Can we blame them for not under- some surcease in the news at home, virtually all the time. The ones that think “pledge” money is “real” money. tailing UTEP into another conference. standing how we got to these convention one found little to embrace. don’t are the ones that make the news. Or filling the hole left by UTEP, if the Will Donald Trump now automatically moments, through a Byzantine primary We have an Albuquerque Public A thought: The next time one of Miners make a jump. And to think be loved by every Republican in the con- system complete with Super Delegates School board still reeling from a lawsuit those smoked-windows black-and- about it, could UTEP join the Mountain vention hall and outside on the streets who can change their minds about who blocking its bond funding on the whites goes by, roll down your window West? of America? No, but many fence-sitting they nominate (the Democrats) or those grounds that a health clinic for teachers and smile and wave. If we all did New Mexico State has always wanted Republicans will fall into line during the that are locked in to vote the way their and staff isn’t a school building (duh). that, it might bring a small measure next three and a half months. states voted (the Republicans)? to join its big brother in Albuquerque in Looking for a Then, the state auditor alleged of balance to contacts police officers That is also the nature of American No, we can’t blame them, nor can we a league. The problem there is obvious that former member Analee Maestas are obliged to deal with. And if it cuddly cat companion? politics. If anyone believes that the explain to them how our democracy can and hurtful: The Mountain West wants committed fraud in doctoring a bill for brightens one officer’s day, maybe it Democrats are in lock-step with one allow Electoral College votes to nullify a the Aggies about as much as the Big 12 duct cleaning at her home to make it helps them be more civil in their next another they are sorely mistaken. Millions popular vote victory. There’s never a dull wants the Lobos. appear to be for work at her charter contentious contact. of “Feel the Berners” will need time to moment in American politics. An interesting question is which There is a good chance that when Visit both of our locations throughout June school — and claiming state reimburse- Ah, but by the time you are reading shift their support to Clinton, but it will New Mexico program would most the dust settles, both the Lobos and the and find ment — for $342.40. this, the Democratic National Conven- for Adopt a Shelter Cat Month probably happen, though perhaps not to Stephan Helgesen is a former diplomat likely benefit from Big 12 expansion: Aggies might remain on the sidelines. The APS fraud case is a sign of just tion will have come and gone, as well. the degree and speed that the Democrat and now a political strategist and analyst. God, that’s gonna hurt. Move over, how nickel-and-dime corruption can A week or so of distraction is always the New Mexico Lobos or the New your purr-fect feline friend! hierarchy (and Clinton) might want. He has written more than 500 articles on nerdy kid! get in New Mexico. Perhaps only here refreshing. Mexico State Aggies? Some call conventions a slaughter- politics, economics and social trends. does an elected public official put her The Lobos likely will be on the side- Richard Stevens is a former sports writer house environment where the opposition His latest book with co-author Lance job and perhaps her freedom at risk for Bill Hume is a former editorial page lines shaking their heads in bewilder- for The Albuquerque Tribune. More candidate is brought in on the hoof Tarrance, “Breaking Republican,” is such a paltry sum. Makes one wonder editor of the Albuquerque Journal and ment while the Aggies actually have a recently, he was an insider at the Lobo and then systematically cut to pieces by available on amazon.com. Reach him at how common such petty chicanery