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[4] WEEKLY ALIBI JUNE 13-19, 2019 virtual course at high speeds. The course involved a series of technically challenging ODDS turns and a speed-limited zone. The driver was also tasked with making a controlled stop at the end of the course. The report found that the driver performed his best while listening to Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off.” Researchers said AND ENDS that round was “smoothest in terms of speed WEIRD NEWS consistency,” and the course was completed only two seconds slower than when compared to a Dateline: Iceland control round in which no music was played. Authorities at a swimming pool have gone to While listening to Kendrick Lamar’s “Humble,” great lengths to make men stop drying their the driver overshot the finishing stop by four car scrota with communal hairdryers. According to lengths. While listening to Bach’s Goldberg Iceland Magazine, the practice became so Variations, the driver completed the course 12 widespread at Sundhöllin swimming pool that seconds slower than the control lap, and his Haraldur Jónasson, a patron at the pool, wrote speed fell to 35 miles per hour in a 50 miles per an article titled “This Is Not a Ball Sack Dryer” hour zone without his awareness. The worst for the local newspaper Fréttatíminn. In the performance was accompanied by Slipknot’s article, he denounced what he deemed offensive “(sic).” During this round, the driver took a full behavior at local swimming pools, highlighting 14 seconds longer to complete the course, and how some men at Sundhöllin were using his throttle movements were reportedly less complimentary hair dryers provided by the pool controlled. The researchers used the data to to dry their crotches. The article presumably had warn drivers that while listening to heavy metal an effect on staffers at the pool, because a was linked to the subject’s worst lap, the dangers laminated sign was soon posted that depicted a of listening to classical music while driving are cartoon image of an elderly gentleman propping comparable. one leg on a countertop to expose his scrotum while aiming a hair dryer at the area. A Dateline: Sweden translation of text accompanying the image A Swedish company has proposed introducing reads: “Don‘t dry your ball sack or your butt with hundreds of pogo sticks to San Francisco, the communal hairdryer in the swimming pool London and other cities as a transportation or the gym. Bald older gentlemen with hairy option to rival electric scooters. CBS News torsos must either bring their own blow-dryers or reports that start-up company Cangoroo just buy a more absorbent towel.” announced last month that it would be deploying several hundred pogo sticks to select Dateline: Israel cities in a bid to compete in the micro-mobility A man is accused of robbing two banks with an vehicle market. Company officials say they plan avocado. The Times of Israel reports that a to send the pogo sticks to the Swedish cities of resident of a Bedouin village allegedly robbed Malmo and Stockholm this summer. They plan two banks last month in nearby Beersheba, on launching the sticks in London and San stealing nearly NIS 30,000 ($8,300). According Francisco in late summer or early fall. Cangoroo to authorities, the man entered a Postal Bank CEO and cofounder Adam Mikkelsen said the branch at the Big Beersheba shopping mall and sticks could be used to travel around cities and handed the teller a note demanding cash. He as a fitness tool. The company says it will be then reportedly told her that if she didn’t working with city officials to develop comply, he would throw a grenade. The man left regulations around the sticks before the the bank with NIS 16,000 ($4,450). Five days programs launch. later, he entered another branch of the Postal Bank at the Oren Center shopping area and Dateline: New York repeated the act, wielding what he said was a Surgeons discovered that a woman’s “brain live grenade. He left the location with another tumor” was actually a parasite growing inside NIS 12,000 ($3,300). Police say they used cell her skull. According to NBC News, an MRI of phone tracking and other leads to find the Middletown, NY., resident Rachel Palma’s head suspect, who reportedly had a criminal record, showed a lesion the size of a marble growing on including a three-year sentence for robbery. the left side of her brain. Doctors feared it was a During the arrest, officers discovered that the malignant cancerous tumor and prepared Palma “grenade” used in both robberies was actually an for the worst, but when they performed surgery avocado that the man had painted black. to remove the “tumor,” they were surprised to find a small, firm object that “looked like a quail Dateline: United Kingdom egg.” They removed the object in a single piece A new study says that listening to pop music and then cut it open. Dr. Raj Shrivastava, a while driving is safer than listening to other neurosurgeon at Mount Sinai Hospital, told genres. Last month, researchers working with reporters: “Sure enough, a baby tapeworm came Auto Express magazine and road safety charity out of that lesion.” Palma has successfully IAM RoadSmart used high-tech racing recovered from the surgery and is doing well. simulators at Base Performance Simulators near Doctors believe she contracted the tapeworm by Banbury, England, to test driver reactions while ingesting improperly washed produce or listening to four music genres: pop, hip-hop, undercooked pork. a classical and heavy metal. According to a press Compiled by Joshua Lee. Email your weird news to release, the test consisted of two laps around a [email protected].

JUNE 13-19, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [5] NEWS CITY BY JOSHUA LEE NEWS | EDITORIAL Governor Opposes Waste Storage A plan to store nuclear waste in an interim A Deafening Silence facility in New Mexico has met resistance from Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. The Associated Press reports that Lujan Past is future and future is now Grisham sent a letter to US Energy Secretary Rick Perry last week, saying a plan by Holtec International, a private nuclear technology BY AUGUST MARCH company, could place New Mexico residents in danger. n a guest column penned by former The company wants to temporarily store spent nuclear fuel rods from 70 commercial Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez, the reactors around the country in a multi-billion Ilocal daily provides yet another version of dollar facility that will be built near Carlsbad the things that happened in the past to get us and Hobbs. The cooling process can take to where we are—ashamedly so—now. decades to complete. “Establishing an interim Much of what Chavez writes rings true, yet storage facility in this region would be other statements that he makes in the body of economic malpractice,” the governor wrote in her letter. his arguments seem to be out of step with A number of environmental groups have current community values. And interestingly, spoken out against the plan, but Holtec while the opinion piece begins to place blame International says the facility would be on certain Albuquerque organizations and completely safe. Officials in Eddy and Lea institutions, it does not name names—though Counties reportedly support the project, saying these names are already blaringly present in it will bring economic growth to the area. what discourse there is or has been about what happened in Albuquerque 8 to 10 years ago. Chavez seems loath to fix the blame on Albuquerque and the surrounding planet ACLU Protests Private Border Wall any specific policies or enacted platforms, The point here is that if Chavez is going to conditions. Some recent judicial reforms in this though it’s clear that his arguments center The American Civil Liberties Union of New call out an entire administration for state, including the bail reform measure, were around the actions of the City Council and Mexico is calling on authorities to block the mismanagement, then he is well aware of the amendments made to New Mexico’s construction of a private border wall in Sunland mayoral administration during the time identities of the main players; leaving them out Park that they say is obstructing public access constitution through a process that included a referenced. of his op-ed seems a curiously indefensible public referendum. to a historical monument. Former Mayor Richard Berry continues to The group We Build the Wall says it raised omission. It was ostensibly implemented to level a over $20 million from more than 325,000 get a pass, in other words. And his chief playing field in a local and state criminal justice donors to donate to the federal government for administrators, advisors and legal counsels system that saw private bail companies grow the construction of a border wall between the remain only vaguely remembered—one, The City Police Further, Chavez’ contention that the rich on a plentiful population of poor, mostly US and Mexico. However, the government isn’t Michael Riordan, has yet to resurface after the nonviolent offenders. Though the bill has met building the wall and did not accept the Albuquerque Police Department has “never untimely and tragic death of his wife—yet the objective of lowering prison populations donations. According to the group’s website, apparently these men and women were chiefly been a department out of control” seems a “We are better equipped than our own callow contradiction of the legitimate and and diverting nonviolent offenders into responsible for much of the blight the city is government to use the donated funds to build documented findings of the Department of rehabilitation programs, it also has serious currently experiencing. an actual wall on the southern border.” KOAT Justice. Writing that “cops should be allowed to drawbacks that have resulted in violent reports that the group finished building a half- That’s a shame because the missing data be cops” may further serve to legitimize police offenders being released from custody, only to mile wall in Sunland Park last week. undermines Chavez’ otherwise worthy violence and leaves readers with the impression offend again. Pretrial release standards were The ACLU called on the International attempt to define our city’s ongoing economic Boundary and Water Commission, which that simple, naive descriptions of the law and codified by the State Supreme Court after the manages the land the wall was built on, to and cultural struggles. That lack of clarity order process are better than critical inquiry amendment’s passage. intervene. It claims if the wall is continued, it calls for a critical response: Here it is. that calls for accountability. But the issue of the law’s efficacy is one for will block access to a historical marker, The settlement agreement with the DOJ the legislature, not the local judiciary or district Monument One. The IBWC says it has not does not result in the department being magistrates. The legislature and the Supreme issued We Build the Wall any permits. The Name of the Game If indeed, as Chavez gravely informs us, “our “severely contstrained” but rather provides a Court should definitely and immediately review current predicament is the result of real policy path to redemption and lawfulness that can be and revise the law in the name of public safety, decisions at City Hall,” then we must reckon further expanded with the implementation of while preserving its original intent. Blaming the Ranchers Fight Transmission Line with those responsible for the decision- community policing projects. In fact the judiciary for following the law, as demanded by making that resulted in a sharp rise in crime, language of the agreement is quite clear, a fact New Mexico voters and approved by the State Some dairy farmers in Bosque are trying to halt Legislature, is not only misguided but also seems plans to run a massive power line across their while the ranks of city police officers waned, that Chavez completely and conveniently woefully out of touch with prevailing cultural lands. while the ranks of the homeless grew and the ignores. issues that continue to flare and burn within our According to KRQE, locals began circulating local economy acted as if it were a glitch- “The provisions of this Agreement are a petition against the power line’s construction designed to ensure police integrity, protect city and state. last week, saying it could harm the local dairy ridden track on an album about urban decay and cultural decline. officer safety, and prevent the use of excessive industry. Independent renewable energy force, including unreasonable use of deadly company Pattern Development and the New The political forces within the state Carry That Weight force, by APD. By increasing transparency and Mexico Renewable Energy Transmission Republican party that brought New Mexicans Chavez’ writ ends with a call for patience and accountability on use of force, APD will Authority say the Western Spirit transmission the reign of la Tejana, Susana Martinez, were praise for a strong but community-responsive promote more effective law enforcement and line will collect renewable energy from the also brought to bear on la politica in local police force—and for our governor’s wind-rich area near Clines Corners and deliver it will strengthen public confidence in APD. This Albuquerque. The result was the election of contribution toward ameliorating the problem. to the existing grid in northwest New Mexico. Agreement is also designed to provide APD The company says the project will bring billions Richard Berry in 2008 amid the growing Though it is right to praise such things—our officers with the skills, training, tools, and city rocks and we are damn proud of the steps in new investments and hundreds of new power of Republican operative Jay McCleskey. support they need to implement the goals and construction jobs. forward taken by APD and Keller—serious McCleskey’s ideological priorities became the objectives of this Agreement.” But the farmers say that the power lines will policies that Martinez and then Berry concerns remain about the deployment of State be eyesores and radiation from high voltage espoused and then implemented during their Police within the city. Reports of overpolicing could potentially affect their livestock terms. In Berry’s case, some of this rightward Here Comes the Judge can not be ignored or dismissed. negatively. Pattern Development reportedly Chavez’ belief that a lack of consequences says it might be forced to use eminent domain directionality was abetted by a city council Finally, Chavez’ assertion that “judicial to take the private property for a public without firm progressive values, one often malfeasance remains a problem” ignores the are to blame for the high crime rate—and purpose but would rather find an amicable ruled by traditionalist Republicans like Brad larger phenomenon of crime being driven by consequently the show of force—seems solution. a Winter and Dan Lewis. poverty, addiction, behavioral health issues and simplistic for a man who once led this city into the desperation that results from such the 21st century. a

