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norms together is not just unfortunate; ithurts. Never in our lifetime or mygrandparent’s lifetime has anything shutdown our communities in this way. It isscary and concerning, still. Thus, the reasonin many cases that the census just kinda fellto the wayside. There were just many moreimportant things to focus on. Oddlyenough, all that support and help from thefederal level that is so sorely needed in ourrural communities right now is based onnumbers like those obtained during thecensus. Such tragic irony.

Now, before we get all depressed. Thecensus and the people involved to makethis count happen were not about to goout without a fight! They charged in withtheir head first and changed their gameplan mid-fight. They were seeing tripleand decided to punch the one in themiddle. I have seen my fellow creativesmake commercials via Zoom, record audiofor ads in parking lots because theycouldn’t get into a community, in an effortto create messaging that was cultural- andlanguage-specific. They mobilized, put outthe call for local help, including hours ofphone banking with N.M.’s congressionalcaucus. Some communities even offeredsmall incentives like gas cards for proof ofdoing your census. Jaime Gloshay,coordinator for the Albuquerque UrbanIndian Census and member of the N.M.Native American Census Coalition, saysthey have had some substantial victories

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CENSUS | by Jonathan Sims

The Fight for NumbersNew Mexico’s Native Census efforts are still fighting hard amid some big blows

Mike Tyson famously said,“Everybody has a plan until theyget punched in the mouth.” It

sounded easy enough. Stand up and becounted! Go online or fill out the form! Buteven the best-laid plans can’t account for aseries of punches that have landed squareon the jaw of a 2020 U.S. Census team thatwas poised and ready for action. First cameCOVID and then the unemployment crisisand then the lockdowns and, well, I don’thave to remind you. Two words: murderhornets. (What happened to those guys?)But for many tribal and rural communities,it just wasn’t as easy as filling out the formor hopping online. In a world beforemasks, the national census was gearing upfor the rollout of a new strategy in earlyMarch. It was a multifaceted approach,designed to help communities count theirown people. The philosophy was simple:The communities know themselves betterthan the federal government does, so whynot allow them to manage counts? This wasto include staffing, promotion and followup. All the major players were aligned.Tribal governments, advocacy groups likethe Native American Census Coalition, TheNative American Voters Alliance (NAVA),the State Office of Indian Affairs and theGovernor’s Complete Count Commissionwere all on board, and hopes were high.This was, and is, no easy task. That’sroughly 23 tribes and numerous tribalprograms, county and state entities as wellas nonprofits, consultants and evencreatives. Outreach was finally gonna betailored to the communities, far morethan years past.

As records go, the census undercounthas a 22 to 0 record against minorities andpeople living in rural communities since1790. Every ten years the census pulls itselfout of retirement and goes with the sameold Rocky routine. Wakes up, slams a dozenraw eggs, runs through the streets waving atfolks as they cheer and ends with amonumental stair climb to a finish. Thisyear was back to basics; this was the censusin the middle of nowh ere training in abarn, lifting boulders and climbingmountains. The machine was gonna godown. It is estimated in the last census theundercount for tribal communities wasaround 5 percent. That may not seem like ahuge number, but when you start to figurein statistics like an estimated 39 percentgrowth in population and compound thosenumbers with data like every personcounted currently accounts for $5,000 infederal funding per year, it adds up. Youtimes that over a lifetime, and it ispotentially hundreds of thousands ofdollars in funding and support lost. This ismoney that goes to programs, schools,infrastructure and resources.

Not just tribal communities felt this hit.Hispanic populations in rural areas and

even urban populations see drasticundercounts. New Mexico is hard to hit ingeneral. As a whole we are last in thenationwide Total Response Rate. Thiselusiveness is the result of many factors.Internet access, rural addressing, lack oftrust in the government, language barriersand even a lack of good old-fashion bootson the ground make counting N.M. hard.Furthermore, not just rural populations areat stake. Consider that nearly 70 percent ofNative people now reside in what areconsidered urban areas, and Albuquerque isNo. 6 in the country in terms of Nativepopulation, with over 400 Tribesrepresented in the town. Unfortunately, thehomeless rate in Albuquerque reflects thispopulation shift, with Native peoplemaking up a large percentage of thisdemographic. All of these things togethermake accurate counting a tough task.

When COVID hit many of these ruralcommunities, the focus changed swiftly anddramatically. The small population centerswere now at high risk. When your entiretribal population is under a few thousand,100-plus cases is an alarming rate.Communities locked down and imposedstrict guidelines in order to gain control ofthe virus. Many of these places are stillunder strict lockdown to this very day. Youhave families that haven’t seen each otherin months. And for people that thrive onthe continuation of our cultural practices,not being able to celebrate these cultural

amid this crisis. “Our response rates inNew Mexico are fairing pretty wellcompared to tribes throughout the U.S.Most of our tribes are currently above 30percent, and we hope to see increases asfield workers go out to make sure thosewho have not responded are responding.”You can see this return data updatedweekly on the U.S. Census page2020census.gov. You can search by county,city, and tribal nation. It is actually kindacool, if you’re into that sort of stuff. Somemajor things that stood out to me whenlooking at the return numbers are asfollows: 1). Holy crap, Los Alamos! An 80percent return rate? 2). Some tribalcommunities are nearing 60 percent,including Kewa (Santo Domingo Pueblo)and Jemez Pueblo and Zia Pueblo. And3). The only two states below N.M.’snumbers are Alaska and Puerto Rico. (Yes,I know it’s not a state, but they getcounted like one.)

So all these teams are definitely puttingup a good fight to get people counted. Butevery good fight has that final momentwhere the opposition has one last trick upits sleeve. No, not an asteroid hitting theEarth, but rather the premature ending ofcensus data collection. Originally slated toclose at the end of November, the fedshave decided that stopping the count a full30 days early is in the best interest of thecountry. This occurs just as the final pushis getting going. In some casescommunities have just begun to focus onthe task again. Moreover, manycommunities have just recently receivedtheir information packets.

We’re in rounds 11 and 12, wherechampions are made. I didn’t feel a fewweeks ago like this was a mission-criticalsituation—until I saw the numbers formy home community of Acoma Puebloand was floored. We, at the time, hadonly 18 percent reporting; but within twoweeks, we have jumped to 25 percent,give or take. That goes to show that wecan make these numbers go up withconcerted efforts.

The census groups have done anamazing job to pivot during this time, butnow it is really up to us as communitypeople to urge our families and friends tojust do the damn census already! It isn’tabout you and the time you have or do nothave. It is about the resources in the futurefor your kids, for our aging parents andgrandparents. If you need help in fillingout the form, ask family, ask the 13 yearold that is playing on your phone, ask anyone of these organizations listed below forhelp. We have 30 days. Final round. Thebell has rung; let’s go out swinging! a

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NEWS | by Carolyn Carlson

Oñate’s Henchmen In My BloodBringing it all together

Guess you never know whoseskeletons are lurking in yourgenealogy closet until they start to

do some rattling around.

Looking For A Better LifeIn 1598, Pedro Robledo and Juan Pérez deBustillo traveled with the expedition partyof Don Juan de Oñate into New Mexico asmilitary members. They brought theirfamilies with them, looking for a betterlife. Pérez de Bustillo may have been aSephardic Jew as well. Shortly aftertraveling along the Camino Real, aroundLas Cruces near what we now call RadiumSprings, Robledo died and was buried onthe side of the road. He was supposedly soimportant that there is now a highwaymarker. His family carried on and made itfurther up the Camino Real, dropping offdescendants along the way. Pérez deBustillo and his familia made it to SantaFe, spreading their genes along the way aswell. The Oñate reign was marked byobscene violence against Acoma Puebloand other Native Americans in the militaryleader’s path. The disgraced conquerorwas banned from New Mexico after theSpanish Crown heard about his regime’satrocities.

SurpriseAfter doing the New Mexico DNA Project,Ancestry and 23andMe DNA things, mysisters and I were able to see in sciencewhat we were not able to really learn fromour long-dead, Spanish-speaking maternal

elders. We see on my mother’s sideGerman, English, Spanish and NativeAmerican. My dad was Scandanavian andhis lineage is easy peasy. I took on the taskof tracing through the New Mexicandatabase of Rio Abajo descendants to putsome names to the science.

Beautiful names were sprinkledthroughout my mother’s side of the familylike Catalina de Villanueva, Isabel dePedraza, Juan Antonio de Sotomayer,Nicolás Durán y Chávez along with MariaEulutería Gallegos and Francisco Birner,my great-grandparents. There were otherfemale names like Maria Sarracino andMaria Inez Candelaria that show no familyor history prior to that marriage. Made mewince with the realization that not all thehistorical marriages were exactlyconsensual and were often akin to rape.Especially questionable were the unionsthat are responsible for the NativeAmerican blood in our maternal familyDNA. But we don’t talk about that part ofhistory in polite company, do we? Ibecame obsessed, and going back morethan 500 years, generation by generation,I came upon Robledo and Pérez deBustillo. I did the tracing again. Thenagain. Same results.

Whispers Turn To ShoutsAt first I found it sort of interesting tohave prominent members of Oñates partyin our family’s past. Then I hated it. ThenI tried to make peace when I saw therewere thousands upon thousands ofdescendants of the Oñate military settlers.

I may have mentioned it quietly to mypartner; then maybe I said something to afew family members and friends. I tried toforget about ancient history. Until allheckola broke loose in June in front of theAlbuquerque Museum and its La Jornada,a public installation memorializing theOñate expedition and its “settlers.” TheOñate figure of the installation wasremoved shortly after the protest that washeld following the George Floyd killing byMinneapolis police. A man was shot at theprotest taking it from peaceful to violent.

I started listening to the chatter, theconversations, the sides being taken, thepassion for Native Americans, passion forHispanic culture and history, and theanger screaming that Oñate and his menwere bad hombres. I sat in and listened toa Zoom discussion hosted by New MexicoPress Women with some of theinstallation’s artists who felt the immensecontroversy back when the piece wascommissioned then finished in 2004. Thetopic of Spanish conquistadors has neverbeen an easy conversation, and art ingeneral is often meant to make oneuneasy. This one is epic in the uneasydepartment.

Our Difficult HistorySo what do we do with distasteful history?That is the conundrum facing just aboutall evolved humans on this planet. There isnot a place on the big blue ball of greenearth that does not have spilt bloodtainting its people. But what about when itis boiling in all directions in your family’sbloodline?

I chat about it with a friend whowrestles with her ancestry. She is from theSouth and has a family lineage of cruelslave owners with some hushed familymembers from the slave side of history. Weend up at the same lost place: hating partsof ourselves yet loving all of ourselveswhile conveniently denying select bits ofourselves. At the end of all that, we’reblessed with the fresh start of evolvingknowledge.

