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[4] WEEKLY ALIBI OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 6, 2019 them. A college official reportedly said, “The proxy students were protected by the MP’s ODDS musclemen when they sat for the tests. Everybody knew it but nobody uttered a word because she is from a very influential family.” University head MA Mannan told reporters: “We expelled her because she has committed AND ENDS a crime. A crime is a crime. We have WEIRD NEWS cancelled her enrolment. She will never be able to get admitted here again.” Dateline: China Six Chinese men were charged with Dateline: France “intentional homicide” after one hired a Scientists have developed a phone case made hitman, who then subcontracted the hit to of a material that feel and reacts like human another hitman, who then subcontracted the skin, making it ticklish. According to New hit to another hitman, who then Scientist, a team from Telecom Paris in France subcontracted the hit to another hitman, who have created an artificial skin that can detect then subcontracted the hit to another hitman. a number of physical interactions and gestures According to CNN, real estate developer Tan that mimic human emotional Youhui contacted Xi Guangan—an alleged communication, including pinching, tickling, hitman—in 2013 about killing a business squeezing and tapping. The skin is rival. Authorities say Xi was paid two million programmed to associate different Chinese yuan ($282,600) to complete the interactions with different emotions. Tapping task, which he accepted. But instead of doing is associated with attention. Squeezing is the job himself, he allegedly kept half of the associated with anger. Stroking is associated fee and used the second half to hire Mo with comfort. The artificial skin is made up of Tianxiang. Mo reportedly took some of the three layers: two made of silicone and a layer money that was paid to him and paid 270,000 of flexible copper wire between them. When Chinese yuan ($38,100) upfront to hire Yang pressure is applied, the electric charge of the Kangsheng, with the promise of another system changes. The team says the case can 500,000 Chinese yuan ($70,600) after the make interfacing with one’s phone easier and deed was finished. Yang then hired yet more intuitive by simplifying keyboard and another man, Yang Guangsheng, with a navigation functions. Two prototypes were similar agreement. The second Yang then developed: One was given a realistic, human- hired Ling Xiansi to commit the murder for like skin while the other was made to 100,000 yuan ($14,100). It had been around resemble a typical phone case. six months since Tan’s request and Ling’s acceptance of the contract. But Ling Dateline: India reportedly decided against killing the business In an attempt to curb cheating, students at an competitor. He allegedly approached the Indian college were made to wear boxes over target and offered to help the man fake his their heads. The Times of India reports that death. The target agreed and allowed Ling to first-year science students at Bhagath PU take staged photos of him in which he College took their midterm exam while appeared to be restrained by the “hitman.” wearing cardboard boxes over their heads. Ling reported the “hit” to Tan, but the target The boxes had holes cut out in front so the reported the incident to police. All six men students would be able to see. Video and were arrested. All five hitmen were sentenced photos of the incident went viral on social to between two to four years in prison while media earlier this month, prompting officials Tan was sentenced to five years. in the education department to order educators to discontinue the practice. A Dateline: Bangladesh notice from the PU Board calling the act an A Bangladesh Member of Parliament was “inhuman idea in the examination hall” was expelled from her university after authorities sent to college management. But a director at discovered that she’d hired eight lookalikes to the college, MB Sateesh, reportedly said, “We take 13 exams in her place. BBC News reports implemented this idea to curb malpractice that Tamanna Nusrat was pursuing a Bachelor and not to harass students. This is just an of Arts degree at the Bangladesh Open experiment. We discussed it with students University. Over the course of four terms, the and took their consent before implementing MP for the Awami League was supposed to it.” Sateesh stated that the school will comply have taken 13 exams, but investigators says with the order and discontinue the use of lookalikes took the tests instead. College cardboard boxes. SC Peerjade, Deputy officials became aware of the situation when a Director of the PU Board, said he is local television crew from Nagorik TV stormed considering disciplinary action against college into a classroom at the Narsingdi management. Exam malpractice is reportedly Government College center where the leader a serious issue in India, where students have was reportedly taking a test. They confronted gone to great lengths—even using electronic a woman who was not Nusrat but was taking devices and hidden earpieces—to cheat. a her exam. The station claims Nusrat hired eight different proxies to take the exams in Compiled by Joshua Lee. 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OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 6, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [5] NEWS CITY BY JOSHUA LEE NEWS | ON ASSIGNMENT APS and Funding On Your Mark! School Bonds and Levies Albuquerque Public Schools is once again asking for funding, but leaders say a newly Bond Issues, Tax Questions and Voting Proposals proposed mill levy and bond package won’t increase taxes. BY AUGUST MARCH Bond and mill levies are used to finance school projects and maintenance across the efore you take the trip over to your local state. They offer long-term financing that is voting center to make municipal paid off as property taxes are received. In B governance happen in the best of all February, voters rejected a $900 million mill possible worlds using the best of all possible levy and bond package that would have policies and progressive politicians, you might increased property taxes by an average of 4.7 want to find out a bit more about the questions percent on a special mail-in ballot that received you’re bound to be asked when you interface more than 100,000 responses. The proposal with that special piece of paper with your name reportedly would have funded the construction and identifying characteristics layed out in of 11 new projects and 23 ongoing projects. But front of you at said voting location. opponents of the package said the district was Certainly—as with most calls for asking for too much money and needed to be COURTESY NM POLITICAL REPORT expenditures designed to improve our city more responsible with its spending. facilities, resources, programs and outreach This time around, APS is promising that The Senior, Family, Community Center, Josh Lee’s fascinating article on the whole their new package will improve schools but efforts—Weekly Alibi is generally and Homeless and Community Enhancement schmear. It’s just over to the left. avoid raising taxes. The newly proposed bond overarchingly in favor of passing all of the Bonds call for the issuance of almost $22 general obligation bond questions up for and mill levy is asking to continue the existing million in bonds that will not only upgrade Transportation Tax levy of $2 for every $1,000 of taxable approval—with one caveat—in the coming and repair community centers around town The city is asking voters to approve a property value. It is also asking for $100 municipal election. It’s important to know but will also provide money to begin a project continuance of the one-quarter of one cent million in general obligation bonds. This what these expenditures represent and who to serve the homeless with a facility that will transportation infrastructure gross receipts tax. trimmed-down version of the proposal focuses they will inevitably affect, but it’s also provide shelter, retraining and other To build roads bridges and bikeways. They’re on making basic repairs to facilities—such as important that this city spends where necessary opportunities for our burgeoning homeless also asking for nearly $33 million in GO bonds fixing leaky roofs, upgrading electrical wiring, to guarantee citizens are living in a progressive, population. for streets and $3 million in GO bonds for installing air conditioning and removing lead sustainable and equitable municipal Though many in city governance have transportation needs. Because of the latter, this from drinking fountains—and making environment. called for a centralized center—that serves up measure surely smells of pork. Beware. accessibility improvements—like building With that in mind you might want to to 300 people—to take care of the needs of wheelchair ramps and fully accessible peruse—and then clip and save—our facsimile Burque’s less fortunate, some city and restrooms. Some of the money will be used to ballot on page 9 of this week’s news section. neighborhood groups have also called for Campaign Finance purchase musical instruments and art supplies. As is true with the ballot proposals being to several decentralized locations to help The two proposals on this year’s ballot both APS also says it will be improving security at put to voters in this election cycle, Weekly Alibi ameliorate potential problems with settled refer to the Open and Ethical Elections Act. schools across the district. is particularly interested in certain general inhabitants. We call on city and community The first calls for more public finance money “We really felt the message would be best obligation bonds that are up for approval. leaders to meet together to hash this one out. to be made available to qualified mayoral received by those who benefit: parents and While all deserve funding, some have needs candidates. It also calls for the City Council to students,” APS spokesperson Monica Armenta It’s too important a project to be relegated to a that are more pressing than others. have more power in amending the same act. told KRQE. “There are urgent needs in all NIMBY mentality. It’s with that sense of discovering and We’re for both of those things, as they will schools, basic repairs that have to be made.” delivering democracy that Weekly Alibi offers provide more resources for publicly financed The average age of schools in the district is its legendary two cents on the following ballot Metropolitan Redevelopment reportedly 60 years old, and maintenance costs candidates who sometimes have to face huge bond issues, mill levy requests and tax Bonds will continue to rise as the buildings age. private war chests from privately financed questions and election proposals. The City is asking voters to approve the APS commissioned a poll from Research and candidates. It’s a simple, ground-leveling Oh, and, please keep in mind the following Polling, Inc. in July that asked 400 voters issuance of slightly more than $8 million for move. about the new proposal. Of those surveyed, 62 definition while you read. municipal redevelopment. What this means is Though the other proposal isn’t so simple, percent reportedly said they would support A general obligation bond is a municipal that—if the measure is approved—the city will we believe it’s essential to the growth and continuing a mill levy at the current rate, and 67 bond backed up by the credit and taxing power finally have some feria to work on the maintenance of democracy in Burque. percent said they would support a $100 million of the issuing municipality and is issued with Railyards. We’ve been driving by there for Proposal 2 calls for the introduction and use of general obligation bond. with the belief that the debt obligation from more than 25 years—and remember when it “Democracy Dollars” by voters who want to The district says that if voters fail to the bond will be payed for through taxation or was dusty and totally deserted, a great place to support publicly financed candidates in approve the mill levy and bond package, APS revenue from projects. shoot a UNM MFA show but not much else. municipal elections. The proposal is written in will not have the resources needed to make The recent success of the Railyards Market such a way as to empower local voters. Under urgent repairs, increase accessibility, enhance Affordable Housing and the and the undying urbanist vision of Councilor the proposal, the City of Albuquerque will security and provide improved learning Homeless Ike Benton demonstrate that such a provide every registered voter with a non- materials. An ad shot at Monte Vista redevelopment project is on the right track. transferable $25 coupon that they can gift to Two bond issues that deal directly with Elementary and recently posted on the the candidate of their choice. In such a affordable housing and homeless services on district’s Facebook page features local scenario, it’s believed that candidates would this year’s ballot are of extreme importance, we Money for Public Schools students and teachers expressing concerns become beholden to their constituents and not believe. The city wants to issue bonds to the APS is asking city voters to approve a 2 mill about infrastructural problems they’re facing at big-money donors. tune of $5 million in support of the city’s levy on assessed property in the district. That school. They cite hot classrooms, leaky roofs As Mayor Tim Keller recently said, “At the Workforce Housing Act and thereby provide means that for every $1000 of value, a typical and wheelchair accessibility issues as reasons heart of every democracy, everone should have funding for the construction of permanently Burqueño property owner will pay $2 more to approve the proposal. a stake in their elections. That connection is The ballot will ask two questions: Should affordable housing for low to moderate-income property tax than before—and all the money what Democracy Dollars is all about.” Weekly the existing mill levy of $2 for every $1,000 of working class families and senior citizens. With goes to a struggling district, que no? The truth Alibi supports the proposal to bring Democracy taxable property value continue? And should this kind of outlay, it will be possible to bring a is APS needs all the help it can get and this Dollars to Albuquerque’s municipal elections. $100 million in general obligation bonds be new sense of stability and sustainability to our mill levy will provide needed fundage for Now go out there and vote! a issued to the district? a city’s less prosperous. equipment and facilities improvement. See

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OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 6, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [7] NEWS | ELECTION NEWS Meet the Candidates! Alibi Endorsees Speak Up on the Issues BY AUGUST MARCH permanent homes for unhoused persons, with Marine, I specialized in aviation support, security and with behavioral health and other starting in the presidential helicopter supportive social services at each site. We’ll squadron. My second career, in journalism, eading into Tuesday’s municipal use the Workforce Housing Trust Fund, which honed my skills in research and Helection—early voting started nearly a I sponsored, to construct or renovate 2500 communication. Now I work at UNM, as a couple weeks ago, on Oct. 19, and Nov. 5 units of affordable housing. Vote in favor of data analyst focused on traffic safety. I firmly is the big day—Weekly Alibi met with the our general obligation bonds! believe evidence-based solutions are needed to candidates we’ve endorsed for City Council address underlying problems in Albuquerque. and for the CNM Governing Board. We had a 2. Crime is at the top of mind for many couple of questions to ask them. community members, and reducing crime will Our goal: To provide voters with substantive be at the top of my to-do list. I will focus on reasons to choose as we have. It’s clear to us two areas: I will increase the number of that in order to maintain and further support personnel, such as police service aides, progressive governance in The Duke City, to free up officers to prevent and solve crimes. those chosen to govern must be open-minded And I will propose a preventive public-health yet steadfast in their dedication to democracy approach that works within neighborhoods and sustainability while having a vision of the Weekly Alibi, vetted both candidates in this where the rate of violent crime is high, with future that posits Burque as one of the best race and each one asked voters to keep me on interventions that have been proven to be places to live in these here United States of the job. I want to say thanks to labor, effective. This public-health approach has America. especially city workers including AFSCME been used in more than 20 US cities, with a 73 Here are the questions we asked. and IAFF who need champions in City Hall. percent reduction in shooting and killings. 1. Why are you the best fit for the job you’re I’m excited to continue organizing with running for? Animal Protection Voters, the Sierra Club, 2. What’s the first issue you’re going to Equality New Mexico and the Democratic tackle if elected? Party’s Adelante Progressive Caucus. And the Here are the answers. City Council District 4: Ane Romero leaders we need to work together also agree. 1. Families across the Northeast Heights Mayor Keller, Senator Heinrich, deserve a leader who has proven herself to be Representative Haaland and dozens of committed to the issues they care most about. neighborhood leaders are asking voters to keep I have spent my entire academic and me on Council. I’m grateful for their professional career in public service working friendship and support. on issues related to public safety, healthcare, 2. Most voters I meet don’t know that we put education and economic development. as much into new homeless services last year as Although I’ve never held office, I have worked we did into policing. Eight million dollars in for elected leaders on groundbreaking mental new housing support and $1 million in new health policy in Congress and in the state grants targeting youth violence intervention legislature. I’m proud of my record and I am and homelessness, just to name a few. Police ready to bring my local, state and federal should not be our only homeless tool outside experience to the Albuquerque City Council. of Downtown. I’m committed to providing on- 2. We need to take smart, bold action now to call behavioral health and homeless services address mental health and substance abuse. who can help our toughest cases for CNM Governing Board There are too few options outside of law neighborhoods. District 6: Virginia Trujillo ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF ERIC WILLIAMS PHOTOGRAPHY enforcement, jail and emergency rooms. These 1. My 50 years of experience in early stopgap options are expensive for taxpayers childhood education all the way through City Council District 2: Isaac Benton and exacerbate the trauma a person is workforce development has prepared me for 1. I’ll build upon my record of honesty and experiencing while failing to address their this position. I have served on many boards, diligent work on behalf of our district and city. underlying problem. To cope, many turn to both locally and nationally. That experience That record speaks for itself—no matter who’s drugs and many will face homelessness. It’s has prepared me for my position on the CNM been Mayor, or who my colleagues are on the even worse for veterans, who are 1.5 times governing board. I truly love CNM and all it Council, I’ve fought to keep moving forward more likely to die by suicide. I support does for students, no matter what age they an agenda of public safety, affordable housing, increased funding for APD’s specialty units come to us. This truly makes a difference in infrastructure modernization and our like Crisis Intervention Units and COAST people’s lives and propels them to success. It environment. I’m running against five (Crisis Outreach and Support Teams) and helps Albuquerque and New Mexico with opponents and their PAC’s, who are trying to implementing a “no-wrong-door” policy to economic development. knock my record. I encourage voters to fact- streamline resources and services for those 2. The first issue I’m going to tackle is to work check opponents’ claims for themselves at entering and exiting hospitalization and with the Governing Board to hire a new bentonforabq.com/fact-check. incarceration. president for CNM. Our president, Dr. Kathie 2. I’ll continue my work on the combined Winograd, is retiring. What huge shoes to fill! challenge of behavioral health, addiction and District 6 City Council: Pat Davis Dr. Winograd has done an exemplary job in homelessness. My priorities include 1. Every politician thinks their ideas are great, propelling CNM into excellence! We must fill constructing emergency shelters and health so perhaps it’s best to ask others who watch District 8 City Council: Maurreen Skowran those shoes with someone who can build on triage facilities in partnership with county and the council and see how we really work. Every 1. The Marine Corps taught me about her success while understanding our New state governments. We must provide single endorsing organization, including leadership and fostered a desire to serve. As a Mexico and CNM culture! a

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BY AUGUST MARCH General Obligation Bond: Metropolitan Redevelopment Bonds * • $8,080,00 in general obligation bonds to ear Citizens: support the redevelopment of Metropolitan Here’s a peek at this year’s ballot. D properties including the Albuquerque Railyards. District 2 City Council General Obligation Bond: Senior/Family • Steven Baca Centers. Homeless Center * • Isaac Benton * • $21,705,000 in GO bonds to enhance, • Joseph R. Griego improve or build community centers for • Robert Blanquera Nelson families, youth, senior citizens and the • Zachary Quintero homeless? • Connie Vigil General Obligation Bond: Parks and Rec * District 4 City Council • $16,830,000 in GO bonds to develop, • Brook L. Bassan • Athena Ann Christodoulou improve or enhance public parks, swimming • Ane C. Romero * pools open space areas, median and bikeways District 6 City Council in Burque? • Patrick M. Davis * General Obligation Bond: Energy and • Gina Naomi Dennis Water Conservation * District 8 City Council • $10,420,000 in GO bonds to finance the • Trudy E. Jones modernization and upgrade of city facilities • Maurreen Skowran * with an eye toward conservation and CNM District 2 renewables? • James. A. Chavez (Unopposed) General Obligation Bond: Libraries * CNM District 4 • $8,764,000 to improve libraries in Annette Chavez y Del La Cruz Albuquerque? (Unopposed) General Obligation Bond: Street Bonds * CNM District 6 • $32,930,000 million in GO bonds to • Layne McAdoo renovate and modernize municipal roads and • Virginia Trujillo associated properties? APS District 1 General Obligation Bond: Public • Madelyn Jones Transportation Bonds * • Yolanda Montoya-Cordova • About $3 million in GO bonds to APS District 2 improve public transportation around town? • Lauretta Harris Transportation Gross Receipts Tax • Peggy Muller-Aragon • Shall the City of Albuquerque renew a APS District 4 one-quarter of one percent gross receipts tax • Laura Carlson specifically dedicated to road infrastructure • Verland Coker improvements, ADA improvements, public • Barbara Petersen transit as well as trails and bikeways Ciudad Soil and Water Conservation improvement? District Proposition 1 * Supervisor 1: Maria Christina Young • Proposition 1 would update the language (Unopposed) of the Open and Ethical Elections Act. Supervisor 2: Thomas Ivey Allen Proposition 2 * (Unopposed) Proposition 2 would update the language of At Large Supervisor the Open and Ethical Elections Act to provide • Daniel A. Conklin eligible residents with “Democracy Dollars.” • Daniel F. Lyon APS General Obligation Bond * • Shall the Board of Education of General Obligation Public Safety Bond * Albuquerque Public Schools be authorized to • More than $8.5 Million in GO Bonds for issue $1 million in general obligation bonds? use by the police and fire departments to APS Capital Improvements Tax * improve equipment and facilities? Shall the district continue collecting $2 in General Obligation Bond: Museum and property taxes from each $1,000 of net taxable Cultural Facilities * value of property in the Albuquerque • $1,790.000 in general obligation bonds to Municipal School District? maintain, expand, enhance and otherwise CNM General Obligation Bond * improve City-owned museums and cultural CNM wants to issue general obligation facilities? bonds in an amount not to exceed $84 million General Obligation Bond: to keep the school at its best. Affordable Housing * • $5,050,00 in general obligation bonds to * Weekly Alibi endorsed a support the Workforce Housing Act? OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 6, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [9] FOUND OBJECTS ARTS | INTERVIEW BY CLARKE CONDÉ Zombies All Over the Place Flamencografia Flamenco Through the Lens of Jared Kellog BY CLARKE CONDÉ

hotographer Jared Kellog’s new project P takes a look at the art of flamenco dance here in Albuquerque. Partnering with Flamenco Works, he has applied the craft of traditional black and white film photography to show the grace and passion of the dance. The collaboration has resulted in a combination art exhibit and performance that takes place on Nov. 3 at Casa Perea Art Space in Corrales. Weekly Alibi sat down with Kellog to talk about his inspiration, technique and the art of flamenco. The following is an edited version of that conversation.

