Duke City Fix is an unedited website about Albuquerque, New Mexico. And not just any website, but a site about exploring life in Albuquerque. You know what we mean -- trying new restaurants, exploring old neighborhoods, finding live music, and stirring things up a bit in New Mexico's largest city.

Duke City Fix is a cityblog by the people, for the people. It's a place to celebrate the kitschy, the funky, the wild openness, and caballero edge of what was once the rough and tumble West.

This ain't your grandma's Albuquerque.

Duke City Fix is an UNEDITED website that focuses on life in Albuquerque with daily stories, tips, humor, and photos.

How we operate:

• This site is maintained by a group of volunteer writers invited to participate because they: A) are good writers; B) understand how to write for the web; C) agree to focus on Albuquerque and believe in our mission. (Want to volunteer? Send us a note.)
• The writers on this site cover stories that appeal to them personally. If we don't cover something, it's because nobody wanted to.
• We do not have an editor, editorial board or editorial meetings like newspapers. Writers say what they want which means that one writer may contradict another writer.
• Writers will sometimes misspell things or get facts wrong. Nobody's checking. Each individual writer is responsible for their own work.
• The site is loosely maintained by a group of organizers who answer email, troubleshoot the website, and implement new ideas like the Duke City Fix forum.

What we are:

• We are regular people who love living in Albuquerque.
• We are volunteers from all walks of life -- single, married, young, old, newcomers, and locals.
• We are individuals with opinions and ideas.
• We are people who write because it's fun.
• We are people who want to contribute to something that celebrates the uniqueness of life in Albuquerque.

What we are NOT:

• We are not a company.
• We are not an open "free for all" message board like Craigslist (Comments are sometimes moderated to maintain a useful discussion).
• We are not a government website.
• We are not paid by anyone to write here.
• We are not politicians.
• We are not Santa Fe. We are not Phoenix. We are proud to be Albuquerque.

Browse around our website to learn more. Questions? Comments? Send us an email.

It wouldn't be a good story if there weren't at least 3 points of view, would it?

Some people say Albuquerque is called "Duke City" after Mexican viceroy Francisco Fernandez de la Cueva, the Duke of Alburquerque back in 1706 (when the extra R was still around). While this website in no way espouses the tragedies that often accompany empirialist ventures, we're not revisionists. "Duke City" is what some locals call it and so we do too. For more on Albuquerque's long and colorful history, see The Founding of Alburquerque on the City's website.

Others insist it was Edward Abbey who gave Albuquerque the name "Duke City" in his novel The Brave Cowboy : An Old Tale in a New Time. We like this idea too. The nickname may have originated in the 1700s (like so much in Albuquerque) but Abbey's novel certainly popularized the nickname and so here we are today.

To us, "Duke City" embodies the clash between old-school and new-school. The rambling haciendas of the South Valley and the neon lights of Route 66. Pueblos, city lofts, and old Victorian homes. Tumbleweed and steel.

Then again... maybe we just like "Duke City" because nobody spells Albuquerque right on the first try, even if you live here.