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Bites of Burque Debuts page 22 2 • March 23 – April 5, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS www.freeabq.com Editor’s a&e Pick ABQ FREE PRESS • March 23 – April 5, 2016 • 3 Editor: [email protected] Arts: [email protected] News: [email protected] ABQ Free Press Local Briefs Advertising: [email protected] BY ABQ FREE PRESS STAFF On Twitter: @FreeABQ Want to Help New Mexico’s Wildlife? On Facebook: facebook.com/abqfreepress A&E: Three to See Food stamps 50 years the state has allowed by calculating the number of cougar trapping with steel leg people who died before age 75 A federal court judge barred the holds. They say the new rule between 2010 and 2014 against Editor [Page 22] New Mexico Human Services will endanger Mexican wolves the county’s population, then Dan Vukelich (505) 345-4080. Ext. 800 #TheGraduate #theater Department from reimposing and jaguars. In February, federal calculating the number of years work requirements on food game officials estimated only 97 of life lost based on the age of the Associate Editor, News Mrs. Robinson seduces stamp recipients through the wolves remain in New Mexico. person. Leading causes of death Dennis Domrzalski at Aux Dog end of the year, a move that were cancer and heart disease; (505) 306-3260 keeps 17,500 people from losing Single moms violent deaths, such as suicide Managing Editor/Arts Editor their benefits. U.S. District Judge and homicide; and chronic liver Samantha Anne Carrillo Kenneth Gonzales’ injunction Albuquerque ranks 54th on the disease. (505) 345-4080 ext. 804 stops the imposition of the re- list of the 150 best cities for single quirements through Dec. 31. Gov. mothers, according to a study by Zoo run Online Editor [Page 28] Susana Martinez had sought to WalletHub. 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He the device will make vasecto- The excess carbon triggered a at the email addresses on this page. not only gained a fiancée but a mies, which cannot always be 5°C (9°F) temperature increase, Corrections: win in the ring, according to the reversed, a thing of the past. along with drought, floods, In the March 9 issue, the following quote was misattributed. It was Ed Harness, Where to find U.K.’s Daily Mail. insect plagues, and extinctions. head of Albuquerque’s Civilian Police Oversight Agency, who said that APD Lt. Glenn SIGN UP TODAY! our paper? St. Onge, who oversees crisis training for the department, “did express his preference Going prehistoric The new analysis of the sediment List of more than for the Portland model as opposed to the Memphis model” of policing during a Petcock The carbon emissions rate is ten record concludes that the carbon For more info, call: 550 locations presentation that Harness attended. 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as it a lie, lawyer talk, extreme hair-splitting or Wdouble-speak? Last May, attorney John Salazar told the Bernalillo County Commission that the proposed 14,000-acre Santolina master-planned community would not seek a public subsidy to build the roads, sewers, water lines and other infrastructure the project will need. “The developer has committed to pay 100 percent of the project infrastructure,” Salazar told the five commissioners during hearings on the Santolina master plan. “And there’s no request for a subsidy. There’s been no request that the county provide incentives to bring this project to the county,” he said. Later, Salazar added, “There will be no subsidy for the developer.” Just eight months later, though, Santolina officials are asking the county to divert $2 billion of future county gross receipts and property tax money to the project to reimburse it for any infrastructure it builds. That request came in the form of a Feb. 29 applica- tion by Santolina for 40 tax increment development districts, or TIDDS, within the project to be built west of 118th Street and south of I-40. TIDDS funnel $2 billion in property tax revenue generated by the proj- ect to its developers to reimburse them for building roads and water and sewer lines on their projects. Mark Carrel Salazar said TIDDs are not subsidies because the tax money that would be diverted to Santolina would come from taxpayers and property owners that a TIDD is not a subsidy there is the implication Salazar made it sound like any TIDD application inside the project, and not from those in other areas that the developer is entitled to this money, which would be a separate process based on need. “You of the county. speaks to a degree of arrogance that has been perpet- know, of course there are no TIDDs on the table,” “A TIDD is not a subsidy. A subsidy would be uated throughout this process. To argue that this is Salazar told commissioners during that hearing. if taxpayers outside Santolina were subsidizing not a subsidy is somewhat startling.” “Nobody is asking for a TIDD. But when and if something,” Salazar told ABQ Free Press. Once all “If you can be dishonest at this stage of the process, somebody might come in and ask for a TIDD, it will that infrastructure is built, Santolina will turn it over what about the water and all the other assertions and only make sense to the county if it’s an economic to the county. consequences of this project?” O’Donnell asked. development project.” Economist Laird Graeser is considered the leading expert on TIDDs in New Mexico. “I think you have ‘A TIDD is not a subsidy. to call them [TIDDs] subsidies when you compare ‘If you can be dishonest at this A subsidy would be if taxpayers things against mode [of building developments],” stage of the process, what about Graeser said. outside Santolina were In the past, developers paid for the infrastructure the water and all the other subsidizing something’ needed for their projects. They recovered the costs assertions and consequences of — Santolina attorney John Salazar through the sale of lots, homes and commercial this project?’ buildings. Developers who ask for TIDDS, on the — Santolina opponent Kelly O’Donnell County Commissioner Debbie O’Malley, a Demo- other hand, rely on property taxes. Governments crat who voted against the Santolina master plan last rationalize the use of TIDDS on the premise that summer, disagrees. forgoing up to 75 percent of property taxes on a “If there’s TIDDs,” he continued, “It’s going to be “It’s a subsidy. They [Santolina] are paying [for development of vacant land that previously gen- because it makes sense for Bernalillo County because the infrastructure] up front, but they will get reim- erated little in property taxes is offset by taxes on there’s a big employer that wants to come in and bursed,” O’Malley said. “I would say that they are increased land values, new economic activity and make that site usable for that big employer [who twisting words and that they are not being truthful. gross receipts taxes. says] we need the infrastructure. So it will only be They are hoping to get a big chunk of our taxes; it’s a Last year’s hearings on Santolina were fraught done if the county wants to do it and only if it makes money grab.” with what O’Donnell and O’Malley consider double- sense to the county.” Kelly O’Donnell, an economist and former dep- speak on the part of Santolina officials. O’Donnell takes issue with that. uty secretary of the state’s Economic Development Salazar and others repeatedly said that TIDDs “I think it was dishonest and I think they chose Department, was hired by Santolina opponents last were not on the table at the time, although they did their words very carefully so as to not be techni- year to analyze the project’s economic impact. She say that TIDDs could be used as a future financing cally dishonest,” O’Donnell said. “The fact is, they also thinks Salazar is being disingenuous. mechanism. What they apparently meant was that disavowed that they were going to seek TIDDs while “They are clearly a subsidy. Any time you take a re- TIDDs weren’t part of the Level A master plan they were pursuing TIDDs. They were pursuing source that would otherwise go to government, or to approval process, which was really only a zoning TIDDs at the time they were saying that TIDDs were the larger public, and divert them to a single private change hearing. not on the table.” enterprise, that is a subsidy,” O’Donnell said. “It’s And then there’s how Santolina asked for the Dennis Domrzalski is an associate editor at the same as any tax incentive would be. By asserting TIDDs – 40 at once. During the May 25 hearing, ABQ Free Press. Reach him at [email protected] 6 • March 23 – April 5, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS COLUMNS/NEWS COLUMNS ABQ FREE PRESS • March 23 – April 5, 2016 • 7 The Sassy Lass Dukes It Out City Council’s Predicament: Never Mind Donald Trump, With the Internet One on One No Power in APD-DOJ Process N.M. GOP Faces Civil War BY M. BRIANNA STALLINGS BY JOE MONAHAN BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI If you are 62 and have owned your home

ow goes it, bomb resembles. he words from James Ginger, the council could take that money away he extreme wide-ranging campaign finance activities. since 2001, I’m pretty sure I can show you Hfolks? This is In Syria almost 82 percent of suicide Tindependent monitor in the U.S. and eliminate those positions in next Tdivisiveness that Goff is a fund-raiser for southern NM GOP The Sassy Lass, attacks are carried out by someone Department of Justice’s settlement year’s budget, he said, adding, “That is has wreaked havoc Congressman Steve Pearce, a member of how to eliminate your mortgage payments your friendly outfitted in a belt bomb; its lethality is agreement with the Albuquerque Police probably the most extreme option we among Republicans the Yates faction. for the rest of your life. neighborhood 80 percent. Sadly, most of us are aware Department, seemed to momentarily have on the table. By the City Charter, nationally over the Martinez’s office reacted furiously candidacy of Donald brainiac. I’m here to of how these work: person suits up stun the city councilors. we can’t do much.” to Goff’s statement, revealing the raw Trump has yet to answer – or at least During a March 18 study session on Councilor Brad Winter said he’s hop- emotion behind the party split: with explosives and detonator hidden reach New Mexico, try to answer – under clothes, walks into a heavily the progress APD is making in meeting ing that the policy-writing mess will be “Goff has proven to be a liar and a fraud Call me to learn about this excellent FHA but with our June who will desperately say anything to your most curious, populated area, and takes their own the requirements of the settlement fixed now that APD has hired retired 7 GOP presidential smear her political adversaries. ... The fact strange and uninhibited questions. agreement, City Council President federal court magistrate Lorenzo Garcia insured mortgage for Seniors. life as well as the lives of multiple primary around the corner that relative that she is now running to the media after people nearby. Those not killed suffer Dan Lewis asked Ginger what role the to take the lead on policy writing. peace won’t last. her latest false attacks were completely Q: Given the number of bombings debilitating injuries. council has in the process to reform “I don’t know, I’m hoping,” Winter State Republicans are finding plenty invalidated by the documented truth 505-292-7200 [email protected] in the Middle East, how long would At the time of this writing, Coun- APD. Ginger replied, “I hate to say to fight over. Most of it is still under the underscores what we have been saying it take for Syria to be depopulated as tryMeters.info estimates Syria’s this, but you are responsible as an The City Council radar but it’s about to burst and spread all along – this was nothing more than a result of ISIS suicide attacks and population to be at 23,270,371, with oversight board. The oversight role is can’t fire APD Chief like spring pollen. disgruntled hacks trying to score cheap outmigration? the majority of the citizenry being be- critical.” Ginger added that the council We’ve learned from Republican insiders political points at taxpayer expense.” that former New Mexico GOP Chairman tween 15 and 64 years of age. Over the has to exercise its authority to get APD Gorden Eden; only Cheap political points or not, the Harvey Yates Jr. will take the Republican A: Yowza! Right out of the gate and course of 50 years (1961-2010), Syria’s moving “in the right direction.” Mayor Richard Berry can negatives for the McCleskey-Martinez I’m faced with a heavy one. Well, let’s infighting public at the Republican state faction are adding up: the Goff-Martinez average annual population growth That raises the question of what convention in May where he’ll challenge give it a shot, shall we? said when asked what the Council break; the strong-arm tactics of McCleskey was 3.1314 percent. authority does the council really have Albuquerque attorney Pat Rogers for the The 2011 Arab Spring uprising on fellow Republicans; the long-stagnant over the process, and what can it do? could do if it keeps getting negative re- position of Republican national commit- against Syrian president Bashar ports about APD “I think [hiring] judge economy; Martinez’s widely ridiculed Greg Frost, Sr. What happens if councilors keep teeman. behavior at a holiday staff party; and the al-Assad eventually transformed Garcia is a good thing. I think that will Founder getting reports like that of March 18, Rogers is a controversial figure who has lack of any high-profile Martinez admin- turned into a full-scale civil war that Regulation & Licensing Dept Financial Institutions Division, #621. NMLS# 3094 which said that APD’s policy-writing help the policy issue.” held the job since 2008. But fractures in istration accomplishments these past five has ravaged the nation. On Feb. 1, process continues to be a disaster, and But Councilor Gibson isn’t so sure. the party created during the Martinez years – all have weakened the incumbent the United Nations announced the that, 14 months into the reform effort, During the study session, she asked administration have widened, and the and her allies. Geneva Syria peace talks, organized almost no progress has been made. City Attorney Jessica Hernandez, “But anti-Martinez forces are now ready to Martinez will officially become a lame in the hope that the international Depending on who you talk to, the has he ever written a police policy challenge Rogers, with Yates carrying their duck governor after this November’s community might come together to answer is a lot, not much, and that it’ll before?” Hernandez replied, “He is not flag. election, but if Yates ousts her friend and Yates, who hails from a wealthy south- find solutions. probably take a new mayor. a police department policy writer by political fixer Rogers at the May conven- east New Mexico oil family, has battled Later in the month, “The Guard- The council, for instance, can’t fire trade … He is an excellent writer.” tion, Martinez’s limp could become more fiercely with powerful Martinez political pronounced much, much earlier. ian” published bleak news on APD Chief Gorden Eden; only Mayor One person who thinks the Council consultant Jay McCleskey. McCleskey’s As for Lt. Gov. John Sanchez, he seems to casualties of the Syrian Civil War. That number plummeted between Richard Berry can. The council is can and should do much more is hardball tactics and the stranglehold he’s sense that the months ahead are his best “Confronting Fragmentation,” a 2011 and 2015, with the average pop- former councilor Pete Dinelli. He has barred by the City Charter from med- had on state Republican politics – all of it chance to put some space between himself report produced by the Syrian Centre long advocated that APD’s entire com- ulation growth percentage being just dling in day-to-day operations of any sanctioned by the governor – will be at the and a governor who might be more of a for Policy Research (SCPR), indicates mand staff be fired because many of 1.122 percent. According to Country- city department. And, there doesn’t heart of Yates’ candidacy against Rogers, burden than a blessing when he seeks her that 470,000 people have died since www.ruizdelatorre.com Meter’s estimations, there will be a seem to be much appetite on the Coun- them were responsible for the policing McCleskey’s long-time ally. chair. Although he ran on the same ticket the Syrian conflict erupted in 2011. daily population increase in Syria of cil to do anything right now. policies at APD that brought the DOJ to The imminent Yates-Rogers face-off will with her, Martinez and Sanchez are not Eighty-five percent of those deaths just 581 people this year – a number “Maybe we should start looking at town. He too concedes that councilors be a test of where the party goes in the close, and his enmity toward McCleskey – (505) 544-5400 were a direct result of violent acts. that is based on an estimated number bringing in someone who can work can’t fire anyone at City Hall. post-Martinez era. Susana’s term ends in her Rasputin-like adviser – is well known. That’s almost twice the figure of 2018. Already a GOP 2018 gubernatorial of births, deaths and emigration. Yet within the department and have that Instead, Dinelli said councilors can Sanchez made his first big move away Have you been seriously injured? 