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37th Year of Flamenco Festival Features 126 Artists and 23 Shows

Marisol Encinias has been performing flamenco her whole life.  “I’m 53 now, and I began dancing with my grandmother when I was 5,” Encinias said.  Encinias’ mother started the Festival Flamenco de Albuquerque in 1987. It’s now grown to be the country’s largest flamenco festival and the largest international festival outside of Spain.  This year, […]

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Who Wins, Who Loses

It’s hard to know who the biggest loser in the Hunter Biden trial might be. Hunter Biden, of course, who was convicted on three felony counts on June 11 by a jury of his Delaware peers, lost the legal case.  Donald Trump lost something bigger; his complaints about two-tiered justice were stopped cold.  During the […]

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Let’s Not Even Call This a Debate

At 7 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time on June 27, more than four months before Election Day, Joe Biden and Donald Trump will spend 90 minutes on CNN airing rehearsed talking points in front of a moderator in two-minute soundbites in a studio empty but for the production crew and campaign staff. Happily, I will be […]