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Morning Fix - Not Joking

Rio Rancho loses both call center jobs and brackish water dream in the same day.
Please tell me this capuchin monkey offer is not real.
Nob Hill retail fixture will soon shutter. Owner is a DCF member, and concentrating on secondary venture.
Local food critic offers reflexive piece in the Atlantic, gets skewered in comments section then attempts to defend self, much to my delight.
Midwest comedian offers own personal story of Superbowl memory hell, equates it with being in Albuquerque.
Damn Californians keep buying up our good strip malls and big box empty shells.
New ABQ Ride numbering system lets riders know that they are on their way to a Railrunner connection.
New mention of haunted Albuquerque locations inexplicably leaves The Sunshine Theatre off its list.
Will this venture work? I hope so, but I think they'd do better if the location were actually IN the SUB itself.
Conspiracy theorists think that the temporary closing of the east/west runway is due to aliens, or something. At any rate, it probably sucks for us.

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Comment by jeff on January 25, 2011 at 8:59am: yeah - it wasn't our strip mall - it was a dallas-owned strip mall.

i'll take santa monica ownership over dallas any day.

Comment by ramon t on January 25, 2011 at 9:07am: Better Californians then Texans. :^)

Comment by Johnny_Mango on January 25, 2011 at 9:15am: Thanks for the bus/railrunner link. Sounds like a good idea.

Comment by hettie on January 25, 2011 at 12:51pm: masshole, those of us in pearl hall are thrilled that the co-op opened where it is. the zia juice that used to be in that location was awful and having real food options right next door is awesome (one can only eat at the frontier so many times in a week, you know). the sub has tons of choices for students, including a market that sells much of the same stuff--not co-op made though--and is twice the size. I'm assuming they avoided the sub for that reason. and I'm hopeful all the design students and library visitors will keep the mini co-op hoppin.

Comment by hettie on January 25, 2011 at 12:59pm: also, I just read the levaux comments and chuckled. I love the internets.

Comment by once banned twice shy on January 25, 2011 at 1:11pm: Ari, Ari, Ari. Best to just let the commenters make their comments and go on. Just digging a bigger hole. I have to say, I found his column to be a bit, oh, I don't know---much? Seriously, if he wants to gag because the cheese he gets on his food isn't from the cow next door, maybe he really shouldn't be a restaurant critic.