250,000 reported by the UN, which primary contest between Lt. Gov. John last year alone, 84,708 Syrians died, person be a facilitator, someone who pass a bill creating a whole new over- from Martinez’s side when the UNM stopped collecting data about a year Sanchez and Albuquerque Mayor Richard Are you being charged with a crime? and the population of Syria declined can tell the council that things aren’t sight process in the form of a civilian regents – appointed by the governor – and a half ago. It is an underestima- Berry, a client of McCleskey’s, appears to rammed through sweeping changes to the by 257,346 as a result of emigration. going well,” Councilor Diane Gibson police commissioner who would be Have you been wrongfully convicted? tion that SCPR report author Rabie be shaping up. governance and administrative structure With all of this data in mind, how told ABQ Free Press. “I suppose we hired by the council and have to au- Nasser attributes not to malice, but A Berry primary victory, or one by an- of the UNM Health Sciences Center. can we accurately calculate the could find them a technical writer. And thority to hire and fire people at APD. other candidate McCleskey comes up with a lack of information access in a cri- Sanchez said: “Not only were these amount of time it would take to we can appeal to the mayor to make “The City Council has the authority if Berry continues to sink in the polls and sis-addled country. changes made without input from key WE HELP LAW MAKE SENSE eliminate the entire population of necessary personnel changes.” to create a department of public safety is deemed unelectable, could extend the The Chicago Project on Security and stakeholders including students, faculty, Syria? Given the wide discrepancy of Councilor Patrick Davis said there and put a commissioner in charge and grip that Rogers, McCleskey and company staff, and partners, but certain regents Terrorism, created by the University Personal Injury Criminal Defense reported casualties, it seems difficult were at least two options. “Some coun- give him or her the authority to clean have had on the party since they pushed and Health Sciences Center staff were of Chicago, is the home of the Suicide to determine. Data sources are all over cilors have suggested that we move house,” Dinelli said. He added that Martinez into the Governor’s chair in 2010. seemingly excluded from the process until Civil Rights Appeals Attack Database. Try not to think the road, and citizens are evacuating forward with a vote of ‘No confidence’ other cities have police commissioner That would not be an ideal outcome for just days before the public meeting.” Foreclosure Habeas Corpus about how depressing it is that such a numerous Republicans. each year by the thousands. Perhaps against Chief Eden, but that doesn’t systems that have worked well. Sanchez’s open split with the UNM thing is a necessity. A recent FBI and federal grand jury Estate Planning Extraordinary Writs instead of asking how long it might force the mayor to make any significant If the Council doesn’t act in the next decision, which was backed by the regents According to the Database, the most investigation of McCleskey ended without most politically connected to Martinez, is Divorce Drug Possession take to erase the denizens of an entire changes,” Davis said. “I think the most year, the decision about how to manage common weapon used in Syria’s sui- indictments, but the wounds of that probe yet another sign that – with or without country, we should continue to focus likely place that something might tan- APD will be up to city voters. When Entertainment Law Murder cide attacks is the belt bomb. Imagine are sore and open. Two former Martinez Donald Trump – New Mexico Republicans on how to provide health, aid, and gibly change is through the budget.” asked how the city gets new people in transforming your handy uncle’s fundraisers – Andrea Goff and Cecilia are about to have a fight on their hands. Family Law DWI stability to those who are still alive. at APD, Davis replied: “A new mayor.” reinforced framer’s rig – that tool belt Davis explained that APD’s current Martinez – made news when they reacted Dennis Domrzalski is an associate to the feds’ failure to indict by saying Joe Monahan is a veteran of New Mexico with suspenders – into an over-the- Got a Q? She might have an A! Send budget has $500,000 for two dep- Se Habla Español they fear retribution for cooperating with politics. His daily blog can be found at shoulder explosive holster, and you’ve your questions to thesassylass@freeabq. uty chiefs and three majors to help editor at ABQ Free Press. Reach him at the probe, which focused on McCleskey’s joemonahan.com got some idea of what the average belt com today. Your question could be next. implement the reform process. The [email protected] 8 • March 23 – April 5, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS COLUMNS/news NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • March 23 – April 5, 2016 • 9 Celebrate César Chavez Week New Pipeline, Fine Settle EPA Officers Worked 18-hour Shifts When Escapes Occurred by sayrah namastÉ BY ANDREW BEALE he fight is at the White House, they were told Case Against Water Authority “Tnever about the President was meeting with a Latin BY ABQ FREE PRESS STAFF wo corrections officers assigned to grapes or lettuce. American dignitary and could not see he Albuquerque Bernalillo County when a power surge during a storm Ttransport convicts Joseph Cruz and It is always about them. Carter’s guest turned out to be Water Utility Authority has agreed to knocked out electricity to a pump and a Lionel Clah worked an 18-hour shift people,” said César Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. T pay a $33,500 fine and build a pipeline sewer-lift station at the treatment plant the day the prisoners escaped, accord- Chavez, the famous In a virulently racist political climate to a South Valley wildlife refuge in a at 4201 Second St. S.W. ing to Secretary of Corrections Gregg Mexican-American where Donald Trump unabashedly settlement with the EPA over a 2015 spill After power was restored to the Marcantel. leader and perhaps degrades Mexican immigrants, show your The long shifts were necessitated one of the best solidarity with some of the most exploited that sent 6 million gallons of partially lift station, the pump station didn’t known labor organizers in US history. members of our community. For more treated sewage into the Rio Grande. work, causing partially treated sewage because the transport van they were Chavez’s birthday on March 31 and information visit: cesarchaveznm.org. The pipeline will run from the South- to overflow out of massive concrete driving was delayed leaving the Cen- the farm worker movement he led with People don’t realize that some UNM side Wastewater Reclamation Plant on retention ponds, onto the ground and tral New Mexico Correctional Facility, Dolores Huerta will be celebrated all week students come from farm worker families. Second Street Southwest about 4.5 miles into the Rio Grande. Marcantel said. He wouldn’t say what in Albuquerque, beginning Saturday, Farm Worker Awareness Week is March to the 570-acre Valle del Oro National The spill caused high levels of E. coli caused the van’s late departure. March 26. The march steps off at 10:30 28-31 at the UNM Student Union Build- Wildlife Refuge, also on Second Street, contamination in the river, and was a “Until I actually have a completed a.m. at the National Hispanic Cultural ing, organized by the Campus Migrant the EPA said. violation of the federal Clean Water critical incident review, I won’t be able Center, 1701 Fourth Street S.W., and Assistance Program, which helps migrant Reclaimed water carried by the Act. to talk in definite terms. All I can tell returns there. farm workers attend college. Enjoy music, pipeline will be used in the refuge to ir- At the time, ABCWUA Chief Operat- you right now is it left later that day A fiesta begins at noon. The free event poetry, seminars, and art while learning rigate: landscaping along a bike path on ing Officer John Stomp said the spill than it should have,” he said. Second Street running from Rio Bravo occurred because of poor equipment will feature live music, dance perfor- about farmworkers. Officers are assigned transport or- Boulevard to the refuge’s entrance; maintenance. Two water utility employ- mances, local poets, children’s activities, There will be a blood drive. The ders with a starting point, stops to and the annual “Si Se Puede” awards. university program with the most parks and street median projects in the ees lost their jobs as a result. make, and an ending point, Marcan- This year’s keynote speaker this year is donors nationally will receive funding area; and landscaping at Mountain View After the spill, the EPA ordered the Carlos Marentes, co-founder of the Border for scholarships. Come and donate blood Elementary School. ABCWUA to install backup equipment tel said. They are then responsible for Farm Worker Center. between 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. on all The pipeline will cost $400,000 and so as to prevent another power outage completing the transport order, regard- One of the incredible but true stories three days. Find more information at: must be completed by June 2018, and spill. less of how many hours it takes to do that Marentes talks about is the 1977 facebook.com/events/1568376523479501 ABCWUA David Morris said. The reclamation plant treats 55 million so, before they are relieved from duty, march from Austin, Texas, to Washington, The spill occurred on Feb. 27, 2015, gallons of sewage a day. he said. D.C., he helped organize to pressure Sayrah Namasté is an organizer with the The van carrying Cruz and Clah left President Jimmy Carter for the rights of American Friends Service Committee in the Central New Mexico Correctional farm workers. Albuquerque. She writes about events Facility near Los Lunas before stopping The 1,500-mile march took the farm of interest to Albuquerque’s activist Isotopes Park Netting at the Penitentiary of New Mexico south workers three months. When they arrived community. of Santa Fe, where it picked up Cruz Kurhan Going up for 2016 Season and Clah. From there, it traveled to the Roswell Correctional Center before BY EMILY ASHBY making a fuel stop in Artesia, where au- because this is corrections, and all sorts Leave” does not appear to set a maxi- “implement an occupationally based of crazy things happen. I can tell you mum time limit for corrections officers’ salary structure that brings custody he Albuquerque Isotopes are extend- Despite posted warnings that fans be thorities say the two men escaped. standard operating procedure, and workdays, though it does mandate that staff salaries to the minimum of the Ting their safety nets to the outfield alert for foul balls, some fans don’t pay The van then traveled another 177 ends of each dugout for the coming attention to play on the field, Creek miles to Las Cruces, where the officers under most circumstances, they are as- supervisors shall “carefully monitor pay bands and to provide targeted season. said. “I am willing to forgo my pleasure noticed Cruz and Clah were missing. signed a four-day, ten-hour-a-day work unscheduled work and keep overtime salary increases to custody staff for “Fan safety is of the utmost im- in having an unobstructed view of the In all, the officers traveled roughly shift,” she said. to a minimum.” It later notes that over- the purpose of reducing compaction portance to us and we support the game in order to protect the fans who 514 miles that day. Asked why the hours are limited, time may be approved for “an escape and improving employee recruitment commissioners’ recommendations,” said Watkins said it was a safety issue. or disturbance.” and retention.” Marcantel said the pay find pleasure visiting with their friends Other states Isotopes General Manager John Traub, rather than paying attention to base- “Well, they’re driving, is part of it, and The Utah Department of Corrections raises will go into effect in July. He referring to recommendations from ball,” he said. Marcantel told ABQ Free Press that that’s for the safety of themselves and did not respond to our request for com- hopes staffing levels will increase. both Major League Baseball and Minor Despite the netting, Isotopes spokes- long working hours are no excuse for the the other people on the road,” she said. ment by press time. As for the transport officers’ 18-hour League Baseball. man Kevin Collins said players will officers’ allowing the inmates to escape. Similarly, a spokesperson for the Col- Low pay shift, he said the long hours are part of With the change, 22 percent of seats continue to interact with fans, signing “I want to underscore something. orado Department of Corrections told the reason they use two transport offi- at the city-owned Isotopes Park will autographs and tossing them balls. I’ve been in public safety for 30, what ABQ Free Press via email that transpor- Marcantel said New Mexico cor- cers. “That’s one of the advantages of a have protective netting between them Asked how players could toss balls to would it be now, at least 35 years. And tation officers are assigned to four ten- rections officers, including transport two-man team, is one can drive while and the field. fans with netting between them, Collins I have worked frequently tired,” he hour shifts a week, though “shifts could officers, often work long hours and the other just rests and watches,” he said. The move is drawing some criticism. said, “We have no specifics on that. It’s said. “So one of the things I must say be extended due to traffic or extreme overtime in the state because the de- Isotopes fan Tom Thompson sits about Both escapees were found in Al- new for everyone.” is while I acknowledge the long day ... I weather conditions, but would not usu- partment is understaffed. seven rows behind the visitors’ dugout. buquerque and back in custody in The Isotopes’ season begins on April will not allow that to be an excuse for ally be for more than two hours.” “Overtime has become a “I would hate to look through a net.” less than 72 hours. Cruz was captured 15 when they face the Tacoma Rainiers. A spokesperson for the Texas cor- more-than-regular issue for the cor- Thompson said. He believes the chance not doing their jobs.” near Central Avenue and University The following night is Holly Holm night. rections department said in an email rections department,” he said. “Given of getting hit with a foul ball is small. “I Spokespeople for corrections depart- Boulevard and Clah was captured a The first 3,000 fans to arrive at the that transport shifts “do not exceed 12 our staffing vacancy rates, not only is have had more instances with lightning ments of several neighboring states day later in an apartment in Northeast park on April 16 will receive Holly Holm told the ABQ Free Press that transport hours. However, in unforeseen circum- it overtime that staff are allowed to opt than with a baseball,” he said. bobblehead dolls. Albuquerque after resident Michelle Fred Creek, a season ticket holder, officers are not permitted to work such stances (emergencies, escapes, distur- into, it’s really frequently forced over- Despite Holm’s loss of the UFC ban- Abeyta turned him in. prefers a clear view but supports the long shifts. bances, weather, etc.) they could work time, based on our staffing vacancies.” tamweight title to Meisha Tate, “Our Abeyta is now being charged with team’s decision. “Personally, I prefer to Terri Watkins, spokesperson for the up to 16 hours.” Low pay for New Mexico correc- feelings about Holly have not changed harboring or aiding a felon and will not watch a game without the protective Oklahoma Department of Corrections, An Arizona Department of Correc- tions officers means most officers leave in the slightest,” Collins said. “We’re receive the $10,000 reward promised by netting. ... However, I played a lot of said transport officers in Oklahoma tions spokesman declined to comment, within 36 months for better pay in an- very proud to share a home city with an the U.S. Marshals for information lead- organized baseball when I was a young work four ten-hour shifts a week, referring us to Department Order other state, Marcantel said. incredible athlete like Holly.” ing to Clah’s capture. man, so I understand the risks and know though she did allow that there may be 512 in their online policy handbook. In February, the Legislature ap- the rhythm of the game better than Emily Ashby is an ABQ Free Press occasional exceptions. Order 512, which covers “Employee proved a $4.5 million appropriation Andrew Beale is an Albuquerque freelance most fans.” Creek said. editorial intern. “I can’t say under no circumstances, Pay, Work Hours, Compensation and for the Corrections Department to writer. 