Duke City Fix

• Big Changes Afoot @ DCF

  For about 2 months now, we've been secretly working on a new version of Duke City Fix and its forum.
  
  This weekend we launch!
  
  During the transition period over the next 48 hours, you may notice sporadic outages while we point our domain to the new site.
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  Posted: November 17, 2007, 9:15am EST
  

• A Little Early Festivity

  My husband is making his way back from Oracle World in California so I'm at loose ends until his late night pickup. What to do tonight while waiting for the plane? I pick Christmasy arty goodness! Tonight at Richard Levy Gallery from 6pm-8pm is the Friends of Art [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2007, 11:30am EST
  

• Morning Fix: Planes & Trains

  • Battery, cellphone recycling awareness program underway.
  
  
  • Bad news if a $5 beer settles your nerves when flying U.S. Air from PHX to ABQ. The state has denied the airline's liquor application.
  
  
  • The city and Amtrak to refurbish the local train station. Amtrak will move to the Greyhound-Americanos [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2007, 5:06am EST
  

• The Gourmet Side of Lunch

  I don't normally associate Old Town with fine dining. I've had too many mediocre tourist-priced meals there over the years. Sometimes it's important to rediscover the gems that buck the trend. So we found ourselves in La Crepe Michel for lunch.
  
  I have a special fondness for restaurants [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2007, 12:15pm EST
  

• Morning Fix: News from Home, Abroad

  • N.M. remains high on hunger list. The state ranks second in the nation.
  
  
  • The county clink is packed past capacity, as usual.
  
  
  • New life for railroad yard? City government takes control of dilapidated, Barelas property.
  
  
  • Iranian TV notes ABQ middle schools are airing the Persian-language [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2007, 5:55am EST
  

• You spin me right round, baby

  I miss vinyl record albums. I miss the ritual of examining the cover artwork. I miss reading the liner notes and all the fine print to make sure I knew who wrote what songs, who played on the record and who the artist thanked. I miss the days of going [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2007, 10:00am EST
  

• Morning Fix: Cheery Wednesday

  
  
  • Drug-resistant gonorrhea on the march.
  
  
  • Rob Fresh: Local Subway robbed three times in two weeks.
  
  
  • Chamber of Commerce calls attention to property crime in ABQ. Also, ABQ thieves like Ford pickup trucks..
  
  
  • $260,000 for the new school superintendent.
  
  
  • By the way, the school [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2007, 5:30am EST
  

• Chavez and the newfangled webcast thingie

  Having ignored the earlier "blogger conference call" hosted a couple of weeks ago by Senate candidate Marty Chavez, I decided to log on to his webcast tonight at ustream.tv. Marjorie was there from M-Pyre with the night's most pressing question about NAFTA.
  
  I thought it was [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2007, 7:12pm EST
  

• Modern Dance at Navajo Elementary School

  NEAR BARCELONA & COORS SW--The students of Yvette Groves' class knew the three rules by heart. And when dance instructor Jackie Oliver raised her hand the class shouted in unison. The whole portable building vibrated from the steel beams under the floor to the tin roof over head.Work hard!
  
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  Posted: November 13, 2007, 10:00am EST
  

• One Night Only - German Theatre Group in ABQ

  In what promises to be a little like Road Rules meets the theater scene, German Theater Abroad and FUSION Theatre Company are proud to present the marauding and adventurous play, "Start Up" by Roland Schimmelpfennig, for one performance only on Sunday, November 18 at 6 pm.
  
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  Posted: November 13, 2007, 8:57am EST
  

• Morning Fix: Still Using Nine-Tenths

  • Spiking oil prices pinch Meals on Wheels.
  
  
  • Firewood also is expensive.
  
  
  • Grandparents raising their grandchildren ask for family law reform to make the job easier.
  
  
  • Saga over a 128-year-old destroyed adobe building in Valencia Co. Neighbor allegedly levelled the building and snatched the vigas.
  
  
  • Frontierland [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2007, 6:30am EST
  

• Mid-Day Fix: Only Better

  • Sunport fuel truck spill causes air traffic delays around the nation.
  
  
  • Intersections of Death band-aid isn't popular, and competent urban planning isn't a hot topic at the moment.
  
  
  • Accused deputy-killer Michael Paul Astorga reports that prison guards feed him meals infested with hair and insects served [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2007, 10:34am EST
  

• The Saturday Evening Postcard: The Franciscan Hotel...Built 1922, Demolished About 1970

  DOWNTOWN--Designed by Trost & Trost of El Paso, the Franciscan was considered to be the epitome of what is known as "Pueblo Revival" architecture.
  