The city of Albuquerque CulturalServices has put together a task force todecide what to do with the statue of Oñate,who is a piece of our distasteful history.They can put the statue out of sight instorage, but that won’t erase the mark onour history. Maybe, however, it can help ussee past our distasteful history and cometogether if we can find a place, like ahistorical graveyard, to put thesereminders where people can gather tohave conversations instead of bulletsflying. a

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[4] WEEKLY ALIBI SEPTEMBER 3-9, 2020

NEWS | by Dan Pennington

Operation Legend Has Less Than Legendary ResultsLocals underwhelmed by progress of federal program

At the end of July, Alibi staff writer

Robin Babb asked the questions of

Operation Legend most of us were

too afraid to consider. Is this part of a

much larger scale program from President

Trump in an attempt to undermine

citizens’ freedom and safety, with the guise

of civil protection masking it? Or were

these federal law enforcement officers

genuinely here to help? Well, thankfully

the Bernalillo County Sheriff ’s

Department Twitter account was kind

enough to provide citizens with an update

on the work done so far in Southeast

Albuquerque, which Weekly Alibi felt would

be worth talking about.

Let’s get the congratulatory issues out

of the way. In total there have been 22

arrests made to date. Of those arrests 14

were felony-related, with the other eight

being misdemeanors. For those unfamiliar

with the differences between the two

categories, they break down to an almost

easy formula. Is the crime worth jail time

of over a year? Felony. Under a year?

Misdemeanor. Murder, arson, rape and

other crimes come with heftier sentences,

so in that sense, good job on the 14 made

in a month. Misdemeanors are things like

shoplifting, drug possession, public

intoxication, speeding or DUI/DWIs.

Considering the total number of DWI

arrests made in 2018 was 10,205, the

number becomes dramatically less

impressive. Those are rookie numbers on

catching drunk drivers. Maybe Operation

Legend doesn’t work nights. Included are

nine felony warrants cleared, 10 new

felony charges, 14 misdemeanor warrants

cleared, 15 new misdemeanor charges and

a partridge in a pear tree.

The federal agents are here to clear the

backlog of cases and help reduce gun

violence, which they’re doing. What else

did they accomplish? Well, the rest of the

numbers practically speak for themselves.

For example, they seized two guns. That’s

right. Two. They also recovered two stolen

guns. Whether those guns are related isn’t

made abundantly clear by the fifth-grade

level Photoshop picture Bernalillo County

Sheriff ’s Office uploaded Aug. 30 on

Twitter, but if it helps you, you can pretend

those guns are at least distant cousins,

maybe twice removed. Twenty-two arrests

and four new guns. What else have they

got for us?

One stolen vehicle recovered. This is

huge. Someone was going to be left using

ART instead of their ’93 Toyota Camry, but

now they have it back. How does that

compare to normal recovery rates? Well,

according to Rocky Mountain Insurance

Information Association (RMIIA), the total

number of car thefts in New Mexico for

2016 was 10,011. It’s safe to say they still

have a few more to find.

Two cases were adopted by the feds,

which means BCSO won’t have to deal

with them. But I’m sure Operation Legend

officers will love them just as much

regardless of the adoption. Additionally,

six vehicles fled. What that stat indicates is

unclear, other than they saw cars that

didn’t want to be in that area anymore,

obviously. But, considering the last time

federal agents were driving around

“dangerous” cities resulted in people being

abducted into unmarked cars, it’s safe to

say maybe the drivers were hedging their

bets in getting away from said cars. It

wasn’t stated whether those cars are still

fleeing, or have finally stopped to take a

rest.

Now for the big ones. Finally, the war

on drugs can have the heavy hitters step

up to the plate to do some real damage to

the drug problem in this city. First off was

the 3.23 ounces of marijuana that was

seized by Operation Legend. While only

casual experts in the field of “smoking,”

Weekly Alibi didn ’t have a hard and fast

consensus of how much weed should go in

one joint, but aggregate studies place it

somewhere between 0.3 and 0.6 grams,

which, when math is applied, comes out to

roughly 203 joints. College parties and

snack drawers have never been safer from

the dangers of the “Devil’s Lettuce.”

Additionally, 1.32 ounces of

methamphetamines were seized. That

comes out to roughly 35 grams, which is

good news that it’s gone. It’s a rough drug

and it’s better that it’s off the streets. Does

it compare to one stolen vehicle

recovered? That’s a tough call. We’ll give

that a soft checkmark next to “job well

done.”

One gram of cocaine. Yes, a single

gram. Whether this came from a raid or

they found it near a 7-11 dumpster wasn’t

outlined in the report, but we question if

this is worthy of the title “HUGE

numbers.” Had it been an eight ball, then

we have a story on our hands. One gram?

That’s just date night ruined.

Six Xanax pills were seized. We have to

assume they were illegally owned Xanax,

otherwise there is someone out there

having a really rough week. Additionally,

five Suboxone strips were seized. To be

fair, this is Trump’s government, so

considering something to be bigger and

more impressive than it is has been kind of

the M.O. since day one. At this point, the

drug pull looks like they caught a big

college party more than anything. Additionally, six business contacts were

made, as well as six person contacts and 36traffic stops. There’s definitely a snarkyway to comment on this, but ultimately, isit worth it?

As reported by KOB, Operation Legendis part of a $10 million grant to combatviolent crime in the city. Maybe the earlynumbers are just weak. Maybe they’ll bebigger in other parts of the city. Whoknows? The Northeast Heights might be ahotbed of cocaine use that none of usexpected and federal officers will comerolling out of a house with a kilo of thaticonic white powder and the town will allcheer in unison that, finally, these terribledrugs are off our streets.

Mathematically though? It’s not lookinggreat. Our reader poll in July said that 84percent didn’t feel federal intervention inAlbuquerque was necessary. At the end ofthe day, we all want to see a reduction ingun violence. Thankfully, OperationLegend has gotten four guns off the streetso far. At this rate gun violence in the citywill be solved in a matter of years! a

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Crabby About ChangesDear Editor,

I love the Alibi and would like to be able tocontinue to. However it’s getting more andmore difficult, for several reasons.

Recently I celebrated my 69th birthday.For years my “BS” detector has beenscreaming constantly, but my ability tosmile through it and put up with thisconsistent indication of willful ignorancehas deteriorated. So I have given in to myinner curmudgeon and am determinednot to put up with the “BS” and the lack ofknowledge it portrays.

Secondly, this is at least the thirdincarnation of the Alibi since I beganreading it regularly. The slight lean to thepolitical left has always been evident, butthere was a measure of obeisance to thegod of journalism evident before theparticular renaissance. Some of the editingdifficulties can be blamed on the COVID-19 work at home alone, but—and I confessmy lack of computer expertise—I wouldhave thought that networking would makeit possible for those who claim the title ofeditor to do their job; perhaps evenapplying grammar checks in addition tocorrecting and guiding the writing.

And therein lies the nexus of the majorcomplaint. Other than the threecolumnists O’Leary, Lee, and Condé (inaddition to moments of Pennington), thewriting is poor. There seems to be nounderstanding of what the title “News”implies the article is heading will containand “guest” writers seem to be given theirlead with little or no correction or editing.Not to mention corroboration.

I do not need a print version of vlogsespousing the individual opinion. YourAlibi has become one big opinion page.Giving a voice to the voiceless does notinspire understanding if the message isgarbled and wrought with personal opinerather than facts. Maybe hire people whohave had writing experience or give themthe direction and correction editingimplies.

I sincerely wish you the best. -NM Crab

P.S. While I cherish the right to freespeech, it is not required to be printed orpromoted by others. That being said,please do not print any more Lev Tsitrinmushy-peas writing. If his “article/essay” isany indication of the writing in his self-published book, he is not able to advocatecogently for his cause.

Managing Editor’sResponse:Dear NM Crab,

We know “Opinion” pieces aren’t foreveryone. We ensure that they’re labeled toprevent any misconceptions. “TownSquare” will inevitably have some opinionin it as the people writing it aren’ttraditional journalists or sometimes noteven professional writers. We believegrowth as people comes from experiencingdifferent viewpoints from our own, even ifthey’re ones we really don’t agree with.

As we continue to go through morechanges here at Weekly Alibi under newownership, we hope you continue to voiceyour loves and frustrations with our work.

P.S. “Moments of Pennington” soundslike a great title for Dan’s first self-published collection of works.

Science Meats ViolenceTo the Editor,

Readers who care about animal welfareshould ask Senators Tom Udall and MartinHeinrich to support federal funding forcultured-meat research. Cultured meat isgrown from cells, without slaughteringnonhumans. It has the potential toeliminate unimaginable levels of suffering.After all, we kill tens of billions of landanimals and over a trillion aquatic animalsfor food every year.

Ending this violence is more plausiblethan you think. A growing number ofcompanies are developing cultured-meatproducts. Even Tyson Foods, theslaughtered-meat giant, has invested in thesector. However, costs of these humaneoptions will need to be reduced for themto be successful. This can only be achievedby further research. The federalgovernment should support it.

-Jon Hochschartner

Voting by MailTo Editorial,

Voting by mail should replace voting at thepolls in its entirety. The two institutionsthat can definitely be trusted are theCounty Board of Elections and the UnitedStates Postal Service. The money saved byeliminating the need for poll workerscould be used to offer free postage on theenvelopes used to vote by mail. Theperson voting would also have more timeto consider what they are voting for andwould not be confined to the hours of thepolling place. It would also preventunwanted entry to schools and churchesfrom anyone trying to harm someone. Inaddition, the voter would not be harassedby someone trying to place unsolicitedcampaign literature into their hand. Theadditional revenue would boost the PostalService and perhaps keep it afloat until weas a country are able to vote online. Votingby mail would solve the registered voterproblem and guarantee safe passage of theballots to the County Board of Elections. Itmight even prevent further spread of theCOVID-19 virus.

-Joe Bialek

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Community Questions Nuclear Waste Storage SiteCompany moves comment hearings online, despite opposition from Congress

In March of 2017, Holtec International,a private company that makes nuclearwaste storage and transport containers,

proposed the construction of an interimstorage site for spent nuclear fuel (SNF) insoutheast New Mexico, roughly halfwaybetween Carlsbad and Hobbs. Theproposed facility has the capacity to store allof the SNF currently in the country (about80,000 tons), with space for waste producedin the future as well. The NuclearRegulatory Commission (NRC) is currentlysoliciting public comment on the projectuntil Sept. 22.

Holtec and the NRC are required to holdin-person meetings to solicit publiccomment on the drafted EnvironmentalImpact Statement for the site. Five of thosemeetings were supposed to happen thisyear, at several locations across NewMexico—but the COVID-19 pandemic hasmade them impossible.

On March 20 all three U.S.representatives for New Mexico along withSenators Martin Heinrich and Tom Udallissued a joint letter to NRC chairmanKristine Svinicki, urging her to “extend thepublic comment period until the threat ofCOVID-19 has passed and it is again safe toattend public meetings.”

In a letter in April issued as a response,the NRC extended the public commentperiod by 90 days and announced plans tosubstitute the in-person meetings acrossNew Mexico with a series of webinars.

On Aug. 18 Senators Heinrich and Udallreturned with another letter, saying thatreplacing the in-person meetings withwebinars was unacceptable. “Virtualmeetings have limitations that must also beaccounted for, such as technological hurdlesand broadband access that someconstituents may not be able to overcome,not to mention the direct health andeconomic impacts of the pandemic andfinancial crisis that our citizens may bedealing with.”