10 • March 23 – April 5, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS newS NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • March 23 – April 5, 2016 • 11 HSC Overhaul Shifted Power from Community, CEO N.M. Enviro Chief: Leave ABQ Nuke Waste As Is BY JOEY PETERS BY bob klein New Mexico Political Report itizens Action New Mexico, NMED has declined to respond to sudden overhaul in governance Following the vote, Doughty told Ca local environmental group, repeated requests for comment from A of the state’s largest public med- reporters that he didn’t alert Quillen or is condemning the New Mexico ABQ Free Press for this and previous ical institution has left several people Hosmer about the proposed changes Environment Department’s decision articles about the landfill. questioning the motivations behind because he “felt it would violate the to leave a Cold War-era Sandia McCoy said that in his decision, the changes. [state] Open Meetings Act,” which re- National Laboratories nuclear and Flynn failed to examine the sig- One such skeptic is Mel Eaves, a quires public bodies to discuss matters chemical waste landfill basically nificance of documents showing now-former community member in public when in quorum. A “rolling undisturbed in covered shallow that the groundwater monitoring of the board of directors that made quorum” is when members of a public trenches south of Kirtland Air Force network was known to be defective. recommendations on the University of body meet one on one, without a Base. Additionally, documents for 1960- New Mexico Health Sciences Center. quorum, to discuss a certain issue and With the addition of a bio-in- 1964 were destroyed, McCoy said, HSC operates the university’s medical reach consensus. trusion barrier to keep water and “during the period when chemical school, nursing school, two hospitals Doughty added that he spoke about animals out, the 2.6-acre remnant of waste was being dumped into the and the cancer center. the proposal with Lee and Regent Jack lab nuclear experiments will remain MWL. So they have no idea of the To Eaves, the motivation for the Forner before it went public. in place at the south end of the real extent of the problem.” overhaul stems from other entities He also denied that regents were base – with no clear understanding “This is not something you find in wanting a piece of HSC’s $220 million blocking building a new hospital. by state or local officials of what it your grandfather’s dump,” said Eric sitting in reserves, earmarked in part contains. Nutall, a University of New Mex- for the construction of a new hospital The HSC chancellor The CANM group argues that the ico professor emeritus in chemical landfill poses a threat to groundwa- to replace UNMH, which was built in File Photo More ambiguous is how the changes and nuclear engineering who has the 1950s. ter that when the volatile chemical worked with CANM to review the UNM Hospital is one of the facilities a new three-member committee of the UNM regents affect Roth, who also serves as dean waste within it comes into contact 5,000 documents obtained through Eaves, an outspoken proponent for will control. of the UNM School of Medicine and Stock Image with water, it could explode and its FOIA request. the new hospital, saw his position on is the state’s the second-highest paid send a radioactive plume into the “It’s dangerous waste material and the board abruptly eliminated follow- Both HSD Secretary Brent Earnest eliminated the HSC board and instead public employee. ing last week’s controversial 4-2 vote atmosphere. the material disposed in the MWL needs to be highly toxic. In regards to future and state Finance and Administration replaced it with a committee of three Roth’s existing employment by regents. The mixed-waste landfill (MWL), surrounded unequivocally addressed once and for all.” land use, you can’t build on it, you can’t even con- Secretary Tom Clifford made requests regents. contract with HSC gives him “full “I have no question in my mind that by three-strand barbed wire, is located in a piece The group has argued that Flynn’s decision to struct a parking lot on it,” Nutall said. for the money at the meeting, accord- Documents obtained by NM Politi- authority” over “all revenues, per- control of those reserves is a major of windswept desert about 4.8 miles from the leave the waste undisturbed – the least expensive CANM said the potential danger the landfill poses ing to Lovell. Also present at the meet- cal Report show that an attorney with sonnel including deans and faculty” impetus for this reorganization that is Albuquerque Veterans Administration Center. It’s option – ignored documents and testimony that was demonstrated when a nuclear landfill in Beatty, ing were Roth, UNM President Bob UNM’s Office of University Counsel and “operational matters associated under way,” he said in an interview. roughly equidistant from Gibson Boulevard South- leaving it as is poses a significant threat to health Utah, exploded and caught fire this past October. Frank, UNM Executive Vice President started making draft changes to the with the HSC’s research, clinical and east and Isleta Pueblo. and safety. Utah environmental officials concluded that metallic $50 million at issue and Chief Operating Officer David guidelines governing HSC’s board educational programs as necessary to Ryan Flynn, secretary of the New Mexico Envi- “It’s the usual whitewash,” said Dave McCoy, sodium in corroded steel drums came in contact Harris and UNM Hospital CEO Steve of directors on Feb. 5 – just two days State government made at least one exercise his responsibilities as Chief ronment Department, decided on Feb. 12 that with executive director of CANM. with water and exploded. McKernan. UNM Regent Rob Doughty after the state’s failed request for $50 recent attempt to get a large sum of Executive Officer of the HSC.” proper monitoring, the landfill poses no threat to In its FOIA request, CANM found internal memos joined in on the phone. million. money from HSC. A provision in Roth’s contract reads Albuquerque’s groundwater, even as he acknowl- the group argues point to a conspiracy among lab Roth and McKernan told the others UNM spokeswoman Dianne and Department of Energy officials during the 1960s This is not something you find in In early February, the New Mexico that he will “accept no other employ- edged no one knows what’s in it. that they could not simply fork over Anderson confirmed that the univer- to conceal the contents of the landfill. your grandfather’s dump … Human Services Department, which ment that would be inconsistent with “The public has a right to know what is buried in $50 million without the hospital’s sity’s legal counsel started making the More recently, a 2010 EPA Office of Inspector Gen- handles Medicaid and food stamps for such responsibilities.” the MWL,” Flynn wrote. He stated that advocates It’s dangerous waste material board of trustees, the HSC board revisions on requests from Doughty eral report raised questions about the groundwater New Mexico, met with HSC leader- But Doughty and Lee’s authored for more disclosure have a point – that records, some and highly toxic’ of directors and the UNM regents and Lee. of which go back to 1959, “don’t accurately reveal monitoring network around the landfill and how the ship. changes removed Roth’s full oversight – Eric Nuttall, University of New Mexico approving the exchange. Eaves contends the quick timing of what’s in the barrels of waste.” public may have been misled about its effectiveness. “They wanted $50 million from the authority over HSC property, finances, professor emeritus in chemical and nuclear engineering the proposed changes after the state’s In addition to a hodge-podge of low-level radio- UNM hospital to cover the Medicaid Earnest and Clifford then dropped staff and legal matters and subjected active waste, CANM alleges the landfill contains shortfall,” Ava Lovell, senior executive their request. $50 million request is no coincidence. them to approval of UNM President New Mexico Environment high-level nuclear waste, including 119 drums of CANM alleges that Flynn, in his decision to for finance and administration at HSC, “The state folks didn’t want that Doughty and Lee’s formal proposal Frank. Department Secretary plutonium- and americium-contaminated waste. basically maintain the status quo, ignored records said in an interview. request to be public, so it never went didn’t become public until March 11, Shortly before the Regents made a The landfill also contains thorium, cesium-137, showing that the partially known contents of the New Mexico faces a $417 million anywhere,” Lovell said. just three days before the regent meet- vote, Roth told the public that UNM Ryan Flynn decided on Feb. 12 strontium-90, and hundreds of tons of depleted landfill are dangerous enough to require more exten- deficit in the federal health program Spokespeople for both agencies didn’t ing where the controversial vote took President Frank would immediately that with proper monitoring, uranium-238 and even a radioactive fire truck. The sive measures, such as full encasement in a concrete for the poor. This came amid a dire respond to requests for comment for place. reinstate Roth’s role as CEO. After this story before press time. Regent Suzanne Quillen, who voted the landfill poses no threat to landfill has been leaking radioactive and hazard- coffin or moving the 119 of drums to a deep, under- budget situation that resulted in cuts the vote, Roth said in a statement ous chemicals for decades. In 1974, there were two “That $220 million is a major reason against the overhaul, said she and Re- Albuquerque’s groundwater, ground storage site. throughout the state budget. that he was “grateful” to Frank “for depleted uranium fires, records show. for them to block the new hospital,” gent Bradley Hosmer didn’t hear that “He doesn’t address the amounts of mercury It’s not unusual for HSC to provide clarifying that I will continue as CEO even as he acknowledged Sandia denies there is any high-level waste in the Eaves said. “The governor wants it for a proposed overhaul was underway documented in the disposal sheets and clearly didn’t Medicaid money to the state. Each of the UNM Health System, with all no one knows what’s in it landfill, which contains the debris of early nuclear want to deal with the volatile metallic sodium listed HSD.” until March 9. year, HSC gives the state roughly $20 of the responsibilities and authorities reactor meltdowns and everything from soil brought on the sheets,” the same material that spontaneously “It was being worked on and million in what are called “intergov- commensurate with that.” In his decision to leave the waste under a dirt back from Pacific nuclear tests to plutonium-contam- ignited and exploded in Utah “under conditions The overhaul nobody brought it up for a month,” ernmental transfers” for Medicaid. In Doughty also told reporters after the cover, he acknowledged that CANM, which sued inated medical debris from testing on animals, nor frighteningly similar to what we have here in the Until the controversial regent vote Quillen said. “We didn’t know any- those cases, matched federal money vote that Roth stays in charge of the to get 5,000 documents about the landfill under the was anything withheld during the review process. MWL,” Nutall said. took place last week, the HSC board thing until we requested it in writing.” for Medicaid then goes back to HSC. “day-to-day operations” of HSC. An Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), had reason to “All technical information and opinions presented In 2003, the cost of digging up the radioactive consisted of five regents and two re- But this time the state was asking for During the March 14 regent meet- HSC spokesman told NM Political Re- doubt the veracity of federal and state officials. about the Mixed Waste Landfill were included in material and moving it for storage elsewhere was something unusual – $50 million that gent-appointed community members. ing, roughly 50 people spoke publicly port that HSC’s press office was in the CANM “understandably harbor[s] feelings of the administrative record for consideration by the estimated at between $545 million and $702 million. wouldn’t flow directly back to HSC. The board made recommendations on against the overhaul, asking regents to process of learning “what that entails.” distrust toward both NMED and DOE,” Flynn NMED Secretary,” said James Danneskiold, a lab That cost, plus the potential exposure to workers, is Lovell, who was not at the meeting, HSC issues to the regents, who had the either reject it outright or at least delay wrote. “While NMED has provided CANM all of spokesman. “This is based on regulatory procedures why Sandia says excavation was rejected. told NM Political Report that her authority to accept or reject them. the vote. Local lawmakers, students Joey Peters is a reporter for the records regarding the contents of the MWL in its that include issuing public notice, inviting public Bob Klein is an Albuquerque investigative journalist. information came from HSC Chief But the changes, authored by and HSC staff spoke against the pro- NM Political Report, which is online at possession, custody or control, the issue regarding comment, and holding a public hearing.” Executive Officer Paul Roth. regents Rob Doughty and Marron Lee, posal for three hours. nmpoliticalreport.com 12 • March 23 – April 5, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS EDitorial editorial/cartoons ABQ FREE PRESS • March 23 – April 5, 2016 • 13 Ministers of Propaganda Your Guide to the APD BY DAN VUKELICH

hrough the New Mexico Mayor Richard Berry and Reform Process, or Not TInspection of Public Records Martinez share a scorched-earth BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI Act, I’ve discovered the City political adviser, Jay McCles- doesn’t have a written news key, who adheres to a policy of ete Dinelli is on cynical view. Maybe they’re not so dumb. media policy. rewarding friends while punish- Ptrack when he asks, Maybe it’s a ploy to do nothing and wait Records show that last July, ing enemies. Perhaps our Dec. 30 “Should we all laugh or Ginger out and send him packing with $4 during the mayor’s brief stab at cover of a 911 dispatcher fielding cry together?” million of our money. transparency, a city employee a call from a drunken woman The former city coun- The play gets sadder when you think emailed municipalities across the saying “Pizz-zah” pissed off Jay cilor is talking about the country asking how they treat and he called down to Berry and of what Ginger did or didn’t say to APD’s APD reform process, brass months ago. His team and APD went the news media. By and large, said, screw ‘em. which has become both back and forth for months over APD’s the answers went something We’ve gotten the same freeze- a tragedy and a comedy, like this from Portland, Ore.: out from the governor as the inept, time-consuming and expensive effort and which is ever so close to becoming a “I’ve never said no to anyone Reporter, by the way, although to develop a use-of-force policy. farce. who wants to receive our press some state agency spokespeople The Albuquerque Police Department The haggling cost $100,000 of Ginger’s releases or press alerts.” put their jobs on the line by can’t, or won’t, write policies that meet team’s time. It’s unknown what the cost You can imagine that getting occasionally calling us back – or to APD was in wasted staff time. And information from the city about maybe they never got the memo. national standards. The independent mon- then there are other proposed policies that breaking police and fire news, At City Hall, there is evidence itor in APD’s settlement agreement with the mayor’s and top city officials’ of enmity toward us. Chief the U.S. Department of Justice has accused Ginger said he almost immediately tossed availabilities, news conferences Administrative Officer Rob Perry, APD of using delaying tactics in an effort to in the trash — because they were useless. and the like would be important in response to a story we broke derail reform. to us. last year, told KOAT-TV’s Nancy City councilors seem to lack the will to Our two top-ranking cops Well, we get none of that. Laflin to discount what we wrote challenge the APD brass or Mayor Berry’s We learn about news confer- because we’re “an underground administration, although based on their re- believed they could not use ences when we see them on TV. newspaper.” cent questions to the chief and city attorney, successful policies from other Same with Gorden Eden on the We’re not newbies, nor are we some are beginning to smell a rat. police departments. Nor did steps of APD headquarters tak- unaware that relations between The latest act in this strange play came on they believe, they say, that ing questions from reporters. Do politicians and the media can March 18 when City Attorney Jessica Her- we have questions for the mayor get unpleasant at times. But in nandez made a statement that would cause they could adapt model and Eden? You betcha. 