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EDITORIAL MANAGING EDITOR/ FILM EDITOR: Devin D. O’Leary (ext. 230) [email protected] MUSIC EDITOR/NEWS EDITOR: Email letters, including author’s name, mailing address and daytime phone number to [email protected]. August March (ext. 245) [email protected] FOOD EDITOR: Letters can also be mailed to P.O. Box 81, Albuquerque, N.M., 87103. Letters—including comments posted Dan Pennington (Ext. 255) [email protected] on alibi.com—may be published in any medium and edited for length and clarity; owing to the volume of ARTS AND LIT.EDITOR: correspondence, we regrettably can’t respond to every letter. Clarke Condé [email protected] COPY EDITOR: Samantha Carrillo (ext. 223) [email protected] CALENDARS EDITOR: Ashli Kesali [email protected] downside by August March in Alibi. Perhaps STAFF WRITER: Hate Thy Neighbor, Love Joshua Lee (ext. 243) [email protected] there might have been an idea proposed that SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR: Thy Gun volunteers head back with migrants to their Samantha Carrillo (ext. 223) [email protected] originating countries offering aid, time and CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Dear Editor, Robin Babb, Rob Brezsny, Carolyn Carlson, Samantha Congratulations Alibi editors. … You excel effort towards upgrading conditions there. Carrillo, Desmond Fox, Maggie Grimason, Steven Luthy, Hosho McCreesh, Mayo Lua de Frenchie in preaching to your choir. In the April 11 In the same issue, an article, “The Last PRODUCTION issue [v28 i15] your features made all the Gun Show,” uses multiple images to support ART DIRECTOR: correct points your liberal/progressive readers the latest New Mexico law to limit and deny Ramona Chavez (ext. 268) [email protected] ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR: want to hear. In “On Assignment With the gun rights. The writer assumes that this law Corey Yazzie [email protected] to require background checks for private gun GRAPHIC DESIGNER: Asylum Seekers,” August March writes about Xanthe Miller [email protected] the feel good hospitalities afforded to a group sales and surrender of weapons by domestic STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER: abusers will hopefully effect future gun shows Eric Williams [email protected] of migrants in Albuquerque. Interviews with CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS: volunteers related the plight of the migrants where even now guns are zip tied open. After Max Cannon, Kayla Church, Michael Ellis, Alyssa Metoyer, Ryan North, Mike Organisciak, who traveled “on the road for two or three demeaning sheriffs who will not enforce the Jen Sorensen new law, we are reminded, rather graphically weeks,” “they are downright hungry, SALES dehydrated” … “not had chance to bathe.” in recalling the Sandy Hook Elementary SALES DIRECTOR: School shooting, of the “danger of guns in Tierna Unruh-Enos (ext. 248) [email protected] “sleep on cement floors.” In other words we ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES: are told, expected to be in abject sympathy, public places.” Nowhere is it suggested that Kittie Blackwell (ext. 224) [email protected] Dan Pennington (ext. 255) [email protected] with their self-imposed conditions during yes, guns in public places can stop mass David Casaus (ext. 270) david@alibi and after their march, under ICE control and shootings. Shooters are allowed to mow John Hankinson (ext. 235) [email protected] upon release. In the end one volunteer states down their targets with no challenge because ADMINISTRATION PUBLISHER: there are two parts to this, there’s mercy and those governing public places do not allow Constance Moss (ext. 222) [email protected] justice and the justice part of this is to ask armed guards or staff. The article makes no CONTROLLER: mention of that solution nor the fact that Courtney Foster (ext. 257) [email protected] why is this happening? It is happening SYSTEMS MANAGER: because of monetary payment and the second amendment of the United States Kyle Silfer (ext. 242) [email protected] Constitution guarantees citizens the right to WEB MONKEY: encouragement from progressive and radical John Millington (ext. 238) [email protected] organizations intent on busting US bear arms, period. To deny any type of OWNERS: Christopher Johnson and Daniel Scott immigration law. Nowhere in the article is purchase or use of guns is plain and simply ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE: there any reference to this other side of this unconstitutional. Courtney Foster (ext. 257) [email protected] coin. We are expected to believe that Alibi editors you do your job well assuring CIRCULATION readers that what they read will exclusively CIRCULATION MANAGER: thousands of migrants are walking thousands Chris Silva (ext. 252) [email protected] of miles with the word asylum on their lips promote the liberal and progressive line. CIRCULATION SPECIAL FORCES: by their own will. There is no way that all of And rightly so. In this day and age of Darrell Sparks [email protected] a sudden such a large number of people up diminishing media it is best not to alienate INFORMATION your reader … unless, of course, you wish to PRINTER: and decide to march to the US. But no The Santa Fe New Mexican matter. … We generous Americans should present all sides of an issue for the sake of IN LOVING MEMORY: a Doug Albin, Martin Candelaria, Michael Henningsen, ignore the scam and award these invaders education. Gretchen Hudson, Eric Johnson, Greg Medara, Chico with all of their basic needs and a big With regards, Ramirez, Mina Yamashita welcome. There is no mention that aid Carol Adams INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER: Albuquerque Southwest Cyberport (232-7992) [email protected] benefitting migrants deprives our own NATIONAL ADVERTISING: VMG Advertising (888) 278-9866 citizens. It is reported that a group of www.vmgadvertising.com migrants in Las Cruces were housed in a Letters should be sent with the writer’s name, NUCITY PUBLICATIONS, INC. recreation center causing a youth T-ball address and daytime phone number via email to P.O. Box 81 Albuquerque, NM 87103 BUSINESS HOURS: 10AM–5PM MON–FRI registration scheduled there to be canceled. [email protected]. 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[4] WEEKLY ALIBI MAY 2-8, 2019 which authorities have yet to name, was taken into custody by officials with the nation’s ODDS Environmental Police and sent to Teresina’s Zoobotânico. The bird will be released after it spends three months incarcerated and learning to fly. According to police and journalists who