  The Trosts were also the architects for the Sunshine Building, the Rosenwald Building, and the First National Bank Building (now the Banque Lofts). For [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2007, 10:12pm EST
  

• The Fruits of My *Ahem* Labor

  I am often amazed by what grows in Albuquerque. Last week my neighbor called me to let me know a package of mine had been delivered to her. When I went over to get it she showed me the saffron stigmas that she was harvesting from her yard-so cool! [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2007, 10:00am EST
  

• Morning Fix: Our Country for a Dairy Section

  • We Suck At Driving: Motorists Hit Railroad Crossing Bar 15 Times During Past Two Months.
  
  
  • Four UNM profs try to explain New Mexico.
  
  
  • Much-needed grocery finally coming to Downtown More yammering about the mother-loving arena. Like listening to a child make excuses for not doing his school [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2007, 5:30am EST
  

• Morning Fix: Sunny and Hip

  • ABQ among Sunbelt cities attracting 25-34 demo workers.
  
  
  • The CIA seeks Spanish-speaking recruits. We suppose the Monroe Doctrine is still in effect, at least as far as Langley is concerned.
  
  
  • Sen. Domenici worried about energy worker shortage.
  
  
  • KOAT has online poll about N.M.'s best city, [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2007, 5:30am EST
  

• Crazy cool accordion tip from a reader

  From W.S.
  
  I've got a tip about a performance at the Outpost this Saturday by accordionist Guy Klucevsek.
  
  For anyone that's musically adventurous, this is a rare chance to see a phenomenal musician performing some truly original music.
  
  He is featured in the wonderful film [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2007, 10:06pm EST
  

• Adelita: Character Counts

  How do you define the essence of a city? Is it the climate, the cultural scene, the architecture? For me, the very essence of ?Burque can be best described by its cast of characters.
  
  Every town has them. I lived in San Francisco in the early 90?s and [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2007, 10:00am EST
  

• How Hot is the Sun in Albuquerque...?

  ...It's so hot that when my husband leaves his magnifying shaving mirror facing the window, it burns a solar calendar onto the wood panelling on the wall! I know, not a great punchline, but you should have heard me laugh when I finally tracked down the source of that burning [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2007, 9:55am EST
  

• Morning Fix: Not Yet Tenured

  
  

  • UNM prof. Charles Truxillo, that Chicano nationalism guy who scares the piss out of otherwise fearless cultural warriors, could be looking for work next semester. We predict a lawsuit, rallies or a walk-out, a news link on Drudge, props from Don Schrader -- or not.
  
  
  • Albuquerque police [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2007, 5:30am EST
  

• Topping The List of Weird Things I've Seen Today

  I'm pretty sure the gentlemen at this apartment complex are skinning a deer. In the middle of an apartment complex. Um, is that kosher?
  
  I'm actually positive it's not kosher, but I'm also pretty sure it's not a common occurrence in the middle of Uptown. God I love [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2007, 2:23pm EST
  

• a little birdy

  ...tells us that the staff of a certain troubled local newspaper had a huge meeting this morning. Anyone care to comment (anonymously, natch), about the content of that rumored meeting?
  
  We also hear that a certain other local paper (which has already snapped up a few columnists from [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2007, 1:50pm EST
  

• Lives of Birds: The Raven & the Owl

  NOB HILL--Anything is possible on Central Ave. Even so, when I saw that Raven trying to chat up a plastic owl it caught my attention. I wondered what sort of line he was handing her. My personal favorite heard along this stretch of restaurants and bars is, "Say Babe, are [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2007, 10:37am EST
  

• Morning Fix: Prophecy in the News

  • Illegal immigrants not eligable eligible for Gov. Richardson health plan that doesn't exist.
  
  
  • N.E. couple face 26 felony charges related to underage-alcohol party.
  
  
  • Valencia Country closes several railroad crossings following the two Railrunner Express fatalities, and Belen folks are furious.
  
  
  • Rob Zombie plans Dec. 3 show.
  
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  Posted: November 06, 2007, 5:29am EST
  

• Morning Fix: We Like Tucson, Too

  
  
  • In the unknown competition over Downtown Development between sisters Albuquerque and Tucson, the Duke City is moving along faster. If only ABQ Downtown had a grocery or Walgreens.
    A photo slide show from the Daily Star.
  