goes later served as a policy adviser to former chance to make a move. athletic department. Reach him at a carefully stage-managed butchering [email protected] AnimalHumaneNM.org undetected. Gov. Bill Richardson. If the Big 12 expands, it could help [email protected] ADOPTADOPT 20 • July 27 – August 9, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS film FILM ABQ FREE PRESS • July 27 – August 9, 2016 • 21 Twelve Years Later, Bourne is Reborn BY VICKY DEARDEN THE INTERVIEW PEOPLE matt damon, Page 20 which was interest- ing because the att Damon and Alicia Vikander crew was mostly M were in London recently for the So it’s kind of a second home to you European. So it was European premiere of “Jason Bourne.” now? cool to find a place in Matt was looking dapper on the red Basically. I’ve spent a few years of Europe that every- carpet in a smart navy suit and pale my life here at this point. body hadn’t been. So tie while Alicia looked stunning in a So you enjoy being in the English that was fun for us. full-length, silvery, ruffled dress with capital? One of the obvious a thigh split. Absolutely. For this movie, we things you had to Co-star Julia Stiles was also looking really hubbed in London, and the last handle in the film elegant in a halter-necked, full-length Jason Bourne movie did as well. So was where you’d patterned dress, but all eyes were on I’ve spent a lot of time here; my kids been for 12 years. Matt’s wife, Luciana, at the event, have spent a lot of time here. It’s just a Yeah, well, that who wore a dazzling pink dress. great place. was the first question Damon returns to his most iconic we had to answer, role in “Jason Bourne,” a character he And you shot in locations around the like what’s Bourne first played in “The Bourne Identity” city for this movie? been doing for the in 2002. Yes, absolutely. And you’ll see in the last 12 years, and we Paul Greengrass — the director of movie we have a whole big sequence Matt Damon on location as Jason Bourne. just started with the “The Bourne Supremacy” and “The at Paddington. It will be familiar to a premise that if you’re Bourne Ultimatum” – once again joins lot of Londoners so they’ll notice a lot pushed us over the edge was the fact role? Idris Elba, maybe? going to resurrect our story, because he Damon for the next chapter of the of the sights. that people wanted to see it and people Oh, I like Idris. I think he’s brilliant. kind of swims off into the sunset at the kept coming up to us and asking for franchise, which finds the CIA’s most Are you excited to see the film with a I’ll watch him in anything, and he end of our last one, and it was a very it, and that’s not something to kind of lethal former operative drawn out of British audience? makes everything he’s in better, and nice ending. So if you’re going to bring sneeze at, you know. It’s tough to find the shadows. Yeah, I’m excited to see it with a he would make that franchise better. it back, you’re going to have to believe a loyal movie audience, and believe Damon talks about stepping back big audience because I’ve only seen He’s awesome. that five minutes after he swam away me, I’ve made so many movies that into the shoes of his famous character, it once with an audience and Paul You and Ben Affleck got together to and he was liberated from this identity. have found no audience at all! [laughs] shaping up to star in the action movie, Greengrass [director] has never seen it produce a new TV series, “The Run- I wrote a movie five years ago that lit- who should be the next James Bond with an audience, so hopefully it will He had second thoughts. ner,” which looks exciting. It’s been erally nobody saw except people who and whether he’d like to join pal Ben all work. Things started going bad for him, a while since we’ve seen you two were directly related to me. So when Affleck as a superhero on the big and yeah, he’s been haunted, and he’s on screen. Any plans to do that? Or People want to see big action