[6] WEEKLY ALIBI JUNE 13-19, 2019 NEWS | ON ASSIGNMENT Things Are About to Heat Up City Council election gathers steam BY AUGUST MARCH Ane Romero is a well-known and informed Burqueña Democratic policy wonk with specialties in mental health and healthcare espite the emphasis on crime and related policy who was writing NM Senate legislation Dissues, there’s always a lot of other when she was in college. She has a master’s interesting and salient news about degree in Public Affairs from New Mexico Albuquerque coming into view. From where Highlands University. we’re sitting, it’s a relative treasure trove of She’s worked for the Congressional Mental late, with important local news bubbling up Health Caucus and served as an advisor to US everywhere. Congresswoman Grace F. Napolitano (D- If you are anything like the members of the California), working in Martin Heinrich’s news department here at Weekly Alibi, you office for a number of years. She also probably get that news from a variety of volunteers with the Girl Scouts. sources, experiential, print and electronic. If Romero’s dedication as a public servant you are getting your news fix mostly from definitely shows promise and her contribution Twitter however, then the Venn diagram that to the city’s political culture is bound to be could be drawn to better understand our substantive. She currently serves as the deputy relationship will be one where two circles do legislative director for the Governor’s office; not intersect. even if she does not succeed in this election, But besides that sort of implied she is bound to continue rising as a local exclusivity—generally residing in the same leader. realm where progressivism says no to more of Zack Quintero, a candidate in District 2 COURTESY DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF NEW MEXICO the same—the following events, phenomena District 6 and ephemera are of note. about wunderkind Zack Quintero. Quintero is web page. But city records indicate that he’s a Gina Naomi Dennis, a lawyer and a donkey to For your reading pleasure, you may pretend a mid-twenties local who worked on a city Democrat who works in the film industry. boot, is pitted against the incumbent, that each is being read to you in the fashion of road crew as a teen and then graduated from Of course, and as noted above, there are progressive bastion incumbent Patrick Davis. an old-time radio announcer whose angst and Georgetown before returning home to attend certainly good things and not so good things Though this race and the issues confronting ennui come through clearly in a blunt yet law school at UNM. The president of Young about the incumbent, Issac Benton. The good the candidates are slightly more complicated curious tone as Weekly Alibi examines and Democrats of New Mexico, Quintero has a stuff includes the Councilor’s work on than in the other Council districts—crime and analyzes the City Council candidates receiving solid background in economics and currently designating the El Vado Motel a city landmark policing still tend to top the lists of issues public financing in this year’s upcoming serves on the city’s Air Quality Board, along and consistently voting to move the city facing the Southeast quadrant of town—we municipal election. with our Mayor, Tim Keller. toward renewable energy sources. More are still convinced of Davis’ efficacy. Quintero’s platform looks like a recently Benton called for public restrooms to His experience as an advocate of concrete progressive’s brightest and kindest dream. The be installed Downtown, a damn good idea. District 2 and practical plans, as well as his ability to candidates’ priorities include expanding The election for City Council in District 2 forge productive relationships with a wide- community policing efforts with specific (which includes much of Downtown, the District 4 ranging number of citizens, first responders and neighborhood interface programs, creating a university area and Barelas) is heating up in Brad Winter, a conservative Republican with government officials, is a very important part-time position at the Parks Department to ways that were unforeseen back in January. roots as an administrator at Albuquerque component of the success the council has seen ensure that sharps are promptly and regularly That’s because of two factors, by our Public Schools announced that he won’t seek recently. Davis’ voice sometimes verges toward cleaned up in city parks and targeting funding reckoning. The Number One factor, of course, reelection in this traditionally right-leaning moderate. But his brand of moderate is one we to support behavioral health and addiction is the candidate seeking reelection, Isaac sector of the city that includes the toney can all appreciate. issues Downtown. All of that’s super cool in Benton. Benton was the president of the City Sandia Heights as well as La Cueva High Dennis, meanwhile, is a progressive who our opinion. Council in 2009 and in 2017; he’s been School. ran unsuccessfully for the Central New Mexico Robert Blanquera Nelson, a transplant from serving on the Council since 2005. Those Winter’s departure is an opportunity for the Community College Board and has a long Carlsbad who considers his views to be dates align the Councilor with both the Council to shed whatever remnants of its history of involvement with the progressive “liberal,” is also running in the mythically Chavez and the Berry administrations. quasi-conservative rubber stamp heydey under cause in this state. She was an early non-partisan election. Blanquera Nelson Benton’s long service to the system and the Richard Berry remain. To that effect, two supporter—in New Mexico—of Bernie comes from the nonprofit sector and his citizens could be a favorable factor for some. Dems and one elephant will be seeking to take Sanders. website attests to his business acumen, stating But for others, Benton’s alignment with Berry the reigns from Winter. Last month, centrist political commentator that his fundraisng skills have been responsible on projects like ART and his silence during Brook Bassan is the lone Republican in this Joe Monahan seemed to have an epiphany for $9.1 million in funding. Berry’s reign as the DOJ came to town and race. She was recently named New Mexico when he stated that the candidate Dennis had This candidate’s platform is based in the police numbers in the city dwindled, could be Mother of the Year and is an officer of the been given short shrift by the media thus far in concept of social equity. Blanquera Nelson his undoing. And Benton’s memorable public NMPTA. That seems pretty decent, but we’d the campaign cycle. In the interview that believes in creating a housing-first policy and confrontation—as a pro-ART spokesperson— be apt to ask if she supports Trump before we followed, Dennis struck a combative tone, instituting a wage increase towards livable and with an angry anti-ART protester in 2016 is go any further. telling uncle Joe that “He [Davis] is not being sustainable levels. just that, memorable. Hailey Josselyn Roy, the department head honest about the crime problem.” The fundamental basis for this campaign The second factor has to do with the of Craft Services for local film union IATSE Though Davis can be damned for his assent seems to be Blanquera Nelson’s progressive candidates Benton will be facing come Local 480, has also worked in real estate and to the ART project, he’s done much to notion that, “We need to address the deepest November. The fact that three of his catering. She hopes to bring a fresh revision and rehabilitate his district and has social inequities at their root and envision a opponents made the grade and qualified for perspective to the Council. She has yet to consistently demonstrated leadership qualities new future for our families.” public financing certainly adds spice to the clearly define a platform but says she is that don’t often veer into negativity. Davis has The other candidate to receive the go sauce. running for office because politics is not a a clear vision of what Albuquerque is and can ahead for public financing, Joseph R. Griego, As the campaign progresses, look for news spectator sport. Brava! become. a doesn’t yet have an social media presence or [8] WEEKLY ALIBI JUNE 13-19, 2019 JUNE 13-19, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [9] FOUND OBJECTS ARTS | INTERVIEW BY CLARKE CONDÉ When Healthcare is a Joke In the proud Albuquerque tradition of people Funny Times in Albuquerque trying to figure out some way to pay for their basic health care needs (that was the MacGuffin of “Breaking Bad”, right?), Kaatje Gotcha is back Rusty Rutherford and the Funny Fiesta at it with the Crippled Comedy Tour 2.0 presenting the Wheelchair Fundraiser Comedy BY CLARKE CONDÉ really hitting mics Show at Boiler Monkey (600 Central Ave. SW) performing— on Friday, June 14 starting at 6pm. She will be everyone’s goal was joined on stage by Josh Fournier, Richard his weekend, Arts Hub has brought Wolfson and Comedian Black Mike, with music by just to get on at Laffs. together comedians both national and Matthew Kollock. It turns out that the co-pay for T Everyone was cool a new power wheelchair is $2,770 so dig deep local for two days full of comedy with acts with each other, but and pony up at least the $5 to $10 suggested taking stage at The Guild Cinema in Nob Hill there wasn’t the donation for this mature audience event that for 25 acts and 10 shows. Not simply limited to community feel that features beer specials, raffles and plenty of jokes stand-up, the Funny Fiesta promises “stand-up, there is now. It was about not having the wheelchair that you need. For more information, see kaatjegotcha.com. improv, sketch, film, magic and more.” It is an kind of everyone for ambitious program and a lot to digest, but the themselves. When full lineup is online at abqartshub.com. Laffs closed down and Have a He(art) A stand-up standout among the comics is the club was suddenly If you like group art exhibits where people have Albuquerque native Rusty Rutherford. Having gone, a handful of us names like Bearface, Omen, Sophia Sanchez, been a fixture in the Albuquerque comedy started finding our Bonny, Christopher Erickson, Nocturn, Garret scene (in its many manifestations) for well own venues because Jones, Sumo, Acrid Apple and Joseph Lucero, that was the only way then you are going to like the group show over a decade, Rutherford is as much funny happening on Friday, June 14 from 6pm to 9pm man as local comedy booster. Weekly Alibi sat it was going to keep at the Southwest University of Visual Arts down with Rutherford to talk about the going. From that, we (5000 Marble Ave. NE). He(art)s of Colour changing comedy scene here in Albuquerque got a lot stronger with promises “a collection of work ranging from and beyond. The following is an edited version each other. If I was abstract to New Mexican street art.” For more of that interview. going to run a show, information on free this all-ages event, see I’d have to book suva.edu. Weekly Alibi: Say something funny. other comics. They’d Rusty Rutherford: Dick. This interview is over. book me for their Buggin’ shows. It grew from Rusty Rutherford minding his dental care PHOTO BY RUSTY RUTHERFORD Albuquerque’s Open Space is full of bugs, as is You grew up here. Is Albuquerque a funny there, and we became your backyard and possibly even your home or place to grow up? very open and accepting of new comedians. riparian van. Entomologist and photographer Yeah. I mean, you have to find the humor 2019 Funny Fiesta Dave Melius has photographed many of these Do you think a comedian will ever be able indomitable invertebrates and will be displaying anywhere. When I started doing stand-up, I June 14 & 15 his work at an opening reception for Insects of started doing character stuff. I didn’t do to make a living as a comedian in The Guild Cinema Open Space on Saturday, June 15 at 4pm. For straight stand-up for several years. One of my Albuquerque? 3405 Central Ave. NE more information about this free, all-ages event, big characters I did was Rusta Rhymes because I think it would be hard if they just wanted to Tickets: $10 see cabq.gov/openspace. I grew up in the Northeast Heights and that make a living doing stand-up solely. Hopefully was my wannabe gangster character who at some point, we’ll get there. A good club thinks he’s hardcore, he thinks he’s a thug, but would be nice. At this point, there are so How did you get involved in Funny Fiesta? really he’s an upper-middle class Northeast many comics that could get good work from I saw a post that they were accepting Heights white kid who wants to be urban but there. If they use their skills from stand-up in submissions. One thing I love about it is that it isn’t. That’s kind of a small part of me other comedy fields, I think there is a is not just stand-up. magnified because the Heights is pretty boring. potential. For the past three years, I’ve been able to pay my rent off comedy alone. That’s a Is social media trolling a legitimate art You’ve been known to challenge the police big step, but that includes stand-up, dinner form? to rap battles. Why do they refuse? theater, writing for some blogs—anything I I think it can be. I think there’s levels and Once I did get arrested in LA and I challenged can do comedy related. layers of trolling. There are the ones that just the cops walking me into a rap battle. They troll to start shit and be dicks. I troll a lot, but both laughed. I was like, “How about we rap What would help? I feel I troll the trolls. I love messing with and if I beat you, you let me go, no questions All of the comics that I know here promote, people that are just leaving tons of negative asked? If you beat me, then I won’t give you a but pretty much none of us puts money into comments on news stories. That’s one of my hard time, you can book me and lock me up?” promotion. A little bit here and there, but no favorite things. Teabagger Barb is a lady I The cops laughed and one of them said, “How more than a few hundred bucks in Facebook messed with for years. Somehow, I became about you rap and we lock you up anyways?” I ads or small newspaper ads. I think if we got friends with this lady that was a super right- PHOTO BY CLARKE CONDÉ was drunk, so I freestyled and they were both somebody that really knew what they were wing teabagger, one with the stereotypical cracking up. Then I’m waiting to be processed doing business-wise, but also had the artistic crazy posts with no sources behind it. I would Hats Off to Dad and put in a holding cell and another cop mindset, because you need both, that could mess with her by pretending to be more What could be a better Father’s Day than having comes in. He looks at me and he’s like, “Are really help. conservative than she was and getting your kids draw all over a trucker hat and then offended that she wasn’t conservative enough. wearing it around Meow Wolf all day? Fathers you the rapper? I heard you’re pretty good.” So, New Mexico has put together just such an it was like getting props from cops. Do you feel like the audience is here? opportunity for dad and all the kids this Sunday, I do. They just don’t know about it. I feel like You’ve been involved with pro wrestling June 16 at Meow Wolf in Santa Fe from 10am to You’ve been doing stand-up here for well everybody knows about stand-up because for a while. Do you think President Trump 2pm. There will be a limited number of over a decade. How has the climate for everybody I know does, because I tell them, should be removed from the WWE Hall of commemorative hats you and yours can color in comedians changed? but I still meet people all the time that ask if Fame? the Meow Wolf Learning Center, so get your Locally, there are so many more opportunities. I’m performing at Laffs Comedy Club and they Is he in the pro wrestling hall of fame? I’m special $40 tickets early. Part of the proceeds going to have to boycott WWE now. That’s from this event support the efforts of Fathers When I started, there was Laffs Comedy Club closed eight years ago or something. It’s this New Mexico, but all of the efforts of Fathers and all the local comics—and there were indie scene, which is really cool if you’re into terrible. I mean … I guess he is the biggest New Mexico support the fathers of New Mexico. really just maybe a dozen of us that were were the indie scene, but you have to dig for it. heel. a

[10] WEEKLY ALIBI JUNE 13-19, 2019 ARTS | MAGNIFIED 32nd Annual Festival Flamenco World class dance sourced locally and internationally

Yjastros in rehearsal PHOTO BY CLARKE CONDÉ

BY CLARKE CONDÉ 32nd Annual Festival Flamenco Albuquerque he blank page for a writer is like walking June 15 through June 22 into any dance rehearsal space for a Multiple locations T See ffiabq.org for tickets. dancer, stepping onto an empty stage for an actor or a setting a blank canvas on an easel All ages for a painter. All they bring with them is their past experience and all that is front of them is one company among many. Boasting seven potential. For the members of Yjastros: The symposiums, eight performances and 38 American Flamenco Repertory Company workshops covering flamenco dance, based in Albuquerque, the past is rooted in costuming and music that incorporate visitors traditional flamenco and the potential is to from 10 countries, the festival itself is a create something that not only shows the monster of practice, performance and range of the company, but takes the form in a scholarship. For locals, it is a chance to see new direction. This is contemporary flamenco. world-class performances that would rarely “We are keeping the craft alive,” says come here otherwise. For visitors, it is an dancer Carlos Menchaca. All the members of opportunity to see the level of performance Yjastros are quick to speak to their reliance on that the National Institute of Flamenco can traditional flamenco as their base, but of produce. For all, it is a moment to collaborate strictly sticking with that tradition as time and cross-pollinate the craft with new ideas. goes on, Menchaca says, “less and less we Audiences familiar with flamenco can care.” It becomes clear in conversation that expect no finer varity of performances outside the company sees traditional flamenco as their of Spain this year at the 32nd Annual Festival foundation for experimentation. In practice, Flamenco. Those unfamiliar with flamenco, their hard work is evident. What the group is especial those with children that rarely find hoping the audience gets from their their entertainment outside of a box, should performance is not some radical departure, but pay special notice to this festival. Flamenco is is rather simple and elegant. “I hope they are not ballet. Flamenco is a spirited, emotional excited,” says fellow dancer Olivia Marín. She and often boisterous combination of music and hopes “the choreography captures something dance that is accessible and easily enjoyed beautiful.” when met at any level. Do yourself and a Within the 32nd Annual Festival young person a favor and make that Flamenco that begins this Saturday, Yjastros is introduction. a JUNE 13-19, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [11] ARTS | COMEDY MATTERS Christopher Titus Talks Comedy and Tragedy BY COURTNEY FOSTER screwed up?” How can you even understand? I was in bars with my mom when I was four years old. And I would f you’ve ever felt a human emotion, tell this story and think, “No one’s Christopher Titus is the comedian for you. gonna get this” and every show, people I would come up to me and be like “Yah, From his hit show “Titus” to specials such as Amerigeddon or Born With a Defect, Titus shares for four years I lived in a bar with my relatable moments from his own life in a way that dad.” So I guess as long as I keep telling the truth, I’m a human being like reminds us that we’re all flawed, that life is hard everybody else. So as long as I keep and, ultimately, that it’s all okay. Touching on telling these stories … I think I just love, anger and depression, it’s next to impossible gotta keep telling the truth, man. I really not to laugh at your own flawed humanity. Weekly know—I can tell when I’m not really Alibi recently chatted with Titus about his body of telling the truth is when the audience work, coping with personal tragedy, founding isn’t laughing. When I’m not being Combustion World Industries and more. Catch honest about a story, it’s just dead silent. Titus at The Stage at Santa Ana Star Casino (54 They know. Jemez Canyon Dam Rd.) on Saturday, June 15, at 7pm or 9:30pm. There’s a fine line between shocking and alienating your audience and Weekly Alibi: So, I’ve been a big fan of yours then having them relate to you. How for a really long time. I saw your special Love do you find that balance between Is Evol when it first came out, and I saying the truth, when the truth is absolutely fell in love. insane or obscene, and not freaking Titus: I don’t even know what to say. That’s out your audience? awesome. Yeah, Love Is Evol was one that I wrote It’s not the joke itself. It’s the build to it. so I didn’t kill myself. But the people that it You want to get the audience to be okay helped not kill themselves is huge! The letters I with you telling that joke. You have to get, the emails I get—still, to this day—about it. build to that joke. It ain’t a tragedy if Without Love Is Evol, I wouldn’t be standing here you can add a punchline. So anything right now. you want to say, you can say it—I proved it. But you have to lead them. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST Think of it as you’re taking them on the scariest That’s amazing and it’s what’s so great about ride and you’re the guy that runs the ride, so you Christopher Titus your comedy—you’re such an honest know where the real danger is, so you just get comedian. You do talk about suicide and June 15 at 7, 9:30pm them close to the danger but you’ve got to let Tickets: $20-$30 mental illness pretty constantly during your them know. By that time in the show, I’ve got specials and even in some interviews, and The Stage at The Star them to a point where they’re like, “Okay, he’s 54 Jemez Dam Rd., Bernalillo that’s really had an impact on so many gonna talk about everything and anything.” And people. Do you have any advice for people you can tell that some people hated themselves coping with these things? for laughing. You can’t just backhand them with Speed Round It’s so weird that you bring this up because this something horrible. You have to let them know, entire new show is about that. I broke in 70 new “I’m gonna hit you, okay?” Just figure out a way to Red or green chile? minutes last week, and the show is called Stories I let them know what’s coming. Shouldn’t Tell, and it’s just the worst stories of my Red chile. life. It starts out being like, “Hey, thanks for Tell me about Combustion World Industries. coming down. You guys are awesome! You’re Pineapple on pizza: Yes or no? good? Good! You should appreciate it because So Combustion World Industries I started a while No. we’re all gonna die!” That’s how the new show ago. We started to [make] a jacket line and I starts. And I try to solve suicide in it. I tell the realized that I don’t sell clothing. That’s not my story about my sister. And I tell one of the darkest thing. So we started getting projects together that What’s your favorite dinosaur? jokes I’ve ever written. And this whole show is we wanted to do. We did some music videos and Stegosaurus. about tragedy. The one thing that makes us all we filmed my last four comedy specials. Then I the same—say what you will, but black, white, got two investors and myself and we shot Special Unit. After getting ripped off pretty bad on Love Is Which kid is your favorite? red, yellow, no matter how much money you Right now, my daughter. have or don’t have, tragedy is gonna hit us all. Evol, I decided that I’d rather make less money Death is a bitch but death ain’t a racist. So we all and do it my way than do it their way. have to deal with. How do you like your eggs? This one’s all about [getting] back to the So your dad always told you, “Don’t be a Omelette style with lots of hot sauce. personal, and we’re all the same. These are the wussy.” My dad always told me, “No one stories I couldn’t tell. It’s hard. Even hearing you cares about your problems.” And I’ve heard Do you have a spirit animal? you say again and again, “Tragedy is talk about it, I could hear it’s hard to talk about it. Well, my ex-wife is a scorpion. You know It’s hard. But you have to try. I’m trying to talk constant.” Is that your dadism? you want to pick something cool but then about it in a way that’s dead honest. This is the Yeah. I tell people that, and they always say, most honest show I’ve ever done. I dug a little “Don’t be negative.” But I’m not being negative; you just sound like a douche. My spirit more into my own soul to show you guys the roots I’m just telling you to work hard now because animal would probably be a kangaroo. in there. And you know what’s weird? I did this something bad’s coming. Just make sure you’re Because they’re goofy and they’re funny set and it was fine and worked, and I rewrote it enjoying it. This show’s about this: Don’t ride but they’ll beat your ass if you bother and did it on Saturday and it fucking killed. And your tragedy. Life is what happens between them. a I’m always thinking, “How are you people this tragedy.

[12] WEEKLY ALIBI JUNE 13-19, 2019 JUNE 13-19, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [13] WEEKLY SPECIALS FOOD | RESTAURANT REVIEW BY DAN PENNINGTON Patio Pleasures Back to ... the Future? Some things are too good to change, including Pizza Castle

BY HOSHO MCCREESH

ostalgia is a tricky thing. It’s like a memory Nwith an Instagram filter slapped on it. It imbues sights, sounds and even tastes with a certain ethereal poignancy and over time, we convince ourselves that things will never be that good again. So with all this firmly in mind, I decided to drop back in on Pizza Castle, a

