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Escapes Kept
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Worried About Ebola?
Worry About Flu More
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ABQ Free Press Pulp
compiled By abq free press staff
One of us
Matt Lauer’s new perk at NBC’s
“Today” show is a helicopter commute three times a week from his $15
million home in the Hamptons to
NBC’s studio at Rockefeller Center in
Manhattan, the New York Post reported. Lauer’s $20 million-a-year contract
was extended in June through 2016. “I
think the image people have is that it’s
all polo fields and cocktail parties,”
Lauer told Hamptons Magazine. “We
have a painfully normal existence.”
Violated
Nearly one in five women has been
sexually assaulted, and almost half
have suffered sexual domestic violence,
the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention said in a new report based
on 2011 data. Nearly half of the women
raped are attacked by a husband or boyfriend. The CDC’s statistics represent a
dramatic increase from past estimates,
largely because the agency expanded
the definition of sexual assault to
include cases where respondents felt
unsafe or were drunk or high and
therefore unable to consent.
Not so sweet
Israeli scientists have found that
the three most commonly used
sweeteners – aspartame, sucralose and
saccharin – contribute to weight gain,
not weight loss. The sweeteners also
contributed to higher blood pressure
and higher blood-sugar levels. When
scientists gave the sweeteners to human volunteers who didn’t use them,
more than half of the small sample
developed glucose intolerance. “Our
findings suggest that non-caloric
artificial sweeteners may have directly
contributed to enhancing the exact
epidemic that they themselves were
intended to fight,” scientists from the
Weizmann Institute of Science wrote
in the journal Nature.
Smart sticks
Coming to the Chinese market
soon are smart chopsticks that can
connect to a smartphone app to detect
whether the user’s food is safe, and
especially, whether it was cooked in
contaminated cooking oil made from
recycled garbage – a growing concern
of Chinese who buy food from street
vendors in China’s cities.
Death of Topless?
French women are abandoning topless
sunbathing, according to French Elle.
Reasons include concerns about skin
cancer, the perception that topless
women are loose women, and the
rise of “Femen,” a group of women
activists in Europe who go topless
during protests. And then there’s the
rise of social media, where the image of
a woman going topless in Saint-Tropez
can go viral in a matter of minutes.
Oktoberfest
Each year about this time, as many as
800 of the 100,000 people who flock to
Oktoberfest in Munich become what
Germans refer to as bierleichen – or
beer corpses – after drinking so much
they lapse into unconsciousness.
N.M. Enters New Disease Season
compiled By abq free press staff
T
he threat of an Ebola case making
it to New Mexico is “relatively
low,” but the more immediate threats
that New Mexicans face are influenza,
pertussis, measles, hantavirus and
plague, said New Mexico State
Epidemiologist Dr. Michael Landen.
This year’s wet summer signals
that cases of the latter two diseases
– hantavirus and plague – likely will
rise because of an increase in the
population of rodents that carry them.
“Basically, the ecosystem is fueled
by rainfall, which will increase the
risk of hantavirus and plague cycles
over time, based on the increase in
vegetation,” Landen said.
Hantavirus is not transmissible
between people, but the pneumonic
form of plague is. By contrast, Ebola
spreads only by close contact and is
not spread by sneezes or coughs, he
said.
In late September, New Mexico
reported its first case of Enterovirus
D68, which targets children. In most
cases, it resembles a mild to severe
cold, but in a few cases it has led to
paralysis.
Landen said the single most
immediate threat in New Mexico is
flu. A 94-year-old Bernalillo County
man who died last month was the
state’s first confirmed case of flu this
season. Last season, 34 people died
from influenza in New Mexico, a state
Department of Health spokesman said.
At greatest risk of flu are children
younger than 5 and adults 65 and
older. “I think that influenza is a
much greater infectious disease risk
for everyone in New Mexico, and
everyone should be vaccinated,”
Balloon Park Goes to Dogs on Nov. 2
T
Contact with bodily fluids of an infected
person, including blood, vomit, semen,
saliva, sweat, urine and breast milk;
or contact with objects contaminated
by these fluids. Ebola is not spread by
sneezing or coughing.
Landen said.
The threat of Ebola reaching the U.S.
was greater when the outbreak in West
Africa was in its early stages, before
the U.S. had begun training healthcare
workers to recognize the symptoms,
chief of which is fever, Landen said.
Landen and the four epidemiologists who work for him are part
of a nationwide system designed
to identify people who both exhibit
Ebola-like fever symptoms and who
likely had exposure in an area where
Ebola is present – at the moment, West
Africa.
His office’s epidemiologists received
training through the federal Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention’s
Epidemic Intelligence Service – the
CDC’s early-warning system for
spotting disease trends.
The system relies on local hospitals’
in-house epidemiologists to report a
suspected case of a transmissible disease to Landen’s team, one of whom
is always on call. A hospital with a
suspected case is instructed to isolate
and treat the patient while lab tests are
conducted and the state Department of
Health communicates with the CDC.
That was what happened when
a woman who had traveled from
Sierra Leone and had fever visited the
Universityof New Mexico Hospital.
Lab tests showed she was a false
alarm.
BY SABRINA ALMAGER
he 32nd annual Doggie Dash and
Dawdle is around the corner, so
grab a hand or paw and attend the 5k
run-walk fundraiser event on Sunday,
Nov. 2, at Balloon Fiesta Park.
Last year’s event drew more than
2,200 human race participants and
2,000 wagging tails. That’s a giant leap
from a couple hundred of participants
when the event began in 1982.
“We call it New Mexico’s biggest
party for pets and people because
it’s giant,” said Animal Humane
Association Marketing Director Laura
Kuechenmeister.
There is a a $35 registration fee to
participate in the two-mile run or walk.
Spectator admisssion to the balloon
park grounds is $5. The association
seeks to raise $300,000.
The entire day is about pampering
pooches. There will be live entertainment, a doggie carnival, a canine
agility park, and bobbing for string
cheese that will leave more than a
few heads dripping in excitement and
drool, Keuchenmeister said.
Participants can rent a shelter dog
if they don’t have a dog of their own,
Kuechenmeister said.
Thelma and Edmund Evans founded
Animal Humane in 1965. At first, they
ran operations out of their kitchen.
The association now has grown to
two locations with new renovations
completed at the main campus at
615 Virginia St. S.E., thanks to Project
Humane, a $5 million campaign.
The association is waiving its
adopThe four-acre main location has
two new buildings and a park that
the association plans to showcase at
a two-day open house on Oct. 18-19.
Animal Humane has helped nearly
4,000 cats and dogs find a family,
Kuechenmeister said.
The association is waiving its
adoption fee for qualified owners
seeking to adopt pit bulls one year old
or older through Oct. 31, Kuechenmesiter said.
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YDDC keeps mum on escapees ..................................................................................................... Page 5
COVER STORY: Make mine Marash ...............................................................................................Page 6
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Joe Monahan, Jerry Ortiz Y Pino,
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Efrain Villa
OPINION
Seth Taylor cartoon............................................................................................................................Page 4
Joe Monahan: Did Susana use NCIC database to ID opponents?...................................................Page 7
Jeff Gardner: The blind are leading the president.............................................................................Page 7
Diane Denish: Why the Land of Enchantment is losing its luster......................................................Page 9
Aimless Vagabond: Farming flavored beetles... ............................................................................Page 11
Roderick Kennedy: Life sciences means the morgue....................................................................Page 11
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Music: The roots of modern jazz at The Outpost............................................................................Page 17
Dance: Events at UNM and Keshet................................................................................................Page 17
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ABQ Free Press Local Briefs
State: No Need to Alert Public about Youthful ‘Absconders’
COMPILED BY ABQ FREE PRESS STAFF
BY PETER ST. CYR
JFK Conspiracy?
The Albuquerque-based REELZ
Channel takes another shot at “JFK:
The Smoking Gun,” at 7 p.m. on
Tuesday, Oct. 14. The two-hour
documentary, inspired by the book of
the same name, posits that the shot
that killed President John F. Kennedy
on Nov. 22, 1963, was accidentally
fired by a Secret Service agent in a
following car whose AR-15 went off
when the car lurched. The theory
first was proposed in the 1970s. The
agent in question sued the author,
and the case was settled out of court.
The makers of “JFK: The Smoking
Gun” argue that the Secret Service,
mortified that one of its own killed
the president, engaged in a coverup.
You be the judge. The program re-airs
at noon on Saturday, Oct. 18, and at 8
p.m. on Monday, Oct. 20.
Santolina
The Bernalillo County Planning
Commission has asked for another
60 days to consider the 13,700-acre,
mixed-use Santolina master-planned
community, proposed to be built on
what once was called the Atrisco Land
Grant southwest of Albuquerque.
Opponents have questioned where
the water will come from for what
eventually could become a community of 90,000 people. If approved by the
planning commission, the next stop
for the Santolina project would be the
Bernalillo County Commission.
Transit hearings
ABQ Ride has scheduled six hearings
through October on a proposed
rapid transit system along Central
Avenue that the city is calling ART,
for Albuquerque Rapid Transit.
ABQ Ride officials invite comment
on station locations, bus-only lanes,
landscaping, raised platforms, off-bus
fare collection to speed boarding, and
a system to allow buses to communicate electronically with traffic signals.
Details are at cabq.gov/transit/news.
Trust lands
The Navajo Nation will hold
community meetings this month on
how to spend $554 million from a
settlement over federal mishandling
of royalties from mining and oil and
gas drilling on Navajo trust land. The
Navajo settlement is by far the largest
of more than 100 such breach-of-trust
cases filed by Indian tribes around
the nation. The lawsuits stem from
the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs’
decades-long failure to account for
money that should have gone to tribes
and individual tribal members.
Teacher evaluations
The role that student testing will
play in teacher evaluations got
more complicated when the New
Mexico Public Education Department
announced this month it won’t use a
new statewide test until the spring of
2016. At that time, the new test, the
so-called Partnership for Assessment
for College and Career test, will be
introduced. The next round of student
testing will take place in the spring
of 2015, but the PARCC test will not
be used then. Student test scores
make up 50 percent of a teacher’s
evaluation. Teachers and their unions
complained that the PED’s reliance
on student testing to evaluate teacher
performance has led to errors and to
the downgrading of well-performing
teachers.
Seth Taylor
D
ozens of juvenile offenders, some
with violent criminal histories, have
walked away from reintegration centers
around New Mexico since the start of
the year – but no one in state government has bothered to tell the public.
There were 42 escapes between the
end of January and the end of August,
according to state documents. Some of
the escapees, or “absconders,” had been
locked up for violent crimes, including
armed robbery and aggravated assault.
Recently, an escapee was accused of
killing a man while on the loose from a
reintegration center on Edith Boulevard
Northeast, just north of Candelaria Road.
“Absconders” are what state officials
call juvenile escapees who either bolt
from the facility or don’t return at
night, as required as a condition of their
juvenile sentences. Offenders generally
transfer to reintegration facilities as they
near their release date, after serving
time in more secure facilities.
A spokesman for the Children Youth
and Families Department, a state
cabinet agency, said the department’s
official policy is not to alert the public
when juvenile offenders abscond. A
New Mexico State Police spokesman
defended the no-alert policy, saying the
public would become desensitized if
the public was alerted to every case of
Peter St. Cyr
absconding.
Rob Pettingell, who works at a
Juvenile offenders who flee from, or fail to report back to, the reintegration facility at the Youth Diagnostic and Detention Center near Edith Boulevard and Candelaria Road
warehouse next to the Edith Boulevard Northeast are considered ‘absconders.’
Youth Diagnostic and Development
shooting death of James Lucero, 28 – a crime that
Center, where the boys’ reintegration center is
occurred after Martinez had left the YDDC facility
located, said the lack of notification upsets him.
but before he was picked up by police. Police allege
“We don’t want the kids running into our office and
Martinez, who has a dollar sign tattoo on his ear lobe,
holding us up with a knife,” he said.
was upset about being shorted $1 in a heroin deal.
All escapees – whether from reintegration
CYFD Communications Director Henry Varela
centers in Carlsbad or Eagle Nest or from the two
declined to answer questions about what the agency
in Albuquerque – are considered to be under close
did to locate Martinez after his escape or whether
supervision through their entire sentences. “Those
officials believe the killing might have been preventjuveniles are a threat to public safety,” said a source
ed had the public had been notified of Martinez’s
with knowledge of the history of escapes from
disappearance.
CYFD custody.
Notification of the public is required only for
The reintegration center is a less-secure facility
escapes from more-secure facilities, Varela said.
attached to the main juvenile jail. Juvenile offenders
Daryl Martinez
Department policy did not require CYFD officials
transferred there are supposed to return there every
to
alert
the
public
about
Martinez’s
disappearance
night after attending substance abuse counseling
parole officers.
from a reintegration facility, he said.
or school, completing community service hours,
CYFD plans to propose legislation to “to stop the
Official records show that Martinez has admitted
attending religious services, working or looking for
clock” on juveniles who skip out from one of its
to crimes that include armed robbery and conspiracy,
work.
reintegration centers – which means any time spent
aggravated assault, drug and alcohol abuse while on
Daryl Martinez could be the poster child for why
on the loose would be added to the sentence they
probation, and breaking and entering. Martinez is
CYFD’s no-alert policy might need to change.
were serving when they absconded.
in jail on the murder charge on a $500,000 cash-only
Martinez, 19, fled the boys’ reintegration center on
“This would ensure they are subject to supervision
bond.
July 10. He had been ordered held there for the final
for the allotted time, even if they walk away for
Under New Mexico’s Children’s Code, walking
portion of his sentence on a 2012 armed robbery,
any period during their transition period,” Varela
away from a reintegration center is not a crime. New
but he bolted just 15 days after his transfer. Had
wrote in an email. He declined to answer further
Mexico State Police Lt. Emmanuel Gutierrez said
he completed his sentence, he would have been
questions.
reintegration center absconders should be treated
released on Oct. 8.
To contact the reporter, e-mail: Peter.StCyr@gmail.com
the same as adults who fail to report to probation or
On Sept. 2, Martinez was charged in the August
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Ex-network Correspondent Turns Up (Alive) in East Mountains
BY DAN VUKELICH
I
Land of Enchantment into the
f you hear him on the radio or
Home of Pay to Play.
telephone, the voice is immedi
Still today, New Mexico’s
ately recognizable – soft-spoken,
under-resourced, part-time
languid, almost liquid.
Legislature does the best it can,
If you’re old enough, you
I’m sure. But even in my short
might have seen Dave Marash
two years here, I’ve seen too many
on “20/20” or as a corresponimportant issues kicked down the
dent or substitute anchor for
road. Short sessions by underpaid,
Ted Koppel on “Nightline.” If
understaffed lawmakers produce a
you’re younger, you might have
lot of legislative half-measures or
seen him on Al Jazeera America.
no decisions.
He was always the guy with
It also seems to me, a few sharp
the beard – years ahead of
journalists aside, too much news
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.
coverage of state politics is, if not
But if you’re a student of journeglectful, unaggressive.
nalism, you know that Marash
has been around – as far back as
Q: OK, since we’re on the topic of
the murders of Israeli athletes
news, through your eyes as a TV
at the 1972 Munich Olympics
news veteran, tell us about the
and later as a TV correspondent
New Mexico you see on the three
covering Bosnian death camps
local broadcast stations every
and wars in the Middle East,
night. Translate what we see and
Africa and Asia.
Adria Malcolm
why we see it?
