VOL II, Issue 16, August 12, 2015 New Mexico’s second-largest newspaper

XX-centric Bubonicon Author Mary R. Kowal Joins ‘Women of Wonder’ at Sci-fi Fest Page 17

How Payday Lenders Got Their Way in Santa Fe Page 4

Joe Monahan: List of 2017 Mayoral Hopefuls Grows Page 7

Boyd Standoff Went Badly Right from the Start Page 5 2 • August 12, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS www.freeabq.com www.abqarts.com

Editor: [email protected] Redflex Greased its ABQ Deal, Report Finds Associate Editor, News: [email protected] By abq free press staff Associate Editor, Arts: [email protected]

ity auditors found violations since 2013, with six separate allegations of bribery or inap- Advertising: [email protected] Cof city policy but no criminal indictments spanning from 2006 propriate gifts in Albuquerque,” On Twitter: @FreeABQ wrongdoing in an investigation to 2015. Auditor Debra Yoshimura wrote of Redflex, the company that The investigation by Albuquer- in a report to Lewis early this operated Albuquerque’s redlight que’s internal auditor found that year. “The FBI agent chacater- Editor and speed cameras from 2004 to Redflex spent about $1,425 on ized the allegations related to Dan Vukelich 2011. meals, hotel accommodations Albuquerque as ‘glad-handing’ (505) 345-4080. Ext. 800 The investigation was requested and golf equipment benefitting activities such as taking people by City Councilor Dan Lewis after civilian and Albuquerque Police out to lunch or dinner a couple of Associate Editor, News news reports that Redflex had Department employees. times.” Dennis Domrzalski bribed municipal officials around Redflex paid for a total of 53 Albuquerque voters decided (505) 306-3260 the country to win redlight meals for city employees starting to end the red-light cameras Associate Editor, Arts contracts. in 2003 and bought one city in October 2011. City officials Samantha Anne Carrillo In a lawsuit, an executive employee $40 worth of golf balls, concluded that Albuquerque (505) 345-4080 ext. 804 at Redflex, Aaron Rosenberg, according to the auditor’s report. made $7 million from red-light alleged he was a top salesman Accepting meals or other benefits traffic tickets, while Redflex made Design for five years from 2008 to 2013 from a current or potential vendor $18 million. Terry Kocon, Hannah Reiter, Cathleen Tiefa and that Redflex has been bribing is a violation of the city’s admin- Rio Rancho is the only city in and giving gifts to city officials istrative code, according to the New Mexico still contracted with Photography throughout the United States, report. Redflex. The contract ends in Mark Bralley, Mark Holm, Juan Antonio including officials in Chicago, “An Albuquerque FBI agent December. Labreche, Liz Lopez, Adria Malcolm Arizona, Ohio and New Mexico. informed us that according to Contributors this issue Six executives have been fired the Chicago office, there were no Lisa Barrow, Hugh Elliott, Richard “Bugman” Fagerlund, Gary Glasgow, Ariane Jarocki, Elijah Jensen-Lindsey, Megan Kamerick, Dan Klein, Joe Monahan, Sayrah Namasté, Joseph Sorrentino, ABQ Free Press Pulp News M. Brianna Stallings, Rene Thompson, compiled By abq free press staff Tom Tomorrow, Efrain Villa, Terry L. Warkentine Pee perps where government officials hand cash register from his pocket after Copy Editors out jobs in return for votes. The he realized he missed a trailer Wendy Fox Dial Requests for “pee-proof paint” study found that 27,000 new being pulled by a vehicle and Jim Wagner are going through the roof in public-sector jobs were added wanted his register to balance San Francisco, where officials are Sales Representatives (505) 345-4080 before one recent election. Now, with the axel counts and was trying to stop public urination Abby Feldman x802 Greece has a ministry charged caught on tape putting money with a paint that repels urine. Garrett Ferguson x809 with eliminating 25,000 govern- from his pocket into the register,” “We are piloting it to see if we can Colandra Gallegos x807 ment jobs as part of the country’s Samsonov’s daughter, Patricia discourage people from peeing Cory Calamari x810 plan to get its economy in order. Samsonov Gillis, wrote on John Wehner x812 at many of our hot spots,” said Facebook. Samsonov had worked Public Works Director Moham- for the toll authority for 29 years. Operations Manager med Nuru. The UV-coated paint Well off Abby Feldman (505) 345-4080, Ext. 802 He was popular with customers is hydrophobic, meaning it repels About 71 percent of the 7 billion because he handed out lollipops Published every other week by: water. Urine actually bounces people on this planet are clas- to children and dog bones to pets, Great Noggins LLC back at the urinator, splashing sified as poor, while 13 percent P.O. Box 6070 pants and shoes. San Francisco according to USA Today. are middle-class, according to Albuquerque, NM 87197-6070 got the idea from the German Bloombergview.com. That leaves city of Hamburg, which grew about 16 percent who are rich. Vandalized Publishers weary of smelling like a urinal Being poor is defined as getting Will Ferguson and Dan Vukelich A drunken squirrel caused more each morning. “The team that by on less than $2 a day. Middle- than $500 damage to a Worces- did the testing, they were excited class is defined as living on tershire, England pub, according because the liquid bounces back between $10 and $20 a day. more than we thought it would. to the British newspaper the Corrections policy: Anything we can do to deter Independent. The owner of the Punished Honeybourne Railway Club said It is the policy of ABQ Free Press to correct people is a good thing,” Nuru errors in a timely fashion. Contact the editors told the newspaper SFGate. A Florida toll booth attendant he found glasses and beer bottles at the email addresses on this page. was fired after reaching into his broken when he arrived to open own pocket to pay part of the toll up, before he spotted a squirrel Quid pro quo for a driver. Vladislav Samsonov, stumbling out from under the bar. How bad is corruption in Greece, 77, said he made up the differ- The owner believes the squirrel Where to find stepchild of the European Union? ence when he mistakenly charged somehow opened a beer tap and our paper? Bribery accounts for 8 percent of the driver too little to pass drank from it before going on its List of more than drunken rampage. He chased the the gross domestic product of the through his booth on the Gaspa- 550 locations country, according to the Brook- rilla Island Bridge Authority near squirrel out a restroom window. at freeabq.com ings Institution. The practice has Boca Grande, Fla. “He broke the “It’s safe to say he is now barred its roots in the electoral system, rules by putting $5.50 into the for life,” the owner said. [ after the news ] ABQ FREE PRESS • August 12, 2015 • 3

[STAGES] [FOOD/DRINK] “I showed ‘Jonesy’ a Chat- “Even the toughest of 15ter postcard, and he said, 19 weeks are no match for ‘Oh, man, Dude’ – he kept call- the Three Sisters, Downtown’s ing me ‘dude’ – ‘Do you know sleeping giant and the Haute- about the parking ramp?’” Savoie of the High Desert.” – Chatter Executive Director – Ariane Jarocki on the second Pamela Michaelis on finding an installment of our multi-issue outdoor “auditorium” for Chat- Deep Dish coverage of Albu- ter’s Sept. 5 rooftop concert querque’s best happy hours

[ARTS] [SCREENS] “[Misogyny] is not a new “Can we relate to an ani- 17thing, and the reason that 22 mated horse? How about we’re seeing all this conversa- one who was once a household tion about it is because it’s name and lives in a mansion something that people are with his entourage? You might actively fighting against.” be surprised.” – Hugh Elliott on – Bubonicon 47 toastmaster, dark, animated Netflix comedy author and puppeteer Mary “Bojack Horseman” Robinette Kowal on sexism and harassment in the sci-fi/fantasy [STAGES] community Listen to The Update with “All the while, rape cul- 24ture blames victims, tells Dennis [ARTS] women that their worth is 100 “Gatas y Vatas is going percent body-based and cracks Domrzalski 18 down in Seattle this year, jokes about men dropping the Monday mornings [but] the all-ages music fest soap in prison showers.” at 8:25. on featuring solo female perform- – M. Brianna Stallings on KANW-FM 89.1 ers (including trans and cis YouTube sex educator Laci women, as well as genderqueer Green’s visit to UNM to present and non-binary folks) hasn’t “Taking Down Rape Culture” forgotten its many nuevo- mexicano fans.” – Lisa Barrow [MUSIC] on Gatas y Vatas’ fundraiser Animales Animados: Monsters “With the exception of Under the Bed 25Gregg Araki’s ‘Happy Face’ and Judd Apatow’s ‘Pineapple Express’, stoner movies have [FOOD] been declining ever since “Think all-American sum- Cheech and Chong toked on 18 mer foods: watermelon, that Labrador strain. On the barbeque, lemonade ... and other hand, stoner rock has macaroni and cheese? If that last experienced a renaissance of one didn’t immediately spring to late.” mind, don’t worry.” – M. Brianna – Samantha Anne Carrillo on Stallings on the transformative Weedeater’s concert at cultural power of the Macaroni Launchpad and Cheese Festival

on the cover: Author/puppeteer Mary Robinette Kowal. Photo by Rod Searcey.

[15] [19] [24] 4 • August 12, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS news Payday Lenders’ Giving Pays Off at Roundhouse BY RENE THOMPSON AND DAN VUKELICH

Spending Wisely f you wonder why it’s still legal in New Mexico Ito charge up to 1,000 percent on payday and title Campaign finance records show that the payday loan industry gave money to 24 legislators with the loans, a clue lies in the campaign finance records of power to block payday lending reform during the the Office of Secretary of State. 2015 Legislature. These included the House and Payday lenders, title loan lenders and other Senate leaders and members of two key committees. high-interest storefront lending operations or their lobbyists gave state legislators tens of thousands of rep. Nate Gentry ...... $12,950 dollars during the last two election cycles, an ABQ Sen. Phil Griego ...... $11,075 Free Press investigation found. Sen. Stuart Ingle...... $7,400 The industry’s apparent payback for that largesse Sen. John Sapien ...... $5,250 came during this year’s 60-day legislative session Sen. Michael Sanchez...... $5,100 when two bills enjoying broad public support to cap Sen. Mary Kay Papen...... $4,350 interest rates at 36 percent were killed in committee. Sen. William H. Payne...... $3,400 One bill got a committee hearing in the House of bill wouldn’t get a hearing unless reform advocates Sen. Clemente Sanchez ...... $2,700 Representatives and then was tabled. The bill in the and industry lobbyists first agreed on a compromise, Sen. Sander Rue...... $2,700 Senate never got a hearing. according to lobbyists for both sides. When the Sen. William Sharer...... $2,650 The 2015 legislative session was the latest in a Legislature adjourned its 60-day session, according rep. Alonzo Baldonado ...... $2,450 string of failures. Former Attorney General Gary to reform advocates, the bill was still locked in rep. Nora Espinoza...... $2,200 King tried to persuade the Legislature starting committee. rep. Yvette Herrell...... $2,150 in 2007 to reduce allowable interest rates. The Sen. Michael Padilla...... $2,000 persistent failure of payday lending reform in New The power of money rep. Don Tripp...... $1,750 Mexico runs counter to what’s happening elsewhere Sen. Mark Moores...... $1,600 The payday loan industry (we use the term in in the United States as state regulators try to break rep. Bob Wooley...... $1,050 this article to encompass all forms of high-interest what is called the “debt trap,” where low-income rep. James E. Smith...... $1,050 storefront lending) was well prepared to defend the rep. Mimi Stewart...... $650 people take out successive loans to pay off earlier revenue stream their storefront offices generate. rep. Patricia Caballero...... $550 ones – and never get out of debt. The industry has been generous. A review of rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton...... $550 Regulators in 13 states recently have reined in campaign finance records shows that the industry rep. Lee Cotter ...... $500 exorbitant interest and fees. In North Carolina, a spent $74,675 on the most recent campaigns of 24 Sen. Brian Egolf...... $400 state with a large military presence, lawmakers have key legislators – the top leaders of the Senate and rep. Deborah Armstrong...... $200 banned payday lenders completely. The Depart- the House and members of the two key committees ment of Defense supports limits on payday lenders assigned to hear payday loan bills this year. TOTAL...... $74,675 because servicemen and women are among the The debate over the intersection of money and *Sources: New Mexico Secretary of State’s Office, 2012 and 2014 industry’s targets. influence in Santa Fe is an old one. Advocates for election campaign reports; followthemoney.org Before the 2015 session of the New Mexico Legis- ethics reform see the appearance of impropriety. lature, 45 community, social service, religious and Lawmakers see nothing wrong with accepting on the side for reform, there was one. service organizations backed payday lending reform campaign donations from industries they regulate. ABQ Free Press could not put the question of or were prepared to testify in favor of capping Sen. Clemente Sanchez, a Grants Democrat who money and influence at the Roundhouse this year to interest rates at 36 percent, which has been done has received $2,700 from the industry since 2012, many of the legislative leaders. That’s because calls elsewhere. Four of the state’s largest newspapers said contributions to his campaign do not affect and emails to the following people who received editorialized in favor of interest rate caps. how he votes. Sen. Michael Padilla, an Albuquerque payday loan donations were not returned over a But their voices weren’t heard. Democrat who has received $2,000 from payday period of several months: Reform advocates who went to the Roundhouse to lenders, said, “If someone decided to write a check, House Speaker Don Tripp, a Socorro Republican; testify in favor of capping interest rates allege that that’s one thing; you know I’m not going to send President Pro Tem Papen, a Las Cruces Democrat; the former chairman of the Senate Corporations and checks back, but that doesn’t mean that I looked for House Majority Leader Nate Gentry, an Albu- Transportation Committee, Phil Griego of San José, it, because I didn’t.” querque Republican; Rep. Brian Egolf, a Santa Fe essentially gave the payday industry a veto over the Another thing the industry had going for it this Democrat; Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez, legislation. year was manpower. As many as 23 payday loan a Belen Democrat; and Senate Minority Leader Griego told both sides that the interest rate cap industry lobbyists worked the Roundhouse in 2015; Stuart Ingle, a Portales Republican. Top Payday Loan Donation Recipients Tale of two bills While several bills were introduced during the 2015 Legislature to cap rates or change the way payday lenders do business in New Mexico, reform advocates rallied around two identical measures – House Bill 36 and Senate Bill 72. Both were pre-filed – meaning they were introduced before the Legislature convened for its 60-day session on Jan. 20. The bills officially got their committee Rep. Nate Gentry Sen. Phil Griego Sen. Stuart Ingle Sen. John Sapien Sen. Michael Sanchez Sen. Mary Kay Papen referrals on Jan. 23, the third day of the Legislature. House Corporations Senate Corporations Senate Senate In the Senate, SB 72, sponsored by Rep. William minority leader Committee chair minority leader Committee member majority leader president pro tem Soules, a Las Cruces Democrat, was referred by $12,950 $11,075 $7,400 $5,250 $5,100 $4,350 cont. on page 10 NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • August 12, 2015 • 5 Boyd told Cops: ‘I Can’t Walk Away. You Can’t Walk Away’ BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI

