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EDITORIAL MANAGING EDITOR/MUSIC EDITOR: 1 UFC champion Jon Jones is being Samantha Anne Carrillo (ext. 243) sought for questioning by the [email protected] Albuquerque Police Department for his FILM EDITOR: Devin D. O’Leary (ext. 230) [email protected] alleged involvement in a FOOD EDITOR/FEATURES EDITOR : ______that happened this past Ty Bannerman (ext. 260) [email protected] Sunday morning. ARTS & LIT EDITOR/ WEB EDITOR : Lisa Barrow (ext. 267) [email protected] CALENDARS EDITOR/COPY EDITOR: a) Hit-and-run accident Mark Lopez (ext. 239) [email protected] b) Illegal head butt EDITORIAL STAFF /SOCIAL MEDIA GURU : c) Tag-team tournament Amelia Olson (ext. 224) [email protected] CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: d) Dog fight Cecil Adams, Sam Adams, Steven Robert Allen, Captain America, Gustavo Arellano, Rob Brezsny, Shawna Brown, Suzanne Buck, Eric Castillo, David Correia, Mark 2 On Saturday, April 25, Los Angeles Fischer, Erik Gamlem, Gail Guengerich, Nora Hickey, Times correspondent Nigel Duara Kristi D. Lawrence, Ari LeVaux, Mark Lopez, August March, Genevieve Mueller, Geoffrey Plant, Benjamin reported on a serious conflict between Radford, Jeremy Shattuck, Mike Smith, M. Brianna the Bernalillo County District Attorney’s Stallings, M.J. Wilde, Holly von Winckel Office and ______. PRODUCTION ART DIRECTOR: a) Public Defender’s Office Jesse Schulz (ext. 229) [email protected] b) Criminals everywhere PRODUCTION MANAGER : Archie Archuleta (ext. 240) [email protected] c) APD EDITORIAL DESIGNER/ d) American Civil Liberties Union GRAPHIC DESIGNER : Tasha Lujan (ext. 254) [email protected] ILLUSTRATOR/GRAPHIC DESIGNER : Starting last Friday and continuing Robert Maestas (ext.254) [email protected] 3 STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER: through the weekend, it ______here Eric Williams [email protected] in Albuquerque. CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS: Ben Adams, Eva Avenue, Cutty Bage, Max Cannon, Michael Ellis, Adam Hansen, Jodie Herrera, KAZ, Jack a) Got really hot Larson, Tom Nayder, Ryan North b) Snowed four inches SALES c) Poured with rain SALES DIRECTOR: d) Was really foggy Sarah Bonneau (ext. 235) [email protected] SENIOR DISPLAY ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE: John Hankinson (ext. 265) [email protected] 4 Travel + Leisure has ranked ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES: Albuquerque Number 9 on its new list Rudy Carrillo (ext. 245) [email protected] Valerie Hollingsworth (ext. 263) [email protected] of the ______cities in America. 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N ENDS Dateline: Colorado A A Colorado Springs man was cited after ending a longtime feud with his computer WEIRD NEWS by taking it outside and executing it. According to police, 37-year-old Lucas Dateline: China Hinch was given a municipal violation for China’s Ministry of Culture has announced discharging a weapon inside city limits after that it’s cracking down on the practice of pumping eight bullets into the troublesome hiring strippers for funerals. State media has machine. A police spokesperson told the said nude dancers are used at some funerals Colorado Springs Gazette that Hinch “got in rural areas to draw more mourners and to tired of fighting with his computer for the show off the family’s wealth. The last several months” and “took it out in the government has called the practice illegal back alley and shot it” using a 9mm and a corruption to “social morals.” The handgun. Hinch’s actions succeeded in Ministry of Culture has been compiling a “effectively disabling” the Dell desktop. “black list” of people and companies that Neighbors reported the gunshots, and engage in such funerary shenanigans. One police investigated, finding the dead group, the Red Rose Song and Dance computer outside Hinch’s home. Police Troupe, was singled out for performing a public information officer Lt. Catherine striptease after the small-town funeral of an Buckley later said Hinch “did tell us he elderly person in the northern Province of thought it was okay because we are an open Hebei in February. The group’s leader was carry state.” However, it is illegal within punished with 15 days in detention and a city limits to discharge a firearm unless fine of 70,000 yuan ($11,300). protecting life or property. The local police department posted photos of Hinch’s Dateline: Canada handiwork on Twitter, under the caption The residents of Tisdale, a farming “Photo of computer that was killed.” community in Saskatchewan, have finally Buckley said, “Sometimes when you have decided that their town slogan—“Land of things that happen such as this, we like to Rape and Honey”—might not be so great. think we can have a sense of humor too.” The catchphrase was created more than 60 Hinch is expected to face a fine in the years ago to highlight the area’s annual computer killing. harvest of rapeseed and honey. Town officials noted that the amount of locally Dateline: Massachusetts farmed rapeseed has decreased significantly Police dispatchers in the city of in recent years, making up only 1 percent of Northbridge have been fielding some the crops grown in the region today. difficult calls—a flood of emergencies from Tisdale’s Economic Development Office Australia. Detective Sgt. John Ouillette created an online survey asking residents if told WBZ-TV the first call from Down they feel it is “time for Tisdale to update our Under came on March 9. The caller was town brand.” A decision to change the reporting a fight in Russell Square. town slogan will be made later this summer. Dispatchers had some trouble locating the Possible replacements include “Land of place on local maps. “We were trying to Canola and Honey” and “A Place to Bee.” determine if it was in town, and then we determined it was Northbridge, Australia,” Dateline: Arkansas Ouillette said. The long-distance calls have A truck driver has pled guilty to trading not let up since then. “They start talking $50,000 worth of lunch meat for crack. like I’m in Australia,” dispatcher Lisa Larry Ron Bowen, 45, was sentenced earlier Gaylord told the Worchester Telegram . “As this month to a year of inpatient drug soon as they start talking, I say, ‘This is treatment and six years probation. Northbridge, Massachusetts, in the United According to the Memphis Flyer , Bowen, of States. Do you have the right number?’” Mabelvale, Ark., was hired last June to Police speculate people in Australia are deliver a truckload of lunch meat to searching for “Northbridge Police” on locations in Alabama and Florida. Instead, Google and simply calling the first number the truck went missing for three days. The they see. The department said it contacted company that hired Bowen eventually used police in Northbridge, Australia, in hopes the truck’s GPS to locate it at a service that informing residents of the correct station in Memphis. Police told WMC number would fix the problem, but “the Action News 5 in Memphis they found calls do not appear to have slowed.” a Bowen near the truck “eating a lunch meat sandwich.” The truck’s refrigerated trailer was missing, and the tires had been Compiled by Devin D. O'Leary. Email your weird replaced with cheaper ones. Bowen led news to [email protected]. police to a nearby storage facility with the

APRIL 30-MAY 6 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [5] [6] WEEKLY ALIBI APRIL 30-MAY 6 , 2015 NEWS | couNcil WatcH Homes for the Homeless? The council questions the Albuquerque Housing Authority

the time she was 21. Hernandez has also BY CAROLYN CARLSON worked at one of the city’s top law firms before becoming deputy chief of staff and general lbuquerque city councilors heard a counsel for Gov. Susana Martinez. sobering update on the condition of the Council Take Acity’s public housing at their April 20th Councilor Ken Sanchez asked Chief regular meeting. The city doesn’t run the Administrative Officer Rob Perry how many housing authority; it is its own separate applicants were given interviews. Perry said agency. With the recent housing crises of the they got eight to nine applicants and city’s homeless, eyes turned to the housing interviewed three. Sanchez asked why one of authority for answers as to why there was not the applicants who had 23 years of experience enough help for those on the streets. at the United States Attorney’s office did not Linda Bridge, executive director of the get an interview? Perry said that applicant was Albuquerque Housing Authority was invited a fine lawyer, but some of the issues dealt with by Councilor Ken Sanchez to update the managerial experience. Democrat Rey Garduño was council on what the authority is doing to a little more direct in his question to address this issue. Bridge said the funding and Hernandez. “Who do you work for?” She spending of Federal housing dollars is a effectively reassured the council by saying she complicated process. has the duties of loyalty and confidentiality to The authority is obligated to provide two the city as an entity, and to both the mayor housing programs. One is public housing, and the council. She promised that she would which are housing units owned and operated give everyone the best legal counsel she can. by the authority. In bigger cities these became Reporter’s Take known as the projects. Bridge said all of the Hernandez’ former coworkers at the units need repair as they were all built in the established Rodey Law Firm spoke highly of late 1970s to early 1980s. The second program their colleague. “She is a rock star” was one is known as Section 8,which subsidizes description among many other praises. affordable housing with approved private Hernandez came across as a strong, intelligent, landlords. For example, the income limit for a independent and articulate young woman with family of four is $29,700 a year. A single a healthy sense of humor. I am impressed by person is capped at $20,800. Bridge said most her accomplishments. I am concerned when of the city’s clients, and potential clients, are under this particular mayor’s reign, there are considered very poor. several appointments that seem to have, or Sixty thousand Albuquerque families could had, ties to the Republican Governor Martinez benefit from government subsidized administration. Whispers circulating of the housing assistance. state Republican party putting Republican “There is a high demand for services and a Mayor Richard Berry up for a higher office lack of funding to meet those needs,” Bridge make me a bit more cautious about this said. “Essentially, we only have funding to appointment. But all in all, she will bring a support 1 in 10 of those 60,000.” The current young, fresh, intelligent, female and Hispanic wait-list is three years for both Section 8 voice to the city legal roundtable, and that is housing and the public housing program. The good. authority is not taking any new applications at Bye bye Downtown Business Improvement this time. Bridge said there needs to be District alternative sources of funding other than the City Councilors terminated the existence of US Housing and Urban Development revenue this tax district that has been riddled with stream to handle the chronically homeless in problems from the git-go, including two costly, the city. She said one service the housing lengthy lawsuits filed by downtown real estate authority can do is give out project-based mogul Jim Long, owner of the Hyatt Regency vouchers to organizations already in place that and Albuquerque Plaza. Long’s lawsuits help the chronic homeless. Councilors asked a contend the BID is unfair and did not provide few questions including what preferences were services equitably. The BID was put in place in given to placement on the waiting list. Bridge 2000 by a majority vote of Downtown property said the elderly, disabled, working families and owners to help kick-start Downtown single parents who are also students are given revitalization. The money collected funded the top preference. She said other programs, such Downtown Action Team—the folks hired to as one to help homeless veterans, are in the keep Downtown clean from litter, vomit and works, and the agency is working with the city other unmentionables on the sidewalks, alleys and other area stakeholders to come up with and gutters, and to be friendly and helpful to some real, long-term solutions to our chronic tourists. But no worries about keeping our homeless housing issues. city’s heart spiffy; the Downtown Action Team New City Attorney will keep up as it is being funded separately A unanimous vote put the first woman city through a council budget appropriation. a attorney in place. Jessica Hernandez is an accomplished local girl who graduated from Rio Grande High School. Hernandez, 34, The next regular meeting of the City Council is set completed her undergraduate degree in one for Monday, May 4, in the Council Chambers in the year and graduated in the top 10 of her basement of City Hall. You can also view it on GOV University of New Mexico law school class by TV Channel 16 or at cabq.gov/govtv. APRIL 30-MAY 6 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [7] OPINION | ¡ASK A MEXICAN !

honestly, and we entered into a discussion BY GUSTAVO ARELLANO about why that was. (It’s in the news all the time—still no excuse, but hey, I’m human ear Mexican: Why do Mexicans make up and subject to flaws on occasion.) After such glaringly obvious lies? Like this doing some research into the Dgalán who had his sister Mexican economy, they call me and said it was really seem to be doing very well him with a cold. Or my friend among Latin American who pretends to be traveling countries as far as around the world but is unemployment rates and really sending emails from economic growth. I his mother’s home wonder: Are the computer. Or the benefits only going to a random person on the few at the top and large street who tells you he corporations, or are the knows how to give you wages paid pathetically directions and then just low with no labor unions makes them up. Do they to negotiate for better have something against pay? What is the main reality, or do they really factor or factors that believe themselves on some encourage people to risk so level? much to get here? Please forgive my ignorance on these matters, and help me —Clara la Dudosa understand the larger picture.

—Hoping to Become an Immigrant Dear Clara the Doubter: “There is nothing new about Mexico’s tradition of lying, of course,” wrote Andres Oppenheimer in 1998’s Dear Gabacho: Konichiwa ! Although it seems Bordering on Chaos: Guerrillas, Stockholders, self-evident why Mexicans continue to Politicians and Mexico’s Road to Prosperity . migrate to the United States—better “Since as far as historians could remember, opportunities, just like every immigrant group double talk and deceit had been part of that has ever come here—what makes them Mexico’s culture.” This line has been used by sour on their patria is a little more telling. A Know Nothings ever since as proof that 2014 Pew Research Center poll found that a Mexicans are never to be trusted—never mind third of Mexicans would migrate to the US if that Oppenheimer is an elitist Argentine they could—but whereas 60 percent said the carajo . Mexicans lie for the same reason economy is a big problem, 79 percent said anyone makes mentiras : to protect oneself, to crime is the country’s biggest issue. Also try to gain an advantage over someone else beating the economy on the list of concerns and to ultimately come out on top. And if you were corrupt political leaders (72 percent), think that’s somehow a uniquely Mexican cartel violence (also 72), water and air characteristic, then you must also believe pollution (70 and 69, respectively—and President Obama when he says the guv’mint gabachos say Mexicans don’t care about the ain’t spying on you or that he has the best environment!). Even corrupt police officers interests of Mexicans in mind while deporting beat the economy as a topic of concern for us in record numbers. Mexis. At this point in Mexico’s history, it’s time to push the reset button and start a revolution—or do what we’ve been doing and ear Mexican: Hola ! (Full disclosure I am migrate to the US. Because why revolt in one trying to move to Japan and have been country when you can do it in two? a Dstudying the language for two years.) To my shame, when one of my Japanese associates posed the question, “What do you Ask the Mexican at [email protected]. think of when you hear the word Be his fan on Facebook. Follow him on Twitter ‘immigrant’?” I first thought of a Mexican @gustavoarellano or follow him on Instagram national in America illegally. I replied @gustavo_arellano!

