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Editor: [email protected] ABQ Free Press Pulp News Associate Editor, News: [email protected] At City Hall, the Rich Get Richer compiled by abq free press staff Associate Editor, Arts: [email protected] BY Dennis Domrzalski Frequent flier explains. It’s about a four-day, $4,000 project and will Advertising: [email protected] t pays to be in Mayor Richard Berry’s inner circle – AFSCME Council justifying handing out longevity bonuses of $6,000 wipe the canvas clean, the newspaper reported. Iway more than a rank-and-file city worker. 18, the union that to $12,000 a year to 19 members of APD’s command On Twitter: @FreeABQ An 82-year-old South Carolina woman suffering from Since he took office in December 2009, Berry has represents the staff. Berry said those top cops would leave the dementia endured 14 hours on a Southwest Airlines Editor promoted himself as an austerity mayor who erased largest bloc of city department if they didn’t get those bonuses. plane that took off again and landed repeatedly after Don’t shoot Dan Vukelich a big budget shortfall in his first year by reining in employees, said Willoughby wonders if rank-and-file cops aren’t just the cabin crew forgot she was still on the plane. The Several legally armed veterans on campus during the (505) 345-4080. Ext. 800 spending, and who has kept spending increases low the raises for top as valuable to Berry as his top appointees. woman was supposed to go from Dallas to Houston, shooting of nine people at Oregon’s Umpqua Com- ever since. people in Berry’s Dzmitry Malyeuski “I respect the mentality of finding value in employ- but instead, she went from Dallas to Houston to munity College in October decided not to draw their Associate Editor, News That has been accomplished, in part, by keeping the administration During Mayor Berry’s tenure, wage gains ees and paying them well, but why doesn’t that trans- Greenville to Baltimore to Chicago and then back to weapons and get involved out of fear police would Dennis Domrzalski city’s money faucet closed to a drip for city employee have generated late to every other city employee and APD officers?” Greenville, according to Greenville TV station WYFF- by high-ranking City Hall officials have mistake them as additional shooters. Since 2007, (505) 306-3260 raises. discouragement outpaced those of rank-and-file workers, Willoughby asked. “You would think he would take TV. The woman was hungry and confused when there have been 29 mass shootings by Americans But while rank-and-file city workers have gotten among union including police. the same concept and apply it to cops.” airline personnel finally retrieved her. The woman’s legally permitted to carry a weapon, according to the Associate Editor, Arts negligible wage increases, Berry has opened the members. “You Berry’s spokesperson, Rhiannon Schroeder, didn’t daughter is demanding an apology from the airline. Washington Post. Samantha Anne Carrillo money spigot wide for some members of his cabinet. hand out raises like that when city administrators are answer ABQ Free Press’ questions about the pay (505) 345-4080 ext. 804 Since 2011, ten of Berry’s appointees have gotten doing amazing and miraculous things,” Conway said. raises to the mayor’s top staffers. Match? Sign of the times double-digit pay increases, far beyond the single-digit “But from a birds-eye view, we have a lot of funda- Design increases that regular city workers have received. mentals to fix in the city.” Dennis Domrzalski is an associate editor at ABQ Free New evidence is emerging that algorithms used Terry Kocon, C.S. Tiefa by online dating sites are meaningless and are only Topping the list is Chief Administrative Officer Rob Shaun Willoughby, vice president of the Al- Press. Reach him at [email protected] negligibly better at matching people than random Photography Perry, whose salary has climbed by 23 percent since buquerque Police Officers chance. The strongest evidence for this comes from a Mark Bralley, Mark Holm, Juan Antonio Labreche, Liz Lopez, 2011, according to city records. The position of chief Association, blasted the pay Largesse for Berry’s Inner Circle 2012 paper published by researchers at Northwestern Adria Malcolm of police has seen a 16.5 percent rise, and the position raises for Berry’s top people. University that not only eviscerated the very concept of chief operating officer is pulling down 14.9 percent Rank-and-file police officers Title 2011 salary 2015 salary Percent increase Contributors this issue more U.S. greenbacks than four years ago. were forced to take a 2.4 per- of matching algorithms but called on the Federal Chief administrative officer $143,355 $188,198 23.9 Compare that to what regular city workers have cent pay cut during Berry’s Trade Commission to regulate claims about their Lisa Barrow, Captain America, David Correia, Gary Glasgow, Police chief $138,063 $165,172 16.5 gotten. In the past four years, city clerical workers first year in office.And they effectiveness. For meeting lots of people for either a Heath Haussamen, Juani Hopwood, Ariane Jarocki, Chief operating officer $111,080 $130,395 14.9 have seen their salaries increase by 4.36 percent. still haven’t gotten back to quick drink or hook-up, they are remarkably effective. Megan Kamerick, Dan Klein, Dan Mayfield, Joe Monahan, Planning director $93,600 $109,000 14.1 the pay scale that they were Sayrah Namasté, Tom O’Connell, Robert Reich, “We think it’s ridiculous,” clerical workers union Parks and Recreation director $93,600 $109,012 14.1 promised in a 2008 contract Gummed Up M. Brianna Stallings, Tom Tomorrow , Efrain Villa president Mike Dorin said of raises for some of Berry’s Animal Welfare director $93,600 $109,012 14.1 appointees. “We are the ones that are running the city, (see story below). Human Resources director $94,728 $109,102 13.2 A 54-foot-long stretch of wall along Post Alley near Copy Editors and that the top echelon get big increases is disgusting Berry has justified some of Municipal Development director $107,130 $123,302 13.1 Seattle’s Pike Place Market will get cleaned for the ABQ Free Press staff Wendy Fox Dial to us. We have endured pay cuts because the city said the big increases by saying City attorney $130,604 $148,844 12.3 first time in 20 years. An industrial steam machine Jim Wagner it didn’t have the money, but when they do have it his top people bring invalu- Economic Development director $93,600 $104,520 10.4 This bumper sticker, spotted at the Giant gas station at Second they don’t give it to us.” able experience to the job. “will melt the gum with 280-degree steam; it will fall Street and Candelaria Road Northwest, suggests political dis- Sales Director (505) 345-4080 Source: City records to the ground, and a two- to three-man crew will col- course during the 2016 presidential race could be headed to Miles Conway, communications director for He used that argument in lect the gum in five-gallon buckets,” the Seattle Times a new low. Pam Gutierrez x803

Sales Representatives (505) 345-4080 Abby Feldman x802 Christian Horstmann x817 ABQ Free Press Local Briefs Cory Calamari x810 Teddy Mitchell x814 Mayor’s Oft-repeated Claim of Cop Raises Just Not True Garrett Ferguson x809 John Wehner x812 BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI compiled by abq free press staff Operations Manager APD beef Micah McCoy said the app is designed to prevent ayor Richard Berry has been that it’s not true. to give cops that final year’s raise. In is still below what they would have a police officer from deleting a video from a con- Abby Feldman (505) 345-4080, Ext. 802 claiming that during his time Berry actually froze cops’ pay early addition, Berry further cut their pay been making before Berry’s cuts. The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office is trying to revoke M fiscated phone. The app sends video as soon as the in office, Albuquerque police officers in his first term, and then made them by 2.4 percent, which took them down To Willoughby, Berry’s claim of the law enforcement certification of one of its former Published every other week by: record button is turned off. have gotten raises totaling 12 percent take a pay cut. to $25.18 an hour. giving cops 12 percent in raises is deputies who left to run the Albuquerque Police Acad- Great Noggins LLC – a claim he repeated most recently Cops still aren’t making the $28 an more than disingenuous. “He’s lying emy. Major Jessica Tyler, the subject of the complaint, is P.O. Box 6070 Judge elevated during a Nov. 5 appearance on KKOB hour they were promised in a three- again. I don’t know where he gets his the person in charge of implementing U.S. Department Albuquerque, NM 87197-6070 ‘He constantly says to Gov. Susana Martinez announced the appointment of radio. year contract the police union negoti- figures,” Willoughby said. of Justice training reforms required of APD. Bernalillo County District Court Judge Judith Naka- Publishers The problem with Berry’s claim is ated in 2008 with then-Mayor Marty the media that he is “He constantly says to the media DOJ doublespeak mura to the New Mexico Supreme Court, filling the Will Ferguson and Dan Vukelich Chavez’s administration and that responsible for giving that he is responsible for giving APD vacancy created by the retirement of Justice Richard C. Berry refused to honor when he took 12.5 percent in raises, but the fact is, Cover Illustration APD 12.5 percent in At the same time the U.S. Department of Justice Bosson. Nakamura has 17 years of judicial and 26 years over City Hall. Under that contract, we are paid less today than what we Gary Glasgow has been urging local police departments to use of legal experience. An Albuquerque-area man alleges cops were to get three consecutive raises, but the fact is, were supposed to be paid six years body cameras, DOJ is telling its agents local police the appointment is invalid because it was made before Corrections policy: years of raises until they got to $28 an we are paid less ago,” Willoughby said. who use body cameras can’t be part of joint federal Bosson actually left the court. It is the policy of ABQ Free Press to correct hour. today than what we Berry’s spokesperson, Rhiannon and local task forces because the feds haven’t yet errors in a timely fashion. Contact the editors When the 2008 contract was signed, Schroeder, did not respond ABQ Free at the email addresses on this page. adopted guidelines on how and when to use police Reinstated cops were making $19 an hour. They were supposed to be Press questions about how the mayor body cameras. Former Albuquerque police officer Jeremy Dear, got the first two of those raises, which paid six years ago’ has concluded he has given cops 12 who fatally shot a suspected car thief in 2014, has Where to find put them at $25.80 an hour, said — Shaun Willoughby, percent in raises. Schroeder, who Eyes on cops gotten his job back. The city’s Personnel Board voted Shaun Willoughby, vice president APD union vice president makes $33.43 an hour – more than a our paper? The ACLU of New Mexico has launched an app that 3-2 to reinstate Dear with a 90-day suspension. Dear of the Albuquerque Police Officers street cop – has repeatedly failed to people can use to record encounters with police and was fired in December 2014 for insubordination for List of more than Association. The final year’s raise was The pay scale stayed at $25.18 an respond to ABQ Free Press questions send the video directly to the ACLU. Called Mobile repeatedly failing to turn on his lapel camera during 550 locations to take them to $28 an hour. hour for four years until the City about Berry’s administration. Justice, the app can be downloaded onto Android encounters with the public. Chief Administrative Of- at freeabq.com But by then, Berry was in office and Council gave police a “raise” to $26.44 and iOS 7 devices. It is being released in New ficer Rob Perry said the city will appeal the board’s facing a budget deficit. He refused an hour, their current rate – which — Dennis Domrzalski Mexico and ten other states. Local ACLU spokesman decision to District Court to keep Dear off the force. 6 • November 18, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • November 18, 2015 • 7 A Promising Alternative to the Revolving Door Who is Jay McCleskey and Why are the Feds Looking at Him? BYO’ TOM CONNELL

eely Gilmour had just robbed the last pay sta- political. This is about saving Name: Jason “Jay” McCleskey funding raised for the Ktion of the night and was getting ready to pull lives,” said Angela R. “Spence” 2010 inauguration of away from a New Mexico state park when she saw Pacheco, the Santa Fe district Age: 41 Gov. Susana Marti- headlights in her mirror. All she could do was wait attorney who helped spearhead nez. The governor and watch as the ranger pulled up behind her. LEAD there with help from the Home: Albuquerque’s far Northeast has defended him, He questioned her and was about to let her go Washington, D.C.-based Drug Heights saying he’s done when he spotted her realistic-looking BB gun. The Policy Alliance. nothing wrong and ranger held her at gunpoint and called for backup. The alliance approached Education: Graduate of New Mexico that the allegations The jig was up, and the pretty young woman with a Pacheco with the idea of a State University are being leveled by longtime meth habit faced a lot of tough choices and pre-booking program for drug disgruntled former hard federal time. offenders. Pacheco’s interest Wife: Nicole Fink McCleskey campaign employ- was piqued. She ordered a ees — among them cost-benefit analysis that found ‘The war on drugs is over. Children: two (with Nicole) a man sentenced to the program offered a potential prison for hijacking And we lost’ long-term savings to taxpayers Owns: McCleskey Media Strategies of her emails. McCles- — Leonard Campanello, of about 53 percent over tradi- Albuquerque key has not respond- the police chief of Gloucester, Mass. tional policing. ed to the news media. Constantly jailing and adjudi- Juan Antonio Labreche “We used to go to Elephant Butte, all over the cating an offender was projected What his company does: Develops During her successful struggle to clean up, long-time meth user Keely Gilmour could have Rumors of the inves- state, and rob pay stations,” she said, referring to to cost $129,000 over 10 years, campaign strategies and campaign benefited from Law EnforcementA ssisted Diversion, an intervention program that stresses tigation have swirled the boxes campers put their camping fee in. “We’d which doesn’t include various detox, counseling, and employment and housing assistance over punishment. ads for Republican political candidates for months but they get $300 out of each one. I’ve done everything from other social costs. Taxpayers “Ever since I was little, I’ve always only recently became check fraud to breaking into cars. Every charge I’ve would foot a bill of just $69,000 There has been resistance in Santa Fe to LEAD, enjoyed arguing and debating, and that’s had in my life has been drug related.” over 10 years for an individual in the LEAD program. public when the San- Steven St. John Dobyns said, but as more cops are trained in it, the essentially what a campaign is” The Albuquerque native started dabbling in meth more positively it has been viewed departmentwide. ta Fe New Mexican — McCleskey newspaper quoted Martinez political adviser Jay McCleskey, photographed in 2013 for a piece in the National Journal. as a teen in 1994, moved in with a meth cook in 2007, ‘If [LEAD] is so progressive, “We had to really sell the program,” Dobyns said. then started shooting it in 2009. “Once they attended training, they really under- former campaign Now her habit, her freedom and her kids’ futures why isn’t it everywhere?’ stood the value of the program, and they jumped What the job pays: A lot, actually. employees saying for Martinez’s reelection campaign and “I am proud of that record of success, and were all on the line. She knew from experience that — APD spokesman Tanner Tixier onboard.” Since early 2011, McCleskey Me- they had been contacted multiple political action committee, Susana PAC, the petty whining, sniping, and resent- she was about to enter a criminal justice cycle that dia Strategies has received regular times by the FBI about McCleskey’s told the National Journal. “I think her ment of malcontents doesn’t bother me.” fundraising. never wants to let you go. “What we’ve learned is you can put people in jail Entrenched Views monthly payments of either $10,700 or administration has suffered because the — McCleskey Last year, Santa Fe became the second city in the over and over, and they reoffend. We truly believe $13,375 from Susana PAC for “profes- slash-and-burn tactics that make Jay an country, after Seattle, to roll out a program called [LEAD] will help solve the problem,” said Andrea For many law enforcement and other government sional services.” Starting in April 2013, Simultaneous to the fundraising effective political consultant have hurt McCleskey’s aggressiveness, even Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) to Dobyns, a spokesperson for the Santa Fe Police officials, arresting low-level drug offenders is just McCleskey also received a $13,375 probe, there appears to be an inves- her staff’s abilities to be effective and ruthlessness, in supporting the gover- keep people like Keely out of the criminal justice Department who has since resigned. “Sometimes you about “a paycheck,” said Bill Piper, director of monthly consulting retainer from tigation into allegations of politically responsive.” nor’s agenda while limiting access to system as they battle addiction. The program takes have to approach a problem differently,” Dobyns said. national affairs for the Drug Policy Alliance. Martinez’s own reelection campaign. motivated tax audits by the New her by others has alienated some in the a health-care approach to drugs rather than the Getting law enforcers to think “differently” is the Piper said drug warriors are digging in their heels Campaign finance reports show that, Mexico Taxation and Revenue Depart- and insisting that the war against illegal intoxicants An example of his style: state GOP standard lock-’em-up approach that, as often as not, biggest challenge that reformers face. “Traditional since Martinez’s election, the two ment that targeted former members of In 2000, , including longtime party must go on – and that it’s for Americans’ own good. leads to relapse and recidivism. officers think, ‘You’ve committed a crime, you get political organizations have paid more Martinez’s political team. It is unclear McCleskey managed the state House stalwart, Albuquerque oilman Harvey “Their heart is not really in it,” he said. “They arrested,’ ” Dobyns said. than $850,000 in expenditures to Mc- whether there is a connection between of Representatives campaign of John Yates. McCleskey’s decision to have would arrest people for wearing a brown belt with Cleskey Media Strategies (which he at the two probes. Sanchez, who defeated Democratic the governor take sides in a contested Growing Push black shoes if there was a federal grant in it for times lists under other trade names) powerhouse and then-House Speaker GOP state Senate primary furthered a The United States has 5 percent of the world’s them.” and Public Opinion Strategies (where What they say about him: Raymond G. Sanchez. The John San- growing schism within the party. population but 25 percent of its prisoners. That Breaking the Cycle None of the Albuquerque-area law enforcement McCleskey’s wife is a partner). McCleskey has been the subject of chez campaign characterized certain startling reality has officials, experts and politicians spokespeople reached for comment on LEAD had “As is the job of any political consultant, unflattering news coverage in two votes Raymond Sanchez had cast as – conservative and liberal – rethinking the policies LEAD focuses primarily on repeat reoffenders heard of it. That may be indicative of the interest my role is not to be loved, but rather to national publications, Mother Jones being soft on child sex abusers, which that typically keep drug users like Keely in an unfor- who use opiates and commit property crimes to that traditional law enforcers have in maintaining Campaigns he’s worked on: Gov. support their habit. In Santa Fe, where the program helped turn the tide. be effective” giving criminal justice grind. the status quo. Susana Martinez (twice), former magazine in 2014 (“Is New Mexico is under way, two veteran Santa Fe detectives esti- — McCleskey Nancy Gertner, a former Massachusetts U.S. One was even extremely hostile. Tanner Tixier, the Secretary of State Dianna Duran, Gov. Susana Martinez the Next Sarah mate that 99 percent of burglaries they investigate “We know Gov. Martinez keeps Jay district judge, speaking recently about being public information officer at the Albuquerque Police Court of Appeals Judge Miles Hani- Palin?”) and the National Journal are related to heroin. McCleskey as her top adviser because What’s next: Possibly nothing, unless constrained by mandatory minimum sentences, Department, angrily demanded to know, “If [LEAD] see, Albuquerque Mayor Richard J. (“The Man Who Discovered Susana Arrestees are assessed on the street before Berry (twice), the 2014 GOP takeover Martinez Could Also Be Her Down- he gets his hands dirty for her” – Joe more potential witnesses to the two compared our current system to the post-World War they are put through the booking process. To be is so progressive, why isn’t it everywhere?” of the New Mexico House of Repre- fall”) in 2013. When his name appears Kabourek, executive director of the party federal probes speak to the news I Treaty of Versailles or Reconstruction after the Civil considered for LEAD, suspects must be over 18, Tixier’s counterpart at the Bernalillo County Sher- sentatives and a Republican National in the local media, it is usually in media. Federal investigations can War – agreements that ensured horrible outcomes have no violent criminal background, and be in iff’s Office, Aaron Williamson, was not as hostile connection with his hardball approach Since his work in elevating an obscure take months or even years and there for the losers. possession of less than 3 grams of heroin. They also to the idea, with which he was unfamiliar. He later Committee effort to win public offices Doña Ana County prosecutor to state- is generally no announcement they Now, Santa Fe has joined the LEAD effort, which may not be involved in drug trafficking, promoting said Bernalillo County Sheriff Manual Gonzales was in 10 states. to politics. He is sometimes referred to seeks to divert hard-drug reoffenders from the prostitution or exploiting minors. familiar with LEAD but had not yet looked deeply as New Mexico’s “shadow governor” wide and even national prominence, are over unless charges result. The criminal justice system and to social services to help Suspects who refuse the program go through into it. Current position: Lead political and “The Karl Rove of New Mexico.” McCleskey has engendered both fear feds’ investigation of allegations of with basic necessities and set them on a path back to the usual booking process. Those who accept it are adviser to Gov. Martinez and jealousy. Top Republicans have “pay-to-play’ in the administration of “It is not typical that a candidate, after something like normal. Santa Fe’s program recently assigned a caseworker who arranges immediate War’s End bridled at his Rasputin-like ability to Bill Richardson went on for years and had 34 “clients” whose average age was 25. A third detox and develops a long-range plan that includes Why you’re reading about him: they win an election, carries a political limit access to the governor by ad- yielded nothing. city, Albany, N.Y., recently announced it will imple- help with housing, employment, and medical and “The war on drugs is over. And we lost,” Leonard McCleskey is under investigation by consultant with them into their admin- visers with differing points of view, a ment LEAD. psychiatric needs. Campanello, the police chief of Gloucester, Mass., a federal grand jury for allegations of istration the way Susana has,” Andrea charge McCleskey vigorously denies. Compiled by Juani Hopwood and “Drug policy is not something that should be said in a recent interview. “There is no way we can campaign finance violations involving Goff, who served as the finance director Dan Vukelich. c ont. on page 16 8 • November 18, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS COLUMNS COLUMNS ABQ FREE PRESS • November 18, 2015 • 9 Entering the World of APD The Real Story of Susana’s With a Mighty Blow to the Head Reign Finally Emerges by Dan klein by joe Monahan

