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How long has this show been around? time they heard others nickname the show, “The What makes this show important to Albuquerque? The Supernationals Auto Show is entering its 28th anniversary this year. Supernationals,” so they shortened the name. The show has become a strong family tradition in It originated after long time auto show producer Daryl Starbird left Albuquerque and has a charity focus as well. Each year thepAlbuquerque market in the early ‘90s. Matt Torres and his business How did it grow into what it is now? TNT Promotions Inc. works with the Ronald McDonald partner Joe Welby started a show in 1992 called the Desert States Rod & Reggie and Matt who in combination have over 50 years House charities as well as each of the McDonald’s Custom Show which tested the waters and found success. In 1993, they experience with auto events have built the show into a restaurant owners to place “FREE” children’s tickets in invited Reggie Tibbetts to join their team and the show was remodeled as nationally recognized event. The event showcases a strong each of the McDonalds restaurants, so every child in The Custom Automotive Supernationals. Joe Welby left for other variety of sponsors and commercial vendors and has become Albuquerque can attend the event. A donation from each ventures and Reggie and Matt continued the tradition of the event. Over the place to be for local and national businesses. returned ticket as well as a silent auction collects a sizable What can I find at the show? donation for the Ronald McDonald House each year. The event brings in the most current feature vehicles from Anything else car lovers should know? the front covers of national car magazines along with the top It is always a challenge to top the last year's event, however touring national show cars each year. this year will be the biggest and best year ever as we What’s the theme this year? celebrate our 28th anniversary! This year the show is focusing on the quality of the National How do I get tickets? Car Builders and will feature the top touring show vehicles Tickets for the Supernationals are available at the gate: from all over the nation to include regional and local cars. $16.50 for adults; $4.50 for children 6-12, under 6 free, or Anything particularly special? purchase advance adult tickets on line at www.thesupernationals.com/tickets/ or at O’Reillys Auto There are many national feature vehicles coming to the Parts Stores where you can save $2.50 per ticket. Get your event to include: the Hero Car: "Bully" 1930 Ford 2 Door free children’s tickets at all Albuquerque and surrounding Sedan: "Mabellene" a 1958 Lincoln Contenental, built by area McDonalds to support the Ronald McDonald House Kindig It Design and multiple top awards in the Charities. The Supernationals hot line is 505-332-9222. country: featuring two Detroit Custom Auto Show "Ridler" www.thesupernationals.com Great 8 award winners: "Nickelback", 97 Camaro and "Lady", 1959 Highly Customized Rambler American. Also the Wildest Custom Pickup in the world "Brutally Sexy", 1936 Chevy Truck, and the Kindig It Design Built "Gullwing" 1955 Mercedes 300SL and the premier of the 2019 Ford GT. Will there be any special guests?

There will be star cars and celebrities available at the event: from the wildly popular TV show, Dave Kindig and Kev-Dogg from Kindig It Design will be available for autographs and will have 3 of their major builds at the event along with a special secret car that will be on TV the week prior to the Supernationals. Al Unser Jr's winning Sprint Car, where it all started from www.unserracingmuseum.com as well as over 200 of the nation's wildest custom rides.

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Association of Alternative Newsmedia [4] WEEKLY ALIBI JANUARY 17-23, 2019 where you are, exactly what your interests are and exactly what you are scared of.” Patriarch ODDS Kirill clarified that the church is not against technological progress and science, but “the development of a system that is aimed at ENDS controlling a person’s identity.” Some critics AND have accused the religious leader of making the statement to support actions made by the WEIRD NEWS Russian government to restrict citizens’ Dateline: Nevada internet access. Organizers at a technology conference have been accused of sexism after revoking an Dateline: Washington industry award from the makers of a robotic Officials in the state of Washington have sex toy and barring them from showcasing the implemented a plan to discourage the theft of product. According to The Guardian, adult mileposts 69 and 420 along state highways. The Seattle Times novelty company Lora DiCarlo was contacted reports the Washington by representatives of the International Department of Transportation replaced or removed a number of mile marker signs Consumer Electronics Show, held annually in recently in an attempt to curb theft of the Las Vegas, and told that their first product, the expensive items. Some of the signs in Osé personal massager, had been chosen as the question—those designating miles 69 and CES 2019 Innovation Awards honoree in the 420—were changed to designate miles 68.9 robotics and drone product category. The and 419.9, respectively. Others were removed massager is a hands-free, female-oriented completely. Transportation authorities say 608 electronic sex toy that uses “new micro-robotic signs have been replaced since 2012, due to technology” to mimic human touch. theft, and around 200 are currently missing. According to the company, the device was They point out that mileposts are crucial to developed with the robotics lab at Oregon emergency responders who use them to State University and can replicate sensations precisely locate those harmed in automobile associated with the human mouth, tongue and accidents, and removing them can pose a risk fingers. Around a month after receiving the to motorists. The act can also affect taxpayers, news, however, the company was contacted by since the signs can cost up to $1,000 to CES administrators, who said the award was replace. According to the Washington State being revoked and the company would not be Patrol, stealing a mile marker sign could lead allowed to showcase their product at the to a misdemeanor theft charge, punishable by event. When company founder Lora Haddock up to 90 days in jail or a $1,000 fine. It is investigated the reason behind the action, she believed that the signs have been stolen was told that entries “deemed by CTA in their because the number 69 refers to a sexual act, sole discretion to be immoral, obscene, and the number 420 has significance in indecent, profane or not in keeping with marijuana culture. CTA’s image will be disqualified.” In response, Haddock wrote a statement condemning the Dateline: California administrators’ actions as biased by gender. A surveillance camera installed at a home in She pointed out that a VR pornography Salinas, Calif., caught footage of a man licking company has been allowed to showcase their a family’s doorbell and trespassing on their products at the event in past years, and a lawn for hours. According to CBS13 in robotic sex doll made to resemble a woman Sacramento, the homeowners were out of was showcased last year. She argued that the town at the time of the incident, but their Osé fit perfectly in the robotics and drone children were home sleeping. The prowler category since the device “is the subject of reportedly did not disturb anyone in the house eight pending patents and counting for during the time he was there, but a security robotics, biomimicry, and engineering feats.” system in the home alerted its owners, who were able to review footage captured by a Dateline: Russia surveillance camera installed at the front door The leader of the Russian Orthodox Church on their return. The footage showed a man recently warned followers that using approach the doorbell and begin to lick it smartphones could empower the Antichrist aggressively from different angles for several and end the world. According to BBC News, moments. He can also be seen urinating in the Patriarch Kirill told viewers of Russian state front yard. According to the homeowners, the television Rossiya 1 that the internet could only item the man took was an extension cord potentially give someone “an opportunity to which was later found in a neighbor’s yard. gain global control over mankind” He said Thanks to the footage, Salinas police were that the person who will ultimately “be at the able to quickly identify the man as Roberto head of the worldwide web” would be the Daniel Arroyo. Authorities say he could face Antichrist—a figure Christians believe will two misdemeanor charges—for petty theft and appear before the world ends. He told viewers prowling. The homeowners have allegedly that “every time you use your gadget, whether disinfected their doorbell. a you like it or not, whether you turn on your location or not, somebody can find out exactly Compiled by Joshua Lee. Email your weird news to [email protected].

JANUARY 17-23, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [5] NEWS | INTREVIEW Health Security Can Happen Legislation would create a self-insuring state BY AUGUST MARCH But after doing some research, we discovered the Canadian plan. It’s different from our plan, but it started in the province of ell, I gotta admit it looked rather dismal Saskatchewan and expanded outward. “Wait a Where about last week. What with at least minute,” we thought, Saskatchewan is a large, a couple of perplexed and health-hexed rural, poor province—it’s very much the citizens coming forward to tell their tale of Canadian equivalent of New Mexico. After expensive medications, denied coverage and much study a different version of the bill was ultimately tragical consternation about a sent to the New Mexico Legislature in 1993 system that ultimately governs their lives on with the support of 15 unions and community this big blue marble, I wasn’t sure it was ever groups. gonna get better. Turns out that one of the folks we wrote How are we going to pay for this sort of about last week has ostensibly been contacted universal coverage? by their insurer, asking the former to submit a It doesn’t involve any new taxes. It will involve pooling all the governmental dollars that are complaint form in order to get a “tier already being spent on healthcare, including exception.” No that ain’t an episode out of Max Bartlett AUGUST MARCH Medicaid, Medicare, state employee’s state “Star Trek,” it’s the name of the bureaucratic insurance. That will provide between 60 and process that may keep the lifesaving medicine That’s important to note. How do you be a huge advantage. Under the current 62 percent of the funding. The rest of the cost coming. We’ll keep you posted. envision the plan manifesting and system, when you go to visit your doctor, he will be paid for by income-based sliding scale The other thing that gave us cheer here was changing the healthcare industry in New knows, roughly, that there are a hundred or premiums paid by those enrolled in the a visit by longtime union member Max Mexico? more insurance plans with different coverages, program, as well as by employer contributions. Bartlett, who happens to be the chair of the It’s a universal coverage plan. It ensures that which his patients have. But he obviously can’t Employer contributions will be determined by keep track of every single plan and what it group working on an innovative approach to New Mexicans all have healthcare coverage company size and the size of respective payrolls. offers. So, when he’s trying to treat you, he healthcare in the state of New Mexico. That that is comprehensive and affordable, and This model will reduce costs. offers complete freedom of choice for providers; doesn’t take such differences into account. new methodology—up for review by an there will no longer be “networks” under the That’s a complication for the provider which How much support is the bill getting this administration that is hot for healthcare proposed Health Security Act. would be eliminated under the plan. Eighty- year? reform—would mean a huge and productive The program will completely shift the role five percent of New Mexicans would be under There are over 160 organizations supporting sea change for most New Mexicans, ending the of insurance in New Mexico, much as one plan; physicians will know exactly what is this healthcare legislation. And it’s crucial to nearly nightmare scenario reviewed last week Medicare did in 1965. For most people, it available. Billing procedures would also be understand that these are organizations that are vastly simplified. in favor of blue skies and a properly managed means that private insurance companies will be not necessarily supporting a general concept statewide healthcare system. able to offer supplemental insurance, but the like progressivism, but rather supporting the The plan calls for one large insurance pool But will the plan work? Health Security Act as a practical measure for bulk of healthcare will be provided through the The other great thing about the Health where everyone in the plan—N.M. citizens— their employees and colleagues. plan. It is essentially comparable to the entire Security Act is that it isn’t some sort of off-the- share the risk. All would have access to this state self-insuring. There are many large shelf or academically created plan. It’s It seems your support is rather coverage under the Health Security Act, corporations that self-insure. They are big something that has evolved and was developed comprehensive, you’re talking about a regardless of income, health or employment enough to bear the risk. This will be like old- here locally over the past two decades, with huge swath of people in this state who’ve status. Under the aegis of the act, the state fashioned insurance; everyone will be in one input from literally thousands of New voiced support, que no? would set up its own health insurance plan and big pool—young, old, employed, unemployed, Mexicans. The [current] bill has been refined to match current circumstances here in this You’ll notice that the list of supporters is more operate like a cooperative. Private, for-profit healthy, not-so-healthy. By pooling the risk like than just a list of progressive organizations and insurance would shift to a solely supplemental that, that’s how you get the real benefit of state. As a matter of fact, we like to say that it is so uniquely New Mexican that it is covered people; it’s a broad based group of people who role. insurance. with red and green chile. are coming together through this legislation. Funding for Bartlett’s long-sought after We’ve also had 35 counties and municipalities Who is sponsoring this legislation in 2019? program would come from monies currently What sorts of history and values informed endorse this legislation—Santa Fe is one of On the Senate side, the sponsors are Carlos being spent at the state and federal level on the creation and evolution of the Health them, but so is Roswell. The Albuquerque City Cisneros, who is from Taos, Jerry Ortiz y Pino healthcare as well as individual premiums Security Act? Council just re-affirmed their support of the from here in Albuquerque and Bill Soules from (sliding scale) and employer contributions. Back in the ’90s, before the Clinton act, on a 9-0 vote. down in (Las) Cruces. Cisneros is a longtime administration, there was a growing consensus Bartlett spoke at length about the proposal sponsor of the bill. The principle sponsor two as we sat in the conference room at Alibi HQ [among union members and working people] What are the chances for passage this years ago was Howie Morales. year? waiting for the coffee to brew in the next room. that we had serious problems with providing Well, Brian Egolf, the speaker of the house, Here’s a transcript of our conversation about healthcare, particularly in New Mexico. At Now, he’s the Lieutenant Governor. So that that time, we were approaching a level where right after the election, told KSFR Radio that healthcare in the Land of Enchantment. makes some sense in that this bill could 25 percent of the population in the state lacked he thinks it’s almost a certainty the bill will well be part of the new progressive healthcare coverage. I first got involved in this pass the house. Weekly Alibi: We’ve been talking about agenda up in Santa. issue in 1991. Things seemed so bleak on the healthcare in Weekly Alibi, and last week, I That’s right. And the governor’s been national front that some of us started talking— But everyone keeps talking about the wrote about some of the problems that supportive of the legislation. There’s a great unions and community groups—about what we conservative nature of the New Mexico manifest with for-profit healthcare. deal of excitement right now because this is the could do to initiate healthcare reform. It Senate, about the conservative Democrats Max Bartlett: And the point I was trying to first time in 16 years that we’ve had a governor dawned on us that maybe we could effect in that body that seem to stifle a lot of receptive to the plan. make was that for private, for-profit health something at the state level, rather than progressive legislation … insurance, the purpose of the company is to waiting for the country to warm to the idea. The Senate is more complicated, but the tide is make a profit. With the health security plan, What exactly will enactment of this act Initially we thought this would be a challenge turning because citizens are stepping forward to the purpose will be to provide healthcare for all mean to the average New Mexican? for New Mexico, it being a poor, rural state. tell us that the current system no longer works New Mexicans. Those are different For a lot of us, having a full choice of providers Perhaps we couldn’t afford to do it was the and cannot work any longer. a fundamental goals. without having to be locked into networks will thinking.