Marash, now 72, worked as
Former network foreign correspondent Dave Marash has built a radio studio in his Tijeras home. He is mentoring news volunteers at
A: I confess, because of my own
a network anchor in New York
KSFR-FM 101.1 and hosts a talk show, “Here and There,” which is available by podcast at ksfr.org.
work schedule and commuting
City and Washington, D.C. He’s
– it was “payback” time. She loves New Mexico and
between Tijeras and Santa Fe, I don’t see as much local
covered the NFL, NBA, NHL, tennis and Major
wanted to return. And, boy, am I glad. I love it here,
TV news as I should. My impression is that AlbuquerLeague Baseball. He’s worked for all three major
love our home, love the East Mountains, love
que is a very competitive news market, which benefits
U.S. networks, plus ESPN and PBS.
New Mexico.
viewers.
He has won national Emmy Awards for TV
My mission here is to keep news alive – in my life
Each station seems to have a commitment to
reporting, has written for national publications,
as a working journalist, for my radio audience, and
investigative reporting, and although everything
made documentaries and taught journalism in
even more directly, for the trainees I hope to school
that carries that label doesn’t deserve it, each of the
Afghanistan and China.
in journalism as I have always tried to practice it,
local stations does both “break” a lot of legitimate
He has covered military waste, toxic waste, politfactual, contextual, clear and communicative.
stories and pursue others in depth.
ical corruption, wrongful convictions, gun-running,
Much of the Albuquerque TV news departments’
hurricanes, tsunamis and genocide.
Q: You haven’t pulled the plug on New York
enterprise (original) reporting does blossom into
All of which makes you wonder, what the hell is
entirely?
reports that go well beyond the headline, to genuhe doing in Tijeras, N.M.?
A: We’ve kept a tiny apartment in Harlem, as a place
inely inform Albuquerque of systemic or individual
to visit a couple of times a year and as insurance
failures in governance or business performance,
Q: What are you doing now?
against the time when health concerns might make
as well as the more usual fare of celebrating local
A: Since March, I have been sharing the job of news
a rural, gotta-have-a-car place impractical. But New
success stories.
director of KSFR-FM 101.1 in Santa Fe and ksfr.org
Mexico
is
home.
With
my
responsibilities
to
“Here
As Bill Diven wrote in ABQ Free Press recently,
on the Internet. On Sept. 8, I began a one-hour news
and There,” even a couple of New York City visits a
the Albuquerque “market” is huge, covering much
interview show Mondays through Thursdays called
year may be more than I can manage.
of a very large state. The economic imperative
“Here and There with Dave Marash.”
means stories that are close to the newsroom and
The concept is simple, to go “here” – New
simple and easy to package get too big a share of
Mexico – and there – which is everywhere else, in
‘[Online journalism’s] obsession
most broadcasts, at the expense of stories that are
search of news. The format is also simple, usually
with the latest details often allows
more complicated or those located miles from the
one interview per show, with one reporter, analyst,
context, and complex reality, to
TV headquarters.
or newsmaker with an eyes-on perspective on a
If the news coverage from Albuquerque’s
significant news story.
get lost, and its endless variety of
television stations were half as comprehensive and
My career has put me into a lot of places, introsources often leads many users to
statewide as the weather reporting, this would be a
duced me to a lot of sources and contacts, and most
simply drill into the sources they
wonderful thing.
of all, allowed me to work with or compete with an
incredible wealth of colleagues. I intend to use all of
already agree with’
Q: And the networks?
that in bringing to my “Here and There” audiences
A: As for national coverage by the broadcast
the best, most insightful, most authentically eyes-on,
Q: Obviously, you’d been through New Mexico
networks or cable “news channels,” as my late
am-here, am-seeing-this reporting possible.
enough to get a sense of the place before you
mother-in-law noticed, “Why is the weatherman
always standing in front of New Mexico, blocking
moved
here.
Now
that
you’re
here,
give
us
a
sense
Q: Why is a former network anchor and foreign
your view? Isn’t there weather there, too?”
of how New Mexico’s politics look to a relative
correspondent in New Mexico?
The unofficial blockade on real news of New
newcomer.
A: The real reason I’m here is my wife Amy,
Mexico is as comically visible, but it’s as effective.
A: The word I would use is “neglected,” and in
who lived in Tijeras for most of the 1990s. After I
Not much New Mexico coverage by the national
politics, neglect breeds mischief. Before I got here,
convinced her to join me in New York and later in
media, TV or print. And OMG “horror” stories
neglect had facilitated the transformation of the
Washington – we spent 10 good years there together
cont. on page 8
COLUMNS
ABQ FREE PRESS • October 8, 2014 • PAGE 7
Why Isn’t the Susana-NCIC Story
Getting N.M. Media Worked Up?
Bush Ignored Al Qaeda;
Obama Ignored ISIS
BY JEFFRY GARDNER
By JOE MONAHAN
O
ne newspaper
reported that
it had set off a
“political firestorm” in
the governor’s race,
but you need fuel to
have a firestorm. So,
why is a matter that
deals directly with
the civil liberties of all New Mexicans not
raging out of control?
It all began this past April with this
reporting from the left-leaning Mother
Jones magazine on Gov. Susana
Martinez’s 2010 gubernatorial campaign:
“Martinez’s crew saw enemies
everywhere. A former staffer recalls the
campaign on multiple occasions sending
the license plate numbers of cars believed to be used by opposition trackers
to an investigator in Martinez’s DA office
who had access to law enforcement
databases. In one instance, a campaign
aide took a photo of a license plate on a
car with an anti-Martinez bumper sticker
and emailed it to the investigator. “Cool.
I will see who it belongs to!!” the investigator replied.
Martinez was Doña Ana County district
attorney at the time of the alleged license
plate checks.
Soon after the Mother Jones report,
the New Mexico Democratic Party and
an investigative reporter for KOB-TV in
Albuquerque were filing public records
requests to get any emails that could
confirm or shoot down the license check
report. In September, Doña Ana County
District Attorney Mark D’Antonio released
a report in which he said the office of
his predecessor, Amy Orlando, had destroyed emails and computer hard drives
when he defeated her for the district
attorney’s post in 2012. Gov. Martinez
had appointed Orlando to succeed her
when she was elected governor in 2010.
Orlando is now an attorney in the New
Mexico Public Safety Department.
The media have been reporting about
how those emails have been destroyed
and whether the destruction was illegal,
but, oddly, most news reports have not
explained why the Dems and the reporter
wanted them in the first place. The
Albuquerque Journal finally dipped its toe
in the water this way:
“Attorney General Gary King announced that his office was opening a
criminal investigation into the alleged destruction of public records in the District
Attorney’s office when Orlando left office.
[Current District Attorney Mark] D’Antonio
issued a preliminary report saying his
investigation couldn’t find emails sought
by the Democratic Party and emails
concerning the use of federal databases,
such as the National Crime Information
Center, by the district attorney’s office
under Orlando and Martinez.
So what is the issue with the NCIC
database?
As we said above, the Democrats and
the investigative reporter wanted them
to check out allegations that staffers for
Martinez’s 2010 gubernatorial campaign
were feeding license plate numbers of
her political opponents into the federal
NCIC database to see what they could
find out about them.
The NCIC database serves 90,000
agencies and gets nine million entries
a day by users seeking information on
stolen guns and cars, fugitives, sex
offenders, orders of protection and other
subjects, according to an FBI website.
It is a crime to misuse the database
because of the highly sensitive and
confidential information it can contain
about citizens.
The AP reported: “Authorities have
accused a Memphis police officer of
using the NCIC database to leak information: to a confidential informant about a
watch dealer who the informant believed
had stolen a Rolex; a reserve patrolman
in Clarkston, Ga., of running names and
license plates for marijuana dealers;
a Montgomery County, Md., officer of
running checks on cars belonging to
a woman who later reported that the
vehicles had been vandalized; and
a Hartford, Conn., police sergeant of supplying database records to a woman who
used them to harass her ex-boyfriend’s
new girlfriend.”
What about not just New Mexico
license plate numbers but names being
illegally fed into the NCIC database to dig
up dirt on opponents?
You would think the Journal would
want to know. After all, the names of their
reporters and editors may have been
among those who were checked out.
The newspaper said King is too
conflicted to do the email investigation,
pointing out that when Gov. Martinez’s
campaign email system was hijacked,
the FBI led the investigation. If the paper
is saying the FBI should lead the probe
into the emails and the allegations of
NCIC abuse, they got it right. Nixonian-style intimidation of political foes is
definitely something to get bent out of
shape over.
Joe Monahan is a veteran of New Mexico
politics whose daily blog can be found at
joemonahan.com
O
nce upon a time
there was a
great White House
in a filled-in swamp,
and inside were men
who actually took
responsibility for
their actions. Often.
So highly respected
and so independent minded was
President Dwight Eisenhower that he
was wooed by both parties to serve as
their candidate for president. And why
not? Here was a man who had led a
coalition to victory against the Nazis,
highlighted by Operation Overlord – the
Allies’ massive invasion of France.
As the flotilla embarked across the
English Channel, Eisenhower had in
his pocket two prepared statements: if
the Allies stormed Normandy and were
deemed successful, Eisenhower would
acknowledge all parties involved; if it
failed, however, he would state that the
fault was his and his alone. Not bad
intelligence. Not a past leader’s pisspoor decisions. Not his subordinates
or the War Department. His. Singular
possessive.
Nearly two decades later, his successor, the very conservative Democrat
John F. Kennedy, also looked the nation
in the eye and said he was responsible
for the Bay of Pigs debacle. All sorts of
hands were in that mix, but Kennedy
realized what leadership entailed.
So we fast-forward to the recent “60
Minutes” interview with President Barack
Obama on the subject of ISIS or ISIL or
whatever collection of letters combines
to translate to “butchers.”
One might say it wasn’t the president’s best moment. Basically, Obama
said that when he called ISIS the
terrorist world’s “jayvee team,” it was
because he’d received bad intel from
James Clapper and company. Clapper’s
the head of National Intelligence.
Days later, in a memo to intelligence
staff, Clapper noted that they’d done
good work in regards to ISIS and had
been warning the president and anyone
else who would listen about this Band of
Butchers for the past two years.
It got worse. Reports allowed that
Obama attends fewer than half of his
daily security briefings. The White
House says the number’s misleading
because the president likes to read the
briefing on his iPad.
Regardless, it isn’t good. If he’s
skipping the briefs, he may be as lazy as
Chris Matthews said he is. If he’s glued
to his iPad, then it goes to underscore
various accounts of his tendency to
isolate and rely on an inner circle that
the Washington Post called “arrogant
and thin-skinned.”
To date, his response, finally, to use
airstrikes against ISIS is proving inadequate. Even with the Brits and a handful
of Arab nations joining it, it appears that
– as this is being written – ISIS is on the
verge of taking Baghdad. This would be
a major victory for the terrorist force, and
quite a blow to U.S. prestige.
ISIS didn’t leap full born from the
head of Zeus. George W. Bush didn’t
“create” ISIS any more than Obama did.
The area is a goat rodeo marked by
beheadings.
If we’re really committed to pointing
fingers, perhaps we should travel back
a few years and take a look at the tragic
series of decisions Jimmy Carter made
in regards to Iran.
In his rush to be the Democrat
flag-bearer for what was then a relatively
new mantra – human rights – Carter sat
back and let Iran slip into the hands of
Islamic revolutionaries. In the midst of
this revolution, it came to light that the
Shah of Iran’s not-so-secret police force,
the SAVAK, wasn’t kind to his enemies.
True enough, but the Iranian people did
have clean air and water, among other
things. Those are good for human rights,
and no longer in abundance in Iran.
In any event, Iranian socialists and
Islamic extremists united and, with the
United States abandoning the Shah, won
their revolution and proceeded to take the
nation back to the 7th Century. Ironically,
this has proven bad for human rights.
Today, Iran is one of the leading
financiers of terrorism around the world.
And there is little doubt they will soon
have nuclear weapons.
But here is ISIS, primarily a Sunni
movement and viewed as an enemy by
Iran. So much so, Iran has sent troops
to Baghdad to help Iraqi forces.
A cluster? Absolutely.
Saddam Hussein was rotten to the
core, but bringing him down has proven
as much a mistake as Carter’s blunder
regarding the Shah.
And in his haste to end the war,
Obama made little effort to establish a
force agreement that would have left
an American military presence in Iraq,
thus allowing ISIS to expand unfettered.
Ultimately there’s plenty of responsibility
to be taken, but don’t look for anyone to
take it anytime soon.
Jeffry Gardner is a Republican
political consultant.
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Dave marash, Page 6
about Gov. Martinez’ language in
e-mails are no substitute for close
examinations of her actual record in
office.
Q: Actually, when he was still in
the Senate, Pete Domenici entered
into the Congressional Record a
not-so-tongue-in-cheek statement
that blamed NBC “Today” show
weather guy Willard Scott for New
Mexico’s anonymity, for doing just
that – standing in front of our state
on the weather map.
But, what you just said makes us
ask the question of what the people
“Back East” see in their mind’s eye
when they hear “New Mexico.”
A: Hey! Willard was a friend of mine
and as sweet a guy off-camera as
he appeared to be onstage, and his
penumbra could blot out New Mexico,
Arizona and West Texas. He had to
stand somewhere!
But seriously, I think for most
Easterners, New Mexico draws a
blank, both in the sense that they don’t
know much about it but also that they
assume it is a blank slate of mostly
empty high plains and high desert.
You would have to say, notwithstanding a broad-scale accuracy of
that overview, it misses a lot, including the great, if severe, beauty of the
desert and the plains.
Q: Back to the political coverage:
Give us a sense of how complex
economic issues and social issues
like those this state is facing can be
covered by TV, or are those topics
beyond the medium?
A: Nothing is beyond the medium of
television. To keep this answer simple:
Everything that happens in New
Mexico, every issue under discussion
here, has real-world consequences,
and both the places and the people
affected by even the most “complex
economic issues and social issues”
can be illustrated and explained in
terms of the landscape and the people
on it. There is a reason why video
has become the world’s most-used
language of communication.
Sometimes pictures can overwhelm
words, but it’s the job of the TV
reporter to use words that are
correct – factually accurate – provide
context and clarity and communicate
memorably, so that they are never
submerged by spectacle. Those “4 Cs”
are the basis of everything I teach our
volunteer news people at KSFR.
Q: In an era where people get what
they want online, when they want
it, what’s your sense of the future of
traditional news – TV or print – or
journalism, for that matter?
A: There are only two problems for me
with online journalism. Its obsession
with the latest details often allows
context, and complex reality, to get
lost, and its endless variety of sources
often leads many users to simply drill
into the sources they already agree
with, whether they are truly informed
or intellectually responsible or not.
Beyond that, journalism is journalism, whatever the medium, new or
old, textual, audible, or visual. Most
people want to be informed about
their world, and they continue to seek
information in whatever form, from
whichever source, they can find.
And, of course, seeking information,
understanding reality, communicating
what you think you know is a wonderful career. Plus, no two days are
ever the same. Every day offers the
opportunity to learn something new.
Q: As a founding member of the
Committee to Protect Journalists,
and someone who has been in war
zones yourself, the rising death toll
among journalists – 1,077 since 1992,
37 alone in 2014, at last count – has to
make you wonder about the future of
the business.
A: Although the general drift toward
warfare,terrorism and criminal
violence around the world has helped
make journalism a more dangerous
occupation, in my opinion, two global
trends have really upped the ante.
The first is the rise of religious and
political fundamentalism, or perhaps
the better label would be absolutism.
Adherents to these all-or-nothing
ideologies see no value in pluralism,
or even debate with those of different
views. They’d just as soon kill them.
Not coincidentally, these ideologies
tend to be not just anti-apostate, but
anti-secular, and most conclusively,
anti-modern. Who better represents
the present-day world of diversity
of views, … secular values of reason,
and tolerance, and the mainstream
assumptions of the modern world
than journalists?
Journalists believe in facts, in
evidence, in eyewitnessing, and
in logical, civil arguments derived
from them. In the eyes of someone
who wants the world to return to
single-sourced, universal proclamations of law put forward in the
single-digit centuries of the Christian
era or earlier, journalists represent and
cont. on page 12
OPINION
ABQ FREE PRESS • October 8, 2014 • PAGE 9
Denish Asks N.M., Are We
Better Off than Four Years Ago?
