Psychic Predictions, Past And Future The Alibi's Resident Skeptic Places A Few Bets It’s that time of year again: thick morning frost on the windshield, flickering luminarias along adobe walls and psychic predictions for the upcoming [...] Benjamin Radford \ Dec 24, 2009 Feature (Eric Williams ericwphoto.com)
Restaurant Review: El Pollo Real = Real Colombian Real Colombian Cuisine With a name like El Pollo Real (which astute readers will recognize as meaning The Royal Chicken), you’d expect chicken to reign supreme. [...] Ari LeVaux \ Dec 24, 2009 Food Pollo completo = whole chicken (Sergio Salvador salvadorphoto.com)
Feed Reader: The Pleasures Of Cooking For One Here’s an idea for singles: Instead of spending lonely evenings dining on beer and canned tamales, head out to your local high-end grocers [...] Jennifer Wohletz \ Dec 24, 2009 Food
Pitchfork Music Lists The Decade With P2K The site is laying out the decade in music with pitchfork.com/p2k: Start clicking around for The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s, The [...] Laura Marrich \ Dec 24, 2009 Rocksquawk
Nevermind Cap And Trade. How About A Straight Carbon Tax? I am amazed that the concept of “cap and trade” as a way to slow global warming has any traction in Congress.Yet it [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Dec 24, 2009 News
Odds & Ends: Salami As Weapon, Turtle Flatulence, Drunk Santa Odds & Ends: Salami As Weapon, Turtle Flatulence, Drunk Santa Dateline: Germany— Two Germans ended up in the hospital after a supermarket battle involving cold cuts. The fight took place in the western [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Dec 24, 2009 News
Idiot Box: Tv On Xmas Eve Christmas Eve Around The Dial The majority of Americans spend Christmas Eve with family—trimming the tree, roasting some large dead bird and hanging the stockings by the chimney [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Dec 24, 2009 Film
Week In Sloth: Tv Highlights The Week In Sloth See “Idiot Box.” “Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade” (KOAT-7 9 p.m.) Kelly Ripa gets Disney World, while Ryan Seacrest handles the Disneyland portion. [...] Alibi \ Dec 24, 2009 Film
Culture Shock: Season’s Wishes Season’s Wishes Though this week of the year—the filling in our Christmas and New Year’s cookie sandwich—is brimming with social engagements, there’s little in the [...] Erin Adair-Hodges \ Dec 24, 2009 Art Agnes Martin, “Play,” 1966
Meet The Top Dog At The Animal Shelters A New Director Helms Albuquerque’s Animal Shelters Albuquerque’s new mayor, Richard Berry, walked into his 11 th -floor office for the first time on Dec. 1. But that Tuesday wasn’t [...] Christie Chisholm \ Dec 24, 2009 News Barbara Bruin is taking over the city’s animal shelters. She poses here with Brandon, a dog available for adoption. (Eric Williams ericwphoto.com)