Governor Martinez is backing a bill that would require background checks for gun show purchases.

There is a public information meeting about the Paseo Del Norte/I-25 project.

Is the next Pope a Canadian?

Can the Pope even resign?

Horse meat for Swedish children.

How Ted Nugent avoided the draft.

How Arnold Schwarzenegger enjoyed Carnaval.

Classic porn paperbacks.

There was an emergency alert issued in Montana yesterday.

Things are getting less salty.

The thigh gap.

Did North Korea just blow up a nuclear bomb?

The fugitive LAPD cop may have gotten out of the country.

The APS board election is today and voters will decide whether or not to approve a large bond that would maintain and improve Albuquerque's schools.

The Laguna man who ran over a cyclist is mad at the victim's family.

UNM now has a grope hot-line.

I can't stop reading UNM Confessions.

People in Denver may petition the city to rid their airport of Luis Jimenez's last sculpture, "Mustang."

The hatchet hitchhiker. More on the hatchet hitchhiker.

Soccer is fixed.

Memo outlines Obama administration's argument that it is legal to kill Americans who are in the upper levels of Al Qaeda or "any associated force."

And now for some bizarre North Korean propaganda.

Unemployed Reporter Porter.

The Troggs lead singer Reg Presley died yesterday.

A guy was found dead in a motel room at the Value Inn.

Virgin Galactic will start paying rent for Spaceport America.

State bill that would increase background checks for gun buyers is likely dead.

They've launched worms and turtles, and now Iran has sent a monkey into space.

The Powerpuff Girls will return to battle their monkey nemesis.

Great story behind this super-rare coin.

That's a big cigar.

Facebook probably owes you ten bucks.

The Globe and Mail teaches you how to make bacon.

Dude, what happened?

Here's a rotten Twinkie for sale.

RIP Sugarfoot. The lead singer of the Ohio Players died.

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Another detail about one of the victims in the South Valley Griego shooting.

Will NM lawmakers follow the trend of blaming gun violence on mental illness, or will they really do something to curb America's gun culture?

Here's a great photo taken at yesterday's Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Alamogordo.

A chemist at a Massachusetts state lab was caught with her hand in the cookie jar.

Engineers are cold and dead inside.

New film about the Hemingway clan.

This lady volunteered to conceive a Neanderthal through artificial insemination of an artificially created embryo. Really?

ALL 131 reasons David Banner got mad on T.V.'s The Hulk.

Obama referred to Stonewall in his inauguration speech.

Life on Mars, now more than ever.

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From the Sierra County Sentinel

"Bag 'em and spray 'em boys"

I love me a small-town newspaper. Truth Or Consequences has two, The Sierra County Sentinel and The Herald. The above item was in the January 18th edition of the Sentinel and has a marvelous last paragraph.

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David Bales

 

New Mexico has some of the neatest neon signs in the world, particularly those in Gallup and Albuquerque. Sometimes it seems there's a cool or just plain strange neon sign waiting to be discovered around every bend in the road. My personal favorite in Albuquerque is the wrench sign for Rupert's Plumbing on Lomas Blvd. Alibi readers however, voted the Scott's Dog Grooming sign as best neon sign in ten Best of Burque polls in a row.

Andrew Wood

Route 66: Neon Highway

On this day in 1915, Frenchman Georges Claude patented his "neon tube" in the U.S. Check out the "Neon Report" for a large collection of New Mexico examples, pictured both in their heyday and in their "fazed cookie" stage.

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A woman jumped or fell from Sandia Crest.

The Governor of NM signed her husband's name on an absentee ballot request.

Bad seed.

This guy brings his AR-15 to JC Penny's.

In case you haven't heard, the U.S. government recommends disabling Java.

A whiskey from Waco, TX won the latest "Best in Glass" competition.

Is Obamacare doomed?

The Algerian hostage crisis is over.

Those controversial "naked" security scanners will be removed from airports.

Torontonians are sexy.

Federal government has indicted New Orleans' former mayor Ray Nagin on fraud charges.

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Earth is probably not going to be hit by an asteroid.

Research study about porn cancelled because there is no control group.

NM YAFL president removed, wife on paid leave from job at Monzano.

Aaron Swartz killed himself.

Lil Waynes's new video is a predictably weird and nonsensical seeming ode to Hunter S. Thompson.

IKEA monkey update.

America will not build a Death Star.

Bob Dylan's exciting new album.

Church of Scientology is scary.

Tour of a fucking cruise ship.

More "Swedish heavy metal man."

I had plans to make a hat out of my dog Nyake's fur, but these people actually did make sweaters and stuff out of their pet's fur....

On this day in 1979, YMCA sued the Village People. Or did they?

The Red Riding Trilogy, inspired by the Yorkshire Ripper case

On This day in 1981 Peter Sutcliffe was charged with the murders of 13 women in the county of Yorkshire, Northern England. Sutcliffe was identified as the Yorkshire Ripper, a serial killer believed to be responsible for at least 13 murders and seven maimings over a period of six to ten years. The Ripper preyed mostly on prostitutes and was the subject of many televised pleas by police for information, resulting in so many leads that authorities were overwhelmed to a degree that made the case virtually unsolvable.

The Yorkshire Ripper case is one of the inspirations behind Red Riding, an excellent trilogy of feature-length television episodes that first aired in March of 2009. Red Riding captures the bleakness of Northern England in the 70's and 80's while weaving together a dark and complex story that is not easy to forget. You may be compelled to watch the series many times, each viewing transporting you to a particular time and place in Britain.

Red Riding is available on Netflix Watch Instantly.

Peter Sutcliffe will never be released from prison.

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Time Warner ditched Current TV after Al-Jazeera purchased it.

"The Widower" curry dish has six million Scoville units. Cayenne pepper has about 40,000 Scoville units.

No more Asperger's syndrome.

John Sheardown, a Canadian war hero and key player in six Americans' escape from Tehran in 1980, died last Sunday.

This Navy film about the dangers of bath salts will infotain you.