Chantal Foster

Baseball and mockingbirds if you ask the FreeSoundProject where I recently downloaded all my ringtones. Surely, we can round out the project database with a few more recordings of fair Burque. You know, local aural phenomena such as:… Continue

To some it's a chili-laden hot dog from… Continue

It's apricot season in Albuquerque. Whether it's you, your neighbor, or your friend, chances are there's an apricot tree in your life laden with overripe fruit this week. Now. I've tried (and failed) at plenty of canning endeavors. This is… Continue

The lack of gears and brakes is not stopping plenty of Burque kids from enjoying the pleasures of the fixie. Here's a… Continue

If you've ever ridden the zoo train past the BioPark's big red barn, Tomás is the guy in a mesh hat waving at you with a comb of honeybees in his hand. Bac… Continue

I love poetry. And I love public transportation. The two are forming a happy union this summer as part of ABQ RIDE's "Poetry on the Bus" program, so the long-time local poet Mikaela Renz-Whitmore and I h… Continue

Of all the freak shows on earth, one of the strangest occurs quite regularly at the Albuquerque Volcanoes. It's the cyclical flux of bugs that make their appearance throughout the Petroglyph National Monument on Albuquerque's west si… Continue

2wheelz sponsored the bagpipers and dozens of local photographers played witness to New Mexico's biggest urban cycling event this past weekend, The Albuquerque… Continue

Killing time in the airport yesterday, I stumbled upon this stunning video about the Sandias. Pour a cold one, kick back, and meditate on the majesty. So… Continue

As if the Rio Grande's not already swollen. This weekend, hundreds of river-mad people will launch canoes, kayaks, and homemade floating devices as part of the Great Race. Last weekend before the crowds surged, my friend and I… Continue

Whether it's "Lisa Chavez BDSM", "Albuquerque rock stars" or "breaking bad albuquerque octopus", we... um... apparently got you covered. Here's a dump of recent search terms referring the unwitting to Duke City Fix: nob hill bar and grill albuquerque jennifer james 101 family thrift center albuquerque senor buckets night of the living dead albuquerque roy sekreta "taj palace" albuquerque albuquerque city community gardens loma linda community garden albuquerque luv yo mama folk art fest… Continue

Longtime Albuquerque blogger (here and here) and retired APS schoolteacher is nearly halfway across America. On a bike. He called me the other day and left this enigmatic messa… Continue

So there I was in a Nob Hill parking lot behind a rainbow painted car with an Om on the trunk, when a couple walked by. She was late 20s, he at least 65. Unaware of my presence, they kissed giddily and she tugged on on…

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At about 10pm last night, I received this email from a friend who apparently has an unaccompanied grandma at his house. How that happens, I have no idea but she needs a ride to the Sunport this morning and we've volunteered for chauffeur duty. Here are the instructions I received from her Albuquerque grandson:

First off, thank you thank you thank you.

Second, here are the details:

1) Her name is Lucy
2) She does not have a key to the house
3) She get…

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This month's web geeks happy hour was organized by Eric from the… Continue

The scene from last night's Flickr meetup downtown Albuquerque is really quite… Continue

The roaches are out of a home. This week The American Inn on Route 66 in Albuquerque, long dilapidated and dismal, is being demolished. I stopped by the site near Central & Washington this morning… Continue

100 or so local beekeepers came together for a "bee conference" today at… Continue

At $2.50 a pop, those "environmentally friendly frankfurters" touted in yesterday's Journal have got to be the cheapest lunch downtown. I stopped by the electric car hot-dog stand today with a friend to scope… Continue

This Sunday, consider heading to what my friend Miguel calls Albuquerque's "Cilantro Triangle" in the SE Heights for Songkran, the Thai New Year festival. I've never been myself, but if there's thai food, music, and dance, you pr… Continue