t wasn’t long into his three-hour standoff with IAlbuquerque police that James Boyd seemed to grasp the severity of the dilemma he and the cops were in. What had started off as a minor call about illegal camping had spun irrevocably out of control. Even Boyd’s paranoid schizophrenia, which was on full display that 16th day of March 2014, couldn’t interfere with his intuition of how things had gone and where they were going. In words that now seem hauntingly prophetic, Boyd understood that neither he nor the cops could disengage from their deadly dance. He had com- mitted a felony by pulling two knives on cops and threatening to kill them, and they were obligated to disarm and arrest him. “We’re in a situation,” Boyd told the six or seven officers surrounding him, weapons drawn at a sun-baked, rocky and sparsely vegetated place called U Mound in the Sandia Mountain foothills on the east edge of town. It was just 26 minutes and eight seconds into their dance when Boyd stated what Albuquerque Police Department everybody there knew: “I can’t walk away. You can’t A series of decisions made by James Boyd and a variety of police officers in the Sandia foothills over a period of hours on March 16, walk away.” 2014, led to Boyd’s shooting death and charges of second-degree murder against the two police officers who shot him. About four minutes later, one of the officers asked Boyd, who had repeatedly refused to drop or give up McDaniel and Hernandez reached Boyd’s site Ill-advised pat down? around 4:45 p.m. and found him lying in a makeshift his knives, “How are we going to resolve this?” The next escalation came about 43 seconds into the plastic tent. Illegal camping is a misdemeanor, but Again, Boyd responded with an intuition that encounter when McDaniel told Boyd he wanted to things escalated immediately. One of Boyd’s hands turned out to be eerily accurate: “I don’t know if we pat him down to see if he had weapons. was outside the tent and the other was inside. can. I think somebody’s going to get hurt, killed.” Boyd said to the officers, “Please don’t touch me.” McDaniel wanted to see the other hand to make sure Boyd was indeed prophetic. He was shot three But McDaniel persisted and asked Boyd to turn it wasn’t holding a weapon. times by cops and mortally wounded that day. The around. When McDaniel attempted the pat down, “How’s it going? Albuquerque police,” McDaniel Albuquerque Police Department was hurt as well, Boyd wheeled around and pulled two four-inch-blade said as he approached Boyd. About six seconds later, as well, its reputation as a trigger-happy department pocket knives out of his pockets and held the blades McDaniel said to Boyd, “Let’s see your hands.” At solidified, thanks to lapel-camera video that was seen outward in both hands while facing the officers. At 11 seconds in, McDaniel repeated the demand, and worldwide. The two officers who shot Boyd would that instant, Boyd committed the crime of aggravated he and Hernandez drew their handguns on Boyd. face charges of second-degree murder, an unprec- assault with a deadly weapon on an officer, and at that To some former cops, that was the wrong call edented decision for this city. point the cops were obligated to arrest him. and escalated a petty misdemeanor call to one Many times during the three-hour standoff there That attempted pat down was a mistake, some where weapons were drawn, putting Boyd on the were points where it could have been prevented from former cops said, for two reasons. It jeopardized the defensive. Cops should never draw a weapon, escalating. But for a variety of reasons, those opportu- officers’ safety, and most cops know that homeless which amounts to a show of deadly force, for a nities were missed or refused, and Boyd and the cops people in general don’t like to be touched. misdemeanor, they said. danced themselves right into the abyss. Most cops who deal with the homeless know they “There is no purpose to draw a weapon on a sus- ABQ Free Press talked with retired cops and a typically are armed for their own protection, usually pect in a nonviolent crime, said former APD officer former prosecutor to see exactly how and when the with box cutters or knives, Grover said. “They don’t Tom Grover. “Drawing a weapon because someone Boyd confrontation spun out of control and how it have hatchets, machetes, or bazookas,” he said. hasn’t shown their hands on an initial approach is might have been prevented or calmed. Not all of In general, cops don’t like to touch homeless completely outside of training. You don’t have any our sources agreed with each other on police tactics, people either, because, well, they’re walking infesta- information that he is a suspect in an armed crime.” which is why the Boyd case has so divided the tions and germ factories, former cops said, and their The preferable way to handle such a situation community. clothes are often caked with feces and urine. Here’s a breakdown of the major scenes in the Boyd would have been to tell Boyd in a friendly, non- drama. threatening manner that camping here was illegal, Boyd could have ended it but that he could move 300 yards east to the Guns drawn 11 seconds in national forest to camp. They could then say they’d While McDaniel and Hernandez might have acted too aggressively, the fact that Boyd pulled It was around 4:30 that Sunday afternoon when be back in a few hours and that he better be gone when they returned, some officers said. two knives on them took the situation to a new and APD Open Space officers John McDaniel and Patrick dangerous level. The officers then faced a potentially Hernandez got a call of someone camping illegally That’s how those types of calls were and might still be handled, they said, by officers using their discre- deadly threat, because knives, even ones with four- in city open space in the foothills past the end of inch blades, can easily slice through the Copper Avenue. tion and not going strictly by the book. But there was one thing that prevented that from body armor cops wear. And at 6-foot-2 and 220 They stopped at the house of nearby resident pounds, Boyd presented a formidable threat. Alexander Thickstun, a U.S. Air Force captain who happening. The officers were dispatched based on a citizen’s The officers pointed their weapons directly at Boyd had called APD’s nonemergency number to report and shouted at him at least a dozen times to drop the illegal camping. Thickstun had been out earlier call and that citizen expected action, said retired APD officer Mark Bralley. “Telling a guy to leave the knives. Boyd refused, and the situation reached that day with his two Great Danes and a handgun the point of no return. to investigate the area where he thought a man had and that I’d be back in two hours, I might have done been camping. Thickstun told the officers where that if I had not gotten a call from a citizen. It’s a call they could find Boyd. from a citizen who expects something to be done, and he got plenty of service that day,” Bralley said. cont. on page 6 6 • August 12, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS

boyd, Page 5 to dispatch, but the special prosecutor in the case said there was no evidence Reinforcements arrive that anyone from APD called Boyd’s To Grover, that was the tipping point two CIT officers to come to the scene. for both sides. Any cop listening to his Some former officers speculated radio heard that a guy had threatened that had two people been on the scene fellow officers with lethal force – a who knew Boyd and his mental illness felony – and police started flooding well, they might have been able to get into the area. Dispatch began directing him to drop his knives and surrender. officers to the scene, and 17 more No commanders on scene eventually arrived. “That is when the genie is out of the To retired APD sergeant Dan Klein bottle. It’s when the bell is rung, and (a columnist for this newspaper), now you can’t unring it,” Grover said. there was a glaring defect in the department’s response to the Boyd Standoff and negotiations situation. No officer above the rank As more officers arrived, includ- of sergeant – meaning anyone on the ing Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) APD command staff – was on the members, they began negotiating scene during the negotiations and with Boyd. Early on, Boyd identified when the final plan to subdue and ar- himself only by the nickname of Ba. rest Boyd was hatched and launched. His knives were back in his pockets, Sergeants, Klein explained, tend to and he rambled on about his connec- think tactically, while commanders tions with high government officials, have a more strategic view of critical including those at the U.S. Depart- incidents. Sergeants generally want to ment of Defense, and how the world end a situation as quickly as possible, would run out of money in five to six while commanders might take more months. time to develop a plan or let negotia- “I’ve been calling [APD] about tions go on longer. national security,” Boyd said. At one “Many times, sergeants do not have point, he said he would talk only to the training to control and command the New Mexico State Police. A state officers from different units, and police officer was dispatched to the that is huge,” Klein said. “Sergeants scene. know their five or six people that they There were times when Boyd work with. When you have a critical advanced slightly on the officers, but incident, you might have 20 or more they repeatedly warned him that he officers out there.” would be shot with a bean bag rifle if At critical incidents, there almost he went past a certain point – a large always is tension between SWAT team rock nearby. For the most part, Boyd members and negotiators who are stayed behind the rock. Boyd also talking with, say, a barricaded subject, seemed to know police protocol. At Klein said. one point, he warned the officers, “I’m “The negotiators are saying, ‘Give us approaching.” more time,’ and the SWAT sergeant is Throughout the talks, officers saying, ‘It’s getting late, the sun is going repeatedly told Boyd that he would down, let’s end this.’ The command have to surrender his knives, a propo- staff would be able to listen to both sition that he repeatedly rejected. sides and say, ‘I’m going to give the ne- “You have no business asking me to gotiators another hour and SWAT team put my knives down,” he said. stand down.’ When there is a plan, the Around 29 minutes into the standoff, command staff can say, ‘This is a good an officer said to Boyd, “How about plan’ or ‘This is a screwed-up plan. we all put down our weapons? We’d Why don’t we hit him with wooden have to pat you down.” batons (nonlethal rounds similar to “You’re not touching my person,” rubber bullets) until he gets tired of Boyd replied. being hit with wooden batons?’” “That’s what’s going to have to Even now, 17 months later, it’s not happen,” the officer said. clear exactly who developed the “Wanna bet?” Boyd answered. nonlethal plan to subdue Boyd, but it was either SWAT or Repeat Offender Boyd’s ‘handlers’ not called Project team members on the scene. Two years before the standoff, APD Change in personnel, tactics had assigned two CIT officers to monitor Boyd as part of a department program It was around 6 p.m. when APD to keep mentally ill homeless people on Officer Keith Sandy arrived on the their medications and out of trouble. scene. Sandy was a member of the It wasn’t until one hour and two- ROP – Repeat Offender Project – team, and-a-half-minutes into the standoff a unit that had been created years that Boyd gave his name to the earlier to go after the worst of the officers. That information was radioed worst. The ROP Team tended to cont. on page 12 COLUMNS ABQ FREE PRESS • August 12, 2015 • 7 List of Potential ABQ Mayoral The Meaning of Best Friends Candidates Growing Forever In Rwanda By JOE MONAHAN BY EFRAIN VILLA n our last column become a big deal, but analysts say that ecause you took me to some hot springs. On the Iwe noted that would probably take big money. So “Bare a good way, we encountered a lady gouging speculation over far there are no reports of any groups person” was Musa’s out the eyeballs from an animal carcass who will seek to organizing to buy advertising against answer to most of splayed at her feet. She put down her become Albuquer- the one-eighth cent increase in the gross my questions. giant knife, looked up at me, and said que’s next mayor receipts tax. “Musa, why are something in Kinyarwanda. The only in 2017 has barely The tax would raise an estimated $17 you paying for my word I understood was “Fanta,” which risen to the level of million a year for 15 years and finance beer?” “Musa, why in these parts can mean a bottled drink, a murmur, but there capital improvements at the BioPark, did you jump in a bribe, a tip, charity, or even a ransom. are contenders quietly emerging and which includes the zoo, Tingley Beach, front of me when that dog attacked?” I turned to Musa to gauge if our some testing of the waters. the botanic garden and the aquarium. “Musa, why do you insist I sleep with exchange with the eye-gouger was Names circulating include Democratic Early polling shows the public your sister?” friendly. His relaxed demeanor told me City Councilor Ken Sanchez, GOP City disposed toward approving the levy Generally, I nurture a healthy suspicion it was. I looked at the lady, turned my Councilor Dan Lewis, GOP Bernalillo but that could change in the face of a of anyone who professes to know I am pockets inside out, and politely said, County Commissioner Wayne Johnson, negative ad blitz. The turnout for the a good person. I assume these people “No Fanta.” As we walked past her, she former New Mexico Democratic Party city election will be an older electorate are either dumb or are swindlers laying mumbled something that made Musa Chairman Brian Colon and New Mexico and weighted toward the conservative the groundwork for the pounce. Even chuckle. State Auditor Tim Keller. side. The opportunity to persuade those so, I will occasionally fall for scams with “She said you Muzungus these days And even though he has said he will voters to turn down a tax increase is the same naiveté of the idiot at a strip are more poor than us Africans.” He not seek a third, four-year term, there’s there but without vocal opposition, club who thinks he has an emotional pointed at my feet. “In Rwanda, only still talk that Mayor Berry could reverse supporters of the increase are confident connection with the dancer giving him a very poor people wear rugabire (shoes himself, especially if his chances don’t they will prevail. lap dance. made out of tires).” look good for the 2018 GOP gubernato- I met Musa at a beach in the Rwandan At the hot springs, Musa told me he rial nomination he has an eye on. border town of Gisenyi, a village abut- had recently returned to Gisenyi from The chattering class is also enjoying Even though he has said ting the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Kigali because his Australian girlfriend speculating about the future of Gov. Virunga National Park, where the had cut him off. “When she called Susana Martinez during these lazy days he will not seek a third world’s most active volcano threatens to my place,” he said, pausing to take a of summer. Much will depend on how term, there’s still talk annihilate the region. drag of his cigarette, “my friend’s wife she fares in the three years remaining in that Mayor Berry could Another fun fact left out of tourism answered. By the time I got back from her second term. brochures is that nearby Lake Kivu is the bathroom, she was yelling that I She has so far dodged some powerful reverse himself prone to limnic eruption in which enor- was a womanizer like all Africans and potential bullets – chief among them mous farts of carbon dioxide burst out just using her to pay for my studies. One the stagnant economy – but Auditor And what about that proposal on the of the water and instantaneously suf- phone call took my love, my home, and Keller has been holding her feet to the ballot to amend the City Charter and focate everyone in the area. The noxious my future.” fire with a probe of her taxation and give the city council confirmation power vapors can be accompanied by tsunamis As he spoke, I tried to assess if his revenue secretary. Second terms often over the mayor’s selection for police and that wash away all evidence of Mother story was part of a long con strategy to bring that sort of trouble in piles. fire chiefs? After all the turmoil at APD, Nature’s little burp. And just for added eventually hit me up for money. “My If she beats the odds and remains political pros say this one should be a drama, there are guerilla uprisings and room’s small and uncomfortable,” I lied. popular (both two-term governors who winner. child soldiers in the countryside. “Otherwise, I would offer you lodging.” served before her – Gary Johnson and If it does pass it will be one of the In reality, I was more concerned he might Bill Richardson – finished their tenures more significant power shifts away from bring bedbugs into my sprawling suite. with approval ratings in the tank), Dems the executive branch and to the council As he spoke, I tried to “Oh, you are a good person to think think she could take a shot at Demo- since the modern form of government of troubling yourself,” he said. “I will cratic U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich in 2018. was ushered in back in 1974. But it could assess if his story was ask the church people if you can stay in As for the likelihood of her being the have been worse for future mayors. part of a long con their big, comfortable room with the GOP vice-presidential choice for the The original proposal would have given strategy to eventually other Muzungos.” 2016 ticket, that talk has dissipated. the City Council not only the power to “Missionaries?” I asked. “No thanks, Seventeen candidates are seeking the confirm the chiefs but also to fire them. hit me up for money I’ll manage.” presidential nomination. The VP pick is If any of the forthcoming city political When we parted ways later that day, I likely to be one of the 16 losers. questions catches your attention and These conditions do not dampen the gave Musa my number and told him to Another option for Martinez is getting you’re not registered to vote, you still mood here, though. Locals are cheery call me the next evening. I planned to out of politics and making a lot of have time. The last day to register is and, most of the time, the town has the be long gone by then. money by being appointed to corporate Sept. 8. Information is on the city clerk’s kind of tranquil backdrop one might The next day, I was seated in a plane boards, authoring a book and delivering website or you can call 924-3650. expect to see in a Corona commercial. getting ready to take off when my phone paid speeches. That would be similar to Not that anyone expects a stampede So when Musa asked me if we would rang. “He probably wants money?” I the path taken by former Alaska Gov. to the polls. The experts say only about be best friends forever, even before thought. I took a sip of my orange Fanta, Sarah Palin. It’s on the table for Marti- 10 percent of the city’s registered knowing my name, I reasoned that the inspected my seat for bedbugs, and hit nez not because of her performance as voters can be expected to cast ballots locals’ waste-no-time attitude was a the ignore button on my phone. governor but due to her status as the in October. There are about 350,000 byproduct of living on the perpetual As we flew over Rwanda, I looked out nation’s first female Hispanic governor. voters registered, so that would mean a verge of apocalypse. the window at the lush, green canopy turnout in the neighborhood of 35,000. “Sure ... let’s be friends until our dying below and tried to remind myself that I day,” I said, looking up at the ominous, was a good person. That little tax increase proposed for Joe Monahan is a veteran of New Mexico glowing clouds over the volcano. “Or the Albuquerque BioPark that city voters politics. His daily blog can be found at lunchtime. Whichever comes first.” Reach Efrain Villa through his website, will decide in the Oct. 6 election could joemonahan.com To start off our new friendship, Musa aimlessvagabond.com 8 • August 12, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS

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OPINION ABQ FREE PRESS • August 12, 2015 • 9 New Thinking at APD Can Fix Commemorate the First Transgender Riot And the World’s First True Peace Treaty County’s Low DWI Conviction Rate BY SAYRAH NAMASTé By dan klein ay No to Military will commemorate the signing of or decades, Albuquerque residents We have a conviction rate of 47 SRecruiters! Mili- the Kellogg-Briand Pact with a press Fhave complained about dismal percent. As a citizen are you OK with tary recruiters will be conference and reception 1 p.m. on drunken driving enforcement – and year this? Aren’t you tired of the blame game on the UNM campus Thursday, Aug. 27 at the Albuquerque after year, tragedy after tragedy, not by public officials? If you are, here’s as the new academic Mennonite Church, 1300 Girard Blvd. one of our elected officials has come a simple way to stop DWI cases from year begins, ironically N.E. You’ve probably never heard of this up with a better way to ensure DWI being dismissed: as part of the annual astounding treaty which was sponsored convictions. Safety, Health, and A DWI arrest means nothing. The Wellness Day. Each by the U.S. and France to renounce war only way to gauge success is how many A comparison of DWI year in response, students and com- as an instrument of national policy. convictions we get from those arrested. munity members oppose the military Signatory nations promised not to use DWI in Albuquerque is like Groundhog conviction rates for 2014 recruiters, pass out counter-recruitment war to resolve “disputes or conflicts of Day, the same issue, the same finger- shows that Bernalillo information and protest their efforts. whatever nature or of whatever origin pointing and the same do-nothing from County had the second- The event is 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesday, they may be, which may arise among the people we elect or hire to fix this Aug. 18 at the University of New Mexico them.” The United States, Germany, problem. lowest conviction rate Student Union Building Mall between and France signed the treaty on Aug. In July, the Albuquerque Journal’s in the state. Rio Arriba the SUB and Mesa Vista Hall. 27, 1928, and most other nations signed Mike Gallagher exposed how APD County had the worst Before the Fight for Rights at Stone- Officer Lou Golson had 140 DWI cases wall. The local transgender community, soon after. Imagine the human suffering dismissed in the six months after he including the Transgender Resource that would have been prevented from was shot in the line of duty. Golson is a The APD DWI Unit of about 10 Center of New Mexico and Transcending all of our wars if we had followed this hard-working officer, it’s not his fault officers is involved in 95 percent of all Differences, is marking the anniversary agreement. these cases were dismissed. It also isn’t DWI cases. It is impossible to obtain a of the first recorded transgender riot Environmental Justice Day in the the fault of the courts or the District conviction when you depend on the in United States history. The Compton’s South Valley: Join celebrants from 3 Attorney as they must protect the same 10 officers to handle 95 percent of Cafeteria Riot preceded the more p.m.-7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29 at the Constitutional right to a speedy trial in the workload. They simply cannot be in famous 1969 Stonewall Riots in New Valle de Oro National Refuge, the first six months or less, according to a New 10 courtrooms at once. York City by three years. There will be a urban wildlife refuge in the Southwest. Mexico Supreme Court rule. The solution? APD should stop finger- screening of the documentary: “Scream- The newly established Refuge at 7851 A comparison of DWI conviction rates pointing at Metro Court’s scheduling. ing Queens: The Riots at Compton’s for 2014 shows that Bernalillo County Years of complaining about Metro Court Cafeteria” with a panel discussion South Second St. S.W. is partnering had the second-lowest conviction rate scheduling has gotten us nowhere. APD afterwards. You may be surprised when with Los Jardines Institute, a grassroots in the state. Rio Arriba County had the must come to the realization that the you learn about transgender history community organization that fights worst. More than half of the DWI arrests court is not going to change. and the context in the early gay rights environmental racism and works to made in Bernalillo County in 2014 were APD can fix the problem of cases being movement. The event starts at 6:30 p.m. reform chemical policy. There will be dismissed. dismissed because officers are not in on Saturday, Aug. 22 at the Albuquer- music, food, entertainment, and trolley That means over a thousand people court without Metro Court help. How? que Peace & Justice Center, 202 Harvard tours of the Refuge, which is restoring who were arrested in Bernalillo County Disband the DWI unit. Don’t stop DWI Dr. S.E. the wetlands with native vegetation. in 2014 for DWI had their charges enforcement, just share the responsibil- Women’s Equality Day Celebration Environmentalists at City Council: dismissed. They drove away with no ity with all APD officers. and Poetry Reading: The event, orga- Climate Change Activists with 350.org conviction. Why? Every APD officer is certified in DWI nized by the Albuquerque chapter of enforcement. This is a requirement the National Organization of Women to are demanding that the Albuquerque for becoming a police officer in New commemorate the day when women’s City Council vote in favor of Councilor Disband the DWI unit. Mexico. I propose that every field right to vote was recognized in the 19th Isaac Benton’s resolution to withdraw Don’t stop DWI services officer at APD – and there are Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the city’s membership from the New enforcement, just more than 400 of them – have a manda- will be 1:30-4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 22 Mexico Industrial Energy Consumers in tory rotation in DWI roadblocks, which in Botts Hall of the Special Collections favor of safe, clean, affordable renew- produce the majority of DWI arrests. share the responsibility Library, 423 Central Ave. N.E. Almost 100 able energy. “NMIEC is incapable of rep- Every night a DWI roadblock is years later, our mostly male Congress with all APD officers resenting our best interests because it scheduled, a new group of police is dismantling women’s rights despite primarily represents large multi-national officers should be reassigned from their the Equal Rights Amendment, written Ask the Bernalillo County District At- regular duties – for one night – to the in 1923, which states “Equality of rights corporations,” according to a statement torney’s office – the answer is that police DWI roadblock. So, if APD does two under the law shall not be denied or from 350.org. They will make their case officers don’t show up in court. roadblocks in one week, a total of 30 abridged by the United States or by any at 5 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 17 at the City The Albuquerque Police Department officers, or 15 each night, would work state on account of sex.” Speakers will Council meeting in the Vincent E. Griego says that cases are dismissed because roadblocks. share what progress we’ve made toward Council Chambers, in the basement of 1 Metro Court schedules its DWI unit of- This would spread the DWI duty full equality for women in the U.S. A Civic Plaza N.W. If you attend, you can ficers to appear in different courtrooms among 400 officers instead of just 10, poetry reading featuring the Albuquer- sign up to give public comment. If you at the same time. Metro Court will tell meaning APD’s 400 officers would only que Word Weavers includes an open can’t attend, 350.org is urging people you that they have to schedule the have one DWI case scheduled at a time. I microphone, so bring your poems about to email City Council at: www.cabq.gov/ police officers this way because of the know from experience when the officer women’s rights (4 minutes maximum). council/councilors/contact-all-councilors. speedy trial rule. is present in Metro Court, the case For more information, contact smrcmd@ And the criminal justice circus in usually ends with a conviction. hotmail.com. Bernalillo County goes on and on, with You May Say I’m A Dreamer: The Sayrah Namasté is an organizer with the the same excuses and finger-pointing Dan Klein is a retired Albuquerque Albuquerque Chapter of Veterans for American Friends Service Committee in that has not produced any better results police officer. Peace, along with other organizations, Albuquerque. for decades. 10 • August 12, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS

payday loans, Page 4 the citizen’s Legislature,” she said. “This has been a decade-long if not Senate Majority Leader Michael a hundred-years-long conversation Sanchez, a Belen Democrat, to the about wanting professional legislators, Senate Corporations and Transportation but people tend to like things the way Committee and to the Senate Judiciary they are,” Harrison said. “They are Committee. Sanchez received $5,100 just slammed with bills, and they’re from payday lenders, his campaign only in session for a couple months at finance records show. most, so that means they’re out in the The chairman of the corporations community the rest of the time.” committee, Sen. Phil Griego, was the second leading legislative recipient of A massive loophole payday loan campaign contributions, ABQ Free Press’ investigation into taking $11,075 from the industry, his Alamogordo Republican, gave HB the payday loan industry’s influence campaign finance records show. 36 a hearing in the House Regulation at the 2015 Legislature uncovered a (Griego, a real estate broker, resigned and Public Affairs Committee but then loophole in the secretary of state’s from the Legislature a week before tabled it for the duration of the session. campaign reporting system that allows the end of the 2015 session. He faced Herrell received $2,150 in payday lobbyists to funnel vast amounts of a likely censure by his peers over a loan contributions, her records show. money to legislators without publicly conflict of interest during the 2014 Herrell did not respond to phone calls identifying the source. session.) or emails from ABQ Free Press on why An example is James “J.D.” Bulling- After this year’s session adjourned, she tabled the bill. ton, a lobbyist for FastBucks, a payday Griego told ABQ Free Press that the A member of Herrell’s committee, lender, as well as 23 other business complexity and divisiveness of the Rep. Nora Espinoza, a Roswell Repub- interests. Records show Bullington has payday loan interest-cap issue threat- lican, whose records show she received not identified on whose behalf he gave ened to bog down his committee and $2,200 in payday loan contributions, legislators campaign contributions endanger passage of other legislation. said, “After reviewing our records, HB since 2103. Griego said he ordered both sides 36 had a hearing on Feb. 2 in an open Although campaign and lobbyist dis- to work out a compromise before he public meeting but was tabled by the closure laws require that the ultimate would give the bill a hearing. committee after debate.” source of all lobbyist donations be “What that means is he basically When the Legislature adjourned on reported, Bullington’s donations show gave the industry veto over this leg- the afternoon of Saturday, March 21, up in his name only. FastBucks did islation,” said Steve Fischmann of the both HB 36 and SB 72 were still in the not file any contribution reports under New Mexico Fair Lending Coalition, a two committees to which they had its own name between 2012 to 2014, collection of nonprofits, which pushed been referred 57 days earlier. according to the secretary of state’s for the payday loan interest rate cap. website. “So all the industry had to do was Unseen forces A review of reports filed by the not talk to advocates, and no legisla- legislators shows Bullington gave Albuquerque’s tion would ever get to the committee,” “It’s clear that the industry and special interests have access and influ- $21,875 in contributions during the 2013 Fischmann said. and 2014 cycles. In an interview, he said Clemente Sanchez, who assumed the ence that the rest of us don’t have,” Premier Facility said Fischmann, the lending reform some of that originated with FastBucks, chairmanship of Griego’s committee but he declined to offer details. after Griego’s resignation, said, “The advocate. - for - “And what people are doing is legal, The Lobbbyist Regulation Act states way it works is the chairman of the that lobbyists must report to the Office committee decides what goes on the but the fact that it’s legal doesn’t mean that it’s not corrupt, because it’s of the Secretary of State “the names, Mock Trials & agenda, and since it was Phil Griego at addresses and occupations of other the time, he never brought it up. Since terribly corrupt,” he said. “I’m a former state senator, and I contributors and the amounts of their it’s up to the chairman to put it in the separate political contributions.” Focus Groups agenda, we never talked about it at all.” served four years in the New Mexico Senate, so I’ve seen it firsthand,” Bullington faults the secretary of Over in the House, HB 36 hardly state’s online lobbyist filing form. • Trial planning and issue spotting, fared better. Fischmann said. in-house facilitators Sen. Clemente Sanchez takes issue “The Secretary of State is going to HB 36, sponsored by Rep. Gail eventually update the website because • Mock jury services Chasey, an Albuquerque Democrat, with that logic. “That’s not why we receive contribu- we do electronic filing now and there • Witness preparation was referred to the House Public tions, and there’s no strings attached, is no box; it says to put who it was • Simulated court and Affairs Committee and to the House so that doesn’t mean I am going to made to and the dollar amount, and deliberation venues Ways and Means Committee. The those are the only two boxes.” Other referral to House Ways and Means vote with them on anything,” Sanchez • Political polling lobbyists confirmed their belief there was unusual because that committee said when asked about influence his donors might seek to gain. is a technical problem with the online generally hears appropriation bills, tax filing form. Call 505-263-8425 or email bills or bills that affect tax revenues Viki Harrison, executive director of [email protected] Common Cause New Mexico, said the An examination of all of Bullington’s or proposed changes in government campaign contributions since 2013 operations with fiscal impacts. influence of money at the Legislature 6608 Gulton Court NE, Alb. 87109 is apparent year in and year out. to the present shows he has given The referral of HB 36 was made candidates $130,600 – $28,500 of that by Speaker of the House Don Tripp, “That is why we have the lobbyists, the larger corporations and the folks to Gov. Susana Martinez in 2013 alone a recipient of $1,750 in payday loan – with no explanation of where the campaign donations, according to his with money that are able to make these kinds of contributions, as opposed money came from. campaign finance records. A spokesman for the Secretary of State Rep. Yvette Herrell, an to your average citizen, so that’s the trialmetrixnm.com nature of the way it is in Santa Fe with State’s Office said lobbyists who make cont. on page 11 OPINION/NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • August 12, 2015 • 11 What Lessons Have We Learned payday loans, Page 10 campaign donations using a client’s collect up to 1,000 percent interest. money should report them on another “They’re not here to help anybody; Since the Last ‘Bad War’? online form. Use of the form would they’re just here to loot poor people. BY TERRY L. WARKENTINE eliminate the appearance that all the There are all kinds of complicated money is coming from the lobbyist. financial arguments about how [the need to relate part of my story. Most “You were in Vietnam? That was the industry’s argument] is not true, but of the younger generation needs to ‘bad’ war, wasn’t it?” I replied that I was Why the form isn’t being used was I unclear. I think 90 percent of the public wants hear it and many of my generation need not aware of any good wars. I came to interest rate caps, because they get it to be reminded of it. realize that history had passed many The argument and they know it’s a ripoff,” he said. I am a U.S. Navy veteran of two tours people by. The payday loan industry argues that of the Vietnam War. My first tour was The main thing that kept me going it serves as a lender of last resort for Payday loan lobbyists as part of the “Brown Water Navy.” I through all that time was the belief many poor New Mexicans who can’t proudly served on swift boats running that, with all that hatred of the war and qualify for conventional loans because Payday lenders hired some of the both coastal patrol and engaging in those who served in it, quite possibly we most experienced lobbyists in New river warfare. Fewer than 3,500 of us would never enter into another useless of lack of resources or poor credit. Additionally, the industry argues that Mexico, including former members of served on swifts during the war. Far war and never again would veterans the Legislature, to beat back efforts fewer remain alive today. be subjected to such abuse. I was partly high interest rates – as high as 1,000 percent with most loans averaging 340 to cap interest rates during the 2015 Both times I returned to the States right. Legislature. According to Secretary percent – are necessary because of the after a tour, the reception was far from of State lobbyist registration records, high loan default rate. enthusiastic. People gathered to yell working for them were: obscenities at us, to throw garbage at Too many of our Sen. Michael Padilla, who sits on the us and to call us “baby killers.” Anti-war Senate Corporations Committee, said Mickey Barnett protests were rampant nationwide. No government representa- he supported an interest rate cap, but James “J.D.” Bullington one, not even my parents, would pat us tives seek to replace he thought 36 percent was too low Arthur Hull II on the back and say, “well done.” diplomacy with war. War for the industry to make any money. Kimberly Legant About a year after my separation from Bullington said trying to set a flat rate Vincent Montoya the Navy and after time off to accustom is nothing more than a cap across the spectrum of payday and Brent Moore myself to civilian life again, I made the video game to them title loans is unworkable. Daniel Najjar decision to return to college. Even in “Some companies do underwriting; Dea Rankin that bastion of higher learning, veterans some have people walking in with Scott Scanlon Sam Ray suffered. Once, while sitting with a The wars came again, way too soon minimal credit checks; others do income Robert Reich friend in a campus coffee shop, she saw and way too often. Now, though, credit checks; others do long-term loans one of her friends enter, waved her the public perception of servicemen Raymond Sanchez that are a year or more; and others do over, introduced me as a veteran and and women had changed. They are Matejka Santillanes very short-term loans,” Bullington said. invited her to join us. The young woman perceived as heroes, maybe because David Schmidt “So this type of bill doesn’t fit the entire declined, saying all vets were crazy and we have a volunteer army now, maybe Anthony Trujillo left. because of a misplaced sense of ven- industry very well.” Timothy Trujillo geance or justice. Fischmann sees no redeeming social Don’t get me wrong. I think it’s great value in an industry that can legally Source: loansharkattack.com Even my oldest grandson that servicemen and women are now thanked for their service. It’s not the had no idea I was a heroic, glamorous job that young veteran until, when he people are led to believe because of was about 16, he saw all the video games they’re exposed to. The result from all this, I really fear, is the front ‘Vietnam that our nation’s collective psyche has Veteran’ car plate I had become almost “Sparta” like. We are recently gotten raising a nation of warriors. Some may think this is not necessarily a bad thing. After all, we do have to Another time, I was at a private party protect ourselves from those who want off campus. I happened to meet an army to destroy us. My question is: Why do so vet and we got to talking about places many consider us an evil that must be we were stationed in ‘Nam. It wasn’t destroyed? Are we better than a nation long before the hostess came over and only of warriors? told us both to leave as the other guests I continue to hope so, but that hope is did not want to hear us talking about fading as too many of our government our time in Vietnam. representatives seek to replace diploma- We were not only shunned and cy with war. War is nothing more than a disliked, but actually hated as were all video game to them. To those who have things associated with that terrible war. never experienced the horror of real For that reason and others, I simply did combat, or have forgotten, or only wish not talk about that war. Even my oldest to benefit monetarily from constant war, grandson had no idea I was a veteran I say enough. Talk is cheap, yes. But war until, when he was about 16, he saw the is way too expensive to allow our nation front “Vietnam Veteran” car plate I had to survive. recently gotten. I was recently reminded of how long ago that all was when a Terry L. Warkentine lives in young lady saw the plate and remarked, Albuquerque’s Northeast Heights. 12 • August 12, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS Newspaper Wins Damages boyd, Page 6 mount heavily armed assaults on houses where armed and dangerous in APD Records Case criminals with violent criminal records were holed up. BY ABQ FREE PRESS STAFF In recent years, some of the worst Mourners left abuses by APD involving wrongful judge has ordered the City of disregard of the public policy behind a memorial use of force were committed by at the spot A Albuquerque to pay $50,925 in IPRA,” the judge wrote. the ROP team. In settlement of a where James legal fees over the Albuquerque Police APD had claimed that the weapons civil-rights investigation of APD by Boyd was Department’s refusal to give ABQ inventory was exempt from disclosure the U.S. Department of Justice, the killed by Free Press a list of its military-style under a provision of the IPRA statute department disbanded it. Albuquerque Rene Thompson police. weapons. that allows it to withhold documents Around the time of Sandy’s ar- The order by Bernalillo County relating to “emergency security rival, members of APD’s SWAT team District Judge Alan Malott also procedures that could be used to and other tactical officers also began requires the city to pay $1,426 in facilitate the planning or execution of arriving. Prior to that, all of the officers At that point, an officer said, “Do costs and $7,500 in damages to the a terrorist attack.” Malott rejected that negotiating with Boyd were field officers it,” and the flashbang grenade was thrown toward Boyd. newspaper and independent journal- argument. – meaning patrol officers, or beat cops – Because the grenade landed near a ist Peter St. Cyr, who requested the The judge ordered that St. Cyr be sergeants and CIT officers. At one point, rock in front of him, which possibly inventory as part of an assignment by paid $4,700 in actual damages to they were pulled back from close contact with Boyd, and the SWAT and tactical shielded him from the blast and light, the newspaper. compensate him for time spent on the Boyd didn’t fall to the ground when The request under the New Mexico IPRA lawsuit. Another $2,700 will be officers took their places. Randi McGinn, special prosecutor it went off. Around the same time, an Inspection of Public Records Act, or paid to the plaintiffs for APD’s failure officer fired a Taser shotgun round at IPRA, was made on Jan. 21, 2014. APD to respond to the newspaper’s request in the case against Sandy and officer Dominique Perez, told the judge who Boyd, and the K-9 dog was set loose took longer than the allowable 15 for 27 days after its statutory deadline heard the case against them that it toward him. days to respond to the request before for doing so. was then that the tone of the standoff The Taser, which causes muscles to ultimately denying it. Malott ordered $1,426 be paid to the changed and became more ominous. seize up and trigger a bodywide cramp, In his order, Malott noted that APD newspaper to reimburse it for the cost didn’t affect Boyd, perhaps because he waited until “the eleventh hour” of deposing APD Chief Gorden Eden The failed plan to subdue was wearing five layers of clothing – before requesting an extension to and former APD records custodian four shirts and a sweat shirt – according consider the records request, before Reynaldo Chavez. Attorneys Colin The sun set at 7:15 p.m. that day, and to testimony. The K-9 dog didn’t bite some officers apparently were concerned ultimately denying it well after its Hunter and James Dory of the Barnett Boyd as planned. The dog apparently that it would soon be dark. And because deadline for responding. APD’s delay law firm represented St. Cyr and the was affected by the Taser and turned of the rough terrain they were in, it “was not reasonable and evidences a newspaper in the case. back to its handler, APD Officer Scott wasn’t practical to bring in floodlights Weimerskirch, who ran forward toward to illuminate the area, testimony at the Boyd to meet the animal. preliminary hearing showed. By this time, Sandy, who was The plan to get Boyd off the providing lethal cover for Weimer- mountain was called a layered, skirch, moved forward as well. After nonlethal plan that involved throwing the ineffective grenade, Taser and a flashbang grenade at him, shooting dog attack, Boyd pulled two knives him with a Taser shotgun and having from his pockets and held them about a K-9 police dog attack him. waist-high in both hands. Sandy and Perez, who arrived at the Officers told him to hit the ground. scene at 7:11 p.m., were put in position Boyd started turning to his left – to as lethal backup shooters in case Boyd obey the officers’ orders, the prosecu- continued to resist. At 30 seconds past tion claimed – when Sandy and Perez 7:30 p.m., the flashbang grenade was fired at him with semi-automatic thrown at Boyd, who was on high assault rifles. Sandy was nine to 10 ground above the officers. feet away when he shot Boyd, who A flashbang grenade is a nonfrag- was hit by three shots in the 1.5 mentation explosive device that booms seconds it took the two officers to fire with 178 decibels and creates a flash of their weapons. light so bright that it generally blinds “Everything that could go wrong a subject for 20 to 30 seconds. In 70 with the plan did go wrong,” Klein percent of the cases in which flashbangs said, adding that there was no reason are used, subjects fall to the ground, ac- the officers could not have kept talk- cording to testimony in the preliminary ing to Boyd and then shot him with hearing for Sandy and Perez. baton rounds if it got too dark. Right before the plan was put into Despite the efforts to negotiate effect, it appeared that Boyd was with Boyd and get into his mind, no willing to leave the mountain and one could. “Anyone who could have cooperate. “All right, don’t change up gotten into his head sure would have the agreement,” Boyd said as Perez been welcomed on the hill that night,” and Sandy aimed their rifles at him. Bralley said. “I’m going to try to walk with you.” Boyd then picked up his backpack Dennis Domrzalski is an associate editor and other belongings and appeared to at ABQ Free Press. Reach him at be ready to start walking. He had no [email protected] knives in his hands. OPINION ABQ FREE PRESS • August 12, 2015 • 13

