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[4] WEEKLY ALIBI JANUARY 16-22, 2020 the area have any leads as to the identity of the culprit. Councilor Brian Jones told reporters: “We’ll have to catch the guilty ODDS party in the act — it’s the only way we’ll get to the bottom of this.”

Dateline: Denmark AND ENDS Danish scientists say that tapping a shaken WEIRD NEWS beer can does not reduce the risk of it fizzing over. Ars Technica reports that Dateline: Colorado researchers from the University of Swarms of mysterious drones have the Southern Denmark in Odense published a residents of eastern Colorado on edge. paper recently titled “To beer or not to Now the state’s governor says he wants the beer: does tapping beer cans prevent beer mystery solved. According to Huffpost, loss?” According to the paper: “Preventing Colorado Gov. Jared Polis told reporters or minimizing beer loss when opening a last week that he would “get to the can of beer is socially and economically bottom” of the strange drone sightings desirable. One theoretically grounded reported in Colorado and Nebraska since approach is tapping the can prior to mid-December. The swarms have been opening, although this has never been spotted flying by multiple witnesses and rigorously evaluated. We aimed to evaluate even the Phillips County Sheriff ’s Office, the effect of tapping a can of beer on beer which tracked 16 of the flying machines in loss.” To test the method, the researchers late December. So far, the drones haven’t split 1031 beer cans of 330ml into four caused any harm, but residents say they’re groups: unshaken/untapped, nervous about the intentions of the unshaken/tapped, shaken/untapped and machine’s operators. The swarms shaken/tapped. The “tapped” cans were reportedly fly in formation, but some each given three taps on the side with a witnesses have reported observed them single finger. “Shaken” cans were shaken hovering in the air while shining a for two minutes each. The scientists spotlight. Michael Yowell, a sheriff ’s weighed the cans, tapped or did not tap captain in Lincoln County, told reporters them, opened the cans, absorbed any beer that police estimate around 30 drones are loss using paper towels, then weighed the being deployed each night in the area. cans one last time. At the end of the Some of the drones are reportedly larger experiment, they found that “there was no than 6 feet in diameter. Polis told statistically significant difference in the reporters that the Department of Public mass of beer lost when tapping compared Safety is investigating but hasn’t released to not tapping.” It appears the common “any substantial information” on the case. belief that tapping a beer can will lessen A number of government agencies and foaming is incorrect. According to the private drone companies in the area have paper’s authors, the only way to make denied any knowledge of the drones’ certain that no beer is lost is to “wait for origins or purpose. It is likely that the bubbles to settle before opening the can.” operators are violating Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations by Dateline: Florida failing to register their drones, failing to Police who were responding to what they maintain line-of-sight on the drone while believed were cries for help found a parrot in flight and by flying over third parties. instead. Newsweek reports that four The FAA also prohibits pilots from sheriff ’s deputies were sent to a residence operating more than one drone at a in Lake Worth Beach, Fla. in late time—a possibility in this case. December after a neighbor thought they’d heard a woman screaming, “Help, help, Dateline: United Kingdom let me out!” In a video clip that has since A village in England has been targeted by gone viral, the officers can be seen mysterious dumpers who have left piles of approaching the home of a man who can manure in public areas. The Sun reports be seen working on his car in the driveway. that the villagers of Bishopton, Co. In a Facebook post made by the Palm Durham are trying to suss out the Beach County Sheriff ’s Office, the man’s identities of the fecal dumpers but have so statement was reproduced. “I was far failed. According to local reports, the changing the brakes on my wife’s car and mystery perpetrators strike only at night had my 40-year-old parrot, Rambo, on his and have reportedly left dozens of outside perch where he sings and talks” he mounds in public areas around town. said. “Sometime later four police officers Some of the piles have measured up to 50 showed up … I promptly introduced the feet long and 6 feet high. Some of the officers to Rambo … Sometimes Rambo mounds were left where they would block yells ‘help, help, let me out’. Something I motorists from using roads. Locals told taught him when I was a kid and Rambo reporters that at first it appeared a farmer lived in a cage.” The misunderstanding was illegally dumping the mess out of was explained to the man’s concerned neglect, but then the piles began to neighbor. It is unclear if Rambo is appear in different parts of town, leading currently facing any charges. a many to believe the act is malicious. Many of the roads into town are reportedly Compiled by Joshua Lee. Email your weird impassable. It’s unclear if authorities in news to [email protected]. JANUARY 16-22, 2020 WEEKLY ALIBI [5] NEWS CITY NEWS | NEW MEXICO NEWS by August March BY JOSHUA LEE Red Flag Laws Meet Opposition It’s a Merry Roundhouse A number of sheriffs across New Mexico are speaking out against proposed “red flag” gun legislation. New Mexico Legislature 2020 The Associated Press reports that the New Mexico Sheriffs’ Association says that red flag his year, the New Mexico Legislature laws would undermine Constitutional begins a 30-day session that protections. commences on Tuesday, Jan. 21. Seventeen states and the District of T Columbia have reportedly enacted some sort Given the short schedule—the state’s of red flag law that would give courts the governing legislative body meets in 30-day ability to temporarily take guns away from sessions on even years, 60-day sessions on odd people who are considered a threat to themselves or others. But Sierra County years—this year’s convocation focuses on Sheriff Glenn Hamilton, a legislative liaison for economics and education. the sheriff’s association, told reporters that That isn’t to say other bills being submitted existing laws already give police enough won’t get their due. A comprehensive package power. “I would much rather just transport aimed at legalizing recreational cannabis is in that person than take away one mechanism unconstitutionally and leave him with knives the works. Its passage was named as a and explosives and anything else that will legislative priority last year by Governor allow him to carry out his ill will,” he said. Michelle Lujan Grisham and heroic measures Other critics have said the laws violate are currently being taken to assure that the bill citizens’ protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. reaches the governor’s desk. Supporters of red flag laws say they reduce Among these priorities, the governor also gun violence and the risk of mass shootings. announced her budget recommendations on The Merry Roundhouse COURTESY NMLEGIS.GOV Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has spoken in Jan. 6. Meanwhile, as of this reporter’s favor of red flag laws like the one Sen. Joseph deadline, a number of bills have been prefiled the tuition of some 55,000 New Mexico college Democratic Senator Liz Stefanics, aims to curb Cervantes has filed. State Republicans have students. This year’s bill for that expenditure said they will fight against it. in the New Mexico House. Here’s a look at Latino youth suicide by using $50,000 from what’s happening at the Merry Roundhouse as would cost New Mexicans about $35 million if the general fund to finance prevention the days before the second session of New approved by the legislature. programs through the Department of Health. Mexico’s 54th Legislature count down. Lujan Grisham’s budget also includes $164 • SB80, the community solar act sponsored NMED Fines Air Force million in funding to hire more New Mexico by state Senator William P. Soules (D), would The New Mexico Environment Department is The Budget State Police officers and increase public safety establish a community of state solar facilities fining the Air Force $1.7 million for allegedly in the state. Sixty new state cops would be and provide the state public regulation contaminating water at a base near Clovis. Two weeks before the Legislature was due to added to the roster under the governor’s commission with oversight and rule making According to the Santa Fe New Mexican, begin their annual confab, Governor Lujan money plan for 2020. In addition, the abilities for such. The bill would also establish a NMED is accusing Cannon Air Force Base of Grisham outlined her budgetary hopes and dumping wastewater without a groundwater governor will seek about $40 million in community solar energy assistance fund to permit since April 2019 and failing to monitor dreams. Using a windfall profit from sustained funding to support local economic help low-income New Mexicans make the potential leaks. It has been monitoring cancer- oil and gas production in the state as a model development and $28.7 million to fund a new switch to sun power. causing chemicals known as PFAs in the for more spending, the Governor’s budget behavioral health network in New Mexico • HB46 would make changes to the state groundwater near Cannon Air Force base proposal calls for increases in several areas. since 2018 and says the armed forces branch aimed at addressing substance abuse disorders. educational retirement fund. Sponsored by is continuing to discharge contaminated And although income from such sources is And $25 million would be spent on providing Democratic State Representative Tomas wastewater. expected to outpace spending from the state’s more comprehensive health care services to Salazar, the legislation would see an increase in “The Air Force continues to ignore New general fund by a whopping $800 million this senior citizens in The Land of Enchantment. Mexico’s environmental laws,” Environment contributions by state employees who are part coming fiscal year (FY 2021), the Democratic of the pension system. Secretary James Kenney said in a statement. leadership has taken a cautious tack on “Rather than address PFAS contamination, the The Bills • HB35, sponsored by William R. Rehm, a Department of Defense shows no interest in continued reliance on the volatile—but still Meanwhile over in the House and Senate Republican member of New Mexico’s House helping afflicted communities and impacted sustained—income generated by digging for of Representatives, calls for an increase in natural resources.” dinosaur juice in the Southeastern and chambers of the notoriously named New The state has asked that the Air Force pay Mexico Roundhouse—it’s where things like penalties for those who use a firearm in the the fine within 30 days and address Northwest parts of The Land of Enchantment. commission of a crime by three years. This Said recommendations call for using 75 recreational cannabis measures just go round contamination in the area. and round, que no?—several legislators have added jail time would not be eligible to be percent of that money from black gold, while suspended or deferred by the judge that said maintaining the remaining 25 percent as a pre-filed legislation ahead of the Jan. 21 start date. More than 230 pieces of legislation have alleged criminal might face. cash reserve designed to prevent economic • SB27, a Republican-sponsored bill, Officials Question NM trouble if and when those precious petro- been pre-filed. Here is some of what we know so far. These are the measures that caught our provides the legal groundwork necessary to Iranian Group dollars lose value. Under the proposal, general have the governor—at her discretion—detail fund spending would rise to about $7.68 eye in a year that’s all about spending that New Mexico Homeland Security recently members of the New Mexico State Police to billion in FY 2021—that’s an 8.4 percent glorious oil money in a productive and came under fire when officials asked an progressive fashion. certain municipalities “to bring about proper Iranian American cultural group if they’d seen increase over last year’s spending. law enforcement in the state, to handle any suspicious activities. • HB52, sponsored by State Of course, education is at the top of the list. disturbances or to investigate certain law The Associated Press reports that the Lujan Grisham’s wish list includes the Representative Patricia Roybal Cabellero (D) agency sent a letter to the Iranian Cultural violations.” following nuggets. would provide for multicultural programming Society of New Mexico, asking them to report at the state’s flagship university, UNM. The • HB16 is another attempt to pass the paid any unusual activity. • A 4 percent raise for teachers, a 3 percent medical and family leave act. This year the bill In a statement, the Department of raise for employees of the state of New Mexico measure would provide $225,000 each to Homeland Security and Emergency sustain Africana Studies, Chicano Studies and is sponsored by Rep. Christine Chandler, a and a 2 percent increase in pay for employees Democrat. The measure would create a Management said the request was made in an of public colleges and universities. Native American studies courses and effort to curb hate crimes against the group. curriculums. medical and family leave trust fund, establish But ICSNM President Azadeh Mehrnoush told • The proposed increase in general fund parameters for time contributions for reporters that he thought the agency was spending also includes a $74 million rise to • SB25 is all about outreach and services to attempting to gather information on Iranian homeless veterans in the state of New Mexico. employees and provide funding of the sustain and expand the early childhood program through the New Mexico Workforce Americans. “Why wouldn’t we report education initiatives that were part of Lujan Sponsored by State Senator Bill Tallman (D), something if we saw something?” said the bill would appropriate $300,000 from the Development Department. Mehrnoush. “I found it odd.” Grisham’s election platform. general fund to help reduce homelessness Interested readers can read about all 231 Incidents of hate crimes and discrimination • A separate, $320 million trust fund, using pre-filed bits of legislation for the 2020 New against Iranian Americans have reportedly investment earnings, would be created to among those New Mexico citizens who have occurred across the nation as tensions served in the armed forces. Mexico Legislature, from memorials and increase between the US and Iran. a ensure the program’s sustainability. resolutions to bills, at legiscan.com. a • The budget proposal also calls for paying • SB78, sponsored by Albuquerque [6] WEEKLY ALIBI JANUARY 16-22, 2020 ADVERTISE WITH US

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JANUARY 16-22, 2020 WEEKLY ALIBI [7] NEWS | ON ASSIGNMENT by August March The City’s State Celebration notes progress, marks challenges t was cold as heck but clear as a morning The Speech bell sounding hope and redemption Of course, Mayor Keller’s speech was the Ifrom the belfry of your favorite highlight of the day. Before the Mayor spoke, neighborhood church on the morning of the there were many introductions and a local annual State of the City Address. This year’s poet, Damien Flores, read a selection of event was held at the Albuquerque Burque-themed sonnets and stories, imbuing Convention Center. the meeting with a nostalgic yet hopeful-for- Our reporter noted it was about 24 degrees the-future feeling. at 9 in the morning in Burque. The streets After all the introductions, Keller went on were nearly empty except for a large throng of and on about his successes over the past year, homeless folks waiting for food and bottled including the stellar transformation of the water at the corner of Fourth Street and Animal Welfare Department and the return Central Avenue. of a vibrant local economy. He also tempered At the convention center, a big fire truck his remarks, reminding Burqueños how had its ladder extended and two men were much work has yet to be done in areas such climbing it to the top. The Animal Welfare as homelessness, crime and the fine-tuning Department was there early, too, with a van of and public acceptance of ART. packed full of adoptable dogs and cats. Inside, Keller said the city “was committed to a couple young and burly city cops stood forging its own path,” as he related his own Mayor Keller ERIC WILLIAMS PHOTOGRAPHY sentry and were helpful with getting people struggles with a job that has a vast number of where they needed to go in a big building so But the group of officers wearing full components to reckon with on a daily basis. far filled only with tons of tables and chairs. year. Weekly Alibi spoke to Jennifer Esquivel, the camouflage military gear—with helmets, utility Keller also said that his guiding principles After picking up his pass and checking to department’s marketing and communications belts, canteens and desert hiking boots—were were to listen, learn and act. He then make sure that Alibi Staff Photographer Eric manager. out of place at a community event. We get it, announced that progress made within the Williams was on the list—telling the friendly Esquivel told our reporter that “Last year, we they’re citizens, too, and want to represent. But Albuquerque Police Department had led his check-in staff he’d be back after a hearty had a really great year. We signed [on] four local the city police is not a military force and should office to ask a federal judge to release the city breakfast—our reporter retreated to his car, economic development action projects. Those not be depicted as such, especially at public from part of the DOJ settlement, due to solid where he listened to the latest news being are new businesses coming to Albuquerque to events. Given the recent officer-involved compliance by the department in the past beamed into his vehicle via a satellite sitting do business here.” Those big outside entities shooting of a transient on Central Avenue, it’s two years. somewhere on the southern horizon in include NBC Universal, she said, but added hoped that in 2020, the Keller administration Keller would like the city to manage some geostationary orbit. that the Buy Local program sponsored by her will be more circumspect about the use and items of the compliance settlement, On the way home, he passed the new department is also doing well. “Buy Local is a public placement of militarized police units ostensibly allowing more APD officers to Downtown grocery story and was glad for it, big initiative for Mayor Keller. There’s a balance under his command. resume the task of fighting crime in the city. even as he rolled past a trio of windblown of two forces. We’re building an economy for Of course, every one of the city employees “We decided to create a compliance bureau homeless folks sharing a bottle of brandy on everybody. Along with bringing in traditional interviewed at the State of the City celebration to work with the DOJ and not against them. the adjacent street corner and shouting to the economic development, we’re also focused on were helpful and civic-minded. So there has ... Next month we are walking into court and passing cars. small business support.” been a clear change of culture in the past few We also spoke to the folks from the asking to end the outside monitoring of years and that’s even reflected in the department of family and community services. nearly one-quarter of all those [DOJ] The Celebration presentation of departments as diverse as the Gilbert Ramírez, the Deputy Director for health requirements.” From 10am in the morning, until about public arts program, economic development programs, told Weekly Alibi that his department “Addiction fuels gang activity and 1:30pm that afternoon, when the Mayor and family and community services. Then provides a multitude of services to Burque’s domestic violence,” Keller reminded those spoke, the city held a celebration of itself at the there’s the Office of Community Engagement, most fragile citizens, including behavioral present before announcing that his Convention Center. By the time our reporter which the Keller administration uses to recruit health and social services. Ramírez said his administration had made progress in returned at 10:45am, there was a massive volunteers into a system designed to remake program provides treatment for addiction as municipal policing, including ending the American flag draped from the fire engine Albuquerque for the better over the course of well as offering “utility assistance, rent rape kit-backlog and being on track to hire ladder he had seen earlier. It waved many years. assistance, food boxes for the community as well 100 additional police offers per year during authoritatively in front of the convention providing resources for housing Albuquerque’s his tenure. center as he entered. The People homeless population. We also provide early Though the Keller administration has Inside, a couple dozen city departments indeed been successful in a multitude of ways Sherri Brueggemann is the City of Albuquerque childhood development at our community and divisions had booths set up. Each booth and there are a solid set of reasons to be Public Art Urban Enhancement Division centers.” He concluded by saying his biggest was staffed by knowledgeable municipal hopeful—and even as the Mayor’s speech Manager. She told Weekly Alibi she was excited to goal at the celebration was to let people know servants who were ready to tell the story of how focused on public safety and health—this tell the public how much public art there is in “how many services the city has available Keller’s election two years ago had set the city narrative makes clear the problems the local Albuquerque, saying “The public art program is through family and community services.” on a new course and how, over the past year, administration faces. Despite heroic efforts, 41 years old and we have over 1000 works of art As our reporter walked around all the civic that course had become a successful path homelessness is still increasing in The Duke spread over the entire city.” Asked about recent displays, it became apparent that the mayor’s leading to Albuquerque’s brighter future. City. And though officer-involved shootings acquisitions, Brueggemann related the fact that speech was imminent. Walking over to Kiva There were also a significant number of are down significantly, the public—as noted her program works in two-year cycles and that Auditorium, he ran into Nick Vottero, one of uniformed Albuquerque Police Department by local activist group RISE New Mexico—is the recent passage of bond issues related to the Mayor’s civic engagement coordinators. officers on hand for the civic party. Their still troubled by a militarized local police public art meant that 2020 would be a great Vottero was excited to relate that, “This uniforms ranged from the traditional outfit force that seems to flex its muscles in actions year, concluding that “Community members administration believes in opening up city used by beat cops in this town to some sporty against the very homeless citizens that the should be on the lookout for a lot more public government to make opportunities available for attire worn by athletic bicycle patrolmen and mayor’s workers are working so hard to help. art in 2020.” everyone in the community. The One patrolwomen. The snazzy dress uniforms of That big American flag out front may Around the corner from Brueggemann’s Albuquerque program is about making the city the cadre’s leadership and the spiffy and shiny have been cool as heck, but you can’t use it as artistic display station, the Economic safer, more inclusive and more innovative,” parade-ready costumes of the honor guard a either a blanket or shield. a Development Department was busy informing Vottero said as citizens found their seats in the were a nice touch. citizens about the strides they made this past auditorium. [8] WEEKLY ALIBI JANUARY 16-22, 2020 WEEKLY BUSINESS PROFILE | PAID ADVERTISEMENT JANUARY 24, 25. 26, 2020

