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Julia Gulia’s en Français Hits Stateside

The Global beauty that is NM’s Own Julia Roberts is hitting the small screen in her first U.S. aired retail advert.

Tags: Commercial, Julia Roberts, Lancome

Who’s on Myspace

Actor, Composer Val E. Kilmer is that’s who…and me and YOU don’t lie!

General interests include Cate Blanchett hmmm, inneresting.

You can take a listen and download his music, there’s nary a Doors song to be found so don’t even go there for that.

But you can watch clips of movies he’s working on and stuff. You can also buy a personally designed horse blanket or something.

I’m glad to see the creative flow and really dig on the music myself, it’s very Pear Jam Just Breathe meets The Eagles Desperado.

Go Mah Huckelberry!

Hommie is also on Twitt if that’s your bag.

APS Back to School Budget Crunch ~Relief

Because we don’t all have $11 million to plunk down on an ancillary building…

APS is holding a back-to-school clothes swap meet to help students and their families prep and dress for the upcoming school year without breaking the bank.

“There is no doubt EVERYONE is in some way being affected by the current economic recession especially if you have kids. Worrying about how to get your kids clothes for the new school year or maybe clothes for you, your mother, your father, or anybody can be stressful.

There is a solution to the stress…..

On July 31, 2010 9am – 12pm some members of the community have organized a swap meet to try and help ease the financial stress of buying new clothes for you or your family.” – APS

Where:
Messiah Lutheran Church
11515 Lomas Blvd. NE
Albuquerque, NM

When:
Jul 31, 2010
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Contact: Patricia Baca at 974-0740

This event is FREE of charge. To participate bring your clean, un-holy clothing for exchange!

Tags: APS, Back to School Clothes, KRQE, Swap Meet

Recession Succession à la the Tasty Sham That is Known as the Portobello

Originally posted on February 9, 2009

You can grill it, roast it, stew it, glaze it, saute it – pay over $40 for a 16 oz. bag of dried it, over $10 for one sandwich of it, or just $5 for a fresh lb. of it.

This elegantly named and masterfully marketed fungus came on the scene like so many other oversized and opulent vices in the eighties when some mutant criminis were overrunning crops and generating tons of waste.

As the literal translation of its name denotes – Beautiful Port/Door, the spawn of these previously despised spores remain highly desirable and a retain their inflated price point.

Lesson Learned: Get your own “Portobello” on.

Back in Black

ICYDK: NM’s most recognizably seductive female vox is back on morning radio.

Nearly a year after vacating a co-host chair over at the local mega bloks, communications conglomerate’s #1 morning show the Viking is back with her own show on KIOT 102.5 on your FM dial, weekdays 6-10 in the AM.

Now if only we could get a daily audio/visual dose of NM’s own Big Ben and the ultra presh Jaimey B. again…

Welcome back to radio Lady Viking!

Re-connect with Erica on Facebook.

Tags: Big Benny Radio, Corporate, Erica Viking, Jaimey B, Local Radio

New Mexico Moon on the Block

Polaroid’s bankruptcy woes are slated to lend to an epic auction of its original photography at Sotheby’s in New York this June.

Included in the controversial “disposal” sale is the mural-sized Ansel Adams print “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico,” expected to go for $350,000.

Also expected up for auction are entire collections by Andy Warhol and Chuck Close, portraits by William Wegman, Robert Frank, David Hockney and Robert Mapplethorpe.

Tags: Ansel Adams, Bankruptcy Sale, Moonrise Hernandez New Mexico, Polaroid, Sotheby's

Workin’ it w/the ‘Topes

Your Albuquerque Isotopes will be holding a job fair this Saturday with Ovations Food Services offering a wide range of positions for seasonal work.

From Bat Boys, Ticket Takers, Vendors, Ticket Sales, Game Day Crew, to Cooks, Concessions, Beer Vendors and more…

The fair is open to the public and will run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Isotopes Park.

Full deets and downloadable applications here.

The Albuquerque Isotopes and Ovations Food Service are Equal Opportunity Employers.

Tags: Albuquerque Isotopes, Hiring, Job Fair, Minor League Baseball

Advocate ABQ Courtesy KRQE+

KRQE.com

Albuquerque based non-profit organizations are eligible to be awarded one year of free advertising and media services valued at $1M courtesy of the New Mexico broadcasting media partnership – Advocate.

Applications are being accepted through February 12. Download the application at weadvocate.org.

Tags: Albuquerque, Citadel Broadcasting, Clear Channel Outdoor, Esparza Advertizing, James Korenchen Public Relations, Kasa Fox 2, KRQE, New Mexico Business Weekly, Non-profit, Univision

Recession Succession by Matt Mac

Where it’s at!

The entertainment industry may bring us a lot of things and you may not think ‘work ethic’ is one of ‘em.

But who do you know that’s gettin’ paid for work they did over two years ago? Matt Mac laid this shoot down back in ’07, it’s just now landing stateside along with continued revenue for the hunky Texan.

So whether you’re nosing to a grindstone you don’t like, chasing what seems like an elusive dream…someday your version of endorsement, residual or royalty checks will roll in.