t’s June 1983, and I am sitting with The lieutenant of the academy real- his joke on social other way. In the case of the state’s I43 other cadets in a classroom at the izes what I’m doing and yells for me Tmedia in the largest newspaper it appeared inten- wake of confirma- tional, a decision based on its devotion Albuquerque Police Academy, located to get back in there and stop running. tion of a federal to protecting the Republican governor next to the Fraternal Order of Police I know this means certain death, but investigation of from any negativity. You would be hard- lodge on Jefferson Boulevard North- not wanting to seem cowardly, I move Governor Martinez’s pressed to find even one editorial in the east. toward Andy. Thankfully, some of my top political adviser, past five years directly criticizing Mar- The men have their heads shaved, brain cells are still functioning, and I the man known as tinez. The demise of The Albuquerque and the women have short, cropped develop a plan. the “Shadow Gov- Tribune in 2008 also played a role. The hair. Everyone is nervous. There is ernor,” rang with Tribune was a countervailing force that yelling. truth for anyone marginally involved kept news coverage more balanced and On Day 2 of the academy, I turn 21. The whistle blows, with state politics: competitive. On this day, I find out I’m not in Kan- and I charge across “If Jay McCleskey is charged, would he In the case of other news media outlets, sas anymore. I have come from Topeka, step down and would Susana Martinez causes for the story being repressed (or the mat figuring I will become governor?” Kan., to accept this job as a police cadet ignored) include bullying of reporters, With the federal probe revealed, the in Albuquerque. I make a whopping dance around like the natural inclination of TV news to fo- cat was out of the bag to the public at cus on crime, plus the stations’ benefiting $5.19 an hour as a cadet. Muhammad Ali large, not just the political community. from millions of dollars in political adver- Today we box. Throughout the next The public is finally beginning to learn tising. Whatever the reasons, McCleskey 16 weeks, we’ll box or wrestle every I duck low and put my head into that one man has exercised extraordinary and Martinez have been exempted from week. To celebrate my birthday, the Andy’s waist (some say his crotch, but control over the state’s governor and any significant adversarial journalism. instructors give me a special present: I I say his waist). I commence to giving government and with her full acquies- Flashback to Gov. Bill Richardson’s am to box the biggest guy in the class. I his thighs a thrashing like they’ve cence. administration when allegations of Incredibly, it was a story that had been am 5-foot-6. never received. He tries to move back. I corruption led to nonstop coverage – for fully revealed in a lengthy piece in the Picture 43 cadets, sitting cross-legged drape my arms around him, refusing to years. Investigative reporters were let National Journal in November 2013 off the leash and, thanks largely to the around a gym mat, shaved heads, let go. We look like a drunken couple, white T-shirts and blue polyester as well as on our blog, joemonahan. Journal, the public was involved in that trying to slow dance. com. But back then, it was greeted with shorts. It reminds me of what I looked federal grand jury story virtually every While draped around Andy’s waist, yawns. McCleskey was given free reign to like when I was in kindergarten. I step of the way. savagely punching his thighs, I think preside over millions of dollars in various weigh in at 140 pounds and look more Second terms have a way of shining of how proud the academy staff must campaign accounts, get high-level jobs light in places previously left dark, and like a Smurf than a future cop. The be of me. Klein, the small guy, showing for his loyal acolytes and basically run myths are gradually destroyed. Whether cadet I am to box, Andy, who is from such bravery against this beast of a state government. federal charges are leveled against Michigan, stands well over 6 feet tall. This segment from the National Journal man. I imagine the academy staff and McCleskey or not, the three years left His muscles have muscles. A real giant. article is insightful in light of recent other cadets comparing me to Odys- in Martinez’s term will be brutal for her My squad instructor, Officer Cor- events: as the real story of her administration is seus fighting the Cyclops. What a hero “The campaign’s former chief fund- dova, apparently isn’t in on the birth- unveiled. I am. raiser, recalls an incident ... when she day surprise. The serious look he gives Among the myths that will be After 90 seconds, the whistle blows, discovered that McCleskey was operating me while putting on my protective destroyed is that she is a strong leader and the fight is stopped. Two more out of a hidden, closet-like antecham- headgear is enough to scare me. “Stay engaged in the running of state govern- ber inside the governor’s statehouse cadets are called to start boxing. I stum- ment. No, McCleskey has been calling away from this guy, he’ll kill you,” he suite.“Step into my office,” (she) recalls ble over to Officer Cordova, expecting the shots on major policy and legislative says. McCleskey boasting, as he revealed a We Keep Your Roof to be praised for my courage. Instead, strategy. So much for confidence building. But small workspace containing a desk and he laughs so hard that he can barely Another myth is the Martinez person- Healthy and Watertight it’s good advice. Of course, being 21, I his laptop. He told her he regularly ality as warm and compassionate, while do what most 21-year-olds do. I ignore tell another cadet to walk me outside worked there, physically closer to the the reality is closer to vindictive, petty, it. The whistle blows, and I charge because I probably have a concussion. center of power than any of Martinez’s Call punitive and revenge-filled. It’s not 505-345-7663 Later, I am told that after the first state-paid aides.“ across the mat figuring I will dance Democratic opponents but Republican punch, everyone thought I would be Shadow Governor? You bet. For Your Free Estimate around like Muhammad Ali. What I critics who are telling the feds they knocked out. They said that punch Still, the state yawned. Why, when such don’t realize is that Andy’s reach is had their tax returns audited following concentration of power in the hands of a probably double mine, and he hits me must have knocked me silly because criticism of her. Her real personality, For All your Roofing Needs… K-Ram Roofing is There well-known cutthroat political consultant so hard he almost knocks the headgear for the rest of the fight my head was the one that is seemingly banned from Before and After The Storm… No Worries likely was a recipe for disaster? buried in Andy’s crotch (I say waist). sight in the state’s media, actually was off my head. Aiding McCleskey’s reign and hiding While I swung wildly at his muscular showcased in audio tapes leaked months The punch knocks me stupid (an Governor Martinez’s secret have been We Offer High-Quality Residential Roofing Services: thighs, Andy was beating on me the ago to Mother Jones magazine – which ailment from which many say I never McCleskey’s no-hold-barred attacks on published another national piece that recovered). I stumble sideways and way Keith Moon beats on his drums anyone who dared criticize the adminis- • Roof Repair was ignored or glossed over locally. backwards, munching hard on my during the climax of a performance of tration and the threat of lost government • Roof Installation mouthpiece. Why I remember this I The Who. contracts. Other tools included outright As her administration grapples with the reality of what it has wrought, and • Roof Replacement don’t know. They say it was one of the funniest bullying and threats. as power slips away from her in the days • Preventative Measures My head must have hurt Andy’s fist boxing matches they have ever wit- Most of all it was Martinez’s own ahead, the truth will have a much easier nessed at the APD academy. That was insecurity about doing the job she was because he doesn’t come in for the kill. time of getting out. Don’t say we didn’t We have been proudly servicing the Then I remember Cordova’s advice to my 21st birthday, the beginning of my elected to do that has kept her depen- Albuquerque area for more than 35 years. dent on the man who had engineered tell you. “stay away,” and I begin moving back- life as a cop. her election and that has let him run riot ward and sideways. I am still getting Dan Klein is a retired Albuquerque across the state. Joe Monahan is a veteran of New Mexico 3738 Arno Street • Albuquerque, NM 87107 police sergeant. He can be reached hit but not with the force of that first The news media was also given the politics. His daily blog can be found at through facebook.com monster blow. McCleskey treatment and looked the joemonahan.com (505) 345-ROOF 10 • November 18, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS opinion anal ysis ABQ FREE PRESS • November 18, 2015 • 11 Tolerance, Not Hate Needed How We Pretend that We Have Competition, But Don’t Following Paris Attacks BY ROBERT REICH by HEATH HAUSSAMEN uch of the national debate Mabout widening inequality AS CRUCES – daily newspaper, Idris Tawfi wrote, “the focuses on whether and how much L“All around the Muslim community has a duty to care for to tax the rich and redistribute world, children want all the people in the town, whether they their income downward. to go to school, to are Muslim or not.” But this debate ignores the upward walk in their towns In college I interacted with Muslims redistributions going on every and cities, to play from other countries. Most were warm day, from the rest of us to the rich. outside, and to share and kind. Muslims joined public inter- These redistributions are hidden food with their faith discussions in Las Cruces after the inside the market. families,” states a Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to build The only way to stop them is to prevent big corpora- book I bought my understanding and find a way forward. tions and Wall Street banks from rigging the market. 4-year-old daughter recently. “They want Muslims living in Las Cruces showed to do these things and feel safe.” up to an interfaith service this August to For example, Americans pay more for pharmaceuti- That book is on my mind as I process pray with their neighbors after bombs cals than do the citizens of any other developed nation. the attacks by Islamic State extremists in exploded at two Christian churches. That’s partly because it’s perfectly legal in the U.S. Beirut and Paris. Both cities were homes And I recently listened to a Muslim (but not in most other nations) for the makers of to my ancestors. woman who lives in Las Cruces share branded drugs to pay the makers of generic drugs to Muhammad’s words about neighbors. She delay introducing cheaper unbranded equivalents, urged the community to care for mar- after patents on the brands have expired. Muslims living in ginalized people including immigrants, This costs you and me an estimated $3.5 billion a year Las Cruces showed up juvenile detainees, and the mentally ill. – a hidden upward redistribution of our incomes to These are our neighbors – and they’re Pfizer, Merck, and other big proprietary drug compa- to an interfaith service acting like it. nies, their executives, and major shareholders. this August to pray with Americans have often let hatred and We also pay more for Internet service than do the fear lead to discrimination and violence. inhabitants of any other developed nation. their neighbors after For example, the United States impris- bombs exploded at two oned the father of Las Cruces Mayor Ken Christian churches Miyagishima in a Japanese interment The average cable bill in the camp during World War II. Mike K. United States rose five percent in The net result: another hidden upward redistribution mortgages, student loans, airline tickets, food, and Also on my mind are Americans who Miyagishima was only a child, between 11 2012 ... nearly triple the rate – this one, from us to the big banks, their executives, health insurance – and you get a hefty portion of the spread hatred of Muslims. On Veterans and 15, while in captivity. and major shareholders. average family’s budget. Day, a fairly prominent Las Crucen posted Such discrimination is counter to the of inflation because 80 percent Some of these upward redistributions seem to defy Democrats and Republicans spend endless time bat- video on Facebook of an Islamic extremist ideals that so many men and women of us have no choice of gravity. Why have average domestic airfares risen 2.5 tling over how much to tax the rich and then redistrib- being killed, along with this comment: serving in the U.S. military – including Internet service provider percent over the past, and are now at the highest level ute the money downward. “One less Muslim makes the world a Muslims and Japanese Americans – have since the government began tracking them in 1995 – better place!” fought and died to protect. while fuel prices, the largest single cost for the airlines, The average cable bill in the United States rose five With 4,600 “friends” on Facebook, I have plummeted? Makers of branded drugs pay percent in 2012 (the latest year available), nearly triple regularly see posts that encourage hate, Because America went from nine major carriers ten the makers of generic drugs to the rate of inflation. discrimination, and sometimes violence. The United States years ago to just four now. Many airports are now Why? Because 80 percent of us have no choice of delay introducing cheaper Another Las Crucen posted recently that imprisoned the father of served by one or two. Internet service provider, which allows them to charge Islam isn’t welcome in the United States This makes it easy for airlines to coordinate their fares unbranded equivalents Las Cruces Mayor Ken us more. – even though our nation guarantees and keep them high – resulting in another upward Miyagishima in a Internet service here costs three-and-a-half times everyone the freedom to assemble and redistribution. But if we didn’t have so much upward redistribu- more than it does in France, for example, where the worship as they see fit. Japanese interment camp Why have food prices been rising faster than infla- tion inside the market, we wouldn’t need as much On some level, these Las Crucens live typical customer can choose between 7 providers. tion, while crop prices are now at a six-year low? downward redistribution through taxes and transfer with the same fear and hatred that leads during World War II. Mike And U.S. cable companies are intent on keeping their Because the giant corporations that process food have payments. some to join Islamic State. K. Miyagishima was only monopolies. the power to raise prices. Four food companies control Yet as long as the big corporations, Wall Street banks, In the interest of not spreading It’s another hidden upward distribution – from us to a child, between 11 and 82 percent of beef packing, 85 percent of soybean their top executives and wealthy shareholders have hate any further, I won’t name these Comcast, Verizon, or another giant cable company, its 15, while in captivity processing, 63 percent of pork packing, and 53 percent the political power to do so, they’ll keep redistributing Las Crucens. Instead, I want to discuss executives and major shareholders. of chicken processing. much of the nation’s income upward to themselves. neighbors. Likewise, the interest we pay on home mortgages or Result: A redistribution from average consumers to Which is why the rest of us must gain political power When asked who are our neighbors, “We all want peace,” my daughter’s college loans is higher than it would be if the big banks Big Agriculture. to stop the collusion, bust up the monopolies, and put Jesus told a story: After Jewish leaders book states. I’m not convinced that’s true that now dominate the financial industry had to work Finally, why do you suppose health insurance is an end to the rigging of the American market. ignored a Jew who was beaten, robbed, about Islamic State. But I have known harder to get our business. and injured by the side of the road, a Sa- true Muslims who value and work for costing us more, and co-payments and deductibles are As recently as 2000, America’s five largest banks held maritan stopped to care for him. Follow- peace and healing. rising? Robert B. Reich, chancellor’s professor of public policy at the 25 percent of all U.S. banking assets. Now they hold 44 ing hundreds of years of bitterness and Rather than treating Muslims in our One reason is big insurers are consolidating into University of California at Berkeley and senior fellow at the percent – which gives them a lock on many such loans. division between Jews and Samaritans, communities like the Islamic equivalent of giants with the power to raise prices. They say these Blum Center for Developing Economies, was secretary of labor If we can’t repay, forget using bankruptcy. Donald Jesus told Jews to act like the Samaritan, our own Ku Klux Klan – and repeating our combinations make their companies more efficient, but in the Clinton administration. Time magazine named him one Trump can go bankrupt four times and walk away not their own leaders. past mistakes yet again – we should join they really just give them power to charge more. of the 10 most effective cabinet secretaries of the 20th century. from his debts, but the bankruptcy code doesn’t allow His words were radical. And right. our neighbors in working toward a more Health insurers are hiking rates 20 to 40 percent next He has written 13 books, including the bestsellers “Aftershock” homeowners or graduates to reorganize unmanageable Islam’s Prophet Muhammad said our peaceful and prosperous world for all. year, and their stock values are skyrocketing (the Stan- and “The Work of Nations.” His latest, “Beyond Outrage,” debts. neighbors live in the 40 houses around dard & Poor’s 500 Managed Health Care Index recently is now out in paperback. He is also a founding editor of the Heath Haussamen runs NMPolitics.net. So beleaguered homeowners and graduates don’t us in each direction. Muslims are called hit its highest level in more than twenty years.) American Prospect magazine and chairman of Common Cause. Reach him at [email protected], on have any bargaining leverage with creditors – exactly to help their neighbors if asked, he Add it up – the extra money we’re paying for His newest film, “Inequality for All,” is available on Netflix, Facebook at facebook.com/haussamen, or what the financial industry wants. said. In a recent commentary in Qatar’s pharmaceuticals, Internet communications, home iTunes, DVD and On Demand. His blog is robertreich.org on twitter @haussamen. 12 • November 18, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS news NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • November 18, 2015 • 13 ABQ Free Press Readers Lambaste Mayor on Crime, Economy mayor, Page 12 BY DAN VUKELICH “Wake up. This city is dying.” A Few Kind Words place but it’s not. You didn’t clean the city for Balloon Fiesta until days before it started, you don’t ayor Richard Berry is doing a miserable job In an open-ended question, “Go away.” “You have surrounded yourself by the wrong fix the streets with potholes and cracks that go to the The mayor does have a few supporters among Mmanaging the city on two fronts – the econ- “What would you like to tell people. You need to have a vision (a good one, so sub-base. We have a Sandia Mountain backdrop and those who responded to our poll: omy and crime – according to results of an ABQ Free Mayor Richard Berry,” our readers “Wake up. Fire Chief Eden. Fire the voters don’t vote it down, again). You need to a lousy place to live and work.” Press reader poll. channeled their inner Holly Holm Rob Perry. Hire more cops. Or have a backbone and hold your political appointees “Good job, Mayor. Keep going. Ignore these “The citizens in Albuquerque are actually pretty Of 275 people who responded to our online poll and teed off on the mayor in resign.” responsible.” Nov. 4-15, 85.8 percent say the mayor is doing a poor remarkably harsh language. dimwitted people.” nice. You used to know that when you were a state or extremely poor job on crime. In contrast, only 14.2 Here are some of their responses: “I was born and raised here. My “Go to hell!” rep. You have since been PURCHASED!!!” “Keep doing your 110 percent.” percent had no opinion or said he’s handling crime family has all left. I’m next. Please “He’s a carpetbagger and should have some sense of “People are dying and you do very little beyond “well” or “extremely well.” “You created the problem with take a seat.” morality and ethics. He should face the disaster he “Ignore biased media like the ABQ ‘Free’ Press.” manage your PR. Leadership does not seem to be Almost 55 percent of respondents place blame for APD/DOJ and you are the reason has created by 1. Firing Gorden Eden. 2. Let go of his in your vocabulary. The harm you have done to our the city’s rising violent crime rate squarely on the that this city is in ruin. The rela- “It’s unfortunate to have a mayor political aspirations to be governor and start doing “Please keep doing a good job. The effort you have great city will be felt for decades. You are an incom- mayor and ahead of any other single factor – includ- tionship with NAIOP has ruined in office that seems to either not his job now. 3. Work with City Council to do the put into your work is sincerely admirable.” petent phony. You’re a very good actor, though, ing the courts, the Legislature, the district attorney, our city. Step down immediately care about the citizens of Al- necessary work to run the city. 4. Fire Rob Perry who and your business acumen is spot on – if you’re a the Albuquerque Police Department, the City Coun- and let us began to heal. You will buquerque or is just in over his is a useless bullying thug out for himself. 5. Try to sociopath. Glad you and your wife are making out cil, the governor, and even “society in general.” go down as the worst mayor of head. But what should we have get some jobs in this city. 6. Stop his sleazy relation- like bandits while people die! You sir, are a clown. On the economy, 72.7 percent of respondents said Albuquerque.” Kim Jew expected from an outsider who is ship with the news media in this town, specifically “You should be ashamed of yourself! You have com- I dare you to run for governor. Your history is not the mayor has responded to the city’s economic ABQ Free Press readers overwhelmingly not from here?” the Albuquerque Journal, KOB and KOAT. 7. Did I pletely destroyed any chance that Albuquerque had going to be spun away and your strategy to present woes “poorly” or “extremely poorly.” Just 9.4 “You may as well go back to work disapprove of Mayor Richard J. Berry’s per- mention fire Gorden Eden for his incompetence and to become one of the great cities of the Southwest (at [yourself] as ABQ’s savior is going to fall flat. There percent said he has responded “well” or “extremely at your wife’s business or go run formance on crime and the economy. “Resign! You are a joke of a mayor lack of ethics? (I think I did but it requires men- least in my lifetime anyway).” Our poll was conducted online Nov. 4-15. is a historical record of your reign and it’s not pretty. well,” while 17.8 percent said he has done “neither a pot farm like your bff Darren and ruining our city!” tioning again) 8. Stop following orders from Gov. We are LAST in EVERYTHING! Classy CABQ.” well nor poorly.” White.” Martinez who is also another carpetbagger and also “You think too much about your future instead of A whopping 83.3 percent of readers believe Berry “You destroyed APD and put citizens at risk.” lacks morality and ethics.” the future of the city’s residents and employees. has handled problems at the Albuquerque Police “Stop hiding in the closet. Gilbert Montaño is not Stop thinking party lines and think what is best for “You should have been your own man instead of Department either “poorly” or “extremely poorly.” the mayor.” “I am just so disappointed. I supported him during “Your attempts to save money early on have cost Albuquerque. You have done a very poor job and listening to the Santa Fe machine. It’s been your Just 16.7 percent had no opinion or believe he has his first campaign and thought he was the answer to taxpayers millions.Mayor Richard ‘You canBerry either Performance [pay] Review a little your appointed staff has, as well.” downfall.” done well. “Thank you for being the criminal you are. Along the problems in the city. Now I wish I could go back now or a lot later.’ We’re paying the latter. Thanks, As to the likelihood that poll respondents would with the criminals in the courts, on APD, and in in time and slap myself for ever believing in him. I Mayor.” Q9 How has Mayor Richard Berry “Like a child abused by his parents, we cannot feel “Berry, you’re a disgrace and should be impeached vote for Berry if he sought higher office, he might as assorted city offices, you folks have managed to want Rob Perry to be fired, and I want his job. The responded to the state of the city's safe while those we need to protect us are the and thrown in jail.” well save himself the candidate filing fee. More than send a VERY clear message to the street criminals: first thing I would do as CAO is cut $100k off my How has Mayoreconomy? Richard Berry responded to ones abusing us.” Answered: 275 Skipped: 0 “Keep doing the best you can, but don’t be so quick 89.4 percent said they were “unlikely” or “extremely ‘There’s no reason in the world NOT to commit salary and give it to the police department. He needs the state of the city’s economy? Mayor Richard Berry Performance Review unlikely” to vote for Berry again. crimes. All the so-called ‘honest’ people do it all the to staff court services to handle the caseload so “Can’t say, really say what I think but it goes to burn the officers who protect you in an effort to quell political pressure. The economy sucks and it’s Berry’s high negatives are a dramatic turnaround time.’ I hope you end up in jail, but in the meantime, criminals don’t walk free. He should be ashamed for Extremely well with an abbreviation of GFY. Really, Mayor, Q10 How has Mayor Berry handled the from 2013 when 69 percent of the city’s electorate I hope you sleep terribly every night, knowing the what he has done to the ABQ Police Department. He not your fault no one wants to come here and many look around. Albuquerqueproblems can beat APD?a beautiful voted to give him a second term and he won easily hammer is gonna fall on you one day, sooner than holds a level of responsibility in the part of Officer How has Mayor Berry handled the problems at APD? leave, but you have control of the over Democratic challenger Pete Dinelli. you think. You deserve no better. You are a shame- Webster’s death.” Well Answered: 275 Skipped: 0 APD budget and how they’re disci- All but 14 responses to our poll came from Al- less monster.” plined. Raise the overall standards, Neither well Extremely well and give them a raise in wages to buquerque city ZIP Codes. Most areas of the city “Why do you not like law enforcement?” nor poorly were represented, with the greatest response rates “No, I don’t want fries with my order.” incentivize better-qualified officers to come aboard.” coming from the Southeast Heights, Uptown and “You have ruined our police department! For the Poorly Well nearby, Downtown and nearby, Nob Hill, Old Town, “Get off your ass and roll up your sleeves and first time ever I am considering moving from the the West Side and Paradise Hills. work in a cooperative non-political way to own the “The audacity. You failed. Go away. city. It would be horrible if we were stuck with you Extremely Neither well poorly nor poorly McCleskey and your players are Demographically, respondents tended to be young, problems and then find solutions. The community again.” Mayor Richard Berry Performance Review with roughly three-quarters of the poll’s respon- is begging for leadership and all they get is more BS failures.” 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% dents fairly evenly divided among the 21-34, 35-44 from you.” “Take control of APD. Clean house of upper-level Poorly Q8 If you believe crime is a problem in and 45-59 age groups. Slightly more than 26 percent leadership.” “Mr. Berry, you have continually If youAlbuquerque, believe crime what is a is problem the root incause? Albuquerque, failed. I am so displeased with the of responses came from people 60 years old or older. “You’ve changed. I voted for you because you said Answer Choices Responses Extremely Mayor Richard Berry Performance Review Answered: 275 Skipped: 0 poorly state of our city. We are in national Politically, respondents broke down as follows: everything we wanted to hear. As soon as you got in “Terrible mayor. Would not piss on the guy if he was what is the root cause?4.36% 12 Extremely well headlines every few weeks for some- 37.4 percent Democrats, 28.7 percent Independents, there you turned, expected unrealistic things, treated on fire.” The 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Well 5.09% 14 Q7 How has Mayor Richard Berry 17.8 percent Republican, 9.8 percent “other,” 4.7 our cops like robots, and assumed these people APD thing bad. When does the chief execu- Neither well nor poorly 17.82% 49 responded to the city's crime rate? percent Socialist and 1.4 percent Green. were ‘mental’ so let’s get them help. Step down. You “Stay out of politics and guide this city from your The District tive have to be held accountable?” Attorney 25.09% How69 has Mayor BerryAnswered: responded 275 Skipped: 0 to the city’s crime rate? As for how the news media are covering the didn’t do as you said you would. You don’t appreci- heart instead of your potential political career. YouPoorly Answer Choices Responses mayor, the public appears to be greatly dissatisfied. ate our cops; you take them for granted.” shouldn’t have to hire people to make you look Extremely poorly The Courts 47.64% Extremely well 131 3.64% “Where10 do you hide when TSHTF?” Extremely well About four in five respondents rated the news capable and good. That should be evident throughTotal Well 275 4.73% 13 The Mayor “Your recklessness and disregard media as doing a “poor,” “very poor” or “extremely “Go f#@&k yourself! You should move back to your character and integrity.” Neither well nor poorly 8.36% 23 for the City of Albuquerque has hurt poor” job. Only 20.7 percent think the news media Ohio!” [Others said Nebraska.] The City Well Poorly 18.18% 50 are doing an acceptable job or better. “You’re a political hack. You and the governor are Council the citizens of New Mexico. You let Extremely poorly 65.09% the police179 department command The poll was conducted through the online service “I would like to hear a human response from the way in over your heads and extremely under-quali- The Legislature Neither well Total 275 Surveymonkey.com through links on our site, our mayor, not a political one. I would like for him to ac- fied. Get lost and let some grownups do the job.” nor poorly get away with anything and in the @FreeABQ Twitter feed and our ABQ Free Press knowledge that mistakes have been made and own The Governor meantime do absolutely nothing to Facebook page. The poll limited respondents to one them instead of blaming others. I would like to see “Give back the raises that were promised six years Poorly help the ordinary officers risking their Society in vote per IP address. Chief Eden resign. He has proven repeatedly that ago to APD. Whatever your prejudice, let Gorden General lives patrolling the streets. It makes A summary of the poll results is on our website at he is not an inspiring leader or capable reformer. Eden run the police department and you take care of Extremely me sick. You have done absolutely Other poorly freeabq.com. Don’t make the same mistake that was made with the other issues of running the city. Firing Rob Perry nothing to help the economy in Albuquerque yet you think it’s okay To say the public is angry with Mayor Richard J. Schultz.” from his current position would help.” 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Berry is an understatement. c ont. on page 13 c ont. on page 16