Letters money nor power, who cannot be counted on to vote for our mayor. To the Editor: But please, rethink your definition Whenever anyone, whether it’s the Rio of “nobody.” Those of us who fit that Grande Foundation or you, makes the category tend to resent it. claim that nobody rides the city bus, I — Patricia Mathews have to wonder why the No. 66 Central bus is almost always full. But your article focused on how people get to work. To the Editor: Ignoring the fact that to get from home The New Mexico Law Enforcement to just about any workplace in Albuquer- Academy Board has historically treaded que on the bus system without taking lightly on revoking police officer certifica- forever and at great inconvenience either tions. I am aware of cases where officers calls for very good luck or very good staged crime scenes or stole public planning, are we to assume that anyone property, but were allowed to continue to not going to work is “nobody?” That the hold their police officer certifications after lame, the halt, the blind, the elderly, and the NMLEA initially suspended them. The the nonworking poor are “nobody?” honesty of our police officers is paramount That said, I agree with your opinion of to the effectiveness of our judicial system. the mayor’s rapid transit plan. He seems Any officer who commits an act or moral to think that making us look as pretty as turpitude (dishonesty) such as theft or San Jose, Calif., will make us as prosper- lying should have their certification ous as that Silicon Valley city. permanently revoked. Central Avenue is extremely well-served — Bill Elliott, via FreeABQ.com already. What the city bus system really ABQ Free Press welcomes letters to needs is better feeder lines, with fixed the editor and bylined opinion pieces, schedules, benches at remote bus stops, subject to editing by the newspaper and those schedules posted at every bus for style and length. Letters may appear in print on the newspaper’s stop. website, www.freeabq.com. Writers Posted schedules are especially impor- should include their full name and tant on those lines that run infrequently a daytime phone number that the and at irregular intervals. This, of course, newspaper’s editors can use to contact is expensive, unglamorous, and for the them. Submissions should be sent to [email protected] most part, serves those with neither 14 • August 12, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS PETS

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hen The Beatles recorded a rooftop concert in WLondon circa 1969, the show became a touch- stone in rock history. It also signaled the end of an era. The Fab Four would record only one more album, and the group would disband later that year. When local classical collective Chatter plays the roof of a Downtown Albuquerque parking garage on Saturday, Sept. 5, the recital marks an upswing – rather than a decline – in its musical journey. Chatter’s Sunday concerts debuted in 2008 under the name The Church of Beethoven, and they have flourished. Chatter’s wild success bucks a national trend wherein the percentage of adults attending classical concerts dropped from 11.6 percent in 2002 to 8.8 percent in 2012, according to statistics from the National Endowment for the Arts. Somehow Chatter sells out on Sunday mornings and at its bimonthly evening cabarets at Hotel Andaluz. Chatter also succeeds at presenting contemporary classical works – often a tough sell – alongside more traditional pieces. Add in a spoken word segment, espresso and homemade baked goods, and the hour-long Sunday event is a far cry from a traditional symphony concert. Think Samuel Barber paired with slam poetry. Yes, that actually happened. “We sort of hit a magical sweet spot,” says artistic director David Felberg. “We’re all about accessibility. It’s very easy to go to one of our performances.” Chatter Audiences may be savoring lattes or sipping marti- Flautist Jesse Tatum of the Santa Fe Opera warms up before a Chatter performance in May 2015. nis. but that doesn’t means they’re any less respectful, Felberg says. “They’re still quiet when we do our performance,” he notes. “And when I walk onstage, in 2008. Back then, it was so informal that organizers during that planning process. Michaelis was at the fire there’s such a great energy in the air. I haven’t found merely passed a basket around to collect donations marshal’s office when she met “Jonesy.” “I showed that anywhere.” for the musicians. After Wurman’s death, his sister him a Chatter postcard,” she says. “He said, ‘Oh man, Associate Artistic Director James Shields believes laid claim to the Church of Beethoven name, forcing Dude!’ – he kept calling me Dude – ‘Do you know community is key. “I think the real power of what we the group to rebrand. In 2010, the two organizations about the parking ramp?’” do is found in the act of bringing people together to merged as Ensemble Music New Mexico. Michaelis is It turned out Jonesy’s “ramp” at Copper Avenue and share a common experience,” Shields says. the president of the board of directors. Third Street is ideal for a concert. Michaelis explains Felberg and Shields recruit local musicians, friends A skilled fundraiser, Michaelis taps corporate that there’s a natural slope, and Hotel Andaluz’ wall from other places and musicians visiting New Mexico sponsors and grants, but donations by individual allows sound to resonate and bounce off. Another during the Santa Fe Opera season. “We get a great donors comprise the bulk of Chatter’s funds. The high wall on the Copper Avenue side and The Banque collection of folks who want to play with us and for collection baskets are long gone. Tickets are available Lofts on the Central Avenue side form a sort of us,” Felberg says. for purchase online, and ticket sales are 41 percent of auditorium. And the views across Downtown and out Poets also love the venue, says Don McIver, who the group’s revenue. A phalanx of 26 volunteers puts to the Sandia Mountains are pretty spectacular. books Chatter’s spoken-word portion. “The audience in about 5,400 hours a year. This allows Chatter to At the Sept. 5 concert, former Albuquerque Poet is there to listen to classical music, so they know how run on a lean annual budget of $223,000; a majority of Laureate Hakim Bellamy will read text based on a to listen and be super responsive,” McIver says. those operating costs, 72 percent, pay the performing letter from Sam Melville, a principal organizer of Chatter’s Sunday morning audiences includes both musicians, authors and poets. the 1971 Attica Prison riot, to the strains of Frederic young and older classical devotees, creative types It’s a new model for doing business because the Rzewski’s “Coming Together.” Other works on the and career professionals. That’s a combination many schedule are Thomas Albert’s “A Maze (With Grace)” classical groups would love to have in their audience overhead is low and the organization is adaptable, says Regina Chavez Puccetti, core arts management and John Adams’ “Chamber Symphony.” and one they often try to attract with limited success. After the rooftop concert comes another landmark for The most notorious pop culture example of this faculty at the University of New Mexico. “They ab- solutely understand who their audience is,” Puccetti Chatter: A move to Las Puertas at 1512 First Street NW. rebranding strategy was Sir Mix-a-Lot performing Owner Lee Blaugrund has revamped this warehouse last year “Baby Got Back” with the Seattle Symphony. says. “And their performance venues are a lot smaller and [more] intimate, and people want that.” as an event space and tango dance studio. For Chat- “There are organizations who have decided [the] Sir ter, Blaugrund is adding a drop-down ceiling, new Mix-a-lot [model] is the only way we’ll survive,” says Occasionally Chatter goes big. In 2014, Chatter achieved a milestone when it attracted 750 people to lighting, a better stage and, naturally, a new coffee bar. Pamela Michaelis, Chatter’s volunteer executive direc- Michaelis says The Kosmos has been a great home, but a concert south of Downtown at the Rail Yards. This tor. “Let’s bring in that ‘new’ stuff. People will hate it, the owners put it on the market last year. In addition, was before the Rail Yards Market was open regularly, but maybe it will bring in new people. Then throw in Chatter now sells out every week. and Michaelis says the mystique of the beautiful, standards, and everybody will be happy. And no one “That’s a wonderful problem to have … [but] it dilapidated buildings drew a bigger audience. It was is happy. Because there’s no integrity in that.” means there [are] a lot of people you’re not serving, and an intriguing setting for an evening of classical music The Chatter of today is the confluence of two that’s not good,” Michaelis says. The first regular Chatter – with the sounds of birds flitting in the rafters and an organizations. Felberg began Chatter: A Chamber concert in the new space will be Sunday, Sept. 20. Ensemble, in 2002. Chatter member Felix Wurman cre- occasional train rolling by. ated Sunday-morning event the Church of Beethoven The creative seed of the rooftop concert was planted Learn more about Chatter at chatterabq.org arts ABQ FREE PRESS • August 12, 2015 • 17 ‘Women of Wonder’ Honored at 47th Annual Bubonicon BY RENE THOMPSON