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What Are The Show Hours and Where Is It Located At: What makes this show important to Albuquerque? Friday Jan 25: 12-Noon to 9PM: Saturday Jan 26: 10AM to The show has become a strong family tradition in Albuquerque 9PM; Sunday Jan 27: 10AM to 7PM. At EXPO New Mexico: and has a charity focus as well. Each year TNT Promotions Inc. formerly the NM State Fairgrounds: 301 San Pedro, Albuquerque works with the Ronald McDonald House charities as well as each NM. of the McDonald’s restaurant owners to place “FREE” children’s tickets in each of the McDonalds restaurants, so every child in How long has this show been around? Albuquerque can attend the event. A donation from each The Supernationals Auto Show is entering its 29th anniversary this returned ticket as well as a silent auction collects a sizable year. It originated after long time auto show producer Daryl Starbird donation for the Ronald McDonald House each year. left the Albuquerque market in the early ‘90s. Matt Torres and his business partner Joe Welby started a show in 1992 called the Desert Anything else car lovers should know? States Rod & Custom Show which tested the waters and found It is always a challenge to top the last year's event, however this success. In 1993, they invited Reggie year will be the biggest and best year ever Tibbetts to join their team and the show Type of Business: Custom Auto Show as we celebrate our 29th anniversary! was remodeled as The Custom Automotive Supernationals. Joe Welby Year Established: 1992 How do I get tickets? left for other ventures and Reggie and Tickets for the Supernationals are Matt continued the tradition of the event. Owners: Matt Torres, Reggie TIbbetts available at the gate: $16.50 for adults; Over time they heard others nickname the $4.50 for children 6-12, under 6 free, or Business Phone: 505-332-9222 show, “The Supernationals,” so they purchase advance adult tickets on line at shortened the name. Website: www.thesupernationals.com www.thesupernationals.com/tickets/ or at O’Reillys Auto Parts Stores where you can How did it grow into what it is now? save $2.50 per ticket. Also, purchase Reggie and Matt who in combination have over 60 years experience with auto events have built the show into a nationally tickets on line at TheSuperNationals.com/tickets. Get your free recognized event. The event showcases a strong variety of sponsors and commercial vendors and has become the place to be for local children’s tickets at all Albuquerque and surrounding area and national businesses. McDonalds to support the Ronald McDonald House Charities. The Supernationals hot line is 505-332-9222. What can I find at the show? TheSuperNationals.com The event brings in the most current feature vehicles from the front covers of national car magazines along with the top touring national show cars each year. What’s the theme this year? This year the show is focusing on the quality of the National Car Builders and will feature the top touring show vehicles from all over the nation to include regional and local cars. Anything particularly special? There are many special national vehicles coming to the event to include: From Detroit Michigan: the Hero Car: Chuck Miller’s “RED BARON” the worlds most famous street rod that was made into a Hot Wheels and Models. From California, as seen on MAV TV and Motor Trend TV, built by Ian Roussel from "Full Custom Garage": Victor Cacho's 62 Wildly Custom Bubble Top T-Bird "Outer Limits". Also see the worlds largest Jeep Monstor Truck “BIG WILLY”. This year brings the baddest muscle cars on the planet from Blown Mafia, a 1965 Mustang and 1969 Camaro with the largest engines you have ever seen using Triple Blowers, Turbos and a ton of chrome. Bringing in a international flavor will be Gerald Larribas’s exhibit of “Run With The Bulls” to include several Lamborghini’s. And don’t miss the Ford -vs- Ferrari display in honor of Carol Shelby. Will there be any special guests?

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JANUARY 16-22, 2020 WEEKLY ALIBI [9] FOUND OBJECTS ARTS | INTERVIEW by Clarke Condé BY CLARKE CONDÉ Going Solo The second offering in Aux Dog Theatre Nob Reclaiming Disposable Beauty Hill’s (3011 Monte Vista Blvd. NE) QSOLO 2020 festival features Zoë Yeoman in the comedy Bad Dates, written by Theresa Reclaimed Creations Rebeck and directed by Victoria J. Liberatori. Sayaka Ganz’s Billed as “a comedy about fine dining, spike heels and the Romanian Mob,” this solo ayaka Ganz takes old spatulas, performance starts its four-show run on spoons, clothes hangers and other Friday, Jan. 17 at 8pm. Tickets are $18 with such ubiquitous household plastics a variety of discounts. For more information S and tickets, see auxdogtheatre.org. and finesses them into graceful sculptures of animals in motion. She says that the spirit of an object is saddened Out of the Casket and when it is discarded before its usefulness is over. She says that her sculptures Into the New Year bring these objects a new purpose and Punch into 2020 with the slamming poetry the viewer, hopefully, the realization that duo Punch Out the Casket as they bring beauty can be found in reordering our their words to the safe space community of perceptions towards the deposable MindWell Poetry (this time at 3904 Central Ave. SE) on Friday, Jan. 17 starting at 7pm. objects in our lives. Ring in the new year with poets who Ganz’s new show Reclaimed Creations, unabashedly reference 19th century Whig open through May at the New Mexico politicians, check out the second round of Museum of Natural History & Science, is slammers and bring your own poems if you the perfect venue to have a conversation want to take to the mic. For more about how we treat our everyday objects information on this free, all-ages event, see and their place in our environment. Why mindwellpoetry.com. do we throw out so much stuff? Where is the beauty in that? Weekly Alibi sat down with Ganz at the museum to talk about Lore Afoot plastic, process and the tyrannosaurus in Mexican dance comes to Popejoy Hall the lobby. The following is an edited (UNM Main Campus) in the form of Ballet version of that conversation. Folclórico Nacional de México de Silvia Lozano for one performance only on Friday, Weekly Alibi: Michelangelo said, “I Jan. 17 at 7:30pm. Costumes and folklore fill saw the angel in the marble and I the hall for this spirted performance that celebrates the Mexican dance form this carved until I set him free.” Do you company is dedicated to preserving. Tickets see animals in the trashcan? range from $25 to $69. For more information Sayaka Ganz: I don’t necessarily see it and tickets for this all-ages performance, that way, but I definitely see this sadness see popejoypresents.com. in the items that I find at the thrift stores and in the trash. If I see a serving spoon on the shelf of a thrift store, it Sticking Their Necks Out really doesn’t make me want to take it

back to my kitchen to use it to cook with, CONDÉ CLARKE PHOTO BY but at the same time they were designed Sayaka Ganz with “Nova,” her sculpture made from reclaimed plastics, at the New Mexico by somebody to fit your hand. These Museum of Natural History & Science. designs are quite beautiful sometimes. I guess maybe because I grew up moving a not start a big project unless I have a specific venue that’s requesting something lot and having difficulties fitting in at Reclaimed Creations or I have a commission. times at different schools, maybe it just By Sayaka Ganz gives me an extra yearning to have a On exhibit through May 17 New Mexico Museum All of your works are of extant creatures place to belong to and it makes me want with the exception of the Phoenix, to find a place for them to belong also. of Natural History & Science which is fictional. Here in the natural 1801 Mountain Rd. NW history museum, so much of what is The long and varied history of non-terrestrial There is an inherent sadness to waste. shown are extinct creatures. Have you reptiles is approaching a grim chapter that Do you see joy in your creations? considered creating an extinct animal? may see us close the book on these I feel like when I can put them in an Tell me a little bit about your collecting Wow. That’s something I haven’t really creatures in our lifetime. Time was reptiles animal form that really looks alive, joyful process. thought about that. But now, here seeing filled the skies and seas, but now in our and emotional, then I’m making them I’ve been collecting since 2006. I have a the tyrannosaurus in the lobby, yeah, I oceans we are down to geographically happy. huge collection now. I have storage units. would love to. isolated marine iguanas, sort-of maybe I’ve got like maybe 50 or 60 bins all sorted crocodiles, brackish water-loving American by color. Over the years I’ve discovered alligators that will ruin your coastal vacation How do you perceive the energetic What do you hope that the viewer sees in a snap, a bunch of ornery sea snakes and transformation your work goes that some plastics are a little too brittle for in your work? a handful of elegant, endangered sea turtles. through from a static, discarded me to use, they break easily or some I think the main thing I’d like to The ABQ BioPark Aquarium (903 10th Street object to an animal full of motion? shapes are just not that great for what I communicate is the potential and beauty want to do. So, I’m becoming more SW) wants you to know more about these I feel like it’s creating a flow. I do that by of these plastic items. So many people say flippered friends and the challenges they selective, but still my collection only grows. to me, “Oh, I hate plastics. They are such a face from overfishing, pollution and our aligning these objects together in a way, problem.” And yes, it’s true, but it’s really rapidly changing climate. Sea Turtle like an Impressionist painting. I am very How do you choose your animals? us. It’s what we do with the plastics. That’s Awareness Day on Saturday, Jan. 18 from aware of the directional line quality that It depends. When I started, I was choosing the problem. And at the same time, we’re 9am to 5pm is the place to do it with hands- I’m creating with the collection of the from the movement. I started doing the so dependent on these plastic items for on turtle crafts and a showing of the film items. I’m always very careful not to put plastic sculptures when I was in graduate our lives. If we can learn to respect and be Saving Sea Turtles: Preventing Extinction in any vertical lines that block the flow of school. I was just thinking in terms of the more careful about how we produce them the aquarium’s theater. All events are movement I’m trying to create visually. variety of the direction of movement I and dispose of them, that’s a lot more included with ABQ BioPark admission. For It’s almost like coaxing a group of wanted to create. Now, most of the time, positive than us saying, “Oh, they’re all the more information on this all-ages event, see problem,” and trying to get rid of all of abqbiopark.com. a collaborators to go in the same general because I have storage units and so many direction. of my sculptures are very large, I tend to the plastics at the same time, then discovering that we cannot, really. a [10] WEEKLY ALIBI JANUARY 16-22, 2020 ARTS | MAGNIFIED by Clarke Condé Gilded Aging Happy Birthday by Jana Opincariu

Happy Birthday by Jana Opincariu. PHOTO BY CLARKE CONDÉ

mergence is a common theme in art, but how it is handled is the Happy Birthday E source of endless interpretations, By Jana Opincariu and often within the work of an On exhibit through Jan. 31 individual artist, iterations. In Jana Albuquerque Press Club Opincariu’s Happy Birthday, we find our 201 Highland Park Cir. view smack-dab in the middle of an emergence scene of the invertebrate kind. Limiting ourselves to the spineless jarring, yet full of possibility. What does realm, we’ve got Franz Kafka, Laura the next moment hold in this bug Ingalls Wilder and Eric Carle on the birthday storyline? literary side, but in visual art things can We are often reborn (with cake, if get a little less clear. Sometimes the lucky) on our birthdays. Age is how we lesson is you are a cockroach, your farm stratify society. Age is how we gain entry was eaten by locusts or that excessive into its commonly agreed upon rights eating can make you a beautiful and responsibilities. We become new butterfly. With Happy Birthday, it’s not so people in the eyes of others, if not clear. ourselves. For a while, birthdays seem Opincariu has said in her statement positive, until that time when it no that every piece she does is a self- longer seems to be. Then, it often portrait. It is a bold and vulnerable becomes a time of loss that no cake can position to take when painting cicadas, restore. It is a cruelty of time fueled by or insects of any kind for that matter. our own perceptions. The same could be Opincariu’s gilding and chunky style said of most transformations. renders objects, often animals, small on Opincariu’s Happy Birthday doesn’t a golden field. Happy Birthday tells us a tell us how to receive this birthday. That story with her similar style, as the festive is up to the viewer. She just gives us the cake is left somewhat abruptly and opportunity to consider what shedding inelegantly to move on to the more our skin means. a pressing transformation at hand. It is JANUARY 16-22, 2020 WEEKLY ALIBI [11] THE DISH FOOD | RESTAURANT REVIEW by Dan Pennington BY DAN PENNINGTON