As of press time, the NRC has notresponded to this latest request. They heldanother webinar last week.

The construction of a new nuclear facilitybrings up many concerns about theenvironment, human health and economicrepercussions. After the 2014 accident at theWaste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in thesame part of the state, where at least 22workers were exposed to radiation andmany more to smoke inhalation, some NewMexicans worry about the addition ofanother nuclear facility.

“There will be accidents created byHoltec’s proposal. Either at the site or

along the transport routes. It’s not a matterof if, but when,” says Leona Morgan,Coordinator at the Nuclear Issues StudyGroup, an anti-nuclear activist group inNew Mexico. Morgan’s group, along withthe Sierra Club and several other nationalanti-nuclear organizations, has filedcontentions with the Atomic Safety andLicensing Board, a panel of judges withinthe NRC that “conducts all licensing andother hearings as directed by theCommission,” according to their web page.

“Our fight to legally challenge this is stillwithin the agency itself. It’s a kangaroocourt,” says Morgan. Her group hasboycotted the webinar hearings and hasscheduled their own public hearing eventonline for Sept. 16 on their Facebook page.

The storage facility proposed by Holtecis unlike any existing nuclear waste facility.The proposed site would store spentnuclear fuel rods, the nuclear waste productleft over from commercial nuclear powerplants, which is the most radioactivesubstance produced in the country. It’s alsoonly designed to be a temporary storagefacility—the license that Holtec isattempting to acquire from the NRC wouldallow it to operate for 40 years, with thepossibility to renew the license twiceafterwards for a total of 120 years. As towhere the waste goes after that, there’s noconsensus. Many people in opposition tothe storage facility worry that the unspokenplan is for the site to become de factopermanent, even though the currentdesigns for the site do not account for thelong-term safe containment of this highlyradioactive waste.

“Given that there is currently nopermanent repository for high-level waste inthe United States, any interim storagefacility will be an indefinite storage facility.Over this time, it is likely that the casksstoring SNF and high-level wastes will loseintegrity and require repackaging. Anyrepackaging of SNF and high-level wastesincreases the risk of accidents andradiological health risks,” said GovernorMichelle Lujan Grisham in a June 2019letter to then Secretary of the Departmentof Energy Rick Perry and NuclearRegulatory Commission Chairman KristineSvinicki, voicing her concerns about theproposed storage site. Holtec’s currentlicensing application does not includedesigns for a “fuel pool” where leakingcanisters can be safely repackaged.

The nuclear industry has long beeneconomically significant in New Mexico aswell, not only in terms of weaponsdevelopment at Sandia National Labs andLos Alamos, but also in our state’s history ofuranium mining. But that economic historyis parallel to the health and environmentaldisasters caused by the industry, such as the1979 Church Rock uranium mill spill—thelargest breach of radioactive material in U.S.history—and the dozens of abandoned andunremediated uranium mines across thestate. The negative aspects of the nuclearindustry have disproportionately impactedNative American people, particularly Dinécommunities—which are also less likely tohave reliable internet service, making itmore difficult for them to participate in thenew public comment process.

The governor also mentioned that the

proposed site for New Mexico’s newestnuclear storage facility is not only in thePermian Basin, where $2 billion in staterevenue from oil and gas leasing wasgenerated in 2018, but also in a hub of NewMexico’s agricultural industry. Any potentialaccidents in transportation or at the sitewould be disastrous for both industries.

The Permian Basin, one of the UnitedStates’ most prolific sites for the oil and gasindustry, has had a major economicresurgence in the last 10 years thanks to thecontroversial practice of hydraulic fracturingor “fracking”—a process of injecting high-pressure water, sand and chemicals into theearth, forcing gas and oil out. It’s reasonableto be concerned about this relatively newprocess and its effect on the geologicstability of the area.

John Heaton, chairman of the Eddy-LeaEnergy Alliance, the New Mexico companythat owns the land Holtec plans to purchaseand build on, insists seismic issues won’timpact the integrity of the storage site. “Themicro-seismic effects from drilling andfracking underneath the site forhydrocarbons that are one to two milesbeneath the surface will have no impact onthe surface or the project. We look forwardto working closely with the oil and gasindustry to assure them we in no wayimpede their oil and gas recovery.”

Nonetheless, health and environmentalconcerns about Holtec’s proposed siteremain.

“One of the things that upsets peoplelike me is that it’s one thing to not payattention to climate change over the next120 years, but they’re also not going toconsider other things,” says Don Hancock,Nuclear Waste Safety Program Director atthe Southwest Research and InformationCenter. “What happens if you do have [oiland gas] drilling near this spent fuelstorage? NRC isn’t considering it, becausethey don’t think it will happen in the next40 years. Basically, if it were beingconsidered permanent then they’d have toconsider other safety requirements andpotential geologic events—but since it’s only40 years, they don’t have to.”

To submit a comment to the NRC aboutthe proposed Holtec site, you can visitwww.regulations.gov/document?D=NRC-2018-0052-0300 or email your comments toHoltec-CISFEIS@nrc.gov with the subjectline “Docket ID NRC-2018-0052 DraftEnvironmental Impact StatementComment.” The deadline for publiccomment is Sept. 22. a

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SEPTEMBER 3-9, 2020 WEEKLY ALIBI [7]

The Big ChangeoverAlibi settles in to new ownership

Change, they say, is inevitable.Change, they also insist, is good—perhaps as a way of ameliorating the

raw, stressful factuality of that firststatement. Change is definitely inevitable.But that thing about it being good? Notalways a guarantee.

Over the course of its nearly 30 years inbusiness (it actually turns 28 in October),the Weekly Alibi has seen an incalculablenumber of changes. Heck, when it startedout in 1992 the paper was bi-weekly. Onthat very first issue, the title NuCity gracedthe masthead. Three years later, after asomewhat amicable lawsuit from ourfriends at Chicago’s New City newspaper,the name was changed to Weekly Alibi. (Wethrew a “Chicago-style sausage toss” partyat the Sunshine Theatre to celebrate.)Since then the paper has altereddimensions, page count, paper stock,dominant font and layout with regularity.We’ve switched offices at least five times.Editors and editorial visions havemorphed over time. Over the decadescountless staff members have come andgone—some to ignominy, some to better-paying gigs (from press secretaries tocannabis growers to registered nurses).And more than a few have graduated fromour pages to great acclaim. Foundingstaffer Simone Romero is now an award-winning writer for the New York Times andserved as their bureau chief in Brazil. Ourvery first editor in chief, Lori Sagle, worksas an instructor and “director ofcomposition” in the English Departmentat the University of Hawai’i Hilo.Inaugural news section editor AngieDrobnic Holan went on to win a PulitzerPrize for her work at PolitiFact. Ourformer lawyer Ashley Gauthier Messengeris currently associate general counsel forNational Public Radio in Washington, D.C.Long-serving arts section editor StevenRobert Allen is now director of publicpolicy for ACLU of New Mexico. Wecouldn’t be prouder of these and so manyother ex-staffers. Sad to report, we’ve alsobeen forced to mourn beloved Alibi stafferswho have passed away before their time:Michael Henningsen, Martin Candalaria,Gregory Medara, to name a few.

But one thing has definitely notchanged here at the Alibi in the last 28years: This has been a locally owned andoperated newspaper since day one.

The Old BossBack in 1992 Christopher Johnson made abold decision, selling off a satirical,college-centric rag he founded inMadison, Wisc. called The Onion (maybeyou’ve heard of it) and searchingmetropolitan areas around the nation for anew place to call home and start a seriousweekly alternative newspaper. Rolling intoFred’s Breads and Bagels in Nob Hill withhis college pal and business partner DanScott, Johnson decided Albuquerque hadjust what he wanted. With a Powerbook140, a Macintosh SE and a rented laserprinter, Johnson and his crew of localvolunteer writers (we were paid in Fred’sBread coupons) got to work. The first issueof NuCity (a 12-page, black-and-whiteaffair) hit the record shops and coffeehouses of Central Ave. on Oct. 9, 1992.

Natural Sound, Dingo Bar, BeyondOrdinary, Bandito Hideout, Guild Theatreand La Montañita Co-op were among theadvertisers in that inaugural issue. Volume1, Issue 1 of that scrappy, hand-assembledalt.weekly publication gave local readerstheir first glimpse of Rob Breszney’s “RealAstrology” (which we still publish today)and went on—in the months and years tocome—to introduce Burque audiences tocountless local bands, restaurants,cartoonists, art galleries, movies, authors,poets and politicians.

After nearly three decades in thepublishing business, however, the paper’soriginal owners and founders, Johnsonand Scott, have decided to sell thebusiness. That “inevitable” change hasfinally come to us. … But it’s not as great achange as some might think. In fact, itmay actually validate that old “change isgood” axiom. Just last week it was revealedthat the Alibi’s new owners are currentlyserving Albuquerque City Councilor PatDavis and his business partner AbbieLewis. So guess what, people: We’re stillgonna be locally owned and operated.

The New BossIn addition to representing District 6(encompassing the University of NewMexico, Nob Hill and the InternationalDistrict) since 2015, Davis also foundedthe nonprofit advocacy organizationProgressNow New Mexico. Thatorganization, launched in 2013, also has adigital journalistic offshoot called NMPolitical Report—an independent not-for-profit project of the ProgressNow NMEducation Fund. For years Weekly Alibi andNM Political Report have worked together.Alibi has reprinted a number of the group’sdigital investigations into politics,environment and more. And the twojournalistic groups even cosponsored a2017 mayoral debate. So, not only doesDavis have a background in local politics,he’s no greenhorn when it comes tojournalism either. That inspires someconfidence in the staff here at the Alibi,and it should inspire some confidence in

our readers as well.There are always concerns when a new

sheriff rolls into town. (Did we mentionDavis once ran for Bernalillo CountySheriff as well?) Since this transition ofpower at the Alibi was revealed in a pressrelease last week, some members of thecommunity have begun to wonder outloud how having a new owner (let alone,one who is an active local politician) mightaffect the Alibi. “Welp, so much for anyobjective reporting on Pat Davis.(Although, I wouldn’t exactly consider TheAlibi objective,)” reads one unhappy redditthread.

Make no mistake: Pat Davis has ideas.He wants the paper to concentrate evenmore on local news and is trying to bringmore long-term investigative reports intothe mix. He wants the paper to have astronger online presence and will bepushing for more exclusive digital contentfor today’s smartphone-and-social-media-savvy readers. But these are additions towhat is already a successful formula, andthey will take time to adopt. For now,readers will see few changes to the Alibiand its contents. The current staff isholding strong, sticking around and willcontinue to deliver the newspaperAlbuquerque readers have come to rely on.Aside from changing the name of theowner on the company masthead from“NuCity Publications” to “Good TroubleLLLP,” readers will scarcely notice thechangeover.