ubonicon, an Albuquerque sci-fi Diversity Puppeteer Training Initiative Btradition, has been evolving for 47 Workshop. The workshop’s goal is to years. make puppeteering more accessible and It’s New Mexico’s longest-running inclusive for all cultures and backgrounds. sci-fi convention and geek fest, and “[The Jim Henson Company] looked this year’s gathering happens the last at their cast realized they were all white weekend in August. Bubonicon sets itself guys,” says Kowal, “and they needed apart from other such conferences with not to be. So basically they’ve brought on its laser-like focus on sci-fi and fantasy a bunch of people of color and women, literature. and it really is great.” This year’s con promises three fantastic Kowal’s catalog includes the Glamour- days and nights of events for sci-fi fans ist Histories series, the sort of magical of all stripes. Revolving around the adventures that might have resulted if theme “Women of Wonder,” the fest Jane Austen walked on the grimmer side itself celebrates the women of sci-fi and of the Regency. Kowal revealed that the fantasy. This year’s guests of honor inspiration for this series originated with are renowned in the sci-fi and fantasy topics Austen herself wrote about like literary genres and include Tamora slavery and exploitation. In the Glamour- Pierce and Cat Valente, toastmaster Mary ist Histories series, Kowal sheds new Robinette Kowal and guest artist Ruth light on these historical and contempo- Sanderson. rary issues with a clear, modern message Casi Cooper, co-chair of Bubonicon, about greed and venality. says there will be a slew of vendors with “One of the things I enjoy about a number of booksellers and dealers who historical fiction is that it allows us to specialize in local comic books, fantasy talk about contemporary issues in ways art and gaming merch; customized that don’t immediately cause readers to “steam punk” costumes and corsets; and become completely desensitized,” says convention swag. Kowal. “We talk about how it’s this beau- All the usual events like gaming tiful and lovely period in history with tournaments – including a full Catan magnificent dresses, but we forget that it tourney called the Catan Cup – offer was all built upon slavery.” Kowal notes Courtesy of the author rewards that range from membership that Jane Austen used many references in next year’s con to special awards and Author and puppeteer Mary Robinette Kowal will serve as toastmaster of the 47th Annual Bubonicon. to and commentary on slavery in her prizes. Cooper also calls attention to the novels. “That is exactly why I wrote this event’s art show, costume contest and book. ... For Austen’s contemporaries all widely acclaimed Green Slime Awards; 47th Annual Bubonicon phone she expressed excitement about the excerpts she put in [were] apparent; her honorary Bubonicon position. the “Slime Time Live”-esque mock Fri., Aug. 28 - Sun., Aug. 30. but to people now, it seems as if she Kowal is not only a writer; she’s also awards show spotlights badly made Albuquerque Marriott Uptown doesn’t touch it. So I wanted to write an accomplished professional puppeteer science fiction from the past year with 2101 Louisiana NE a book that was as clear to a modern and has worked on Jim Henson produc- ridicule and submersion in green slime. Tickets: $15 up to $45 for a full- reader about [these] topics … as it would tions like “Sesame Street” and “Elmo in “The Green Slime Awards are held dur- weekend pass purchased at the door. have once been heard.” Grouchland.” Kowal is currently hard ing the costume contest halftime show, Presale tickets, convention info: On advice to aspiring writers, at work on the Jim Henson Company’s so while the judges go off to deliberate,” bubonicon.com and Kowal says what worked for her was Cooper says, “our Green Slime Mistress facebook.com/Bubonicon. cont. on page 26 gets up there and talks about the things that didn’t go so well in science-fiction that year – specifically movies that really bombed or books that were really “People can bring their previously horrible either because [they were] super owned books or books purchased [at clichéd or written horribly.” the con] and have them autographed for Cooper notes another aspect that sets free,” says Cooper. “So, it’s really cool Bubonicon a head above the rest is the because people can get an [autograph] mass autograph session on Saturday, or picture and chat with somebody they wherein fans can score free autographs really look up to.” and selfies with authors or special Mary Robinette Kowal, this year’s guests. There’s a limit of one autograph toastmaster, is an esteemed author with per person, and there’s no charge if you three Hugo awards under her belt and flash your convention ticket. Several numerous other nominations for her cons charge upwards of $100 for access anthologized short stories and novels. to signatures and photos with celebrity Kowal’s latest short story collection guests. Bubonicon tries to avoid that at “Word Puppets” publishes Nov. 19. all costs. With authors like New Mexico Artist Howard Lyon’s “Word Puppets” transplant George R.R. Martin, author of cover art draws the eye with vibrant the Game of Thrones series, on the guest colors and eerie scenery, projecting a list, inclusive access to prime movers and melancholy tone inspired by its contents. shakers is a nice perk. When ABQ Free Press spoke to Kowal by 18 • August 12, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS ARTS Matters of the Art: Spirited Animals, the Pueblo and Earth FOR RENTALS BY LISA BARROW of motion Cirque du vata emerging musicians themselves are friend Tom Corbett, have produced a picture and comprised of girls and women. The sumptuous volume of black-and-white Even though Gatas y Vatas is going consumer video, otherworldly Lady Uranium, for ex- photography, Marmon family lore and down in Seattle this year, the all-ages ample, takes the stage with 10-year-old oral histories of the Laguna people with gear, cameras music fest featuring solo female per- A.L.A.S. to soundtrack airdancer Joanna the long view in mind. and audio formers (including trans and cis women, Furgal and her 15-year-old partner Layla Perhaps no other published history of as well as genderqueer and non-binary Getz. The musical lineup also includes a Southwestern pueblo rivals “Laguna folks) hasn’t forgotten the many nuevo- exquisite Burqueña powerhouses Lilah Pueblo” for its historical scope, social mexicano fans it spent its first five years Field & Frame Rose, Bigawatt, Floozy, Wychdokta, Star breadth and sheer visual grace. Touch- cultivating. An upcoming benefit event Canyon and Anna Mall. ing on everything from the arrival of embraces all the joyous experimentalism FOR NEW MEXICAN Funds raised from the $10 suggested the railroad in the 1880s to the shifting and performative magic you’ve come to FILMAKERS donation go to support the continuing attitudes about uranium mining on expect from this bleeding-edge cultural evolution of Gatas y Vatas. For more tribal lands to biographical anecdotes Rental-Retail force. On Sunday, Aug. 16, fans old and information, visit gatasyvatas.com or the about individual pueblo personalities, new can head to Tiguex Park (1800 Camera, Sound, event page at on.fb.me/1Ixy6PF. Marmon and Corbett’s book lays open Mountain NW) for Animales Animados: Expendables, the human heart of the six villages that Monsters Under the Bed. DSLR Bodies, comprise Laguna Pueblo. While many of the hipper musical Pueblo passion Embroider your life with a texture of Lenses, Matte Boxes, events around town plant their feet “A special note to young people” fascinating stories well told when Mar- Filters, Batteries, firmly in the old-enough-to-drink realm, at the front of “Laguna Pueblo: A mon and Corbett discuss their seminal CF and SD Cards, one aspect of this partnership between Photographic History” (UNM Press, collaboration at Bookworks (4022 Rio the artists of Gatas y Vatas and Animales Cables, Mics, hardcover, $39.95) attests, “You are Grande NW) on Saturday, Aug. 22, at 3 Animados is an openness to performers HDMI -SDI Connectors, composed of parts from each of your p.m. For more information, visit bkwrks. all along the age spectrum. Kicking off Gaffers and Camera Tape, ancestors / To know who you are, you com or call 344-8139. at 4:30 p.m., the show spotlights aerial Rain Covers, must know who they were / To know dance from local sirens of the somatic where you are going, you must know Blue and Green Screens arts AirDance New Mexico. where they have been.” The pages that Earth shattering Not only are AirDance New Mexico’s follow present these ideas in tangible A slew of new exhibitions at Down- 107 TULANE DR SE adult and junior companies joining form. The authors, renowned photog- town gallery 516 ARTS offer up art and 505.265.5678 forces for this benefit event, but the rapher Lee Marmon and his longtime artists as a means to close the chasm [email protected] cont. on page 21

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he second installment of our Flower Celebration Salad, which is a Try the Musubi, a savory Hawaiian Tuesdays” title and description – “All TAlbuquerque happy hour cover- bed of carrot greens, watercress and treat. Teriyaki Spam is placed on sticky night specials on selected appetizers, age reveals an extraordinary trinity arugula crowned with edible flow- rice, and the whole shebang is then desserts and cocktails” – misleading. of joy purveyors. Even the toughest ers – including pansies, nasturtium, wrapped in nori aka seaweed. It’s a I read that as “buy one, get one free,” of weeks are no match for the Three and squash blossoms – and an artful salty, hearty combo that proves an but it’s actually two items paired on Sisters, a sleeping giant and the drizzle of prickly pear vinaigrette. The unexpectedly satisfying snack. one plate for a very low price, which Haute-Savoie of the High Desert. result is perfectly sweet yet earthy is still a fantastic deal. The star of greens. Someone whisked a Tri-color the show was the Slider Duo with Tomato Caprese Salad and Vietnam- chicken. The grilled chicken breast ese Hand Rolls by, and I envied a duo is topped with caramelized neighboring party from a distance. onions and paired with a mound of parmesan-truffle fries. The chicken was moist and tender, but the fries really hogged the spotlight. They’re reminiscent of the fries at thoroughly missed eatery La Provence. Spicy, smoky house-made ketchup adds Savoy Wine Bar & Grill another shouldn’t-miss dimension to Pueblo Harvest Café 10601 Montgomery NE the starchy bliss. The “Two for” menu 2401 12th Street NW savoyabq.com has an oyster special and Crispy bit.ly/puebloharvest 294-9463 Mahi-mahi Tacos. Since Mahi-mahi is 724-3510, indianpueblo.org/visit/café Happy hour daily my Number 1, I dove right in. 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It’s the sort of joint where you all-you-can-eat pizza bar on the patio; meet friends for lunch or a round the Ancestral Pueblo-meets-modern of post-work, pre-dinner spirits. A minimalism-meets-Pueblo Revival spectrum of fine liquors is displayed ambience is exemplified on the patio for your perusal. The bartender can by the contrast of latilla ceiling and whip you up anything from classics geometric skylights. The pizza is like gimlets and manhattans to brand- baked right then and there in an new, experimental specials. Lately horno, a beehive-shaped, outdoor Chef Thomas Groff has been brewing adobe oven of Native American tinctures to promote their forthcoming invention. seasonal drink menu. Happy hour at As far as toppings go, your regularly Adieux happens every day from 4 to scheduled vegetarian and carnivorous 6 p.m. heart’s desires are here. My Top 2 top- Adieux’s menu may be experiencing ping combos were sun dried tomato, its best incarnation yet. 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ouse of Pho (4565 San Mateo NE, Suite A) is ensure my judgment wasn’t compromised by an Hnestled in Montgomery Plaza among outlet adrenaline rush, I returned to House of Pho. This retailers such as Ross and Burlington Coat Factory. time, I ordered Tofu Spring Rolls. I usually find The new Vietnamese restaurant is quickly gaining a these spring rolls lackluster. To be honest, they reputation as a hidden gem. often seem like nothing more than an afterthought Housed in the old Ahmo’s Gyros space, House of vegetarian option. These spring rolls are a home run Pho specializes in broth-based rice noodle soup pho for everyone from vegans to omnivores. Sliced tofu (pronounced “fuh”). The joint also offers standards is fried crispy before it’s wrapped with vermicelli, such as spring rolls, bún cha (grilled pork with rice lettuce and mint. vermicelli) and com dia at reasonable prices that House of Pho is also a peanut-free restaurant, so accommodate spontaneous culinary adventure. instead of the traditional peanut sauce, they serve a di- Staffers are friendly, personable and happy to offer vine, homemade hoisin-based sauce. The juxtaposition menu advice; that’s a real boon for pho newbies. My of crisp tofu, ultra-fresh greens and sticky vermicelli Vietnamese romance began with the soup and has creates a complex taste and texture combination that’s progressed to a fairly inclusive range. completed by the umami dipping sauce. Into heat? Try the Hot & Spicy Beef Noodle Soup. For the meat-eating contingent, I heartily recom- I love spicy food. I was advised to try it mild, and mend the Grilled Pork Rice Plate. Thinly sliced I’m glad I did. If your food is never spicy enough, pork is served atop steamed rice with lettuce, you might try the full-strength version. This graceful cucumbers, tomato and a vinegary-sweet dipping soup floats chewy udon noodles, buttery Wagyu sauce. The marination results in a pleasant, smoky beef shank and Vietnamese ham in a lemongrass undertone. The meat is lean, gristle-free and low in beef broth. Jalapeños and red cabbage accompany calories without a discernible loss of flavor. Other the traditional pho add-ons: basil, lime and bean menu highlights include sprouts. The broth’s flavor was never overpowered the Spicy Stir-fried Curry House of Pho 4565 San Mateo NE, by heat. Lemongrass Chicken, Rice House of Pho Awash in food-joy, the spice was a delight for the Vermicelli with Grilled Suite A senses. I dabbed sweat from my brow, and the staff Shrimp & Egg Rolls and 872-2430 Pho Tai with Slices of Eye Round Steak knowingly refilled my water. I’m not a glutton for French Roasted Coffee bit.ly/houseofphoABQ punishment; let’s just say I have a “hot tooth.” To with Condensed Milk. DUKE CITY BINGO We play bingo EVERY DAY and EVERY NIGHT

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ou’ve never seen anything like feminist psy- Ychological thriller “Felt” on the silver screen. Director Jason Banker (“Toad Road”) and artist Amy Everson co-wrote the film’s narrative, drawing on Everson’s real-life experience and her provocative art. The premise is that protagonist Amy (played by Everson) is living a “fucking nightmare.” The audience isn’t privy to the gory details, but Amy’s introductory narration reveals that she relives this trauma every waking moment and in recurring nightmares. For survivors of sexual assault, post-traumatic stress disorder aka PTSD can take many behavior- al forms. Amy’s unresolved anger, hypervigilance and dissociation serve as everyday reminders of what happened to her. Art-house sensibilities, including subversive cinematography, dioramas and surreal scenarios, abound in “Felt,” but the realism of the film’s dialogue and character development keeps the work from feeling like an overzealous thesis project. Perhaps Banker’s background in documentary filmmaking can be credited with balancing stylistic and semantic concerns with such grace. An OKCupid date goes horribly wrong when Amy’s would-be suitor opens with a tasteless rant Amplify Releasing about roofies; the romantic frat boy likens date rape-drugs like Rohypnol to “the bar Santa Claus,” Amy models her third-wave feminist superhero costume. “mansplaining” that getting roofied is just an excuse women use for sleeping with several guys wings. “Eat my meat,” our heroine squawks. But only part I found genuinely “disturbing.” A little in one night. When Amy recoils, he notes he’s just this meet-cute is the start of a seemingly beautiful – or a lot – of gore is fine with me, but I became being honest. “You’re honestly a dick,” notes Amy. romance. Amy might have found the perfect guy. so invested in Amy’s phenomenally fleshed-out This interaction is emblematic of Amy’s typical He may not understand why his girlfriend is character that I expected more from her … and for experience with guys. But everything changes dressing up in weird, phallus-inclusive costumes her. You’ve never seen anything like this at your when she meets Kenny (Kentucker Audley). but he listens when she tries to explain. He throws local cineplex, but I’m cautiously optimistic that It’s not love at first sight. In fact, Amy and a her a vagina-themed birthday party. Is Kenny too the future promises more “Felt”-like chick flicks. pal offer Kenny a ride and then kick him out of good to be true? their car. But then Amy runs into him at work. Some reviewers have noted that the work’s Samantha Anne Carrillo is a devout Situationist, a Her suitably eccentric day job involves dancing hysterical ending seems like a foregone conclu- third-wave feminist and an associate editor at ABQ around in a chicken costume to advertise hot sion. I disagree, and the finale of “Felt” was the Free Press. Email her at [email protected]

