News & Opinion

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  Playing With Fire

  By August March
  Forest closures, fireworks bans and a very hot planet
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  Degrees Not Debt

  By US Senator Martin Heinrich
  Our state’s prospects depend on education
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  Newscity

  By Joshua Lee
  City Inspector's report finds funding screwups wity ART; PED is proposing a new rule that will limit the ways students who failed competency tests can graduate.
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  Odds & Ends

  By Joshua Lee
  Funny because crazy parents happen to someone else.

• Letters

  The readers write about progressives, Maakies and the NRA.
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  Speaking Soul to Soul

  By Adam Wood
  Fostering Activism in a Wack Culture with the AEU

Film & TV

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  Mountain

  By Devin D. O’Leary
  This mountain is certainly high, but not very deep
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  Reel World

  By Devin D. O'Leary
  Submit your work to the Gallup Film Festival; send your kids to Summer Break Make-A-Movie Camp; see 25th anniversary screening of Falling Down, the results of the 66 Hour Digital Shootout or professional local actors perform reading of No Place screenplay.
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  The Kids are Alright

  By Devin D. O’Leary
  “Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger” on Freeform
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  Week in Sloth

  Highlights from around the dial. Except no one has dials anymore.

Music

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  Bringing the Funk

  By Jeanette Chapman
  Zoo Music concert features Big Sam’s Funky Nation
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  He Wore His Passion for His Music

  By August March
  Like a thorny crown
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  Sonic Reducer

  By August March
  Reviews of local recordings. This week Mr. March listens to Anna Mall, Noche Blanca and John Reagan.
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  The Devil and the Desert

  By Adam Wood
  Red Mesa’s brave odyssey into a scorching spiritual desert

Arts & Lit

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  It's Complicated

  By Maggie Grimason
  David Sedaris' latest, Calypso, is both great and maddening

• To Be, Definitely To Be

  By Maggie Grimason
  Two classics come to Downtown ABQ

Food

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  Seafood, but Not Evil

  By Robin Babb
  SlapFish makes quality seafood from sustainable sources
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  Pura Vida Comida Rolls Into ABQ

  By Robin Babb
  Erin and Tito Valdez open new vegan food truck
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  Isotopes Park Fare

  By Robin Babb
  What to eat when you’re enjoying America’s pastime

Cannabis

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  Summer Sessions Watch

  By Joshua Lee
  AG Softens in the Heat

Astrology

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  Free Will Astrology

  By Rob Brezsny
  Advice by birthday.

Events