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It’s a relief many of us want and crave, giving us room to let loose and be our best selves. We’re on a path, and French Onion Is King that path is an endless pursuit of wanting I would be remiss if I didn’t mention to have fun. This was what I began to Annie’s Soup Kitchen (3107 Eubank Blvd. ponder when I went to Fun Noodle Bar in NE) here. It’s been a part of the Northeast the Heights. Heights for as long as I remember. They’ve What truly makes it a fun noodle bar? always got a daily soup special, so variety The interior alone is visually exciting in a is there for you, but how could you not subdued way, all modern and clean with a want to do their French Onion Soup dark color scheme meshing with the large instead? Made with melted Swiss cheese windows that fill it with natural light. The on top, served with homemade French seats around the tables were all full, no bread and butter, it’s the gooey mess of a small feat for a noodle joint on a Sunday soup that truly changes your life when you around 2pm. We got set up at a table and eat it. French onion soup is earnestly one of the greatest creations on the planet, and hadn’t even had a chance to look at the Annie’s Soup Kitchen does it just right, menu before my attention shifted to the giving a balance of flavors that lends itself man behind the bar making noodles by to true superiority. If your mouth isn’t hand. These were traditional, hand pulled, watering right now just thinking about this, twisted, spun and slapped right in front of then I don’t know how else to help you. It’s us. There was precision in his work, a stoic the season of soup, and French onion is and learned methodology where every begging to be king. movement was measured, perfect, no waste to be found. 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It’s so much more than that. have a soup of the day that shifts and gives Chinese fare, so if you’re in the mood for Fri-Sat: 11am-10pm There’s this abundance of flavor that you the variety you need to feel fulfilled in either, you’ll be glad to find yourself within Sun: 11am-9pm hides beneath that red and oily surface. life, something to help you brace against their walls. Along with a robust food menu, You manage to find a new combination of that cold. It’s hard not to love a good soup, they’ve got a great drink menu, featuring Vibe: Modern Asian eatery flavors every single time you ingest a little especially when it’s a Hamburger Vegetable wine and sake, as well as a decent selection Alibi Recommends: Any noodle dish, more. What keeps this dish going is the Soup, or the classic Green Chile Chicken of bottled and draft beers to pair up with earnestly. Soup. Too standard for you? Maybe the fact that you don’t know what to expect Greek Chicken Soup is more your style. The your meal. Throw in the fact that they bite to bite, and it’s the best thing about it. point is, you have options, so utilize them in carry Ramune, and you’re set up for all All these different pieces work in strange getting your soul warmed up a bit. you need. happily as it was meant to be, the ways to cumulate into something that Let’s begin with the Orange Chicken. It familiarity of it carried the brunt of the leaves you excited to keep eating. It’s had a perfect crispy exterior, with that hot front taste immediately. What was left was never too spicy, but it does have heat, but Duran’s Makes Me and steamy tender interior you’re looking the nice, even layer of flavor from the that heat takes a backseat when the sweet for on your chicken. The orange sauce was noodles that contributed to an overall corn makes it into your mouth with some Hungry Like the Wolf a little sweet, a little spicy and jam-packed enjoyable experience. broth. Any combination of the noodles Duran Central Pharmacy (1815 Central with flavor. There’s fresh slices of peeled And finally, the ultimate dish, the with another ingredient brings out Ave. NW) is famous for a lot of reasons, orange that decorate the plate, along with Tonkotsu Black Ramen. It comes with a subtleties in the dish that you weren’t notably taking the best red and green chile your choice of white rice, fried rice ($1 pork chashu, spinach, green onion, expecting to find. This isn’t a meal that awards in last year’s Best of Burque upcharge) or pan-fried noodles ($3 you just casually enjoy. This is a treat. This voting. But their restaurant holds a lot of Shanghainese greens, fried onion, sweet upcharge). It’s a straight-up pleasure to corn and cilantro, all in a massive bowl is an experience. This is fun. food that is just so exceptional, it’s worth eat, invoking those feelings that make your time to get down there. For example, with a deep, rich broth. I earnestly don’t I have no doubts in my mind that Fun their Tortilla Soup, which is only available orange chicken so good in the first place. know where to start. Dine-out ramen is Noodle Bar fits perfectly in the Heights. on Mondays and Tuesdays. It features It’s not citrus heavy, it’s not an excessively held to such a high standard, considering With the University area having the green chile, avocado and cheese, which sticky sauce. It’s a light and flavorful piece the alternative is typically a $0.30 bag that Noodle District comfortably operating at may sound simple, but is a mash-up of all that truly dances on your tongue. you literally spend two minutes making. this point, the expansion has to begin in things great in a soup that leaves you The Pad Thai was equally amazing. The This is so high above what I expected that new places. I always think interesting and begging for more. If there was truly one stir-fried noodles had a good hint of fire I was earnestly left speechless. 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t happened to me. I went to the store city that is very resistant to change—this Jan. 4 and forgot about the bag ban. is obvious when I hear people saying IYes, 2020 ushered in a new era of things like ‘Who puts a bus lane in the environmentally friendly policies, with middle of the street?!’ in regard to ART. this one taking immediate effect Jan. 1. I But I’m sick of seeing ugly plastic bags stood in Ghetto Smith’s and looked wrapped around our cacti, so I’ll be around. The people there were frantic. I embracing the bag ban,” Sweet told me. saw a woman start hoarding paper bags, Which feels like the crux of the issue—of a wild look in her eyes as she scanned the a lot of our issues, actually. We’re a city horizon for more. Her eyes found resistant to change. For some things, I nothing but chaos. Another person agree, keep them the way they are. watched as their groceries literally melted Historic sites, cultural traditions and our away in their hands, just becoming some amazing food scene are things I would amorphous blob on the floor, sending hate to see change. But values, societal them back on a quest for more Honey progress, compassion for those less Nut Cheerios. A child was holding a fortunate, growth and the removal of plastic bag, and a crowd swarmed them, plastic bags from our landscape, those hands grasping inwards to grab ahold of are things that need to move forward this precious, dwindling resource. This with the times. This is a call for was the future liberals wanted, and they Albuquerque to be better, not that we got it. aren’t, but we can continue to grow. It’s None of this actually happened but easy to acknowledge that change is judging by the reactions of local residents difficult, but we need to move with it, not in online comment sections, it would against it. We’re in a constant state of appear that it was the inevitable change, and things cannot ever truly stay outcome, and that the world has gone the same. As time moves forward, so crazy and they’re the only ones who see must we. We must be adaptable. it. I have a recommendation for those There’s no real obstacle at the end of people. My advice is “deal with it.” The the day. Reusable bags are everywhere, word that comes up the most in these with most places selling them so cheap comments is “inconvenienced,” a word it’s almost laughable to consider it a printed on a banner that is waved loud consequence. Walmart is currently selling and proud above them as they pick this them at 10 cents each, though Target is hill to die on. They don’t know what just giving them away. Even the city they’ll do with trash in their bathroom stepped up, creating a ton of bags to give DAN PENNINGTON anymore, they are now completely lost Like a white flag waving, it’s time to surrender our bags. away over the coming weeks to help ease about how to deal with cat litter, how will the transitional pain of losing our they construct their horrible “Plastic- precious thin plastic ones. As time goes Man” costume using only found goods or “The word that comes up the most in these on, more and more places will be God forbid, they have to have their own launching their own lines of bags, a way bags when they go to the store like comments is ‘inconvenienced,’ a word printed to show support for a business you love plebeians. These complaints send me up on a banner that is waved loud and proud while also finding use of the product a wall, because they mean nothing in the offered. There are nearly limitless ways to grand scheme of the world. They’re all so above them as they pick this hill to die on.” help be a part of the solution rather than simple, so unobstrusive, it feels like it’s the problem, and earnestly, the more effort to complain than to solve. complaining is a little tired at this point. This is what I want to focus on. I end on an anecdote. From the years I because wherever you went, you would be and easier? We’re removing a problem Adaptability. spent working with a homeless shelter, sure to see one lazily drifting through the that is both timely and costly in exchange “Inconvenienced” is a strange word. you found that there were needs that sky, hanging in a tree and flapping its for extra seconds of our time in the store. It’s not that it is necessarily a real weren’t in the usual list of asks. Speaking metaphorical wings noisily above the More so, the ban has been instituted obstacle, it just adds minor problems to with John Benton, Shelter Director for streets. It was a problem then, and it’s a other places to great results, where the ultimate solution the seeker is Hopeworks, he brought up the use of problem now. Currently, a set of photos is people have adjusted, and life moved on. seeking. I’m sure as you read those above plastic bags by clients. For many making its way around social media of Sierra Sweet, a local student, told me “I complaints, your mind did what mine experiencing homelessness, they carry the drainage system to the Rio Grande, lived in California for three years and does when it hears a complaint; it creates everything they own on them at all times. and it’s packed shut with plastic bags. We they enacted a bag ban there right a solution. These are not real problems. One of the many problems they face was brag about the beautiful scenery out around the time I moved (to the These barely qualify as trouble. There are keeping these things, typically essentials, here, yet somehow want to allow things Sacramento area). People were pissy and compostable bags for cat litter you can safe and protected. The easiest way was like this to continue. We have to strive for freaked out there, too. Personally, I don’t buy and use if you don’t want to dump it with a plastic bag. It had handles, it was higher standards, even at the absurdly see much of an issue with the ban in straight into a trashbag that is already lightweight and best of all, waterproof. high cost of minor inconvenience. theory—reducing plastic seems good all being used. 200 for $20. Your bathroom Even before the ban, keeping bags Littering has consistently been a around. When we moved back to NM, we trash is the same way, you can purchase available was always a struggle, though problem, with the streets being unkept if had to go grocery shopping right away your own bags, environmentally friendly now, it may be next to impossible. For not for the valiant efforts of do-gooders and we went to Walmart to keep it cheap. and far more useful. The goal here isn’t a them, protecting their belongings, things and workers hired by the city to patrol Our cashier proceeded to bag about 50 total ban on plastic, though what a world like birth certificates and legal the main roads and collect what they can items each in an individual bag, all this would be if we could make that documents that help them reintegrate find. But it all feeds back to the main double bagged. We were just watching happen. The goal here is reduction. back into a normal life, will become more solution, one of reduction. Why spend all this in horror.” Many don’t remember, but there was a difficult than before. And yet, how many this time going out and cleaning when So then what causes this plastic- time in New Mexico history when people do you see speaking out against being not having to clean at all is both cheaper induced anger? “I think Albuquerque is a said the state bird was a plastic bag, “inconvenienced”? a

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EVENT HORIZON JANUARY 16-22, 2020 FRIDAY JAN 17 SATURDAY JAN 18 TAKING THE LEAD WELCOME TO CLUB 27 The discerning theatergoer may be able When Amy Winehouse died from alcohol poisoning to distinguish between screwball comedy nearly 9 years ago, she was well on her way to becoming a rocanrol legend. Although the breathy and farcé but the less sophisticated contralto only possessed the funk for a few precious among us find Adobe Theater’s Leading years, Winehouse wielded the groovy mess with Ladies, which opens Friday, Jan. 17 at graceful aplomb. Of course, being legendary and all 7:30pm, to be more of a romp. Ken that lends itself to one’s own postmortem tribute show. Ludwig’s play directed by Lewis Hauser Dear Amy offers an intensely accurate depiction of centers on two Shakespearean actors the artist and her work, featuring the creator of this from England trying to bilk a dying Instagram sensation that became a successful touring Pennsylvania woman out of her fortune act, Amy “Frankie Jordan” McIntosh. The show lands by crossdressing and pretending to be her at The Stage @ Santa Ana Star Casino and Hotel on nieces. Unexpected romance and full-on Saturday, Jan. 18 at 7pm. McIntosh’s 75-minute set shenanigans ensue. Tickets for opening includes a live 9-piece band and is endorsed by weekend are $15. ADOBE THEATER 9813 FOURTH STREET Winehouse’s father, Mitch, who typically eschews NW, 7:30PM alibi.com/v/7066. (Clarke Condé) a tributes to his daughter. Tickets for this 21-and-over IMAGE BY DAN WARE musical tour de force range in price from $42 to $52, so don’t say “no, no, no,” just go, go, go! STAGE @ SANTA ANA STAR 54 JEMEZ DAM, 7 TO 8:30PM alibi.com/v/703e. (August March) a SUNDAY JAN 19 IMAGE COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

CHÚC MỪNG Ă Ớ SERVE YO’ SELF N M M I! SOME CAKE The Vietnamese Lunar New Year is known as Têt. This Our good friends at Self Serve have turned 13 time around, the most years old, and you better believe they’re auspicious event in throwing one hell of a party for the 18-and- Vietnamese culture happens over crowd to celebrate. On Saturday, Jan. 18 on Jan. 25 on the Western from 10am to 8pm, this free event is a full-on calendar. But here in “Welcome to your teens!” party going down Albuquerque, the day is at their new location on Morningside. Not only IMAGE COURTESY MINISTRY OF CULTURE, SPORTS AND TOURISM, SOCIALIST celebrated with a are they giving out prizes, but they have REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Vietnamese New Year giveaways and “other opportunities to win Festival held on Sunday, Jan. 19 at 6:30pm at Holy Ghost Catholic School in Albuquerque’s piles of pleasure.” If the prize is piles of International District. This time of renewal, family and prosperity will feature traditional new pleasure, sign us up. On top of all that, every year ceremonies including the Lion Dance. There will also be live music, choreographed purchase that day comes with a free vibe, and dance performances and plenty of traditional Vietnamese food for sale. This free, all-ages let’s be real: Who doesn’t need a spare vibe community celebration is sponsored by the Albuquerque Vietnamese Community Association, lying around? For more info, don’t hesitate to The Albuquerque Vietnamese Baptist Church, Lavang Catholic Parish and the Van Hanh call them at 265-5815. SELF SERVE 112 MORNINGSIDE DR a Buddhist Temple. HOLY GHOST SCHOOL 6201 ROSS AVE SE, 6:30 TO 9:30PM alibi.com/v/6zqs. (August March) a NE, 10AM alibi.com/v/6zq6. (Dan Rayne Pennington)

MONDAY JAN 20 LET’S RISE UP IN 2020 TASTE HISTORY IN A Women Rising, the 2020 New Mexico Women’s March, happens on Sunday, FUN WAY Jan. 19 at noon. This year’s rally, highlighting immigration rights, climate Farm & Table hosts their Taste justice and reproductive rights the History of Chocolate IV on Monday, Jan. 20 from 6 to 9pm. happens in the middle of Downtown, Tickets for this event are $93, at Albuquerque Civic Plaza. Besides a though you can splurge and pay protest march, powerful speakers are $118 to take it with wine pairings, scheduled to bring an affirmative and and leads you through the rich, empowering message to an event that decadent history of everyone’s also features crafts and informational favorite snack. This time around, booths, food trucks and live music. For be treated to some fascinating information about the heavy travel cacao went through to get to Chaco Canyon over 1,000 years ago. The guest chocolate maker Steve Prickett, from more info and a printable flyer about Eldora Chocolate, and Dr. Patricia Crown, who led the team that learned so much about the this free, all-ages victory march, visit history of cacao at Chaco Canyon, are the guests of honor. For more info on how to get nmwomensmarch.org. CIVIC PLAZA 1 CIVIC your hands on these sweet treats, email [email protected] and guarantee a PLAZA , NOON alibi.com/v/711o. (August March) a IMAGE COURTESY OF NM POLITICAL REPORT BY ANDY LYMAN spot before it’s gone. FARM & TABLE 8917 FOURTH STREET NW, 6 TO 9PM alibi.com/v/711m. (Dan Rayne Pennington) a

