The Alibi's circulation staff and drivers find all kinds of stuff in Alibi boxes, but usually it's some artist or musician's promotional postcards, flyers for lost cats or some jackass tai chi master posting his bullshit pleas for students over the display. I have a collection of knives from the box near the courthouse downtown. There are many varieties of gnarly also deposited in boxes but I don't want to encourage you savages so let's skip to one of the more interesting items found in an Alibi box. Dunno who made these bumper stickers, but we salute you!

Reporter, columnist and pompadoured-man-about-town Dan Mayfield has left the Albuquerque Journal after six very visible years, announcing that he’s the next to helm Albuquerque the Magazine. Besides churning out culture-heavy copy at that daily paper, including a New Mexico film industry beat, Mayfield tells me that managing the Friday Venue section has given him plenty of experience editing a publication. Still, when he starts work in a few weeks, Mayfield says he’d like to get a feel for how the magazine operates from the ground up, first by sitting at the copy desk and engaging in the nuts and bolts aspects of putting the publication together. December will be his official first issue in the EIC hot seat. Whether he’ll still have time to do his doo-wop radio show Sundays on 1600 AM, we’ll just have to wait and see.