Art News: A Brand-New Bag From The Women’s Design Collective The Women’s Design Collective About 30 women, 20 children and 10 languages were present at the last meeting of the Women’s Design Collective, tucked into a room [...] Christie Chisholm \ Jan 14, 2010 Read More Left to right: Duka Subedi, Olivia Selama, Desaya Admassu, Woinshet Buruno and Tanka Chapagai (Eric Williams ericwphoto.com)
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 Read More Barbara Bruin is taking over the city’s animal shelters. She poses here with Brandon, a dog available for adoption. (Eric Williams ericwphoto.com)
Local Docs Travel To Kenya To Help Children And Mothers In the village of Kisesini, which sits southeast of Nairobi in Kenya’s Yatta District, water is scarce and brackish and food mostly comes [...] Christie Chisholm \ Nov 26, 2009 Read More Mothers with their children wait for the arrival of the Global Health Partnerships team of volunteers who will assess the nutritional status of the children. (Courtesey of Global Health Partnerships)
Theater Review: One Flea Spare One Flea Spare At The Filling Station A window swings open. A wiry, crumpled figure flounces into its frame and lurches onto the stage, veiling her face with her petticoat. [...] Christie Chisholm \ Nov 19, 2009 Read More The cast of One Flea Spare decides that, relatively speaking, H1N1 isn’t such a big deal.
Sweet Relief: Chocolatier Aims To Make Medical Marijuana Go Down Easy Chocolatier Aims To Make Medical Marijuana Go Down Easy Scott Van Rixel’s career in food started the day following his 12 th birthday, with a dishwashing job at a Serbian fish fryery. [...] Christie Chisholm \ Nov 12, 2009 Read More (Eric Williams ericwphoto.com)
Introducing America’s Next Top News Model—The Chicago News Cooperative America's Next Top News Model There are some journalistic institutions that are too big to change. And at their grand funerals, someone can eulogize that these newspaper giants [...] Christie Chisholm \ Nov 12, 2009 Read More
Editor’s Farewell: Thanks For All The Paper Cuts I remember my first byline in the Alibi . It was attached to an article on Albuquerque’s brand-new rapid transit bus system, called [...] Christie Chisholm \ Nov 05, 2009 Read More
The Daily Word: Pay Raises In City Hall, President Cum Motivational Speaker And ... It’s Raining The Daily Word: Pay Raises In City Hall, President Cum Motivational Speaker And ... It’s Raining Why are City Hall staffers getting giant pay raises before Mayor Chavez leaves office? George W. Bush is going to be a motivational [...] Christie Chisholm \ Oct 22, 2009 Read More
Shut Up, Girlfriends From The Past It’s Music Tuesday, Flight of the Conchords Edition. My top three songs (I think) from their newest season:1) “Carol Brown / Girlfriends From [...] Christie Chisholm \ Oct 22, 2009 Read More
The Thrill Of The Hunt The Results Of The Alibi's Fourth Annual Scavenger Hunt Zuri and Nancy Bennett combed our city for three days, enlisting the help of neighbors, friends and random shopkeepers. They drove to Corrales [...] Christie Chisholm \ Oct 15, 2009 Read More Mechanical gorilla (45 points)