Answer Choices ResponsesAnswer Choices Responses 9 / 13 33.09% 91 The Albuquerque Police Department Extremely well 4.36% 12

25.82% 71 The District Attorney Well 3.64% 10

33.45% 92 The Courts Neither well nor poorly 6.18% 17

54.91% 151 The Mayor Poorly 23.27% 64

The City Council 19.27% 53 62.55% 172 Extremely poorly 10 / 13 The Legislature 20.00%Total 55 275

The Governor 20.00% 55

Society in General 31.27% 86

Other 47.27% 130

Total Respondents: 275

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7 / 13 14 • November 18, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS news EDITORIAL/LETTERS/humor ABQ FREE PRESS • November 18, 2015 • 15 N.M. Searching for Answers to Job Woes Susana, Berry: Two Peas in a Pod BY DAN VUKELICH BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI Hall, and build a Bosque theme park, a Downtown sports venue and a Bus Rapid Transit system — n the end, it will be known as New Mexico’s lost hospitality, but those are for the most part, pretty 1000 ov. Susana Martinez and Mayor Richard J. regardless of whether the public likes all, some or Idecade, a period when the state’s economy fell off low-wage jobs, and mining is still up, although oil GBerry have more in common than just their none of it. political affiliation (Republican) and the same a cliff and never fully recovered, a time when people and gas prices are in the tank. So it’s not likely that 800 If Susana is beamed up and absorbed into the mean-spirited political adviser (Jay McCleskey). started fleeing the state for the first time in its mod- that sector will grow until we get a return to oil and hive mind of the national GOP, we’ll likely be done And that would be tone deafness and a with her vindictiveness. If she leaves early enough, ern history, and when it became the state with the gas prices. 600 bull-headed insistence on doing things their way — we’ll be faced with the unknown of Lt. Gov. John highest percentage of its citizens living in poverty. “All the other major sectors have lost employment, the public be damned. Sanchez, who could inherit the mantle of incumben- Seven years after the state’s economy stalled, then and that includes manufacturing and government. 400 With the governor, it’s a single-minded mania entered a jobs free fall, it has yet to regain all those We’re just not doing well.” to dismantle the state’s education system — to cy in time for the 2018 governor’s race.

