UPDATE 3/15/12: Newly re-formed House Bill, 641 has emerged at the Legislature in a last ditch effort to salvage the New Mexico Film Industry. Friday evening the House Business and Industry Committee voted to pass the new bill, which mirrors our beloved HB 379 as vetoed by the Governor earlier in the day.
Stay tuned…
#1174 Albuquerque, NM
A film production bill such as this is a win-win for all involved. New Mexico is in a perfect situation both location, crew and talent wise to allow professional production to continue to grow. This State needs all the advantages it can use to bring more production here. Governor by signing this bill you would put more New Mexicans to work and bring in more revenue for big and small businesses.
#1173 Placitas, NM
Please sign HB379. The film industry is good for New Mexico … good for jobs and all the folks who provide services for the productions. Heaven knows we need the jobs.
#1164 Albuquerque, NM
This is really important for the state. If this goes away, its going to make it harder for everything else. We have something special here in NM that other states don’t. Lets keep it that way. Sign the bill.
#1031 Albuquerque, NM
The Feds will be cutting the military, Los Alamos and Sandia Labs. This is an industry to build upon. Personally, I know of out of towners who to come to Albuquerque because of Breaking Bad and it is not for meth! It’s for the beautiful skies and mountains. Please consider signing this bill. Respectfully…
#1048 Albuquerque, NM
Film work bought my home/vehicles, and paid off my student loans
#1078 Albuquerque, NM
tv film and art endeavors are pollution free revenue and job producers in our state and attract tourism- a clean source of income…. WHATS WRONG WITH YOU??????
#941 Albuquerque, NM
I work in the film industry in NM. Let’s do what we can to keep the work coming.
#940 Albuquerque, NM
Excited for more work to come in! I’m ready!
#937 Albuquerque, NM
Dear Governor Martines I have been working in the film industry for the last 6 years and primarily in the state of New Mexico! I was born here my family lives here I love to work here!!! Please don’t let are great industry with high paying jobs leave here becuase it will cause me and several other people like me to relocate as well!!! Thank you
#931 Santa Fe, NM
I have family members whose jobs are strongly tied to the industry and would face financial hardships if the industry is not able to participate in New Mexico.
#928 Santa Fe, NM
As a Santa Fe gallerist, daily I recognize the positive impact & fiscal contribution of New Mexico film & TV production on our state and local levels. Keep the cameras on NM!
#923 Las Cruces, NM
We need this! Its good for the entire state! Please keep film making in the state!
#763 Tijeras, NM
Please sign this petition. It’s the difference between me having a job and being homeless. It may not matter to you but to thousands of your constituents it’s extremely important.
#759 Albuquerque, NM
I truly believe these productions not only add to the state economy, but also serve to keep New Mexico in the public eye as a diverse and valuable location for attracting other outside business interests.
#696 Santa Fe, NM
Film helps keep this ranch a float as a movie location. Agriculture is tuff, film helps
#925 Albuquerque, NM
I’ve had an opportunity to work and contribute to an industry I thought I’d have to leave home to be a part of. Here’s to it’s continued growth.
#749 Tijeras, NM
Do the right thing this time around!
#684 Keep the film industry and work here in New Mexico. Jemez, NM
#681 Thousands of NM employed through movies and TV! Albuquerque, NM
#676 I support the proposed new tax incentives for film and television. Please stand behind this much needed proposal to create good New Mexico jobs. This is a outstanding industry for our state. Thank you for your time. Algodones, NM
#675 House Bill 379 must pass! New Mexico made a brilliant economic decision bringing the film industry here-lets keep it going strong! Albuquerque, NM
#668 New Mexico is perfect for making movies, we should pull in all the outside money we can, into this state! Ruidoso, NM
#665 this good for new mexico and for people of new mexico ojo caliente, NM
#653 Bring back all the film and TV jobs (and more) that were driven away to other states, and work outsourced to our neighboring countries. How can we help heal our state and the US economy when OUR WORKERS WHO PREVIOUSLY WORKED HERE HAVE MOVED TO OTHER COUNTRIES? THEY’RE NO GOOD TO US OVER THERE. I’m sure that makes THEIR economy good, but we need to worry about OURS! Let’s make this state a great one, because right now all the faith I used to have in it is gone. La Union, NM » Read the full post
Posted by Sindicator on September 17, 2012 | Comments Off
From her star-making turn in the classic TV sitcom “Laverne & Shirley” to her phenomenal career as a film director and producer, Penny Marshall has had a remarkable life. In “My Mother Was Nuts,” Marshall talks about where she came from and the amazing journey it was.