DAN PENNINGTON DAN high school staple of mine, to see what, if Now that we’re well enough into June that we anything, had changed. And I felt a sense of can (sort of) trust the weather to stay nice, now relief as I pushed through the door and found is a fantastic time to get some of that sunshine the familiar bank of video games and the you’ve been avoiding. We’re only a month away arched, faux-red brick order window just as I’d from the start of monsoon season, wherein you’ll be flooded off any outdoor seating by the left it. The space was still directly out of central unholy torrent of rain that occupies the city for casting for a young couple’s first date kind of the month, so this is a limited time opportunity pizza joint, even if the years had added a fair to get in on the fun before it’s too hot and too amount of patina. wet. Here are some of our favorite patios to sit That relief soon evaporated when, on a and enjoy this great weather on. handwritten sign, I found information announcing an imminent move—just across the street—into a newly built space that, at Gecko’s Got It least from the road, didn’t seem to have much There are a ton of reasons why Gecko’s Bar & in common with the spot I’d known for years. I Tapas (3500 Central Ave. SE) is packed, but felt pangs of fear, of the loss of yet another their patio might be the biggest reason yet. location that had once provided both comfort There hasn’t been a time when I’ve stepped onto the patio and not seen someone I know and sustenance nestled deeply in the recesses of celebrating in some capacity on the patio. my mind! But it also allowed for an intriguing Featuring some of the best rotating happy and fairly unique proposition: a before-and- hours in the city, a sizable menu with some very after comparative analysis. ERIC WILLIAMS PHOTOGRAPHY impressive food and a wonderful staff, Gecko’s It’s happened to me before of course, as it when moves or changes happen—didn’t is easily one of the go-to places in Nob Hill to has (or will happen) to everyone eventually. ensure you’re going to have a great time. Not to Pizza Castle change by a cent, as far as I could tell. Kudos mention there’s almost always a dog to say hi to You push through an old, familiar door and 1220 Eubank Blvsd. NE again. We started with the cheese bread on the patio, which helps give that extra boost everything is wrong, all wrong … and that’s (505) 292-8358 ($3.25), which was garlicky, toasty with a melt to the love you feel outside. only if there’s still the old door to push pizza-castle.com of cheese on top and marinara to dunk in. For through. Jack’s, the Fat Chance, Paul’s Hours: 11am to 9pm Mon-Sat lunch proper, it had to be the lunch special Monterrey Inn, Noda’s in Rio Rancho—these Vibe: The nostalgia of old has been replaced by again, if only to serve as our scientific control Kelly’s Has Got Space are just a few of the painful memories of long- the glass-polish of new. group, just to make sure that nothing systemic Arguably the largest patio in Nob Hill, Kelly’s gone places where I wiled away many an Alibi Recommends: The Lunch Deal and its had gone wrong in the move. And dare I even Brew Pub (3222 Central Ave. SE) is the hub of indelible hour. But Pizza Castle seemed to be couple slices are damn hard to top. say it, the larger new space made it seem like activity on the weekends. It seems impossible doing just fine, so we stepped up to order our the slices were bigger, too. Perhaps that’s just a not to drive by their location without seeing what looks like a big party happening outside, before-the-move meal. with what we’ve got. Last was the meatball sub trick of future-nostalgia, but the toppings did to the point that you often forget they even First was the lunch special, served as (6-inch $6.75/10-inch $8.75) which, again, remain lighter than I remember. The spicy have an interior. Featuring an immense number straight cheese though you can add toppings was exactly what you’d expect it to be. A light combo sandwich plus bacon ($9.99 + $.85) was of beers, a huge menu (including one of those ($6.80), and if the ambiance is straight out of hoagie roll with just the right toast on it, with another expectation set and met, though the famous Burger Week burgers) and a nice view central casting, then the slice at Pizza Castle is soft, warm, spongy insides to soak up the rich bacon was in crumbles rather than strips— of Central, there’s really no reason not to hang a terrific Albuquerque approximation of the marinara sauce. If I am splitting hairs, the clearly intended for pizza not sandwiches. For out on this patio and enjoy the city and sun. world-famous, giant New York slice. It’s an airy, meatballs were missing an herbaceous or even dessert, it was the chocolate cannoli, on special flour-salty dough, rolled out thin to crust up spicy note to really ramp up the flavor, but the for $3.99. They weren’t bad, but I doubt they’d perfectly in the stone oven, yet still thick sandwich as is certainly passes muster. All in ever set the world on fire. It could be that they Don’t Be Wary of Apothecary enough to stay sturdy as you fold it in half to all, our before-the-move meal was very much were more American sweet than European Apothecary Lounge (806 Central Ave. SE) isn’t bite off the point. It comes with a small but like the meals of yesteryear. But how would sweet, and I prefer the latter. so much a patio, seeing as it’s a rooftop bar, but The new location adds a drive-through, a the idea is still the same. Getting out with decent house salad. The slices were light on the they handle the move? friends to catch up over drinks and snacks is toppings, which felt a touch different from The polished glass of an open, if slightly lot less grime and a little less character. Most of much better with a little fresh air and sunlight. years past. The chicken wings (eight for $7.99, unfinished, retail space welcomed me back— the video games were gone (maybe they’ll Though, in the case of Apothecary, moonlight twelve for $10) were exactly as you’d expect. one so new that not all the pictures and move them back?) and that patina of decades might be the better suggestion, seeing as they They’re fried up and tossed in sauce, with paraphernalia had been hung yet. There were a has been swapped for a cleaner industrial space. have one of the most unique high-up views of ranch and bleu cheese dressing to dip into, a few folks picking up to-go orders and eager to And while the nostalgic high school kid in me the city later at night. With some creative couple celery sticks—solid, though nothing feels like some of the charm is gone forever, the cocktails, a very inspired modern look and one discuss the new digs, and while the counter was of the most romantic settings for a date, you’ve daring or unexpected. I’m waiting for some now miles long, with no arches—there was an grown-up in me is definitely happier for the got one of Albuquerque’s coolest venues to sit enterprising young chef to abandon the frying intentional nod to Pizza Castle’s roots with much cleaner overall feel. Who knows … only and enjoy the summer weather. a vat for baked wing recipes—even though they another faux-brick treatment on it—kudos! time will tell if, in a few decades, maybe that take longer. Until then, we’ll have to get by And the prices, despite it being the norm ol’ high school date spot feel will be back. a

[14] WEEKLY ALIBI JUNE 13-19, 2019 FOOD | EVENTS 25 Years in the Making Canteen Brewhouse reaches a milestone

Tom Hennessy, right, brews his first beer in December 1993. TOM HENNESSEY

BY DAN PENNINGTON Sarah Donahue and Suzy Heer. Never been to Canteen Brewhouse before? We’ve got your covered with a small beer guide to o many of us, the craft brewery scene is still help you show up ready. T fresh and new, only making real waves in the • Flashback IPA: Not a ton of local IPAs last decade. Granted, many of us also still have the claim to fame that Flashback does, think that 10 years ago was the ’90s, because the winning the gold medal at the World Beer Cup in march of time is cruel and unfair, with many of us 1996. Not much has changed about this beer being left behind. As time goes on, we see the rise since then, because why change what doesn’t and fall of so many different buildings and need fixing? With hints of pine and citrus and an designs, the landscape around us changing rapidly 80 IBU, this IPA is worth checking out for any to accommodate the newest and the greatest hops fans out there. things that year. But, every so often, a business • La Luz Wheat: One of the lighter beers will stick the landing and grow with the ever- you’ll find, the La Luz Wheat holds true to the changing landscape of the city rather than being traditional tastes and styles of wheat ale, while consumed by and lost to it. Il Vicino Brewing finding that little something extra to help it stand Company did just that, transforming into the on its own. In this case, the subtle lemongrass now well-known Canteen Brewhouse, which is scent and lightness makes it an easy drink that now celebrating 25 years in business. can pair well with almost anything out there. What started as a humble addition to an • Dark and Lusty Stout: Stouts aren’t for already well-known pizza place by adding beer to everyone and are an even harder sell in the the menu became a venture that helped cement warmer months, but this is one of my all-time the local craft beer scene. The first beer produced favorite stouts in the city. The deep color gives was the Old Route 66 Golden Ale, a creative way to a darker flavor, with hints of roast coffee concoction by partners Greg Atkin, Rick Post and chocolate on the tongue. With a fruitier and Tom White. They struck a chord with New finish than most would expect on a stout, this Mexicans who had been waiting for high-quality beer is worth trying once, just to know how good beer. Soon after their first few batches were out, a stout can actually be. they realized that the demand was much higher Canteen Brewhouse doesn’t tend to be the than the supply, and so began the process of craft brewery most people think of first, though creating their own space to brew in. they should. For 25 years now, they have On June 15, homage will be paid to this accumulated more awards than they know what endeavor at Canteen Brewhouse (2381 Aztec Rd. to do with, including 18 international, 55 NE) starting at 4pm with a wide array of activities national and 77 local awards for their beers. Their and food to help celebrate their quarter century of 2013 Saint Bob’s Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial craft brewing. Featuring special beer releases, live Stout was a gold winner for the wood and barrel- music, food trucks, yard games and local vendors, aged strong beer category at the European Beer you’re going to have your choice of all sorts of Star, an award that has only been won by eight ways to enjoy a night out. US breweries total. Musical entertainment for the evening This celebration is a reminder that time flows includes Felix Y Los Gatos, Chris Dracup, differently for everyone. For some, 25 years CrazyFool and Dusty Low. In attendance for food happens in the blink of an eye, while others can trucks are Kimo’s Hawaiian BBQ, Pink Ladies, feel like a year has done nothing but drag on. The Street Food Institute and The Blazing Barn. Take time to celebrate your own speed and the The vendors who will be setting up include Fizzy retention of a cultural landmark here in Bee Beauty, Danny Hart Design, Christopher Albuquerque at Canteen Brewhouse. We McAfee, Allegra Howell, Erin Leigh Designs, promise, it’s a beer you won’t forget. a

JUNE 13-19, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [15] EVENT | PREVIEWS EVENT HORIZON JUNE 13-19

FRIDAY JUNE 14

EAT SMART, ART THE TRUTH IS OUT SMARTER THERE ARTsmart’s Edible Art Tour happens Friday and Get ready to get weird with your fellow Saturday, June 14 and 15 from 5 to 8pm in Earthlings this weekend at the downtown Santa Fe and on Canyon Road. Now, I InterPlanetary Festival in the City know what you’re thinking: how much art can I eat Different. Celebrate science and technology on this tour? The good news is less than you would with the Santa Fe Institute as humankind expect. As you jump from gallery to gallery, there is marches toward its inevitable integration no chewing frames or canvases, as some paints with the stars. Join space scientists, sci- fi authors, business leaders and artists are toxic. This two-night festival boasts food from as they discuss humanity’s collective the best caterers and restaurants to sate the future in a series of exciting panels and hunger of attendees. These all-ages events are enjoy food, music and film screenings at $45 per person. To find out more about this event, Santa Fe’s Railyard Park. This all-ages call Artsmart at 992-2787 and get all the festival is free to attend and runs June information you need to avoid licking bronze 14 through 16 from 10am to 10pm. sculptures. ARTSMART NEW MEXICO 1201 PARKWAY DRIVE, SANTA FE RAILYARD 740 CERRILLOS RD, 10AM TO 5 TO 8PM alibi.com/v/6gg3. (Dan Rayne Pennington) a 10PM alibi.com/v/6gg9. (Joshua Lee) a

NEW ZOO REVIEW SUMMER OF ’69 One of the most awesome parts of living in the Burkes has to do While some folks were getting their with the totally fabulous and infinitely entertaining ABQ BioPark first real six-string, others starting Zoo. While many of us have spent countless hours there amongst kicking the crap out of the crooked the apes and crocodiles, another facet of this great green park filled cops who kept raiding their bar in with wildlife is its marvelous summer concert schedule. That’s right, lower Manhattan. Back in the summer that bandshell is meant as more than a last chance for salvation of ’69, the Stonewall Inn riots when the elephants and lions go berserk. It’s also the place where, marked a turning point in the gay yearly, for millennia now, the vaunted Zoo Music series has pride movement that is celebrated happened. This year interested patrons listen to legendary golden in story and song at the age hip-hop agent provacateurs Arrested Development as they New Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus Ston appear at the aforementioned spacial coordinates for an all-ages ewall Summer of ’69 Pride Concert jam on Friday, June 14 at 7pm. Their positive, Afrocentric rap was on Friday, June 14 at Hiland Theater deeply influential to West Coast, left-wing and alternative rappers at 7:30pm. Tickets range from $20 and the outfit’s sound is still very relevant today, with injustice and to $45 for this all-ages event. For hope throughout the nation. Anyway, they jam like heck, too, so you more information and tickets, see oughta go, home slice; admission only runs between $6 and $12. nmgmc.org. HILAND THEATER 4800 Plus lions and elephants, bro! ABQ BIOPARK ZOO 903 10TH STREET SW, CENTRAL AVE SE, 7:30 TO 9:30PM 7PM alibi.com/v/6khs. (August March) a alibi.com/v/6j41. (Clarke Condé) a IMAGE COURTESY OF MADISON COLT PHOTOGRAPHY IMAGE COURTESY OF DIANA DAVIES SATURDAY JUNE 15

LOS FALCONES, PARTE HEAD EAST TO GO SEGUNDO WEST The purity and potency of Chicano-powered music coming Belt out a hearty yee-haw because the straight outta The Lone Star State is one of the greatest chuckwagon is at Wildlife West in stories in the history of rocanrol. Los Lonely Boys, a power trio Edgewood for Cowboy Chuckwagons from San Angelo, were there and are here—they’re gigging at BBQ and Western Music Show on Isleta Resort and Casino on Saturday, June 15 beginning at Saturday, June 15 from 6pm to 9pm. 8pm—to represent and demonstrate some fine moments of God willing and the creeks don’t rise, the blues-inflected, soulfully sweet and sour Tejano music that there’s brisket, hayrides, predatory birds is the root of all that is holy in the Southern lands, el Norte flying around and a heaping helping of and beyond. The brothers Garza (Henry, Jojo and Ringo) are genuine Western music. Tickets are $27 legendary for carrying on the tradition espoused by their for adults, $25 for seniors, $12 for father while bringing innovation to performances, often working children 5 to 11 and everybody younger with fellow sonic magicians like Carlos Santana to create than five eats for free. Just make sure daring new variations within and beyond the genre known as to get reservations in by calling 281- 7655 before 2pm on Saturday so they musica Tejana. This special 21-plus event costs between $20 know how much food to put on the and $40. ¡Ándale! Va a estar padre! ISLETA RESORT & CASINO wagon. WILDLIFE WEST 87 N FRONTAGE, 6 TO 11000 BROADWAY BLVD SE, 8PM alibi.com/v/6igd. (August March) a 9PM alibi.com/v/6ji6. (Clarke Condé) a IMAGE COURTESY OF THE ARTIST IMAGE BY CLARKE CONDÉ