  
  • Albuquerque police officer survives shooting incident; Albuquerque police officer [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2007, 5:30am EST
  

• The Saturday Evening Postcard: El Vado Court...Opened 1937, Closed 2005

  Route 66 & El Rio Grande--The El Vado Court has been on Route 66 from the day the route started coming through Tijeras Canyon, crossed the river, and continued straight west. Prior to 1937 Route 66 came in from the north on 4th St. and went down through Isleta Pueblo [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2007, 7:31pm EDT
  

• Itchycoo Park

  A guestblogger post by Alex Marentes.
  
  Back in my high school days I grew up listening to Carlos Santana. My crazy friends and I would drive around all over the south valley jamming to his music for hours.
  
  One of the songs, actually there is no singing [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2007, 8:34am EDT
  

• Top DCF Posts

  This weekend I'm spending some serious time pouring over the top posts on the Duke City Fix. Stories that you people seem to return to over and over again.
  
  Frankly, a few of them surprised me. I mean, I knew intellectually that anything on the web with the [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2007, 7:52am EDT
  

• If I Didn't Have So Much Homework This Weekend...

  ...I would spend Friday night (tonight) at the Choice Art Auction at Downtown Contemporary Art Center from 5pm-9:30pm-one of DCAC's last events
  
  I would spend Saturday night at the opening reception for R. A. i. R. Works 40 and Loosely Joined at 516 Arts from 6pm-8pm
  
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  Posted: November 02, 2007, 9:21am EDT
  

• Morning Fix: They Even Had It on the News

  • Paul W. Tibbets Jr., pilot of the Enola Gay, has died. Tibbets lived in Ohio, but you can't tell New Mexico's story without Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
  
  
  • New Mexico tops the nation in death from accidental injuries.
  
  
  • Holder of a winning, unclaimed Powerball ticket about the join [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2007, 5:30am EDT
  

• And now Udall! Maybe.

  ABQ Journal: Udall Reconsidering U.S. Senate Run
  
  "I just got a call from someone very knowledgable about N.M. Democratic politics who says Rep. Tom Udall's people are calling the party's heavy hitters in the state this morning to inform them he is reconsidering a run for the U.S. [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2007, 4:26pm EDT
  

• Pre-Day of the Dead

  A guestblogger post by Martini Mike
  
  So yesterday turned out to be day of the dead trick-or-treater traffic! So sad, my favorite holiday turns out to be dead. I mean, the trick-or-treaters weren?t dead; the traffic itself was dead.
  
  What happened?
  
  Last year was [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2007, 3:01pm EDT
  

• Let's Do the Time Warp

  Ah, the '50s. A magical time when all the cars were cool, chrome was king, Ozzie & Harriet were the ultimate family and the kids hung out at the local soda fountain. Lucky for Albuquerque, we still have a local soda fountain at the Model Pharmacy at Lomas/Carlisle/Monte Vista.
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  Posted: November 01, 2007, 12:21pm EDT
  

• John Budagher 1918-2007

  He owned old Budagher's Bar out on the road half-way to Santa Fe before La Bajada hill. I remember it clearly but can't find any old pictures of the place.
  
  His excellent obituary, published in the Albuquerque Journal, tells us he was born in Pena Blanca near Santa [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2007, 7:15am EDT
  

• Morning Fix: Candy Corn Crash

  • Fossilized footprints of amphibians predating dinosaurs by 100 million years discovered.
  
  
  • New Mexico Activities Association has posted online historic high school championship games. Check that Lobo at center court of The Pit and boo along for the 1977 battle between Albuquerque and Highland high schools. They were [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2007, 5:26am EDT
  

• Rabbits, pirates, and jellyfish: It's Halloween in Albuquerque.

  This year's Halloween bike ride down Route 66 featured a jellyfish, 2 rabbits, a mission-bound Mormon, a pirate, an astronaut, some kind of half-naked Greek goddess, and dozens of various and sundry costumed bike-riding adults.
  
  How was Halloween in your hood?
  
  UPDATE: Here's a link to the latest [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2007, 9:36pm EDT
  

• More Tribune Rumors...Some Not So Good

  No severance pay for Tribune writers?
  Emily Esterson ??? to head a new morning Tribune?
  Santa Fe New Mexican in on it?
  
  These are some of the rumors that have been flying up and down I-25 for the last couple of days. DW Turner has been in negotiations with [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2007, 3:11pm EDT
  

• Adelita: The Scariest Halloween Ever!

