So, one of the rumors going around the internets is that Tony Soprano really did get whacked by Uncle Junior in the sixth season opening show of The Sopranos (last Sunday). The remaining 17-or-so episodes will consist of flashbacks to events before the shooting while we — the audience — all wait to learn Tony’s fate.
“I really do believe this man will go down as the worst president this country has ever had.”
Senator Harry Reid quoted in The New York Times.
No doubt, James Buchanan is pulling for just that.
“I drove north to tiny Bernalillo (where the beloved Range Cafe serves a triethnic crowd of ranchers, gamblers and the hiply ironic).”
Bruce Selcraig in a New York Times article about Indian-owned golf courses.
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From a report in The New York Times:
Today, there are more than 50 tribal-owned courses in some 17 states, with several more under construction. From the San Carlos Apache tribe’s Apache Stronghold Golf Club in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona to the Mohicans’ Pine Hills Golf and Supper Club in the Wisconsin woods, tribal courses have changed Indian country’s physical and cultural landscape, helped diversify the tribes’ casino-dependent economies and given American golf some of its finest new playgrounds.
In nearly every case, the courses sit near the tribes’ casinos, whose profits have allowed some American Indian nations to pay in cash for their golf ventures, which run about $5 million to $9 million.
But many of the tribal courses are so good that they are hardly seen as mere casino amenities. Twin Warriors Golf Club, on the Santa Ana Pueblo north of Albuquerque, is ranked 49th on Golf Digest’s 2006 list of the best 100 publicly accessible courses in America. Thirty miles north, near Española, N.M., the Santa Clara Pueblo’s Black Mesa Golf Club was named the 62nd best modern (post-1960) design by Golfweek, which also gave the 93rd spot to the Barona Band of Mission Indians’ Barona Creek Golf Club near San Diego.
“I think the tribal courses are probably the single most impressive force in golf architecture over the last 10 years,” said Ron Whitten, Golf Digest’s architecture critic. “I’ve been impressed with every one.”
Nowhere in America has tribal golf had more impact than in New Mexico, which has the equivalent of nine 18-hole courses on six reservations. By any impartial golf standard, they are uniformly challenging and well-maintained and have a restorative solitude. All but one are found roughly between Albuquerque and Santa Fe, at 5,000 to 7,000 feet, built along mountain foothills or near the banks of the Rio Grande in the fragrant piñón-and-juniper high desert, which still surprises some tourists who come expecting arid desolation.
There’s more worth reading in this well-done article.
By the way, those who know far more about golf than I, don’t consider Twin Warriors, good as it is, to be the best public course near Albuquerque. First place usually goes to Paako Ridge (not mentioned in the article because it isn’t Indian-owned).
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In the palm of his hand.
A year ago today, according to AAA, gasoline prices reached a new high with regular averaging $2.055 nationwide.
32 sudden death games in two days; 16 yesterday, 16 today. Win or go home. NewMexiKen only picked 11 correct in Thursday’s brackets (damn those comebacks by George Washington and Indiana); hope we all do better today.
Bear Down! Arizona.
“In his first interview since the Olympics Bode Miller says that he has received many letters calling him a disgrace to the country. To give you an idea of how bad it is — most of the letters came from Tonya Harding.”
Conan O’Brien
… was established on this date in 1938.
Salem Maritime, the first National Historic Site in the National Park System, was established to preserve and interpret the maritime history of New England and the United States. The Site consists of about nine acres of land and twelve historic structures along the waterfront in Salem, Massachusetts, as well as a Visitor Center in downtown Salem. The Site documents the development of the Atlantic triangular trade during the colonial period, the role of privateering during the Revolutionary War, and the international maritime trade, especially with the Far East, which established American economic independence after the Revolution. The Site is also the focal point of the Essex National Heritage Area, designated in 1996, which links thousands of historic places in Essex County around three primary historic themes: colonial settlement, maritime trade, and early industrialization in the textile and shoe industries.
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