But how will Alibi approach localpolitics—particularly the city council—nowthat we’re owned by one of the locallyelected city councilors? We here on thestaff had similar concerns. Hopefully,however, there will be little alteration. Alibihas been committed for a very long time(thanks largely to the dedicated work ofwriter Carolyn Carlson) to covering theAlbuquerque City Council. We’ve oftenheld their feet to the fire and have, onoccasion, been a vocal critic of Pat Davishimself over the years. When he doessomething we think is wrong, we’ve calledhim on it—and we’ll continue to do so inthe future. That’s the plan, anyway. At the

same time, we’re also pretty sympatico withDavis’ progressive vision for the city andhave praised him for a lot of what he’sdone in Albuquerque. (We like his work onmarijuana reform, gun buy-backs andeliminating “1033 program” participationfrom APD.) Davis promises to keep a“firewall” between himself and theeditorial department, and we promise notto call him when the city forgets to pick upour trash bins. Rest assured: Alibi will notsuddenly become a liberal, DemocraticParty propaganda sheet—not any morethan has been for the past 28 years,anyway.

The New and the NowLest we forget: This major change istaking place in the middle of a globalpandemic. When the Coronavirusoutbreak hit its first peak in March and wewent into lockdown, basically all of NewMexico shut down. Nearly all of the WeeklyAlibi’s regular advertisers—bars,restaurants, nightclubs, movie theaters, artgalleries, concert venues, casinos—wereclosed. Overnight, advertising revenue—the way Alibi pays rent, printing bills, staffsalaries—vanished. The paper was forcedto take a hiatus, putting a stop to thephysical edition for some three months.Everyone on payroll was laid off. Alibi keptpublishing digitally, feeding the occasionalarticle to its website and social mediaaccounts in an attempt to keep the brandalive. It was a tough few months.

So much news was happening in ourcommunity and across the nation, and wewere all champing at the bit to inform ourreaders about everything from restaurantclosures to mask etiquette to that twist atthe end of “Tiger King.” Eventually, thepaper secured Paycheck ProtectionProgram loans from the Small BusinessAdministration and was able to bring acore staff back to get a physical paper onstands once again. That money has kept usafloat for the past few months. But otherNew Mexico businesses have had a toughtime getting back on their feet. Many ofour advertisers still have locked doors.(Restaurants are only now open to 25percent of indoor capacity, and bars haveyet to see a projected opening date fromour governor.) Needless to say, businessesthat are closed don’t do a lot ofadvertising. The Alibi’s days, like so manyother small local businesses, werenumbered.

That’s why the lifeline that Pat Davishas extended to the Alibi is so surprisingand so welcome. “Albuquerque needs thisnow, more than ever,” Davis assured theAlibi staff in its first of many Zoommeetings with the new owner. Davis hasalready secured the paper a raft of solidnew business partners and is working hardwith the editorial, production, distributionand sales staff to see what our future andthe future of our city looks like. Hopefully,New Mexico’s businesses and culturalattractions will start to safely reopen overthe next few months. And thanks to thenew ownership, we’ll be here to writeabout it all.

The bottom line is that the Alibi willcontinue to publish, weekly anduninterrupted, for the foreseeable future.We hope you will continue to read. a

NOT SO NUCITY | by Devin D. O’Leary

Many say that if you can get all six in a room together, a new paper magically will appear.

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Dateline: MichiganLast week Detroit emergency workersdeclared a woman dead and placed her ina body bag. Three hours later a staffmember at a funeral home discovered shewas still alive. According to ABC NewsTimesha Beauchamp, who was born withcerebral palsy, was placed in critical careon a respirator at Sinai-Grace Hospital inDetroit last week after being declareddead by medical professionals. Earlier inthe day, Beauchamp’s family had noticedthat her lips were pale, she had secretionsaround her mouth, and she was havingtrouble breathing. They immediatelycalled 911 and firefighters rushed to thescene. The Southfield Fire Departmentreleased a statement on the incident,saying, “A local emergency departmentphysician pronounced the patientdeceased based upon medical informationprovided by the Southfield FireDepartment at the scene. … TheSouthfield Fire and Police Departmentsfollowed all appropriate city, county andstate protocols and procedures in this case.The City of Southfield is currentlyconducting a thorough internalinvestigation in addition to the OaklandCounty Medical Control Authority.”Beauchamp’s godmother told reportersthat she felt a faint pulse and informedemergency responders but was told thatthe movements were involuntary andrelated to the drugs that had beenadministered. The mistake wasn’tdiscovered until an employee at thefuneral home where Beauchamp was sentunzipped the body bag. “When the bodybag was opened and they were gettingready to embalm the body, Timesha’s eyeswere open and she was breathing,” saidthe family’s lawyer. The four firefighterswho responded to the incident have beenplaced on administrative leave while aninvestigation is conducted.

Dateline: IllinoisA Chicago restaurant is offering the mostexpensive peanut butter and jellysandwich in the world for $350. Accordingto Robb Report a new eatery is serving thepricey sandwich with a chuckle as a nod tothe restaurant’s own name, PB&J—whichstands for pizza, beer and jukebox.Brothers Matthew and Josh McCahill—therestaurant’s co-owners—say they inventedthe sandwich to attract attention to PB&J.The “Golden Goose” sandwich is madeusing a loaf of bread, gold dust and ediblegold leaf. “The gold leaf bread loaf Iresearched and improved by making goldnuggets out of gold dust and sea-salt,”

Matthew McCahill told reporters. It alsoincorporates Adams All-Natural peanutbutter and a high-end jam made by Frenchcompany Maison Dutriez. The tallsandwich is drizzled with manuka honeyfrom New Zealand—known to be one ofthe rarest and most sought after honeys inthe world. The brothers say they got theidea to invent the “Golden Goose” afterdiscovering a $200 peanut butter and jellysandwich that was served traditionally butfeatured a gold toothpick. PB&J dinerswho are looking for a more inexpensiveoption can order a regular peanut butterand jelly sandwich for $5.

Dateline: LouisianaLast week, Hurricane Laura knocked overa Confederate statue that Calcasieu Parishleaders recently voted to keep in place.NPR reports that two weeks ago, theCalcasieu Parish Police Jury voted to keepthe South’s Defenders MemorialMonument in place at the parishcourthouse in Lake Charles, La. despitecommunity outcry over its positiveportrayal of Confederate soldiers—including protests voiced by Lake CharlesMayor Nic Hunter. The parish said that878 of 945 collected citizen commentswere in favor of leaving the statue of ayoung Confederate soldier where it was.But the destructive force of HurricaneLaura put an end to the controversy lastweek when it knocked the statue off itspedestal—where it stood for over 100years. Laura was a Category 4 storm withover 150 mph winds when it made landfalllast week. It damaged or destroyed anumber of Lake Charles landmarks,including a bowling alley, a casino and adonut shop.

Dateline: ConnecticutA Connecticut town has named its sewerplant after television personality JohnOliver. USA Today reports that thecomedian made fun of Danbury, Conn. lastmonth on his HBO show when hethreatened the entire town. “I knowexactly three things about Danbury,”Oliver said. “USA Today ranked it thesecond-best city to live in in 2015, it wasonce the center of the American hatindustry, and if you’re from there you havea standing invite to come get a thrashingfrom John Oliver—children included.” Inresponse to the expletive-ladenmonologue, Danbury Mayor MarkBoughton posted a video on Facebookfeaturing himself standing in front of thecity’s Wastewater Treatment Plant. “We aregoing to rename it the John OliverMemorial Sewer Plant,” the mayor said.“Why? Because it’s full of [expletive] justlike you, John.” The city has not actuallynamed the waste plant after Oliver,however. Boughton told reporters that thevideo was a “tongue-in-cheek … joke toreturn volley” at the comedian. “I willdefend Danbury’s honor, whatever thecost,” the mayor said. a

Compiled by Joshua Lee. Email your weird

news to josh@alibi.com.

SEPTEMBER 3-9, 2020 WEEKLY ALIBI [9]

NEWS CITYBY JOSHUA LEE

Health Order EasedLast week Gov. Michelle Lujan Grishamannounced that the pandemic stay-at-homeorder has been relaxed.

Public gatherings of up to 10 people arenow allowed under the amended order.Restaurants can now offer indoor dining at25 percent of maximum capacity. Houses ofworship can operate at 40 percent capacity.

“We just want to open up a little bit. Wewant to be very careful,” said HumanServices Secretary David Scrase. “We triedthis before. It didn’t work so well.”

During the news conference, thegovernor claimed to have driven throughEspañola and failed to see anyone wearinga mask. She later apologized for the remarkand said she regretted giving theimpression that Española was beingnoncompliant.

The newest health order went into effectAug. 29.

Last week Education Secretary RyanStewart announced that classrooms willopen part-time after Labor Day forelementary school students in counties withlow average rates of COVID-19 infectionand positivity rates.

NM GOP Delegates Toldto Self-QuarantineGOP delegates who traveled to theRepublican Party National Convention lastweek were ordered to self-quarantine by thestate.

The Associated Press reports that aspokeswoman for Gov. Lujan Grisham saidthat the Republican delegates will beexpected to self-quarantine for 14 days asdirected in the current public health order.The rule applies to all out-of-state travelers.

A spokesperson for New MexicoRepublican Chairman Steve Pearce said thathe will follow the quarantine provision.Pearce and five other delegates attended aGOP convention in Charlotte, N.C. lastweek.

“I do feel like it was important to bethere,” Republican Chairwoman Tina Dziuktold reporters. “Just speaking for myself, Ithink there’s a difference between trying toeliminate exposure versus managing yourexposure. … And I think we did a reallygood job of that.”

Democratic delegates will not have toself-quarantine, because the DemocraticNational Convention was held online viavideo conference.

Absentee BallotApplications Go OnlineNew Mexico voters can now request anabsentee ballot for the general election onNov. 3 through the secretary of state’sonline absentee ballot request portal.

Voters were already able to apply for anabsentee ballot using a paper form, but theonline request form speeds up the process.County clerks will begin sending the ballotsout Oct. 6. The cutoff for requesting theform is Oct. 20. Officials recommend thatballots be sent back no later than Oct. 27.Ballots must be received before 7pm onElection Day, Nov. 3, regardless of thepostmark date.

“Voting by absentee ballot is a safe andsecure way to make your voice heard inNovember while also protecting your healthand the health of your community,”Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Olivertold reporters. a

Highborne Renewal of

the Supreme Being

(Self Released)

The one-man band Archon is back withanother Highborne project, Renewal of theSupreme Being, sure to disturb your sleep.Well-refined, Renewal is a blend of melodicblack metal, raw black metal andatmospheric black metal, with hints of deathmetal peeking through to remind you ofyour own mortality. The Linnaean of metalmay quibble over the labels, but it is clearthat this is a horror film where your brain isthe hero trying to escape. Maybe youshould let it. If you like to spend yourpandemic days questioning the illusion offree will, then crank up Renewal of theSupreme Being and, as the title tracksuggests, “Consume your innocence,commune with your demon.”