  My father was a dentist and my mother was a proud member of the Albuquerque Auxiliary of Dental Wives in the 60?s and 70?s. These ladies were ambassadors of good oral hygiene to the citizens of Albuquerque.
  
  I remember they would take cases of toothbrushes, toothpaste and floss [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2007, 9:58am EDT
  

• Morning Fix: Bonfires Burning Bright

  • Updated Link - A Johns Hopkins national study doesn't look kindly on Albuquerque high schools. Local higher-ups dismiss study, label it "flawed."
  
  
  • An agreement is forged with Montaño Plaza and bus riders.
  
  
  • N.M. mulls mandating higher-efficiency vehicles. Cost of four-wheeled depreciating assets expected to increase.
  
  
  • [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2007, 5:30am EDT
  

• Hooray for ABQ pride!

  From the NY Times:
  
  "...cities not widely considered gay meccas have seen a sharp increase in same-sex couples. Among them: Fort Worth; El Paso; Albuquerque; Louisville, Ky.; and Virginia Beach, according to census figures and extrapolations by Dr. Gates for The New York Times. ?Twenty years ago, if you [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2007, 12:13pm EDT
  

• A Rain Barrel for the Size Conscious

  NOB HILL--We just bought a 100 gallon rain barrel. It looked pretty big in the showroom. It looked even bigger on our brand-new patio. And by the time I had hooked it up to the roof gutter, it looked like a project from the U.S. Corps of Engineers.
  
  And [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2007, 9:00am EDT
  

• Morning Fix: Prison Culture on the Outside

  • ChiTrib catches up with former Lobo Brian Urlacher, referred to by the Packer Backers as "overrated."
  
  
  • Texas tops N.M. in pecan production, losers. Try harder.
  
  
  • Police thwart crime 4-evr, taking a bite out of what have you.
  
  
  • Forces of Good tell snarling-and-evil school district what to [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2007, 5:33am EDT
  

• Peak cottonwood action in the bosque

  Plan a picnic for this weekend as our venerable and beloved cottonwood bosque promises to hit its Fall color peak any day.
  
  You can park here and head south into the bosque along groomed trails. Or here's a list of additional access points to our city's [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2007, 8:55pm EDT
  

• Environmental Heroes?

  A major national magazine (which I won't name, but they're published somewhere in the state of New Mexico - and I don't mean Su Casa!) is putting together their list of Green All Stars for their March issue.
  
  That's "visionaries, celebrities, scientists, artists, writers, politicians, athletes, travelers, [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2007, 4:23pm EDT
  

• Morning Fix: City of Crazies

  • This is pretty cool, time-lapsed video of the 2007 balloon fiesta. Part Godfrey Reggio, part Sony bouncy balls.
  
  
  • For you marching band fans, coverage from the Zia competition this past weekend.
  
  
  • Coverage from the X Prize competition.
  
  
  • Captive audience fends off personal debt predators.
  
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  Posted: October 29, 2007, 5:30am EDT
  

• The Saturday Evening Postcard: Oklahoma Joe's on Route 66

  UNIVERSITY & ROUTE 66--Albuquerque has a tradition of fine barbeque. Maybe the first was Oklahoma Joe's. Eventually the building morphed into Okie Joe's, the most famous UNM drinking establishment of all times. Later it was just known as Okie's.
  
  Okie's used to host "Ten-cent Beer Nites." The beer [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2007, 7:00pm EDT
  

• Marty Chavez calls Tom Udall out

  Call it an obsession. A fixation, maybe? Albuquerque's Mayor Martin Chavez seems to have a thing about slamming people as being ?far left? and ?left-wing.?
  
  Case in point: This week New Mexico?s best political blogger/journalist, Heath Haussamen interviewed Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez, who has announced his candidacy [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2007, 3:06pm EDT
  

• UNM hosts epic chalk war

  Last weekend, an unknowing UNM hosted an epic chalk battle. The pro-choice and pro-life crowds battled it out, putting messages about how abortion kills children against ones about how abortion doesn't kill children. One of them said Abortion != killing of kids, with one of those crossed out equal signs [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2007, 10:34pm EDT
  

• Days of the Dead in Albuquerque

  A selection of Halloween and Day of the Dead activities goin' on throughout Albuquerque...
  