AND ENDS have visited the avian drug trafficker, the parrot remains silent and refuses to speak to WEIRD NEWS anyone. Despite the presence of multiple police officers, the bird has not repeated the Dateline: Ohio warning that was heard during the raid, An Ohio church has apologized after an leading police to believe it was trained to incident in which a pastor asked students to recognize law enforcement vehicles. spit on him and cut him with a steak knife. According to CNN, Impact City Church part- Dateline: Finland time associate pastor Jaddeus Dempsey went Fans of both aggressive music and textile arts on Facebook to publicly apologize after have been invited to participate in Finland’s numerous students posted videos of the first Heavy Metal Word Knitting incident on different social media platforms. Championships. According to the official The church posted a video of Dempsey seated website, organizers of the event say Finland with lead pastor Justin Ross, in which Ross has a deep history with both art forms. “There told viewers that the part-time pastor “had the are 50 heavy metal bands per 100,000 Finnish opportunity to share a message about Easter citizens,” the site reads, “which is astonishingly and he chose to use an illustration to explain a many and actually more than anywhere else in very important topic—about the crucifixion— the whole world. The number of needlework but the illustration went too far, and it was enthusiasts is equally high, as according to inappropriate.” According to Ross, Dempsey even the most modest estimates, there are was leading a group of students as part of the hundreds of thousands of people in Finland church’s weekly “After School Student who are immersed [in] various kinds of Hangouts” program when he allegedly told needlework crafts, knitting included.” them they could spit in his face “without Participants are asked to download “Fight or repercussions.” Some students did. He then Die” by Maniac Abductor, the official song of said they could slap him, which some also did. the event, and record a one-minute video of He then produced a steak knife and said themselves knitting to the song’s rhythm. The students were allowed to cut him before 15 “most engaging” performers will be invited removing his shirt. One student took the knife to the World Championships in Joensuu, and cut Dempsey’s back while others filmed. Finland, on July 11, where organizers will “After Jaddeus allowed them to spit on him, judge their videos. The grand prize for the top and slap him and cut him,” Ross said in the heavy metal knitter is a hotel weekend “in video, “he sat them down and explained to authentic Finnish scenery.” Dressing up or them about this guy named Jesus … Now showing off “special moves” will be although the intent was honorable, it wasn’t “considered an advantage” by judges and will appropriate for our student gathering today.” likely be rewarded. The competition is open to Dempsey spoke near the end of the video. everyone, but the cut off date for entries is “This was completely my idea, and again, I let May 31. the students know there was no repercussions whatsoever. And in fact several students felt bad afterwards, and I told them that that was Dateline: Space what I’d asked them to do … Not even my A man is making history by sending his cat’s own wife knew the illustration that I was remains into space. Space.com reports that about to perform, but again I crossed the line Steve Munt, former owner of an orange tabby … My only intention was to show them how named Pikachu, decided to start a GoFundMe much Jesus loved them.” Ross concluded the campaign after his beloved pet died of video by saying Dempsey’s lesson in no way complications from diabetes last January. The reflects the teachings of Impact City Church. goal of the campaign was to launch a portion He said church leaders do not condone of Pikachu’s remains into orbit around the spitting on others, slapping others or using earth using a service offered by Celestis Pets. weapons for violence. Although the campaign’s goal of $5,000—the cost of the service—has yet to be reached, Dateline: Brazil Munt is going ahead with his plans and has reportedly purchased the cat’s ticket using his Brazilian police have taken a parrot into own savings. He reportedly said he’d continue custody after it attempted to warn its owners of accepting donations, but that it’s not a primary a drug raid. The Guardian reports that police in goal. “My dream is coming true, regardless of Vila Irmã Dulce were raiding the home of any additional donations, and I am currently suspected crack dealers when they heard the awaiting an assigned slot on a future launch,” parrot crying, “Mom! The police!” in he said. According to Celestis Pets, Pikachu Portuguese. The parrot’s plan to warn his will be launched into Earth orbit, where it will owners reportedly failed, and authorities were remain until it harmlessly vaporizes on reentry able to apprehend the suspects. Officers to the planet’s atmosphere. a allegedly found crack cocaine and marijuana Compiled by Joshua Lee. Email your weird news to Oliberal in the home. According to , the parrot, [email protected].