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RAIL YARDS MARKET 2015 Bring the community together alibi.com/e/136530. with food, art, music, fun, learning and creativity. Albuquerque Rail Yards (777 First Street SW). 2pm. DOWNTOWN KUNDALINI YOGA TUESDAYS Experience the alibi.com/e/141142. effects of tapping into the positive energy inside you. The Simms Building (400 Gold SW). $7 -$50. Noon -1pm. RUN FOR THE ZOO A day of fun and fitness, and the largest 242 -1478. alibi.com/e/128432. running event in the state of New Mexico. ABQ BioPark FACE THE FUTURE $595. Noon. See 5/4 listing. Zoo (903 10th Street SW). $12 -$45. 7am. 764 -6214. [12 ] WEEKLY ALIBI APRIL 30-MAY 6 , 2015 EVENT | PREVIEW A I Fly Me There D E

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APRIL 30-MAY 6 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [13 ] [14 ] WEEKLY ALIBI APRIL 30-MAY 6 , 2015 feature | Nuclear Pilgrimage Nuclear Pilgrimage There’s nothing to see at the Trinity Site, but much to consider

they offer nuanced and uncertain views. BY TY BANNERMAN We stay for perhaps an hour, then make our way back to the dusty parking lot. As we drive n the predawn dark of July 16, 1945, the away, the road is quieter now. The entry gate is barren plain of the Tularosa Basin in central closed for the day; the protesters have gone INew Mexico was lit by a sudden explosion of home. A short line of cars follows us out, light. A burning cloud spread outward from including a police SUV. the top of a metal tower that was quickly Both Mark and I are quiet as we make our incinerated in the intense heat. The explosion way back to the road. “It’s heavy,” Mark finally roiled up into the sky, touched by green, red says. “It’s hard to believe that we used a and orange, brighter than the sun itself. It was nuclear bomb. I don’t know what to think of it. ” Trinity, the world’s first manmade nuclear We discuss the pros and cons of the bombings, explosion, and soon the power it had and like those I spoke to at the site, it’s hard unleashed would level two cities, win a war for us to wrap our minds around it, and and change the world forever. impossible to come down fully on one side or Seventy years later, there is hardly anything the other. to see at the site of that hellish detonation, Suddenly, the cop car behind us turns on its not even a crater. Yet the Trinity site has lights. “Dammit,” I say. It’s my brake light, I become a strange tourist attraction. On the know it is. We pull over to the side of the two days a year when it is open to the public, road, and a policeman soon appears beside thousands of visitors line up in RVs, family Mark’s window. He’s early middle-aged, freshly sedans and motorcycles to enter a restricted scrubbed with a crew cut and glasses. Yes, it’s military base, drive a half-hour through the my brake light, he says. He has followed us desert and finally stand in the center of a flat, from the Trinity site and just wants to let us mostly empty circle surrounded by fences and know. Then he asks what we thought of what signs warning of harmful levels of radiation. we saw. On April 4 of this year, a windy spring I’m taken aback by his question, but he Saturday, Alibi staffer Mark Lopez and I made seems earnest. “We were just talking about it,” the two-hour drive down to the turn-off to the I say. “It’s pretty heavy stuff.” site and then waited in an endless line of “Well,” he says, “I didn’t get out there; I vehicles for over an hour to enter White Sands just drove into the parking lot and looked at it. Proving Ground’s Stallion Gate. After an It’s interesting, you know. I started thinking interminable crawl to the gate itself, soldiers about the bomb and Hiroshima.” He pauses a perfunctorily checked our identification and moment. “I don’t know, maybe I shouldn’t say waved us through as protesters with signs this. But I just find myself wondering about memorializing family members who died of Hiroshima. People say it ended the war and cancer stood silently nearby. saved a lot of American lives, but I just don’t After another half-hour of driving through know if it was right.” the range, keeping our eyes open for the We talk for about 10 minutes about antelope that live there, wondering aloud Here, at the site itself, there is hardly Hiroshima, about Trinity, and about nuclear about the purpose of the abandoned bunkers weapons in the modern world. I’m surprised at and other military structures we saw scattered anything but people searching for a how eager he is to talk about it, and how he is about, we came to the parking lot for the site. clearly wrestling with the same thoughts that Hundreds of people milled about, taking way to connect to a moment that affected us as we drove away. Finally, almost as pictures of the radiation signs along the occurred 70 years ago. an afterthought, he writes us a warning and we outside of the fence that marked ground zero head out. I halfway wonder if he pulled us over of the explosion, and examining the remnants just so he could talk to someone about his of “Jumbo,” a gigantic metal cylinder that had hand, I began to ask. are young, it’s different. But then you start to experience there. been built to hold the Trinity device, but was I approach two women, one middle-aged, think about it as you get older, and it becomes As we drive away, I am struck by how this never used. It reminded me of a music festival the other elderly. They tell me their names are kind of scary.” “underwhelming” site can be so moving. without music as families talked and joked, Leticia and Josie Duran and they drove up I continue to talk to people. Some have Objectively, there is hardly anything to see, no and bikers pulled in on their roaring hogs. from Las Cruces. I ask them about what they come from Mississippi, Georgia, all over the interpretive center, no documentary film Inside the fence’s perimeter, at ground zero, think of the site. “Just the history, just to see it, ” US and other parts of New Mexico. Others playing on an endless loop, none of the hand- however, the crowd spread out over the area, Leticia says. “It’s ... impressive.” have come from overseas. I talk to bikers and holding, museum-style exhibits we associate moving between the few “attractions” at the “What do you think of the fact that we families and members of the military. with places of such import. Instead, the site is site: an obelisk of volcanic rock memorializing used a nuclear weapon on the Japanese?” I ask The word “underwhelming” comes up again one of pilgrimage. And much like a religious the detonation; a few scraps of melted metal her. and again. And it is true, the site itself is pilgrimage, I think, its power comes from how that remained from the original tower; a “Before I came here, I thought, well, it was underwhelming. A flat spot of ground on an it encourages us to internalize its meaning, to replica of the Fat Man bomb dropped on for our safety,” she says, then thinks for a endless flat plain. There are mountains rising stand at a spot and consider the events of Nagasaki and a series of historic photographs moment. “But then you see the protesters and up on the horizon, but they are miles away. yesteryear that formed the world we now live posted along the fence. Some people bent over it makes you think of the negative aspects of Here, at the site itself, there is hardly anything in. To think about the things we take for and hunted through the dust for pieces of it. So I have mixed feelings.” but people searching for a way to connect to a granted, to ask questions about them, and to Trinitite, shiny green rocks created when heat I ask Josie, her mother, if she was alive moment that occurred 70 years ago. come up with our own answers. from the explosion fused the sand into glass. during World War II and what she thought of The second thing that comes up with “Are you glad we went?” I ask Mark as we Beyond that, there was nothing. the bomb at the time. everyone I speak to is a somber undecidedness stop for a hamburger on the way out. I wondered who they were, these people “It was exciting! We were all so happy,” she about the use of the bomb itself. No one I ask “Definitely,” he says. a who, like myself, had driven into the desert to answers eagerly. But she tells me that her is utterly in favor of the Japanese bombings, stand on an empty plain. Tape recorder in thoughts have changed with time. “When you nor is anyone completely opposed. Instead, APRIL 30-MAY 6, 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [15 ] feature | editorial Watching the Watchmen On the origins of a radioactive leak at WIPP

fully understand, characterize and control the BY SAMANTHA ANNE CARRILLO radiological hazard.” In other words, the cause was human error. The report continues, “The ast year on Valentine’s Day, many cumulative effect of inadequacies in nuevomexicano hearts were skipping a ventilation system design and operability Lbeat. Among those with racing pulses were compounded by degradation of key safety the staff and management at the Waste management programs and safety culture Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP) and their resulted in the release of radiological material overseers at the US Department of Energy. from the underground to the environment, That was the day Drum 68660 popped. and the delayed/ineffective recognition and On Sept. 7, 2012, a chemist employed by response to the leak.” EnergySolutions, LLC ordered The human error factor this incident “an organic” kitty litter, illustrates always poses a danger; it’s even more Swheat Scoop, to pack barrels dangerous when human error happens within containing transuranic waste. systems requiring a fail-safe mentality and It’s fun to imagine that a cult- design. The DOE’s 277-page report on like devotion to purchasing the WIPP incident found that poor free-range, antibiotic and management and lapses in safety at pesticide-free goods led to this the nation’s only nuclear storage debacle. But underground it was actually poor note- nuclear waste taking that presaged the repository leak. Well, that and the contributed to lack of oversight to the leak. In New circumvent and Mexico atomic protect the storage of literature, the nuclear nuclear waste from industry—often such human error. personified as WIPP has been LANL—is closed for over a sometimes year now, and all analogized as a other drums bad boyfriend who packed with “an lures you in only to organic,” wheat- destroy you. As Susan based litter—as Sontag noted in her opposed to the 1965 essay “The more Imagination of traditional, Disaster,” stabilizing “Science fiction choice of an films are not about “inorganic,” science. They are about clay-based one—still pose a threat and are disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of being stored either underground at WIPP or art.” The sci-fi industry has obliged us with separately at Los Alamos National Laboratory representations of radioactive disaster in (LANL). In a September 2014 report, the testing and storage capacities in films like The DOE estimates the cost of reopening WIPP at Beast from 20,000 Fathoms , Them! , Monster around $242 million. from Green Hell , Beginning of the End and so on. Working with radioactive substances Like all art, sci-fi movies represent life. involves the use of nitrate salts. Drums How ironic then that the cause of the latest in containing similarly unstable nitrate salts were a series of nuclear waste storage incidents isn’t being remediated at LANL. When nitrate salts the work of filmic monsters like the giant, dry out, they can ignite. When nitrate salts are irradiated ants of Them! or even real monsters mixed with a biological, organic substance— like terrorist agents bent on destroying the like wheat-based kitty litter—the interaction American way of life. It’s the result of a sloppy between the biologic and nitrate salts is a management and safety culture and a veritable accident waiting to happen. And in handwritten note about “an organic kitty this case, it did. Released on April 16, the litter.” All systems are vulnerable to human National Nuclear Security Administration’s error, and the storage of nuclear waste is one of Accident Investigation Board Phase II report many that will continue to fall prey to this on WIPP cites the root cause of this leak as inescapable fact. If that doesn’t scare the hell Nuclear Waste Partnership, LLC, and the of you, I don’t know what will. a Carlsbad Field Office’s “management failure to

[16 ] WEEKLY ALIBI APRIL 30-MAY 6 , 2015 FALLOUT Remembering the Downwinders

A Q&A with journalist Dennis Was there ever any official accounting for incidences of cancer among the population in that J.Carroll, director of Forgotten: area? No. Now, the National Cancer Institute has Trinity’s Downwinders begun an investigation of sorts on the effects of the Trinity blast on New Mexicans. But there was a big study by the Centers for BY TY BANNERMAN Disease Control, it’s called LAHDRA [Los Alamos Historic Document Retrieval and ost histories of the Manhattan Project Assessment]. And a big part of that goes into depict the 1945 Trinity Test as having Trinity. They found that there was very little Mtaken place in the center of a vast, written about Trinity, and they found that there uninhabited plain, but there were ranchers and may have been public health issues. homesteaders who lived only miles away. Many I know that LAHDRA describes ash literally of them reported having heard the explosion covering the ground near people’s homes after and, the next morning, saw ashen fallout settle Trinity. over their land like a dusting of snow and even Sure, and afterwards [the scientists] found singeing their livestock. Although no official radiation 10,000 times what would be allowed governmental survey of long-term health effects today. And nobody was warned about it because has been conducted on these so-called it was a secret. “downwinders” and their descendants, the I discovered there was a lot written about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention making of the bomb and the science behind it. ... investigated documents relating to the test and And then they go to the Trinity Site and talk concluded that nearby residents were almost about how the bomb was set off. ... Then certainly exposed to harmful levels of radiation suddenly in the books and the documentaries and and may have experienced negative health so forth, they move directly to Japan. But there effects, such as cancer, as a result. Santa Fe-based were ranchers 10 miles away from ground zero! journalist Dennis J. Carroll, a former editor at In a lot of ways, Trinity was rushed. They the San Francisco Chronicle and a contributor to wanted Truman to have the results at Potsdam the New York Times and the Santa Fe New when he met Stalin that year. ... And then even Mexican , is currently developing a documentary years later, when they found out about the long- film about the Trinity downwinders and their term effects of radiation, the government never struggle for both recognition and compensation. came back to check on the welfare of these The Alibi spoke to him about their story. people. How did you get interested in the story of the There’s something called the Radiation Trinity downwinders? Exposure Compensation Act of 1990. ... It It goes back to when I was working in Iowa at a compensated the “downwinders,” the people newspaper in Burlington. Nearby was a facility living downwind from the Nevada Test Site and called the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant. After the people in the Pacific islands who were near the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and those sites, and uranium miners and all these Nagasaki, this was the place where nuclear folks. ... They would be compensated for their bombs were being assembled. ... We started exposure and have medical benefits paid. writing about it, and it turned out that people But the Trinity downwinders weren’t included who had assembled weapons there were getting in that. sick or dying. So we told the stories of those Why not? people in the local paper. That’s one of the questions we want to answer [in One thing led to another and I moved to the film]. We have tape of Tom Udall and former New Mexico, and I still had an interest in that Senator Bingaman talking about it. But part of it project. So I did some more stories about workers is that the people didn’t advocate for themselves. [in the nuclear weapons field] and all their efforts They didn’t file suit like the downwinders in to receive compensation. Which they did, in Nevada. 2000. That’s part of it, and it’s never gotten the Then I stumbled on these folks in Tularosa, attention. But now, Representative Lujan and N.M., oddly enough, through Olivia Fermi, the Udall have signed on to legislation that would granddaughter of Enrico Fermi, one of the key include these downwinders in the Tularosa Basin. people in the Manhattan Project. ... She told me But it never goes anywhere. about a vigil that people were having near the Trinity site on the anniversary of the Hiroshima How is the film coming? bombing. We are trying to raise some funds right now. ... So in April 2011, I convinced the New When I started, I had nothing, just a story ... I Mexican to let me write about these people who had no idea how to make a documentary, so I’ve had been exposed to the Trinity test. had to educate myself on all the aspects of it. ... Most people think about the first atomic Finally, at this last Trinity open house, when the bomb being exploded over Hiroshima, but it protesters were there, the national press started wasn’t. It was exploded over southern New doing stories on the downwinders, and that’s Mexico. And a lot of people were made sick and really helped us. We can hopefully set something died from it. in motion that will get people’s attention. a I felt that having one newspaper story just wasn’t enough. ... And I thought that the story Find more information on Forgotten: Trinity’s needed to be told [in the victim’s] own voices. Downwinders at childrenofthebomb.blogspot.com.