se- there’s an audience for a movie, that’s screen. unresolved when we find him, and maybe Ben directs you? quences in a Bourne movie. How do a special thing. And so we wanted to he’s kind of living on the margins. Well, the problem is every time he You still look as young as you did you go about creating one as spec- give them what they wanted. when you first started playing Jason tacular as this one? Jason Bourne is a tortured soul in directs a movie, he gives the best role With “Saving Private Ryan,” “Inter- Bourne! Matt Damon says the chase scene in the latest Jason Bourne film is Director Paul Greenglass’ biggest yet. Well, this is the biggest. The car an environment where no one trusts in the movie to himself. [laughs] So Matt Damon: Not at all! each other. How much is that like the stellar” and “The Martian,” you’re until he gets out of that habit, I’m not chase in this one is just mental. When a man synonymous with being everything was easier. really, really tough. Because you have each other and went like, “Let’s get off film industry? going to be able to work with him. But Did you think back then that you they told me they wanted to do it on rescued. Is it nice to come back into to try to figure out what people want, our high horse and make the movie [Laughs] You know the film indus- hopefully one of these days, he’ll give would be here and that there would You were in your 20s when you Las Vegas Boulevard, on The Strip, I a franchise where you can kick some given them enough of it but also give that people want to see.” I think try. … I don’t worry about getting up the role and sit in the chair and let be such a demand for it? started doing this. You still do your was like, you know, I shot there for ass and save the day? them enough new things so that they we’ve both been around long enough stabbed in the back in the film indus- me do all the acting. No way, no way. When I started, we own stunts. Was that the greatest “Oceans 11”; I’ve worked there a lot, Yeah, well, my rule of thumb is I don’t feel like they’re just watching a try. I’ve learned over the years that it’s didn’t even know that we were going challenge? to appreciate when there’s an actual I was like, “You’re never going to don’t lose any fights in the Bourne You wouldn’t fancy taking on the re-tread of what you’ve already done. not personal. It’s just the studios are in to make a second movie. So we made That was one of them. Just getting audience, a loyal audience for some- get permission to do what you think movies, but in all the other movies, I role of Robin next to his Batman? And so it was years of talking about a business, and it’s a very hard busi- each one, each one was a one-off; we into shape was a big challenge, and thing that you’ve done and you’ve got you can do.” But he did, and once pretty much lose every fight that I’m If he was directing, I’d do it, man. how to do this, you know, and each ness, and, you know, their personal never like did it with an eye towards I do as many of my stunts as I can, to honor those folks. So that’s what we knew that we had that, it kind of in. So it’s nice to be able to do both. I’d do anything with him. He’s a great one of these things, it’s like we push feelings for you don’t really count, doing a whole franchise. A few years but I’m no Tom Cruise. He’s got the we tried to do. begged for like the biggest thing we’d Definitely. director. the boulder all the way up the moun- like they can’t, they’re responsible to later, we’d say, “I love that character, heavyweight title for stunts, for actors Were you ever worried about doing ever done, so that’s what we did. Finally, how many more Bournes tain, and it’s a lot of hard work but shareholders. It’s a different business Outside of Bourne, there are a lot let’s go back and do another one.” And doing stunts. You would shoot in so many amaz- have you got left in you? with a lot of people that I really trust another film? The others have done than I’m