MAY 2-8, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [5] NEWS CITY BY JOSHUA LEE NEWS | COUNTY MATTERS County Threatens Suit Against State Otero County officials are threatening to sue the governor for not responding to their request to Money, Guns and Weeds declare a state of emergency. Earlier this month, Otero County Commissioners unanimously voted to declare a BernCo Commission meets to govern state of emergency following the Border Patrol’s decision to temporarily shut down New Mexico’s BY CAROLYN CARLSON interior border checkpoints. Commissioners were pressing Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to deploy National Guard troops to the checkpoints, Money, guns and weed control were the claiming that criminal activity in the area has super-sexy April agenda items for the increased since their closures. The governor’s Bernalillo County Commission at their last office responded that National Guard troops, meeting. No, not that kind of weed was which are under state command, do not operate federal checkpoints. involved, but yes, big money was discussed. Otero County Commission Chair Couy Griffin initially referred to the request as “just a More Money Please shoutout,” but county commissioners appear to be taking it more seriously now. According to the It’s going to take $313 million in the Washington Examiner, they have given the general fund to keep County services governor until the end of the week to respond humming along during fiscal year 2020, with emergency action and will consider suing according to next year’s budget passed during the state if nothing has happened by then. the April 9 meeting. Some of the perks Griffin told Fox News in an interview on Sunday that the County Commission is planning include: a 3 percent raise for non-union to vote on a resolution that will block immigrants employees; $2.5 million to tear down the old from being bussed to Otero County from El Paso. jail at Fifth and Roma Avenue; $500,000 for During the interview, he claimed the governor sheriff’s department dashboard cameras—that had not responded to the county’s state of emergency request, failing to cite the response Sheriff Manny Gonzales may not accept as he given by the governor’s office. has been opposed to their use; $1.1 million to cover replacing the ultra-toxic weed killer District 5 BernCo Commissioner Charlene Pyskoty ERIC WILLIAMS PHOTOGRAPHY “glyphosate” (brand name Roundup); Facebook Power Line Case $250,000 for operations of the Tiny Home Village; and $100,000 for Innovate that bear the brunt of the flood of guns on the these recent gun shootings include a murder Reconsidered Albuquerque. streets—supported the sensible gun legislation by an emotionally upset teenager of a beloved A utility company is asking state regulators to requiring background checks for people like mail carrier on his route, a suicide of a 76-year- reconsider their decision to charge Facebook the Paper and Paper Products convicted domestic violence offenders or the old, and a random shooting that killed an 8- full price of installing a proposed transmission mentally ill. year old in her home. New Mexico ranks tenth Public money of a different kind took line. Several other speakers said they were part in firearm-related deaths, another statistic we The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that center stage at the April 23 meeting where the of another local spinoff group called Gun can help try to change with sensible gun laws. earlier this month, the state Public Regulation Commission approved more than $20 million Rights Are Women’s Rights also spoke about It’s an incremental step in the right direction. Commission voted unanimously against the in Industrial Revenue Bonds for an expansion Public Service Company of New Mexico’s infringement of their inalienable right to own at Rose’s Southwest Papers. Rose’s is a request to charge retail customers for about half guns. A couple other speakers said they “were minority-owned, family-owned business that More Bees, Less Weeds the cost of a 45-mile transmission line—around not going to take it” and made veiled almost- $39 million—that would supply electricity to the produces high quality paper products such as Over the next year, Bernalillo County threats that referenced the statewide universal future Facebook data facility near Los Lunas. toilet paper, napkins and paper towels. It is workers will transition away from using the gun background checks passed by legislation Bobby Hollis, an executive from Facebook located on south Second Street and employs herbicide glyphosate, which is ultra-toxic to subsidiary Greater Kudu LLC, wrote to the PRC, representing the will of the voters, and signed about 225 people, with plans to hire another children and other living things, bees saying the decision raised “significant and by the Governor, set to go into effect on July serious concerns” about the future of the couple dozen in the expansion. included. And the Commission put its money project. Gov. Lujan Grisham has reportedly been 1. Lawlessness is never the answer, of course. where its spray nozzle is, by passing a budget There were not as many “give guns to all” in contact with Facebook and is attempting to It’s About Guns that includes $1.1 million to implement the find a solution. speakers at the April 23 meeting, which is use of less lethal