PHOTO RUSSELL MAYNOR Weekly Alibi: How did you begin this project? Is that person an actor playing a zombie, a Jared Kellog: I went down a rabbit hole trying member of the audience dressed like a zombie or to find cool, historic photos of flamenco shows an actual zombie that wandered into the theater off Central? Those are the questions you can ask or flamenco artists from the 1800s. There’s not yourself at the Halloween performance of a lot to look at, or there’s not really a lot Zombie Attack! at Auxdog Theatre Nob Hill cataloged online I should say. I’ve been (3011 Monte Vista Blvd. NE) on Thursday, shooting flamenco artists for four or five years Oct.31 at 8pm. Tickets are $15, but only $5 if now digitally and I never took the time to take you show up dressed head-to-toe like a zombie it into the darkroom or really tried to like build with face paint and a zombie grin. For more an art around it. I wanted to take it a step information and tickets, see auxdogtheatre.org. further. My goal was to highlight what Flamenco Works is doing in the South Valley. They’re right there. A lot of people don’t Two at Relic realize this, but this dance has been here since Jodie Herrera brings two series to the walls of the 1400s, since the Spanish came to New Relic (117 Seventh Street NW) on Friday, Nov. 1 with an opening reception from 5pm to 9pm. The Mexico. It’s a part of their culture. I feel like first is her work Women Across Borders which Flamenco Works is trying to step up and fill a focuses on the refugee and immigrant issues hole that’s there right now in the South Valley that face the subjects in her work. The second is and give the youth the ability to come in, learn a collection of oil paintings straight out of her and carry that culture on. subconscious mind. For more information on this Because I’m also an advocate for film free, all-ages event, see jodieherrera.com. photography, I wanted to incorporate the two together. I thought it would be better to have a gallery in the flamenco show and kick it off by Getting Lost actually using some of the youth that are in the If you had one shot or one opportunity to see classes that do the dancing. I photographed everything you ever wanted in One Moment, One Chance - New Work by Bruce Carpenter, them, took the negatives into the darkroom would you capture it or just let it slip? and made prints. They’re all 11 inches by 14 Fortunately, the stakes are rarely that high when inches, hand printed. it comes to art exhibits here in Albuquerque and the reception for Bruce Carpenter’s New Work at Are you using 35 millimeter? Remarque: New Grounds Print Workshop (3812 I’m using 120 millimeter. Six by five. These are JARED KELLOG Central Ave. SE Ste. 100B) on Friday, Nov. 1 all handmade, hand dodged, hand printed, students can do, what he’s teaching the youth from 5pm to 8pm is but your first opportunity to right on a gelatin silver, black and white. Flamencografia see these large-scale, East Asian-inspired prints. Exhibit and performance and hopefully get some insight and some fire Join Carpenter for a talk about his work at 6pm Nov. 3, 6:30pm behind it. For me, I know how film is. It’s going on opening night. For more information on this Did they approach you for the project or Casa Perea Art Space to last forever. I’ll have these negatives free, all-ages event, see remarqueprintshop.com. did you approach them? 4802 NM 448, Corrales protected. They’re going to last hundreds of I approached them. years. I’ll have a cool document of flamenco Might Be Your Type curators of that venue, they thought it was an history here in Albuquerque Were they into it right away? awesome idea. They had a flamenco show there The ABQwerty Type Writer Society gathers up Right away. In flamenco, the stillness is as important as their collection of classic 20th century before, but they never had anything like a full typewriters, brings them down to Pennysmiths gallery show and a dance show. the movement. When you were capturing Paper (4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW) and lets Then it was just into the logistics of how to these images, were you cognizant of that? people try typing something out the way it used put the thing together? How will this work on the day of this Did that inform your approach? to be done at their Fall Type Out event. Luddites, What actually kicked it off is when I met the performance? Is the gallery adjacent to the Sure. I brought a lot of film. I spent a lot of steampunks, antiquarians and like-minded types owners of Casa Perea, because this all ties performance? Is it incorporated within it? time in the darkroom, saying no to this hankering for a carriage return to the past can together with the history of Albuquerque. Casa The first of November kicks off my gallery negative and yes to this negative. One of the check out the collection at this free, all-ages Perea is one of the oldest houses in Corrales. event from 1pm to 4pm on Sunday, Nov. 3. Be show. The third is really for Flamenco Works to ways I approach it is I let them direct the They’re trying to get into the art gallery scene. come in and show everybody what his shoot. I’m just behind the camera. I didn’t use sure to bring plenty of white-out. For more Talking to Bernadette and Martha, they’re the information, see pennysmiths.com. a [executive director and instructor Jesús Muñoz any artificial lighting. [10] WEEKLY ALIBI OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 6, 2019 ARTS | INTERVIEW Where did you shoot? There is no culture in Missouri. At Casa Perea. Not at all. I’m sure other people will disagree with me on that, but that’s just my perspective. Where the performance is taking place? Talk about culture shock for me. I really Yes. I thought it was pretty cool to tie all three wanted to learn about it. It was just really cool together. That was my idea. I let them do their to see something that was way before the thing. I don’t know the poses of flamenco. I history of my town, right in my state. I just felt don’t know them by name. I just know when to like the performance was very black and white. shoot the shutter and what my aperture should There was a lot of color in the dance, but I felt be set at. So, that’s how I approached it. I let I wanted to show the silhouettes of the artists them do their dance. We shot for probably themselves, the poses and how much work three or four or five hours and then we went back and did another shoot. It’s in the they put into it. development process from there. What do you want audiences to take away In flamenco there is, I don’t want to say it’s from the pairing of the performance and a schism, but there is traditional flamenco the still images? and a more modern form that has When I look at the photos, especially one of developed. The same can be said for the photos I call “The Guitarist”–the guitar is photography. You’re using an older form. the most important instrument in flamenco. I Is there a correlation between the form didn’t want to highlight his face. I just wanted that they’re using and the technique to highlight the instrument itself. I want to you’re using? speak to people out there who may not know Yeah, absolutely. That’s a good point. They are flamenco very well. Like people from my using modern techniques in their dance for background. It’s very intimate. One to two sure. Flamenco way back in the day was a artists at a time. I want you to see and feel as if family thing. It was a family gathering. People you were there at a flamenco show. I’m trying just gathered around and started singing and to honor the art instead of just taking a picture the dancing. It wasn’t a theatrical performance on my phone and posting an Instagram. I’m at that point. With the poses that they’re really trying to highlight the art itself. doing now, it’s more modern. It’s adjacent to this time that we’re in, but I’m capturing in an Did you discover you captured the decisive older format. moment in the camera or in the darkroom? It’s really both. I shot a lot inside Casa Perea. If Why did you choose to use black and white film? you go there, you’ll notice it’s very dark and Very simple. When I first witnessed flamenco, there are only a few skylights. The camera that the passion and the dedication that people put I have, it doesn’t have a very fast shutter speed. into their performance was very black and When they’re dancing, they’re moving, but I white. It’s right there. It’s not something you didn’t want to limit them or hold them and bar can fake. It’s super intense. I was blown away, them to just do strict poses. But there are for someone who’s coming from a background pauses in flamenco where they really stretch like mine. themselves in that pose. That’s when I was executing my shutter. The artists themselves You grew up in Missouri? were perfect. I couldn’t have asked for a better I grew up in Missouri. models, or I should say dancers? a

JARED KELLOG OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 6, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [11] ARTS | MAGNIFIED Missing You Mick Burson’s “Letter Writing Station”

“Letter Writing Station” by Mick Burson PHOTO BY CLARKE CONDÉ

BY CLARKE CONDÉ Wend Opening reception hat is it about traveling that so often Friday, Nov. 1, 6-8pm leads to longing for something missed? Richard Levy Gallery W 514 Central Ave. SW Is it simply the physical departure from normal routine that allows the mind to were made as he went along using whatever venture into the recesses of the past, of paths was handy, reflecting both the materials and not taken or of people who have somehow conditions at the time of their creation. Upon slipped away over time? A case can be made completion of each work, he would box it up that gaining new experiences requires a and ship it back to the Richard Levy Gallery subconscious reordering of the old. Maybe it is where it would be unpacked and set aside for necessary that you leave behind something to the show. It is an old and clever way of making gain something new. It is the argument that a travel log. Now you can own a little bit of Burson’s journey. Though, at its root, the the late theoretical physicist Stephen contemporary art market is all about offering a Hawking made about the difficulties of time glimpse and slice of every artist’s journey. travel. It is tough to get past that pesky “Letter Writing Station” is different from the conservation of mass that keeps us with a rest of the work in this exhibit. It is interactive finite quantity of material to work with. and not for sale. In fact, it is an experience you Mick Burson traveled the world making the share with someone not there. Desk, mailbox, art that is in the show Wend, opening this postcards, stamps; it is an invitation for you to Friday at the Richard Levy Gallery. Consisting write a letter to someone. It is your opportunity of sculptures, paintings, photographs and to send back a brief, tangible thought to someone drawings, the exhibit is a multi-media you know elsewhere. In this piece, Burson offers convergence of items constructed as he you the opportunity to take his place and be on continued his, in his words, “life-long the shipping side of the shipping/receiving art performance of wandering around while equation he has created in Weld. To complete appearing to have a destination.” The works this work, all that is missing is you. a [12] WEEKLY ALIBI OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 6, 2019 COMEDY | COMEDY MATTERS Superpowers and Hot Orphans Nikki Glaser Set To Play Four-show Run at Santa Ana Star

little too long. Now as an adult, I know that Lightning Round: there’s nothing wrong with me. Instant Date Ender? Has that ever affected your relationships or If they shame me about being a vegan, trying even made people have preconceived not to laugh at my jokes or being like “I notions or expectations? thought you’d be funnier” or anything like that Yes, I think that I tend to think like, “Why don’t where it’s like they insult the one thing I’m men want to get close to me? Well, maybe they good at or a guy talking about his mom too don’t want to be talked about in your act.” I much. I’m looking for a guy with a dead mom. definitely think that there’s some people that I dated a guy that was a legit orphan and it was don’t even want to consider dating me. I think the hottest thing about him, that he had no that a lot of times, though, it makes certain immediate family to deal with. people want to talk to me and want to get to know me. I feel like some guys like think that Favorite thing about being on tour? I’m super-sexual because they don’t really listen I like meeting fans after shows who I really to what I’m saying about sex. People think I’m a made a connection with through my podcast, sex comic and there are a lot of people that where they feel like they know me. I like think I’m just a huge whore, and they like to meeting girls who cry when they meet me talk to me about things they’d like to do to me. I because I know that feeling of meeting mean, you should read my DMs. They’re so someone who means a lot to you. It brings me disgusting. A lot of people think that I’m this so much joy to give these girls hugs when hypersexual person, which I am. Like I think they’re shaking and they’re saying, I’ve listened about sex a lot, but I’m not someone who sleeps to everything you’ve done. It’s just so nice to around and has one-night stands. I almost feel see those people because you don’t even know like kind of a fraud. I call myself a dormant they’re out there until you meet them. whore. It just, it seems like I’m super comfortable with sex, but I’m actually the most Tickets for the show are $20-$30 and uncomfortable with it. And that’s kind of why I are available now at want to talk about it all the time. thestageatthestar.com. a

Nikki Glaser meshes her uncomfortability with charm to create a unique style of comedy. LUKE FONTANA