After graduating from Walton High School, the Bronx New York native put some distance between herself and her parents, fleeing to Albuquerque and the University of New Mexico to major in psychology.
During her junior year she dropped out and married a football-playing classmate, Michael Henry. Their daughter, Tracy—her only child—was born in 1964. Henry stayed in school and Marshall worked as a secretary and taught dance in Albuquerque, New Mexico until they divorced in 1966. Soon after Marshall picked-up once again and headed to California to team-up with her brother Gary Marshall.
The rest, as they say, is history, and it’s all chronicled in her new book.
Today while promoting, “My Mother Was Nuts” on LIVE with Kelly & Michael the actress, director, author gave her turn at University of New Mexico a shout-out, saying, “Go UNM! Beat the Aggies!”
Posted by Sindicator on September 10, 2012 | Comments Off
Santa Fe, NM – Tickets are now on sale for the Fourth Annual Santa Fe Independent Film Festival for the 5 day fest, Wednesday, October 17th through Sunday, October 21st. All Festival passes and day passes can be purchased through the Lensic box office or ticketssantafe.org. Santa Fe Independent Film Festival will feature 80 films over 5 days and nights, host 20 filmmaker forums/workshops, Awards Ceremonies, VIP Events, a Filmmakers’ Brunch and 6 After-parties at the hottest venues in Santa Fe. Full schedule can be seen at Santafeiff.com.
Santa Fe IFF kicks off the festival with the New Mexico premiere of BLESS ME, ULTIMA. based on the iconic novel by beloved New Mexico Author RUDOLFO ANAYA. It closes on Sunday evening, October 21st at The Lensic Performing Arts Center with the New Mexican premiere of best-selling Author JUDY BLUME’s TIGER EYES directed by her son Lawrence Blume. “Shot in state and featuring charismatic performances from both Russell Means and son Tatanka, Lawrence Blume’s TIGER EYES – based on the classic teen novel by his mom Judy Blume – stars “Gossip Girl” WILLA HOLLAND as Davey, the teenager hurled into growing up after her father is murdered and mom relocates her and her younger brother from Atlantic City to Los Alamos, New Mexico.” ( Lauren Wissot Filmmaker Magazine and Santa Fe IFF Director of Programming) Judy and Lawrence will be in attendance and Judy Blume will sign her books after the premiere of TIGER EYES at the Lensic, The screening will be preceded by Santa Fe IFF’s Non-Juried Awards Ceremony hosted by GARY FARMER Santa Fe IFF’s Advisory Board Chair when TIGER EYES star TATANKA MEANS will be awarded the festival’s First Annual Tamalewood Award for his work in New Mexico. Judy and Lawrence Blume will also join Santa Fe IFF’s Screenwriting panel with RON BLOOMBERG (THREE’S COMPANY, ALL IN THE FAMILY) on Saturday, October 20th at 4 p.m. at Warehouse21.
Sponsors of Santa Fe Independent Film Festival
The Santa Fe Independent Film Festival relies on the generous support ofsponsors andcorporate partnerships to help fund the 4th Annual Film Festival. A special thanks to this years committed sponsors: (media partner) Hutton Broadcasting; (official sponsors) Inn and Spa at Loretto,Bishop’s Lodge Ranch Resort and Spa, Studio X, Hotel Santa Fe, Lensic, Warehouse 21; (community sponsors) HDNM, ,La Posada de Santa Fe Resort, Garrett’s Desert Inn, San Francisco Bar & Grill, Zia Diner, Cowgirl BBQ, Flying Star, Ore House at Milagro, Santa Fe Studios, IATSE Local 480, Santa Fe Studios, Garson Studios, Albuquerque Studios, Whole Foods; (signature sponsors) Tamalewood, High Desert Digital, Meow Wolf, Fred Ray Lopez of Santa Fe Tinworks; (contributing partners) Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Southwest CARE Center, Quail Run, KUNM, Hinkle Law Firm, Farm to Restaurant New Mexico, Winds of Choice Chiropractic Healing; (festival partners) Ace Hardware, Century Bank, Image Ratio, One Mind Design.