  Day of the Tread: Benefit for Carrie Tingley Hospital
  
  www.dayofthetread.com
  
  When: Sunday, Oct. 28 2007, 7am
  Where: The start/finish line is at the Embassy Suites Hotel & Spa (map)
  Cost: $35 [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2007, 8:11am EDT
  

• Bonus Fix: UNM Leaks DWI SatPat

  From UNM email:

  • DWI Checkpoints and Saturation Patrols will be happening throughout Bernalillo County beginning Friday Oct. 26th and continuing through Sunday November 4th. Sheriff's Deputies will be looking for people driving under the influence, aggressive driving violations, and seatbelt violations. Be Safe, Be Smart, Don't Drink & Drive!

  
  

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  Posted: October 26, 2007, 6:14am EDT
  

• Morning Fix: Airbrushing Away Details Daily

  
  
  • As sustainability studies are all the rage, rest easy that UNM's transportation system gets good marks.
  
  
  • Carom Club plans refurbishment.
  
  
  • PR Newswire opened an office here within the past year, so every now and then there is a news release going out with some tidbit carrying [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2007, 5:30am EDT
  

• What's with the cage houses?

  By Pepeye
  
  I'm a fairly recent transplant to Albuquerque. Generally, the process of getting to know Albuquerque has been going just fine. There is one question, however, that has been bugging me for a while now:
  
  What's with all the cage houses? The example shown in the [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2007, 1:45pm EDT
  

• Attn: Photogs (and photography fans)

  Two things:
  
  1. Local photographer Kip Malone signs copies of his fab new book Albuquerque Impressions TODAY at Bookworks, 7PM.
  
  2. Those crazy digital billboards up all over town are the latest best place to view the work of local photographers. Follow the jump to [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2007, 11:28am EDT
  

• Morning Fix: Pushing Back Gentrification

  • Highland High decries gun violence with rally. Shooter of recently killed Highland student still at large, say police.
  
  
  • Forbes propels ABQ in Top 10 job markets list. Tech and government sectors credited.
  
  
  • The Trib explains El Kookooee. Burning is Sunday.
  
  
  • Frontierland apoplectic about Big Thunder [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2007, 4:27am EDT
  

• Adelita: A Tribute to George

  El Madrid Bar - back in the 80?s this place was my ?Cheers?, but with velvet paintings of nude women and ships. I know there?s a whole bunch of us that have been around long enough to remember the heyday of El Madrid.
  
  This was a [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2007, 10:14am EDT
  

• Morning Fix: Case of the Wednesdays

  • Iraq occupation will never end.
  
  
  • Eat at KOB: Airplane advertising gets TV news airtime.
  
  
  • Business Weekly has online poll about the types of co-workers that bug you most. So far, brown-nosers are winning few friends.
  
  
  • Not that this has anything to do with the previous item, but [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2007, 5:08am EDT
  

• Last-minute migrating Monarch

  Shortly before the big cold wind blew in, a last-minute straggler stopped by our garden. Hovering, landing, and then again and again, sipping on an orange sunflower.
  
  Just a brush-by for a Mexico-bound Monarch, getting out before the really bad stuff comes.This creature didn?t sport a little white [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2007, 4:59pm EDT
  

• Remembering the 'Happiest Years'

  NOB HILL--I taught elementary school here in Albuquerque for 31 years--nine years teaching kindergarten and the rest in 4th and 5th grades. I was at Monte Vista Elementary School right here in the Nob Hill area for 18 of those years.
  
  Yesterday I received an email from South [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2007, 9:20am EDT
  

• Morning Fix: More Expensive to Live Here

  • Amtrak train kills pedestrian near 1st, Interstate 40.
  
  
  • Tuition at four-year N.M. universities climbing faster than national average.
  
  
  • ABQ Chamber of Commerce cheerleads for PNM electric rate increase. State, ABQ, UNM, Intel question need for rate hike.
  
  
  • Navajo Nation moving forward with casino plans.
  
  
  • Rally [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2007, 5:30am EDT
  

• My cool friend Roberta

  My cool friend Roberta has had an interesting life. She grew up on a farm in Canada, left her first marriage, raised 4 children, was a nurse, lived in Hawaii for a while and now works part time as a hospice nurse. And she writes books about her experiences. She [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2007, 10:33am EDT
  

• Morning Fix: These Questions Three

  • Smoking ban at UNM campus? WARNING: Video link, because that is how KOAT rolls.
  
  
  • Will fate of Trib be decided this week? "Two month" journalism sell-off began Aug. 28.
  
  
  • It is warm, and then it is cold. Today will be cold again; high in the mid-50s.