BY DAN PENNINGTON interested in talking about. I think that I talk so honestly onstage that people understand that if I’m talking about sex, it’s not coming from a resh off the release of Nikki Glaser: Bangin’ on place to purely titillate or shock. I think that as FNetflix this month, Glaser is touring North long as you’re doing something honestly, and America, bringing her unique comedy to that there’s a tone that you’re delivering it with, Santa Ana Star Casino Hotel (54 Jemez Canyon it’s like, I’m excited about this. And this is what Dam Rd.) for four shows on Nov. 1 and 2, at I want to talk about. This is what I’m interested 7pm and 9:30pm. For those who haven’t had the in. chance to listen to her, Glaser finds the most uncomfortable moments in life to drag onstage Is it hard to be so candid onstage about your and turn into comedy gold, and does so most embarrassing moments? effortlessly. Her unique brand of story-telling You know? Yes, and at the same time, no, it’s mixed with expressive actions makes for one of not. I honestly feel like I have a superpower in the most enjoyable acts you can see, leaving you which I just do not get embarrassed to share no excuse for not going to one of the shows things that other people are very much while she’s here. We were lucky enough to get embarrassed to share. I mean, there are some an interview with her about her act and life on things that I don’t share because they’re too the road. close to or they’re just too tragic, or whatever it BEHIND THE is. But I don’t have the same filter that other Weekly Alibi: You talk a lot about sex, and I people have with sex. I was just a huge prude my wanted to figure out from your perspective, whole life. I was scared of sex. I never thought I SCENES OF how are you able to talk about it so could have it. I wanted to and I was interested in constantly without it becoming schticky? it and I was so excited to learn anything about it. I think that’s why I’m still talking about sex so Nikki Glaser: I often do feel categorized by just openly is because I wish people would have been LOCAL ART that, and a lot of people seem to think that more open about this when I was growing up. It that’s all I do or talk about, and I appreciate that was just so shameful and tucked away, and then I you think that I’m more than that, because I feel felt bad if I snuck watching some porn, or if I like I am, too. I mean that’s just what I’m was on the jungle gym and I humped a bar a on alibi.com OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 6, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [13] WEEKLY SPECIALS FOOD | FOOD FEELINGS BY DAN PENNINGTON Rapid Fire This Mission Just Got a Lot Why is the week of Halloween always so busy?! I’ve been doing nothing but running from one side of town to the next. So, instead of my usual exposition-heavy pieces, here’s a bunch of local food bits for you to gnaw on while I take off to More Possible my next appointment. Or Why You Should Support Burger King’s Impossible Whopper Day of the Sad This is Dia de los Takos’ last week in their BY HOSHO MCCREESH current home at Albuquerque Indoor Karting. This has been a favorite for a long time, and while they’re not going away forever (they’ll be m ... Burger King?! From an underground, running their food truck at various Marble only-local-loving gourmand?! locations), a part of us is sad we can no longer U stop in for a quick bite to eat. Believe it. In many ways, the dining landscape is a lot more challenging to navigate these days, both Stop! Decorate and Listen! for diners and restaurants alike. Food allergies, intentional food choices and even politics play On Oct. 30, there will be a Cookie Decorating Class at Indian Pueblo Cultural Center (2401 out on our forks and our plates. In many ways, Twelfth Street NW) from 6pm-7:30pm. This we eat what we have time for and what can collaborative event with Rude Boy Cookies will afford. Call it cuisine classism: Fast food is for feature Rachel Moore giving a presentation working folks while organic, plant-based about the IPCC, and then discussing the provisions are reserved for the privileged. patterns and designs that you’ll use to decorate Throw in some larger planetary concerns like your six cookies. Additionally, part of the proceeds from this event support fundamental climate change, the virtue-signalling (real or IPCC programming. Tickets are on sale now imagined) of very specific diets and even a through holdmyticket.com for $45 each. cost-benefit analysis of the industrial meat industry, and it seems that sitting down to a It’s not impossible to find joy at Burger King, it turns out. TONY WEBSTER meal among individuals with disparate stances can feel fraught—even daunting. As an Dracula Sucks But This Doesn’t with identical toppings, ordered at the same Pesci’s character in Lethal Weapon 2 is often omnivore, I don’t have strong personal feelings The Los Lunas Public Library (460 Main St. time from the same spot. Then cut both in quoted regarding drive-thrus, “You’ll be miles NE) is running the Dracula Denture Cookie either for or against eating meat, but as a half, switch with your partner—keeping track away before you find out” they didn’t give you Assembly on Oct. 31, from 3pm-4:30pm. Go person who exists in the world with other of which of their sandwiches is which. Now your damn onion rings. Again, as a person who support your local library, and make vampire people who won’t always agree, I believe that teeth snacks. Why not? both of you try each sandwich, with your eyes exists in the world with other people, I can’t being considerate, and giving people options closed and a quick palate cleanse between, to get too worked up over that. We know what they are comfortable with is a commendable note differences—and see if you can identify we’re getting when we choose to eat fast food, middle ground to seek out. which ’wich is which. Repeat bites, with eyes and it’s typically the ease and the cost that Turn, Turn, Turn! So why Burger King? Why fast food? Two open now, with comparative analysis in mind justify the decision. It does bear mentioning It’s with a heavy heart that we say farewell to reasons: The first time I tried an Impossible our springtime friends at the Downtown again. that, as far as fresh toppings like tomatoes and burger I was utterly convinced they’d gotten Growers’ Market at Robinson Park for the year, The results? Both test subjects were onions go, Burger King does them as well as my order wrong! Secondly, without wading too as this weekend will be their last for 2019. Yes, correctly able to distinguish the Impossible anyone in fast food. they’ll be doing a three-week run at the Fusion far into the politics of climate change, it’s a Whopper from the regular Whopper, though In a larger sense, there are probably folks Theatre for a winter market, but it’s just not the question not of stance but rather of game both felt that it could truly only be done by you love who strictly adhere to plant-based same. Thankfully, it’ll be jam packed from 8am theory for me. Forget who is right. The better tasting each side by side. If you had one, then diets. If that’s true, then Burger King is to noon with a ton of activities, including live question is what happens if we’re wrong? The music, food and the pumpkin smash. And what had the other days later, you’d be hard-pressed offering—in the most unobtrusive way answer—if you don’t believe in climate change is the pumpkin smash? to zero in on the differences. Both felt the possible—an opportunity to join them. Maybe and that position ends up being wrong—is regular Whopper had a texture—maybe even we don’t have to give up meat entirely, but destroying the only world we have. That, the slightest bit of gristle—as the main giving it up around loved ones who don’t eat among other things, has me looking for ways Smash It difference, along with a subtle preservative- meat feels like something worth trying. And to reduce my personal carbon footprint. Ooooooh, yeah! type umami note. The Impossible Whopper, how often does doing something good have So kudos to Burger King for pulling off Bring your while a pretty darn spot-on approximation of the potential to impact business practices what feels like a significant step in a now- pumpkins to the the leaded version, is obviously made up of when it comes to the meat industry and smashing ring shifting paradigm. Because while there are more things, adding a touch more interest to possibly the environment as well? Should and crush them! Impossible burgers to be had at breweries and track in the overall bite. It also “eats” just the Burger King’s venture into the plant-based Become the restaurants city-wide, cost can obviously be a tower of power, smallest touch “lighter” as a sandwich, despite prove profitable, how many more fast food barrier to entry. Most folks don’t want to too sweet to be the Impossible Whopper looking and grilling corporate boardrooms will be forced to finally gamble on a $12 non-burger when what sour. Act funky darker and possibly even remaining thicker. I take a serious look at plant-based alternate they’re hungry for is a burger. But starting at like a monkey. encourage everyone to try the test themselves options as viable menu items—even if solely Remember, the $5.49, just a touch north of the regular because (and I’m as surprised as anyone to say to compete for those dollars? And how many, sky’s the limit Whopper (as tested, $6.69 with cheese and this) I prefer the Impossible Whopper to the when pressed, might deliver items that taste as and space is the green chile), its low-cost territory to try out place! Give it a regular one. good or better than what they built their the theory. And it’s impact is scalable. Both rear rocket, As an additional test on consistency, I tried worldwide business on? For those reasons, I see ROB DICATERINO ROB had me convinced that it was worth some smash that Impossible Whoppers from a few different supporting these terrifically tasty replacements, Ooooh yeah focused scrutiny. pumpkin, ooooh, locations, dining in and driving-through. As is as a win-win—one that might trigger an yeah! Turn your tools into crusher creators, too So first up was a double-blind, side-by-side typical of the fast-food experience, there was industry-wide ripple effect. So much so, in hot to handle, too cold to hold! The madness is taste test. I had to know. I had to see if, no real difference in the food—with locations fact, I’m willing to risk my underground running wild! Turn those pumpkins into the indeed, they got my order wrong that first cream of the crop! Give them the Billy Corgan delivering the product their giant corporate gourmand credentials on it. So go forth, all ye time. The set-up was pretty simple: Buy an treatment while you do your grandstandin’ and conglomerate demands—though of course hungry and curious ... go forth and eat it Impossible Whopper and an original Whopper hot doggin’, ooooooooh! a there are human differences in staff. As Joe forward. a

[14] WEEKLY ALIBI OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 6, 2019 FOOD | FOOD FOR THOUGHT The King and Pie A Story of Pie, Royalty and Making Do BY DAN PENNINGTON

’m lucky to already have a lot of interesting Istories at my age. It’s no small feat to have a repertoire of occurrences like mine by the age of 30. But that pales in comparison to my family, and in this case, my grandma, Vivian. Stories deserve to be shared, so I hope you won’t mind me sharing this one. This is the story of when her and two other women cooked dinner for the King and Queen of Thailand and their entourage of 34 people. Here’s the scene. In 1953, my grandpa Preach Pennington accepted a job in Thailand working for the Thai government as a heavy equipment specialist. He brought along my grandmother, my father (conveniently also named Dan) and my uncle Ron. Unfortunately, they found out they would be living 180 miles north in a small village called Chainot where the dam was being built. So for the next two years, that’s where my West Virginia-born and raised grandparents went to Vivian in Charleston, WV, 1942 live. What they found was a village deep in the jungle, with a house that was 14 feet up off their stay for another year and the completion the ground because of annual floods and a of the dam and its dedication. During that home to a 15-foot king cobra. At the age of 30 time my Aunt Anong was born–she was given with two kids (aged six and one-and-a-half a Thai name. years old) she set to figuring out how her new None of this has mentioned the King, but I life would be. Her “new kitchen” had a sink feel the scene needs to be set to understand that hung out the back window and drained to just how impressive what she pulled off was. the ground below and no stove top or oven, The King of Thailand (Bhumibol Adulyadej), though it did have three charcoal braziers. his Queen (Sirikit Kitiyakara) and their Thankfully, there was another American entourage were coming to review the family, a German engineer, three British completed dam site and dedicate the dam and families, and of course Thai engineers and asked that a dinner be prepared. A cousin of their families also living on site. the king who had attended school in the With no proper grocery stores for hundreds States recommended chicken pot pie. And so of miles, she relied on feeding the family via it came to be that three women from her local farmers’ market, with open air stalls Albuquerque—Laura Newcomer, Mary Yates and local produce to work with. This included and Vivian Pennington—were set to make a a butcher’s stall, where they could buy fresh down home feast fit for a King. Thankfully, my water buffalo as well as stalls with arrays of grandmother was very good at making chicken new spices to try. My dad was just beginning to pot pie. They were cooked in the hand-made speak and he was learning Thai as fast (or ovens, as well as creating a hand-churned ice faster) than he was learning English so he cream rendition of the red, white and blue- would act as a translator between my striped Thai flag crafted for the occasion. The grandmother and Sart, the cook. Grandma freezer that was holding the ice cream would take her cookbook to the village and unfortunately broke down as dinner started, so point to the cuts of meat she wanted, and the the group had purple milkshakes for dessert butcher would pull that particular beast from instead. the hook, and off she’d go with the freshest How did they like it? In what was arguably meat she’d ever find, wrapped in banana leaves a scene straight out of a video game, all three of course. women were individually rewarded with a bag My grandpa made her an oven from sheet of gold-dipped coins, and the Queen told metal and gauges from Caterpillar tractors that Vivian that she thought the pot pie was very she could place above the braziers to regulate good. This has been an enduring memory for heat for baking. Using her cookbooks and the my grandmother throughout her 96 years of homemade oven, she taught Sart to bake all life that she stills talks about to this day. My her traditional favorites. Condiments were grandparents continued traveling the world made from scratch. Cinnamon came from a before finally returning to their adopted footlong piece of cinnamon bark, ground by hometown of Albuquerque. Maybe if they had hand. Her determination helped her fall in come back to Albuquerque and started Thai love with Thailand, allowing them to extend Pies, I’d be reviewing that. a

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FRIDAY NOV 1 ART FOR THE ANCESTORS THE ART OF GRATITUDE Albuquerque’s favorite time of year is here What could be a better way to kick off the giving season than again. Celebrate Dia de los Muertos by checking with an art exhibition celebrating gratitude? Ghostwolf Gallery out some holiday-inspired art at a special Day in Old Town honors just such a thing with its aptly titled of the Dead-themed ABQ Artwalk. From 5 to Gratitude show. This multi-artist exhibition features depictions 11pm on Friday, Nov. 1, check out the creative of what each is grateful for, whether that’s a warm place to side of life in Albuquerque while celebrating sleep, a stranger’s kindness, family and friends or the love that those we’ve souls lost along the way. See surrounds them. The show opens on Friday, Nov. 1, with a exhibits and watch performances along Central reception from 5 to 8pm, and remains on display through Nov. Avenue between Second and Seventh Street. As 30 with daily viewing hours from 11am to 6pm. A portion of always, the Artwalk is free and open to art lovers the gallery’s proceeds this month are being donated to local of all ages. Ghosts are also welcome. Learn charities in light of this warm and bountiful season. This free more at abqartwalk.com. DOWNTOWN ALBUQUERQUE event is for those 18 or older. Find out more at ghostwolf.gallery. CENTRAL AVE. BETWEEN 2ND AND 7TH ST., 5 TO 11PM GHOSTWOLF GALLERY 2043 S PLAZA ST NW, 5 TO 8PM alibi.com/v/6w7m. alibi.com/v/6wf3. (Joshua Lee) a (Mayo Lua de Frenchie) a IMAGE COURTESY OF GHOSTWOLF GALLERY SATURDAY NOV 2

TO REVEL NOT MOURN VELKOMMEN MEANS Dia de los Muertos is a time to revive our lost BIENVENIDOS loved ones in our hearts. It is a day to be with our friends, family and community to remember and The Scandinavian Festival is Albuquerque’s own little celebrate the lives of those who have passed on. slice of Norwegian and Swedish life right here in The At South Broadway Cultural Center on Saturday, Duke City. Expect rosemaling folk art, Scandinavian Nov. 2 from noon to 5pm, join others doing that dance performances and cookies with names you will there in Albuquerque as Goldie Garcia emcees a inevitably pronounce incorrectly the first time. Beyond public celebration that includes performances that, the fest features Scandinavian crafts, ornaments by Aztec dancers, mariachis and Ballet Folklorico and other holiday-type stuff from a part of the world Fiesta Mexicana, as well as a car show, face that has made an art out of surviving winter. Saturday, painting and, of course, food trucks. An art Nov. 2 from 10am to 4pm is the time and Nob Hill’s exhibit and displays of family ofrendas add to Immanuel Presbyterian Church is the place. For more the celebration. For more information on this information on this free (both admittance and parking), free, all-ages event, see cabq.gov/sbcs. SOUTH all-ages event, see facebook.com/NMRosemalers. BROADWAY CULTURAL CENTER 1025 BROADWAY BLVD SE, IMMANUEL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 114 CARLISLE BLVD SE, 10AM TO NOON TO 5PM alibi.com/v/6vuf. (Clarke Condé) a 4PM alibi.com/v/6o0j. (Clarke Condé) a IMAGE BY CLARKE CONDÉ IMAGE BY CLARKE CONDÉ

SUNDAY NOV 3 TUESDAY NOV 5 WEDNESDAY NOV 6 THEY’RE HERE LAND BEFORE TIME CELLO, Judy Collins is an American They were there at the beginning, and they’ll probably be there EVERYONE! cultural treasure. An authentic at the end. Come see Dinosaur Jr., the Alpha and Omega of alt member of the ’60s rock, as they burn a swathe across the musical landscape this Celloquacious is a counterculture who uses her Tuesday, Nov. 5, at El Rey Theater. Bear witness as the thing. That is, the word superpowers for good, Collins’ legendary trio and opener Easy Action perform miracles is both a symbol of a work as a singer-songwriter beyond mortal ken. Believers and skeptics of all ages are musical concept and is incomparable. A regular welcome. The show starts at 8pm. Tickets are $25. HISTORIC EL the name of a music of the Laurel Canyon REY THEATER 622 CENTRAL AVE SW, 8PM alibi.com/v/6wci. (Joshua Lee) a project created by cellist subculture that developed Keely Mackey. Simply in El Lay during those halcyon put, the term describes days, Collins’ lovingly someone who rendered covers of everyone communicates through from John Phillips and Joni IMAGE COURTESY OF THE ARTIST their cello, using Mitchell to Stephen amplification, loops and effects pedals to create original musical compositions that literally Sondheim—her rendition of IMAGE COURTESY OF THE ARTIST “Send In the Clowns” remains speak a new language. The language of the cello, as interpreted by one of the most potently plangent examples of high art in 20th century Mackey, represents a set of profound realizations about how we listen, American popular music—in the process working with and collaborating with what music means to us and what the experience offers to communities. some of the greats of the scene and establishing herself as the voice of a Mackey performs from her extensive oeuvre on Wednesday, Nov. 6 at generation and a tireless advocate for mental health and suicide prevention 5pm at the Albuquerque Public Library’s Main Branch Downtown. It’s issues. Collins performs on Sunday, Nov. 3 at 7:30pm at the National Hispanic a free, all-ages performance that’s guaranteed to stoke your winter- Cultural Center’s Journal Theater. Tickets for Collins’ memorable all-ages bound musical furnace with warm ideas and resonant sounds from an recital range in price from $42 to $94. NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER 1701 instrument whose sound has been compared to the human voice. MAIN FOURTH STREET SW, 7:30PM alibi.com/v/6wma. (August March) a LIBRARY 501 COPPER AVE NW, 5 TO 6PM alibi.com/v/6wez. (August March) a