Other partners include: Santa Fe County, Santa Fe Arts Commission, Kindle Project, and McCune Foundation.
About the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival
Santa Fe Independent Film Festival was founded four years ago by local filmmakers to bring the best of independent film to Santa Fe and reignite the historic love affair between Santa Fe and Film. 2012 marks the fourth year of Santa IFF’s all volunteer organization offering a growing festival for independent film, filmmakers and film lovers. Santa Fe IFF is dedicated to the economic development of our city and New Mexico film. Santa Fe IFF is committed to attracting a growing number of people who make and love films from all over the world to join this year’s Fest to enjoy independent films and the unique charm of Santa Fe.The Fourth Annual Santa Fe Independent Film Festival continues its mission in exhibiting the best of independent film to diverse audiences, creating educational opportunities, and building community partnerships.
The New Mexico Tourism Department has unveiled this multi-media video, now airing on television in Colorado Springs, CO; Tucson, AZ; El Paso, Lubbock, Midland, Odessa and Amarillo, TX, and unleashed on NM’s Own revamped NM Tourism website, here.
In addition to the video, print ads from the campaign will be placed in Southwest Airlines’ Spirit in-flight magazine, Texas Monthly, Budget Travel and in NM Tourism’s own publication, New Mexico Magazine.
The entire project from bid to post-production has drawn criticism, including our own here, here, here, here and here.
As part of the launch of the much maligned production, New Mexico Tourism Director Monique Jacobson is back in the justification and explanation seat, offering the following translation of the campaign’s target and intent.
NM Tourism Director, Monique Jacobson to The Albuquerque Journal:
The campaign is designed to appeal to a “psychographic” group — “people with an adventurous spirit and thirst for authenticity”
NM Tourism Director, Monique Jacobson to The Santa Fe New Mexican:
“A hard sell wouldn’t work with this audience…This particular target tends to be higher income…They are people who will choose to spend money on travel.”
Despite assertions by Jacobson below, that “this is just the first of many spots”, Veronica Valencia, director of marketing for the Tourism Department breaks down how the bulk of $2M budget has already been spent:
Vendor Inc. cost $275,000 in fees.
Production of all the ads cost $350,000. Production is a broad term that applies to everything from scouting sites, hiring talent and filming the ads to producing the music that goes along with the ads as well as drawing up the print and billboard ads, according to Valencia.
More than $1.2 million went toward purchasing media buys on TV, print, digital and billboards in the targeted communities.
Posted by Sindicator on December 1, 2011 | Comments Off
COOL! Good thing I don’t fancy myself an investigative reporter, because this was news to me…JUST HEARD from the crack on-air team that makes & breaks news on epic, emmy winning television that YOU voted OneHeadlightInk.com into the top 5 “Best Blog” category of Albuquerque the Magazine‘s coveted Best of the City issue.
Not bad for a formerly little girl from Bosque Farms and her Mr. Big!
I’d like to thank YOU, Big Daddy, and especially Grandma & Grandpa for instilling in me the delusions of grandeur that drive me to yammer on, and on at you about my passion for all things New Mexico EntertaiNMent, from right here on our little space on the web for the past three years!
THANKS for reading and voting!
Congrats to politico blogger extraordinaire, Joe Monahan for besting the rest of us in the top five two out of the past three years!
Posted by Sindicator on November 9, 2011 | Comments Off
Pre Launch Party:
Friday November 18, 2011 5 – 7 p.m.
Platinum VIP Members – Enjoy a relaxing 2 hour pre-launch party with all the industry’s Leaders, Sponsors, Businesses, Media and Special Guests
Red Carpet Event:
Friday November 18, 2011 6:30 – 8 p.m.
FREE ALL AGES EVENT
See your favorite artists, celebs & many more walking the 50ft red carpet to the media backdrop. Multi-media outlets will be on location taking interviews and photographs to document the highlights of this event!
The red carpet will be FREE to the public (all ages) who wish to show their favorite celebs support, get free stuff and autographs!
The ceremony will highlight local performances by artists and dance crews specially selected through NM Hip Hop Awards organization casting, auditions, previously featured performers and headliners.