[6] WEEKLY ALIBI JANUARY 17-23, 2019 NEWS | COUNCIL/COMMISSION WATCH NEWS CITY BY JOSHUA LEE Oil Regulators Suspend Well-Density Order Plastic, Pets and De Anza An order that eased restrictions on natural gas well locations was suspended last week following public outcry and amid objections from City and county government news you can use a Texas-based company. Last November, the state Oil Conservation Commission approved an order that allowed BY CAROLYN CARLSON Talbert was excused leaving Hilcorp Energy to double the density of oil and Commissioner Steven Michael gas wells in the San Juan Basin in northwestern New Mexico. According to the Santa Fe Quezada as the sole male at the ith the 525,600 minutes of 2019 ticking Reporter, the order was made without notice to government dais. away, the Bernalillo County local tribes or federal land managers. A request for a rehearing made by the State Land Office CAROLYN CARLSON CAROLYN WCommission and the Albuquerque City Teamwork and the San Juan Citizens Alliance was initially Council held their first meet ups of the New denied. Year. Commissioners gave a robust shout-out But new members in the Commission to some young football players for suspended the order last week until a rehearing City Time making it in to the 2018 Pro Football can be scheduled. Oil Conservation Commission Hall of Fame National Youth Chairman Gabriel Wade told reporters that time The Burque City Council gave shout-outs to is needed to allow state regulators review the Championships. The Rio Rancho the Albuquerque Fire and Rescue for the order and give the public time to comment. Rams, La Cueva Bears and Volcano department’s swift response to a recent quick The Houston Chronicle reports Hilcorp Vista Hawks were honored for their attorney Michael Feldewert accused Wade of moving fire in the Elena Gallegos open space dedicated training and playing. The being underqualified for his position and alleged area. A round of applause went out to the three youth football team coaches were the suspension is politically-motivated. Albuquerque Isotopes, recognizing all the on hand to accept the recognition for many perks the minor league baseball team being picked for the national brings to not only the city, but all of New competitions. “We are very proud of State Unemployment Rises in Mexico. Another important shout-out and you,” Commissioner Quezada said to reminder was for the upcoming Women’s Wake of Shutdown the teams. March to be held this Sunday, Jan. 20 across As the partial government shutdown initiated by the nation and on our own Civic Plaza. President Donald Trump broke a record for Close to Home longest in the nation’s history, hundreds of New Bring Your Own The intersection of Bridge and Orchard Mexicans employed by the federal government Gardens is in for a major upgrade with applied for unemployment. Four Councilors joined together to introduce a Last week officials with the New Mexico the approval of $8 million bond bill prohibiting retailers, restaurants included, Department of Workforce Solutions announced package to start the tractors rolling on from providing single-use non-compostable or it would be waiving the work search requirement Valle del Rio, a new 58-unit low to for any federal employees seeking non-recyclable bags, straws and containers for BernCo Commission Chair Maggie Hart Stebbins moderate income apartment complex unemployment for 180 days. Within days, food carryout or shopping needs. This for senior citizens. This is great news for a executive director of Enlace, a nonprofit that officials told reporters that more than 900 environmentally friendly idea has taken hold federal employees affected by the shutdown and region rich with our area’s history but provides outreach to our immigrant with municipalities and corporations across living in the state had filed for unemployment, infrastructural underserved. This will make it communities. according to KOB4. the globe to cut the massive amounts of possible for some longtime local senior folks to Any employee who receives unemployment plastics polluting our planet. The local stay close to their roots. benefits and also receives retroactive pay will be initiative will be taken up for a debate and a Come and Get Your Love expected to return the benefits. Federal vote at a future meeting; stay tuned it is bound Looking to adopt a furry, feathery or scaly agencies in New Mexico that were affected by to get buoyant. Priceless friend? The county’s new Animal Care and the shutdown include Homeland Security, US East on Route 66, Commissioners gave the Resource Center opened its doors on south Department of the Interior, US Department of Health and Human Services, and the US Second Street, just south of Woodward. The This and That beautifully transforming De Anza Motor Lodge Department of Agriculture. in east Nob Hill a $350,000 Local Economic 17,000 square foot $7.8 million facility will In other Burque business City Councilors: set PNM announced it would not be Development Act grant. Some of the bucks house and adopt out, about 150 dogs, 100 cats disconnecting power from any federal an across board fee structure chart for will be used to help with the preservation and along with reptiles, horses, cows and just about employees who could provide a copy of their organizations and individuals who want to rent maintenance of the historic Zuni murals that any other creature. There will be low-cost furlough letter. city owned rooms and spaces; appropriated graced the walls of the 1939 treasure. The microchipping, spay and neuter and other about $2 million in general obligation bond seven priceless murals depict the Zuni’s winter services. The new shelter will take in animals money for the West Central Metropolitan solstice Shalako ceremony and were painted from the villages of Tijeras and Los Ranchos City to Turn Rail Yards Into Campus Redevelopment Area’s 80-unit Nuevo Atrisco by the legendary Zuni artist Tony Edaakie. and the other unincorporated parts of the project; and appointed Camilla C. Feibelman The City of Albuquerque wants to team up with When the $9 million renovation is completed county. a the Central New Mexico Community College to to the Water Protection Advisory Board, the murals will be on display for all to admire. transform the empty Rail Yards in Downtown Terrence J. Brunner to the Albuquerque Send your comments about the City Council to into a campus for film students. Development Commission, Sarah M. Fetty [email protected]. According to KRQE, CNM and city officials and Karl Braithwaite to the Personnel Board A New Voice are looking to convert some of the vacant space At a special meeting held Jan. 14, Antionette at the Rail Yards into the Film Production Center and Kara Grant to the Lodgers’ Tax Advisory The next meetings: Sedillo Lopez was appointed by County of Excellence, which would include classrooms Board. Albuquerque City Council: Wednesday, Jan. 23, 5pm and filming locations. Last week Mayor Keller Commissioners to fill a state legislative seat (due to Martin Luther King Jr. holiday) and CNM President Katharine Winograd signed a vacated by State Senator Cisco McSorley who The County s Turn Bernalillo County Commission: memorandum of understanding committing both is taking on the role as director of the parties to the project. In a statement, the mayor County Commissioners started their Jan. 8 Tuesday, Jan. 22, 5pm Probation and Parole Division. McSorley said he believes the new campus would “bring regular meeting with the election of Maggie Both local political bodies meet in the leaves big shoes to fill as he has tightly held access to training and good paying jobs right into Hart Stebbins as the Chair for the coming Vincent E. Griego Chambers the heart of our city.” Officials say they plan to the sprawling, diverse midtown district seat year. Commissioner Debbie O’Malley was Albuquerque Bernalillo County Government Center, maintain “the cultural and historical significance since 1997. Among her many awesome of the site.” elected as Vice Chair. Newly elected 1 Civic Plaza NW accomplishments, Sedillo Lopez is a former The project will now have to be approved by Commissioner Charlene Pyskoty took her seat View it on GOV TV 16 or at cabq.gov/govtv associate dean at the University of New the state before plans can move forward. a for her first meeting. Commissioner Lonnie Mexico law school. She leaves her post as JANUARY 17-23, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [7] CALENDAR | COMMUNITY

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CASA FLAMENCA Adult and Youth Beginner to Intermediate . Learn five sounds of flamenco footwork and gain a foundation in body ALL-AGES! 660-9957. alibi.com/v/68rv. NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER ¡Baile!: Rueda de Flamenco Dance. Learn sevillanas and tangos as well as how to movement and rhythms. For ages 6 to 10. 401 Rio Grande Blvd Casino (Cuban Salsa) Dance Class. This class is geared for do palmas associated with the palo, the rhythm. For ages 11 NW. $60. 10-11am. 247-0622. alibi.com/v/668j. teenagers and adults of beginner and intermediate levels. Learn and up. 5:30-6:30pm. alibi.com/v/64xs. MONDAY JAN 21 footwork, partner skills and choreography. No experience neces- CROSSFIT THUNDERHAWK KIDS & TEENS, Rio Rancho CrossFit FLAMENCO WORKS, INC. Flamenco Adult Classes. Beginner and KIDS sary. 6-7pm. ALL-AGES! alibi.com/v/67y3. Also, In order to Thunderhawk Kids and Teens Grand Opening. This is a physician- participate in this class, dancers must know how to keep time, intermediate dancers welcome with work study available for those CASA FLAMENCA Percussion and Cajon for Homeschool Kids owned program that focuses on developing a love of fitness in closed position calls, dame, enchufla and outside turns. For who qualify. 1010 Coal Ave SW. $120. 5:30-8pm. 13+. Class. No experience necessary but a cajon is required. For ages children ages 5 to 17 and invites the community to visit their intermediate and advanced dancers. 1701 Fourth Street SW. 503-6040. alibi.com/v/67pn. 8 to 12. 401 Rio Grande Blvd NW. $60. 10-11am. 247-0622. new location. 6080 Zenith Ct. 10am-2pm. ALL-AGES! (575) $5–$10. 7-8pm. ALL-AGES! 246-2261. alibi.com/v/67yo. alibi.com/v/667z. 779-8285. alibi.com/v/68yb. FRIDAY JAN 18 !EXPLORA! School’s Out Camp. The theme for Martin Luther King !EXPLORA! SoundScape Science Classes. Combine the magic WEDNESDAY JAN 23 Day is “Out of this World.” Explore the science of eclipses and SIDEWINDERS Non-Monogamy Meet and Greet. Find resources of musical instruments made from found items and recycled other space phenomena for a stellar experience. For children in LEARN and information about polyamory, non-monogamy, open rela- materials with body percussion to create a unique interactive Kindergarten through 5th grade. 1701 Mountain Rd NW. $75-$90. SELF SERVE G-Spot Orgasms and How to Squirt. Self Serve tionships swinging and more in a safe, comfortable environment. experience. For children in grades 1 through 5. Registration 9am-4pm. 224-8341. alibi.com/v/68ri. owner Matie hosts an in-depth discussion on the clitoral cluster 8900 Central Ave SE. 6:30pm. 21+. 265-5815. required. 1701 Mountain Rd NW. $7 member, $10 non-member. and G-spot myths and facts. The class covers anatomy, positioning, alibi.com/v/67e5. 10:30-11:25am. 224-8394. alibi.com/v/68rh. WELLNESS/FITNESS toys and communication techniques. 3904 Central Ave SE. $20. 7:30pm. 18+. 265-5815. alibi.com/v/67e7. KIDS FLAMENCO WORKS, INC. Flamenco Kids’ Classes. World class CASA FLAMENCA Adult and Youth Absolute Beginners Flamenco Dance. Learn the art of flamenco with Valeria Montes. No expe- ABQ BIOPARK AQUARIUM Aquarium Overnight. Learn about training. No child turned away due to financial reasons. All ages, WELLNESS/FITNESS rience necessary. 401 Rio Grande Blvd NW. $30-$160. ocean species and their fascinating nighttime behaviors. 2601 races, genders, colors and religions are welcome. 1010 Coal Ave CASA FLAMENCA Adult and Youth Absolute Beginners Flamenco 5:30-6:30pm. ALL-AGES! 247-0622. alibi.com/v/64x3. Central Ave NW. 7pm-8am. 768-2000. alibi.com/v/67wo. SW. $0-$80. 10-11am. ALL-AGES! 503-6040. alibi.com/v/67p4. Dance. 401 Rio Grande Blvd NW. $30-$160. 5:30-6:30pm. ALL-AGES! See 1/21 listing.

