Strong candidate for Best Movie Title Ever, this perfectly Pre-Code (i.e., racy for its era) Paramount movie showed evenings at Joe Barnett’s Sunshine Theater downtown for a Great Depression 50 cents, 35 if you sat in the balcony (which never made sense to me, as it’s always better from the balcony). Barnett had ABQ’s Paramount… Read More “Merrily We Go to Hell”

One idea I’ve had toward ramping this blog back up to a daily experience would be to find and relate instances where other folks are thinking/saying/doing smarter things than I could ever come up with. Cuz that happens every day. Pretty often multiple times in a 24-hour period. Take yesterday for instance. I’m reading the… Read More Barelas Fights Drive-Thrus the Smart Way

As many of us excitedly and/or skeptically try to wrap our heads around the proposed Rail Trail, it’s perhaps helpful to look at precedence and perceived best practices. City o’ ABQ’s January 2024 document outlining current Trail thinking includes examples from two other U.S. cities: San Antonio’s Riverwalk and Indianapolis’ Cultural Trail. Celebrating its tenth… Read More ABQ Rail Trail and the Indianapolis Experience

It might not seem the transpo-sexiest public meeting in history, but ABQ folks interested in extending lives through better multi-modal traffic infrastructure might want to check out this: What’s that? You don’t even know where 98th and Gibson is? You’ve also never heard of “Amole Arroyo Trail” and wonder that maybe it’s a trail used… Read More 98th and Gibson: Canvas for Real Multi-Modal Improvements

That microscopic, yet loyal set of Better Burque readers were last left hanging on their collected seat (they’re good at sharing a single seat) by news from 52 years ago that Albuquerque Public Schools almost, very nearly built its central, premier high school way out west overlooking the town from just east from what is… Read More This Just In, Circa-1972: New AHS Site and Emmanuel Schifani

Who says there’s not “Breaking News” when looking back at history? This just in…from 1972: Albuquerque High School came damn close to getting built west of the Rio Grande, “on a westside bluff which overlooks the river, the city, and the Sandia Mountains,” as depicted in this ever so gloriously hand-drawn map from the front-page… Read More News Flash 1972: New Albuquerque High to be built west of the River