matters of the art, Page 18 between the reality of global climate change – so often paintings, sculpture, photography and wearable art, a “Knew Normal” satellite exhibition. It also opens on overwhelming when we actually pause to mull it over its contemporary artists grapple with the difficulty Aug. 29, but only runs until Oct. 3. “Control Room” – and our personal or communal ability to take action. of change. “Bleed,” a work in oil, colored pencil and confronts the $8.33 billion “nuclear renaissance” of “Addressing the challenges before us all will take a Sharpie on “shotgunned plywood” by Lee Lee, is a gor- Waynesboro, Ga. in the face of our troubling history wealth of creativity and collaboration,” says executive geous example. Nina Montenegro’s “Last Drops of Lake director Suzanne Sbarge in the program guide for Mead from Souvenirs of the Anthropocene,” a collec- of nuclear meltdowns. “Regeneration,” featuring the “HABITAT: Exploring Climate Change Through Art,” tion of found objects, and Wendy Mason’s “Fragrance work of Nina Montenegro, includes map weavings, “for which the arts provide a fertile platform.” of 2009,” which employs a potato and a perfume cyanotype portraits of life re-emerging from cracked “Off the Charts” offers representations of where we pump, go for the jugular with wry humor. earth in Western American landscapes and wax tree are. Some pieces, like the lushly colored “Jerry’s Map” “Warm and Fuzzy,” in the project room, corrals 3D- rubbings juxtaposed with fingerprints. Central Features by Jerry Gretzinger and “transscape 1” by Jane Lackey, printed, responsive objects created by Mark Lee Koven made with paint, tape and thread on kozo paper, do into an opportunity to explore data with senses other is open Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 11 a.m. so in the form of familiar maps turned on their heads. than your eyes. to 6 p.m. Call 243-3390 or visit centralfeatures.com to Others, like, Nathalie Miebach’s sculpture and three- All three exhibitions open Saturday, Aug. 29, from learn more. dimensional musical expression, “The Fifteen Ships of 6 to 8 p.m. at 516 ARTS (516 Central SW), and run Georges Banks,” entangles meteorological data about through Oct. 31. View the program guide and other Hurricane Noel with an old sea shanty and materials deets at 516arts.org or call 242-1445. The gallery is Lisa Barrow is a member of the Dirt City writers collective, like wood and rope. open Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. tweets with exceeding irregularity @OhLisaBarrow and most “Knew Normal” conflates the environment of self Just around the corner, Central Features (109 Fifth recently served as arts and lit editor and web editor at the with the environment at large. Through drawings, Street SW) is getting in on the “HABITAT” action with Weekly Alibi. 22 • August 12, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS SCREENS Standing Room Only: Betting on a Dark Horse BY HUGH ELLIOTT et’s take a moment to salute the Development”), Bojack Lgreat American tradition that was is an upright-walking, once Saturday morning cartoons. talking horse actor When I was a kid, Friday was pizza who once starred in night so Saturday morning meant a the popular ‘90s sitcom slice of cold, leftover pizza that I’d “Horsin’ Around.” carry along to the living room and That show was about watch my favorite shows. My parents three human orphans slept in and since I was lucky enough who move into Bojack’s to be an only child, I was King of the home and the wackiness Schedule. While I loved classics like that ensues. Think “Full “The Jetsons,” my favorites were more House” with more hay serious and adventurous and included for dinner. “Jonny Quest.” I dreamt that one day, Here, however, Bojack I too would be whisked away to be isn’t the only animal raised in exotic locales by a handsome with anthropomorphic doctor. Oh well. cred. The whole series The heady combination of a lack features various animals of parental control and improbable inhabiting different Netflix fantasy still fuels the allure of cartoons walks of life – from Bojack Horseman (Will Arnett) and his ex-girlfriend/agent Carolyn (Amy Sedaris) share a bittersweet moment. for many people. Even as we grew Bojack’s feline agent/ older and “cartoons” became “ani- ex-girfriend Princess mated shows,” we recall that buzz. Carolyn (voiced by the Bad”), Patton Oswalt, Stephen Colbert, instead delving deeper than you think Many people still think animation always eclectic Amy Sedaris) to his Kristen Schaal (“Flight of the Con- animation can go. In Season 2, the is mostly for kids. After all, you’re acting rival Mr. Peanutbutter, a Yellow cords”), Stanley Tucci (“The Lovely series tackles the Bill Cosby scandal watching a genre that forces you to Lab voiced by Paul F. Tompkins. In Bones”), Olivia Wilde (“House, M.D.”), with a beloved late-night talk show accept a reality composed of colored Bojack’s world, animals and humans J. K. Simmons (“Law & Order”), Maria host named Hank Hippopopalaus blobs, such as Marge Simpson’s interact in an egalitarian manner, Bamford (“Adventure Time”), Wendy (a hippopotamus, natch) who’s been towering blue beehive. My animated and they pretty much do everything Malick (“Frasier”), Lisa Kudrow accused of sexual assault by multiple favorites as an adult, like “King of the together – and I do mean everything, (“Friends”), Alan Arkin (“Glengarry women. The show explicitly confronts Hill,” “Bob’s Burgers” and “Archer,” although thankfully we’re spared Glen Ross”), Anjelica Huston (“The the way fame blinds the public and are sharp and funny and remind me some details. The scenario is delivered Royal Tenenbaums”), Paul McCartney feeds the victim-blaming rallying cry. that silly isn’t such a bad thing. without explanation. The animals’ (The Beatles), Daniel Radcliffe (“Harry The fact that this show is a “cartoon” Then there’s the Netflix series involvement is highlighted to comic Potter”) and on and on. It’s amazing that stars talking animals partially “Bojack Horseman.” Netflix recently effect with an arachnid movie director they got all these people to work on obscures just how on-point its critique released the second season of this named “Quentin Tarantulino,” a film this niche, oddball show; it also makes of media complicity in protecting stars odd, biting and sometimes disturb- studio called Parrotmount and an for a great, post-show guessing game from reality is. It’s truly must-see TV, ing animated series about a faded airline company known as Pandam. and Googling session. as few shows of any kind are willing television star from the ‘90s who All characters, both animal and It is also incredibly appropriate that to be so brutal these days. happens to be a horse. Bojack isn’t human, are voiced by a roll call of well- so many famous actors contribute, as If you haven’t already, binge-watch a lives-in-a-stable horse like Mr. Ed. known actors. Aside from Sedaris and one of the show’s primary themes is the first season of “Bojack Horseman” Voiced by Will Arnett (“Arrested Arnett, there’s Aaron Paul (“Breaking the confabulated reality of show busi- before starting Season 2. That will bring ness and “Hollywoo,” so called when you up to speed on the series’ weird, a celebrity (guess who!) stole the “D” hallucinogenic vibe. You’ll snicker and from the hillside signage. Once a bona smirk as you get to know the characters. fide star, Bojack’s career peaked when Season 2 will make you laugh, some- “Horsin’ Around” was a hit. Fifteen times loudly and uncontrollably, but years later, he’s desperately clinging you’ll also be struck by how “Bojack” to his B-list status and is rapidly being perfectly illustrates that nagging inner forced to confront a world that has voice compelling us to chase the carrot largely forgotten his minimal appeal dangling in front of us.” I vaguely recall and talent. Arnett is often cast as a being a carefree kid eating leftover world-weary character on the grift so pizza and watching my cartoons alone. his voice fits perfectly here. Bojack is “Bojack Horseman” walks us through still semi-famous but mainly hears learning to let go of the past by instead tourists shouting “Say your catch- animating a world that, despite its phrase!” – if they recognize him at essential absurdity, depicts reality more all – and the show gallops along with than it does fantasy. his midlife identity crisis. Can we relate to an animated horse? “Bojack Horseman” is available to How about one who was once a stream anytime on Netflix. household name and lives in a man- sion with his entourage? You might Hugh Elliott is a writer and artist living be surprised. “Bojack Horseman” in California who rarely uses his Twitter avoids cheap shots and easy laughs, handle @wehogayman SCREENS ABQ FREE PRESS • August 12, 2015 • 23 Film Capsules that centers on a megavillain, his him the first time around. Surprise! The minions and three orphans named master sleuth refuses to retire, instead Margo, Edith and Agnes. “Minions” revisiting a perplexing case from the itself is a prequel-slash-spinoff. Is it a past. Laura Linney costars. 104 minutes. metaphor for evolution or devolution? Rated PG Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm and Geoffrey Rush contribute vocal talent. 91 minutes. TERMINATOR GENISYS Rated PG Arnold is back, and he kills. More specifi- cally, the latest film in the Terminator MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE franchise proves that the past is always NATION fertile ground for the future. The Termi- The fifth film in the M:I series finds nator has aged, there is an alternative Impossible Mission Force leader Ethan timeline to reckon with, and the Earth Hunt (Tom Cruise) no longer an unof- and its human inhabitants may still ficial part of the U.S. government, but be doomed. Tune in this week for the he’s still out there doing secret agent stunning coup de grace. 126 minutes. things. Incoming CIA Chief Alan Hunley Rated PG-13 Amnesiac (Alec Baldwin), former IMF colleagues Brandt (Jeremy Renner) and Benji BY SAMANTHA ANNE CARRILLO on Amy. Like the lady herself, the result TRAINWRECK (Simon Pegg) and British agent/frenemy is astonishingly beautiful and ultimately Amy Schumer and Judd Apatow Isla Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) add tragic. 128 minutes. Rated R team up to bring the romantic life of COMING SOON interest to two hours and 11 minutes of substance-friendly, commitment-phobic ANT MAN fights, crashes, fireballs and beatings. journalist Amy (played by Schumer) to 131 minutes. Rated PG-13 AMNESIAC Marvel reaches toward self-referential the big screen. Amy is assigned a feature Was the 1990 filmic adaptation of on golden boy/sports surgeon Aaron humor only to come up with an at-once- MR. HOLMES Stephen King’s novel “Misery” too muddled-by-detail-and-confused-in-tone (Bill Hader), and the polar opposites fall More recently acquainted with Robert nuanced for your discerning taste in clunker. A guy (Michael Douglas) gets hard for each other. But as many a Face- Downey, Jr.’s brand of methodical, obsession and torture-themed movies? hold of a suit that shrinks him to – wait book relationship status proclaims, “it’s substance-abusing detective? This is If so, Michael Polish’s “Amnesiac” is your for it – the size of an ant. Naturally, complicated.” Tilda Swinton plays Amy’s altogether different but succeeds on its dream come true. Featuring Polish’s hijinks involving high-stakes theft and listicle-loving editor a Maxim-esque terms. Sherlock Holmes (Ian McKellen) wife Kate Bosworth as “Woman” geopolitics ensue. Douglas and cast men’s magazine, and LeBron James spends his golden years solving myster- and rising horror star Wes Bentley as members including Paul Rudd, T.I., John portrays Aaron’s “Downton Abbey”- ies, especially those that confounded “Man,” there’s no subtlety to speak of. Slattery and Bobby Cannavale do their obsessed BFF. 124 minutes. Rated R Can Bosworth summon Kathy Bates- utmost to urge the plot forward. 117 with-a-sledgehammer gravitas? There’s minutes. Rated PG-13 only one way to find out. 90 minutes. Unrated (Opens Friday 8/14) INSIDE OUT Pixar creates an authentically human FELT simulacra of the real world. It exists in Read our Review on page 21. the mind of a distraught adolescent 79 minutes. Unrated (Opens Friday 8/14) named Riley. Emotions are personified, Guild Cinema Fri-Sun 8:30 p.m. just like they sometimes are here on Earth. Joy (Amy Poehler) smiles beatifi- STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON cally. Disgust (Mindy Kaling) rolls her Seminal West Coast rap crew N.W.A. eyes at something Anger (Lewis Black) (an acroynm for “Niggaz Wit Attitude”) says. When onscreen and anthropomor- gets the biopic treatment in F. Gary phic, sentiment proves unexpectedly Gray’s much-buzzed about feature film compelling. Take note, “real world.” 94 “Straight Outta Compton.” O’Shea minutes. Rated PG Jackson, Jr. plays his real-life father, Ice Cube. Fresh-faced versions of Dr. Dre, JURASSIC WORLD Eazy-E, MC Ren and DJ Yella round out Where’s Jeff Goldblum when you need the thespians who depict the gangstas him? Probably curled up with Hal of a band once known as the “world’s Hartley’s latest script. Truth be told, his most dangerous group.” 147 minutes. absence doesn’t hurt this film. Jurassic Rated R (Opens Friday 8/14) World is really a spectacular coming-out party for Chris Pratt’s muscles. At this STILL PLAYING point in the franchise, reiterations of and variations on previous themes are getting pretty bitey. Like some geneti- AMY cally engineered dinosaurs. 123 minutes. Chanteuse Amy Winehouse was born, Rated PG-13 she lived and she died. In between days, her prodigious talent as a singer became MINIONS apparent. As she began to explore If you have young children, you can her gifts, addiction descended like a hur- probably skip this review. The “minion” ricane. Asif Kapadia’s documentary relies originates from “Despicable Me.” This heavily on archival recordings of Amy is some sort of children’s film franchise 24 • August 12, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS STAGES Taking Down Rape Culture with Laci Green BY M. BRIANNA STALLINGS most popular vloggers online? The UNM Women’s Resource Cen- You didn’t say yes, but you didn’t say no ter, in conjunction with LoboRESPECT, either. the Dean of Students Office, Residence Look at what you’re wearing. What’d you Life and ASUNM Special Events, think would happen? presents YouTube personality Laci He’s famous, so of course he had a lot of Green, creator of online sex ed series sex ... but rape? I don’t think so. “Sex Plus.” The tremendously popular show reaches 5 million young adults ow many times in casual con every month, in over 125 countries. Hversation have we all heard – or An outspoken sex-positive feminist, even said – these things? An honest Green’s videos are incisive, direct and acknowledgment would tell us engaging. In addition, Green is also “too often.” A brutally honest one the host of “MTV Braless,” a YouTube would remind us that such ideas are series presented by MTV that takes a reflective of rape culture. It’s a world look at sexual representations in pop in which we pretend that sexual culture. Twenty-five-year-old Green violence isn’t pervasive, and that it will share her presentation “Taking isn’t perpetuated by heteronormative Down Rape Culture” in the UNM Laci Green notions of insatiable male sexual- Student Union Building on Thursday ity and/or perpetual female sexual Aug. 20, at 7:30 p.m. YouTube star Laci Green visits UNM to raise awareness about rape culture. availability. All the while, rape culture Although Green was unavailable blames victims, tells women that their for interviews, three representatives worth is 100 percent body-based and from the Women’s Resource Center students through orientation. been really well received. She has cracks jokes about men dropping the had plenty of time to talk with ABQ Students went wild over it. So we an inviting style which is important soap in prison showers. Free Press about Laci Green, as well were thinking about this in terms of for this topic. She doesn’t shy away One of the most common sites of as the rise in campus-wide initiatives welcoming students back: how do we from talking about things that are sexual assault is the college campus. to raise awareness about student get them engaged? We thought this emotionally charged, but she does it Statistics show that one in four female sexual health. We sat down with was a really good way. There’s a lot of in a way that everyone is still able to students and one in six male students Caitlin Henke, program specialist; efforts in the first weeks of school, and participate. She makes people want to are sexually violated while attending Angela Catena, Center counselor and we needed a big, high-profile one. listen to her. university. And while drugs, alcohol graduate program assistant with the Angela Catena: Laci was on our radar Catena: Laci’s direct but not in an and peer pressure all exacerbate an Gendered Violence Program; and for a while. We’d had some talks offensive way. I love that about her. already alarming situation, so too Mallory Christensen, student office about two years ago about bringing She does throw her opinion in there, does silence. assistant. That’s why the University of her here, but we just didn’t have time but not in a way that’s imposing it on to do it then. So recently, with more anyone else. Then, once Laci leaves, New Mexico is seeking to open up a ABQ Free Press: Why is it important University collaboration, we were able we have continued curriculum just campus-wide conversation about sex, to have Laci Green speak at UNM? respect, consent and boundaries. And to reach out to our partners and say, to get the point across. We know Caitlin Henke: We as a team have “We want to do this. Will you help us that a one-time shot isn’t going to be what better way to talk about sex with been working a lot to address this incoming iPhone Generation fresh- make it happen?” and everyone was effective in terms of providing this issue on campus. Angela worked to on board. information. men than by bringing one of their create a program to train incoming Marjorie Christensen: As a young, Do you think that collaboration with traditional college student, someone different campus departments has like Laci makes you want to listen. led to an increased respect for these She’s calling us out on things that we ideas in everyday campus life? didn’t realize we were participating Catena: For a long time I think the in. That’s what we want to do with responsibility fell on the Women’s this: make people listen. And after Resource Center, but we were also Laci [leaves], we want to keep people the ones who were bringing up the talking, as well. conversation. Now people are happy to join us at the table and ask what M. Brianna Stallings writes so you can be done. In terms of student don’t have to. involvement, it’s always been there Taking Down Rape Culture: but the efforts have just been with A Presentation by Laci Green smaller groups of students trying to Thursday Aug. 20, 7:30 p.m. do it on their own. Now it’s more of a UNM Student Union Building collaborative effort. This is one of the Tickets: Free for UNM students, staff first times I’ve seen students get this and faculty with ID. $10 general much support from administration. admission tickets for the public available online at What can you tell our readers about unmtickets.com Laci’s presentation on rape culture? For more info, call the Women’s Resource Center Henke: Based on other universities, at 277-3716. we know that this presentation has music ABQ FREE PRESS • August 12, 2015 • 25 Within Range: On Killah Priest, Purity Ring & Prayers BY SAMANTHA ANNE CARRILLO together – past Modest Mouse at Expo like entomology, cosmology and marine Pentatonix rose to prominence after New Mexico (300 San Pedro NE) on biology – in the so-called flesh starting at winning a reality TV/talent contest, NBC’s areful readers may have noticed a Tuesday, Aug. 18, and several other 9 p.m. Eight bucks gets you in. Speaking of “The Sing-Off.” Clarkson’s latest single Cperceptible shift in the coverage dates worthwhile concerts – to Friday, Aug. 21, the El Rey, it’s my duty to ensure synthpop “Invincible” finds the soprano embracing of my biweekly Within Range column. when Killah Priest brings his Gordian lyri- wunderkind Purity Ring’s concert at the her popular roots after experimenting It’s a (literally) forward-thinking move to cism and star-studded production cred to El Rey on Friday, Sept. 4, is also on your with a more hard-rocking vibe and then focus more heavily on coverage of the Launchpad (618 Central SW). This 21-plus radar. That 18-plus show starts at 8 p.m., shattering the glass ceiling of Christmas week after publication and beyond. show is the perfect concert to attend with and tickets range from $24 to $29. Muzak with her platinum-selling holiday The logic behind this strategy is that that extended family member Let’s face it: With the full-length “Wrapped in Red.” regular readers of ABQ Free Press will have who decries all rap and notable exception of Gregg If you’re unfamiliar with San Diego access to concert deets before any other hip-hop as mindless glorifica- Araki’s “Happy Face” and cholo-goth act Prayers, there’s no time local newspaper’s audience. You’ll be one Judd Apatow’s “Pineapple tion of thug life. On his 2013 like the present to make the virtual of the first to know there’s a noteworthy Express,” stoner movies have double-album “The Psychic acquaintance of this gangbanger-turned- show happening in Albuquerque. The been declining ever since World of Walter Reed,” Priest darkwave icon. Prayers’ prime mover mission of our music section is to deliver Cheech and Chong toked on requires a lot from his listeners. Leafar Seyer aka Rafael Reyes was born diverse, relevant interviews, previews that Labrador strain. On the other, If fans want to fully “get” his in Cotija, Michoacán but moved to the and reviews of local and touring artists roach clip-clutching hand, stoner poetry, a working knowledge of the Bible, ocean-side city early on. Seyer spent time and bands, upcoming concerts and new rock has experienced a renaissance of late. ancient history and astronomy couldn’t as a member of the Sherman Grant Hill releases. Take your inner stoner-hesher out for a hurt. The beat starts at 9 p.m., and presale Park 27 gang and was incarcerated twice If you’re the spontaneous type, follow night on the town on Wednesday, Aug. 25. tickets are $15. us at facebook.com/ABQFreePress and That’s when North Carolinian threesome on assault charges. He credits his jail time instagram.com/abqfreepress for up-to- On Saturday, Aug. 22, at the El Rey Weedeater blows their secondhand smoke with giving him the opportunity to plan date and last-minute reminders of shows Theater (622 Central SW), Irish electro all over the Launchpad (618 Central SW). a way out of street life. Always a fan of we covered and those we couldn’t make godhead Sian brings his brand of clas- The joint lights up at 9 p.m., and tickets to goth-rock and darkwave, Seyer coined the space for in our print edition. We write sic, modern techno to town on the this 21-plus bass-fetishizing recital are $10. term “cholo-goth” as a way of describing this paper for you, the reader, and we “Anthracite” album tour. His latest, Local rock gods Black Maria warm up the the output of his much buzzed-out duo want to know what you think. Is our hip- 23-track release “Anthracite” dropped crowd with Taser-like intensity and their Prayers. Sink your bejeweled vampire hop coverage lacking? Do you crave more on his wildly popular (read: Top Five) signature, mighty Marshall stacks. grill into the music video for “Young shoegaze news? Want deeper insight into techno label Octopus Recordings on Aug. On Thursday, Aug. 27, O.G. “American Gods” at bit.ly/YoungGodsvid. Then bring the history of traditional nuevomexicano 3. From spaced-out grooves and vicious Idol” victor/pop-rock star Kelly Clarkson your 13-year-old cousin to see Prayers at music? How do you feel about playlists? basslines to dance floor-ready bangers, visits Isleta Amphitheatre (5601 University Launchpad (618 Central SW) on Sunday, Email me at [email protected]. local techno-philes aged 21 and over can SE) along with Texan a capella group Aug. 30. The synths come alive at 8 p.m., Let’s take that first-week leap forward trip out on Sian’s eclectic inspirations – Pentatonix. 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the realization that even as a writer, the majority of people are telling them she represents an audience. Writing that they’re full of shit.” Kowal notes that resonates with her is likely also that catcalling and harassment have been something her audience wants to read. around since the inception of the genre. Speaking to the vastness of the genre, What’s changed, she says, is the fact that Kowal says, “The thing about fiction is the community is calling them out on it. Proudly Serving New Mexico For Over 30 Years that if you don’t want to write something “That type of behavior is no longer that someone else has already written, acceptable, and the community is no you don’t have to. They may use the longer allowing it, so that’s why people same ingredients as you, but they’re hear them complaining about it,” says going to deliver something completely Kowal. “They’re complaining because different – a different perspective. So it’s they’re being shut down. The thing that like saying ‘I don’t want to build a house frustrates me with questions like this is because someone has already used that that it’s not particular to science fiction type of wood.’” and fantasy by a long shot. But with my Science fiction and fantasy, gaming, co- career, things would [probably] be very splay and even literature have all earned different for me if I were a guy – or if I bad reps in regard to how women are had chosen to use a male pen name.” treated in these communities; but Kowal Women in the sci-fi community have believes the community is fighting back faced a lot of harassment in their against harassment and objectification of struggle for equality. Bubonicon thought- women, and this treatment will eventu- fully addresses that fact with this year’s ally be phased out – as many other types theme. Bubonicon: Women of Wonder of discrimination have been in the past. will pay tribute to women for their “This is not a new thing,” says Kowal, remarkable creative achievements and Specializing in “and the reason that we’re seeing all the uphill battle to make those achieve- A+ Rating this conversation about it is because it’s ments a reality in a male-dominated something people are actively fighting industry. Custom (505) 247-0736 against. [Those who are] invested in the 417 Summer Avenue NW idea that women are somehow lesser Rene Thompson is an ABQ Free Press creatures are being very vocal because staff writer. Driveshafts albuquerquedriveshaft.com To Advertise: Reach Albuquerque’s Contact Cory Calamari (505) 345-4080, Ext. 803 most informed audience [email protected] living ABQ FREE PRESS • August 12, 2015 • 27 Bugman: The Three Ws of Uninvited Visitors BY RICHARD ‘BUGMAN’ FAGERLUND