  • Mavis [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2007, 5:30am EDT
  

• Biannual Swamp Cooler Love

  Wunderground.com is predicting lows in the mid 20's to lower 30's tonight. I just did a quick and dirty job of putting my swamp cooler to sleep for the winter so the water won't freeze in the water line. It was dark and wet up there but don't worry, [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2007, 7:41pm EDT
  

• All Yam Please

  Okay, so in the interest of full disclosure, I should say that I am writing this post using the wifi at the downtown Flying Star. There are some things that are just hard to avoid. I'm with a friend of mine-- she's over hanging out with a bunch of [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2007, 7:05pm EDT
  

• Dia de los Dearly Departed

  I kind of can't believe what hit my inbox this afternoon. Not that I think it's wrong. More that it made me giggle. I've pulled the name of the sponsoring arts organization, because I really can't deal with being told that I'm "mean":
  
  Upcoming [Name Omitted] Dia de Muertos [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2007, 4:57pm EDT
  

• Harwood Art Center Open Studios

  Here is a last minute reminder for the art lovers out there; tonight is the biannual Open Studios at Harwood Art Center from 5-8:30pm. The artists with studios at Harwood open them to the public so go by and check out some great art!
  
  Harwood Art Center
  [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2007, 1:41pm EDT
  

• Morning Fix: Institutional Awareness

  • UNM Econ Egghead: State economy to see slower job growth -- but no decline.
  
  
  • Sandia Casino not interested in paying "gamer" $1.6 million jackpot winnings, not interested in being sued in State District Court.
  
  
  • John Adams Middle School mother intervenes in cafeteria scuffle by encouraging her daughter [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2007, 4:28am EDT
  

• Oh dear.

  I mean, I'm hardly a beltway insider, and maybe I'm not hanging at the right cocktail parties, but I haven't been hearing much here in ABQ that would lead me to think this was a great idea:
  
  Dem House Leaders Pushing for Madrid Run in NM-01? [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2007, 7:32pm EDT
  

• Do you Django?

  No, it's not the latest internet fad. It's time for the second annual Django Fest in Albuquerque. Three days of Gypsy Jazz celebration starts this Friday.
  
  Hometown heroes Le Chat Lunatique will anchor the event and welcome a host of stellar musicians including Hot Club of Phoenix, [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2007, 12:03pm EDT
  

• Morning Fix: Airing of Grievances

  
  
  • RIAA could target additional file sharers at UNM, according to school administration email sent Wednesday. The school also made known it isn't defending students involved in record industry lawsuits.
  
  
  • Intel announces 2,000 more job cuts for the quarter. No word in Business Weekly as to where this [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2007, 4:34am EDT
  

• Why I Can't Completely Hate Home Depot

  I have a hate-hate relationship with Home Depot.
  
  It's crowded and disorganized. And I am anything but crowded and disorganized, at least when it comes to home repair. If I am looking for a screw, I want to find it, posthaste.
  
  And if I can't [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2007, 3:59pm EDT
  

• Morning Fix: Windy Today

  
  
  • The loud BMX track near Yale SE will soon host movie filming, and neighbors say they expect it to be noisy.
  
  
  • Much ado about City Hall spending for animal care.
  
  
  • If you're tracking the Trib's fate, Scripps stock rose Tuesday on news that the company is [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2007, 5:00am EDT
  

• He's in!

  Republican Steve Pearce will run for the US Senate, going up against party-mate Heather Wilson.
  
  ABQ Journal: Breaking: Pearce Will Run for Senate [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2007, 2:57pm EDT
  

• Call In Sick! Day Trips to Reinvigorate Your Soul

  Here are two trips that will get you away from the crowded metro area to where you can hear yourself think. The chances for solitude (or at least peace and quiet) are excellent.
  
  Trip #1: "Bosque del Apache
  I know, I know. The cranes aren't there yet. Well, they [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2007, 12:47pm EDT
  

• Morning Fix: Great Outdoors Edition

  • Bark beetles no longer a threat to piñon trees. Drought and tree overpopulation contributed to the insect's infestation from 2000-04.
  
  
  • KOAT: City Hall spends "thousands of dollars" for employees to watch "An Inconvenient Truth."
  
  
  • Trib: Taxidermy is "a job that requires an appreciation of animals ..."
  
  
  • Two [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2007, 4:59am EDT
  

• Morning Fix: Upsize to a Midnight Fix for Just 50 Cents More

  • Balloon Fiesta claims high attendance.
  