Travesuras Liberate

(Self Released)

By my count, Travesuras’ five-song EPclocks in 12 seconds shy of five-minutes’worth of punk, giving you no excuse not tolisten to it twice in quick succession.Delivered in both English and Spanish,Liberate is not an album that waits aroundmired in ambiguity. No sir! They get right tothe point with songs like, “Trifecta ofNastiness.” Borrowing a line, presumably,from New Order’s “Blue Monday,”Travesuras asks, “How does it feel to treatme like you do?” then simply adds, “’Causeyou don’t give a shit, and you don’t give afuck, too.” Now you certainly know howthey feel. It is comforting to know in a timeof uncertainty such as this that you can atleast count on Travesuras to give it to youstraight. Maybe listen to it a third time. a

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PIXABAY

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “A new idea israrely born like Venus attended by graces. Morecommonly it’s modeled of baling wire and acne.More commonly it wheezes and tips over.” Thosewords were written by Aries author Marge Piercy,who has been a fount of good new ideas in thecourse of her career. I regard her as an expert ingenerating wheezy, fragile breakthroughs andultimately turning them into shiny, solid beaconsof revelation. Your assignment in the comingweeks, Aries, is to do as Piercy has done so well.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Every day Idiscover even more beautiful things,” saidpainter Claude Monet. “It is intoxicating me, andI want to paint it all. My head is bursting.” Thatmight seem like an extreme state to many of us.But Monet was a specialist in the art of seeing.He trained himself to be alert for exquisitesights. So his receptivity to the constant flow ofloveliness came naturally to him. I bring this toyour attention, Taurus, because I think that inthe coming weeks, you could rise closer to aMonet-like level of sensitivity to beauty. Wouldthat be interesting to you? If so, unleash yourself!Make it a priority to look for charm, elegance,grace, delight, and dazzlement.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Author RenataAdler describes a time in her life when she beganto notice blue triangles on her feet. She waswracked with fear that they were a symptom ofleukemia. But after a period of intense anxiety,she realized one fine day that they had adifferent cause. She writes: “Whenever I, walkingbarefoot, put out the garbage on the landing, Iheld the apartment door open, bending overfrom the rear. The door would cross a bit overthe tops of my feet”—leaving triangular bruises.Upon realizing this very good news, she says, “Itook a celebrational nap.” From what I can tell,Gemini, you’re due for a series of celebrationalnaps—both because of worries that turn out to beunfounded and because you need a concentratedperiod of recharging your energy reserves.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “I like people whorefuse to speak until they are ready to speak,”proclaimed Cancerian author Lillian Hellman. Ifeel the same way. So often people have nothinginteresting or important to say, but say it anyway.I’ve done that myself! The uninteresting andunimportant words I have uttered are toonumerous to count. The good news for me andall of my fellow Cancerians is that in the comingweeks we are far more likely than usual to notspeak until we are ready to speak. According tomy analysis of the astrological potentials, we arepoised to express ourselves with clarity,authenticity, and maximum impact.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Of all the mournfulimpacts the pandemic has had, one of the mostdevastating is that it has diminished ouropportunities to touch and be touched by otherhumans. Many of us are starved of the routine,regular contact we had previously taken forgranted. I look forward to the time when we canagain feel uninhibited about shaking hands,hugging, and patting friends on the arm orshoulder. In the meantime, how can you cope?This issue is extra crucial for you Leos tomeditate on right now. Can you massageyourself? Seek extra tactile contact with animals?Hug trees? Figure out how to physically connectwith people while wearing hazmat suits, gloves,masks, and face shields? What else?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Like any art, thecreation of self is both natural and seeminglyimpossible,” says singer-songwriter Holly Near.“It requires training as well as magic.” How areyou doing on that score, Virgo? Now is afavorable time to intensify your long-term artproject of creating the healthiest, smartestversion of yourself. I think it will feel quitenatural and not-at-all impossible. In the comingweeks, you’ll have a finely tuned intuitive sense ofhow to proceed with flair. Start by imagining theMost Beautiful You.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I propose we resurrectthe old English word “museful.” First used in the17th century but then forgotten, it meant “deeplythoughtful; pensive.” In our newly coined use, itrefers to a condition wherein a person isabundantly inspired by the presence of the muse.I further suggest that we invoke this term toapply to you Libras in the coming weeks. You

potentially have a high likelihood of intensecommunion with your muses. There’s also agood chance you’ll engage with a new muse ortwo. What will you do with all of thisillumination and stimulation?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Each of us has a“soul’s code”: a metaphorical blueprint of thebeautiful person we could become by fulfillingour destiny. If our soul’s code remains largelydormant, it will agitate and disorient us. If, onthe other hand, we perfectly actualize oursoul’s code, we will feel at home in the world;all our experiences will feel meaningful. Thepractical fact is that most of us have madesome progress in manifesting our soul’s code,but still have a way to go before we fullyactualize it. Here’s the good news: YouScorpios are in a phase of your cycle when youcould make dramatic advances in this gloriouswork.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Life is theonly game in which the object of the game is tolearn the rules,” observes Sagittarian authorAshleigh Brilliant. According to my research,you have made excellent progress in this questduring the last few weeks—and will continueyour good work in the next six weeks. Giveyourself an award! Buy yourself a trophy! Youhave discovered at least two rules that werepreviously unknown to you, and you have alsoripened your understanding of another rulethat had previously been barelycomprehensible. Be alert for morebreakthroughs.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “If you’re notlost, you’re not much of an explorer,” saidrambunctious activist and author John PerryBarlow. Adding to his formulation, I’ll say thatif you want to be a successful explorer, it’scrucial to get lost on some occasions. Andaccording to my analysis, now is just such atime for you Capricorns. The new territory youhave been brave enough to reconnoiter shouldbe richly unfamiliar. The possibilities you havebeen daring enough to consider should beprovocatively unpredictable. Keep going, mydear! That’s the best way to become un-lost.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Dreams reallytell you about yourself more than anything elsein this world could ever tell you,” said psychicSylvia Browne. She was referring to themysterious stories that unfold in our minds aswe sleep. I agree with her assessment ofdreams’ power to show us who we really are allthe way down to the core of our souls. WhatBrowne didn’t mention, however, is that ittakes knowledge and training to becomeproficient in deciphering dreams’ revelations.Their mode of communication is unique—andunlike every other source of teaching. I bringthis up, Aquarius, because the coming monthswill be a favorable time for you to becomemore skilled in understanding your dreams.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In June 1876,warriors from three Indian tribes defeated U.S.troops led by General George Custer at theBattle of Little Big Horn in Montana. It was aniconic victory in what was ultimately a losingbattle to prevent conquest by the ever-expanding American empire. One of the tribesthat fought that day was the NorthernCheyenne. Out of fear of punishment by theU.S. government, its leaders waited 130 yearsto tell its side of the story about whathappened. New evidence emerged then, suchas the fact that the only woman warrior in thefight, Buffalo Calf Road Woman, killed Custerhimself. I offer this tale as an inspiration foryou Pisceans to tell your story about events thatyou’ve kept silent about for too long.

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Burn, Baby, BurnIt’s not a good time to gather together in large groups. It is, however, an excellent time to incinerate our woes andworries. This combination makes this year’s 96th Annual Burning of Zozobra in Santa Fe something of an essentialritual. The 2020 event, like so many, has gone virtual, with the burning of Old Man Gloom being telecast live onKOAT-7 on Sept. 4 starting at 7pm. But AMP Concerts is helping build the community spirit with a COVID-safeZozobra Watch Party at HIPICO, Santa Fe’s premiere equestrian facility. Viewers are invited to see all the actiongo down on two large HD video screens, drive-in-style. Cuarenta y Cinco and Severo y Grupo Fuego perform liveon stage before the burning. Tickets are $49, $66, $88 and $110 per carload (up to six people per car). Earlybird arrival and setup starts at 4:30pm. All cars must be in by 6:50pm. You must purchase tickets in advance atampconcerts.org/event/363759/zozobra-watch-party. HIPICO SANTA FE 100 S POLO DR, 4:30 TO 10PM

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SATURDAY SEPT 5

Do You Even Lift, Bro?

Hear us now, and believe us later. If you’re looking to turn that weak and jellied bag of flab you call a body into arock-solid force of muscle mystery, then you have to drop those silly workout bands and pick up some realweights! This Saturday, Sep. 5, join the powerlifting Dream Team at Iron Soul Gym and learn the fundamentals ofpowerlifting. Expert trainers Cailer Woolam, Stacy Burr and Ed Coan will train you in the proper execution ofsquats, benchpresses and deadlifts. They just want to pump you up. The workshop runs from 10am to 4pm at theIron Soul Gym, 2400 Menaul Blvd. Tickets cost $225 at bit.ly/34FAOYH. Lunch is provided. IRON SOUL GYM 2400

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Edible vs. Poisonous

It’s time to accept that it’s likely society will collapse after all. Maybe not immediately, but perhaps around theelection. Are you ready for the Mad Max world we’ve all been promised? Better to be safe than sorry, so why notattend the Edible & Medicinal Plants of the Jemez Mountains: Seasonal Herb Walk, happening Saturday,Sept. 5 in the Jemez Mountains, just north of the Albuquerque Basin. Starting at 9am, this $50 class will teacheverything a person needs to know about surviving alone in the untamed wilderness of New Mexico, includingplant identification, ethical and legal harvesting methods, how to identify poisonous plants and hopefully somemonsoon ’shrooms. This adults-only (for reasons of content and hiking distance) class is the perfect way toprepare for the downfall of man, so to get more information, visit the Blue Wind School of Botanical Studies onFacebook. Jemez Mountains, 9am to 3pm facebook.com/bluewindschool alibi.com/v/787a. (Dan Pennington) a

SUNDAY SEPT 6

It’s No Jerry Lewis

Somehow, telethons seem like a relic of a TV-centric time in American culture when there just wasn’t that muchon. The cause was usually worthwhile, but the entertainment was often preachy, sappy or just plain bad. But TheBox Performance and Improv Theatre are going for it with a live streaming telethon on Sunday, Sept. 6 from1pm to 9pm that promises “games, music, comedy improv and more.” The cause is good (keeping The BoxPerformance and Improv Theatre open), and the entertainment will likely be better than you got from Jerry Lewis.So tune in for free via the links at cardboardplayhouse.org for some all-ages telethon fun and give till it hurts.Cardboard Playhouse Theatre Company, 1 to 9pm, cardboardplayhouse.org. alibi.com/v/787b. (Clarke Condé) a

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FILM | IDIOT BOX by Devin D. O’Leary

It’s clear, six months into the pandemic-induced Hollywood hiatus, that themovie industry is changing—at least

for the foreseeable future. On a normalyear, the summer blockbuster seasonwould be wrapping up this weekend onLabor Day. Instead, in 2020, it never evenhappened. Now more or less resigned tosending their movies straight into people’shomes with streaming video on demand,Hollywood studios are starting to give upon the idea of opening major films intraditional movie theaters. For themajority of the 2020, studios have given usjust a handful token releases, sendinganimated flicks like Scoob and Trolls WorldTour to VOD or live-action kids’ films suchas Artemis Fowl to subscription streamingservices. But none of them were exactly“tent pole” releases (or remotely good,either). Disney became the first studio toblink big time, shipping its much-anticipated $200 million live-actionremake of Mulan to Disney+ on Aug. 31(where subscribers have the honor ofshelling out $30 to watch it in their livingrooms). Now Orion Pictures (currentlyowned by MGM) is following suit, givingthe sci-fi sequel Bill & Ted Face the Music adual theatrical/streaming release. Giventhat only about 60 percent of movietheaters are open across America, it’s likelythat most people will be watching thisthird Bill & Ted outing in the safety oftheir own homes—further blurring theline between “movies” and “television.”