Employees (in thousands) Employees Albuquerque But Berry doesn’t have that escape route. He’s jobs it lost. And, it’ll take at least two more years for Manufacturing jobs are coveted because they pay 200 New Mexico burn the village to save it, to use a phrase from the state to reach its pre-recession jobs peak, accord- well and because their goods are generally sold out- the Vietnam War — while conveniently destroying stuck with his record and stuck with the remarkable ill will he’s generated among Albuquerque voters ing to experts. side the state, which means they bring new money 0 the teacher’s unions and padding the pockets of 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 As of October, New Mexico was still 21,700 jobs, into the economy. But New Mexico’s manufacturing for-profit education companies. (see the results of our reader poll on Page 12). or 2.6 percent, below its early 2008 jobs peak. Things picture is worse than dismal. The sector has lost Jobs in Albuquerque and New Mexico That she has continued this course for years in For the rest of his term, and through the look even bleaker for the Albuquerque metro area. 27 percent of its jobs since July 2006, and manufac- (since 2005) the face of protest by parents, teachers and even run-up to the 2018 governor’s race, Berry will The four-county region is down 15,600 jobs, or 4 per- turing now accounts for just 3.3 percent of all jobs students shows New Mexico how little she and her wear the yoke of the U.S. Department of Justice he said. “Our blue-collar workforce dropped out of education secretary are bothered by public opinion. mandates, which is fitting, in a “reap and ye cent from its peak. Despite recent announcements in the state. By contrast, nationally, manufacturing high school, and our blue-collar workers get paid With the mayor, it’s been a similar story. Destroy shall sow” Old Testament way. about new jobs here, it will take another couple of employment represents about 9 percent of all jobs. what they’re worth, which is not much.” the Albuquerque Police Department union, cut years for us to get back to where we were seven Construction jobs are also relatively well paying, And while New Mexico has had 37 months of blue-collar city wages, reward loyal insiders at City Dan Vukelich is the editor of ABQ Free Press. years ago. but they’ve declined here by 29 percent since the year-over-year job gains, that hasn’t been enough to New Mexico’s economic performance among the recession. reach pre-recession levels – and not even enough to states has been dismal, and some people aren’t sure Allen Parkman, a retired University of New Mex- offset ongoing attrition in the economy. Companies To the Editor: I know that you are anti-religion, anti-God, it can get better. ico economics professor, said the state’s economy, are always closing, downsizing, or moving away. I was not surprised but I was also not anti-Constitution, anti-republic (which is “I think we are in fairly serious trouble,” said Jim which remains heavily dependent on the federal amused by the cartoonist’s racist racial pro- what we are as a nation, not a democracy), Economic development expert Mark Lautman said Peach, an economist at New Mexico State Univer- government, may be doomed to remain second- filing in this last issue of your publication. I anti-Second Amendment and anti-family and New Mexico needs to generate 140,000 economic sity. Statewide, since September 2007, New Mexico class. enjoy your publication but the “Who’s the pro-abortion, pro-homosexual, pro-[New base jobs over the next 10 years just to return to is down 22,000 jobs, Peach said. “Major economic activity is not likely to happen Thug” cartoon was offensive. World Order] and pro-FEMA death camps... pre-recession job levels. Of those, 80,500 will be “The only three sectors with gains in employment here. We are remote, and we have a shitty work- The cartoonist compared Trevon Martin Now in all fairness, I know that the Bush needed to offset natural attrition, he said. in New Mexico are education and health services, force,” Parkman said. with Dr. Ben Carson proclaiming “Who’s the family is the most corrupt and demonic family in American history. Prescott Bush which is mainly health services and which reflects “We don’t have the kind of educated blue-collar thug?” Not only is this racial profiling but it Dennis Domrzalski is an associate editor at ABQ Free also exacerbates the fact the Black males are supported and helped fund the Nazis as did an expansion in Medicaid. Then we have leisure and workforce that might be attractive to a company,” Press. Reach him at [email protected] discriminated against and are seen as thugs. Rockefeller and other luciferian industrialists So, by comparing Dr. Carson with Trevon of that era. So the LIBTARDS of America are Martin, ABQ Free Press has perpetuated not the Lone Rangers! You are all equally Black male stereotypes. disgraceful. The question behind how Dr. Carson When I first picked up your paper (“Polic- Featured RENTAL Property became so successful despite his skin color ing for Profit”), I figured you were pro-peo- is just tied to class and politics. I do not see ple and pro-freedom, pro-transparency of how the cartoon is funny or even insightful government, etc. So, I thought you might be RENTED at all. interested in a story about privacy-invad- — Kaleigh Hubbard ing spy drones that hover over the Paseo Trader Joe’s around 3 a.m. every morning Dearest editor: and spy on the truckers and dockworkers as As a former soldier, a great grandson of a they unload product. Then they follow the World War II army vet, a grandson of one truck over to the Uptown Trader Joe’s and Marine major and one Army staff sergeant hover for another hour. Then they follow the A full-service residential of World War II, a son a one-tour Korean trucker to the yard to drop off the truck, then and commercial and two-tour Vietnam vet and the father of follow the trucker home and hover over his a deployed Marine, I am disgusted that you house till the sun comes up. property management brokerage have endorsed Hillary Rodham Clinton. 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lead, Page 6 FBI undercover cocaine buy when something went needle exchange in an attempt to staunch infections wrong. The seller decided to rip him off and put a in the largely rural community. Fighting Back Against Testing arrest our way out of this. … We’ve been fighting it bullet in his head at point-blank range. “Conservative, rural states adopting syringe pro- for 50 years, and the only thing that has happened “That was the straw on my camel’s back,” Frank- grams is a game changer,” the Drug Policy Alliance’s And Setting the Record Straight is heroin has become cheaper and more people are lin said. “It caused me to stop and think about the Bill Piper said at the time. “There’s an opportunity by sayrah namastÉ dying.” After several local heroin deaths, Campanel- violence from these policies, the gangs, crews, street here for the U.S. to join the rest of the developed lo spearheaded a LEAD-style program. corner dealers, the whole shebang.” world in making sterile syringes widely available to oo stressed to widely recognized civil rights organization. “Our drug policies are by far more harmful to Franklin questions how the government decides stamp out deadly diseases.” Ttest: “We Are The conference will include national society than drug use or abuse could ever be,” said which drugs to make illegal, because the numbers More Than a Test and local speakers addressing civil and Neill Franklin, a former Baltimore cop who heads show that legal drugs such as alcohol, tobacco and Score!” students human rights, health disparities, and voter up the District of Columbia’s version of LEAD. “The painkillers kill far more Americans than illegal Drug warriors are digging in their proclaimed earlier empowerment with a focus on coali- number of deaths that result from the policies are at drugs do. heels and insisting that the this year as many tion-building. a level we can’t accurately calculate.” “We don’t dare travel down that road to prohibit war against illegal intoxicants walked out en masse “The theme is ‘Together We Advance,’” Long before he retired from 33 years of policing, alcohol and tobacco, so why do we treat someone so to protest the high- said NAACP chapter president Dr. Harold Franklin was a believer in traditional enforcement of different who’s addicted to heroin than addicted to must go on — and that it’s for stakes testing in New Bailey. “These issues affect all of us so we drug policies. So he was instinctually resistant when alcohol?” he asked. Americans’ own good Mexico schools. have invited many diverse groups.” Baltimore started a needle exchange program in the “Why is that? A lot of it is about the media, the I joined other parents and teachers Taking part will be: the League of United 1980s to combat a surge in HIV infections. conversations we’ve had over the past four or five in front of my daughter’s school during Latin American Citizens, League of Women Keely Gilmour, who has worked her way out of the PARCC (Partnership Assessment for decades about hard drugs. It’s about the brainwash- Voters, Native American leaders, LGBT her addiction with help from her family, said you Readiness for College and Careers) testing, ing we’ve done. We’ve been very successful creating groups, the ACLU, the Southwest Women’s ‘Our drug policies are by far more can’t get addicts to stop using unless they want one of dozens of schools around the city Law Center, students from the University a message that people who use these drugs are bad, to stop. “With meth, it doesn’t matter what you that had student walkouts and protests. immoral people. We’ve been bombarded by this of New Mexico’s NAACP chapter and harmful to society than drug use do to users, they’re not going to get clean unless When you listen to corporate education homeless advocates. negative messaging. or abuse could ever be’ they want to,” she said. “You have to keep hitting “reformers” like New Mexico Education “The conference will focus on ‘next “If you can relieve yourself from that messaging — Neill Franklin, a former Baltimore cop bottom, hitting bottom ’til you realize it’s not you, Secretary Hanna Skandera, she uses steps’ so we can develop a collective and instead look at it as a substance that alters your it’s the drug.” buzzwords like “accountability,” “data,” strategy and response plan,” Bailey said. state of being, like alcohol, then you begin to realize Keely was able to avoid prison after her bust last and “choice.” When you listen to teachers, “This is not a conference just to have a The program was a success, he said, “and the we shouldn’t be prohibiting, we should be regulat- year. She kicked meth and now works her family’s you hear things like “burnout,” “anxiety,” conference. This is about coalition-building number of new [HIV] cases dramatically reduced. ing, providing treatment.” shop. She said she’s fortunate to have a social safety and “lack of proof.” Some have coined the and a collective strategy.” I myself was shocked to see the success of that pro- net. acronym TESD: Teacher Evaluation Stress Guest speakers include Attorney General Disorder. gram. Many people resist such programs because of Maintaining a drug habit isn’t cheap, so users Hector Balderas and Albuquerque Mayor Prohibition’s Problem The Albuquerque Teachers Federation THE LENSIC and KSFR PRESENT emotion, their personal feelings of morality. But you “have to steal and rob and break into houses to Richard Berry. For more information email: Reformers say prohibition for anything never (ATF) recently filed a lawsuit against the A SPECIAL EVENT TO BENEFIT KSFR should not legislate morality. Our policies should be [email protected] or go to: works. They cite the huge teen pregnancy numbers support their habit,” she said. “With supporting Public Education Department over its about saving lives.” facebook.com/NaacpAlbuquerqueBranch. in areas that offer abstinence-only sex education, your habit comes the crime. And if you get caught teacher evaluation system. During a pre- Franklin later was assigned to Baltimore’s needle Transgender Day of Remembrance with the littlest amount of drugs, you go to jail, liminary hearing, education expert Audrey exchange board, perhaps because he had lost a cous- and, of course, alcohol prohibition in the 1920s. Vigil: The UNM LGBTQ Resource Center and you’re a felon, and you can’t get a job or place Beardsley testified that New Mexico has in to a heroin overdose. “That’s when I personally Perhaps the best recent example of how legislating will hold a candlelight vigil at the UNM to live. When you get out, all you know are drug one of the most “arbitrary and capricious” got my first little bit of insight into doing something morality can backfire disastrously comes out of Duck Pond at 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20. The addicts, so all you can do is revert back to crime. teacher evaluation models in the country. Indiana. State officials noticed an explosion in HIV public is invited to stand in solidarity with differently other than the law enforcement re- “It’s like a revolving door.” Unlike other states, New Mexico uses and hepatitis cases related to IV drug use in Scott the transgender community in remem- sponse,” he said. “off the shelf” assessments which have County. They saw a rise from three cases between brance of those who have been murdered Ten years later, in 2000, a tragic event shattered Tom O’Connell is an Albuquerque freelance writer not been proven to measure student’s 2009 and 2013 to 142 cases in 2015. Republican Gov. as a result of transphobia. The event is any remaining confidence Franklin may have had in progress. ATF argues these are invalid for Mike Spence begrudgingly signed a bill allowing and editor. held annually to bring attention to the traditional drug policies. His close friend was on an assessing a teacher’s effectiveness. continued violence endured by the trans- The teachers’ union will show the doc- gender community. More info at: www. umentary film “Heal Our Schools” 7 p.m. mayor, Page 13 Friday, Nov. 20 at the ATF headquarters, facebook.com/events/1494253707545311. 530 Jefferson St. N.E. The film was made Setting the record straight: Thanks- to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a fancy supposedly must-pass ballot issue). Your proposed giving is coming soon, which means that restaurants and amusement parks in the Bosque Smarting over Marijuana Veto by Laurie Gabriel, a veteran Colorado bus that will make no difference to the ordinary teacher and videographer, to expose Americans will be deluged with images of were underhanded. Then you broke trust with peo- smiling pilgrims and Indians sitting down citizen. You think it’s more important to go to press A handful of readers blasted the mayor for teaching and testing and to highlight ple you had been negotiating with by turning the in harmony to feast together. conferences with our worthless governor and tout vetoing the decriminalization of marijuana after it alternative “virtually cost-free answers bulldozers loose in the Bosque. We feel we cannot But did you know Thanksgiving Day was WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE her agenda when it’s unclear if you even understand was approved by voters. to the education crisis” based on actual trust you with our most precious city assets.” first proclaimed in 1637 by the governor of IN that children are going to sleep hungry every day “Don’t push your f@&#king morals on me and educators’ experience and ideas. the Massachusetts Bay Colony to com- in Albuquerque. I don’t think you’re a dumb man, pretend you are holier than thou with higher Gabriel created the film after leaving “The city’s PD is in crisis, and your only concern memorate the “wiping out of the Pequot MARK TWAIN’S AMERICA I just believe you’re very confused. The sooner you morals, asshole,” one wrote. her 27-year teaching career because she by people,” a massacre of over 700 men, back away from the failed policies of Gov. Martinez, from Day One was breaking the union, not dealing Another wrote, “Progressive social programs felt the mania for testing was akin to child women and children? LOIS RUDNICK and JONATHAN RICHARDS the sooner our city will regain its footing.” with the issues. As a result, we’ve garnered bad and policies will attract more affluent, educated, abuse. Sadly, many teachers have left the In Albuquerque, the annual “Circle of press nationally, while you continue to back Eden and younger people to our city. We need to lead profession over excessive testing, but the Remembrance” is held each Thanksgiving and Perry.” on education, drug and criminal reform. Legalize teachers’ union is fighting back for their SUNDAY JAN. 31 “Please open your eyes and stop being a puppet for morning at sunrise. This year, the remem- Marijuana. Lead, and reap the tax benefits, rather students. corporate interests and our governor. I believe you brance will be held from 6:52 to 7:25 a.m. a dramatic reading to celebrate NMMA’s exhibition of “Leave office and take your cronies with you, espe- than follow and lag behind.” Some state legislators plan to attend the are a good man, so act like it and listen to the people SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST FOLIO cially Perry!” film event and discuss with the teachers’ union on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26, in the park- you are supposed to represent.” how to stop corporate “education reform.” ing lot of the Peace & Justice Center, 202 Harvard Dr. S.E. Organizers invite the public “[Unprintable] Call your political career over when “Unload your CAO. The problems are not all your Not just another civil rights confer- Bob Martin Valerie Plame Jonathan Richards “I can’t vote since I don’t live in the city limits, but if ence: The NAACP Albuquerque has orga- to bring sage, cedar and share prayers and Leslie H. Dillen Nicholas Ballas Tallis Rose Geoffrey Pomeroy Bryson Hatfield I could, I’d vote for Don Schrader before I’d vote for your term is up; you have no future.” fault. Chavez left a mess. City Council is a mess.” nized a Civil Rights & Diversity Conference thoughts for slaughtered peoples. Berry.” to be held Nov. 20–21 at Hotel Cascada “Get out before you get someone else hurt or killed. “I once believed in you but you’ve lost my Urban Resort, 2500 Carlisle Blvd. N.E. Sayrah Namasté is an organizer with the 7:00 PM Tickets $10-$15 You are a fraud, you don’t care about anyone other confidence in your ability to govern effectively. “Your efforts to put a sports facility in when you Founded in 1909, the National Association American Friends Service Committee in PANEL DISCUSSION FOLLOWING http://tickets.ticketssantafe.org than yourself.” Sorry, bud.” knew people didn’t want it (sticking it onto a for the Advancement of Colored People Albuquerque. She writes about events of ! 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Ed Ripp sent us this Against Cops’ Movement To Pinball Wizardry BY DAVID CORREIA photo of “Sylvie,” then BY DAN MAYFIELD waxed eloquent about ate crimes are bias-motivated crimes include harsher penalties than other her. “Sylvie was brought Hcommitted against individuals who crimes. ust about three Creative-Startups, a startup accelerator years ago, Tim that puts teams through a rigorous three- to me quite unexpect- are members of historically oppressed Consider section 30-22-24 of the New J Mezel discovered month program. 4646 Menaul Blvd. NE edly about four years groups, such as racial and religious Mexico criminal code: his love of pinball. Creative-Startups is a business accelera- Open daily, 9 am – 6 pm ago. My buddy who minorities. The law considers hate crimes “Battery upon a peace officer is the differently from other kinds of crimes While most of us tor, much like the ABQid program here or dropped her off told me unlawful, intentional touching or because – as in the case of a cross burn- application of force to the person of a gave up playing the Y Combinator or Tech Stars programs. Looking for holiday that if I didn’t like her, I ing, for example – they terrorize not just peace officer while he is in the lawful pinball about These accelerators have different models. could give her back after décor, the perfect gift one person but an entire population. discharge of his duties, when done in a the time arcades Some you pay for; others take equity in a few days. Fat chance. disappeared, Mezel a company in exchange for funding. But for a loved one, or do The 1968 Civil Rights Act established rude, insolent or angry manner. Whoever found co-workers at Intel were into the they all have the goal of running plucky She’s headstrong, very the first hate crimes law in the United commits battery upon a peace officer is you wish to donate game, and into the game so much that entrepreneurs through an intense curric- picky about her likes States when it enhanced penalties guilty of a fourth-degree felony.” they were buying and collecting machines. ulum to teach them the business basics of items for re-sale? and dislikes, extremely for prejudice-related crimes against In other words, even touching an CALLING ALL PETS people victimized because of their race, “I hadn’t touched a pinball machine fundraising, valuation, and production. vocal, affectionate in her on-duty police officer, if done in a since 1992,” he said. The difference with Creative-Startups is All are possible at own strange way when ethnicity, religion or national origin. “rude” manner, is a felony. And in many Soon, he started competing, buying that it focuses on those in the creatives she’s in the mood, and Despite significant Republican oppo- states, the killing of a police officer is Animal Humane’s games himself, and discovered that there sector, not just tech firms. sition, the 2009 “Matthew Shepard and automatically considered first-degree probably the most alert was a big market in hot-roddding, or Creative companies, those that make Thrift Shop… James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention murder, thus guaranteeing the harshest cat I’ve ever had. Here “modding” pinball machines, and his art, fashion, music and even games, and Act” expanded those protections to penalty possible. she is deep in thought ... company Mezel Mods was born. which make up a $1 trillion sector of the and all will help us include “actual or perceived gender, It’s not an accident that nationwide or something.” Mezel Mods, based in a warehouse off U.S. economy, are being looked at as the save more lives this sexual orientation, gender identity, or calls for hate crime protections for disability.” N.M. Hwy. 528 in Rio Rancho, is one of future of how we see culture. For decades, holiday season! police are growing loudest at the same the few companies building mods for some of the largest and most valuable Conrad Candelaria, a former Al- moment communities all over the buquerque police officer and current games like the new Kiss machine, for companies were record labels, fashion country are criticizing police for systemic, which Mezel Mods makes a giant Gene houses and movie studios – not software Send it to U.S. marshal, wants to add cops to the Shop. Donate. Volunteer. Help homeless pets. racialized police brutality. Simmons-like head, or older games, like or hardware companies. For New Mexico, [email protected] list of groups protected under hate crime And it’s no coincidence that calls for The Addams Family game, for which they many are seeing growth in leveraging To schedule a free pick up of large donations, laws. Police officers “are attacked and Include your name, phone number, and your pet’s name, special protections for police in New make a $47.99 Thing hand. the state’s already strong $1 billion arts killed just because they wear a badge. please call 505.938.7915. and we’ll try to reserve their spot in the pet parade. Mexico follow years of public outrage Though Tim Mezel is the idea guy and economy with these companies and ideas. That is a hate crime,” Candelaria said in over the unjustified use of lethal force engineer behind the company, his wife The hard part is making sure they know August. Earlier this month, Nate Gentry, by Albuquerque police. Kristen makes the business decisions. how to do it. the Republican majority leader in the Remember the “bad apples” theory On her card, it says “Head Honcho.” She The Mezels took first place in the New Mexico House of Representatives, of police violence? If a cop killed an spent several years at Intel in Rio Rancho, Creative-Startups competition, which agreed with Candelaria and called for unarmed person, it was because it was too, as a corporate trainer. Both left the netted them a $25,000 prize. police officers to receive hate crime a bad cop. But the “bad apple” theory Rio Rancho chipmaker to focus full time “I’ve been involved in a lot of corporate protections. of police violence doesn’t find much on Mezel Mods. programs at Intel. We saw exceptional Gentry’s call came during a news purchase these days. Though Tim’s engineering experience, training, and we saw word-class [talent] conference where Republican politicians Federal investigations of local police and Kristen’s business acumen help, the at Creative-Startups,” Kristen said. “A lot unveiled a series of criminal justice departments have proliferated over the two are finding it hard to make a go of of it was new to Tim. I got a lot of people reforms. The recent shooting deaths past few years, and nearly all have found their startup, despite the demand for asking us the hard questions.” of an Albuquerque police officer and systemic, often racialized, problems with their 3D-printed coffins, heads, glow-in- Although there has been a lot of talk a 4-year-old girl have shocked a city policing in Los Angeles, New York, New the-dark balls, and lighting kits. in the startup scene about accelerators already dealing with what FBI crime Orleans, Seattle, Ferguson, Mo., Cleve- The struggle is more than just building a like Creative-Startups and ABQid, the statistics identify as a spike in violent land, Albuquerque and elsewhere. business, it’s also finding skilled employ- Mezels were too busy running the crime. It’s not a problem of a few bad apples ees. business to go looking for them. Instead, Republicans want tougher sentencing but a rather a deeply and historically “We want 3D designers, sculptors, Tim said, a co-worker from Intel told them for violent crimes and the ability to institutionalized problem of police people with energy who can navigate the about the program. indefinitely detain repeat offenders. brutality. If you read the various U.S. collector community,” Tim said. They said it was the city’s director of the Democrats held their own news con- Department of Justice investigations Beyond that, Kristen said, though there City of Albuquerque’s Economic Develop- ference, calling for more money for are many avenues for startups to find ment Department, Gary Oppedahl, who prosecutors and tougher standards for of police departments, you’ll find that the victims of police brutality often are help, such as the city’s weekly office hours helped the most. He suggested the Mezels bail on violent crimes. at the Verge Building Downtown, the reach out to the state’s Manufacturing There isn’t much the two sides agree members of groups protected under hate crimes laws. help is so scattered, it’s hard to find it. Extension Partnership, which helps on, but even some Democrats also “There’s all these things out there. manufacturers get going. think police should receive hate crime So, Candelaria and Gentry aren’t completely wrong. When we talk about There’s not a navigator. I don’t have the “Our little factory set-up is because of protections. time to piece it all together myself,” theirs, and Kristen’s, vision,” Tim said. The Albuquerque Journal thinks so hate crimes, we should talk about the police. In the police killings of Mike Kristen said. “We don’t know much at all “There’s a lot of ideas out there, just too. “Those who would cut [police about what Rio Rancho is doing.” translating them takes time.” Brown, Freddie Gray and James Boyd, to officers] down for no other reason than Though many organizations, including the officers’ commitment to public safety name just three, the police have looked the U.S. Small Business Administration, Dan Mayfield is an Albuquerque and justice,” the newspaper recently edi- a lot more like perpetrators of hate cater to small businesses and startups, freelance journalist. Most recently, he torialized, “deserve harsher penalties.” crimes than do its victims. the help seems to be so disparate and was a reporter for Albuquerque But what Candelaria and Gentry scattered, she said, that it takes too much won’t tell you, and what the Journal David Correia is an associate professor in Business First. Reach him at time to put it together. [email protected] or through his apparently doesn’t know, is that crimes the Department of American Studies at Luckily, though, the Mezels found website, TheDanMayfield.com committed against police officers already the University of New Mexico. Sports ABQ FREE PRESS • November 18, 2015 • 21 Holm Win Over Rousey Signals New MMA Era in ABQ BY JUANI HOPWOOD

