Fresh off of hosting its first private event last month, Whiptail will be holding a Whiskey Dinner on Oct. 25. The four-course meal will be $125 per person with whiskey parings for each course. Owner Chastity Bustos, who opened Whiptail in December, has set up her restaurant so mixologists and cooks can think outside the box and have input on the menu. “Most places, their high end is where we kind of start and that’s our house,” Bustos said. “And it’s just because there’s some great stuff out there and really it’s price tags or the unknown that scares people.…
Author: Kevin Hendricks
Kevin Hendricks
Kevin, also known as Steak Sauce, is a reporter for the Neighborhood Journal with a focus on the Ventana Ranch area. He has over 14 years of journalism experience, including reporting, editing and page design.
Albuquerque Public Schools is joining in acknowledging and celebrating the workers who make sure students have healthy, tasty lunches every day as part of National School Lunch Week. The celebration kicked off Tuesday with the theme of “Peace, Love & School Lunch,” which highlights the importance healthy school lunches to students’ success inside and outside of the classroom. Cafeterias will be decorated 1970s-style, and workers will also dress up. According to a release, APS serves around 29,000 breakfasts and 40,000 lunches daily to students and staff. That amounts to more than a million meals a month and more than 10 million meals…
Why wait until Oct. 31 to get spooky? People in the neighborhood are invited to attend “A Spooky Good Time” from 1-4 p.m. Saturday at Ventana West Park. The event is sponsored by Be Kind Real Estate and Coldwell Banker Legacy. Erika Peña, a realtor at Coldwell Banker Legacy and a former teacher-librarian at Tony Hillerman Middle School, has organized the event. “I live in the neighborhood and have three kids,” Peña said. “As family-packed as the neighborhood is, we really don’t do much with the space.” The event will feature Halloween fun, lawn games, face painting, door prizes and…
Cross-country The Volcano Vista boys and girls teams, which are each defending state champions, had a good showing Saturday at the APS Metro Championships. The girls finished fourth out of 11 teams with 104 points. Carysa Marquez finished sixth in the 5,000-meter race with a time of 19:47.60; Mariana Marquez was 17th (21:11.40); Cyara Coriz was 24th (21:37.60); Hailli Begay was 26th (21:48.70); Isa Marquez was 34th (22:01.60); Ariana Kedge was 39th (22:15.80) and Marisa Sena 41st (22:22.80). The boys finished second with 46 points, 17 more than Rio Rancho, led by Thomas Croshaw’s second-place finish. Croshaw was less than…
The city of Albuquerque, Federal Highway Administration and New Mexico Department of Transportation will be hosting public meetings to discuss proposed improvements to Unser Blvd. and Paseo del Norte. District 5 City Councilor Dan Lewis announced the unanimous adoption of R-22-34 in June by the Albuquerque City Council that appropriated $100,000,000 in new projects for the city of Albuquerque using gross receipts tax improvement revenue bonds. Councilor Lewis co-sponsored the resolution that includes $15,000,000 for expansion of Paseo del Norte on the Northwest Mesa. The $15,000,000 will allow the city to expand to four lanes on a segment of Paseo…
Rio Rancho Police Department and Rio Rancho Fire and Rescue are inviting the public out for a movie night. Tuesday at Premiere 14 movie theater, there will be first responders in the lobby at 5:30 p.m. to meet and greet the community. At 6:15 p.m., the first responders will watch “Lyle Lyle Crocodile” in the theater. Tickets are $5 per person, and space is limited by capacity. Tickets can be purchased in the theater or by clicking here.
The following incidents were reported by the Albuquerque Police Department for the week of Sept. 30 to Oct. 6 in northwest Albuquerque: SUSP PERS/VEHS 10800 BLOCK OLYMPIC ST NW 9-30-2022 12:20 PM SUSP PERS/VEHS 4500 BLOCK BENTON AV NW 9-30-2022 4:54 PM SUSP PERS/VEHS WESTSIDE BL NW / SEVEN BAR LOOP RD NW 9-30-2022 5:29 PM SUSP PERS/VEHS GOLF COURSE RD NW / WESTSIDE BL NW 9-30-2022 5:44 PM THEFT/FRAUD/EMBE 5300 BLOCK FEATHER ROCK PL NW 9-30-2022 7:23 PM SUSP PERS/VEHS 10600 BLOCK PUEBLO PL NW 9-30-2022 7:34 PM DISTURBANCE 10800 BLOCK STONEBROOK PL NW 9-30-2022 9:47 PM LOUD PARTY…
Quarterback Elliot Paskett-Bell closed out rivalry week with a sterling performance and led Volcano Vista High School’s football team to a 57-7, mercy rule-shortened win over Cibola Friday night. The Hawks scored eight touchdowns, with Paskett-Bell being involved in seven scoring plays, as they handed their rivals their first defeat of the season. Paskett-Bell passed for 528 yards and five touchdowns and ran for 99 yards and two scores. Alijah Gonzales ran for a touchdown for the Hawks. Tristan Cordova caught 14 passes for 258 yards and two TDs, and Devin Banks had four catches for 105 yards and two…
“Celebrating El Bosque” is debuting at the Open Space Visitor Center Saturday. The free art show from Brian Stinson will be presented through Dec. 17 at the center from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. there will be an opening reception from 2-4 p.m. Saturday where you can meet Stinson and discuss his work. Stinson is a plein air painter currently living in Albuquerque. For the last three years, he has explored the beauty of the Middle Rio Grande in a series of drawings and paintings.
There were two separate balloon crashes on the West Side Friday morning that caused minor injuries to two people. A woman injured her leg when a hot air balloon crashed near Golf Course and Benton, and a juvenile was injured in a hard landing in the Bosque near Paseo Del Norte. The latter crash caused the eastbound right lane at the river bridge to be closed Friday. The woman and the juvenile were hospitalized.