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  Only You Can Stop the Forest Service

  By David Correia
  We can do better and here’s how

News & Opinion

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  New Mexico News: Late August 2013

  By Mike Smith and ¡Brapola!
  Inspired by Félix Fénéon's Novels in Three Lines, this feature presents news from New Mexico, briefly, written by author Mike Smith and illustrated by ¡Brapola!
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  Odds & Ends

  By Devin D. O’Leary
  Funny because it happens to someone else.

• Letters

  The readers write.

Film & TV

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  An Oversimplification of Her Beauty

  By Devin D. O’Leary
  Experimental, art house mockumentary could be the future of romantic comedies
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  Reel World

  By Devin D. O’Leary
  NBC’s new ER drama “The Night Shift” is filming in Albuquerque, hopefully filling some of the hole left when AMC’s “Breaking Bad” closed up shop. Producers are currently looking for background extras for upcoming scenes.
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  Fall into Fall

  By Devin D. O’Leary
  When’s the premiere?
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  Week in Sloth

  See what you should be wasting your life away on with a spin around the TV dial in “The Week in Sloth”

Music

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  Cold Wave Prayer

  By Samantha Anne Carrillo
  Songs for dreaming of winter
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  Sonic Reducer

  This week we listened to new and forthcoming releases from Zola Jesus and JG Thirlwell, Diarrhea Planet and Factory Floor. Now with A/V previews!

Arts & Lit

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  Burque Adventures in Casa Décor

  Fun, beautiful, useful: art for living in the real world
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  Stage Whispers

  Introducing Stage Whispers, your lowdown on the performance arts. This week, the ladies seize the spotlight.
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  After the Honeymoon

  By Nora Hickey
  A novel about the ad woman who invented “A Diamond is Forever” and the lives it changed.
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  Gold and Souls

  By Suzanne Buck
  A novel of the bloody events that followed the arrival of Coronado’s advance expedition as it barreled through the Southwest.

Food

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  African Authenticity

  By Gail Guengerich
  Hakuna matata at the Rafiki Café
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  Curse of the Alibi Impostor

  By Ty Bannerman
  Revealed! The secret code of the food reviewer.

Astrology

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  Free Will Astrology Week of September 4

  By Rob Brezsny

  ARIES (March 21-April 19): "No regrets? Really?" asks author Richard Power. "I have regrets. They are sacred to me. They inform my character. They bear witness to my evolution. Glimpses of lost love and treasure are held inside of them; like small beautiful creatures suspended in amber." I think you can see where this horoscope is going, Aries. I'm going to suggest you do what Power advises: "Do not avoid your regrets. Embrace them. Listen to their stories. Hold them to your heart when you want to remember the price you paid to become who you truly are." (Find more by Richard Power here: tinyurl.com/RichardPower.)

Events