t the entrance of the sold-out, acknowledge their staunchly loyal fans. Astanding-room-only First Turn “We love these fighters because this is Lounge at the Albuquerque Downs a fighting town. Ronda is in for it; Holly racino, mixed martial arts fans attending is in her head,” she said. “She’s gonna the pay-per-view screening of UFC take her down. She’s not fluff.” 193: Rousey vs. Holm were greeted by When asked how he would charac- hometown MMA fighters who signed terize the UFC crowd in New Mexico, autographs for a line that snaked its Matthew Santiago, 36, replied, “There way around the perimeter of the venue. isn’t really a ‘scene,’ just fans. Mostly The crowd was a blend of super fans hometown fans.” Tall and reserved but and the curious, a throng of mixed ages, completely comfortable in the packed mixed hats, and mixed expertise. At the venue, Santiago was originally a boxing bar, ageless abuelas sat alongside day fan, but he said he now prefers MMA drinkers, protein shakes next to double because its modern, free-form nature whiskeys. draws out fighters’ personalities. “Out MMA fighters know that this solid fan with the old, in with the new,” he base is what keeps them on their feet – explained. and New Mexican fans are arguably the most supportive. Joby Sanchez, a pro MMA fighter from ‘We love these fighters the South Valley, appreciates that “the because this is a fighting fighter spirit speaks to the Albuquerque crowd. This is the place to train,” he town. Ronda is in for it; said. “The love and passion feeds into Holly is in her head. the sport and builds more fighters, just She’s gonna take her by support alone.” Sanchez, 24, may be young, but he’s down. She’s not fluff’ hardly a newcomer. He began training – Dawn Lowe, Holly Holm fan, at age seven, and when he was 13, before the UFC 193 fight he watched Diego “The Nightmare” Sanchez, another Burqueño, win “The Angel Garcia, 46, volunteered at Ultimate Fighter.” Holm’s fights for years. Garcia recalled In that moment, Sanchez knew he that Holm, always gracious and friendly, wanted to fight in the cage. “The way would without fail take the time to get he fought – with heart – just grabbed to know the support staff before her me. It was something I recognized in matches. Garcia was positive that Holm myself.” Sanchez spoke of his Damascus could feel the enthusiasm filling the moment with deep reverence, and it room even from across the Pacific. When was plain to see that he was both proud asked what advice she thought Holm and grateful to be in his element, a fan would give to new fighters who admire energized by fellows. her success and perseverance, Garcia Like most attendees, William Daukei, answered, “Be true to yourself. Believe 29, rooted for hometown Holm over “It that you can do whatever you put your Girl” Rousey because, he said, “under- mind to.” dogs are more prepared.” As pixels of Holm and Rousey squared “I’m a boxing fan, not really a fan of off in Melbourne Australia, 8,531 miles MMA yet. Boxers stand to fight, and away, the First Turn Lounge filled with when they get knocked down, they can cheers from fans gathered from as far always get back up again. But there’s away as Gallup and Zuni Pueblo. At the no second chance in UFC. A boxer versus end of Holm’s ferocious performance in a UFC fighter is a dream come true. It’s Round 1, it was as if the din here at home like the two sports are fighting, not just had whipped her into a fixated frenzy. the ladies. They’re both undefeated,” When Holm’s strikes reached a fever he said. pitch in the second round and the flash Dawn Lowe, 44, made it to the First of her white trunks at head height Turn just in time to bring up the rear preceded a decisive left kick to Rousey’s of the autograph line. Like Holm, Lowe head that sent the champ to the mat, is blonde and blue-eyed with sandy elated fans sprayed cascades of Corona freckles. She gleefully described the and the congregation of the Preacher’s contentious weigh-in that preceded the Daughter began to chant “Five-oh-five! match, characterizing Holm’s class and Five-oh-five!” Rousey’s showboating as two different expressions of self-confidence. Juani Hopwood is an editorial intern Lowe said she is proud that Holm and at ABQ Free Press. Reach her at other New Mexican fighters always [email protected] 22 • November 18, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS ART ART ABQ FREE PRESS • November 18, 2015 • 23 Matters of the Art: Puebloan Film, Baroque Sounds and Indigeneity Show of ‘Necessary Force’ Takes on Authority by lisa barrow by MEGAN KAMERICK Pueblo picture show near Chaco Canyon to the boom- Street SW) on Sunday, Nov. 22, at 2 the symposium’s main organizer. “They Only one film festival in the United and-bust cycle of uranium mining. p.m., and you don’t have to choose. As play this vital role, but they haven’t first discovered artist Nick Cave’s long string of tragedies emanating Weapon as visible to law enforcement States exclusively celebrates the work The series ends on “Los Alamos, New part of the NHCC’s popular Chispa: The had this chance to gather and engage I soundsuits at an exhibit at the from what they see as a continuing — but no one else — and possessing the of Pueblo actors and directors – and Mexico and Sacred Native Lands” Latin Diva Series, the Spanish soprano in this unique forum.” Denver Art Museum. I was charmed police state in America. “As his- power to cloak itself by changing into a Burqueños, you’re in luck, because it from Corelight Films, centering on the lends her euphonic voice to what’s Acting O U T begins Thursday, Dec. but also mystified. These elaborate torians, we very much wanted to soda can, wallet or cigarette. takes place right here in your town. displacement of Native peoples from described as “music from the age of 3, at the Museum of Indian Arts and creations engulf the wearer in wildly show this is a continuous history,” Several New Mexico events are also The 2nd Annual Pueblo Film Festival sacred land for the sake of the nuclear Cervantes” with “Yo soy la locura” Culture (710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe) colorful, playful, elaborate and bizarre says Pinder, dean of the UNM part of the exhibit. “It Was Only An lays down two days of short films, Q&A (“I Am Madness”). Her album of the with a jam-packed schedule. A “Per- arms industry. The film features the decoration. What fun! Back then I had School of Art and interim director Indian” is about Navajo activist Larry sessions and presentations centering mellifluously voiced Marian Naranjo same name debuted in 2011 to world forming for the Camera” panel and no idea that Cave first created these of the museum. “It’s not something Casuse, who died in a gun battle with on Pueblo experience on Saturday and (Santa Clara), founder of Honor Our acclaim. its breakout sessions run all morning, suits in response to Rodney King. police after kidnapping the mayor of Sunday, Nov. 21 and 22. The festival Pueblo Experience (HOPE), who will be sifting through the effects of visual and brand new, even though the news leads us to believe that many issues Gallup to draw attention to the plight begins each day at 10 a.m. in the Chaco on hand for discussion after the showing. Internet representations on ideas of “Necessary Force: Art in the Police Ballroom at the Indian Pueblo Cultural of his people. There’s also a santo Pueblo women are in the spotlight authenticity and engagement. Later, State” is on display at the UNM Art Museum coming out now are just from three Center (2401 12th Street NW). Admis- for Victor Villalpando, a troubled for their own series on Sunday starting video screenings present a range of through Saturday, Dec. 12. Learn more at years ago.” sion is included with entrance to the performance in action. Española teenager who was killed by at 10 a.m. Nora Naranjo Morse (Santa unmartmuseum.org. To reinforce this idea, the exhibit museum and runs just $2 to $5. (Kids Clara), heads a Q&A session afterward; The panel is free and open to contains familiar photos of the civil police in 2014. The exhibit notes that under 5 are free). the public. But if you’re looking for funding cuts for mental health services she’s the visionary mind behind “What rights movement by Danny Lyon Was Taken and What We Sell,” an something more hands-on, sign up Video of the brutal beating of King have contributed to the criminaliza- and Charles Moore. One in particu- examination of white consumption of for a space in one of three workshops by the Los Angeles police was a tion of mental illness in the U.S. lar, “The Line,” is especially jarring. Native identity, as well as other festival running from 3 to 5 p.m. by email- catalyst for the 1992 LA riots. And the Upstairs and outside the gallery, Aryeh Oron The sheer beauty of the photo’s entries. ing [email protected]. For $50, you’ll experience was an epiphany for Cave. video art lends the exhibit balance and Raquel Andueza of La Galanía get to spend time on “Words” with composition almost makes you for- For a detailed schedule, visit the “I thought about what it was like to focus. Notable video by Hito Steyerl Facebook event page at bit.ly/Pueblo- MacArthur Fellow, writer, activist and get you’re looking at a prison farm Andueza performs with La Galanía, be dismissed and discarded,” Cave captures guards at the Art Institute of Film-Festival-2015. Though modest performer Guillermo Gómez-Peña, the ensemble she founded in 2010 where young African-American in scale, the festival opens a singular “Actions” with Anishinabe-Canadian said recently when speaking at the Chicago recounting harrowing stories with Jesús Fernández Baena, maestro men toil under the eyes of white Corelight Films window onto the Southwest’s precious artist Rebecca Belmore or “Sound and University of New Mexico. That sense from their days as police officers. of the theorbo, a long-necked, sono- guards on horseback. Nick Cave (American, b. 1959), “Soundsuit,” heritage of Native creativity, analysis performance” with art collective Post- of vulnerability was what drove him These issues are complex, Fiss says, Marian Naranjo, founder and director of Honor rous stringed instrument in the lute 1991, Photograph. Courtesy of Jack Shainman and tradition. commodity, fresh off their successful to create his first suit entirely of twigs, An iconic photo of civil rights as are the individuals involved. “The Our Pueblo Existence (HOPE), opines the “split- family developed in the 16th century. Gallery, New York, N.Y. ting of life” in “Los Alamos, New Mexico and “Repellant Fence” installation along signifiers of objects discarded. activists flattened by gushing fire police who killed Victor knew him,” Music is madness Dedicated to authentically interpreting Sacred Native Lands.” the US/Mexico border. hoses is juxtaposed with a video by Would you rather travel the world or music of the Baroque era, with this The suit is one of the primary mirror, and its reflection reveals an she notes. During the show’s open- artist Dread Scott, “On the Impossibil- Saturday’s offerings include an en- go back in time? Come hear the heav- concert Andueza and La Galanía also images of “Necessary Force: Art in the overturned police car behind you. ing reception, Villalpando’s mother vironmental films series that takes up enly Raquel Andueza at the National invoke a rich history of Spanish literary Police State,” which is on exhibit now ity of Freedom in a Country Founded A classic symbol of civil unrest, the spoke to attendees using artist Mel troubles from a pipeline and fracking Hispanic Cultural Center (1701 Fourth and linguistic influence. Texts are at the UNM Art Museum. While the on Slavery and Genocide.” In this 2014 upended car bears the seal “Plantation Chin’s microphone fashioned from drawn from figures such as Francisco actual twig suit isn’t in the show, it’s performance film, he walks against a Police.” Inside the iconography is a nightstick. Fiss dubs this an inver- de Quevedo, a famously myopic noble- faithfully represented by a high-res- fire hose wielded by far less sadistic fire- sound collage. Artists OtaBenga Jones sion of an object normally used as a man and Spanish poet; Pedro Calderón olution photo, and another of Cave’s fighters, but it’s still a disturbing image. & Associates offer up an audio mix of force of repression into one that gives de la Barca, a prolific dramatist and Courtesy of artists elaborate suits is there. Each suit con- In another reconfiguration, “Amelia Richard Pryor; audio from unrest in people voice. Other works delve into poet who enriched Spain’s Golden Age Art collective Postcommodity Falling,” Hank Willis Thomas trans- the prison-industrial complex and theater; and even Miguel de Cervantes, ceals race, gender and class, forcing Watts, Ferguson and Baltimore; and The symposium continues Friday, viewers to look without judgment, fers a photo of civil rights episodes of “Dragnet.” It’s surreal to the massive US surveillance buildup author not only of “Don Quixote” but Dec. 4, at the New Mexico Museum of Cave said. activist Amelia Boynton, beaten hear Jack Webb dismissing the idea following 9/11. also of numerous plays and poems. Art (107 West Palace Ave., Santa Fe) “Yo soy la locura” itself comes from unconscious and supported by fellow of police brutality while you gaze at “We have this perception that a with the panel “Performing the Body, The show’s curators, Kymberly a French composer — Henri de Bailly police state happens in other countries exploring embodiment within the con- Pinder and Karen Fiss, offer numer- activists who tried to march Bolton’s slumped form — beaten by — using an Italian musical form and a text of performative art.” It’s followed ous reminders that Ferguson and across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in cops while dressed in her Sunday best. when there are military coups,” Pin- Spanish text. by another panel titled “Taking Place: Baltimore are merely the latest in a 1965. Thomas places the image on a “A lot of the artwork will distill one der says. “The way it has happened More info can be found at nhccnm.org Performance occupies time and space,” particular aspect of that media expe- here is that it’s been very slow and or by calling 724-4771. Tickets are $12 or which delves into more political and rience and make us relate to it dif- insidious through policy. We have a $17 depending on how close you want place-centered territory. Both panels ferently,” Fiss says. Pinder reiterates copy of the Patriot Act for anyone to to sit – the extra $5 might be worth it are also free to the public. to get a better glimpse of those skilled that art is nonviolent protest, and the read.” Pinder and Fiss hope to foster The big event happens Friday musicians’ fingers. gallery offers a contemplative space to more community dialogue around evening at the Lensic Performing Arts ponder emotional, heated issues. “We the show. So far it’s one of the best Get your act together Center (211 W. San Francisco St., Santa very specifically chose works of art received and most visited exhibitions If you must head to the frosty Fe), when the keynote performers – in- that are very slow,” Pinder says. “You in the history of UNM Art Museum, reaches of Santa Fe this winter, I can’t stallation and performance artist James have to come up close to them, look at think of a better reason than to partic- Luna, plus Gómez-Peña and Belmore – Pinder adds. “[That] speaks to the ipate in history as it’s being made. Act- take the stage, followed by a discussion them for awhile and figure out what power of art when it responds to is- ing O U T: A Symposium on Indigenous moderated by renowned author, cu- they’re about.” sues people care about,” Pinder says. Performance Art is the first of its kind rator and activist Lucy Lippard. Tickets In “We Own The Night,” yellow cir- Watching Nick Cave’s soundsuits to take place in New Mexico. With a are $25 at ticketssantafe.org or $10 for cles represent the 41 bullets that killed in action on the video reel outside the stellar lineup of keynote speakers and students (in person or by phone only). Amadou Diallo, an African immigrant museum still makes me smile, and I performers, plus workshops, panels and Find out more about this exceptional mistaken for a rape suspect, in 1999. Di- also understand the artist’s impetus video screenings, the two-day event meeting of minds online at bit.ly/ allo was gunned down in his own door- to meet repression with something promises a thoughtful and profound ActingOUT or call the IAIA museum at way in New York City. He reached for array of experiences for artists and the otherworldly and disconcerting. Get (505) 428-5907. his wallet, and police assumed it was a general public alike. moved by “Necessary Force” before it “Performances have marked really Lisa Barrow is a member of the Dirt City gun. Adjacent work “Phantom Negro closes on Saturday, Dec. 12. pivotal times in the Native American Writers collective. Visit her on the interwebs Weapons” by Nafis White features 24 art movement,” says Andrea Hanley, at facebook.com/LisaBarrowLikesWords. She Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942); “USA. Huntsville, Texas. 1968. Ferguson is a prison farm photographs of objects that caused the Megan Kamerick is an independent radio who runs public programs at the IAIA most recently served as arts & lit and web for young men, ages 17 to 21. The Line.”; Gelatin silver print, 8 3/16 x 12 1/4 inches. death of an African-American. The and print journalist and producer at Courtesy of the Fine Arts Library, University of New Mexico, © Danny Lyon and Magnum Photos Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, editor at Weekly Alibi. dossier defines the Phantom Negro New Mexico PBS. 24 • November 18, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS FOOD events ABQ FREE PRESS • November 18, 2015 • 25 Deep Dish: Get Your Soup On Craftapalooza: Guide to Holiday Arts & Crafts Fairs by ARIANE JAROCKI by ARIANE JAROCKI Sandia Band Craft Fair NOVEMBER 27-29 DECEMBER 5-6 Vinaigrette ith each passing second, we inch closer to the deadline for freaking out s the days get shorter, the 9 am, Sandia High School, 7801 Corrales Starving Artists Annual Friends of Tortuga Aweather gets colder and sweat- vinaigretteonline.com Wover finding the perfect gift for that special someone, so save yourself Candelaria Rd NE, 507-3416, Holiday Art Show Creative Arts Fair ers come out of storage – along with 1828 Central Ave SW stress by shopping early. 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I adore their Shoyu AlaskaPrism.com 10 am, Free, 800 Rio Grande Blvd NW, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13 is a quick standalone meal Rail Yards Market Ramen, a soy-based broth with your Gen Kai’s Shoyu Ramen Roustabouts will be found at Bandelier, Monte Vista, Matheson Park Elementary School, (505) 982-2226, there, but I lean toward spanishcolonial.org Holiday Market Humble Coffee Holiday Market, and Rail Yards Market 10809 Lexington Ave NE choice of thick or regular noodles 11 am, The Yards, 777 1st St SW, the Mushroom Stew if I’m my sour cream in before digging Holiday Market. topped with pork char shu, dry having a salad. in, but to each their own. The dill railyardsmarket.org seaweed, chopped green onion, bam- flavor shines here, as vinegar is Before you automatically boo shoots, a hard-boiled egg and Kai’s Chinese Restaurant downplayed by sour cream and the write off Heimat House’s red ginger. A newer favorite is the kaischineserestaurant.com carrots’ sweetness. If that’s too ad- Polish Dill Pickle Soup, Okinawa Soba, a fish-and-pork broth 138 Harvard Dr SE venturous, another classic option is I urge you to ABeerQ: So You Think You Can Brew I was initially wary of, but it shines. 266-8388 the Paprikas Krumpli aka Hungarian by efrain villa Toppings include fish balls, pork, Spicy Sausage Soup. give it one shot diced green onion and red ginger. A staple for University of New ou decided to try your hand at taxed before a single drop is sold … and Randy Baker and his wife Denise, who Mexico students for their inexpen- Ybrewing a batch of pizza-flavored then taxed again during the transaction. recently opened Rio Bravo Brewing near sive lunch, Kai’s presents a heady beer in the attic, and the miraculous You also must ensure you’re consistently the Downtown brewery cluster (912 bouquet of quality flavor. When I feel alchemy that ensued has your friends producing the same product in a process Second Street NW), confirm each day If the dark wood or like a huge bowl of soup in the cam- raving about your innovation, artistry wherein the most infinitesimal variances Rio Bravo is open. Randy says, “There is the stone fireplace at pus area, this is where I head. Their and pioneering spirit. Flush with success, in temperature or light mean the differ- something outright beautiful and Amer- Two Fools Tavern don’t Hot and Sour is amazing. The soup you’re ready to become the Steve Jobs of ence between crafting a masterpiece beer ican about creating something out of touches on the distinct hot and sour craft beer. and a concoction only a skunk would be nothing–which is what entrepreneurship make you cozy, try the notes without doctoring to punch So what’s a budding ale-blazer’s first proud of. is all about.” Guinness Beef Stew the sour flavor through. Their bowl step? Open a brewery, right? In addition to the manufacturing Since opening this past summer, the size is generous for the price, and Well, not so fast. process, you can count on spending lots Bakers haven’t stopped searching for the lunch combo can be upgraded to Do you have your five-year business of fun-filled hours dealing with payroll, ways to improve their brewery. “Consis- Two Fools Tavern include hot and sour for a pittance. plan, a small fortune to keep you afloat marketing, accounting, business inven- tency is one of the hardest parts of the 2foolstavern.com through the licensing and permitting tory and safety compliance. After a few Courtesy of Rio Bravo Brewing whole thing,” Baker says. “You can’t be 3211 Central Ave NE Heimat House Restaurant and process, TTB forms in order, NM RLD short years of this, maybe you’ll begin successful in this business by producing 265-7447 Beer Garden applications ready to go, TAP account turning a profit. Maybe. discovering that tap water inconsistencies what I call snowflake beer. Variety is fine If the dark wood or the stone fire- theheimathouse.com initiated, inspections lined up, equipment “You can’t really expect profits for can wreak havoc, new brewery owners in snowflakes, but it’s no good when place at Two Fools Tavern don’t 6910 Montgomery Blvd NE on back order, evidence for zoning hear- three years,” says Trent Edwards, the face a steep learning curve. you’re batching a type of beer a customer make you cozy, try the Guinness Beef 814-0014 ings and ingredient contracts negotiated? entrepreneur behind the Duel taproom “Even when I talk to veterans of the expects to taste the same today as it did Of course you do. After all, you’re not project under way in the old Banana industry, they still sometimes have when they drank it last month.” Stew. It’s a thick gravy with a meaty Heimat is another showstopper a mere hobbyist. Joe’s building Downtown. “We opened doubts and questions about a part of the What can be learned from these flavor that bathes tender chunks of for their variety of soup. One un- Assuming you’ve already jumped our brewery in Santa Fe a little over two brewing process or a regulation,” says cautionary tales? Research, and approach beef, carrots, potatoes and celery. The expected offering here is the Zupa through bureaucratic hoops to lay the years ago on a shoestring. Looking back, Chris Goblet, director of the New Mexico any business venture with caution and Guinness itself adds a malty depth Ogorkowa aka Polish Dill Pickle groundwork, you can begin contemplat- I can say that if you are in this business Brewers Guild. “The seasoned brewers humility. And avoid snowflakes at all to the stew. Paired with house-made Soup. Before you automatically write ing the day you’ll be able to sell your first only to make money, you’re in for a might want to explore mobile canning, costs. Irish brown bread, this stew is also it off, I urge you to give it one shot. pint of beer. Just remember that you’re disappointment.” whereas the new ones might need help When not running a consulting firm in highlighted in Two Fools’ Beef Boxty, This warm soup stars dill pickles, legally required to account for every From learning about zoning regula- with recipe tweaking, but ultimately, all Albuquerque, Efrain Villa is aimlessly where it’s topped with a potato potatoes and carrots, topped with a Ariane Jarocki ounce of liquid you produce and, unlike tions that require explosion-proof devices of it is a work in progress.” gallivanting in exotic locations and writing pancake. hearty dollop of sour cream. I mix Vinaigrette’s Cajun Gumbo other types of inventory, craft beer is and sprinkler systems in mill rooms to But hard work has its rewards, as about it. Reach him at aimlessvagabond.com 26 • November 18, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS FILM/music MUSIC ABQ FREE PRESS • November 18, 2015 • 27 Three Decades of ‘Decline’: ‘We’re Desperate — Get Used to It’ Within Range: Give Thanks for Great Music BY captain america BY M. BRIANNA STALLINGS

