Show Up!: Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re Big In Japan Charming, sun-soaked and obsessed with death. Tokyo’s all-girl power trio Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re is irony personified.It’s a hard-rock band with punk [...] Simon McCormack \ Sep 04, 2008 Music Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re ... with a cherry on top
Memorial Links 9/11 To Wars Memorial Would Connect Wars To 9/11 The City Council plans to construct a cast bronze war memorial honoring soldiers who’ve died in Iraq and Afghanistan. Because the memorial would [...] Aeriel Emig \ Sep 04, 2008 News A rendering of the memorial by Tina Reames.
Also On The Ballot: Ralph Nader A Day With Independent Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader Bruce Trigg stands in front of a small roomful of reporters, looking nervous.The Albuquerque coordinator of the Ralph Nader-Matt Gonzalez presidential campaign is [...] Simon McCormack \ Sep 04, 2008 News “He [Sen. Barack Obama] knows the liberals and progressives have no bargaining power,” presidential candidate Ralph Nader says. “So he turns his back on them, knowing he has their vote.” (Tina Larkin)
Odds & Ends Odds & Ends Dateline: Cambodia— Thanks to soaring inflation and increasing demand, the price of rat meat has more than quadrupled in the southeastern Asian nation [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 04, 2008 News (Eric J. Garcia)
Recession Special I’ve always appreciated the humor and practicality of keeping a "recession special" on the Sophia’s Place menu (two Nathan’s hot dogs for a [...] Laura Marrich \ Sep 04, 2008 Blog That’s right, put those fuckers out of business.
Ortiz Y Pino We Democrats don’t call ourselves “liberals” anymore. Thirty years of steady right-wing propagandizing against the term has essentially ruined it, turned it into [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Sep 04, 2008 News
Lost Luckies Alibi Picks B-List A long weekend for some—a regular, work-on-Monday weekend for others. Alpaca Days Albuquerque Alpacas opens its doors this weekend (Saturday through Monday, Aug. [...] Amy Dalness \ Sep 04, 2008 Blog
Idiot Box: For Better Or Worse Tv For Fall 2008 With the writers’ strike behind us (and a possible actors’ strike ahead of us), the fall 2008 TV season arrives battered, bruised and [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 04, 2008 Film
Week In Sloth The Week In Sloth “Sunday Night Football” (KOB-4 5 p.m.) Not to get all pedantic, but you can’t actually broadcast “Sunday Night Football” on a “special night [...] Alibi \ Sep 04, 2008 Film
Palin Is A Creationist (And A Nut) Add this to the laundry list of complaints about Sen. John McCain’s new vice president Sarah Palin: She thinks creationism should be taught [...] Simon McCormack \ Sep 04, 2008 Blog