Kind of a big deal
The sport coats are worse than Ron Burgundy's in Anchorman, but being inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame is still a big deal, despite the fashion choices, kneeling controversies and concussions. Brian Urlacher, former University of New Mexico standout and Chicago Bears linebacker, received the honor and the gold jacket this weekend.
Compound squalor
Five adults have now been arrested—two men and three women—at a compound in northern Taos County where authorities took 11 children into protective custody ($) after finding them malnourished. They did not discover Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj, a 4-year-old boy who had been allegedly abducted from his Georgia home last December by his father, one of the men charged in the raid.
Denouement
How did a couple from Cliff, New Mexico, end up with a stolen Willem de Kooning masterpiece worth an estimated $160 million? Did they steal it? The Washington Post gathers the threads of decades of reporting by various news agencies. It's a fun read.
Top spin
While on vacation, the Word's brother-in-law revealed that there's some sort of game involved in Top Golf that involves hitting a golf ball but not hitting the links. It sounds kind of cool. Tim Keller may agree, but what doesn't sound cool to the Albuquerque mayor is $1.8 million in incentives and another $700,000 in city funds going to an out-of-state company. He vetoed a City Council vote. The council might override it tonight.
Better come back
It wouldn't be fair to say Better Call Saul a spinoff sensation. The AMC TV series tracing the origin story of Bob Odenkirk's morally flexible attorney character from Breaking Bad is more of a slow burn than a rocket ride. It's well-received, though, even if it's more Rhoda than Frazier. All that is to say that it's good TV, it's filmed in New Mexico and it's back at 7 pm tonight.
Noteworthy
Today's SFR pick is an opening at the Adobe Gallery. Yes, a Monday opening. Makes more than a little sense, right? Al Anthony and company present notable works by seven Pueblo painters, an exhibition which takes us into the fall and brings more depth a Native tradition that too often takes a back seat to jewelry and pottery work. It starts at 4 pm.
Pack it up
Rain helps. It's true. But unless it's days on end of torrential downfall, rain isn't ending our drought in Northern New Mexico. At last check, the drought monitor showed what seems to be all of the Sangre de Cristos in what's called exceptional drought. It's the worst category. And it's the worst. Laura Paskus explains why snowpack is what will save us.
This week
Forget that talk of fall above. It'll feel like summer today, with highs in both Santa Fe and Albuquerque in the mid-90s. Las Cruces will be up around 100. Storm chances are best in the southwest and northeast today, and some could produce hail, so if you see some nasty dark clouds, it's a good time to go to your garage … or the drive-thru at the bank. If you're curious about rainfall this year versus last, the National Weather Service has you covered.
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