chemicals and the use of more PNM refiled a request for approval of the “We refuse to give up our guns,” said one good, and maybe in part a result of Gov. manual labor to keep county properties spiffy project earlier this week. It’s up to the speaker during the April 9 administrative Michelle Lujan Grisham meeting with a few of and as weed free as possible. commission to decide whether to rehear the meeting of the Bernalillo County case. the state’s sheriffs. The county uses about $13,000 a year Commission—which made no sense since no It appears they agreed to work together on worth of the cancer-causing chemical in and one suggested she give up her guns. The “guns any future gun legislation, and on ways to around its roughly 123 properties, on about for everyone” speakers asked the Commission implement the background check law—which 2,209 acres, including Rio Grande Bosque APS Opens Teacher Training Center to push the idea of Bernalillo County is what elected sheriffs should do when trails. Some county folks on the front lines of Last week Albuquerque Public Schools officially becoming a so-called “Second Amendment charged with protecting citizens as much as the weed war said more native plants will have opened the doors of a new facility that will serve sanctuary county” like several of the rural possible from senseless gun violence. to be used and that will make parks and other to train teachers and host student and counties in New Mexico did when they community events. The new statewide legislation does not say properties “look weedy” and more like the jumped on the “guns for all” rhetorical According to KOB, construction on the Berna anything about keeping or taking guns away mesa. Facio Professional Development Complex, bandwagon, apparently without actually from people who can legally have them. There But there are a number of other safer located at the former Montgomery Elementary reading about the extension of background is plainly no impact on the federal Second alternatives to glyphosate, not to mention School campus on Louisiana, near Comanche, hit checks approved by NM lawmakers. a bump last summer when a small fire broke out Amendment if a state requires sensible giving those that want to work the option of Sanctuary advocates have been asking the at the site. However, officials say the damage background checks to stem gun proliferation. an old-fashioned weed-whacking job. a was not significant. Construction was initially Commission to go against its bipartisan and Too many people, including cops, have been slated to be completed by fall 2018. sensible support of statewide universal killed by mentally ill persons with guns. Upcoming Bernalillo County Commission The training center has a central meeting hall background checks meant to keep guns out of that seats up to 500 people and nine breakout With a few days left in the month of April, Administrative Meetings rooms where smaller training courses will take the hands of those who should not have them. the Albuquerque Journal reported that there Tuesday, May 14 and Tuesday, May 28 • 5pm place. The new building uses solar panels for The Albuquerque Police Department, by far had been at least 114 shootings in 112 days in Vincent E. Griego Chambers energy, and officials say that will mitigate costs the state’s largest police department and often Bernalillo County, of which Albuquerque is Albuquerque Bernalillo County Government Center for taxpayers. a regarded as the best trained—for sure the blues the epicenter. The diversity of the victims of 1 Civic Plaza

[6] WEEKLY ALIBI MAY 2-8, 2019 MAY 2-8, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [7] NEWS | EDITORIAL Davis in District Six Councilor dishes on building communities with service and action

BY AUGUST MARCH That’s right, it certainly can. People came out and started working on their block and met their neighbors. And kids at the schools f you haven’t gotten it yet, we’ll reiterate. learned how to plant trees and garden. It IWeekly Alibi is committed to providing works. It’s a very small piece, but it was such Burqueños—and a good portion of the state a success that other neighborhoods in my too, but mostly el Norte—with all the news that’s district wanted to replicate what happened at fit to print (as our good friend the Gray Lady Phil Chacon Park. We’ve had students at might intone). Van Buren Middle School, who live in Editorially we maintain a progressive stance Councilor Jones’ District, reach out and say that’s designed to change minds and enchant they want to do the same thing at their lives with a modicum of motion forward into a school, in their neighborhood. I think we’re future where we can all live with dignity and joy. seeing a civic connection where people are In summary we’re progressives who do not preach looking for good ideas to help enact. This to the choir as much as we reach out to the has now turned into the mayor’s latest world—to say each week and without proposal: to plant 100,000 trees in the city interruption—“Hey wouldn’t you like to live like within 10 years. the people we bring to life in these pages, free and open-minded, civil yet firm in our commitment Are these community-based changes and to a democracy where you help to make this a initiatives reflective of a larger progressive better world by just joining in on the super- decent all-day