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FRIDAY JANUARY 18 LADY MARMALADE IN SEE YOU, SPACE PERSON! COWBOY For realz disco queen—and forever avatar of Straighten out that cigarette and pull your a sinuous brand of R&B that rattles the soul hands out of your pockets. New Mexico as it heats the flesh—Patti LaBelle is gigging Entertainment Movie Night invites you to nearby—at the Isleta Casino Showroom to be view a special screening of anime classic exact—on Friday, Jan. 18 at 8pm. If you are Cowboy Bebop. Watch sci-fi’s favorite as of yet unfamiliar with the work of the martial artist-slash-space-faring bounty former Patricia Louise Holt, then may we hunter as he and his crew of nomads suggest you get right with Bob by listening to tackle their one and only bigscreen caper just about anything the artist offered audiences at the Guild Cinema. Don’t miss your in the ’80s and ’90s, but besides her singular chance to experience this larger-than-life hit with Labelle, there’s also Gems, from version of Bebop’s mind-blowing soundtrack IMAGE VIA WIKI COMMONS and amazing visuals this Friday, Jan. 18. IMAGE COURTESY OF THE ARTIST 1994, if you are interested. It might be cooler if you go check out her concert though. Tickets for this all-ages showing are $8. For only $55 and a 21+ ID you can indulge in a sound that’s poptastically groovy. Plus, I’m sure her Doors open at 10:15pm. GUILD CINEMA 3405 CENTRAL AVE NE, 10:30PM TO 1AM band is effing hot. ISLETA RESORT & CASINO 11000 BROADWAY BLVD SE, 8PM alibi.com/v/67ws. (August March) a alibi.com/v/67wy. (Joshua Lee) a SATURDAY JANUARY 19 THE STRANGE AND UNUSUAL RADIANT REVERIES REVEALED We’re all a little Lydia Deetz inside. It’s the kind of life many who fall Go down the dark rabbit hole of in love with New Mexico dream of, the strange and unusual with the Joan Fenicle’s life is. The Placitas traveling Oddities and Curiosities photographer and painter has Expo coming to Expo N.M. Focusing spent the past 40 years wandering on the weird, this collaboration of the quiet places—back roads, local and national vendors bringing forest meadows, whispering the finest oddball trinkets and canyons—in search of inspiration. trifles including taxidermy, preserved When she finds it, be it a scrap of wet and dry specimens, Gothic light on bent blade of grass, or antiques, horror tchotchkes, artwork, the cold mercury motion in a jewelry, human and animal bones, so cloud, Fenicle’s imagination twists insects and much more. and sculpts, imbues with magic, Saturday, Jan. 19 is the day to and a new, trippy-cool thing is head out from 11am to 6pm for born. Sometimes, that thing seems this quirky bazaar that’s suitable to have been culled from the land for all ages. Live entertainment of fable and fairy, archetype and IMAGE COURTESY OF THE ARTIST rotates as humans suspend from mystery, as is the case with her rigged hooks and sideshow COURTESY OF THE ODDITIES AND CURIOSITIES EXPO newest exhibit, Lost in a Dream: Fantasy and Abstracted Images, featuring delightfully surreal images, at performers give their best freaky Wild Hearts Gallery. The show is currently running now through Sunday, Jan. 27. The gallery is open Tuesday frolics. VIP entry is available early from 10 to 11am for $20, or you can go in with the commoners for $10 and to Friday from 11am to 5pm and Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 3pm. This free show is for all ages. WILD the kiddos under 12 enter for free. Not sure about y’all, but this might be the perfect time to get new home HEARTS GALLERY 221 HIGHWAY 165, 1 TO 4PM alibi.com/v/66qz. (Alisa Valdes) a and office décor. EXPO NEW MEXICO 300 SAN PEDRO DR NE, 11AM TO 6PM alibi.com/v/64q2. (Mayo Lua de Frenchie) a SUNDAY JANUARY 20 KICK ‘EM WHEN HOT TEA FOR THE THEY’RE DOWN COLD NEW YEAR Being a woman is super easy. Are we right, All of us are looking for a little good ladies? There’s never an iota of fear while luck and sweetness in this new year— walking down the street, simply based on which happens to be the year of the our appearance. Note the sarcasm, men. boar in the Chinese zodiac. Maybe The key is knowing what to do if danger we’ll find some at the Chinese New arises. And what lady can’t recall a time Year afternoon tea service at Fragrant they didn’t feel unsafe while walking down Leaf this Sunday. On Jan. 20, take a a street for one reason or another? Shihan seat at the little Nob Hill tea shop at Fred Sesler of Sesler’s Jiu-jitsu hosts a free either their 1 or 3:30pm seating for a two-hour Women’s Self Defense Seminar catered three-course tea from Chez to teach exactly how to handle common Axel Restaurant. The menu includes attacks and stay aware of surroundings. On sweet and spicy Korean meatballs, Saturday, Jan. 19 from 1 to 3pm, bring a ginger scones with five-spice whipped friend, dress comfortably and learn how to cream, orange blossom panna cotta be a truly strong, independent and badass with orange sauce and, of course, woman at OmniStrength. OMNISTRENGTH 4405 plenty of (green and oolong) tea. A vegetarian option is available—just ask for it when you make your TOWNER AVE NE, 1 TO 3PM alibi.com/v/694e. (Mayo reservation. Space is limited, and reservations cut off on Jan. 18. Tickets are $35 per person. Call 505-255- Lua de Frenchie) a 0522 or visit thefragrantleaf.com/events to reserve your seats. FRAGRANT LEAF TEA BOUTIQUE 3207 SILVER AVE. SE, 1 TO 2:30PM alibi.com/v/67g9. (Robin Babb) a JANUARY 17-23, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [9] FOUND OBJECTS | BY ALISA VALDES ARTS CULTURE SHOCK ABQ Comic Con is Here From Pain, Graceful Compassion Sparrow Dance Productions seeks to heal community trauma through dance BY ALISA VALDES much, then this. I was in church, praying to On a recent Saturday morning, Daly-Smith

COURTESY OF ABQ COMIC CON God to help me find a way out of this pain, taught one such class, combining ballet, jazz and then, clear as day, I was given this and hip-hop for more than a dozen people here are people in this world who understanding: Let dance be your healing, not with special needs. Nydia Valverde watched Texperience trauma and let it freeze them in just for you, but for others as well.” with pride as her son David Vargas, 20, who pain and fear, forevermore. And then there Daly-Smith came out of church with the was born with agenesis of corpus callosum, are people like Christina Daly-Smith, 31, co- understanding that she had to open a dance participated in the class, smiling and laughing owner and founder of Sparrow Dance school for healing community trauma, she as he leapt and twirled. Alrighty, folks. It’s that time of year again: Comic Productions in Rio Rancho, who come out of said. She and her husband, James D. Smith, Con! You know, the singularly holy weekend “These classes have helped him physically, when dressing up as your favorite anime or unspeakable horrors more than any physical comic book character and wandering around in with a remarkable therapy we’ve ever public with your “light saber” hanging out might determination to love done,” said Valverde. not actually scare people away. The fun will be harder, bigger and wider, “He has grown in his happening all weekend at the Albuquerque reborn in a conviction confidence. Christina Convention Center, starting Friday, Jan. 18 that it is only through and James really care for through Sunday, Jan. 20. Special guests will unrelenting kindness these students.” include Lou Diamond Phillips and Joey Fatone Daina Roberts, (Joey Fatone? Why?), plus wrestlers and former that they can ever offset Power Rangers and, welp, you get it. And if you the forces of evil that whose daughter Alison don’t get it, don’t worry about it; you weren’t spread trauma in our ERIC WILLIAMS PHOTOGRAPHY Roberts, 27, has Down meant to. For more specifics about the many world. syndrome and also events and activities being offered we suggest Eight years ago, attends the class, told a you visit albuquerquecomiccon.com Daly-Smith was living similar tale. “My her dream as a dancer daughter has always and actress in New York liked to dance, but it City. Having grown up gets harder as they get Call For Haiku in Rio Rancho and older and age out of the The Open Space Visitor Center in Albuquerque trained locally with school programs. She seeks New Mexico poets to submit “haiku, Ballet Repertory loves coming here.” haiku-like poems, and short one or two line Theatre of New Mexico Daly-Smith’s poems” to be presented at their yearly Poets’ Picnic at the Visitor Center in May. Poems must as a girl, she’d left home commitment to helping center on the following themes: nature, the at 18 to study dance on those with special needs seasons, the Rio Grande’s open spaces, plants, scholarship at the is deeply personal. She animals, ecology, the bosque or environment. prestigious Virginia has a younger sister, You’re invited to send up to 10 original poems, School of the Arts. Ana, now 18, who was provided they’ve never been published Later, she would study born without vocal anywhere else. Send your poems to with the Kansas City cords and who has [email protected], with the following Ballet school and Ballet undergone more than words in your subject line: “Poets’ Picnic Haiku” Pacifica. After all that, 40 surgeries for that and by Feb. 11. If your poem is picked, it will be she moved to New York written on a weathergram by professional other related issues. calligraphers and left to hang in the bosque for a and founded her own Once, when Daly- year. dance company, Smith was 14, she was Sparrow Dance called out of a dance Productions, which put Christina Daly-Smith teaches at her school, Sparrow Dance Productions audition with the news Cranes and Art on 18 performances that Ana was being began searching for a space in which they over two years, and got the attention of agents flown by air ambulance to Denver and might could launch the school, under the same name who invited Daly-Smith to work with the cast not survive. This, she said, was a common as Daly-Smith’s New York dance company. of the TV musical “Glee.” occurrence. “It was never a regular ambulance, “To me, community trauma means helping And then, everything fell apart. always Med Flight. She was very frail, and it the differently-abled,” said Daly-Smith. “And “I was violently raped by someone I was incredibly scary.” also giving foster children and other child considered to be a friend,” she explained in a That day, at the audition, “they asked me victims of trauma, kids who’ve been so abused recent interview with Weekly Alibi. “I found what I wanted to do,” she said. “I remember they’re afraid to speak or take up space at all, a out I had gotten pregnant from the rape. I thinking, at 14, that I had to get back in there decided to have the baby and moved back safe space to take dance or acting, where they and dance, for my family, because if I didn’t home to Rio Rancho to seek the support of my will be loved and accepted, where we tell them dance I feared I would die from grief. We can’t family. I could hardly function at all. And we want to know who they are, we want to If you need inspiration for the aforementioned have two deaths, I thought. And so I danced then, I had a miscarriage.” hear them, all of it free of charge.” haiku-like poetry you intend to write, head to through my tears. I still cry in class sometimes, the Open Space Visitor Center (6500 Coors Then, in 2016, Daly-Smith, who had taken In 2017, using only their own salaries from Blvd. NW) Saturday, Jan. 19 from 2 to 3pm, for a job as the dance program director for Rio their day jobs (James is co-owner of a company and I tell my students it’s okay to cry. You cry, what’s being billed (pun intended) as “a Rancho Middle School, a job she still holds that installs interlock breathalyzers) to cover and you keep dancing.” contemplative appreciation” of Sandhill Cranes. and for which she teaches six classes a day, said the costs, the couple took over the lease for a Daly-Smith said demand for the free classes The official title of the event is Auspicious she was blindsided by news of Victoria large dance studio space in a nondescript mini- has outstripped the couple’s resources; they are Cranes: The Crane in Asian Art and Myth. Martens, the Albuquerque 10-year-old who mall in Rio Rancho, and set about realizing still using their own salaries to cover expenses Retired professor and longtime open space at the school, including teacher pay. They are volunteer Joelle Collier, PhD, a specialist in was drugged, raped, murdered and their dream. While the studio does have fee- dismembered in her own home. based classes for children and adults, it is the currently a couple thousand dollars behind on Asian culture, will discuss the symbolic rent for the studio, and would like to find a importance of these birds in the Far East. Space “It completely paralyzed me, emotionally,” free classes for the disabled and for foster is limited. Please call to register. a said Daly-Smith. “I’d already been through so children that set it apart. volunteer to help them locate and apply for grant money. a [10] WEEKLY ALIBI JANUARY 17-23, 2019 ARTS | BOOK REVIEW CALENDAR | ARTS

