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V.19 No.10 | March 11 - 17, 2010
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The Alibi Wins 7 First-Place New Mexico Press Women Awards

Competing against newspapers across the state, the Weekly Alibi swept the New Mexico Press Women Communications Contest with 9 awards. The Alibi's food writing, arts and entertainment coverage, news reporting, features, columns and editing were chosen as superlative in New Mexico.

Seven of the entries are first-place winners and will go on to the National Federation of Press Women Communications Contest, where they'll square off against every other Press Women chapter in the country. (The NFPW is a nationwide organization of professional women and men in the press and media fields.) We expect to do well there, as we've done every year that we've entered.

Here's a list of the Alibi's winners:

First Place: News reporting, Marisa Demarco

First Place: Enterprise reporting, Marisa Demarco

First Place: Feature story, Erin Adair-Hodges

First Place: Section edited by entrant, Erin Adair-Hodges

First Place: Food articles, Ari LeVaux

First place: Publications regularly edited by entrant, Laura Marrich

First place: Single page regularly edited by entrant – Lifestyle or Entertainment, Laura Marrich

Second Place: Columns, Alex Limkin

Third Place: Arts and Entertainment articles, Erin Adair-Hodges

    Photo Contest

    2010 Alibi Photo Contest Winners Are In

    Blue Evening
    J.M. House

    The doors have closed on the Alibi Photo Contest for 2010 and the judges will now deliberate. Visit our Photo Contest micro-site for more of the fabulous 259 submissions.

      Secret Knowledge

      Secret Knowledge: How to get melted and dried crayon out of clothes

      1. Yell at your son for about 20 minutes for ruining $200 worth of new clothes.

      2. Assemble this concoction in an empty washing machine:
      2 max amounts of Concentrated Tide
      1 cup Oxiclean liquid
      1/2 cup 20 Mule Team Borax powder
      1 cup Liquid Shout
      1 cup white vinegar

      3. Set washing machine to "soak"

      4. After it's about 1/3 full of water, add clothes. Let soak for 3 hours.

      5. While clothes are soaking make sure all the melted crayon is removed from the dryer. I ran the dryer for a few minutes to soften the crayon a bit and scrubbed it with a paper towel.

      6. Run the load as usual.

      7. Run load again with regular detergent, dry clothes.

      This should get out 99% of the crayon. I had 8 shirts and 6 pairs of pants with orange crayon all over them. After this treatment only one shirt had a small spot that wouldn't come clean.

        Pets

        Squirrely Fashion

        Thanks, Neatorama! and TIME!

        link

        I didn't realize the squirrel was a boy. 1940's crossdresser.

        From TIME:

        This Year's Model Tommy Tucker was a squirrel adopted by a woman in Washington, DC, in the early 1940s after she found the critter orphaned in a tree.

        He soon became part of the family, as it were -- accompanying the lady of the house on shopping trips, for instance. She also, it turned out, enjoyed dressing him up in specially made outfits. And so it begins ...

        There is also a game.

        Arts

        Guess What's Happening Today?

        VSA Day Arts' Going Public!

        Mark Frye's 1957 Ford Thunderbird
        Mark Frye's 1957 Ford Thunderbird

        VSA Day Arts’ Going Public is holding an Artists’ Reception this very afternoon from 1:00 – 3:00. The show is the artists’ first exhibit at the Albuquerque Main Library, and it’s truly fabulous. It runs through March 31, but today is your chance to be star struck because the artists will all be there. Who, you ask? Why Maya Anaya, Marc Frye, Carlan Gettman, Max Haugen, John Lowe, Sammy Maldonado, Cosima Martinson, Harriet Morse, Ken Sharpton and Rudy Via. That’s who! You don’t want to miss it.*


        *And if you’re working Downtown, you have no excuse. Take a late lunch and a little stroll over to the library, meet the artists, view the work, tell me how much you love it.

          V.19 No.10 | March 11 - 17, 2010
          TODAY!

          Mighty Tiger — SXSW season has arrived, and you know what that means: During the next couple of weeks a disproportionate number of touring bands will be making pit stops in Albuquerque on their way to and from Austin. Among the packs of troubadours is a little piece of old Albuquerque. Two thirds of Mighty Tiger, a dreamy rock band from Seattle, is comprised of one half of the late Oh, Ranger!—Boyd Reno and Luke Heath. Imbued with the Reno-and-Heath touch—sad guitar and cheeky lyrics placed in a squirming pop context—Mighty Tiger is ever-so-slightly reminicent of their earlier local projects, but with more mature, higher fidelity results. See Mighty Tiger perform live on Tuesday, March 16, at Low Spirits (2823 Second Street NW) with fellow Seattleite Grand Hallway, along with Albuquerque's Bellemah and The Giranimals. The show begins at 9 p.m. and $5 gets you in.

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          Mark Frye's 1957 Ford Thunderbird
          Feature
          The tables are turned as ¡Ask a Mexican! columnist Gustavo Arellano asks New Mexican Joseph Baca what it means to be from the Land of Enchantment.
          Haptic technology is to our sense of touch what graphics are to our sense of sight—how one local video game company is arousing players in new ways.
          How long has it been since a band has not only hit Burque but hit it over the head, and taken it hapless prisoner in a trashed garage, subjecting its collective ears to hip-swivel rock?
          Truffle-potato pot pie, bacon-walnut Brussels sprouts, roasted-garlic-port-glaze ... and that's just what comes with the beef filet at Seasons.
          Sweetgrass is less of a documentary and more of a visual tone poem, patiently recording the waning days of independent, open-range sheepherding in the Big Sky Country of Montana.
          More than 5,000 miles from Amsterdam and 65 years after the Holocaust, Anne Frank's experiences still resonate.
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