Forcing Mentally Ill into Treatment
That Doesn’t Work is Insane
BY DIANE DENISH
BY JERRY ORTIZ Y PINO
T
he election of a
new governor
inevitably creates
a sense of a new
beginning. A fresh
start. New promises
to be kept. That
optimism existed
in 2010 as Susana
Martinez became the new governor.
Honestly, I had hoped to be leading
that fresh start, but in 2010 the people
chose the promises of Susana Martinez
over mine. That’s how the system works.
Although personally disappointed, as
a lifelong daughter of New Mexico, I
certainly wished no ill for the state I love
and its people.
Ronald Reagan established the
tradition in 1980 by asking at the end of
a term of office: “Are you better off now
than you were four years ago?” While I’m
not used to wearing a Reagan hat, it’s a
fair question to ask of the incumbent: Are
New Mexicans better off now than four
years ago? Have the promises made in
2010 been kept?
Yes, I’m a Democrat and her former
opponent, but I decided to share this
analysis because leadership isn’t just
top down. It’s also bottom up, and New
Mexico voters have a right – an obligation – to ask any incumbent running for
re-election with the record below, “Have
you done your job?”
In 2010, she promised jobs and
economic growth. New Mexico would be
“open for business.” Her strategy: 24 tax
cuts. Yet, we are the only state that has
not recovered from the recession. Worse,
the Federal Reserve predicts New
Mexico will be at the bottom of the list in
job growth for the foreseeable future.
And what is New Mexico getting for 24
tax cuts? No Tesla, declining Intel jobs,
and looming tax hikes for average New
Mexicans. Why? Her cuts substantially
reduce funds to our small communities
in the coming years, requiring them
to either reduce essential services or
increase taxes.
She also capped incentives for the
successful film industry program and for
two years suspended capital contributions made to New Mexico startups since
2001 from the Severance Tax Permanent
Fund. The results? Year-after-year
job losses and a declining population,
including out-migration of talented
entrepreneurs and the investment that
goes with them.
Are those of us still here better off?
In 2010, she promised reforms to improve reading and math scores for fourth
graders. Education policy is in the hands
of a still-unconfirmed secretary from out
of state with no teaching experience. In
private, the governor belittles the work
teachers do. Since 2010, Standard
Based Assessment scores have fallen:
reading proficiency down 4 percent and
math down 1.5 percent. Is education
in our schools improved by the staged
photos of the governor reading to kids?
In 2010, she promised us that the
poverty that threatens our children would
be alleviated and child abuse – her
signature issue – would be substantially
reduced. Yet we are haunted by names
such as Omaree, Leland, and 4-month
old Izabella, raped and beaten to death.
The governor’s secretary of the Children
Youth and Families Department said,
“We are not about prevention. We are
about intervention,” and returned $6.6
million of funds to the general fund while
the governor lamented CYFD’s “revolving
door” of employees. Recently, the U.S.
Department of Justice reported that our
child victim rate has risen steadily in the
last four years and is higher than the rate
in four neighboring states.
Then, the governor vetoed a proposed
increase in the statewide minimum wage
to $8.50 per hour. Her Human Services
Department secretary declared, “No one
is hungry in New Mexico” but then had to
eat her words. Now, those who are hungry face losing food stamps, while the
U.S. Census Bureau just reported that
New Mexico is one of only three states
in the country that had an increase in
both the number and percentage of New
Mexicans living in poverty in the past
year. That’s 22,000 more people living in
poverty. Are New Mexico’s children and
those 22,000 folks better off now?
A traveler on a recent flight asked me,
“Why has New Mexico lost its luster?”
I hadn’t thought of the decline in those
terms, but with the unrelenting reality of
violence, poverty, lack of job creation and
capital, poor wages, declining population,
and a dismantled support system, it was
a fair question.
Many talented, creative New Mexicans
are trying to make good things happen
in this state but have to work against this
dismal backdrop of economic stagnation,
increasing poverty, and failing schools.
Given the record of promises not kept in
Martinez’s first four years, how optimistic
can we be about promises made for
the next four? Maybe she can sell the
helicopter this time.
Diane Denish is a former lieutenant
governor who unsuccessfully challenged
Susana Martinez for the governorship.
She is a former chairwoman of the
New Mexico Democratic Party.
T
here is a growing
call around the
state to create a
legal method for
forcing adults to
enter treatment if
they are mentally ill.
The Albuquerque
Journal editorial
page, the Martinez Administration and
even some family members of mentally
ill adults have joined the chorus beseeching the Legislature to pass some
version of what elsewhere is referred to
as “Kendra’s Law.”
The theory is that we need to get mentally ill people off our streets because
they may be dangerous to themselves
or others. Forcing them into “treatment”
is presented as both humane and effective, something the people so coerced
will certainly be grateful for once that
treatment kicks in and they are once
again “normal.”
However, there are several problems
with this. I will leave it to the ACLU
and other advocates for constitutional
protections to explain why this approach
could open the door to repression of
people who act differently from the
majority, or how it could create yet
another rationale for filling our jails.
I’ll focus instead on another problem
that passing coerced-treatment legislation would create. Since we don’t
currently provide adequate services
for those mentally ill who are already
voluntarily seeking help, what’s to be
gained by forcing others into the same
waiting line for nonexistent help?
Shouldn’t we start at the beginning
and construct a system of services that
would be universally recognized as so
beneficial and so transformative that
people who need help would be rushing
to access it?
In the 1970s and early 1980s, we
had such a system in Albuquerque and
Las Cruces, and plans were on the
drawing board to replicate that system
everywhere in the state. The Community
Mental Health Center model contained
five elements that you can search
for high and low and won’t find in our
current profit-driven, corporate-operated
behavioral health system.
Those five elements are precisely
those that the mentally ill and their
advocates describe as being what they
need – yet are not available through the
$500 million the State of New Mexico
will spend on behavioral health this
year. That $500 million, by the way,
represents a 10 percent increase over
last year, and it’s five times more than
we were spending on mental health 20
years ago.
The five missing pieces are case
managers (to help the mentally ill
navigate the system); outreach workers
(to build relationships and end mistrust);
drop-in centers (where the mentally ill
can feel safe and comfortable); peer
counselors (who’ve earned credibility;
they’ve been there themselves); and
day treatment programs (where they
can get something beyond prescriptions
that leave them zombies).
We had those services in the 1980s.
We don’t today. They are what the
mentally ill themselves say would help
more than anything. If we force services
on those walking our streets, talking to
themselves, shouting at the heavens
and scaring tourists into fleeing, the
services we force on them will not
include the most effective and least
available services.
If you want to force a
mentally ill person to see
a psychiatrist for 15
minutes of prescription
monitoring – at a cost
equal to a full day of a
case manager’s time –
sure, Medicaid will pay
We need to change the managed-care model we are using now
and is in use in our Medicaid Managed
Care service plan. If you want to force a
mentally ill person to see a psychiatrist
for 15 minutes of prescription monitoring
– at a cost equal to a full day of a case
manager’s time – sure, Medicaid will
pay. And Medicaid will pay for the often
pricey prescription. But it won’t pay for
the outreach worker trying to discern
why the patient threw away the prescription or sold it on the street instead of
taking it.
The upshot is that we are spending
astronomical sums on a system that isn’t
working. Before we start forcing more
people into a provably failing apparatus,
before we lay a Kendra’s Law on the
backs of the mentally ill, we need to
start providing the tangible, effective and
proven services they themselves say
would help.
Jerry Ortiz y Pino is a state senator from
Albuquerque.
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Food Trend of the Future:
Chile-flavored Beetles
Piecing Together the Jigsaw
Puzzle of Life and Death
BY EFRAIN VILLA
BY RODERICK KENNEDY
I
t’s a sad state of
affairs that food
neuroses have
become trendy. At
some point in our
cultural de-evolution,
we stopped recognizing picky eating
as a first-world
absurdity that bread-crust trimming
children eventually outgrow.
Instead, we now encourage adult
hipsters to wax philosophical on their
lacking the basic survivor’s conditioning
to ingest – well, anything.
“I can’t have gelatin. The texture reminds me of that icky mosquito trapped
in amber from Jurassic Park,” my friend
says as she pushes the dessert sampler
away at the restaurant. I zone out while
she launches into the usual lecture on
her self-diagnosed gluten intolerance
and allergy to quinoline yellow.
As I finish inhaling the leftovers of
her dessert dish, she begins the part of
her diatribe dealing with how her new
bottled water contains re-ionized H20
molecules that neutralize one’s
pH balance and re-sync magnetic
disequilibrium.
“Wait. Fossilized amber is not gelatinous in texture,” I interrupt. “And why is
a mosquito grosser than the chicken you
just ate? Chickens eat their own crap.”
“Yuck!” she screams. “And if I have
to explain why people shouldn’t eat
insects, then I don’t know why we’re
still friends.” I silently wonder the same
thing.
Why not entertain entomophagy, or
insect eating, as a means of sustainable
nutrition and an alternative to adulterated foods? In Colombia, there is a delicacy known as hormigas culonas, which
literally translates to “big-bottomed
ants.” It is hard to put into words exactly
how disproportionate and awkward this
creature looks. Let us simply say that if
booty-loving Sir Mix-A-Lot were an ant,
he would not be disappointed.
While in the small Colombian village
of San Gil, my friend, Carlos, explained
to me that this little Jennifer Lopez of
the insect world is as nutritious as it is
bootylicious. “Plus, they are easy to find
right now because it’s the season of
nuptial flights,” Carlos said.
“Is a nuptial flight like an insect
honeymoon?” I wondered out loud.
The euphoria of being around exotic
foods usually leaves me in a state of
sensory overload-induced dementia. I
imagined the nuptial flight scene play
out: an eager ant groom whisking his
voluptuous bride away to some sandy
Caribbean coast – a cool ocean breeze
caressing the newlyweds’ hairy little
bodies as he initiates the consummation
of their courtship.
“It’s more like a gang bang,” Carlos
said with the romantic detachment of
Siri. “The female flies out spraying pheromones all over the place. That turns
the guys into horn dogs that pounce on
her over and over.”
Unfortunately, I found that their dull,
woody taste does not correlate with their
lurid mating habits. “Maybe the way
they’re prepared causes them to lose
all their pheromone-slathered deliciousness,” I offered. “Are we eating them
pre- or post-gang bang?”
“I’m not sure,” he replied. “Probably
post. It tastes tangy, no?”
I later discovered that insects come
in tangy, sour, and even extra spicy. In
Nagaland, near Bangladesh, I found
what I hoped to turn into the blood
diamond of exotic food: a tiny beetle that
tastes exactly like green chile! Visions
of launching a thriving, slightly colonial,
import-export business in my native New
Mexico flooded my head.
The chile beetle would become the
new saffron. As a chile-beetle baron,
I would free my fellow New Mexicans
from the crippling effects of chile
scarcity. Our culinary traditions would
be immune to drought, GMO incursions,
or skyrocketing prices stemming from
the mass deportation of farm laborers.
Spain gave New Mexico Catholicism,
lush beards, and smallpox. Nagaland
would give us the majestic chile beetle!
I thought my pitch back home would
be greeted with nothing short of elation.
I even designed a logo featuring a
stylized chile-beetle joining wings with
a United Farm Workers eagle, proudly
standing side by side saluting a rising
Zia sun as if to say, “Sí se puede.”
I would begin small, perhaps making
presentations at food expos and state
fairs. “Efraín, these new green chile
enchiladas are amazing!” tasters would
exclaim. “And six times the protein
content, you say?”
Alas, my ambitions were no match for
the self-entitled inhibitions of the picky
eating movement. When I would tell the
tales of mystical lands in which beetles
tasted like green chile, my unadventurous, unimaginative friends and potential
business partners recoiled and uttered a
simple: “yuck!”
Reach Efrain Villa at his website,
Aimlessvagabond.com
I
t’s an academic mailroom like any
other: green pastel paint, gouged
tables, clutter to the ceiling and a plastic
cart with four identical boxes on it.
They’re brown, corrugated boxes, about
a foot square on the ends and perhaps
2 1/2 feet long.
Just delivered to the ironically named
University Life Sciences building, they
have a single label on them, identifying
the sender as the medical investigator
for the neighboring state.
On the elevator, a young female
student occupies herself text-messaging
and hardly gives the two men and cart
a second glance. The cart and boxes
go into a second room in a line of three,
passing two piles of deep-brown rib
bones, one each for left and right, and
the better part of a skeleton, stained and
dirty.
A little farther, a photographer’s light
table contains photos of black and red
objects on what look like back plastic
garbage bags. It’s forensic photography,
but there’s no immediate way to tell
what the pictures represent.
The cart is pushed to the next room,
which looks something like a small hospital emergency room, with a stainless
table at waist height. The table has a lip
around the edge, about 2 inches high,
and a drain. “This room maintains negative air pressure for times when we are
working on things that smell too strong,”
says the older man to the younger. “Back
there, we have our X-ray equipment,” he
says, pointing to a smaller room. “We do
most of our work here.”
Soon, the contents of the boxes will
be opened, photographed, catalogued,
assembled and tested. Forensic anthropologists will reassemble skeletons,
look for remaining tissue for possible
DNA testing, perhaps testing for drugs
or toxins if tissue can be recovered.
The bones will be examined for
signs of violence – anything that might
indicate something that happened that
would not have happened normally
when a bone was safely within the capsule of its body, covered by flesh and
skin. Perhaps enough information can
be recovered to say who the contents of
these boxes used to be.
Medical investigators perform
autopsies on bodies that are more or
less complete. Human remains that
have decomposed, been buried or
scattered are placed in the hands of the
anthropologists at places like this.
“We work for other people,” says the
older man, a senior forensic scientist.
“Anything we ever have to say about a
case, we say to the people who hire us,
or from the witness stand.
“We don’t return reporter’s calls.
Somehow, we have been getting calls
from Florida about this case. We have
nothing to say. Television crews have
come up in the past, taken film just of
the offices, and then put voice-overs on
their film of skeletal remains that have
nothing to do with their story. We don’t
make things up and have learned not to
help other people with less integrity and
an agenda to create a fantasy based on
our work.”
‘When we are told who
or what we are looking
for, we operate to try to
disprove that hypothesis.
The science has to be
free of bias for any
particular result’
– forensic anthropologist
Already, the number of bodies in
this case was reduced by one when a
leg bone was shown to belong to one
of the known sets of remains and not
constitute a part of a new body. The
search for information from fragments
of life, some of them as minute as a
molecule, occupies this laboratory. Data
is collected from unknown sources and
grouped.
Computers containing DNA databases
are one group. Matching attributes of
human remains to records of a known
life uses another group of data. Here,
no police officer says, “See if this is
who we think it is.” These remains are
unnamed. The physical and chemical
attributes of their parts will be exhaustively photographed, tested, analyzed
and reported as data.
“There is a scientific presumption of
innocence we try to uphold,” says the
scientist. “We try to arrive at an identity
from nothing. When we are told who
or what we are looking for, we operate
to try to disprove that hypothesis. The
science has to be free of bias for any
particular result.”
It seems unscientific to comment
that the accident of the boxes and
knowing their contents makes the air
around them seem a little heavier.
Once, the contents of the boxes lived,
breathed, hoped, had a future. The
future now, if they are identified, is
to perhaps provide a way to close a
particular life’s story. Tomorrow rests
with the living.
Roderick Kennedy is chief judge of the
New Mexico Court of Appeals.
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Dave marash, Page 8
advance virtually every manifestation
of anathema. Hence, newspeople get
marked for death.