34 years in the business here, anyone with just even few working brain policies developed by Instead, we get news releases covering eight City Hall adminis- cells to convulse in disbelief and laugh and professional police entitled, “Collaborative Spirit trations and six governors, we’ve cry at the same time. Defines New City – ACVB Con- never seen anything quite like this. One reason APD hasn’t been able to write organizations tract,” and “Video Launched to In all, between this writer and acceptable policy, Hernandez told city coun- Encourage 311 App Downloads” Associate Editor Dennis Dom- cilors, was that its leaders – Chief Gorden Ginger has been here since last summer. and similar pablum. rzalski, we’re something like Eden and Assistant Chief Robert Huntsman You’d think that after getting bushels full of We routinely received news 0-for-50 in calls, emails and texts alerts until January, when we to City Hall seeking comment. — felt they were forbidden by the DOJ from bad policies, he would have picked up his were dropped from the list. It’s their right not to talk to us asking for help. phone, called APD and said, “Hey goof- When we inquired of Rhiannon if they don’t want to tell their Albuquerque’s two top-ranking cops balls, this is nutty. If you don’t know how to Schroeder, the mayor’s spokes- side of the story, but we believe believed they could not adapt successful write this stuff yourself, copy some policies woman, she promised to look they’ve gone too far. policies from other police departments. Nor from departments that have gotten it right, into it but never replied further. There is federal case law that a did they believe, they say, that they could or some model policies that are online. crib model policies developed by profes- That happens a lot with her. government entity can’t engage It’s not that hard. All it takes is a couple of When we emailed APD spokes- in “viewpoint discrimination” sional police organizations. phone calls and a couple clicks of a mouse.” man Tanner Tixier, he did not against a media outlet because of In other words, they felt APD staffers Apparently something like that finally respond. its religious affiliation or critical had to write their own policies from scratch On March 7, I appeared before news coverage. Doing so violates and in a vacuum, no matter how lacking in did happen, but not until earlier this month. the City Council to alert coun- the news outlet’s First Amend- expertise and training, and no matter how What the hell have we been paying for? cilors of the mayor’s and APD’s ment right. That’s the premise of much expertise and how many successful And then there’s Ginger’s recent state- disparate treatment of this news- the Reporter’s case against Mar- policies were out there simply for the asking. ment to city councilors that it is they who paper. Under questioning by tinez. On May 8, the Reporter’s This fundamental misunderstanding of are responsible for ensuring that the reform councilors, City Attorney Jessica case goes before District Judge APD’s reform mission is especially ironic effort succeeds. Hernandez revealed there are Stephen T. Pacheco. when you think about how Berry’s ad- But last year when councilors asked to multiple news media notification We’ll soon find out then ministration lectured us about how crucial meet with Ginger, the DOJ wouldn’t allow lists. whether the Susana-Berry Eden, Huntsman and other APD command it. So, councilors were supposed to exercise I told the City Council there is practice of choking off public staffers are to reforming the department an almost identical case in Santa discourse, rewarding friends their oversight authority when the guy who and getting our cops to stop shooting so Fe District Court against Gov. Su- and punishing enemies with tax had the information wouldn’t meet with many people. sana Martinez, filed by the Santa dollars, and turning public infor- them? It’s all so charmingly dysfunctional. Fe Reporter. The suit alleges mation officers into ministers of They’re so damned indispensable that we It’s a delightfully entertaining play — if had to give them retention bonuses to stay that the governor has frozen the propaganda will be tolerated. you don’t care. But if you do, you know the Reporter out of everything. No and continue their important work. As one Dan Vukelich is editor of answer to Dinelli’s question. phone calls, no emails, no notices observer said, “These are the geniuses that ABQ Free Press. Reach him at of news conferences, zero, zippo, we can’t afford to lose?” Dennis Domrzalski is an associate editor at [email protected] nada. It defies all logic until you take a more ABQ Free Press. Reach him at [email protected] 14 • March 23 – April 5, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS opinion opinion/columns ABQ FREE PRESS • March 23 – April 5, 2016 • 15 Donald Trump and the Rise of Fascism in America Stench of APD’s Skate Park APD Chief Needs to Step Up, BY robert reich Do the Right Thing for Shot Cop ’ve been reluctant – even his reluc- Cover-up Overwhelms ABQ BY dan Klein I to use the “f” tance to distance BY GREG PAYNE word to describe himself from David ost everything the Albuquerque County District Court judge ordered APD t’s painful when official said. Donald Trump Duke and the Ku MPolice Department has said about to release information it wanted to keep Ia police officer is That’s the wrong argument. The oath because it’s espe- Klux Klan – follow the Los Altos Skate Park shootings is false. from the public, such as: killed or wounded I took to the department and citizens demands that rules and laws be fol- cially harsh, and the older fascist The worst mass shooting in city history • Despite claiming it had no leads, APD A Cop’s in the line of duty. It hurts even more lowed, no matter the rank or popularity it’s too often used script. occurred there March 22, 2015. That part knew that very night that Buchanan had is true. Seventeen-year-old Jaquise Lewis shot and killed Jaquise. View when the injury is of those involved. The integrity of the carelessly. That older gen- was killed there that night. That’s also • APD knew that Jaquise died after be- done by another department must be above reproach. Trump has finally eration of fascists true. ing shot twice in the back, but withheld officer. I asked one official how he would feel reached a point where parallels be- didn’t bother with The rest? Public relations manure. APD that information, leaving the impression AAlbuquerque if a doctor amputated the wrong foot? tween his presidential campaign and policy prescriptions has spread stink on this case and on that Jaquise was facing his killer when he experienced our own blue-on-blue Would he just “let it go” because the the fascists of the first half of the 20th or logical argument, Jaquise for a year now, and it’s time to was shot. shooting when Detective Jacob Grant doctor surely must feel badly? Or would century – lurid figures such as Benito either. They pre- call bullshit bullshit. • The skate park video shows Buchanan was shot repeatedly by Lt. Greg Brachle he file a complaint with the licensing Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, sented themselves APD’s most vile lie is that Jaquise – the initiating a physical altercation with during a botched drug sting. board? Oswald Mosley, and Francisco Franco as strongmen whose dead African-American teenager – is to Jaquise and pursuing Jaquise out of the I didn’t know Grant when I was with This shooting is no different. Eden – are too evident to overlook. personal power blame for the shootings and his own skate park and into the parking lot. New APD because he didn’t get hired until must make a decision on this shooting It’s not just that Trump recently would remedy all death. Mexico law states: “an individual who after I retired, but I have gotten to and he must, by statute, submit a quoted Mussolini (he now calls that ills. provokes an encounter, as a result of know him over the past year. When I complaint to the New Mexico Law tweet inadvertent) or that he’s begun They created which he finds it necessary to use deadly was a sergeant, Brachle and I worked Enforcement Board for a review of force, is guilty of an unlawful homicide inviting followers at his rallies to around themselves APD knew that Jaquise together. I know him, and I like him. I Brachle’s fitness to be a cop – here or and cannot avail himself of the claim that raise their right hands in a manner cults of personal- died after being shot twice am sure he feels great anguish over his anywhere. he was acting in self-defense.” chillingly similar to the Nazi “heil” ity in which they actions. in the back but withheld • Jaquise did not bring a gun to Los Altos, salute (he dismisses such comparison took on the trap- But this incident has nothing to do a fact even APD acknowledges. APD as “ridiculous.”) that information, leaving with friendship. It has everything to do pings of strength, never retrieved a gun from Jaquise, and it Is Eden the chief, the impression that with the current state of APD. The parallels go deeper. confidence and has not disclosed whether they tested his or is City Attorney Cops are angry. As did the early 20th-century invulnerability – all Jaquise was facing his hands or gloves for gun shot residue. fascists, Trump is focusing his cam- of which served They’re angry that Chief Gorden Eden Jessica Hernandez The U.K. Independent killer when he was shot • Buchanan brought a loaded gun to paign on the angers of White working as substitutes for the skate park that he hid in his right didn’t fire Brachle after the shooting. running APD? Nazi rallies in the German city of Nuremburg drew hundreds of thousands of Adolf Hitler’s followers. They’re angry that the Civilian Police people who have been losing eco- rational argument APD’s version goes something like this: back pocket. Buchanan also had an extra nomic ground for years and who are or thought. magazine. Approximately 27 shots were Oversight Commission instead of Eden Jaquise stole a skateboard (because, you Doing anything less violates state law easy prey for demagogues seeking to Trump’s entire fired at Los Altos. Most of the shots fired had to make the decision to fire Brachle. “people who are following me are behind a steel barrier. (After his win know, Black people like to steal), then and tears at the fabric of public and can be attributed – not to Jaquise – but Eden allowed Brachle to sit in an build their own power by scapegoat- campaign similarly revolves around began shooting indiscriminately into department trust in their police chief. very passionate. They love this coun- in Florida, they were confined to the to Buchanan. administrative position for 14 months, ing others. his assumed strength and confidence. the crowd – wounding six – after the Eden makes $170,000 a year to make try, and they want this country to be back row at his victory rally.) • Jaquise had his back turned to checking off the days until he could Trump’s electoral gains have been He tells his followers not to worry; rightful owner tried to get his board back. these decisions. If he can’t, then he great again.” Viewing Donald Trump in light of Buchanan and had been walking away retire, something these officers say largest in counties with lower than he’ll take care of them. “If you get laid Jaquise was then gunned down in an act should step aside for the betterment of After a handful of White supporters the fascists of the first half of the 20th at a distance of almost 50 feet when Eden would never have done for a beat average incomes and among those off … I still want your vote,” he told of self-defense. This self-defense shooting the city and police department. punched and attempted to choke a century – who used economic stresses Buchanan fired eight rounds at Jaquise. cop. They point to quick termination who report their personal finances workers in Michigan last week. “I’ll resulted in lives being saved, so, there, I wish that the people running the Black Lives Matter protester at one to scapegoat others, created cults of • Buchanan was interviewed by APD decisions on officers Steve Hindi, Dawne have worsened. As The Washington get you a new job; don’t worry about Albuquerque. city would take care of Grant in the of his campaign rallies, Trump said, personality, intimidated opponents, detectives on three occasions after the Roberto and Jeremy Dear. They say there Post’s Jeff Guo has pointed out, it.” Case solved and closed. Move along same way they took care of Brachle. “Maybe he should have been roughed incited violence, glorified their nations shootings. Buchanan lied to APD about is a double standard on the fifth floor, Trump performs best in places where The old fascists intimidated and now. Nothing to look at here. Your Hernandez tells the public that the city up.” and disregarded international law, bringing a loaded gun to the skate park where Eden and the top brass work. skateboards are safe, even though the is paying Grant’s medical bills and lost middle-aged Whites are dying the threatened opponents. Trump is not each time. When APD finally confronted I agree with these cops. Eden has There are further parallels. Fascists and connected directly with the skate park isn’t. fastest. above a similar strategy. To take one Buchanan with evidence that he had wages. She shouldn’t claim generosity glorified national power and great- masses – helps explain what Trump is APD once claimed “self-defense” before, shown a serious lapse of judgment by The economic stresses almost a cen- example, he recently Tweeted that indeed brought a gun, Buchanan ‘fessed when the city is only doing what the law ness, fanning xenophobia and war. doing and how he is succeeding. most infamously when APD officers killed not making a decision before POC did. tury ago that culminated in the Great Chicago’s Ricketts family, now spend- up. APD then thanked Buchanan for his requires. Trump’s entire foreign policy consists It also suggests why Donald Trump homeless camper James Boyd. Self-de- This chief seems to have forgotten, Depression were far worse than most ing money to defeat him, “better be “cooperation.” In fact, workers’ compensation only of asserting American power against presents such a profound danger to fense didn’t seem right then, and it didn’t or he never has known, that his oath of Trump’s followers have experi- careful, they have a lot to hide.” • APD has never retrieved the gun Bu- provides Grant 66 percent of his salary. other nations. Mexico “will” finance a the future of America and the world. seem right to Munah Green, Jaquise’s to the citizens and to the integrity of enced, but they’ve suffered something The old fascists incited violence. chanan used to kill Jaquise or demanded Since he was shot in the line of duty, the wall. China “will” stop manipulating mom. Munah fought APD to get the the department is paramount in his Robert B. Reich, chancellor’s professor of that Buchanan turn it over. city has to pay his medical expenses. that in some respects is more painful Trump has not done so explicitly, but truth, and we now know APD has been duties. His decision-making ability is its currency. public policy at the University of Califor- One has to wonder: If a 24-year-old The city’s court filings suggest the city – failed expectations. his supporters have attacked Muslims, involved in a deliberate effort to mislead again called into question by his delay In pursuit of their nationalistic aims, nia at Berkeley and senior fellow Black man with cocaine trafficking still suffers from the malady that the Many grew up during the 1950s and the homeless, and African-Americans our community about what happened at in the Brachle case. I’m not saying Eden the fascists disregarded international charges took a loaded gun to a city federal Department of Justice federal 1960s, during a postwar prosperity – and Trump has all but excused their at the Blum Center for Developing Los Altos and how Jaquise was killed. needed to terminate Brachle, simply law. Trump is the same. He recently skate park and shot a 17-year-old White monitor James Ginger recently com- that lifted all boats. That prosper- behavior. Economies, was secretary of labor in the that he needed to step up and make a proposed using torture against terror- APD has also pulled out all the stops kid twice in the back, would the White plained about: delay, deflect and divert. ity gave their parents a better life. Weeks after Trump began his Clinton administration. Time magazine timely decision. ists and punishing their families, both to protect the man who they know shot teenager’s family have to fight for justice If you agree that the city should treat Trump’s followers naturally expected campaign by falsely alleging that named him one of the 10 most effective him: 24-year-old Gregory Buchanan, Is Eden the chief, or is City Attorney in clear violation of international law. the way APD forced Munah Green to Grant at least as well as the city treated that they and their children would cabinet secretaries of the 20th century. who is currently facing drug trafficking Jessica Hernandez running APD? Mexican immigrants are “bringing Finally, the fascists created their fight for justice for Jaquise? the family of James Boyd, another also experience economic gains. They He has written 13 books, including the charges (cocaine) and was facing those There’s a counterargument that I crime. They’re rapists,” two brothers mass followings directly, without Of course we know the answer. And victim of a wrongful APD shooting – a have not. bestsellers “Aftershock” and “The Work of charges the night he killed Jaquise. have heard from some city officials who in Boston beat with a metal pole and political parties or other intermediar- while that answer doesn’t say anything $5 million settlement – then call Mayor Add fears and uncertainties about Nations.” His latest, “Beyond The APD cover-up started within hours say that I should stop demanding that urinated on a 58-year-old homeless ies standing between them and their good about APD, it also doesn’t say Richard Berry at (505) 768-3000, and let terrorists who may be living among Outrage,” is now out in paperback. He of Jaquise being killed. APD claimed Brachle’s police certification be reviewed Mexican national. They subsequently legions of supporters. anything good about Albuquerque. him know. us or may want to sneak through our is also a founding editor of the American for 90 days that it had no leads in the by the New Mexico Law Enforcement told the police “Donald Trump was Trump’s Tweets and rallies similarly borders, and this vulnerability and Prospect magazine and chairman of shootings. Chief Gorden Eden even Greg Payne is a former Albuquerque Board. They’ve said that Brachle feels Dan Klein is a retired Albuquerque police right, all these illegals need to be circumvent all filters. The Republican powerlessness is magnified. deported.” Common Cause. His newest film, posted a YouTube video begging for the city councilor and recent graduate of horrible about what happened and now sergeant who writes about conditions Party is irrelevant to his campaign, public’s help in solving the case. that he is retired, I should just let it go. Trump’s incendiary verbal attacks Instead of condemning that bru- “Inequality for All,” is available on the UNM School of Law. He works street cops face at the Albuquerque and he considers the media an enemy. Thanks to the public records lawsuit Revoking his certification is “piling on” on Mexican immigrants and Muslims tality, Trump excused it by saying Netflix, iTunes, DVD and On Demand. with the lawyers who represent Police Department. Reach him through Reporters covering his rallies are kept His blog is robertreich.org that Munah Green filed, a Bernalillo Lewis’ mother, Munah Green. and kicking him when he is down, one Facebook. 16 • March 23 – April 5, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS feature news ABQ FREE PRESS • March 23 – April 5, 2016 • 17

