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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
 STORY BY BLAKE DRIVER
PHOTOGRAPHY BY WES NAMAN
Gardening Smart in Albuquerque
Backyard gardening is community farming at its very essence, according to three local gardeners who each have plans to get local home farmers tilling. Even though cinder block walls surround home-tilled plots, it still takes a village to raise a community garden, and a city to reap the benefits.
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French method key to Downtown bistro |
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Food & Drink -
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Sunday, 04 May 2008 |
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 BY NATASHA GOMEZ
Butter can perform miracles. If you
don’t believe me, I invite you to La Quiche Parisienne Bistro to see
for yourself. This little French café is a chapel to butter’s splendors.
Entering the bistro from the 4th
Street Mall in Downtown ABQ, a cataract of sunlight follows diners inside
through the street-side windows, where they immediately encounter La
Quiche’s most precious effects: pastries, croissants, meringues and
cakes. Beneath the displaycase glass, raspberry, blueberry and lemon
tarts gleam like jewels, forcing diners to pause for a second to relish
the anticipation before surrendering to these ambrosial delights —
the savory offerings here are as appealing as they are sweet.
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Artist goes from concrete to canvas |
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Arts -
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Sunday, 04 May 2008 |
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 BY BLAKE DRIVER
“If I was 18 and someone told me
I’d have a studio (in Downtown Albuquerque), producing art, making
money off it, with the ability to travel, I wouldn’t have believed
them,” 24-year-old artist Derick Montez related to Local iQ in a recent
visit to his studio loft inside the newly-christened 105 Studios, where
he and a handful of neighboring 105 artists, will open their studios
for an exhibition titled A Standard Debut.
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Winding paths, wayward ways |
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Music -
On The Stage
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
 BY MICHAEL HENNINGSEN
I actually knew grownups – and none too few – who cried when Uncle
Tupelo broke up in 1994. Such rabid fans were they that, for the moment
at least, they simply couldn’t imagine their own lives without the band
that had given them No Depression and Anodyne. And considering what
Uncle Tupelo managed to do during its short-yet-brilliant run,
basically update the musical groundwork laid by ’70s-era Neil Young and The Flying Burrito Brothers for the post-punk generation, the reaction
by fans to the break-up was understandable.
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Friday, 18 April 2008 |
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BY BLAKE DRIVER
“Everything I’ve heard about building green says that it’s a system,” said local designer Camian Larson, who owns her own design and remodeling company, Zenteriors, in a recent interview with Local iQ about sustainable, environmentally friendly construction in Albuquerque. “It doesn’t work to just have one green aspect in your home or even just a couple, because all the elements are necessary to work together to achieve the desired results.”
This interconnected system necessary to make green homes and commercial buildings effective in reducing waste and carbon emissions, can be seen as a microcosm of the green movement as a whole, where governments, businesses and individuals play an essential role in making the whole thing work.
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Middle school sages get a place to 'vent' |
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Arts -
Spoken Word
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Sunday, 20 April 2008 |
BY RUTH BRILLMAN
 We’ve all been there before — or at least seen it in the movies: a cup of coffee steams in front of you, so flavorless and stale you should be refunded your $1.50 if you manage to down the entire thing. All eyes are focused on the poet gesticulating wildly, an urgent staccato masking the nervousness underneath his voice.
The lights are dimmed, but it’s still clear that other patrons are decked out in full hipster regalia. In that sea of cool, it’s hard not to drown among the patterned scarves and thrift-store jeans.
Heaven or Hell? No. It’s just a poetry slam.
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Icy cool 'L.A.' flavor, deep within desert confines |
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Food & Drink -
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Friday, 18 April 2008 |
 BY NATASHA GOMEZ
Perhaps this is just a taste of what’s to come. As the movie industry continues to innervate Albuquerque with its cool electricity, glints of Hollywood can be seen all around. Such is the case with the Doubletree Hotel in Downtown. After a recent comprehensive remodel, the hotel has divested itself of its previously homely interior. What was once — according to one longtime patron and my dining companion for a recent dinner — “Jack Tripper’s nightmare,” is now something arctic and halcyon.
Deep within this chill interior, resides the hotel’s restaurant, Aqua Bloom.
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Green Built Tour shows how "green is done" |
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Sunday, 20 April 2008 |
 STORY BY BY BLAKE DRIVER
PHOTOS BY WES NAMAN
When Susie Marbury has friends over to her environmentally-friendly home near Old Town, she has to tell them how to use the high-efficiency toilet.
“This was the first dual flush toilet made in the United States,” said Marbury, the Energy Efficiency and Green Building Administrator for the New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, as she showed off her water-saving bathroom to Camian Larson, local designer and owner of Zenteriors, while Local iQ’s team of two photographers and a writer crowded in behind them. “You push the handle down for a regular flush and pull it up for a big one; a gallon for regular flushes and 1.6 gallons for big ones, depending on what it is you’re flushing.”
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Creating better streets for the 'greater' good |
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Sunday, 20 April 2008 |
 PHOTO BY WES NAMAN
How do streets contribute to a community? Can the design of a street actually make a city more ecologically sustainable? What makes a street “great”?
These are the kinds of questions that have intrigued a group of city planners and community members, along with a hired grup of consultants — HDR Engineering Inc. Their goal was to determine what makes great streets great; what makes them not only attractive, but safer, more user-friendly and ultimately more memorable.
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Youth not wasted on bluesman |
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Music -
Profile
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Thursday, 17 April 2008 |
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Ryan McGarvey
myspace.com/ryanmcgarvey
 PHOTO BY WES NAMAN
On the morning of March 29, 4:30a, father Patrick and son Ryan McGarvey
pulled up to a quiet stoplight at the intersection of U.S. Highway 183
and Texas Highway 29, just north of Austin. Riding shotgun, Ryan was
still coming down from a performance in Austin earlier in the night and
was looking forward to a good sleep, a Lubbock nightclub and its
blues-hungry fans were expecting McGarvey later that evening.
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Printing up a greener model |
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Sunday, 20 April 2008 |
 BY BRENDAN PICKER
June Wayne, founder of the Tamarind Institute, once compared lithography to the plight of the whooping crane, saying “In all the world there were only 36 cranes left, and in the United States there were no master printers able to work with the creative spectrum of our artists.”
Like all pioneers, Wayne had a vision. She wanted to save the art of
lithography from extinction and, in 1960, set up this now world
renowned studio and gallery on Tamarind Avenue in Los Angeles, with
help from the Ford Foundation. In 1970, after becoming affiliated with
the University of New Mexico, it picked up and moved to Albuquerque.
Now, almost 50 years after it’s creation, the Tamarind Institute has a
new vision, one that is ecologically conscious and just might have a
hand in saving the planet.
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