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Create a work of art based on the FILM published by University of New Mexico might, poured out by less agile writers, be exhibition Visions of the Hispanic World, while enjoying a cash EAST MOUNTAIN LIBRARY, Tijeras East Mountain Classic Film L difficult to swallow. This simplification of the bar and small plates. 2000 Mountain Rd NW. 5-8:30pm. Series. Film historian, Frank Cullen, brings his expertise to a Press was long-listed for the prestigious obtuse, this clear, clean writing, these are ALL-AGES! 764-6517. alibi.com/v/67kl. discussion and showing of important films seldom seen, but PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the greatly impacting the film industry and society since their release. admirable traits shared by writers who, like Art of the Essay. The book Mine, by journalist, FRIDAY JAN 18 487 NM 333. 2-4pm. ALL-AGES! (505) 281-8508. Viren, cut their teeth working in newspapers alibi.com/v/67bl. translator and teacher Sara Viren, has already STAGE before switching to books. Think Mark Twain, won the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize MUSICAL THEATRE SOUTHWEST Bring It On The Musical. See SUNDAY JAN 20 Isabel Allende. And, no, it is not exaggeration the bitingly relevant stage version of the popular cheerleading- and was included among Lit Hub’s Favorite to consider adding Viren to that crowd. themed film. 6320 Domingo Rd NE. $15-$25. 7:30pm. 13+. STAGE Books of 2018. Naturally, I had to read it. 795-4166. alibi.com/v/66ak. AUX DOG THEATRE Divas in Danger at ABQ SOLO Fest 2019. The connecting thread among all the Though much attention is given in 3011 Monte Vista Blvd NE. $12-$18. 2pm. See 1/19 listing. essays in Mine seems to be the concept of SONG & DANCE Albuquerque to HOTEL ALBUQUERQUE Tablao Flamenco. Enjoy dynamic world- POPEJOY HALL The Golden Dragon Acrobats. Grace. Power. Beauty. poets, and in Santa ownership. What class performances, exquisite Sevillan tapas and craft cocktails, The acrobats, choreographed by Danny and Angela Chang, create does it mean to with 60 percent of proceeds supporting the National Institute of sensational shows based on centuries of traditional Chinese Fe to novelists, Flamenco. 800 Rio Grande Blvd NW. $10-$30. 8-9:15pm. 21+. acrobatic arts. 203 Cornell Dr NE. $25-$59. 3-5:30pm. ALL-AGES! hardly any own a thing? How 222-8797. alibi.com/v/68q8. 277-9771. alibi.com/v/62vp. attention is given at do things come into FILM SONG & DANCE all in our region to our ownership? GUILD CINEMA N.M. Entertainment Movie Night Presents Cowboy FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH OF ALBUQUERQUE Signs of the Time Concert the art of literary What happens Bebop. A special screening of the anime classic, in honor of . On the third anniversary of the National Women’s comic-con season. 3405 Central Ave NE. 10:30pm-1am. March, join hands and raise the voices to sing for universal love. nonfiction. Other when we realize we 255-1848. alibi.com/v/67wy. This family friendly concert celebrates justice and hope. 3701 cities, such as Dallas do not own the Carlisle Blvd NE. $13-$20. 4-6pm. ALL-AGES! 750-3038. KIMO THEATRE Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World. A alibi.com/v/68b2. and Boston, seem to things we believed documentary about the role of Native Americans in popular music celebrate their history, awarded the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER American Crossroads we owned? What Award for Masterful Storytelling at Sundance Film Festival 2017. Trio. David Bromberg, pioneer of the Americana genre, David literary nonfiction can be owned? And 423 Central Ave NW. 6:30-9pm. 768-3544. alibi.com/v/67wm. Hidalgo, co-founder of Los Lobos and folk music pioneer, Larry Campbell create an evening of musical virtuosity. 1701 Fourth writers, but not us. I by whom? think this is because Street SW. $37-$47. 7:30pm. ALL-AGES! 724-4771. Viren explores SATURDAY JAN 19 alibi.com/v/66on. the existing many subjects from EXPO NEW MEXICO Oddities and Curiosities Expo. For lovers of FILM corporate the strange and unusual—local and national vendors, taxidermy, her own life. CENTRAL & UNSER LIBRARY Sunday Movie: Incredibles 2. A journalism universe preserved specimens, odd antiques, artwork, animal and human showing of the family film for free, rated PG. 8081 Central Ave here (such as it is) Sexuality, bones, sideshow performers, live human suspension and more. NW. 1:30-3:30pm. ALL-AGES! 768-4320. alibi.com/v/67bf. motherhood, 300 San Pedro Dr NE. $0-$10. 11am-6pm. ALL-AGES! can be pretty alibi.com/v/64q2. religion, stories. MONDAY JAN 21 traditional on the WORDS whole, and has not Always, her ALBUQUERQUE PRESS CLUB Book Signing with Irene Fertik. LEARN been much inclined openings are See photos and hear stories from the new book by this lifelong CASA FLAMENCA Introduction to Percussion. Learn basics of cajon and percussion. No experience necessary. 401 Rio Grande to dabble in the art jarring, surprising photographer and and traveler. 201 Highland Park Cir SE. 2-3:30pm. ALL-AGES! alibi.com/v/68yh. Blvd NW. $100. 6:30pm. 247-0622. alibi.com/v/6646. of literary and seductive, VITRINE Will You Remember Us: Tarot Table. Live tarot and French FILM nonfiction at all. spiked with a Lenormand oracle card readings in the nuclear living room circle TRACTOR BREWING WELLS PARK “Breaking Bad” Retro Watch Kudos to UNM winking humor. with a short spoken word segment. 214 Sixth Street SW. 6-10pm. Party. Watch two episodes of the greatest show of all time on Press for publishing alibi.com/v/68s0. Mondays as the series is played from beginning to end. 1800 Take, for Fourth Street NW. 7-9pm. 21+. 243-6752. alibi.com/v/66oi. this book, then, as example, the STAGE AUX DOG THEATRE Accidental Nudity at ABQ SOLO Fest 2019. it contains some of the best such writing I’ve opening lines from the essay “My Namesake”: TUESDAY JAN 22 seen in a very long time. This comedic two-woman show is a splatter of true, cringe-worthy “In the holy books of the Torah, drunks, incidents from massages gone bad to encounters with members LEARN Take, for instance, the bravado with which whores, stutterer prophets, hardened of the opposite sex. 2pm. alibi.com/v/68s5. Also, Divas in Danger CASA FLAMENCA Guitar Class for Beginners. No experience the book opens, in an essay entitled “My at ABQ SOLO Fest 2019. Three shocking true tales told by the necessary. 401 Rio Grande Blvd NW. $100. 4:30-5:30pm. pharaohs, masturbators, sinners who boil baby women who lived them. 3011 Monte Vista Blvd NE. $12-$18. 247-0622. alibi.com/v/6517. Murderer’s Futon.” What a title! “The futon 8pm. 596-0607. alibi.com/v/68s3. was cheaply made,” the essay begins. “Faux- goats in their mother’s milk, greedy stepfathers, back-stabbing brothers, and slave KIMO THEATRE Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus Live. WEDNESDAY JAN 23 brass knobs accented its armrests, and its A one-man fusion of theatre, stand-up, and light-hearted theatrical lacquered wood finish had begun to chip drivers all bedevil God’s newly grafted comedy based on The New York Times #1 best-selling book of GUERILLA PHOTO GROUP Guerrilla Photo Group. A weekly creative collaborative for photographers, models, makeup artists, stylists away. Its metal rib cage pushed through a thin universe, but Sara is the one who laughs at the last decade by John Gray. 4-6pm. alibi.com/v/67zh. Also, 423 Central Ave NW. 8-10pm. See previous listing. 768-3544. and designers of all skill levels. 609 Gold Ave SW. 5:30-10:30pm. white mattress, kneading my back while I the Creator himself.” 18+. alibi.com/v/68hr. This is good stuff. Interesting true stories, MUSICAL THEATRE SOUTHWEST Bring It On The Musical. 6320 slept at night.” Domingo Rd NE. $15-$25. 7:30pm. 13+. See 1/18 listing. WORDS From there, Viren goes on to recount how spun into compelling, poetic prose narratives. TRACTOR BREWING CO. Writing Wednesdays. A place for writers SONG & DANCE she ended up in possession of furniture Note: On Thursday, Jan. 24 at 7pm, Viren, to write and get critiques on pages. 118 Tulane Dr SE. 5pm. 21+. HOTEL ALBUQUERQUE Tablao Flamenco. 800 Rio Grande Blvd 243-6752. alibi.com/v/66os. belonging to a “billion-dollar real estate heir,” a professor at Arizona State University, will be NW. $10-$30. 8-9:15pm. 21+. See 1/18 listing. accused, but not convicted, of murder. “In fact SONG & DANCE in Albuquerque to speak about the book, at HOTEL ANDALUZ Swing Easy Presents A Gatsby Soiree. An evening BOOKWORKS The Bookshop Band. Renowned Scottish-based my calling his futon a murderer’s futon is quite Zimmerman Library on the University of New of live music, live belly dance, vendors, food and libations with folk duo Ben Please and Beth Porter perform live. 4022 Rio optional costume attire to fit the speakeasy theme. 125 Second possibly slander, at least legally speaking. Still, Mexico campus. Joining her in the discussion Grande Blvd NW. Noon-1pm. ALL-AGES! 344-8139. Street NW. $10. 8pm. 21+. 507-9879. alibi.com/v/67vm. alibi.com/v/68x6. that is what I called it: my murderer’s futon.” will be fellow author Sherrie Flick, who will Turns out, the writer had moved into an POPEJOY HALL N.M. Philharmonic Presents Mozart Times Three. LEARN discuss her short-story collection Thank Your This night of music includes the Turkish-inspired music of the apartment in a building where this other CASA FLAMENCA Advanced Guitar Class. Students learn Lucky Stars. We’ve made the choice to list this overture to The Abduction from the Seraglio, Mozart’s Piano advanced technique, accompanying flamenco cante and baile, person, Robert Durst, had once lived, and he Concerto No. 20 in D minor played Anastasiya Naplekova. 203 event a week in advance, to give people time and develop personal compositions. Must have five or more years left behind some furniture, furniture she Cornell Dr NE. $22-$75. 6-8:30pm. 13+. 323-4343. of experience. 401 Rio Grande Blvd NW. $100. 6:30-7:30pm. alibi.com/v/65bw. needed, and took. to pick up the Alibi and see it. a 247-0622. alibi.com/v/651s. JANUARY 17-23, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [11] FOOD FOR THOUGHT FOOD | RESTAURANT REVIEW BY ROBIN BABB Food Resolutions for 2019 Drool-Worthy Deals Diets suck. These goals don’t.

hen people make new year’s resolutions Waround food, those resolutions tend to be in the Off Hours extreme (read: unsustainable). Inspired by my recent chat with Erin Wade about modern Indigo Crow delivers satisfying small plates and sammies wellness (check last week’s issue), I’ve decided to exclude always and never from my dietary vocabulary this year. My food resolutions this BY HOSHO MCCREESH year instead revolve around trying new things and skipping fewer meals. oodies know that few things are more I figure all of us could approach food with more flexibility and joy in 2019. So, just like I Ffrustrating than biting the bullet on a fine did last year, I figured I’d propose some diet- dining experience (I’m looking at you New related new year’s resolutions—this year, it’s Years/Birthday/Valentine’s Day Dinners) only the guilt- and deprivation-free version. to regret the meal as overpriced and ultimately ERIC WILLIAMS PHOTOGRAPHY Because I may not be an expert, but I can disappointing. Is there any way to insulate promise you that stuff isn’t healthy. ourselves from that kind of mishap? I’m happy to say there is a solid tactic to rely on—let’s • Add some new restaurants to your rotation We all have those three or four restaurants call it off-hour reconnaissance—to spare we go to or order from all the time. We usually ourselves both disappointment and sticker- get the same dish each time, too. While there’s shock. In broad strokes, it’s trying a new spot nothing wrong with having favorites, for anything but dinner before committing to continuously going back to the same places it for a show-stopper special occasion. The Duck wings and a brew make for a very happy hour means you’re probably missing out on tons of dossier we’re compiling today is on the Indigo good food. If you’re looking for some new-ish Crow, in Corrales. It’s a cozy and embracing joints to try out, here’s a few recommendations: Indigo Crow Cafe & Bakery For that, I started with the Catalina (half Pollito con Papas II (3200 Central Ave. SE), space (I mean, what’s not to love about dining $9, full $13): diced romaine in Louie dressing 4515 Corrales Rd. Poki Poblano Fusion Lounge (6910 in an old converted adobe home?) rife with mixed with chunks of avocado, bacon, (505) 585-3061 Montgomery Blvd. NE) and Hollow Spirits fireplaces, fine art and fancy flatware—all the tomatoes, chopped hard-boiled eggs and both indigocrowcafe.net (1324 First Street NW). earmarks of a luscious and luxurious occasion. Hours: Tue-Sat 11:30am-9pm, Sun 10am-9pm gorgonzola and parmesan, all spring-formed But will the juice be worth the financial Happy Hour Daily: 3pm~5pm into a cube. It’s an innovative architectural • Stop pretending coffee is a suitable breakfast squeeze? Alibi Recommends: Catalina salad, duck wings, fish presentation that alone would makes the dish Just because I’m extremely guilty of this I popped over to Indigo Crow first for some and chips, Duckhorn Merlot a standout, but combined with the sturdy, one doesn’t mean I can’t advise others against happy hour bites, and then a lunch to measure Vibe: Top-notch dining in the deep, warm hearth of it. In 2019 let’s all start our days with some creamy salad makes it truly a memorable the delivered dishes versus the high fireplaces and old adobe kindness to ourselves in the form of fried egg plate. The guacamole slathered green chile expectations, and am glad to report that sandwiches, smoothies or just some overnight cheddar baguette of the smoked turkey everything about my off-hour reconnaissance I’m a proud malt vinegar heathen. oatmeal. We deserve it. Our afternoon selves The brisket sliders ($9), like everything sandwich ($13) is a delightful warning shot will thank us for it. made a big meal (and the bill that came with across the bow of your average sandwich. it) an absolute no-brainer. else, would make a great starter if shared—but will probably satisfy most appetites as an Melted cheddar holds the bacon and green • Whatever your favorite food/drink is, start Arriving right at 3pm, we had our pick of entrée. Two flour-dusted dinner-roll sized chile to the slices of moist turkey, and I took buying the Good Version of it tables and—being so damn cold out recently— sliders layered with juicy, shaved brisket and it with onion rings on the side. It’s a dish As the above point indicates, I love coffee a took a two-top right next to a fireplace. light appetites might make two meals out of, lot. I start every day with a little French press, Ambiance absolutely sorted! The happy hour almost dripping with a house-made barbecue and the ritual has become a central part of my had some wallet-friendly drink specials of all sauce alongside a few spiral-petal fries truly which ramps up the overall value a notch. sanity. But it wasn’t until recently that I started stripes, but their glass of Duckhorn Merlot want for nothing more—but I’m asking for The same is true of the chicken bacon buying really good, locally roasted coffee ($14 and one of the best new-to-me wines I’ve some sliced onions and maybe a quick pickle avocado ($12), a favorite combination of beans. Because that stuff is expensive. As you had in a decade) was a smooth and minerally or even pepper next time. mine. As a favorite, I’ve had many a version might expect, though, it’s entirely worth it. slam dunk. The vittles on offer all sounded so Lighter appetites will love the wedge salad of this and can safely say it ranks up there Whether the thing you treat yourself with is good that we refused to choose and just took ($7)—a quarter wedge of iceberg with with the best. The fresh romaine plus sliced coffee, wine, chocolate or sirloin steaks, make one of each. gorgonzola dressing, sprinkled with bacon bits, avocado and tomato handles your serving of an effort this year to learn about the quality of tomatoes, gorgonzola crumbles and topped The duck wings ($8 for six wings) were veggies, the grilled chicken breast covers your your thing and get the nicer stuff. Incidentally, with bright pink pickled onions. The balance slathered with a terrific honey sriracha glaze lean protein, and the bacon delivers your the nicer stuff is usually more humanely and of cream and crunch punctuated by the sturdy that balanced sweet and hot in each rich and recommended daily crispy bacon allowance! sustainably produced, so you’re not just being smoky bite. It was an upgraded twist on a blue cheese and the salt and fat of the bacon selfish with your purchase. You’re voting for It’s served on focaccia making it a sandwich happy-hour favorite in portions perfect for makes this simple salad a crowd-pleaser. better practices. you’ve really gotta get your mouth around, sharing, even if you won’t want to! Finishing off the happy hour bites are the but you won’t regret it once you do. So too with the fish and chips ($8)—two teriyaki beef skewers ($7). Two skewers with • Make it at home approximately 10 chunks of steak, over fresh Rarely does a spot deliver on absolutely all Do you know how easy it is to make thick fillets atop a pile of what I’ll call crinkle- spiral-petal fries. Whatever you call them, just arugula and resting in teriyaki sauce. The dish fronts, but based on my off-hour recon, I’d mayonnaise? You can do it with just two was smaller, but the steak was grilled to juicy happily try a special occasion brunch with ingredients, y’all. Homemade salsa is about a don’t call yourself late to happy hour perfection and finished with a sprinkle of drinks, or a fancy dinner for your favorite thousand times better than store bought, and because—as generous as the portions are—the sesame seeds and a few ribbons of sushi-style have you ever had fresh cashew milk? It’s so light, flaky white fish beer-battered to folks without hesitation. It won’t be the pickled ginger. Based on happy hour, Indigo much better than the stuff you buy in the store, perfection won’t last. There are even a couple cheapest meal you’ve had, but I’ve always and it doesn’t have any of those gnarly hush puppies thrown in for good measure, Crow didn’t put a foot wrong … but how believed special occasions justify the expense. preservatives in it, too. a along with a fresh-made tartar sauce—though about lunch? Give them a go if you think so too. a