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Greyhound Adoption League. Learn how to foster COMMUNITY or adopt and about what wonderful family members these retired racers can be. 8201 Golf Course Rd NW. 11am-1pm. ALL-AGES! 890-0757. THURSDAY JAN 16 alibi.com/v/70gt. INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER Relocated: Urban Migration. Celebrate the opening of this exhi- SUNDAY JAN 19 bition that highlights the relocation and termination era. Light refreshments are served. 2401 12th Street MANZANO DEL SOL Death Cafe. Engage in a NW. 5:30-7:30pm. ALL-AGES! 724-3507. conversation to increase awareness of death to alibi.com/v/70w3. make the most of our finite lives. Drink tea or coffee, eat cake or cookies and discuss mortality issues. KIDS 5201 Roma Ave. NE. 3-5pm. 18+. 265-7215. ALAMOSA LIBRARY Kitchen Chemistry. Kids in alibi.com/v/6zyu. grades 3 through 5 perform science experiments SELF SERVE and adventures in measuring with chemicals found Mastering the BJ: Interactive Skills. in a kitchen that you thought were food and fruits. This class is for anyone who has a dick in their life 6900 Gonzales SW. 3:30-4:30pm. 836-0684. and wants to show it some oral love. Sterilized dildos alibi.com/v/6zad. for practicing provided. 112 Morningside Dr NE. $20. 2-3:30pm. 18+. 265-5815. alibi.com/v/6zq7. LEARN WEMAGINATION RESOURCE CENTER SPORTS RED DOOR BREWING COMPANY Investigating Early Math Concepts Through Play. Gridiron This workshop explores how math is naturally Gameday. Watch teams battle it out with games on embedded in play and how to support children’s every T.V. Show up in football swag and get $1 off learning through the use of open-ended and recy- pints and discounts from the kitchen. 1001 cled materials. 4010 Copper Ave NE. 5:30-7:30pm. Candelaria Rd NE. 11am-10pm. 21+. 633-6675. 18+. 277-8515. alibi.com/v/6zko. alibi.com/v/6y8h. WELLNESS/FITNESS NEW HEART Hands-Only CPR Class. Learn how to save the life of an adult or teen suffering sudden cardiac arrest outside of the hospital. 601 Lomas Blvd NE. 1-2pm. 13+. 318-0404. alibi.com/v/70ip. CANNABIS ALBUQUERQUE HISPANO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Cannabis and the Workplace. Join the AHCC and New Mexico Mutual to discuss Cannabis in the workplace and what that means for your busi- ness. Event is in the Lockheed Boardroom. Space is limited, pre-register online. 1309 Fourth Street SW. Noon-2pm. 842-9003. alibi.com/v/70zp. FRIDAY JAN 17 SIDEWINDERS Non-Monogamy Meet and Greet. Find resources and information about polyamory, non-monogamy, open relationships, swinging and more in a safe, comfortable environment. 8900 Central Ave SE. 6:30-8:30pm. 21+. 265-5815. SUNDAY JAN 19 alibi.com/v/6zq5. CONGREGATION ALBERT Funny, You SOUTH BROADWAY CULTURAL CENTER The First Don’t Look Jewish: Why Isn’t That Funny? Rainbow Coalition. The event is co-hosted by the The congregation’s brotherhood holds a the Anti-Racism Training Institute with a conversa- tion that focuses on community organizing, equity delicious deli brunch and panel discussion and what today’s organizers in Albuquerque can on Jews of color. 3800 Louisiana Blvd NE. learn. 1025 Broadway Blvd SE. 11am-1pm. $14. 10am-noon. ALL-AGES! 259-3190. 848-1320. alibi.com/v/702w. alibi.com/v/704w. KIDS ABQ BIOPARK AQUARIUM Aquarium Overnight. Learn about ocean species and their fascinating nighttime behaviors. 2601 Central Ave NW. 7pm-8am. 848-7180. alibi.com/v/7030. SPORTS LEGENDS THEATER @ ROUTE 66 CASINO LFA 80. Watch the featherweight bout as Garcia takes on Mariscal with the return of Damacio Page. 14500 Central Ave SW. 6pm. 352-7925. alibi.com/v/702z. CANNABIS PIGGY’S SQUEEKEASY Bud’s WAP. Bud’s weekly aggregation of patients is a medical cannabis sharing and educational event hosted by Sheridan Lund. You must have proof of a medical cannabis card and photo ID. 526 Washington St. $8. 6:30-9pm. 18+. alibi.com/v/70kh. SATURDAY JAN 18 SATURDAY JAN 18 WEEMS ART GALLERY Jewelry Trunk Show. Find WEST MESA AQUATIC CENTER dozens of local jewelers with a wide variety of Alburrrquerque Polar Bear Plunge. Take the jewelry styles. 7200 Montgomery NE. 10am-5pm. plunge into the 50-degree waters of the ALL-AGES! 293-6133. alibi.com/v/70w0. outdoor pool as a fundraising event for the Shanta Strong Swim fund and ONE LEARN Albuquerque to help pay for swimming SOUTH BROADWAY LIBRARY Grow Your Own Garden Seedlings. Nancy Griffiths provide simple lesson scholarships. 6705 Fortuna Rd NW. info on heat mats, grow lights, seeds, fertilizing, 10am-noon. alibi.com/v/701v. planting out and more as you learn how to germi- nate and grow seedlings at home for the yard and garden. 1025 Broadway Blvd SE. 11am-12:30pm. MONDAY JAN 20 ALL-AGES! 764-1742. alibi.com/v/6zaq. 50/50 COFFEE HOUSE Nerd Night. Nerd out with PETS D&D, Magic the Gathering, Monopoly, Scrabble and BOOFY’S BEST FOR PETS Meet the Greyhounds. more. Bring your own game or use one from the Meet the canines of the NM chapter of the shop. 2122 Central Ave SE. 4-8pm. ALL-AGES! 639-4334. alibi.com/v/6ss5.

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TUESDAY JAN 21 FILM USTUDIOS The Colt Balok Show. Come out for a KIDS taping of NM’s only TV talk show filming live with ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY Imagine Storytime. Enjoy stories, songs, movement a studio audience. 912 Third Street NW. ALL-AGES! and music for the youngest museumgoers and fami- (480) 329-1569. alibi.com/v/704p. lies. Inspired by the spirit of “Sesame Street” and the Muppets, each week presents a different theme. 2000 Mountain Rd NW. 2-3pm. 764-6515. FRIDAY JAN 17 alibi.com/v/6znj. WORDS LEARN B. RUPPE DRUGS New Year, New S**t Slam. Sign ALBUQUERQUE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION up to slam and check out the phenomenal poetic Impact and Coffee. Nonprofit leaders, volunteers, funders and people finding their place in the commu- power of Punch Out the Casket featuring nity have a cup of coffee, hear about new social Paulie Lipman and Valin Paige. 807 Fourth Street profit ventures and innovation in a six-minute pres- SW. 7pm. ALL-AGES! 985-9708. alibi.com/v/6zyk. entation format. 624 Tijeras Ave NW. 9-10am. 226-0171. alibi.com/v/6zpp. STAGE SOUTH VALLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY Discover the AUX DOG THEATRE 6th Annual QSolo Festival. BioPark. Visit the discovery station booth and meet Featuring one-person shows from New York, and interact with animal ambassadors that may Denver, Santa Fe and Albuquerque with two Equity include a parrot, tarantula, snake or salamander. Actors, a Triple United Solo Winner and an award- 3904 Isleta Blvd SW. 3:30-5pm. ALL-AGES! winning playwright. 3011 Monte Vista Blvd NE. $12 877-5170. alibi.com/v/6zly. $18. 8pm. 13+. 596-0607. alibi.com/v/70h0. SELF SERVE Mindfulness Practices for Mind Melting Sex and Energy Exchange. Learn practices to create VORTEX THEATRE Susan and God. This dramatic a state of orgasmic connectedness or bring it back comedy follows Susan, a magnetic socialite, on a online when things get off track, using breath work, trip abroad and a quest to evangelize her high guided meditation and connectedness processes. society friends. Her new fervor is scoffed at until 112 Morningside Dr NE. $20. 7-8:30pm. 18+. 265-5815. alibi.com/v/6zq9. people start taking her claims personally. 2900 Carlisle Blvd NE. $17-$24. 7:30pm. 15+. 247-8600. TUESDAY JAN 22 alibi.com/v/6zzr. ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM OF ART AND SONG & DANCE HISTORY Creative Age: Dance and Movement. POPEJOY HALL Ballet Folclórico Nacional de These workshops highlight exhibitions at the México de Silvia Lozano. Enjoy dance, music and museum through teaching related art classes. costume of the Mexican Republic as performers Attendees must be 55 years or older. Registration required. 2000 Mountain Rd NW. $80. infuse each dance with intricate tales of traditional 10am-noon. 764-6517. alibi.com/v/6zns. meaning and history. 203 Cornell Dr NE. $25-$69. 7:30pm. ALL-AGES! 277-9771. alibi.com/v/6x4a. ARTS & LIT SATURDAY JAN 18 SPURLINE SUPPLY CO. Allyson Packer: Stay Alive. Grab a limited artist edition T-shirt and enjoy a four- course menu with a performative reading by Allyson Packer. 800 20th Street NW. $99. 6pm. 21+. 321-2819. alibi.com/v/704s. WORDS ORGANIC BOOKS Jacqueline Loring Book Signing. The author discusses her books Vietnam Veterans Unbroken: Conversations on Trauma and Resiliency and Kimo Theatre: Fact and Folklore, which she edited for Southwest Writers. 111 Carlisle Blvd SE. 3pm. ALL-AGES! 553-3823. alibi.com/v/6zfe. PAGE ONE BOOKSTORE Barbara J. Langner Signing. Albuquerque author talks about and signs her newest mystery novel Murder Haunts the Theater. 5850 Eubank Blvd NE. 4-5:30pm. ALL-AGES! 294-2026. alibi.com/v/70cu. FRIDAY JAN 17 ART OT CIRCUS GALLERY You Make Me Capricorny GUILD CINEMA NM Entertainment Movie Baby: Art Show and Birthday Celebration. Night Presents: Cowboy Bebop. Catch a Celebrate Lady JennD’s birthday and view her screening of the epic anime classic. 3405 mixed media collage artworks. This pop-up solo Central Ave NE. 10:30pm-1am. 255-1848. show features live performances with light refresh- ments and birthday cake. 709 Central Ave NW. alibi.com/v/7039. 5-9pm. ALL-AGES! 413-4643. alibi.com/v/6zqw. STAGE THURSDAY JAN 16 AUX DOG THEATRE 6th Annual QSolo Festival: ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY Bad Dates. Featuring one-person shows from New Third Thursday: Fraggle Rock. View clips and learn York, Denver, Santa Fe and Albuquerque with two behind-the-scenes info from one of the puppeteers Equity Actors, a Triple United Solo Winner and an that worked on the show. Also, create an original award-winning playwright. $12-$18. 2pm. 13+. work of art based on the Fraggles and their world. Also, 6th Annual QSolo Festival. 3011 Monte Vista 2000 Mountain Rd NW. 5-8:30pm. ALL-AGES! Blvd NE. $12 $18. 8pm. 13+. See 1/17 listing. 764-6517. alibi.com/v/6znq. VORTEX THEATRE Susan and God. 2900 Carlisle STAGE Blvd NE. $17-$24. 7:30pm. 15+. See 1/17 listing. LOMAS-TRAMWAY PUBLIC LIBRARY Highland FILM Players Skit Performance. Enjoy three one-act plays KIMO THEATRE No Man’s Land Film Festival. The including The Macbeth Murder Mystery, Oh, festival seeks to un-define the feminine in adventure, Doctor! and The Meeting with performers from a sport and film and create an environment in which volunteer seniors group. 908 Eastridge Dr NE. women receive the respect and support they deserve. 2-3pm. ALL-AGES! 291-6295. alibi.com/v/6zap. 423 Central Ave NW. 7-9pm. 768-3522. alibi.com/v/703f.