in, you know what I mean? I of British actors taking on iconic now to be here 16 years later is nuts. ing locations around the world. Do What is the hardest thing about the and love. So we all keep coming back. so well there was a lot to live up to. love making movies. roles in America. There is one role As long as Paul Greengrass wants What is your fitness regime like at Constantly, yeah. And that was the that is kind of open for someone to do them, I’ll do them. I love the training? The workouts? The diets? Are you glad you made the choice to “Jason Bourne” is the fifth install- Why do you think audiences love the moment? conversation Paul and I had for years. who is used to espionage. The Bond character, and if we have a story that I think it’s the food. Like I don’t come back? ment of the Bourne franchise. The these films? Much different than it was last year But ultimately, we felt like enough franchise is looking for a new Bond we can tell, then I’m happy to keep mind the workouts; it’s eating chicken film opened July 29 and is showing Certainly the Bourne films, they’re at this time. I’m eating a lot more. Yeah, yeah, I am. I mean, we ago- time had passed, and it was a new and a new director. Would you fancy doing them. But I mean at some point and vegetables all the time. nized over it for years and years and at these Metro area theaters: big entertainment, but they’re also You’re in great shape in the film. Was world that we’re living in, and we that? all these things get rebooted, and As soon as you’re done filming, do years, and we didn’t have a story, and Cinemark 14 Downtown about the times we’re living in, and it harder this time around doing the wanted to see Jason Bourne in this I don’t think anybody outside the there are so many ways to reboot this. you pig out? there were times where we thought Regal Winrock Stadium IMAX and RPX you want that paranoia and you want training? new world, and we said, like, ‘Alright, Century Rio 24 and XD UK should ever touch that role. That You could do it with a woman, and it Yeah. It’s just disgusting. Yeah. there would be absolutely no way it the audience on the edge of their seat. let’s dust it off, and let’s go for it.’ United Artists Cottonwood Stadium 16 is an English role. would be great, I’m sure. Incalculably harder. Yeah. I was 29 would happen, but ultimately, what If you’re doing it right, then that’s the Are your daughters Bourne fans? Carmike Cinema Grande 12 IMAX when I did the first one; everything in really did it for us was just the interac- How was filming in London? reaction. Would you be put off by the accent? One of your previous films, the life was easy. 45 is a different story. Oh, they haven’t seen it. They have Premiere Cinema Rio Rancho “Oceans 11” series, is getting a re- tions, like in aggregate with these Great. Awesome. We shot the last one After nearly a decade, what brought Well, we don’t do that accent as no idea. They don’t know who Jason boot with a female cast. What do you Is it tougher on the knees at 45? movie fans who would say like, “Are here too, and we shot most of “Green you and Paul back together? well as you guys do ours, so that’s Bourne is. think about that? Definitely. Everything is tougher at you going to do another one?” Zone” here. I’ve worked here a lot with you have a favorite? You know, we talked about it for one thing, but the other it’s just such a 45. Just getting in shape is just like a What was the most challenging part And it was a question that we both Paul because he lives here; he always Nah, I couldn’t choose just one. years, and we were back and forth as British role that it would be sacrilege I think it’s great. I’ll go see it! much different proposition, you know. of making this film? got independent of one another so tries to stay close to home. It’s just an Tenerife was really fun. That was the to whether there was even a movie to to give it to an American. Vicky Dearden conducts celebrity I started these