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure hit movietheaters in 1989. The low budget sci-ficomedy about a couple of teens trying topass their history final with the help of aconvenient time machine became a hugehit, making a lasting impression ofaudiences—particularly those who spent achunk of the ’80s in high school. A sequelcame along in 1991. After that, it was

silence—aside from a couple TV spin-offsand some excellent comic books fromwriter/artist Evan Dorkin. But now, nearly20 years later, much of the cast and crewhave returned to give our boys Bill & Ted amost excellent send-off.

Face the Music finds our now middle-aged heroes, Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted“Theodore” Logan (Alex Winter andKeanu Reeves, of course), no lessairheaded than before. But theirtrademark boundless enthusiasm hasslipped a bit. It seems that, having beentold for at least two movies that theirmusical output will one day inspire thewhole of the human race to unite in peaceand harmony, they’ve cracked a bit underthe pressure. Over the last couple decades,they’ve gotten married and produced acouple of doppelganger daughters, buthave failed utterly to compose the songthat will alter the course of humanity.

A timely visit from Kelly (KristenSchaal), the daughter of B&T’s time-traveling guru Rufus (the late, greatGeorge Carlin), reveals that not only mustthe boys come up with the monumentaltune, but they must do so in the next 70

DreamWorks’ Madagascar franchise (four moviesand two TV series) are back! Alex the lion, Martythe zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria thehippo (all now voiced by inexpensive TV talent)all return for this prequel look into their early lifein the Central Park Zoo.

Pool Boy Nightmare (Lifetime 6pm) Hard to believeLifetime managed to crank out a Jerry Falwell Jr.biopic so quickly. … Wait. That’s not what this is?Eh, close enough.

TUESDAY 8

“Biography: I Want My MTV” (A&E 7pm) Ratherthan offer the biography of a single human being,tonight’s “Biography” charts the rise of a culturalphenomenon that defined a generation—as seenthrough the eyes of the artists, audiences and VJ’swho were there from the beginning.

WEDNESDAY 9

“Woke” (Hulu streaming anytime) CartoonistKeith Knight (“The K Chronicles”) is the creatorof this mostly autobiographical sitcom about acartoonist named Keef (Lamorne Morris), who ison the verge of mainstream success when anunexpected event changes his life. a

THIS WEEK IN SLOTH

Krister Henriksson and Kenneth Branaugh) gets the“Young Sheldon” treatment. Only less funny. Or not,really. Adam Palsson takes over, shepherding the copthrough his first case.

FRIDAY 4“Away” (Netflix streaming anytime) An astronaut

(Hillary Swank) embarks on a treacherous mission toMars with an international crew, leaving behind herhusband and teenage daughter.

“Earth to Ned” (Disney+ streaming anytime)Produced by the Jim Henson Company, thispuppet/live-action talk show centers around a blue-skinned alien and his lieutenant who are sent toEarth on a scouting mission but become obsessedwith popular culture and start interviewing celebritiesinstead. RuPaul, Joel McHale, Billy Dee Williams,Rachel Bloom, Taye Diggs and NeNe Leakes areamong the guests.

“Noughts + Crosses” (Peacock streaming anytime)Peacock continues to mine British TV for newcontent, shipping another BBC series to Americanshores. Based on the popular series of YA novels byMalorie Blackman, the show takes place in analternate reality in which Europe was conquered andenslaved by Africa 700 years ago.

SATURDAY 5“Pop Goes the Vet” (Nat Geo Wild 8:14pm) What’s

better than docu-reality shows about doctors who pop

THURSDAY 3“Raised By Wolves” (HBO Max streaming

anytime) Aaron Guzikowski (“The Red Road”) isthe creator and Ridley Scott (Alien, Gladiator) is theexecutive producer of this far out sci-fi dramaabout two androids struggling to raise a colony ofhuman children on a faraway world after Earth isdestroyed by a great war. As religious differencesthreatens to tear the fragile colony apart, theandroid caretakers embark on the dangerous taskof manipulating human belief systems.

“We Got This” (Sundance Now streaminganytime) A recently jobless American man(Schiaffino Musarra) living in Sweden sets off tosolve the 30-year-old murder of the former primeminister Olof Palme, in hopes that the 50 millionSwedish crown ($5 million) reward can pay off hisinsurmountable tax bill. Naturally, he teams upwith his closest friend, a wacky conspiracy theoristand former police officer and soon finds himselfneck-deep into a web of intrigue. Writer and starMusarra’s six-episode crime comedy is basedaround actual facts: Palme was the prime ministerof Sweden, and the government was offering a $5million reward for solving his murder.

“Young Wallander” (Netflix streaming anytime)Swedish cop Kurt Wallander (played previously by

Party On, DudesBill & Ted Face the Music on SVOD

STREAM TIMEBY DEVIN D. O’LEARY

NetflixAdding Sept. 3: Love, Guaranteed

Adding Sept. 4: I’m Thinking of Ending

Things, Take Me Home Tonight

Adding Sept. 7: Cargo, Midnight

Special, Waiting For “Superman”

Adding Sept. 9: Cuties/Mignonnes,

The Social Dilemma

Leaving Sept. 5: Christopher Robin

Amazon PrimeAdding Sept. 4: Dino Dana The Movie

HuluAdding Sept. 3: Middle School:

The Worst Years of My Live

Adding Sept. 6: Awoken

Disney+Adding Sept. 4: Mulan (2020), D2:

The Mighty Ducks, D3: The Mighty Ducks,

Never Been Kissed, Strange Magic, The

Wolverinea

pimples? Everything. Literally everything. What’sworse? Well, previously, it was hard to imagine. Butnow we have this show about veterinarians whodrain pustules and abscesses on animals. … Ifyou’re eager to watch this, there’s somethingfundamentally wrong with you. Like, on a DNAlevel. Seriously.

SUNDAY 6

“Power Book II: Ghost” (Starz 7pm) This sequelto/spin-off of Starz’ popular six-season crime seriespicks up shortly after Tariq St. Patrick (MichaelRainey) killed his father, James St. Patrick (OmariHardwick), and his mother, Tasha (NaturiNaughton), ended up behind bars for the murder.

“Welcome to the Jungle” (HGTV 7:01pm) In theirongoing search to find new places to set docu-reality shows about people buying houses, HGTVhas settled on … jungles! From the rainforests ofCosta Rica to the verdant paradises of Peru,inexplicably wealthy twentysomethings looking fora second home will argue over closet size amidmuch greenery.

MONDAY 7

“Madagascar: A Little Wild” (Hulu streaminganytime) The animated animals from

minutes or all of time and space will ceaseto exist. No pressure.

Bill & Ted try their best to buckle downand write the tune; but if they haven’tmanaged to do so in the last 20 years,they’re not going to do it in the next hour.So, as you might expect, they opt for theeasy way out, stealing Rufus’ old timemachine and traveling into the futurewhere they hope to “borrow” the songfrom their future selves (who, presumably,will have already written it). The problemis, each future iteration of Bill & Ted findsthe duo more desperate and down-on-their-luck, equally unable to come up withthe essential tune and eager to exploittheir younger selves.

While B&T jump forward, confrontingtheir greatest fears of failure, theirdaughters, Billie and Thea (BridgetteLundy-Paine and Samara Weaving),borrow Kelly’s time machine to collect aband composed of the world’s greatestmusicians (from Mozart to Jimi Hendrix).For the most part, the film nicely replicatesthe silly, good-natured look and feel of theoriginal, with Lundy-Paine and Weavingmore or less mirroring the young Bill andTed. (Lundy-Paine, in particular nailsReeves’ early “Ted” mannerisms andspeech.) Face the Music doesn’t quite havethe manic, colorful energy of Bill & Ted’sBogus Journey. I’ll go to my grave believingthat Bogus Journey is hugely underrated.Writers-creators Ed Solomon and ChrisMatheson pulled out all the stops, craftinga “Simpsons”-like pile-up of jokes on topof jokes for that second film. And directorStephen Herek gave the sequel a zesty,cartoonish look with inventive cameraworkand loads of bright, primary colors. Facethe Music, in comparison, produces morenostalgic smiles than explosive laughs.

But now is an awfully opportune time totempt audiences with silly nostalgia. As its

lightweight plot rolls forward, the filmaccrues a great deal of good will. Winterand Reeves are no longer the enthusiasticyoung unknowns they used to be. (This isparticularly noticeable watching the firsttwo films back-to-back with the threequel.)But by the time B&T 3 tarts them up asthe increasingly outrageous futureincarnations of their characters, it’s clearthe actors are having a lot of fun playingdress-up. Unlike the title characters’mythical tune, Bill & Ted Face the Musicisn’t going to change the world. In theend, though, this goofy exercise in fanservice manages to land on a sweet notesure to bring a smile to everyone’s face.

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Where does hate and intolerancecome from? On the streets, onsocial media and in national

campaigns, it infuses the conversationabout the direction of our civilization. Itsantonym, “empathy,” is a focal point of theBiden presidential campaign, oddlymaking a basic human emotion part of apartisan debate. Strange days, indeed.

The New Mexico Holocaust Museum inDowntown Albuquerque is set to reopenthis week after the governor lifted apandemic-related closure. Weekly Alibi tookthat as an opportunity to sit down with themuseum’s Executive Director Leon Natkerto talk about the history of hate, its manymanifestations and how we can be kinderto each other. The following is an editedversion of that conversation.

Weekly Alibi: This may take a while tounpack, but why are people so cruel toeach other?Leon Natker: It depends on who you ask.The psychologist types or sociologists saythat it’s part of our lizard brain. We haveto defend our territory. We insulateourselves and make everybody else the“other” so that we’re more important.That might be part of it. I would also sayas an anthropologist, as societies get morecomplex—I wouldn’t say more advanced, Iwould say more complex—and developcities and develop agriculture, and youhave the need to protect your territory sothat you can feed your people, we becomemore aggressive and defensive. I think thatfrom that instinct we can become morecruel. It happens in the brain. You’ve got6,000 years of recorded history, and we seeit over and over and over again. Now, youdon’t see the exact same types of reallyracially and ethnically motivated hatredthat we do in the European contextelsewhere in the world. It’s not the same.You seldom see an ethnic cleansing as yougo eastward in Asia or down into Africa. Itseems to be a thing that generates fromthe ancient Near East and up into WesternEurope.