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SUNDAY JAN 19 SHERATON UPTOWN HOTEL Bobcats Trio • jazz • Third Coast Roots • Reviva • DJ Positrax • 9pm SUNDAY JAN 19 6pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! LIZARD TAIL BREWING Lomas Street Jazz • jazz • 8pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! CANTEEN BREWHOUSE Squash Blossom Boys • WORDS SISTER Party and Bullsh*t • DJ Clout • hip-hop • bluegrass, folk, Americana • 4pm • FREE ORGANIC BOOKS RJ the Story Guy: Trixie Finds H er 9pm • $5 MARBLE BREWERY Kirk Matthews • soul, singer- People. The author signs and discusses his new chil- HOTEL ALBUQUERQUE Sage Cornelius • variety • THIRSTY EYE BREWING COMPANY Rhythmic songwriter • Stanlie Kee and the Step In • blues • dren’ s book. 111 Carlisle Blvd SE. 3pm. ALL-AGES! 7pm • FREE • 21+ 4pm • $20 • ALL-AGES! 553-3823. alibi. com/v/6zff. Moon • belly dance • 7pm • FREE RED DOOR BREWING COMPANY Halfway Decent LAUNCHPAD Supersuckers • rock • Get action • TRACTOR BREWING CO. Julian Dossett • Western, punk • Sweet Nothin • 8pm STAGE swing, blues, jazz, rockabilly • 6pm Karaoke • 7pm • FREE • 21+ AUX DOG TH EATRE 6th Annua l QSolo Festiva l. 3011 RED VELVET UNDERGROUND Marie Black • folk • MOONLIGHT LOUNGE Nascar Aloe • punk, trap Monte Vista Blvd NE. $12-$18. 2pm. 13+. See 1/17 TRACTOR BREWING FOUR HILLS Swing Magique • 5pm • 21+ metal • Kids Next Door • 7:30pm listing. Gypsy jazz, rumba, flamenco • 6pm SANDIA RESORT & CASINO David Victor Presents: O’NIELL’S PUB, Nob Hill Watermelon Mountain Jug V ORTEX TH EATRE Susa n and God. 2900 Carlisle Blvd TRACTOR BREWING WELLS PARK Gin and Jazz • The Hits Of Boston and Styx • classic rock • 8pm • Band • bluegrass, folk • 4pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! Jazz Brasileiro • bossa nova • Eddie Brewer and the NE. $17-$24. 2pm. 15+. See 1/17 listing. 21+ SISTER Darlin’ and the Rodeo Runners • clowns, vaudeville • John King Cave • High Desert SONG & DANCE Playboys • country, Americana • 7pm • $5 • 21+ KELL ER H AL L Close Qua rters: Winter Concert. The program features a variety of songs from musical THIRSTY EYE BREWING COMPANY DJ Flo Fader • theater for solo and quartet voices with guest artists hip-hop • 5pm • FREE and founding members. University of New Mexico. COMEDY 4-5pm. ALL-AGES! alibi. com/v/70js. BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREWERY SECOND STREET TAPROOM Smooth Sundays Comedy Open Mic • FILM stand-up comedy • 6:30pm • FREE • 21+ GUIL D CINEMA Equa l Mea ns Equa l Film . This docu- mentary film explores the status of women in TRICKLOCK PERFORMANCE LABORATORY A America as a fundraiser for the Equal Rights Night with Ming Chen • live podcast • 7pm • $5 • Amendment battle. 1-3pm. 13+. alibi. com/v/6zry. ALL-AGES! Also, Docum enta ry Film : Equa l Means Equa l. Support the ratification of the Equal Rights MONDAY JAN 20 Amendment, co-sponsored by League of Women BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREWERY WESTSIDE Voters Central NM, Albuquerque chapter of NOW TAPROOM New Mexico Western Music Association and Indivisible Nob H ill. 3405 Central Ave NE. $10. Open Mic • 6pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! 1-3pm. 13+. 884-8441. alibi. com/v/70vj. HIGH AND DRY BREWING ABQ Vinyl Listening Meetup • 2pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! SATURDAY JAN 18 LAUNCHPAD Tony MacAlpine • rock • Schiermann • The Ground Beneath • metal • 9pm David Victor Presents: The Hits Of Boston and Styx • classic rock • 8pm • 21+ MUSIC PIGGY’S SQUEEKEASY Open Mic: Be In • 7pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! THURSDAY JAN 16 TRACTOR BREWING CO. Old-Time Jam Circle • 7:30pm CANTEEN BREWHOUSE The Deal • jam, funk, rock • 6pm • FREE COMEDY FOUNDERS SPEAKEASY Idiot Revolution Open THE COUNTY LINE BBQ Open Mic with Skip Mic • stand-up comedy • 8pm • FREE • 21+ Batchelor • 6:30pm • ALL-AGES! RED DOOR BREWING COMPANY OG Monday: A DIRTY BOURBON Abe Mac Band • country • 6pm • Comedy Open Mic • stand-up comedy • 7:30pm • $5 • 21+ FREE • 21+ LA LUNA BAKERY AND CAFE Above Average Open TRACTOR BREWING WESTSIDE Disney Film Mic • 6:30pm • FREE • 13+ Trivia • 7pm LAUNCHPAD Mobile Death Camp • Holocaustic • Destroy to Recreate • Undying Evil • 9pm TUESDAY JAN 21 RED DOOR BREWING COMPANY Halfway Decent BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREWERY SECOND STREET Karaoke • 7pm • 21+ TAPROOM Open Mic • 6pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! TRACTOR BREWING WELLS PARK Famous Men • BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREWERY WESTSIDE roots, blues, folk, rock • 8pm SATURDAY JAN 18 TAPROOM Open Mic with Rob Roman • 6pm • TRACTOR BREWING WESTSIDE Kamikaze FREE • ALL-AGES! Karaoke • 7pm SIDEWINDERS Rugby is a Drag ... Show • THE CRAFTROOM Beer Choir • 7:30pm La Saveona Hunt • drag • 8pm • $10-$15 • ZINC WINE BAR & BISTRO Sloan Armitage • 21+ MOONLIGHT LOUNGE The Ordinary Things • indie acoustic, singer-songwriter, indie • 8:30pm • FREE • rock • Bernie and the Wolf • Dogleg • Carpool 21+ Tunnels • Almost Always Never • 9pm COMEDY Manic Episodes • jazz, swing • 5pm • DJ RED DOOR BREWING COMPANY Jam Night • B2B2 BARRIO Brain Gang Trivia • 6pm • FREE • Buddhafunk • country set • 8pm 5pm • Bring Your Own Vinyl • 6pm • FREE • 21+ 15+ SATURDAY JAN 18 TRACTOR BREWING WESTSIDE DJ D-Monic • funk, STEEL BENDER BREWYARD Kyle Martin • country, rock ’n’ roll, Americana • 6pm THIRSTY EYE BREWING COMPANY Bit Bandits • hip-hop • 6pm HUSH ULTRA NIGHTLIFE The Gong Show stand-up comedy • 7:30pm • FREE Comedy Edition • stand-up comedy • 8pm THIRSTY EYE BREWING COMPANY True Story COMEDY House • singer-songwriter • 7pm • FREE TRICKLOCK PERFORMANCE LABORATORY FRIDAY JAN 17 Headliners 505 Comedy Presents Friday Night TRACTOR BREWING WELLS PARK Kamikaze THE COUNTY LINE BBQ Los Radiators • acoustic Fools • stand-up comedy • 9:30pm • $10 • 18+ STONE FACE TAVERN Odd Dog • jam band • Karaoke • 8pm folk, rock, blues • 6pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! 8:30pm • FREE DIRTY BOURBON Casey Donahew • country • SATURDAY JAN 18 THIRSTY EYE BREWING COMPANY Pawn Drive • WEDNESDAY JAN 22 folk, rock, Americana • 7pm • FREE 6pm • $25 • 21+ B2B2 BARRIO UPTOWN Shimon’s Free Agents • BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREWERY SECOND STREET DRAGON HORN TAVERN Odd Dog • jam band • jazz • 6:30pm • FREE TRACTOR BREWING CO. DJ Clout • hip-hop • 6pm TAPROOM 32K Karaoke with KJ Rhonda Herd • 6pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! 8:30pm • FREE • 21+ BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREWERY WESTSIDE TRACTOR BREWING FOUR HILLS DJ Rootz Rocka • HOTEL ALBUQUERQUE Sage Cornelius • variety • TAPROOM Soocee and Turner • acoustic variety • variety • 6pm BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREWERY WESTSIDE 4:30pm • Night Moves • indie pop, rock • 7pm • 7:30pm • $20 • ALL-AGES! TRACTOR BREWING WELLS PARK Adam Hooks TAPROOM Chris Ravin • rock ’n’ roll • 6pm • FREE • FREE • ALL-AGES! ALL-AGES! LAUNCHPAD Red Light Cameras • indie rock • Lindy and His Hang-Ups • Americana, garage rock • 8pm BOESE BROTHERS BREWPUB The Devil’s THIRSTY EYE BREWING COMPANY RJ Perez • funk, Vision • electronic, pop • CØDA • Lost Remotes • Threesome • variety • 7pm TRACTOR BREWING WESTSIDE Benny Bassett • 9pm acoustic rock • 6pm blues • 7pm • FREE DIRTY BOURBON Abe Mac Band • country • 6pm • MARBLE BREWERY Moon Thieves Duo • variety • $5 • 21+ ZINC WINE BAR & BISTRO Julian Dossett Trio • COMEDY noon • Songwriter Showcase • acoustic • Adam blues, roots, rock, soul, jazz, swing, Western • RED DOOR BREWING DOWNTOWN TAPROOM Hooks • singer-songwriter • Javier Ortega • indie, HISTORIC EL REY THEATER Machine Head • heavy 8:30pm • FREE • 21+ Casual Wednesdays Open Mic • stand-up comedy • pop • 7pm • FREE • 21+ metal • 7pm COMEDY 7:30pm • FREE • 21+ MOONLIGHT LOUNGE Chris DeMakes • singer- ISLETA RESORT & CASINO Nelly • hip-hop • 8pm RED VELVET UNDERGROUND Saturday Stand-Up TRACTOR BREWING CO. Tractor Trivia League: songwriter • Jason DeVore • Gabo Fayuca • Myles LAUNCHPAD The Riddims • roots, rock, reggae • Spectacular • stand-up comedy • 9:30pm • $5 • 18+ Season 1 • 7pm Chaves • Meager Kings • 8pm Compiled by Ashli Kesali. Submit your events at alibi.com/events. [20] WEEKLY ALIBI JANUARY 16-22, 2020 JANUARY 16-22, 2020 WEEKLY ALIBI [21] REEL WORLD FILM | COMMENTARY by Devin D. O’Leary BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY Start ’Em Young Youth Development Inc. is hosting a free Dolittle public screening of the feature documentary No Small Matter this Thursday, Jan. 16 at 2:30pm and 5:30pm at KiMo Theatre (423 Central Ave. NW). This is the first major film Newest version of animal-filled fable does a little to concentrate on the human capacity for early intelligence and the potential for quality ritish author Hugh Lofting’s early care and education to benefit America’s juvenile fantasy series Doctor social and economic future. Rachel Giannini, an early childhood education expert and care BDolittle, first published in 1920, provider featured in the film, is set to isn’t quite as popular as it once was participate in an open discussion following the screenings. For more information go to among the kiddy set. The author’s rather https://bit.ly/2QSxAcN. quaint works are best known these days for inspiring the 1967 Rex Harrison musical about a doctor who could “walk To Havre and to Hold with the animals, talk with the animals, Movies in the Mountains returns this Saturday, Jan. 18 with Finnish director Aki grunt and squeak and squawk with the Kaurismäki’s contemporary “fairy tale” animals.” The film was a notorious box about compassion, comradeship and the office bomb that made back less than half worldwide immigrant crisis, of its extravagant budget and left $200 Le Havre. The million in unsold tie-in merchandise in its 2011 dramedy concerns a wake. The books also served as faint young African inspiration for Eddie Murphy’s 1998 hit boy who arrives Dr. Dolittle, which was successful enough by cargo ship in the port city of to require four sequels (most of which Le Havre, went straight to video and did not star France. There, Murphy). Now, Universal Pictures tries to an aging shoeshine man revive the aged franchise for a new takes pity on the generation with the splashy Dolittle. child and The film arrives courtesy of writer- welcomes him into his home. director Stephen Gaghan (who gave us Presented by the Albuquerque/Bernalillo gritty sociopolitical dramas Traffic and County Library System, the American Syriana—what better building blocks for a Vaudeville Museum Film Project and the Route 66 Alliance, the film screening takes talking animal fantasy?). Workin’ man Downey is gonna be mighty upset if the dog nails a Best Supporting Actor nod. place at 2pm at the East Mountain Public Robert Downey Jr. (eager for another Library (487 NM-333 in Tijeras). Admission franchise?) stars as the titular animal Ralph Fiennes. All of them contribute a is free and open to the public, but seating Dolittle is limited. doctor. Loosely adapted from Lofting’s couple of juvenile laughs to the Written and directed by Stephen 1923 book The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle proceedings. None is required to work Gaghan (with which it shares … a handful of very hard to earn a paycheck. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Michael Raising Cane characters and little else), the film starts The screenplay (courtesy of at least four The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is Sheen, Antonio Banderas writers) doesn’t work all that hard either. It screening the award-winning documentary out by introducing us to young British lad Rated PG ticks all the expected boxes and features Canes of Power on Sunday, Jan. 19 at 1pm. Tommy Stubbins (Harry Collett). While Now playing. The screening takes place inside MIAC’s out (unwillingly) on a hunting expedition just enough CGI action to cut well into a Kathryn O’Keefe Theatre (710 Camino Lejo in Santa Fe). The film, narrated by Cherokee with his uncle, young Tommy accidentally trailer. The plot is the usual mixture of actor Wes Studi, documents President injures a small squirrel. Encouraged, leave the safety and solitude of his episodic encounters, each contributing a Abraham Lincoln’s gift of engraved wood mansion and see the queen. tiny clue to the location of the film’s quest- canes to each of New Mexico’s 19 Pueblo strangely enough, by a talking parrot, nations. The canes symbolized the Tommy is led though the woods to the Seems that Victoria’s been poisoned by ending fruity MacGuffin. Also, there’s a recognition of tribal sovereignty at the same tumbledown mansion of infamous medico a couple of rather blatant regicidal dragon. There are a decent amount of time 13 Southern states were seeking their conspirers, Lord Thomas Badgley (Jim jokes dispensed by our wacky collection of own sovereignty in the form of secession. Dr. Doolittle. Seems that, after the Following the film, a Q&A session with Dr. disappearance of his beloved wife on one Broadbent) and Dr. Blair Müdfly (Michael talking animal friends—but none is Matthew Martinez, deputy director of the of her many globe-trotting sea voyages, Sheen). For the sake of the film’s plot, it constructed with much effort, and few, if museum and associate producer on Canes just so happens that the only cure for the any, linger in the imagination. of Power, is scheduled. The screening is free Dolittle retreated from society and stopped with admission to MIAC ($7 for New Mexico treating animals at his sprawling queen is a magical fruit that grows on one Dolittle at least keeps things on a residents, $12 for nonresidents). home/nature preserve. magical island in the middle of magical (mostly) even keel, sticking with some of Encouraged by the plucky young lad nowhere. Naturally, Dolittle and his animal the look and feel of its source material— Women Who Rock (and his remaining menagerie of animal friends (an opinionated parrot, a unlike Disney’s recent efforts to jazz up Stone Age Climbing Gym presents the friends) Dolittle agrees to save the little nearsighted dog, a one-legged duck, a old fairy tales (Oz the Great and Powerful, annual high-altitude women’s sports film squirrel with his medical genius. This now- frigid polar bear, a cowardly gorilla and a Maleficent), which are far too over-the-top festival No Man’s Land this Saturday, Jan. mouthy ostrich) set sail for adventure. Of to seem like anything other than frantic, 18, at the KiMo Theatre (423 Central Ave. rare burst of altruism does not encourage NW). The goal of the Carbondale, Colorado- Dolittle to assist his other unexpected course Tommy, who dreams of being the hyper-produced studio cash grabs. Dolittle based No Man’s Land Film Festival is to visitor, a young lady named Rose (Carmel doc’s apprentice, tags along as well. has just enough fantastical visuals and “un-define the feminine” in adventure, Dolittle gives Hollywood ample innocuous one-liners to appease the sports and film. This week’s touring sample Laniado). Lady Rose, it seems, needs the of the annual festival offers up a string of good doctor’s assistance in helping a opportunity to do what it loves best— family audiences it’s aimed at. A legendary short documentaries highlighting the gravely ill Queen Victoria (Irish casting random stars as the voices of box office bomb? Doubtful. A smash-hit passion, drive and skill of women in the five-film franchise? Probably not that worlds of climbing, skiing, running, surfing actress/singer Jessie Buckley from last animated animals. For this one we get the and more. Tickets are $10 and can be year’s lovely Wild Rose). Thanks to a bit of likes of Emma Thompson, Rami Malek, either. A standard-issue movie studio purchased in advance by going to legalistic/storytelling convenience (Dolittle John Cena, Kumail Nanjiani, Octavia reboot based on a vaguely familiar concept kimotickets.com. Doors open at 6pm, films start at 7. For more info on the festival itself, will lose his home if the queen expires), Spencer, Tom Holland, Craig Robinson, that delivers mild entertainment and brief go to nomanslandfilmfestival.org. a the grumpy doc eventually consents to Selena Gomez, Marion Cotillard and diversion? Nailed it. a

[22] WEEKLY ALIBI JANUARY 16-22, 2020 FILM | IDIOT BOX by Devin D. O’Leary Primetime Is Crime Time “Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt For the Bone Collector” on NBC

ack in 1999 Universal Pictures Kebbel, meanwhile, is fine in her equally adapted Jeffery Deaver’s popular chichéd role of glamorous yet shellshocked Bserial killer thriller The Bone Collector young cop. She’s meant to serve as into a feature film starring Denzel Lincoln’s eyes and ears out in New York Washington and Angelina Jolie. Despite the City (even though he already has a fact that the combined star power of Batcave’s worth of gadgets and a small Washington and Jolie failed to turn the film army of tech whiz assistants). Their grumpy into a successful franchise, NBC has mentor/eager apprentice relationship fits rebooted the story some two decades later as the weekly formula perfectly. a primetime crime series with a much Brian D. O’Byrne (from “Prime longer title and a less impressive cast list. Suspect”) pops in occasionally as our Still, the network has had success adapting heroes’ elusive quarry, serving as Moriarty feature films before (Silence of the Lambs spin- to Rhyme’s Holmes. The Bone Collector is, off “Hannibal”), and the American viewing of course, far less of a mentally ill, Jeffrey public’s tolerance for crimesolving on Dahmer-style serial killer and more of a network TV seems to know no bounds. So Riddler-like supergenius, dropping there are a lot of reasons to believe the show mystery (and one commercial break) to fire impossibly puzzling clues at the site of will succeed where the movie failed. up his passions again. In short order every elaborately staged murder. It’s not The show introduces us (or reintroduces Lincoln and Amelia are partnered up and remotely realistic, but it’s what paperback us, depending on what we’ve read/seen) to engaged in the titular hunt. readers and primetime viewers crave. Lincoln Rhyme (Russell Hornsby, a regular Hornsby does well enough as the How long “Hunt for the Bone on “Grimm” who impressed on the big infamous Rhyme (star of some 13 novels Collector” can draw out its central cat and screen in 2018’s The Hate U Give). Rhyme is at this point). He isn’t nearly as dark as mouse game remains to be seen. Will our a hotshot forensic criminologist (and he the character portrayed in Deaver’s heroes wrap up the book’s narrative in the knows it) working for the NYPD. books or in the 1999 film. By the end of season finale, or will producers drag this Unfortunately, an ill-timed encounter with a the pilot, he’s already getting along with out indefinitely? If successful, will the show flamboyant serial killer known as The Bone folks and cracking wise, spoiling a lot of have to undergo a name change for Season Collector left Rhyme a paraplegic. Several the character’s prickly nature. For some 2? Guess we’ll see. years later, rookie NYPD officer Amelia reason, the show is in an awful hurry to Glossy, silly and awfully familiar, Sachs (Arielle Kebbel from “The Vampire move Rhyme from bitter, suicidal recluse “Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt For the Bone Diaries” and “Midnight, Texas”) stumbles (as he was originally portrayed) to only Collector” is exactly the sort of across a crime scene eerily reminiscent of slightly cocky smartypants. Nonetheless, unbelievable but entertaining crime series The Bone Collector. Has the notorious the character fits in perfectly on network TV viewers go for. If you eagerly soaked up murderer returned? television, which loves its supernaturally “Psych” “Tru Calling,” “The Mentalist,” Naturally, Amelia turns to Lincoln skilled crimesolvers. This Lincoln Rhyme “Medium,” “Sherlock,” “Elementary,” Rhyme, who’s permanently laid up in bed is a familiar mix of Dr. Gregory House’s “Person of Interest,” “Instinct” or any other but conveniently surrounded by the most grumpy genius and Sherlock Holmes’ high-tech computer setup this side of show in the genre, NBC has got your preternatural intuition. The show even a “Person of Interest.” The angry, broken (yet Friday nights covered. comes up with some silly visual cues to “Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt For the Bone still egotistical) Rhyme is reluctant to come show Rhyme’s superhuman brain Collector” airs Fridays at 7pm on KOB-4. out of retirement. But all it takes is a good working overtime.

