In the eight years since Bernalillo County District Attorney Kari Brandenburg took office, neither she nor any of her top prosecutors has seen a police shooting case they believed merited criminal charges against the officer.The Albuquerque Police Depa... »
Peter Simonson, executive director of the New Mexico affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, has issued a statement in response to the way Bernalillo County prosecutors present police shooting cases to "investigative grand juries."A story in S... »
Bravo! The New Mexico Philharmonic is rising from the ashes of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, proving there is an audience for classical music in the Albuquerque area. About a year ago, after struggling financially for several years, the symphony f... »
Her parents say she was never mentally ill.She was 12, however, perilously close to those crazy teen years. She was precocious, clever, gifted and generously, perhaps too generously, in the parents' view, blessed with a vivid imagination.But mentally i... »
When 13 year old Joana Fernandez won her school district's Spanish spelling bee, she took the job of representing the district in the state competition very seriously three hours of practice a day serious. It paid off for the eighth grader from Rio Ran... »
A year of planning, and it's finally ready. The inaugural Festival Cervantes, Writing Art will be held from Thursday through Saturday."We wanted to use music, art and literature to bring different cultures together," says Milly Castañeda Ledwith, cultu... »
The defunct New Mexico Symphony Orchestra presented some concerts augmented by voices for large choral works. Those voices were known as the NMSO Chorus, and its longtime leader was Roger Melone, the NMSO's resident conductor. Melone is still in the bu... »
Abad E. Lucero was a renaissance man. The New Mexico native was a furniture maker who made all of his own hardware, oftentimes recycling car parts and bullet casings to do so. He was also a sculptor, painter and photographer and created art well into h... »
Musically, violinist David Felberg was prepared. But Felberg wasn't prepared for an unforeseen event. He was to have played Dmitri Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra. But the NMSO shut down a week before the sch... »
Almost a year ago -- on April 19, 2011 -- the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, beset by myriad financial problems, closed its doors. But as one door closed, other doors opened.Within a few weeks after the shuttering, a group of former NMSO musicians orga... »
Good moves. Approval of a redistricting plan that recognizes a decade of growth on the city's West Side and compromise for allowing elected officials or candidates to speak at commencements show most Albuquerque Public Schools board members can put pol... »
The couple who cooked up traditional New Mexico food at La Fonda del Bosque for years now have their own restaurant."We've been dreaming of owning our own restaurant for 20 to 30 years. ...It's a lot of work. We are here all the time but it's ours and ... »
The human touch can be a miraculous thing, as Cyndi Sluder of Belen learned as she washed the feet of a homeless man and a little boy on Saturday at the Albuquerque Rescue Mission."God put it in my heart that I should come here today, and by reaching o... »
John Truitt says the late Albuquerque luthier Lorenzo Pimentel was a generous and kind person to him and to many others. In recognition of Pimentel's benevolence, Truitt composed "La Fiesta de San Lorenzo," which a 22 member guitar ensemble will premie... »
The Albuquerque Public Schools school board voted 6 1 Wednesday to approve a redistricting map that satisfies the West Side community, after a months long process and dozens of draft maps.The map creates two districts fully west of the Rio Grande, with... »
