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Celebrate New Mexico's Rising Business Stars

Celebrate New Mexico's Rising Business Stars

Albuquerque Business First’s 40 Under Forty event honors young professionals who are climbing the charts in their industries and making an impact on the New Mexican Community.

 

The event will be held Friday, June 28 at Sandia Resort and Casino from 6 pm to 9 pm.

“Groundbreaking artists. Wickedly successful entrepreneurs. Advocates winning fights against injustice. Really successful people, all of them — and those are just the ones we had to decline this year,” said Rachel Sams, “Picking our honorees for the annual 40 under Forty awards is always difficult, and 2013 was no exception, as we received over 400 nominations.”

 

Join the Albuquerque’s Business First 10th Annual elegant evening affair where 40 under forty and Under 30 Honorees will begin the night networking with martinis and complete the night with a posh awards dinner honoring New Mexico’s future successors.

 

Josh Turner Concert Tickets Now Available

Josh Turner Concert Tickets Now Available

Recording Artist Josh Turner is bringing Country to Albuquerque Saturday, June 29 at 8 pm at Sandia Casino Amphitheater.

 

Josh Turner has made several country music chart toppers such as, “Time Is Love”, Long Black Train”, “Your Man” and “Would You Go With Me” to name a few.

 

Tickets are sold from $35 to $115 depending on seating and availability. Accessible seating is available in Level 2 of the amphitheater. Companion seats are available up to applicable ticket limit.

 

 Tickets may be purchased at Sandia Resort and Casino Amphitheater Box Office located at I-25 and Tramway, www.ticketmaster.com, www.JoshTurner.com. Cash, Visa, and MasterCard are accepted ways of payment.

 

Turner has five studio albums and has been nominated for 18 different awards winning six of them.

 

Pitbull Set to Perform in Albuquerque

Pitbull Set to Perform in Albuquerque

Pitbull is bringing Miami to Albuquerque Thursday, June 20 during his performance at Isleta Amphitheater at 7:30 pm.  

 

Pitbull has risen to become a global sensation as both a recording and performing artist. The Miami-native added to a long-and-growing list of hits with his first #1 and the 2012 Billboard Music Award for Radio Song of the Year, “Give Me Everything” from his album Planet Pit, which earned critical acclaim and enjoyed massive commercial success with sales of more than 1.7 million albums and 18 million singles. A true international superstar, Pitbull has performed to sold out crowds throughout Latin America, Canada and Europe before bringing the party to the United States, Japan and Australia.

 

Celebrate Father's Day with music at the ABQ BioPark Zoo

Celebrate Father's Day with music at the ABQ BioPark Zoo

ABQ BioPark Zoo will feature an afternoon of Latin performances from four bands on Sunday, June 16 in celebration of Father’s Day.

Mariachi Tradicional, Los Bravos del Estado Grande, Los Fugitivos, and Los Linderos del Norte are on the schedule to perform. There will be booths from local businesses and prize giveaways.  Catch the free park-and-ride to avoid the traffic!

Catch the shuttle from the Park It Place lot on the southwest corner of Central and 6th Street or at the Aquarium/Botanic Garden parking lot at Central and New York Street. Riders just show their zoo receipt to qualify for free parking. The park-and-ride service will be available from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

 

 

 

Edgewood celebrating N.M. wildlife

Edgewood celebrating N.M. wildlife

New Mexico’s Wildlife West Nature Park, Edgewood’s wildlife preserve holds its Wildlife Festival on Saturday, June 15, 2013

Wildlife West’s zoo is the home of Koshari, a 500 pound black bear. In addition to Koshari, the festival offers the opportunity for the community to learn about 24 other species of wildlife that are native to New Mexico, providing tours that are scheduled to start each hour.    

The refuge has also created a place where people can see Mexican Wolves in their natural habitat. Albuquerque filmmaker and conservationist, Elke Duerr is expected to be a guest presenter, speaking about Mexican wolves in the wild.

Bieber headed to space from N.M.

Bieber headed to space from N.M.

The LA Times reports that Justin Bieber is the next big celebrity to visit space via New Mexico.

Richard Branson, billionaire, and creator of Virgin Galactic tweeted on Wednesday that the superstar and his manager signed up for a Virgin spacecraft flight. Not too long after, Bieber himself retweeted the message to his 40 million plus followers.

Bieber now resides on the list of fellow celebrity travelers like Ashton Kutcher and Leo DiCaprio.

First Fridays with Mark to begin

First Fridays with Mark to begin

District 4 City Councilor and Deputy Mayor Mark Scott will hold his next citizen meeting as part of his “First Fridays with Mark” series on Friday, June 7. 

On the first Friday of each month, Councilor Scott is at Café Connection from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., and encourages citizens of Rio Rancho to join him a cup of coffee.

“At my June 7 meeting, I have invited Bill Stanage, president of the Sandoval County Business Builders, to spend the first half of the meeting discussing what this organization does, how businesses affiliated with this organization interface within Rio Rancho, and what the outlook is for businesses in the community,” said Councilor Scott.

In addition to answering questions from the public, Scott hopes to bring business to local businesses by holding the weekly meetings.