everyday active citizenship party movement forward for the city? we propose?” Yes. The things that have the biggest With that sort of overarching agenda, it’s no City Councilors Pat Davis and Trudy Jones ERIC WILLIAMS PHOTOGRAPHY impacts come from the community, and wonder that we find some Burqueño politicos community policing is an example. We have more to our taste than others. For instance we are With that in mind we met and conversed in the Trumbull neighborhood. We wanted to new community response teams, still damn grateful and thoroughly encouraged with the dude early this week at Alibi HQ. This show the community that we care; that partnerships with the county that for the that Tim Keller was elected mayor of this town. is what he had to say. improvement was a big step forward for the first time that take social workers out to city We’re also mighty impressed with the current neighborhood and for the city’s image as a parks to work on homelessness instead of version of Albuquerque’s city council; they’re Weekly Alibi: Was it pretty much a government that’s engaged with constituents. just kicking people out. We also mostly fit and formidable. given that you would seek a second decriminalized marijuana. I think there’s And that positive impression of our burg’s term in District 6? Working at the neighborhood level seems opportunities there to say that not governing board stokes the furnace of memory. Pat Davis: The thing I got out of my run for to bring progress, right? everything should be a police problem. We are reminded—and would like to remind Congress was that I stepped up and opened up Last weekend we did a big park clean up at Phil Chacon Park. We had tons of volunteers and you—that councilors in districts 2, 4, 6 and 8 will that race. We didn’t know who was going to How long is it going to take to make we also planted 100 trees in that neighborhood. be facing reelection this year, as per the city replace Michelle [Lujan Grisham] and that was Albuquerque better? charter. One of those public servants, Brad a an important factor with Trump in the White We had 100 community volunteers working on What you are seeing is a rebirth, it’s a new Winter in District 4, has announced that he will House. Of course I wanted somebody who that. We also had corporate volunteers from generation of this city in terms of how the not seek reelection. A centrist with conservative would fight. But what I learned from that Coca-Cola and other companies, so we also got governance tendencies, Winter’s been on the process was that I really liked being a city big organizations to care about a neighborhood city deals with itself. It will be a lengthy council for 20 years. His future absence portends a councilor. You can get stuff done that you just that some thought of as lost. So if you can team transition, but it will happen. We used to say possible progressive advantage for a council can’t as a member of congress. I missed—for up with the mayor, if you can engage other “those are the Environment or Health already heavily influenced by Democratic politics. that year—so many city things I wanted to get councilors and the citizens themselves, you can Departments’ problems,” or “that’s the Street But more importantly the progressive voices involved in. As a city councilor, I think we’ve do what seem like small projects in a very big, Department’s problem.” Now—and the already in the house need to be retained and gotten Albuquerque back on the right track, effective way. If you look back at the the mayor has done a really good job of this— further encouraged by citizens searching for but we’re not done yet. It will take at least one International District, where we’re challenged now we’re saying okay, everyone literally sits solutions at every level of leadership and more term for me to work on things like gun with violence and poverty, I’ll tell you that around the same table and starts to look at governance. The councilor in District 6, Pat violence, immigration, homelessness and public things are better. We’ve put $5 million in public these issues so we can all find a solution. So Davis, announced this week that he will indeed health reform. investment into those neighborhoods during we can say that the Parks Department mows seek a second term. Davis has found his center as my first term in office. There’s a new library, the grass in the park, but first we’ve got to a voice for the International D istrict, for the city Okay, so let’s start with the problems. new streets, new street lights. We have more get Environmental Health to come by and and for the progressive cause too. I think that as a new city councilor, I had a hard cops in the International District now, too. pick up the needles. But in order to stop the He’s the picture of a city councilor to be time trying to figure out how I was supposed to needles, we need to engage the county’s retained as the progressive agenda advances. fix all those big picture things. But I figured Have these sorts of activities inspired behavioral health people to provide others to embrace progressivism at its After only one term, Davis has sponsored and out—like a lot of people do—that it’s our job to psychological and addiction care. So we’re helped enact legislation designed to make most basic levels? do our part in our neighborhood and then build moving the issues back their