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Luciana Souza Gets Personalnew
Every so often, the right song meets the right singer at the right time, producing a transcendent performance that marries them forever. Souza found it with Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Waters of March."
Weekly Alibi |
Mel Minter |
10-30-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Luciana Souza, The New Bossa Nova
New Mexico's Troubled Watersnew
A new Environment New Mexico report shows more than half of the state's major industrial and municipal facilities are polluting New Mexico's waterways.
Weekly Alibi |
Simon McCormack |
10-30-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
'Dirty Sexy Money' is a Guilt-Free Guilty Pleasurenew
Kudos to Dirty Sexy Money for mixing two parts Dynasty, one part Arrested Development and a dash of The Royal Tenenbaums and bringing to a boil.
Weekly Alibi |
Devin D. O'Leary |
10-16-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Nick Luca Fights for His Life and Winsnew
As he and his band traveled the country, Nick Luca found himself with a case of the touring blues -- but things got worse when he was actually diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.
Weekly Alibi |
Simon McCormack |
10-16-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Luca
Frontwoman Penelope Houston on Early Days of Punknew
She would like The Avengers to be compared to other classic punk rock bands without any reference to gender -- period.
Weekly Alibi |
Marisa Demarco |
10-16-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Avengers
The Southwest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Turns Fivenew
Over the course of the festival's seven days, a whopping 76 films from 18 different countries will be showcased -- everything from an Israeli-based forbidden love story to an Argentine coming-of-age tale to a nostalgic look at lesbian porn to a hairy homo documentary.
Weekly Alibi |
Devin D. O'Leary |
10-02-2007 |
Movies
Five Songs of 2007 Help Put Politics Back in Our Playlistsnew
Religion and politics were the two topics you're not supposed to bring up in mixed company or, until pretty recently, in your songs.
Weekly Alibi |
Marisa Demarco |
10-02-2007 |
Music
Alice Walker Opens Children's Eyes to Realities of Warnew
Kids and grownups everywhere are lucky Harper Collins was willing to print Why War is Never a Good Idea's thought-provoking eloquence.
Weekly Alibi |
Marisa Demarco |
10-02-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
New Mexico Loses $4.3 Million in Children's Vaccinesnew
The state's Department of Health is trying to keep its cool after a refrigerator malfunction in July that compromised $4.3 million worth of children's vaccines.
Weekly Alibi |
Kate Trainor and Joshua Liberles |
10-02-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
The King and Queen of Mexican Jumping Beansnew
Joseph and Soledad Hindi's Albuquerque business exports close to 3 million jumping beans every year.
Weekly Alibi |
Marisa Demarco |
10-02-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Peaceful Protesters Face Jail Time and Finesnew
Six Catholic peace activists have been convicted on federal charges following their assembly in the lobby elevator of a federal building in Santa Fe last fall -- they now face up to 30 days in jail and a $5,000 fine for their nonviolent, anti-war demonstration.
Weekly Alibi |
Kate Trainor |
09-19-2007 |
Civil Liberties
Candidates Face Limits on How Much Help They Can Seeknew
Under the new public financing law in Albuquerque, candidates are only allowed to use a limited amount of in-kind donations.
Weekly Alibi |
Marisa Demarco |
09-19-2007 |
Politics
The Pathetic Democratsnew
Democrats delivered much clearer statements on Iraq before they reaped the results of last November's election -- now that they run Congress, they can't put together two coherent sentences explaining their policy on the occupation of Iraq.
Weekly Alibi |
Jim Scarantino |
09-19-2007 |
Commentary
Recipe: Tequila Done Right for Dieciséis de Septiembrenew
What Americans get wrong about tequila -- and how to get it right.
Weekly Alibi |
Maren Tarro |
09-18-2007 |
Food+Drink
'Dukecity Sign*' Captures the Soul of Alburquerquenew
How a strange, self-published book of awful, full-color photographs of signs became an astonishingly original homage to the true soul of a city.
Weekly Alibi |
Steven Robert Allen |
09-18-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ben Adams, Dukecity Sign*