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LEARN counter-attacks by others holding weapons such as knives, sticks CENTRAL & UNSER LIBRARY Planetarium. Experience the and guns. 427 Adams St SE. $80-$85. 18+. 264-9876. Albuquerque Astronomical Society’s StarLab, a portable plane- alibi.com/v/6h9n. tarium. A presenter delights visitors with a visual tour of the well- known constellations and their mythology. 8081 Central Ave NW. SUNDAY JUNE 16 Noon-2pm. ALL-AGES! 768-4320. alibi.com/v/6hqp. KIDS RED DOOR BREWING DOWNTOWN TAPROOM Talk Dirty for Me: CABELA’S Gone Fishing. 5151 Lang Ave NE. 1-4pm. ALL-AGES! From Tongue-Tied to Twisted. Join Anastasia to get schooled in See 6/15 listing.. the basics of one of the most intimate sex acts. Learn to make literally anything sound filthy, ask for what you want, sexting, OUTDOOR fantasies and roleplay. 400 Gold Ave SW. $10. 7:30-9pm. 21+. BACHECHI OPEN SPACE Family Fun Days: Water and Wetlands. 265-5815. alibi.com/v/6ic0. Discover NM’s precious resource, water. Contrast the pond and river by measuring temperatures, collecting macroinvertebrates, TUESDAY JUNE 18 COMMUNITY SATURDAY JUNE 15 making a wetland watercolor or cooling off with water games. TINGLEY BEACH Bosque Sunset Walk. Discover the 9521 Rio Grande Blvd NW. Noon-5pm. ALL-AGES! 314-0398. Bosque at dusk on a guided tour. Use all the senses ALBUQUERQUE OPEN SPACE VISITOR CENTER 3rd Annual alibi.com/v/6jg8. and look for porcupines, listen for owls, observe moths Pollination Celebration. Enjoy live music from Lone Piñon and and bats and smell the change in the air as the bosque THURSDAY JUNE 13 Long Drink of Water, a performance by Valley High School Baile WELLNESS/FITNESS cools for the night. 1800 Tingley Dr SW. 6:30pm. Folklorico, workshops, art exhibits, vendors, pollinator-themed ALBUQUERQUE OPEN SPACE VISITOR CENTER Qigong: Taoist 768-2000. alibi.com/v/6j3r. LOMA COLORADO MAIN LIBRARY, Rio Rancho Crafting for a craft activities and more. 6500 Coors Blvd NW. 4-8pm. ALL-AGES! Water Method. Learn about the method and how qigong can Cause. Create special items to warm the hearts, heads and 897-8831. alibi.com/v/6ji1. help with health ,energy, keeping organs healthy, joints flexible hands of people in need. Completed items are donated to local and how it can help to diminish the effects of aging. 6500 Coors to assist in space. For ages 13 through 17. Registration required. !EXPLORA! Studio Inventivo Grand Opening charities. 755 Loma Colorado NE. 3-4:30pm. 18+. 891-5013. . Explore the inter- Blvd NW. $10. 2-3:30pm. 897-8831. alibi.com/v/6ji3. 5700 Bogart St NW. 3:30-4:30pm. 13+. 897-8816. alibi.com/v/6hno. sections of science, technology, engineering, art and math as alibi.com/v/6jjc. you practice the joy of the design process in this innovative studio. KIDS 1701 Mountain Rd NW. $0-$10. 10am-6pm. ALL-AGES! MONDAY JUNE 17 LEARN ALAMOSA LIBRARY Space Alien Magnets. Make creative magnets 224-8300. alibi.com/v/6jjb. ALBUQUERQUE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION Impact and Coffee. for the fridge or a locker. For kids 9 through 12. Registration KIDS ALAMOSA LIBRARY Recycleman with Kevin Kinane. Get creative Nonprofit leaders, volunteers, funders and people finding their required. 6900 Gonzales SW. 2:30-3:30pm. 836-0684. place in the community have a cup of coffee, hear about new alibi.com/v/6hqc. using found objects to make cool and unique music with Recycleman. 6900 Gonzales SW. 10:30-11:30am. ALL-AGES! social profit ventures and innovation in a 6-minute presentation ERNA FERGUSSON LIBRARY Geometric Painting. For kids who 836-0684. alibi.com/v/6hqe. format. 624 Tijeras Ave NW. 9-10am. alibi.com/v/6glx. have ever looked at modern art and wanted to learn how to PALMILLA SENIOR LIVING Women Make a Difference Breakfast create it, this workshop teaches fun techniques. For ages 9 CHERRY HILLS LIBRARY Galaxy T-Shirt Totes. Learn to make a no-sew tote or book bag give it a cool, galaxy look with paints. Event. Learn the science behind your thoughts and how they through 12. Registration required. 3700 San Mateo Blvd NE. influence experiences from Jessica Smith. 10301 Golf Course 2-3pm. 888-8100. alibi.com/v/6hug. Bring your own t-shirt. For ages 13 through 17. Registration required. 6901 Barstow St NE. 2-3pm. 857-8321. Rd NW. $28. 9:15-10:45am. 18+. 362-8546. alibi.com/v/6ihv. JUAN TABO PUBLIC LIBRARY Duct Tape Wallet. Teens make alibi.com/v/6hr3. WELLNESS/FITNESS wallets and are welcome to bring a roll of their own decorative NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF YOGA Summer Fit Yoga. Cross train duct tape. For ages 13 through 17. Registration required. 3407 MAIN LIBRARY UFO Spinning Tops. Create and decorate a UFO with yoga to enhance athletic performance, gain flexibility and Juan Tabo Blvd NE. 2-3:30pm. 291-6260. alibi.com/v/6hv2. spinning top. Then, join in a spin-off to see whose top spins the longest. For ages 9 through 12. Registration required. 501 Copper reduce injuries. All levels are welcome. 1111 Carlisle Blvd SE. LOS GRIEGOS LIBRARY Galaxy Ornament. Bottle the beauty of Ave NW. 3-4pm. 768-5141. alibi.com/v/6i0a. $10-$85. 6-7pm. ALL-AGES! 268-0918. alibi.com/v/6ihb. the galaxy into an ornament to display at home. For ages 9 through 12. Registration required. 1000 Griegos Rd. NW. 3-4pm. WEDNESDAY JUNE 19 761-4020. alibi.com/v/6hzy. SUNDAY JUNE 16 TUESDAY JUNE 18 SELF SERVE How to Get the Play You Crave with Koe CANTEEN BREWHOUSE 60 Men in 60 Days Recruitment Event. SAN PEDRO LIBRARY Cantos Y Cuentos: Bilingual Songs and KIDS Creation. Explore finding the juice between partners, Learn more about becoming a mentor with Big Brothers Big Stories. Learn bilingual kids’ songs and stories in English and ERNA FERGUSSON LIBRARY Robots in Space with ¡Explora! easily identify our boundaries and harm reduction tech- Sisters. 2381 Aztec Rd NE. 5:30-7:30pm. 21+. 837-9223. Spanish featuring accordion, guitar, harmonica and violin, with 3700 San Mateo Blvd NE. 2-3pm. See 6/18 TAYLOR RANCH niques for play. 112 Morningside Dr NE. $15-$20. alibi.com/v/6jow. multi-instrumentalist Jordan Wax. 5600 Trumbull Ave SE. 3-4pm. LIBRARY listing. 7:30-9pm. 18+. 265-5815. alibi.com/v/6ic1. ALL-AGES! 256-2067. alibi.com/v/6i19. KIDS JUAN TABO PUBLIC LIBRARY Recycleman with Kevin Kinane. SOUTH BROADWAY LIBRARY DIY Bath Bombs. Using basic CHERRY HILLS LIBRARY Galaxy Beaded Suncatcher Wind Chime. 3407 Juan Tabo Blvd NE. 2-3pm. ALL-AGES! See 6/17 ALAMOSA kitchen materials and ingredients, make planetary-themed bath Create a galaxy beaded suncatcher using acrylic paints, glitter LIBRARY listing. bombs and make bath time stellar. For ages 13 through 17. SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT ABQ Democratic Socialists and more. For age 13 through 17. Registration required. 6901 SAN PEDRO LIBRARY Fan Decorating. Fan away the heat with Registration required. 1025 Broadway Blvd SE. 3-4pm. 764-1742. of America General Meeting. Meet your friendly local democratic Barstow St NE. 2-3pm. 857-8321. alibi.com/v/6hr4. a personally designed hand fan. All materials provided. For ages alibi.com/v/6i1i. socialists at the monthly general meeting. 1002 Park Ave SW. ERNA FERGUSSON LIBRARY Recycleman with Kevin Kinane. 13 through 17. Registration required. 5600 Trumbull Ave SE. 2-4pm. alibi.com/v/64pq. SOUTH VALLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY Cantos Y Cuentos: Bilingual 3700 San Mateo Blvd NE. 2-3pm. ALL-AGES! See 6/17 ALAMOSA 3-4pm. 256-2067. alibi.com/v/6i1a. Songs and Stories. 3904 Isleta Blvd SW. 11am-noon. ALL-AGES! STAG TOBACCONIST ELLAS Presents: Not Your Father’s Day. LIBRARY listing. SOUTH BROADWAY LIBRARY Recycleman with Kevin Kinane. See SAN PEDRO LIBRARY listing. Indulge in smoke, mingle and support a woman-owned business. ERNIE PYLE LIBRARY Galaxy Bookmark. Using watercolor paints 1025 Broadway Blvd SE. 10:30-11:30am. ALL-AGES! See 6/17 11200 Montgomery Blvd NE. 1-5pm. 21+. alibi.com/v/6k9e. LEARN and an imagination bounded only by the universe, participants ALAMOSA LIBRARY listing. create bookmarks worthy of envy. For ages 13 through 17. BACHECHI OPEN SPACE Master Naturalist Program Application. KIDS Registration required. 900 Girard SE. 10:30-11:30am. 256-2065. LEARN Receive hands-on training in conservation measures and CABELA’S Gone Fishing. Kids enjoy classes, demos and crafts alibi.com/v/6hus.. EMBASSY SUITES HOTEL National Association of Women improving the environment. 9521 Rio Grande Blvd NW. 4pm. as they learn about the joys of fishing and the outdoors. 5151 Business Owners June Lunch Meeting. In this interactive program 18+. 314-0398. alibi.com/v/6ct9. Lang Ave NE. 1-4pm. ALL-AGES! alibi.com/v/6jjk. TAYLOR RANCH LIBRARY Robots in Space with ¡Explora! Build Dena learn about the different types of cyber risk, the info that a robotic arm to control using servo motors, solve a maze, unload INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER City Council District 2 CENTRAL & UNSER LIBRARY Sundials. Learn to tell time with is typically stolen,and how to protect against these losses. 1000 a payload successfully and learn how engineers develop robotics Candidate Forum. Seven candidates running for Albuquerque nothing but the sun and your very own beautiful creations. For Woodward Pl NE. $25-$30. 10:15am-1pm. alibi.com/v/6j7p. City Council District 2 speak and answer questions at the annual ages 13 through 17. Registration required. 8081 Central Ave NORTH DOMINGO BACA MULTIGENERATIONAL CENTER Off- membership meeting of the Near North Valley Neighborhood NW. Frew. 2:30-3:30pm. 768-4320. alibi.com/v/6hqs. The-Cuff Toastmasters Club. Offering a clear pathway toward Association. 2401 12th Street NW. 6-8:30pm. 13+. 344-9212. LEARN leveling up your public speaking game and developing leadership alibi.com/v/6k6n. skills. 7521 Carmel Ave NE. 6-7:15pm. 18+. 764-6475. BACHECHI OPEN SPACE Master Naturalist Program Application. alibi.com/v/60zd. WELLNESS/FITNESS 9521 Rio Grande Blvd NW. 4pm. 18+. See 6/13 listing. MANZANO MESA MULTIGENERATIONAL CENTER Wise Women SPORTS PETS Do Belly Dance. Internationally-renowned instructor, Amaya, leads JCPENNEY AT COTTONWOOD MALL Pet Photography Event. Have RIO BRAVO BREWING COMPANY NM United Watch Party. a class in the art of belly dance. 501 Elizabeth St SE. $5-$10. portraits taken with your fur babies. 10000 Coors Bypass NW. Support the NM soccer team with play-by-play action. 1912 6:15-7:15pm. 13+. 280-3638. alibi.com/v/6iih. 10am-7pm. ALL-AGES! 353-5535. alibi.com/v/6hwd. Second Street NW. 7-10pm. ALL-AGES! 900-3909. FRIDAY JUNE 14 alibi.com/v/6jos. WELLNESS/FITNESS PETS LLOYD SHAW DANCE CENTER Newcomer and Intermediate Argentine Tango. Learn the basics and fundamentals of this KIDS PETCO Rocky Mountain Cocker Spaniel Rescue Showcase. Adopt amazing dance and delve further into the techniques and secrets LOMAS-TRAMWAY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3D Pen Creations. Draw or just say “Hi” to the cocker spaniels with proceeds from sales that make this style unforgettable. 5506 Coal SE. $10-$17. in the air or on a pattern to make a cool 3D object with an easy- and donations going directly to helping our dogs. 6300 San MONDAY JUNE 17 7:30-9pm. 15+. 948-1579. alibi.com/v/69gq. to-use 3D pen. For ages13 to 17. Registration required. 908 Mateo Blvd NE. 10am-2pm. ALL-AGES! (303) 617-1939. ALBUQUERQUE CONVENTION CENTER Indian Day at Eastridge Dr NE. 3-4:30pm. 291-6295. alibi.com/v/6hvd. alibi.com/v/6ji5. the National Senior Games. An exclusive focus on MAPLE STREET DANCE SPACE Teen and Adult Ballet Class with RUDOLFO ANAYA LIBRARY Moon Phases and Star Places with WELLNESS/FITNESS American Indian and Alaska Native elder athletes with a Christin Severini. This class is for intermediate and advanced program that reflects the diversity of Native culture in level teens and adults looking for a technically challenging tradi- The Albuquerque Astronomical Society. Kids learn why the moon CHINESE CULTURE CENTER Chin Na: Self Defense Against NM, including songs, drumming and dancers. 401 tional class with an emphasis on movement, emotional expression changes phases and how to locate stars in the night sky by Weapon Attacks. Dr. Keith Winterkorn holds a seminar on the art Second Street NW. 9am-3pm. ALL-AGES! 292-2001. and artistry. 3215 Central Ave NE. $15-$60. 7:15-8:30pm. 13+. constructing a planisphere. For ages 9 through 12. Registration of seizing and grasping. The reviews the basics and demonstrates required. 7704 Second Street NW. 2-3:30pm. 897-8823. alibi.com/v/6h4d. (802) 503-4363. alibi.com/v/6a4r. alibi.com/v/6i10.

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THURSDAY JUNE 13 KELLER HALL NM Classical Guitar Festival Artist Showcase. A concert featuring local classical guitarists in concert with Justin McMurdo, Petra Babankova, Nelson Denman, Joseph Duran, Garrett Holslag, Liza ARTS & LIT Gatica and Jeremy Mayne. University of New Mexico. $15-$20. 7:30pm. ALL-AGES! 450-4917. alibi.com/v/6ka6. THURSDAY JUNE 13 OUTPOST PERFORMANCE SPACE The Cookers for the 14th STAGE Annual NM Jazz Festival. A multi-generational powerhouse band NEW MEXICO VETERANS MEMORIAL Romeo and Juliet. of hard bop icons plays live. 210 Yale Blvd SE. $30-$35. 7:30pm. Shakespeare performed live. 1100 Louisiana Blvd SE. 268-0044. alibi.com/v/6jjs. 7:30-9:30pm. 13+. 247-8600. alibi.com/v/6idy. POPEJOY HALL Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. The true story SATURDAY JUNE 15 of King’s rise to stardom, from being part of a songwriting team, to her relationship with fellow writers, to becoming a successful WORDS solo act, to the music she wrote as the soundtrack to a generation. ORGANIC BOOKS The Chocolate Murder. Author Barbara Langner 203 Cornell Dr NE. $53-$98. 1pm. ALL-AGES! 277-9771. signs copies of her mystery novel. 111 Carlisle Blvd SE. Free. alibi.com/v/6b8n. 3pm. ALL-AGES! alibi.com/v/6i7l. SONG & DANCE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles. OUTPOST PERFORMANCE SPACE Judy Christopher and Tony Author David Ryan takes participants to the fascinating sites this Cesarano. Tony Cesarano’s Groovy ’60s Jazz Band pays tribute area has to offer with pictures inciting where to venture through to the “jazz groove tune” period. 210 Yale Blvd SE. $10-$15. beautiful and sometimes ethereal local landscapes. 423 Central 7:30pm. 268-0044. alibi.com/v/6jjr. Ave NE. 10:30-11:30am. ALL-AGES! 848-1376. alibi.com/v/6i23. TONY HILLERMAN LIBRARY Danny Santos. The Texas singer- songwriter performs original country and folk tunes. 8205 Apache ART Ave NE. Noon-1pm. ALL-AGES! 291-6264. alibi.com/v/6i2e. ALBUQUERQUE OPEN SPACE VISITOR CENTER Opening Reception: Insects of Open Space. The photography by entomol- LEARN. ogist and avid photographer, Dave Melius allows visitors to recog- SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY OF VISUAL ARTS Figure Drawing. nize and appreciate insects that reside in the city’s Open Spaces. Sharpen figurative skills working from a live model in a relaxing 6500 Coors Blvd NW. 6-8pm. 897-8831. alibi.com/v/6ji2. and supportive environment. All skill levels and media welcome (no photography). 5000 Marble Ave. NE. 7-9pm. 18+. 254-7575. OT CIRCUS GALLERY Artist Market and Pop-UP Shop. A bevy of alibi.com/v/6jr8. local artists, crafters and makers showing and selling their creations both inside the gallery and outside in the lot. 709 Central Ave NW. 10am-noon. ALL-AGES! 415-4643. FRIDAY JUNE 14 alibi.com/v/6jcs. WORDS STAGE WAREHOUSE 508 ABQ Unidos Poetry Slam. An open mic and ALBUQUERQUE LITTLE THEATRE Singin’ In The Rain. 224 San poetry slam just for youth. 508 First Street NW. 7-9pm. 13+. Pasquale Ave SW. $21-$25. 7:30-10pm. ALL-AGES! See 6/14 296-2738. alibi.com/v/5yen. listing. STAGE METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH Letters from the Heart: ALBUQUERQUE LITTLE THEATRE Singin’ In The Rain. A musical A Coming Out Story. A story of a young man coming out to family about two actors who, in silent movies, are a hot item but, behind and friends through a series of letters. 1103 Texas NE. $10. things aren’t always as they appear on the big screen. 224 San 7:30pm. ALL-AGES! 268-5252. alibi.com/v/6k94. Pasquale Ave SW. $21-$25. 7:30-10pm. ALL-AGES! 242-4750. alibi.com/v/6exr. NEW MEXICO VETERANS MEMORIAL Romeo and Juliet. 1100 Louisiana Blvd SE. 7:30-9:30pm. 13+. See 6/13 listing. NEW MEXICO VETERANS MEMORIAL Love’s Labour’s Lost. Shakespeare performed live. 1100 Louisiana Blvd SE. POPEJOY HALL Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. 203 Cornell 7:30-9:30pm. 13+. 247-8600. alibi.com/v/6idz. Dr NE. $53-$98. 1pm. ALL-AGES! See 6/13 listing. POPEJOY HALL Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. 203 Cornell VSA NORTH 4TH ART CENTER Lettice and Lovage. 4904 Fourth Dr NE. $53-$98. 1pm. ALL-AGES! See 6/13 listing. Street NW. $20-$25. 7:30pm. 15+. See 6/14 listing. VSA NORTH 4TH ART CENTER Lettice and Lovage. An English SONG & DANCE comedy set in the ’80s about a a flamboyant tour guide who ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY NMJazz loves to embellish history and who butts heads with a fact- Unplugged Featuring Tracey Whitney with Sid Fendley. Two sets conscious official. 4904 Fourth Street NW. $20-$25. 7:30pm. of sophisticated jazz presented in partnership with the NM Jazz 15+. 404-8462. alibi.com/v/6hdt. SONG & DANCE ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY Salsa Under the Stars: Calle 66 Featuring Tito Manrique from Peru. This native NM salsa band with plays contemporary salsa with influences representing Cuba, Puerto Rico and Colombia. 2000 Mountain Rd NW. $0-$18. 7-10pm. ALL-AGES! 255-9798. alibi.com/v/6gl8. CASA FLAMENCA 2019 Tablao Season. Experience the 6th season in the heart of Old Town with a spectacular lineup of world-class artists in an intimate venue reminiscent of the clubs of Andalusia, Spain. 401 Rio Grande Blvd NW. $38. 8-9:15pm. ALL-AGES! 247-0622. alibi.com/v/6iyo. FLAMENCO WORKS, INC. Jesús Muñoz Teatro Flamenco. Muñoz THURSDAY JUNE 13 explores new choreographic pieces with a cast of 20 collaborators. GEORGE PEARL HALL A Conversation with Judy 1010 Coal Ave SW. $35-$55. 7:30-9pm. ALL-AGES! 503-6040. Chicago. Enjoy a conversation with the legendary artist. alibi.com/v/6hy3. 1 University Blvd NE. 6-7pm. alibi.com/v/6juu

