The New Mexico Jazz Festival A Collaboration Between Albuquerque And Santa Fe Jazz Presenters Debuts With A Monster Lineup If you think you can pull together a 10-day summer jazz festival featuring a collection of international megastars—from scratch, in only eight months—you’re [...] Mel Minter \ Jul 13, 2006 Read More Tom Guralnick, executive director, Outpost Productions (Wes Naman)
2006 New Mexico Jazz Festival Schedule Week One Doug Lawrence Quartet, featuring Dan Trudell; Steve Figueroa Trio (opening) Thursday, July 20, 7:30 p.m.—Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque Local tenor sax man Doug [...] Alibi \ Jul 13, 2006 Read More
Feature The Real Pit Bull Problem I’m staring at eight pit bulls. They’re all in a row and stacked on top of each other, tucked inside those plastic dog [...] Christie Chisholm \ Jul 06, 2006 Read More
Rhetoric V. Reality When It Comes To Civil Liberties, Talk Is Cheap Since 9/11, President Bush and his administration have told us again and again that the terrorists who seek to destroy our country hate [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Jun 29, 2006 Read More
To Torture Or Not To Torture Why Is This Even A Question? The Bush administration has repeatedly insisted that it doesn’t condone torture. Yet, following 9/11, the president’s legal weasels drafted a secret memo that [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Jun 29, 2006 Read More
Get Your Hands Off My Body The Right-Wing Attack On Reproductive Rights When John Roberts was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2005, pro-choice women—and men, I might add—everywhere held their breath. When Samuel Alito [...] Christie Chisholm \ Jun 29, 2006 Read More
Peeking Inside A Black Box Election Fraud In The United States Of America From the days following the Civil War when former slaves first got the right to vote—but didn’t really get the right to vote—the [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Jun 29, 2006 Read More
Be All That You Have To Be Proposed Bill Would Require Men And Women To Serve In The Military Rep. Charles Rangel (D-New York) recently put forth a bill that would require both men and women, ages 18 to 42, to serve [...] Simon McCormack \ Jun 29, 2006 Read More
Selling Hate Bush's Proposed Ban On Gay Marriage We look back through more than 50 years of struggle to a time when our racial discrimination lived in the sunlight, without shame. [...] Marisa Demarco \ Jun 29, 2006 Read More
Turning Heroes Into Pariahs Blowing The Whistle On Government Corruption Just Got A Whole Lot Harder Sibel Edmonds is a beautiful woman, even with the gag pulled tight across her face. Normally, the mainstream press would be covering Hot-Damsel-in-Distress [...] Laura Sanchez \ Jun 29, 2006 Read More