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October 29, 2008 Message to UNM from President Schmidly: Current Financial Challenges As I mentioned in my message to you last Monday, the information we’re getting from Santa Fe is that state general fund numbers have declined significantly, so a possible round of belt-tightening could be in the offing. Though it is too soon to predict what will happen, the University is in the process of discussing strategies that could save money in the short term while not compromising our core missions or… Continue

Soooo. Some of us seem to be having a tough day at work today. Assuming you've arranged appropriate homebound transportation and can slip away unnoticed, what's the best dark watering hole in which to drown your sorrows and (ideally) not also run into the b…

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Tricklock Company founding member and leading light Joe Peracchio relocated to Los Angeles a year or two back in order to get his TV and film career going and now, wonder of wonders, he's been shipped back to shoot the CW series EASY MONEY. EASY MONEY is shot in Albuquerque and is on the CW Sunday nights at 9pm. Here's the email I got from him a week or so ago about the show: I play Mike Klink, ne… Continue

No seriously. That semi-infamous study by a UNM researcher about how strippers make more in tips when they're ovulating? It's all over the place again. Maybe because it's just won an Ig Nobel Award. The Ig Nobel is granted by a magazine called Annals of Improbable Research at a ceremony at Harvard, and it's worth clicking through to the AP story just to see who else won. But that's not the only r… Continue

With the stories I've seen lately about concerns that foreclosed folk may not be able to vote (read here) unl… Continue

Defamer has recently run an interview with local man-about-town Dennis Hopper in which he says of the show CRASH (now filming in Albuquerque): "... the things you can do on cable television now you can't even get away with in movies. We had an orgy the other day. For me it's a joy." Oh my. Now, apparently, notorious horndog… Continue

So the Chamber has just sent out a link to an online poll about the proposed downtown arena. Want to get your 2 cents in there? Act fast -- "short" suggests both limited number of questions and limited respondents to me. A short on-line survey is being conducted on behalf of the… Continue

So I got home tonight to discover that a friend has dropped a big burlap bag of roasted green chile at my back door. A BIG bag. From Hatch. Which is currently stinking up (in a fantastic and very welcome way, of course) my entire house. What am I supposed to do now??? I'm assuming that it can live in the fridge until morning. It's still kind of hot, even after that long drive!

Newsweek has posted before & after photos of the Albuquerque Microsoft team. The old photo was probably taken in that dank little photo studio on Carlisle (I think it's now closed). The new photo was snapped on the eve of Bill Gates' de… Continue

There's a fantastic little profile of Stewart, Tom and Mark Udall on today's New York Times blog. Electoral Enchantment Timothy Egan serves up a lovely reminder of the legacy the Udall fam… Continue

Gawker points us to a new feature on Netflix that allows us to spy on the DVDs our neighbors are renting. In, you know, an aggregated sort of way. I continue to marvel that there's a Netflix d… Continue

Maybe it's just me, but it's seeming lately like the number of local TV news stories based on Duke City Fix posts or comments is on the rise. Back in the day, local TV had to rely on finding their ne… Continue

I'm loving the South Park death-of-the-internet clip that's been buzzing around online since Thursday maybe just a little too much. Especially the part about local network news. But that would never happen in Albuquerque, right? Local media… Continue

It's spelled A L B U Q U E R Q U E.

Sunday Costco is selling Albuquerque Then and Now… Continue

I loved this license plate frame, snapped yesterday outside of Kinko's, more than I can possibly say. It's not in any way clever or anything, I just imagine an entire middle school populated by tarted up women of… Continue

Imagine my amazement when I found out that a full 40% of the visitors to this humble cityblog come from outside of New Mexico. Now I know that some of you used to live here. And I know that some of you are contemplating a move. But as for the rest of you... all I can figure is t… Continue

I haven't really written about them before because, to be perfectly honest, I've never seen them perform. But I have such an intense brain-and-otherwise crush on all three of the q-Staff theatre members that I have to mention that they have a show starting this weekend. Expect to se… Continue

I know, I know. I begged us to change the subject. But the latest news on the whole Golden West/El Rey/Launchpad thing is just too good. The fantastic (I loved her at the Lobo, I love her even more now) Marisa Demarco has written a damning piece in this week's Alibi (it's not online till tomorrow morning, so pick up a real copy and turn to page 46) on Kathy Zimmer and the Golden West mess. In the story, Marisa gets a half-answer from Zimmer about our favorite flashpoint -- the insurance issue.… Continue

I'm tired and a little bit cranky and it's like that moment in a new relationship (that's maybe really only going to end up being an extended hookup) when you realize that besides talking about how great the sex is all you seem to have in common are details from the past two weeks. And even then all of those details involve being in bed. Or on the kitchen table or something. Enough! I need some sort of non-Golden West substance or this can't continue! I'm more than just a great rack! I have a b… Continue