But perhaps the biggest
world-changer for journalists has been
the rise of the Internet. Before direct
global communication was put at
everyone’s fingertips by computers,
tablets and smartphones, people
needed journalists to bring their ideas
to wider audiences.
Love us or hate us, even the most
fundamentalist, anti-modern ideologues needed us as “gatekeepers,”
to pass their messages into public
distribution.
I have been actively protected as
well as passively permitted to do my
work by people who loathed me and
my profession and who almost certainly wished me dead. But my stories
and I were their best, sometimes only,
route to wider recognition.
Now, these people have their own
websites, Twitter and Facebook
accounts and can reach their desired
audiences without any help from me
or the news media. Independence
of access to global media for the
distribution of ideas, judgments, or
expressions does have its upside,
but it is killing journalists in record
numbers.
FOOD/DRINK
Deep Dish
BY SAFFRON TOMATO
News of Old Favorites,
Near and Far
T
hese two sign-up offers are too
good to pass up. Scarpa’s is
offering 10% off your next meal – 10%
that they will donate to the American
Cancer Society’s Making Strides
Against Breast Cancer. Go to their
website to sign up for the newsletter
and get your certificate to redeem the
discount during the month of October.
The Range Café is starting a
Birthday Club for customers on their
mailing list. Sign up for the newsletter
on the website to score a free dessert
on your special day.
Dan Vukelich is editor of ABQ Free Press.
Reach him at editor@freeabq.com
Saffron Tomato
Unconventional but effective, pink horses and sushi
rolls could help with breast cancer patient support and
education.
Albuquerque
S
avoy Bar & Grill’s patio is now
enclosed and open Saturdays
through October 18. Enjoy local
musicians and the usual fine fare
from 6-9 p.m. Their Balloon Fiesta
Special also could chime right in with
your plans: Get on the mailing list,
mention their email and you can get
a free appetizer of the day. Or just
go to enjoy a change of season with
their new autumn menu, including
Tomahawk Rib-eye, Squash Bisque
and Brussels Sprouts Salad.
With all of these attractions to pull
in the crowds, they’ll want to take
your reservation first.
Linda Littman sent us this photo.
“This is our Maltese Sophie, who rules
the house,” Linda writes.
Send it to
petphotos@freeabq.com
Include your name, phone number, and your pet’s name,
and we’ll try to reserve their spot in the pet parade.
tag #PaintPFChangsPink. Step inside
and order a sushi roll. Watch Chang’s
donate $1 to the NBCF. To find out
more, go to pfchangs.com/ PaintPFChangsPink.
P.F. Chang’s, 4440 The 25th Way NE,
344-8282, pfchangs.com
Q: After a career that spanned more
than 50 years – from terrorism at the
1972 Munich Olympics, New York,
Washington, Nightline, Bosnia – what
are we supposed to think about
Dave Marash? That he’s here to smell
the piñon and watch the sun go
down?
A: Yes to both of those, but I’m also
here to learn more about the state and
the people who live here and to teach
young New Mexicans the fabulous
profession of journalism.
CALLING ALL PETS
ABQ FREE PRESS • October 8, 2014 • PAGE 13
Savoy Bar & Grill, 10601 Montgomery
Blvd. NE, 294-9463, savoyabq.com
W
e can’t test your blood alcohol
level, but we can tell you – you’re
not seeing things. Those giant horses
(11-ft. tall) in front of P.F. Chang’s are
now painted pink as a hallmark of
the restaurant chain’s commitment
to fighting breast cancer. Chang’s
partnership with the National Breast
Cancer Foundation has led to a goal of
raising up to $100,000 for the cause.
Here’s how you can help them
get there: Take a selfie with their
pink horse(s). Upload to Twitter,
Instagram or Facebook with the hash
Scarpa’s, 5500 Academy Rd NE, 8211885, scarpaspizza.com
9700 Montgomery Blvd NE, 323-0222,
scarpaspizza.com
Wyoming, 4401 Wyoming Blvd. NE,
293-2633, rangecafe.com
Menaul, 2200 Menaul Blvd. NE, 8881660, rangecafe.com
Bernalillo, 925 Camino Del Pueblo,
Bernalillo, 867-1700, rangecafe.com
Santa Fe
A
SPREAD Dinner allows artists to
present their proposals to a crowd
of willing micro-funders. After dinner,
everyone votes and the majority
decides which one gets that evening’s
crowd-funding, collected from ticket
revenues. SITE Santa Fe has chosen
these artists as the finalists who will
present: Janet Abrams, Chris Collins,
Cannupa Hanska Luger, Jane Lackey,
Mindy McGovern, Tom Miller, Willy
Bo Richardson and Lucrecia Troncoso.
Join them and their sponsors on
Fri., Oct. 24, for dinner and voting at
the Santa Fe Farmers Market for the
SPREAD 5.0 dinner. First, heed this
very different way of scoring tickets:
Tickets are CASH ONLY, from
$15-50 (sliding scale). No email or
phone reservations. Current members
only (join now at sitesantafe.org)
can pick up tickets (two per person)
on Wednesday, Oct. 22, starting at
6 p.m., at SITE Santa Fe. On Thurs.,
Oct. 3, remaining tickets will be sold
to the general public. The ABQ ticket
location is still to be announced. You
cannot buy tickets at the door on the
night itself. Go to spreadsantefe.com
for all details.
Santa Fe Farmers Market, 1607 Paseo De
Peralta #1, Santa Fe, spreadsantafe.com
B
een missing my favorite breakfast
and the owl collection, so I am
happy to note that Tecolote Café
returns at a new location in November. Check their Facebook page for
updates; owners Matt and Katie
Adkins know their fans are already
beating down the doors, virtually,
so they are posting the news every
few days. The website is undergoing
changes, too, so try to be patient until
they’re ready for us.
Tecolote Café, 1616 Saint Michael’s Drive,
Santa Fe, (505) 988-1362, tecolotecafe.com
Cloudcroft
T
he Lodge Resort & Spa in Cloudcroft always has treats up its sleeve
for October. Treat #1 is Rebecca’s
Exceptional Wine Dinner at Rebecca’s
Restaurant, a six-course meal paired
with wines served on Fri., Oct. 17 at 6
p.m. Stay at the Lodge afterward, all
for $350.96.
Add Treat #2, Fri., Oct 17 through
Sun., Oct. 19, and go for the High
Rolls Apple Festival Dinner Package
at $237.74 per couple, with a special
menu featuring seasonal apples.
Reservations are required.
Murder Mystery Weekend might be
more to your taste if you’re a Halloween nut. From Fri., Oct. 31 to Sun., Nov.
2, be entertained by a murder mystery
you must solve. But not on an empty
stomach. Enjoy a champagne reception,
Friday and Saturday evening dinners,
Sunday breakfast buffet, mystery
gifts and prizes to the best solvers,
all for $601.02 for two. Ask about
the after-hours El Paso Ghost Tours
Investigation with the Ghost Hunters.
The Lodge Resort & Spa, 601 Corona
Place, Cloudcroft, (800) 395-6343,
thelodgeresort.com
Saffron Tomato wants your restaurant
news and views. Contact her at
editor@freeabq.com.
NEWS
Inadequate Funding Keeps Afterschool Programs Scarce
PAGE 14 • October 8, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS
When he grows up, 13-year-old Ben Perrales
wants to be a chemical engineer. Thanks to the
after-school program at Van Buren Middle School,
where he is an eighth grader, Ben is acquiring the
academic, professional and schmoozing skills to
reach that goal. Because of Van Buren’s extended-day program, he also has a better chance of
succeeding in high school and college later on.
“The academic tutoring helps me on things I really
need help with,” Ben said. “Math is my biggest
challenge, especially now that I’m taking algebra. In
sixth grade, I made B’s and C’s. Now, I make all A’s.
I’m a 4.0 student.”
In addition to tutoring, the program has afforded
him a menu of enriching experiences – from sports
to animal rescue to public speaking – where, he said,
“I learned teamwork and to ask questions.” Photo
courtesy of Van Buren Middle School.
BY NAN ELSASSER
L
ucky students who are able to access high-quality
after-school programs reside in communities
as different as Farmington and Albuquerque. The
majority of New Mexico’s kids are not so fortunate.
Despite overwhelming evidence of the need for and
benefits of affordable extended-day programming,
only 17 percent of New Mexico’s students participate in after-school programs. That leaves thousands
of K-12 students alone and fending for themselves
between the end of the school day and the time a
parent arrives home from work.
This lack of access to after-school programs affects
outcomes for these students, their families and
society. After-school programs, said Jodi Grant,
executive director of the national Afterschool
Alliance, assure working parents that their kids are
safe, give students the chance to sample a variety of
arts and sports, and exercise their brains with handson academic activities from writing to robotics, free
from tests and grades.
“Not only do after-school programs provide
children with safe, challenging and fun learning
experiences, they also provide much-needed
support to New Mexico’s working families,” said
Sen. Tom Udall, a member of the U.S. Senate’s
Afterschool Caucus. “All too often, parents are
forced to choose between good-paying employment
or making it home to be with their children once
school lets out. These programs can give parents the
flexibility to work past the school bell, allowing for
increased wages and productivity, which is good for
the family and good for the economy.”
This combination of tutoring, experiential learning, structured sports, field trips and mentoring
significantly narrows the gap between poor and
affluent students. According to Sen. Martin Heinrich, early-childhood services such as after-school
programs reduce the need and thus the cost for
remedial education, grade repetition and special
education. Better education translates into increased
productivity and earnings as adults.
That’s why Heinrich and Udall want to expand
21st Century Learning Centers (currently the only
federal funding for after-school programs) and
push for additional federal funding for after-school
STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)
programs.
The 21st Century Learning Centers are a
public-private partnership comprised of $1 billion
annually in federal funds, with additional funding
from large foundations such as Soros Fund Management, J.C. Penney and Mott’s.
The federal government allocates block grants
to state departments of education based on Title I
(low-income) enrollment figures. The state departments then distribute the funding to local schools
via a proposal application process.
Over the past five years, New Mexico received
just more than $8.8 million annually in 21st Century
Learning Centers funding. About 57,138 New Mexico children are now enrolled in funded programs.
Yet 22% of our school children are on their own and
unsupervised after school hours.
With a $60,000 grant from the 21st Century
Learning Centers, supplemented by $25,000 from
the Albuquerque Community School Partnership,
Van Buren Middle School provides an impressive
range of 14 after-school activities to 120 students
weekly, said Velina Chavez, Van Buren’s manager
for community partnerships and extended-day programs. Activities range from MESA (mathematics,
engineering, science, achievement), to intramural
sports and academic tutoring by volunteers passionate about their subjects.
Though actual program design is locally determined, the Afterschool Alliance advocates for “fun,
hands-on experiments and internships that look
and feel different from school,” says the Alliance’s
E. D. Grant. “These programs give kids a choice of
activities and encourage them to take risks without
fear of failing tests or earning bad grades.”
The enthusiasm of students in programs such as
those at Van Buren and the Farmington Library,
combined with research validating the impact of
similar programs on student success and economic
productivity, has motivated both Udall and
The Farmington Public
Library’s Blended Zine,
an art and literature
publication for teens
(blendedzine.com),
inspired 16-year-old
Ashley Parker to
consider a career in
the arts. At 14, the
home-schooled Aztec
resident submitted her
first work – rejected – to
the highly competitive Zine. The following year, the
Zine staff, all San Juan County teens, published two
of her submissions.
This year, Ashley’s talent put Farmington on
the map. Her design for the 15th Annual “Lights
On Afterschool” poster contest, sponsored by the
national Afterschool Alliance, was chosen from
thousands of entries across the country. The poster
has a press run of 70,000, and the original artwork
hangs in Lt. Gov. John Sanchez’s office in the New
Mexico Roundhouse.
Parker has joined Blended Zine’s design team and
enrolled in a dual-credit drawing course at San Juan
College. Photos courtesy of Afterschool Alliance.
Heinrich to sponsor legislation to increase federal
funding, particularly for programs focused on
STEM skills.
It would take a small miracle to successfully
navigate this legislation through the current congressional impasse. In the meantime, the local need
for increased funding and expanded programming
is acute. Without it, schools struggle to offer comprehensive after-school programming, leaving parents
to face dismal choices.
Nan Elsasser founded Working Classroom, a nationally
recognized after-school program for writing, theater and art.
ABQ FREE PRESS • October 8, 2014 • PAGE 15
THEATER
PAGE 16 • October 8, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS
Real-life Murder Stories Told
In Duke City Rep’s ‘Drowning Girls’
Fans of 1940s B Movies Will Cackle
at the Parody of ‘Irma Vep’
By BARRY GAINES
By BARRY GAINES
T
he Duke City Repertory Theatre
white, lace-trimmed wedding dresses
begins its fifth season with “The
and veils. The stage trio is often dripping
Drowning Girls,” a haunting, lyric play
wet but negotiate the potentially slippery
based on the story of three women
stage with graceful abandon.
drowned by an alluring serial killer.
The three actresses also play more
“The Drowning Girls” began as
than 20 ancillary characters—family
a performance piece written and
members, doctors, investigators, and
performed by recent theater grads
even the killer himself—without any
Beth Graham and Daniela Vlaskalic
change of costume or voice. Director
at the 1999 Edmonton Fringe Festival.
John Hardy has the ladies in almost
Their theater professor
constant, seemingly
Charlie Tomlinson
aimless, movement
THROUGH OCTOBER 12
helped in the writing
around the stage as
and directed. This
they relate information
THE DROWNING GIRLS
unusual theatrical
and recall their stories.
Duke City Repertory
creation was the
Anna Nichols’s dramatTheatre, The Cell Theatre,
festival’s hot ticket and
ic lighting effects are
700 1st St NW
won the outstanding
emotive.
Thursday-Saturday 8 pm,
production award.
Though their
Sunday 2 pm, 797-7081,
Eight years later,
characters
never met in
dukecityrep.com
the three revised and
life, Colón, Ampuero,
strengthened their
and Myers unite to
play, and “The Drowning Girls” has
present an intense pastiche of the
been performed regularly ever since.
longing, the blindness, the hopes, the
Three Victorian women, anxious to
fears, the joys and the sorrows that
find happiness and social approval
may accompany falling unexpectedly
through marriage, are charmed and
“head over heels” in love and dying
courted by a chance suitor. Fearing the
to be married—whether in the 19th or
stigma of spinsterhood and enthralled
the 21st century.
by the attentions of a “man of indeIn 60 minutes uninterrupted by
pendent means,” they succumb.
intermission, “The Drowning Girls”
With choric echoes the three
presents an amazing range of emoremember: Bessie (33) says, “I wanted
tions, “the sense of a corseted world
romance”; Alice (26), “I wanted to
with its own rules,” as theater critic Liz
be swept off my feet”; and Margaret
Nicholls wrote of the first performance.
(38), “I just wanted someone.” In
I have a small quibble about a
short order, despite warnings and
missed opportunity to strengthen
disapproval from family and friends,
the production. The original and
each marries her new love.
recent productions of “The Drowning
The husband gains control of his
Girls” feature the “Brides of the Bath”
new wife’s money, names himself as
immersed in claw foot bathtubs (as
beneficiary of an insurance policy on
seen in the Duke City Rep’s online
her life, and sees that her new will
preview video). Perhaps because of the
has him as sole heir. Then each wife is
expense or the small size of the raised
mysteriously found dead—drowned
stage the company brought to the Cell
in her bathtub. The murderer of all
Theatre, Director Hardy gives us small
three women is one George Joseph
washtubs. Since the bathtub is such a
Smith who is discovered, tried, and
private, intimate place, and someone in
hanged for his crimes.
the bath is so vulnerable, bathtubs on
While the history behind the play
stage would have been more powerful.
is true, the presentation of the story
Indeed, when a large tin bathtub is
is expressive and poetic. Katie Becker
brought on stage at the play’s end
Colón, Amelia Ampuero, and Lauren
so that the prosecuting attorney can
Myers portray Bessie, Alice, and
demonstrate how the victims were
Margaret with sensitivity and passion.
drowned, the effect is chilling.