Matt Mac didn’t just swagger onto that Gabbana set and make this bank for his growing brood…he’s come a long way from Guy #2 in My Boyfriend’s Back circa 1993.

Tags: Commercials, Matthew McConaughey, Paid, Working It

Blowing in the Windfall

Thirsty Rock

Back in the mid-nineties Linda Katz was learnin’ how to use the internets under the tutelage of her young son, when creating a basic web page they came up with a little something that looked like this, and it still does.

Shortly after going online, the hypothetical farm started generating orders from all over the world and within the first year the Katz’ were pulling in $40,000 in revenue – not too shabby for a found product that ships for the same cost as AIR.

India, Japan, Global Film & Television Production Companies and Interior Designers are some of the most insatiable weed collectors.

Locally NM Tumbleweed of Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church in Rio Rancho meets some of the current tumbleweed demand. There are sites o’plenty out there now, so maybe boxing las rusos isn’t going to be the bag for you, but obviously there’s always something out there.

Lesson Learned: If not now, when? If not you, who?

Tags: Economy, Tumbleweed Sales

Upstage, Downstage, Soundstage, NM

While we as a state continue to wait for our anointment as #3 in North America for film production, by the EC bible of the biz, cities and towns within toil and angle for center stage.

While Socorro has made its mark in NM’s Big Picture arena with nearly a dozen shoots at the Very Large Array alone, Las Cruces City Councilors along with Alamogordo, Deming and Tularosa Mayors are raising their collective voices to continue the spread of movie making dollars further south.

Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Taos, Las Vegas, Madrid and beyond have all been featured and are poised on the casting couch to be tapped for more starring roles.

Sitting pretty, with no shortage of state of the art studios and soundstages including Albuquerque’s Q Studios, Soundstage41, Elixir Studios +, and Production Companies a plenty, NM has its hold on the New Hollywood sash.

Try as they might (Iowa, Michigan, et al), New Mexico is winning the crown.

Tags: New Mexico Film

Happy Labor Day…

This is how it’s done people…These ladies are working it!

Top left – Patricia Heaton has syndicated dough in perpetuity thanks to her long running stint on Everybody Loves Raymond, but that doesn’t keep a girl complacent. Heaton teamed with with fellow syndicated superstar Kelsey Grammer in ’07 with another stab at sit-com gold in Back to You, has since starred in a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie and will be seen this Fall in ABC’s new comedy The Middle.

Top right – Believes it ou non Tricia O’Kelley played Nicole Leahy in eight episodes of my beloved Gilmore Girls back in ’03-’04. She’s also worked on none other than Everybody Loves Raymond, Frasier, Two and a Half Men, Back to You and currently stars with über syndicated Seinfeld alum Julia Louis-Dreyfus in The New Adventures of Old Christine on CBS.

Bottom right – Holland Taylor is one heck’ uva MOTHER on Two and a Half Men, but long before she was utterly fabu alongside Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari in Bosom Buddies. In between she’s wowed us with performances in TV shows like Veronica’s Closet, ER, The Practice, Monk, The L Word and so many more. And appeared in such movies as One Fine Day, Legally Blonde, Filmore and Baby Mama.

Bottom left – Jane Lynch is just incredible and she’s been in EVERYTHING…see for yourself here.

Tags: ABC The Middle, CBS The New Adventures of Old Christine, Fox Glee, Holland Taylor Tricia O'Kelley, Jane Lynch, Patricia Heaton, Working It

Spousal Syndication

As Charlie Sheen’s character on Two and a Half Men said, ” If she becomes a big TV star while you’re still married, she’ll have to pay you alimony.” (Season 4, Episode 18) – he would know. While Denise Richards works to “support her children as a single mother” on her E! reality series It’s Complicated the ex-Mrs. Sheen gets a little boost in the support arena thanks to a purported $7 million divorce settlement and ongoing $20 million in syndication royalties from Sheen’s TV show.

And much as he might try to rid himself of his riches through successive bouts of alimony payments – Tom Arnold probably can’t marry enough times to blow all his residual payments for his stake in the Roseanne television series which plays in syndication all over the world – daily.

Lesson Learned: Marry for love, prenup for Cripes sake.

Tags: Charlie Sheen, Denise Richards, Roseanne Barr, Royalties, Syndication, Tom Arnold

Ichiban – Recession Succession by Commercial Movie Stars

Originally posted Friday, June 5th, 2009

What was once reserved for foreign soil has reached the shores of the good ol’ U.S. of A. Where we have Jennifer Connelly lending her dead eyes and blank stare to Revlon, Little Pony Parker has been ahead of the curve for years with Garnier, Hathaway for Lancome, Goopy pimped Estee Lauder, Sedwick thrusts and pushes O.J. etc., etc.

Now more boys than ever are edging in on the action. You may not see their bedroom eyes but you can hear those silky voices as they cash in on the spokeswhore ticket.