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WELLNESS/FITNESS SELF SERVE How to Build Bedroom Confidence: A Two-Day Hands on Sex Skills Intensive. Sex educators Hunter Riley and Reid Mihalko offer a workshop to help develop the necessary skills for building healthy relationships, connections and resilient sexual self-confi- dence. 112 Morningside Dr NE. $150-$250. 10am-2pm. 18+. 265-5815. alibi.com/v/6vk4. VIBES STUDIO Salsa on Two Intensive with Lawrence Garcia. Learn salsa from the pros. $75. 11am. ALL-AGES! alibi.com/v/6vxt. Also, Beginning Salsa on Two Class with Liz Garcia. Connect, meet new people, express yourself, exercise and listen to fantastic music. $30. 11am-noon. ALL-AGES! alibi.com/v/6vxr. Also, Caribbean Nights Salsa and Bachata Dance Social. DJ Exquisite and DJ FNF and the entire Mambo Exquisite Dance Company provide music, COMMUNITY dancing and performances. 120 Madeira Dr NE. $10. 9-1pm. 21+. 934-1192. alibi.com/v/6vxw. CANNABIS THURSDAY OCT 31 SOURCE Medicinal Cannabis: Holistic Balance. This course with PLAZA VIEJA Halloween in Old Town. Creatures of all sorts gather instructor Rachel Furnari is intended to give herbalists beginning in a safe place for children to fill their candy bags. Participating basics of how and why this medicinal plant collaborates well with stores hand out candy to trick-or-treaters as a DJ spins spooky the human body. Registration is required. 1111 Carlisle Blvd SE. tunes in the gazebo. 200 N Plaza St NW. 4-6pm. ALL-AGES! $25. 10am-noon. alibi.com/v/6w8q. 768-3556. alibi.com/v/6w7p. KIDS BALLOON FIESTA PARK Trunk-or-Treat. A family-friendly event for monsters of all ages. 5000 Balloon Fiesta Parkway NE. 5-8:30pm. alibi.com/v/6v05. !EXPLORA! Spooky Science. Drop in for some spooky fun for the kids. Costumes without masks and that are not too scary for our youngest visitors are welcome. 1701 Mountain Rd NW. $6-$10. 3-5pm. ALL-AGES! 224-8300. alibi.com/v/6wb7. MAMA’S MINERALS Dia del Dulce. Kids trick-or-treat in Old Town and participate in the costume contest in Plaza Don Luis. Stop in and receive free crystal, rock and fossil bags. 800 20th Street NW. 4-7pm. ALL-AGES! 266-8443. alibi.com/v/6w8c. FRIDAY NOV 1 PENNYSMITHS PAPER Fountain Pen Day Celebration. Embrace, promote and share the use of fountain pens with Dan Pennington as he shares his knowledge, Sue Bulmer shows her collection and Crissi Letherer helps lefties find the perfect pen. 4022 Rio Grande SUNDAY NOV 3 Blvd NW. 11am-5pm. ALL-AGES! 345-2353. alibi.com/v/6we2. FAIRVIEW MEMORIAL PARK Day of the Dead Celebration. LEARN A family-friendly celebration with a procession to welcome NORTH DOMINGO BACA MULTIGENERATIONAL CENTER Duolingo deceased loved ones, mariachi, vintage cars and lowriders, Spanish and Ingles Event. Learn bilingualism in Spanish and English Mexican fare, face painting, an offrenda, healers, artists through conversation, film and music. 7521 Carmel Ave NE. and a host of activities. 700 Yale Blvd SE. 11am-3pm. 6:30-8pm. 13+. (540) 461-2276. alibi.com/v/6vkf. ALL-AGES! 933-4140. alibi.com/v/6vpj. SELF SERVE Designing Dates That Blow Their Mind. Sex educators Hunter Riley and Reid Mihalko host this class to help develop the necessary skills for building healthy relationships and thriving SUNDAY NOV 3 connections. 112 Morningside Dr NE. $20-$25. 7-9pm. 18+. 265-5815. alibi.com/v/6vk2. HYATT REGENCY TAMAYA RESORT, Santa Ana Pueblo Fall Horse- Drawn Wagon Rides. 1300 Tuyuna Trail. $0-$10. 11am. ALL-AGES! CANNABIS See 11/2 listing. LAS CRUCES CONVENTION CENTER, Las Cruces Southern New Mexico Cannabis Expo. Southern New Mexico and Southwest WELLNESS/FITNESS Texas’ largest B2B Cannabis and Hemp Expo! 680 E University NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE Ave. $10 General Admission • $5 w/ Medical Cannabi. Noon-5pm. My Generation Rx: Safe Medication Practices for Life. A family- ALL-AGES! 346-0660. alibi.com/v/6tgo. friendly presentation on the use and misuse of prescription medica- tions given by students from the UNM College of Pharmacy, Doctor of Pharmacy Program. 1801 Mountain Rd NW. 11am-noon. 13+. SATURDAY NOV 2 841-2840. alibi.com/v/6w3s. MONTE VISTA CHRISTIAN CHURCH A Benefit Calavera Dance SELF SERVE How to Build Bedroom Confidence: A Two-Day Hands to Support the Asylum Seekers at the Border. All proceeds go to on Sex Skills Intensive. 112 Morningside Dr NE. $150-$250. supplies for the families in need at the border. Enjoy a performance 10am-2pm. 18+. See 11/2 listing. by Tlacaelel Fuentes, puppets, a piñata, face painting and dance to featuring DJ Pancho Quiñones. 3501 Campus Blvd. NE. $10. VIBES STUDIO Salsa on Two Weekend Intensive. $75. Noon. 6-10pm. ALL-AGES! 417-4704. alibi.com/v/6vm8. ALL-AGES! Also, Beginning Salsa on Two Class with Liz Garcia. 120 Madeira Dr NE. $30. Noon-1pm. ALL-AGES! See 11/2 listing. KIDS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ALBUQUERQUE ABQ Family Dance. Enjoy an evening dancing with the entire family. MONDAY NOV 4 5520 Wyoming Blvd NE. $10. 6-8pm. ALL-AGES! 508-3262. LEARN alibi.com/v/6vxm. MARRIOTT-ALBUQUERQUE Southwest Veterans Business Confernce. LEARN Veterans are introduced the finanicng, franchising and business OUTPOST PERFORMANCE SPACE Publicity Workshop. Tom Guralnick law. 2101 Louisiana Blvd NE. 8am-5pm. 18+. 383-2414. draws from his 40 years of experience as a touring musician and alibi.com/v/6vjj. arts administrator, giving helpful hints to familiarize attendees with WELLNESS/FITNESS low-cost, professional approaches to publicizing work. 210 Yale ALBUQUERQUE SQUARE DANCE CENTER LGBTQIA Square Dance. Blvd SE. 11am-12:30pm. 18+. 268-0044. alibi.com/v/6vum. Wilde Bunch Square Dance Club holds an open house with basic OUTDOOR square dance calls and no partner required. All are welcome. 4915 ALBUQUERQUE OPEN SPACE VISITOR CENTER Anniversary Hawkins St NE. 7-9pm. 18+. alibi.com/v/6bgu. Celebration. Enjoy the festivities including music, birthday cake and family activites at the beautiful, local retreat. 6500 Coors Blvd NW. TUESDAY NOV 5 Noon-4pm. ALL-AGES! 897-8831. alibi.com/v/6w8t. WELLNESS/FITNESS PETS ALLEY KATS TAP COMPANY Rise of the Goddess Burlesque Class. ALBUQUERQUE MARRIOTT Fur Ball in Wonderland. Watermelon Learn the art of tease from leading members of th local burlesque Mountain Ranch’s 17th Annual fundraiser with live and silent auctions, scene. Topics change weekly and are for both new and experienced lucky duck prize pond, dinner and drinks. Well behaved pups are performers of all backgrounds. Pre-registration recommended. 222 welcome. Themed costumes highly encouraged. 2101 Louisiana Blvd Truman St NE. $10. 7:30-8:30pm. 18+. alibi.com/v/6wk7. NE. $89. 6:30pm. ALL-AGES! (562) 221-0055. alibi.com/v/6qj3.

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GRACE CHURCH Holly Days Craft Fair. Enjoy over 100 crafters, a food court and hand-crafted gifts for Christmas. ARTS & LIT 6901 San Antonio Dr. NE. Noon-5pm. ALL-AGES! 433-7450. alibi.com/v/6w3p. KIMO THEATRE Creative Bravos Awards. A premiere awards event for innovative artists featuring live performances followed, a food truck and full bar as well as live music from Le Chat Lunatique. 423 Central Ave NW. $10. 7pm. ALL-AGES! 768-3452. alibi.com/v/6w7r. ART OT CIRCUS GALLERY Les Belles Vampires: Art of Doran. Enjoy the photography of Doran as well as food vendors and a fab mini-artisan market featuring local artists and makers. 709 Central Ave NW. 5-9pm. ALL-AGES! 413-4643. alibi.com/v/6wad. TRAPDOOR PROJECTS Alicia Smith: Secondhand Ceremonies. See the work of this accomplished artist that dissolves roman- ticized tropes that deny indigenous women their complexity, while at the same time demonstrating their beauty and strength. 1120 Tijeras Ave NW. 5-7pm. ALL-AGES! alibi.com/v/6vws. YUCCA ART GALLERY First Friday Event. Celebrate pumpkin spice and everything nice with unique art and light refresh- ments. 2065 San Felipe St NW. 5-8pm. ALL-AGES! FRIDAY NOV 1 247-8931. alibi.com/v/6vt1. CONCHITA’S CAFE ArtFight: Dia De Los Muertos STAGE Fiesta. Enjoy a pop-up market, face painting, drinks AUX DOG THEATRE Zombie Attack. Director Art Tedesco brings by Hollow Spirits and live art on the patio as well as this comedy/horror extravaganza to life just in time for the tunes of Miss Lucy. 400 Gold Ave SW. 6-10pm. Halloween with lots of blood, body parts and guaranteed fun. ALL-AGES! 339-6774. alibi.com/v/6we4. 3011 Monte Vista Blvd NE. $10-$25. 8-9:30pm. 596-0607. alibi.com/v/6v84. THE ENGINE HOUSE THEATER, Madrid The Theater of Death Presents: Freakatorium, A Night of Human Oddities and Baffling Tales of the Bizarre. Local impresario Joe West and his production company present a brand new series of original short plays with music and circus sideshow in this evening of comedy, oddity presentation and macabre. 2846 Hwy 14. $20. 7-10pm. 21+. alibi.com/v/6umd. SONG & DANCE ELIZABETH WATERS CENTER FOR DANCE Paradigm Tilt. A student choreography concert featuring beautiful and inventive new work from the university’s prestigious dance department. 1 University Blvd NE. $8-$12. 7:30pm. ALL-AGES! 277-4332. alibi.com/v/6uo2. NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER Todd Snider. The Americana and folk singer-songwriter plays live with Dean Alexander opening. 1701 Fourth Street SW. 7:30-10pm. 246-2261. alibi.com/v/6o6n. LEARN EL VADO ABQ Guide to NM Architecture Launch Party. Enjoy drinks and culinary delicacies as well as a tour with access to FRIDAY NOV 1 sites generally not open to the public. 2500 Central Ave SW. DOWNTOWN ALBUQUERQUE ABQ Artwalk. Celebrate $8. 5:30-8pm. ALL-AGES! 274-4527. alibi.com/v/6wab. the holiday with plenty of Dia de los Muertos art JUAN TABO PUBLIC LIBRARY Dia de los Muertos Dolls. Make exhibits and art shows, including a featured event in sugar skull dolls as a symbol of this very special Barelas. Central Ave. Between 2nd and 7th St. holiday. Registration required. All materials supplied. For ages 5-11pm. ALL-AGES! alibi.com/v/6wf3. 12 and up. 3407 Juan Tabo Blvd NE. 3:30-5pm. 291-6260. alibi.com/v/6vl0. FILM ASUNM SOUTHWEST FILM CENTER, UNM Campus 15th THURSDAY OCT 31 Annual Audio/Visual Show. A variety show of original acts, SONG & DANCE supercolliding mediated image and live performance for a OUTPOST PERFORMANCE SPACE Options with Bennie night of media exploration and weirdness produced by Maupin, Eric Revis and Nasheet Waits. Hear live jazz from a Basement Films. 2401 Central Ave NE. $5. 7pm. 13+. trio featuring three long-time collaborators who span two 277-5608. alibi.com/v/6wgq. generations. 210 Yale Blvd SE. $20-$25. 7:30pm. NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND HISTORY ALL-AGES! 268-0044. alibi.com/v/6vuk. Godzilla vs. Mothra. Enjoy a screening of the film along with SOUTH BROADWAY LIBRARY Curtis McMurtry. Hear music food trucks, brews, Japanese Taiko drumming and info on the combining sardonic lyrics with unconventional arrange- history of Godzilla from a UNM film and digital arts lecturer. ments, integrating classical and jazz orchestration tech- 601 Eubank Blvd SE. 5-10pm. ALL-AGES! 245-2137. niques with the lyric-driven singer-songwriter style. 1025 alibi.com/v/6rfg. Broadway Blvd SE. Noon-1pm. ALL-AGES! 764-1742. alibi.com/v/6stx. SATURDAY NOV 2 FILM WORDS KIMO THEATRE Halloween at the KiMo. Tour this famous ALBUQUERQUE CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING haunted theater on Halloween night and cap it off with the SouthWest Writers Meeting Speakers: UNM Press Panel. Universal classic Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. 423 Central Ave NW. $5-$13. 5-9pm. ALL-AGES! 768-3452. Press editor Elise McHugh and marketing associate Bryce alibi.com/v/6w5q. Emley discuss the press’ trade publishing program, types of books in demand and marketing expectations for new authors. 10am-noon. ALL-AGES! alibi.com/v/6vkp. Also, FRIDAY NOV 1 SouthWest Writers Workshop: Social Media Marketing. B. RUPPE DRUGS Altar: Dia de Los Muertos Art and Experienced freelance writer Elizabeth S. Layton presents Celebration. Enjoy artist ofrendas, vendors, folklorico this workshop on selling and promoting writing skills to performances, music from DJ Mrvl and the Que Onda Trio, develop an author platform. 2801 Louisiana Blvd NE. food and beverages from Safehouse Distillery. 807 Fourth $20-$30. 12:30-2:30pm. ALL-AGES! 830-6034. Street SW. 5-9pm. ALL-AGES! alibi.com/v/6wf4. alibi.com/v/6vkq.

OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 6, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [19] LA LUNA BAKERY AND CAFE Above-Average Open Mic • TRACTOR BREWING WESTSIDE Kyle Martin • country, rock ’n’ SANDIAGO’S GRILL AT THE TRAM Bardo • classical guitar • 6pm 6:30pm • FREE • 13+ roll, Americana • 6pm • FREE • 21+ SEARED Dave Friedlander • jazz, bop • 6:30pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! LAUNCHPAD The KGB Wicked Witches Ball • 9pm COMEDY ARTS & LIT SISTER Big Thief • indie • 9pm • $19 MARBLE BREWERY DJ Battle and Halloween Dance Party • DJ KILT CHECK BREWING COMPANY The Brewery Comedy Tour • Flo Fader • hip-hop • DJ Bryan Davidson • 7pm • FREE • 21+ stand-up comedy • 8:30pm SUNSHINE THEATER The Wailers • reggae, ska • Burque Sol • DJ CONT. TRACTOR BREWING WELLS PARK First Fridays Comedy Contest • Buddhafunk • hip-hop, experimental, neo-soul • 8pm MINE SHAFT TAVERN, Madrid Halloween Dance Party • Desert stand-up comedy • 8pm STAGE Portal DJs • pop, dance • 8pm • $5 THIRSTY EYE BREWING COMPANY Dia De Los Muertos Fiesta • TRICKLOCK PERFORMANCE LABORATORY Headliners 505 Synyster Vail • singer-songwriter • 6pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! AUX DOG THEATRE Zombie Attack. 3011 Monte Vista Blvd RED DOOR BREWING CO. Halfway Decent Karaoke • 7pm • 21+ Comedy Presents Friday Night Fools • stand-up comedy • NE. $10-$25. 8-9:30pm. See 11/1 listing. RED VELVET UNDERGROUND South3rn Turpike3 Broth3rz • 9:30pm • $10 • 18+ TRACTOR BREWING CO. James McIntire Jazz Trio • jazz • 6pm THE ENGINE HOUSE THEATER, Madrid The Theater of Death variety • 7pm • $5 • 21+ TRACTOR BREWING WELLS PARK DJ Riff Rat • punk, new wave, Presents: Freakatorium, A Night of Human Oddities and glam, goth, ska, ’70s to ’80s, vinyl • 8pm Baffling Tales of the Bizarre. 2846 Hwy 14. $20. 7-10pm. RIO BRAVO BREWING COMPANY Boos and Brews • DJ 21+. See 11/1 listing. BuddahFunk • dance, soul • 7pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! TRACTOR BREWING WESTSIDE Jazz Brasilerio • Brazilian jazz, bossa SONG & DANCE SANDIAGO’S GRILL AT THE TRAM Luvin Life Duo • variety • 6pm nova • 6pm AFRICAN AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, Expo NM THIRSTY EYE BREWING COMPANY Spells and Brews • Tone COMEDY The NM Music Escape. Saxman and flutist Nelson Rangell cele- Ranger • electronic • Brendangerous • electronic • Ben Bitten • RED VELVET UNDERGROUND Saturday Stand-Up Spectacular • brates 30 years of music as well as For the Love of Q, a tribute Blue Sunshine • 7pm • FREE • 21+ to Quincy Jones. 310 San Pedro Dr NE. $50. 7:30pm. stand-up comedy • 9:30pm • $5 • 18+ ALL-AGES! (214) 641-7695. alibi.com/v/6w8n. TRACTOR BREWING WESTSIDE Kamikaze Karaoke • 7pm • FREE • 21+ ELIZABETH WATERS CENTER FOR DANCE Paradigm Tilt. 1 SUNDAY NOV 3 University Blvd NE. $8-$12. 7:30pm. ALL-AGES! See 11/1 listing. COMEDY CANTEEN BREWHOUSE Squash Blossom Boys • bluegrass, folk, KIMO THEATRE 2019 NM Music Hall of Fame Awards Show. STAGE @ SANTA ANA STAR, Bernalillo Stand-Up Comedy Americana • 4pm • FREE See the 2019 inductees live out their moments in the sun. Thursdays • 6pm • $10 • 21+ 423 Central Ave NW. 6:30-9:30pm. 768-3522. HOTEL ALBUQUERQUE Sage Cornelius • variety • 7:30pm • $20 • alibi.com/v/6w2l. FRIDAY NOV 1 ALL-AGES! BACKSTREET GRILL Gustavo Pimentel • Spanish jazz, flamenco, INSIDE OUT Dia de los Grateful Dead • Let It Grow • Grateful Dead SUNDAY NOV 3 classical • 6pm • ALL-AGES! tribute • 4pm • Barrio Soul Sunday • Latin beats • DJ Marv LaBoe • oldies, funk, soul, rap, disco • DJ De la Rosa • Slowlow J • 5pm CASA PEREA ART SPACE, Corrales Flamencografia. 4829 BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREWERY, Rio Rancho Dogbrain • blues, Corrales Rd. $50. 6:30pm. See 11/2 listing. rock • 7pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! KAKTUS BREWING COMPANY, Bernalillo Kaktus Kats Blues Jam • STAGE 3pm AUX DOG THEATRE Zombie Attack. 3011 Monte Vista Blvd NE. KILT CHECK BREWING COMPANY TobyRiffic Karaoke Show • 3pm • $10-$25. 2pm. See 11/1 listing. FRIDAY NOV 1 FREE • ALL-AGES! SONG & DANCE SISTER Twang • country, honky-tonk • Sum-Bum • Josh LAUNCHPAD JD Pinkus • variety • 8pm ELDORADO HIGH SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER G • 5pm • FREE Albuquerque Concert Band. An hour of fun and exciting music MOLLY’S BAR, Tijeras Last Minute Change • variety • 3pm • FREE • with special guest performer, percussionist Mike Schwebke. 21+ 11300 Montgomery Blvd. NE. Free. 3-4pm. ALL-AGES! alibi.com/v/6vwn. RED VELVET UNDERGROUND South3rn Turpike3 Broth3rz • variety • 7pm • $5 • 21+ TUESDAY NOV 5 FILM MONDAY NOV 4 LOMA COLORADO MAIN LIBRARY, Rio Rancho All My Rowdy BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREWERY WESTSIDE TAPROOM New Mexico Friends. Enjoy a screening of Ken Burns’ Country Music with Western Music Association Open Mic • 6pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! music historian Peter Chase. 755 Loma Colorado NE. 6:30-7:30pm. 18+. 891-5013. alibi.com/v/6w53. CANTEEN TAPROOM Brain Gang Trivia • 7pm • FREE • 18+ MOLLY’S BAR, Tijeras Cowboy Scott • country • 6pm • FREE • 21+ PIGGY’S SQUEEKEASY Open Mic in a Sober Space • 7pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! SISTER Black Mountain • rock, indie • 8pm • $18 TRACTOR BREWING WESTSIDE Breaking Bad Trivia • 7pm TRAIL RIDER PIZZA, Cedar Crest More Love Monday • variety • Bob THURSDAY OCT 31 Gray • 6pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! EFFEX NIGHT CLUB Haunted Halloween House Party • COMEDY DJ Ian Evan • pop, hip-hop • DJ Cody Fragua • DJ Chris RED DOOR BREWING COMPANY OG Monday: A Comedy Open de Jesus • 8pm Mic • stand-up comedy • 7:30pm • FREE • 21+ TUESDAY NOV 5 BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREWERY SECOND STREET TAPROOM NOV 2 BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREWERY, Rio Rancho Open Mic with Spiral Mike Butterfield and the 10 O’clock Blues • blues, rock • 7pm • SATURDAY Pilots • 7pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! FREE • 21+ HOTEL ANDALUZ Dr. Lucky’s Blue Revue • burlesque, BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREWERY WESTSIDE TAPROOM variety, drag • Cora Vette • Holly Rebelle • Mayo Lua de BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREWERY SECOND STREET TAPROOM MUSIC Weatherman Said • variety • 7pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! Frenchie • 8pm • $15-$35 • 21+ Open Mic with Todd Hohmann • 6pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! DIRTY BOURBON Dia De Los Muertos Party • Chauncey Jones • BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREWERY WESTSIDE TAPROOM Nostalgia THURSDAY OCT 31 variety • 6pm • $5 • 21+ Blue • variety • 6pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! B2B2 BARRIO Brain Gang Trivia • 6pm • FREE • 15+ HISTORIC EL REY THEATER Ski Mask the Slump God • hip-hop • SATURDAY NOV 2 DIRTY BOURBON The Lacs • country • 7pm 7pm B2B2 BARRIO UPTOWN Brain Gang Trivia • 6pm • FREE 50/50 COFFEE HOUSE Cosmic Pop-Up Presents: Dia De HISTORIC EL REY THEATER Dinosaur Jr. • indie rock • 8pm HOTEL ALBUQUERQUE Sage Cornelius • variety • 7:30pm • $20 • Muertos • DJ Clout • hip-hop • 6pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREWERY, Rio Rancho Rob Roman • ALL-AGES! MOLLY’S BAR, Tijeras Acoustic Open Mic Hosted by Steve Kinabrew • BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREWERY, Rio Rancho 2SicDudes • variety • variety • 4:30pm • The Chris Ravin Band • classic rock • 7pm • 6pm • FREE • 21+ FREE • ALL-AGES! HOTEL ANDALUZ Entourage Jazz • jazz, big band • 7pm • FREE • 21+ 4:30pm • Night Moves • indie pop, rock • 7pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! RED DOOR BREWING COMPANY Bring Your Own Vinyl • 6pm • FREE • LAUNCHPAD T.S.O.L. • Noogy • Get action • punk • 9pm BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREWERY WESTSIDE TAPROOM Trinity BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREWERY SECOND STREET TAPROOM 21+ 32K Karaoke with KJ Meagan Manning • 6pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! THE LIBRARY BAR & GRILL Brain Gang Trivia • 8pm • FREE • Soul • variety • 7pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREWERY WESTSIDE TAPROOM Austin 18+ DIRTY BOURBON Chauncey Jones • variety • 6pm • $5 • 21+ SISTER Dirty Honey • rock • 8pm • $12 Van • country • 6:30pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! 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Taylor • acoustic folk, blues • 6pm O’HARE’S GRILLE & PUB, Rio Rancho Brain Gang Trivia • 8:30pm • THIRSTY EYE BREWING COMPANY Benny Bassett • acoustic FREE • 18+ COMEDY DIRTY BOURBON Chauncey Jones • variety • 6pm • $5 • 21+ rock • 7pm • FREE • 21+ O’NIELL’S PUB, Nob Hill Homie Hangout Comedy Open Mic • stand- SAHARA MIDDLE EASTERN EATERY Community Belly Dance HIGH AND DRY BREWING Halloween Costume Contest • 7pm • TRACTOR BREWING CO. Malcolm Reese • acoustic • 6pm up comedy • 9:30pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! FREE • 21+ Show • Soulstice Belly Dance • dance, Middle Eastern • 6pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! [20] WEEKLY ALIBI OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 6, 2019 OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 6, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [21] REEL WORLD FILM | FILM REVIEW BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY Haunted Halloween Jojo Rabbit The Historic KiMo Theatre (423 Central Ave NW) celebrates Halloween night—Thursday, Oct. 31, of course—with a haunted tour and a Hitler was the funny one? Who knew? hilarious movie. First up is the annual ghost tour of the KiMo. It’s long been rumored that the 92- BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY year-old theater is inhabited by the ghost of a little boy named Bobby Darnell, who died in 1951 during a screening of an Abbot and Costello film. omedies set in and around World War II The tour runs from 5 to 6pm. Admission is $5. Germany are thin on the ground. People Tickets can (and should) be purchased in C are, understandably, still a bit touchy advance at kimotickets.com. After that, starting about Nazis and the Holocaust, and the vast at 7:30pm, the theater will attempt to lure Bobby’s ghost out into the open to watch the majority of filmmakers have chosen not to 1948 Universal film Abbott and Costello Meet look for humor in one of our planet’s darkest Frankenstein. (Relax, Bobby. It’s not that scary.) moments. Still, a few brave artists have In the film, the classic comedy duo cross paths attempted to bring laughs to a setting with Dracula (Bela Lugosi), Frankenstein’s normally reserved for serious war drama. Monster (Glenn Strange) and the Wolf Man (Lon Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator (1940), Chaney Jr.). Tickets for the film are $8 for adults and $6 for children and seniors. Ernst Lubitsch’s To Be or Not To Be (1942)— later remade with Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft in the lead roles (1983)—Jerry Go, Go, Godzilla! Lewis’ infamous, abandoned-in-the-vault project The Day the Clown Cried (1972) and Roberto Benigni’s Oscar winner Life Is Beautiful (1997) are among the few to dare. To that list you can now add Taika Waititi’s sweet, audacious and blissfully funny dramedy Jojo Rabbit. Based on New Zealand-Belgian author A boy and his führer Christine Leunens’ 2008 novel Caging Skies, Jojo Rabbit follows the coming-of-age As you might expect given just about adventures of 10-year-old Johannes Beltzer Jojo Rabbit any description of this film, Jojo Rabbit (cherubic discovery Roman Griffin Davis). Written and directed by Taika Waititi At the tail end of World War II, scrawny and shifts wildly in tone over its runtime. For Starring Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, some films, that’s a problem. Here, it’s kind undersized Jojo is sent off to Hitler Youth Scarlett Johansson, Taika Waititi The National Museum of Nuclear Science & of the point. Waititi isn’t particularly camp by his loving mother, Rosie (Scarlett Rated PG-13 History (601 Eubank Blvd. SE) puts its own Johansson). There, the boys learn important concerned with petty anachronisms (David Opens Friday 11/1. special stamp on Halloween by offering up its skills like “blowing stuff up,” while the girls Bowie and The Beatles, singing in German, favorite movie monster, Japan’s nuclear- powered lizard king Godzilla! NMNS&H screens are taught the value of “having babies for make up the bulk of the soundtrack). Nor is Germany.” Under the not-so-attentive sweet, innocent, soft-hearted kid caught up he interested in simply trading historical the 1992 daikaiju (giant monster, for those of in the seductive propaganda of the era. As you who don’t speak Japanese movie lingo) flick tutelage of Captain Klenzendorf (Sam accuracy for wacky humor. This is certainly one character pegs him, “You’re not a Nazi; Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth on Rockwell) and Fraulein Rahm (Rebel closer in look and feel to Wes Anderson’s you just want to wear a uniform and be part Friday, Nov. 1. There will be taiko drumming, food Wilson), our enthusiastic protagonist is childhood-tinted films Rushmore and trucks and beer from Bosque Brewing. The event regularly bullied, earns his titular nickname of a club.” takes place outside under the wings of the Thanks to the injuries suffered on his Moonrise Kingdom than to Mel Brook’s and manages to blow himself up with a hand broad, vaudevillian work on Springtime For historic airplanes in Heritage Park. Doors open grenade. Sent back home with a pronounced summer camp jaunt, Jojo is soon stuck at 5pm. Nathan Kosub, UNM adjunct lecturer in distributing fliers for the local Nazi Party Hitler in The Producers. Most of the credit Film and Digital Arts, will speak on the history of limp and a cluster of facial scars, Jojo is one sad little Nazi. (under the supervision of the sympathetic goes to Waititi, who has transitioned from Godzilla before the film at 5:30pm. Tickets are cult filmmaker (What We Do in the Shadows) $8 and can be purchased in advance by going to Fortunately, the kid has got himself a very Captain Klenzendorf, who was demoted after nuclearmuseum.org special imaginary friend who’s always there Jojo’s little accident). This keeps Jojo close to Hollywood breadwinner (Thor: to pick up his spirits. Whenever he’s down, to his doting mother and to home. It’s there Ragnarok) while still maintaining his Jojo imagines that Adolf Hitler himself that he discovers a dangerous secret: Mom is scrappy Kiwi charm. Redrum and Rum (played by writer-director Waititi) is there hiding a teenage Jewish girl named Elsa Jojo Rabbit stands in the middle of a Albuquerque Film & Music Experience presents offering advice and encouragement. This is (Thomasin McKenzie from Debra Granik’s teeter-totter: Silly, heavily satirical and “Dinner and a Movie” at O’Neill’s Pub (4310 Jojo Rabbit’s most whimsical and stunning Leave No Trace) in the attic. Jojo occasionally a bit surreal on the one side— Central Ave. SE). In honor of Halloween/Day of controversial gimmick. But it’s clearly not accidentally stumbles across her hiding place the Dead, they’ll be screening Stanley Kubrick’s dark, slyly critical and packing a hidden meant to represent a real, comedic version of and is mostly terrified by her presence. Jojo’s emotional punch underneath it all on the chilling 1980 adaptation of Stephen King’s The only knowledge of Jews comes from the Shining. Admission is free. Happy Hour drink Hitler. This is a child’s imaginary vision of other. It’s a tough trick to pull off, and most pricing and the full O’Neil’s menu are available the infamous leader, and Waititi plays the various propaganda pamphlets he’s read. He assumes them to be dangerous demonic wouldn’t even attempt it. Jojo Rabbit isn’t during the show, which starts at 7pm, this role with full, campy mockery. (Like most of perfect. The film steers well clear of the Saturday, Nov. 2. the other filmmmakers who have attempted entities. Elsa uses this to her advantage, Third Reich’s worst atrocities (like you to walk this tightrope, Waititi is Jewish.) threatening Jojo with her supernatural couldn’t absorb those in a hundred other Jojo’s dad disappeared on the front in Italy powers if he reveals her hiding place. Creepy Quaid two years ago, leaving him to be raised by his Naturally, Jojo’s invisible pal Hitler movies), and it could easily be accused of The Central and Unser Library (8081 Central increasingly concerned mother (who does despises the idea of a Jewish girl in the house sugar-coating a particularly grim subject for Ave. NW) offers up the recent thriller The not share his enthusiasm for all things and does his best to convince Jojo to get rid the sake of some feel-good escapism. And Intruder in a free public screening this Sunday, Hitler). It’s not all that surprising that Jojo of her. But as the curious Jojo continues to yet, Waititi’s gentle, big-hearted, humor- Nov. 3 starting at 1:30pm. Michael Ealy and engage the feisty Elsa in conversations Meagan Good star in the 2019 film as a young (and countless other young Germans, for loving nature shines through from start to married couple who buy their dream home, only that matter) would look at Der Führer as a (under the guise of writing a “guidebook” to finish. If you can absorb the provocative to learn that the man who sold it to them (Dennis father figure. (It was, after all, kind of his identifying Jews), he gets to know her as a joke at the center of it (Adolf Hitler as Quaid in a rare, creepy turn) refuses to let go of schtick.) Although Jojo seems like the ideal, human being. Hitler’s influence (and his comic relief), Jojo Rabbit is a whole lot of the property. The film is rated PG-13. a brainwashed Hitler disciple, he’s really a presence in the film) begins to fade. wonderful in a very small package. a

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alloween is fast approaching. It hits this audiences to its annual, holiday-appropriate HThursday. And frankly, Thursday is a slasher marathon. This year—just like every crummy night for Halloween. It’s not on year—it starts off with John Carpenter’s the weekend, so adults can’t go to any good influential 1978 film Halloween (AMC parties. And it’s on a weeknight, so the kids 7am). That’s followed by 1988’s Halloween have to go to school the very next morning. 4: The Return of Michael Myers (AMC It’s a bummer for everyone. But it’s what we 9am)—sorry Halloween’s 2 and 3, you got the get this year. ax this year. After that it’s 1989’s Halloween Since there’s no point in going out, you 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (11am might as well just stay home and watch TV. AMC), 1995’s Halloween: The Curse of (Which, if you haven’t figured it out at this Michael Myers (AMC 1pm), 2002’s point, is Idiot Box’s advice for every holiday.) Halloween: Resurrection (AMC 3pm), a So what kind of scary stuff do we have rerun of the original Halloween (AMC waiting for us around the TV dial this 5pm), 1998’s Halloween H2O: 20 Years Halloween? Later (AMC 7pm) and 1981’s Halloween II Well, if you wanna spend your Halloween (AMC 9pm)—ah, there you are! (Sorry, squinting at some grainy night-vision footage, Halloween III: Season of the Witch; You didn’t hunting for “real” ghosts, you’ve got a couple have Michael Myers anyway.) choices. History Channel pokes around Finally, if you don’t have the patience (or haunted locations with “Haunted History” the guts) to watch an entire scary movie, (History 6am to 2pm), while Travel there’s a solution! You can head straight to Channel does the same with “Ghost “The Very VERY Best of the 70s” (AXS Adventures” (Travel 6am to 5pm). Travel TV 6pm). This special episode features Channel tops its day off with a brand new period stars such as Catherine Bach (“The it to 2017’s theatrical remake It: Chapter Dukes of Hazzard”), Morgan Fairchild special: “Ghost Adventures: Curse of the One (TBS 6pm) starring Bill Skarsgard. Both Harrisville Farmhouse” (Travel 7pm), (“Falcon Crest”) and Anson Williams are guaranteed to leave scars on your (“Happy Days”) talking about their favorite which has Zak and the gang looking for dark childhood psyche. paranormal entities in Rhode Island. horror movies of the ’70s. If that’s not Speaking of classics: Amid its day-long enough, “The 13 Scariest Movies of All If you like your scares of the fictional marathon of classic fright films, Turner variety and are in the mood for a seasonal Time” (KWBQ-19 7pm) spreads the net a Classic Movies offers up some favorites from bit wider, covering all decades—but adding classic, you can catch the witchy Disney the king of Halloween himself, Vincent Price. comedy Hocus Pocus (Freeform 10:30am to Dean Cain as host, which makes it kind of a You can catch the suave spook in 1959’s The toss-up. And frankly, if at least one of the 9pm). It airs five times in a row. If Tim Bat (TCM 7:45am), 1959’s House on Burton’s Beetlejuice (Spike 5pm to 11pm) is countless dog-based holiday movies Dean Haunted Hill (TCM 9:15am), 1953’s House Cain has made (The Dog Who Saved more your speed, it airs three times in a row. of Wax (TCM 4:15pm), 1960’s The House (Get it? Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!). If Christmas, The Dog Who Saved Christmas of Usher (TCM 9pm), 1961’s The Pit and Vacation, The Dog Who Saved Halloween, The you want a little more scare and a little less the Pendulum (TCM 10:30pm) and 1963’s silly, just watch the original 1990 TV mini- Dog Who Saved Easter, The Dog Who Saved the The Haunted Palace (TCM midnight). Holidays, etc.) doesn’t end up on that list, series of Stephen King’s It (Spike 7:30am to If your taste runs to the bloodier end of noon) starring Tim Curry, and then compare somebody fixed the voting. Now those are the spectrum, American Movie Classics treats some scary-ass movies! a