Watch your winners announced and awarded the NMHHA crystal mic award and prize package! The Albuquerque Journal Theatre will cater adult beverages for purchase by those 21 and older. Ticket info. here.
The Albuquerque Journal Theatre is the official home of the 2011 New Mexico Hip Hop Awards. Come join us as we celebrate this year’s show in this state of the art facility located in the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque. Some of the features you can expect from this year’s show is the famous red carpet event held in the luxurious lobby of the venue. We will be featuring one of New Mexico’s best film companies V6M as they film and interview the artists in front of our sponsor backdrop on our 50ft red carpet. – NMHHA
Attending the Pre-launch Party: Quest Marketing, Global Network Promotions, ZONU Entertainment, Str8lace Promotions, Phenomenal Radio, KISS 97.3 FM, Stacey’s Tattoo & Body Peircing, Zorro Property Management, Secret Seduction Parties, NM Vape, Adrian Nairda Fine Clothing, Ride n Smoke Records, Unbreakable Records, Paragon Pleasures, Budweiser, Chicano Rap Magazine, Block Relevant Magazine, HHMI Magazine, Lowrider Team Magazine, & many more….
Covering this event: 1. Chicano Rap Magazine 2. Lowrider Team Magazine 3. Block Relevant Magazine 4. HHMI Worldwide Magazine 5. Azure Media Group 6. Plus Light Productions 7. VIP New Mexico 8. Hip Hop Promotions 9. V6M- Vision House, 6 Mic Films, Majico Entertainment & more to come…
The New Mexico Hip Hop Awards is consistently growing and changing as you can see from the 2010 & 2011 event schedules. 2012 promises even more categories to cater to all aspects of the hip hop entertainment industry. Expanded categories to include Promoter of the Year and Upcoming Promoter of the year, recognition of backup dancers, poppers, bboys, steppers, etc. All an important part of hip hop culture, this is New Mexico’s time & place to recognize them as a major part of the industry.
Voting is open now in the following 2011 categories:
Male Artist of the Year
Female Artist of the Year
Duo/Group Artist of the Year
Producer of the Year
DJ of the Year
*Upcoming Male Artist of the Year
Upcoming Female Artist of the Year
Upcoming Duo/Group Artist of the Year
Upcoming Producer of the Year
Upcoming DJ of the Year
NM Production, In Plain Sight welcomes its latest addition to the family.
Star Mary McCormack and her husband Michael Morris, welcomed their third baby girl into the world on Saturday September 10.
Baby will no doubt join the on-set “nursery” with big sisters Margaret 7, and Rose 4, for the fifth and final season shoot of the Albuquerque based series.
Posted by Sindicator on August 4, 2011 | Comments Off
While middle-of-the-road in sleepiness, drunkeness, fitness & fatness, New Mexico is tops in least amount of personal tax burden, clean energy, national security, agriculture, adventure destination and ironically gay friendliness in the state capital where our unfriendly leader resides.
More tragic than that NM ranks low to DEAD LAST in job creation, gun violence, safety, education, poverty/hunger and child welfare.
Here are those rankings and the rest of what we found:
Now that we’re all back at work or at the free clinic you’ll likely need some reading material.
Here in two back issues of popular magazines you’ll find some relief from the travesties of the world (chief among them front and center on mag #1).
Crack the cover and in the pictured issue of People magazine, Albuquerque series star Mary McCormack gives an inside look (literally) into her life on set filming her USA network hit series In Plain Sight.
Within the pages of O’s Summer Bliss Issue you’ll be treated to an aha! moment a la NM’s Own beloved Bryan Cranston, star of AMC’s Emmy winning series Breaking Bad.
Both Albuquerque based productions will be returning to TV in just days. The latest episode of In Plain Sight will air on Sunday July 10 and the SEASON PREMIERE of Breaking Bad airs Sunday July 17 – just the thought takes my breath away…
Will the new “monkey on your back” that is the fly on the wall return? Will Gale survive? Will Gomez ever get that Bloomin Onion? Will Lisa, Andrea and I (et al) melt w/every Jesse, “Yo!”?
Posted by Sindicator on July 3, 2011 | Comments Off
From our sisters in bitchery:
“Let’s face it Ladies… Sometimes you act like a Crazy Bitch… you don’t know why and you can’t help it. We know, we’ve been there! At times like this you need a little help… and no, not psychological help!