when I was 29, and Trying to make any sequel good is many times that we eventually called incredible place to shoot; I love London. first time a lot of us had been there, be made, and ultimately what really Who would you like to see in the interviews for The Interview People. c ont. on page 21 22 • July 27 – August 9, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS FILM HOSPITALITY ABQ FREE PRESS • July 27 – August 9, 2016 • 23 NM Film Focus: The First Family of New Mexico Film The Wedding Cake: A Five-star Tasting Experience By Ian Maksik, professor of service by CHRISTA VALDEZ e’re kicking off several weeks reasons, displayable full and half-sheet ilm industry related businesses (abqhch.org). Professor of Service Ian Maksik’s “On Service” Film and entertainment acumen is of wedding columns with “The cakes would be used for the remaining are reaching all new heights — Before the debut W in our print edition is just the beginning. 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O’Flanagan lager (see list of more almost 28% between 2014 ($5.9 million) and “Certainly we’ve experienced it Down- winners below). 2015 ($7.5 million). “The Santa Fe Farmers’ town,” Hoberg said. “Thankfully though, Lagers are still the redheaded step- Market still tends to be focused on just food we’re 20 years old this year. We’ve got good sales, and there are other markets around the children of the craft brew scene — pos- momentum, with over 60 growers at that state, like in Alamogordo or Socorro, where market. 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Unfortunately, it’s also one to buy eligible foods at a market, then see waiting for the market, and that there is a their spending amount matched with free of my wife’s favorites, so any growl- demand for what they’re doing and folks Double Up Food Bucks, which they can use 505.293.2881 ers of the stuff I bring home tend to came out and demonstrated their support.” or save to buy New Mexico-grown fruits and For more information on the Downtown disappear like a puddle of water on 3736 Eubank Blvd. NE Suite B1 vegetables. Growers’ Market, visit downtowngrowers. an Albuquerque parking lot. Miller said that “in 2015, [Double Up com Albuquerque, NM 87111 Does the heat slow down the ever- Food Bucks] brought several hundred burgeoning Beer Town scene? You bet thousand extra dollars into the food system M. Brianna Stallings is a staff writer for your barley it doesn’t! and into farmers’ pockets at markets that ABQ Free Press. 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CALENDAr CALENDArThe Kipsies AUGUST 1–18 SATURDAY, JULY 30 Part of Summer Nights Center for Contemporary Arts ABQ Kids Rock Fest 7:30 pm, ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden, Cinematheque 5 pm, Free, Civic Plaza, 1 Civic Plaza The King is Dead. 2601 Central Ave NW, 764-6200, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NW, 3rd St NW and Marquette Ave D EFINitive DOZEN abqbiopark.com (505) 982-1338, ccasantafe.org NW, albuquerquecc.com SATURDAY, JULY 30 AUGUST 1-4 List your even Permutations: NM Contempo- August 1-4, Painting the Modern Kids X Marks the Spot Long Live the King, Baby rary Ensemble Garden: Monet to Matisse 2 pm, Cottonwood Mall, by M. BRIANNA STALLINGS 1 SHOWS: Ladies Sing the Blues: 5 Painting the Modern Garden: 7 pm, CFA Downtown Studio, From Memphis to New Orleans, An Monet to Matisse T August 4, The Desert People 10000 Coors Blvd NW, 897-6571, 9 EVENTS: 3rd Annual Trés Chic Hair in the 113 4th St NW, August 4-6 & 7-11, Goya: Visions of American Musical Legacy Center for Contemporary Arts Cinema- cottonwoodmall.com Show Competition nmcontemporaryensemble.weebly.com Flesh and Blood 7 pm, Albuquerque Museum of Art & His- theque, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, 7 pm, African American Performing Arts ABQ F August 5, On Meditation SUNDAY, JULY 31 tory, 2000 Mountain Rd NW, 242-4600, (505) 982-1338, ccasantafe.org Center, 310 San Pedro Dr NE, 