“Nashville Squares” (CMT 6pm) Yup. adult-oriented fantasy novels get the “Hollywood Squares,” but with country series treatment from HBO and BBC. The THE WEEK IN music stars. story centers on an orphaned girl (Dafne SLOTH “In the Long Run” (Starz 8pm) Idris Elba Keen from Logan) who lives on an stars in a semi-autobiographical alternate world where humans wear their comedy about a family living in 1985 souls on the outside of their bodies in the form of companion animals called THURSDAY 31 unnecessary detail: The L.O.L. Surprise! London that finds their quiet life boy dolls have tiny, plastic wieners. … I disrupted when a relative from Sierra Daemons. While searching for a missing swear I’m not making any of this up. Leone moves in. friend, she embarks on an epic quest See “Idiot Box” above. across multiple dimensions, discovering “Dickinson” (Apple TV+ streaming the very secrets of life and death. FRIDAY 1 anytime) Apple TV+ hits your streaming SATURDAY 2 devices. We start with a “period sitcom” L.O.L. Surprise! Winter Disco Movie about Emily Dickinson starring Hailee Christmas Reservations (Lifetime 6pm) TUESDAY 5 The holiday rom-com war between (Netflix streaming anytime) That’s a hell Steinfeld. “The Wonderful World of Disney Presents: of a word stew, I know. So let me break it Lifetime and Hallmark continues. “For All Mankind” (Apple TV+ streaming Lifetime comes out swinging with The Little Mermaid Live!” (KOAT-7 7pm) down for you. Driven by the massive anytime) Next up is a speculative sci-fi Keep in mind, this is in addition to the success of internet “unboxing” videos, Melissa Joan Hart falling in love at her drama about a world in which the Soviet family’s ski resort. live-action theatrical film Disney is MGA Entertainment came up with a line Union beat America to the moon starring already working on. Auli’i Cravalho of tiny plastic half-anime/half-kewpie Joel Kinnaman. Merry & Bright (Hallmark 6pm) (Moana) is the titular mermaid. Queen dolls crammed into opaque plastic Hallmark punches back hard with Jodie “Ghostwriter” (Apple TV+ streaming Latifah is Ursula, Shaggy is Sebastian capsules (gumball machine toys, Sweeten falling in love at her family’s and John Stamos is Chef Louis. basically). You pay $10 to $20 for each anytime) The early ’90s educational candy cane factory. one, not knowing what you’re getting until series about grammar and the you open it. MGA’s product line is worth supernatural returns with a modern-day WEDNESDAY 6 about $4 billion dollars a year right now, reboot. SUNDAY 3 because kids are stupid. So, naturally, “The Morning Show” (Apple TV+ streaming “Virtual History” (YouTube Premium Christmas With a Prince (Up 7pm) Did streaming anytime) To mark the 30th somebody came up with a cheapo L.O.L. anytime) Jennifer Aniston, Reese you know there have been at least 15 Surprise! movie. Here it is. “Winter Disco Witherspoon and Steve Carell star in this anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, basic cable rom-coms involving YouTube Premium launches this high-tech Chalet,” by the way, is the company’s big dramedy about (what else) a popular TV working-class women falling in love with Christmas toy (with “95+ surprises” to news program. history series, which allows viewers to guys who are secretly European royalty experience 360˚ “virtual reality” tours of unbox.) That three-foot tall monstrosity is “See” (Apple TV+ streaming anytime) over Christmas? Here’s another. sold out everywhere, though, so you history—starting with Berlin, 1989. Is it Jason Momoa stars as twin brothers, too much to hope David Hasselhoff will probably shouldn’t let your kids watch warriors born with the unique ability to this animated commercial. They’ll only MONDAY 4 be there, singing “Looking For Freedom”? see in a post-apocalyptic world in which a end up disappointed on Christmas humans lost their eyesight thanks to a morning. BTW, here’s another “His Dark Materials” (HBO 7pm) Philip runaway virus. Pullman’s dark, dense, vaguely young OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 6, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [23] FILM | CAPSULES BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY NEW The 15th Annual Audio/Visual Show Basement Films and the ASUNM Southwest Film Center present their annual variety show of “original acts, supercolliding media images and live perform- ance.” You get analog film, digital video, spoken word, live music and performance all wrapped up together in this night of media exploration and gen- eral weirdness. Unrated. (Opens Friday 11/1 at SUB Theater) And With Him Came the West Director Mike Plante explores the myth of the Ameri- can West, concentrating on famed lawman Wyatt Earp—who did as much as anyone to create our modern-day perception of what the Wild West was like. Earp’s exploits (true, false or wildly exagger- ated) were well chronicled in early film and theater and formed the basis of the Western movie genre. 77 minutes. Unrated. (Opens Saturday 11/2 at Guild Cinema) Arctic Dogs Jeremy Renner, Anjelica Huston, James Franco, Alec Baldwin, John Cleese and Heidi Klum provide voices (eh, it pays the bills) for this computer-animated Canadian cartoon from the makers of Norm of the North and The Swan Princess: A Royal Myztery. Renner plays “Swifty,” an Arctic fox who works for a wintery package delivery service. While on the job, he stumbles across the lair of an evil walrus who wants to melt the Arctic and become the world’s supreme ruler. Naturally, Swifty recruits his animal friends to stop him. 93 minutes. PG. (Opens Friday 11/1 at Century Rio, Century 14 Downtown, AMC Albuquerque 12, Icon Cinemas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Cottonwood Stadium 16, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) Christmas Jars Based on the allegedly “beloved” novel by Jason F. Wright, this holiday heart-tugger tells the story of re- Harriet porter Hope Jensen (Jeni Ross, from the Canadian kids’ show “Lost & Found Music Studios”) who un- covers the remarkable secret behind the “Christmas International Fly Fishing Film Festival film noir. 144 minutes. R. (Opens Friday 11/1 at Cinemas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho Premiere Cin- Jars.” Like “Elf on the Shelf,” Wright’s sappy 2005 Trout Unlimited Bosque Chapter is the sponsor of Century Rio, AMC Albuquerque 12, Rio Rancho Pre- ema, Cottonwood Stadium 16, Winrock Stadium 16 novel tried to launch a “new” Christmas tradition— this annual touring festival of fish/river-centric doc- miere Cinema, Century 14 Downtown, Cottonwood IMAX & RPX) glass jars filled with coins and anonymously left for umentary shorts. Among the places visited in this Stadium 16, High Ridge, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) Where’s My Roy Cohn? people in need. The holiday drama was shot for BYU year’s nine selections: Alaska, Iceland, South Amer- Roy Cohn, for those of you who don’t know, was an TV, but is being released to movie theaters for one ica and Mongolia. For a complete list of films (in- Parasite infamous American lawyer who served as a long- night only. 110 minutes. Unrated. (Opens Monday cluding trailers), go to flyfilmfest.com. 100 minutes. The latest film from brilliant South Korean director time shaper for the conservative wing of American 11/4 at Century Rio, Century 14 Downtown, Cot- Unrated. (Opens Thursday 11/7 at Guild Cinema) Bong Joon-Ho (The Host, Mother, Snowpiercer) is a politics. He rose to fame as Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s tonwood Stadium 16) Jojo Rabbit pitch-black, tragicomic thriller about a poor but lov- chief counsel during the McCarthy hearings, and he DanTDM Presents The Contest Reviewed this issue. 108 minutes. PG-13. (Opens ing family scraping by in a crowded “semi-base- ended his career as Donald Trump and Rupert Mur- YouTube “superstar” DanTDM (yeah … I’m not even Thursday 10/31 at Century Rio, Winrock Stadium ment” apartment on a grubby side street in Seoul. doch’s lawyer. Not a nice guy, really. Documentarian gonna look him up to see what his deal is) presents 16 IMAX & RPX) By chance, the family’s intelligent son lands a job Matt Tyrnauer (Valentino: The Last Emperor, Studio an “interactive in-cinema event that provides you, tutoring an upper-class teenage girl who lives in a 54, Citizen Jane: Battle for the City) turns Cohn’s Loro massive modernist mansion. This sudden and vivid life story into a dark, cautionary thriller, arguing that Dan’s fans, with an engaging gaming experience Academy Award winning director Paolo Sorrentino and immersive story.” You see, Gen Z kids, there are contrast in fortunes sets up the film’s nasty, near- his amoral legacy gave birth to today’s nasty, divi- (The Great Beauty) returns with this extravagantly Gothic twists and turns (none of which should be sive and lie-filled political landscape. It’s not partic- these things called “cinemas” or “movie theaters” surreal satire of sex, drugs, power and politics. Set that allow people to watch films on something other spoiled). 131 minutes. R. (Opens Thursday 10/31 ularly artistic, but it cuts to the quick. 97 minutes. in the corruption-filled wake of egomaniacal billion- at Century Rio, High Ridge) PG-13. (Opens Friday 11/1 at High Ridge) than their phones. Come check ‘em out this Sun- aire Silvio Berlusconi’s reign as Italian prime minis- day! 100 minutes. Unrated. (Opens Sunday 11/2 ter, the film center on an ambitious young hustler Slayer: The Repentless Killogy Wrinkles the Clown at Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) (Riccardo Scamarcio) managing an escort service Supreme thrash-metal band Slayer offers up its In 2014 a low-res video of a person dressed as a The Divine Plan catering to the rich and powerful. Naturally he sets “Slaytanic Offensive” on the big screen. It starts clown and emerging from underneath a sleeping Did you know that President Ronald Reagan and his sights on the most powerful client of all: the dis- with a short film/trilogy-of-interconnected-music- child’s bed appeared on YouTube. The creepy fellow Pope John Paul II survived assassination attempts graced ex-PM himself (played with gusto by Toni videos (for the songs “You Against You,” “Repent- was described as “Wrinkles,” a clown-for-hire in just six weeks apart in 1981? According to the Servillo). In Italian with English subtitles. 158 min- less” and “Pride in Prejudice”). That’s followed by a southwest Florida who specialized in “behavioral makers of this spurious, faith-based documentary, utes. Unrated. (Opens Friday 111/1 at Guild Cin- live concert performance recorded Aug. 5, 2017 in services.” Soon, the internet was flooded with tales that’s so they could team up and defeat Commu- ema) Los Angeles. The special event hits movie theaters of Wrinkles’ shenanigans. Over a million messages mere weeks before the band is scheduled to retire ended up on his answering service, catapulting him nism as part of God’s Divine Plan. Unconvinced? Lynyrd Skynyrd: Last of the Street Surviors Check out the other eerie coincidences the film- from touring. Also, it screens the same night as The to the status of urban legend. Who is this scary makers dug up: Both experienced the death of their Farewell Tour Divine Plan. You can only see one—so choose clown and what the hell is his deal? Filmmaker father to heart failure, both shared a mission to This one-night-only concert screening features the wisely. 140 minutes. Unrated. (Opens Wednesday Michael Beach Nichols tracks down the cryptic man protect others, both believed strongly in decency Southern-fried rock group’s 2018 hometown 11/6 at Century Rio, Cottonwood Stadium 16) behind the mask, exposing our country’s collective stadum performance from “Last of the Street Fight- coulrophobia in the process. Local author Benjamin and both began their careers as actors! 105 min- Terminator: Dark Fate utes. PG. (Opens Wednesday 11/6 at Century Rio) ers Farewell Tour” in Jacksonville, Fla. Also, there’s Radford (who wrote the nonfiction book Bad Clowns some interviews. I hope they do “Freebird.” 110 James Cameron returns as producer (but not as di- and appears in the film) will be on hand to intro- Harriet minutes. PG-13. (Opens Thursday 11/7 at Century rector or screenwriter) for this sci-fi sequel, which duce the documentary! 78 minutes. Unrated. Historical hero Harriet Tubman finally gets the long- Rio, Century 14 Downtown, Cottonwood Stadium ignores the last few Terminator films and functions (Opens Friday 11/1 at Guild Cinema) overdue biopic treatment, courtesy of filmmaker 16, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) as a direct sequel to 1991’s Terminator 2: Judg- Kasi Lemmons (Eve’s Bayou, The Caveman’s Valen- ment Day. Seems that the apocalyptic Judgment tine, Black Nativity). Cynthia Erivo (Bad Times at the Motherless Brooklyn Day was merely postponed, forcing waitress-turned- El Royale) stars as the extraordinary woman whose Jonathan Lethem’s award-winning 1999 detective asskicker Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) to come RETURNING escape from slavery in the American South laid the novel finally gets a cinematic adaptation, courtesy out of hiding to protect some new target from exe- tracks for the Underground Railroad, which allowed of star/director Edward Norton. Set against a back- cution at the hands of killer robots from the future. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets hundreds of slaves to make the perilous journey to drop of 1950s New York City, a lonely private detec- This time around she’s got help in the form of the (2002) freedom in the North. 125 minutes. PG-13. (Opens tive with Tourette syndrome (Norton) tries to solve latest human/Terminator hybid (Mackenzie Davis This 2002 fantasy is the second film in the Harry Thursday 10/31 at Century Rio, Century 14 Down- the murder of his mentor and only friend. Bruce from “Halt and Catch Fire”) and an old frenemy Potter series, following the young wizard and his town, AMC Albuquerque 12, Rio Rancho Premiere Willis, Willem Dafoe, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alec Bald- (Arnold Schwarzenegger). 128 minutes. R. (Opens pals in their efforts to defeat a basilisk and uncover Cinema, Cottonwood Stadium 16, High Ridge, Win- win and Leslie Mann round out the impressive cast Thursday 10/31 at Century Rio, Century 14 Down- the secrets of Tom Riddle’s diary. 161 minutes. PG. rock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) of this unconventional (and incredibly complicated) town, AMC Albuquerque 12, Flix Brewhouse, Icon (Tuesday 11/5 at Flix Brewhouse)