root causes and Albuquerque into that place we all want it to be. Yes. Take the tree project. If you live in a on that, build on that momentum. And I think not just attacking the symptoms. I know that At the end of the day, individual choices and that’s what you see Mayor Keller talking about, neighborhood where there aren’t any trees sounds simple, but it’s not the way group effort will be needed to see this progressive block by block. In the last couple of years, the anymore, where the sidewalks are all government has usually worked. It’s the way vision grow and thrive. mayor and I—and I give the mayor credit for broken—it looks like nobody cares. But government should work. a In line with his progressive political values, this—we’ve worked from that perspective. Councilor Benton, in his neighborhood, Davis is also seeking to qualify for public When he came into office, he said to me, “show started a new program with Tree New campaign financing from the city. That means me what’s shovel ready in the International Mexico to begin planting and replacing trees Albuquerque Municipal Election, to qualify for city-disbursed matching funds he District, I want to catch them up,” a district in older neighborhoods. Tuesday Nov. 5 2019 must first secure a series of individual $5 where he had been the state senator. I told him Councilors in Districts 2, 4, 6, and 8 contributions. This year the city made that that we need to show people that we [the city] And that leads to a sense of civic pride serve until Dec. 3, 2019. process more effective by making a previously take pride in our neighborhoods. So we which can ultimately translate to less Oct. 8: Absentee ballots mailed in-person transaction digital. invested $3 million in new sidewalks and streets crime and violence? Oct. 19: Early Voting Begins

[8] WEEKLY ALIBI MAY 2-8, 2019 NEWS | ON ASSIGNMENT Heinrich on Housing Affordable housing equals progress BY AUGUST MARCH

t’s not through accidental happenstance that IWeekly Alibi supports and advocates for progressive solutions to governance, here at home, in our enchanting state and in the land we all call America, too. One of the basic tenets of any forward- looking, moderately futuristic rendering of the map that shows where we want to go—where we’ll be as a culture in say, in 200 years—has to do with providing all citizens with adequate opportunities for food, shelter and education. That’s an academic way of saying that until all of our fellow Burqueños, Nuevo Mexicanos— VIA HEINRICH.SENATE.GOV Senator Martin Heinrich visits an affordable la gente en todo, ese—have access to the basic housing project. necessities of life we will not be able to solve problems like crime, drug addiction, child abuse Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative and a myriad of other issues that perpetually and Tierra del Sol Housing Corporation. keep our species from achieving its potential. Affordable housing is more important to Though it’s a clear message, it sometimes gets New Mexico families than ever according the lost as it makes its way through the crowd of the legislators who wrote, “We are disappointed readers who wander through here. Some who that the President’s budget has slated this read similar analysis in these pages believe it’s program for elimination after decades of just hippie-dippy preaching to the choir stuff successful economic and community that gets printed here. But we’re serious: if we development. Since the HUD Demonstration change even one person’s mind, if we can Act was authorized in 1993, Section 4 has convince merely one reader per week that what proven to be a valuable and cost-effective we publish in these editorial pages is worth their program that has produced tangible results. attention—that the issues we speak to demand Through a nationwide support network, Section more—then we’ve done our job. 4 provides programmatic and training assistance And that statement brings us to the focus of to local organizations, ensuring program goals this week’s On Assignment. That has to do with are met while granting the necessary flexibility Senator Martin Heinrich and the stand he to meet community-specific needs. As recently took on affordable housing, a matter we communities across the country continue to consider to be of great importance. look for ways to expand economic development Heinrich has long stood for such progressive and provide affordable housing, funding for values. He has been able to forge an identity Section 4 remains critically important.” that truly represents New Mexico’s future The conclusion of the letter urges without eschewing traditional beliefs and subcommittee chair Susan Collins (R-ME) and practices, we might add. ranking Member Jack Reed (D-RI) to support In our conversations with the Senator, we’ve funding for affordable housing because it works, found that he’s committed to bringing our state a fact that is reiterated throughout the to the fore through this combination of idealism communiqué but best summarized as a function and practical action. Those operating factors are of the good economics that such funding clear in the latest developments on Capitol Hill, bestows on American culture: “For each dollar but particularly in the Senator’s involvement of Section 4 funding, a total of $20 or more in with a bipartisan letter sent to the Senate private