  
  • Albuquerque police shoot suspect.
  
  
  • Albuquerque's aquifer has 10 to 25 years left of leaving hard minerals crusted on your spoons and drinking glasses. After that, move to Arizona.
  
  
  • KOB's "Dennis and Nicole" set you straight on impact fees. We personally haven't [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2007, 4:30am EDT
  

• From a reader in Phoenix

  From the Duke City Fix inbox... Welcome to town, Kevin!
  
  My partner and I (and a friend of ours) are moving to Albuquerque from Phoenix at the end of the year. I've been reading the Duke City Fix over the past few months to get a better feel for [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2007, 12:36am EDT
  

• The Sandia Foothills, all simmered down & ready for action

  The heat's eased off Albuquerque like a snake bite healing, which means it's the perfect time to head to the foothills.
  
  This morning, on a 2 hour hike where Copper dead-ends into the sandy base of the mountains, the sun was warm but the air cool. I saw quail, [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2007, 4:38pm EDT
  

• Genius Regards Genius

  MANNIE'S, GIRARD & CENTRAL--Bart Prince, pre-eminent Albuquerque architect and Mannie's regular, reads this morning's Journal account of the career of Albuquerque's other pre-eminent architect, Antoine Predock. Both are LARGE on the world stage.
  
  Bart Prince's work in ABQ is mostly residential. There's a lot of [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2007, 12:22pm EDT
  

• A truly *international* balloon fiesta

  Did anyone else see the hot air balloon carrying the American flag at this morning's mass ascension?
  
  We support your war of terror and everything, but the whole scene this morning -- solemn patriots saluting a Dubai corporate balloon carrying the American flag -- seemed oddly askew. [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2007, 3:45pm EDT
  

• New Architecture Building

  Last weekend I was walking around UNM with a friend. We were heading off campus, leaving via Cornell (by the Frontier). We stopped, somewhat confused, noticing someone's Apple desktop projected on the side of the building.
  
  Of course we stopped to take some pictures.
  
  Turned out they were [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2007, 10:32pm EDT
  

• Don Schrader Tells All

  Here's a cool little story from the ABQ Trib on local celebrity and everyone's favorite naked man, Don Schrader.
  
  Complete with the Don Schrader diet! [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2007, 11:38am EDT
  

• Chantal Gives Away Her Secrets

  For those of you who haven't heard Chantal speak about the uber-geeky world of websites and statistics, or just want a peek at our fearless leader here a the DCF, here's your chance. I've perused the presentation, and it's really not that geeky, just a little geeky. But [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2007, 8:45am EDT
  

• Morning Fix: Soft News about Rocks

  • Albuquerque police arrest one of their own on a rape charge. Also, a women's prison guard faces seperate rape charges
  
  
  • Coppers seek copper thieves. Yet somehow, it remains legal for the government to keep minting disposable pennies with copper.
  
  
  • Hey everyone, an Alibi person writes [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2007, 5:30am EDT
  

• Has Flying Star Completely Lost It?

  Remember back when Flying Star featured Far Side cartoons on their number cards? I miss those days. Since then they've expanded to more than a half dozen locations, revamped their menu and raised prices.
  
  I don't blame them for expanding and I've gotten over my disappointment at their uninspired [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2007, 12:45pm EDT
  

• Morning Fix: You Provide the Pictures

  • The SF Reporter has a 101 piece on furries. The article measures nearly 5,400 words long, guaranteeing few folks will read the entire affair. At least we have a story about an obsession that doesn't involve religion or war or politics.
  
  
  • On that note, ABQ ranks among top cities [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2007, 12:03am EDT
  

• TRIB SAVED? Offer Made! No Lie!

  NOB HILL--Steve (commenter #40 on the Trib/Fish story) has sent us a link to a story in the Santa Fe New Mexican.
  
  Yes!!! It looks like a legitimate offer has been made.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2007, 4:24pm EDT
  

• Adelita: Oh sí liar!

  From Adelita, who regularly cracks us up with her imitations of her own family:
  
  We have a unique way of talking here in ?Burque, que no?
  
  The phrase ?oh sí liar? is often heard in our family. You have to drag out the liar part. It has [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2007, 9:44am EDT
  

• Morning Fix: Trust Your Mechanic

  • Fatality, crashes and mounting injuries mar Balloon Fiesta fun.
  