They continually re-enact their watery
demise by standing in and dipping
Barry Gaines has covered Albuquerque
their heads into three tin washtubs,
theater for the past 13 years. He is a
the main elements of D’Vaughn Agu’s
Professor Emeritus at UNM and Adminscenic design. They are costumed in their
istrator of the American Theater Critics
Victorian undergarments and then their
Association.
“T
he Mystery of Irma Vep” is unlike
any other play you have ever
seen. First there is the cast. The play
has eight characters—men and women—portrayed by just two actors—both
male. The stage is almost never empty,
which requires some 35 instantaneous
costume changes.
Then there is the plot. Playwright
Charles Ludlam called his creation “A
Penny Dreadful,” referring to 19th-century pulp fiction featuring lurid, overly
dramatic stories in serial form, each
installment costing a penny.
“Irma Vep” is set in an aristocratic
estate surrounded by woods and often
shrouded in fog and mystery. Lord Edgar
Hillcrest, an Egyptologist, has brought his
new bride Enid to his home where a porAlan Mitchell Photography
trait of his first wife, Irma Vep, dominates
Bryan Lambe (l.) and Garrick Milo (r.) have fun with
the main room. The maid, Jane Twisden,
their mummy in “The Mystery of Irma Vep.”
and the peg-leg swineherd, Nicodemus
Underwood, fondly remember Lady Irma
on Charles Ludlam. . . .The theater of
and have yet to warm to the new lady of
Ludlam was delirious, glorious, ransackthe house.
ing the contents of the entire world.”
Into this setting come ghosts, wereWho better to direct this play than
wolves, and vampires (“Irma Vep” is an
Kenneth Ansloan, the cofounder of
anagram of “Vampire”); a second-act
The Dolls, Albuquerque’s beloved drag
trip by Lord Edgar to Egypt provides a
troupe. Instead of taking one of the
strange mummy.
acting assignments, Ansloan “thought
Throughout “Irma Vep” there are
it was important to use all of [my]
echoes and extracts of numerous
creative juices solely
plays, poems, and
as a director. This is a
films. It begins and
OCTOBER 10-31
monster show!”
ends with little-known
THE MYSTERY OF
Like Ludlam, Ansloan
quotes from two plays
has written and starred
IRMA
VEP
of Henrik Ibsen, and bits
in transgressive spoofs
Vortex Theatre
of Shakespeare, Poe,
for and with The
2900 Carlisle Blvd. NE
and even the Sermon on
Dolls. Ansloan has
Friday-Saturday 7:30 p.m.,
the Mount are lovingly
chosen Garrick Milo and
Sunday
2
p.m.
sprinkled in the dialogue.
Bryan Andrew Lambe to
Tickets:
$22
&
$15,
247-8600,
The plot has parallels to
perform this play.
vortexabq.org
the 1940 film of Daphne
“Ludlam seemed
du Maurier’s novel
able to read people
“Rebecca”—the film’s
well, perhaps [to] pull out those things
estate is Manderley while the play’s is
that hurt most and allow us to laugh at
Mandacrest. You might get a whiff of the
ourselves,” said Milo.
1939 film of Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering
Director and actors agree that the
Heights” (compare the names Heathcliff
lightning-fast costume changes are
and Hillcrest) or hear Ingrid Bergman
“challenging.” Jaime Pardo designs the
in “Gaslight.” And the Egyptian sojourn
costumes.
calls to mind the various mummy-movI have seen two previous productions
ies of the ‘40s with Boris Karloff and Lon
of “The Mystery of Irma Vep,” and I look
Chaney, Jr., escaping their sarcophagi.
forward to this interpretation at the beauIf all of this sounds a bit ridiculous, it
tiful new Vortex Theatre. You don’t need
is a product of the Ridiculous Theatrical
to recognize the literary and cinematic
Company that Ludlam founded in
allusions to enjoy the serious silliness in
1967—a collection of gays, cross-dressthe play. “Irma Vep” is a hoot.
ers, transvestites and others who
reveled and frolicked in the outrageously
Barry Gaines has covered Albuquerque thecamp plays that Ludlam wrote and
ater for the past 13 years. He is a Professor
acted in. Their influence on avant-garde
Emeritus at UNM and Administrator of the
theater is strong. Pulitzer Prize dramatist
American Theater Critics Association.
Tony Kushner wrote, “I had a mad crush
ARTS
Get Deep into the Roots of Amercan Jazz
ABQ FREE PRESS • October 8, 2014 • PAGE 17
Dance Briefs
By Richard Oyama
B
assekou
Kouyaté and
Miguel Zenón are
among the brightest stars in the
Outpost Performance Space’s fall
schedule.
From Mali,
Bassekou Kouyaté
is a master of the
ngoni, a traditional
lute from West
Africa. He has
collaborated with
© 2014 Miguel Zenón. All Rights Reserved.
musicians in and
outside of Mali,
by lyricism and facility, he said, “Well,
including Toumani Diabaté, Kélétigui
I think it’s all of that. If you listen
Diabaté and Taj Mahal. He also toured
to his early recordings, his sound is
with the late Ali Farka Touré.
quite angular. After Miguel got the
Bassekou’s instrument, the ngoni, is a
MacArthur, he would go back to small
traditional “spike lute” and a precursor
towns in the Puerto Rican countryside
of the banjo, sharing its taut-skinned
and curate the old music, the lyrical
body, percussive approach and a
folk tunes. I’d say he’s at the forefront
variety of picking styles. The ngoni is
of contemporary Latin jazz.”
the key instrument of the griot storyZenón’s stellar resume includes
telling culture. What Bassekou plays
tours and recordings with The
is Bambara music from the region of
SFJAZZ Collective (San Francisco), the
Segu. It is pentatonic in nature and
late Charlie Haden, Fred Hersh, David
similar to the blues.
Sánchez, The Mingus Big Band, Bobby
“The pentatonic is a five-note scale,”
Hutcherson and Steve Coleman.
said Tom Guralnick, Outpost’s execuHis latest release, “Oye!!! Live in
tive director and a musician himself.
Puerto Rico” (Miel Music, 2013), is
“That makes it close to the blues scale.
the debut recording of The Rhythm
Of course, many American musicians
Collective, an ensemble assembled for
like Taj Mahal and David Murray have
a West Africa tour. The CD features
recorded with African musicians. In
Zenón originals and covers of Tito
fact, Martin Scorsese’s series on the
Puente’s “Oye Como Va”and Silvio
blues has a segment based in Mali.
Rodriguez’s “El Necio.”
There’s a lot of going back and forth.
At the Outpost, Zenón will be
Probably, there’s a cultural link since so
joined by his quartet: Luis Perdomo,
much of black American music derives
piano; Hans Glawischnig, bass; and
from West Africa.”
Eric Doob, drums.
Kouyaté has appeared with the
likes of Paul McCartney, John Paul
Richard Oyama is a poet, novelist and
Jones and others. He has recorded
would-be salsero.
three CDs, including his latest, “Jama
ko.” His four-piece ensemble, The
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23
Ngoni Blues Band, features Bassekou
Kouyaté, lead ngoni; Amy Sacko, lead
BASSEKOU KOUYATE &
vocal; Mamadou Kouyaté, ngoni bass;
THE NGONI BLUES BAND
and Moctar Kouyaté, calabash.
7:30 p.m., $15-20,
A native of San Juan, P.R., Miguel Zenón is a Grammy nominee, Guggenheim
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6
and MacArthur Fellow, and is widely
MIGUEL
ZENÓN QUARTET
regarded as one of the most influential
7:30 p.m., $15-20
saxophonists of his generation. He
has focused his compositional efforts
Both bands will appear at The
on melding Latin folkloric music and
Outpost Performance Space,
jazz—extending the tradition of Dizzy
210 Yale Blvd. SE, two blocks
Gillespie, Machito and Chano Pozo.
south of Central. For Outpost’s
When I asked Guralnick if it’d be
complete fall schedule, go to
fair to describe Zenón’s alto sound as
outpostspace.org. 268-0044
post-bebop and post-Ornette, marked
SHAPE SHIFT
Pat Barrett Photography
Kami Hornak (l.) and Dalila Baied (r.) dance in “Shape
Shift,” a UNM Department of Theatre and Dance
showcase of student choreographers.
OCTOBER 12
AMY MORROW’S “@ HOME”
Keshet Center for the Arts,
4121 Cutler Ave NE
$20-25, 224-9808,
brownpapertickets.com
October 12, Performance 7 p.m.;
artist reception/fiesta, 8 p.m.
Amy Morrow is a performing artist,
teacher, and communications specialist
in Austin and Tel Aviv. Amy presents her
work for Keshet Dance Company later
this month and in November.
Elizabeth Waters Center for Dance at
Carlisle Gym, UNM Main Campus
Tickets: $12 General, $10 Faculty &
Seniors, $8 Staff & Students
Tickets are available at all UNM ticket
offices, online at www.unmtickets.com,
or by calling 925-5858.
More information: 277-4332.
October 24, 25, 31 and November 1,
Performance 7:30 p.m.
October 26 and November 2,
Performance 2 p.m.
Whether you are a dance fan or simply
an adventurous observer of the arts,
it’s always exciting to see new talent
emerge, especially in a university
setting. Artistic Directors Mary Anne
Santos Newhall and Erika Pujič will
present “Shape Shift,” a student
choreography showcase by UNM
undergraduate and graduate students
in October and November.
Book Briefs
‘Football Facts for
Females’ Wins Blurb
by Joe Theismann
Albuquerque author Susan Cooper
hit it big with an endorsement of her
new book. Subtitled “Or If You Can’t
Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em,” “Football Facts for
Females” got the attention of famous QB
Joe Theismann. Theismann said, among
other compliments, “I didn’t expect such
an in-depth knowledge of football from
someone who has never played the
game.”
Watch Cooper’s ABQ Free Press
segment on The Morning Brew with
Larry Ahrens on YouTube.
Book Fest Scores
Sheehy
Gail Sheehy, author of the iconic
and bestselling “Passages” will speak
at the 2014 JCC Book Fest & Author
Series on Sun., Oct. 26 at the Jewish
Community Center, 5520 Wyoming Blvd.
NE, at 3 p.m. Her new memoir, “Daring,”
chronicles her life as a journalist since
the publication of her hit book. Tickets:
adults, $10/advanced; $15/door; Book
$30; jccabq.org.
The Book Fest runs from Oct. 19-29.
Also featured are the following authors;
ticket prices and book costs vary.
Allen Salkin, “From Scratch: The Uncensored History of the Food Network,”
Sun., Oct. 19, 3 p.m.
Molly Antopol, “The UnAmericans,”
Weds., Oct. 22, 7 p.m.
Nicole Mones, “Night in Shanghai,”
Thurs., Oct. 23, 7 p.m.
Juliana Maio, “City of the Sun,” Weds.,
Oct. 29, 11:30 a.m.
‘Fight Club’ author
speaks about new
book
Bookworks is bringing Chuck Palahniuk to town on Mon., Oct. 27, at 7 p.m.
at UNM’s Student Union building on the
Main Campus. His new book, “Beautiful
You,” is a satire of the sex toy and
plastic surgery industries. Who knew
they were linked?
Admission requires purchase of signed
hardcover book; ticketholders can bring
one guest for $5 additional. Tickets:
bkwrks.com/chuck-palahniuk
ART NEWS
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Art News
The National Institute of Flamenco,
homeless after a devastating fire in December 2013, has signed a three-year
lease at 1620 Central Ave. SE (near
University Boulevard). The institute is
working with Design Plus Architects on a
plan that will allow it to move in permanently. The grand opening is anticipated
in January 2015.
To aid in its regeneration, NIF will be
one of the beneficiaries of The Montezuma Ball, along with Animal Humane
New Mexico and New Mexico Multi-Cultural Foundation, on Nov. 22 at Hotel
Albuquerque in Old Town. To attend this
long-standing and popular event, buy
tickets at montezumaball.com.
Mural Collaboration in South
Valley Honors River of Life
In September, Bernalillo County made
public a 2,000-foot mural painted by
nine Working Classroom students. The
mural is titled “La Corriente del Valle”
(“The Flow of the Valley”) and is located
at 4022 Isleta Blvd. SW, south of the
Skate Park and South Valley Pool.
The painting represents a timeline
By Stephanie Hainsfurther
Free Museum Memberships at the
Library
More than 130 free memberships to
the New Mexico Museum of Natural
History and Science are available at
your local public library, thanks to the
museum’s foundation. Check out a
membership instead of a book and visit
the museum for free. Get on the waiting
list at your neighborhood library; this is a
popular offering.
The program was funded by donors
to the 22nd annual Chocolate Fantasy
gala in March, in keeping with the
museum foundation’s mission “to further
the cultural, educational and scientific
programs and purposes” of the museum. Go to naturalhistoryfoundation.org
for more information.
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of South Valley history and depicts the
Rio Grande as a vital part of the past,
present and future. The lead artist was
Joe Stephenson, a well-known local
muralist and frequent guest instructor at
Working Classroom. Working Classroom
is a nationally recognized after-school
program for underserved students with
concentrations in writing, art and theater.
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A detail from “La Corriente del Valle” expresses appreciation for the rich culture of the South Valley.
Photo courtesy of Working Classroom.
O’Keeffe Names New Director of
Education and Interpretation
Tracey Enright, formerly public
programs coordinator for the National
Museum of African American History and
Culture of the Smithsonian Institution,
will be the new director of education and
interpretation for the Georgia O’Keeffe
Museum in Santa Fe.
The title for this position has broadened to include even more community
outreach.
“Education has a larger role,” said Enright. “That means an audience-centered
approach. Exhibits from the O’Keeffe
come to their towns and deepen their
knowledge of subjects they are already
familiar with.”
In keeping with the museum’s creative
programming, one of Enright’s roles
will be to integrate the work of other
departments and outside partners into
educational programs.
Deadlines for Submissions
Submissions accepted: Oct. 9-15
OFFCenter wants your gourd art
for the “Out of Your Gourd!” art show
running Oct. 17-Nov. 26. Drop by at 808
Park Avenue S.W. during Open Studio
Hours: Tues.-Thurs., 1-7 p.m.; Fri., 1-5
p.m.; Sat., 11 a.m.-3 p.m., and drop
off your creative work using gourds.
Open to all ages and abilities. Opening
reception: Fri., Oct. 17, 5-7 p.m. For
more information: offcenterarts.org,
247-1172.
Deadline: Oct. 31
St. Mark’s Sacred Arts Gallery hosts
the 65th annual Hollyberry Arts & Crafts
Fair the weekend of Nov. 22-23. The aim
is to showcase high-quality, locally made
fine art, jewelry, textile arts, ceramics
and pottery, as well as all sorts of other
types of crafts and gifts for sale. The
gallery is accepting applications from
artists and crafts people. To download
the application and contact information
for the fair coordinator, visit stmarksabq.
org/hollyberry.
Deadline: Nov. 1
Experiments in Cinema is looking for
creative film festival submissions. The
film fest takes place April 15-19, 2015.
Submit your work online at
experimentsincinema.org.
On the Air
Watch our arts segment on The Morning Brew with Larry Ahrens,
Tuesday mornings at 7:32 on Public Access Channel 27 and later on YouTube.
polling
Call 505-263-8425 or email
info@trialmetrixNM.com
6608 Gulton Court NE, Alb. 87109
hrillers should be short and
punchy. Movies that follow the
book closely always run a bit long. Its
nearly 2.5 hours is one of the piddling
gripes I have with “Gone Girl,” based
on the bestselling book by Gillian
Flynn and, thanks to the producers
(Reese Witherspoon being one), it has
a screenplay by the author, too. That’s
an asset, because Flynn got the voices
right in her thriller, and she nails it
again in the film script. The balance
she strikes of he-said, she-said sets up
the tension and keeps it humming.