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If nothing else, make it over around Maybe it was the product of the “racist” that he takes issue with. “They 9pm for FolkMADS’ more-advanced Beltane ever-idealistic early ’90s, but think every time you criticize Muslims Morris performance —a costumed whirlwind Maher’s show was fun and goofy, yet Maher navigates the political cesspool with panache. you’re criticizing minority brown that unfolds like a gang of drunken Irish chimney always covered crucial political sweeps frolicking at Burning Man. (Sam Adams) people, and that’s just ridiculous,” says issues. Maher, “because Islam isn’t a race, it’s a On March 28 the comedian ended religion.” Despite the most recent Open up and say art house his current show “Real Time” by “Political controversy, Maher says, “It’s been very We’ve all done it. You’re driving along on a asking, “What is the point of gratifying that since the media has gorgeous, sunny day and come upon some magical, attacking someone who is 95 percent correctness is the strangely modern house set like a jewel into a been paying more attention, this issue block of Pueblo Revival adobe facades, and you on your side?” Much more at the elevation of got so much more oxygen.” say to yourself, “Ohhh, I wonder what that’s like political helm, “Real Time” has an Each “Real Time” ends with a final inside.” Well here’s your chance. Saturday, May 2, edge to it not seen on Maher’s earlier segment called “New Rules.” That from 11am to 4pm, OFFCenter Community Arts political talk show, one that cannot hypersensitivity over Project hosts their 10th annual Albuquirky segment on March 28 was on the House Tour fundraiser. Each year three unique be so easily slotted into one party the truth” recent ban of a production of the homes open their doors to donors for self-guided line. “I wish I had had the balls to Vagina Monologues at Mount Holyoke tours. This year you have the opportunity to quit ‘Politically Incorrect’ before I got College because it is, as Maher puts it, explore “The Tile House” of mosaic artist Beverly fired,” says Maher. “But the fact is I Magennis, “Wisterious Manor” designed by “offensive to transgender women who architect Berry Langford and a metal/sound got fired, and actually it turned out well First Holy Communion, and the nun yelled don’t have a vagina.” In response to this sculptural space called “High Frequency” with a much better show.” On “Real Time” out, ‘The boy slumping in the chair is going ban, Maher thinks, “If that [play] is not constructed by local musician and sculptor Sean the issues are weighty, and the implications to hell.’ And I remember thinking, liberal enough for you, I don’t know what O’Connor. Tour some of the more daring spaces in of his conversations guarantee him ‘Slumping? Really? I’ll never please them.’” Albuquerque and support community arts to tell you.” programs at the same time. You may just be aggressive media coverage. His inherent skepticism has served him First with “Politically Incorrect,” and inspired to make your home a little more Burque Maher, who performs at the Kiva well as a comedian, TV personality and now with “Real Time,” over the past 22 quirky. Check out offcenterarts.org for more Auditorium (401 Second Street NW) on political commenter who consistently years Maher has made a TV career out of information. Tour tickets cost $25 and can be Saturday, May 2, grew up in New York with pushes the limits. “Political correctness is purchased through the website. (Mark Fischer) critiquing most of the political spectrum— an Irish father and a Hungarian mother. “I the elevation of hypersensitivity over the from the very far right to the very far left. was lucky as a kid,” he says. “Some kids truth,” says Maher. “It is to be so concerned “It really isn’t that different than what my Read all the things! don’t know what they want to do. I was like that someone somewhere might have the stand-up always was. It’s just in your 20s, the Fellow bibliophiles, rejoice! For there’s a new 8 years old and I knew I wanted to be a slightest offense that you lose all reason. audience looks at you and says, ‘You don’t made-up holiday in town, and its name is comedian.” He owes most of his comedy And it is running amok and making the far have the gravitas.’ And of course I didn’t.” Independent Bookstore Day . To celebrate, sensibilities to his father, whom Maher left look like idiots.” His first show just add some books to your collection from your “Real Time” began in 2003 in a post- favorite independent librería this Saturday, May 2, describes as “a funny, witty guy with his “Politically Incorrect” stemmed mostly from 9/11 world fractured by politics and fixated whether it be Bird Song (526 Washington NE), friends, and a good living-room comedian.” his desire to “vanquish political on divisive partisan language. Whether you Title Wave (2318 Wisconsin NE), Downtown It wasn’t until high school that Maher correctness,” says Maher, “and I’m sorry to agree with him or not, Maher is somewhere Books (109 Eighth Street SW), Treasure House would first grace the stage. “They were say I did not. In the age of the internet, it’s (2012 South Plaza NW) or Don’s Paperback in the mix carving out a space where Books (1013 San Mateo SE). Page One Books putting on a talent show and they needed gotten worse.” His goal to rid the world of people can critique members of their own (5850 Eubank NE) also celebrates its 34th an emcee, and my English teacher suggested political correctness is often the focus of political party and, as he said in that birthday Saturday with their Self-Published and me,” says Maher. “That was the first time I criticism in the media, especially his views segment of “New Rules,” give a big “Fuck Local Author Fair, happening 11am to 1pm on the was on stage, and I got laughs, and I was concerning Islam. “I have to remind people upstairs balcony, plus other events, refreshments, you” to them. a prizes and discounts throughout the day. hooked like an addict. It’s never as good [as] that I’m the liberal in this debate,” says Bookworks (4022 Rio Grande NW) is hyping its the first time, and I’ve been chasing that Maher, “and that there are 10 Muslim own three decades of existence with a new loyalty ever since.” countries in the world where you get the program, a day of author events and a Blind Date Maher’s ideas on religion have been well death penalty for being gay, and how as a Bill Maher with a Book game. documented. He is a staunch atheist and liberal can you defend this just for the sake Saturday, May 2, 8pm And keep those party hats on. If you can Kiva Auditorium believe it, Saturday’s also Free Comic Book Day . can trace his first inklings of religious of ‘cultural relativism’?” So hit up Shared Universe (428 Louisiana SE), skepticism to childhood. “I had had my fill His views are conflicting at times. Maher 401 Second Street NW 768-4575, albuquerquecc.com/kiva Lobo Anime & Comics (1016 Juan Tabo NE), of Catholicism at a very young age, says the US cannot go into the Middle East Astro-Zombies (3100 Central SE), Twin Suns Tickets: $47 to $73.50 probably because the nuns scared the hell with force and change the region to (6301 Riverside Plaza NW) or Comic Warehouse All-ages (9617 Menaul NE) for your freebies. Ain’t literacy out of me,” he explains. “I remember one Western ideals because “we worship great? (Lisa Barrow) a time I was sitting and practicing for my different gods. They worship Allah, and we APRIL 30-MAY 6 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [19 ] Schmid. Runs through May. 5 -7pm. 554 -3891. alibi.com/e/139970. Arts Lit POP-UP COLLECTIVE SHOW REFORM . The Pop-Up Collective & has curated an exceptional, one-night-only show featuring Calendar a finely curated array of visual art. 6 -11pm. alibi.com/e/141210. SANTA FE UNIVERSITY OF ART AND DESIGN, Santa Fe Outdoor Vision Fest . Featuring environmental THURSDAY APRIL 30 projections and outdoor art installations of design, animation, full motion video, video mapping and more. WORDS 8:45 -10:45pm. (877) 732 -5977. alibi.com/e/141225. BOOKWORKS Camino . Local author Sarah Kotchian reads See “Reel World.” poetry from her book. 7pm. 344 -8139. SIXTY SIX GALLERY In the Abstract First Friday Artscrawl alibi.com/e/141196. Reception . Abstract paintings by Northern California COLLECTED WORKS , Santa Fe SFCC Student Writing Awards artists Michele de la Menardiere and Randy Titchenal. Celebration . SFCC’s emerging writers showcase their work. 6-8pm. 545 -2030. alibi.com/e/140890. 6pm. 428 -1776. alibi.com/e/139767. STRANGER FACTORY UNWOUND Opening Reception . New ART works from Joe Scarano, Scribe and Karl Deuble. Runs through 5/31. 6 -9pm. alibi.com/e/141133. CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS , Santa Fe Mending the SUMNER & DENE “Albuquirky” Little Houses Silent Auction . World Through a Dream Opening Reception . A narrative Benefit the OFFCenter Community Arts Project by bidding installation of paintings and video by Derek Chan. Runs on little houses created by area artists. FREE, bidding through 7/5. 5 -7pm. (505) 982 -1338. starts at $25 for houses. 5 -8pm. 247 -1172. alibi.com/e/141206. alibi.com/e/135221. Also, New Mexico Landscapes SALON ELLA SOL Christian Michael Gallegos Opening Opening Reception . New works by Frank McCulloch. Runs Reception . New works by the artist, along with happy-hour through 5/30. 5 -8pm. 842 -1400. alibi.com/e/141211. makeovers. 6 -8pm. 358 -9433. alibi.com/e/141365. WEYRICH GALLERY Rhythm and Gestures First Friday STAGE Reception . Acrylic and mixed-media paintings by Marta NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER Hembras de Pluma . Light. Runs through 5/29. 5 -8:30pm. 883 -7410. A collection of vignettes written, directed and performed alibi.com/e/138334. by an all-women-of-color cast. $15 -$18. 7:30 -9pm. STAGE 724 -4771. alibi.com/e/140251. AUX DOG THEATRE Vincent in Brixton . This award-winning play STAGE @ SANTA ANA STAR , Bernalillo Stand-up Comedy follows Vincent Van Gogh’s arrival in London and his Thursday . Featuring three of the country’s best stand-up journey of self discovery and love. Runs through 5/3. $15. comedians: Kerry Awn, Sam Butler and Genevieve Mueller. 8pm. 254 -7716. alibi.com/e/139540. $10. 7:30pm. 771 -5680. alibi.com/e/134856. BOX PERFORMANCE SPACE AND IMPROV THEATRE THE WAREHOUSE 21 , Santa Fe Borders: Crossing the Line . Just SHOW . Live comedy and improv. $8 -$10. 8 -9pm. Say It Theater presents a project exploring what keeps alibi.com/e/141979. Also, Comedy? Albuquerque’s DIY individuals, races, religions and nations apart, and what comedy troupe provides improv, sketch and music. $8. brings them together. Runs through 5/3. $5 -$10. 7pm. 9:30pm. 404 -1578. alibi.com/e/135333. 473 -6440. alibi.com/e/141087. DESERT ROSE PLAYHOUSE Rabbit Hole . The Pulitzer Prize- SONG & DANCE winning dramatic play by David Lindsay-Abaire dealing SANTA FE PLAYHOUSE , Santa Fe NMSA Music Department with loss, grief and forgiveness. Runs through 5/17. Staged Show: Cabaret Theme . The Music Department of $12 -$15. 8pm. 881 -0503. alibi.com/e/137104. NMSA takes to the stage to perform their yearly show. FOUL PLAY CAFE , Sheraton Uptown The Game Show $5 -$10. 7 -9pm. (505) 982 -6124. alibi.com/e/139522. Murders . Dinner theater following a group of game show LEARN contestants who will do anything to win. $57. 7:30 -10pm. ART SANCTUARY , Santa Fe Paint Moment: Santa Fe Art 377 -9593. alibi.com/e/131848. Classes . A two-hour, step-by-step, guided painting class to JAMES A. LITTLE THEATRE , Santa Fe Wise Fool NM presents: inspire your inner artist. $45. 6 -8pm. (575) 404 -1801. The Circus of Lost Dreams . CircAspire’s inaugural alibi.com/e/133338. production where children fly, kings are 10 feet tall, FILM armchairs turn to pets and more. $5 -$15. 7pm. (505) NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER El Ángel de 992 -2588. alibi.com/e/139161. Budapest . A screening of Luis Oliveros’ biopic about Ángel NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER Hembras de Pluma . Sanz Briz. 7pm. 724 -4771. alibi.com/e/141141. $15 -$18. 7:30 -9pm. See 4/30 listing. THE VORTEX THEATRE In the Next Room . Sarah Ruhl’s witty, provocative play set in the 1880s after the invention of FRIDAY MAY 1 electricity. Runs through 5/10. $22. 7:30pm. 247 -8600. WORDS alibi.com/e/139617. WAREHOUSE 21 , Santa Fe Borders: Crossing the Line . BOOKWORKS Original Thinking . A reading and signing with $5 -$10. 7pm. See 4/30 listing. writer Glenn Aparicio Parry. 7pm. 344 -8139. alibi.com/e/141198. SONG & DANCE ART ELIZABETH WATERS CENTER FOR DANCE, UNM MAIN CAMPUS Flashpoint . A student choreography showcase. ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY Exhibition Runs through 5/3. $8 -$12. 7:30pm. 925 -5858. Reception: Lead with the Arts . Learn more about Lead alibi.com/e/140256. with the Arts, the museum’s free, collaborative after-school program for high school students. 6 -8pm. 243 -7255. FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH Albuquerque Youth Symphony alibi.com/e/140160. Program . Professional musicians take to the stage with the youth symphony for a finale concert. $10. 7pm. CHARLOTTE JACKSON FINE ART , Santa Fe Anne Appleby: The 884 -1801. alibi.com/e/141207. Galisteo River Basin Paintings Opening Reception . An exhibition of new work by the artist. Runs through 5/31. SANTA FE PLAYHOUSE , Santa Fe NMSA Music Department 5-7pm. (505) 989 -8688. alibi.com/e/141284. Staged Show: Cabaret Theme . $5 -$10. 7 -9pm. See 4/30 listing. GALLERY 901 , Santa Fe Parables and Stories: A Re- interpretation Opening Reception . New paintings by SOUTH BROADWAY CULTURAL CENTER 2nd Annual John Santa Fe artist Paul Steiner. Runs through 5/27. 5 -8pm. Lewis Birthday Celebration . Celebrate the music and (505) 780 -8390. alibi.com/e/131922. memories of legendary jazz musician John Lewis with some live music. $5 -$11. 7 -9pm. 848 -1320. HARWOOD ART CENTER Marne Elmore, Lance Ryan alibi.com/e/139777. McGoldrick & Lindsey Schmitt Opening Reception . New UNM SUB BALLROOMS works by the artists. Runs through 5/28. 6 -8pm. UNM Contra! NM FolkMADS 242 -6367. alibi.com/e/140922. presents contra dances and lessons, as well as music by the Virginia Creepers and a Beltane Morris MATRIX FINE ART Motion/Emotion Opening Reception . New performance. $4 -$5. 7:30 -10:30pm. photography by Pat Berrett, Tim Anderson and Carol Mell. alibi.com/e/141927. See “Culture Shock.” Runs through 5/30. 5 -8pm. 268 -8952. alibi.com/e/141253. FILM MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART , Santa Fe Youth Art CENTER FOR PROGRESS AND JUSTICE, Santa Fe Santa Fe Exhibit Opening . Featuring work from three spring 2015 Labor Film Festival . Featuring films, panels and events outreach venues: Wood Gormley Elementary School, Rio that inform, educate, motivate and celebrate labor Grande School and Santa Fe County Youth Development through the moving image arts and cinematic world. Program. 5:30 -7:30pm. (505) 982 -2226. Pay what you wish. 5pm. alibi.com/e/142018. See alibi.com/e/142008. “Reel World.” NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM , Santa Fe Fading GUILD CINEMA Midnight Movie Madness . This week’s Memories: Echoes of the Civil War Opening Reception . showing is of the film Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Featuring an exhibition and collaborative programming in celebration of Free Comic Book Day. $6 -$8. series. 5 -7pm. (505) 476 -5200. alibi.com/e/141209. 10:30pm. 255 -1848. alibi.com/e/142016. See “Reel THE OT CIRCUS GALLERY Fun with Art Opening Reception . Oil World.” and egg tempura paintings with humor by Eliza M.

