Marty, Marty, Marty Looks like our mayor's new blog is up. Check it out at http://www.cabq.gov/blogs/mayor/ Marisa Demarco \ Apr 06, 2006 Read More
The Good, The Cheap And The Toxic Best Of Burque Snaps A Polaroid Of The Likes And Wants Of Duke City Citizenry. But Before You Dive Into Your Fellow Burqueños' Tips On Deals And Desires, Take A Look At Where Albuquerque Places On Some National Lists. Albuquerque’s in good shape when it comes to physical fitness, according to Men’s Health Magazine. For the second straight year, we’ve made their [...] Marisa Demarco \ Apr 06, 2006 Read More
Sonic Reducer The Kleptones are more than the sum of their samples. They do what’s called “mashup” or “bastard pop,” where super-geniuses clip moments of [...] Marisa Demarco \ Apr 06, 2006 Read More
Thin Line Media Maneuvers—Here’s the back story: Knight Ridder, previously the second-largest publishing company in the United States, was recently bought up by McClatchy, a [...] Marisa Demarco \ Apr 06, 2006 Read More
These Are The Champions, My Friends ... These Are The Champions, My Friends ... … and they’re walking around with that enormous shiny slam belt around their poetic midsections. Not really. Although belts might be something for [...] Marisa Demarco \ Apr 06, 2006 Read More
Underwater City People With The Rumfits, Brutally Frank And Marsupious Friday, March 31, Atomic Cantina (21-and-over); Free: OK. Watch the watch. You will go to this punk/rockabilly show. And you will have fun. [...] Marisa Demarco \ Mar 30, 2006 Read More
Noise Fest With Spirit Bears, Alchemical Burn, Raven Chacon, Peanut Butter Jones, A Black Lux And Alan George Ledergerber “A lot of people are afraid of the word ‘noise,'” says Ken Cornell, one of Albuquerque’s longtime “noisicians.” The word so often has [...] Marisa Demarco \ Mar 30, 2006 Read More
Thin Line In the Papers: Megachurch Gets Mondo Coverage–Initially, I defended the Albuquerque Journal‘s coverage of Calvary Chapel’s interior bickerings, which grabbed A-section headlines throughout [...] Marisa Demarco \ Mar 30, 2006 Read More
Bursting At The Seams It's Westside Overcrowding At Its Worst, And One Elementary School Is Smack Dab In The Middle Of A Debate Between Parents And Aps About How To Cope It’s almost hidden in a maze of desert and sand-colored houses. At 554 90th Street SW, rooted on baked earth and asphalt, sits [...] Marisa Demarco \ Mar 23, 2006 Read More
Wal-Mart Carries Emergency Contraception It took at least one lawsuit in Massachusetts, as far as I can tell, but yesterday Wal-marts everywhere have begun carrying the “morning-after [...] Marisa Demarco \ Mar 23, 2006 Read More