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Dear Alibi , Again students were involved. My section on Thank you for your article in the August the Country Club market had images of Rosa 13-19 issue of the Weekly Alibi regarding some Parks, Mahatma Gandhi and Cesar Chavez of our city’s murals. In chronological order, along with images of endangered species “With No Past We Have No Future” at including school children in the crosshairs of a Second Street. and Gold downtown, I painted rifle.The owner of the store at that time was in 1994 with Working classroom students. At from Palestine and requested the Dome of the the time the Old Albuquerque High school Rock which was included. buildings at Central. and Broadway were If you should venture down to the South boarded up and there were pros and cons as to Valley on Isleta. south of Rio Bravo just past whether these old buildings should be razed or the library and opposite the skate park, you restored. As we went about our research for will see our latest 2014 - 2015 effort, “La the mural at the Albuquerque Museum, the Corriente del Valle” the flow of the valley. An Head Archivist informed us that Albuquerque, interactive mural some 342’6” long by 8’ high, like many cities in the West, had “trashed its and 15’6” on the highest section.The mural architectural heritage” and went on to show us timeline stretches from the Pueblo pictures of the demonstrations to save the old “emergence” story up to present day and into Alvarado Hotel. In one of those pictures there an alternate energy future. was a demonstrator holding a sign with the Embedded QR codes reveal a soundtrack as phrase which then became our mural title. I one traverses the length, another brings up an was told by someone who witnessed the event animation of the roadrunner running along that the railroad bulldozed the hotel early one the top of the mural, and others describe some Sunday morning, and in a few hours it lay in a of the scenes depicted. For further information heap of rubble. That gave us the cheek to please log on to Workingclassroom.org. concoct the headlines of a fictitious newspaper regarding “moronic officials destroying historic Sincerely, landmarks”. The old high school was saved, Joe Stephenson and a faux Alvarado later arose phoenixlike from the rubble. Life imitating art? In the summer of 1998, Kathleen Sweeney, Mike Ipiotis and I, painted a trio of murals at AUGUST 27-SEPTEMBER 2 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [7] your classmates wouldn’t even notice, so maybe Dear Nikki, As with any party, invite hot girls that aren’t you should just do that. If you insist on staying The end of summer is on the horizon. We annoying, provide some shade and your barby for the semester for whatever reason, I advise all have a lot of things we want to pack in will be a hit! Soundtrack suggestions include you do yourself a favor by attempting to have before it’s over: vacation to Rehoboth Beach, Bob Seger, Thin Lizzy, Biters and Calexico. an open mind. Otherwise, any suggestions on Hersheypark water slides, romantic lunch how and where to have a good time will just date with the girl from AP Biology, but most Dear Nikki, fall on deaf ears. So, are you ready to stop being importantly, one last killer SUMMER BBQ!! I recently started dating a guy I met on a total twat and start acting like a normal, fun- Can you please give me some hot tips to Match.com. We’ve been out a few times. He’s loving college kid? Okay, good. throw an August BBQ that everyone will be smart, funny, generous and basically all- The Duke is not a metropolitan city, but talking about through next St. Patrick’s Day? around total relationship material. I’m really BY NIKKI KNOW-IT-ALL there’s still plenty to do. Check out the locally starting to fall for him hard. The problem is, owned coffee shops, sex shops, bars and —Trying to Tri-tip, I think he might be a neo-Nazi. He came Dear Nikki, breweries, local and international cuisine, give me your bratwurst! over, saw my Billie Holiday painting and I just transferred out to UNM from hiking trails, the Bosque, the Tramway or live made some crack about having Black people Brooklyn and after three days of being here I music downtown any night of the week. We Dear Sausages, on my walls. He’s into old punk and has a realized that this town sucks, the food sucks, have bigger concerts at larger indoor and I don’t know where in the hell you are, but Skrewdriver CD in his collection. He’s made the music scene sucks, the coffee shops suck, outdoor venues. Most bands will come through I’m hoping you own a barbecue. That would be some other mildly disparaging remarks about the Alibi sucks, Breaking Bad sucks and you town as they have to take I-25 or I-40 on their the first step. If you’re going with coals instead different ethnicities. Do you think this suck. Is there some part of town I can flee to tour routes and the ticket prices are way more of gas, get yourself a chimney starter, which should be a deal-breaker? and hide in a bubble and just avoid having reasonable than they would be in N.Y. As far as will evenly heat the coals. As far as anything to do with this suck-ass city until good hiding places here, try Cervantes, any refreshment, a couple thirty packs of Coors —Meeting Mr. Reich? my semester is up and I can go back to a place number of parks, the Chapel in Old Town or Light or Marble pilsner should do it. If your with real culture? Thanks. the back bar in Carraro’s & Joe’s. If you want to high society friends can’t take a “when in Dear Bigot-Lover, flee, take a day trip to Madrid or Santa Fe or Rome” approach, then they can bring their Ew! In this day and age?! C’mon! He should —New Mexican’t spend the night in Taos.