The Dude does Hyundai, Gene Hackman is your Lowe’s man, David-afflicted-Duchuvoney aptly sells dog food, you can hear Quaid in Capital One, Keifer Sutherland B of A, Pony Parker’s Aiden for Applebees, Magnum P.I. does/did Chrysler, and many more if you listen closely. The latest is lil’ lady lover Milo Ventimiglia in the introductory ads that were for Bing.com.

Hey, if it pays and it’s legal…There’s no such thing as ‘Extra Money‘

Maybe a certain local Newscaster should quit her ~public b’ching and be grateful to be working, as Grandpa would say, “No whining!”

Tags: Economy, Joey Tribbiani, Matt LeBlanc, Stars in Commercials

Syndicated Superstars vs. Newbies

Superstars – As Mr. Lopez declares in his own stand-up comedy routine, “I ain’t goin’ nowheres! Syndication! Syn-di-cation!” The George Lopez show has been in syndication since 2006, it currently airs on KASA Fox 2 twice every weeknight. !Viva La Raza!

Newbies – The staff of The Office, exec. producers and anyone else lucky enough to have a claim to the NBC comedy’s syndication rights hit the wellspring of television royalties as the show rolls into weeknight syndicated rotation, airing five times a week on our local CW this Fall.

Tags: Kasa Fox 2, Syndication, The George Lopez Show, The Office

Where it All Went Wrong…Where it’s Going

No, that isn’t me standing next to that Barbie Dream Mansion. I only wished I was a 9 yr. old white girl in 1983. But I did have that damn mansion ’cause I was spoi-eled… AND I had that sweet yellow corvette and bad Barbie R.V. It was AWESOME!

I used to have THE BEST Barbie-n-Ken outfits, my fave was the purple and red Business Barbie suit – it was so rad I can’t even express the JOY. My barbs ate like spoiled brats too. Magazine clippings of lobster tails, what ever looked decadent and hoity. Anything I’d seen on Hart to Hart, Dallas, Dynasty or Knots Landing.

And this my friends is where it all went wrong. How Hart to Hart made their riches? I don’t remember…What is up with the Dynasty peeps? No idea – they probably aren’t even in on the residual action for their DVD sales. It was a dumb, sloppy time. Oh, look at Falcon Crest…it was all wrong.

Now, Patrick Bateman would think me so gauche, but without a penny to my name – I’ve been better off than any of the times I was chasing the excess-of-the-eighties dream in my own Business Barbie suits. My BFFL always said this was the decade I’d come into my riches…and she was right. Excess is as OUT as shoulder pads.

P.S. I’m totally gonna bring back pairing purple and red. All discount or second hand – of course!

Tags: Barbie, Eighties Excess, Patrick Bateman, Recession

Still Time to Enter Int’l Songwriting Competition

Enter the Nashville based, international songwriting competition online here. You can simply send ‘em links to your online videos and tracks to enter. Deadline for all entries is Oct. 7 2009.

Check-in at www.songwritingcompetition.com for all the deets and join ISC on Myspace and Twitter to keep up with the latest on the competition, celeb judges & sponsors.

Tags: Cash & Prizes, Enter to Win, International Songwriting Competetion

Recession Succession by Oxford Word of the Year 2008

Jeffrey Hill

Hypermiling is the art of fuel conservation practices in any type of vehicle. Hypermiler extraordinaire Wayne Gerdes takes the practice to extremes to prove its effectiveness, achieving record breaking MPGs in regular ol’ cars, such as a purported 59 mpg in a Honda Accord.

To combat the “pain at the pump” (overused phrase of the lustrum) during these “tough economic times” (overused phrase of the decade) anyone behind the wheel can practice these ~simple steps to increase fuel economy:

1. Know Your Gas Milage
2. Be a “Courteous Driver”
3. Manage Red Lights
4. Practice “Anti-Traffic” Methods
5. Pace Yourself After Stops
6. Utilize Accel on Your Cruise Control

Source

Thanks Paulo

More Recession Succession

Tags: Economy, Fuel Conservation, Hypermiling, Recession, Wayne Gerdes

Recession Succession With Cities On the Cheap

Albuquerque based writer and acclaimed ‘tightwad’ Elizabeth Hanes (formerly) edits and maintains local, savings based website Albuquerque On The Cheap.

An official member of the independently owned and operated Cities On The Cheap websites available across the United States and Canada, Hanes brings real-time deals, ease in accessibility and interface to thrifty Albuquerqueans.

You can submit your finds, search coupons, freebies, events and more at http://abqonthecheap.com/.

More Recession Succession/On The Cheap

Tags: Albuquerque On The Cheap, Elizabeth Hanes

Recession Succession Via Renting and Recycling

CBS spotlight on Zilok.com where a San Francisco based Frenchman put mind to the mounds of matter amassed by the average American whereby we collectively horde stuff, stuff we don’t use that can be used by others.

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Good Morning America helps deflate the excess in ballooned wedding budgets by bringing us IDoNowIDon’t.com, where piles of diamonds and miles of silk and tule can be yours at slashed and secure prices.

http://www.idonowidont.com/

http://us.zilok.com/

Tags: Buy recycled wedding dresses and Diamonds, I Do Now I Don't.com, Rent Your Stuff, Zilok.com