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Where I Live:: Nob Hill/Ridgecrest

About Me:: I moved to Albuquerque in late 2005 to get my MBA at UNM, after living almost 20 years in Santa Fe. My work in technology and business development brought me to the Duke City frequently over the years. Recently, I was a man-at-large business columnist for the Albuquerque Tribune until the paper closed earlier this year after 86 years publishing its reverent second take on things here.

I have been involved in a number of civic and business organizations in the region – believing that through such involvements we become the change we hope to see in the world. A number of these orgs, through board service and/or volunteering, are: NMITSA, Explora Science Center, Adelante Development Center, Coronado Ventures Forum, New Mexico Small Business Development Centers, Technology Ventures Corporation, UNM Anderson School, Leadership Albuquerque, Net Impact, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central NM, Outpost Performance Space, and the OFFCenter Arts. I mention these orgs to encourage your involvement and support for them.

Growing up in northwestern New Mexico, in Aztec, a town mistakenly named by anthropologists sure of a Mayan connection with the Aztec Ruins, I have long traveled to or through Albuquerque by highway or airport to reach the bigger world. For many native New Mexicans, Albuquerque is the crossroads for the state and as such this place is threaded into their memories for one reason or another, no matter their hometowns. The arc of time has given me an interesting outsider/insider perspective on Albuquerque and New Mexico as I have traveled to and studied other regions extensively for economic and cultural development reasons. Seeing other people's views on ABQ via the Duke City Fix is refreshing and informative to my sometimes more expectant hope for the region.

My relationship with Albuquerque started adventurously as a twelve-year-old kid arriving on a Continental Trailways bus from northwest New Mexico to join my dad for an Albuquerque Dodgers baseball game. Big times for a kid from the hills of the Colorado Plateau! (The ABQ Dodgers were preceded and followed by the ABQ Dukes (around since 1915) which gave way to the Isotopes). Another unknown trivia fact, I was recruited to play basketball at UNM during the infamous Norm Ellenberger coaching era, though I dodged the coming NCAA Lobogate bullet, going south instead to NMSU after coaching at Ellenberger's UNM basketball camp one summer.

I appreciate the artistic expression in each of us and volunteer for various art and music causes, including 516 Arts, Thirsty Ear Festival, New Mexico Jazz Fest, Santa Fe Jazz and International Music Fest (now defunct), and the upcoming Duke City Shootout Film Fest. My own expression that way was highlighted by several gallery shows of my found-object-sculpture at the El Zocalo Gallery on the Plaza in Santa Fe, part of the famous Cafe Pasquals.

Albuquerque is many things to many people, a complex yet simple place, harsh and welcoming – a study in contrasts – giving something to each of us as we look across its vistas.

Favorite Thing(s) About Albuquerque:: Knowing amazing people like DCF founder and cultural entrepreneur Chantal Foster, impressario Webb Johnson, regal stateswoman Carnis Salisbury, poet and life-schooled artist Aztatl (see his art show at the ABQ Downtown Main Library in August), innovation author and scholar Everett Rogers, devoted social activist and business advocate Jill Halverson (she founded the Downtown Los Angeles Women's Center), technology professor extraordinaire and global nanosystems expert Steve Walsh, and the environmental and natural resource legal eagle Pete Domenici Jr., among scores of other greats. Restaurants: Zinc, Cesars (likely the only Mexican/Greek food joint in the world, thanks for the intro, Webb!), Mariscos Altamar, The Range Cafe, and, of course, our beloved local Flying Star (where I am writing this).

Relationship Status:: Single

What I'm Reading:: The Alphabet Versus The Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image, by Leonard Shlain.
The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty First... by John Brockman, founder of The Edge.

What I'm Listening To:: Bettye LaVette, The Great Lady of Soul. Always Joe Cocker. Santa Fe musician and friend: Matthew Andrae. Matthew's song, Sweet Celine, has been lighting up YouTube around the world, reaching #1 on a wide range of YouTube national sites.

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TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design): Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers

Charlie Rose speaks for himself: "I believe there is a place in the spectrum of [the internet] for really good conversation, if it is informed, spirited, soulful."