222-0778, AUGUST 11–14 ree P August 5, Free to Run Sunday Under the Stars: Abe nmjazz.org myprideonline.com/tres-chic.html ress AUGUST 4–7 On the Twentieth Century August 5, Kenneth Branagh Theatre: Mac Band & The Little Mermaid 2 WORD: Lights, Color, Kaleidoscopes WORD: Reading Route 66: Book The Adobe Theater, 9813 4th St NW, Romeo and Juliet SHOWS: The Meatball Chronicles 10 calenda 6 pm, Inn of the Mountain Gods Re- — A Different Way to View the 6 Discussion & Tour — 898-9222, adobetheater.org August 11-13 & 14-18, Renoir: The Cell Theatre, 700 1st St NW, Email event info,R sort & Casino, 287 Carrizo Canyon Rd, World: TK O’Geary Grapes of Wrath Revered and Reviled 766-9412, liveatthecell.com including event name, date, Mescalero, (800) 545-9011, 7 pm, Free, Elena Gallegos Picnic Area, 2 pm, Free, Albuquerque Museum of Art & FRIDAY, AUGUST 12 August 12, Microbe and Gasoline 7100 Tramway Blvd NE, cabq.gov innofthemountaingods.com AUGUST 5–26 History, 2000 Mountain Rd NW, 242-4600, time, address and contact Austin Lounge Lizards 3 COMMUNITY: A Night in the 40’s: albuquerquemuseum.org 8 pm, The Cooperage, 7220 Lomas THROUGH JULY 31 CULTURE: Legends and Monsters: AUGUST 5–7 Big Band Swing 7 phone number Blvd NE, ampconcerts.com IAIA Student Filmmaker Eliza M Schmid, Denise Weaver Ross 11 OUTDOORS: 2016 Resilience Run VIVA III 7 pm, New Mexico Veterans’ Memorial, Showcase Reception: Friday, August 6, 5–8 pm 7 am, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, 2401 or website, to Son Como Son Belen Eagle Park & Community Center, 1100 Louisiana Blvd SE, 256-2042, Institute of American Indian Arts, Tortuga Gallery, 901 Edith Blvd SE, 12th St NW, 843-7270, resiliencerun.org 7 pm, Albuquerque Museum of Art & 305 Eagle Lane, Belen, vivalanm.com nmvetsmemorial.org [email protected] 83 Avan Nu Po Rd, Santa Fe, iaia.edu 369-1648, tortugagallery.org History, 2000 Mountain Rd NW, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17 one month in advance 242-4600, nmjazz.org SATURDAY, AUGUST 6 THROUGH AUGUST 1 SATURDAY, JULY 30 SATURDAY, AUGUST 6 12 WORD: The Counter-Narrative: Wagogo Ultimate Ninja Athlete 4 Grown Cold: Jeremy Thomas of publication. Star Wars — The Force Awakens 8 EVENTS: Downtown Summerfest Pueblo Catholicism: Deacon Joe 6 pm,Pueblo Harvest Café, Championships Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Dusk, Free, Los Duranes Community feat. The Wailers Herrera & Father Edmund Savilla 2401 12th St NW, 724-3510, 7 pm, Santa Ana Star Center, 3001 554 S. Guadalupe St, Santa Fe, Center, 2920 Leopoldo NW, 314-0477, 5 pm, Civic Plaza, 1 Civic Plaza NW, 5:30 pm, Free, Indian Pueblo Cultural puebloharvestcafe.com Civic Center Circle NE, 891-7300, (505) 989-8688, charlottejackson.com bernco.gov 3rd St NW and Marquette Ave NW, 311, Center, 2401 12th St NW, 843-7270, Zapper & DATGirl santaanastarcenter.com cabq.gov indianpueblo.org 8 pm, Mezcal, 622 Central Ave SW, JULY 30–31 elreyabq.com AUGUST 6–7 On The Waterfront Great Southwestern Antique KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW, AUGUST 9–19 SATURDAY, JULY 30 THURSDAY, AUGUST 4 SATURDAY, AUGUST 6 AUGUST 12–14 Show SHOWS 768-3544, kimotickets.com Expo New Mexico, 300 San Pedro Dr NE, Sunshine Theater Grupo Herencia Blue Canyon Boys Alabama Shakes Hopi/Tewa Sinom Dance Group Visit our fabulous online 222-9700, gswevents.com 120 Central Ave SW, 764-0249, Part of Summertime in Old Town Part of Summer Nights 6 pm, Kit Carson Park, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, SUNDAY, JULY 31 calendar featuring hot links to 2401 12th St NW, 843-7270, Summer Festival and Wild sunshinetheaterlive.com 7 pm, Free, Old Town Gazebo, 303 7 pm, ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden, 211 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos, The Little Mermaid cool events in the ABQ area: indianpueblo.org West Adventures August 9, Matisyahu Romero St NW, 311, cabq.gov 2601 Central Ave NW, 764-6200, ampconcerts.org Part of