Media Criticism: Capital’s Newspaper Only Has Eyes For Iran Capital’s Newspaper Only Has Eyes For Iran No one would give Iran a nuclear congeniality award, but the Washington Post’s coverage of the Islamic republic is starting to look like [...] Graeme Prentice-Mott \ May 06, 2010 Read More
Thin Line: Media Whips National Security Fears Into A Lather Over Yemen Express From Yemen While many were stuffing Christmas stockings with toys and chocolate, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was stuffing his crotch with 80 grams of high-explosive pentaerythritol [...] Graeme Prentice-Mott \ Jan 14, 2010 Read More
The Old Jail: Is Albuquerque’s Winter Haven For The Homeless Up To Code? Is Albuquerque’s Winter Haven For The Homeless Up To Code? The western slope of the Petroglyphs falls dark early, except for an aisle of towering floodlights in front of a lone building. Men [...] Graeme Prentice-Mott \ Dec 03, 2009 Read More (Eric Williams ericwphoto.com)
Zoning Official Alters The International District With A Spray Can Zoning Official Uses Graffiti To Alter The Urban Landscape—And Perceptions John Lorne stands admiring a graffiti mural on Second Street and Kinley, near Downtown. It’s a portrait of a Native American spiritual leader [...] Graeme Prentice-Mott \ Nov 12, 2009 Read More John Lorne took the International District’s re-beautification project into his own hands. He stands here in front of his mural, done with spray can, based on “Pilgrimage to Chimayo” by Colorado artist Jan Oliver. (Eric Williams ericwphoto.com)
Thin Line: Taliban On The Payroll Taliban On The Payroll When the United States pays off its enemies, American media outlets barely notice. When its foreign allies do so, reporters can’t wait to [...] Graeme Prentice-Mott \ Oct 29, 2009 Read More
Local’s Homebrew To See National Distribution Local’s Beer To See National Distribution Ben Miller sent five separate entries to the Sam Adams LongShot competition, each of them brewed in a kit he built himself (including [...] Graeme Prentice-Mott \ Oct 15, 2009 Read More (From left) Jim Koch, founder and brewer of Sam Adams, toasts LongShot winners Mike Robinson, Ben Miller of Rio Rancho and Jeremy White at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver. (Courtesey of Sam Adams)
The Great American Beer Festival Much of what we consider domestic beer is not entirely domestic anymore. Nearly all beer sales in the US course through either newborn [...] Graeme Prentice-Mott \ Oct 08, 2009 Read More The hall of beer in 2009
5 Bored Polling Officials I registered to vote while living at the UNM dorms, so my polling location today was at the Student Residence Center. Little signs [...] Graeme Prentice-Mott \ Oct 08, 2009 Read More
And The Emmy Goes To Editor’s Note: Early results are about to start rolling in, and Steven Robert Allen of Common Cause says his volunteers stationed at the [...] Graeme Prentice-Mott \ Oct 08, 2009 Read More