[12] WEEKLY ALIBI JANUARY 17-23, 2019 FOOD | MADE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD Chocolate Cartel Keeps it Local “High-quality dark chocolate” sets the shop apart BY TINA DEINES

he thing about chocolate is that there TINA DEINES “Tare a million things about chocolate,” laughs Troy Lowe, Chocolate Cartel’s chocolatier and general manager. That’s why, after 18 years of making the stuff, he still loves what he does. “The reason why I still like chocolate is it’s so complex,” he says. “I learn new things every day.” Lowe’s passion for chocolate all started in his Troy Lowe and his many varieties of chocolate hometown, Taos. He was 17 and taking a French culinary class when he met master “It’s our duty as a member of this great chocolatier Scott Van Rixel. Van Rixel community and our privilege to promote operated a small chocolate shop in Taos, and positive change,” says Tim of his business’ focus brought Lowe on board as his apprentice. on community charity. Chocolate Cartel opened its doors in In addition to its shop at 315 Juan Tabo Albuquerque in 2009 when Scott’s brother Tim Blvd. NE, you can find Chocolate Cartel’s Van Rixel moved to New Mexico. Today, Scott chocolate confections on the shelves of has moved on to other projects, leaving Lowe in businesses in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Taos, Las charge of all things chocolate. Tim acts as CEO Cruces, Cedar Crest and other cities across the of the company. state. Here in Albuquerque, you can pick up These days, the business has grown to about some of their treats at a variety of locations 10 staff members. I meet some of them, who are including Whole Foods and La Montanita Co- busy packaging chocolates and working on the op stores. Chocolate Cartel also recently crafting of chocolate bars during a behind-the opened the Cartel Café in Old Town, which scenes tour with Lowe. This is where his face serves coffee, gelato, sorbet and, of course, really lights up, as he tells me about the plenty of chocolate. chocolate-making process and shows me a machine used to make gelato, another one of Grab Some Unique the business’ sweet endeavors. Valentine’s Gifts from the Lowe says the shop specializes in high- quality dark chocolate, but he likes to mix in a Cartel variety of unique ingredients like New Mexico Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and chile and lavender to some bars. He also says he local artisanal chocolate is the perfect gift for uses several different types of salt to bring out your sweetie. Here are a few unique items you the flavors of his creations. can pick up at Chocolate Cartel. Many of these unique ingredients are • Chocolate-Covered Fruits sourced from local businesses. Lowe says that Chocolate-dipped fruit is always sexy. The while he cannot source the cacao itself locally chocolate dipped mango made my taste buds (it’s from Venezuela, and cacao isn’t known for dance, but the shop also offers chocolate growing well in the desert), the company works covered orange peel and candied ginger too. with many “New Mexico True” businesses like Lowe says the shop will be offering chocolate Rasband Dairy, Los Poblanos, Villa Myriam dipped strawberries for Valentine’s Day. Coffee, The Chile Guy, Mr. Moses, K&D • Valentine’s Gift Box Pecans and Heart of the Desert Pistachios. This is the perfect opportunity to try out The company’s focus on local products helps some of Chocolate Cartel’s delicious truffles— it create quality chocolate and also builds cinnamon, lavender, blueberry, oh my! Gift relationships with other community businesses, boxes come in 4-piece, 6-piece, 12-piece and says Lowe. On the other hand, there are some 24-piece options, and each flavor is beautifully limitations to working so strictly with local decorated, giving it a special touch. ingredients. There are a few types of nuts that • Mayan Spiced Drinking Chocolate Lowe will not use in his products, simply If your significant other prefers to drink their because he cannot find them locally. chocolate in the spirit of the world’s first In addition to Chocolate Cartel’s focus on chocolatiers—the Mayans—perhaps the local sourcing, the company also gives back to drinking chocolate is your best bet. Don’t the community by donating to a variety of expect your typical run-of-the-mill hot causes. On its website, the business states it chocolate, though. This rich, nutty drink blends donated thousands of dollars worth of products ground chocolate, cocoa and spices including and support in 2018 to organizations like red chile. If you’re looking for something more Heading Home, Casa Esperanza, HopeWorks traditional, Lowe says he’s coming out with a and more. sweeter hot cocoa recipe soon. a JANUARY 17-23, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [13] REEL WORLD FILM | FILM REVIEW BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY Native Rock Replicas New Mexico PBS presents a special screening of the musical documentary Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World on Friday, Jan. 18 at the Keanu Reeves goes old school in retrograde sci-fi thriller KiMo Theatre (423 Central Ave. NW). The film, which won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Masterful Storytelling (wow, that’s an impressive mouthful), spotlights the role of Native Americans in popular music history. Among those profiled are music icons Link Wray, Jimi Hendrix, Charley Patton, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Randy Castillo and Robbie Roberston. Interviews include Tony Bennett, Buddy Guy, Steven Van Zandt, Taj Mahal, Ivan Neville, Martin Scorsese, George Clinton, Jackson Brown, Iggy Pop and others. Doors at the KiMo open at 6pm. The evening kicks off at 6:30pm with a special performance by local Navajo/Laguna “desert surf” band the Nizhóní Girls. The film starts at 7pm. Admission is free and open to the public. If you can’t make it to the KiMo screening, KNME-5 will air the film Monday, Jan. 21 starting at 8pm. Spy vs. Spy Movies in the Mountains at the Tijeras Public Library returns on Saturday, Jan. 19 at 2pm. This month’s feature is the 1965 John Le Carré adaptation The Spy Who Came In From the Cold. The film stars Richard Burton as a British agent Keanu Reeves in Johnny Mnemonic. … Wait, that can’t be right. posing as a defector to East Germany while sowing disinformation about a powerful Soviet Written by Chad St. John (who gave us intelligence officer. This gritty depiction of spy BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY Replicas such action failures as London Has Fallen and work was quite different from the fantastical Directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff James Bond films of the era and ended up being Peppermint) and directed by Jeffrey ember that time period between The Starring Keanu Reeves, nominated for a number of awards, including the Nachmanoff (who delivered an episode of Matrix Revolutions and John Wick when Thomas Middleditch, Alice Eve Best Actor Oscar. Admission is free. The East “Chicago Fire” and two episodes of Mountain Public Library is located at 487 NM- M Rated PG-13 all Keanu Reeves did was star in a series 333 in Tijeras. Now playing “Homeland”), Replicas is laden with gaping of decreasingly visible direct-to-video features plot holes, questionable logic and (The Lake House, Ellie Parker, Street Kings, unintentionally hilarious dialogue. (“You can’t Experimenting With Shorts Henry’s Crime, Man of Tai Chi, 47 Ronin)? exercise in mad scientist cinema. He plays William Foster, a neuroscientist working for a just keep bringing people back from the dead Guild Cinema (3405 Central Ave. NE) plays host Well, Replicas sure does. This doggedly to a new local shorts showcase this Saturday, giant biotech company. He’s developing some until you have this stuff worked out,” warns nostalgic sci-fi thriller wants to take us back Jan. 19, starting at 10:30pm. Organized by sort of top-secret project which maps out Foster’s still-living wife early on—advice that Longbox Productions, this event features the to the time when we all thought of Reeves as human neural patterns in the hopes of the filmmakers surely should have heeded premiere of their latest film, “The Witness.” a questionably talented former A-lister who Directed by Anthonee Smith, the film is an implanting them into synthetic brains and themselves.) experimental, noir-tinged detective story about had yet to reinvent himself in a savvy series of sticking them inside robot bodies (or some Reeves actually does what he can with the the search for a very missing girl. Also included in cult films—much like Nicolas Cage in his other nonsense involving “neurofibrillary material, delivering more emotions than we the night’s screening are the films “Walk,” post-Ghost Rider: Spirits of Vengeance, pre- tangles”). Unfortunately (or fortunately, would have once thought him capable. There “Apothecary’s Cage,” The Lonely earth,” depending on how you’re looking at it), “Heineken” and “reality check.” All in all, it’s a mix Mom and Dad/Mandy days (when junkers like are moments when you actually believe this Foster’s struggling project gets a sudden and of experimental, apocalyptic, gothic sci-fi and Stolen, The Frozen Ground, Rage, Outcast, guy will do anything to bring his family back. mystery. Tickets are $8 at the door. unexpected trial run when his entire family Dying of the Light, Pay the Ghost, Army of One (At the very least, Reeves deserves kudos for (wife, played by British actress Alice Eve, and and Arsenal slipped under everyone’s radar). delivering his dialogue with a straight face.) three interchangeable kids) are killed in an Replicas also fondly recalls a period, not so Submit to the Film Office automobile accident. Everybody else fails miserably to act their way long ago, when January was the theatrical The New Mexico Film Office started taking Heartbroken and determined as only a mad out of the paper bag that is this film’s script. submissions for its annual New Mexico dumping ground for all the cheap teenage (Eve seems near catatonic even before her Filmmakers Showcase on Jan. 7. This yearly scientist can be, Foster decides to go full Dr. juried competition is open to New Mexico horror flicks and janky sci-fi films Hollywood Frankenstein, enlisting the help of a colleague robot-clone makeover, and Middleditch residents only and there is no fee to enter. Local couldn’t find room for any other time of year. (Thomas Middleditch from “Silicon Valley”), mostly looks like he’s searching for an exit to film and video artists have until March 22 to fill Oh! It’s also a throwback to that section of who just happens to be working on another escape out of.) out the paperwork and send in their work. Films must be 30 minutes or less in length. The the mid-’90s when everyone was in love with top-secret project in cloning. I think you can Shot in Puerto Rico (back in 2016), but Showcase culminates in an Awards Ceremony on the new CGI technology, but no one quite connect the dots from here. What follows is a set mostly inside the main character’s generic May 10 at the KiMo Theatre. Awards are handed had the know-how or computing power to preposterous string of bad decisions and a ton suburban garage, Replicas feels more like a Syfy out to Best in Category, Best in Show, Audience pull off particularly realistic special effects. of meaningless technobabble. Of course Foster Channel “mockbuster” parody of a sci-fi film Prize and Wild Card winners. The winning films brings his family back (minus one for screen immediately after the awards ceremony Basically, all of Replicas feels like a film that than an actual sci-fi film. The effects grow questionable dramatic reasons), but he opts and will be spotlighted in a statewide tour taking somebody made and released 20 years ago— increasingly junky, and the whole thing place throughout the year. Categories for not to tell them what happened (conveniently and is now releasing again because nobody devolves into a poorly staged string of chases submission include Comedy, Drama, “deleting” their memories of the crash with a scenes involving lots of interchangeable guys Documentary, Horror, Music Video, Sci- remembers it. … Yeah, I’m not sure anyone couple of keystrokes). Most of the conflict Fi/Fantasy and Student. For complete involved in Replicas understands the point of comes, however, when the scientists’ boss finds in black suits with guns by about the halfway submission information go to mark. Amazing. It’s only January, and we filmfreeway.com/2019NewMexicoFilmmakersS nostalgia. out what they’ve managed to accomplish and howcase. a To give Reeves some credit, he’s is determined to steal the technology for his already have a candidate for one of the worst undoubtedly the best part of this cheap little own nefarious ends. films of 2019. a

[14] WEEKLY ALIBI JANUARY 17-23, 2019 TELEVISION | IDIOT BOX BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY Coke and a Smile? BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY “Black Monday” on HBO BO’s fast-talking, hardworking financial stock deal, taking over a jeans-manufacturing comedy “Black Monday” takes viewers back concern sitting on some prime New York real H estate. His various machinations put him in to Oct. 19, 1987, when the worst stock market crash in Wall Street history wiped out contact with assorted criminal types and set him economies across the globe. To this day, no one against financial district bigwigs the Lehman knows exactly what caused it. Created and brothers (Ken Marino from “The State” playing written by David Caspe (writer-creator of such a double role). So how, exactly, does Blair fit vaguely memorable series as ABC’s “Happy into all this? And what does it have to do with Endings” and NBC’s “Marry Me”), “Black the stock market crash? We’ll have to wait and Monday” imagines a fictionalized rogues’ gallery see. of Wall Street types who “took on the blue- Superbad, Pineapple Express and This Is the blood, old-boys club and ended up crashing the End duo Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg direct world’s financial system, a Lamborghini the pilot (and executive produce the series) and limousine, Don Henley’s birthday party and the infuse it with some manic energy. You can tell glass ceiling.” it’s set in the ’80s thanks to the nonstop barrage Don Cheadle (Boogie Nights, Captain of references: Gremlins, the Challenger disaster, America: Civil War) headlines the 10-episode, Jazzercise, Downtown Julie Brown, Top Gun, half-hour comedy/drama as Maurice Monroe, Crystal Pepsi, crack cocaine, Mayor Marion the flamboyant, cocaine-loving, robot-butler- Barry, Debarge and TCBY Yogurt to name a few. having manager of the “number 11” trading firm Some of the references are too old (Jane Fonda on Wall Street. Among his staff of money- made Jazzercise popular in 1982), some are too hungry day traders are Regina Hall (The Best premature (Crystal Pepsi didn’t hit store shelves Man, Girls Trip) and Paul Scheer (“Human until 1992). The rapid-fire cultural references, Giant,” “The League”). One fateful day, Mo the over-the-top energy of the actors and the bumps (literally) into recent business school raunchy humor mean that a lot of the jokes grad Blair Pfaff (Tony Award-winner Andrew don’t have time to stick the landing. Rannells from The Book of Mormon). Blair is a The show does have an intriguing setup, grade A dork straight out of the background cast exploring (mockingly, anyway) a dark period in of Revenge of the Nerds. But at the urging of his our nation’s financial history. But even the ball-busting girlfriend Tiff (Caspe’s wife Casey plotting tries too hard. At the end of the show’s Wilson from “Happy Endings” and “Marry Me”), frenetic pilot, the campy time capsule of a story Blair is bucking for a job in high finance. has morphed into a twist-filled mystery driven Fortunately for Blair, he’s developed a magical more by crazy coincidence than logic. Like a computer algorithm that predicts stock prices. cocaine high, it’s fun in the moment, but you’ll But after running afoul of crazy money man Mo, probably regret it afterward. a his future career seems in jeopardy. Mo, meanwhile, is busy begging, borrowing “Black Monday” premieres Sunday, Jan. 20 at 8pm on and stealing his way to a multimillion-dollar Showtime.