hat’s this photo about? Why did we shoot it? W This feature is about places and things around Albuquerque that What Does it Take to Get Fired from the City? may have some sort of significance — historical, cultural, or notorious. Why Did We Shoot This Photo? BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI Whether locations or details from “Breaking Bad” or “Better Call Saul” or just close-ups of everyday things an observant Burqueño should recognize, lbuquerque taxpayers Shepherd stated in we’ll be out there with our smartphones. will pay $185,000 to his application that he Your job is to identify “it” and send us your answer, plus a little bit of detail A and context. Each issue’s winner will be the person who our judges believe settle a lawsuit against had worked full-time as provided the most entertaining explanation in 150 words or less. We’ll a city official who told a the manager of security publish the winning answer the following issue. female employee that his services for a private Send your entries to [email protected] with the subject line “Mystery city desk was shaped like a company, ACMI, from June Photo” by 5 p.m. the Wednesday after each issue’s publication date – in penis, made hand gestures 1993 through September this case, March 30. The winner receives two tickets to the April 3 Duke City mimicking masturbation, 2004, when he was a full- Gladiators game at Tingley Coliseum. sent the woman a sexually time Albuquerque police suggestive birthday card, officer. In our March 9 issue we asked readers to tell us why we shot this photo. repeatedly hugged her, But an investigator called Some readers took to writing us short fiction involving the scene in the photo. Nice to read, but not the winners. allegedly kissed her and the firm and was told that The winner was Steve McCracken who explained the following: suggested she go to his the company had actually The reason that you took the photo is it contains house. hired Shepherd in July the pay phone on Central and Solano where in April The defendant in the 1994 as a part-time route of 2005 the infamous “Runaway Bride,” Jennifer Carol case, Mark A. Shepherd, is merchandiser – a person Wilbanks, phoned her fiancé to inform him that she a retired APD cop and the who “services vending ma- had not left him at the altar in Georgia but was instead manager of the Division chines and collects money kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a Hispanic man and of Security and Parking from them,” the investiga- a Caucasian woman in their 40s driving a blue van. Enforcement in the city’s tor’s report said. When asked if she knew what direction her captors went after setting her free, she said, “I have no idea. I Department of Municipal “This does not appear to don’t even know where I am.” Development. The case be security-related work,” The calls were traced to the pay phone in the photo Jennifer Wilbanks was filed against the city the investigator wrote. “I This issue’s mystery photo at the 7-Eleven at Central and Solano in Albuquerque and Shepherd in April find that Mr. Shepherd did where she was picked up by local police. 2015. It was settled on Feb. not truthfully represent his Later, during police interrogation, Wilbanks admitted that she had not 3, according to Bernalillo work experience.” been abducted, but needed time and space to escape the pressures of her County District Court The investigation found Dan Vukelich Last issue’s mystery photo upcoming wedding. records. after Shepherd sent Parada a sexu- in the city’s Municipal Development other problems with the Attorney Michael Cadigan repre- ally suggestive birthday card, again Department. hiring process. sented the plaintiff, Naomi Parada, Parada went to Riordan. On Oct. 24, History of problems “Reviewing city officials should and confirmed that the city agreed to Parada was transferred to a different have scrutinized Mr. Shepherd’s state- pay $185,000 to settle the case. department, a move the lawsuit It wasn’t the first time Shepherd ments regarding his work experience CALL NOW! According to the lawsuit, Shep- alleged was retaliation. had been in trouble for violating more carefully,” the investigative city policy. In April 2008, he faced a File Photo herd’s harassment of Parada began in An internal city investigation report said. “His application represen- SALES ENDING SOON! October 2013 when she was assigned determined in early 2015 that Shep- four-week suspension for improperly tation that he worked two full-time to Shepherd’s division. herd had indeed committed many allowing four to five Security Division jobs simultaneously from 1993 to his “Shepherd frequently and repeat- of the harassing acts that Parada supervisors to use city vehicles as retirement from APD appears on its edly made hand gestures mimicking had accused him of. “He [Shepherd] take-home cars, according to the city’s face improbable, yet it was accepted at masturbation while talking on the admitted to making ‘wanking’ ges- investigative report. face value by both the original DMD phone,” according to the lawsuit. tures to customers and complaints he qualifying individual and the Human “These gestures were directed at the found annoying,” the hearing officer’s ‘I do think that Resources analyst.” attention of Parada.” report said. “These gestures have been Shepherd listed then-city Public offensive to some female employees.” Mr. Shepherd used poor Safety Director Nick Bakas as a ref- ‘Shepherd frequently and The hearing officer recommended judgment in some of erence on his resume. But Bakas was repeatedly made hand that Shepherd receive a three-day the behavior described one of the people who interviewed suspension that was to be held in Shepherd for the job he was applying gestures mimicking abeyance. by women in the office for, which was another irregularity, masturbation while “I do think that Mr. Shepherd (not just Ms. Parada), the investigation said. talking on the phone’ used poor judgment in some of the including inappropriate The investigator concluded that behavior described by women in the Shepherd “knowingly made false — allegation in sexual harassment lawsuit office (not just Ms. Parada), including hugging, remarks and statements in his application.” inappropriate hugging, remarks and gestures, and giving an ABQ Free Press emailed City Hall “In 2014,” the lawsuit continued, gestures, and giving an employee employee an inappropri- spokeswoman Rhiannon Schroeder ¡Plan Familiar TV Programming Home Internet “Parada was filing something away an inappropriate birthday card,” the ate birthday card’ and asked why Shepherd is still NEW in a filing cabinet. While her back was hearing officer found. “However, I employed by the city and if the city de llamadas only turned, Shepherd sneaked up behind did not find any of the allegations, — city hearing officer condones his behavior regarding Pa- ilimitadas a casas more than her. When Parada turned around, separately or collectively, amounted to rada. Schroeder said she was looking 200 channels $29.99/mo! LOCATION! Shepherd kissed her on the lips, enough evidence to prove a viola- In 2004, an internal city investiga- into the matter but did not get back to y celulares de against Parada’s will.” tion of the [city’s sexual harassment tion found that Shepherd made “mis- the newspaper. Stand alone, 2325 San Pedro NE representations” on his application only The lawsuit alleged that in 2014, policy].” Dennis Domrzalski is an associate editor México! Sólo Suite 1A2 for the job of DMD security manager. no bundling when Parada informed Municipal De- Shepherd, who makes $93,059 a at ABQ Free Press. Reach him at He got the job but resigned after an $9.99/ mes, $29.99/mo! Albuquerque, NM velopment Director Michael Riordan year, did not return a telephone mes- [email protected] required. 87110 that Shepherd had kissed her, Riordan sage left with his assistant in his office investigation found several problems más impuestos. did nothing. In October of that year, with the hiring process. sports ABQ FREE PRESS • March 23 – April 5, 2016 • 19 A Tale of Two Coaches, And the Guy Who Hired Them CALLING ALL PETS BY RICHARD STEVENS ip Van Winkle was on the cusp of becoming one of the Ronce dozed off premier programs in the West. Rather than for 20 years. Paul conduct a search, Krebs hired the local Krebs’ nap wasn’t so favorite. He was lazy. long. He woke up It’s not the first time. Krebs gave Craig after just five years. Neal an extension after Neal won big with The burning Steve Alford’s players. UNM didn’t have question around much of a buyout with Sanchez ($150,000), Lobo Land lately but dumping Neal comes with a $1 million is whether Krebs, New Mexico’s vice buyout. president of athletics, should have fired Here’s a suggestion: Cut $100,000 from Lobo women’s basketball coach Yvonne Krebs’ salary and come contract time cut Sanchez. $100,000 from Neal’s salary and lure a A better question is why Sanchez was big-time women’s coach. hired in the first place. Which brings up another burning ques- And here’s another sweet one: If Paul tion: Despite the cost, can Krebs afford not “Mr. Hindsight” Krebs would have fired to fire Neal? Sanchez – as he should have and almost The community is rapidly turning against Helen Leavy sent us this photo of her Heeler-mix rescue dog did – after her 1-7 start in 2014-15, he this coach who, amazingly, said in a news Maggie. “She is very sweet. She has a great smile and is relaxing would have saved UNM $150,000. San- conference that motivation and effort are at our favorite campground at Villanueva State Park. She is a chez’s initial contract ended at the close of not things a coach can coach. Tell that to devoted companion to my husband. We are also very happy to the 2015 season. Vince Lombardi, John Wooden – or George be able to say that she is a cancer survivor!” Patton. There is good reason to suspect The Pit’s It’s a sad decline for a attendance will fade even further in 2016- Send it to once-promising program 17. Neal’s teams are about as much fun to [email protected] watch as Sanchez’s teams. Heck, despite that could have been her poor performance overall, Sanchez’s Include your name, phone number, and your pet’s name, avoided five years ago teams has had better Februarys. and we’ll try to reserve their spot in the pet parade. when Don Flanagan Neal, like Sanchez, was moved from an assistant’s position into the hot seat. resigned (Wasn’t Neal really an Alex Kirk hiring?) Looking at the record, there are at least What was this man thinking? Instead of two reasons to suggest it was a move Neal firing her back then, he gave an extension wasn’t ready to make: the 2014-15 season Albuquerque’s and the 2015-16 season. The Lobos aren’t to a coach he knew wasn’t the coach even a Sweet 16 NIT team. Time to book for the job. And riddle me this: Why did some court time in Johnson Gym? Premier Facility Sanchez sign a four-year extension that included a paltry $150,000 buyout on a job - for - that pays $266,240 a year? What was this Here’s a suggestion: coach thinking? Cut $100,000 from The curious thing about this firing is Mock Trials & that it is bringing heat on Krebs. He fired Krebs’ salary and a coach who ended up being Coach of the $100,000 from Year (2015) in a gosh-awful conference. Focus Groups He fired a born-and-raised New Mexican. Neal’s salary and lure a He fired a minority. It’s also pathetic that big-time women’s coach • Trial planning and issue spotting, a local minority voice has tried to claim in-house facilitators this firing was racially motivated. This is a Krebs fired Sanchez saying the program • Mock jury services disservice to anyone actually discriminated had fallen into mediocrity. Well, Neal’s against by an employer. • Witness preparation teams have not made the postseason in Sanchez was fired, simply, because she is • Simulated court and the past two seasons. If that’s not medioc- not a good D-I coach and her Lobos were deliberation venues rity, what is? not a good D-I team. Krebs knew this a Krebs gave Sanchez five years to put her • Political polling year and a half ago. mark on the program. It was not a good Sanchez, after the firing, complained to mark and Krebs finally pulled the plug. But Call 505-263-8425 or email the local media that Krebs did not attend is there any accountability for Krebs? Neal [email protected] a lot of her team’s games. Had he, he probably won’t be flushed this season, but might have noticed how poorly the Lobo he’s circling the drain. 6608 Gulton Court NE, Alb. 87109 women performed. He also might have And Krebs? He’s sitting on the rim. noticed all the empty seats in The Pit – uh, kind of like men’s basketball! Richard Stevens is a former sports writer It’s a sad decline for a once-promising for The Albuquerque Tribune. More program that could have been avoided recently, he was an insider at the Lobo five years ago when Don Flanagan athletic department. Reach him at trialmetrixnm.com resigned. Back then, the women’s program [email protected] 20 • March 23 – April 5, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS HOW TO How to ABQ FREE PRESS • March 23 – April 5, 2016 • 21

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Keep truckin’ Arkansas-based Whole Hog Café BBQ their new location that sprouted up in Last year, the City Council passed a restaurant will set up shop within the Austin, Texas, at the end of February. controversial ordinance that prohibited next few months. Let the New Mexican domination food trucks from setting up within 100 Gravy closed in December, after be- commence! ing a hotly anticipated addition whose feet of an existing brick-and-mortar middling reviews on Yelp sealed its Getting Bearded? restaurant. fate early on. It seems to me this local In Northern New Mexico news, one After a barrage of complaints that joint got an undeserved bad rap. That of my favorite restaurants in the state the rule made it impossible for popular said, an out-of-towner taking up space has snagged a prestigious nod from mobile eateries to find a place to park, Dion’s Pizza is always better than a vacancy. the James Beard Foundation. Rancho especially Downtown, the Council de Chimayó, a sprawling, pastoral revised the rules on March 7. youth, has been awarded Sandelman & Blake’s gets around ranch house in Chimayó, N.M. – where Now food trucks must maintain Associates’ 2015 Quick Track Award of Sometimes New Mexico restaurants yours truly got married – has made a reduced 75-foot buffer zone from Excellence due to the institution’s high get to be the out-of-towner. Blake’s it to the final round of nominees for a restaurants and can ignore the zone marks on customer experience surveys. Lotaburger has a satellite location James Beard Award in the “America’s if said restaurant is closed. As the Dion’s was number 4 on this national opening in Tucson, Ariz., on April 1. Classics” category. city continues to seek a solution that list, behind Chik-Fil-A, In-‘n’-Out It will be the Albuquerque-founded Winners will be announced at the satisfies both food truck owners and Burger and a Chicago eatery called chain’s fourth out-of-state location; Chicago Lyric Opera on May 2. In the restaurants, expect the Council to Portillos. Way to go, teenagers! there are three in El Paso, Texas. meantime, who’s up for a road trip? revisit these rules again soon. National Geographic reported that the EDo goes Whole Hog Rancho de Chimayó seriously serves chain serves the “best green chile cheese- Electric youth the best margaritas and red chile in Formerly home to Gravy and, before burger in the world.” A second Tucson New Mexico. Dion’s Pizza, the ubiquitous Al- that, Milton’s Café, the iconic diner at location is slated for a May debut. buquerque pizzeria where it’s always Central and Elm is changing hands and And Santa Fe-based Vinaigrette Ty Bannerman loves to eat and to write, 1992 and the cashiers exude perpetual identities once again. This time around, has also ventured out of state with and those interests frequently collide. ‘The Graduate’ Scores High Marks by BARRY GAINES