“Endlings” (Hulu streaming anytime) Hulu channels Cats somehow fails to lock down a single E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial with this Canadian kids’ show nomination. THE WEEK IN about four young people living with a foster father on “Avenue 5” (HBO 8pm) Writer-producer-creator a remote farm who discover an alien on their property Armando Iannucci (“Veep”) is back with (believe it after its spaceship crashes. or not) a sci-fi comedy about the captain (Hugh “Oprah’s Book Club” (Apple TV+ streaming anytime) Laurie) and crew of a luxury space cruise ship SLOTH Oprah’s Book Club comes back to life over on Apple experiencing … technical difficulties. TV+, starting with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout (Olive Kitteridge). MONDAY 20 THURSDAY 16 “Little America” (Apple TV+ streaming anytime) Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick) and Alan Yang (“Master “Spy Games” (Bravo 8pm) Bravo’s new competition “Everything’s Gonna Be Okay” (Freeform 6:30pm) of None”) are the executive producers behind this series lets folks live out their “espionage fantasies.” A neurotic twentysomething (Australian comedian anthology series which promises to “go beyond the Ten aspiring super spies will be put through various Josh Thomas) visits his dad and teenage stepsisters, headlines to look at the funny, romantic, heartfelt, “tests and challenges” by three “assessors” (a former only to find himself left in charge of the family when inspiring and unexpected lives of immigrants in CIA officer, a former special agent for the Secret dad unexpectedly passes away. One of our America.” Service and a former FBI agent). The last remaining protagonist’s sisters is on the autism spectrum, and spy wins $100,000. Also, all the contestants have to this sitcom has gotten a good deal of attention for live together in a big house with lots of cameras, casting an autistic actress (Kayla Cromer) in the role. SATURDAY 18 presumably so they can fight and flirt. (This is Bravo, after all.) “The Last Days of Richard Pryor” (KOAT-7 8pm) “It’s Pony” (Nickelodeon 9:30am) I know it’s not much ABC News looks at the weeks leading up to consolation, fans of “My Little Pony: Friendship is comedian Richard Pryor’s untimely death. Magic”—which just ended at Season 9—but here’s a TUESDAY 21 new British cartoon about a girl and her talking pony. FRIDAY 17 “Seven Worlds, One Planet” (BBC America/AMC/IFC “Project Blue Book” (History 8pm) History’s (often 7pm) In response to the devastating wildfires still highly) dramatized retelling of the government’s “Ares” (Netflix streaming anytime) An ambitious raging in Australia, the BBC’s new David investigation into UFOs back in the 1950s gets college student (Jade Olieberg) joins a secret society Attenborough-narrated nature series kicks off with an around to checking out the Roswell Incident for (there are masks!), unaware that it’s hiding a episode about the continent of Australia. Season 2. demonic secret from Amsterdam’s past. Who’s in the mood for some Dutch horror? WEDNESDAY 22 “Diary of a Future President” (Disney+ streaming SUNDAY 19 anytime) A Cuban-American woman running for “The 26th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards” “Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens” (Comedy President of the United States flashes back to her (TBS/TNT 6pm) Robert De Niro gets a Lifetime Central 8:30pm) Award-winning awkward adolescence thanks to her middle school Achievement Award, Joaquin Phoenix and Leonardo comedian/actress/rapper Awkwafina (a.k.a. Nora diary in Disney’s aspirational single-camera sitcom. DiCaprio battle it out for Best Actor and the cast of Lum) contributes an autobiographical sitcom to CC’s lineup. a

JANUARY 16-22, 2020 WEEKLY ALIBI [23] FILM | CAPSULES by Devin D. O’Leary NEW Ala Vaikuntapuramlo A millionaire’s son and the son of his driver are accidentally switched at birth. Some 25 years later, the two young men find themselves leading very different lives in this family drama with touches of comedy. Allu Arjun (Arya, Bunny, De- samamuduru) stars. In Telugu with Eng- lish subtitles. Unrated. (Opens Friday 1/18 at Icon Cinemas Albuquerque) Bad Boys For Life A good 25 years after they exhausted most of the clichés of the buddy cop genre in Bad Boys, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return for some familiar action movie shenanigans. This time around they’re trying to stop the vicious leader of a Miami drug cartel. The jokes revolve around the idea that, you know, they’re older than they were 25 years ago. 123 minutes. R. (Opens Thursday 1/16 at Cen- tury 14 Downtown, Century Rio, AMC Al- buquerque 12, Flix Brewhouse, Icon Cinemas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho Pre- miere Cinema, Cottonwood Stadium 16, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) Bei Bei The National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum—ABQ Chapter and Bold Bad Boys For Life Futures present a special screening of Marion Lipschutz & Rose Rosenblatt’s bers to those who don’t have relatives. In RETURNING returns to theaters. This may be the legal/political documentary about a Chi- Telugu with English subtitles. 152 min- gang’s best and most sustained screen- utes. Unrated. (Opens Friday 1/17 at An American In Paris (1951) play, focusing on the life of an unfortunate nese immigrant charged with first degree A would-be painter, a struggling concert murder after the death of her child and the Movies West) chap who keeps getting mistaken for the pianist and a handsome singer strive for Messiah. The climactic musical number is successful white collar lawyer who finds Equal Means Equal success in postwar Paris. Their friendship herself defending her client from legally The League of Women Voters Central an all-time classic. 93 minutes. R. (Tues- is tested, though, when the painter (Gene day 1/21 at Flix Brewhouse) unprecedented charges. The two sponsor- New Mexico, Indivisible Nob Hill and Al- Kelly, in one of his best roles) gets torn ing organizations have organized a mod- buquerque NOW offer up this unflinching between a lonely heiress (Nina Foch) and Notting Hill (1999) erated discussion after the film. Admission look at how women are treated in the his singer pal’s enchanting girlfriend Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts star in this is free, but donations are greatly appreci- United States today. Examining both real- (leggy Leslie Caron). George and Ira much-loved, perfectly acceptable rom- ated. 90 minutes. Unrated. (Opens Satur- life stories and precedent-setting legal Gershwin provided the music and lyrics to com about a simple bookshop owner day 1/18 at Guild Cinema) cases, director Kamala Lopez uncovers the many classic songs (“I Got Rhythm,” whose life changes when he meets the Beyond Horror: The History and Sub- how outdated and discriminatory attitudes “‘S Wonderful”), but director Vincente most famous film star in the world. Culture of Red Films inform and influence seemingly disparate Minnelli is responsible for the epic, visu- Richard Curtis (Love, Actually; Four Wed- Hand-selected for its world premiere at issues—from domestic violence to the ally inspired “dream ballet” that closes out dings and a Funeral) wrote it. 124 min- Ohio’s Nightmares Film Festival, this doc- foster care system. As the filmmaker re- the film. 114 minutes. Unrated. (Opens utes. PG-13. (Opens Wednesday 1/22 at umentary digs into the bloody history of veals the inadequacy of current laws, her Sunday 1/19 at Century 14 Downtown, Flix Brewhouse) moviedom’s nastiest horror flicks. Follow- film becomes an urgent appeal to (finally) Century Rio, Cottonwood Stadium 16, ing a timeline from Wes Craven’s infa- ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. 93 Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) mous Last House on the Left to Fred minutes. Unrated. (Opens Sunday 1/19 at Guild Cinema) Cowboy Bebop: The Movie—Knockin’ STILL PLAYING Vogel’s controversial August Under- on Heaven’s Door (2001) ground trilogy, the filmmakers check in Midnight Family This spin-off of the popular Japanese ani- 1917 with psychologists, fans and filmmakers to Evidently, the Mexico City government mated series introduces us to the crew of Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Revolu- figure out the appeal of the extreme ex- operates fewer than 45 emergency ambu- the Bebop, a gang of space age bounty tionary Road, Skyfall) directs the epic and ploitation genre. 90 minutes. Unrated. lances for a population of 9 million. Film- hunters traveling the solar system looking technically ingenious tale of World War I. (Opens Saturday 1/18 at Guild Cinema) maker Luke Lorentzen (New York Cuts) (often unsuccessfully) for bad guys to Two young British privates are given the travels south of the border to chronicle bust. In this one-off adventure, the gang impossible mission of delivering a mes- Blind Eyes Opened sage deep within enemy territory, pre- This self-professed Christian documentary Mexico’s underground industry of for- stumbles across a futuristic terrorist bent profit ambulances, often run by people on getting revenge on those who turned venting 1,600 young soldiers from walking promises to expose “the truth about sex into a trap. This entire film, inspired by a trafficking in America.” But it’s mostly with no training or certification. He con- him into the unstoppable killing machine centrates his camera on the Ochoa family, that he is. The film tones down some of true historical incident, is shot and edited about highlighting “survivors’ transforma- to appear as a single, uninterrupted take tions through Christ” and “showing Christ an ethically minded clan of drivers strug- the sci-fi trappings and slapstick comedy gling to keep their financial needs (not to of the TV series, opting instead for some unfolding in real time. The story feels fa- as the hope for all involved.” 115 minutes. miliar, but the visuals are gripping. 119 Unrated. (Opens Thursday 1/23 at Century mention corrupt cops and other hazards) all-out action cinema. The result is a ki- from jeopardizing the people in their care. netic piece of Japanese anime that may minutes. R. (Century 14 Downtown, Flix Rio, Cottonwood Stadium 16, Winrock Brewhouse, Century Rio, Icon Cinemas Al- Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) In Spanish with English subtitles. 81 min- actually win more fans among newcomers utes. Unrated. (Opens Friday 1/17 at Guild than among the already converted. In buquerque, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Dolittle Cinema) Japanese with English subitles. Reviewed Cottonwood Stadium 16, Winrock Sta- Reviewed this issue. 111 minutes. PG. dium 16 IMAX & RPX, AMC Albuquerque Shooting the Mafia in v12 i20. 116 minutes. R. (Friday 1/17 at (Opens Thursday 1/16 at Century 14 Guild Cinema) 12) Downtown, Century Rio, AMC Albu- Sicilian photographer Letizia Battaglia has been engaged in a lifelong battle with the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Se- 63 Up querque 12, Flix Brewhouse, Icon Cine- Multi-award-winning director Michael mas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho Premiere Italian Mafia. A photojournalist since the crets (2002) 1970s, she’s spent her career capturing This 2002 fantasy is the second film in the Apted contributes the latest chapter in cin- Cinema, Cottonwood Stadium 16, Win- ema’s longest running documentary se- rock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) front line images of the notorious criminal Harry Potter series, following the young organization’s brutal crimes on the streets wizard and his pals in their efforts to de- ries. Here, the celebrated filmmaker Entha Manchivaadavuraa of Palermo. Battaglia’s stark black-and- feat a basilisk and uncover the secrets of checks in on the ordinary British “kids” Kalyan Ram (NTR: Kathanayakudu) stars white images are enhanced by rare Tom Riddle’s diary. 161 minutes. PG. he’s followed since 1964’s TV short as a man who loses both of his parents in archival footage as well as the sharp (Sunday 1/19 at Icon Cinemas Albu- “Seven Up!” Every seven years, like clock- childhood and grows up as an orphan. As memories of the now-84-year-old photog- querque) work, he’s crafted a simple, deeply hu- an adult he craves the family connections rapher. 94 minutes. Unrated. (Opens Fri- manist documentary sketch about them. he missed out on. So, naturally, he starts a day 1/17 at Guild Cinema) Monty Python’s The Life of Brian They’re now 63 and dealing with a whole business called “All Is Well,” which sup- (1979) new round of life-changing decisions, plies emotionally supportive family mem- Monty Python’s 1979 Biblical laugh-fest shocking announcements, joys and heart- [24] WEEKLY ALIBI JANUARY 16-22, 2020 FILM | CAPSULES by Devin D. O’Leary breaks. Given Apted’s age (79), this could Just Mercy side street in Seoul. By chance, the fam- very well be the last in the series. 138 min- Theater Contact Info: Based on a true story, Michael B. Jordan ily’s intelligent son lands a job tutoring utes. Unrated. (Guild Cinema) (from Black Panther and Creed) stars as an upper-class teenage girl who lives in a world-renowned civil rights attorney Fantastic Fungi AMC ALBUQUERQUE 12 massive modernist mansion. This sud- Pioneering time-lapse photographer Louie 3810 Las Estancias Way SW • 544-2360 Bryan Stevenson, who works to free a den and vivid contrast in fortunes sets Schwarzberg helms this hagiographic wrongly condemned death row inmate up the film’s nasty, near-Gothic twists documentary about how mushrooms are CENTURY 14 DOWNTOWN (Jamie Foxx) in Alabama. Emotional per- and turns (none of which should be the coolest thing on planet Earth. 100 Central SW • 243-9555 formances and an urgent story over- spoiled). 131 minutes. R. (Century 14 Renowned scientists and amateur mycol- come the film’s somewhat pedantic Downtown, Century Rio, Cottonwood ogists testify about the unusual properties CENTURY RIO sense of advocacy. 136 minutes. PG-13. Stadium 16, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & of spores, molds and fungi—and the ways I-25 & Jefferson • 343-9000 (Century 14 Downtown, Flix Brewhouse, RPX) in which they might just save the planet. Century Rio, AMC Albuquerque 12, Icon COTTONWOOD STADIUM 16 Cinemas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho Pre- Spies in Disguise Reviewed in v28 i49. 81 minutes. Unrated. Cottonwood Mall • (844) 462-7342 ext. #607 Will Smith offers up his voice to this car- (Guild Cinema) miere Cinema, Cottonwood Stadium 16, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) toon about an international superspy Ford v Ferrari FLIX BREWHOUSE who gets turned into a pigeon. He’s a pi- James Mangold (Walk the Line, Logan) di- 3236 La Orilla NW • 445-8500 Knives Out geon. But he’s still got to save the world. rects this historical biopic about the time Filmmaker Rian Johnson (Brick, Looper, That’s the situation. Will Smith is a pi- legendary American car designer Carroll GUILD CINEMA Stars Wars: Episode VIII—The Last Jedi) geon. 102 minutes. PG. (Century 14 Shelby (Matt Damon) and infamous Eng- 3405 Central NE • 255-1848 takes Agatha Christie-style murder mys- Downtown, Century Rio, Rio Rancho Pre- lish race car racer Ken Miles (Christian tery over the top and back again with miere Cinema, Cottonwood Stadium 16, Bale) took on the seemingly impossible HIGH RIDGE this giddy fun thriller. Seems that a AMC Albuquerque 12) task of trying to build a vehicle fast 12910 Indian School NE • (844) 462-7342 ext. #605 world-famous mystery writer (Christo- pher Plummer) has been murdered at his Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker enough to beat iconic Italian sports car Director J.J. Abrams closes out this lat- manufacturer Ferrari at 24 Hours of Le ICON CINEMAS ALBUQUERQUE lavish country estate. Now it’s up to a 13120-A Central Ave. SE • 814-7469 dapper, Southern-fried detective (Daniel est Star Wars trilogy by setting up one Mans in 1966. 152 minutes. PG-13. (Cen- final battle between the forces of good tury Rio, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Craig) to figure out which of the guy’s MOVIES 8 quirky relatives did him in. Chris Evans? (embodied by Daisey Ridley’s Rey) and Cottonwood Stadium 16, Winrock Sta- 4591 San Mateo NE • 888-4773 the forces of evil (led by Adam Driver’s dium 16 IMAX & RPX) Jamie Lee Curtis? Michael Shannon? Don Johnson? Toni Collette? Reviewed Kylo Ren). Also, Lando Calrissian (Billy Frozen II MOVIES WEST in v28 i48. 130 minutes. PG-13. (Century Dee Williams) and Emperor Palpatine Disney’s 2013 smash animated hit gets 9201 Coors NW • 898-4664 14 Downtown, Century Rio, Rio Rancho (Ian McDiarmid) are back for old times’ the inevitable sequel. This time around sake. 141 minutes. PG-13. (Century 14 RIO RANCHO PREMIERE CINEMA Premiere Cinema, Cottonwood Stadium Anna (Kristen Bell), Elsa (Idina Menzel), 16, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) Downtown, Flix Brewhouse, Century Rio, Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) and Olaf (Josh 1000 Premiere Parkway • 994-3300 Icon Cinemas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho Gad) must leave the kingdom of Arendelle Like a Boss Premiere Cinema, Cottonwood Stadium to travel to an ancient, autumn-bound for- SUB THEATER Witty indie rabble rouser Miguel Arteta 16, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX, est and discover the origin of Elsa’s mys- UNM (Student Union Building Room 1003) • 277-5608 (Star Maps, Chuck & Buck, The Good AMC Albuquerque 12) terious powers—and, you know, save the Girl, Youth in Revolt) directs Rose Byrne WINROCK STADIUM 16 IMAX & RPX and Tiffany Haddish in this comedy Uncut Gems kingdom. 103 minutes. PG. (Century 14 2100 Louisiana Blvd. NE • (844) 462-7342 ext. #4058 Safdie brothers Josh and Benny (Good Downtown, Century Rio, Icon Cinemas Al- about a couple of friends who decide to start a beauty company together. When Time, Heaven Knows What) reaffirm their buquerque, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, anxiety-inducing cinematic prowess with Cottonwood Stadium 16, Winrock Sta- (Scarlett Johansson), he experiences a cri- the business takes off, their competing styles—one is practical, the other is in it Uncut Gems. Charismatic NYC jeweler dium 16 IMAX & RPX, AMC Albuquerque sis of dogma (and grows up just a little). Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler) keeps on 12) This is a tough tonal balancing act, and for the lavish lifestyle—clash. R. (Century 14 Downtown, Flix Brewhouse, Century the lookout for the next big score, mak- The Grudge Waititi nails both the silly satire and the ing a series of high-stakes bets that painful drama—even if the story is ulti- Rio, Icon Cinemas Albuquerque, Rio Ran- We already had the Japanese films Ju-On: cho Premiere Cinema, Cottonwood Sta- could lead to the windfall. The resulting The Curse, Ju-On: The Curse 2, Ju-On: mately a slight one. Reviewed in v28 i44. film is a precarious high-wire act, as 108 minutes. PG-13. (Century 14 Down- dium 16, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & The Grudge, Ju-On: The Grudge 2, Ju-On: RPX, AMC Albuquerque 12) Howard tries to balance business, family The Beginning of the End and Ju-On: The town, Century Rio, Rio Rancho Premiere and encroaching adversaries on all sides Final Curse as well as the American films Cinema, Cottonwood Stadium 16, Win- Little Women in relentless pursuit of the ultimate win. The Grudge, The Grudge 2 and The rock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX, AMC Albu- Indie writer-director Greta Gerwig’s (Mis- 135 minutes. R. (Century 14 Downtown, Grudge 3—almost all of which are just re- querque 12) tress America, Francis Ha, Lady Bird) Century Rio, Cottonwood Stadium 16) makes/reboots of the first film. Here’s yet Joker take on Little Women draws on the clas- another one, which is said to have little to sic novel and its author Louisa May Al- Underwater After Cesar Romero, Jack Nicholson, Mark A crew of underwater researchers (Kris- do with the previous films—other than the Hamill, Heath Ledger and Jared Leto put cott’s overarching body of work. In fact that it’s about a house cursed by a Gerwig’s take, Alcott’s alter ego Jo ten Stewart, Vincent Cassel and T.J. their stamp on the character, moody Miller among them) find themselves vengeful ghost. R. (Century Rio, Cotton- method actor Joaquin Phoenix tries DC’s March (Saoirse Ronan) reflects on her wood Stadium 16, AMC Albuquerque 12) fictional life as her sisters Meg, Amy and trapped at the bottom of the sea when iconic villain on for size. This one swings an earthquake devastates their undersea Ip Man 4: The Finale pretty far afield of the traditional comic Beth independently determine the trajec- tory of their own lives. Laura Dern, Meryl laboratory—and also sets loose an army Martial arts star Donnie Yen returns to the book origin stories, but writer-director of toothy sea monsters. I hate it when role of legendary Wing Chun instructor Ip Todd Phillips (Old School, The Hangover) Streep, Bob Odenkirk and Timothée Cha- lamet are the impressive cast. 135 min- that happens. This ’90s throwback is fine Man in this final film in the popular kung fu offers a distinctive, Martin Scorsese-esque if you’re in the mood for murky, B-movie series. This time around, the master is on vision of a failed comic being disenfran- utes. PG. (Century 14 Downtown, Century Rio, Rio Rancho Premiere Cin- monster action. PG-13. (Century 14 his way to America where his students chised from society and reinventing him- Downtown, Flix Brewhouse, Century Rio, have upset the local martial arts commu- self as an outsized supervillain for the ema, Cottonwood Stadium 16, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) Icon Cinemas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho nity by opening a Wing Chun school. ages. Reviewed in v28 i41. 121 minutes. R. Premiere Cinema, Cottonwood Stadium Kwok-Kwan Chan returns as Ip Man’s (Century Rio, Cottonwood Stadium 16) Maleficent: Mistress of Evil 16, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX, most famous student, a kid named Bruce Jumanji: The Next Level Angelina Jolie returns as the living em- AMC Albuquerque 12) Lee. In Cantonese with English subtitles. Dwayne Johnson, Karen Gillan, Jack Black bodiment of Disney’s evil queen from 105 minutes. Unrated. (Century Rio) and Kevin Hart are back as a group of Sleeping Beauty. This time around the Weathering With You friends transported back into their digital witchy (but misunderstood) fairy queen’s Japanese writer-director Makoto Shinkai, Jojo Rabbit who gave us 2016’s brilliant sci-fi rumi- Taiki Waititi (What We Do In the Shadows, avatars in the magical video game Ju- goddaughter Aurora (Elle Fanning, still a manji. This time around, the game is bro- beauty but no longer sleeping) is about nation Your Name, returns with his next Thor: Ragnarok) writes, directs and stars animated hit. Set in Japan during a par- (as Adolf Hitler) in this irreverent, occa- ken, and the quartet find themselves to get married to a handsome prince fighting new adversities and navigating with an evil mother (Michelle Pfeiffer). ticularly rainy season, the film follows a sionally surreal and surprisingly big- high school boy who runs away to Tokyo hearted dramedy. Our titular Jojo (Roman different landscapes—from snowy moun- Reviewed in v28 i43. 118 minutes. PG. taintops to arid deserts. Awkwafina, Nick (Movies 8, Movies West) and befriends an orphan girl who ap- Griffin Davis) is an undersized German kid pears to be able to manipulate the who wants desperately to be a good Nazi. Jonas and Danny DeVito are among the new cast members for this go-around. 123 Parasite weather. This enchanting mix of fantasy Unfortunately, he’s way too sensitive and The latest film from brilliant South Ko- and romance is also tinted with various kindhearted. But that doesn’t stop him minutes. PG-13. (Century 14 Downtown, Flix Brewhouse, Century Rio, Icon Cine- rean director Bong Joon-Ho (The Host, modern-day environmental concerns. from having conversations with his imagi- Mother, Snowpiercer) is a pitch-black, Screened in English dubbed and English nary childhood friend Hitler (Waititi). But mas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Cottonwood Stadium 16, Win- tragicomic thriller about a poor but lov- subtitled versions. PG-13. (Century Rio, when Jojo finds a young Jewish girl hid- ing family scraping by in a crowded AMC Albuquerque 12) den in the attic by his concerned mother rock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX, AMC Albu- querque 12) “semi-basement” apartment on a grubby JANUARY 16-22, 2020 WEEKLY ALIBI [25] SONIC REDUCER MUSIC | SHOW UP! by August March BY AUGUST MARCH