Sunday Under the Stars freeabq.com 10 am, El Rancho de las Golondrinas, August 11, Tribal Seeds, Reviva abqbiopark.com Titanium 6 pm, Free, Inn of the Mountain Gods Blues Jam with The SW Blues 334 Los Pinos Rd, Santa Fe, August 19, Silversun Pickups, SUNDAY, JULY 31 African American Performing Arts Resort & Casino, 287 Carrizo Canyon Rd, Chatter Network (505) 471-2261, golondrinas.org JULY 30–AUGUST 17 A Silent Film Above the Tides 6 pm, Albuquerque Museum of Art & 6 pm, Free, Elena Gallegos Picnic Area, Center, 310 San Pedro Dr NE, Mescalero, (800) 545-9011, Part of Summertime in Old Town 222-0778, danceexpose.org Launchpad History, 2000 Mountain Rd NW, 452-5200, cabq.gov innofthemountaingods.com hink Elvis Presley fell off the john and kicked off this THROUGH JULY 31 2 pm, Free, Old Town Gazebo, 303 COMMUNITY 618 Central Ave SW, 764-8887, 242-4600, albuquerquemuseum.org Calle 66 mortal coil on August 16, 1977? Think JFK left us behind Avenue Q Romero St NW, 311, cabq.gov SATURDAY, AUGUST 13 SUNDAY, AUGUST 2 T launchpadrocks.com Zenobia Solo + The Combus- 6 pm, Pueblo Harvest Café, SATURDAY, JULY 30 that fateful day in Dallas? “Bubba Ho-Tep,” the 2003 cult film Musical Theatre Southwest, Bike in Concert feat. Tiffany Frank Caliendo Consumed July 30, Fallen Prophets, End to End tibles feat. Micky Patten & 2401 12th St NW, 724-3510, Inner Freedom Meditation Class directed by Don Coscarelli (“Phantasm” series, “John Dies at 6320-B Domingo NE, 265-9119, Christopher 8 pm, Route 66 Casino, 14500 Central 7:30 pm, High Ridge 8, August 4, Mic Club 40 1K Show Aaron Lovato puebloharvestcafe.com 7 pm, Kadampa Meditation Center, musicaltheatresw.com 2 pm, Free, Old Town Farm/Bike in Cof- Ave SW, 352-7866, route66casino.com 12921 Indian School NE, the End”), demands that you think again. August 5, Azizi Gibson 7:30 pm, Outpost Performance Space, JQ Whitcomb/Threepenny 142 Monroe St NE, 292-5293, 11th Annual New Mexico fee, 949 Montoya St NW, 764-9116, (844)-462-7342 ext.605 According to this flick, based on a short story by Joe R. August 6, Dirty Deeds Burlesque 210 Yale Blvd SE, 268-0044, Cabaret meditationinnewmexico.org August 7, Rock the Night Jazz Festival oldtownfarm.com outpostspace.org SCREENS Goosebumps Lansdale, The King (Bruce Campbell) and Jack (Ossie Davis) 7 pm, Albuquerque Museum of Art & Summer Swing Dance August 9, Russ Various locations, more info: Inspire Crew Part of Sunday Under the Stars are alive and living at the Shady Rest Retirement Home in History, 2000 Mountain Rd NW, THROUGH AUGUST 4 6 pm, Warehouse 21, 1614 Paseo De August 10, Touché Amoré outpostspace.org/pages/new-mexico- Part of Summertime in Old Town FRIDAY, AUGUST 5 6 pm, Free, Inn of the Mountain Gods 242-4600, nmjazz.org Peralta, Santa Fe, (505) 989-4423, Texas. In case you don’t recognize Davis by name alone, in this August 11, Ne Obliviscaris jazz-festival 1 pm, Free, Old Town Gazebo, Brantley Gilbert Jean Cocteau Cinema Resort & Casino, 287 Carrizo Canyon Rd, The Tenors warehouse21.org reality, JFK is Black. August 13, Monolord 303 Romero St NW, 311, cabq.gov Isleta Amphitheater, 418 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, Mescalero, (800) 545-9011, THROUGH AUGUST 7 8:30 pm, Sandia Casino, 30 Rainbow (505) 466-5528, As if their lives weren’t odd enough, a bus crash unleashes August 17, Castle, Anesthesia Quintessense: 4th Annual Sum- 5601 University Blvd SE, innofthemountaingods.com Rd, 796-7500, sandiacasino.com jeancocteaucinema.com WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3 Bubba Ho-Tep, a vengeful Egyptian mummy who begins to The Curious Savage mer Choral Festival ticketmaster.com JULY 30–AUGUST 18 The Adobe Theater, 9813 4th St NW, The YellowHeads Through August 4, Rocky FRIDAY, AUGUST 5 50th Anniversary Luncheon: wreak havoc on the nursing home – leaving Elvis and Jack no 3 pm, Free, St. John’s United Methodist Galactic 9 pm, Meow Wolf,1352 Rufina Cir, Through August 4, Fight Valley Arroyo del Oso Women’s Golf Low