If you’re planning to vote absentee, the county clerk recommends you request your application by tomorrow, May 31. You can print an application at bernco.gov/clerk. You'll need to mail or hand-deliver the application within 48 hours of signing and dating it.

Or call the county clerk at 243-VOTE (8683) and provide the following info:

• Your name, as stated on your voter registration card

• Your full address where you’re registered to vote

• Your date of birth or voter registration number

• The address you want your ballot mailed to (if it’s different than the address where you’re registered to vote)

The deadline to turn in the completed application is Friday, June 1, at 7 p.m. You can-hand deliver it to the Clerk’s Office (sixth floor of One Civic Plaza NW) on Election Day if you forget to mail it out.

Don’t know much about the candidates? Read our Primary Election Guide

 

Everybody knows it’s cooler in the mountains, so get out and explore them already. You don't need climbing gear or a Sherpa to scale tall peaks—just a thirst for adventure and, perhaps, a beer or two. Here are a few of my picks for an elevated summer.

Eric Williams ericwphoto.com

 

The Earth Day Network reports that 1 billion people marked the eco-holiday on April 22. But with consciousness-raising taking place on such a massive scale, it’s easy to overlook the everyday people who fight to keep our corner of the planet clean and healthy. For them, eco-activism is not a once-yearly event.

For the eco warriors profiled in this week’s feature, the work is hard, the hours long and unpaid. It’s about attending meetings, learning how to speak up in public, keeping track of paperwork, forging alliances with neighbors. It involves concerted, long-term effort in the face of what often looks like an uphill battle.

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Gustavo Arellano

Al Hurricane and ¡Ask a Mexican! columnist Gustavo Arellano will perform mañana at the beautiful North Valley spot. This week, the Alibi’s food critic talks taco shop with Arellano, who’s written a book about how the humble food has overtaken the U.S.

Buy your tickets to the event in advance—and for half price!—at alibi.com/tacousa.

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In this week’s feature we unveiled the the winners of the Alibi’s ninth annual Photo Contest. But there were a bunch of great shots that didn’t make it to print. The above slideshow includes nearly 300 submissions that were added to our Flickr pool. Have any favorites that didn’t get published? Comment below and let us know.

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The world-touring film fest makes a pit stop at the KiMo Theatre at 7 p.m. Its fluid and beautifully shot collection of short films features mountain culture, outdoor sports and environmental subjects—including Chasing Water, previewed in this week’s feature. Bonus: $10 to $12 tickets benefit the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance and the Mountain Fund.

Eric Williams ericwphoto.com

 

Does that idea depress you? If you’re at Silva’s Saloon—the nearly century-old Bernalillo bar that’s passed through three generations of one family—you could wind up as happy as a lubricated clam. This week’s feature sifts through layers of the beloved dive bar’s history, patrons and tchotchkes. Oh, and did we mention the place is for sale—lock, stock and barrel?

Photo by The Brooks Studio

The Albuquerque Indian School football team, circa 1927

In celebration of the centennial, we at the Alibi put together a photo essay to point you in the direction of a great online resource. Celebrating New Mexico Statehood is the online brainchild of UNM Center for Southwest Research Director Mike Kelly, and includes more than 50,000 historical photos from about a dozen different museums and institutions. Read all about it here.

 

The Mayan calendar comes to an end on Dec. 21, 2012. According to some folks, that means we’ve got less than a year on planet Earth. Others say our planetary consciousness will shift, heralding a new age of existence. ... But what’s really going to happen? In this week’s feature, science investigator Ben Radford cuts through the hype about what the Mayan calendar tells us about 2012.

 

It’s kind of like the Darwin Awards, except no one dies. Usually.

In this week’s feature, our weekly Odds & Ends compendium of weird news is presented as the 2011 Odds & Ends Awards: a compilation of the year’s freakiest foibles. Remember, kids, it’s funny because it happened to someone else.