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
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
No Warrant? No Problem. Whatever Happened To The Fourth Amendment? Nearly every agreement—credit card applications, rental agreements, e-mail account sign-ups—has a privacy statement that requires approval. The U.S. government has a privacy agreement, [...] Amy Dalness \ Jun 29, 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