Spirits 898-9222, adobetheater.org To Catch a Thief choice but to T.C.B. (take care of business) and fast. Church, 2626 Arizona St NE, 8 pm, Taos Mesa Brewing, Santa Fe, (505) 395-6369, Through August 4, Forbidden Planet Association 2823 2nd St NW, 344-9555, KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW, 672-8863, quintessence-abq.com 20 ABC Mesa Rd, El Prado, meowwolf.com Through August 4, Pandora’s Box 12:30 pm, Arroyo del Oso Golf Course, “Bubba Ho-Tep” plays at 10:30 p.m. Friday, August 5, at the lowspiritslive.com THROUGH AUGUST 22 768-3544, kimotickets.com Sally Anne Friedland Dance (575) 758-1900, taosmesabrewing.com Through August 4, Dark Star 7001 Osuna Rd NE, 884-7505 Guild Cinema (3405 Central NE). All tickets are $8. Door prizes July 30, Good Green, Burque Sol Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Company: Solo Works The Infamous Stringdusters SUNDAY, AUGUST 7 SATURDAY, AUGUST 6 Certifications for Federal will be provided, courtesy of Lobo Comics and Bubonicon 48. July 31, The Groove Orient, Pherkad 2 pm, Keshet Center for the Arts, Part of Zoo Music JULY 30–AUGUST 18 Various locations, Santa Fe, Baton Rouge Blues Brunch w/ Government Contracts For more information, call (505) 255-1848 or visit August 3, Liquid Assassin with Donnie 4121 Cutler Ave NE, 227-8583, 7:30 pm, ABQ BioPark Zoo, Cool Runnings Menace santafechambermusic.com Gregg Wright Guild Cinema 2 pm, KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave 1 pm, Free, CNM Workforce Training guildcinema.com. keshetarts.org 903 10th St SW, 768-2000, 11 am, Taos Mesa Brewing, 20 ABC 3405 Central Ave NE, 255-1848, Center, 5600 Eagle Rock Ave NE, August 5, Sorry Guero, Moonshine abqbiopark.com NW, 768-3544, kimotickets.com Blind THROUGH AUGUST 26 Steve Miller Band Mesa Rd, El Prado, (575) 758-1900, guildcinema.com nmtap.org “Bubba Ho-Tep” August 11, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club Santa Fe Bandstand 8 pm, Sandia Casino, 30 Rainbow Rd, Orquesta Bi-Nacional de taosmesabrewing.com Through July 31, 13th Annual Film SUNDAY, AUGUST 7 August 5, 10:30 p.m., $8 August 16, Trakktor, Diverje Free, Santa Fe Bandstand, Santa Fe, 796-7500, sandiacasino.com Mambo Festival Noir Sabrina SATURDAY, AUGUST 6 Guild Cinema, 3405 Central NE 7 pm, Albuquerque Museum of Art & TUESDAY, AUGUST 9 July 30–31, April and the Extraordinary August 18, David Bazan, Michael Nau 986-6054, more info: 2 pm, KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave Kids Rock! Geology Class MONDAY, AUGUST 1 History, 2000 Mountain Rd NW, World 255-1848, guildcinema.com santafebandstand.org Michael McDonald & Boz NW, 768-3544, kimotickets.com 10 am, Free, Mama’s Minerals, JULY 30–AUGUST 12 Vans Warped Tour 242-4600, nmjazz.org Scaggs August 1-4, Hunt for the Wilderpeople 800 20th St NW, RSVP: 266-8443, M. Brianna Stallings is a staff writer for ABQ Free Press. 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CALENDArWitness to Change: Sybil CALENDArJULY 30–31 2ND SATURDAYS ONGOING American Veterans Post 7 Hardel Morial Pottery Demonstration: TUESDAYS 3 pm, Collected Works Bookstore, Meeting Josephine Toya classifieds 1 pm, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post Truckin’ Tuesdays 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, 10 am, Free, Petroglyph National Green Chile (505) 988-4226, Hot Pink Dishes 401, 2011 Girard Blvd SE, 366-3032 11 am, Civic Plaza, 1 Civic Plaza NW, Monument, 6510 Western Trail NW, Adams State University Extended Got an older car, boat or RV? Do the 3rd St NW and Marquette Ave NW, collectedworksbookstore.com 899-0205, nps.gov/petr Studies is seeking applicants for the humane thing. Donate it to the 2ND & 4TH SATURDAYS albuquerquecc.com following position on the Alamosa, Humane Society. Call 1- 800-625-1252 on the Greens SUNDAY, JULY 31 JULY 30–SEPTEMBER 1 Up Thai Hot Colorado, campus: Assistant to the Coder Dojo Got Knee Pain? Back Pain? 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