SATURDAY 19 journalist (Ariel Martin, aka social media star “Baby Ariel”). THE WEEK IN Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie “Dating #NoFilter” (E! 8:30pm) Bly Story (Lifetime 6pm) Nellie Bly Comedians offer jokey “play-by- was a turn-of-the-century badass. play” commentary during this SLOTH The Pittsburg-born journalist was “fresh and hilariously honest most famous for engaging in a take on the modern dating record-breaking round-the-world trip, scene for the socially savvy, circa 1888 (she made it in 72 days, right-swiping generation.” … THURSDAY 17 beating Phileas Fogg’s fictional “Social media” stars and shows accomplishment). Before that, with hashtags in the title. See, “A Discovery of Witches” (Sundance though, she went undercover to kids: TV is just like your Now streaming anytime) Originally expose conditions in New York’s smartphone! aired on England’s Sky One, this Women’s Lunatic Asylum. Here, historical fantasy is based on the Christina Ricci stars as the TUESDAY 22 novel by Deborah Harkness. Teresa pioneering investigative journalist. Pa lmer (Wa rm Bodies) play s a Saturday Night Fever: The Ultimate “Many Sides of Jane—Who Am Disco Movie (Reelz 7pm) I?” (A&E 8:01pm) Jane Hart is witch/historian who falls for a I mean, a 28-year-old mother of two va mpire/scientist (Matthew Goode, it’s hard to argue. Bruno Tonioli of who was recently diagnosed Watchmen) and unearths a literary “Dancing With the Stars” explores the with Dissociative Identity mystery that “threatens to upend making of 1977’s musical Disorder (previously known as the careful order enforced by all phenomenon. “multiple personalities”). In magical beings and creatures.” 21st century America, the best SUNDAY 20 treatment for that is to get your own reality show. FRIDAY 18 “Mark of a Killer” (Oxygen 8pm) “Butterfly” (Hulu streaming Oxygen gets into the true crime game WEDNESDAY 23 anytime) Hulu snaps up this British with this doc-series about the family drama about separated curious habits of serial killers. Just “Knight Fight” (History 8:01pm) parents who disagr ee on how to like England is running out of royalty As far as ridiculous reality show to make TV shows about, America is competitions go, this “medieval raise their youngest child, who was running out of serial killers to make born a boy but identifies as a girl. MMA” show sounds pretty TV shows about. awesome. The full-contact Anna Friel (“Pushing Daisies”) Armored Combat League lets stars. MONDAY 21 modern-day warriors suit up in “Carmen Sandiego ” (Netflix authentic ancient armor and streaming anytime) Gina Bixler High Private Eye (Nickelodeon wield real steal weapons in Rodriguez (“Jane the Virgin”) stars 5pm) A teenage detective (Jace order to pound on one another in this animated continuation of Norman from “Henry Danger”) shows in the arena. Each episode up at a new school and starts the features a different set of “era- the old Broderbund educational search for his missing father with the video ga me series/PBS ga me show specific” getups. Tonight’s help of the school newspaper’s ace premiere features Vikings vs. from the late ’80s/early ’90s. Byzantines. a JANUARY 17-23, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [15] FILM | CAPSULES BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY

NEW The Advocates Of the over half a million homeless people in Amer- ica, some 25 percent live in California. Amid public outcry over the ballooning homeless population in Los Angeles, three advocates from three different organizations demonstrate what “care in the com- munity” looks like amid today’s changing policy landscape. Advocates Claudia Perez, Rudy Salinas and Mel Tillekeratne are profiled in this deep look at the socioeconomic factors behind our country’s homeless crisis. 87 minutes. Unrated. (Opens Tues- day 1/22 at Guild Cinema) American Socialist: The Life & Times of Eu- gene Victor Debs Albuquerque Democratic Socialists of America pres- ents this special documentary tracing the history of American populism by expolring the life and times of the man whose progressive ideas fueled genera- tions of thinkers—from FDR’s New Deal to Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign. 97 minutes. Un- rated. (Opens Sunday 1/20 at Guild Cinema) Glass The moratorium on spoiler alerts has long expired. Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan’s 2016 horror thriller Split was actually a sneaky sequel to his 2000 superhero film Unbreakable (which was pretty sneaky about its true intentions to begin with). Now all the cats are out of the bag, and Shyamalan is free to complete the trilogy by getting his upstanding superhero (Bruce Willis) and his two supervillains (Samuel L. Jackson, James McAvoy) together for their first, real-deal comic book-style conflict. 129 minutes. PG-13. (Opens Thursday 1/17 at Century Rio, Century 14 Downtown, AMC Albuquerque 12, Flix Brewhouse, Icon Cinemas Al- Glass buquerque, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Cotton- wood Stadium 16) views and historical clips is a brilliant, galvanizing Bohemian Rhapsody Dragon Ball Super: Broly and frighteningly timely examination of the Civil Rami Malek (“Mr. Robot”) takes on the task of em- If there’s one thing that Dragon Ball fans can’t get Hal Rights Era. 95 minutes. PG-13. (Guild Cinema) bodying theatrical rock icon Freddie Mercury in this enough of it’s Dragon Ball. This is the 20th Dragon Though widely acclaimed in film fan circles, Ameri- entertaining but uncomplicated musical biopic Ball movie and takes place after the Universe Sur- can director Hal Ashby (Harold and Maude, The Last Spring Night, Summer Night (1967) chronicling the years leading up to Queen’s leg- vival Saga depicted in the “Dragon Ball Super” TV Detail, Shampoo, Coming Home, Being There) is This rarely screened 1967 portrait of poverty- endary appearance at the Live Aid concert. Bryan series. After the destruction of Planet Vegeta, three often overlooked in the canon of classic Hollywood stricken Appalachia tells the fictional story of a coal Singer (The Usual Suspects, X-Men) directs. 134 Saiyans were scattered among the stars. Two found outsider moviemakers. Here, the man gets his docu- miner’s daughter who has an affair with her half- minutes. PG-13. (Century 14 Downtown) homes on Earth, while the third was raised with a mentary due using rare archival materials, inter- brother. Shot entirely on location in southern Ohio, burning desire for vengeance. Now super-powered views, personal letters and audio recordings. 90 the film marks the start of a movement in “regional Bohemian Rhapsody (Sing-A-Long) I mean, it’s not like there was anything preventing marital arts heroes Goku and Vegeta must battle minutes. Unrated. (Opens Tuesday 1/22 at Guild cinema” that became increasingly popular through- against an unknown Saiyan with terrible destructive Cinema) out the ’70s and ’80s. A taboo-busting indie cin- you before. 134 minutes. PG-13. (Flix Brewhouse) ema hallmark. Former Guild Cinema co-owner and forces at his command. 101 minutes. Unrated. The Witness Premiere Event film restorationist Peter Conheim will be there in Bumblebee (Century 14 Downtown, AMC Albuquerque 12, Cot- Local Albuquerque filmmaking team Longbox Pro- For the sixth film in the live-action Transformers tonwood Stadium 16, Century Rio) person for a talk regarding this “lost” film’s recent movie series, producers dial it waaay back. This ductions debuts their latest short, an experimental 4K reconstruction and restoration. 82 minutes. R. Escape Room neo-noir detective film called “The Witness.” It’s ac- (Guild Cinema) spinoff is set in the mid-’80s and follows the adven- companied by several other locally made shorts, in- tures of alien-robot-disguised-as-a-yellow-Volk- Saw and Cube get jammed into one another as six cluding “Walk,” “Apothecary’s Cage,” “The Lonely The Wife swagon Bumblebee as he arrives on Earth and strangers find themselves trapped in a ridiculously earth,” “Heineken” and “reality check.” 60 minutes. When her famous, philandering husband (Jonathan teams up—Iron Giant style—with a teenage girl. Sure complicated “escape room” that is slaughtering Unrated. (Opens Saturday 1/19 at Guild Cinema) Pryce) wins the Nobel Prize in Literature, a long-suf- it’s filled with CGI action, but the simplified cast, them off, one by one. Deborah Ann Woll (“True fering wife (Glenn Close) starts to question her life nostalgic setting and heartfelt story make it the best Blood,” “Daredevil”) and Tyler Labine (“Reaper,” choices. Close commands the screen with an inci- Transformers of the lot—and a surefire hit with old- Tucker And Dale vs. Evil) are the recognizable cast sive, emotional performance—even if the script school fans. 113 minutes. PG-13. (Century Rio, Cen- members. This cheapo, PG-13 January horror flick RETURNING (based on the novel by Meg Wolitzer) doesn’t dig tury 14 Downtown, AMC Albuquerque 12, comes to us from the director of last January’s very deep beyond the film’s one semi-interesting Cottonwood Stadium 16, Flix Brewhouse, Icon Cine- cheapo, PG-13 horror flick Insidious: The Last Key. Cowboy Bebop: The Movie—Knockin’ on secret. Reviewed in v27 i37. 100 minutes. R. (Cen- mas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema) 99 minutes. PG-13. (Century Rio, Century 14 Heaven’s Door (2001) tury 14 Downtown, High Ridge) Downtown, Cottonwood Stadium 16, AMC Albu- This spin-off of the popular Japanese animated se- Creed II querque 12, Flix Brewhouse, Icon Cinemas Albu- ries introduces us to the crew of the Bebop, a gang Writer-director Ryan Coogler and star Michael B. Jor- querque, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema) of space age bounty hunters traveling the solar sys- dan’s savvy reboot of the Rocky series (focusing on tem looking (often unsuccessfully) for bad guys to STILL PLAYING the son of Rocky Balboa’s old rival) returns with the The Favourite bust. In this one-off adventure, the gang stumbles next, logical follow-up. Seems that young Adonis In early 19th-century England, sickly Queen Anne across a futuristic terrorist bent on getting revenge Aquaman Creed (Jordan) is back in the ring and battling the (Olivia Colman from “The Crown” and “Peepshow”) on those who turned him into the unstoppable Jason Mamoa reprises his role as the aquatic son of Rocky’s other major opponent, Russian mon- is expertly manipulated by her BFF, Lady Sarah killing machine that he is. The film tones down avenger from Justice League in this shallow but en- ster Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren—who, like Sylvester (Rachel Wiesz). Things change, however, when some of the sci-fi trappings and slapstick comedy ergetic sci-fi fantasy. Director James Wan (Saw, In- Stallone, is also hanging out for a bit). 130 minutes. Sarah’s impoverished cousin (Emma Stone) shows of the TV series, opting instead for some all-out ac- sidious, The Conjuring) goes big-time, big-budget PG-13. (Century Rio, AMC Albuquerque 12) with this CGI-saturated underwater epic. It’s 50 per- up and makes a play for the Queen’s affections. tion cinema. The result is a kinetic piece of Japan- A Dog’s Way Home This three-way power struggle plays out like a nas- ese anime that may actually win more fans among cent Indiana Jones, 50 percent Star Wars and 50 tier (and, as it happens, far funnier) version of Dan- newcomers than among the already converted. In percent Thor—and at two hours and 23 minutes This follow-up to the book/movie A Dog’s Purpose long, it’s about 50 percent too much film. But it’s a could be the most emotionally manipulative tear- gerous Liaisons. Director Yorgos Lanthimos Japanese with English subitles. Reviewed in v12 (Dogtooth, The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred i20. 116 minutes. R. (Guild Cinema) good indication that Warner Bros./DC has finally jerker ever conceived. Seems that an impossibly crawled out from under all that “grimdark” baggage cute puppy named Bella is adopted by a kindly Deer) offers up his most accessible, least surreal First Man and is ready to have some fun. Reviewed in v27 young man (Jonah Hauer-King) and is put to work as film to date with this delightfully wicked costume This dead serious drama from director Damien i51. 143 minutes. PG-13. (Century Rio, Century 14 an emotional support animal for people in hospitals. dramedy. Reviewed in v27 i50. 119 minutes. R. Chazelle (Whiplash, La La Land) concentrates on all Downtown, Cottonwood Stadium 16, Flix Brew- But when she becomes separated from her owner, (Century Rio, High Ridge) the pain and personal sacrifice that went into house, Icon Cinemas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho Pre- she must embark on a 400-mile journey to get NASA’s early space program. Ryan Gosling (The miere Cinema, AMC Albuquerque 12) home. Along the way, she comforts homeless veter- Free Solo Notebook) is the designated first man on the moon, ans, rescues people from avalanches and performs In this sporting documentary, Alex Honnold be- tightlipped hero Neil Armstrong. 141 minutes. PG- Ben Is Back all sorts of miraculous deeds. Bryce Dallas Howard comes the first person to ever “free solo” climb 13. (UNM Midweek Movies) Julia Roberts stars alongside Lucas Hedges (Man- provides the cutesy voice of the dog, who narrates Yosemite’s 3,000-foot high El Capitan Wall. That chester By the Sea, Lady Bird) in this uncomfort- the film in voice-over. Humor columnist W. Bruce means he had no ropes or safety gear. Which is ei- I Am Not Your Negro (2017) able drama about a drug-addicted boy who shows Cameron (8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage ther awesome or dumb, depending on your per- Samuel L. Jackson narrates this powerful documen- up at his family’s home just in time for Christmas Daughter) wrote a whole bunch of other dog books, spective. The rectum-puckering feat was briefly tary which relates famed writer James Baldwin’s at- Eve. Hedges’ dad, Peter Hedges (Pieces of April, so be prepared for more. 96 minutes. PG. (Century covered in Jennifer Peedom’s high-altitude docu- tempt to tell the story of race in modern America Dan in Real Life), directs with a mixture of tension Rio, Century 14 Downtown, AMC Albuquerque 12, mentary Mountain. But it gets the sole focus here. via his unfinished novel Remember This House. Six and tough love. 103 minutes. R. (Century 14 Down- Icon Cinemas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho Premiere 100 minutes. PG-13. (High Ridge) years in the making, this collection of images, inter- town, Cottonwood Stadium 16) Cinema, Cottonwood Stadium 16)