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) among the TV-friendly young cast. 90 minutes. PG- What exactly happens in this eerie, old-tyme sea This 2005 fantasy is the fourth film in the Harry 13. (Century 14 Downtown, Century Rio, AMC Albu- shanty is kind of up for debate. But Eggers’ styl- Potter series, in which Harry competes in the inter- querque 12, Icon Cinemas Albuquerque, Rio Theater Contact Info: ized ode to cabin fever is a hypnotizing, haunting national Triwizard Tournament. Reviewed in v14 i46. Rancho Premiere Cinema, Cottonwood Stadium 16, (and occasionally hilarious) two-hander nonethe- 157 minutes. PG-13. (Thursday 11/7 at Flix Brew- Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) AMC ALBUQUERQUE 12 less. 109 minutes. R. (Century Rio, Century 14 house) 3810 Las Estancias Way SW • 544-2360 Downtown, Cottonwood Stadium 16, High Ridge) The Current War: Director’s Cut Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Electricity king Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumber- CENTURY 14 DOWNTOWN Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (2004) batch) engages in a cutthroat race with Russian in- 100 Central SW • 243-9555 Bonnie Raitt, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Jack- This 2004 fantasy is the third film in the Harry Pot- ventor Nikola Tesla (Nicholas Hoult) and industrial son Browne, Maria Muldaur, Don Henley, David ter series, setting our magical hero on a collision kingpin George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) to CENTURY RIO Geffen and Aaron Neville are among those who course with an unstable wizard named Sirius Black, provide lighting for the landmark Chicago World’s drop by to sing the praises of iconic vocalist who has a major connection to the death of Harry’s Fair in 1893. This was supposed to be released I-25 & Jefferson • 343-9000 Linda Ronstadt. Filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jef- parents. Reviewed in v13 i23. 136 minutes. PG-13. years ago by the Weinstein Company, but that fell frey Friedman (The Celluloid Closet, The Times of (Wednesday 11/6 at Flix Brewhouse) apart (for obvious reasons). Now, it’s finally seeing COTTONWOOD STADIUM 16 Harvey Milk, Howl) follow Ronstadt’s stunning the light of day in a special “Director’s Cut” (un- Cottonwood Mall • (844) 462-7342 ext. #607 voice from its start in the folk music scene of the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone usual for a film that’s never been released before). 1960s through pop stardom in the ’70s to jazz (2001) The cast is impressive (Tom Holland, Katherine Wa- FLIX BREWHOUSE standards and traditional Mexican canciones in This 2001 fantasy started out the Harry Potter se- terston and Matthew Macfadyen are also in there), 3236 La Orilla NW • 445-8500 the ’80s. 95 minutes. PG-13. (High Ridge, Guild ries with a blast, introducing young Harry (and but arguments over the relative effectiveness of al- Cinema) much of the world) to the secret wizarding school GUILD CINEMA ternating current vs. direct current aren’t as fasci- Maleficent: Mistress of Evil known as Hogwarts. Reviewed in v10 i46. 152 min- nating as they might sound on paper. 102 minutes. 3405 Central NE • 255-1848 utes. PG. (Monday 11/4 at Flix Brewhouse) Angelina Jolie returns as the living embodiment PG-13. (Century 14 Downtown, Century Rio, High of Disney’s evil queen from Sleeping Beauty. This Ridge) HIGH RIDGE time around the witchy (but misunderstood) fairy Downton Abbey 12910 Indian School NE • (844) 462-7342 ext. #605 queen’s goddaughter Aurora (Elle Fanning, still a STILL PLAYING Fans of PBS’ fancy pants “Downton Abbey” never re- beauty but no longer sleeping) is about to get ally cared that hardly anything ever happened in the ICON CINEMAS ALBUQUERQUE married to a handsome prince. Unfortunately, Au- Abominable series—and when it did, it was random melodrama, 13120-A Central Ave. SE • 814-7469 rora’s mother-in-law-to-be (Michelle Pfeiffer) is DreamWorks Animation (How to Train Your Dragon, like blackmailing ex-wives from nowhere or sudden secretly using the impending nuptials to divide Shrek, Kung Fu Panda) returns with a cuddly, kid- car crashes. They were into it for the dresses and MOVIES 8 humans and fairies forever, stranding Maleficent centric fable about a young Shanghai teen (Chloe the table settings. So, for the hardcore historical 4591 San Mateo NE • 888-4773 and Aurora on opposite sides of a supernatural Bennet) who encounters a runaway yeti on the roof fans, here’s some more mellow adventures for the war. Reviewed in v28 i43. 118 minutes. PG. of her apartment. With the help of friends and country estate-dwelling Crawley clan and their vari- MOVIES WEST (Century 14 Downtown, Century Rio, AMC Albu- neighbors, she vows to return the magical furry fel- ous servants. It’s 1927 now and it seems that the 9201 Coors NW • 898-4664 querque 12, Flix Brewhouse, Icon Cinemas Albu- low to his home atop Mount Everest. Naturally, King and Queen of England are on their way to querque, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, they’re chased by an evil industrialist (Eddie Izzard) Downton Abbey for a visit, putting everyone into a Cottonwood Stadium 16, Winrock Stadium 16 up to no good. 97 minutes. PG. (Century Rio, Cot- RIO RANCHO PREMIERE CINEMA IMAX & RPX) tizzy. Evidently, there’s a royal assassin on the loose, 1000 Premiere Parkway • 994-3300 tonwood Stadium 16) as well, but don’t expect a lot of Olympus Has Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool Ad Astra Fallen-style action. 122 minutes. PG. (Century Rio) SUB THEATER Featuring never-before-seen archival footage, Some 30 years after his father (Tommy Lee Jones) Gemini Man UNM (Student Union Building Room 1003) • 277-5608 studio outtakes and rare photos, Stanley Nel- goes missing in deep space, an astronaut (Brad Thanks to high-tech motion capture and CGI, pres- son’s documentary examination of the life and Pitt) embarks on a dangerous mission across an ent day Will Smith gets to fight “Fresh Prince of Bel- WINROCK STADIUM 16 IMAX & RPX times of jazz musician Miles Davis captures the unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth behind Air”-era Will Smith. The excuse? Evil scientists clone 2100 Louisiana Blvd. NE • (844) 462-7342 ext. #4058 restless determination of Davis to break bound- dad’s doomed expedition and the secret that could an over-the-hill hitman, and he’s obliged to do bat- aries and live life on his own terms. 114 min- be threatening life on Earth. Director James Grey tle with his younger replacement. Ang Lee (The Life utes. Unrated. (Guild Cinema) (Little Odessa, The Yards, We Own The Night) steps of Pi, Brokeback Mountain) directs, for some rea- Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly up to the big leagues, delivering a star-spanning son. The flimsy excuse for a script has been floating Joker Ivins sci-fi saga, faintly inspired by Conrad’s Heart of around Hollywood, waiting for special effects tech- After Cesar Romero, Jack Nicholson, Mark Hamill, Firebrand Texas newspaper columnist, political Darkness. The tone is like a downbeat 2001: A nology to catch up, since the 1990s. It really wasn’t Heath Ledger and Jared Leto put their stamp on commentator and humorist Molly Ivins gets pro- Space Odyssey. Pitt narrates the entire film and the worth the wait. 117 minutes. PG-13. (Century Rio, the character, moody method actor Joaquin filed by documentary filmmaker Janice Engel narrative rarely ventures outside his head, leaving Flix Brewhouse, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Cot- Phoenix tries DC’s iconic villain on for size. This (Las Vegas Weddings, Motorcycle Women). Jim the whole thing somewhat chilly and distant. But it’s tonwood Stadium 16, AMC Albuquerque 12) one swings pretty far afield of the traditional Hightower, Paul Krugman, Rachel Maddow and a smartly assembled (and technically stunning) comic book origin stories, but writer-director Todd Charles Kaiser are among the media personali- thinkpiece, nonetheless. 122 minutes. PG-13. (Cen- Housefull 4 Phillips (Old School, The Hangover) offers a dis- ties interviewed about the late, great journalistic tury Rio) In 1419 Sitamgarh, three couples are pulled apart tinctive, Martin Scorsese-esque vision of a failed by an evil conspiracy. Six hundred years later, in icon. Ivins’ sister Sara Maley is scheduled to The Addams Family comic being disenfranchised from society and speak at the Saturday, Sept. 21 screenings. 93 2019 London, the couples’ various reincarnations reinventing himself as an outsized supervillain for minutes. Unrated. (Guild Cinema) Charles Addams’ enduringly ghoulish cartoon char- meet again. But this time around each one of them acters return (appropriately enough) in computer- the ages. Reviewed in v28 i41. 121 minutes. R. is marrying the wrong person. The four films in (Century Rio, Century 14 Downtown, Flix Brew- Rambo: Last Blood animated form. The all-star voice cast includes India’s popular Housefull comedy series are not re- house, Icon Cinemas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho Sylvester Stallone (73 and counting) returns to Oscar Isaac (Gomez), Charlize Theron (Morticia), lated by character or story. They do, however, all re- Premiere Cinema, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & one of his most successful franchises. Seems Chloë Grace Moretz (Wednesday), Finn Wolfhard volve around the theme of reincarnation. Akshay RPX, Cottonwood Stadium 16, AMC Albuquerque that ass-kicking Vietnam vet John Rambo has re- (Pugsley), Nick Kroll (Uncle Fester), Bette Midler Kumar, Riteish Deshmukh, Bobby Deol, Kriti Khar- 12) tired to the nice, quiet life on a rural Southwest- (Grandma) and Snoop Dogg (Cousin Itt). 87 min- banda, Pooja Hegde and Chunky Pandey (all of ern ranch. (Like that’s gonna last.) Unfortunately utes. PG. (Century 14 Downtown, Century Rio, Flix whom have appeared in previous Housefull films) Judy (and somewhat inevitably, I’m afraid), members Brewhouse, Icon Cinemas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho are among the cast. In Hindi with English subtitles. Renée Zellwegger (Bridget Jones’s Diary, Chicago) of an evil Mexican drug cartel kidnaps his young Premiere Cinema, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX, 145 minutes. Unrated. (Century 14 Downtown) stars as musical icon Judy Garland and does a niece. Naturally, Rambo must tie on the head- Cottonwood Stadium 16, AMC Albuquerque 12) pitch-perfect job (even singing her own songs). band, strap on the weapons and travel south of Hustlers The film picks up in the winter of 1968, as a Donald Trump’s border wall for one last blood- Black and Blue If you dug the viral New York Magazine article “The Cop drama doesn’t come much more pulpy and un- drug-addicted and financially strapped Garland soaked revenge kick. 89 minutes. R. (Century Hustlers at Scores” by Jessica Pressler, you might arrives in London to perform a series of sold-out Rio) dercooked. Naomie Harris (Moonlight, Skyfall) stars be interested in the feature film adaptation starring concerts. It’s based on the stageplay End of the as a rookie cop who witnesses a some New Orleans Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu, Julia Stiles, Keke Rainbow by Peter Quilter. Little-known director Western Stars police officers murder a suspect. She’s got to get Palmer, Cardi B and Lizzo. The ladies play a group of Rupert Goold (True Story) tries to break up the Bruce Springsteen performs songs from his new back to the police station with her police-cam strippers in NYC who decide to embezzle money stagebound elements by flashing back to Gar- album Western Stars in this “live” concert film. footage before the crooked cops (and, seemingly, from the stock traders and CEOs who visit their club land’s earlier showbiz days. But these flashbacks 93 minutes. PG. (Century Rio, Winrock Stadium every criminal in the Crescent City) finds her and after the sex industry bottoms out during the late- (featuring different actresses) only detract from 16 IMAX & RPX) kills her. There’s plenty of propulsive action here, 2000s financial crisis. Writer-director Lorene Sca- Zellwegger’s solid performance. 118 minutes. PG- but you’ve seen this urban chase scene countless faria (Seeking a Friend For the End of the World) 13. (High Ridge, Cottonwood Stadium 16) Zombieland: Double Tap times before. 108 minutes. R. (Century 14 Down- has crafted a crowd-pleasing workplace Since 2008’s cult hit Zombieland, writers Rhett town, Century Rio, AMC Albuquerque 12, Icon Cine- dramedy/revenge fantasy, while headliner Jennifer The Lighthouse Reese and Paul Wernick have gone on to pen the mas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Lopez delivers a commanding performance as the From filmmaker Robert Eggers (The VVitch) popular Deadpool series. Now they reunite with Cottonwood Stadium 16, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX HBIC. 109 minutes. R. (Century Rio, Cottonwood comes another moody tale of isolation and (pos- director Ruben Fleischer in this much-anticipated & RPX) Stadium 16) sible) supernatural disorder. In the late 1800s, a sequel. Zombie apocalypse survivors Columbus, retired timberman (Robert Pattinson) is sent to Tallahassee, Wichita and Little Rock (Jesse Eisen- Countdown It: Chapter Two serve as an apprentice lighthouse keeper on a berg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone and Abigail What if, like, there was this phone app that could It’s been 27 years since the demonic clown Penny- storm-lashed New England island. There, he Breslin) return, facing off against some frighten- predict—down to the second—when you would die. wise haunted the kids of The Losers Club. Now meets a superstitious old sea dog (Willem ingly evolved zombies with the help of some new And then, I don’t know, some scary monster popped they’re all grown up (and played by the likes of Dafoe). Over the coming weeks, the two descend additions (Zoey Deutch, Rosario Dawson). 99 out and killed you or something. That’s pretty much James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain and Bill Hader) into a hallucinatory fog of booze, isolation, mad- minutes. R. (Century 14 Downtown, Century Rio, the pitch for this bargain bin variation on Final Des- and lured back home to Derry, Maine to exorcise ness and some very ominous storm clouds. Shot AMC Albuquerque 12, Flix Brewhouse, Icon Cine- tination/One Missed Call/The Ring. Elizabeth Lail the monster one final time. 169 minutes. R. (Cot- in a boxy black-and-white frame, the film looks mas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, (“Once Upon a Time”), Jordan Calloway (“Unfabu- tonwood Stadium 16) like some long-buried, Poe-inspired film from a Cottonwood Stadium 16, Winrock Stadium 16 lous”) and Talitha Bateman (“Hart of Dixie”) are particularly demented filmmaker in the silent era. IMAX & RPX)

OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 6, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [25] SHOW UP! MUSIC | AURAL FIXATION BY AUGUST MARCH Re: Black Mountain After All These Years Black Mountain is at Sister (407 Central Ave. NW) on Stu Cook on The End of Creedence Monday, Nov. 4. They’re a band that is thickly adorned with the Northwestern rocanrol aesthetic. Founder Stephen McBean came up in Victoria, British Columbia, after all, digging deep into a scene that included bands like Nomeansno and The Accüsed. But listening to the band doesn’t involve yielding to the usual droning onslaught of wickedly dirty guitar licks and big booty bass associated with acts that get heaped into the ever-embiggening pile called “stoner rock.” In fact, though the music of Black Mountain Stu Cook COURTESY OF THE ARTIST may indeed be great in combination with the consumption of cannabis—and may even speak to ears, many memorable albums—or do you deeper motives and tender philosophies—it’s even BY AUGUST MARCH want to put that away with the rest of the better when viewed as a symbol of psychedelic past? outrage, with licks courtesy of Flipper, complete You know, I never think about the music until with harmonies that begin to recall the sweet he phone rang the other day and wouldn’t you harmonic rage of Grace Slick and keyboard know it, it was Stu Cook, the bass player for I’m on stage. I have a wide musical palate that I T enjoy and Creedence is just one part of it. I digressions that call The Residents up from their Creedence Clearwater Revisited, on the line. mysterious hideout somewhere on the Left Coast. Dude said he appreciated the attention we imagine our music will still catch my ear as I Throw in a Swans-like affinity for finding and gave his band last time around—Weekly Alibi stroll through Whole Foods. It’s not going to go discoursing on long-haired rituals of hipster glory, away; it hasn’t after 55 years. and you’ve got the band called Black Mountain. talked to Doug Clifford last summer when the The band’s marketing team certainly has band flew in for a show at the Route 66 Casino— the dark beatnik adventures theme down to an and so he wanted to tell me all about the last tour What’s important to you now, Stu, as you art; the cover of Black Mountain’s latest, Creedence plans to do, about this last chance to move into this new phase of your life? Destroyer, features an image of a huge stereo see the band together. Well, I think our planet is important. Our families, speaker from the ’70s, just like half of the set Cook was flying to Brazil later that day to of course, are important. Our role in the world is that every American who was a teenager in commence the tour and I found out they are important, as a nation. the late 1970s wished and prayed for; whether this is further artifice or authenticity is difficult stopping by Route 66 again on Friday, Nov. 8, to determine because the music itself before we moved on to other subjects. What follows Do you care to expand on any of that? genuinely rocks ... and coasts and glides like a is a summary of the talk we had about a legendary The state of the world needs some attention now. slick muscle car from the same era might, if group of musicians, the effects of 25 years on the We might put some effort into that direction. It’s powered by Molly and millennial ennui. road, the future and a world that needs your vote never too late to pitch in and give back. To find out more about the feels we have more than it needs your record-buying dollars. about this band and their music, Weekly Alibi sent McBean a few questions to answer as he rode the What have you been listening to on tour? plane back to America after a cray European tour. Weekly Alibi: Hey, is this Stu Cook, the bass I’ve been a big fan of the Foo Fighters and Queens Here is what he sent back. player for that one jungle music band, of the Stone Age. They have a good story. Each Weekly Alibi: Discuss growing up in the Creedence Clearwater Revisited? band has a rich story of how they got where they Northwest in the ’80s and being part of the Stu Cook: Yes, it is. are. Those are the kinds of rock and roll stories that punk scene in Victoria. I like, they remind me of Creedence in some ways. Stephen McBean: It was good. I saw The Accüsed, Red Tide and Nomeansno a lot. Stu, you’ve reached August March at Weekly What was it like playing in a band called Alibi. What’s going on? I can see that with QOTSA, they have that Ex Dead Teenager? I’m headed to Brazil. same sort of funky, hard rock sound that Similar to being in other bands with different Creedence helped shape. Speaking of funky names. What’s going on with the tour? rock, my friend Jimmy Stallings from the Sir What about Jerk With A Bomb, how did Douglas Quintet just dropped by and asked that go off? We go back to South America every two or three Sometimes well, but often met with years and rip it up. They love Creedence. me to say hello. He’s busy here, tearing up the indifference. local scene with some younger musicians. Why was In the Future the best indie Since this is your last tour together, are there Oh, wow, tell him thanks for remembering me. rock album of 2008? any shows stateside? Jimmy’s gotta be keeping them up late at night. It was released on Jagjaguwar. Describe the new work on Destroyer, There are a couple of US shows. please. That makes me happy. Super pleasing. How does that feel? You’re ending I like to hear that, too. I’m not leaving the What’s important to you, musically? something, after all. I heard this will be the music business, I’m not leaving music, It’s my Time alone. last time you all play as an ensemble. life. But Doug and I are pretty much done Who are your big influences? That’s right. It’s all true. I’ve been fortunate from Friends with turntables. with the constant touring. We’ve been there, What are you not trying to do with your the very beginning. This band has enabled us to we’ve done that and we certainly have the T- music? bring the music to a lot of people, to the world. In shirts. It’s a bittersweet year, I think the past, we thought it was time to hang it up, but Reinvent the wheel. everybody understands that. We love to play; If an entity from outer space approached this time, it really is time to put it to bed. Twenty- you after a show and asked you the five years of the Revisited project have worked to die onstage would be the death of a god. question “What is Black Mountain,” what out great for us, and for the fans. [Then] there will On the other hand, I don’t wanna wake up would you answer? be time for other things in life. I haven’t even dead in some hotel room in Kansas. a I don’t know. Depends on my mood. a thought about doing other musical projects. Creedence Clearwater Revisited Black Mountain Are you reflecting at all on the legacy you guys Monday, Nov. 4 • Sister Final Revival Tour have—Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, countless Friday, Nov. 8 • Route 66 Casino Legends Theater 407 Central Ave. NW • 8pm • $18 • 21+ earworms embedded in countless American 14500 Central Ave. SW • 8pm • $45-$94 •All ages

[26] WEEKLY ALIBI OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 6, 2019 MUSIC | MUSIC INTERVIEW A Sacred Syllable at the Beeb OM Releases Historic BBC Sessions

