Local iQ

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{{Infobox magazine

| title = Local iQ

| image_file = Local iQ, July 4-17, 2013.jpg

| image_caption = Cover of the July 4–17, 2013, issue

| publisher = Francine Maher Hopper

| frequency = biweekly

| total_circulation = readership of 75,000+, circulation 30,000{{cite web | title=The Weekly - April 24th | website=Arts & Cultural District | date=April 24, 2014 | url=http://www.downtownacd.org/the-weekly-april-24th/ | access-date=February 25, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150225111317/http://www.downtownacd.org/the-weekly-april-24th/ | archive-date=February 25, 2015 | url-status=dead }}

| category = Arts, culture and entertainment magazine

| company = Sakura Inc.

| firstdate = April 2006

| finaldate = December 26, 2014

| country = United States

| language = English

| website = [http://local-iq.com/ local-iq.com]

}}

Local iQ was a free arts, culture, and entertainment biweekly magazine published in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It featured information about various artists, celebrities, and entertainers within New Mexico's largest city and was distributed to subscribers across New Mexico's largest markets. Its coverage spanned art, fashion, entertainment, design, food, architecture, travel and more. Francine Maher Hopper is the founder and the publisher. Launched as a quarterly in 2006, the magazine eventually stopped being printed in 2014.{{cite web | last=Mayfield | first=Dan | title=ABQ culture mag Local iQ shutters after eight years | website=Albuquerque Business First | date=January 9, 2015 | url=http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/blog/morning-edition/2015/01/abq-culture-mag-local-iq-shutters.html | access-date=February 25, 2015}}{{cite web | title=Local art, entertainment magazine closes | website=Albuquerque Journal News | date=January 9, 2015 | url=http://www.abqjournal.com/523842/biz/local-art-entertainment-magazine-closes.html | access-date=February 25, 2015}} Their website is no longer active.

The magazine, and its website, have been recommended by travel guides, such at those by Fodor's,{{cite book | title=Fodor's In Focus Santa Fe: with Taos and Albuquerque | publisher=Fodor's Travel Publications | series=Full-color Travel Guide | date=20 May 2014 | isbn=978-0-8041-4237-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KzktAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT331 | access-date=February 25, 2015 | page=331}} and has covered many events within New Mexico and Albuquerque's entertainment scenes, including interviewing Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston,{{cite web | last=English | first=Mike | title=All hail the King: An interview with Bryan Cranston | website=Local iQ | date=November 15, 2014 | url=http://www.local-iq.com/component/k2/item/3018-all-hail-the-king-an-interview-with-bryan-cranston.html | access-date=February 25, 2015}} Etsy's and Levitated Toy Factory's cofounder Jared Tarbell,{{cite web | last=Majewski | first=Dan | title=Fabricating the future | website=Local iQ | url=http://www.local-iq.com/profiles/151-business/3998-fabricating-the-future.html | access-date=February 25, 2015}} and author John Nichols.{{cite web | last=Olds | first=Cristina | title=John Nichols: Back to Eden | website=Local iQ | url=http://www.local-iq.com/profiles/120-people/2716-john-nichols-back-to-eden.html | access-date=February 25, 2015}}