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Growing pains can be tough. For an expanding city, they can mean car-clogged streets, crime or, on occasion, the application of a 50-ton Band-Aid. That was the case for Albuquerque after power demand on the city’s rapidly expanding West Side overwhelmed and shut down a substation of Public Service Company of New Mexico last week. … Read more

Kurt Lucero is wondering about dresses. But not just any dresses. Beaded dresses. Sequined dresses. “Elegant” and “very delicate” dresses, said Lucero, owner of the Cleanery, a high-end clothes-cleaning company with three locations in Albuquerque. And they’re potentially famous dresses, too. His company recently cleaned about 30 dresses used in “Bordertown,” a film about a … Read more

Saving the world is a pretty good business. Just ask PNM Resources. After adopting an environmental sustainability policy in 2004, the company has moved more urgently ahead with in-house recycling programs that are keeping the world a little more green and making PNM Resources a buck to boot. “Recycling is a good thing for the … Read more

For being about as big as a breadbox, the LCD video projector at Scalo Northern Italian Grill sure holds a lot. Two RGB D-Sub 15-pin inputs? Check. A 2,100-lumens contrast ratio? Yep. High Definition TV capability? Mm-hmm. Laptop readiness? Sure. And a 233 percent jump in private party business for Scalo in Nob Hill? It … Read more

In 1972, Mario Gonzalez had experience as a cattle-herding cowboy, $1,000 and a deep-rooted fascination with Disneyland. With his father’s blessing and encouragement from a friend, Gonzalez struck out for California from his home of San Miguel, a town in Mexico he guessed to have about 25,000 people at the time. His mission: see every … Read more

Elizabeth Gabel has a couple of very important rules when it comes to extras working with Hollywood stars. One: Don’t ask for their autograph. Two: Don’t take their picture. With an increasing number of star-powered productions lured to New Mexico by state-sponsored incentives, it’s a law that Gabel has been busy laying down, most recently … Read more

Steve Rabi doesn’t like fliers. Stuck in his front door or stuck on his fence, he just doesn’t like them. “It makes it look like I’m not home,” he said. But if a neighborhood association is trying to get timely information out to its members, sometimes a flier is the way to do it. Rabi … Read more

Rebecca Stover has ironed 300 towelettes, swept a road at 4 a.m. and held a microphone while balanced on the edge of cliff. “I enjoy it so much,” she said of her time on a film crew. “It just goes by fast.” Stover began her film crew career by enrolling in Albuquerque TVI’s film technician … Read more

It’s a Wednesday evening at the First Baptist Church in Downtown and three smiling teenage boys jump rope on the church’s lawn in the settling darkness. They manage a few leaps before one of them makes a mistake, the game’s end beginning a round of laughter and playful hugs and slaps on the back. From … Read more

It didn’t go so well the first time Gerald Maytea went to a job center. It was 1977, and he had just left the military after serving in the Vietnam War. He needed help finding employment, but it wasn’t working out. He said the center in Pennsylvania suffered from poor organization. The way it posted … Read more