investment has been brought into local Appropriations Subcommittee on communities for economic and community Transportation, Housing and Urban development. From 2014 to 2018, Section 4 Development that strongly calls for increased helped 973 local community development funding for affordable housing programs under corporations nationwide leverage approximately the aegis of Housing and Urban Development. $7.7 billion for community and economic In particular, Heinrich and 40 of his fellow development and helped to build or preserve legislators urged action on Section 4 of the more than 39,000 homes in low-income Capacity Building Program, an affordable neighborhoods. “ housing and small business finance program that Yeah, it’s pretty damn discouraging that has been marked for elimination by the Trump Trump and company want to put the kibosh on administration. such progress-oriented examples of good In 2018, this source of funding provided governance. But it is indeed encouraging that $215,000 to recipients in New Mexico, helping Senator Heinrich and a good number of federal subsidize essential affordable housing programs legislators from both sides of the aisle continue sponsored by the New Mexico Coalition to End to provide a clearly ethical and progressive voice Homelessness, Ohkay Owingeh and Santo as an alternative to such damaging detours from Domingo Tribal Housing Authorities, the a sustainable path. a MAY 2-8, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [9] EVENT | PREVIEWS EVENT HORIZON MAY 2-8

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There are few similarities Frog-centric theater may have come among the more than 200 to modern consensus with unlikely little houses featured in green MC Kermit the Frog’s “Muppet OFFCenter’s 14th Annual Show” during the 1970s, but this Little Houses Exhibit this amphibian pond staple has played a Friday, May 3 from 5pm to pivotal role in comic theater since 8pm at Factory on 5th Art Greek playwright Aristophanes brought Space. This fundraiser for the a chorus of croaks to Athenian exemplary, inclusive art-making work that OFFCenter undertakes audiences in the fifth century BCE. year-round is centered on a The VSA North Fourth Art Center silent auction where you can continues this proud ranine tradition walk away with your very own with The Frog Prince of Spamalot for little house masterpiece. For one night only, this Saturday, May 4 more information about this at 6pm and a second showing at free, public, all-ages event, 7:30pm. Tickets for this all-ages show see offcenterarts.org. FACTORY are $6. For more information see ON 5TH ART SPACE 1715 FIFTH vsartsnm.org. VSA NORTH 4TH ART CENTER STREET NW, 5 TO 8PM 4904 FOURTH STREET NW, 6 TO 7PM alibi.com/v/6dvz. (Clarke Condé) a alibi.com/v/6fdh. (Clarke Condé) a IMAGE BY CLARKE CONDÉ IMAGE BY CLARKE CONDÉ

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SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY Children’s Book Week: The Art of the Book. Print on a reproduction Ben Franklin Common Press and create a book using a method hundreds of years old. For children ages 6 to 13. Registration required. 423 Central Ave NE. 3-4:30pm. 848-1376. alibi.com/v/6fnn. LEARN OSUNA NURSERY Osuna University: Container Gardening. Master Gardener Carol Bennett discusses tips and techniques for container gardening. 10-11am. ALL-AGES! alibi.com/v/6ayu. Also, Osuna University: Lawn and Ornamental Plant Care. Learn tips and tricks for caring for a lawn with Rudy Lira from Sure Green as he discusses weed control, how to have a beautiful, healthy lawn and insect and disease control. 501 Osuna Rd NE. 11:15am-12:15pm. ALL-AGES! 345-6644. alibi.com/v/6ayv. COMMUNITY OUTDOOR WELLS PETROGLYPH PRESERVE, Velarde Wells Petroglyph Preserve Public Tours. The Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project offers THURSDAY MAY 2 weekly public tours this spring. Pre-registration is required. HWY 68. $35. 9:30-11:30am. 852-1351. alibi.com/v/6cje. ALAMOSA COMMUNITY CENTER Law-La-Palooza Free Legal Fair. Attorneys provide free legal consultations to the public on a fist come, first serve basis. 6900 Gonzales Rd SW. 3-6pm. ALL-AGES! alibi.com/v/6fzy. KIDS ERNIE PYLE LIBRARY STEM Labs. Program activities provide hands-on and minds-on lessons, where these fields are both fun and interesting to help kids do much more than just learn. 900 Girard SE. 3:30-4:30pm. 256-2065. alibi.com/v/6fmy. LOMAS-TRAMWAY PUBLIC LIBRARY Our Nature Trail: Storytelling with Dianne Rossbach. Gather together with Dianne for stories about beloved places, and take an imaginary walk on the nature trail. 10:30-11:30am. alibi.com/v/6fn5. Also, Four Fast Books: Book-Making. Make samples of four easy books, all supplies and instructions included. For ages 4 and over. 908 Eastridge Dr NE. 4-5pm. ALL-AGES! 291-6295. alibi.com/v/6fn7. WELLNESS/FITNESS SATURDAY MAY 4 UNM SCHOOL OF LAW Running Medicine Celebrations. Formed as a BANQUE LOFTS program of the Native Health Initiative, the vision is to create a culture of 2nd Annual Hunter Chase Realty Kentucky Derby wellness through the understanding that running and exercise are potent Fundraiser. A festive way to watch the Derby while enjoying medicines for mind, body and spirit. 1117 Stanford Dr NE. $15. 5:45-7pm. a day of food, mint juleps, contests and the opportunity to ALL-AGES! alibi.com/v/6cxm. give back to local nonprofit, LifeRoots. 