We know that when you are feeling good you make the world a better place. So take a moment to have a cup of tea and a laugh with assurance that this formula was created with the greater good in mind, and remember… you really only want to unleash your inner Crazy Bitch when you need her!
Our Master Tea Blender and sister Crazy Bitch, Lynn Higgin, has created this special formula to assist you in maintaining balance and reclaiming your divine feminine power. Blended with love and acceptance, the ingredients included in this tea were specifically chosen to gently maintain your body’s natural balance, particularly when taken at regular intervals.”
This crazy bitch strongly recommends taking two, and not calling anyone till’ morning…but seriously any love potion brewed with helpful and caring intent sings of independence worth celebrating to me!
Help celebrate this Albuquerque based New Mexico business by casting your VOTE for them in the nationwide Independence Day contest by Entrepreneur Magazine showcasing independent business owners!!!
Go New Mexico – and calm that crazy bitch in all of us!
Posted by Sindicator on May 15, 2011 | Comments Off
A longtime favorite of OHI, our own personal Goodfella aka Jackamoe Buzzell is getting so big in the entertainment industry that he is unable to meet the expanding, full-time commitment of performing at his speakeasy gig, which leads the screen & feature film actor to present an offer “you can’t refuse”…
If you think you’re ready and able to get your Jackamoe on, answer me this:
Can You Play a Gangster?
Jackamoe Buzzell performs as a gangster at Vernon’s Hidden Valley Steakhouse and needs an understudy. He has performed for 8 straight months without missing one single show.
Due to the success of the Prohibition Era themed restaurant, Vernon’s is expanding with additional dining space as well as a VIP cigar bar and will be opening 7 nights per week instead of being dark on Monday and Tuesday.
Potential understudies must be charismatic with an intimidating edge. The taller the better! Also must have great improvisational skills and be able to do a New York, Chicago or New Jersey accent.
For more information regarding the character, please check out Vernon’s commercial, Jackamoe as a guest on New Mexico Style, Jackamoe’s painting and the recent review in Albuquerque Arts Magazine, p.5.
Please submit your headshot, resume and any additional photos that may be pertinent to: vernonsgangster@yahoo.com
Rainbow Studio Theater Company and VSA North Fourth Art Center proudly present Ntozake Shange’s Obie-award winning play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf” this month at the N4th Theater.
This is the inaugural production of Rainbow Studio Theater company founded by Cathryn McGill, Producer and Regina Dawley, Director. McGill is a veteran, award-winning actress/singer/songwriter and community activist and Dawley, a relative newcomer to the New Mexico scene, has extensive Broadway and Hollywood credits as a principal dancer with Shirley McClaine, Redd Foxx, Marvin Gaye, et. al. These two dynamic women are committed to creating memorable, dynamic. entertaining and socially relevant theater experiences for audiences of all ages and backgrounds.
For Colored Girls by Ntozake Shange is a series of 20 poems set to music and dance about sorrow, shared experiences, looking for humor in every situation and persevering to find the the pot of gold at the end of our collective and individual rainbows. Shange coined the term “choreopoem” to describe this exploration of what it’s like “bein’ alive, bein’ a woman and bein’ colored”. For Colored Girls is a theater classic and a perfect first production for the Rainbow Studio Theater Company.
Please come out and celebrate with us at one of three performances of this play. Friday, April 29 8pm, Saturday, April 30, 8pm or Sunday, May 1 1pm.
THESE SHOWS WILL SELL OUT QUICKLY!
BUY YOUR TICKETS ONLINE NOW
or call the N4th Theater Box Office to Make a Reservation -
505-344-4542
MORE QUESTIONS?
Call Rainbow Studio Theater Company at 505-407-6784 to negotiate group discounts and to get additional information about the production.
We can’t wait to see you at one of our performances. Tell all your friends and come out and support live theater in Albuquerque.
As much as I enjoy not being single, I KNOW and enjoy that there are many, many Hot Singles in NM!
The Q specifically is currently seeking to showcase its finest.
Albuquerque the Magazine is holding its annual Hot Singles search (now through May 22) – and though their bountiful supply of high gloss, full color pages with artfully photographed and displayed beauties, sexy beasts, model citizens and humble hotties can never fully capture the hotness of NM singles they will try and YOU will enjoy!