Have we become kinder to each otherover time?There again, that’s an interestinganthropological question. When you go totribal societies to this day, where they’resmall societies, they’re very much more, ifyou will, socialistic. I don’t mean that in apolitical sense; they take care of eachother. They care about each other. As thesociety gets larger and becomes morecomplex, that’s when you begin to seemore of these aberrations happen, that’swhen people become territorial andbecome protective and start making war.War is the beginning of this. And the wayto get warriors, and to engage your youngmen, is you teach them to hate.

Is an understanding of historical eventsenough to generate within us theempathy we need to change ourinteractions both individually andcollectively?

I think it depends on when people areengaged and how they are engaged in thatconversation. One of the things we foundin our education programs is the youngerwe get to the kids, and the more we workon building empathy–it starts with littlethings like bullying when they’re kids.Making fun of the fat kid. Making fun ofthe really skinny kid. The short kid orwhatnot. If you allow that to happen andsay nothing and just go, “Oh it’s just kids,”it can build up over time. Then it getsworse and worse and worse. By the timethey’re a teenager, you could have a full-onhate cell going. Children are verysusceptible. Now of the adults that havecome through that process: Just showingthem this happened, I don’t think it’senough. I think you have to take theeducation part of it a step further. I thinkyou have to have an interpretation, apersonal interpretation. Just looking at thehorror pictures of the Holocaust, all that’sgoing to do is to make an emotionalreaction. It’s going to be like going to ahorror movie. There have been numerousstudies that have found that that’sunfortunately been the case. We’ve been sobusy showing the pictures and saying, “No,you can’t let this happen again,” wehaven’t addressed the underlying causesand how people interpret it. Don’t justshow them the pictures. You’ve got to givethem a chance to interpret it.

Where does the courage to stand up tobullies or worse come from?That goes back to my point abouteducation. That is from within us. It’s theElie Wiesel quote: “The only person that

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Empathy vs. HateNew Mexico Holocaust Museum revisited

benefits from you saying nothing is theperson perpetrating the crime.” That issomething we have to teach children. A lotof people that will say the best way to dealwith a bully is to punch him in the nose. Imean that metaphorically. You stand up toa bully, nine times out of 10, they backdown because they are cowards. It’s likethe vandalism that happened here at themuseum; that person didn’t stand up andsay, “Look at what I’m doing to you. Theyran by, smashed where they wanted to andran off.

Do you want to talk about the incidentwith the windows?It was right during the time when JohnLewis was being buried on television. Inthe front, there’s the murals there andthere’s the one on the left-hand side of theCivil Rights March in the ’60s. There’s apicture there of a black minister holdingthe black Baptist minister sign. That’swhere they smashed it. It’s not acoincidence. They have all kinds of choicesthere. They could have thrown a rock atAnne Frank. They could have thrown arock at Cesar Chavez. They chose theblack minister. And then, of course, ranoff. The problem in New Mexico is thelaws. We’re working now with the NAACPand the Jewish Federation to start craftingnew legislation for hate crimes in NewMexico. The police, all they said was,“Anybody hurt?” No. “Was any bloodshed?” No. “Well, file it online and we’llsee what we can do.” They have no legaltools to do anything about it. All the guycould be charged with was vandalism.There are no teeth in those laws right now.

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Tell me about the museum’s plansrelated to the Southwest NativeAmerican’s physical, cultural andenvironmental genocide. First, what we’re doing here is a thumbnailhistory. I mean, it’s so complex. I think it’svery important that people understandwhat was perpetrated here in the state ofNew Mexico. The Spanish, I mean, youcan’t describe what happened in the 17thand 18th centuries as anything but slaveryand genocide. Then once the Americanstook over, it was no better. There’s noother way to describe it other than agenocide or attempted genocide. One ofthe things about all of these genocides isthey seldom succeed in their entirety.There’s not a lot of record of an entireethnic group ethnically cleansed. That’swhy we are going to have a sign up here[points to the wall by entrance]:“Resistance is Not Futile.” I mean, comeon, the Jews, we’ve been chased aroundthe world for the better part of 3000 years.Many times people have attempted toexterminate us. They haven’t succeeded.

How can we become kinder?I think we have to learn more aboutpeople. When I was starting to studyanthropology and starting to work with theNative groups here in New Mexico–I knowthey’re very skittish about working withanthropologists and archeologists and forgood reason. A hundred years ago, thetechniques were bad. I asked a governor ofone of the tribes here, “Why are youwilling to do this?” He said, what we needto develop is respect for each other, nottolerance, but respect. The way to developrespect is, the more we know about eachother, the more we can appreciate eachother’s culture, the more respect we have.We have to be willing to learn about eachother. We have to be willing to accept thatnot everybody sees the world in the sameway we do.

What’s the museum experience going tobe like?It’s to educate them in history, and it’s adifficult history, but I want them to comeaway seeing that resistance is not futile.There are positives to it. Being anUpstander is a choice. You’re making achoice. You aren’t just born that way. Youhave to choose that. If you do that, thisdoes not have to be the way human historycontinues on and on and on, ad infinitum.I mean, maybe it will, but we can do better.We definitely could do better. The 20thcentury brought us the most industrializedversion of mass murder ever with theNazis. We can’t let that happen again.Now, we have had attempted genocidesand ethnic cleansing since, but we have tokeep fighting it. It’s part of the conflictwithin us. It ain’t easy being human. a

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New Mexico Holocaust Museum’s Executive Director Leon Natker stands in front of theFlossenbürg flag, part of the museum’s collection. The flag was painted by the prisoners of theNazi’s Flossenbürg, Germany concentration camp and given to a New Mexican solider thathelped liberate the camp.

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ric Cousineau is a single father oftwo who works full time at TraderJoe’s in Santa Fe. He is what we call

an “essential worker,” a term that has onlyrecently surfaced in our commonvernacular. It means the people withoutwhom the infrastructure of the countrywould collapse and we would all starve todeath. Truck drivers. Nurses. Butchers.Even newspaper art critics, though thatlast one is certainly open to debate.

Cousineau is also a photographer, witha BFA and a list of exhibit credits to hisname. He was approached by some of thefolks at Center in Santa Fe to start theEssential Worker project knowing that hewas both a talented portrait photographerand that he worked at a supermarket. Theoriginal intent was to have himphotograph his fellow employees, but thatidea fell flat with Trader Joe’s corporateoffice. After receiving similarly dismissiveattitudes from other skittish corporatetypes, he found just walking up to peopleand asking if he could take their picture amore successful approach. The result is adiverse and growing collection of blackand white photographs that document theessential workers here in New Mexico. Godforbid some corporation allows people tosee that.

What is essential in understandingCousineau’s work is his perspective. Therehave been several excellent projects

photographing essential workerspublished over the last few months, butwhat sets Cousineau’s work apart is that hetells his subjects he works at Trader Joe’s,not the New York Times. Photographer andsubject share a common experience: theconstant threat of being exposed to adeadly virus in order to do basic jobs toprovide for themselves, their family and,really, the rest of the world. You can seethat relationship in the photographs.

This Labor Day will be without theparades, BBQs and double-headers at theballpark. We’ll probably all just be home,except the essential workers, of course.This Labor Day is an opportunity to lookat workers in a different way than we havebefore and consider a few basic questions.Who is essential? How do we treat andcompensate those that we can’t dowithout? Has the fundamental relationshipbetween capital and labor changed inAmerica, and what will that look likeshould we ever get out from under thiswretched pandemic? Maybe it’s time tostart seeing all workers in a new light. Wecan thank Eric Cousineau for showing ustheir perspective, and his, through his lens. a

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DOWNTOWN

THE FEEL GOOD

1720 Central Ave SW Ste A, 242-3594 • $$[American, Fusion, Wine Bar] The Feel Goodshares a lineage of family recipes, palates andtastes. Passed down through the decades, thiscultural DNA is very much alive here forluncheon or supper and continues to thrive.Efforts to preserve and nurture permeate thefood—mostly soups, sandwiches and tartines—and culture and will leave you feeling, well,good.

URBAN TAQUERIA

1 Central Ave. NW, Ste. B, 508-0348 • $$[Mexican] The Republican features pork alpastor, which was incredibly tender. You cancustomize to your heart’s content. They have awide range of salsas at the bar, plus you can rollwith corn or flour as your tortilla of choice.Follow that up with mixed cabbage, cilantro,pickled onions, diced tomatoes, cotija cheeseand a side of limes, and you’re facing down asolid street taco by any metric. Tacos are easy todo okay, but very hard to do amazingly, andthese passed the test of being done amazingly.Dare I say, it’s the most enjoyable RepublicanI’ve had in the last three years and reminiscentof Jeb! A hopeful, warm and pleasant taco, it’sremarkable because it just exists as it is anddoesn’t parade around pretending to besomething else. It holds to tradition, and that iswhere it finds its strength.

FAIRGROUNDS

STRIPES BISCUIT CO.

5701 Gibson Blvd SE, 859-4298 • $$[American, Barbecue/Soul Food] Finally, I hit theCharlie, their biscuit French toast creation. Itcame with those crunchy papitas, honey butter,maple syrup and a very large sausage patty. I’llsay this about the sausage, and it’s not to be anegative; though it was homemade and wellseasoned, I felt it was overcooked. I openlyacknowledge that there are a number of factorswhy it was cooked to the well done standard,including health and safety issues, so if you’relike me and prefer a less well-cooked style, besure to mention that when ordering. It tastedfantastic, and you could tell it was seasonedright before it was made, since the flavor wasstill in place when I bit into it. The French toastaspect left me torn, not because it tasted bad,but it was just so unexpected. Perhaps I’ve beenspoiled by light, fluffy brioche French toast, butwith biscuit dough this was much heavier andthicker than you’d expect. Again, it wasn’t bad,but it’s certainly a big departure from what Iusually expect in a French toast.

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BRISTOL DOUGHNUT CO.

3123 Central Ave SE, 596-0312 • $[Bakery/Sweets] You can’t miss it. It’s thedouble-decker bus on Central, parked in thatempty corner lot. Yeah, that’s a doughnut shop.How frickin’ cool is that? Get one of their

brioche doughnuts (prickly pear or maplebacon) for a truly unique treat. Grab a cup ofLittle Bear coffee and find a table in theadorable little upstairs seating area. Then letthe Instagraming begin.

CINNAMON SUGAR & SPICE CAFE

3500 Central Ave. SE, 588-2860 • $[Bakery/Sweets, Coffee/Tea/Espresso,

Greek/Mediterranean, New Mexican] CinnamonSugar & Spice Cafe is that wonderful mix ofquirky and strange that makes living inAlbuquerque so rewarding and unique, whilealso bringing a diverse menu with enough twiststo help the food stand out amongst themultitude of breakfast places scatteredthroughout the town. When I stopped in at theNob Hill location, I was surprised by a fewthings. The first was how open and light it feltinside. You don’t see a lot of places with fullglass walls anymore, let alone two of them (RIPScalos). With the light pouring in and the airfeeling fresher for it, I went inside to go take aseat. Among the regular tables and set ups, youcan also enjoy something a little stranger, likesharing a table with a skeleton or hanging outon the swings. Yes, literal swings. The interiordecoration is akin to what I would imagine afairy’s forest hideout would look, with longdraping flowers and vines giving the space a bitof a magical feel to it. In many ways, I felt like Ihad taken a wrong turn and ended upsomewhere far different than a restaurant andinto something else entirely, in a good way.