  
  • Police shoot dead suspected robber. Dead 20-year-old man also had previous domestic violence and assault incidents.
  
  
  • You can avoid ABQ's Intersections of Death, but that doesn't mean your mechanic will. Traffic camera spots reckless car that was supposedly [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2007, 4:33am EDT
  

• TRIB SAVED! Acquired by Bob's Fish & Chips!

  EAST CENTRAL--The Albuquerque Tribune, which has been up for sale and threatened with closure if a buyer was not found, has been sold. Bob "Grouper" Murdoch bought the afternoon paper with proceeds from the sale of his eating establishment, Bob's Fish & Chips. He said he plans to move the [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2007, 1:24pm EDT
  

• Film Guy Drives Cross Country, in ABQ Tonight!

  The 1 Second Film comes to Albuquerque today.
  
  This non-profit collaborative art project featuring a documentary crew (and band) is on a 30-day bio-diesel tour across the US and Canada, starting at Google and Youtube headquarters and ending in Chicago, IL, where they hope to meet Oprah [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2007, 1:03pm EDT
  

• James Quinn: A Barely Noted Bicycle Death and Plenty of Questions

  OLD ROUTE 66 NEAR TIJERAS--A memorial, written in marker on a thin piece of white cardboard, is taped to the guardrail where it happened. Wind-whipped and fading, it is going the way of the public memory...drifting into a distant state of forgetfulness. Overtaken by more recent tragedies, questions go unanswered [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2007, 8:40am EDT
  

• Nob Hill Bar & Grill set to open "early 2008"

  We've been hearing murmurs about the plans for the old Graze location in Nob Hill, and now the partners have launched a slick little placeholder website and issued a press release, confirming our fondest hopes:
  
  Sam Etheridge is truly opening a bar.
  
  Etheridge, for those of you [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2007, 8:15am EDT
  

• Morning Fix: No. 1 in News

  • One dead, three injured Monday in balloon fiesta crash. Winds blamed in the event's first fatality this year.
  
  
  • Hauntavirus treatment discovered. Deer mouse protein can deter the effects of the virus.
  
  
  • City razes drug house that also had a stripper pole and mirrors, testing the limits [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2007, 4:02am EDT
  

• The Kula Queen Redux - Autumn Swamp Cooler Tips

  Some DCF posts are true chestnuts: How to rat out a weedy neighbor, top ABQ make-out spots, La Capilla de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, and that weird little post about Dan Mayfield. Plus this one, about cold-weather swamp cooler maintenance:
  
  Secrets of the Kula [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2007, 6:29pm EDT
  

• JJ at Chef du Jour

  I think it only really hit me today -- Jennifer James is cooking on a regular basis at Chef du Jour. They've been sending me email since she started, but I'm a little slow sometimes. Who's up for lunch?
  
  For this week's menu (which looks kind of incredible) follow [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2007, 5:32pm EDT
  

• Morning Fix: Ken Burns Documentary in the Works

  
  
  • It's brother against brother as New Mexico is split into two area codes.
  
  
  • NYT: Sen. Domenici's frontotemporal disease could advance quickly, erratically.
  
  
  • Biker rally held on behalf of accused Mexican-flag defacer Peter Lynch.
  
  
  • Ariz. Republic has feature on the Camino Real.
  
  
  • Bathroom shortage at [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2007, 5:30am EDT
  

• I heart you, geeky light sabre guy

  Sure I have no idea who you are and all, but I've got to say it: I love you, phantom light sabre guy who's practicing in the Rio Rancho / Sandoval County Flood Control area, at twilight and all, where we can see you from up on the hill. Dedication [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2007, 7:47pm EDT
  

• BIMBY 07

  
  Balloons In My Backyard
  
  North Valley - I hear helicopters and my house is full of people who now know where I hide the house key. They stay up late. They get up early. I hear plaintive groaning for coffee and pepto and something about Mexican food [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2007, 7:32pm EDT
  

• CorkFest, who's in?

  It's CorkFest today in the South Valley from 10am to 6pm.
  
  I'm headed there around 3 to catch Edith Grove and her bass player. Anyone else going? [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2007, 9:23am EDT
  

• UPDATED: CorkFest, who's in?

  It's CorkFest today in the South Valley from 10am to 6pm.
  
  I'm headed there around 3 to catch Edith Grove and her bass player. Anyone else going?
  
  UPDATE: Thanks for a down-home afternoon, Corky!
  
  Some photos | Slideshow. [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2007, 9:23am EDT