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Unless there’s an pest control partner, find one that sprays actual infestation, what really happens as a last resort. Empower yourself by is that these treatments may dispatch pestproofing your own home. the occasional cockroach or cricket, but Install door sweeps on all outside doors they’re equally likely to kill off praying that need them. Here’s a foolproof test: If mantis, honeybees and other beneficial you can slide a piece of paper underneath insects. A host of other insects that a door, it needs a sweep. By their very aren’t pests will die, and these insects nature, garage doors rarely close that may then be eaten by birds, which may tightly, so put food-grade diatomaceous then be poisoned. And so on. That’s earth aka D.E. in corners near the not pest control – it’s pollution. These entrance. Any insects and other arthro- breathtaking summer thunderstorms pods that sneak in will walk through the result in rain that washes pesticides into D.E. It isn’t a pesticide, and exterminates earth, where their environmental detri- by abrading insects’ exoskeletons, causing ment only increases. When a company moisture loss and ultimately, death by de- treats your home, they should inspect hydration. Food grade D.E. is commonly first – finding, treating and sealing used for grain storage and hydroponic off any cracks, crevices or voids where gardening and in toothpaste, water filters roaches or other pests can hide. If there and facial scrubs. With the exception of are no such crevices, pests can’t get in, extended, concentrated inhalation of so why needlessly harm the ecological calcinated or crystalline silica – which has balance? largely fallen out of favor in comparison to amorphous silica – D.E. is safe to have around kids and pets. 28 • August 12, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS CALENDAr AUGUST 12-27 1 Artward Bound: Lotería Fest! Featuring the Art of John Picacio! DEFINITIVE DOZEN Jean Cocteau Gallery, THROUGH AUGUST 16 AUGUST 22-23 418 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, List your event (505) 466-5528, jeancocteaucinema.com 5 Performances: Aye, No! 9 Screens: “The Blob” and “The Part of Siembra, Latino Theatre Festival Thing from Another World”: in the THURSDAY, AUGUST 13 National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 Invasion Double Feature Fourth St SW, 724-4771, nhccnm.org The Guild Cinema, 3405 Central Ave NE, Fundraisers: Live Music Series at ABQ Free Press 2 255-1848; guildcinema.com The County Line to benefit Meals AUGUST 17-23 on Wheels: The Porter Draw 10 Fairs: Santa Fe Indian Market 7 pm, The County Line BBQ 6 Screens: Native Cinema Showcase 7 am, Historic Plaza, Santa Fe, swaia.org/ calendar 9600 Tramway Blvd NE, 856-7477, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W Indian_Market Palace Ave, Santa Fe, (505) 476-5072, Email event info, including countyline.com 11 Outdoors: African Violet Show nmartmuseum.org and Sale event name, date, time, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14 THURSDAY, AUGUST 20 ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden, 2601 Cen- tral Ave NW, 764-6200, abqbiopark.com address and contact phone 3 Music: Flava D Sister Bar, 407 Central Ave SW, 7 Music: Pherkad 242-4900, sisterthebar.com 7 pm, Marble Brewery, 111 Marble Ave, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27 number or website, to 243-2739, marblebrewery.com 12 Talks: Stories of the Middle SATURDAY, AUGUST 15 [email protected] SATURDAY, AUGUST 22 Rio Grande: Alameda 4 Music/Family: An Evening 7 pm, Free, Bachechi Open Space, 9521 one month in advance of of Medieval and Traditional Bal- 8 Performances: Caught in The Act: Rio Grande NE, RSVP: 314-0398, bernco. lads: Scott and Johanna Hongell- A Benefit for New Mexico AIDS gov/community-services publication. Darsee Services Part of Saturday Sunset Series 8 pm, KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW, 7 pm, Elena Gallegos Picnic Area, 768-3544, kimotickets.com, thedolls.org 452-5200, cabq.gov/parksandrecreation

CLUBS & PUBS AUGUST 13-22 MUSIC Joseph General Modest Mouse Part of Party on the Patio 7 pm, Expo New Mexico, Villa Hispana, Low Spirits 6 pm, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, 300 San Pedro Dr NE, 222-9700, AUGUST 12-20 2823 Second St NW, 344-9555 THURSDAY, AUGUST 13 Pueblo Harvest Café, 2401 12th St ticketmaster.com Sister Bar lowspiritslive.com Alejandro Pais Iriart’s Flamenco NW, 843-7270, indianpueblo.org 407 Central Ave SW, 242-4900, August 13, Merican Slang, Jazz Project & Brain Wingard WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19 sisterthebar.com Daddy Long Loin 7:30 pm, Outpost Performance Space, Todd Tijerina Los Van Van August 12, Circuit Des Yeux, August 14, The Lowlights, 210 Yale Blvd SE, 268-0044, 7 pm, Free, Historic Old Town, Marisa Anderson, Chicharra Sad Baby Wolf, Train Conductor outpostspace.org Rio Grande Blvd & Central Ave NW, 7:30 pm, National Hispanic Cultural 768-2000 Center, 1701 Fourth St SW, August 13, Low Life-Vids ‘n’ Vinyl August 17, Rocky Votolato, Dave American Rhapsody Glenn Miller Orchestra Hause, Chris Farren ampconcerts.org August 16, Part of Chatter Concert Series SATURDAY, AUGUST 15 August 20, Thieves and Gypsys, August 20, Aburly Q Burlesque and 6 pm, Free, Albuquerque Museum of Snow tha Product, Audio Push Red Francis, Holy Glories Slideshow Spectacular Art & History, 2000 Mountain Rd NW, The Blunns 7 pm, Sunshine Theater, August 21, Joseph General, 242-4600, cabq.gov/museum 5:30 pm, Vernon’s Speakeasy, 120 Central Ave SW, 764-0249, AUGUST 12-27 I.Conscious 6855 Fourth St NW, Los Ranchos de sunshinetheaterlive.com Billy Bob Thornton and the The Dirty Bourbon Red Elvises, Cowboys Albuquerque, 341-0831, August 22, Boxmasters 9800 Montgomery Blvd NW, & Indian thehiddensteakhouse.com THURSDAY, AUGUST 20 7:30 pm, Skylight, 296-2726, dirtybourbon.com Blu Sol 139 W San Francisco St, Santa Fe, Peter Chase Live Band Karaoke!! AUGUST 13-27 Part of Party on the Patio August 12, (505) 982-0775, skylightsantafe.com 2 pm, Cherry Hills Library, 6901 Bar- August 13-15, Asphalt Cowboys Zinc Cellar Bar stow St NE, 857-8321, abclibrary.org 6 pm, Pueblo Harvest Café, Indian Live Band Karaoke!! 3009 Central Ave NE, 254-9462, Breaking Blue Pueblo Cultural Center, 2401 12th St August 19, Raven & The Sweet Potato Pie Jackson Tillman zincabq.com Part of Summer Nights Concert NW, 843-7270, indianpueblo.org August 20-22, Band Live Band Karaoke!! Shane Schedule August 26, August 13, Part of Party on the Patio Cactus Tractor Laura Wash Band Alex Maryol 6 pm, ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden, August 27, August 15, 6 pm, Pueblo Harvest Café, Indian Part of Summer Nights Concert 11 am, Jack Hansen 2601 Central Ave NW, 764-6200, Launchpad August 16, Pueblo Cultural Center, 2401 12th St Schedule Robby Overfield abqbiopark.com 618 Central Ave SW, 764-8887, August 18, NW, 843-7270, indianpueblo.org 6 pm, ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden, launchpadrocks.com August 20, Zoltan Orkestar Swag 2601 Central Ave NW, 764-6200, Hello Dollface August 12, Regicide, Destroy to August 22, Part of Party on the Patio SUNDAY, AUGUST 16 abqbiopark.com Dan Dowling 6 pm, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Recreate August 23, Asleep at the Wheel Los Unusual Suspects Bosque Blues Pueblo Harvest Café, 2401 12th St August 13, Rudest Priest, Weedrat, August 25, 7:30 pm, Dirty Bourbon, Part of Thirsty Thursdays Music Series You Knew Me When NW, 843-7270, indianpueblo.org Constant Harmony August 27, 9800 Montgomery Blvd NE, 296-2726, 4 pm, Balloon Fiesta Event Center, August 14, Texas Hippie, Coalition, AUGUST 14-31 dirtybourbon.com 9401 Balloon Museum Dr NW, Red Sky Mary FRIDAY, AUGUST 14 Chatter Sunday: 768-6062, cabq.gov August 15, Russian Girlfriends Sneakerz Sports Grille Lil Durk, Gun Play, Hypo Carlito “Record” Release Show 4100 San Mateo Blvd NE, 837-1708, 7 pm, El Rey Theater, 622 Central Ave Conor Hanick + Metronomes Voorhees & Kulasighe & JQ The Atlas Moth, Vattnet sneakerzsportsbar.com SW, elreyabq.com 10:30 am, Kosmos Performance Space Whitcomb’s Woody Shaw August 16, at the Factory on 5th, Viskar August 14, 6 pm, Fun Addicts Band Project Blues Under the Stars: Ladies 1715 Fifth St NW, chatterabq.org Part of Summer Thursday Jazz Nights August 17, Butcher Babies, Anesthesia August 14, 9 pm, Karaoke Sing the Blues 7 pm, Primal Panic Bands 7:30 pm, Outpost Performance Space, August 20, Behind the Mirror, August 15, 7 pm, Albuquerque Museum of Art & Gregg Daigle Band 6 pm, Smoke and Honey 210 Yale Blvd SE, 268-0044 Torn Between Worlds August 21, History, 2000 Mountain Rd NW, 7 pm, Arte de Placitas, 221 Hwy 165, Band August 21, Killah Priest, Bandit Lordz, 243-7255, cabq.gov/museum Placitas, 867-5383, artedeplacitas.com FRIDAY, AUGUST 21 Benny Browncoat August 21, 9 pm, Karaoke Martin Sexton 8 am, Brandon’s Cause The Gruve David & Co August 22, Concepto Tambor, Reviva August 22, 6 pm, Free, Santa Fe Railyard Plaza, Fundraising Tourney 9 pm, Free, Lounge 54, Santa Ana Star 9 pm, Lounge 54, Santa Ana Star August 23, Authority Zero, 740 Cerrillos Rd, Santa Fe, 9 pm, Quizzling Band Casino, 54 Jemez Canyon Dam Rd, Casino, 54 Jemez Canyon Dam Rd, Counterpunch August 22, ampconcerts.org Santa Ana Pueblo, 867-0000, Santa Ana Pueblo, 867-0000, August 24, The Aristocrats, August 31, 11 am, CNM Volleyball Travis Larson Band Class santaanastar.com TUESDAY, AUGUST 18 santaanastar.com Hillary Smith & Chris Dracup August 25, Weedeater, Black Maria, Dirty Head, The Expendables, Jeez LaWeez AUGUST 19-27 5:30 pm, Prairie Star Restaurant and Sandia Man Katastro 5:30 pm, Prairie Star Restaurant and Wine Bar, 288 Prairie Star Rd, Santa August 26, The Acacia Strain, Marble Brewery 7 pm, Sunshine Theater, Wine Bar, 288 Prairie Star Rd, 111 Marble Ave NW, 243-2739, Ana Pueblo, 867-3327, Vale of Miscreation 120 Central Ave SW, 764-0249, Santa Ana Pueblo, 867-3327, marblebrewery.com mynewmexicogolf.com/prairiestar_home August 27, Eagles of Death Metal sunshinetheaterlive.com mynewmexicogolf.com/prairiestar_home August 19, Robby Overfield August 22, Green Billies August 27, Moon Hat ABQ FREE PRESS • August 12, 2015 • 29