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Workshop and Music In Corrales. 2-4:30pm. ALL-AGES! alibi.com/v/6k9u. Also, Jazz Under the Stars. Hear live jazz from Benny Green Trio. 2000 Mountain Rd NW. $0-$25. 7-10pm. ALL-AGES! 255-9798. alibi.com/v/6gla. CASA FLAMENCA 2019 Tablao Season. 401 Rio Grande Blvd NW. $38. 8-9:15pm. ALL-AGES! See 6/14 listing. CENTRAL & UNSER LIBRARY The Native Flute with Ron J. Hoskie. The poet, storyteller and musician presents an introduction to these beautiful, traditional instruments, followed by a performance. 8081 Central Ave NW. 2-3pm. ALL-AGES! 768-4320. alibi.com/v/6hqr. FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH OF ALBUQUERQUE United we Rise. SUNDAY JUNE 16 The NM Women’s Chorus presents a musical exploration of how KIMO THEATRE Circus Foundry presents SONDER. we express our love of country while upholding its social justice Experience the excitement of daring acrobatics, impres- values. 3701 Carlisle Blvd NE. $13-$20. 7-9:30pm. ALL-AGES! sive aerial feats and compassionate relatable story 310-5593. alibi.com/v/6j64. telling. 423 Central Ave NW. $25. 7:30-9:20pm. ALL-AGES! (720) 486-3477. alibi.com/v/6hr9. FLAMENCO WORKS, INC. Jesús Muñoz Teatro Flamenco. 1010 Coal Ave SW. $35-$55. 7:30-9pm. ALL-AGES! See 6/14 listing.. RODEY THEATRE Compañía Lucía La Piñona: Emovere. See beau- PETROGLYPH NATIONAL MONUMENT Music From the Ranch tiful and innovative flamenco live. University of New Mexico. and Open Range. Dr. Steve Cormier plays and provides a history $30-$75. 8-9:15pm. ALL-AGES! 242-7600. alibi.com/v/6g9g. of cowboy music. 6510 Western Trail NW. 2-3pm. ALL-AGES! 505-899-0205, ext. 335. alibi.com/v/6f5a. MONDAY JUNE 17 RODEY THEATRE Compañía Sergio de Lope: Ser de Luz. An unfor- gettable musical experience ensemble representing the new WORDS generation of creative flamenco makers, building veritable bridges SOUTHWEST WRITERS OFFICE, Carlisle Executive Suites between flamenco and jazz. University of New Mexico. $30-$75. SouthWest Writers Class: Bring Your Memoir to Life by Using 8-9:15pm. ALL-AGES! 242-7600. alibi.com/v/6g6k. Storytelling Techniques. Rob Spiegel leads a class looking at successful ways to carve out a story and telling it in a compelling LEARN way. 3200 Carlisle Blvd NE Ste 114. $79-$89. 3-5pm. ALL-AGES! MAMA’S MINERALS Beading 101 Class. In two parts, this work- 830-6034. alibi.com/v/6hxv. shop includes a history of beads, color and design, lunch, design layout, stringing beads, crimping wire and more. Class fee includes SONG & DANCE a tool kit and materials. 800 20th Street NW. $150. HOTEL ALBUQUERQUE Tablao Flamenco Edicion Especial #1: 10:30am-4pm. 15+. 266-8443. alibi.com/v/6ifk. Festival Flamenco. An experience unlike any other, Festival Flamenco Tablaos Ediciones Especiales bring the best flamenco FILM artists in the world upnclose and personal. 800 Rio Grande Blvd GUILD CINEMA NM Entertainment’s Morning Toons. Wear NW. 10:30pm. 222-8736. alibi.com/v/6izy. pajamas, bring a blanket and take part in this Saturday morning KIMO THEATRE Josh Ritter and The Royal City Band. The recording event with the family and friends and enjoy cartoons on the big artist plays live as David Berkeley opens. 423 Central Ave NW. screen. Have some breakfast and enjoy the toons. 7:30-9:30pm. 768-3522. alibi.com/v/6izt. 11:30am-12:30pm. alibi.com/v/6ifq. Also, Funny Fiesta Short Film Fest. Watch films from local favorites and creators across RODEY THEATRE Compañía Belén López: Flamenca. See beautiful the US. 3405 Central Ave NE. 4-4:45pm. 255-1848. and innovative flamenco live. University of New Mexico. $30-$75. alibi.com/v/6ifx. 8-9:30pm. ALL-AGES! 242-7600. alibi.com/v/6g9i. NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE Awakenings. Catch a screening of the classic Robin Williams TUESDAY JUNE 18 film. 1801 Mountain Rd NW. $8-$10. 7-9pm. 15+. 265-7866. alibi.com/v/6cyt. WORDS ALBUQUERQUE CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING SouthWest SOUTH BROADWAY LIBRARY Summer Movies: WALL-E. Catch Writers Meeting: Every Life Is a Story, If You Know How to Tell It. a screening of the film, rated G. 1025 Broadway Blvd SE. 1-3pm. Award-winning meroir authors Judith Avila and Patiricia Conoway ALL-AGES! 764-1742. alibi.com/v/6i1j. form a panel to discuss writing a memoir. 2801 Louisiana NE. 6:30-8:30pm. ALL-AGES! 830-6034. alibi.com/v/6hxt. SUNDAY JUNE 16 SONG & DANCE STAGE. HOTEL ALBUQUERQUE Tablao Flamenco Edicion Especial #2: METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH Letters From the Heart: Festival Flamenco. 800 Rio Grande Blvd NW. 10:30pm. See A Coming Out Story. 1103 Texas NE. $10. 1pm. ALL-AGES! See 6/17 listing. 6/15 listing. RODEY THEATRE Comañía Concha Jareño: Recital Flamenco. NEW MEXICO VETERANS MEMORIAL Love’s Labour’s Lost. 1100 See beautiful and innovative flamenco live. University of New Louisiana Blvd SE. 7:30-9:30pm. 13+. See 6/14 listing. Mexico. $30-$75. 8-9:30pm. ALL-AGES! 242-7600. alibi.com/v/6gar. POPEJOY HALL Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. 203 Cornell Dr NE. $53-$98. 1pm. ALL-AGES! See 6/13 listing. WEDNESDAY JUNE 19 VSA NORTH 4TH ART CENTER Lettice and Lovage. 4904 Fourth Street NW. $20-$25. 2pm. 15+. See 6/14 listing. WORDS TORTUGA GALLERY Open Poetry Reading. Hosted by Holly Wilson, SONG & DANCE this is a great opportunity for poets to share their words in an CASA FLAMENCA 2019 Tablao Season. 401 Rio Grande Blvd inspiring atmosphere. Poets also display their books on the poet’s NW. $38. 6-7:15pm. ALL-AGES! See 6/14 listing. table. Refreshments are available. 901 Edith Blvd SE. 6:30-9pm. 18+. 877-4214. alibi.com/v/6gzq. FLAMENCO WORKS, INC. Peña Flamenca Barilena. Jesus Muñoz explores new choreographic pieces with a cast of youth and SONG & DANCE emerging artists. 1010 Coal Ave SW. $5-$25. 2-3:30pm. ALAMOSA LIBRARY Jennings and Keller. The award-winning folk ALL-AGES! 503-6040. alibi.com/v/6hyb. and America duo share the songs and the stories behind the HILAND THEATER Stonewall Summer of ‘69: New Mexico Gay songs of Judy Collins, Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. 6900 Gonzales Men’s Chorus Pride Concert. 4800 Central Ave SE. $20-$45. SW. 2:30-3:30pm. ALL-AGES! 836-0684. alibi.com/v/6hqf. 3-5pm. ALL-AGES! See 6/14 listing. ANDERSON-ABRUZZO ALBUQUERQUE INTERNATIONAL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ALBUQUERQUE BALLOON MUSEUM Albuquerque Concert Band Summer Bagels and Jazz with Tracey Whitney. Enjoy live jazz hosted by Concert. Enjoy exciting live music with the family. 9201 Balloon the NM Jazz Workshop. 5520 Wyoming Blvd NE. 9:30-11am. Museum Dr NE. 7-8pm. ALL-AGES! 768-6020. alibi.com/v/6jjq. 18+. 332-0565. alibi.com/v/6k9v. HOTEL ALBUQUERQUE Tablao Flamenco Edicion Especial #3: JOHN XXIII CATHOLIC COMMUNITY Stravinsky Project Concert. Festival Flamenco. 800 Rio Grande Blvd NW. 10:30pm. See Enjoy an evening of classical music including Petrushka, Firebird 6/17 listing. Suite, Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments. 4831 Tramway NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER Compañía Olga Pericet: Ridge NE. 2-4pm. ALL-AGES! 639-8450. alibi.com/v/6jim. La Espina. See beautiful and innovative flamenco live. 1701 Fourth Street SW. $40-$85. 8-9:30pm. ALL-AGES! 242-7600. alibi.com/v/6gaw.. Compiled by Ashli Kesali. Submit your events at alibi.com/events. JUNE 13-19, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [19] WEEKLY CALENDAR

COMEDY RED DOOR BREWING CO. The Draft Sessions Open Mic • 5pm • FREE • 21+ FOOD STAGE @ SANTA ANA STAR, Bernalillo Stand-Up Comedy Thursdays • 6pm • $10 • 21+ SEASONS ROTISSERIE & GRILL The Cumberlands • folk rock • 6pm • FREE • 21+ THURSDAY JUNE 13 FRIDAY JUNE 14 ZINC WINE BAR & BISTRO Dan Golden • variety • 11am • ALL-AGES! PIGGY’S SQUEEKEASY Potluck Dinner. Enjoy a community meal THE BARLEY ROOM Third Element • rock, variety • 8:45pm • FREE • at the art and education center. Don’t forget to bring a contribution. 21+ COMEDY 526 Washington St. FREE. 7-10pm. ALL-AGES! alibi.com/v/6fa7. BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREWERY TAPROOM January Storm • TRICKLOCK PERFORMANCE LABORATORY Sweet Babies Doin’ classic rock • 8:30pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! Twennies • stand-up comedy • 8pm • $5 • 18+ FRIDAY JUNE 14 BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREW PUB TAPROOM Steve Hall • variety • MONDAY LA LUNA BAKERY AND CAFE Friday Farmers Market. Enjoy live 4:30pm • Band of Gypsys • blues, rock • 7pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! JUNE 17 music, a kids’ zone, craft beers, vendors and food. 319 Fifth THE COUNTY LINE BBQ Los Radiators • acoustic folk, rock, blues • BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREW PUB TAPROOM Open Mic with Street SW. FREE. 3pm. ALL-AGES! 550-1119. alibi.com/v/6eke. SATURDAY JUNE 15 Rob Roman • 6pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! 6pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! SUNSHINE THEATER Devastation On The Nation • DIRTY BOURBON Shelby Lee Lowe • variety • 6pm • $5 • 21+ Belphegor • extreme metal • Dark Funeral • Swedish, black CANTEEN TAPROOM Brain Gang Trivia • noon • FREE • 18+ SUNDAY JUNE 16 metal • Incantation • death metal • Hate • 6pm EFFINGBAR AND GRILL Scotty and The Atomics • rock, reggae, GROWLER USA WESTSIDE “The Good Place” Trivia • 7pm • FREE ALBUQUERQUE RAIL YARDS Albuquerque Rail Yards Market. A funk • FREE • ALL-AGES! market celebrating all things local and at the heart of NM culture LAUNCHPAD American Aquarium • Joshua Ray Walker • 9pm with hundreds food, farm, artisan and healing vendors, live music FIRST TURN LOUNGE @ THE DOWNS CASINO Tequila Rain • Latin, INSIDE OUT Detroit Lightning • Grateful Dead tribute • 7pm RED DOOR BREWING CO. Geeks Who Drink • 7pm • FREE • 21+ as well as a kids’ zone. 1100 Second Street SW. FREE. classic rock • 9pm • FREE • 21+ ISLETA RESORT & CASINO Los Lonely Boys • blues, rock • 8pm 10am-2pm. ALL-AGES! alibi.com/v/6fxj. TRACTOR BREWING WESTSIDE Kamikaze Karaoke • 7pm • FREE • INSIDE OUT Red Light Cameras • Megafauna • indie rock • Sun KILT CHECK BREWING COMPANY Alchemie • indie, modern rock • 21+ FRAGRANT LEAF TEA BOUTIQUE Summer Picnic Afternoon Tea. Dog • psych rock • Def- I • Liv the Artist • 8pm 7pm • FREE Enjoy a three-course afternoon tea celebrating the arrival of JAM SPOT TUESDAY summer. 3207 Silver Ave. SE. $35. 1-2:30pm. ALL-AGES! Coast 2 Coast Artist Showcase • variety • 9pm • $0-$10 MARBLE BREWERY Todd Tijerina • blues, roots, funk, rock • 8pm • JUNE 18 255-0522. alibi.com/v/6i36. LAUNCHPAD The Slackers • ska, rocksteady • 9pm FREE • 21+ BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREWERY TAPROOM Open Mic and Jam THE LIBRARY BAR & GRILL Brain Gang Trivia • 8pm • FREE • 18+ PONDEROSA BREWING COMPANY Spankey Lee • folk, jazz, pop, with Chris Ravin • 6pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! MONDAY JUNE 17 blues, mellow rock • 6pm • Free • ALL-AGES! MOONLIGHT LOUNGE Downfall 2012 • Break The Earth • thrash CANTERO BREWING COMPANY Vinyl Night Out • bring your own MARBLE BREWERY Roll With It Sushi Class. Enjoy two pints metal • Sorry Guero! • American death groove • 9pm RED VELVET UNDERGROUND Sorceress of Sound and Song records • 6pm • ALL-AGES! while learning to make three styles of sushi rolls, plus miso soup, Marie Black • singer-songwriter • 5pm FIRST TURN LOUNGE @ THE DOWNS CASINO Kammo Karaoke • cucumber salad, and you get to keep your rolling mat. 111 Marble POSH NIGHTCLUB BlackOut Concert Series • Omb Peezy • Spice • SAVOY BAR AND GRILL The Swag Band • jazz, blues, Motown • 7pm • FREE • 21+ Ave NW. 6pm. 508-4368. alibi.com/v/6izs. rap, hip-hop • DJ UNK • hip-hop • Black Mask • 7pm ALL-AGES! • Swag • jazz, blues, rock, Motown • 6pm • FREE • 21+ PRAIRIE STAR RESTAURANT & WINE BAR, Santa Ana Pueblo KILT CHECK BREWING COMPANY Geeks Who Drink • 7pm • FREE • WEDNESDAY JUNE 19 Mike Butterfield and the 10 O’clock Blues • blues, rock • 5:30pm • SEASONS ROTISSERIE & GRILL The DCN Project • funk, soul, ALL-AGES! FREE • ALL-AGES! R&B • 6pm • FREE • 21+ LAUNCHPAD Sadistik • hip-hop, rap, underground • 9:30pm SANDIA CASINO GOLF COURSE Vintage Albuquerque Opening Night Gala. A gala dinner kicking off Vintage Albuquerque Wine RANCHERS CLUB Karl Richardson Trio • variety • 5:30pm • FREE • SISTER Flashback ’80s Video Music Dance Party • DJ Brad Cole • RED DOOR BREWING COMPANY BYOV: Bring Your Own Vinyl • Week featuring the wines of VGS Chateau Potelle. 30 Rainbow 18+ glam, punk, wave, metal, pop • 9pm • FREE 6pm • FREE • 21+ Road. 6-10pm. alibi.com/v/6k3i. RIO BRAVO BREWING COMPANY Zoltan and the Fortune Tellers • STONE FACE TAVERN Traveler in Pain • rock, metal • 8:45pm • STEEL BENDER BREWYARD Secret 7 • rock, blues, R&B • 6pm rock, jazz, swing • 7pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! FREE • 21+ SUNSHINE THEATER Xavier Wulf • hip-hop • 7pm TRACTOR BREWING COMPANY The Whiskey Priest • 5pm • FREE • SUNSHINE THEATER Long Beach Dub All Stars • ska, reggae, 21+ punk • 8pm WEDNESDAY JUNE 19 TRACTOR BREWING WELLS PARK Gin and Jazz • Jazz Brasileiro • TRACTOR BREWING COMPANY Sean Costanza • alt.country • bossa nova • 5pm • FREE • 21+ 5pm • FREE • 21+ BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREWERY TAPROOM Spiral Pilots • classic rock • 7pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! TRACTOR BREWING WESTSIDE The Stray Dawgs • bluegrass, TRACTOR BREWING WELLS PARK Jimmy Deveney and The Silver rock, country • 4pm • FREE • 21+ Foxes • honky tonk • 8pm • FREE • 21+ CANTEEN BREWHOUSE Brain Gang Trivia • 6pm • FREE • 18+ URBAN 360 PIZZA GRILL AND TAP HOUSE Reverend E and The TRACTOR BREWING WESTSIDE Ryan Painter • singer-songwriter • EL REY Static-X • DevilDriver • heavy metal • 6:15pm Vagrants • blues • 7:30pm 6pm • FREE • 21+ FIRST TURN LOUNGE @ THE DOWNS CASINO Kammo Karaoke • COMEDY ZINC WINE BAR & BISTRO Mineral Hill • country, punkgrass • 7pm • FREE • 21+ BOILER MONKEY Fundraiser Comedy Show • stand-up comedy • 8:30pm • FREE • 21+ LAUNCHPAD Operators • synthpop, electrionic • Doomsquad • 6pm • $5-$10 • 18+ COMEDY experimental, psychedelic • 9pm GUILD CINEMA Kick-Off Comedy • stand-up comedy • 6pm • Out- GUILD CINEMA Spec Script Podcast • live comedy • 5pm • The MOONLIGHT LOUNGE Inanimate Existence • progressive death of-Towners Stand-Up • stand-up comedy • 9pm Show • short-form improv comedy • 6pm • $10 • Blackout Sketch metal • Warforged • Marrow Monger • Moscovium • 8pm MUSIC Show • sketch comedy • 7pm • The Blue Show • improv comedy • 10pm POKI POKI CEVICHERIA WESTSIDE Brain Gang Trivia • 7pm • SATURDAY JUNE 15 FREE • 15+ LEGENDS THEATER @ ROUTE 66 CASINO Ron White • stand-up B2B2 BARRIO Shimon King and The B2 Free Agents • jazz • comedy • 8pm PONDEROSA BREWING COMPANY The Draft Sessions Open THURSDAY 6:30pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! Mic • 7pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! JUNE 13 STAGE @ SANTA ANA STAR, Bernalillo Christopher Titus • stand- BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREW PUB TAPROOM Austin Van • country • BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREWERY TAPROOM High Desert Blues up comedy • 7pm • $20-$30 • 21+ • • 9:30pm VARA WINERY Wineup Wednesdays • Chris Dracup • acoustic, 6:30pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! Band • blues • 8:30pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! blues, funk, soul • 7pm DIRTY BOURBON Shelby Lee Lowe • variety • 6pm • $5 • 21+ BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREW PUB TAPROOM Dianivy • variety • SUNDAY JUNE 16 COMEDY 4:30pm • Resonance • variety • 7pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! RED DOOR BREWING DOWNTOWN TAPROOM Casual FIRST TURN LOUNGE @ THE DOWNS CASINO Sangre Joven • ALBUQUERQUE DOWNS NM Music Festival • Gonzalo • Spanish, DIRTY BOURBON Shelby Lee Lowe • variety • 6pm • $5 • 21+ Wednesdays Open Mic • Royal Wood • Kevin Baca • 7:30pm • FREE • Spanish, country • 8pm • FREE • 21+ New Mexican, country • Black Pearl • dance, oldies • El Cringo • 21+ Cuarenta y Cinco • Latin, country • Str8 Shot • 2pm INSIDE OUT MXNA LXSA • variety • 8pm FIRST TURN LOUNGE @ THE DOWNS CASINO Tequila Rain • Latin, classic rock • 9pm • FREE • 21+ BOESE BROTHERS BREWPUB Chile Pi • pop, folk, acoustic • 4pm • LA LUNA BAKERY AND CAFE Above Average Songwriter Open FREE • ALL-AGES! Mic • 6:30pm • FREE • 13+ CANTEEN BREWHOUSE Higher Ground • bluegrass • 4pm • FREE LAUNCHPAD The Holdup • reggae • 8pm HIGH AND DRY BREWING Con Sal Y Limón • cumbia, blues, rock • NOB HILL BAR & GRILL Scotty and The Atomics • rock, reggae, 3pm • FREE • 21+ funk • 8pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! INSIDE OUT Barrio Soul Sunday • oldies, funk, soul, rap, disco • RED DOOR BREWING COMPANY Halfway Decent Karaoke • 7pm • 5pm FREE • 21+ KILT CHECK BREWING COMPANY TobyRiffic Karaoke Show • SAVOY BAR AND GRILL Eddie Brewer and the Manic Episodes • 3pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! jazz, swing, bossa nova • 6pm • FREE • 21+ LAUNCHPAD Sweet Knives • variety • The Ordinary Things • SISTER Destroyer of Light • high desert rock • 8pm • $5-$7 Nowhiteflag • 8pm TRACTOR BREWING WELLS PARK Jeremy Pinnell Band • MOONLIGHT LOUNGE Yatra • stoner doom • Void Dancer • Teeth • Americana, singer-songwriter • 8pm • FREE • 21+ SATURDAY JUNE 15 CANTEEN BREWHOUSE Canteen Brewhouse’s 25th electronic, rock • SwordHorse • 8pm TRACTOR BREWING WESTSIDE Kamikaze Karaoke • 7pm • FREE • Anniversary Party • Felix y los Gatos • Americana, blues, O’NEILL’S HEIGHTS Doug Muchmore • Western, acoustic, country • MONDAY JUNE 17 21+ rock, Creole • Chris Dracup and Funk of the West Band • 4:30pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! BOX PERFORMANCE SPACE AND IMPROV THEATRE funk, blues • Crazy Fool • ska, reggae • Dusty Low • folk • ZINC WINE BAR & BISTRO Improv Comedy Camp • 9am • $185 • ALL-AGES! Sean Farley • blues • 8:30pm • FREE • 4pm • FREE O’NIELL’S PUB, Nob Hill Los Radiators • acoustic folk, rock, blues • 21+ 4pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! [20] WEEKLY ALIBI JUNE 13-19, 2019 JUNE 13-19, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [21] REEL WORLD FILM | FILM REVIEW BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY Influence Peddling All Is True As part of La Sala de Galisteo Art Center’s summer exhibit Under the Influences—New Mexico Artists: Their Work & Influences, the Shakespeare retires to the country center has invited local artist and filmmaker Patrick Mehaffy to screen three of his award- winning short films. In addition to showing off the in Kenneth Branagh’s speculative biopic film “Cowboys and Indians,” “Heat Lightning” and “The Lark Snare,” Mehaffy will discuss his various influences during the creative process starting 6:30pm on Thursday, June 13. La Sala de Galisteo is located at 5637 NM-41 in Galisteo, south of Santa Fe. For more info go to lasaladegalisteo.org. Intergalactic, Planetary The Santa Fe Institute’s InterPlanetary Festival (June 14 through 16) is a free, public event that “combines an exploration of complexity science and technological innovation with a summer festival full of music, art, food, drinks and more.” Several major film screenings are part of the fun. On Friday at the outdoor main stage in Santa Fe Railyard Park, you can catch the 1968 sci-fi film Planet of the Apes with a special introduction by Jonathan Rinzler, New York Times best-selling author of the critically acclaimed book The Making of Planet of the Apes. Seems like he might know a thing or two about the film. That takes place starting at 7pm. On Saturday, June 15 local sci-fi writers Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck (better known as James SA Corey, author of The Expanse series) introduce a screening of the 1979 film Alien—a very apt precursor to the sort of hard sci-fi that they write. That starts at 5:30pm at SITE Santa Fe Auditorium. The films close out on Sunday, June 16 with a screening of the 2019 documentary Apollo 11 at the SITE “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. … I wrote that, you know.” Auditorium starting at 5:45pm. That’s followed by a presentation by Berkeley Center for New Media snooty (and rather Puritan) neighbors. He’s like Director Nicholas de Monchaux (and author of BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY All Is True a rock star who’s desperate to escape the Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo) on the making of Directed by Kenneth Branagh spotlight but still wants to be recognized at the NASA’s Moonsuit. Admission to these events is espite the scope and endurance of his Starring Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian supermarket. The dramatic troubles of Judith free, but seating is limited. For a complete and Susannah threaten to upset our schedule of events, go to interplanetaryfest.org. literary fame, legendary British playwright MkKellan D protagonist’s (somewhat hypocritical) social William Shakespeare remains something of Rated PG-13 an elusive historical figure. Aside from a few Now playing. status. All of this is compounded by the fact Submit! basic, biographical details, very little is known that William has spent the last few decades ¡Cine Magnífico!, Albuquerque’s homegrown about his real life. This is due to a number of getting rich and famous and generally ignoring Hamlet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, As You Like It, Latino film festival, takes place this coming Sept. factors, including the age in which he lived (he his family. (Anne’s actually a little peeved that 4 through 8. The regular deadline for filmmakers Macbeth). Who better than to both guide the was born in the 16th century, after all) and the he’s shown up, disrupting her routine, after all to submit their work for possible inclusion in this story and to star as the aging Mr. Shakespeare these years.) general lack of public accounting at the time for year’s event is Friday, June 14. Regular deadline himself? Adding to the flim’s legitimate theater star submission fees are $40 per film, and certain anyone not of a royal lineage. Of course there Audiences are informed by the film’s opening power is Sir Ian McKellen in a spirited cameo as discounts are available for students and New are various literary conspiracy theorists who Mexico filmmakers. Festival organizers are title card that Shakespeare’s beloved Globe Shakespeare’s patron, the elegantly foppish Earl believe the dearth of information is proof looking for features, shorts and documentaries. Theatre in London burned down circa 1613 of Southampton. In what probably amounts to All films must be in English/Spanish/Portuguese positive that the alleged Mr. Shakespeare’s after a prop cannon misfired during a the film’s highlight, he and Branagh basically sit and have English subtitles (if appropriate) . works were actually penned by other, more performance of Henry VIII. Following that in front of a fireplace and discuss sonnets— Submissions are accepted through famous (at the time) figures. The new biopic All pivotal event (another in the slim list of which will bore certain audiences, but will filmfreeway.com. For more details go to Is True posits yet a third bit of (equally historical facts), our man Willy has retreated to cinemagnifico.com. amount to must-see TV for PBS-loving speculative) reasoning: Shakespeare his hometown of Stratford with his good lady Anglophiles of a certain age. intentionally vanished from public life based on wife Anne Hathaway (Dame Judi Dench, For all of Elton’s background in historical Stay Awake an untimely tragedy, general world-weariness somewhat older than the story actually requires, farce and Branagh’s résumé filled with epic The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and a dark family secret. but adding further class to the production). Shakespearean tragedy, All Is True proves a Foundation and the Albuquerque Film & Music It is generally accepted that, at the age of 49, “I’m done with stories,” Shakespeare wearily rather small, talky and literal-minded domestic Experience film series continues this Saturday, Shakespeare retired to Stratford-upon-Avon confesses. His only interests now revolve around drama. There are plenty of lovely, Vermeer-like June 15 at 7pm, at the NMMNH’s DynaTheater (where he was born) and died about three years the quiet country life and puttering in his garden images of the English countryside—and enough with a screening of the 1990 film Awakenings. (a perfectly relaxing task for which the writer Based on the book by Oliver Sacks, the film later, having never written another play. That expository dialogue to choke an undergrad in dramatizes the efforts of Dr. Malcolm Sayer to fact forms the backbone of All Is True, which is seems singularly unsuited). But the sudden comparative literature. As the various threads test the effects of the drug L-Dopa on catatonic penned with an occasional touch of wit by Ben solitude forces Shakespeare to confront his long- that Elton and Branagh are weaving finally survivors of an encephalitis epidemic. Robert De Elton (“The Young Ones,” “Blackadder”) and suppressed feelings regarding his young son’s come together, the film spins an intelligent tale Niro, Robin Williams and Penelope Ann Miller star. directed by no less than Sir Kenneth Branagh. death some 17 years previous. There’s also the of personal grief and familial resentment. But it’s The film is being screened in conjunction with the Branagh is probably the film world’s leading problem of his daughters: ill-tempered Judith a loosely assembled labor of love, to be sure. museum’s “Brain: The Inside Story” exhibit. (Kathryn Wilder) and unhappily married Admission is $10 or $7.50 for Foundation authority on The Bard. He’s acted in, directed, Shakespeare nuts, serious Anglophiles and those members and AFME sponsors. The New Mexico written and/or produced no less than seven Susannah (Lydia Wilson). Despite his claimed who live in art house theaters will do fine. But Museum of Natural History is located at 1801 features based on Shakespeare plays (Henry V, interest in rural anonymity, Shakespeare still general audiences are warned: Shakespeare in Mountain Rd. NW. a Much Ado About Nothing, A Midwinter’s Tale, craves a certain bourgeois respect from his Love this ain’t. a [22] WEEKLY ALIBI JUNE 13-19, 2019 TELEVISION | IDIOT BOX BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY Boston Strong “City on a Hill” on Showtime oston loves its townie crime sagas. The city Jackie soon crosses paths with new district Bis nearly as proud of its history as a bank attorney in town (by way of Brooklyn!), Decourcy robbing capital as it is of its hockey team. Ward (Aldis Hodge from TNT’s “Leverage”). (Go Bruins!) Any Bostonian worth their clam Most cops dismiss him as “an affirmative action chowdah can run down the movie list: The hire” and do their best to be unhelpful. Jackie one- Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Brink’s Job, Monument ups that, asking Ward to dump an ironclad case against a junkie who shot a cop. (The shooter was Ave., Southie, Mystic River, The Departed, Gone one of Jackie’s confidential informants.) Needless Baby Gone, The Town, Black Mass. Now you can to say, Rohr and Ward do not become fast friends. add to that tally Showtime’s gritty crime series Of course, a cops and robbers saga is nothing “City on a Hill.” without some criminal types, and that is delivered The series dumps us straight into the heart of in the form of working-class Charlestown criminal Boston history. It’s 1989, in the wake of the Frankie Ryan (Jonathan Tucker from infamous Charles Stuart murder case. Stuart was “Parenthood”). Frankie runs a crew of armored car a tax attorney whose wife was shot to death. robbers just trying to pay the bills. But when one Stuart told police a black man robbed and killed of their jobs goes wrong, it attracts the attention of her. Local police enthusiastically brought the full crusading DA Decourcy Ward. He wants to set an weight of the force down on African-American example and crack Charlestown’s “unbreakable” neighborhoods. This only inflamed Boston’s code of criminal silence. His only hope in Hell? simmering racial tensions—particularly when The toughest SOB he knows in law Charles’ brother confessed to police that it was enforcement—Jackie Rohr. Charles who killed his own wife. Charles That “City on a Hill” reads like the bastard subsequently committed suicide, and the Boston offspring of The Town and “The Wire” is no Police Department spent years under increased surprise. The show is produced by none other than federal scrutiny. those famed purveyors of fine Beantown In the aftermath of this ugly incident, we’re entertainment Ben Affleck and Matt Damon introduced to veteran FBI agent Jackie Rohr (Good Will Hunting, The Town). The solid cast (Kevin Bacon). Jackie is what one character calls (including ringers like Jill Hennessy, Cathy a “classic Boston asshole.” Rohr’s a gleefully Moriarty, Kevin Chapman, Gloria Reuben and corrupt cop who loves his hookers and his blow. Rory Culkin) is anchored by Bacon’s gleefully “What used to make this city great,” nasty performance. (Snorting coke and wailing philosophizes Jackie as he takes a pull off his hip along to Rush on the car radio? Pure gold!) Sure, flask, “was that it was run by bad men who the setting and the characters have been done understood that they were bad.” Now, he before. But who doesn’t appreciate a down-and- bemoans the fact that you can’t throw around dirty Boston crime story—even if parts of it are wicked familiar? a the “N word” or beat a confession out of a “City on a Hill” premieres Sunday, June 16 at 7pm on suspect anymore. Showtime.