et in the 1960s, “The Graduate” ‘The Graduate’ Kir Kipness’ portrayal of the com- S tells the story of an aimless young Aux Dog Theatre, 3011 Monte Vista NE plicated character of Elaine Robinson college grad, a seductive older woman, Through April 10 emphasizes her distress over making that woman’s daughter and the Gor- Fri.-Sat. at 8 p.m., Sun. at 2 p.m. the decision between bending to her dian knot of their forbidden relation- Tickets: $20-$25, auxdog.com parents’ dreams or prioritizing her own ships. “Plastics” are the ultimate sym- desires instead. bol of sell-out commercialism, and the Kipness effectively conjures Elaine’s stunning, this live stage performance sky is and isn’t always blue in Aux Dog confusion upon meeting the unusual directed by Victoria J. Liberatori con- Theatre’s thoughtful production of yet strangely appealing Ben Braddock, Russell Maynor centrates on characters and their inter- Terry Johnson’s “The Graduate.” who’s played by Matt Pruett. His act- Benjamin Braddock (Matt Pruett) and Mrs. Robin- actions. Nearly 50 years ago, the late Mike son (Bridget Kelly) share some pillow talk in Aux ing highlights both Ben’s self-loathing Ryan Jason Cook’s set design boasts Nichols’ 1967 filmic version of “The Dog’s “The Graduate.” and illogical optimism, lending him a a central revolve that allows for rapid- Graduate” burst on to the screen. Nom- clueless, cute nature. neon god they made.” fire scene changes. Sound designer inated for Best Picture, Nichols also This is the third sensual, older woman At a celebration given by his parents, Martin Andrews neatly matches mu- won the Oscar for best directing. As I’ve seen Bridget Kelly play, and she’s Ben encounters Mrs. Robinson, the ne- sic to mood while Jonathan Lightcap’s great as the flick is, Aux Dog’s stage been wonderful as each. Kelly’s Mrs. glected, alcoholic wife of his father’s lighting design focuses our attention. adaptation brings new perspective to Robinson is unsatisfied with her mar- best friend. When she gets Ben alone, Kathy Gomez’s costume design trans- audiences, even those who are familiar riage of convenience, and her consider- Mrs. Robinson gets aggressively sug- ports us back to the mid ’60s. with the movie. able torment evokes our sympathy. gestive, leaving no doubt that she’s The performances here are generally Based on Charles Webb’s 1963 no- Ben and Mrs. Robinson’s scenes in available for a sexual relationship. strong. Certain ensemble players de- vella, the narrative is tricky but not bed are darkly funny. Kelly skilfully Both perplexed and aroused, Ben serve special mention: Elizabeth Lang- all that complicated. Having gradu- conveys Mrs. Robinson’s vain attempts engages in an affair with Mrs. Rob- ston, who plays three roles; Tristana ated from a college back East, 20-year- to maintain some dignity by keeping inson. In postcoital conversation at a Gonzalez, whose striptease is memora- old Benjamin Braddock returns home her daughter away from her clandes- fancy hotel, Ben brings up her daugh- ble; and J. Ryan Montenery, who brings to upscale southern California and his tine lover. ter Elaine, a college student at Berke- four characters to life. doting, if clueless, parents. Who do we root for in this play? ley; the mother’s protective hackles are Marc Comstock is a convincing Mr. He doesn’t want a successful but Whether you’ve seen the film or not, raised, and she forbids Ben from hav- Braddock. His transition from pride to predictable life like his father. Simon Aux Dog’s production of “The Gradu- ing any contact with Elaine. anger is powerful. Lisa Fenstermacher & Garfunkel lyrics are showcased in ate” will challenge and amuse. Prodded by his parents, who are makes her mark as a ditsy, mugging both the film and the play, and they blissfully unaware of the affair, Ben Mrs. Braddock. Lanky thespian Shad Barry Gaines, a Professor Emeritus at ably express Ben’s disillusioned mind- takes Elaine out. And then he likes her. Adair plays the relatively uptight Mr. UNM and Administrator of the American set: “People talking without speaking / No, he loves her. He wants to marry Robinson, who seems willfully insen- Theater Critics Association, reviews Al- People hearing without listening / And her. Mrs. Robinson is furious. While sitive to the needs of both his wife and buquerque theater for ABQ Free Press. the people bowed and prayed / To the the film “The Graduate” is visually his daughter. 24 • March 23 – April 5, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS HOW TO DRINK ABQ FREE PRESS • March 23 – April 5, 2016 • 25 On Service: A Trail of Breadcrumbs Beer Town: Aliens & Jackalopes BY IAN MAKSIK by TY BANNERMAN

Meanwhile, Ale Republic is one step y last column left off with make it onto guests’ person Got a hot tip on Albuquerque’s beer scene? Know closer to unfurling their banner at an M serving your boss and or clothes. of a seasonal draft I’ve simply got to try? Drop me East Mountains location. According their spouse coffee and dessert. Here’s the websclusive a line at [email protected] to the Mountain View Telegraph, I promised my readers pizzazz, bit: Visit an expanded ver- this “democratic” brewery — where sion of this column, includ- so let’s make that coffee or tea Pub stop at Alien drinkers will vote on additions to the service truly memorable. ing the Professor’s primer tap lineup — has taken its final per- I love a good crumber. on how to pour everything I visited the newly rebranded Alien mitting steps and will soon be serving Wait — let me explain. The table from water to wine plus Brew Pub the other day, mainly to pints. Brewer Patrick Johnson’s plans crumber was invented in 1939 by advice on winning the love try the beer and food although I also to cultivate and use wild yeasts for John Henry Miller, who owned of lefties, at freeabq.com. wanted to clarify my stance on the some truly unique ale flavors are also a fine dining establishment in Address any questions 1947 Roswell crash. mentioned in the article. Baltimore. you have on service, The redesigned space, which used Another brewery has announced its Before the crumber’s invention, etiquette or catering via to house ABQ Brew Pub, is now intentions toward Albuquerque, but email to ian@usawaiter. the only option for clearing away bedecked with gray and green bug- this one won’t just be serving beer. com. The Professor will dinner remnants was a clunky eyed humanoids presumably from the New Mexico Craft Brewery plans to reply via email or in this region of Chiron Beta-5. The moody brush and pan. Miller’s patent open our city’s first “cidery” focused column. That’s an “86” aka lighting gives the joint an appro- application provides a concise bent on a segment of a circle of about and vintage versions are plentiful for on fruity fermentables — think apples, “I’m out,” from Ian Maksik, “Professor priately cosmic vibe. It’s a welcome explanation of the tool: “It consists of 120 degrees.” sale on eBay and other resale shop- peaches, that sort of thing. The Sandia of Service.” change from the typical generic a simple narrow piece of transversely Miller’s table crumber was in- ping websites. Hard Cider and Craftroom will have brewpub décor. between 10 and 15 taps dispensing ci- curved strip of metal, plastic or like, terpreted in various materials and Here’s a simple DIY crumber Ian Maksik is a Cornell Hotel School Beer bellies graduate and a former Hilton general The menu here has been spruced up der and beer, although the former will designs. One sleek, faithful, early method. Fold a napkin in fours (see manager and catering editor for New York too. We started with bacon-wrapped Bosque Brewery has Every Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m., take the lion’s share. Its owners expect Professor of Service Ian Maksik’s “On Service” design is still on the market; snag included diagram), before centering it magazine CUE. Known as “America’s dates — a lovely mix of sweet and sa- major expansion plans in get your tipple on while basking in to open the Craftroom by late spring. in our print edition is just the beginning. We can one at crumber.com. This service on a dinner plate. Use a butter knife vory with cranberry-balsamic reduc- and do host Maksik’s etiquette, fine dining and Service Guru,” Maksik has keynoted, lec- the works. The company the sensuous, serpentine stylings of magic happens after clearing the (or your new table crumber) to clear tion drizzled all over — and a pile of Brew of the fortnight catering content in an expanded version online. tured and trained owners, management the Desert Darlings Belly Dancing Buffalo wings. plans to spearhead the Visit us at freeabq.com and click the main course. These handsome table debris into the napkin’s waiting folds; and staff of hospitality facilities in 21 Group. Admiring the performance is Rio Bravo Brewing’s barrel-aged Both appetizers went beautifully Living/How To category for hyperlinked content crumbers (especially the silver ones) safely sweep them up and securely countries and at notable industry confer- redevelopment of the free and there’s nothing better than barley wine is no joke. This 10.5 with my massive 22-oz. Black Hole and downloadable diagrams. are sadly not used as much these days, cover them over, allowing movement ences. 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FERTILITY CARE Albuquerque loves both bikes and editor at Weekly Alibi. 26 • March 23 – April 5, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS film music ABQ FREE PRESS • March 23 – April 5, 2016 • 27 N.M. Film Focus: On Class, Casting by CHRISTA VALDEZ Playing Against the Wind: The A.J. Woods Interview BY M. BRIANNA STALLINGS

s a global audience eyes the s a songwriter, Albuquerque A growth of New Mexico’s film A native A.J. Woods possesses and emerging media industry, locals the rare gift of direct eloquence. He are regularly presented with opportuni- says what needs to be said in clear ties to “get into the business.” Here are language that’s also poignant and some resources and events to get you powerful. started. Fleshed out with minor-key acous- Class acts tic guitar and feathery drums, the Photo courtesy of APA resulting work is populated by nar- The acclaimed Chubbuck Acting ratives and atmospheres he conjures method, studied by Brad Pitt, Halle Jennifer Beals (“Flashdance,” “The L Word”) has up. Nature’s fingerprints are all over Berry and Sylvester Stallone, will be joined “The Night Shift” in a recurring role as Dr. Syd Jennings, an Army Major. Woods’ latest release “The Fence,” out taught by Rebekah Wiggins in an inten- now on TinyAmp Records. sive weekend course through Southwest Sceneworks. The next beginner intensive And, remember, casting companies On tracks like “The Water,” “Move- is scheduled for March 26. Visit do more than places, faces and types: ment in the Grass” and “Against the southwestsceneworks.com to learn more. they also need your car or truck. One of Wind,” melody lopes, twangs, wails Area casting director Jo Edna Boldin the casting directors listed above asks and moans through riverbeds run dry, is currently enrolling students for her people to include a photo and detailed a world dusty with quartz sand and Audition 101 workshop. Open to the description of all the vehicles you own, haunted by tumbleweeds. 18-and-over set, Sol Acting Academy and that’s sound advice. has become a theatrical instruction Get exposure On A.J. Woods tracks like institution here in town. Johnny Gomez Managed by Vivian Nesbitt, the train- The New Mexico Film Foundation’s “The Water,” “Movement Albuquerque musician A.J. Woods in his natural habitat ing resource and performance space annual Actors Showcase is a prime in the Grass” and “Against offers classes for aspiring performers opportunity to see local talent in action. the Wind,” melody lopes, of all ages and skill levels. A peren- This year’s showcase is scheduled I met Woods for an interview at the I mentioned the park because it’s a in self-expression and the genuine nial favorite for budding actors is the for Saturday, March 26, at the South twangs, wails and moans South Broadway Library. We initially beautiful place with big old-growth aspects of creating art, rather than Albuquerque Actors Studio class taught Broadway Cultural Center. Visit through riverbeds run dry, set out to do an outdoor interview at cottonwood trees and decent shade. I using art as a vehicle to make money. by renowned local Lora Cunningham. nmfilmfoundation.org to learn more. Kit Carson Park — in the middle of definitely pull some influence from the The best thing I see here is a healthy Sponsored by Cine Magnifico, The a world dusty with March in Albuquerque. As I feared, natural world. I grew up in New Mex- Get cast! quartz sand and haunted blend of competition, collaboration Indie Scene is a quarterly film show- the notorious March winds got the ico, I’m from Albuquerque and I feel and cross-genre support. George C. Albuquerque-based casting compa- case at the National Hispanic Cultural by tumbleweeds better of us. Nature cares not for like I have a definite connection with Moreno is giving a brief reading as Center featuring some of the best nies are looking for fresh faces for the deadlines. the land and the natural world here. part of your album release. Other short films, video segments and music Start and end your day with us! following series pilot and television Why’d you choose the Guild as the than your friendship, how did you videos by filmmakers from all over series: “Preacher,” “The Night Shift,” Woods releases “The Fence” and venue for your album release? get him to participate? the state. Submissions of shorts and People ask me where I “Longmire,” “From Dusk Till Dawn” limited-edition live album “Move- I love that theater, and I thought it videos are open now at facebook.com/ and “Midnight, Texas.” Visit the ment In the Grass” at the Guild went to school, and I tell would be cool to release my material theindiescenene. There’s so many layers to websites of White Turtle Casting, EG Cinema (3405 Central NE) on Friday, in a place that has such distinctly Dubbed the “little Sundance of New them. But if people ask Casting and Lorrie Latham Casting for April 8, starting at 11 p.m. Tickets are wonderful intellectual property com- [the Albuquerque music] Mexico,” the Taos Shortz Film Fest me where I got my educa- more details. To be considered for back- $5. The evening also features a read- ing to it. They’re very selective about happens April 7 through 10. Get info scene. It’s cool because ground work on these shows, submit ing by writer George C. Moreno and tion, I tell them that I got the films they show and about putting your interest to Robert Baxter via email at taosshortz.com. On April 9, from a lot of it happens on the photo projections by Johnny Gomez. it at the Guild Cinema good things on there. at [email protected]. But 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., the state film office — A.J. Woods I’ve seen so many wonderful films underground level, in KSFR fm before you do, read the next paragraph. hosts its annual Albuquerque Film & there. People ask me where I went to houses or art spaces No experience is needed to apply for Media Education Summit at CNM. santa fe public radio 101.1 school, and I tell them. But if people background roles. The information cast- Visit nmfilm.com to learn more. And — A.J. Woods By the time we actually met, it was ask me where I got my education, ing directors find most valuable is an save the date for AFME 2016, slated for so blustery out that I half-expected to I tell them that I got it at the Guild accurate physical description of your- April 18 through 24. The experience see Winnie-the-Pooh flying Piglet by Cinema. He has such a brilliant mind. I know self, including height and weight, hair takes place at multiple venues along his scarf like a kite. Like the kind- and eye color, ethnicity, a clear current historic Route 66. Visit abqfilmx.com What do you appreciate most about his interest in literature and his genu- hearted bear, Woods was a good sport ine pursuit of greatness, so I thought it Award winning news, photo, accurate contact information and for details. throughout our “Windsday” chat. the Albuquerque music scene? any special skills or physical character- A new Southern New Mexico film The diversity of everything. There’s a would be good complement to the set. Tell me about “The Fence.” What were istics you have. For your schedule of community effort will take root when wonderful noise music scene here that My friend Johnny Gomez is also public affairs & talk radio the first Film T or C festival kicks off on some of the influences for your songs? showing photography that night. He availability, I advise Thursday through I really appreciate. There’s so many Monday and every day after 5 p.m. May 6. Go to facebook.com/FilmTorC It’s a collection of songs. Some are layers to our scene. It’s cool because a does his own prints at home; he’s an Physical attributes like full-body to ask questions or get involved. It’s new, some of them I’ve been working lot of it happens on the underground analog photographer. In all of the tattoos or no tattoos at all are important also time to make plans for the Roswell Haley English on for 10 years almost. It’s hard to say level, in houses or art spaces. places he’s lived, he’s always had to note. Save yourself and the casting di- Film Festival. Submissions are open where they come from. It’s kinda like his own makeshift or DIY darkroom. streaming live Cover art for “Movement in the Grass” It’s not Los Angeles or another one Eclectic music rector time and effort by being thorough. through April 18 at roswellfilmfestival. I put an antenna out, and then they of these big entertainment district cit- He’s also going to be doing some @ ksfr.org Skills like horseback riding, firearms com. The fest itself happens May 19 come. ies. It seems like we’ve been protected projections. He’s very prolific, has an Woods is also slated to do a live training and all sorts of sports, musical through 21. Why did you want to meet at the from the kind of corruption that enormous amount of photos and just spot on KUNM’s “Music to Soothe the and other specialized training can help park at first, and what significance comes from big money entertainment has a great eye. New Mexico film expert Christa Valdez, Savage Beast” program on Tuesday, get you cast; sometimes, what makes does the natural world have on your here. The people who make music M. Brianna Stallings writes Listener supported public radio of OneHeadlightInk.com, reports on April 5. The show starts at 10 p.m. on you, well, you can even bump you from creative process? and art in this city are more interested so you don’t have to. the background into a featured role. movie industry news for ABQ Free Press. 