Duke City Fix has officially moved to a new system at www.dukecityfix.com. Please visit us there!

For about 2 months now, we've been secretly working on a new version of Duke City Fix and its forum.

This weekend we launch!

During the transition period over the next 48 hours, you may notice sporadic outages while we point our domain to the new site.

If you want to head directly to the site itself, it's at http://dukecity.ning.com. Have a look around. We hope you dig it. Here's some info that might help describe how it works.

• Why we moved to a new DCF
• How Duke City Fix works
• How to get featured on the homepage
• A link to the new community forum

My husband is making his way back from Oracle World in California so I'm at loose ends until his late night pickup. What to do tonight while waiting for the plane? I pick Christmasy arty goodness! Tonight at Richard Levy Gallery from 6pm-8pm is the Friends of Art Gala Holiday Ornament Auction benefiting the UNM Art Museum. Even if you can't stand the thought of Christmas until after Thanksgiving it's still worth going to see what some of Albuquerque's grooviest artists have created for the auction.

Full press release after the jump...

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• Battery, cellphone recycling awareness program underway.


• Bad news if a $5 beer settles your nerves when flying U.S. Air from PHX to ABQ. The state has denied the airline's liquor application.


• The city and Amtrak to refurbish the local train station. Amtrak will move to the Greyhound-Americanos station, and the glorified Tuff Shed now housing Amtrak will be restored to its historic glory.


• Sheriff target of lawsuit from parents of suicidal 20-year-old shot dead in 2005.

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I don't normally associate Old Town with fine dining. I've had too many mediocre tourist-priced meals there over the years. Sometimes it's important to rediscover the gems that buck the trend. So we found ourselves in La Crepe Michel for lunch.

I have a special fondness for restaurants where you can peek into the workings of the kitchen. It gives you an idea of the organization, dedication and effort behind your meal. La Crepe Michel lets you steal a glimpse into that world as you stroll by in the hallway. The impression is of an active and focused behind-the-scenes staff.

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• N.M. remains high on hunger list. The state ranks second in the nation.


• The county clink is packed past capacity, as usual.


• New life for railroad yard? City government takes control of dilapidated, Barelas property.


• Iranian TV notes ABQ middle schools are airing the Persian-language film Children of Heaven.


• KOB reports that either a "topless bar" or a club featuring "burlesque shows" is coming to the Northeast Heights. Can we have a volunteer in the audience explain the difference between topless and burlesque?


• Devin D. O'Leary reviews "No Country for Old Men."

I miss vinyl record albums. I miss the ritual of examining the cover artwork. I miss reading the liner notes and all the fine print to make sure I knew who wrote what songs, who played on the record and who the artist thanked. I miss the days of going to record stores where the walls were covered with posters of bands and singers.

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• Drug-resistant gonorrhea on the march.


• Rob Fresh: Local Subway robbed three times in two weeks.


• Chamber of Commerce calls attention to property crime in ABQ. Also, ABQ thieves like Ford pickup trucks..


• $260,000 for the new school superintendent.


• By the way, the school district can't keep track of its money.

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Having ignored the earlier "blogger conference call" hosted a couple of weeks ago by Senate candidate Marty Chavez, I decided to log on to his webcast tonight at ustream.tv. Marjorie was there from M-Pyre with the night's most pressing question about NAFTA.

I thought it was grassrootsy and all, but is it enough to counteract the blog smackdown?

Here's the video and a transcript of the chatter.

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NEAR BARCELONA & COORS SW--The students of Yvette Groves' class knew the three rules by heart. And when dance instructor Jackie Oliver raised her hand the class shouted in unison. The whole portable building vibrated from the steel beams under the floor to the tin roof over head.

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In what promises to be a little like Road Rules meets the theater scene, German Theater Abroad and FUSION Theatre Company are proud to present the marauding and adventurous play, "Start Up" by Roland Schimmelpfennig, for one performance only on Sunday, November 18 at 6 pm.

In "Start Up," an assorted crew of merry pranksters come up with what they believe is their million-euro idea: to sell German culture to Americans - which is of course the exact same thing that GTA is doing as it travels across the country presenting this fast-paced farce.

Tickets are $20 general admission and $15 for seniors and students and are available online or by calling the box office, 766-9412.

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• Spiking oil prices pinch Meals on Wheels.


• Firewood also is expensive.


• Grandparents raising their grandchildren ask for family law reform to make the job easier.


• Saga over a 128-year-old destroyed adobe building in Valencia Co. Neighbor allegedly levelled the building and snatched the vigas.


• Frontierland lacks "after dark" offerings for tourists, says some magazine survey.

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