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Free Solo with pal Vanellope von Schweetz (Sarah Silverman). Alex Honnold, the first person to ever “free solo” (no Theater Contact Info: 112 minutes. PG. (Century Rio, Century 14 Down- ropes, no partners, no safety equipment) climb up town, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, AMC Albu- Yosemite’s 3,000 foot high El Captian Wall, is the AMC ALBUQUERQUE 12 querque 12, Cottonwood Stadium 16, Icon subject of this jaw-dropping documentary. Inspiring Cinemas Albuquerque) and occasionally heart-stopping, this sporting doc- 3810 Las Estancias Way SW • 544-2360 umentary deserves to be seen by even those who Replicas aren’t all that interested in rock climbing. 100 min- CENTURY 14 DOWNTOWN Reviewed this issue. 107 minutes. PG-13. (Century utes. PG-13. (High Ridge) 100 Central SW • 243-9555 Rio, Century 14 Downtown, AMC Albuquerque 12, Icon Cinemas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho Premiere Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween CENTURY RIO Cinema, Cottonwood Stadium 16) Between this series and The House With a Clock In I-25 & Jefferson • 343-9000 Its Walls, Jack Black is turning into the king of kid- Second Act die horror. Here, he reprises his campy turn as (real Jennifer Lopez stars as a middle-aged big box store COTTONWOOD STADIUM 16 employee who tries to restart her life in corporate life) kid’s book author R.L. Stine, called upon to Cottonwood Mall • (844) 462-7342 ext. #607 America. Thanks to a stroke of luck (and a fake ré- save the day when a string of supernatural horrors sumé), she gets mistaken for an overexperienced threaten to derail Halloween. 90 minutes. PG. FLIX BREWHOUSE Harvard grad and lands a job at a prestigious phar- (Movies 8, Movies West) 3236 La Orilla NW • 445-8500 maceutical firm. But can she fake it till she makes Green Book it? 113 minutes. PG-13. (Century Rio, Cottonwood A working-class, Italian-American bouncer (Viggo GUILD CINEMA Stadium 16, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, AMC Al- Mortenesen) from New York City finds himself acting 3405 Central NE • 255-1848 buquerque 12) as chauffeur for a wealthy black concert pianist Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Mahershala Ali) as he goes on a tour of the segre- HIGH RIDGE In this original-looking animated film (employing a gated Jim Crow South in 1962. This family friendly 12910 Indian School NE • (844) 462-7342 ext. #605 gritty, cell-shaded 3D style), young Miles Morales tale of discrimination clearly flips the script on the becomes the Spider-Man of his reality after he Driving Miss Daisy formula. But director Peter Far- ICON CINEMAS ALBUQUERQUE crosses paths with super-powered spider folk from relly (who, along with his brother, gave us Dumb 13120-A Central Ave. SE • 814-7469 all sorts of Marvel Comics universes. We get Jake and Dumber and There’s Something About Mary) Johnson (“New Girl”) as plain old Peter Parker, directs with compassion and humor. 130 minutes. Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) as Spider-Gwen, Nicolas PG-13. (Century Rio) MOVIES 8 Cage as Spider-Man Noir and John Mulaney (“Sat- 4591 San Mateo NE • 888-4773 urday Night Live”) as Peter Porker the Spectacular Holmes & Watson Spider-Ham. This is some deep-dive Marvel Comics Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly—who goofed around MOVIES WEST mythology, but screenwriter Phil Lord (The Lego previously on Step Brothers and Talladega Nights: 9201 Coors NW • 898-4664 Movie) keeps things energetic and fun. 117 min- The Ballad of Ricky Bobby—share screen time once utes. PG. (Century Rio, Century 14 Downtown, AMC again in this monumentally stupid spoof of Sir RIO RANCHO PREMIERE CINEMA Albuquerque 12, Flix Brewhouse, Icon Cinemas Al- Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories. 89 minutes. 1000 Premiere Parkway • 994-3300 buquerque, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Cotton- PG-13. (Century Rio) wood Stadium 16) The House That Jack Built SUB THEATER A Star Is Born The latest audience-divider from Danish auteur Lars UNM (Student Union Building Room 1003) • 277-5608 Bradley Cooper (the Hangover films) turns writer-di- von Trier (Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves, rector-star in this remake of the remake of the re- Dogville, Antichrist) arrives in theaters. In this sadis- WINROCK STADIUM 16 IMAX & RPX make of the remake of A Star Is Born. Cooper plays tic horror drama, Matt Dillon plays a highly intelli- 2100 Louisiana Blvd. NE • (844) 462-7342 ext. #4058 the burned-out stadium rock star who discovers a gent serial killer who develops his skills over the golden-voiced ingénue (Lady Gaga) whom he men- course of 12 years. Uma Thurman, Bruno Ganz, tors to stardom. (Only to find himself eclipsed and Riley Keough and Jeremy Davies are among the cocaine through Michigan for a Mexican drug cartel. drowning his sorrows in booze.) Lady Gaga is a rev- cast of victims. Your appreciation of this will depend Bradley Cooper, Michael Peña, Andy Garcia, Lau- elation as both a natural actress and as a stripped- largely on how interested you are in spending more down singer. Unfortunately, the film’s first half rence Fishburne, Taissa Farmiga and Dianne Wiest (featuring lots of romance, concert footage and time deep-diving von Trier’s tortured, misanthropic costar. 116 minutes. R. (Century Rio, Century 14 dreams coming true) is better than the second half psyche. 152 minutes. R. (Guild Cinema) Downtown, Icon Cinemas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho (all bad behavior, melodrama and weeping). Re- Premiere Cinema, Cottonwood Stadium 16, High viewed in v27 i40. 135 minutes. R. (High Ridge) If Beale Street Could Talk Ridge) Academy Award winner Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) They Shall Not Grow Old adapts James Baldwin’s 1974 novel about a On the Basis of Sex Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings series) directs woman in Harlem who embraces her pregnancy The early professional life of Supreme Court Justice this humble historical documentary about World while fighting to prove that her fiancé is in jail for a Ruth Bader Ginsburg is profiled in this simple, War I, featuring never-before-seen footage, to com- crime he did not commit. This lush, jazz-toned ro- slightly hagiographic biopic. Brit actress Felicity memorate the centennial of the conflict’s end. 99 mance has its tragic, hard-hitting elements, but Jones (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) stars as the minutes. R. (Century Rio, Century 14 Downtown, Jenkins concentrates on the beautiful emotionality young lawyer who struggles to find professional em- AMC Albuquerque 12) of this lifelong story. 119 minutes. R. (Century Rio, ployment following her graduation from Harvard Law High Ridge) School. Along with her devoted hubby (played by The Upside Armie Hammer) she discovers an obscure tax law This American comedy-drama is loosely based on Mary Poppins Returns case, which could crack open the possibility of the 2011 French film The Intouchables, which is it- Nearly 55 years after Walt Disney made a live-ac- equal rights for women. It’s ultimately your stan- self loosely based on the true story of Corsican tion/animated adaptation of P.L. Travers beloved dard, buttoned-down courtroom drama, but the businessman Phillippe Pozzo di Borgo. (There were children’s novels, comes this imaginative sequel. cast is fiery and the filmmakers are committed to also Indian and Argentine remakes.) A wealthy hotel Rob Marshall (Chicago, Into the Woods) directs. highlighting this obscure but important legal matter. magnate (Bryan Cranston), rendered quadriplegic Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada) stars as our Reviewed in v28 i2. 120 minutes. PG-13. (Century in a hang-gliding accident, hires an unemployed “practically perfect” nanny, who returns to London, Rio, Century 14 Downtown, AMC Albuquerque 12, man with a criminal record (Kevin Hart) to act as decades later, to look after the now-grown Banks his live-in caregiver. Eventually, of course, the two Icon Cinemas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho Premiere opposites become best buds. 125 minutes. PG-13. siblings’ young children. The cast includes Emily Cinema, Cottonwood Stadium 16, High Ridge) Watson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Colin Firth, Ben (Century Rio, Century 14 Downtown, AMC Albu- Whishaw, Meryl Streep, Angela Lansbury, Julie Wal- Perfectos Desconocidos (Perfect querque 12, Flix Brewhouse, Icon Cinemas Albu- ters, David Warner and Dick Van Dyke. 130 minutes. Strangers) querque, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Cottonwood PG. (Century Rio, Flix Brewhouse, Cottonwood Sta- How well do we really know one another? Spanish Stadium 16, High Ridge) dium 16, AMC Albuquerque 12, Rio Rancho Pre- madman Álex de la Iglesia (Acción Mutante, The Vice miere Cinema) Day of the Beast, The Last Circus, Witching and Christian Bale goes through a major physical trans- Bitching) writes and directs this dark comedy about formation to play paunchy, bald and rather infa- Mary Queen of Scots seven friends who gather for dinner and decide to mous former vice president Dick Cheney in this Scottish monarch Mary Stuart (Saoirse Ronan from play a game in which all incoming text messages vicious comic biopic. Joining in on the fun of giving Brooklyn) attempts to overthrow her cousin Queen and calls will be on display for the entire group. a finger poke in the eye of authority are Sam Rock- Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie from Suicide Squad) in Naturally, this leads to all sorts of shocking revela- well as George W. Bush, Steve Carell as Donald this historical costume drama. Spoiler alert: It does- tions, which gradually unravel their “normal” lives. Rumsfeld, Tyler Perry as Colin Powell and Amy n’t work out so well, and she finds herself impris- This chaotic social satire is based on a film of the Adams as Lynne Cheney. Reviewed in v28 i1. 132 oned in various castles for nearly 20 years. PS: It same name by Italian director Paolo Genovese. In minutes. R. (Century Rio, Cottonwood Stadium 16, gets worse from there. Written at a feverish pace by High Ridge, Century 14 Downtown) Beau Willimon (“House of Cards”) this is a bit like Spanish with English subtitles. 97 minutes. Un- watching an entire BBC mini-series in one sitting, rated. (Century Rio) Widows but it’s dramatic and indisputably well-dressed. Ralph Breaks the Internet After three women (Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriquez, 125 minutes. R. (Century Rio) Elizabeth Debicki) are left widowed by their hus- Wreck-It Ralph (2012) was a nostalgic, surprisingly bands’ botched criminal careers, a nasty crime The Mule sweet flashback about video game characters come boss leans on the ladies to make up for their Clint Eastwood directs and stars in this “inspired by to life. For this animated sequel, computerized spouses’ two million dollar screw-up. With no other a true story” drama about a 90-year-old horticultur- heavy-turned-hero Ralph (voiced by John C. Reilly) recourse, the ladies transform themselves into a ist who gets caught transporting $3 million worth of sets out on a spoof-filled journey to the internet criminal crew and plot out a multimillion-dollar heist. 129 minutes. R. 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BY AUGUST MARCH difference, we highly recommend that you attend a concert to be given by this gifted artist. It’s all happening at the Outpost have no kick against modern jazz/ Performance Space (210 Yale Blvd. SE) on “IUnless they try to play it too darn Saturday, Jan. 19. fast/ And change the beauty of the Burke’s played with luminaries as distinct melody/ Until it sounds just like a as Arlo Guthrie and Kate Bush, so he can symphony/ That’s why I go for that rock ’n’ handle the reach between electric folk and roll music/ Any old way you choose it/ It’s folky prog just fine. Besides that, dude can got a back beat, you can’t lose it/ Any old also grok classical and bluegrass, but is time you use it/ It’s gotta be rock ’n’ roll world-renowned for his renditions of traditonal Irish fiddle music as well. If you music/ If you wanna dance with me.” are interested in this player’s output, then Examples of lyrics from a song by Chuck check out his classic solo effort, If the Cap Berry, a 20th century musician credited with Fits. You’ll be hooting and hollerin’ for ages advancing the genre. afterwards. 7:30pm • $27 to $65 • All-ages. There are lots of great concerts coming to Albuquerque this week. As the weekend approaches, you certainly should consider Sunday going out and supporting your local scene. Do you really love that rocanrol music—just With genres from emo to Americana and like Mr. Berry, above—but are hankering for jazz to metal on the docket, you are sure to something, anything new? New directions in find an entertaining musical diversion. And the form are what Sister (407 Central Ave. don’t forget, these aren’t the only shows SW) is all about and on Sunday, Jan. 20 the available for your consumption. Our Weekly club will make that abundantly clear with a Alibi events calendar is a great source of Neon and Red COURTESY OF THE ARTIST performance by Neon and Red, a for realz information and details about many of the couple out there in the universe making news. That 1 Guy, a classically trained bass inflections of Perea and Buchanan, whose musical events happening in this town, now, massively modern beats accentuated with player known in real life as Mike Silverman lilting voice provides contrast and lush vocals, metallic guitar work and super- this week and in the future, too. will be demonstrating his proclivity to play counterpoint to Smith’s smoky tunefulness. fantastic, searching for light songwriting. I Anyway, before I start digressing about many instruments at once on Thursday, Jan. Consistently award-winning and know folk-punk duos are a thing, but in this any number of subjects that may or may not 17 at Launchpad (618 Central Ave. SW). excellence driven, this gig will give listeners case, works like “N R City” and “Heart 8” relate to the subject at hand, take a look at Silverman has a very interesting set of the opportunity to hear startling songwriting provide a path to striking yet subtle places these wonderful show previews! influences and one can just about hear the and magical musicianship. 7pm • $20 • All- on the rocanrol roadmap. Synthwave complex sounds in his head as his sound ages. exercise maniac Kevin String and the outer Thursday verges through bits of what might be related space disco emanations of Sailor Genesis On Thursday night, Jan. 17, The Yellow to Zappa and Beefheart. His sense of rhythm Friday Part II open up this night of new wonder and Tour hits town with a youthful flavor is awesome too, a thing he supposedly gets surprising melodic twists. 7pm • $5 in Let us go then, you and I, to a place in guaranteed to get anyone who goes to this from listening to Rush. Damn. That 1 Guy advance, $10 at the door • 21+. Burque where the night is spread out against magnifcent jam session into that sublimely has a musical instrument called the Magic the clubs of Central Avenue to Sister (407 good mood known to some as rocking the Pipe as well as jamming to a self-curated Central Ave. SW) to get a glimpse and a Monday heck out. collection of plumbing pipes and electronic listen to Ether Island, a rocking, yet some Why watch football on Monday night—it’s The Jam Spot (405 Central Ave. NW) is contraptions. It will be funky, jazzy and how still anonymous duo from somewhere in still football season, amirite?—when you can the place for these stellar happenings and it’s probably bizzare as hell, too, so we urge you the United States. The two of them—plus get your metal on at the home of all heshers a good thing too. Long known for attracting to attend. 9pm • $10 • 21+ hopefully you all—will be getting down on past, present and future, Launchpad (618 an all-ages crowd capable of discerning the Friday, Jan. 18 with a peculiar blend of Central Ave. NW) on Monday, Jan. 21. heppest sounds happening right now, amigos. Friday electronica-sparked pop with an edgy punky That’s the night that Tetrarch, an alt.metal This particular concert will feature Americana acoustic trio hONEyhoUSe will aftertaste. This duo has tuneage like “Season band who have relocated to El Lay after performances by Laramie, Wyo., pop punkers soon be releasing a new CD. The folksy trio, of Caesars” and “Wound” to help you get to spending their formative years in a Georgia Not My Weekend, Albuquerque’s answer to which features singer Hillary Smith, guitarist their level—which is either pretty lofty or Swamp play a very noisy and very satisfying emo, Right On, Kid!, the poptastic D20, Yvonne Perea and multi-instrumentalist pretty lissome—depending on your mood gig at this legendary venue. Diamond Rowe’s scary good Voodoo Kid, Decent Exposure Mandy Buchanan plan a celebration to when yo enter said hipster heaven. lead guitar slays and the rhythm section and Cheshire. This concert promises to be make musical note of a recording called Kick Supporting all this glorious noise will be composed of Ryan Lerner and Rubén Limas both tuneful and toothsome, so be there, Up The Dust on Friday, Jan. 18 at the local noisy psych-masters Nuzzzle and will shatter your bones, even after repeated nerds. 6pm • $10 • All-ages. Barelas Event Center (907 Fourth Street Carrier Waves. I’m telling you, this could be exposure. With tuneage like “Disciples of SW). tight! 9pm • $5 in advance, $10 day of show Sorrow” and “Final Words,” listeners are Thursday Part II Long considered one of the most • 21+. practically guaranteed a fist-shaking, head banging, damn good time. Better yet, local One man bands seem to be a unique form of authentic and harmonious American music heavy rock gods Ashes of Jupiter are also on American musical expression. But that’s just ensembles to grace Albuquerque, Saturday the bill, ready to kill. WolfPack Weekend my opinion; you might want to check out hONEyhoUSe blends the R&B vocal Kevin Burke doesn’t play the violin. He opens. Get thee out, Satan, get thee out! Wikipedia to make sure. Ahem. In other musings of Smith with earthy folk and blues plays the fiddle. If you are keen to know the 9pm • $8 • 21+. a