CLatin NightALENDAr THURSDAY, AUGUST 27 TUESDAY, AUGUST 25 AUGUST 14-21 SATURDAY, AUGUST 15 Part of Summertime in Old Town Jazz a la Carte Sublime with Rome CCA Cinematheque Made on Route 66 6 pm, Free, Historic Old Town, Part of Summer Nights Concert Isleta Resort & Casino, 11000 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, 10:30 am, Free, Special Collections Rio Grande Blvd & Central Ave NW, Schedule Broadway SE, 724-3800, isleta.com (505) 982-1338, ccasantafe.org Library, 423 Central NE, 848-1376 768-2000, cabq.gov/culturalservices 6 pm, ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden, Starts August 14, “Best of Enemies” abclibrary.org PandaMonium IV feat JAUZ 2601 Central Ave NW, 764-6200, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27 Starts August 21, “The Look of Maleficent 3D 8 pm, El Rey Theater, abqbiopark.com Kelly Clarkson with Silence” 6:30 pm, Lockheed Martin 622 Central Ave SW, elreyabq.com Joanie & Combo Special Pentatonix Starts August 21, “People Places Dynatheater, New Mexico Museum Soul Kitchen 6 pm, Pueblo Harvest Café, Isleta Resort & Casino, 11000 Things” of Natural History, 6 pm, Pueblo Harvest Café, Indian 2401 12th St NW, 724-3510, Broadway SE, 724-3800, isleta.com Jean Cocteau Cinema 1801 Mountain Rd NW, 841-2816, Pueblo Cultural Center, 2401 12th St indianpueblo.com/puebloharvestcafe 418 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, dynasummermovies.brownpapertickets.com NW, 843-7270, indianpueblo.org THROUGH AUGUST 16 Rio Gumbo (505) 466-5528, Pregnant: Tinariwen Part of Thirsty Thursdays Music Series The Real Thing jeancocteaucinema.com Preventing Teen Pregnancy Taos Mesa Brewing, 20 ABC Mesa Rd, 4 pm, Balloon Fiesta Event Center, The Vortex Theatre, 2900 Carlisle NE, August 14, “The Falling,” 6 pm, Free, KiMo Theatre, 423 Central El Prado, (575) 758-1900, 9401 Balloon Museum Dr NW, 247-8600, vortexabq.org “Jellyfish Eyes” Ave NW, 768-3544, safeteen.net taosmesabrewing.com 768-6062, cabq.gov August 21, “Big Significant Things,” THROUGH AUGUST 23 “The Tribe” SUNDAY, AUGUST 16 SATURDAY, AUGUST 22 Love in the DMZ PERFORMANCES THURSDAY, AUGUST 13 Avengers 2 Dar Williams Sol Acting Academy, Part of Movie on the Field 8 pm, South Broadway Cultural Center, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13 5500 San Mateo Blvd NE Ste 114, Shane 8 pm, Free, UNM, Johnson Field, 1 881-0975, solacting.com 1025 Broadway Blvd SW, Skillet Part of Great Westerns University Dr, unm.edu 7 pm, KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave ampconcerts.org Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort THROUGH AUGUST 24 NW, 768-3544, kimotickets.com The Enforcer Ijah & Casino, 287 Carrizo Canyon Rd, 2 pm, KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave Santa Fe Chamber Music 6 pm, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Mescalero, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14 NW, 768-3544, kimotickets.com 2401 12th St NW, 843-7270, (800) 545-9011, ticketmaster.com, Festival indianpueblo.org innofthemountaingods.com Various locations in Santa Fe and Finding Nemo TUESDAY, AUGUST 19 Albuquerque, (505) 983-2075, Part of Movies on the Plaza Javier Ortega FRIDAY, AUGUST 14 santafechambermusic.com 8:10 pm, Civic Plaza, 1 Civic Plaza NW, The Dark Knight Rises 3 pm, Main Library, 501 Copper Ave Part of The Dark Knight Series Chris Cope Third St NW and Marquette Ave NW, NW, 768-5170, THROUGH AUGUST 29 albuquerquecc.com KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW, abclibrary.org/mainlibrary Skylight, 139 W San Francisco St, 768-3544, kimotickets.com Santa Fe, (505) 982-0775, Murder at the Abilene Saloon The Goonies Nimbus Frontera! Revolt and Rebellion skylightsantafe.com Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown, Part of Railyard Park Movie Series Part of Saturday Sunset Series 2600 Louisiana Blvd NE, 377-9593, on the Rio Grande: Screening Dierks Bentley, Kip Moore, 8 pm, Free, Santa Fe Railyard Park, 7 pm, Elena Gallegos Picnic Area, foulplaycafe.com 740 Cerrillos Rd, Santa Fe, and Talk 452-5200, cabq.gov Maddie and Tae & 5:30 pm, Indian Pueblo Cultural Canaan Smith ampconcerts.org The Pjudys THROUGH AUGUST 30 Center, 2401 12th St NW, 843-7270, Isleta Resort & Casino, 11000 Broad- Journey to the Center of the 2 pm, Cherry Hills Library, 6901 Bar- Picnic indianpueblo.org way SE, 724-3800, isleta.com Earth (1959) stow St NE, 857-8321, abclibrary.org The Adobe Theater, Kraig Parker: Part of Sci-Fi Second Takes FRIDAY, AUGUST 21 Red Wine featuring La La & 9813 Fourth Street NW, 898-9222, KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW, Ultimate Tribute to Elvis Ghostbusters The Hubcaps adobetheater.org 768-3544, kimotickets.com 8 pm, Route 66 Casino, 14500 Central 8:10 pm, Free, Civic Plaza, 1 Civic Part of Chispa New Mexico Music Ave SW, 352-7866, rt66casino.com THROUGH SEPTEMBER 13 Pulp Fiction Plaza NW, Third St NW and Marquette Series 7 pm, Distillery 365, 2921 Stanford Dr Los Lobos Arsenic and Old Lace Ave NW, albuquerquecc.com 7:30 pm, National Hispanic Cultural NE, 221-6281, distillery365.com Center, 1701 Fourth St SW, 724-4771, Buffalo Thunder, 20 Buffalo Thunder Albuquerque Little Theatre, nhccnm.org Trail, Santa Fe, (505) 455-5555, 224 San Pasquale Ave SW, 242-4750, buffalothunderresort.com albuquerquelittletheatre.org Sian 9 pm, Stereo Bar, 622 Central Ave SW, Roust the House Teen Perfor- elreyabq.com mance Night SCREENS 7:30 pm, Outpost Performance Space, Sons of the Rio Grande 210 Yale Blvd SE, 268-0044, AUGUST 12-23 Juke Box Sunday Night Part of Chuckwagon Dinner & Music outpostspace.org Fathom Events Series BY M. BRIANNA STALLINGS at selected movie theaters, 6 pm, Wildlife West Nature Park, AUGUST 14-15 fathomevents.com From our street 87 N. Frontage Rd, Edgewood, “Unity”: Make the (505) 281-7665, wildlifewest.org 10th Annual DXS Dance August 12, signs indicating pre- Xperience Connection 1937 Route 66 to our Tal Burdine 7:30 pm, Hiland Theater, 4800 Central August 16 & 19, “Grease” greasers and swing Part of Art in the Afternoon Ave SE, 872-1800, ndi-nm.org Sing-A-Long dance aficionados, 2 pm, Albuquerque Museum of Art & August 23, Counter-Strike: History, 2000 Mountain Rd NW, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19 Global Offensive Burque’s cultural 242-4600, cabq.gov/museum consciousness is Los Van Van AUGUST 12-27 Taos Blues Fest National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 more than 2 pm, Taos Mesa Brewing, 20 ABC Fourth St SW, 724-4771, The Guild Cinema a little fixated Mesa Rd, El Prado, (575) 758-1900, tickets: ampconcerts.org 3405 Central Ave NE, 255-1848; on days of yore. mollydogproductions.org/events/taos- guildcinema.com Luckily the legacy of bluesfest FRIDAY, AUGUST 21 August 12-13, “A Poem is a Naked Westside Summerfest: Gipsy Kings Person”: The Leon Russell Glenn Miller, one of the 20th century’s most beloved bandlead- George Clinton and Parliament 8 pm, Route 66 Casino, 14500 Central documentary ers, is still going strong. Experience the world famous Glenn Funkadelic Ave SW, 352-7866, rt66casino.com August 12-13, “The Wrecking Crew” Miller Orchestra at Sister at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 16. 5 pm, Free, Cottonwood Dr and Ellison August 14, Stand Up Comedy Live Midwest native Miller – who traded his father’s gift of a Dr NW, 768-3556, cabq.gov AUGUST 21-23 with Aarona Lopez! “Felt” mandolin for a horn as a boy – launched his legendary orchestra Big Thunder Dancers August 14-16, “The Tribe” in 1938. The band released classics like “Tuxedo Junction,” “In SUNDAY, AUGUST 23 (Hopi/Cochiti) August 14-16, “The Nightmare”: Chatter Sunday: Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, August 15, the Mood” and “Chattanooga Choo Choo.” Miller went MIA in A documentary/horror film on Brahms Piano Quartet 2401 12th St NW, 843-7270, 1944, and the band regrouped under lead tenor saxophonist Tex sleep paralysis 10:30 am, Kosmos Performance Space indianpueblo.org Beneke. The Orchestra’s current incarnation was formed in 1956. “La Sapienza” at the Factory on 5th, 1715 Fifth St August 17-20, “The World of Apu” Current bandleader Nick Hilscher took over in 2012. As tempting NW, chatterabq.org SATURDAY, AUGUST 22 August 17-20, “Redeemer” as it is to bring the kids, this is strictly a grown-up (21+) affair. Dar Williams August 21-22, Red Elvises August 21-24, “The Wanted 18” 6 pm, Free, Santa Fe Railyard Plaza, 8 pm, South Broadway Cultural Center, August 21-24, “White Lies” The Glenn Miller Orchestra 740 Cerrillos Rd, Santa Fe, 1025 Broadway Blvd SW, August 25-27, “Gemma Bovery” The Glenn Miller Orchestra ampconcerts.org ampconcerts.org August 25-27, “The 100-Year-Old Sunday, Aug. 16, 7 p.m. Man Who Climbed out the Window Sister, 407 Central NW, Tickets: $15 , sisterthebar.com and Disappeared” August 12, 2015 30 • • ABQ FREE PRESS CALENDAr SATURDAY, AUGUST 22 August 15, 10:30 am, Diorama City! 4:30 pm, Teen Book Club: Wall-E August 15, “Me, Earl and the Dying Girl” 6:30 pm, Lockheed Martin For Those About to Rock 4:30 pm, American Girl Dynatheater, New Mexico Museum August 19, BY M. BRIANNA STALLINGS Book Club of Natural History, 10:30 am, Story Time 1801 Mountain Rd NW, 841-2816, Just as there’s no chicken in Campbell’s Chicken August 20, Gets Artsy! dynasummermovies.brownpapertickets.com Noodle Soup, there’s no actual death metal August 26, 2:30 pm, Magic Treehouse SUNDAY, AUGUST 23 in Eagles of Death Metal. But there is a lot of Book Club sweat, guitar and balls-to-the-wall rawk – just as August 27, 10:30 am, Ahoy! Story Firefox Time! 2 pm, KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave you’d expect from a group co-founded by Josh NW, 768-3544, kimotickets.com Homme (Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age). THURSDAY, AUGUST 13 Alongside skinny mustachioed former South WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26 Back-to-School Fun Fest Carolinian Jesse Hughes, Homme launched Eagles 1 pm, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid of Death Metal in 1998 in Palm Desert, Calif., 217 Johnson St, Santa Fe, Part of Great Westerns Series around the time Homme was working on “Desert (505) 946-1000, okeeffemuseum.org 7 pm, KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW, 768-3544, kimotickets.com Sessions Vols. 3 & 4.” SATURDAY, AUGUST 15 Since then, EoDM has released three albums, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27 Eagles of Death Metal Gustave Baumann in 9:30 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 27 and their fourth, the invitingly titled “Zipper New Mexico: Puppet Show and AlleLuia! The Devil’s Carnival Launchpad Down,” drops in October. Homme may or may Gallery Talk 7:30 pm, National Hispanic Cultural not be on board for the band’s show on Thurs- 1 pm, New Mexico Museum of Art, Center, 1701 Fourth St SW, 724-4771, 618 Central SW day, Aug. 27, at Launchpad – he’s also doing stuff 107 W Palace Ave, Santa Fe, nhccnm.org Tickets: $15 (505) 476-5072, nmartmuseum.org with his many other bands – but fans are still launchpadrocks.com Hands-on History guaranteed a loud, fast and out-of-control show. FAIRS, FESTIVALS & 9 am, El Rancho de las Golondrinas, FIESTAS 334 Los Pinos Rd, Santa Fe, (505) 471-2261, golondrinas.org AUGUST 15-16 AUGUST 20-21 AUGUST 21-23 New Mexico Responsible Gam- ing Association Conference Old Friends, New Faces Viva II to benefit El Ranchito Wildlife West Harvest Festival Isleta Casino, 11000 Broadway Blvd SE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21 Artist Showcase de los Niños 10 am, Wildlife West Nature Park, 87 isletacasino.com Aquarium Overnight Wheelwright Museum of the American Valencia County Fairgrounds, 10 I-25 N Frontage Rd, Edgewood, 6:30 pm, ABQ BioPark Aquarium, Indian, 704 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, Business Loop, Belen, vivalanm.com 281-7655, wildlifewest.org 2601 Central Ave NW, (505) 982-4636, wheelwright.org FAMILY AUGUST 27-29 RSVP: 768-2000, abqbiopark.com SUNDAY, AUGUST 16 AUGUST 13-27 AUGUST 22-23 NM Black Expo SATURDAY, AUGUST 22 Santa Fe National Cemetery Bookworks World War II Ceremony Portal Artisans Celebration Multiple locations, Albuquerque,More Explora Parent’s Night Out: Colors 10 am, New Mexico Museum of Art, info: oaaa.state.nm.us/black-expo.aspx 4022 Rio Grande NW, 344-8139, 1 pm, Santa Fe National Cemetery, 5:30 pm, Explora, 1701 Mountain Rd 107 W Palace Ave, Santa Fe, bkwrks.com 501 N Guadalupe St, Santa Fe, NW, RSVP: 224-8341, explora.us (505) 476-5072, nmartmuseum.org August 13, 10:30 am, Story Time! cem.va.gov, RSVP: (505) 988-6400 Something’s Fishy

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Hwy 14, Cedar Crest, Women’s Bicycle Clinic NW, coderdojoabq.github.io Pinball Charity 5700 Bogart NW, RSVP: 897-8816 (505) 269-1577 6 pm, Esperanza Bicycle Safety 6 pm, Sister Bar, 407 Central Ave SW, or [email protected] Stories in the Sky with Laurie Education Center, 5600 Esperanza Sunset Market 242-4900, sisterthebar.com Magovern Dr NW, 224-6668, cabq.gov Run for Vision 2015 4 pm, Civic Plaza, SW Section, Wednesday, 9:30 am and 11 am, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22 8 am, Presbyterian Rust Medical Cen- 1 Civic Plaza NW, Third St NW and Anderson Abruzzo Balloon Museum, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18 ter, 2400 Unser Blvd SE, Rio Rancho, Marquette Ave NW, Mayor and First Lady’s 9201 Balloon Museum Dr NE, 768- Dance Class: (888) 465-1482, juliettefoundation.org albuquerquecc.com Dog Ball 2015 6020, balloonmuseum.com Casino/Cuban-Style Salsa and 5:30 pm, Embassy Suites Hotel, AUGUST 15-16 THURSDAYS Sunday Family Fun Rueda de Casino 1000 Woodward Pl NE, 245-7100, Sundays, 10 am, Bachechi Open Space, 6 pm, National Hispanic Cultural New Mexico Outdoor Expo Gateway Growers Market kennelkompadres.org 9521 Rio Grande Blvd NW, 314-0398, Center, 1701 Fourth St SW, 724-4771, Shooting Range Park, 16001 Shooting 5 pm, 100 Isleta Blvd SW, 217-2484 bernco.gov/openspace nhccnm.org 2015 Night Under the Stars Range Access Rd, wildlife.state.nm.us Nob Hill Growers Market Gala Toddler Time 3 pm, Morningside Park, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22 6 pm, Paa-Ko Ridge Golf Club, SUNDAY, AUGUST 16 Tuesdays, 9 am, Explora, Lead Ave SE & Morningside Dr SE 1 Clubhouse Dr, Sandia Park, (505) 1701 Mountain Rd NW, 224-8300, My Paper Portrait; Freehand Back to School Pool Party 281-7400, eastmountainhigh.net explora.us Silhouette Paper Portraits: 5 pm, Los Padillas Aquatic Center, FRIDAYS Kevin Overhulser Summer Soiree to benefit Isleta Blvd SW, Los Poblanos Friday Farm Stand THROUGH AUGUST 16 1:30 pm, Free, Artisan-Santa Fe, La Mesa neighborhood backtoschoolnmas.eventbrite.com 3 pm, 4803 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Here Comes the Storyteller! 2601 Cerrillos Rd, Santa Fe, RSVP: 6 pm, La Mesa Presbyterian Church, Wilderness First Aid: Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, Saturdays & Sundays, 7 pm, (505) 954-4179, artisan-santafe.com 7401 Copper Ave NE An Overview lospoblanos.com 9 am, Open Space Visitor Center, Wheelwright Museum of the American TUESDAY, AUGUST 25 MONDAY, AUGUST 24 Indian, 704 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, 6500 Coors Blvd NW, RSVP: 452-5222, SATURDAYS (505) 982-4636, wheelwright.org Dance Class: Inaugural Albuquerque cabq.gov/openspace Armijo Village Growers’ Casino/Cuban-Style Salsa and Golf Charity Invitational YogaRitas Market THROUGH AUGUST 23 Rueda de Casino Noon, Albuquerque Country Club, 10 am, El Pinto Restaurant, 8 am, Isleta Blvd and Arenal Rd SW 6 pm, National Hispanic 601 Laguna Blvd SW, (626) 354-1655, Family Music and Movies 10500 Fourth St NW, 898-1771 Downtown Growers’ Market Cultural Center, 1701 Fourth St SW, albuquerquecountryclub.org Sundays under the Stars 8 am, Robinson Park, Eighth and 724-4771, nhccnm.org TUESDAY, AUGUST 18 Free, 6 pm: music, sunset: movie SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 Central, downtowngrowers.com Inn of the Mountain Gods, front lawn, Bosque Moonlight Hikes August 15, Kids Cook! 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