“Trinkets” (Netflix streaming anytime) SUNDAY 16 Three teenagers meet up in a THE WEEK IN Shoplifters Anonymous group in this “Game Changers: Inside the Video teen drama from creator Kristen Smith Game Wars” (History 7pm) (10 Things I Hate About You, Legally History heads back to the 1970s SLOTH Blonde, Ella Enchanted). to create a chronological history “Too Old to Die Young” (Amazon of the video game industry—from streaming anytime) Nicolas Winding Ralph Baer’s Maganavox Odyssey Refn (director of the movies Bronson, to Jerry Lawson’s Fairchild THURSDAY 13 Valhalla Rising and Drive) and Ed Channel F to Nolan Bushnell’s Brubaker (writer of the comic books Atari 2600 to Nintendo’s “Jinn” (Netflix streaming anytime) Lowlife, Criminal and Fatale) join forces Famicom/NES. Shot in Amman and Petra (in the for this crime drama series about country of Jordan), this Arabic- grieving cops, Yakuza soldiers, cartel MONDAY 17 language supernatural drama spins assassins, Russian mobsters and a tale about a group of teenagers teenage killers. Miles Teller, Jena “Das Boot” (Hulu streaming who awaken an ancient magical Malone and Billy Baldwin star. anytime) Lothar-Günther creature. “Jett” (Cinemax 8pm) Fresh out of Buchheim’s 1973 book about life prison, world-class thief Daisy “Jett” aboard a cramped German “The Real World” (Facebook Watch submarine during World War II streaming anytime) MTV’s venerable Kowalski (Carla Gugino) is forced back into doing what she does best by some (previously adapted in Wolfgang reality show returns for a 33rd dangerous and eccentric criminals. Petersen’s award-winning 1981 season—only now it’s on Facebook’s film) gets the miniseries VOD service. Because it used to be “Los Espookys” (HBO 9pm) Fred treatment. that “kids today” had no idea MTV Armisen (“Portlandia”) executive used to show music videos. Now produced this Spanish-language “The 2019 MTV Movie & TV “kids today” have no idea what MTV comedy series about a group of friends Awards” (MTV 7pm) Zachary is. in a dreamy Latin American country Levi (fresh off Shazam!) hosts. who turn their love of horror into a FRIDAY 14 most unusual business. TUESDAY 18 “Just Roll With It” (Disney 10:35pm) Disney’s “improvisational” new sitcom Wig (HBO 8pm) HBO’s newest “Leila” (Netflix streaming anytime) In documentary centers on New this Indian sci-fi series, a woman (about a pair of “fun-loving newlyweds and their polar-opposite stepsiblings”) York’s iconic drag festival, living in the forgotten margins of the Wigstock. segregated communities of a asks studio audience members to vote dystopian future searches for the on the direction of key scenes. daughter she lost upon her arrest WEDNESDAY 19 years ago. SATURDAY 15 “When Whales Walked: Journeys “Awake: The Million Dollar Game” “All That” (Nickeloden 6:30pm) in Deep Time” (KNME-5 8pm) (Netflix streaming anytime) Sleep- Nickelodeon’s 1994 to 2005 kid- Scientists use 21st century deprived contestants face off in a oriented sketch comedy series returns technology to roll back the clock series of physical and mental to the airwaves. Original cast members and discover the origins of challenges in this “comedy game Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell are crocodiles, birds, whales and show.” back as executive producers. elephants. a