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Melt-Banana + Melvins Dale Crover have been the band’s only a night of power-loud Singers released four DEFINITIVE DOZEN List your evenT MARCH 25–27 FRIDAY, APRIL 1 THURSDAY, APRIL 7 ongoing members since 1984. From starts at 8. Tickets for this albums before taking a Extreme metal grindcore from En- 1 Screens: Sin Fronteras 5 Artspree: Across the Table: 9 Word: A Curandera Garden — New in the gland; grunge ancestors awash in that Nirvana to QOTSA to Boris, Melvins’ 13-and-up show are $20 via sabbatical year. The group Film Festival 2016 Jen DePaolo Mexico’s Native Medicinal Plants: Washington alt.rock sound; dizzying, influence can be heard everywhere. holdmyticket.com. hooked back up in 2015 to Guild Cinema, 3405 Central Ave NE, 5 pm, 516 ARTS, 516 Central Ave SW, Maria Thomas ABQ Free Press 255-1848, guildcinema.com 242-1445, 516arts.org 9:30 am, New Mexico Natural History disjointed noise rock straight outta In addition to palling around with The Cave Singers crowdfund “Banshee.” Merzbow, Mike Patton and John Zorn, The Cave Singers are joined 6 Shows: Local Band Showcase Museum, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Tokyo. All three bands are known for SATURDAY, MARCH 26 nmnaturalhistory.org Melt-Banana has something of a repu- In Irish folklore, it takes just one by the dreamy harmonies of mellow Noon, Free, Civic Plaza, 1 Civic Plaza NW, calendaR revolving doors of past studio or live 2 Events: 23rd Annual 3rd St NW and Marquette Ave NW, cabq.gov 10 Shows: Elvis on the Plaza Email event info, members and for destroying eardrums tation for eclectic covers, ranging from banshee to keen out high, warbling psych-pop foursome Dræmhouse. César Chávez Day 5 pm, Old Town Gazebo, 303 Romero St NW, including event name, date, 10:30 am, National Hispanic Cultural Center, SATURDAY, APRIL 2 of legions of loyal fans. jazz and holiday standards by Nina songs of mourning. On The Cave Sing- Give a listen to the group’s latest EP, 311, cabq.gov 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, nhccnm.org 7 Community: 4th Annual Million time, address and contact Emerging from England’s early ’80s Simone to jams by reggae legends ers’ latest “Banshee,” it takes: singer/ “Only Friends,” at their Bandcamp 11 Shows: To Feel Is In Question: guitarist Pete Quirk’s wild, reedy 3 Shows: 10th Annual March Against Child Abuse Isabelle Kessler punk scene, Napalm Death is the Irish Toots and the Maytals, and of course, page. Lead singer Chris Cheveyo tee- Moustachio Bashio Noon, Old Town Plaza, Albuquerque, phone number voice; Derek Fudesco’s dexterous Noon, New Mexico Museum of Art, hammer of extreme metal — though it’s wall-rattlers from The Birthday Party ters effortlessly from nonchalance to 8:30 pm, El Rey Theater, facebook.com/MACA.ABQ 107 W. Palace Ave, Santa Fe, or website, to and Dead Kennedys. guitar; Morgan Henderson’s solid bass defiance, sometimes within the same 622 Central Ave SW, elreyabq.com (505) 476-5072, nmartmuseum.org been building a strong foundation of WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6 [email protected] Wikipedia may bill Japanese work; and the coursing roll of Marty song. brutal grindcore tunes for generations, THURSDAY, MARCH 31 8 Eats: Frybread Making Workshop FRIDAY, APRIL 8 master of dissonance Melt-Banana Lund’s percussion to tie these 10 songs Wail, sway, clap and swoon along one month in advance none of its original parts remain. Still, 4 Artspree: GRAFT at the Balloon 6 pm, Pueblo Harvest Café, 12 Word: Friends of the Library of singer Mark “Barney” Greenway, Shane as the opener for Napalm Death and of reminiscence, pensiveness and a with The Cave Singers on Tuesday, Museum: Landing Party 2401 12th St NW, RSVP: 724-3510, Rio Rancho Book Sale of publication. Embury (bass), Mitch Harris (guitar) Melvins, but let’s face facts: this is a relinquishing of control together. April 5, at Launchpad (618 Central 5 pm, Anderson Abruzzo Balloon Museum, indianpueblo.org 10 am, Loma Colorado Main Library, triple header of equal titans. Recorded in six days last July, SW). Doors are at 8 p.m., and the 21- 9201 Balloon Museum Dr NE, 768-6020, 755 Loma Colorado Blvd NE, Rio Rancho, and drummer Danny Herrera are Na- graftgallery.com 891-5013x3033, riorancholibraries.org palm Death’s most consistent members. The Savage Imperial Death March “Banshee” is another foot-thumping, plus show begins at 9. Tickets are $12 Contrariwise, Melvins’ frontman/ Tour visits Albuquerque on Monday, hand-clapping chapter in this neo-folk via launchpadrocks.com. group’s history. Rising from the ashes guitarist Buzz Osborne and drummer March 28, at Sunshine Theater (120 M. Brianna Stallings makes work work. Central SW). Doors are at 7 p.m., and of Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Cave CLUBS & PUBS Lisa Lopez & Bob Gusch Duo MONDAY, MARCH 28 Memphis P-Tails SUNDAY, APRIL 3 Part of Art in the Afternoon OSHWA 6 pm, Pueblo Harvest Café, Danger Muffin: Taos Ski Valley MARCH 26–APRIL 8 2 pm, Free, 7:30 pm, Tortuga Gallery, 2401 12th St NW, 724-3510, Closing Day Bash See freeabq.com for an Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, 901 Edith Blvd SE, 369-1648, indianpueblo.com/puebloharvestcafe 7 pm, Taos Mesa Brewing, B m Box: New albums by M. Ward, Heron Oblivion extensive list of shows. 2000 Mountain Rd NW, 242-4600, tortugagallery.org Stand Up for Kids: A Night of 20 ABC Mesa Rd, El Prado, cabq.gov/museum Comedy to benefit NM Voices (575) 758-1900, SHOWS Max Gomez TUESDAY, MARCH 29 for Children taosmesabrewing.com and Thao & The Get Down Stay Down 6pm, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe Desert Chorale: Ailyn 7 pm, by donation, African American The Pirates of Penzance by M. BRIANNA STALLINGS THROUGH MARCH 27 107 W Palace Ave, Santa Fe, Perez and Gary Matthewman Performing Arts Center, Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus, My Fair Lady (505) 476-5072, nmartmuseum.org 6 pm, Lensic Theater, 310 San Pedro Dr NE, 244-9505, 203 Cornell Drive NE, 925-5858, New Mexico Actors Showcase 211 W. San Francisco, Santa Fe, donate.nmvoices.org/standup delivery on “Temptation” melds soprano and drummer Meg Baird; Rodey Theatre, UNM Main Campus, unmtickets.com 203 Cornell Drive, 925-5858, Competition (505) 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org APRIL 1–2 Quietly Kept with the surfy lead guitar, calling guitarists Noel Harmonson and Char- unmtickets.com 3 pm, South Broadway Cultural Center, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30 Alchemie Part of Bloody Sundays Brunch and The Go-Gos’ “Vacation” to mind. lie Saufley; and bassist Ethan Miller West Side Story 1025 Broadway Blvd SW, 848-1320, Bloody Mary Bar 10 pm, Isleta Resort & Casino, Albuquerque Little Theatre, southbroadwaytickets.com Walter Trout 11 am, Distillery 365, Ward’s warm, welcoming vocals and — self-identifies as “funeral folk,” 11000 Broadway Blvd SE, 724-3800, 224 San Pasquale Ave SW, 242-4750, Stephanie Miller’s Sexy Liberal 7 pm, Taos Mesa Brewing, 2921 Stanford Dr NE, 221-6281, lyrical finesse artfully unifies all this “fuzz burn” and “Albion dirge,” and isleta.com albuquerquelittletheatre.org Comedy Tour 20 ABC Mesa Rd, El Prado, distillery365.com genre-hopping. its members hail from an assortment 8 pm, Lensic Theater, (575) 758-1900, Francis Menotti of psych, new folk and noise rock THROUGH APRIL 10 211 W. San Francisco, Santa Fe, taosmesabrewing.com Jean Cocteau Cinema, APRIL 3–10 Heron Oblivion: The Graduate (505) 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org 418 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, Opera Southwest: bands like Espers and Six Organs of THURSDAY, MARCH 31 (505) 466-5528, “Heron Oblivion” Admittance. Aux Dog Theatre, Stratus Phear Il Turco in Italia 3011 Monte Vista Blvd NE, 6 pm, Pueblo Harvest Café, Chris Lightcap’s Bigmouth jeancocteaucinema.com National Hispanic Cultural Center, (Sub Pop) Recorded by lo-fi producer Eric 254-7716, auxdog.com 2401 12th St NW, 724-3510, 7:30 pm, Outpost Performance Space, 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, 210 Yale Blvd SE, 268-0044, SATURDAY, APRIL 2 Stream “Funeral Funk ’49,” a dirgey Bauer (Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees), the The Quality of Life indianpueblo.com/puebloharvestcafe operasouthwest.org outpostspace.org Bad Kats Keshet Center for the Arts, shout-out to The James Gang’s ’70s release’s seven rumbling, febrile Tabularasa 6 pm, Pueblo Harvest Café, 4121 Cutler Ave NE, 227-8583, 8 pm, Taos Mesa Brewing, MONDAY, APRIL 4 rocker “Funk #49m,” at Heron Obliv- tracks prove a dark, psychedelic trip. MARCH 31–APRIL 10 2401 12th St NW, 724-3510, motherroad.org 20 ABC Mesa Rd, El Prado, Comedy’s Best Kept Secret Yo Soy Joaquín! indianpueblo.com/puebloharvestcafe ion’s Bandcamp page. While it’s not a Standouts include “Oriar,” “Rama” (575) 758-1900, taosmesabrewing.com Tour: Andrew Frank, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Eric Cuerno straight-up cover, savvy listeners will and “Seventeen Landscapes.” THROUGH APRIL 17 The Temporary Tattoos Dan Frigolette, Sonya Vai M. Ward: 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, nhccnm.org Part of Noontime Guitar in the recognize a comparable, albeit slower Caesar‘s Blood 6 pm, Marble Brewery Westside, 8 pm, Aux Dog Theatre, Women’s Prisoners; their new release Galleries “More Rain” The Adobe Theater, 9813 4th Street 5740 Night Whisper Rd NW, 508-4368, 3011 Monte Vista Blvd NE, rhythm loping throughout Heron Thao & The Get Down looks inward, poking at the dad- FRIDAY, APRIL 1 Noon, New Mexico Museum of Art, (Merge) NW, 898-9222, adobetheater.org marblebrewery.com 254-7716, auxdog.com Stay Down: shaped hole in Thao’s heart. Andy Zadrozny Jazz Trio 107 W Palace Ave, Santa Fe, Terra Nova M. Ward has been wicked prolific “A Man Alive” “Millionaire” opens with warped MARCH 26–27 Part of Music at the Museum (505) 476-5072, TUESDAY, APRIL 5 with She & Him, Monsters of Folk and The Vortex Theatre, 2900 Carlisle NE, 5:30 pm, Free, New Mexico Museum nmartmuseum.org (Ribbon Music) loops eerily reminiscent of a carousel 247-8600, vortexabq.org Southern Slam Dancers (Zuni) Comedy’s Best Kept Secret other projects recently, but his last solo of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave, Santa Fe, Grainne Hambly & William Tour: Andrew Frank, Our parents’ deaths are as inevitable before its lyrics kick you in the chest: Noon, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, (505) 476-5072, nmartmuseum.org SATURDAY, MARCH 26 2401 12th St NW, 843-7270, Jackson Dan Frigolette, Sonya Vai album was 2012’s “A Wasteland Com- as our own but the abandonment can Aspen Santa Fe Ballet “Daddy I broke into a million pieces Bloodstone indianpueblo.org 7:30 pm, Historic Old San Ysidro Church, 9 pm, Effex Nightclub, 420 Central SW, panion.” Now he’s rewarding patient 7:30 pm, Lensic Theater, 966 Old Church Rd, Corrales, comedysbestkeptsecret.com feel unbearable. When the people who / That makes you a millionaire.” “A 5 pm, Burt’s Tiki Lounge, 211 W. San Francisco, Santa Fe, brownpapertickets.com indie-folk fans with “More Rain,” a 313 Gold Ave SW SUNDAY, MARCH 27 created us die, can we ever fill the Man Alive” is like a full-back tattoo: (505) 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6 vibrant record that rapidly breaks Brooklyn Hard Bodies Male Peri Pakroo Recycled Percussion hole in our hearts? Thao & The Get It’s not for everyone and it’s gonna The Haymarket Squares Idlehands, So Say We All, through the clouds to sunny pop. Revue Part of Bloody Sundays Brunch and 8 pm, Popejoy Hall, Down Stay Down’s new album “A hurt like hell, but the result is breath- Marble Brewery, 111 Marble Ave, UNM Main Campus, Wolfpack Weekend 9 pm, Effex Nightclub, Bloody Mary Bar “Pirate Dial” would fit in on Paul 243-2739, marblebrewery.com 203 Cornell Drive NE, 925-5858, 6 pm, Duke City Sound, Man Alive” asks this heavy question. taking. 420 Central SW, 842-8870, 11 am, Distillery 365, Simon’s 1972 self-titled solo album. unmtickets.com 2013 Ridgecrest Dr SE, 267-0192 Thao Nguyen’s father ditched her effexabq.com 2921 Stanford Dr NE, 221-6281, Lewis Winn and George M. Brianna Stallings writes Langston King & Country “Time Won’t Wait” sounds ’90s alt- family early on. Despite creative and Chris J Arellano feat. Brenda distillery365.com so you don’t have to. Part of Noontime Guitar in the APRIL 2–3 Santa Ana Star Center, 3001 Civic weird (think Meat Puppets) with its Ortega & Studio B Solo Piano with Bob Tate critical success, Nguyen has been Galleries Big Thunder Dance Group Center Circle NE, (888) 694-4849, 7:30 pm, KiMo Theatre, 423 Central 6 pm, Free, Vernon’s Speakeasy, hearty piano and sweet T.Rex-esque walking wounded ever since. Thao & Noon, New Mexico Museum of Art, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, santaanastarcenter.com Ave NW, 768-3544, kimotickets.com 6855 Fourth St NW, 341-083, guitar riff. The harmonies on “I’m Lis- TGDSD’s last album “We The Com- Thao & The Get Down Stay Down thehiddensteakhouse.com 107 W Palace Ave, Santa Fe, 2401 12th St NW, 843-7270, tening (Child’s Theme)” hearken back Cirque de la Symphonie (505) 476-5072, nmartmuseum.org indianpueblo.org THURSDAY, APRIL 7 Oblivion’s eponymous full-length mon” focused on outreach, human Launchpad (618 Central SW) 6 pm, Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus, Solo Violin and Voices Masta Ace, Wake Self, Def-i Nicolas Jaar DJ Set Dena Derose Trio to Ward’s original idea for a straight- Tuesday, April 26, at 8 p.m. 203 Cornell Drive NE, 925-5858, 10:30 am, Las Puertas Event Center, debut. connection and Thao’s volunteer Sister Bar, 407 Central Ave SW, Meow Wolf, 1352 Rufina Cir, Santa Fe, 7:30 pm, Outpost Performance Space, up doo-wop album. His lilting lyrical nmphil.org 1512 1st St NW, chatterabq.org The San Francisco quartet — avian work with the California Coalition for 242-4900, sisterthebar.com (505) 395-6369, meowwolf.com 210 Yale Blvd SE, 268-0044, outpostspace.org 30 • March 23 – April 5, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS ABQ FREE PRESS • March 23 – April 5, 2016 • 31