[20 ] WEEKLY ALIBI APRIL 30-MAY 6 , 2015 EVENT | PREVIEW Restless Folk Art Syndrome Do your palms sweat at the sight of Día de los Muertos figurines? Do you experience dry mouth when confronted with massive collections of santos? Do you wake in frozen sweat, clutching your pillow as the night terrors still echo in your ears: There’s only so much punched tin in the world ? You may suffer from Restless Folk Art Syndrome along with thousands of your neighbors. That’s why there’s a North Valley Art Fiesta. With tons of handmade New Mexican art for sale from artisans like tinsmith Jason Younis y Delgado and SATURDAY maker of calavera MAY 2 pop-art figurines Tin Art By Celeste Celeste Medina, 1603 Arcadian Trail NW plus live music by 9am to 5pm Carlos and Vicky Otero and gourmet grilled cheese on hand from the Cheesy Street Food Truck, it’s the perfect valve to release that dreadful pressure that only a real folk art maniac can know. Treatment starts Saturday, May 2, and continues Sunday, May 3, from 9am to 5pm at 1603 Arcadian Trail NW. Side effects include permanent eye-widening, checkbook spasms and uncontrollable covetousness. Take control of your life. Ask your physician or spiritual adviser if the North Valley Art Fiesta is right for you. For more info, call Jerry at 720-6716. (Joshua Lee) a

SATURDAY MAY 2 STAGE WORDS AUX DOG THEATRE Vincent in Brixton . $15. 8pm. See 5/1 Bookworks Diary of a Waitress: The Not-So-Glamorous Life listing. of a Harvey Girl. A reading and signing with writer BOX PERFORMANCE SPACE AND IMPROV THEATRE THE Carolyn Meyer. 10:30am. alibi.com/e/141199. Also, SHOW . $8 -$10. 8 -9pm. See 5/1 listing. Also, The One Grave Consequences. A reading and signing with writer Night Stanleys . Improv done by males. $8. David Thurlo. 3pm. alibi.com/e/141200. Also, 9:30 -10:30pm. 404 -1578. alibi.com/e/139827. Independent Bookstore Day. Celebrate with special DESERT ROSE PLAYHOUSE Rabbit Hole . $12 -$15. 8pm. See promotions and author events in the store. 3:15pm. 5/1 listing. 344 -8139. alibi.com/e/140165. See “Culture Shock.” FOUL PLAY CAFE , Sheraton Uptown The Game Show NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER Chasing History: Murders . $57. 7:30 -10pm. See 5/1 listing. Quixotic Quests for Artifacts, Art, and Heritage . A reading JAMES A. LITTLE THEATRE , Santa Fe Wise Fool NM presents: with writer Tomas Chavez. 2pm. 246 -2261. The Circus of Lost Dreams . $5 -$15. 2pm. See 5/1 listing. alibi.com/e/140921. KIVA AUDITORIUM, Albuquerque Convention Center An PAGE ONE BOOKSTORE Local Authors Fair . Celebrate Page Evening with Bill Maher . The comedian and One’s 34th birthday with local authors sharing their commentator brings a funny, political talk to the stage. works and an appearance by Curious George. Part of $47 -$73.50. 8pm. 768 -4575. alibi.com/e/141217. Independent Bookstore Day. 11am -1pm. 294 -2026. See “Comedy Matters.” alibi.com/e/138490. See “Culture Shock.” NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER The Three Cochinos ART Comedy Show . Featuring Stephen Michael Quezada from “Breaking Bad,” Chris Otero and special guest Niki CLASSIC CENTURY SQUARE Enchantment Arts & Crafts Mangin. Hosted by Anthony “Animal” Garcia. $17 -$22. Shopping Bazaar . A wide variety of items from artists, 6:30 -8:30pm. alibi.com/e/140703. Also, Hembras de crafters and local vendors. 10am -6pm. 263 -6193. Pluma . $15 -$18. 7:30 -9pm. See 4/30 listing. 268 -2111. OFFCENTER COMMUNITY ARTS PROJECT 10th Annual TEATRO PARAGUAS , Santa Fe Coyote the Trickster . Local “Albuquirky” House Tour Fundraiser . A self-guided tour playwright Rebecca Morgan and the Teatro Paraguas of three artistic, creative “quirky” homes that takes you Children’s Theatre Program present six coyote tales. on a dynamic, multimedia journey of architectural $5 -$10. 6pm. (505) 424 -1601. alibi.com/e/141215. exploration. $25. 11am -4pm. 247 -1172. alibi.com/e/135222. See “Culture Shock.” THE VORTEX THEATRE In the Next Room . $22. 7:30pm. See 5/1 listing. PAA-KO EVENT CENTER , Sandia Park Paa-Ko Fine Artists Show & Sale . Featuring jewelry, fused glass, mixed media, WAREHOUSE 21 , Santa Fe Borders: Crossing the Line . oil paintings and sculpture from participating artists. $5 -$10. 7pm. See 4/30 listing. 11am -5pm. alibi.com/e/139733. SONG & DANCE PENITENTIARY OF NEW MEXICO , Santa Fe Penitentiary of ASBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Enchantment New Mexico Inmate Craftsmanship and Trades Fair . Aisles Celebrates the Holidays . Enchantment Albuquerque and aisles of inmate art, woodworking, metal sculptures, Handbell Ensemble celebrates a year’s worth of holidays quilts, cooking material and more. $5. 9am -4pm. in concert. $10, FREE for children under 12. 7pm. 249 -8023. alibi.com/e/141090. 818 -8214. alibi.com/e/140737. SHARED UNIVERSE The Art of Comics: Free Comic Book ELIZABETH WATERS CENTER FOR DANCE, UNM MAIN Day . Participating comic book stores around the world CAMPUS Flashpoint . $8 -$12. 7:30pm. See 5/1 listing. participate with free, specially printed comics for KIMO THEATRE BRT Favorites! Celebrate 25 years with the anyone who enters the shop. Noon -6pm. 321 -6806. Ballet Repertory Theatre by honoring their commitment to alibi.com/e/140866. See “Culture Shock.” showing innovative works and contemporary ballets. SPIRIT IN ART GALLERY , Madrid Spring Open House . New $7 -$27. 7 -9pm. 768 -3544. alibi.com/e/139817. works by Liz & Bob Paterson, Ruth Carraway, Rhonda LODGE AT SANTA FE , Santa Fe Zircus Erotique Cinco de McKinnon, Carey McDonald, Susan Probert, E. Mark Mayhem Burlesque and Variety Show . Featuring Spear, Susie Protiva and more. 2 -6pm. 438 -3235. performers Sofia Soubrette, Fanny Spankings, Mena alibi.com/e/140621. Domina, Lola Brown, General Blackery, Rex Starchild and TIN ART BY CELESTE North Valley Art Fiesta . Featuring more. $15 -$25. 8:30 -11pm. (505) 231 -3803. santos, folk art, jewelry, fiber arts, live music, food and alibi.com/e/138781. more. 9am -5pm. See preview box. SANTA FE OPERA , Santa Fe Auditions for 2015-2016 Young VILLAGE OF CORRALES , Corrales Corrales Artist Studio Tour . Voices of the Santa Fe Opera Program . Open to high Featuring 79 artists at 43 locations showing their work. 10am -5pm. alibi.com/e/141213. Arts &Lit Calendar continues on page 22 APRIL 30-MAY 6 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [21 ] FILM Arts Lit Calendar continued from page 21 & CENTER FOR PROGRESS AND JUSTICE , Santa Fe Santa Fe school students who desire to study the art of singing. Labor Film Festival . Pay what you wish. 10am. See 5/1 2-4pm. (505) 238 -6029. alibi.com/e/140698. listing. SANTA FE PLAYHOUSE , Santa Fe NMSA Music Department Staged Show: Cabaret Theme . $5 -$10. 7 -9pm. See 4/30 MONDAY MAY 4 listing. LEARN WORDS NEW LIFE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH How to Plot Without BOOKWORKS Vamos a Leer Book Club . The group discusses Plotting . Learn how to write as you go and explore your The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer. 5pm. work-in-progress using an organic approach with writer alibi.com/e/141202. Also, Youth Writing Night . Students Mark Stevens. 10am -noon. alibi.com/e/140603. Also, from the Albuquerque area read their own works. Writers Write What You Don’t Know . Writer Mark Stevens teaches ages 5 to 18 are encouraged to participate. 6:30pm. you to explore what it takes to write in-depth and 344 -8139. alibi.com/e/141203. convincingly outside of your comfort zone. $29 -$39. LEARN 12:30 -2:30pm. 830 -6034. alibi.com/e/140604. CORRALES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL , Corrales Acting FILM Techniques and Scene Study . Acting for beginners CENTER FOR PROGRESS AND JUSTICE , Santa Fe Santa Fe includes reading monologues and acting with fellow Labor Film Festival . Pay what you wish. 10am. See 5/1 students. $60 a month. 6 -7pm. 897 -3351. listing. alibi.com/e/125160. GUILD CINEMA Midnight Movie Madness . $6 -$8. 10:30pm. See 5/1 listing. TUESDAY MAY 5 O’NIELL’S PUB , Northeast Heights Awesome Mix Vol. 2: A Marvel Quiz . Geeks Who Drink celebrates Free Comic WORDS Book Day and the release of Avengers: Age of Ultron . $5. SOUTH BROADWAY CULTURAL CENTER Rock With Wings . A 8pm. (303) 532 -4737. alibi.com/e/141286. reading and signing with writer Anne Hillerman. $5. 7pm. 848 -1320. alibi.com/e/141204. SUNDAY MAY 3 SONG & DANCE FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH Albuquerque Civic Chorus WORDS Rehearsals Begin . If you love to sing, join others who BOOKWORKS All the Wild that Remains . A reading and share your passion. 7 -9pm. 981 -6611. signing with writer David Gessner. 3pm. 344 -8139. alibi.com/e/126194. alibi.com/e/141201. See “Book Review.” LA ENTRADA PARK , Corrales Corrales Library Book Sale . Stock up on great reads for summer travel, poolside WEDNESDAY MAY 6 afternoons and family barbecues. 9am -4pm. WORDS alibi.com/e/139134. TREASURE HOUSE BOOKS , Old Town Space Pioneers: In Their BOOKWORKS Lonely Village . A reading and signing with writer Own Words . A reading and signing with writer Loretta Hall. Norma Libman. 7pm. 344 -8139. alibi.com/e/141205. 1-4pm. 242 -7204. FILM ART SOUTH BROADWAY CULTURAL CENTER Magnum Force ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY Exhibition (1973) . See the classic film starring Clint Eastwood, Hal Reception: Focus on Youth . Join in for an awards Holbrook and Mitchell Ryan en español . $5. ceremony celebrating photography from local high school 6:30 -8:30pm. 848 -1320. alibi.com/e/140422. students. 1 -4pm. 243 -7255. alibi.com/e/138019. AMAPOLA GALLERY Sunday Open House . Featuring works by ON GOING Carol Sparks, Mary Ellen Merrigan, David Linden and Leroy Velasquez. 1 -3pm. 242 -4311. alibi.com/e/140563. ART PAA-KO EVENT CENTER , Sandia Park Paa-Ko Fine Artists ALBUQUERQUE CENTER FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE Show & Sale . 11am -5pm. See 5/2 listing. Retrospective: Spencer Walaitis . Impressionist art prints of TIN ART BY CELESTE North Valley Art Fiesta . 9am -5pm. See Jemez, Santa Fe, and the Sandia mountains. 884 -1094. 5/2 listing. alibi.com/e/140760. VILLAGE OF CORRALES , Corrales Corrales Artist Studio Tour . CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS , Santa Fe Playing 10am -5pm. See 5/2 listing. House & Happiness Is a Warm Projector . New works by STAGE Hillerbrand+Magsamen and Basement Films. AUX DOG THEATRE Vincent in Brixton . $15. 2pm. See 5/1 alibi.com/e/130419. Also, Mending the World Through a listing. Dream . (505) 982 -1338. alibi.com/e/141442. DESERT ROSE PLAYHOUSE Rabbit Hole . $12 -$15. 2pm. See CORRALES BOSQUE GALLERY , Corrales April Featured Artist: 5/1 listing. Gail Gering . Gail Gering’s new works transform recycled NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER Hembras de Pluma . and salvaged materials to create works of fantasy and $15 -$18. 2pm. See 4/30 listing. illusion. 331 -1364. alibi.com/e/137203. TEATRO PARAGUAS , Santa Fe Coyote the Trickster . $5 -$10. EYE ON THE MOUNTAIN GALLERY , Santa Fe Two Women & 2pm. See 5/2 listing. One Show: Plein Air Contemporary Colorists . Eye on the THE VORTEX THEATRE In the Next Room . $22. 2pm. 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[22 ] WEEKLY ALIBI APRIL 30-MAY 6 , 2015 APRIL 30-MAY 6 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [23 ] [24 ] WEEKLY ALIBI APRIL 30-MAY 6 , 2015 FOOD EVENTS FOOD | restauraNt revIew BY ARI LEVAUX Tasty Tuesdays Return Every Tuesday, from 4pm until dark, live music fills the rolling hills of Hyder Park, children frolic, frisbees sail, hipsters hipst, and recreationists recline on their blankets in full leisure mode, waiting for their dinners, courtesy of three food trucks that preside over Tasty Tuesday. Those that order from the Irrational Pie or Street Food Institute food trucks can remain in full relaxation mode until their orders are ready. They will send you a text when your food is ready. And if you choose a dinner of frozen treats from the Pop Fizz Paletas-mobile, you don’t have to wait at all. Parents often begin with these postres, enjoying the unique pleasure of watching their children spaz away their sugar buzzes before dinner, via ice cream taco perhaps, or a raspberry, coconut or lime paleta, all of which are highly recommended. My wife and I began with some pork belly tacos from Street Food Institute for the simple reason that we always order the pork from Street Food Institute; the Santa Fe-based operation has a way with pork that one misses out on at their own peril. Mrs. Ari LeVaux leans more toward the vegan Top: Grilled Mackeral Teishoku, Bottom: Sauteed Burdock Root with Carrot PHOTO CREDIT: ERIC WILLAIMS end of the spectrum than the pork eating, but those pork tacos, drenched in sauce, draped in garnish and sprinkled in white cheese, even had her murmuring with approval. Street Food’s banh mi, with herbs and pickles, could hang on the Nagomi Does It with Feeling streets of ‘Nam. And the Korean pork, which I’ve seen in both taco and sandwich form, is next-level Japanese food for the adventuous and urbane as well. It’s cooked to a chicharrón-esque consistency with a crispy exterior, while remaining succulent and juicy on the inside. BY ARI LEVAUX A plate full of thin-sliced beef rib eye, or The Street Food Institute is a nonprofit Nagomi Japanese various pieces of seafood, is delivered, along culinary program dedicated to encouraging small with a pile of vegetables, udon noodles and an businesses and entrepreneurs by helping them to here once was a time when going out for Restaurant array of condiments. The soup is ladled into develop cooking and business skills, while sushi implied the eating of Japanese food. 2400 Juan Tabo NE bowls and dressed at your discretion with engaging New Mexico’s local food and agriculture T Now, restaurants of any Asian inclination 298-3081 minced garlic, chile paste, a sesame slurry and scene. The organization’s somewhat are likely to add a sushi bar, and nobody bats Hours: 11:30am-2:30pm; 5pm-9pm Monday through presumptuous name is backed up by serious ponzu , a soy and citrus-based sauce. The result an eye. Most Albuquerque sushi is slung at Thursday is delightful and unique. A laminated set of cooking chops. Be sure to ask about their agua places that serve Chinese, Thai, Lao and frescas; we tried a lime jalapeño and a pineapple 11:30am-2:30pm; 5pm-9:30pm Friday and Saturday instructions is provided to guide the novice melon, both of which were delicious, refreshing Korean food. And of the Japanese-oriented Booze: Yes shabu-shabu eater. It advises cooking the restaurants in town, only a handful are and refreshingly unsweetened. Vegetarians will Vibe: Nagomi proteins first in order to impart their umami to enjoy the calabacitas tacos, which are packed Japanese-owned. At only a year old this May, The Alibi recommends: Beef shabu-shabu , grilled the broth. Then cook the veggies and noodles. with colorful slices of zucchini. Children will Nagomi already sits atop this short list. appreciate the large grilled cheese sandwiches. I mackerel teishoku, The instructions include the cryptic directive Nagomi inhabits the strip mall space on to “remove harshness as needed.” I enjoyed a reuben, which contained a generous the corner of Juan Tabo and Menaul, the hamachi toro sashimi, Japanese scallop, ranchero roll amount of succulent meat. The only portions at encountered no harshness. I will say, however, Street Food Institute that are not large are the location of the former Mr. Sushi. The great that the beef shabu-shabu is greatly superior to “small bite” appetizers, like cheese fries. And marlin remains mounted behind the sushi the seafood version. If you want fish, there are given they are specifically called “small bites,” it’s counter. Photographs of iconic Japanese importance of chinmi in Japanese cuisine. My much better options. hard to fault their quantities. scenes, like the famous Tokyo fish auction, thought process consisted of little more than We also tried a pepperoni pizza from Irrational The sushi at Nagomi is easily the best I’ve adorn the walls. Soft classical music fills the “Marinated squid guts? Sounds awful. I must had in town, with many unusual types of fish. Pie that was basically solid pepperoni atop a room. The restaurant was opened by Chef springy, fleshy crust and a thick layer of order it.” The rolls aren’t drenched with squirted-on mozzarella. Even better was the margherita pie, Masa-san, whose cooking I admired when he It turns out that shiokara, along with many sauces. Instead they are simple, artful with its sausage chunks and basil leaves among was at Japanese Kitchen. other chinmi, is often consumed while presentations that draw attention to the the mozzarella and tomato sauce. Nagomi translates roughly to “the feeling of drinking sake. Nagomi has an excellent sake ingredients themselves, rather than the chef’s If your belly isn’t full after all that, here is a pro Japanese food.” This bold name is backed up menu, but had I ordered with squid guts in tip to help finish the job: There is an unadvertised tap-dancing abilities. by a large selection of Japanese dishes, some of mind, I might have chosen something drier The Japanese scallop, which I had never dessert pizza at Irrational Pie that’s not to be which I haven’t seen in Albuquerque, missed. It’s something of a cross between pizza than the unfiltered Perfect Snowflake. This tried, was an epiphany, with a hint of sweet and calzone, filled with Nutella and bananas, including a long list of teishoku set meals. sake, served cold, was sweet, creamy as rice and a bit more crunch than what you’d toped with strawberries and sprinkled with When I first walked in, the specials board milk, and no match for the flavor of shiokara. encounter in a typical scallop. And the powdered sugar. It’s a great cap to a special included rare treats like black seaweed salad It took many sips of Perfect Snowflake to hamachi toro was every bit the buttery evening in a charmed corner of this crazy city. a and Japanese scallop sushi. But it was the wash away that deep, salty flavor of distilled paradise as I had expected from the belly of a marinated squid guts that suggested just how ocean. Although I couldn’t handle it, I yellowtail. The poke , chunks of tuna tossed Tasty Tuesdays serious Nagomi really is about authentic respected it. The presence of such a with sesame oil, green onion and chile, and Hyder Park Japanese food. As you might expect from a challenging morsel on the menu filled me served in a margarita glass, was delicate and 700 Richmond SE dish like this, it’s not for beginners. with anticipation. I knew that as soon as I flavorful. The lobster roll delivered generous Every Tuesday, 4pm ‘til dark Also known as shiokara , marinated squid excised the taste from my mouth, I was going chunks of deep-fried tail meat and was Featuring Irrational Pie, Street Food Institute guts is a regional delicacy that is sometimes to review the shit out of this place. And I flamboyantly served with mock antennae and and Pop Fizz referred to as a chinmi , which means “rare would start with the shabu-shabu , a kind of sections of shell. Booze: Illegal taste,” and is often applied to regional DIY hot pot that’s named after the sound Bathrooms: Nope specialties. made when meat and veggies are simmered in Restaurant Review continues on page 26 Plastic: Yes But at the time, I wasn’t familiar with the a broth-filled pot atop a tabletop burner. APRIL 30-MAY 6 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [25 ] FOOD | restaurant review