BY AUGUST MARCH Yeah, it’s all rhythm. When the band started in 2003, there was no guitar, just a rhythm section with vocals. It has since evolved. M has a new record. What’s more, the O double 10-inch release was recorded at And now it seems like the guitar and the BBC and features Albuquerque-based synthesizer parts come into the bassist, vocalist and composer Al Cisneros. composition as leitmotifs in the OM is comprised of Cisneros, drummer Emil midsections and at the ends of your Amos and multi-instrumentalist Tyler Trotter. compositions. That adds to the Before we get to the heart of that story, expansive feel. But there’s never really a here’s August March to explain his lead guitar moment like there might be in fascination with the sound, the band and heavy metal. OM’s singular output. No. As a bassist, it’s an opportunity to write in that direction where ... I mean my favorite The Sound rock music—aside from Pink Floyd with When asked, a Vaishnava Sadhu at the David Gilmour, they’re an exception—is by Muktinath temple told me—through his bass-driven bands like Rush and Iron interpreter, a 12-year-old Tibetan lad who spoke Maiden. The bass is the lead instrument. some English because of an American doctor at OM COURTESY OF THE ARTIST And to shift that into a focus on rhythm, of the bottom of the Kali Gandkaki Gorge—that course there are riffs, but it’s got to have OM was the sound the universe (Vishnu?) That’s what August March thought of OM’s They’d been in our set for the past couple of rhythm. That’s the life blood of it all, the made when it was creating. new record. To find out more about this epic touring years. Unfortunately we couldn’t do drums and bass. Then one of his entourage warned my new record and the band behind it—while still an hour’s worth of recording, so we had to searching for that holy sound coming out the trekking party not to attempt the Thorong La pick three or four songs. But despite that spare combination, universe, of course—Weekly Alibi sat down with pass; the weather was growing sour, the nun when I drop the needle on this record—or intoned gravely. Besides, the sadhu said that if Cisneros at good old Java Joe’s. The following is The songs you chose are notable because a distillation of that conversation. any of your records for that matter—I we came back, he would tell us other things. they show a sort of evolution as a grouping. feel like I am in a huge room, another So we hiked down the hill, stayed at an I listened to the first song and realized that world, the other world. Is there an Weekly Alibi: So, Al, fill me in on the deets. inn in Ranipauwa. The place was designed for I hear possible influences from ancient folk esoteric edge to what’s happening in the Al Cisneros: The BBC reached out to our Western trekkers: It had electricity, a flush music plus other non-rock and non- course of creating your music? booking agent and we scheduled a recording Western music drifting through. Yet, if you toilet and rock and roll posters pasted Not consciously. It’s just a parallel to subjects session into the tour where we’d have a day look up OM on the internet, sources say everywhere. One Black Sabbath poster was that are important to me in my real life, the especially off the hook. I found out that quite made available there in the main studio in that this is a form of heavy metal. But Upanishads, the [Bhagvad] Gita, you know a few of the town’s residents were familiar London. {The session] was to be broadcast on there’s a lot more going on. Discuss. the Dhammapada, Lao Tzu, I mean those are with rocanrol. A dude at the front desk told Daniel Carter’s rock show. We went in and I sometimes see it described as doom. I don’t me that his goal in life was to see a real rock set up; they had sounds within 30 minutes. get it. I think that, at some point, some lazy the real inspiring records. And then you get, band live in concert. We were amazed at first. We knew this going journalist, because of Sleep [Cisnero’s other like, Sabbath on the turntable, which is the After smoking a large, dark ball of temple in—the caliber of the engineers there—but band], described it as stoner doom or second level of inspiring records. The first hash, I went to sleep that night as a huge seeing them mic stuff up and get tones and whatever. And I don’t know. I don’t know level is on the bookshelf. thunderstorm roared through the area, levels, how quickly they mixed and how good what kind of music it is. It’s definitely a wondering if all of that—the voice of the sadhu, it was, amazing. It was like ... Have you seen confluence of all the albums, musicians and That’s why it reminds me of ritual the rock music of Black Sabbath, the droning that book Recording the Beatles? styles that have inspired the three of us as music. But Sleep takes a different thunder up on Dhaulagiri—was part of the holy musicians. It’s hard to describe. approach, right? sound of the universe creating itself, sometimes Yes, I have. Well, with Sleep, it’s fun because there’s a darkly, over and over again. You know, then, how at Abbey Road those It’s certainly not derivative but rather platform for the appreciation of science engineers were literally, like, scientists? informed. fiction. And you can laugh a lot. There’s a The Record Yeah, one of the things I appreciate the most carried-over sense of humor from the Right. They had a long tradition of that about Emil’s drumming style is this fusion, like recording studio to the albums to the shows, Flash forward 20 years and March is still approach. Rock and roll was a new thing this really intense jazz fusion sound and style with Sleep. That’s how that started. We’d searching out sound, listening to the new record to them. that he has. As far as my record collection, it’s be listening to a record super baked and by OM out on Drag City Records titled BBC So they had that work aesthetic. When we mostly roots reggae from ’68 to ’82. So there’s couldn’t stop laughing about how amazing a Radio 1. OM has its heart here in Burque— were there, hearing it out of the speakers, it no real template for the three of us in a certain riff was. With psychedelics, you add composer/bassist/vocalist Al Cisneros resides in was so clear how confident these engineers rehearsal room After we drop a groove, after a great riff and it’s over. The Duke City when he’s not busy creating were. It was just experiencing that level of looking at each other, laughing and saying, sonic universes with OM or his other notably professionalism. It was something else. Aside “This is it, this is it!” So it sounds like no matter how you sci-fi and cannabis-inflected outfit Sleep. from Abbey Road [the only experience I have express these things, what the OM just came off a lengthy European tour. with that kind of process], I’ve worked with Does improvisation play a part in that foundations are, you’re creating a That tour included several days in residence Steve Albini. He has that same approach. It process? transcendent experience via music. at the BBC. While there, the band recorded was like a dream. There’s more improvisation in the sketch form, Someone more esoteric might say you’re four tracks from their last two albums. The before we lock in a part. Once the part is locked encountering the sublime, que no? result of that work—a craftily, scientifically It’s a very intense recording process. in, we want to repeat it in the studio, so it’s not designed art object that contains two heavy I don’t see it as esoteric. One of the things It’s very math-based. It’s down with physics and improvised anymore. It’s recited. So, but, yeah, we were talking about, the doom-rock duty black and green 10-inch vinyl discs, cuts off all the fat. It gets right to the best tone. there’s fluidity in that process. densely def black and white photography and moniker, come on, it’s just music. Even this It was that way, working at Radio 1. stoner rock thing, it’s been taken to its own music that will blow your mind across and The track “Cremation Ghat I” has a real through any stormy peak, any hidden commercial level. I mean smoking weed and Did you decide beforehand which funk groove to it that emanates from the listening to music, that’s stoner music. If it’s temple—really any world at all—as you pass compositions from your tour set would be rhythm section. Is that the heart of the through it, as through some arcane ritual. music that sounds better when you’re recorded? band, so to speak? stoned, it’s stoner music. a

OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 6, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [27] STRAIN CORNER BAKED GOODS | CANNABIS NEWS BY JOSHUA LEE BY EDWARD BARRETT 12 Gauge at CG Ain’t Enough Room In This Joint Legalization stirs “concerns”

urprise, surprise. Certain people are getting issues—and I do think there’s a need for Sreal squirmy about legalization in New criminal justice reform, and they should be Mexico. Earlier this month, the Governor’s taken care of in a criminal justice reform bill Legalization Work Group published its and let this one stand on its own.” recommendations for legalizing recreational Some are taking his comments as a sort of marijuana in New Mexico. threat against impeachment, but I’m pretty sure They recommended comprehensive product he’s just being honest. Politicians on both sides labeling, investing in law enforcement have become particularly vengeful in recent programs, ensuring equity, maintaining a robust years, and it’s not unlikely that the GOP—who medical cannabis program and giving local have been historically anti-cannabis for the last My tolerance for cannabis is getting high, and I government a modicum of control over zoning century—might just ditch cannabis reform tend to like strong and heady strains. I decided and licensing. altogether, pack up their toys and go home if to cruise around town on a beautiful day But according to a report made on KOB, they don’t like the way the Democrats are before stopping into CG (6614 Gulton Ct. NE) acting toward the Dread Lord Trump. to see what they had available. What “some medical marijuana patients are immediately piqued my interest was a brutish- concerned the proposed framework for And here’s something no one seems to be sounding strain named 12 Gauge (THC: legalizing recreational marijuana could thinking about: If Trump is ousted before next 19.47%, CBD: 0.460%—$9/gram). have a potentially negative impact on the year’s election, the next person in line for The smell had slightly peppery, musty and medical cannabis program.” the presidency is none other than Mike “Pot zesty hints to it that were reminiscent of None of the patients I’ve spoken to have is a gateway drug” Pence. (Related but not cooking spices and seasonings. It had a nice expressed any concerns like these, mind you, relevant: Pence made headlines in his first mixture of colors that were playful and but the article goes on to quote Jason Barker, few months at the White House for holding pleasant to look at. The overall body was a Bible study sessions led by an anti-gay, light green with wispy dark leaves billowing an advocate with Safe Access New Mexico, outward. There were large clumps of orange as saying that legalization of recreational anti-Catholic, anti-woman- hairs pocketed and speckled throughout, marijuana will “devastate the medical ministers, anti-you-name-it making it quite an appetizing and appealing program.” preacher from California— looking strain. Safe Access New Mexico is the probably not Adam Schiff’s idea I was excited to try this rough-sounding local chapter of Americans for Safe of a dream president, I’d wager.) strain in such nice weather, but I soon found Access—a lobby group that’s been All these rocks and hard places myself in bad traffic due to generally idiotic are really starting to make me feel drivers. I began getting road rage and telling running itself ragged promoting myself how people should be forced to retake campaigns against legalization across the claustrophobic. the driver’s exam every five years—failure to country. According to its website, ASA is So even if Joyce is wrong, we’re evince basic driving skills would result in the the largest national member-based probably in for a bumpy year. And amputation of digits and the revocation of organization of cannabis patients, medical whether it’s Republicans or Democrats, I’m licenses. I quickly realized this was a bit professionals, scientists and advocates. betting someone will be holding cannabis extreme, and I needed to calm down and get Their crusade against legalization is done, reform hostage until they get something else home. they want. After I made it back home, I packed an presumably, in support of medical cannabis overflowing bowl of the crunchy but soft patients. nuggets and began feeling at peace. It tasted Barker told reporters that 55 percent of our Senators Press FDA Over similar to the kitchen spice scents that I producers aren’t meeting curent patient CBD detected earlier along with slight cigar and demands—a stat from the New Mexico Last week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck diesel-like tangs. The light peppery notes that I Department of Health. He said the state is President Donald Trump could potentially harm Schumer told reporters that the federal Food tasted took me back to a memory of when I acting too quickly and accused it of being bipartisan efforts to reform cannabis laws over and Drug Administration needs to hurry up and lived next to a spice factory during college. The “desperate to get access to that green rush tax taste and mild nature of 12 Gauge made it the next year. get rules in place so hemp-derived CBD can be dollars that come with legalization,” apparently comfortable to indulge in. Forbes reports that Republican Congressman sold legally. ignoring the thousands of New Mexicans I was expecting a harsh and powerful David Joyce, of Ohio, said, “I haven’t seen any According to Marijuana Moment, a letter currently incarcerated in prison for possession of effect, but I was surprised to feel quite calm facts that say whether the president will be written earlier this month by Schumer and and amiable. Overall, I wasn’t quite as floored marijuana. “Safe access,” indeed. For some, impeached or not, but I do think that there are several other senators asked FDA Acting as the name led me to believe, but I was still anyway. going to be a lot of raw nerves out there.” Joyce Commissioner Ned Sharpless to outline the much happier and calmer than when I had been Every bone in this hipster skeleton is has led the way in building support for cannabis agency’s plans for a “specific regulatory in Mad Max mode earlier. I experienced a protesting the passion that’s rising with these pleasant and mellow physical sensation that reform among House Republicans. He is co- framework” regarding CBD enforcement words, but I can’t believe there are monsters out was very faint and not overbearing. I didn’t feel chair of the Cannabis Caucus and helped policies. They gave the department 90 days to there who would put their “access to medicine” lazy or fatigued, but I also did not feel overly introduce the “Strengthening the Tenth answer. (read: “access to those green rush dollars”) stimulated. My eyes were slightly heavy, but I Amendment Through Entrusting States The FDA has said it understands the need above the freedom of their fellow human felt a clear sense of focus that made me want (STATES) Act,” which would give each state for expediency, but there is an issue with to be creative and productive. This peppy beings. It’s gross. the power to decide its own marijuana policies current regulatory rules. Epidiolex is a feeling wouldn’t last for a particularly long And it’s disingenuous. City Councilor Pat without federal interference. pharmaceutical that uses CBD as its active time, however, and was mild. Davis, the head of the governor’s legalization Joyce also pointed to recent schisms in ingredient, and according to current law, 12 Gauge was a good solid strain, but it group, told Weekly Alibi in a recent interview wasn’t the heavy shotgun blast I was cannabis advocacy groups over whether pharmaceutical drugs cannot be sold over the that even if recreational marijuana is legalized anticipating. This would be a good strain for comprehensive cannabis reform laws should counter. next year, we won’t see it go into effect until those who want a slight boost in creativity, include equity provisions and criminal justice While all CBD-infused products beyond 2021. It takes around six weeks to grow a weed productivity and mood. It certainly aided me in reform. He says that left-leaning advocates are topicals are technically illegal, finding them on countering my road rage ravings and rantings. plant. Figure it out. making too many demands in the same breath. Its mellow effects and flavor would be Main Street, USA, is easier than finding a “I think when you put too much that’s not beneficial for those who want to relax without Will Partisanship Hurt decent cup of coffee. There have only been a going overboard. Although it wasn’t the germane on the issue—what’s called loading up few incidents where law enforcement has explosion of effects I expected, 12 Gauge was Cannabis Reform? the Christmas tree—eventually the tree is going interceded. The FDA said it is currently only a respectable strain that provides a blast of A leading marijuana advocate in the to tip over,” he told reporters. “I understand targeting companies that make unwarranted comfort and relaxation. a Republican camp said an attempt to impeach what they’re talking about—the criminal justice health claims about their products. a

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Do you have any skill understand the world. I think the same is true for in fulfilling the wishes and answering the prayers of religion: One is never enough. Why confine yourself your allies? Have you developed a capacity to tune in to a single set of theories about spiritual matters to what people want even when they themselves when more will enable you to enlarge and deepen aren’t sure of what they want? Do you sometimes your perspective? With this in mind, Libra, I invite have a knack for offering just the right gesture at the you to regard November as “One Is Never Enough right time to help people do what they haven’t been Month” for you. Assume you need more of able to do under their own power? If you possess everything. Halloween costume suggestion: A any of those aptitudes, now is an excellent time to bilingual Jewish Santa Claus; a pagan Sufi Buddha put them in play. More than usual, you are needed as who intones prayers in three different languages. a catalyst, a transformer, an inspirational influence. Halloween costume suggestion: Angel, fairy SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In his novel Zone godmother, genie, benefactor. One, Scorpio author Colson Whitehead writes, “A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.” TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author Amy Tan He means it in the worst sense possible: The describes the magic moment when her muse appears emergence of the ugly beast who had been hiding and takes command: “I sense a subtle shift, a nudge behind social niceties. But I’m going to twist his to move over, and everything cracks open, the meme for my own purposes. I propose that when you writing is freed, the language is full, resources are stop pretending and shed fake politeness, you may plentiful, ideas pour forth, and to be frank, some of indeed resemble an ugly monster—but only these ideas surprise me. It seems as though the temporarily. After the suppressed stuff gets free rein universe is my friend and is helping me write, its hand to yammer, it will relax and recede—and you will feel over mine.” Even if you’re not a creative artist, so cleansed and relieved that you’ll naturally be able Taurus, I suspect you’ll be offered intense visitations to express more of your monumental beauty. from a muse in the coming days. If you make yourself Halloween costume suggestion: Your beautiful, fully alert for and receptive to these potential blessings, exorcised monster. you’ll feel like you’re being guided and fueled by a higher power. Halloween costume suggestion: Your SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I am glad that muse. I paid so little attention to good advice,” testified poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. “Had I abided by it, I GEMINI (May 21-June 20): More than a century might have been saved from some of my most ago, author Anton Chekhov wrote, “If many remedies valuable mistakes.” This is excellent advice for you. I are prescribed for an illness, you may be certain that suspect you’re in the midst of either committing or the illness has no cure.” Decades later, I wrote, “If learning from a valuable mistake. It’s best if you don’t you’re frantically trying to heal yourself with a interrupt yourself! Halloween costume suggestion: random flurry of half-assed remedies, you’ll never The personification or embodiment of your valuable cure what ails you. But if you sit still in a safe place mistake. and ask your inner genius to identify the one or two things you need to do to heal, you will find the cure.” CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Cleopatra was an Halloween costume suggestion: Physician, nurse, ancient Egyptian queen who ruled for 21 years. She shaman, healer. was probably a Capricorn. All you need to know about her modern reputation is that Kim Kardashian CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian artist Marc portrayed her as a sultry seductress in a photo Chagall (1887–1985) was a playful visionary and a spread in a fashion magazine. But the facts are that pioneer of modernism. He appealed to sophisticates Cleopatra was a well-educated, multilingual political despite being described as a dreamy, eccentric leader with strategic cunning. Among her many skills outsider who invented his own visual language. In were poetry, philosophy and mathematics. I propose the 1950s, Picasso observed that Chagall was one of we make the real Cleopatra your role model. Now is the only painters who “understood what color really an excellent time to correct people’s is.” In 2017, one of Chagall’s paintings sold for $28.5 misunderstandings about you—and show people who million. What was the secret to his success? “If I you truly are. Halloween costume suggestion: Your create from the heart, nearly everything works,” he actual authentic self. testified. “If from the head, almost nothing.” Your current assignment, Cancerian, is to authorize your AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Around the heart to rule everything you do. Halloween costume eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh suggestion: A heart. month, the eleventh sign of the zodiac, Aquarius, will be capable of strenuous feats; will have the power to LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Dead Sea, on the achieve a success that surpasses past successes; will border of Jordan and Israel, is far saltier than the be authorized to attempt a brave act of ocean. No fish or frogs live in it. But here and there transcendence that renders a long-standing on the lake’s bottom are springs that exude fresh limitation irrelevant. As for the 11 days and 11 hours water. They support large, diverse communities of before that magic hour, the eleventh sign of the microbes. It’s hard for divers to get down there and zodiac will be smart to engage in fierce meditation study the life forms, though. The water’s so saline, and thorough preparation for the magic hour. And as they tend to float. So they carry 90 pounds of for the 11 days and 11 hours afterward, the eleventh ballast that enables them to sink to the sea floor. I sign should expend all possible effort to capitalize on urge you to get inspired by all this, Leo. What would the semi-miraculous breakthrough. Halloween be the metaphorical equivalent for you of costume suggestion: Eleven. descending into the lower depths so as to research unexplored sources of vitality and excitement? PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Author Robert Musil Halloween costume suggestions: Diver, spelunker, made a surprising declaration: “A number of flawed archaeologist. individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit.” I propose we make that one of your mottoes for the VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “We have stripped all coming months. I think you have the potential to be a things of their mystery and luminosity,” lamented flawed but inspiring individual who’ll serve as a psychologist Carl Jung. “Nothing is holy any longer.” dynamic force in assembling and nurturing a brilliant In accordance with current astrological omens, Virgo, social unit. So let me ask you: What would be your your assignment is to rebel against that mournful dream-come-true of a brilliant social unit that is a state of affairs. I hope you will devote some of your fertile influence on you and everyone else in the fine intelligence to restoring mystery and luminosity unit? Halloween costume suggestion: Ringleader, to the world in which you dwell. I hope you will find mastermind, orchestrator or general. a and create holiness that’s worthy of your reverence and awe. Halloween costume suggestion: Mage, HOMEWORK: “BE HOMESICK FOR WILD KNOWING,” priestess, poet, enchantrix, witch, alchemist, WROTE CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTÉS. TRY THAT OUT. sacramentalist. REPORT RESULTS TO FREEWILLASTROLOGY.COM. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “One language is never Go to realastrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s expanded enough,” says a Pashto proverb. How could it be, weekly audio horoscopes and daily text message horoscopes. right? Each language has a specific structure and a The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at (877) 873- finite vocabulary that limit its power to describe and 4888 or (900) 950-7700.

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