CALENDAr CALENDArTalin Market Food Truck David Wilde: A Cafe in Space WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6 The Maltese Falcon SATURDAY, APRIL 2 SATURDAYS KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW, Round Up Vol 13 Juan Cole with Phyllis Bennis Basic Necklace & Earring Downtown Walking Tours with 11 am, 88 Louisiana Blvd SE Noon, UNM Bookstore, 768-3544, kimotickets.com Making Class Albuquerque Historical Society Part of In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom 2301 Central Ave NE, 277-5827, lecture series Raising Puebloan Voices WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6 11 am, Free, Mama’s Minerals, 10 am, Free, meet at Central and 1st FRIDAYS bookstore.unm.edu BY ARIAnticiANE JAROCKI … Pation BY ARIANE JAROCKI 800 20th St NW, RSVP: 266-8443, by Century Theater, 289-0586 7 pm, Lensic Theater, Peace Officer ABQ Food Fridays 211 W. San Francisco, Santa Fe, mamasminerals.com International Folk Dancing WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30 Part of Indie Lens Pop-Up 4 pm, Civic Plaza, SW Section, (505) 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org 7 pm, Lloyd Shaw Dance Center, 7 pm, Free, KiMo Theatre, 1 Civic Plaza NW, Grotowski’s Bridge Made of TUESDAY, APRIL 5 5506 Coal Ave SE, 299-0332, 423 Central Ave NW, 768-3544, 3rd St NW and Marquette Ave NW, Memory-Embodied Memory, THURSDAY, APRIL 7 Kids Rock Geology abqfolkdance.org civicplazapresents.com Witnessing and Transmis- kimotickets.com 10 am, Free, Mama’s Minerals, Does Not Authenticate: Saturday Night Swing Dance Coffee Education and Tasting sion in the Grotowski Work: 800 20th St NW, RSVP: 266-8443, Art, Identity, and Artifact FRIDAY, APRIL 8 7:15 pm, Rhythm Dance Company, 6:30 pm, Prosum Roasters, Dominika Laster mamasminerals.com Part of Meeting of the Minds The Birth of Film, Faust, The 3808A Central Ave SE, 250-6146, 3228 Los Arboles Ave NE Ste 100, Noon, UNM Bookstore, Noon, Free, UNM Art Museum, Fall of the House of Usher WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6 abqswing.com 379-5136, prosumroasters.com 2301 Central Ave NE, 277-5827, 203 Cornell Drive, 277-4001, Part of The New Mexico Philharmonic bookstore.unm.edu unmartmuseum.org Certifications for Federal 2ND SATURDAYS The Killer President of Music & Arts Festival Government Contracts OUTDOORS El Santuario de Chimayo in Los Ranchos Growers’ Market Guatemala — Reconsidering 6:10 pm, KiMo Theatre, 1 pm, Free, CNM Workforce Training History and Today: SATURDAY, MARCH 26 10 am, 6718 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Ambassador Frank Ortiz: 423 Central Ave NW, 323-4343, Center, 5600 Eagle Rock Ave NE, William Wroth Bokashi Bucket Composting farmersmarketsnm.org Michael Cangemi nmphil.org nmtap.org Noon, Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, 1:30 pm, Free, Part of Brainpower & Brownbags SATURDAYS 750 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, EVENTS ONGOING Open Space Visitor Center, Lunch Lectures (505) 982-2226, spanishcolonial.org 6500 Coors Blvd NW, RSVP: Santa Fe Farmers Market: Noon, New Mexico History Museum, Loading the Dice — the THROUGH MARCH 31 897-8831, [email protected] Railyard Meem Community Room, TUESDAYS Influence of Oceanic 8 am, 1607 Paseo de Peralta at 113 Lincoln Ave, Santa Fe, Courtesy of IPCC Women & Creativity 2016 Casino del Rueda Dance Class Anomalies on NM’s Weather SUNDAY, MARCH 27 Guadalupe, Santa Fe, (505) 476-5200, Various locations, Albuquerque, 6 pm, National Hispanic Cultural and Climate: Deirdre Kann PHD Easter Enrichment farmersmarketsnm.org nmhistorymuseum.org Wikimedia Commons more info: womenandcreativity.org Center, 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, (encore) ig changes are afoot at the Indian Pueblo Cultural 9:30 am, ABQ BioPark Zoo, nhccnm.org Nadeem Aslam with Phil Klay 12:30 pm, Aquarium, ABQ BioPark, Center. In celebration of the center’s 40th anniversary, 903 10th St SW, 768-2000, SUNDAYS THROUGH henever I think “time travel,” in pops “The Rocky B SATURDAY, MARCH 26 Part of Readings and Conversations 2601 Central Ave NW, 764-6200, IPCC reveals their first new permanent exhibit in as many 2ND TUESDAYS abqbiopark.com MARCH series Mama’s Minerals Annual abqbiopark.com WHorror Picture Show” glam-rock earworm “Time Easter Egg Hunt Pints & Planks Yoga Class 7 pm, Lensic Theater, years. Aptly titled “We Are of This Place: The Pueblo Story,” Korean War Veterans Open Reframing Resources — Water Warp.” All hokeyness aside, Emerge ABQ — of Danger Mama’s Minerals, 800 20th St NW, MONDAY, MARCH 28 11 am, donation, Rio Bravo Brewing Co., 211 W. San Francisco, Santa Fe, the exhibit represents all 19 Pueblos and strengthens IPCC’s Meeting in the Contemporary Pueblo Carnival fame — presents an event that’s at least as fun and RSVP: 266-8443, mamasminerals.com April Fool’s — Zoo Style (937) 671-8917, riobravobrewing.com (505) 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org history of sharing Pueblo peoples’ history in their own voices. 1 pm, New Mexico Veterans Memorial, World entertaining as Tim Curry in a corset. The Q’s OUTstanding Awards 1100 Louisiana Blvd SE, 256-2042, 10 am, ABQ BioPark Zoo, Rough Riders — Theodore Artifacts and stories told by artists and elders in Pueblo 903 10th St SW, 768-2000, 5:30 pm, Free, Indian Pueblo Cultural 7 pm, Sandia Resort & Casino, nmvetsmemorial.org WORD Roosevelt, his Cowboy ShowOff 5.0: Time Travel is an adulting-up of the science abqbiopark.com Center, 2401 12th St NW, 843-7270, languages are available for visitor interaction. Puebloan 30 Rainbow Rd NE, 873-8084, Regiment, and the Immortal fairs of our youth. This thoroughly grown-up event boasts art 1ST WEDNESDAYS MARCH 26–APRIL 7 indianpueblo.org stories are woven into a sensory experience that speaks both abqpride.com FRIDAY, APRIL 1 Charge up San Juan Hill: installations, interactive science fair booths, talent show acts, to history and traditions shaping modern Native lives. Book to Art for Kids Bookworks Mark Gardner FRIDAY, APRIL 8 circus performances and great music at Sister on Saturday, MARCH 26–27 10 am, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, The Great Ape-ril: Gorillas 4022 Rio Grande NW, 344-8139, 6 pm, New Mexico Museum of Art, A museum member preview happens from 6 to 8 p.m. Research Symposium — April 9, at 8 p.m. Rio Rancho Home & Remodel- 2401 12th St NW, 843-7270, 10 am, ABQ BioPark Zoo, bkwrks.com 107 W. Palace Ave, Santa Fe, on Friday, April 1, and the exhibit opens to the public on 903 10th St SW, 768-2000, Recovering the Story and ing Show indianpueblo.org March 26, James Anderson, The Never (505) 476-5072, golondrinas.org Beatbox aficionado Zack Freeman and a DJ set by abqbiopark.com Music of Manuel Areu Saturday, April 2. Learn more at indianpueblo.org Santa Ana Star Center, Open Desert Diner REIGHNBEAU soundtracks the 21-plus happening. A time 2ND WEDNESDAYS THURSDAY, MARCH 31 Part of The New Mexico Philharmonic SATURDAY, APRIL 2 3001 Civic Center Circle NE, 891-7300, APRIL 2–MAY 1 March 27, Shelley Armitage, Walking Music & Arts Festival travel-themed costume contest calls for brainstorming and santaanastarcenter.com Drinking Liberally — the Llano: A Texas Memoir of Place MFA Fast Fire Series: What is ‘We Are of This Place: The Pueblo Story’ Spring Pastels Flower Show 2 pm, Frank Waters Room, UNM Main crafting a steampunk, “Back to the Future” or “Time Warp”- Albuquerque Chapter March 28, Loretta Hall, The Complete There We Cannot See? Campus, 323-4343, nmphil.org 9 a.m., Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, 2401 12th Street NW, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30 6 pm, O’Niell’s NE Heights, ABQ BioPark, 2601 Central Ave NW, Part of Meeting of the Minds esque outfit. For ten bucks at the door, your golden ticket to Space Buff’s Bucket List Risk: Rose B Simpson 3301 Juan Tabo Blvd NE, 264-1368, 764-6200, abqbiopark.com April 1, Brian Staveley, The Last Noon, Free, UNM Art Museum, the space-time continuum is assured. 843-7270, indianpueblo.org Spring Break Family Day: Part of CreativeMornings drinkingliberally.org Mortal Bond 203 Cornell Drive, 277-4001, Celebrate the Sky THURSDAY, APRIL 7 9 am, Free, New Mexico SATURDAY, APRIL 9 April 2, John McWilliams, Against the unmartmuseum.org 9:30 am, Anderson Abruzzo Balloon History Museum, 113 Lincoln Ave, THURSDAY, APRIL 7 MARCH 31–APRIL 14 Museum, 9201 Balloon Museum Dr NE, WEDNESDAYS Home Composting Basics Wind: Courageous Apache Women ShowOff 5.0: Time Travel 9:30 am, Free, Highland Senior Center, FRIDAY, APRIL 1 Santa Fe, (505) 476-5200, Pat Malone Jean Cocteau Cinema 768-6020, balloonmuseum.com ABQ Jazz Trio Open Jam April 3, Bev Magennis, Alibi Creek 8 p.m., Sister, 407 Central Ave SW, 242-4900, sisterthebar.com, 131 Monroe NE, RSVP: 767-5210, nmhistorymuseum.org Part of Noontime Guitar in the 418 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, 5 pm, Free, Lizard Tail Brewing, April 5, Dale Harris, Love of a God ABQ Slam Grand Slam facebook.com/emergeabq [email protected] Galleries (505) 466-5528, jeancocteaucinema.com COMMUNITY 9800 Montgomery Ave NE, April 7, Lynn Miller, Championships ONGOING Noon, New Mexico Museum of Art, Through March 31, Mountain Men lizardtailbrewing.com/home The Day after Death 7:30 pm, Outpost Performance Space, 107 W Palace Ave, Santa Fe, April 1–7, Journey in Sensuality, THROUGH MARCH EATS 210 Yale Blvd SE, 268-0044, 1ST WEDNESDAYS APRIL 1–30 APRIL 2–29 1ST AND 3RD THURSDAYS THROUGH MAY 3 outpostspace.org (505) 476-5072, nmartmuseum.org The Last Man on the Moon, Remember Conquer Anger SATURDAY, MARCH 26 Poetry and Beer The Paintings of Kathy Dillon Masterworks of NM 18th April 8–14, Mermaid Thursdays, 7 pm, Kadampa Meditation Drinking Liberally — IAIA Library Readings A Fragile Legacy — Earthen 7 pm, Tractor Brewing Wells Park, Reception April 1, 5 pm–8 pm Annual Fine Art Show Algodones Distillery Tasting SCREENS Center, 142 Monroe St NE, 292-5293, Cedar Crest Chapter Various dates and times, Institute of Architecture in New Mexico: 1800 4th St NW, 243-6752, Sierra Club Office, 2215 Lead Ave SE, Expo New Mexico, 300 San Pedro Dr and Tour: Slow Food ABQ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30 meditationinnewmexico.org 5 pm, Greenside Café, 12165 NM-14, American Indian Arts, Jake Barrow getplowed.com 243-7767 NE, 260-9977, masterworksnm.org MARCH 26–APRIL 8 Punk’s Dead: SLC Punk 2 Cedar Crest, 264-1368, 2 pm, Free, 15 Calle Alfredo, 83 Avan Nu Po Rd, Santa Fe, 6 pm, Free, Algodones, RSVP: 382-5322, CCA Cinematheque 7:30 pm, KiMo Theatre, 423 Central THROUGH JULY drinkingliberally.org iaia.edu New Mexico History Museum, WEDNESDAYS APRIL 1–MAY 1 APRIL 2–SEPTEMBER 11 Ave NW, 768-3544, kimotickets.com facebook.com/SlowFoodAbq 113 Lincoln Ave, Santa Fe, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, Volunteers needed for NM THURSDAYS SATURDAY, MARCH 26 Crazy Wisdom Poetry Do You See What I See?: Assumed Identities: Photo- (505) 982-1338, Veterans’ Museum (505) 476-5200, nmhistorymuseum.org 4 pm, Free, OffCenter Arts, 808 Park Lyndia Radice graphs by Anne Noggle THURSDAY, MARCH 31 Latin Gold: Salsa Lessons SATURDAY, APRIL 2 Albuquerque Old Town to ccasantafe.org New Mexico Veterans’ Memorial, Ave SW, 247-1172, offcenterarts.org Reception April 1, 6 pm–7:30 pm Self-Regard: Artist & Dancing Santa Fe Beer & Food Festival Albuquerque, 1846-1949: March 26–27, Trapped Las Maestras de la República 1100 Louisiana Blvd SE, 256-2042, SATURDAY, APRIL 2 Macey Center Gallery, New Mexico Self-Portraits from the 8 pm, Free, Q Bar-Hotel Albuquerque, Noon, Buffalo Thunder, David Schneider Starts April 1, Cemetery of Splendor w/english subtitles nmvetsmemorial.org Loading the Dice — the Tech Socorro, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, Collection 800 Rio Grande Blvd NW, 20 Buffalo Thunder Trail, Santa Fe, Part of Stories of the Middle Rio Grande Starts April 8, Marguerite, City of Gold 6 pm, Free, National Hispanic Cultural Influence of Oceanic Anom- ARTSPREE (575) 835-5342 New Mexico Museum of Art, 225-5928, qbarabq.com (505) 455-5555, 10:30 am, Gutierrez-Hubbell House, Guild Cinema Center, 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, SATURDAY, MARCH 26 alies on NM’s Weather and 107 W Palace Ave, Santa Fe, buffalothunderresort.com 6029 Isleta Blvd SW, RSVP: 314-0398, MARCH 26–SEPTEMBER 11 3405 Central Ave NE, nhccnm.org A Night in the 40’s: Climate: Deirdre Kann PHD APRIL 1–MAY 15 (505) 476-5072, nmartmuseum.org 1ST FRIDAYS gutierrezhubbellhouse.org 255-1848, Silver Ochre: Who Are US Big Band Swing THURSDAY, APRIL 21 12:30 pm, Aquarium, ABQ BioPark, Back to Life: The Community Art for the Earth guildcinema.com 2016-Observations from the 7 pm, New Mexico Veterans’ Memorial, First Friday Fractals Italian Opera: Maestro 2601 Central Ave NW, 764-6200, of Historic Fairview Cemetery OFFCenter Community Arts Project, New Mexico Natural History Museum, Salud y Sabor: Cuba March 26-27, Facets Kids Vol 3 – 21st Century American Road 1100 Louisiana Blvd SE, 256-2042, Anthony Barrese abqbiopark.com Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, 808 Park Ave SW, 247-1172, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, 5:30 pm, National Hispanic Cultural Puzzle on page 32 Family & Community 7 pm, Guild Cinema, nmvetsmemorial.org 11 am, Main Library, Small Press and Local Author 2000 Mountain Rd NW, offcenterarts.org nmnaturalhistory.org Center, 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, March 28–30, Ingrid Bergman – 3405 Central Ave NE, 255-1848, Burque Noir — Networking 501 Copper Ave NW, 768-5170, Fair 242-4600, nhccnm.org abclibrary.org/mainlibrary cabq.gov/museum In Her Own Words silverorchre.com Event 1ST SATURDAYS 11 am, Page One Books, SATURDAY, APRIL 2 April 1–2, Rise of the Legend 7 pm, Las Puertas Event Center, 5850 Eubank Blvd NE Ste B-41, James Barnes Art Opening The Organ Transplant Aware- ONGOING SUNDAY, MARCH 27 FRIDAY, APRIL 1 April 1–4, Mountains May Depart FRIDAY, APRIL 1 1512 1st St NW, (303) 901-3021, 294-2026, 7 pm, Distillery 365, ness Program of New Mexico April 2, The Girls in the Band Dial M For Murder facebook.com/burquenoir TUESDAYS Women in Restaurants: Blue page1book.com Beyond the Flesh: Jodie Her- 2921 Stanford Dr NE, 221-6281, 10:30 am, Erna Fergusson Library, Corn Live rera April 3, All the Time in the World KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW, Truckin’ Tuesdays distillery365.com 3700 San Mateo Blvd NE, 11 am, Free, Therapy, 119 Gold Ave SW, 6 pm, The Small Engine Gallery, April 5–10, Experiments in Cinema 768-3544, kimotickets.com WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30 11 am, Civic Plaza, 1 Civic Plaza NW, SUNDAY, APRIL 3 344-0512 bluecornlive.com 1413 4th St SW, v11.4 — A Basement Films Event Creative Salon-Tricklock 3rd St NW and Marquette Ave NW, Breaking Big Money’s Grip on APRIL 2 April 7, Theory of Obscurity SATURDAY, APRIL 2 thesmallenginegallery.com Theatre Company 3RD SATURDAYS albuquerquecc.com TUESDAY, MARCH 29 America — Working Together We Are of This Place: April 8, AJ Woods Album Release The Met: Live in HD Madama Part of Women & Creativity 2016 to Revive Our Democracy: Johnpaul Gutierrez The Pueblo Story permanent Lyme Get Together Butterfly 5:30 pm, Free, National Hispanic WEDNESDAYS Lightning Speak: Raven Chacon Bruce Berlin Art Opening exhibit opening 12, Free, location varies, more info: 5:30 pm, Free, UNM Art Museum, Lensic Theater, 211 W. San Francisco, Cultural Center, 1701 4th St SW, Red Willow Farmers Market 3 pm, Page One Books, 6 pm, Archetype Tattoo, 9 am, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, 304-9411 203 Cornell Drive, 277-4001, Santa Fe, (505) 988-1234, 724-4771, womenandcreativity.org 10 am, 885 Star Rd, Taos Pueblo, 5850 Eubank Blvd NE Ste B-41, 529 Adams St NE Ste A, 2401 12th St NW, 843-7270, unmartmuseum.org ticketssantafe.org farmersmarketsnm.org 294-2026, page1book.com archetypetattoo.com indianpueblo.org 32 • March 23 – April 5, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS Crossword Day in Court by Myles Mellor and Sally York

Across 56. Affect, with “to” 28. U.N. working- 1. Recipient 57. Kind of approval conditions agcy. ONGOING THROUGH MARCH 31 Solo Exhibition: 60. Testify out of court 29. Messenger ___ Frank Buffalo Hyde 6. Winston Churchill’s Fiber Rocks! 64. Bookkeeping entry 30. Swift work THROUGH MARCH 26 Tansey Contemporary, “___ Country” Hacienda de Los Martinez, 65. Canyon in Utah 31. Word with bum or Alcoves 2016 708 Hacienda Rd, Taos, 652 Canyon Rd, Santa Fe, 10. Be a kvetch 5:30 pm, New Mexico Museum (575) 758-1000, (505) 995-8513, 66. Young hooter bunny tanseycontemporary.com 14. Flip of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave, taoshistoricmuseums.org 67. Hollows 32. Square one? Santa Fe, (505) 476-5072, 15. Latest thing Natural Forces — The Wild THROUGH APRIL 2 68. Swerves at sea 36. Central nmartmuseum.org South Broadway Cultural Center, 16. Carbamide The Figure in Clay Chasing the Cure: 17. Cross query 69. Choker 37. Web browser entry 1025 Broadway Blvd SW, Tuberculosis Came to Santa Fe Clay, 38. Kvass ingredient 848-1320, Albuquerque 20. Misjudge 545 Camino de la Familia, southbroadwaytickets.com Albuquerque Museum of Art & 21. Emolument Down 39. Balaam’s mount Santa Fe, (505) 984-1122, RSVP: James Joseph santafeclay.com History, 2000 Mountain Rd NW, 22. ___ out a win 1. Cry softly 40. Figs. The Small Engine Gallery, 242-4600, cabq.gov/museum 2. Takeoff artist 41. Watchman ___, THROUGH MARCH 27 1413 4th St SW, Fire and Ice: Alan 23. Not req. thesmallenginegallery.com 3. Four quarters Chinese Christian Gods and Fools: Brandan Friedman & Douglas Lever 24. City in Central Styles & Ellie Rusinova Taylor Oliver photo-eye Gallery, China 4. Word with loose or author Jean Cocteau Cinema, 541 S. Guadalupe St, Santa Fe, Soft Serve: Kelly Tunstall back 42. Bone cavities 418 Montezuma Ave, (505) 988-5152, photoeye.com 25. Stage item Stranger Factory, Santa Fe, 27. It’s given on the 5. Skyscraper, e.g. 43. Booster ___ 3411 Central Ave NE, 508-3049, (505) 466-5528, THROUGH APRIL 3 44. Singer DiFranco strangerfactory.com stand 6. Silver, in heraldry jeancocteaucinema.com No More Stories: 45. Gelid New Mexican 33. Long bones 7. Query list, for short David D’Agostino 46. Enumerate Portraiture Now THROUGH APRIL 1 Open Space Visitor Center, 34. Flat-bottomed boat 8. Fit of fever National Hispanic Cultural Center, Akummittinni: 6500 Coors Blvd NW, 35. Fancy neckwear 9. Need a bath 47. Gets revenge 1701 4th St SW, 724-4771, A Kinngait Family Portrait 897-8831, cabq.gov/openspace 48. Black Marias, e.g. nhccnm.org 36. ___ box 10. Injured Forward: THROUGH APRIL 4 38. Didn’t hold 11. Melodic passage 49. Locks up THROUGH MARCH 30 Eliza Naranjo Morse The Artistic Odyssey of 41. 100 kobos 12. Look into again, as 54. Irascible Essential Visions: Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Higinio V. Gonzales: 43. Approval a cold case 55. A constellation John Farnsworth and A Tinsmith and Poet of Michael Tatom Helen Hardin Media Gallery, 45. No cross allowed 13. Buttery 57. Pastry dough 108 Cathedral Pl, Territorial New Mexico Sorrel Sky Gallery, 58. Buck passers? Santa Fe, Albuquerque Museum of Art for him 18. Kempt 125 W. Palace Ave, Santa Fe, iaia.edu/museum & History, 2000 Mountain Rd NW, 50. Furnace button 19. Printing flourish 59. Part of A.M. (505) 501-6555, sorrelsky.com 242-4600, cabq.gov/museum 51. Berry 24. Swell place 61. German spa 62. Nave bench Day52. Hotel in Court sign 26. Global fin. overseer 27. Name 63. First prime By53. Rel.Myles leader Mellor and Sally York Answers on page 31

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