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On the lighter side, the umeshiso maki roll, of pickled plum and shiso leaf, delivered a delicate balance of flavors, rather than the salt bomb I’d tried elsewhere. At Nagomi I finally understood the hype. Another such dish was the Oyako donburi , a curious combination of chicken and egg served on a bowl of rice that had not lived up to expectation elsewhere. At Nagomi the egg was poached, rather than scrambled, and Japanese Scallop Sashimi when the yolk was broken it permeated the Santa Fe farmers market will surely recognize rice, its creamy richness punctuated by them as the little green chiles, pan-fried shards of pickled ginger. The tonkotsu ramen samples of which are offered every fall. The was a simple rendition, little more than two rolls before me offered even more flavors noodles, meat and broth. But it was the of the Southwest. milkiest, most savory pork broth I’d ever The Green Earth roll was a study in tried. Meanwhile, Nagomi’s curry is smooth green, with spinach, cucumber, avocado, and buttery, complex and inscrutable, and green chile, green chile sauce and (non- contrasted sharply by pickled ginger. The green) tempura shrimp wrapped in green soy curry lubricates and penetrates the rice, paper. After years of searching, this was my humbly demanding your respect as it fills you first encounter with sushi that successfully with the warm fuzzies like only a finely incorporated real—meaning roasted—green crafted comfort food can. chile. By contrast, the Ranchero roll was Paradoxically, while Japanese food is served with a dazzling red chile made of characterized by deeply respected and ancho and chipotle peppers, and came with meticulously followed traditions, it also has jalapeño and green chile slices on top. I had an experimental side, a willingness to green chile, red chile, jalapeños, chipotles, cannibalize and incorporate ingredients and anchos and shishitos all within reach, and practices from other cuisines. One day at the they blended seamlessly into my Japanese sushi bar, I realized that Masa-san had done meal. the seemingly impossible: create authentic I capped off the meal with a dark sesame Japanese cuisine that is tailored to New ice cream that was musky and sweet. It was a Mexico. reminder that grace and skill is an effective I was eating a mackerel teishoku set and a peacemaker between ingredients that you few rolls. The fried mackerel was buttery and wouldn’t expect to find together. I couldn’t decadent, and each juicy bite gushed with help thinking that this grace is at the heart flavor. “It’s Japanese mackerel,” noted Masa- of nagomi ’s meaning as the feeling of san from behind the sushi bar, as opposed to Japanese food. some two-bit Atlantic fish. One of the side As I ate my chile sushi, I was feeling dishes in the teishoku set was a bowl of Japan. I was feeling New Mexico. I was not stewed shishito peppers. Of Japanese origin, feeling squid guts. I was drinking a draft sake shishito peppers have taken hold in called Kikusui from a can, and I was feeling northern New Mexico, and patrons of the really good. a [26 ] WEEKLY ALIBI APRIL 30-MAY 6 2015 RAGIN’ SHRIMP Chowtown 3624 Central SE, 254-1544 • $$$ ANTIQUITY RESTAURANT [Cajun/Creole ] Cajun-style shrimp with an emphasis a rotating gu ide to restaurants we like on spicy, although Jamaican and Indian sauces have been added to the offerings. The menu also includes suggest a restaurant or search for more at: sandwiches, salads and Cajun specialties like pan- w alibi.com/chowtown fried gator, jambalaya and gumbo.

These listings have no connection with A libi a dvertising SCALO NORTHERN ITALIAN GRILL 3500 Central SE, 255-8781 • $$$ [Italian ] The surprising thing about Scalo is that it’s By the simultaneously more fancy and less expensive than you’d think. It’s just as breezy and classy as ever in its high-ceilinged dining room. All of the bottles on the wine list are half-price on Monday nights, and there’s Shore free, live music in the bar. DOWNTOWN TWO FOOLS TAVERN 3211 Central NE, 265-7447 • $$ IBIZA AT HOTEL ANDALUZ [Bar and Grill/Pub ] Deep-frying may well be a 125 Second Street NW, 242-9090 • $$$ Scottish national pastime, pursued with the same [American ] This rooftop bar, sister of the fancier extremist zeal as soccer hooliganism and pub (and pricier) MÁS Tapas y Vino, offers a breezy patio, patronage. Sink your teeth into one of the breaded a menu of small plates and specialty cocktails perfect and fried items Two Fools Tavern offers and you’ll for a night when you want to feel fancy or a little more understand why. This British Isles-style pub is the autonomous. The food is good, but the house-created brainchild of successful restaurateur Tom White (Scalo cocktails—like the spicy-yet-refreshing cucumber- and Il Vicino). Highlights include perfect fish and jalapeño margarita—make it well worth a visit. chips, buckets of beer, scads of Scotches and Saturday and Sunday brunch with, of course, live Celtic music. Antiquity’s menu includes French classics and South ERIC WILLIAMS ERICWPHOTO.COM SUSHI KING American delicacies like the Chilean sea bass.