ilmmaker Penelope Spheeris is But it did. “Decline II” (1988) is h, Thanksgiving — that dubi- “Christmas Island,” their Carpathians, the duo’s pal- magical tricks of the eye, wherein we Fknown for such conventional fare as almost a side note, as it showcases Aously delightful holiday season first for SideOne Dummy pable passion for the musical see something made in 2D as 3D. New “Wayne’s World” and “The Little Ras- heavy metal culture that took the crammed full of historical revisionism, Records, was produced traditions of Eastern Europe York’s neo-trip-hop duo Phantogram, cals.” In other circles, that doesn’t mean speed and volume of punk music but awkward family dinners and tryp- by John Congleton, whose are infused with dusty-throated on the other hand, is a magical treat a thing. For more than three decades, wanted none of the responsibility of tophan comas. And let’s not forget the other numerous production experimental rock. for the ears. The pair plays Sunshine Spheeris’ documentary work has chroni- anarchism or politics despite claiming jingling, tinsel-covered behemoth that credits include kindred musi- The band’s latest release, 2013’s Theater (120 Central SW) on Friday, cled punk, a topic the moral mainstream outsider status. After a 9-to-5 grind, it is Christmas already poking its mon- cal spirits The Mountain Goats. “You Have Already Gone to the Other Dec. 4 in a show for ages 13 and up. considers frivolous excess at best and was pure party time ... until Monday strous head in. My point? This time of Andrew JJ favors the fake VHS look World” was produced by Deerhoof’s Doors are at 7 p.m., and the show year can get so overwhelming that it’s John Dieterich and inspired by A starts at 8 p.m. godless psychopathy at worst. morning when you dragged your- for recent video “Coffin Dance.” nice to simply stop, take a breath and Weird, cerebral explicit and morbid, Hawk and a Hacksaw’s European live Friends since middle school, self back to work to put aside a few All three films in director Penelope Spheeris’ give thanks by getting down to all the Andrew Jackson Jihad is the perfect soundtrack tour accompanying Soviet Phantogram’s Sarah Barthel (vocals, bucks for next weekend. These kids punk documentary series “The Decline of great music Albuquerque serves up. combo for anyone who needs a filmmaker Sergei Parajanov’s 1965 keyboards) and Josh Carter (vocals, (and musicians) dropped back in, in Western Civilization” screen at The Guild breather before Turkey Day. Fellow “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.” guitars) started kicking out the jams alarming numbers. Metal borders on Joyful jihad! Cinema (3405 Central Ave NW) weekends Phoenix natives Playboy Manbaby A blend of original compositions after graduating college. Carter best through early December. self-parody as it is, and while Spheeris The holidaze require lots of prep offer up a slice of New Wavey ga- and traditional music from Hungary, sums up his band’s sound, describing For more info, visit guildcinema.com. doesn’t intentionally showcase it, it’s work. What better way to mentally rage-punk that would make both Romania and the Ukraine, “Other it as “street beat, psych-pop.” easy to write this episode off as such. gird yourself for that big family “The Decline of Western Civilization I” The Romantics and The Standells World” is a perfect summation of the Recorded in an upstate New York feast than with a heaping helping of Friday-Saturday, Nov. 20-21, 10:30 p.m. For anyone with any sympathy for proud. West Virginia pop-noise- pair’s aesthetic. barn called Harmony Lodge, Phanto- punk ideals, “II” is the most horrify- folk-punk courtesy of Phoenix group makers Rozwell Kid round out the Barnes and Trost bring A Hawk and a gram’s studio albums include “Eyelid “The Decline of Western Civilization II” Spheeris Films ing of the trilogy because there’s little, Andrew Jackson Jihad? The band bill. Tickets are $10 at the door. Visit Hacksaw to The Tannex (1417 4th Street Movies” (2010) and “Voices” (2014). Friday-Saturday, Nov. 27-28, 10:30 p.m. Exene Cervenka and John Doe of seminal LA punk band X, in “Decline I” if any, trace of class consciousness. A plays a 13-plus show at Launchpad launchpadrocks.com to learn more. SW), in historic Barelas, from 7 to 10 The two count Big Boi, Flaming Lips “The Decline of Western Civilization III” (618 Central SW) on Tuesday, Nov. member of the metal contingent says On hawks and hacksaws p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 28 for a night of and Miley Cyrus among their collab- Friday-Saturday, Dec. 4-5, 10:30 p.m. proudly, as if claiming normalcy: “We 24. Doors are at 7 p.m., and the show warm and welcoming music. Screenings orators. They’ve done their time on are taxpayers.” starts at 8 p.m. Former Neutral Milk Hotel member of animated shorts originating from network TV with spots on both Jimmy Paying taxes is not punk rock. Nor Founded by Sean Bonnette and Ben Jeremy Barnes and violinist Heather all around Eastern Europe will usher shows (Fallon and Kimmel). They’ve is it something that the homeless Gallaty, the music of Andrew Jackson Trost, better known internationally as in the evening. Admission is $5 at the played with everyone from Metric to “Decline I” (1981) documents the Jihad has tackled topics ranging from A Hawk and a Hacksaw, have been gutter punks of the next installment door. Visit the Facebook A Hawk and A The Glitch Mob. The $23 tickets are nascent LA punk scene that, tellingly, addiction to death to a homesick making the Land of Enchantment had to consider. “Decline III” (1998) is Hacksaw event page for more info. available via holdmyticket.com. came after the New York and Lon- breakdown at a museum exhibit proud for years now. Bridging the the least musical but most powerful don eras. Generally speaking, New about Linda Ronstadt. Latest album gap between the Sandias and the Phantogram fans, rejoice! M. Brianna Stallings writes so you don’t Yorkers focused on their music and in the series. In it, Spheeris follows a Strictly speaking, phantograms are have to. were only vaguely political, if at all. handful of ‘90s punks who’ve taken Londoners embraced the New York up the ‘70s mantle – outwardly with sound and, seeing a bleak future alienating fashion and inwardly with in Thatcher’s abandonment of the an enduring legacy of societal rejec- Starry Eyed: Motelles Unleash Debut working class, turned up the volume tion. Familial violence, neglect and BY captain america and demanded a solution. In LA, alcoholic and addicted parents drove punks preferred to walk away from these teens from home. As distasteful The 5 Star Motelles Release Party fun with – no, I mean really Even More Motelles having fun with – clothes in their the system because they saw no place Spheeris Films as their uncertain lifestyle may be, one with The Angel Babies and Phantom Lake Motelles Live on “Ear to the Ground” often not-so-subtly themed outfits. for themselves in it. says, “Living on the street is alright Friday, Nov. 27, at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, 7 to 8 p.m. ‘90s LA punks rolling deep in “Decline III” Motelles’ members are or In the first installment of Spheeris’ ... better than the abuse I had in my Low Spirits KUNM 89.9 FM / kunm.org “Decline” series, the punk exodus home.” Inured to their plight, another 2823 Second Street NW have been in other bands, like The Mayhem increased, and bands provides a distantly affectionate look Gracchi, Lady Uranium, The Ya Ya Motelles and Homegirls Records was exemplified by Darby Crash, The says, “I don’t think anyone can hurt Tickets: $5 / 21+ were pushed out of mainstream clubs at these kids. In hindsight, the empha- Boom Project!, Holiday Sail, Up Dec. 5, 7 to 9 p.m. Germs’ social casualty poster boy – me anymore.” In punk rock solidar- into less savory venues, where the sis on live performance cuts into valu- n a crisp autumn night, I ease the The Holler, Animals in the Dark Bandido Hideout alienated to the point that brainless ity, they have found, if not an actual yob factor increased tenfold as petty able screen time that could’ve better car into a dim parking lot to meet and Hit By A Bus; this speaks to 2128 Central Ave SE inebriation and self-destruction were home, then acceptance and support. O thugs, high school jocks and other presented the articulate side of punk. my shadowy connection the band’s pedigree and diverse preferable to their absence. At the Few expect to live long enough to meatheads were attracted to a scene Sneering Kickboy Face (journalist and for a long-awaited deal. Firearms? talent. Their harmony-heavy cov- With a halting yet catchy backbeat other end of the spectrum is X, one of benefit from it. where fistfights, misogyny and homo- singer) comes across as the only one Drugs? Undocumented immigrant ers aren’t slavish imitation, and and celestial harmony, “Sleep With the punk’s more intelligent acts – although The minor flaws of all three films phobia were somehow cool. Partially with much, albeit condescending, driver’s licenses? that’s what most musicians tend Lights On,” another original, sounds like that’s not readily apparent in the film fall aside viewed as a whole – some- in reaction to the crashed-and-burned intellect. Naw — I’m meeting Raven Chacon, to churn out when dealing with a song you know that’s just out of reach. as they clown for Spheeris’ camera. thing Spheeris never intended. It was peace and love movement, it was The “normal” punk milieu scares the mad genius behind avant/noise the likes of The Crystals. Upon closer listen, you realize that what Between the two extremes is Black doubtful that even the first “Decline” more about the kids’ own rejection of the crap out of ordinary folks already. acts like Death Convention Singers. I’m Process of Illumination Instead the Motelles’ cover sounds like a lost love song is actually a Flag, dissatisfied chip-on-shoulder would succeed. The resulting critical here to nab a test pressing of The 5 Star songs become wholly their own. zombie apocalypse ballad. Playfulness is a starstruck Hollywood culture that Upon re-watching these films reveal youth with their wits still about them. acclaim was a surprise for all in- Motelles’ self-titled 10-inch EP, which One of the best tracks on the EP, a key component of this band. didn’t give a damn about anyone or that, far from being just a flippant these days — even musicians with no And then there’s the alarming Fear, volved. Its core subject wasn’t taken is slated for release on Chacon’s own the Pixies’ dreamily dour “Wave of Because of other project commit- anything genuine. title, there was a decline going on business in that company, like Dum whose frontman Lee Ving was as seriously until much later. Although SickSickSick label. Mutilation,” is sweetly upbeat despite ments, The 5 Star Motelles don’t play However much the music horrified within that milieu itself. Sex Pistols’ Dum Girls or Best Coast. Although The angry as the rest but went in another it’s too late for these kids, it’s never It’s about damn time. I’ve been its suicide-centric lyrics. out much, so this release show is a ordinary citizens in 1978, it could still Johnny Rotten looks almost adorable 5 Star Motelles began by covering girl direction entirely. No numbed-out too late to reconsider the meaning and bugging the Motelles, one of my favorite Don’t write them off as just a bonus. The intimate setting and fine be perceived as showbiz put-on. Not in comparison – to say nothing of Joey groups almost exclusively, they quickly Darby Crash, Ving actively provoked music in Spheeris’ groundbreaking local acts, to record for lord knows how cover band though. The rollicking and acoustics of Low Spirits always serve so Spheeris’ interviewees ... Whether Ramone. Few LA punks were inter- moved on to the repertoires of artists as violent response. Most punk bands work. many years. The only other local band in sensuous (not an easy combination them well. At the release party, the Mo- routinely insulted their audience depressed, hateful or both, the ested enough to bother tearing down recent memory that took so long for its diverse as Johnny Ace and Iggy Pop. to pull off) “Orale” is a crowd-pleas- telles will be joined by two other wildly while the crowd reciprocated; a good outcome was the same, and a short- the rotten system, and fewer still had Captain America is a longtime nuevomexi- initial release was the hard-rocking kings Refreshingly, they’ve never called ing original. “One Big Shot” isn’t a talented yet still largely unknown time was had by all. But Ving’s dis- lived escape by slamming to loud, fast any idea of wanting to replace it. They cano music journalist and zinester, of Black Maria, who waited a full decade. attention to their gender except by Motelles’ song per se but one by local bands from the local scene: The Angel dain and hatred for the audience and music was the balm. looked into a dim future with dimmer editor of “Wig Wam Bam: Albuquerque’s Everyone and their sister gets honoring past female artists like Lesley orchestral-pop outfit Ya Ya Boom, with Babies’ lo-fi garage-electro and the high himself are plain as day. Spheeris makes no judgment and people. It couldn’t get any worse. Zine of Music and Nepotism.” compared to the classic ‘60s girl groups Gore and The Shangri-Las and having whom they share a bass player. desert surf noir of Phantom Lake. 28 • November 18, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS CALENDAr CALENDAr ABQ FREE PRESS • November 18, 2015 • 29 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 NOVEMBER 28–DECEMBER 6 NOVEMBER 20–22 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 El Ten Eleven The Nutcracker Ballet Dope 6th Annual Luminaria Awards Alvin and The Chipmunks Live D EFINitive DOZEN 9 pm, El Rey Theater, 622 Central Ave SW, Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus, ASUNM, UNM SUB Building, 11 am, UNM Sub Ballrooms, On Stage! THROUGH NOVEMBER 28 NOVEMBER 21–22 NOVEMBER 28-DECEMBER 19 elreyabq.com 203 Cornell Dr NE, 292-4245, Main Campus, 277-5608, UNM Main Campus, diverse.unm.edu Santa Ana Star Center, Ugly Robot & Lindy Vision newmexicoballet.org unmevents.unm.edu 3001 Civic Center Circle NE, 891-7300, Artspree: Tales from the Middle Screens: 2nd Annual Pueblo Museums: Pueblo Stories by the Fire 1 5 9 List your even 7 pm, Rio Bravo Brewing Company, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 santaanastarcenter.com Class: Jody Sunshine Film Festival 5 pm, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, 2401 1912 2nd St NW, 900-3909, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 Holiday Celebration of Breakfast with Santa Freeform Art Space, 1619 C de Baca Lane, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, 12th St NW, 843-7270, indianpueblo.org T in the riobravobrewing.com Cool Yule Holiday Concert A Thousand Voices Natural Beauty 8 am, Cottonwood Mall, Santa Fe, (505) 692-9249, freeformartspace.com 2401 12th St NW, 843-7270, indianpueblo.org November 28, Storyteller TBA 3 pm, Free, KiMo Theatre, 1 pm, Museum of Indian Arts and 5 pm, Salon Tallou & Wellness Center, 10000 Coors Blvd NW, 897-6571 December 5, Eldrena Douma (Laguna/Hopi) FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 ABQ F DECEMBER 5–6 423 Central Ave NW, 768-3544, Culture, 710 Camino Lejo, 201 Hermosa Dr NE, 507-2368, Vamos al Museo: Staging the Self ree The Bad Plus Joshua Redman kimotickets.com Santa Fe, (505) 476-1269, salontallou.com 2 Artspree: Open Studio: Karen Yank Talks: Taco Bell They Ain’t – WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 Press 11 am, National Hispanic Cultural 6 Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale indianartsandculture.org Nob Hill Holiday Shop & Stroll 9 am, CMY Inc, 309 Old Coors Dr SW, Short Histories of TexMex, Mexican 10 Talk: Ladies of the Canyons: DECEMBER 3–6 Center, 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, calenda Blvd SE, 268-0044, outpostspace.org The Met Live in HD: Lulu 5 pm, Nob Hill, Central from San Mateo nhccnm.org cnm.edu and New Mexican Cuisines: Dale Rice Remarkable Women of the Southwest: The Farolitos of Christmas Lesley Poling-Kempes Email event info,R 10:30 am, Lensic Theater, to Girard, 923-0759, rt66central.com Part of Brainpower & Brownbags Lunch Lectures National Hispanic Cultural Center, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 Part of Brainpower & Brownbags Lunch Lectures including event name, date, PERFORMANCES 211 W. San Francisco, Santa Fe, ONGOING Noon, Free, 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, nhccnm.org (505) 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4 Performances: Ka La Kapu Noon, Free, New Mexico History Museum, Coder Dojo 3 New Mexico History Museum, time, address and contact THROUGH NOVEMBER 22 Holiday Stroll Polynesian Dance School’s 2nd 113 Lincoln Ave, Santa Fe, 113 Lincoln Ave, Santa Fe, (505) 476-5200, DECEMBER 3–6 & 10-13 Second and fourth Saturdays, 10 am, The Day Room MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23 5 pm, Historic Old Town, 768-3556, Annual Dance Show (505) 476-5200, nmhistorymuseum.org nmhistorymuseum.org ages 7-17, Quelab, 680 Haines Ave NW, phone number 19th Annual Nutcracker Jazz Documentary presented by cabq.gov 6:30 pm, The Hiland Theater, UNM Experimental Theatre, coderdojoabq.github.io on the Rocks SF Music Collective 4800 Central Ave, 803-7183, NOVEMBER 27–28 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 or website, to 203 Cornell SE, 925-5858, Placitas Community Library Sunday Family Fun 7 7:30 pm, Keshet Dance Company, 4121 6:30 pm, Free, Warehouse 21, eventbrite.com Food and Drink: Science on Tap unmtickets.com Flea Market Sundays, 10 am, Bachechi Open Space, Fairs, Festivals & Fiestas: 27th Annual 11 [email protected] Cutler Ave NE, 224-9808, keshetarts.org 1614 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, Traditional Winter Spanish Market 5:30 pm, Free, Yanni’s Lemoni Lounge, The Miss Firecracker Contest 7 am, The Merc, 221 NM-165, Placitas, 9521 Rio Grande Blvd NW, 314-0398, one month in advance (505) 989-4423, warehouse21.org 404-8657, placitaslibrary.com SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 11 am, Hotel Albuquerque, 800 Rio Grande 3109 Central NE, 268-9250, The Adobe Theater, 9813 4th Street NW, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4 bernco.gov/openspace scienceontap.blogspot.com 898-9222, adobetheater.org 4 Music: Standards at the Standard: Blvd NW, (505) 982-2226, spanishcolonial.org of publication. Acting O U T: Performance NOVEMBER 27–DECEMBER 6 Pueblo Shop & Stroll: Holidays Stage Kiss A Fireside Tradition 6 pm, Lensic Theater, Guild Cinema COMMUNITY 3 pm, Standard Diner, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 The Vortex Theatre, 2900 Carlisle NE, 5 pm, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, 8 211 W. San Francisco, Santa Fe, 3405 Central Ave NE, 255-1848; 320 Central Ave SE, 872-2099, 12 Family: Abbey Hepner: BioArts 247-8600, vortexabq.org 2401 12th St NW, 843-7270, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 Word: Indies First (505) 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org guildcinema.com casaq.org Workshop indianpueblo.org Drink, Dine and Swing with The 10 am, Page One Books, 5850 Eubank Blvd The Night Alive Broadway Santa November 27–28, Decline of Western NE Ste B-41, 294-2026, page1book.com 2 pm, Explora, 1701 Mountain Rd NW, Fredrick-Breuer Orchestra The Cell, 700 1st St NW, 766-9412, 7 pm, African American Performing Arts Civilization II: The Metal Years RSVP: 224-8341, explora.us SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 7:30 pm, Albuquerque Hyatt Regency, fusionabq.org Center Exhibit Hall, Expo NM, November 27–29, The Assassin; Annual Madrid Christmas Parade 330 Tijeras Ave, RSVP: 843-2681 310 San Pedro Dr NE, 833-2849 Unbranded NOVEMBER 20–22 4 pm, Madrid, NM, visitmadridnm.com Finding the Perfect Customer DCN Project Lori Michaels Larry Freedman SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 David Felberg: Handel’s Messiah November 28–29, Alice in Wonderland CLUBS & PUBS Christmas Story, The Musical Twinkle Light Parade Part of Spring Ignite Community Part of Party on the Patio 7 pm, Free, Vernon’s Speakeasy, 7 pm, Free, Vernon’s Speakeasy, 6855 Bob Tate: Solo Piano 7 pm, Central United Methodist Church, (1933) Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus, November 30–December 3, A Place to 5:15 pm, Nob Hill, Central Ave between Accelerator NOVEMBER 27–DECEMBER 5 6 pm, Pueblo Harvest Café, 6855 4th St NW, 4th St NW, Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, 6 pm, Free, Vernon’s Speakeasy, 201 University Blvd NE, 323-4343, 203 Cornell Drive NE, 925-5858, Stand; Jafar Panahi’s Taxi Washington St and Girard Blvd, 1 pm, Free, STEMulus Center, Dirty Bourbon 2401 12th St NW, 724-3510, Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, 341-0831, yougottapassword.com 6855 4th St NW, Los Ranchos de Al- nmphil.org unmtickets.com December 4–5, Decline of Western 311, cabq.gov 20 1st Plaza Center NW, 224-4000 9800 Montgomery Blvd NE, indianpueblo.com/puebloharvestcafe 341-0831, yougottapassword.com Lindy Vision buquerque, 341-0831, Civilization III x50089, RSVP: stemuluscenter.org 296-2726, James Talley Los 15 Grandes de Nuevo Mexico 10 pm, Burt’s Tiki Lounge, yougottapassword.com DECEMBER 4–24 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 December 4–6, The Damned: Don’t FAMILY dirtybourbon.com 7:30 pm, Outpost Performance Space, 8 pm, Route 66 Casino, 14500 Central 313 Gold Ave SW A Christmas Carol Transgender Day of Giving Thanks Big Bad! You Wish That We Were Dead; The Remembrance Vigil 210 Yale Blvd SE, 268-0044, Ave SW, 352-7866, rt66casino.com Raven & The Sweet Potato Pie Albuquerque Little Theatre, November 27–28, Danny Duran & the Part of Chatter Sunday 7 pm, VSA North 4th Art Center, Forbidden Room FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 5 pm, Duck Pond, UNM Main Campus, outpostspace.org Mirari Brass Quintet Band 224 San Pasquale Ave SW, 242-4750, Slo Burnin Band 10:30 am, Las Puertas Event Center, 4904 4th St NW, nmyoungactors.org December 5–6, Bikes Vs. Cars Story Time at the Botanic Garden 277-5428, lgbtrc.unm.edu 7:30 pm, Old San Ysidro Church, Part of Party on the Patio albuquerquelittletheatre.org December 3, Nathan Dean & the Random Rab, Bird of Prey 1512 1st St NW, chatterabq.org 10:30 am, ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden, 8 pm, Taos Mesa Brewing, 966 Old Church Rd, Corrales, 6 pm, Pueblo Harvest Café, Rock and Rhythm Youth Orchestra Damn Band Tree of Peace SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28 2601 Central Ave NW, 764-6200, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 20 ABC Mesa Rd, Taos, (575) 758-1900, musicincorrales.org 2401 12th St NW, 724-3510, South Broadway Cultural Center, DECEMBER 4–27 Low Spirits 3 pm, Immanuel Presbyterian Church, abqbiopark.com taosmesabrewing.com indianpueblo.com/puebloharvestcafe 1025 Broadway Blvd SE, 848-1320, All is Calm: International Film Presentation: Adoption Event with Lap Dog 2823 2nd St NW, 344-9555, Shane 114 Carlisle Blvd SE, 266-4240, depro.org cabq.gov/sbcc The Christmas Truce of 1914 Stations of the Cross Rescue of New Mexico lowspiritslive.com 6:30 pm, Vernon’s Open Door, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 NOVEMBER 20–21 NOVEMBER 27–28 The Vortex Theatre, 2900 Carlisle NE, 2 pm, Loma Colorado Main Library, 11 am, Petco, 6300 San Mateo Blvd, November 27, 5 Star Motelles Record 3700 Ellison Rd NW, 890-8323 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1 NOVEMBER 21–22 755 Loma Colorado Blvd NE, Family Workshop: lapdogrescue.org David & Co. Tijerina Acoustic Trio 247-8600, vortexabq.org Release Party Todd Tijerina Organ Jubilee Concert Series, Rio Rancho, RSVP: 891-5013 x3033, African Art and Performance 9 pm, Santa Ana Star Casino, Lounge 9 pm, Santa Ana Star Casino, Lounge Handel’s Messiah December 3, B Side Players, Bandwidth Part of Party on the Patio UNM Christmas Choral Concert riorancholibraries.org 10 am, Free, UNM Art Museum, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24 54, 54 Jemez Canyon Dam Rd, Santa 54, 54 Jemez Canyon Dam Rd, Santa Lensic Theater, 211 W. San Francisco, DECEMBER 4–30 No Name 6 pm, Pueblo Harvest Café, 7:30 pm, Free, First Presbyterian Church, 203 Cornell Drive, 242-1445, Ana Pueblo, 867-0000, Ana Pueblo, 867-0000, santaanastar.com Santa Fe, (505) 988-1234, The Game’s Afoot or Casino/Cuban-Style Salsa and December 4, Tacocat, Red Light Cameras 2401 12th St NW, 724-3510, 215 Locust St NE, 764-2900, firstpresabq.org THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 unmartmuseum.org ticketssantafe.org Holmes for the Holiday Rueda de Casino santaanastar.com indianpueblo.com/puebloharvestcafe Sunshine Theater SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28 Adobe Theater, 9813 Fourth St NW, American Sniper Read to the Dogs 6 pm, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Frank Morgan Taos Jazz Festival WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 NOVEMBER 21–DECEMBER 6 Part of A Tribute to Veterans 11 am, Free, Esther Bone Library, 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, nhccnm.org 120 Central Ave SW, 764-0249, Taos Mesa Brewing, 20 ABC Mesa Rd, Dezert Banditz 4 Year Party 898-9222, adobetheater.org SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 Markland A Chorus Line 7 pm, KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave 950 Pinetree Rd SE, sunshinetheaterlive.com El Prado, (575) 758-1900, taosjazz.org 9 pm, Burt’s Tiki Lounge, 313 Gold Ave SW Is Your Cell Phone Making You Sick? Baroque Gems + Contemporary 7 pm, Rio Bravo Brewing Company, NW, 768-3544, kimotickets.com Rio Rancho, December 1, SlayBells, Frie UNM Rodey Theatre, 203 Cornell Drive, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 6 pm, Free, La Montañita Co-Op Works Flashback 1912 2nd St NW, 900-3909, 891-5012 x4, December 2, Between the Buried and SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 925-5858, landmarkmusicals.org Kids Variety Show Community Room, 913 W Alameda, 10:30 am, Las Puertas Event Center, Part of Party on the Patio riobravobrewing.com riorancholibraries.org Me, Enslaved, Intronaut 1 pm, Free, Outpost Performance Space, FAIRS, FESTIVALS & Santa Fe, (505) 780-8283 Bobbie and All Around Mota 1512 1st St NW, chatterabq.org 6 pm, Pueblo Harvest Café, Westside Sound Big Band SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 December 4, Phantogram Part of Art in the Afternoon 2401 12th St NW, 724-3510, 210 Yale Blvd SE, 268-0044, FIESTAS Y outh Workshop: Ruben Olguin Bob Tate: Solo Piano Performance and Dance Party Raquel Andueza y La Galanía THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26 2 pm, Albuquerque Museum of Art & indianpueblo.com/puebloharvestcafe outpostspace.org — Sculpting with the Science of Launchpad 6 pm, Vernon’s Speakeasy, 6855 6 pm, Piano Source, 1130 Juan Tabo 2 pm, National Hispanic Cultural Center, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 Nature Circle of Remembrance 618 Central Ave SW, 764-8887, History, 2000 Mountain Rd NW, Lori Michaels 4th St NW, Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, Blvd NE, 888-0747, pianosource.net 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, nhccnm.org New Mexico Pride Pageant 2 pm, Explora, 1701 Mountain Rd NW, Sunrise, Peace and Justice Center, launchpadrocks.com 242-4600, cabq.gov/museum 7 pm, Free, Vernon’s Speakeasy, SCREENS 341-0831, yougottapassword.com The Night Alive 7 pm, African American Performing Arts 224-8300, explora.us 202 Harvard Dr SE, 304-3144, Cashmere Cat 6855 4th St NW, Los Ranchos de THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 November 28, Let it Grow, Pink Freud Soul Sessions v.4 7:30 pm, KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW, NOVEMBER 20–22 Center, 310 San Pedro Dr NE, abqpeaceandjustice.org 9 pm, El Rey Theater, 622 Central Ave SW, Albuquerque, 341-0831, December 4, Katastro, The Riddims 8 pm, Burt’s Tiki Lounge, 313 Gold Ave SW Greg Ruggiero, Michael Kanan, 768-3544, kimotickets.com CCA Cinematheque abqpride.com WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 elreyabq.com yougottapassword.com Neal Miner Trio SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28 December 5, Black Tie Album Release Party 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, (505) Autumn Mandalas Gaby Moreno Los Tigres del Norte 7:30 pm, Outpost Performance Space, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 NOVEMBER 27–29 982-1338, ccasantafe.org NOVEMBER 21–22 1 pm, Free, South Broadway Library, Big Band Swing 2015: NOVEMBER 29–DECEMBER 5 Part of Chispa: Latin Diva Series 8 pm, Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort 210 Yale Blvd SE, 268-0044, Eryn Bent Circus Luminous Starts November 20, Peggy Guggen- Con-Jikan Year Three 1025 Broadway Blvd SE, 764-1742, A Night in the 40’s 7:30 pm, National Hispanic Cultural & Casino, 287 Carrizo Canyon Rd, outpostspace.org The Mine Shaft Tavern 8:30 pm, Tractor Brewing Company, Lensic Theater, 211 W. San Francisco, heim: Art Addict MCM Eleganté Albuquerque, abclibrary.org 7 pm, Free, New Mexico Veterans’ Center, 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, Mescalero, (800) 545-9011, 2846 NM-14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743, 118 Tulane Dr SE, 433-5654, getplowed.com Santa Fe, (505) 988-1234, November 22, Tab Hunter Confidential; 2020 Menaul Blvd NE, con-jikan.com Memorial, 1100 Louisiana Blvd SE, nhccnm.org innofthemountaingods.com FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4 themineshafttavern.com ticketssantafe.org Lust in the Dust SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28 256-2042, nmvetsmemorial.org A Paul Ortega Farewell Concert November 29, The Barbwires; Doug Gaelic Golondrinas Musical THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26 Nick Warren Farolitos of Christmas NOVEMBER 27–DECEMBER 5 Get Happy Saturday: Board 7 pm, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30 Strahan & The Good Neighbors Performance Bob Tate: Solo Piano 8 pm, Skylight Santa Fe, 139 W. San National Hispanic Cultural Center, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 Dickens Christmas in Games and Bingo 2401 12th St NW, 843-7270, December 4, Boris McCutcheon and 11 am, Lomas Tramway Library, 6 pm, Free, Vernon’s Speakeasy, 6855 Francisco St, Santa Fe, skylightsantafe.com 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, nhccnm.org Abrazos Heartsville Village 12:30 pm, Free, Esther Bone Library, Comp Plan Land Use Focus Group indianpueblo.org the Mighty Salt Licks 908 Eastridge Dr NE, 291-6295, 4th St NW, Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, Powerslyde 6 pm, Peace and Justice Center, 9 am, Free, Heights First Church of the 950 Pinetree Rd SE, 1 pm, City of Albuquerque Planning December 5, Tom Bennet abclibrary.org 341-0831, yougottapassword.com Part of Art in the Afternoon Black Tiger Sex Machine SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28 202 Harvard Dr SE, 268-9557, Nazarene, 8401 Paseo del Norte Blvd Rio Rancho, Department Plaza Del Sol Building Base- George Cables Trio 2 pm, Free, Albuquerque Museum of Art 9 pm, El Rey Theater, 622 Central Ave SW, Los Tigres del Norte abqpeaceandjustice.org NE, 858-3009, yahchoir.org 891-5012 x4, ment Hearing Room, 600 2nd St NW, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27 riorancholibraries.org 924-3932, abc-zone.com MUSIC 7:30 pm, Outpost Performance Space, & History, 2000 Mountain Rd NW, elreyabq.com 8 pm, Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort Chasing Shadows EPROM SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 210 Yale Blvd SE, 268-0044, 242-4600, cabq.gov/museum Grand Funk Railroad & Casino, 287 Carrizo Canyon Rd, 7 pm, KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 Comp Plan Neighborhoods FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 outpostspace.org 7 pm, Effex, 420 Central Ave, 842-8870, Tree of Peace 7 pm, Isleta Resort & Casino, 11000 Mescalero, (800) 545-9011, NW, 768-3544, kimotickets.com Tree Lighting Focus Group Calvin Appleberry Little Joe Y La Familia effexabq.com 7:30 pm, St Michael and All Angels Broadway Blvd SE, 724-3800, isleta.com innofthemountaingods.com 3 pm, Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort Fire Fighter Story Time 8:30 am, City of Albuquerque Planning Secret in Their Eyes 11 am, Santa Fe Children’s Museum, 7 pm, Free, Vernon’s Speakeasy, 7 pm, Isleta Resort & Casino, 11000 Kastle Episcopal Church, 601 Montaño NW, Lil Jon Hocus Pocus Magic Show & Casino, 287 Carrizo Canyon Rd, Department Plaza Del Sol Building Base- Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, 6855 4th St NW, 341-0831, Broadway Blvd SE, 724-3800, isleta.com 9 pm, El Rey Theater, 622 Central Ave SW, 266-4240, depro.org 9 pm, Santa Ana Star Casino, 54 Jemez KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW, Mescalero,(800) 545-9011, ment Hearing Room, 600 2nd St NW, Ave, Santa Fe, (505) 466-5528, (505) 989-8359, yougottapassword.com elreyabq.com Canyon Dam Rd, Santa Ana Pueblo, 768-3544, kimotickets.com innofthemountaingods.com 924-3932, abc-zone.com jeancocteaucinema.com santafechildrensmuseum.org 867-0000, santaanastar.com 30 • November 18, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS CALENDAr CALENDAr ABQ FREE PRESS • November 18, 2015 • 31 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 NOVEMBER 21-24 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 THROUGH JANUARY 29, 2016 Hibernation Hike Gratefulness from a Buddhist Page1 Books, 5850 Eubank Blvd NE Interactive Holiday Cards & Barelas: A Community Reimagining 10 am, Cerrillos Hills State Park, Cerrillos, Perspective Ste B-41, 294-2026, page1book.com Luminarias Free, National Hispanic Cultural Center, El Moises: Art Opening BY ariane jarocki River of Lights NM, (505) 474-0196, cerrilloshills.org 11 am, Free, Cherry Hills Library, November 21, Jane Lindskold, Curiosities 1 pm, New Mexico Natural History Mu- 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, nhccnm.org BY ARIANE JAROCKI November 24, Connie Willis & Melinda 6901 Barstow NE, abclibrary.org seum, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Mementos Snodgrass, Rewrites: Necessary Evil or Chore DECEMBER 5–31 Tellabration: Storytelling 841-2800, RSVP: nmnaturalhistory.org Tamarind Institute, 2500 Central Ave SE, December Garden Holidays Events: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 ONGOING 277-3901, tamarind.unm.edu ABQ BioPark, 2601 Central Ave NW, O’Keeffe — Up Close and 764-6200, abqbiopark.com Glass Eye Poets Society Poetry THROUGH JANUARY 30, 2016 Faraway Readings THROUGH NOVEMBER 28 Mexico at the Hour of Combat: 3 pm, Special Collections Library, 6 pm, Studio 14, FOOD AND DRINK Faith and the Gutierrez Family Sabino Osuna’s Photographs of 423 Central NE, 768-5170, abclibrary.org 2860C State Hwy 14, Madrid, Exhibit the Mexican Revolution FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 Ramona King (505) 474-6360 Gutierrez-Hubbell House Open Space, & NOVEMBER 27 10:30 am, Erna Fergusson Library, 6029 Isleta Blvd SW, 244-0507, ¡Viva la Revolución!: The Legacy 3700 San Mateo Blvd NE, 888-8100, NOVEMBER 28–DECEMBER 5 gutierrezhubbellhouse.org of the Mexican Revolution at Coffee Education and Tasting abclibrary.org Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande NW, the University of New Mexico 6:30 pm, Prosum Roasters, 344-8139, bkwrks.com THROUGH NOVEMBER 29 Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, 3228 Los Arboles Ave NE Ste 100, Bob Kanegis 10:30 am, Main Library, November 28, Small Business Saturday UNM Main Campus, 500 Redondo Dr SE, 379-5136, prosumroasters.com Making it Modern – The Folk 501 Copper Ave NW, 768-5170, & Indies First Campaign Art Collection of Elie and Viola 277-4405, unm.edu/~maxwell abclibrary.org November 29, Bill Galbreth, Mark of the Nadelman FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 Mob; Rabbi Joe Black, There Once was a Man THROUGH FEBRUARY 14, 2016 kickoff to the holiday season, River of Lights takes advantage of the shorter days by punctuating Liz Mangual Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, Explora Adult Night: from Canaan: The Five Books of Limerick SWAIAs Moving Image Class X 3 pm, Central & Unser Library, 2000 Mountain Rd NW, 242-4600, Athe dark evenings with a pop of brightness. Throughout the BioPark, sculptures shine and some- Science of Food December 3, Bosque 4 Magazine Launch Winners 2015 8081 Central Ave NE, 768-4320, cabq.gov/museum times move for the delight of young and old alike. Alongside the lights, dancers, carolers and musicians 6:30 pm, Explora, 1701 Mountain Rd December 5, Rosemary Archuletta, Institute of American Indian Arts, l Moises’ artist style is a conglomeration of everything that abclibrary.org fill the evening with festivities. Between Christmas and New ear’sY Eve, Clan Tynker Circus will be NW, 224-8300, explora.us Women Marked for History THROUGH DECEMBER 3 83 Avan Nu Po Rd, Santa Fe, iaia.edu Enative southwesterners understand as everyday life. He mixes providing a dreamlike experience to the backdrop of the twinkling lights. Arrive early to catch the Polar A Sparkling Evening with the SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 Drop in and Draw pop and traditional references to Mexican, Chicano, Native Amer- Gruet Family TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1 THROUGH FEBRUARY 21, 2016 Bear Express, visit with Santa and then travel to the magical land of the River of Lights. Healing Our World — A Deeper Every day, 10 am, New Mexico Museum 6:30 pm, Gruet Winery, Readings: Ruby Hansen Murray, An American Modernism ican and American icons with his bright palette to create stunning Look at Food: Will Tuttle of Art, 107 W Palace Ave, Santa Fe, 8400 Pan American Fwy NE, 821-0055, Terese Marie Mailhot, Ramona New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W works of art that speak of urban culture. His bold style places 6:30 pm, SF Unity, 1212 Unity Way, (505) 476-5072, nmartmuseum.org NOVEMBER 28–JANUARY 2 gruetwinery.com Emerson Palace Ave, Santa Fe, (505) 476-5072, Santa Fe, meetup.com/santa-fe-veg saturated colors side by side, causing a vibration in the mind’s eye. River of Lights 4 pm, Institute of American Indian Arts, THROUGH DECEMBER 11 nmartmuseum.org His style of hatching gives a depth and texture to color planes, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 Moses on the Mesa: Fred S Vallo 83 Avan Nu Po Rd, Santa Fe, iaia.edu 6 pm, ABQ BioPark, 2601 Central Ave NW, 764-6200, abqbiopark.com 10 am, Congregation Albert, Santa Fe Book Art Celebration THROUGH FEBRUARY 26, 2016 helping the eye dance through the picture plane. Each mark is Standards at the Standard: Eat, 3800 Louisiana Blvd NE, RSVP: 883-1818 Free, State Capitol Rotunda Gallery, Paso purposely placed, each mark a symbol. Come experience the story Drink & Sing Along! DECEMBER 2–5 Echoes of the Civil War x3203, congregationalbert.org de Peralta and Old Santa Fe Trail, 3 pm, Standard Diner, Returning the Gift Indigenous New Mexico History Museum, found in El Moises’ works. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30 (cont) FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 (505) 986-4589, nmcapitalart.org 113 Lincoln Ave, Santa Fe, (505) 476-5200, FUNDRAISERS 320 Central Ave SE, casaq.org TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24 Storyteller Conference: Comp Plan Urban Design Twilight Hike Building the Fire THROUGH DECEMBER 12 nmhistorymuseum.org SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 Focus Group THROUGH DECEMBER 5 5 pm, Cerrillos Hills State Park, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 Loretta Hall, Space Historian Various locations in ABQ, rtglitfest.org El Moises: Art Opening and Writer Necessary Force: Art in the THROUGH FEBRUARY 28, 2016 10:30 am, City of Albuquerque Planning Wild+Life: A benefit for Wildlife 37 Main St, Cerrillos, NM, 1st Annual Harvest Food Swap 6 pm, Tractor Brewing Co., 1800 4th St NW, artedemoises.com 2 pm, Free, Honors Forum Student Police State Department Plaza Del Sol Building Base- Rescue of New Mexico (505) 474-0196, cerrilloshills.org 4 pm, The Source Health and FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4 Starry Night Health Center Rm 21, UNM Main ment Hearing Room, 600 2nd St NW, Saturdays, Page Coleman Gallery, Community Wabi-Sabi Oasis, Susan Topper Weber: Nativities Sowing Seeds in the Garden: Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, Campus, 277-4313, unmevents.unm.edu The Mulvany Family Collection 924-3932, abc-zone.com 6320B Linn Ave NE, 238-5071, wrinm.org SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 1111 Carlisle Blvd SE, slowfoodusa.org of the American Southwest 750 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NOVEMBER 23-JANUARY 31, 2016 THROUGH NOVEMBER 22 Revealing the Lives of the 4 pm, Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, of African Art at UNM (505) 982-2226, spanishcolonial.org SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28 Hilo: Group Show of Textile Artists Youth Show TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1 THROUGH DECEMBER 6 Parasites Among Us in the THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26 750 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, UNM Art Museum, 203 Cornell Drive, Gourds as Art: Past and Present 242-1445, unmartmuseum.org THROUGH MARCH 20, 2016 Inpost Artspace, Outpost Performance Inpost Artspace, Outpost Performance Casino/Cuban-Style Salsa and Amigos de las Américas’ Rio Grande Bosque Pueblo Harvest Thanksgiving (505) 982-2226, spanishcolonial.org 2 pm, Taylor Ranch Library, 5700 Bogart Space, 210 Yale Blvd SE, 268-0044, Space, 210 Yale Blvd SE, 268-0044, Rueda de Casino “Christmas” NM Pistachios and 5 pm, Free, Bachechi Open Space, 10 am, Pueblo Harvest Café, Works in Progress: MFA Creative Gustave Baumann and New Mexico St NW, 897-8816, abclibrary.org THROUGH JANUARY 3, 2016 outpostspace.org outpostspace.org 6 pm, National Hispanic Cultural Center, ARCA Poinsettias Fundraiser 9521 Rio Grande NE, RSVP: 314-0398, 2401 12th St NW, 724-3510, Writing Reading Series New Mexico Museum of Art, 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, nhccnm.org Local delivery only, 822-9870, bernco.gov/open indianpueblo.com/puebloharvestcafe Noon, Tortuga, 901 Edith Blvd SE, The NAACP-100 Years of 107 W Palace Ave, Santa Fe, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 Dedicated Service NOVEMBER 28-JANUARY 8, 2016 THROUGH NOVEMBER 25 Comp Plan Parks, Open Space & albuquerque.amigosinternational.org 506-0820, tortugagallery.org (505) 476-5072, nmartmuseum.org Israel/Palestine Issues: Richard African American Performing Arts Small Scale, Big Ideas Music Fields/Energy Lines Community Facilities Focus Group SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 ONGOING Falk with Ali Abunimah Center, 310 San Pedro Dr NE, THROUGH APRIL 17, 2016 Tansey Contemporary, 652 Canyon Rd, (Sketches of Invention): 1 pm, City of Albuquerque Planning FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 What We Do with Wastewater 7 pm, Lensic Performing Arts Center, MUSEUMS 222-0785, aapacnm.org Santa Fe, (505) 995-8513, Donald Rubinstein Department Plaza Del Sol Building Base- Buckles & Boots “Fun”raiser to 11 am, Open Space Visitor Center, TUESDAYS Connoisseurship and Good Pie: 211 W San Francisco St, Santa Fe, tanseycontemporary.com Phil Space, 1410 2nd St, Santa Fe, ment Hearing Room, 600 2nd St NW, benefit New Mexico Ag in the 6500 Coors Blvd NW, 897-8831, Truckin’ Tuesdays FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 Pottery of the US South: Ted Coe and Collecting Native Art lannan.org (505) 983-7945, philspacesantafe.com 924-3932, abc-zone.com Classroom cabq.gov/openspace 11 am, Civic Plaza, 1 Civic Plaza NW, IAIA Graduating Senior Exhibition A Living Tradition Wheelwright Museum of the American THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 8 pm, Albuquerque Embassy Suites, 3rd St NW and Marquette Ave NW, Museum of International Folk Art, 706 Indian, 704 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, WUSATA Explore Exporting Workshop DECEMBER 3–4 5 pm, Institute of American Indian Arts, 1x15 — One Model, Fifteen THROUGH NOVEMBER 27 1000 Woodward Pl NE, 238-2425, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23 albuquerquecc.com Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, (505) 476-1200, (505) 982-4636, wheelwright.org 8 am, Las Cruces, NM, RSVP by 11/27, 83 Avan Nu Po Rd, Santa Fe, iaia.edu Photographers Points of View: Maria C Cole nmaitc.com Lunar Monday Acting Out: Indigenous Perfor- internationalfolkart.org (575) 646-4929, wasata.org mance Art Symposium THROUGH MAY 2, 2016 5 pm, Matrix Fine Art, 3812 Central Ave Jean Porter Disciples MC Food and Coat Run 7 pm, New Mexico Natural History WEDNESDAYS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 Unsuspected Possibilities Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, SE, Ste 100A, 268-8952, matrixfineart.com The Gallery ABQ, 8210 Menaul Blvd NE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 11 am, Duke City Harley-Davidson, Museum, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Talin Market Food Truck Round Up Electronic Textiles SITE Santa Fe, 1606 Paseo de Peralta, Turquoise, Water, Sky: The Stone 108 Cathedral Pl, Santa Fe, and Its Meaning 298-3445, thegalleryabq.com Los Lunas Foster/Adoption 8603 Lomas Blvd NE, 275-3853, nmnaturalhistory.org 11 am, 88 Louisiana Blvd SE 1 pm, New Mexico Natural History Santa Fe, (505) 989-1199, sitesantafe.org DECEMBER 4-31 iaia.edu/museum Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Information Meeting dukecityhd.com Museum, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, THROUGH NOVEMBER 28 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27 FRIDAYS THROUGH JANUARY 10, 2016 710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, Elizabeth Showers Truck Show 5:30 pm, 475 Courthouse Rd, Los Lunas, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 841-2800, RSVP: nmnaturalhistory.org Sorrel Sky Gallery, 125 W. Palace Ave, Desert (Loss): Ren Adams SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 Hobbler Gobbler ABQ Food Fridays From New York to New Mexico: (505) 476-1269, indianartsandculture.org more info: 327-5316 x1123, cyfd.org The Devil’s Due – Must We Sell Santa Fe, (505) 501-6555, sorrelsky.com Old Masters/New Voices — Wanagi Wolf Fund & Rescue Thanksgiving Day Run 4 pm, Civic Plaza, SW Section, OPENING NOVEMBER 22 Masterworks of American Out to Sell: Lois Ruby THROUGH JUNE 19, 2016 Landscapes from Collections FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4 Noon, Petfood Gone Wild, 9 am, Rio Rancho Aquatic Center, 1 Civic Plaza NW, 3rd St NW and Flamenco: From Spain to New Modernism from the Vilcek SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 10 am, New Life Presbyterian, Along the Pecos: A Photo- and Still Life: Susan Evans Getting Ready for Liftoff: 2415 Southern Blvd SE, Rio Rancho, 745 Loma Colorado Dr NE, Rio Rancho, Marquette Ave NW, civicplazapresents.com Mexico Foundation Collection 5540 Eubank Blvd NE, 830-6034, graphic and Sound Collage 9th Annual 12x12 Exhibition Matrix Fine Art, 3812 Central Ave SE Ste Applying for the Ignite wanagi-wolf-fund.org irunfit.com Museum of International Folk Art, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, southwestwriters.com New Mexico History Museum, 6 pm, Harwood Art Center, 1114 7th St NW, 100 A&B, 268-8952, matrixfineart.com Community Accelerator Stuffing Strut TALKS 706 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, 217 Johnson St, Santa Fe, Korea: Col. Don Loftis (RET) 113 Lincoln Ave, Santa Fe, 242-6367, harwoodartcenter.org Part of Spring Ignite Community Accelerator FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4 10 am, Cerrillos Hills State Park, Cerrillos, (505) 476-1200, internationalfolkart.org (505) 946-1000, Part of the Military Lecture Series (505) 476-5200, nmhistorymuseum.org 1 pm, Free, STEMulus Center, CTHF Festival of Trees Gala 2015 NM, (505) 474-0196, cerrilloshills.org FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 okeeffemuseum.org ONGOING 10 am, New Mexico Veterans’ Memorial 20 1st Plaza Center NW, 224-4000 6 pm, Albuquerque Convention Center, Art as Ritual to Life, Art as MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23 Puzzle on page 32 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1 Event Center, 1100 Louisiana Blvd SE, THROUGH JANUARY 16, 2016 THROUGH FEBRUARY 27, 2017 RAD Saturday Art Tours x50089, RSVP: stemuluscenter.org 401 2nd St NW, festivaloftreesnm.com Sovereignty: William S Yellow Lunar Monday 1 pm, Railyard Arts District under 256-2042, nmvetsmemorial.org Indian Country: The Art of Original Instructions: Pueblo Rug Hookers Demonstration Robe, Jr 7 pm, by donation, New Mexico Natural Water Tower, Santa Fe, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 10 am, Free, ABQ BioPark, 2601 Central 3 pm, Institute of American Indian Arts, History Museum, 1801 Mountain Rd David Bradley Sovereignty and Pueblo Governance santaferailyardsartsdistrict.com Pet Adoption Day with Animal Toys for Tots Motorcycle Run Ave NW, 764-6200, abqbiopark.com Distance Learning Rm 1 in CLE Building, WORD NW, 841-2800, nmnaturalhistory.org Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Humane of New Mexico 10:30 am, The Home Depot, 83 Avan Nu Po Rd, Santa Fe, iaia.edu Museum Hill, Santa Fe, (505) 476-1269, THROUGH NOVEMBER 21 1800 Main St NW, Los Lunas, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 NOVEMBER 21-23 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4 indianartsandculture.org 2401 12th St NW, 843-7270, 1 pm, Duke City Harley-Davidson, The Arab Spring, Autocracy and Collected Works Santa Fe, Forever and a Day: Jennifer (505) 864-6709, nmlegionriders.org Holiday Nature Crafts at River First Friday Fractals indianpueblo.org 8603 Lomas Blvd NE, 275-3853, the United States: 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, Nehrbass; Works on Paper: of Lights 6 pm, New Mexico Natural History THROUGH JANUARY 17, 2016 dukecityhd.com Must Interests Always Trump (505) 988-4226, Marcelyn McNeil 6 pm, Free, ABQ BioPark, 2601 Central Museum, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Between Two Worlds: Folk Art- ARTSPREE OUTDOORS Values?: Dr Emile Nakhleh collectedworksbookstore.com Central Features, 109 5th St SW, THROUGH DECEMBER 29 Ave NW, 764-6200, abqbiopark.com 841-2800, nmnaturalhistory.org ists Reflect on The Immigrant 1 pm, Mitchell Hall Rm 220, UNM Main November 21, Opera Breakfast Lecture: NOVEMBER 21–JANUARY 9, 2016 243-3389, centralfeatures.com Tuesday Night Swing Dance THROUGH NOVEMBER 22 Campus, 277-1991, isi.unm.edu Holiday Open House Experience Alban Berg’s Lulu Bewilderness: Scott Greene; Guy’d Book: Jack Balas 5 pm, Heights Community Center, Festival of the Cranes THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 Japanese American Prison Camps 6 pm, Maxwell Museum of Museum of International Folk Art, November 22, Joseph Badal, Rise: Beau Carey James Kelly Contemporary, 1611 Paseo 823 Buena Vista Dr SE, 710-3840, Free, Bosque Del Apache Visitor Center, Colcheras Demonstration of World War II: Sam Mihara Anthropology, 500 Redondo Dr SE, 706 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, Death Ship (505) 476-1200, 516 ARTS, 516 Central Ave SW, de Peralta, Santa Fe, (505) 989-1601, thecalmingfour.org 1001 Hwy 1, San Antonio, 9:30 am, Free, ABQ BioPark, 2601 Cen- 11:30 am, Free, Main Library, 501 Copper 277-4405, unm.edu/~maxwell November 23, Abby & the Myth internationalfolkart.org 242-1445, 516arts.org jameskelly.com (575) 838-2120, festivalofthecranes.com tral Ave NW, 764-6200, abqbiopark.com Ave NW, 768-5170, abclibrary.org 32 • November 18, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS calendar/CROSSWORD calendar Crossword by Myles Mellor