“Steven Michael Quezada and the producers of “The After After Party” want to give even more local talent the opportunity to showcase their talents on the state’s new #1 late-night talk show.” – The After After Party
Who: Musical Guests & Comedians
When: March 6 – 7
Where: The Historic Wool Warehouse Theater – Home of The After After Party
What: New Mexico’s Premiere Late Night TV Talk Show
When “The After After Party” first began filming in late 2010, the show’s star, co-creator, and executive producer Steven Michael Quezada never stopped emphasizing his desire to showcase local talent. In that time, “The After After Party” has served as a showcase of local musicians and comedians, proudly living up to the CW Network’s slogan, “Keeping It Local.”
In the four months that “The After After Party” has been on the air…, local and regional comics have relished the opportunity to perform in front of over 200,000 regional viewers and over 300 live audience members weekly. They have also appeared alongside major movie and television stars such as legendary actor Wes Studi, radio hosts Erika Viking, Big Moon, Crisco Kidd, and Swami Rob, and some of Quezada’s “Breaking Bad” co-stars including multiple Emmy Award winning actors Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston.
So far, Steven Michael Quezada has welcomed the comedic stylings of Niki Mangin, Frank Lucero, Kenny King, Freddy Charles, Chris Otero, Curt Fletcher, Nathaniel Auguston, and Silver Dominguez. In addition, some of the state’s most talented musicians have also graced “The After After Party” stage including Hillary Smith, Poema, Illustrated Man, David Wade, Alex Maryol, Juan Gambino, Fat Fish, and many others. Even “The After After Party” house band, The James Douglas Show, is based in Albuquerque.
Now, Steven Michael Quezada and the producers of “The After After Party” want to give even more local talent the opportunity to showcase their talents on the state’s new #1 late-night talk show.
As much as I enjoy not being single, I KNOW and enjoy that there are many, many Hot Singles in NM!
The Q specifically is currently seeking to showcase its finest.
Albuquerque the Magazine is holding its annual Hot Singles search (now through May 22) – and though their bountiful supply of high gloss, full color pages with artfully photographed and displayed beauties, sexy beasts, model citizens and humble hotties can never fully capture the hotness of NM singles they will try and YOU will enjoy!
With minimal blog speak (like none), sparse images and the light of a thousand suns, Joe Monahan writes (and writes) the Best Blog of the City, that city we all call The Q.
Just call me Kanye, because as some of you may know I openly campaigned, like Kanye for Beyonce, to be voted Numero Uno in the Q’s shiniest, glossiest mag but alas…Joe, the winner of the coveted title back in ’08, takes the top spot again!
He is now and forever my Taylor Swift. You can only imagine the sting (well, Diane Denish can more than imagine it) esp. for someone like me who took the Narcissism Test as presented by JTD and scored a whopping 35 on a scale of 1 to probably 30.
Check out Joe’s Best of the City Blogspot here, where he prolly (blog speak) won’t even make mention of his big win! Seriously, he’s like really smart and informative – It’s like the adult companion to your/my real life.
Congrats to all the winners and the runners-up (that’s us we’re #5, we’re #5 {sigh})! And now my annual tribute to this contest:
Posted by Sindicator on November 19, 2010 | Comments Off
Tonight is the 2010 Harvest Show at Exhale Bar & Grill on 4th St. NW. Rock ‘n Roll to the sounds of the 50′s and 60′s! Fun and music of times gone by…Raffle Prizes and amazing performers! Hosted by Chaz Malibu! $5 at the door…here is the hot link!
Showcasing alternative bands, Fashion, Ring Acrobats, Tatts, Body Modification and PRIZES, PRIZES, PRIZES…Entry is a toy valued at least $10 or a $10 cover charge. The toy drive and fundraiser benefit children in the UNM Focus program, which cares for kids affected by drug use – That’s Dec. 10 at.
Tomorrow night is when to get registered to compete at Burt’s Tiki Lounge with the Sinful Solstice Sponsors at the DCD’s 2011 Calendar Release Party here they’ll also be drawing the name for that $300 certificate for professional INK in the Tatts for Cans drive I told you about a few weeks ago.
Get your Fall NATURE-on: This weekend is the Festival of the Cranes! Normally coyotes and cranes don’t mix, but this is just New Mexico gorgeousness that must be experienced.