118 Central SW, 842-5099 • $$ ZACATECA’S TACOS & TEQUILA [Japanese ] Sushi King is a small, hip but casual 3423 Central NE, 255-TACO (8226) • $$ spot located a few doors up from the Century 14 [Mexican ] Downtown movie theater. They serve fresh nigiri, Zacateca’s is an upscale taco-and-tequila sashimi and sushi rolls, plus an interesting concept and the baby of Mark Kiffin, whose Santa Fe steakhouse stuff, with beef tournedos in a silky demi- assortment of seafood salads and noodle dishes. restaurant The Compound is renowned for its glace, fresh fish and a damn fine veal Oscar. Check They’ve also got excellent sake, so be sure to split a ingredients and artistry. His Pacific rock cod taco is out the Black Diamond Lounge to take in the fancy bottle with your sushi chef. perfectly browned on the outside, juicy on the inside cocktails and live music. and oozing with glorious fish grease. With the addition of coleslaw and habanero salsa, this is not the taco of FAIRGROUNDS anyone’s abuelita. Toast her health with a three- NORTHEAST HEIGHTS mescal sampler, which comes in terra cotta dishes. GEN KAI Often features live music. PACIFIC PARADISE TROPICAL 110 Louisiana NE, 255-0112 GRILL & SUSHI BAR 3000 San Pedro NE, Suite D, 881-0999 • $$ [Japanese ] Rising up from the asphalt sea of the ZINC WINE BAR & BISTRO [Asian ] Talin Market parking lot, Gen Kai is a Japanese 3009 Central NE, 254-ZINC (9462) • $$$ Well, aloha! Artificial palm trees and beach murals wrap around elevated booths that look over restaurant that offers an oasis from the heat and [American ] Zinc is a delightfully renovated historic tables with wicker chairs—there’s even a tiki bar and chaos of the International District. Sushi is on hand, space in Nob Hill, reborn as an upscale restaurant naturally, and salt-brothed ramen, but the real star walls paneled in bamboo. Fittingly, Pacific Paradise serving elegant American food with noticeable French serves up diverse cuisine from all around the Ring of here are the donburi bowls. Our favorite is the oyako inspiration. Downstairs, the wine bar attracts a don, in which dashi-soaked rice is topped with a fried Fire, Asia and Hawaii. And the tropical ice creams are younger crowd for drinks and music. The happy hour dreamy, mild and almost savory, the avocado ice combination of chicken and egg, with two forms of menu, wines by the glass and prices are the best onion: bulb and green. cream is a calming end to a large meal, while the around. Give the brunch a try, and while you’re at it, plum wine ice cream is light and slightly tart with try a New Mexican Mule from the bar. chewy pieces of fruit. FAR NORTHEAST HEIGHTS NORTH VALLEY SAVOY WINE BAR & GRILL OLD TOWN 10601 Montgomery NE, 294-9463 • $$$$ DOWN N DIRTY SEAFOOD BOIL ANTIQUITY RESTAURANT [Fine Dining ] Wine flights are the best way to try 6100 Fourth Street NW, 345-0595 • $$ 112 Romero NW, 247-3545 • $$$$ different selections without going broke, and Savoy [Seafood ] We coastal ex-pats thank God for small has some interesting choices. They pair perfectly with [French ] This creaking, wooden-floored and quaint mercies like Down N Dirty Seafood Boil. Nothing restaurant is located in Old Town and is one of the few the restaurant’s stunning interiors and lovely New instantly siphons the sea inland like sticking some American meat and fish dishes. In addition to a places in the city unafraid of serving a very rare steamy crustaceans in your face. And nowhere can steak. The all-around energy is charming and old brilliant wine list, Savoy offers patios, drink specials you stick steamy crustaceans in your face with such throughout the day and a cordial and well-informed timey, and the menu is thoughtful and satisfying. Save abandon as Down N Dirty, where the seafood is your money, and treat yo self. staff. ordered by the pound and eating it is a question of no-frills efficiency. You’ll leave feeling like you just NOB HILL returned from a seaside vacation WESTSIDE CRAZY FISH VERNON’S HIDDEN VALLEY SHARKY’S FISH AND SHRIMP 3015 Central NE, 232-3474 • $$ STEAKHOUSE 5420 Central SW, 831-8905 • $$ [Mexican ] [Japanese ] The lunch menu at contemporary Crazy 6855 Fourth Street NW, 341-0831 • $$$$ This is a Mexican-style seafood restaurant, which means stingray soup and piles of Fish is accessible and affordably priced, with [Steakhouse ] Vernon’s is a swanky underground sea snail. An attractive and relaxing shaded patio selections from a full sushi bar (other options include spot for good eats and high times, delivered adds to the la playa charm, and soon beer will be on calamari salad and a barbecued eel bowl). At dinner, speakeasy-style. The dining room is walled with the menu to complete the effect. The owner Carlos is the menu is more exciting but not that much more lustrous, ebony adobe, and the tables are clothed in a super nice guy who is developing a big following for expensive. The mushroom-udon soup is transportive. crisp, black and white linens. By the glass or bottle, some of the best fish tacos in town. there’s plenty of quality hooch. The menu is classic

KEY: $ = Inexpensive $8 or less | $$ = Moderate $8 to $15 | $$$ = Expensive $15 to $20 | $$$$ = Very Expensive $20 and up APRIL 30-MAY 6 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [27 ] REEL WORLD FILM | revIew BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY Batman: The Animated Feature This Saturday, May 2, is Free Comic Book Day, and Alibi is doing its part to get you in the mood. Clouds of Sils Maria The annual celebration of all things printed and thumb-throughable is held at comic book shops Film industry drama finds actress caught between art and a hard place across America. There will be special sales, costume contests, guest artist signings and, of course, free comic book giveaways. On Friday and Saturday night, Alibi Midnight Movie Madness will be at Guild Cinema (3405 Central NE) for a special screening of the 1993 animated film Batman: Mask of the Phantasm . This theatrical spin-off of Bruce Timm’s stylish and popular TV show “Batman: The Animated Series” finds Batman implicated in a series of murders committed by a mysterious vigilante assasssin. The screening starts at 10:30pm both nights. There will be door prize drawings courtesy of Lobo Anime & Comics. In addition local artist David Harrigan will be producing an original, limited-edition poster print based on the film. It will be available for purchase in the theater lobby. Admission is $8 general admission or $6 students. Quest for Vision Fest The fifth annual Outdoor Vision Fest comes to Santa Fe University of Art and Design this “The hills are alive with the sound of ... Oh, wait. There’s no music. Don’t you think it’s weird there’s no music? Let’s talk about the importance of Friday, May 1, from 8:45 to 10:45pm. OVF is an music in modern cinema.” annual public event held at SFUAD’s Visual Arts Center that features “environmental projections fine supporting work on Still Alice. (Perhaps it and outdoor art installations of design, BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY just takes a great actress like Julianne Moore animation, full-motion video, video mapping, Clouds of Sils Maria or Juliette Binoche to bring it out in her.) As motion graphics and interactive multimedia” ongtime writer-director, son of famed Written and directed by Olivier Assayas Binoche and Stewart’s characters run lines, created by SFUAD students. This year’s screenwriter Jacques Rémy, early advocate Starring Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloë argue, question the future and discuss the past, Outdoor Vision Fest is expected to feature some Lof the New Asian Cinema of the ’80s and Grace Moretz the line between reality and script blurs—on 50 installations. Among the featured work from ’90s, Cannes Film Festival judge and Rated R across all university departments is “Simulacra” more than one level. Are Maria and Val (a dance/music/studio art/film performance), a contributor to venerable film digest Cahiers du Opens Friday 5/1 fighting with one another or rehearsing a display of theremins that uses audience Cinema : There are few filmmakers working scene? Is Maria talking about her career in brainwaves to capture input, and a live music and today whose dedication to the art of film is as Young Turk director Klaus Diesterweg (Lars Hollywood, or is that Binoche editorializing? interactive media installation featuring The unequivocal as Olivier Assayas’. Despite his Other complications eventually arrive to Maya Spectra and VJ Buran. The festival is free, Eidinger). Klaus is itching to do a remake of résumé, the French New Wave lover and one- throw a monkey wrench into Maria and Val’s self-guided and open to the public. Food trucks time agent provocateur ( Irma Vep ; Late Mr. Melchior’s first film, the one that shot will be onsite selling “delectable gourmet food.” dramatic ping-pong match, but it’s this August, Early September ; Demonlover ) is either Maria to stardom. The twist is that Maria For more information, visit OVF’s Facebook would now play the obsessive older woman. extended middle section that stands out page (facebook.com/OutdoorVisionFest) or getting softer or more mature in his later years. strongest amid the film’s narrative. It’s also the check out its Vimeo channel His latest film, Clouds of Sils Maria , is a quiet, The part of the young seductress would be played by Hollywood flavor of the month Jo- part that will make or break it for most (vimeo.com/channels/sfuadoutdoorvisionfest). contemplative, indirectly personal rumination viewers. Clouds of Sils Maria isn’t too concerned Santa Fe University of Art and Design is located about a life on film. Ann Ellis (Chloë Grace Moretz from Kick-Ass ). at 1600 St. Michael’s Dr. in Santa Fe. Jo-Ann is a Lindsay Lohan-style hot mess of a with the velocity of its storyline. Despite the The film stars Juliette Binoche as Maria visual peaks and valleys of the surrounding Enders. Don’t let the name fool you, however; starlet and pretty much Maria’s polar opposite. Following the memorial, Maria and Val Alps, this is strictly slow, low-key, straight-line she’s more or less playing herself. Maria is a territory. Thanks to Assayas’ wordy script, Power to the projector famous actress who has successfully head up to an isolated inn in the Alps for some New Mexico labor and film industry R and R and a bit of agonized thinking. Binoche and Stewart hash out the film’s organizations have partnered to kick off the first transitioned from European art-house diva to various themes of art vs. life, youth vs. age, annual Santa Fe Labor Film Festival this May well-paid Hollywood star. As the film begins, Should Maria take the role of the doomed older woman? Would it signal a turning point private identity vs. public persona in a series Day weekend. Everything gets started at 5pm she’s traveling via train to Switzerland where of long-winded, navel-gazing conversations. on Friday, May 1, with an opening night gala, a in her career? The actress’ decision is she’s scheduled to hand a lifetime achievement There’s little in the way of action and almost dinner and a screening of the 2014 Lionsgate award to Wilhelm Melchior, the complicated by the fact that the original biopic Cesar Chavez starring Michael Peña. no soundtrack to distract from the endless playwright/filmmaker who gave her her actress who played the role died shortly after Events pick up again on Saturday morning at filming was completed—lending a superstitious dialogue. Clouds of Sils Maria does very much 10am with an open casting call for cars. That’s breakthrough role. At the tender age of 18, she like the sound of its own voice. right, you can audition your personal vehicle to played Sigrid, a lesbian seductress who destroys (not to mention heavily metaphorical) air to the whole affair. Clearly, Assayas intends this to be a highly appear in a locally shot motion picture. That’s the life of a businesswoman twice her age. self-referential and entirely meta affair—with followed by brunch and several more film Though it features plenty of other actors, (Not so coincidentally, Binoche had her actresses playing actresses, movies within screenings, including The Hand That Feeds breakthrough role in the similarly sexy hit The Clouds of Sils Maria is mostly a two-hander, (11am), a “Labor Shorts” program (2pm) and movies and a relentless verbal mockery of the Unbearable Lightness of Being just about 30 with Binoche and Stewart shouldering the Schoolidarity (5pm). Sunday starts with a bulk of the acting duties in isolation. Binoche, film industry. But Clouds lacks the consciously workshop on how to become a film crew union years ago.) artistic and stylistic artifice of his earlier films. member (10am). Screenings of Desert Rose Unfortunately, en route to the titular it goes without saying, is thoroughly believable as the alternately confident and insecure Irma Vep this ain’t. It practically begs for a (11am), Salt of the Earth (2pm) and Shadows of mountain town, Maria is informed by her more satirical script and a more vibrant milieu Liberty (5pm) close out the weekend. All events actress on the verge of “aging out” of officious personal assistant Val (Kristen in which to unfold. (Mountains are pretty and take place at the Center for Progress and Justice Stewart) that Mr. Melchior has passed away. Hollywood. The surprise here is Stewart, who (1420 Cerrillos Rd. in Santa Fe). Admission is on all, but they’re visually and metaphorically Diverted to Zurich, Maria finds herself— arguably turns in the better performance. (She a donate-what-you-wish basis. For more actually won the French César Award for Best static.) For those who appreciate a good, My information on films and events, go to against her better judgment—roped into an Supporting Actress earlier this year.) The Dinner with Andre -style conversation, Clouds santafelaborfilmfestival.com. a impromptu memorial/tribute to the late further she gets from Twilight , the less stiff and of Sils Maria will scratch that logorrheic itch. director. While avoiding interviews, photo Others are likely to find this “all talk and no shoots and old lovers, Maria is approached by more natural Stewart looks on screen. Her role here amounts to a one-two punch after her action” drama far too filled with air. a [28 ] WEEKLY ALIBI APRIL 30-MAY 6 , 2015 TELEVISION | IDIOT BOX Far Out Space Nuts “Other Space” on Yahoo! Screen a UMP ship. His second in command is his BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY uptight older sister (Bess Rous). There’s Capt. 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Saints.” The newest series to find a home on Hodgson and Beaulieu are the most Yahoo!’s non-TV network is the crudely funny recognizable and the most welcome members in sci-fi jape “Other Space.” the cast. They’re also the best in-joke, playing Created by Paul Feig (who came up with the only slight variations on their characters from much-loved, short-lived “Freaks and Geeks” as “MST3K.” Hodgson nails a lot of the show’s well as the breakout comedy Bridesmaids ), laughs as the radiation-addled ship’s engineer. “Other Space” is a low-budget laugh at the The sibling rivalry between Stewart and his expense of all our favorite sci-fi tropes. Sci-fi sister also gives the show a little spark. The rest fans (the clearly intended audience for “Other of the cast try to liven things up with the Space”) will instantly recognize (and possibly occasional improv—but there’re a bunch of condemn) the show as an obvious pastiche of newcomers, and they don’t have a ton of fresh series like “Red Dwarf,” “Star Trek: TOS,” “Star material to work with. Trek: Voyager,” “Lexx” “Hyperdrive” and “Lost Despite Feig’s guiding hand, the show in Space.” doesn’t have a particularly distinctive look, style The pilot begins by introducing us to the or storyline, delivering viewers a rather generic ragtag, C-list crew of a futuristic space vessel “people in space” setup. That’s not too working on the Universal Mapping Project. surprising when you’re talking about a parody. Sent into deep space on a one-year mission, the By their very nature, parodies end up looking a ship accidentally slips through a tear in the lot like the stuff they’re making fun of. Still— universe and winds up in an entirely different despite some ribald laughs and a few inspired universe. It wouldn’t be the biggest problem for casting choices—there’s nothing that “Other a seasoned group of well-equipped explorers. Space” does that Galaxy Quest didn’t do 16 But this crew is composed mainly of idiots, and years ago. a their only supplies are a year’s worth of fudge. Doing his best to keep things together is You can binge-watch the entire first season of “Other greenhorn Captain Stewart Lipinski (Karan Space” right now on screen.yahoo.com. Soni), the youngest person ever put in charge of