Across 47. Fat letters 20. Soothing stuff BY ARIANE JAROCKI Lulu Live 1. Politician, for short 48. Winter wear 22. Mounted on 4. Pot material 49. School session 26. Long time 8. Skip past 50. Coffee holder 28. Chomped on 12. Native Japanese 51. Chinese mafia 29. Dad’s sanctuary 13. Summoned 52. Break down 30. Propel a boat 14. Rot 55. Falls back 31. Parachute part 16. Something to 58. Urge (on) 32. Seed coat market 60. Get rid of 33. Scottish hillside 17. Draft 62. Jewish laws 34. Father 18. Secretly wed 64. Toward 35. Overly decorous 19. Dance 66. Pass away notice (abbr.) 36. Tennis shots 21. Hindu mind/body 67. ___ con carne 37. Chicken ___ discipline 68. Dear 40. Polite form of 23. Units 69. Tract address to the boss Metopera.org 24. “The ___ who came 70. Jump around 41. Kind of chair riginally composed by Alban Berg, Lulu premiered unfinished in 1937 in from the cold” playfully 43. Strange flyer Oafter Berg’s death. Don’t expect traditionalism in this gem of Twentieth 25. Bruce and Spike 71. Attention getting 44. Loony Century Opera — Berg endeavored to produce a modern opera despite the 27. Brown color sound 45. Cornish game ___ Nazi’s discouragement of anything moving away from the old-style. Lulu made 29. Opening 72. Scuff 46. Motivate its American debut at the Santa Fe Opera in 1963. A finished three act version 30. Nonsense! Down 49. Fancy desserts was published in 1979 by Freidrich Cerha, following Berg’s notations. This 31. City transport 1. Ab strengthener 50. Church song rags-to-riches then back again focuses on Lulu, who was saved from the streets 34. Quick temper 2. Foe 51. Port on the North and eventually marries a doctor. The artist painting her portrait has fallen in 37. Bishop of Rome 3. Unfeeling African coast love with Lulu and pursues her – until her husband walks in on them. The doctor 38. Canadian hockey 52. Native Israeli cannot handle the shock, has a heart attack and leaves Lulu a wealthy widow. 4. NBC’s rival player Bobby __ 53. Basket material The acts that follow are filled with more romantic mishaps entangled with Lulu’s 5. Danny Crane, e.g. 39. Steely material 54. Trial money and status, highlighting the perceived duality of the female archetype. 6. Cheerio 40. Plant 7. Safecracker 55. Roman abbreviation SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 41. Tune 8. Literary piece 56. Danish physicist The Met Live in HD: Lulu 42. Type of cage 9. Gourd family fruit 57. Vivacity 10:30 a.m., Lensic Theater, 211 W. San Francisco, Santa Fe, 43. Trademark for a 10. Superstar 59. Cheap mag (505) 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org computer OS 11. Cash register part 61. Gad about 45. Barrier in a running 12. Superciliousness 63. Trendy race 65. Frequently, to a bard NOVEMBER 28 Past, Present, Future: & Frank Whipple 15. Approved! Angel Wynn Nisa Touchon Fine Art, Hooks Shafts & Triangular Encaustic Art Institute, 1925 Rosina St Ste C, Santa Fe, Answers on page 31 Cylinders: Jeff Laird 632 Agua Fria St, Santa Fe, (505) 303-3034, nistouchon.com Ultra Drones, Etc: (505) 780-8390, eainm.com Augustine Romero THROUGH DECEMBER 16 Right Brain Gallery, THROUGH DECEMBER 5 Native Bone and Far to 3100 Menaul Blvd NE, 816-0214, Three New Mexico Artists: Home: Kent Williams se-oc-rightbraingallery.com HP Bloomer IV, Eddie EVOKE Contemporary, Nature & Imagination: Dominguez, Michelle 550 S Guadalupe St, Santa Fe, Lesley Long, Andrea Goodman (505) 995-9902, Sanchez, Marc Sherson Santa Fe Clay, evokecontemporary.com Tortuga, 901 Edith Blvd SE, 545 Camino de la Familia, Santa Fe, 506-0820, tortugagallery.org (505) 984-1122, santafeclay.com THROUGH DECEMBER 21 Painting the North — Two Landscapes – England Gravity’s Delta: Landscapes From Taos & Peru: Edward Ranney Eric Garduno & Beyond: Dee Sanchez photo-eye Gallery, Día De Los Muertos: Sumner & Dene, 517 Central Ave 541 S. Guadalupe St, Santa Fe, William Frej NW, 842-1400, sumnerdene.com (505) 988-5152, photoeye.com Peters Projects, Fall Group Show 1011 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, THROUGH DECEMBER 6 (505) 954-5700, petersprojects.com 558 Canyon Rd, Santa Fe, Heavy Metal: Arthur (505) 992-0711, Drooker; Anthracite: THROUGH DECEMBER 27 chiaroscurosantafe.com Daphne Krinos The Land Mark Show Patina Gallery, 131 W Palace Center for Contemporary Arts, THROUGH NOVEMBER 29 Ave, Santa Fe, (505) 986-3432, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, In Shadows: Cassia Har- patina-gallery.com (505) 982-1338, ccasantafe.org ries, Aya Kakeda, Horrible Adorables, Valeri Blossom, THROUGH DECEMBER 8 THROUGH DECEMBER 31 Junker Jane UNM Art Education Grad Works by VSA Artists Stranger Factory, MA Exhibition Peace and Justice Center, 3411 Central Ave NE, 508-3049, Masley Art Gallery, Masley Hall 202 Harvard Dr SE, 268-9557, strangerfactory.com Rm 105, UNM Main Campus, vsartsnm.org unm.edu/~arted National Pastel Painting Float: Christian Haub Exhibition THROUGH DECEMBER 12 David Richard Gallery, 544 S Hispanic Arts Center, Expo New Guadalupe St, Santa Fe, Mexico, 300 San Pedro Dr NE, Exquisite Corpse: The Sur- (505) 983-9555, 222-9700, exponm.com realist Tendency in Collage: davidrichardgallery.com Hope Kroll, Sherry Parker