JUNE 13-19, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [23] FILM | CAPSULES BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY NEW The Dead Don’t Die After the surprisingly good genre exercise that was 2013’s Only Lovers Left Alive, longtime indie icon Jim Jarmusch (Stranger Than Paradise, Down By Law, Mystery Train, Night On Earth) tries his hand at a zombie comedy. Seems the entire law enforce- ment community of tiny, rural Centerville (consisting of Bill Murray, Adam Driver and Chloé Sevigny) is forced to become supernatural avengers when the dead start rising from their graves. Tom Waits, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover, Rosie Perez, Carol Kane, Tilda Swinton and Iggy Pop are among the crazy, all-star cast. Jarmusch has fun riffing on the genre, but he’s a little late to the game. General audiences are advised to remember this is a Jim Jarmusch film: It’s slow, very eccentric and far more deadpan absurd than laugh-out-loud funny. 105 minutes. R. (Opens Thursday 6/13 at Century 14 Downtown, High Ridge) Emanuel On June 17, 2015, a white supremacist walked into a Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina and gunned down nine African-American worshipers. Documentary filmmaker Brian Ivie (The Drop Box) relates the story of the victims and the survivors of that tragic incident. 90 minutes. Unrated. (Opens Monday 6/17 at Century Rio, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX, Cottonwood Stadium 16) Halston Disco-era fashion icon Halston gets the biographi- cal documentary treatment, following him from his poor Iowa roots to his glory days holding court in NYC’s cocaine-fueled Studio 54 nightclub. The fi- nancial rise-and-fall (turns out selling his name to JCPenney wasn’t such a good idea) is more than enough to fill out this film’s dramatic trajectory. Shame that writer-director Frédéric Tcheng (Dior and I, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel) had to tack on a film noir-inspired mystery about the de- signer’s death. There wasn’t one, and the suggestion The Dead Don’t Die only detracts from the film’s vivid Polaroid snapshot of excess and sexy cocktail dresses. Reviewed in Shaft’s cybersecurity expert son, John Shaft (Jessie sensitive playboy Blane (Andrew McCarthy). But Avengers: Endgame v28 i23. 105 minutes. Unrated. (Opens Friday T. Usher). All three John Shafts join forces to un- what about nerdy childhood pal/secret stalker It all comes down to this. After introducing dozens 6/14 at High Ridge) cover the truth when a family friend ends up dead. Duckie (Jon Cryer)? Don’t worry, he’ll get a sitcom of heroic characters over the past 10 years, and 111 minutes. R. (Opens Thursday 6/13 at Century with Charlie Sheen when he grows up. 96 minutes. setting up the tragic circumstances of Avengers: In- Late Night Rio, Century 14 Downtown, AMC Albuquerque 12, PG-13. (Opens Tuesday 6/18 at Flix Brewhouse) finity War, the surviving Avengers (Captain America, Mindy Kaling (“The Office,” “The Mindy Project”) Flix Brewhouse, Icon Cinemas Albuquerque, Rio Black Widow, Thor, Hawkeye, Iron Man, The Hulk) writes and stars in this comedy about a young fe- Rancho Premiere Cinema, Winrock Stadium 16 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) team up with the newly returned Captain Marvel male writer who ends up on the (all male) writing IMAX & RPX, Cottonwood Stadium 16) Steven Spielberg and George Lucas’ classic adven- (Brie Larson) to make one last stand against death- staff of a long-running late night talk show. When it ture flick about a globe-hopping archaeologist (Har- loving alien threat Thanos (Josh Brolin). Basically looks like the host (Emma Thompson) might lose rison Ford) punching Nazis and kissing girls returns everyone who’s ever been in a Marvel movie is part the show to declining ratings, the new writer encour- to theaters. 115 minutes. PG. (Opens Sunday 6/16 of this space-and-time-spanning epic. 181 min- ages her to go out on a limb and be her most hon- RETURNING at Icon Cinemas Albuquerque) utes. PG-13. (Century Rio, Century 14 Downtown, est self on camera. 102 minutes. R. (Opens Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch (2018) Trolls (2016) Icon Cinemas Albuquerque, AMC Albuquerque 12, Thursday 6/13 at Century Rio, Century 14 Down- Those hideous, hirsute troll dolls from the early Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Cottonwood Stadium town, AMC Albuquerque 12, Rio Rancho Premiere We already had the TV version narrated by Boris Karloff (1966) and the live-action version with Jim 1960s (with occasional flare-ups of popularity in 16, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) Cinema, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX, Cotton- the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s) get their own CGI movie, wood Stadium 16, High Ridge) Carrey (2000). So why not a 3D CGI-animated ver- Booksmart sion? Benedict Cumberbatch voices our hairy party courtesy of DreamWorks. The story involves happy On the eve of their high school graduation, two aca- Men In Black: International pooper. Reviewed in v27 i46. 90 minutes. PG. troll Poppy and curmudgeonly troll Branch, who are demic overachievers (Kaitlyn Dever from “Last Man Tessa Thompson teams up with her Thor: Ragnarok (Opens Tuesday 6/18 at Movies 8, Movies West) forced to team up and save their woodland village Standing” and Beanie Feldstein from Lady Bird) re- costar Chris Hemsworth as a conspiracy theorist from evil invaders. Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Field of Dreams (1989) alize they should have worked less and partied who worms her way into the new London branch of Zooey Deschanel, Russell Brand, Gwen Stefani and more. Determined not to miss out, the gals set out the MIB. There, she is recruited and teamed up with Just in time for some Father’s Day tearjerking, this John Cleese supply the voices. Eh, it beats The Pet sentimental (yet manly) 1989 hit returns to the- Rock Movie—which, laugh all you like, is probably to cram four years’ worth of teenage shenanigans a partner to fend off a series of alien attacks taking into one raunchy, drunken night. Actress Olivia Wilde place around the globe. Liam Neeson and Emma aters. Kevin Costner plays an Iowa farmer who coming. 92 minutes. PG. (Opens Wednesday 6/19 hears mysterious voices urging him to build a base- at Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema) (“House,” TRON: Legacy) turns director to helm this Thompson costar, and Kumail Nanjiani shows up to equal opportunity teen sex comedy—which is actu- voice a tiny alien. 114 minutes. PG-13. (Opens ball diamond in his corn field. When he does, the 1919 Chicago White Sox return from the dead. In ally more interested in sincere friendship than the Thursday 6/13 at Century Rio, Century 14 Down- shenanigans part. 102 minutes. R. (Century Rio) town, AMC Albuquerque 12, Flix Brewhouse, Icon any other context, this would be the setup for a very Cinemas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho Premiere Cin- strange horror movie. But here it’s just a feel-good STILL PLAYING Brightburn family drama about fathers and sons. 107 minutes. ema, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX, Cottonwood Aladdin A human-looking alien baby crash-lands on Earth Stadium 16) PG. (Opens Sunday 6/16 at Century Rio, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX, Cottonwood Stadium 16) Disney continues to crank out live-action remakes and is adopted by an upstanding rural couple. As Morning Toons of its classic animated features. Here, 1992’s fan- he grows up, he starts to develop godlike superpow- New Mexico Entertainment Magazine invites you to The House With a Clock in Its Walls (2018) tasy musical finds Will Smith replacing Robin ers. Naturally, he puts on a cape and … proceeds to grab your pajamas and sample a selection of clas- This fast-paced, family-oriented, ’50s-set fantasy Williams as the wacky genie who makes life bet- slaughter the puny humans around him. This imagi- sic Looney Tunes cartoons from your childhood. Feel (based on the book by John Bellairs) finds a young ter/crazier for a kindhearted street urchin (Mena native, horror movie twist on the Superman myth free to bring your own kids and introduce them to orphan moving in with his warlock of an uncle (Jack Massoud) in love with a princess (Naomi Scott). comes from a script by Brian and Mark Gunn, the timeless joys of Warner Bros. cartoons. 60 min- Black) and helping him on his quest through a Weirdly enough, Guy Ritchie (Lock, Stock and Two brother and cousin to Guardians of the Galaxy di- utes. Unrated. (Opens Saturday 6/15 at Guild Cin- magical mansion to locate a supernatural clock Smoking Barrels; Snatch; RocknRolla; Sherlock rector James Gunn (who serves as producer here). ema) that could bring about the Apocalypse. 104 min- Holmes) directs. 128 minutes. PG. (Century 14 91 minutes. R. (Century Rio) utes. PG. (Opens Tuesday 6/18 at Winrock Stadium Downtown, Century Rio, Rio Rancho Premiere Cin- Shaft 16 IMAX & RPX) ema, AMC Albuquerque 12, Flix Brewhouse, Icon Dark Phoenix Yes, this jokey sequel to 1971’s blaxploitation clas- Cinemas Albuquerque, Cottonwood Stadium 16, For Marvel Comics’ latest X-Men outing, producers sic Shaft and 2000’s belated sequel/reboot Shaft Pretty In Pink (1986) Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) draw on Chris Claremont/John Byrne’s justifiably fa- is also named Shaft. That’s OK, because it unites John Hughes, king of the ’80s teen comedy, was on mous 1977 to ‘76 “Dark Phoenix” storyline (which the original streetwise private eye John Shaft a roll when he penned this high school classic. All Is True got introduced and polished off in all of 10 minutes (Richard Roundtree), his NYPD detective nephew Molly Ringwald is cute personified as the poor Reviewed this issue. 101 minutes. PG-13. (Century in 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand). After mutant John Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson) and the second everygirl who just wants to go to prom with rich but 14 Downtown, High Ridge) mindreader Jean Grey develops some awesome

[24] WEEKLY ALIBI JUNE 13-19, 2019 FILM | CAPSULES BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY telekenetic powers following a trip to outer space, doomsday prepper stocking up for the “inevitable” it’s up to her fellow X-Men to stop her from going end of civilization. She’s got a secret “hobby” of her power mad. Though this version trims away a lot of Theater Contact Info: own. The film tries to build itself on the thin mystery the original comic’s narrative as well, at least it gets of who and what these two lovebirds really are, me- the full-film treatment and a fine cast (including So- AMC ALBUQUERQUE 12 andering through various conventional romantic phie Turner as Phoenix, James McAvoy as Professor 3810 Las Estancias Way SW • 544-2360 subplots. But it all dovetails surprisingly well in the X and Michael Fassbender as Magneto). 113 min- end. 94 minutes. PG-13. (Century 14 Downtown) utes. PG-13. (Century 14 Downtown, Century Rio, CENTURY 14 DOWNTOWN Walking on Water: Christo AMC Albuquerque 12, Flix Brewhouse, Icon Cine- 100 Central SW • 243-9555 Ten years after the passing of his wife and creative mas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, partner, world-famous artist Christo sets out to real- Cottonwood Stadium 16, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX CENTURY RIO ize The Floating Piers, a project the couple con- & RPX) I-25 & Jefferson • 343-9000 ceived together many years before. This documentary’s uncensored access into Christo’s Godzilla: King of Monsters artistic process allows viewers to see everything This follow-up to 2014’s American Godzilla flick COTTONWOOD STADIUM 16 Cottonwood Mall • (844) 462-7342 ext. #607 from inception to completion of the large-scale art finds the Earth on the edge of apocalypse thanks to installation atop Italy’s Lake Iseo. 100 minutes. Un- a wave of giant monsters (Mothra, Rodan, King Ghi- rated. (Guild Cinema) dorah) attacking cities around the world. Can the FLIX BREWHOUSE high-tech, cryptozoological agency Monarch fight off 3236 La Orilla NW • 445-8500 the invasion by recruiting the “King of Monsters” himself, Godzilla? The human cast includes Millie GUILD CINEMA SECOND RUN Bobby Brown, Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Ken 3405 Central NE • 255-1848 Watanabe, Bradley Whitford, Ziyi Zhang and Sally Breakthrough Hawkins—not all of whom are gonna make it outta HIGH RIDGE Trapped underwater for more than 15 minutes and this thing alive. There are tons of plot holes, lots of rushed to a local hospital, a 14-year-old Missouri shaky character motivation and the script asks us 12910 Indian School NE • (844) 462-7342 ext. #605 boy is given a slim chance of survival by doctors. to swallow roughly 1,000 impossible things at But mom and dad stay by his bedside praying for a once—and yet the whole thing is so explosively ac- ICON CINEMAS ALBUQUERQUE miracle. This religious drama is based on the best- tion-packed, you’d be hard-pressed to notice. 131 13120-A Central Ave. SE • 814-7469 selling Christian book The Impossible: The Miracu- minutes. PG-13. (Century 14 Downtown, Century lous Story of a Mother’s Faith and Her Child’s Rio, Icon Cinemas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho Pre- MOVIES 8 Resurrection. So, spoiler alert: He doesn’t die. 116 miere Cinema, Flix Brewhouse, AMC Albuquerque 4591 San Mateo NE • 888-4773 minutes. PG. (Movies 8, Movies West) 12, Cottonwood Stadium 16, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) Captain Marvel MOVIES WEST It’s the ’90s and a young(er) Nick Fury (Samuel L. Iyengar: The Man, Yoga and the Student’s 9201 Coors NW • 898-4664 Jackson) encounters one of the universe’s most Journey powerful beings, an alien soldier caught in a war B.K.S. Iyengar, founder of the worldwide Iyangar RIO RANCHO PREMIERE CINEMA with a shape-shifting race known as the Kree. But is Yoga movement, is evidently a reclusive mentor. 1000 Premiere Parkway • 994-3300 Captain Marvel (Brie Larson from Room) really an Thanks to Jake Clennell’s documentary, viewers are alien, or do her roots lie far closer to Earth? 124 granted intimate access to the spiritual leader. This SUB THEATER minutes. PG-13. (Movies 8, Movies West) is essential viewing for anyone with an interest in UNM (Student Union Building Room 1003) • 277-5608 The Curse of La Llorona yoga, wellness, spirituality or the connection of a well-meaning social worker (Linda Cardellini from mind and body. In English and Kannada with Eng- WINROCK STADIUM 16 IMAX & RPX “Freaks and Geeks”) ignores the warnings of a trou- lish subtitles. 103 minutes. Unrated. (Guild Cin- 2100 Louisiana Blvd. NE • (844) 462-7342 ext. #4058 bled mother suspected of child endangerment and ema) finds herself and her own kids drawn into the eerie John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum supernatural realm of the infamous Hispanic spook, The first John Wick film was a down-and-dirty, hard- La Llorona. 93 minutes. R. (Movies 8, Movies West) boiled-to-the-bone revenge drama that added sig- Framed Roger Rabbit knock-off. 104 minutes. PG. nificant adrenaline to star Keanu Reeves’ comeback (Century Rio, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, AMC Al- Dumbo career. The second film abandoned all of that for buquerque 12, Cottonwood Stadium 16, Winrock Tim Burton helms the latest in Disney’s unstop- Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) pable parade of live-action remakes of animated some completely batcrap crazy action. And it was classics. Surprising no one, Burton opts for a much equally awesome. The third film in the trilogy, which Rocketman darker take on the classic 1941 cartoon. 112 min- finds our unstoppable hitman John Wick on the run This movie about the life and times of British rock utes. PG. (Movies 8, Movies West) with a $14 million dollar bounty on his head, fol- star Elton John follows, more or less, the Bohemian lows the trend of over-the-top-and-back-again ac- Rhapsody battle plan—giving viewers a tune-filled Little tion. Halle Berry, Anjelica Huston, Ian McShane, flashback biopic built around an iconic musical per- What’s the opposite of the smash hit Big, a Laurence Fishburne and Mark Dacascos are among formance (in this case, John’s career-defining 1975 bodyswap comedy about a young white boy who the gunslinging guest stars. 130 minutes. R. (Cen- concert at LA’s Dodger Stadium). The film estab- magically wakes up in the body of a grown up? Ob- tury 14 Downtown, Century Rio, Flix Brewhouse, Rio lishes its own style, however, by turning John’s flam- viously, a bodyswap comedy about a grown-up Rancho Premiere Cinema, Cottonwood Stadium 16, boyant stage costumes and outsized persona into a black woman who magically wakes up in the body Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) flashy, fantastical journey through rock history. Taron of a young girl. Regina Hall (Girls Trip) and Issa Rae Ma Egerton (Kingsman: The Secret Service) does ener- (“Orange Is the New Black”) star. 109 minutes. PG- Fresh off back-to-back Oscar nominations (for Hid- getic work as the piano pounder at the center of it 13. (Movies West) den Figures and The Shape of Water), Octavia all. 121 minutes. R. (Century 14 Downtown, Cen- Long Shot Spencer heads straight into exploitation/horror with tury Rio, Icon Cinemas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho An unemployed journalist (Seth Rogen) is hired as this suburban slasher. Spencer plays a lonely Premiere Cinema, Flix Brewhouse, Cottonwood Sta- head speechwriter by the secretary of state (Charl- woman who befriends a group of teenagers looking dium 16, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) ize Theron) as she makes a run for the US presi- for someone to buy them beer. She willingly helps The Secret Life of Pets 2 dency. Turns out she used to babysit him decades out, even providing her house as party central. Patton Oswalt replaces persona non grata Louis CK ago and was his first pubescent crush. Improbably Eventually, however, the friendly host’s obsession as the voice of city-bred dog Max in this animated but inevitably, these two opposites find themselves grows to dangerous proportions. 99 minutes. R. family flick. For this go-around, Max and his fellow attracted to one another. 125 minutes. R. (Movies (Century 14 Downtown, Century Rio, AMC Albu- 8, Movies West) querque 12, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Cotton- apartment-dwelling pet pals (voiced by Kevin Hart, wood Stadium 16, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & Jenny Slate, Tiffany Haddish, Dana Carvey, Hannibal Shazam! RPX) Buress and Harrison Ford) are adjusting to daytime In this heartfelt, entertaining DC Comics adaptation, life—interrupted now by a new, stay-at-home baby. a streetwise 14-year-old orphan (wide-eyed Asher Pokémon Detective Pikachu PG. (Century 14 Downtown, Century Rio, AMC Albu- Angel from Disney’s “Andi Mack”) is contacted by For some strange reason, producers have opted to querque 12, Flix Brewhouse, Icon Cinemas Albu- an otherworldly wizard who gifts him with a host of go with this “off canon” offshoot of the Pokémon querque, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Cottonwood magical superpowers (not to mention the ability to trading card/video game universe for the fran- Stadium 16, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) transform into a musclebound adult—played by chise’s first live-action film. Justice Smith (Paper The Souvenir Zachary Levi). With the help of his adoptive family, Towns) stars as Tim Goodman, a surly teenager who In the early ’80s, a young British film student our “hero” does his best to figure out his abilities lives in a world where people collect tiny monsters (Honor Swinton-Byrne, daughter to Tilda Swinton) (not to mention the meaning of heroism). 132 min- to do battle in glory-filled gladiatorial contests. Tim utes. PG-13. (Movies 8, Movies West) eschews the Pokémon lifestyle, however, after his gets tangled in a toxic relationship with a compli- big city detective dad is killed in the line of duty. cated and untrustworthy man (Tom Burke) working UglyDolls While investigating dad’s murder, our protagonist for the Foreign Office. This beautifully heightened ro- The quirky stuffed toys have finally been trans- crosses paths with a talking Pokémon (voiced in mantic melodrama comes from British arthouse formed into a CGI kids’ movie. Kelly Clarkson, Nick PG-13 Deadpool mode by Ryan Reynolds) who fan- sensation Joanna Hogg (Unrelated, Archipelago, Ex- Jonas, Janelle Monáe, Pitbull, Blake Shelton, cies himself a crime-solver. Together the mis- hibition). 120 minutes. R. (Century 14 Downtown) Gabriel Iglesias, Bebe Rexha and Charli XCX provide matched partners go to work solving the mystery. The Tomorrow Man the voices. There’s a message about … oh, you The production design (employing loads of CGI) is John Lithgow and Blythe Danner star in this cute know, being true to yourself or standing out from the immersive and the acting is unexpectedly emo- old-age romance about two small-town eccentrics crowd or something. 91 minutes. PG. (Movies 8, tional, but the story feels like a predictable, Who who find themselves drawn to one another. He’s a Movies West)

JUNE 13-19, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [25] SONIC REDUCER BY AUGUST MARCH Lucifer’s Apostles 731666 (HRSUnderground) A concept album about a place known only as Unit 731666, this is a lushly produced album that balances itself chaotically between horrorcore, left- field hip-hop, ambient darkwave and noise music. As each track proceeds, the tension builds as new musical clues about the Satanic nature of the demonic enterprise consuming aforementioned unit. Throughout, repetition and crescendoing classical leitmotifs contribute to the sense of foreboding in a strange but subtly recognizable place. Challenging but not difficult, the result is curiously listenable and sometimes surprises with its use of digital effects and sound bites from other ages. By the time Lucifer’s Apostles (M-Acculate, Rez and Uncle Bungle) get to defining the unnerving underworld wherein this narrative takes place (track 9, “2 Versions of Hell), listeners have been taken on a trip that is as percussive as it is penetrating. Carrier Waves Carrier Waves (Self-released) Carrier Waves features a local hero known as Marty Crandall as well as super rockers Sean McCullough, Sam Williams and Josh Nesbitt. As readers might recall, Crandall was once a member of The Shins, which is now a thing that James Mercer does all by his lonesome. That’s okay and maybe a good thing too; this album absolutely rocks. It starts off gloriously frantic, echoey and gooey with jangling goodness on the crunchy as funk opening track “Broken Rhyme.” The vocals here seem to emanate from some trance state, from another world. That gritty gorgeousness continues on track two, “Basement Dreams, where the guitar is just about out of control but beautifully, beatifically so, with more faraway vocals shimmering just beneath. The whole work is like that, all shiny and fresh with no sign of derivation and every sign of rock’s fragile holiness dripping out everywhere. Timøteo Moon Sailing (Self-released) I’ll admit that I picked this one for its title. What sort of surrealist can resist titles such as “Moon Sailing” and “Cactus Waffles,” after all? That said, this is a deeply introspective, darkly delightful recording that throws minor key compositions at hyperactive hi-hats and oblique horns to create something that is by turns consuming and perplexing. The first track sizzles so slowly and methodically, you might not notice that your brain is being cooked as it proceeds through grandiose harmonics and sullen starkness simultaneously. Track two, “Cactus Waffles,” imagines bluegrass as a cosmic, even alien event while an electronic marching band and a processed snare keep track of lost time. The final track, “Jorobada,” rises from the ocean as night falls. For real, odd but totally awesome, you better add this one to your collection, kids. a

