Pop Culture: Be A God Local Board Game Invokes The Sacred To Be Profaned There could be hate mail. There could be death threats. Ben Radford knew that going in. What else could he expect after joshing [...] Marisa Demarco \ Dec 11, 2008 Read More An army of Buddhas, part of the Playing Gods Limited Edition, waits to be sent off to gamers across the country. The figurines are made in Albuquerque at Firewheel Casting. (Courtesey of Ben Radford)
Letters Stop Playing Gods On page 20 of the Dec. 4-10 issue there is an ad for a game called Playing Gods, featuring a green-faced Santa Claus [...] Alibi \ Dec 11, 2008 Read More
Narrative: Beyond The War Zone Although it has been three years since my return from Iraq, I am not free of the shadows of war. The memories are [...] Alex E. Limkin \ Dec 11, 2008 Read More
Odds & Ends Odds & Ends Dateline: England— Santa and three of his elves were attacked by disgruntled customers at a holiday theme park. Lapland New Forest, located on [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Dec 11, 2008 Read More
Ortiz Y Pino You may have noticed that school administrators, their teacher employees and their contract lobbyists were in Santa Fe in early November. They were [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Dec 11, 2008 Read More
Thin Line: Huffington Pummels Huffington Post Pummels Newspapers Let me get this straight: It’s becoming less and less profitable to own a newspaper, but a website that talks about newspapers is [...] Simon McCormack \ Dec 11, 2008 Read More
Burque’s Maxed-Out Recycling Plant The City Considers Three Options For Expanding Albuquerque’s Recycling Program About 5 percent of the trash the city picks up gets recycled.Mayor Martin Chavez and the City Council would like to see that [...] Simon McCormack \ Dec 04, 2008 Read More Trucks like these could soon take recyclables to a larger sorting facility. The city’s processing plant is at capacity. (Courtesy of the Solid Waste Management Department)
Worker Files: Emergency Night Vets From Last Goodbyes To Tail-Wagging Reunions Dr. Carlton Huitt tries to move out of the way when the Akita lunges into consciousness. He steps back as one of the [...] Jes Abeita \ Dec 04, 2008 Read More Vet Tech Teryn Jensen Parker inserts a syringe into Mishka’s leg. Dean Rehnberg, also a technician, holds a bowl as Dr. Carlton Huitt drains the dog’s lungs of fluid. Vet Tech Peggy Carr holds the dog still. (Jes Abeita)
Odds & Ends Odds & Ends Dateline: Japan— Puzzled zookeepers at the Kushiro Municipal Zoo in Hokkaido have finally figured out why a pair of polar bears intended for [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Dec 04, 2008 Read More
Answer Me This Who started a petition against Gov. Bill Richardson? What kind of punishment could be abolished in New Mexico? Where, oh where to put [...] Marisa Demarco \ Dec 04, 2008 Read More