Voice is essential to this plot.
Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) and
Amy Elliott Dunne (Rosamund Pike)
are marking their fifth wedding
anniversary. Through flashbacks, we
see them meet cute and stay cute – at
about the second-year point, wife
says to husband, “We’re so cute, I
want to punch us in the face.” We
also meet her parents, two New York
City psychologists who have made
their fortune by writing the popular
“Amazing Amy” book series, about
which Nick says, “Your parents
plagiarized your childhood.”
But Amy seems to take it all in stride
– until the parents ask Amy to hand
over her trust fund to pay their debts,
and she and Nick lose their jobs. Then
Nick’s mother contracts stage 4 cancer,
and the couple must move to Missouri
to see Mom through it. They sell
Amy’s brownstone, rent a furnished,
underwater McMansion in Missouri,
and all of a sudden, their life together
doesn’t look so cute anymore.
So on the morning of their anniversary, Nick leaves the house to visit
his twin sister, Margo (Carrie Coon),
nicknamed “Go,” at the bar they own
together, financed by Amy’s money.
They have a conversation about what
a bitch Amy is. When he gets home,
Nick finds Amy gone and signs of a
violent struggle in the den. When he
calls the cops, they find blood splatter
in the kitchen.
From there, circumstantial evidence
builds against Nick while the whole
world watches. Cable TV host Ellen
Abbott (played by Missi Pyle as a
perfect parody of Nancy Grace) leads
the pack of media hounds pursuing
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are just around the corner. Check
out the best celebrations in the
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Clan Tynker Renaissance Fair performers and Amanda Crocker from El Rancho de las Golondrinas.
calendar listings in the October 22
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Nick. He doesn’t go anywhere
without an entourage of suspicious
police, angry townspeople and
hungry journalists. Through it all,
we have Amy’s voiceover, reading
passages from her journal that indict
Nick as her murderer.
Then the tables turn, and we witness
Amy’s side of the story. No spoilers
here. Just know that Rosamund Pike
is a matchless Amy in a role that
could have devolved into a B-movie
bombshell in the hands of a lesser
actor. Instead, it is a tour de force.
Ben Affleck is a smart, multitalented
man of the world. He seems to
have a lot of things on his mind. He
should set them aside when he is
supposed to be acting. The cloud of
preoccupation that causes him to
produce that thousand-yard stare
doesn’t suit the character. Nick Dunne
is under suspicion of the murder of
his wife. He endures and generates a
series of shocking revelations about
his marriage throughout the film. We
should be able to see something on
his face besides bemusement. Instead,
Affleck seems too cool for the part.
Pike carries the film. The supporting
actors are superb. As Nick’s sister
Go, Coon balances Amy’s archly cool
attitude with her shoot-from-the-hip
style and obvious love for her brother.
Neil Patrick Harris is restrained in his
portrayal of Amy’s former boyfriend,
Desi Collings, hitting the right notes
all the way. Tyler Perry as Nick’s bigas-life defense attorney Tanner Bolt is
believable and aptly cast as someone
for whom the media spotlight always
shines.
As detective Rhonda Boney, a
pivotal role, Kim Dickens (“Deadwood,” “Treme”) brings her brand of
warm, realistic reactions to the story.
In a way, she stands in for the viewer.
She becomes engrossed by the details
of the investigation; when she doubts,
we doubt.
The movie is utterly faithful to the
book, despite inaccurate reports that
Flynn changed the ending. “Gone
Girl” is in all major local theaters now.
Stephanie Hainsfurther is associate editor
for AQB Free Press.
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CALENDAr
CASINOS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10
LAS VEGAS ALL-STAR VARIETY REVUE!
Route 66 Casino Hotel, Legends Theater,
14500 Central Ave SW
Billed as The Best Vegas Variety Show in NM.
8 pm, $10, rt66casino.com
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17
November 1, 9 pm, $10, Halloween Hoedown:
Paris A Gogo Burlesque, The MLC, Blame it on
Rebekkah, Kimo
November 4, 9:30 pm, $8, O’Death, Lonesome
Leash, Human Behavior
November 5, 9 pm, $8, Cahalen Morrison and
Country Hammer, The Gregg Daigle Band
November 11, 9 pm, $15, Horse Feathers
November 18, 9 pm, Water Liars
OCTOBER 9-DECEMBER 3
Santa Ana Star Center,
3001 Civic Center Circle NE, Rio Rancho,
Touring with Volbeat, Hellyeah and
Nothing More.
6:10 pm, $40-45, 891-7300,
santaanastarcenter.com
SISTER THE BAR, 407 Central Ave NW,
242-4900, sisterthebar.com
October 9, 8 pm, $3, Biome, Crix Saiz, Westy,
Mittens, 13 Pieces
October 10, 9 pm, $10, Ex Hex & Speedy Ortiz
October 12, 5 pm, Free, Happy Hour Show:
Joe and Vicki Price
October 17, 8 pm, $10, Eddie And The Hotrods
October 22, 9 pm, $10, Macabre, Ringworm,
Panzerfaust
October 23, 9 pm, $5, Decker, Sad Baby Wolf,
St. Petersburg
October 29, 9 pm, $10, Tera Melos
November 5, 9 pm, $7, Iceage
November 11, 9 pm, $12, Dum Dum Girls
& Ex Cops
December 3, 9 pm, $10, Pallbearer
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24
OCTOBER 9-DECEMBER 12
LEGACY 36: CODY EAST VS.
VERNON LEWIS
Route 66 Casino Hotel, Legends Theater,
14500 Central Ave SW
The main event, and other contenders male
and female.
7 pm, $20-200, rt66casino.com
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH
JAY LENO: THE HOUSE JACKS
Route 66 Casino Hotel, Legends Theater,
14500 Central Ave SW
The man just can’t stop working and that’s
OK with the audience.
8 pm, $42-95, rt66casino.com
LAUNCHPAD, 618 Central Ave SW,
764-8887, launchpadrocks.com
October 9, 9 pm, $25, Doug Stanhope,
Kevin Kennedy, Black Mike
CLUBS & PUBS
OCTOBER 9-18
SNEAKERZ SPORTS GRILLE,
4100 San Mateo Blvd NE, 837-1708,
October 9, 6-9 pm, Bat All-request
acoustical guitar
October 10, 6-9 pm, Happy Hour with
Donohoe and Grimes
October 11, 9 pm, CRB in Concert
October 16, 6-9 pm, Bat All-request
acoustical guitar
October 17, 6-9 pm, Happy Hour with Click
October 18, 8 am, United Way Fundraising
Volleyball Tournament, 6’s format,
all teams welcome
October 18, 9 pm, Sympathy For Jack
OCTOBER 9-NOVEMBER 18
LOW SPIRITS, 2823 2nd St NW,
lowspiritslive.com, prices subject to change
October 9, 9 pm, $5, Bishop Allen
October 10, 9 pm, $5, Lovers and Madmen
CD release party! The Real Matt Jones,
Carlos The Tall
October 11, 9 pm, $8, Rose’s Pawn Shop
October 15, 9 pm, Cowboys and Indian,
The Ditchrunners
October 17, 9 pm, $10, Minimum Overdrive
Tour: Austin Lucas, Jon Snodgrass, Northcote,
Jayke Orvis, Caleb Caudle
October 18, 9 pm, $10, The Gilded Cage
Burlesk & Varieté presents “Attack of the
Creepshow Peepshow”
October 21, 9 pm, $12, Cyanotic, Author and
Punisher, The Rabid Whole, Diverje
October 24, 9 pm, Night of the Living
Cover Bands
October 25, 8 pm, $5, Dia de los Grateful
Muertos featuring Top Dead Center,
600 Pounds of Sin
October 30, 9 pm, $8, Run Boy Run
October 31, 9 pm, $12, il sogno del marinaio
(with Mike Watt)
October 10, 9 pm, $15, Home Away From Home
Tour: Brother Ali, Bambu & DJ LAST WORD
October 11, 9 pm, $15, Dirty Deeds Burlesque
Presents: Dia De los Muertos
October 12, 8 pm, I Conscious,
Yard Squad Band
October 14, 7 pm, $10, Son Real
October 16, 6:30 pm, $13, Not Your American
Idols Tour: Capture The Crown, For All Those
Sleeping, Ice Nine Kills, Pallisades,
Myka Relocate, Youth In Revolt
October 18, 8 pm, Kirsten Memorial Show!!
SuperGiant, Anesthesia, Requiem Mass, Illumina A.D., The Ground Beneath, Fallen Prophets
October 21, 8:45 pm, $13, Rubblebucket,
Landlady, Hank and Cupcakes
October 22, 7:30 pm, $13, The Contortionist,
Intervals, Polyphia
October 24, 9 pm, THEE SANCTUARY :
Bloodsuckers Bazaar
October 25, 9 pm, $5, Night of the Living Cover
Bands! The Coma Recovery as Depeche Mode,
distances as Garbage, Double Plow as Queen
October 26, 8 pm, $18, Hold It In Tour: Melvins,
Le Butcherettes
October 28, 7:30 pm, $12, Being As An Ocean,
Gideon, Wolves At The Gate, Incarnate,
Seconds To End
November 1, 9 pm, $12, Secret Chiefs 3,
Atomic Ape
November 2, 8 pm, $13, MC Chris, MC Lars,
Spose
November 6, 7:30 pm, $10, Rotting Out,
Nomads, Homewrecker, Pharoah, Loathe
November 7, 9:30 pm, $5, The Lymbs, Red Light
Cameras, Great States
November 8, 9:30 pm, $8, Koffin Kats,
Russian Girlfriends
November 9, 7:30 pm, $17, EYEHATEGOD,
Today Is The Day, Black Maria, Econarchy
November 15, 9 pm, Stoic Frame Reunion
Show!, Reviva
November 18, 8 pm, $10, 10th Anniversary
Tour: Intronaut, Anciients, Bathhouse, Distances
November 23, 8 pm, $18, The Reckoning Tour:
Blood On The Dance Floor, Whitney Peyton,
Sweet Ascent
November 29, 9 pm, $8, mr. Gnome,
Young Tongue
December 8, 7:30, $13, Voodoo Glow Skulls,
Mustard Plug, Dan Potthast
December 12, 8:30, $20, Swamp Leper Stomp
2014: Death DTA, Torture Victim, Suspended,
Impaled Offering
OCTOBER 9-DECEMBER 15
SUNSHINE THEATER, 120 Central Ave SW,
Info & Tickets: sunshinetheaterlive.com
October 9, 7 pm, $20, Twiztid
October 12, 7 pm, $18.50, The Wonder Years,
The Story So Far, Modern Baseball, Gnarwolves
October 18, 8 pm, $12, Ryan McGarvey
CD Release Party
October 19, 7 pm, $15 Watsky w/ Kyle and
Anderson .Paak, All You Can Do Tour
October 20, 6:30 pm, $17, Tomorrow We Die
Alive 2014 US Tour: Born Of Osiris, Thy Art
Is Murder, Betraying The Martyrs, Within The
Ruins, Erra
October 21, 8 pm, $18, Bam Margera with
F&@kface Unstoppable, Lionize, Polkadot
Cadavar, Until Chaos
October 22, 7 pm, $22.50-95, Joey Bada$$
October 25, 7:30 pm, $12, Carnifex, Inhuman
Hands, A Malicious Plague, Vale Of Miscreation
October 27, 6 pm, $25, Too Zany welcomes
G-EAZY w/ IAMSU & Jay Ant, Bay To
Universe Tour
October 28, 7 pm, $17, New Politics, Bad Suns,
SomeKindaWonderful
October 29, 7 pm, $30, Matisyahu, Radical
Something, Cisco
October 30, 7:30 pm, $18, Glamour Kills Tour
presents New Found Glory, We Are The In
Crowd, Fireworks, Better Off
November 1, 8 pm $20, Eternal Tour 2014:
Gwar, Decapitated, American Sharks
November 3, 7 pm, $21-75, YELAWOLF +
RITTZ + Big Henry + DJ Klever
November 9, 7 pm, $27.50, Rockstar Energy
Drink Presents Pierce The Veil and Sleeping
With Sirens , Beartooth, This Wild Life
November 10, 8 pm, $20, Check Yo Ponytail
Anniversary Tour: The Presets, Le1f, Chela,
Franki Chan
November 11, 7 pm, $20, These Days Tour:
AB Soul
November 12, 6:30 pm, $16, The Word Alive,
The Color Morale, Our Last Night, Dead Rabbits,
Miss Fortune
November 13, 8 pm, $29, Dropkick Murphys,
Blood Or Whiskey
November 15, 8 pm, $23, Arch Enemy,
Kreator, Huntress
November 20, 7 pm, $29.50, People Keep
Talking Tour: Hoodie Allen, Chiddy Bang,
Taylor Bennett
November 23, 6:30 pm, $17, The Ghost Inside,
Every Time I Die, Architects (UK), Hundredth,
Backtrack
November 25, 7 pm, $20, Monster Energy
Outbreak Tour presents Attila, Crown
The Empire, Like Moths To Flames, Sworn In
December 9, 6:30 pm, $18, Eternal Enemies
Tour: Emmure, The Acacia Strain, Stray From
The Path, Fit For A King, Kublai Khan
EVENTS
CALENDAr
December 14, 8 pm, $18, Toontrack presents
Abstract Reality Tour: Devin Townsend Project
and Animals As Leaders, Monuments
December 15, 7 pm, $28, Hot Topic presents
Black Veil Brides, Falling In Reverse, Set It Off,
Drama Club
IAN TYSON
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18
OCTOBER 16-17
Fifteen On The Farm: Tractor Brewing Company
Tractor Brewery, Wells Park location,
1800 4th St NW
A Quinceañera style bash held at the recently
opened Wells Park location in Albuquerque, with
24 taps to pull on. There will be entertainment,
food for purchase, and art all around – and a
new beer release. Free, starts 5 pm,
getplowed.com
South Broadway Cultural Center,
1025 Broadway SE
Formerly of Ian & Sylvia, singer/songwriter
Tyson brings cowboy music to town.
7-9 pm, $30-40, 848-1230, cabq.gov/sbcc
DAVID FRANCEY
October 16, Tony Hillerman Library,
8205 Apache NE, 12 pm
October 17, North Valley Library,
7704 2nd St NW, 12 pm
Award-winning Canadian folk singer-songwriter.
Both events are free, but reservations are
recommended. Info is available from
ampconcerts.org, 232-9868.
MUSIC
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8
ERIC VLOEIMANS’ OLIVER’S CINEMA
RIBAB FUSION
The Dirty Bourbon, 9800 Montgomery NE,
296-2726
Dance to ‘70s Funk and modern Afropop from
Morocco.
7:30 pm, $17-22, ampconcerts.org,
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9
ALLISON MILLER’S BOOM TIC BOOM
Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE
NYC-based drummer, Allison Miller defies all
boundaries and brings her individual sound to
diverse musical genres.
7:30pm, $15-20, 268-0044, outpostspace.org
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23
BASSEKOU KOUYATE &
THE NGONI BLUES BAND
Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE
Bassekou Kouyate is one of the true masters
of the ngoni, an ancient traditional lute found
throughout West Africa.
7:30 pm, $15-20, 268-0044, outpostspace.org
Read our music story on Page 17 in this issue
of ABQ Free Press.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25
LE CHAT LUNATIQUE & WILDEWOOD
BIRDS OF CHICAGO
Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE
Popular and eclectic ABQ group Le Chat
Lunatique performs with local American
folk rock band.
7:30 pm, $10-15, 268-0044, outpostspace.org
Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE
Pianist Jacky Terrasson, a significant figure in
jazz for over 20 years, will be joined by Dave
Robaire, bass; and Jamire Williams, drums.