[26] WEEKLY ALIBI JUNE 13-19, 2019 MUSIC | INTERVIEW Val James Is in the House Multi-instrumentalist reflects on nature, nurture and rocanrol BY AUGUST MARCH What did those experiences lead you to? It led to a lot of gigs! I’ve been able to play with a lot of different, gifted musicians in town, am listening to Val James. The name of the so I can do solo gigs, duo and trio shows, or I Iwork is Don’t Worry, Baby, a record that play with an entire band backing me up. dropped last year and was promptly nominated for New Mexico Music Awards in two Where do you feel more at home, on stage categories. I decided to listen to this LP in or in the studio? reverse order, a counterintuitive approach that I I think they’re both very different. I believe hope will lead me to a more informed, that live creation onstage is so exciting; it’s one interesting and involved listening experience. of the most beautiful things about being a James’ voice is clear; the musical choices she musician, to play live, to create in the moment. makes here are deliberate and informed. But being in the studio captures a moment in Everything from the handclaps to the twangy time. That’s very cool. I took about seven guitar flourishes on closer “Reminds Me” months to record the album. I would start from reminds listeners that this musician is keenly scratch and write some songs and go up there aware of the effects that different sounds, timbres, delicate harmonies and instrumental [to the studio] and record the scratch tracks. themes have on those who put an ear to such subtle and shifting collections of compositions So are you a really meticulous composer such as this. and musician? On the penultimate tune, “Goin’ to the Val James COURTESY OF THE ARTIST I am, yeah. I’m a perfectionist. Country,” James does a slow burn, aching and arcing like a burning circle around hardheaded Where did you grow up? It was an interesting show. I got to meet What is your songwriting process like? country-rock in a manner that shows both I grew up in Cedar Crest. I loved growing up Sarah McLachlan back stage. I was working My process comes from a place of honesty in passion and restraint. there. It was a great experience. as a stage hand back then. I think that life. The songs are about contemporary issues, James brings the blues, plainspoken and period in American music is really like online dating. plangently profound on semi-confessional, Did those experiences in the country form important. I feel like the people involved in experiential tunes like “It’s Not Me, It’s You” Lilith Fair were doing something very Stuff that affects you personally? the basis of what you would write about? and “Monroe Street Blues,” sounding like she important; it was honest and had a deeper So I’ll get in my hot tub at night and just be Definitely. A lot of my music is nature inspired. she just rambled out of Tejas on a freight train context. ruminating about what’s going on in my life I wrote a song called “Goin’ to the Country,” made from great guitar licks and smoky vocal I agree. It was very big breakout time for female and I’ll come up with a hook. And it’ll be like, harmonizing that goes on for miles, crossing and it’s about that. We also have a cabin up in artists in the feminist era of the ’90s. That really “Don’t worry baby, I don’t care about you every track in its way as a method of knowing Chama, so I love to spend time in the woods. encouraged me. It gave me the strength to go anymore” and I’ll be like, “Hey that’s good, what’s real out there in the world. But most of my music is rock with a blues out and use my voice. how do I make that into a song?” Then I’ll get I’m not even gonna go on and on about the influence and an Americana and folk feel. out of the hot tub and kinda go work on the dark, minor key bliss to be found on the When did you start gigging? story that led up to that hook. Then I go to the opening track, “I Ain’t Sharin’,” you’ll have to What sort of music did you grow up with? I started singing background and harmony with listen to that one yourself. The thing is, James’ studio and lay down a scratch track, just guitar my dad when I was 16, until I was 23—at bars music is so dang clean and grungy at the same I was classically trained at first, on the guitar. and vocals. After I do that, I bring in the around town. I started gigging myself, as a solo time, so much like dusk but also like dawn with drummer and then the bassist. Then I dub the artist, when I was about 23. Then I kind of took gloriously righteous instrumental choices—and With nylon strings and finger picking and lead vocal and add finishing touches. ax licks that would stun an ox—draped Spanish composers? a break from music for a while, I got my master’s lovingly over a thrillingly and penetratingly Yeah and reading music and all of that, too. degree in counseling. Do you do a lot of that work in the studio? orotund vocal range, that I immediately But anyway, my dad really got me into B.B. Oh, absolutely. I produce the work. I was the thought of Texas. King, Aretha Franklin, The Staple Singers ... So you worked with the community here in main producer on the album. I engineer a lot of But James comes straight outta Burque. Or Albuquerque? my own work. I worked with David McCrae up Yes, I did that for about 5 years. Then I rather the East Mountains bordering our bright Your father’s a guitarist, too? at Third Eye Studios. I wanted to record in a little burg. Her sound, deeply influenced by decided to record my album. I really wanted to place that’s surrounded by nature. We crafted Oh yeah, he’s a guitarist and a singer. He loved musical parents, the land around her and life give music my all and so I quit my job and that album! itself, exists somewhere in a world birthed by the to emulate B.B. King’s voice; he loves the began to focus on music. The result was Don’t emotion behind singing the blues. imagination and borne on bluesy wings. Worry, Baby. If someone from the distant future To find out more about Val James, I invited traveled back in time to hear you play, her over to Weekly Alibi for a chat. Here are the It’s a very emotional thing. Was that an empowering journey? what would you tell them your work is highlights of that awesome interview. It is. And you have to connect with your It was a very exciting time in my life. I was able about? words. And then my mom really loved James to spend a lot of time on craft: writing songs, That’s a good question. I would say I’m a being Weekly Alibi: Tell our readers a bit about Taylor and Bonnie Raitt. I also had the recording, getting all the musicians together, of love expressing gratitude through sound. what you do, please. influence of the grunge era in the ’90s. then getting the record mastered in LA, collaborating on the artwork with a friend. The Val James: I’m a singer-songwriter. I’ve been That is so cool process was extremely fulfiling. I decided to do it . playing guitar since I was 11 years old. I started That’s your generation? Gen X? a [that way] because I didn’t want to look back at [Laughs] Thank you! by taking lessons from Ambrose Rivera, up in Yeah. Exactly. I also got into Nine Inch Nails. 60 and say “I should have recorded an album Cedar Crest. I started writing songs when I was But also, the female musicians of that era really 15. And those songs have an Americana feel, when I was young!” influenced me, too. Alanis Morrisette and Tori maybe folky when I was younger. But as I got Val James in concert older, I really got into the blues. My family is Amos, Sarah McLachlan. That album garnered a good amount of Friday June 14 very musical, so I was able to take what I was critical praise, I’m told. The Monte Vista Fire Station • 3201 Central Ave. NE listening to at home and have that influence Did you go to Lilith Fair? I remember they Well, it was nominated for a New Mexico Music what I was writing. The songs came from a held one in Bernalillo back in 1998. Award, best album of the year. Also, song 8pm • FREE • 21+. background of personal experience, me telling No, I didn’t get to go. I heard about that. I number five on the album, “Pulling Me Down,” stories about life. heard I heard it was kinda crazy. was also nominated for best song of the year.

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fter years of cajoling, haranguing and begging, This is pretty shocking news, since it’s been Athe state has finally heard the cries of pretty well established that the amount of THC advocates and expanded its medical cannabis needed to constitute a lethal dose would be program to include opioid addiction in its list of somewhere in the neighborhood of impossible to qualifying conditions. Gov. Michelle Lujan consume. The University of Michigan’s Mind the Grisham told the Associated Press that the policy Science Gap blog says the LD50—lethal dose for change was long overdue. No kidding. The half of the population—of delta 9-THC (the Medical Cannabis Advisory Board has only chemical that converts to THC when burned) been suggesting it for years and years. is theoretically between 15 and 70 grams. It’s likely the direct result of the This would need to be consumed at one regime change. The board was time, mind you. The Schaffer Library of completely ignored during the last Drug Policy says: “According to which administration by then-Health US Government authority you want Secretary Lynn Gallagher—who to believe, the lethal dose of always seemed annoyed by the marijuana is either about one-third fact that she had to tolerate the your body weight, or about 1,500 program in the first place. Our pounds, consumed all at once.” current secretary, Kathyleen This has led many to question Kunkel, however, appears more Montegut’s conclusion. Keith than willing to accommodate Humphreys, former senior patients and advocates. Lujan policy adviser at the White Grisham promised reforms to House Office of National Drug Control Policy, also the medical program during Advocate her ride into office, and it seems spoke to the , she’s making good on it. saying it would be highly In case you forgot: New unlikely for an overdose to Mexico is still at the forefront in occur for the first time, the cutting-edge market of opioid considering the number of addiction, boasting stats like 16.7 opioid people currently using cannabis in overdose-related deaths per 100,000 people in the US. 2017, according to the National Institute on Drug “We know from really good survey data that Abuse. You can compare that to 14.6 deaths per Americans use cannabis products billions of times 100,000 people for the national average. If your a year, collectively. Not millions of times, but math isn’t so good, that adds up to an epidemic. billions of times a year,” said Humphreys. “So, Some of the most promising research that means that if the risk of death was one in a connecting cannabis to a reduction in opioid million, we would have a couple thousand abuse has come out of the University of New cannabis overdose deaths a year.” He blamed the Mexico—making the wait for a policy change coroner’s inability to find another cause of death make even less sense. Jacob Vigil, associate on “some imperfection” in the assessment. professor in the Department of Psychology, and But Montegut says he believes “this lady must Sarah See Stith, assistant professor in the have vaped this THC oil and got a high level in Department of Economics, published a study in her system and (it) made her stop breathing—like 2017 that made media waves for finding a a respiratory failure.” He said the woman’s lungs correlation between enrollment in the state’s were “totally healthy.” medical cannabis program and opioid cessation or However, a police report obtained by local reduction. CBS affiliate 4WWL stated that the woman’s Hopefully, that means we’ll see this policy boyfriend told authorities that she had gone to change translate into tangible results. the ER three weeks earlier for a chest infection. Also added to the list of qualifying conditions She’d been given a prescription for Mucinex and Robitussin D. were Alzheimer’s disease, autism spectrum real disorder and three degenerative neurological Was it a THC overdose case? I wouldn’t disorders. A broader recommendation to include count on it, dear reader. general substance abuse disorders was denied by Kunkel for being too broad in definition. Strain Corner This week found me at Seven Clover (3800 First THC Death Central Ave. SE), grabbing a gram of Alien Brownies (THC: 21.3%, CBD: 1.75%— Reported in Louisana $13/gram). This strange hybrid smelled sweet and A Louisiana coroner is blaming a woman’s death minty and tasted like chocolate cake batter. It on an overdose of THC concentrate. St. John the went down smooth, and the effects creeped up Baptist Parish Coroner Christy Montegut told slowly as I finished a bowl. The New Orleans Advocate that a woman who I noticed a distinct relaxation happening in died in February fell victim to THC exposure. “It my neck and shoulders and experienced the looked like it was all THC because her autopsy feeling that everything was slowing down. I showed no physical disease or afflictions that were wasn’t locked to the couch or drowsy, but I did the cause of death. There was nothing else feel disassociated and dreamy. This strain would identified in the toxicology—no other drugs, no be great for those suffering from anxiety or alcohol,” Montegut told reporters. “There was tension, and it seemed like the perfect cap for a nothing else.” A toxicology report said she had stressful day. a 8.4 nanograms of THC per milliliter of blood.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): We may not have to travel He said that it doesn’t dish out judgments or hand to other planets to find alien life. Instead of launching down sentences. Rather, it invigorates things by expensive missions to other planets, we could look for encouraging them, by identifying dormant potentials exotic creatures here on Earth. Astrobiologist Mary and hidden beauty. Paraphrasing and quoting Beth Wilhelm is doing just that. Her search has taken Foucault, I’ll tell you that this alternate type of her to Chile’s Atacama Desert, whose terrain has criticism ignites useful fires and sings to the grass as it resemblances to Mars. She’s looking for organisms grows. It looks for the lightning of possible storms, like those that might have once thrived on the Red and coaxes codes from the sea foam. I hope you’ll Planet. In accordance with astrological omens, I invite practice this kind of “criticism” in the coming weeks, you to use this idea as a metaphor for your own life. Libra—a criticism that doesn’t squelch enthusiasm and Consider the possibility that you’ve been looking far punish mistakes but instead champions the life spirit and wide for an answer or resource that is actually and helps it ripen. close at hand. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Help may be hovering TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Philosopher Martin nearby, but in an unrecognizable guise. Rumpled but Buber believed that some stories have the power to rich opportunities will appear at the peripheries, heal. That’s why he said we should actively seek out though you may not immediately recognize their stories that have the power to heal. Buber’s disabled value. A mess that you might prefer to avoid looking at grandfather once told Buber a story about an adored could be harboring a very healthy kind of trouble. My teacher who loved to dance. As the grandfather told advice to you, therefore, is to drop your expectations. the story, he got so excited that he rose from his chair Be receptive to possibilities that have not been on to imitate the teacher and suddenly began to hop and your radar. Be willing to learn lessons you have dance around in the way his teacher did. From that neglected or disdained in the past. time on, the grandfather was cured of his disability. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): As much as I love What I wish for you in the coming weeks is that you logic and champion rational thinking, I’m granting you will find stories like that. a temporary exemption from their supremacy. To GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the 1960s, Gemini understand what’s transpiring in the coming weeks, musician Brian Wilson began writing and recording and to respond with intelligence, you will have to bestselling songs with his band The Beach Boys. A transcend logic and reason. They will simply not be seminal moment in his development happened while sufficient guides as you wrestle and dance with the he was listening to his car radio in August 1963. A Great Riddle that will be visiting. You will need to tune he had never heard before came on: “Be My unleash the full power of your intuition. You must Baby” by The Ronettes. Wilson was so excited he harness the wisdom of your body, and the information pulled over onto the shoulder of the road and stopped it reveals to you via physical sensations. You will driving so he could devote his full attention to what benefit from remembering at least some of your he considered a shockingly beautiful work of art. “I nightly dreams, and inviting them to play on your started analyzing all the guitars, pianos, bass, drums consciousness throughout the day. and percussion,” he told The New York Times. “Once I CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): For the sake of your got all those learned, I knew how to produce records.” emotional and spiritual health, you may need to I suspect a pivotal moment like this could unfold for temporarily withdraw or retreat from one or more of you in the coming weeks, Gemini. Be alert! your alliances. But I recommend that you don’t do CANCER (June 21-July 22): My dear Cancerian, your anything drastic or dramatic. Refrain from harsh words soul is so rich and complicated—so many splendored and sudden breaks. For now, seal yourself away from and mysterious, so fertile and generous. I’m amazed influences that are stirring up confusion so you can you can hold all the poignant marvels you contain. concentrate on reconnecting with your own deepest Isn’t it sometimes a struggle for you to avoid spilling truths. Once you’ve done that for a while, you’ll be over? Like a river at high tide during heavy rains? And primed to find helpful clues about where to go next in yet every so often there come moments when you go managing your alliances. blank; when your dense, luxuriant wonders go AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’ve got a list of do’s missing. That’s OK! It’s all part of the Great Mystery. and don’t’s for you. Do play and have fun more than You need these fallow phases. And I suspect that the usual. But don’t indulge in naïve assumptions and present time might be such a time. If so, here’s a infantile emotions that interfere with your ability to fragment of a poem by Cecilia Woloch to temporarily see the world as it really is. Do take aggressive action use as your motto: “I have nothing to offer you now to heal any sense of abandonment you’re still carrying save my own wild emptiness.” from the old days. But don’t poison yourself with LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): America’s premier feelings of blame toward the people who abandoned eventologist is Leo-born Adrienne Sioux you. Do unleash wild flights of fantasy and marvelous Koopersmith. When she was going through a hard speculations about seemingly impossible futures that time in 1991, she resolved to buoy her spirits by maybe aren’t so impossible. But don’t get so fixated creating cheerful, splashy new holidays. Since then on wild fantasies and marvelous speculations that you she has filled the calendar with over 1,900 new neglect to embrace the subtle joys that are actually occasions to celebrate. What a perfect way to available to you right now. express her radiant Leo energy! National Splurge Day PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “At times, so many on June 18 is one of Adrienne’s favorites: a time for memories trample my heart that it becomes impossible revelers to be extra kind and generous to themselves. to know just what I’m feeling and why,” writes Piscean That’s a happy coincidence, because my analysis of poet Mark Nepo. While that experience is familiar to the astrological omens suggests that this is a perfect everyone, it’s especially common for you Pisceans. activity for you to emphasize during the coming That’s the bad news. But here’s the good news: In the weeks. coming weeks, your heart is unlikely to be trampled by VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Let me keep my mind on your memories. Hence, you will have an excellent what matters, which is my work, which is mostly chance to know exactly what you’re feeling and why. standing still and learning to be astonished.” Virgo The weight of the past will at least partially dissolve poet Mary Oliver made that statement. It was and you’ll be freer than usual to understand what’s perfectly reasonable for her, given her occupation, true for you right now, without having to sort through although a similar declaration might sound outlandish confusing signals about who you used to be. a coming from a non-poet. Nonetheless, I’ll counsel you to inhabit that frame of mind at least part-time for the HOMEWORK: TELL HOW YOU HAVE SOMETIMES BEEN next two weeks. I think you’ll benefit in numerous ABLE TRANSFORM LIABILITIES INTO ASSETS. TESTIFY ways from ingesting more than your minimum daily AT FREEWILLASTROLOGY.COM. dose of beauty, wonder, enchantment, and astonishment. 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