JANUARY 17-23, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [19] BAKED GOODS | CANNABIS REVIEW BY JOSHUA LEE Unsmart Figuring it out at Seven Clover t took a few trips before I finally figured out My mood was noticeably improved as I sat what Seven Clover’s name meant. Thank down to a ham sandwich and a hastily rolled I joint of Ice Cream Cake (THC: 27.10%— Xenu I had the wherewithal not to ask anyone. I could explain it, but I wouldn’t want $11.50/gram). The flower had been dense and to spoil it for all the other dummies. Most sticky as I chipped away at it. It smelled like a everyone gets it right away, of course. hair salon in the ’80s, oddly, and the joint There weren’t any IQ tests in the waiting smoked poorly (a good thing). It tasted woody room, so I was allowed to shop at the Eastside and floral, with peppery hints, and location without a single raised eyebrow. It immediately relaxed my back and and even shares a parking lot with Lobo shoulders. The sandwich disappeared in Anime and Comics meaning I got to the hour haze that followed. It wasn’t browse some comics afterward (I like very special. It had spinach instead of the ones with less words). lettuce—a choice I now question. I As I stared at the menu, I watched the shadows move across the scrunched my face up and pushed floor and spent 10 minutes my glasses up the bridge of my nose. deliberating the best strategy to get It’s one of the ways I make it appear up and close the blinds before the that I’m considering swaths of evening sun hit my eyes. I was information, when in reality I’m in a blissful state of painless just groping in a wide white limbo—a formless awareness expanse and finding nothing. It adrift in a trance. almost always works. I’ve only been I pulled the chain and recognized as an idiot a few times, so a kind of intelligence might be remembered the age old saying: “If exhibited here—we can hope, anyway. you forget the pipe, then you don’t need The budtender waited patiently for me to it.” The flipside is that if you remember, then catch up with myself. She then did one of the it’s time to hit it again. I still had a bowl of most impressive things I’ve seen in my years Strawberry Blonde (THC: 22.42%— writing this column. It began with the $11.50/gram) to make it through, and I got to innocent question of a certain strain’s lineage. work. Without blinking or thinking, she rattled it off This sativa-dominant strain smelled and tagged the flavor profile on for good swampy and sweet. The fresh, wet bud was measure. I noticed, but didn’t let on. I asked sprinkled with a nice coating of crystals. It another and got the same treatment. I wasn’t tasted fruity and dark, and caused a spate of even listening to her answers as I machine- coughing. The effects were slow to come on, gunned the name of every strain on the menu and it was nearly the end of the bowl before I at her. I don’t even think it phased her. suddenly became aware that I was getting “Wow. You really know your bud,” I said at antsy. I put on some music and paced for a the end of the performance. “Oh,” she said. while. A whole album flew by while I wore a “Yeah.” She didn’t seem aware of the feat she’d circle in the carpet. I’d stopped every few just pulled, and I decided not to make a thing songs to pack another bowl and carry it with out of it. A line was backing up behind me, so me. I sang along bawdily. Some minor swaying I picked a few strains that sounded promising and heel shuffling might have been involved. I and took off. completely forgot how stupid I was. Back at the lab, I broke into the Reba (THC: 22.38%—$10/gram) first. This was I was so happy with the strain that I ended around 2pm, and I needed a swift reminder of up smoking the whole damn thing that night the joys of living without turning into a couch and had to drive out for more in the morning. slug. It smelled strongly of lime and my I’d stared at the empty package, trying to sear favorite terpene, limonene. Strains in this the name onto my brain before I went back to camp always boost my mood and turn me into the store. Strawberry Blonde—Strawberry a giggling cornball looking for things to do Blonde. Easy. with my hands—great for pulling yourself out When I got to the counter, I stared at the of a funk. menu and furrowed my brow. This time it took I broke up a trichome-heavy bud and took a a little longer to catch up because my tiny puff. It tasted citrusy, with more orange attention was caught on a pipe in a display notes than the smell. It went down smooth case. It was neon yellow. I couldn’t remember and took hold quickly. The potent effects were why I was there at all. a quick to come on and I noticed an incredible hunger before anything else. I was quickly overtaken with novel trains of thought and Seven Clover wandered in distracted circles around the 1016 Juan Tabo NE, Ste. J kitchen for some time, opening cabinets and 293-0305 staring at the contents blindly. Weird wordplay Hours: Mon-Sun 10am-7pm traipsed through my mind. Puns popped their First-time Freebies: Yes heads out before quickly escaping my grasp like a game of whac-a-mole.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In 1917, leaders of the But in 2016, local residents voted to reinstate the Christian sect Jehovah’s Witnesses prophesied that all name that the indigenous Iñupiat people had once used earthly governments would soon disappear and for the place: Utqiagvik. In accordance with astrological Christianity would perish. In 1924, they predicted that omens, I propose that in the coming weeks, you take the ancient Hebrew prophet Moses would be inspiration from their decision, Libra. Return to your resurrected and speak to people everywhere over the roots. Pay homage to your sources. Restore and revive radio. In 1938, they advised their followers not to get the spirit of your original influences. married or have children, because the end of civilization was nigh. In 1974, they said there was only a “short SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The Alaskan town of time remaining before the wicked world’s end.” I bring Talkeetna has a population of 900, so it doesn’t require these failed predictions to your attention, Aries, so as a complicated political structure to manage its needs. to get you in the mood for my prediction, which is: all Still, it made a bold statement by electing a cat as its prophecies that have been made about your life up until mayor for 15 years. Stubbs, a part-manx, won his first now are as wrong as the Jehovah Witnesses’ visions. In campaign as a write-in candidate, and his policies were 2019, your life will be bracingly free of old ideas about so benign—no new taxes, no repressive laws—that he who you are and who you’re supposed to be. You will kept getting re-elected. What might be the equivalent have unprecedented opportunities to prove that your of having a cat as your supreme leader for a while, future is wide open. Scorpio? From an astrological perspective, now would be a favorable time to implement that arrangement. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Movie critic Roger This phase of your cycle calls for relaxed fun and Ebert defined the term “idiot plot” as “any film plot amused mellowness and laissez-faire jauntiness. containing problems that would be solved instantly if all of the characters were not idiots.” I bring this to your SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Trees need to be attention because I suspect there has been a storyline buffeted by the wind. It makes them strong. As they affecting you that in some ways fits that description. respond to the pressure of breezes and gusts, they Fortunately, any temptation you might have had to go generate a hardier kind of wood called reaction wood. along with the delusions of other people will soon fade. Without the assistance of the wind’s stress, trees’ I expect that as a result, you will catalyze a surge of internal structure would be weak and they might topple creative problem-solving. The idiot plot will transform over as they grew larger. I’m pleased to report that into a much smarter plot. you’re due to receive the benefits of a phenomenon that’s metaphorically equivalent to a brisk wind. Exult in GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In 1865, Prussia’s this brisk but low-stress opportunity to toughen political leader, Otto von Bismarck, got angry when an yourself up! adversary, Rudolf Virchow, suggested cuts to the proposed military budget. Bismarck challenged Virchow CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Writing at to a duel. Virchow didn’t want to fight, so he came up ThePudding, pop culture commentator Colin Morris with a clever plan. As the challenged party, he was reveals the conclusions he drew after analyzing 15,000 authorized to choose the weapons to be used in the pop songs. First, the lyrics of today’s tunes have duel. He decided upon two sausages. His sausage significantly more repetitiveness than the lyrics of would be cooked; Bismarck’s sausage would be songs in the ’60s. Second, the most popular songs, crammed with parasitic roundworms. It was a brilliant both then and now, have more repetitive lyrics than the stratagem. The proposition spooked Bismarck, who average song. Why? Morris speculates that repetitive backed down from the duel. Keep this story in mind if songs are catchier. But in accordance with current you’re challenged to an argument, dispute or conflict in astrological omens, I encourage you Capricorns to be as the coming days. It’s best to figure out a tricky or unrepetitive as possible in the songs you sing, the amusing way to avoid it altogether. messages you communicate, the moves you make and the ideas you articulate. In the coming weeks, put a CANCER (June 21-July 22): An imaginative 27-year- premium on originality, unpredictability, complexity and old man with the pseudonym Thewildandcrazyoli novelty. decided he was getting too old to keep his imaginary friend in his life. So he took out an ad on Ebay, offering AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In May 1927, to sell that long-time invisible ally, whose name was Aquarian aviator Charles Lindbergh made a pioneering John Malipieman. Soon his old buddy was dispatched to flight in his one-engine plane from New York to Paris. the highest bidder for $3,000. Please don’t attempt He became instantly famous. Years later, Lindbergh anything like that in the coming weeks, Cancerian. You testified that partway through his epic journey he was need more friends, not fewer—both of the imaginary visited by a host of odd, vaporous beings who suddenly and non-imaginary variety. Now is a ripe time to expand appeared in his small cabin. They spoke with him, your network of compatriots. demonstrating a sophisticated understanding of navigation and airplane technology. Lindbergh’s spirits LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In December 1981, novice were buoyed. His concentration, which had been Leo filmmaker James Cameron got sick, fell asleep and flagging, revived. He was grateful for their unexpected had a disturbing dream. He saw a truncated robot support. I foresee a comparable kind of assistance armed with kitchen knives crawling away from an becoming available to you sometime soon, Aquarius. explosion. This nightmare ultimately turned out to be a Don’t waste any time being skeptical about it; just godsend for Cameron. It inspired him to write the script welcome it. for the 1984 film The Terminator, a successful creation that launched him on the road to fame and fortune. I’m PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): More than four expecting a comparable development in your near centuries ago, a Piscean samurai named Honda future, Leo. An initially weird or difficult event will Tadakatsu became a leading general in the Japanese actually be a stroke of luck. army. In the course of his military career, he fought in more than a hundred battles. Yet he never endured a VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Psychologists define major wound and was never beaten by another samurai. the Spotlight Effect as our tendency to imagine that I propose we make him your inspirational role model for other people are acutely attuned to every little nuance the coming weeks. As you navigate your way through of our behavior and appearance. The truth is that interesting challenges, I believe that like him, you’ll lead they’re not, of course. Most everyone is primarily a charmed life. No wounds. No traumas. Just a whole lot occupied with the welter of thoughts buzzing around of educational adventures. a inside his or her own head. The good news, Virgo, is that you are well set up to capitalize on this HOMEWORK: WRITE A ONE-PAGE ESSAY ENTITLED phenomenon in the coming weeks. I’m betting you will “2019 IS THE YEAR I FIGURE OUT WHAT I REALLY achieve a dramatic new liberation: you’ll be freer than WANT.” SHARE IF YOU LIKE: ever before from the power of people’s opinions to FREEWILLASTROLOGY.COM inhibit your behavior or make you self-conscious. Go to realastrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s expanded LowerLower PricesPrices LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): What North America weekly audio horoscopes and daily text message horoscopes. The $20 off orders community is farthest north? It’s an Alaskan city that audio horoscopes are also available by phone at (877) 873-4888 or (900) 950-7700. used to be called Barrow, named after a British admiral. of $100 or more

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