7:30 pm, $20-25, 268-0044, outpostspace.org
Music in Corrales, Old San Isidro Church,
966 Old Church Rd, Corrales
Popular American Roots music group.
7:30 pm, $22-25, brownpapertickets.com,
musicincorrales.org
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26
CARAVAN OF THIEVES
The Cooperage, 7220 Lomas Blvd NE
Gypsy jazz, vocal harmony, theater and a really
good time.
7:30 pm, $17-20, ampconcerts.org,
Hold My Ticket, 505-886-1251
Quintessence Choral Artists of the
Southwest’s October concert.
Friday 7 pm, Keller Hall, UNM Main Campus
Sunday 3 pm, St John’s United Methodist
Church, 2626 Arizona NE
$30-45, quintessence-abq.com
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28
HOME FREE
KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW
Award-winning a cappella country group on their
Crazy Life Tour.
8 pm, $20-30, holdmyticket.com
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11
CÉSAR BAUVALLET AND TRADICIONES
Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE
Albuquerque bandleader trombonist, percussionist, composer and arranger César Bauvallet,
who also leads Son Como Son, Albuquerque’s
premier salsa band, brings his dynamic seven
piece Tradiciones ensemble to Outpost.
7:30 pm, $10-$15, 268-0044,
outpostspace.org
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18
DAVE MASON’S TRAFFIC JAM
KTAOS Solar Center, 9 New Mexico 150, Taos
Singer/songwriter and member of Traffic,
Fleetwood Mac and Derek and the Dominos
comes to Taos.
8 pm, $35, ktaos.com, holdmyticket.com,
(575) 758-5826
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19
CHATTER SUNDAY: SCHEPPS
SCHWARTZKOPF DUO
MOZART’S SOLEMN VESPERS
First United Methodist Church,
314 Lead Ave SW
New Mexico Symphony Chorus concert.
3 pm, $25-45, (800) 838-3006,
brownpapertickets.com, nmschorus.org
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
FILM
ONEBEAT ALBUQUERQUE AT THE
RAIL YARDS
THROUGH MARCH 15
Albuquerque Rail Yards, 777 1st St SW,
Music & art: 25 musical artists from 17 countries
and visual artists from Albuquerque, curated by
Billy Joe Miller; food trucks and activities for the
whole family. A collaboration between 516 Arts
and Found Sound Nation.
$5 donation, 5-9 pm, 516arts.org
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
ORCHID ENSEMBLE
Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE
A cultural exchange between Asian and Western
musicians.
3 pm, $22-27, ampconcerts.org,
holdmyticket.com
NOVEMBER 8-9
TRANSFIGURED NIGHT
St. Francis Auditorium (New Mexico Museum
of Art), 107 W Palace Ave, Santa Fe
Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra, Thomas
O’Connor, conductor, with Deborah Domanski,
mezzo-soprano.
Saturday, 4 pm, Sunday 3 pm, $20-65,
(505) 988-4640, The Lensic (505) 988-1234,
santafepromusica.com
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9
CHATTER CABARET: COMPOSERS FROM
THE GOLDEN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD
Hotel Andaluz, Casablanca Room,
125 2nd St NW, Downtown
Only five Sundays per year; tickets available
eight weeks in advance.
5 pm, $25, appetizers and drinks additional,
ChatterABQ.org
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16
TIME FOR THREE
KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW
Bach, Brahms, The Beatles and current pop.
3 pm, $28-42, ampconcerts.org,
holdmyticket.com, kimotickets.com, 768-3544
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21
LA SANTA CECILIA
PANDAS: THE JOURNEY HOME
Lockheed Martin Dyna Theater, New Mexico
Museum of Natural History, Old Town
About the efforts made all over the world to
save the Giant Panda.
11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm; times will change in
December; 841-2800,
nmnaturalhistory.org, ngpandas.com
THROUGH NOVEMBER 9
FILMS AT THE GUILD
The Guild Cinema, 3405 Central Ave NE
$5-10 unless otherwise listed, 255-1848,
for more movies: guildcinema.com
October 8-9, 6 pm, Song of the New Earth
October 8-9, 3:45 and 8 pm, The Trip to Italy
October 10-19, Twelfth Annual Southwest Gay
& Lesbian Film Festival, schedule: swglff.com
October 20-23, 6:45, Memphis
October 20-23, 4 pm and 8:30 pm, Midnight
Cowboy
October 24-29, 3 pm and 7:30 pm, 1,000 Times
Goodnight
October 24-29, 5:30 pm, Alive Inside
October 25-26, 1 pm, Awake: The Life of
Yogananda
October 30-31, check website for times, Double
Feature: A Voice in the Dark: Svengali (1931)
and Phantom of the Opera (1925)
October 31-November 1, 10:15 pm, Dead Snow
2: Red Vs. Dead
November 7-9, 4 pm and 8:15 pm,
Bjork: Biophilia Live
FESTIVALS, FIESTAS & FAMILY
OCTOBER 10-12
QUILT FIESTA
Santa Fe County Fairgrounds Exhibit Hall,
3229 Rodeo Road, Santa Fe
Traditional and contemporary quilts for sale and
raffle by members of the Northern New Mexico
Quilt Guild.
Friday-Saturday 10-5 pm, Sunday 10-4 pm,
$5 at the door, nnmqg.org
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18
The Cooperage, 7220 Lomas NE
Traditional songs of Scotland and his own music
by a fine singer.
7:30 pm, $17-22, ampconcerts.org,
Hold My Ticket, 505-886-1251
La Fonda Hotel Ballroom,
100 E San Francisco St, Santa Fe
2014 Grammy winners for Best Latin Rock,
Urban, or Alternative Album.
8 pm, $22-27, ampconcerts.org,
holdmyticket.com
2nd ANNUAL SOUTHWEST BACON FEST
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30
MONDAY, DECEMBER 1
RALPH ALESSI’S BAIDA QUARTET
DAKHABRAKHA
ALBUQUERQUE’S THRILL THE WORLD
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4
STORYSPACE: SPOOKY STORY NIGHT
WITH THE SPOOKULELE BAND
LEO KOTTKE
JIM MALCOLM
OCTOBER 11-NOVEMBER 22
Kosmos Performance Space at the Factory on
5th, 1715 Fifth St NW
Chamber music, poetry and coffee, in an
informal, acoustically excellent setting.
Doors open 9:30 am, $15 at the door,
chatterABQ.org
South Broadway Cultural Center,
John Lewis Theatre, 1025 Broadway SE
A showcase for classic-country musicians from
New Mexico.
2-4 pm, $5-7, 848-1320,
cabq.gov/south-broadway-cultural-center
JACKY TERRASSON TRIO
SOUNDS AND SWEET AIRS: SONGS OF
SHAKESPEARE
Popejoy Hall, UNM Main Campus,
203 Cornell Dr NE
October 11, Beethoven’s Ninth
November 1, Rodrigo’s Guitar Concierto de
Aranjuez
November 22, Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a
Theme of Paganini
6 pm, 925-5858, unmtickets.com, nmphil.org
COUNTRY & WESTERN SHOWCASE
Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE
Trumpeter Eric Vloeimans is one of the stars of
the vibrant European jazz scene and has been
described as having “a melodic style evocative
of late-period Miles Davis.”
7:30 pm, $15-$20, 268-0044, outpostspace.org
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 &
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12
NEW MEXICO PHILHARMONIC POPEJOY
CLASSICAL SERIES
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Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE
Trumpeter Ralph Alessi’s latest project features
pianist Gary Versace; bassist Mark Helias; and
drummer Nasheet Waits.
7:30 pm, $15-20, 268-0044, outpostspace.org
Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE
An evening of well-loved children’s stories
transformed into song by the Spookulele Band.
7:30 pm, Free for kids 12 and under and anyone
wearing a costume (glitter-free, please!) $5 for
others; 268-0044, outpostspace.org
The Dirty Bourbon, 9800 Montgomery Blvd NE
Presented by ¡Globalquerque!, “ethno-chaos”
in Eastern European roots music.
7:30 pm, $17-22, ampconcerts.org,
holdmyticket.com, 296-2726
KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW
Coffeehouse folk-rock guitarist and singer/songwriter of “Twelve String Blues” and “Mudlark.”
7:30 pm, $25-35, ampconcerts.org,
holdmyticket.com, kimotickets.com, 768-3544
Reach ABQ’s
most informed
audience
Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International
Balloon Museum, 9201 Balloon Museum Dr NE
$7 adult admission, passes are $25 and include
food, 880-0500, ABQBacon.com
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25
Keshet Center for the Arts, 4121 Cutler Ave NE
Thrill The World Albuquerque is looking for
dancing zombies to participate in the 6th annual
world-wide simultaneous Thriller dance for
charity. Zombies will rise up on Oct. 25 at exactly
4 pm at Keshet Center for the Arts parking lot.
No dance experience is necessary. All ages and
skill levels are welcome.
1-4 pm for rehearsal, costuming and
performance, Free, donations to Keshet are
accepted; Eventbrite registration:
TTWABQ2014.eventbrite.com
To Advertise:
Contact Sherri Barth
(505) 261-5686
sherri@freeabq.com
EVENTS
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CALENDAr
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26
OCTOBER 24-NOVEMBER 16
24TH ANNUAL ALBUQUERQUE
EQUESTRIAN CUP
THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING
EXPO New Mexico, State Fairgrounds
Dairy Barn, 300 San Pedro Dr NE
Horse jumping competition, auctions, artists,
food and beer, vendors, along with a kids’ corral
and a Dude Room. Sponsored by and for the
benefit of Rotary Club of Albuquerque, Share
Your Care Adult Day Services and Explora.
11:30 am-6 pm, $35 each or two for $50, VIP
tickets $75, Children 12 and under Free,
298-1700 ext. 31, abqec.org
The Adobe Theater, 9813 4th St NW
Carson McCullers’ touching and poignant play
centers around Frankie Addams, a twelve-yearold white girl caught between childhood
innocence and the throes of adolescence. This
coming-of-age play also explores the intrinsically
enmeshed lives of whites and blacks in the
American South, 1945. Directed by James Cady.
Friday-Saturday 7:30 pm, Sundays 2 pm,
Thursday November 13, 7:30 pm; $15,
898-9222, adobetheater.org
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20
NOVEMBER 7-23
GILDAN NEW MEXICO BOWL
26 MILES
University Stadium, University Blvd SE &
Avenida Cesar Chavez
It’s Mountain West Conference vs. Conference
USA at this 9th annual New Mexico college
football bowl, which will be broadcast on ESPN.
Kickoff: 12:20 pm MT, $25-400+,
(505) 925-5999, unmtickets.com,
gildannewmexicobowl.com
THEATER
THE DROWNING GIRLS
OH, SUSANA!
THROUGH NOVEMBER 29
SPIRITS OF SUSPICION
Foul Play Café, Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown,
2600 Louisiana Blvd NE
Fun and mystery, with dinner.
Friday-Saturday 7 pm, $56.50,
$35 for children, 377-9593, foulplaycafe.com
OCTOBER 9-19
THE MUSICAL ADVENTURE OF MIMI
AND THE GHOSTS
VSA North 4th Theatre, 4904 4th St NW
A new musical by local playwright Jason Witter,
with 26 local actors between the ages of 8-18.
Opening night Make-A-Wish Fundraiser
performance
Thursday, October 9, 6:30, $15.
Friday-Saturday 7 pm, Sunday 2 pm, $10,
cardboard-playhouse.org
OCTOBER 10-NOVEMBER 2
KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
Musical Theatre Southwest,
6320-B Domingo NE
In a Latin American prison, Molina tells his
cellmate, Valentin, his fantasies about an
actress, Aurora, who in one of her roles is a
Spider Woman who kills with a kiss.
Friday-Saturday 8 pm, Sunday 4 pm, $20-$22,
265-9119, musicaltheatresw.com
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24
MINDS INTERRUPTED
KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW
Stories of lives affected by mental illness.
7 pm, $15, kimotickets.com
The Box Performance Space, 100 Gold Ave SW
This original satire takes a look at what it truly
means to be a citizen of the 47th state (which
also happens to be our national ranking in education). Conceived and directed by Cody Dove,
an alumnus of Second City. Through Election
Tuesday; check show times.
9 pm, $17.50, 404-1578, theboxabq.com
DANCE
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12
ANNE MORROW’S “@HOME”
Keshet Center for the Arts, 4121 Cutler Ave NE
Original dance, followed by a Balloon Fiesta
reception.
7 pm, $20-25, 224-9808, holdmyticket.com,
keshetdance.org
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25
ALBUQUERQUE’S THRILL THE WORLD
Keshet Center for the Arts, 4121 Cutler Ave NE
Thrill The World Albuquerque is looking for
dancing zombies to participate in the 6th annual
world-wide simultaneous Thriller dance for charity. Zombies will rise up on Oct 25 at exactly 4
pm at Keshet Center for the Arts parking lot. No
dance experience is necessary. All ages and skill
levels are welcome.
1-4 pm for rehearsal, costuming and
performance, Free, donations to Keshet are
accepted; Eventbrite registration:
TTWABQ2014.eventbrite.com
BOOKS & POETRY
OCTOBER 10-NOVEMBER 6
BOOKWORKS, 4022 Rio Grande NW,
344-8139, bkwrks.com
Free unless otherwise noted, some events take
place at other venues as noted.
Oct. 10, 7 pm, Eve Rickert & Franklin Veaux,
“More Than Two,” on polyamory
Oct. 12, 3 pm, Juan Arellano, “Enduring
Acequias,” on SW water
Oct. 13, 7 pm, Rebecca Coffey, “Hysterical,”
Anna Freud’s story
Oct. 13-15, Andrew Weil, SIMPLE Conference,
ABQ & Santa Fe, unm.edu
AUTHOR APPEARANCES AT JEAN
COCTEAU CINEMA
Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma Ave,
Santa Fe
(505) 466-5528, jeancocteaucinema.com
October 13, Lev Grossman, “The Magician’s
Land”
October 19, Max Evans, “Goin’ Crazy with Sam
Peckinpah and All Our Friends”
REMAPPING THE TERRITORY
COMEDY
NOW-NOVEMBER 4
OCTOBER 13 & OCTOBER 19
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24
National Hispanic Cultural Center,
1701 4th Street SW
A new play by Quiara Alegría Hudes, part of
the Siembra, Latino Theatre Festival. Also will be
shown December 4-14 at Teatro Paraguas
in Santa Fe.
Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 pm, Saturday 2 pm,
$15-18, 724-4771, nhccnm.org
THROUGH OCTOBER 12
Duke City Repertory Theatre, The Cell Theatre,
700 1st St NW
Thursday-Saturday 8 pm, Sunday 2 pm,
797-7081, dukecityrep.com
Read the article by Barry Gaines in this issue of
ABQ Free Press.