“Psychic Matchmaker” (TLC 8:30pm) “David Letterman: A Life in Television” It’s this or “Married at First Sight.” Pick (KRQE-13 8:30pm) Ray Romano THE WEEK IN your poison, singletons. hosts this 90-minute retrospective of late-night talk show host David SATURDAY 2 Letterman’s three decades on TV. SLOTH May 20th is Letterman’s last night “Summer Movie Preview Review” (Reelz on the air. 10:30am) Reelz briefly remembers it was once “TV About Movies” and gives TUESDAY 5 THURSDAY 30 us a rundown of all the hot summer “The 2015 NFL Draft” (ESPN 6pm) movie trailers. “The Willis Family” (TLC 8pm) TLC’s Hardcore football fans can watch all 3 Murder, She Baked: A Chocolate Chip latest reality series documents the 1/2 hours’ worth of the NFL’s first Cookie Murder Mystery (Hallmark life of overly fertile Nashville clan round draft pick coverage. The hardest Movie Channel 7pm) I swear I did not the Willis family. The 12 brothers of hardcore can tune in tomorrow at make up a single word of that title. It’s and sisters first appeared in season 5pm for rounds two and three. This a real movie. nine of “America’s Got Talent.” They goes on all weekend. sing and dance, and their names all Roller Boogie (TCM 12am) This 1979 start with “J.” It’s like somebody musical drama features a teenage crossed “19 Kids and Counting” and FRIDAY 1 Linda Blair protecting her beloved “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.” local roller rink from mobsters. You “Beyond the Tank” (KOAT-7 8pm) ABC’s laugh now, but that sorta thing spin-off series from “Shark Tank” happened a lot back then. WEDNESDAY 6 follows the “Shark Tank” entrepreneurs as they travel the country to mentor SUNDAY 3 Gardeners of Eden (Pivot 7pm) their investees and evaluate their Documentary filmmakers profile the businesses. efforts of the David Sheldrick “No Reservations” (Travel 9pm) Tonight’s Wildlife Trust to protect and preserve “Mysteries at the National Parks” “best of” episode, titled “Whole Africa’s elephant population. (Travel 8pm) Travel Channel’s Roasted Piggie,” finds Tony Bourdain “Mysteries at the Museum” heads waxing rhapsodic about all things “Monument Guys” (History 8pm) outside to answer such burning pork-related. Since every blue-collar, redneck, questions as, “Is there a secret, hillbilly job in America already has a underground, Nazi UFO base in MONDAY 4 docu-reality show, History Channel Montana’s Glacier National Park?” ... turns to the bearded personalities of I’m gonna say no. The Crucible Bronze Foundry in Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (HBO Norman, Okla. These days cable TV “Unearthed” (Discovery 8pm) We’ve 7pm) Documentary filmmaker Brett is looking a lot like that field trip you had docu-reality shows about people Morgen ( The Kid Stays in the Picture, never wanted to take back in middle who make livings digging up Crossfire Hurricane ) digs into the life school. a everything from gold to old coins to and times of dead singer Kurt Cobain. ginseng. What’s left? Truffles, of course. APRIL 30-MAY 6 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [29 ] FILM | CAPSULES Timbuktu BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY A rural cattle herder (Ibrahim Ahmed) and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives— OPENING THIS WEEK which are typically free of the urban Jihadists determined Avengers: Age of Ultron to control their faith—abruptly disturbed. An Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. In Earth’s mightiest mortals are back for a second go- English, French, Arabic, Bambara and Songhay with around. Seems that Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) has English subtitle 97 minutes. PG-13. (Opens Sunday 5/3 built a super-powered robot named Ultron (voiced by at Guild Cinema) James Spader) who wants to bring peace to humanity by wiping it out. Can Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, The Hulk, Black Widow, Hawkeye and newcomer The Vision stop this metallic madman before his plan comes to STILL PLAYING fruition? Probably, otherwise we don’t get any more movies. Overstuffed? Sure. Exciting. Hell, yeah. 141 The Age of Adaline minutes. PG-13. (Opens Thursday 4/30 at Rio Rancho Blake Lively (“Gossip Girl”) stars as a young woman, born Premiere Cinema, Century 14 Downtown, Century Rio) at the turn of the 20th century, who is “rendered ageless” after an accident. In present day, our immortal Batman: Mask of the Phantasm protagonist falls in love with a young man (Michiel Bruce W. Timm and Paul Dini spun their successful run on Huisman, “Game of Thrones”), only to discover that his the film noir-inspired “Batman: The Animated Series” into dad (Harrison Ford) is one of her old lovers. Awkward. this dark, mystery-filled 1993 feature. Seems our hero is 110 minutes. PG-13. (Century 14 Downtown, Century Avengers: Age of Ultron being implicated in a series of mob boss murders. The Rio, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema) real culprit? A vigilante assassin known only as The Home Phantasm. 76 minutes. PG. (Opens Friday 5/1 at Guild more than 30 years after it was filmed. It’s the story of a Bluebird DreamWorks Animation mashes together E .T. the Extra- Cinema) troubled marriage between two remarkable people, both Gorgeous but glum, this small-town drama from first-time Terrestrial and L ilo & Stitch in the hopes that wayward at a crossroads in their lives. Sara Rogers (Billie Allen) is filmmaker Lance Edmands follows the messed-up lives of Big Trouble in Little China alien mascot Oh (voiced by Jim Parsons from “The Big a professor of philosophy, embarking on an intellectual a husband (John Slattery from “Mad Men”) and wife Bang Theory”) will become the next toy/video game/t- On the eve of its new Blu-Ray release, John Carpenter’s quest to understand “ecstasy,” while her painter husband (Amy Morton, “Chicago Fire”) in snowbound Maine. He shirt-generating machine. It’s safe to say he won’t. The 1986 action romp returns for a brief theatrical visit. Kurt sets off on a more earthy exploration of “joy.” Things come loses his job, and she accidentally leaves a kid trapped story, about a misfit alien who befriends a lonely Earth Russell is rowdy trucker Jack Burton, who gets roped into to a head when the couple try to spend their summer at overnight on the school bus she drives. And then things girl (Rihanna), feels awfully recycled. If you’re an adult a centuries-old supernatural brawl on the streets of an idyllic country house. 86 minutes. Unrated. (Guild get really bad. For just about everybody who lives in this who doesn’t find Parsons’ voice grating, you might survive Chinatown. 98 minutes. PG-13. (Opens Sunday 5/3 at Cinema) dead-end town. The cinematography and acting is a screening with your kids. 94 minutes. PG. (Century 14 Century 14 Downtown, Century Rio) amazing, but the glacial pacing and grief-filled storytelling Downtown, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Century Rio) Monkey Kingdom are not for everyone. 90 minutes. Unrated. (Guild DisneyNature’s annual Earth Day release concentrates, Clouds of Sils Maria Cinema) Insurgent Reviewed this issue. 123 minutes. R. (Opens Friday 5/1 obviously, on monkeys this year. The focus is on a troop of The popular young adult book series about a dystopian at High Ridge) toque macaques struggling to survive in the ruins of an Cinderella future in which mean old adults won’t let rebellious teens ancient temple in “the storied jungles of South Asia.” Kenneth Branagh ( Henry V, Thor ) directs this straight- The Lady from Shanghai grow up to be whatever they want returns with the second Mark Linfield and Alastair Fothergill ( Chimpanzee, Bears, faced, unironic live-action adaptation of Disney’s 1950 outing in the trilogy (which will, inevitably, turn into four The Guild celebrates Orson Welles’ birthday with a two- African Cats ) produce and direct. Tina Fey narrates. Sure, animated gem. It looks gorgeous from top to bottom, and films). Shailene Woodley is back as troublemaking film tribute. This 1947 film noir showcases the legendary why not? 100 minutes. G. (Century 14 Downtown, Lily James (from “Downton Abbey”) seems perfectly “divergent” Tris, who’s obliged to run and fight and take a actor/director’s skill in turning cheap pulp material into Century Rio, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema) appropriate as the ball-going protagonist. But this version bunch of tests (no, really) in this predictably rote sequel. complex cinematic puzzles. Here, Welles plays a boat adds nothing whatsoever new to the old story. For Disney 119 minutes. PG-13. (Century Rio, Rio Rancho Premiere captain who signs on to a bizarre yachting cruise just to Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 princess completists only. Reviewed in v24 i11. 113 Cinema) get closer to the mysterious Mrs. Bannister (Rita You brought this on yourself, America. Incompetent but minutes. PG. (Century Rio, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema) accidentally heroic security guard Paul Blart (Kevin Hayworth—well, who could blame him?). What follows is a Little Boy twisty plot full of deception, fraud and murder. Double- James) goes off on vacation to Las Vegas with his teenage Ex Machina This faith-based parable (produced by Hollywood super- featured with Magician . 88 minutes. Unrated. daughter (Raini Rodriguez). But when crime rears its ugly British writer Alex Garland ( The Beach, 28 Days Later..., Christians Roma Downey and Mark Burnett) ups the ante (Wednesday 5/6 at Guild Cinema) head in the form of a casino heist, the fat dude on the Dredd ) tries his hand at directing with this sci-fi tale by hiring a bunch of name-brand actors (including Segway fights back. With wacky slapstick jokes. At least about a young programmer selected to participate in a Magician: The Astonishing Life and Michael Rapaport, Emily Watson, Kevin James, Ben Larry, Moe and Curly had each other to play off of. 94 breakthrough experiment in artificial intelligence by Chaplin, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Ali Landry and Toby Huss). Work of Orson Welles minutes. PG. (Century 14 Downtown, Century Rio, Rio evaluation the “human qualities” of a female robot. Like It’s set during World War II and concerns a diminutive kid Rancho Premiere Cinema) On the eve of his hundredth birthday, Orson Welles gets all female robots in movies, she turns out to be both sexy in a coastal California town who worries for his soldier the biopic treatment from Academy Award-winner Chuck and dangerous. We’ve seen this sort of high-tech dad’s safe return. The local priest assures the boy that Unfriended Workman ( Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol ). Frankenstein story before, but Garland’s script is highly God will end the war if he fulfills the Seven Corporal Magician features scenes from just about every existing For those Millennials who can’t tear themselves away literate and his direction thrilling. 108 minutes. R. Works of Mercy (stuff like “feeding the hungry,” and from their phones, tablets and computers for one freaking Welles film, including clips from his final, unfinished (Century 14 Downtown, Century Rio, Rio Rancho Premiere “visiting the sick”). The kid does and is rewarded with a works. Friend Peter Bogdanovich, lover Oja Kodar and minute comes this unspeakably “contemporary” found- Cinema) series of increasingly convenient miracles, leading to a footage horror film that takes place entirely on Skype. biographers Joseph McBride and Simon Callow are conclusion that is really disturbing if you think about it. among those interviewed—but it’s the patchwork of film Seems that a teenage girl was bullied into committing Furious 7 Writer/director Alejandro Monteverde (2006’s B ella ) is suicide. One year later, all her social media “friends” find clips that provide the best portrait of the actor/filmmaker. The automotive insult to gravity and various related forms obviously sincere, but the film is way too sugary and Double-featured with The Lady from Shanghai. 94 themselves being stalked and murdered, one by one, of physics continues, despite the untimely death of star sentimental to take seriously. 100 minutes. PG-13. online. ... And for those of you under the age of 15, don’t minutes. PG-13. (Opens Wednesday 5/6 at Guild Paul Walker. Vin Diesel, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and (Century Rio, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema) Cinema) worry, a Snapchat horror film will be coming at you Ludacris pick up the slack, shooting and/or crashing cars sooner or later. 100 minutes. R. (Century 14 Downtown, into countless people, places and things. Seems Evil The Longest Ride Century Rio, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema) The NeuroFilm Festival British Guy (Jason Statham) is going after car Clint Eastwood’s studly son Scott Eastwood stars in this The Brain Hackers STEM program and the Media Arts thief/invincible superhero Dominic Toretto and crew for extremely Nicholas Sparks-esque adaptation of a The Water Diviner Collaborative Charter School present this collection of killing his brother, Evil British Guy From The Last Movie Nicholas Sparks novel. Eastwood is a rodeo rider short films rooted in brain and behavior science. The idea Russell Crowe directs and stars in this stoic-yet-weepy (Luke Evans). 137 minutes. PG-13. (Rio Rancho Premiere sidelined by injury who falls for a sweet, artsy college girl drama about an Australian farmer who travels to Turkey is to introduce young students to brain-based science by Cinema, Century 14 Downtown, Century Rio) (Britt Robertson from “Under the Dome”). At some point exploring a range of topics from curious phenomena to after the Battle of Gallipoli (1916, for you non history they rescue an old man (Alan Alda) from an auto buffs) to try and locate his three missing sons. Think artistic illustrations of how our gray matter works. Get Hard accident. The sweet, artsy college girl helps the old dude Admission is $5 for adults. Anyone under 16 is free. 100 Saving Private Ryan with lots more family melodrama Will Ferrell and the clearly overworked Kevin Hart (six recover in the hospital by reading a bunch of his love mixed in. 111 minutes. R. (Century Rio) minutes. Unrated. (Opens Sunday 5/3 at Guild Cinema) films last year and two so far in 2015) star in this racial letters from the 1940s. So, yup, we get a flashback-filled comedy. Ferrell is millionaire James King, busted for fraud B-story in which young Alan Alda (Jack Huston) romances Woman in Gold New Futures School Student Film and bound for San Quentin. On the run from police, Oona Chaplin (jeez, everybody here is descended Festival British treasure Helen Mirren stars as Maria Altmann, an James ends up in the South Central LA home of family someone famous) in picturesque North Carolina. There’s octogenarian Jewish refugee who takes on the Austrian Funded through an APS Education Foundation Horizon man Darnell Lewis (Hart). Mistaking him for a street thug a lot of flannel and lakes and romantic picnics. 139 government to recover a Gustav Klimt masterpiece stolen Grant, this free student film festival features collaborative (because, you know, racial humor), James offers to pay minutes. PG-13. (Century Rio) by the Nazis during World War II. It’s based on a true short films made by, for and about local high school the man to school him in the art of being a gangsta—so story. Unfortunately, it’s a mostly speech-heavy courtroom students. Aliens, ghost stories and a John Steinbeck he can survive in prison. Needless to say, this Losing Ground drama. And what the hell is Ryan Reynolds ( Van Wilder, adaptation are just some of the topics to go in front of mismatched buddy comedy doesn’t try very hard. 100 This recently rediscovered comedy-drama from a little- Green Lantern ) doing here playing a Jewish lawyer? 109 the cameras. 65 minutes. Unrated. (Opens Saturday 5/2 minutes. R. (Century 14 Downtown, Rio Rancho Premiere known black woman filmmaker (Kathleen Collins, who minutes. PG-13. (Century 14 Downtown, Century Rio) a at Guild Cinema) Cinema, Century Rio) died in 1988) has become an unusual success story [30 ] WEEKLY ALIBI APRIL 30-MAY 6 , 2015 FILM | TIMES wEEk oF FrI., aprIL 30-ThurS., May 7