Bill Moyers chronicles the issues of the era like no other journalist:

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UNM Alums can use Gym and Recreation Programs

UNM Alumni are entitled to use the exercise and recreation fa… Continue

Posted on June 1st, 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments (Add)

Eclipse-spawned Entrepreneurs featured on Perfect Business and YouTube

Cyrus Sigari and Ben Marcus, co-founded JetAVIVA after serving as design engineers and jet salesmen for Eclipse Aviation in Albuquerque. JetAVIVA is headquartered at the… Continue

Posted on May 27th, 2008 at 12:30am — 1 Comment (Add)

Courageous Albuquerquean Laura Berg, VA Nurse, National First Amendment Hero

Laura Berg, the Veterans Administration (VA) psychiatric nurse from Albuquerque, who chose to write a fateful letter to the editor of The Alibi on September 15, 2005 was vindicated re… Continue

Posted on May 12th, 2008 at 11:00am — 5 Comments (Add)

Albuquerque's Eclipse Aviation featured in Atlantic Monthly

James Fallows, the noted writer for The Atlantic Monthly, has written his second article, Taxis in the Sky, about the em… Continue

Posted on April 21st, 2008 at 11:00am — No Comments (Add)

Our Spaceport: Somewhere Between Skepticism and Vision

One thing is clear, being a space buccaneer of our time doesn't come cheaply nor without courage of your convictions.

Richard Branson, founder of everything Virgin including Virgin Galactic, noted in his SpaceShipTwo-unveiling speech that the first PanAm flights across the Atlantic cost $40,000 apiece -- in defense of his company's hefty rocket-ticket prices.

Admittedly, I have had a healthy skepticism for the proclaimed spe… Continue

Posted on January 28th, 2008 at 2:10pm — 1 Comment (Add)

Pimping Your Space Ride from Albuquerque

For the historical record, this post lets you know you can now book your space flights locally. This post is not an endorsement nor has any promotional fee been paid. "Think globally, act locally" takes on new meaning.

Perhaps the slogan, "Our trips are out of this world!" is no longer an overstatement.
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Posted on January 25th, 2008 at 3:37pm — 1 Comment (Add)

Virgin Galactic flies Mock 2

Richard Branson and Will Whitehead of Virgin Galactic roll back the staged "hangar" doors on their mocked-up version of the Virgin Galactic's next generation space plane, SpaceShipTwo, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, January 23, 2008.
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Posted on January 23rd, 2008 at 10:23pm — No Comments (Add)

Do Social and Scientist go together?

Yes...if the meeting place is the
Explora Science Center's Adult Night!

Everyone (over 18) at Explora is a scientist on the very social Adult Night. Mingle among the curious, smart,…

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Posted on January 16th, 2008 at 6:14pm — 4 Comments (Add)

Biz Resources: CVF shines at the Prairie Star

Coronado Ventures Forum hosts its bi-monthly enterpreneurs and investors forum at the Prairie Star restaurant in Bernalillo on Thursday, January 17, 2008 from 6–8 pm.

Entrepreneurs seeking business management and/or investment advice or other resources are encouraged to attend. Inve… Continue

Posted on January 16th, 2008 at 8:01am — No Comments (Add)

Spaceport America Takes Shape

New Mexico's Spaceport America makes a surprise cameo appearance in the February 2008 issue of Dwell magazine, the Architectural Digest of the sustainable living era.

An architectural rendering of the…

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Posted on January 13th, 2008 at 3:16pm — 5 Comments (Add)

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At 10:21pm on May 28th, 2008, Jill said…: Ack, no I haven't finished it. I've barely started it. I've been busy. I'm much better at books on cd than actual reading, but I don't have that on... but I will check out the podcast and links you sent -thanks! I do listen to a lot of podcasts. You see, I am a knitter and knitting and reading don't go together very well. However, knitting and listening do!

Thanks for the warm welcome!

At 2:57pm on January 15th, 2008, Spring Griffin said…: Welcome to the Art in ABQ group. Please let me know if you have any feedback or suggestions for the group and thanks for joining us!