Oct. 14, 7 pm, Art Schreiber, “Out of Sight,”
a memoir of blindness
Oct. 15, 7 pm, Johanna Skibsrud, “Quartet for
the End of Time,” a WWI novel
Oct. 16, 7 pm, Dmitry Samarov, “Where To?,”
a memoir of cab driving
Oct. 18, 3 pm, Nick Otero, “How Chiles Came
to New Mexico”
Oct. 18, 5 pm, Tawni Waters, “Beauty of the
Broken,” Young Adult romance
Oct. 19, 3 pm, Allen Salkin, “From Scratch,”
on the Food Network
Takes place at JCC Book Festival, Jewish
Community Center, 5520 Wyoming Blvd NE
Oct. 19, 5 pm, Carrie La Suer, “The Home
Place,” a debut thriller
Oct. 21, 7 pm, Craig Collins, “Thunder in the
Mountains,” on guns
Oct. 22, 7 pm, Glenna Luschei, “The Sky is
Shooting Blue Arrows,” new poetry
Oct. 22, 7 pm, Molly Antopol,
“The Unamericans,” acclaimed stories
Takes place at JCC Book Festival, Jewish
Community Center, 5520 Wyoming Blvd NE
Oct. 23, 7 pm, Katie Lane, “Ring in the
Holidays,” new romance
Oct. 23, 7 pm, Nicole Mones, “Night in
Shanghai”
Takes place at JCC Book Festival, Jewish
Community Center, 5520 Wyoming Blvd NE
Oct. 26, 3 pm, Gail Sheehy, “Daring”
Takes place at JCC Book Festival, Jewish
Community Center, 5520 Wyoming Blvd NE
Oct. 27, 7 pm, Chuck Palahniuk , “Beautiful
You,” new fiction
University of New Mexico, Student Union
Ballrooms B&C, Tickets: bkwrks.com
Oct. 30, 7 pm, Ray John de Aragon, “New
Mexico Book of the Undead”
Nov. 5, 7 pm, Tony Hoagland, “Twenty Poems
that Could Save America and Other Essays”
Nov. 6, 7 pm, Valerie Plame, “Burned,” a
Vanessa Pierson thriller
Nov. 6, 7 pm, Radley Balko, “Rise of the
Warrior Cop”
South Broadway Cultural Center, ACLU/APD
Forward event, cabq.gov/sbcc
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11
SALÓN ORTEGA
National Hispanic Cultural Center,
1701 4th Street SW
Ray John de Aragón, one of New Mexico’s
prolific Hispanic authors, reading from “New
Mexico Book of the Undead: Goblin and Ghoul
Folklore.” 2 pm, Free, nhccnm.org
EVENTS
CALENDAr
MUSEUMS
UNM Art Museum, 1 University of New Mexico
With donation, 277-4001, unmartmuseum.org
THROUGH JANUARY 21
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
EVERYBODY’S NEIGHBOR:
VIVIAN VANCE
ABQ WOW POETRY SLAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE
WOW stands for “Women of the World,”
presenting some of our best female performance
poets: Albuquerque Poet Laureate Jessica
Helen Lopez, Jasmine Cuffee, Brooke von
Blomberg, Emily Bjustrom, Eva Crespin,
Mercedez Holtry, Susanna Rinderle,
Sara Roman, and Gigi Bella.
7:30 pm, $5-10, 268-0044, outpostspace.org
DECEMBER 12-13
MARK NEPO
Albuquerque Center for Spiritual Living,
2801 Louisiana Blvd NE
Author talk and book signing.
6:30 pm, $30-100, 881-4311, abqcsl.org
TOURS
THURSDAYS, FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS,
YEAR ROUND
ALBUCREEPY DOWNTOWN
GHOST WALK
By ABQ Trolley Co., start at Hotel Andaluz,
125 2nd St NW
Led by an experienced paranormal investigator,
Albucreepy features historic (and reportedly
haunted) sites, including the KiMo Theater, Kiva
Auditorium, old Bernalillo County Courthouse,
Wool Warehouse, and the former red light
district known as “Hell’s Half Acre.” Rated PG13.
8 pm, 90 minutes, $25 with valet parking and
free appetizers at Ibiza or MAS, albucreepy.com
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18
SANTA FE MODERN HOMES TOUR
Various locations, self-guided, at your own pace.
11 am-5 pm, $30 in advance online, $40 day of,
modernhometours.com
The Museum of Indian Arts and
Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology,
Museum Hill, 710-708 Camino Lejo, (off Old
Santa Fe Trail), Santa Fe
More than 50 images from the Palace of
Governors Photo Archives, spanning 100 years.
With museum admission, (505) 476-1250,
indianartsandculture.org
Albuquerque Museum, 19th & Mountain Rd NW
She got her start at the KiMo Theatre and
Albuquerque Little Theatre, and you can view
her mementos and participate in this multimedia
exhibit.
With museum admission, 243-7255,
cabq.gov/museum
New Mexico History Museum,
113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe
Religious art that survived from churches in
Mexico, Peru and New Mexico.
With museum admission, (505) 476-5200,
nmhistorymuseum.org
THROUGH MAY 2015
SECRETS OF THE SYMBOLS
Museum of Spanish Colonial Art,
750 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe
What signs and symbols, colors and motifs
meant in Spanish colonial art.
With museum admission, (505) 982-2226,
spanishcolonial.org
OPENING OCTOBER 24
POTTERY OF THE U.S. SOUTH:
A LIVING TRADITION
International Museum of Folk Art,
706 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe
Regional pottery from the southern states.
With museum admission, (505) 476-1200,
internationalfolkart.org
ALDEN MARIN BENEFIT ART EXHIBITION
FOR ST. MARTIN’S HOPE CENTER
OCTOBER 17-NOVEMBER 7
516 WORDS: HEARTS AND MINDS
ART FROM BEIJING
Park Fine Art, 323 Romero St NW
Opening Reception Friday, October 17, 5-8 pm
Park Fine Art presents a two-man show from
Beijing, China, featuring Quan Xuejun and
Zhou Qi. Free, 764-1900, parkfineart.com
OCTOBER 24-25
13TH ANNUAL EL DORADO
ARTS & CRAFTS FALL SHOW
St. John’s United Methodist Church,
1200 Old Pecos Trail at Cordova Rd, Santa Fe
A variety of work on sale by 46 artists. Friday
3-7 pm, Saturday 9-5 pm, Free, eldoart.org
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
ONEBEAT ALBUQUERQUE AT THE
RAIL YARDS
THROUGH FEBRUARY 15
PAINTING THE DIVINE: IMAGES OF
MARY IN THE NEW WORLD
516 WORDS: HEARTS AND MINDS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11
Harvey family items, jewelry and pottery sold in
the shops, the role of the railroad.
1504 Millicent Rogers Rd, Taos
(575) 758-2462, millicentrogers.org
THROUGH MARCH 29
NOVEMBER 14-16
Jewish Community Center,
5520 Wyoming Blvd NE
Opening Reception, October 16, 5-7 pm.
Mark M. Feldman Stone Sculpture
Showcase Free, jccabq.org for open hours,
markmfeldmansculptor.wix.com
516 Arts, 516 Central Ave SW
Meditations on youth, mentorship and legacy
in response to the artwork of Floyd D. Tunson,
whose multimedia work adorns the entrance.
Free, 7 pm, 516arts.org
THROUGH OCTOBER 20
BIOPARK PHOTO CONTEST ONLINE
VOTING
Look at the photo contest submissions and vote
for your favorites in each category online at
cabq.gov/culturalservices/biopark/about-thebiopark/contests/photo-contest-2014
THROUGH OCTOBER 30
ALAN PAINE RADEBAUGH
Harwood Art Center, 1114 7th St NW
“Small Works: Ghost of Sea 2014”
Free, 242-6367, harwoodartcenter.org
THROUGH NOVEMBER 10
IN•STRUCT
VSA North Fourth Art Center, 4904 4th St NW
Artwork by artist teachers, administrative staff
and volunteers of VSA/North Fourth Art Center,
serving the arts and disabilities community for
30 years.
Monday-Friday 10-4 pm, Free, vsartsnm.org
THROUGH NOVEMBER 15
JULIE BLACKMON
photo-eye Gallery, 541 South Guadalupe,
Santa Fe
“Homegrown,” large-scale, contemporary color
photographs.
Free, (505) 988-5159, photoeye.com
Expo New Mexico, 300 San Pedro Dr NE
Large art show presented by the Pastel Society
of New Mexico.
For more information: pastelsnm.org
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11
LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED
FRED HARVEY AND THE MAKING OF
THE AMERICAN WEST
Museum of International Folk Art, 706 Camino
Lejo, Santa Fe, (505) 476-1200
107 artworks by masters of the wood-carving
craft.
With museum admission, internationalfolkart.org
23rd ANNUAL NATIONAL PASTEL
PAINTING EXHIBITION
OCTOBER 15-DECEMBER 30
THROUGH JANUARY 31
WOODEN MENAGERIE: MADE IN
NEW MEXICO
NOVEMBER 1-30
BEWITCHING IV
516 Arts, 516 Central Ave SW
Meditations on youth, mentorship and legacy
in response to the artwork of Floyd D. Tunson,
whose multimedia work adorns the entrance.
Free, 7 pm, 516arts.org
THROUGH JANUARY 5
MONDAY, OCTOBER 27
OCTOBER 10-NOVEMBER 9
Stranger Factory, 109 Carlisle Blvd NE
Opening reception Friday, October 10, 6-9 pm.
Halloween group show of all things dark
and spooky.
Free, 508-3049, strangerfactory.com
DAVID MAISEL/BLACK MAPS: AMERICAN
LANDSCAPE AND THE APOCALYPTIC
SUBLIME; LUZ RESTIRADA: LATIN
AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY; PERMANENT COLLECTION, JONSON GALLERY;
and THE GIFT
NATIVE AMERICAN PORTRAITS:
POINTS OF INQUIRY
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5
ARTSPREE
THROUGH DECEMBER 20
Bank of America Theatre, National Hispanic
Cultural Center, 1701 4th Street SW
A book signing, lecture, and discussion with
Dr. Felipe Fernández-Armesto, History Professor
at the University of Notre Dame and author of
“Our America: A Hispanic History of the United
States,” and Dr. Thomas Chávez. Presented by
Instituto Cervantes and the National Hispanic
Cultural Center.
6 pm, Free, nhccnm.org
University of New Mexico Student Union,
UNM Main Campus
“Fight Club” author Palahniuk speaks and
entertains. His new book, “Beautiful You,” is a
satire of the sex toy industry. Co-sponsored by
Bookworks and the UNM Student Union.
7 pm, Admission requires purchase of signed
hardcover book, ticketholders can bring one
guest for $5 additional.
Tickets: bkwrks.com/chuck-palahniuk
ABQ FREE PRESS • October 8, 2014 • PAGE 23
Albuquerque Rail Yards, 777 1st St SW,
Music & art: 25 musical artists from 17 countries, visual artists from Albuquerque, curated by
Billy Joe Miller; food trucks and activities for the
whole family. A collaboration between 516 Arts
and Found Sound Nation.
$5 donation, 5-9 pm, 516arts.org
Scott Michael Gallery and
Page Coleman Gallery
Opening reception: Friday, November 14,
5-8 pm, Free
Contemporary artist, Alden Marin has generously donated 218 pieces of original work to be
sold to strengthen mental health services for the
homeless in Albuquerque through the work of
St. Martin’s. 100% of all sales will go directly to
benefit St. Martin’s mental health and behavioral
services outreach programs.
109 California St NE (Scott Michael Gallery) and
6320-B Linn Avenue NE (Page Coleman Gallery;
near NE corner of San Pedro and Central)
Scott Michael Gallery, 681-5669,
scottmichaelgallery.com; Page Coleman Gallery,
238-5071, pagecolemangallery.com
Crossword Puzzle appears on page 24
CROSSWORD
PAGE 24 • October 8, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS
Bring in the Harvest
CLOSING OCTOBER 25
South Valley Growers’ Market
Cristo Del Valle Presbyterian Church,
3907 Isleta Blvd. SW
Saturdays, 8 am - 12 pm
Armijo Village Growers’ Market
SW Corner of Isleta Blvd. & Arenal Rd.
Saturdays, 8 am - 12 pm
Bosque Farms Growers’ Market
1090 North Bosque Loop
Saturdays, 8 am - 12 pm
ABQ Uptown Growers’ Market
NE parking lot of ABQ Uptown shopping center,
past Trader Joe’s
Saturdays, 7 am - 12 pm
CLOSING OCTOBER 26
Corrales Growers’ Market
Recreation Center, 500 Jones Rd. & Corrales
Rd., south of the post office
Sundays, 9 am - 12 pm
CLOSING OCTOBER 28
Los Lunas Farmers’ Market
3447 Lambros Circle
Tuesdays, 4 pm - 7 pm
I
t’s your last chance to reap the bounty
of New Mexico’s Farmers’ Markets.
Many of them close at the end of
October or in early November. Get
your market basket on and pick up
the makings of a seasonal feast.
Albuquerque Growers’ Market at
Presbyterian
Presbyterian Hospital parking lot at 1300 block
of Central Ave. SE (Spruce & Sycamore)
Tuesdays, 7 am - 12 pm
CLOSING NOVEMBER 2
Albuquerque: Rail Yards Market
CLOSING OCTOBER 14
ABQ Rail Yards, 777 1st St. SW
Sundays, 9 am - 3 pm
Cedar Crest Farmers’ Market
CLOSING NOVEMBER 6
12224 N. Hwy. 14
Wednesdays, 3 pm - 6:30 pm
Nob Hill Growers’ Market
CLOSING OCTOBER 15
Morningside Park, Lead & Morningside SE
Thursdays, 3 pm - 6:30 pm
UNM Lobo Growers’ Market
CLOSING NOVEMBER 8
Cornell Mall, UNM Main Campus
Days vary, 10 am - 2 pm
CLOSING OCTOBER 18
Edgewood Farmers’ Market
Tractor Supply Company, 5 Marietta Ct.
Saturdays, 3 pm - 6 pm
CLOSING OCTOBER 24
Zia Bernalillo Farmers’ Market
Location: 335 S. Camino del Pueblo (next to
Our Lady of Sorrows Church on Main St., SR 313)
Tuesdays & Fridays, 4 pm - 7 pm
Barry Gaines
previews “The
Monkey’s Paw” at
UNM’s Experimental
Theatre in the
October 22 issue of
ABQ Free Press.
Albuquerque Downtown Growers’
Market
Robinson Park, 8th & Central
Saturdays, 8 am - 1 pm September - November
Albuquerque Downtown Growers’
Market: Wednesday Satellite
Albuquerque Civic Plaza,
Marquette Ave NW & 4th
Wednesdays, 11 am - 2 pm
Los Ranchos Growers’ Market
City Hall, 6718 Rio Grande Blvd. NW
Saturdays, 8 am - 12 pm
It’s a Numbers Game By Myles Mellor and Sally York
Across
1. More than some
5. “___ Smile” (1976 hit)
9. Spray setting
13. Lou Gehrig, on the diamond
14. Donnybrook
15. Knowing about
16. Artist Bonheur
17. Be part of the cast
18. Brought into play
19. Simple addition
22. Elton John, e.g.
23. ___ souci
24. Mozart’s “L’___ del Cairo”
27. Like a bunch
29. Debonair
32. Undergrad degs.
33. Catches
36. Whole alternative
37. Ecstatic
42. Old German duchy name
43. Ready for anything
44. Wrath
45. Layers
47. It’s found in banks
49. Blonde’s secret, maybe
50. Vex, with “at”
52. Word from the decks
54. Literary homeowners
62. Shades
63. Roundish
64. Christiania, now
65. Tropical fruit
66. Rewards
67. Simpleton
68. Some beans
69. “___ quam videri” (North Carolina’s motto)
70. Chops
Down
1. Big do
2. “Crazy” bird
3. Yorkshire river
4. Snares
5. Jiffs
6. Karen Carpenter, for one
7. Checks, with in
8. Trojan hero
9. Greek dish
10. Acad.
11. Potpourri
12. Big deal
14. Gibb brother
20. Ceiling
21. Occupied, as a lavatory
24. ___-Wan Kenobi
25. Art able to
26. Very, in music
28. Australian rock band
30. Clear
31. File material
34. “Harper Valley ___”
35. Jerk
38. Textual interpretation
39. “From the Earth to the Moon” writer
40. Signals
41. Society page word
46. Strauss opera
48. Storm part
51. Other halves
53. Age
54. As a result
55. “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” writer
56. Bank
57. “Little piggies”
58. All alternative
59. “Cast Away” setting
60. Worm or lamp
61. Creates a lawn