Terrible Tumors De(a)th Affixed Concerts From a Shell (Self-released) mi chante Eric Oldman has been Behind , holiday complete quite prolific since the dissipation of Burque isten,” said the viejito as he indie darling reached into his bag of records experimentalists Italian Rats. A plethora of “Lwhile the rest of us stood on an releases during the past couple of years as anonymous Downtown corner waiting for Terrible Tumors demonstrate a decent some direction. “Here is one that’s full of amount of introspection, subsequent fine licks, stunning piano moments and musical evolution and a deep study of enough sophomore snark to drive your tumbling and drifting counterpoint-laced own creative projects for the rest of time ... compositions. This latest release, cryptically or until hip-hop truly takes over and you recorded this past Christmas Eve and Day, is find yourself fumbling in the dark for that notable for its informed quietude. From the Vince Staples disc you hid under the bed.” dirgelike yet dignified anthemics of “I Can Be With that, the old master laughed as That Karma,” through the droning and he proceeded to launch an app to a song repeating constructions featured on “Light by pub rock-cum-new wave Eastenders Goes Out,” Oldman shows keen harmonic Squeeze. It was a song about the stress and rhythmic intuition and compelling incurred by a band on tour or vacation simplicity. The final tracks cruise into a sort and the wonderful misadventures they of hypnagogic space where time is nearly faced in a certain seaside town. It went suspended, leaving no doubt that “Winter something like this: Seeds” and “There Is No Lower Profile Than “You wish you had a motor boat/ To Death” are ideas that are intimately related. pose around the harbor bar/ And when the sun goes off to bed/ You hook it up Mineral Hill behind the car/ But behind the chalet/ The Album: Bulldogs My holiday’s complete/ And I feel like Nascar Aloe COURTESY OF THE ARTIST and Barnacles William Tell/ Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet/ Pulling mussels from a shell.” let’s just say that it hews to traditional (Self-released) “That’s exactly what it feels like,” he country tropes while employing that The sounds of a 19th roared as he waddled off toward this or peculiar and persuasive big, jangly Tejas century circus sideshow that venue, looking for the latest in hip guitar sound that even fans en el Norte go local live music to either investigate or filtered through the crazy to hear. The Abe Mac Band opens. syncretic. sometimes sinister sonic ignore. We decided to follow along, but perfection that comes from living a life just not before realizing that he must be at 7pm • $20 advance, $25 door • 21+. as near to heaven as it is to hell. That about least 1,000 years old. sums up this new record by Mineral Hill, an Saturday Americana band from Burque that features Thursday The rapper Nelly, who in real life is Lauren Addario on drums and percussion In a city full of heshers—heck, even the known as Cornell Iral Haynes Jr., has a while Bronson Elliott and Jonathan Mack gig on Saturday night, Jan. 18 at the share the string and keyboard (accordion, Mayor blasts Slayer and Metallica before banjo, guitar, mandolin and ukulele) duties. his speeches for crissakes—there’s no Showroom at Isleta Resort and Casino Their sound has a gothic (not goth) flavor to doubt a band like Michigan’s Mobile (11000 Broadway Blvd. SE). What’s it—mixed up with subtly Eastern European Deathcamp will do well at the box office notable about this Midwest hip-hop artist and vaguely Arabic or Romani instrumental when they invade Launchpad (618 who came up in St. Louis at millennium’s conceits; waltz time gets used with startling Central Ave. SW) on Thursday, Jan. 16. end lies in the rapper’s commitment to effect on songs that might not otherwise Nonetheless, here’s the heads-up on what bringing a “Midwestern twang” to hip- bump listeners into the meandering path hop nation. Records like Country Grammar that these folks take. The result is roughly is sure to be one heck of a headbangers’ wise and engaging. The tunes where ball. Encyclopedia Metallum refers to the and Nellyville certainly opened the field Addario sings, including closer “Ron Bell’s music made by this trio as the “Holy Grail up to an expansive new patois emanating Mustache,” have a solemn, smoky, of thrash” and tuneage like “Offensive from mid-continent American cities and smoldering sadness to them that even Release” and “The Buffalo Song” proves Nelly’s work with Tim McGraw in the dancing cannot cure. that “sweet, rippin’ jams” are still a thing. aughts cemented his place as an That plus guitarist and lead singer Todd American musical innovator. 8pm • $35 it was the Evans portrayed Gwar’s Beefcake the to $55 • 21+. wires Mighty until 2008. Of course the dude monolith uses Orange amps and cabinets. Duh. Sunday (self-released) Metal maniacs Holocaustic, Destroy to Nascar Aloe is from El Lay. He’s at There are 16 tracks on this Create and Undying Evil provide support Moonlight Lounge (120 Central Ave. album. Each is part of a for this trip into the abyss. Be there or SW) on Sunday, Jan. 19 with K Beach, series of numbers that begins with the first burn up in the inferno whilst trying. 9pm Bob Vylan and Death Tour. Suffice to say track “.001” and ends with the last “.016.” • $8 advance, $10 door • 21+. he wears his hair in huge spikes, And there’s a lot of technical explanation on sometimes wears an MTV “Jackass” T- the Bandcamp page that features said Friday recording. Simply put, here is an electronic shirt and sings songs like “American music album of the most abstract form, Casey Donahew is from Texas, often sings Wasteland.” Oh, and the OG anarchy lacking discernible melodies, harmonies and about Texas and is part of the Texas symbol is featured prominently on dude’s rhythms. Yet each piece is densely Country music movement. But now the website. But this cat doesn’t play constructed, almost impressionistic in its dude’s gone worldwide, garnering two Top hardcore punk rock. His sound is more effect, as if Debussy had given up delicate Ten albums in the past four years with like glitchy trap or mildly atonal folk-rap melodies in favor of making music from all recordings titled All Night Party and and accompanied by mind-blowing bass and a of the sounds that a piano could produce. Wow, flutter, attack, decay, sustain and One Light Town. You can catch this rising flow that is as crusty as it gets. I think he reverb are the prime movers here on a work star—albeit for only a couple of hours, but must also like Death Grips. A lot. Show that is far away like the moon on a winter hey stars are hot, you don’t wanna hang on up for this one, cabrones; if you’re old, it night, yet close up like the flower one can for that long anyway—when he gigs at The will blow your head up and if you’re hold onto tightly until until the wind takes it Dirty Bourbon Dance Hall and Saloon young it’s yet another great grip of skate forever away from human hands. a (9800 Montgomery Blvd. NE Ste. 4) on tunes for one to consider pre-ditch. Friday Jan. 17. As for Donahew’s work, 7:30pm • $12 • 13+. a [26] WEEKLY ALIBI JANUARY 16-22, 2020 MUSIC | INTERVIEW by August March The Ground Beneath Rises Steve Civerolo is back in black

