Bear With Me: Unemployment Blues The late Bill Call, a colorful Texas journalist-friend of mine, once said emergency management agencies were a solution looking for a problem. The [...] John Bear \ Sep 13, 2012 Read More
Bear With Me: One Nation, Under Gun When the next senseless mass shooting takes place, you are not allowed to come up to me and say, “You know, guns don’t [...] John Bear \ Aug 02, 2012 Read More
Hi Ho Silvas: The Family-Run Saloon That Keeps Bernalillo’s Spirits Up A Historic Saloon Keeps Bernalillo’s Spirits Up, Even As The Silva Family Rides Off Into The Sunset Silva’s Saloon is the subject of town lore. More than a few Bernalillo old timers believe it has an underground tunnel that was [...] John Bear \ Mar 08, 2012 Read More
Bear With Me: Facebook Never Got Me Laid I deleted my Facebook page today. I had 130 “friends,” a paltry figure by social networking standards. Now I have half a dozen [...] John Bear \ Mar 01, 2012 Read More
Performance Preview: The Amazing Acro-Cats Samantha Martin’s Feline Circus It turns out cats aren’t just waiting for you to die so they can eat you. You can, in fact, train them to [...] John Bear \ Jan 12, 2012 Read More
Servants Of The Pair Of Cleats First the Catholic Church and now college football: more child sex predators slithering in the dark recesses of institutions that would rather perpetuate [...] John Bear \ Nov 24, 2011 Read More
Culture Shock: John Bear Says Bye-Bye My Farewell Column It is time once again for me to bid you, my fair reader, adieu. I am moving back to Oklahoma, a state apparently [...] John Bear \ May 05, 2011 Read More
Alibi Picks: For The Pirates Aux Dog Theatre (3011 Monte Vista NE) is presenting an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s <I>Treasure Island</I>. Come on down and see Long [...] John Bear \ May 05, 2011 Read More
Eastside Animal Welfare Center Has Big Party The Eastside Animal Welfare Center (8920 Lomas NE) is throwing a "grand opening" party to celebrate a recent renovation. On Saturday from 10 [...] John Bear \ May 05, 2011 Read More
Culture Shock: Native American Artists Jaque Fragua And Ryan Singer, Joan Didion’s The Year Of Magical Thinking At The Vortex Theatre Native Country Just in time for Gathering of Nations, Native American artists Jaque Fragua and Ryan Singer present their joint effort, Vision Quest .Set to [...] John Bear \ Apr 28, 2011 Read More “Untitled” by Jaque Fragua