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APRIL 30-MAY 6 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [31 ] GET LIT MUSIC | ShoW Up! BY AUGUST MARCH Conquering America One Beat at a Time Rise to the Challenge If you’re anything like Vince Noir, the mad musical genius from “The Mighty Boosh,” you earnestly believe everything that came before Attend these shows because you can electronica was “just tuning up.” While the genre has maintained substantial cultural cachet in punk project of mystic Oakland musician Luis Europe, its ascendance in the Americas is an Vasquez, The Soft Moon covers a haunting altogether different story. range of genres and gyrations in its current On this side of the pond, EDM seeped out from underground raves and parties and into the incarnation. Sometimes psychedelic, often mainstream over the last 25 years. It came to terrifying and altogether darkly and the fore with a momentum that might even synthetically groovy in both discourse and surprise Noir and his “electro-ponce” pals. execution, The Soft Moon’s range evokes In The Underground is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America, performance art taken to the nth degree. music historian Michaelangelo Matos thoroughly Touring with Vasquez on his tripped-out trip is explores the phenomenon. Matos muses on a dynamic rhythm section comprised of EDM as a vital component of 21st-century pop Matteo Salviato on bass and Matteo Vallicelli culture from a musicological perspective. Matos’ book offers readers plenty of reasons to take a on drums. break from oscillating wildly and learn about the Skull Katalog is the toothsome, noise- history of a multifaceted genre—one that drenched brainchild of Big Easy beatmaker transformed an obscure sound into the choice of Griffin Pyn. The dude’s oeuvre works like a generation. The author begins his history of EDM with a manic, glitchy, seizure-inducing magic on study of the EDM scenes in Chicago and Detroit human grey matter, and tuneage like “Pass the in the early ’80s. That was a time and place The Soft Moon's Luis Vasquez PHOTO BY ANDREI MUSAT Furnace” is bitching and bombastic. wherein house music and invite-only events drummer Adam Kissel collectively possess the Sleepdepth , Ehren Salazar’s local electro helped define what the overall scene would BY AUGUST MARCH ability to make their listeners want to project, starts things off with a sizzling, soulful become as the nation’s youth lurched toward the next millennium. Matos’ prose is informal, simultaneously sing along and mosh and somnolent set; this is the stuff that dreams and the narrative often resembles an intimate Drive a great big truck/ When I’m old, ecstatically. And there’s a tune called “Iocane are made on. This 21-plus vision of nocturnes conversation between friends. The descriptions when I’m old/ Haul the wrecks down to Powder” in their repertoire. Inconceivable! sans neckties requires a $10 ticket. Arrive at veer from knowing and jaded to nostalgic as he the wreck yard/ Help the boys unload/ Denver’s propulsive punkers Black Dots and 7pm, and drift into a delicious delirium at recounts the DJs, fashions and attitudes that “ propelled EDM from after-hours warehouse Keep my hair nice and long/ Because I can, local lunatics Russian Girlfriends, a band 8pm—just as the first stars light up the parties into an expectant culture of outsiders, because I can/ Any of my old friends who have starring former members of Glitter Dick and evening sky. nerds and partiers. no place to turn to/ They know to call me any Koffin Kats, also rock out. Opening indie-folk For the uninitiated, the plethora of early time they come through/ Never die, never die/ act Quietly Kept features Calah Mae and Bat artists, techniques and recordings may seem Wednesday formidable. The text is certainly dense and Stand with bullwhip in my hand/ And rise, Wings For Lab Rats’ Rob Nakai. Admission to On Wednesday, May 6, take a break to ponder completist, but it also provides the necessary rise/ In the desert sand/ Work days, work this fab foray can be procured for 10 bucks, your place in the universe. Then traipse over structure and serious historical perspective on nights/ Finally get laid up/ By a piece of and the all-ages show starts at 7pm. to Low Spirits (2823 Second Street NW) for a EDM’s roots in America. broken glass/ On the floor of the shop/ And night of psych-rock to boggle the mind and The book progresses through time and space toward the realization that electro is more than the doctor recognizes me/ As the operating Saturday sate the soul. A band from Califas—Arcata to the sum of its parts. Matos links the rise of the theater goes dim/ Aren’t you that old wrestler Albuquerque folk-rock duo Bébé La La is be exact—named White Manna headlines an internet to that of a subculture that embraced with the bullwhip?/ Yes sir, that’s me, I’m comprised of Alicia Ultan and Maryse event that serves as both a hallucinogenic technology as a means of communication. He him.”—“ The Ballad of Bull Ramos ” by The Lapierre. These two gifted multi- hiatus from normalcy and one of the best rock also explores the sect’s indulgence in drugs that Mountain Goats from new album Beat the had—until techno’s conquering army pushed instrumentalists perform on Saturday, May 2, shows of spring. White Manna explores deep them into the daylight—remained on the Champ at Las Amapolas (6909 Menaul NE, Suite G) space and infinite deserts with their casual periphery of our collective national, musical and in celebration of their latest album High Wire. command of a genre once reserved for sensual experience. May is on the horizon, and summer is on its Lauded for angelic harmonizing, continental heavyweight harbingers of Hawkwind. Club kids, and the musicians onstage in front way. Funny thing—how the world keeps song stylings and a tendency to make the of them, loved their computers almost as much Joining this otherworldly pilgrimage are as they embraced the drug ecstasy. And the spinning around while we rise and fall and rise combination of viola and accordion sound like Tucson’s surrealistic sonic scenesters The result wasn’t merely an electronically nuanced up again on Earth. While the music plays. And a fantastic journey to vast, vernal landscapes, Myrrors . Reflective works include the hedonism but rather something more none of us is too old to rock and roll. So let’s Bébé La La will be joined onstage by an enigmatic and the ecstatic, with titles like substantial. rise up this week. Let’s wrestle with time. Let’s ensemble that includes bassists Mike Fox and “The Forward Path” and “Juanito Laguna By the ’90s, these kids were making art. As evidence of this sea change, Matos compares go to a show or two. Here are some suggestions Jeremy Sment, percussionist Jefferson Duerme Con Los Grillos.” The Myrrors are continental attitudes and behaviors toward designed to make that endeavor possible. Voorhees and Alicia’s twin sister Jacqueline on aurally intense and fucking awesome live. developing formats with happenings in America; cello. YOU is a Burque-based prog-rock project he ruminates on the fact that the Brits—despite Las Flores del Valle’s dual guitarists producing mind-expanding musical their geographical proximity to the EDM Friday headwaters in Ibiza—couldn’t dance with the Duke City Sound Stage (2013 Ridgecrest SE) Carol Vigil and Leila Flores-Dueñas call experiments that hinge on the venerable ferocity or understanding of Midwest audiences. is a fresh, all-ages venue on the edge of a tree- Burque home, but they proudly display vision of Eric Lisausky. While YOU adds a This led to a rise in experimentation and lined suburban Burque neighborhood. It’s the influences from wide-ranging Southwestern non-Euclidean dimension to the proceedings, popularity in EDM in the US, as artists explored perfect place to celebrate everything eternal borderlands. The duo kicks off the evening’s lost souls Holy Glories open. It’s only five everything from hardcore techno to post-acid house music—and the movement shimmied and ethereal about the coming summer. On journey into light and love with songs that bucks to attend this spaced-out spectacular. outward toward both coasts with joyous Friday, May 1, the joint plays host to a show reflect the history and innovative inflections Doors are at 8pm, and the stuff kicks in around certainty about its future. featuring San Diego pop-punk sensation of traditional tropes. This all-ages affair 9pm. After the Organic 96 festival in San Western Settings . The genre sometimes gets a happens at a venue that features fine food and Bernardino, Calif., and Woodstock 1999, EDM sumptuous snacks. Doors swing wide at and its advocates set their sights on conquering bad rap, and it’s no wonder with bands like The Mountain Goats’ prime mover John the country, which they did with access to the Blink-182 carrying around that pumped-up, 6:30pm, and the recital gets going one hour Darnielle speaks volumes about the future- nascent internet, a handful of MDMA and a few melodic banner. But when done right—think later. Tickets are $15 dollars in advance and defining potential of the past in his lyrics. Do million tubes of Vicks VapoRub—not to mention Descendents, FIDLAR and even (gasp!) $20 the day of the show. yourself a solid, and take the challenge the formidable talents of artists like Skrillex and Nirvana—pop-punk can be profoundly invoked by such ruminations. For both old and Daft Punk. With these examples as guideposts, Matos provides a history of EDM that is satisfying. And this quartet from the sunny Sunday young, summer comes, and you ought to move engaging and essential to any listener’s shore does just fine. On Sunday, May 3, at Sister (407 Central NW), into the light; a great gig can guide you understanding of what happened after the Guitarists Will Castro, Kevin White and brave a sonic séance starring The Soft Moon, forward. Rise from what was into what will be, tuning up was done. a Dylan Wolters, bassist Ricky Schmidt and Skull Katalog and Sleepdepth. 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Simple (if two-part) question, simple (if two- part) answer: 1) Yes, going negative works. 2) When did it not? No question, negative campaigning has been on the rise in recent times. A look at presidential races found that between 2000 and 2012, positive advertising decreased from 40 percent to 14 percent, while negative advertising increased from 29 percent to 64 percent. (Yes, a campaign consists incumbent mayor Rahm Emanuel trounced of more than paid advertising, but we have to start challenger Chuy Garcia 56 to 44 percent last month somewhere.) A study of congressional campaigns by suggesting that were his relatively inexperienced found attack advertising increased from 32 percent opponent elected, Chicago would go the way of in 2000 to 52 percent by 2012. Detroit. Why? Let me gaze at my navel. It could be the (Garcia’s given name, you may recall, is Jesus. No result of the current 24/7 media bath in which only a great talent as a cartoonist is required to cast Rahm bold, controversial message has any chance of as the Prince of Darkness. It tells you something grabbing the electorate’s attention. It could be due about politics in America, or anyway in Chicago, that to the us-versus-them mentality that's poisoned in a confrontation with the Devil, Jesus lost.) American politics. Or it could be a byproduct of our Back to our subject. Riffling through the thoroughly tabloidized American culture, awash research and applying the filter of common sense, I with reality shows and Kardashians. offer the following observations: Or—you’ll never guess what I think—it could be • To be effective, negative advertising needs to few researchers tracked negative political be plausible. The Daisy ad worked because, in those advertising before the 1990s, and people have innocent times, Barry Goldwater really did seem like short memories, so we don’t have much basis for a nut. Had LBJ’s opponent been some moderate comparison. One of the most notorious attack ads in Republican stalwart like Nelson Rockefeller, that American political history aired during the kind of ad would have made Johnson look like the presidential campaign of 1964—the “Daisy” screwy one. commercial produced by the Lyndon Johnson side, • The least effective strategy is going after your in which a shot of a little girl pulling petals from a opponent’s extramarital affairs, drug or alcohol flower segues to a missile countdown and then a addiction, or other personal foibles—which is to say, blast and a mushroom cloud, followed by a grim your campaign can’t be seen as doing this. As any voiceover: “Vote for President Johnson on specialist in oppo research knows, it’s advantageous November 3. The stakes are too high for you to stay to have your opponent revealed as a philanderer home.” Implication: Johnson’s opponent, Barry provided the news appears to come from third Goldwater, was an irresponsible extremist who’d parties. Not that success is guaranteed even so; drag the country into nuclear war. consider the unsinkable Bill Clinton, repeatedly The ad ran once. Johnson won in a landslide. OK, named in tales of striking tawdriness that mainly single datapoint. But it’s easy to come up with provoked the reaction (from both men and women, others—ask Michael Dukakis if he thinks the Willie as far as I can tell): He risked his career over her? Horton ad hurt him in the ’88 presidential race. • What seems to work best is going after your Inevitably, we drift to the conclusion: Negative opponent’s inconsistent voting, broken campaign advertising works, and always has. promises, contributions from special interest groups, We needn’t rely on anecdotal evidence. While I and dubious business practices. To which I can only don’t put too much stock in political science say: This is bad? research, a study of 143 US Senate elections from Getting back to current events, I don’t wish to 1988 to 1998 found that for every 6 percent make too much of Rahm, but his recent campaign increase in negative campaigning, the candidate’s provides a stark lesson in why negative campaigning performance at the polls improved by 1 percent—but is often the logical choice. In an era of straitened only for challengers. Incumbents reduced their resources, where the only responsible course is to performance at the polls by 1 percent for every 6 ask the public to give more and get by with less ... percent of their campaigns they devoted to good luck trying to win on that message. A attacking their opponents. demonstrably more effective strategy is to get the This may be true in general—the default pitch for electorate thinking: Sure, things’ll be bad if this any incumbent surely has to be that life is better schmuck is elected—but under the other schmuck since he or she took office—but it’s not always true, they’ll be worse. a as the LBJ ad demonstrates. Turning to the political laboratory known as Chicago, we note that Send questions to Cecil via straightdope.com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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