Coming-up on Wednesday Nov. 24 Masquerade Mayhem, a sexy masquerade bash at the 405 Lounge, Downtown 4th & Central…
Bring your mask canned food and VIP tickets for the pre-bash! It’s a Thanksgiving food drive AND red carpet event, $5 entry with food donation $10 w/out, masks a must, avail at the door for $3, but do it up! Dress to impress! VIP deets, celeb guest & more info. here.
Industry Refresher: New Mexico is currently ranked #3 in all of N. America by Variety Magazine and #1 in the country for production by Movie Maker magazine.
New reports show that 43 states have created film tax credits and CT and Iowa to name a few have made unsuccessful runs at nabbing our coveted film & production industry. We still face stiff competition from TX and Louisiana + who are looking to bolster or add their own incentives…
Let’s make sure New Mexico continues to put the NM in entertainment, let’s keep informed, get involved and do check-our post on the dried-up Iowa Film Industry that boomed for the two years it was in effect and is now defunct…we may get us some Hawkeyes as a result which is welcome but we gotta keep vigilant on the tremendous strides NM has made in American and even Global production & entertainment.
FOR JOBS SAKE, go New Mexico!
The originator of the very term “Hommywood”, NM’s Own actor, director, writer, comedian extraordinaire, Steven Michael Quezada shines like the star that he is as the cover model of November’s Albuquerque the Magazine.
The Breaking Bad actor and his beautiful wife Cherise are arguably the reigning King and Queen of Hommywood not only for their collective star power, but moreover for their unyielding work in the community.
All the more appropriate that SMQ is cover boy for the “Fashion and Style” issue which includes a sub headline, “The Art of Giving” as he’s so obviously mastered his own style of giving of himself and his art.
And because giving is always in fashion SMQ & co. will long reign as community leaders worthy of admiration and emulation!
All of NM can and should be proud of this NEW Mexican! Keep your eyes and ears on this homegrown and steadily rising estrella, because sure as we’ve been following him on stage, screen, and now as guapo cover boy there is certainly even more to come from NM’s SMQ.
Keep up with him on his Emmy winning ABQ television series Breaking Bad, follow his activism in teaching and inspiring young performers and industry professionals and maybe most importantly look to this ABQ Joker to treat you to a laugh peppered with a little inspiration!
Pick-up your November issue of Albuquerque the Magazine and catch Steven at his November 12th live stand-up performance where he’s sure to please with a little meet & greet after the show!
Posted by Sindicator on October 12, 2010 | Comments Off
Derek Jeter’s current piece is named this year’s “sexiest woman alive” by Esquire magazine.
Minka Kelly is a New Mexican who currently stars in the TX based TV series Friday Night Lights. I’d wax more poetically over the Q’s own earning this award of objectification if I thought any more of her.
On the contrary it’s a bummer to hear her quotes about her “boring life in Albuquerque” and a shame that she allegedly suffered bullying in her pre-teen years here and seems to be whining instead of empowering with both those reflections.
But, they’re her reflections so to each his own. And if she has any words of praise for her home state I hope she’ll let ‘em out into the public eye because New Mexico’s a Globe-go with buzz of Kelly’s honor playing out all over the world!
Congratulations Minka-nunca!
If you’d like to be further annoyed by her click the pic to go to Esquires featured video with painfully clear audio.
Posted by Sindicator on August 27, 2010 | Comments Off
As Heard on Coyote 102.5 August 27, 2010
My personal New Mexican of the week is the Q Spot’s own Erica Viking! Her show is simply kickin’ a** and takin’ names in the Q and beyond and she did an awesome job all week featuring all the people and events of the Albuquerque Film Festival!
Hard to believe it’s only the second annual event with its loaded schedule which wraps this weekend with ongoing all day workshops and all night film screenings plus end of the night bashes every night now through Sunday at the Hard Rock Casino – Click here for the weekend’s full schedule, including an actor’s panel and the Last Movie, a Dennis Hopper Retrospective
Also tonight at the Hard Rock: Albuquerque the Magazine’s Hot Singles Party is finally here!
p.s. Congrats Dan Mayfield. The former Journal staffer is now ABQ the mag Editor in Chief! (mini-woot!)
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