t’s been three years since Weekly Alibi What’s important to you, musically spoke with local metal maven Steve speaking? I Beneath. He’s the voice and soul You know going back, my dad was in a band behind stalwart metal maniacs The that was on the road a lot. We always had Ground Beneath. Dude has been up and records, too—Zeppelin, KISS, Van Halen, down with the scene during those Scorpions. We were raised on that. intervening years, it seems. Seth: I was pretty much raised on the Steve Beneath is still rocking, but took same bands. some time after the last Ground Beneath Steve: It really clicked. When Seth first shows in 2014 and 2015, to reconfigure found us, he was texting me, asking what his head, his career and the band’s sound we listened to. and membership. These days his fiancée Jess Beneath is Were you a fan of The Ground Beneath, handling the bass. And youngish Seth? newcomer Seth Beneath has joined the Seth: I happened to come across an band, providing a thick Plutonic beat to internet posting about the band; it had the proceedings as well as imbuing the been up for a number of years. whole new effort with a millennial sort of Steve: It was like, we were looking for a vibe that Steve believes will help take the drummer, but the post was from 6 or 7 band into the year 2020 and beyond. years ago. With so much going on with the latest iteration of The Ground Beneath—and The Ground Beneath JOY GODFREY while the local scene is in flux—Weekly Wow! That’s kinda mystical. Alibi met with Steve and Seth to see how it I asked him what his favorite bands were, Has really splintered here? Yeah. Big time. and he texted me a list of my favorite was going ahead of two big shows the The Ground Beneath There’s not a whole lot going on. But bands. I showed this to my girlfriend, our band is playing in January. Opening for Tony MacAlpine and Schiermann On Monday, Jan. 20, The Ground when we play a show in Burque, we bring bass player, and we thought it was a Russian Beneath provides support for Launchpad • 618 Central Ave. SW a good line-up, either from out of state or bot or something. But then, she was like, instrumental guitar rock god Tony Monday, Jan. 20 • 9pm • $20 • 21+. from in town. We really try to make our you better fucking call this guy! This could MacAlpine. That show will be at one of Headlining Slam and Jamm shows count. I gotta tell you, that last really be something. We hadn’t played in a Steve’s favorite local venues, Launchpad. Moonlight Lounge • 120 Central Ave. SW show we did at the Moonlight Lounge was year and a half. We hadn’t really found After that, The Ground Beneath will be Friday, Jan. 31 • 9pm • $5 • 21+. packed. It’s a tiny place, but we killed it anyone who wanted to create a new record, headlining at Moonlight Lounge’s Slam and had a blast tearing it up. a new sound—until Seth rolled up. So, and Jamm concert on Friday, Jan. 31. we’ve been firing it up for the past six In real life, Steve Beneath is Steve Seth, how do you like playing in The months, playing gigs. We’re going back to Civerolo, a member of the marketing It sounds like it’s going to be great! I’ve the studio this year, too. team at AGM Media. But everyday when Ground Beneath? been waiting for some killer metal Seth Beneath: I love playing in the band. he isn’t working in the media biz, the And now? dude is going the extra mile to bring his shows. You’re also playing at Moonlight The style fits right in with my personal band back into the limelight and to score Lounge at the end of the month, que playing style. I come from a really big We’re all about quality. Quality another victory for metal. In a town where no? musical family. My cousin is actually the performances and quality records. Anyone even the mayor likes to bang his head We’re headlining that gig on Friday, Jan. drummer for Buckcherry. can crap out the next slick Nickelback- hesher-style while being known by those 31. We’re going to play for an hour. We’re influenced album. It kills me how popular in the know as the “Metal Mayor”—and going to play a whole bunch of classic, old No way! some of these bands are. even as hip-hop and EDM make inroads tunes—but we might bring out a new song I get a lot of my influences from him. Also into local rock club programming—The or two. We’ve been working on a lot of Neil Peart is really important to me. John They don’t really have much in terms of Ground Beneath is set to rise again, heavy chops. new stuff. Bonham too. I have that metal mentality metal flavor and all. There’s a lack of substance. But we really Here’s a bit of what Steve Beneath— in my playing. What is the history of The Ground practice a lot, especially because of Jess. and new drummer Seth Beneath—told She was a music major from the East Coast. Weekly Alibi about being in a metal band in Beneath? Tell me a little bit about the sound you About 20 years ago, I was playing my first She played Carnegie Hall when she was a Burque in the year of our metal lord 2020. all have developed. teenager. She could play every instrument bar gigs in Nashville. I was 14 years old. Steve: It’s based on Southern rock, like in the band if she wanted to. Weekly Alibi: Steve, tell our readers a At 19 years old, we were playing gigs at Black Label Society and so forth. Also the Golden West. We were getting into little bit about The Ground Beneath. COC, Pantera. I mean, we rip those guys Metal is about awesome playing, isn’t it? Steve Beneath: We’re local. We’ve been these venues that we probably shouldn’t off all day. have been in. The first Ground Beneath Well, me and Seth are kinda like the here all of our lives. A couple of us are in dirtbags, coming from the place where we our thirties now, but Seth, our new album is about to turn 15 years old. That’s How about that heavy Southern boogie crazy. had all the Van Halen records when we were drummer, just turned 25. We’ve now a got rock, like Blackfoot? Do you guys dig kids. Jess is a musician, she’s the boss. We’re a bit of that “youth energy” on the drums, that style, too? practicing like 4 nights a week, hell or high which is killer. That makes the rest of us It’s just amazing how quickly the past Oh, yeah, of course. We got to open for so water. It’s cool. She cracks the whip, Seth work harder. We’ve been putting together 15 or 20 years have gone by. many bands like that, that influenced us, brings the youthful energy. It’s not all on some new songs. It’s Southern rock, super It was a whole different scene back then. like Black Stone Cherry, they’re from my shoulders anymore. That’s the main riff-heavy stuff. We’ve got a gig on There were literally 16 or 17 places to Kentucky and play that super Southern vibe now. That’s where the difference Monday, Jan. 20 at the Launchpad with play that were going off every night. Then rock. But we also got to open for Soilwork, resides in The Ground Beneath. Tony MacAlpine. He has this guy from there were the Alibi crawls in the spring from Sweden. They’re really heavy. We South America, Aquiles Priester, on and fall. also opened for Soulfly a few times. These It’s almost like a whole new band! drums. This guy auditioned for Dream shred-heads, like Tony MacAlpine, also I dig it. It’s not like the Steve Beneath solo Theater! He smokes. It’s an all-star band. Plus, there was a really developed rock influenced our work. We’ll take it all. project anymore. It’s a real heavy metal It’s on a Monday night, but I gotta tell music scene here in Albuquerque. I There are definitely a lot of influences, band. We’re putting a lot of new songs you, August, this will be the best Monday kinda feel like, except for a couple of but we tend to lean on the heavier side, together. Our next record is going to be so night show ever. stalwart bands, the rock scene ... for sure. mean! a

JANUARY 16-22, 2020 WEEKLY ALIBI [27] STRAIN CORNER BAKED GOODS | CANNABIS NEWS by Joshua Lee BY EDWARD BARRETT Cat Piss Romulan at Southwest Organic Producers EXPO New Mexico Backs Down Settlement details released

ell, dear reader, I suppose my “At the end of the day,” Candelaria told memory isn’t what it used to be. reporters, “Mr. Montaño has a WI’d forgotten all about the legal constitutional and statutory right to battle between EXPO New Mexico and something very fundamental and simple, Ultra Health over what cannabis products which is to access medicine.” are allowed to be displayed at the State Ultra Health is reportedly helping pay On a brisk, cool winter day, I decided to Fair. The parties involved sure hadn’t. Last Montaño’s legal bills. do some holiday shopping and figured I’d week, details were made public about a treat myself in the process. I looked up settlement that was reached last summer THC Field Test the dispensary nearest to me and headed in the 2017 lawsuit. Enters Market over to Southwest Organic Producers (3504 Montgomery Blvd. NE). After The Albuquerque Journal reports that Knowing the difference between “hemp” braving life and death in traffic, I finally the details were recently posted on a and “marijuana” has been a major spotted the awkwardly located store. I public database by the General problem for law enforcement officials was excited to see what was in stock and Services Department as per state law. ever since hemp was removed from the hoped there would be a good, strong According to records, EXPO New strain for my liking. After speaking to the list of controlled substances with the Mexico officials agreed to drop a budtender a bit and perusing, I was signing of the 2018 Farm Bill. The pending appeal to the 10th US tantalized by the hilariously named Cat issue: They’re the same plant. The Piss Romulan (THC: 20.40%, CBD: Circuit of Appeals and pay $69,600 only way to tell the difference is to test 0.06%—$ 11/gram). With a name like to Ultra Health LLC. that, how could I not be intrigued? Now The case goes way back to the them for THC. “Hemp” is defined as I’m no sci-fi expert, but I was curious to cannabis with less than 0.03 percent see if this galactic strain could take me to State Fair in 2016. Ultra Health higher dimensions. rented a booth to hand out literature THC. The budtender told me that it was on medical cannabis and health— But according to WINK News in popular among high-tolerance patients, the usual sort of thing you expect Florida, close to 52 agencies which also piqued my interest. But what to see at one of these booths. across the state have signed up really sold me was how alluring and eye- to receive field testing kits for catching the buds themselves looked. Along for the ride was The leaves and overall body of the “Dorothy,” a 3-week-old cannabis distributed by nuggets displayed a dizzying array and cannabis plant that staff put Syndicate Chemistry. The gradient of colors that ranged from light on display. kits are reportedly green to deep purple. Everything was But not long after the manufactured in coated and glistening in a sugary frost Switzerland. and there were lots of large, thick booth was set up, EXPO clumps of fiery orange hairs throughout. officials charged in and said The company’s COO and founder John After glancing and marveling at the the plant and any literature pretty strain, I needed no further Waldheim told reporters depicting cannabis had to go. convincing about what to pick. that the kits indicate if a According to the company’s After hurriedly heading home, I sample goes over the legal eagerly opened the little jar to tear apart account of the incident, officials limit of THC. The test isn’t at my latest prize. The buds were very initially said it was okay to keep perfect, however. “You take the sticky and thick and came apart in moist the booth up for the rest of the day, tatters. A strong musky and musty scent kit and use it if it’s a positive result, but state police showed up a few hours exuded from the buds, but they also then I would say it’s recommended later and forced them to remove the emitted strong tangy and citrusy notes that they take their product to the lab to as well. After finally grinding down the plant and brochures. According to the have a final quantification of the THC moist chunks, I was ready to see how company’s CEO, Duke Rodriguez, State this strangely named strain would fare. levels verified,” Waldheim said. The hits were not too harsh and had a Fair officials had been notified ahead of stale woodsy and piney taste to them. time that the items—including the plant— Report: CO Market Level There were also diesel-like notes that would be at the booth. According to NM Political Report, Sen. Last month, the Federal Reserve Bank of would pop in and out from within the In 2017, the State Fair barred the Jacob Candelaria filed a writ of mandamus Kansas City published a report analyzing more loamy flavors. company from displaying any cannabis After taking a handful of hits, I began in state district court, requesting that paraphernalia, and the company sued. In the first 5 years of Colorado’s retail to feel a dizzying and heady feel that’s Bernalillo County allow patients in custody cannabis market. It found that while the intoxicating and amusing. This is a very January 2019, US District Judge James to use medical cannabis. The writ was filed industry is continuing to profit, it has powerful strain that was both visually Parker ruled that EXPO New Mexico had on behalf of his client, repeat DWI stimulating and mentally befuddling. I infringed on Ultra Health’s free speech offender Joe Montaño, who is currently slowed considerably, marking its movement didn’t feel productive at all, but I felt into a “more mature stage of quite goofy and content. I was in quite a rights and ordered fair officials to allow the under house arrest. Montaño made daze and this was apparent on my face. company to display implements used to headlines in 2017 when he was arrested for development.” My eyes were bloodshot, I was chowing grow and process medical cannabis as well his seventh DWI charge after running from Jobs and profits are beginning to level on munchies left and right and my visage as images of the plant. The State Fair was police. But Candelaria said his client’s off. The biggest hurdle for the industry exhibited the typical look one has when also ordered to pay the company’s legal seems to be that pesky old legality issue. stoned. On top of that, my breath had a criminal history is “entirely irrelevant” and pungent and skunky odor that lingered fees. has nothing to do with his right to have The report cites problems with black from having smoked this strong strain. EXPO New Mexico spokesperson Oona access to “adequate, reasonable medical market competition and limited access to Needless to say, I thoroughly enjoyed Garcia told reporters that the judge’s care.” What is important—according to banking among the forces impeding the myself with Cat Piss Romulan. I could ruling helped set guidelines for what Candelaria—is that Montaño is enrolled in industry’s growth. see this strain bringing great relief from “Though there still is room for growth, pain, nausea, depression and stress. The dispensaries and producers can display at the state’s Medical Cannabis Program. dizzying sensation that I felt at first might the fair. The issue came up after the man had demonstrated by a spike in recreational be a bit much for those who have been placed under house arrest and a marijuana sales during the summer anxiety, but it is enjoyable nonetheless. I Prisoner Access Bernalillo County Community Custody months of 2019, the industry is unlikely to would highly recommend this crazy to Cannabis Program officer found cannabis and a pipe see rapid expansion in employment and strain for those who have a high business formation comparable to the tolerance and are looking for something A state senator and lawyer is asking a judge in his home. He was reportedly sent to the strong to unwind with. And for anyone to allow medical cannabis patients under county’s Metro Detention Center for about growth during the first few years after who wants to get lost in space. a house arrests to have access to their meds. a month. legalization.” a

[28] WEEKLY ALIBI JANUARY 16-22, 2020 FREEWILL ASTROLOGY | Horoscopes by Rob Brezsny

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Comedian John the coming weeks, Virgo. I suspect you’ll find the Cleese has an insight I hope you’ll consider. He sweet spot, self-editing with just the right touch. says, “It’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Thomas Love Peacock urgent. It’s also easier to do little things we know was a Libran author whose specialty was writing we can do than to start on big things that we’re not satirical novels that featured people sitting around so sure about.” I hope you’ll make this advice a tables arguing about opinions and ideas. He was priority in the coming weeks. You’ll be wise to not renowned for cheerful optimism. And yet he prioritize important tasks, even those that aren’t did appreciate sheer beauty. “There is nothing urgent, as you de-emphasize trivial matters that perfect in this world,” he said, “except Mozart.” So tempt you to think they’re crucial. Focus on big much did Peacock love Mozart’s music that during one several-month stretch he attended six things that are challenging, rather than on little Don Giovanni things that are a snap. performances of the genius’s opera . In this spirit, Libra, and in accordance with TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author Honoré astrological indicators, I encourage you to make a Balzac (1799–1850) was born with sun and list of your own perfect things—and spend extra Mercury in Taurus and in the 10th house. time communing with them in the coming weeks. Astrologers might hypothesize from these placements that he was ambitious, productive, SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Jean-Michel tenacious, diligent, realistic and willful. The Basquiat started his career as a graffiti artist. When evidence supporting this theory is strong. Balzac he evolved into being a full-time painter, he wrote over 80 novels that displayed a profound incorporated words amidst his images. On many and nuanced understanding of the human occasions, he’d draw lines through the words. comedy. I predict that 2020 will be a year when you Why? “I cross out words so you will see them could make dramatic progress in cultivating a more,” he said. “The fact that they are obscured Balzac-like approach in your own sphere. But makes you want to read them.” In the coming here’s a caveat: Balzac didn’t take good care of his weeks, you might benefit from discreetly using this body. He drank far too much coffee and had a strategy in your own life. In other words, draw careless approach to eating and sleeping. My hope attention to the things you want to emphasize by is that as you hone your drive for success, you’ll be downplaying them or being mysterious about impeccable in tending to your health. them or suggesting they are secret. Reverse psychology can be an asset for you. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Before he was 21 years old, William Shakespeare and his wife had birthed SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Because of the three kids. When he was 25, while the brood was still onslaught of the internet and social media, lots of people no longer read books. But in 2020, I highly young, he started churning out literary masterpieces. not By the time Will became a grandfather at age 43, he recommend that you be one of that crowd. In had written many of the works that ultimately made my astrological opinion, you need more of the him one of history’s most illustrious authors. From this slow, deep wisdom that comes from reading books. evidence, we might speculate that being a parent and You will also benefit from other acts of rebellion husband heightened his creative flow. I bring this to against the Short Attention Span Era. Crucial your attention because I want to ask you: What role blessings will flow in your direction as you honor will commitment and duty and devotion play in your the gradual, incremental approach to everything. life during the coming months? (I suspect it’ll be a CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “I love to be good one.) surprised by something I have never thought of,” CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian-born declares Capricorn actor Ralph Fiennes. According painter Stanley Spencer (1891–1959) didn’t align to my analysis of the astrological aspects you’ll be himself with any artistic movement. Early on, his wise to make that one of your top mottoes in 2020. work was an odd blend of French Post- Why? First, life is likely to bring to your attention a Impressionism and 14th-century Italian painting. I steady stream of things you’ve never imagined. appreciate his stylistic independence, and suggest And second, your ability to make good use of you draw inspiration from it in 2020. Another surprises will be at an all-time high. Here’s further unique aspect of Spencer’s art was its mix of advice to help ensure that the vast majority of your eroticism and religiosity. I think you’ll enjoy surprises will be welcome, even fun: Set aside as exploring that blend yourself in the coming many of your dogmas and expectations as possible, months. Your spiritual and sexual longings could so that you can be abundantly receptive to things be quite synergistic. There’s one part of Spencer’s you’ve never thought of. quirky nature I don’t recommend you imitate, AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “I love fools’ however. He often wore pajamas beneath his experiments. I am always making them.” So said clothes, even to formal occasions. Doing that one of the most famous and influential scientists wouldn’t serve your interests. (But it will be healthy somewhat who ever lived, Aquarian-born naturalist Charles for you to be indifferent to people’s Darwin. In accordance with upcoming astrological opinions.) factors, I invite you to draw inspiration from his LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Johannes Gutenberg approach. Allow yourself to explore playfully as invented the printing press in the 1440s. In you conduct fun research. Just assume that you subsequent decades, millions of mass-produced have a mandate to drum up educational books became available for the first time, making experiences, and that a good way to do that is to their contents available to a far wider audience amuse yourself with improvisational adventures. than ever before. The printing press caused other PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “How do you get changes, too—some not as positive. For instance, your main pleasure in life?” That question was people who worked as scribes found it harder to posed to Scorpio author Evelyn Waugh and get work. In our era, big culture-wide shifts are Piscean social reformer William Beveridge. Waugh impacting our personal lives. Climate change, the said, “I get mine spreading alarm and internet, smart phones, automation and human- despondency.” Beveridge said, “I get mine trying like robots are just a few examples. What are to leave the world a better place than I found it.” I youdoing to adjust to the many innovations? And hope you will favor Beveridge’s approach over what will you do in the future? Now is an excellent Waugh’s in 2020, Pisces—for two reasons. First, the time to meditate on these issues. world already has plenty of alarm and VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’re skilled at the despondency; it doesn’t need even a tiny bit more. art of self-editing. When bright new ideas well up Second, aspiring to be like Beveridge will be the in you, you understand they are not yet ready for best possible strategy for fostering your mental and prime time, but will need to be honed and physical health. a finessed. 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