DON CHOCHE TACOS Y CERVEZA

114 Tulane Dr. SE, 730-7989 • $[Mexican] As far as food goes, you’re definitelycovered. Most everything on the menu can be

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had with the choice of ten different meats. Forexample, the tacos ($3) are done like traditionalstreet tacos. Topped with cilantro, onion andradish, you pick the meat and you’re set to go. Iwent with my personal favorite, carne adovada,with left the taco bursting at the seams filled, agood sign already. The fiery kick of theseasoned meat was enough to open my eyeswith delight when it first ran across my tongue.It was almost melt in your mouth tender, withan over-the-top level of seasoning that didn’tfeel like too much, but more as a just right. Byany metric you could hold it to, the carneadovada is a straight up winner.

DUKE CITY KITCHEN

5016 Lomas Blvd NE, 503-6449 • $$[American, Fusion, New Mexican] This burgercame out dripping with jam, a knife rising outof the top. I felt like I was watching an Ides ofMarch reenactment from Shakespeare’s Julius

Caesar). I boldly jumped in and was instantlyfloored by how phenomenal the flavorcombination was. Beyond all reason, this wasone of the best burgers I’ve ever tried. Maybe itwas the fact that it meshes nostalgic childhoodtastes with the New Mexican comfort food ofgreen chile and cheese, all held together withthis juicy beef that fills your mouth with everybite. Maybe it was the fact that I’ve neverexperienced all these flavors working intandem, and my body reacted happily tosomething new and different. Or maybe it wasjust because this is one hell of a hamburger, andrisks deserve to be rewarded. All I can tell you isthat your biggest disservice to yourself in life isnot giving this a shot at least once, because Ihave finally found love after 30 years of life onEarth, and it’s with this insane burger.

SANTA FE BITE

3407 Central Ave. NE, 369-1621 • $$[American] Once known as Bobcat Bite andlocated in Santa Fe, word travelled fast that theywere serving the best burger you could get inthe state. After a rebranding and eventualclosing, many thought the dream was gone. So,with a lot of surprise for the general population,they reopened in Nob Hill, giving manyAlbuquerque residents, myself included, theirfirst taste of the famed burger. You mightremember that a few months back, we did aBurger Week, wherein I tackled the mass ofburgers in this city with as much determinationas I could muster for consuming nine burgers injust one week. I was left drained and feeling overhamburger, but also more knowledgeable andpickier about my needs from a hamburger. Thisis all to say that, the reopened Santa Fe Bite hada high standard to meet in order to pass the testof getting published here. I’m confident insaying they passed.

SOO BAK SEOUL BOWL

111 Hermosa Dr. NE, 268-0017 • $$[Korean] Finally, the bibimbap ($9.95 classic,$11.95 deluxe). Now, if you’re like me, you’venever heard of this. The easiest way to explainthe concept is a bowl of rice, that you just loadup with ingredients, mix it up and chow down.Featuring your choice of r ice, you get to add aprotein of your choice (in our case, it was theKorean BBQ beef, naturally) as well as 3 to 5toppings, depending on which version youorder. They have some staples that are availableyear round, but they also have a bunch ofseasonal choices. Follow that up with your sauceof choice, and you have a loaded-up bowl oftasty. You can, and should, throw a fried egg ontop for $1, giving even more texture and flavorto this dish. It was, without a doubt, one of thebest meals I’ve ever had. There’s not muchmore to say about it; besides you absolutelymust try it for yourself.

SUSHI & SAKE

4214 Central Ave. SE, 797-8000 • $$[Japanese, Korean, Asian, Bar] Additionally, therewere the Korean BBQ offerings I had to get myhands on. I went with the Chadolbagi ($21.95for a pound), which was a thinly sliced beefbrisket that was generously seasoned and camesurrounded by a ton of garlic chunks. Thearoma alone would be enough to sell me on thelove of this dish, but then you get waves offlavor in every bite, leading to a voraciousconsumption of meat in an aggressive fashion.For good measure, I also snagged the DonkatsuDon ($14.99) which had panko-breaded andfried pork, rice, a wide spectrum of veggies andeggs. The sauce drizzle they added to the friedpork was something of legend. It had a touch ofsweetness that truly opened up some of themore ignored facets of pork flavor, letting itblossom in your mouth. The crunchy pankocrust helped hold onto that flavor and gave itthe oomph it needed to be spectacular. Add inall that egged-up rice and veggies, and you’vegot a bowl of food that will leave you so full, youwon’t be worrying about your next meal for awhile. a

Nursing It BackLittle Sir Dan, sat with his hands, aloft over keyboard with a frown. Along came his boss, and with a crumpled note he did toss, asking “Hey, we doing a Chowtown?!” a

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longing for a neighborhood BBQ and

adieu to what can certainly be described

as the lamest summer on record. Sad

but true, this summer has been a dud.

Halloween promises to be fun though,

right? On the bright side, an Alpine

friend that survived a bout of the

Coronavirus and a don’t-even-walk-

your-dog-outside French lockdown

emerged with tales of a light European

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days of this summer here in the U.S.A.:

The Hugo.

One cup of Prosecco

One splash of sparkling water

One sprig of fresh mint

One lime

One tbsp elderflower syrup

Ice

COCKTAILS | by Clark Condé

Start with a wine glass so you have

plenty of room to work with. Some say

muddle the mint, but I prefer both the

informality and the expediency of just

rolling it between my thumb and index

finger. Toss it in the glass, reserving

some as a garnish should you choose.

Cover with the elderflower syrup, a

good squeeze of lime and some ice.

Pick up the glass and give it a good

swirl or two to mix the ingredients

while considering all the fun you could

have had this summer if not for the

global pandemic. Careful not to smash

the glass or fling the ingredients

everywhere in anger. Add the Prosecco

(French champagne’s cheaper, but no

less tasty, Italian cousin) and top with a

splash of sparkling water for good

luck. Admire your work as the tiny

bubbles fill your glass. See, maybe it

wasn’t that bad after all. Really it was,

but at least you can now toast to fun-

filled next year. a

Meeting HugoSilver linings from a lousy summer

CLARKE CONDÉSilver linings from a lousy summer

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practice of vaping in and of itself; it wasVitamin E acetate—a product used insome topical beauty products that was alsobeing used as an additive in black marketTHC oil cartridges.

Now the Yale School of Public Healthhas published a study in the journalAddiction that states with the lowestnumber of injuries per capita had thelongest-running and most robust cannabismarkets in the nation.

According to the study, the first fivestates to legalize recreational cannabis—Alaska, California, Colorado, Oregon andWashington—all had less than one vaping-related lung injury case per 100,000residents aged 12 to 64. Utah, NorthDakota, Minnesota, Delaware andIndiana saw the highest number of casesper capita, and none of them havelegalized recreational marijuana.

Meaning (of course) that the onlysafe place to buy a cartridge of THC

oil is at a dispensary. To many apolitician’s chagrin, this

seems to support the ideathat keeping cannabisillegal counter-intuitively increases thedangers associated withits consumption.

House to VoteOn Legalization

The US House of Representatives isset to vote on federal marijuanadecriminalization next month in adoomed gesture.

Politico reports that the MarijuanaOpportunity Reinvestment and

Expungement (MORE) Act wouldremove marijuana from the Controlled

Substances Act and expunge somecannabis criminal records. A statementfrom Majority Whip Jim Clyburn’s officetold supporters that the House would bevoting on the MORE act soon.

The bill would create grants to supportindividuals adversely affected by the DrugWar through the Department of Justiceand the Small Business Administrationand provide assistance to socially andeconomically disadvantaged small businessowners entering into the industry. It wouldremove some cannabis offenses from therecord but wouldn’t actually legalize it.Instead, it would be up to individual statesto come up with their own policies.

In any case, the bill probably won’t getfar. The House might pass it, but theMitch McConnell-run Senate will almostassuredly crush it before it even gets outthe gate.

Maybe it’s news because Sen. KamalaHarris signed on as co-sponsor, and Godknows she could use some press thatdoesn’t make her look like a cold-heartedcop. Now she can actually point atsomething and claim she’s pro-cannabis.Bless her. a

BAKED GOODS | CANNABIS NEWS by Joshua Lee

Last week Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass.,told reporters that if Democraticpresidential nominee Joe Biden is

elected president in November, cannabislegalization will likely become one of thetop issues on the legislative agenda in2021.

Markey made similar statements backin July to the Young Jurks’ MikeCrawford. There, he said thatDemocrats would be able to advancecannabis reform in both chambers ofCongress in 2021—with or withoutBiden’s support. He said PresidentDonald Trump’s administration is theonly thing standing in Congress’ way.

The likelihood of that statementbeing true seems especially low,however, considering not only Biden’spersonal distaste for marijuanalegalization, but the Democraticparty’s failure to include legalizationon this year’s platform.

We shouldn’t talk about thefact that 69 percent ofDemocrats and even 54percent of Republicans nowfavor marijuana legalization,according to a poll by DataFor Progress that just came out,because it’s going to hurt myfeelings—but we will anyway.

Overall, a mind-blowing 62percent of respondents were insupport of full legalization. And 69percent of survey respondents (78percent of Democrats and 67percent of Republicans) thoughtthe federal government shouldrespect states’ rights to legalize andkeep its nose out of what isn’t itsbusiness. But despite an overwhelming seachange that has seen the majority of voterson both sides of the aisle suddenly agreeon an issue that used to be a divisive asabortion, neither party seems willing tobudge.

It’s almost as if the people runningthese parties don’t actually care what youthink at all.

Nevertheless, during a forum hosted bythe Black Economic Council ofMassachusetts last week, Markey said onceagain that putting Biden into the OvalOffice would push cannabis legalizationonto Congress’ radar. “Ultimately at thefederal level—beginning on Jan. 20, 2021,when Joe Biden and Kamala Harris aresworn in—we create the programs thatmakes it possible for businesses to gainaccess to the capital they need in theminority community so that they canestablish their own businesses in thecannabis sector,” he claimed.

Study: Fewer VapingInjuries In Legal StatesA study has deduced the obvious andfound that states with legalized cannabis

had fewer vaping-related lung injuriesduring the outbreak last year.

You can remember it, right? Backbefore we developed our deep fear ofrespiratory diseases—near the end of2019—a spate of vaping-related lunginjuries slashed across America, leavingfear and paranoia in its wake. Victimssuffered severe internal burns on theirlungs if they even survived. According tothe Centers for Disease Control andPrevention there have been over 2,800cases of lung injury and 68 deaths relatedto the use of vaping products since August2019.

After an impassioned anti-vaping effortmade by Melania Trump, President Trumpnearly banned all flavored nicotine e-juice(the liquid used in vaping rigs) but endedup banning only the flavored disposablepods. Anti-cannabis interests pushed toban THC- and CBD-infused vapeproducts, and in some states theysucceeded.

But it was quickly discovered that thesource of the mysterious injuries wasn’t the

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