219 Central Ave NW. $50. 2-6pm. alibi.com/v/6g1n. FRIDAY MAY 3 KIDS PETS ERNA FERGUSSON LIBRARY Children’s Book Week: Dreams in Motion KELLY’S BREW PUB Treat, Play, Love. A dog party benefiting for Preschoolers. Celebrate with stories, music, movement, rhythmic ribbons Watermelon Mountain Ranch with games, treats, raffle prizes, and a dreamy craft. For ages 2 to 5. 3700 San Mateo Blvd NE. 10:15-11am. food and beer. 3222 Central Ave SE. $10. 2pm-4am. ALL-AGES! 888-8100. alibi.com/v/6fmr. (864) 361-4991. alibi.com/v/6fiy. MAIN LIBRARY DIY Comic Book Strips. Express creativity and imagination WELLNESS/FITNESS by completing versions of some favorite comic creators and then create ORANGE YOGA Flow States and the Yoga Sutras. Practice asana, a comic strip. For ages 9 to 18. 501 Copper Ave NW. 3:30-5pm. 768-5141. breathwork, meditation and other ways of focusing attention to alibi.com/v/6fq1. experience complete absorbtion in the present moment and embody an optimal experience. 7528 Fourth Street NW. $30. WELLNESS/FITNESS 2-4pm. ALL-AGES! (575) 644-7718. alibi.com/v/6fq9. MAPLE STREET DANCE SPACE All Levels Hip-Hop Dance Class. Learn the techniques that make this style so much fun to play with socially and UNM SCHOOL OF LAW Running Medicine Celebrations. Formed professionally. 3215 Central Ave NE. $15. 7:10pm. ALL-AGES! 440-6265. as a program of the Native Health Initiative, the vision is alibi.com/v/69py. to create a culture of wellness through the understanding that running and exercise are potent medicines for mind, body and NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE spirit. 1117 Stanford Dr NE. $15. 8-10am. ALL-AGES! Introduction to Mindfulness Workshop for Adults. Marnie Rehn leads the alibi.com/v/6cy4. workshop focusing in on how mindfulness helps to calm the nervous system creating new neural pathways in the brain. 1801 Mountain Rd NW. $9-$10. 9:30-11am. 18+. 841-2840. alibi.com/v/6gav. SUNDAY MAY 5 NORTH DOMINGO BACA MULTIGENERATIONAL CENTER Experience CANTERO BREWING COMPANY Pints and Pistons. Bring your the Sound of Soul. Discover inner guidance, healing for body, mind and ride, cameras and come hungry and thirsty. Show off what you’ve spirit as well as a higher form of creativity by chanting the sacred sound been working on and hang out with fellow enthusiasts. 3351 of HU. Spiritual conversation afterward. 7521 Carmel Ave NE. 7-8pm. Columbia DR NE. 12:30-3pm. ALL-AGES! 312-8427. ALL-AGES! (800) 876-6704. alibi.com/v/6bfx. alibi.com/v/6d85. OUTDOOR SATURDAY MAY 4 ALBUQUERQUE OPEN SPACE VISITOR CENTER Bosque Wild: Guided Nature Walk. Take a hike through nature’s laboratory in FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH May and Morther’s Day a moderately strenuous guided hike. Reservations recommended. Fiesta. Ceck out the rummage sale, find Mother’s Day gifts, arts 6500 Coors Blvd NW. 8-10am. 897-8831. alibi.com/v/6fva. and crafts, tomato and chili starter plants and food trucks. 2801 Lomas NE. 8:30am-1:30pm. ALL-AGES! 504-2466. BACHECHI OPEN SPACE Spring Family Fun Days. Identify flowers alibi.com/v/6g20. then dissect to see what’s inside or track a pollinator from plant · Get Paid Every Friday! to nest along with scavanger hunts, observations and experiments. OSUNA NURSERY Cinco de Mayo. Celebrate a day early with 9521 Rio Grande Blvd NW. Noon-5pm. ALL-AGES! 314-0398. · Up to $11.45/hr chips, salsa and music by Mariachi Tenampa. 501 Osuna Rd NE. alibi.com/v/6c5s. 11am-3pm. ALL-AGES! 345-6644. alibi.com/v/6az0. · Paid Mileage, Travel, & Holidays WELLNESS/FITNESS · Paid Training KIDS ALBUQUERQUE SQUARE DANCE CENTER Social ballroom and CHILDREN’S CHOICE Celebration of Learning. This event show- Latin dance. Take a beginner lesson and then hit the floor for · Work Mon-Fri, Days cases our the accomplishments of before and afterschool social dances featuring ballroom (waltz, tango, foxtrot), Latin · No Nights, No Weekends programs with Albuquerque-themed art, food, activities, a bouncy (rumba, cha cha, salsa, bolero), tango, swing and club (night house, performances and more. 10601 Lomas Blvd NE. club, two-step) music. 4915 Hawkins St NE. $2-$10. 6-9pm. · CALL TODAY 344-9880 10am-3pm. ALL-AGES! 296-2880. alibi.com/v/6fl9. ALL-AGES! 660-9957. alibi.com/v/6cfw. ERNA FERGUSSON LIBRARY Children’s Book Week: Dreams in LOTUS TREE AYURVEDA Prayer and Meditation Group. Learn Motion for Children of All Ages. Celebrate with stories, tinikling stilling the mind, concentration and meditation practices. No sticks, line dancing, rhythmic ribbons and a dreamy craft. This previous experience needed. 7015 Fourth Street. $12-$40. is a family event. 3700 San Mateo Blvd NE. 10:15-11am. 9-10am. ALL-AGES! alibi.com/v/63ul. 888-8100. alibi.com/v/6fms.

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MONDAY MAY 6 KIDS ALAMOSA LIBRARY STEM Labs. 6900 Gonzales SW. 3-4:30pm. See 5/2 ERNIE PYLE LIBRARY listing. LEARN ALBUQUERQUE GARDEN CENTER Creating Healing Gardens for People and Pollinators. Dianne Rand gives a tour of the certified wildlife habitat demo garden speaking about gardens as inherently healing but what makes them so. 10120 Lomas Blvd NE. 10-11:30am. ALL-AGES! alibi.com/v/6fbq. OUTDOOR BACHECHI OPEN SPACE Spring Family Fun Days. 9521 Rio Grande Blvd NW. Noon-5pm. ALL-AGES! See 5/5 listing. MONDAY MAY 6 ALBUQUERQUE SQUARE DANCE CENTER WELLNESS/FITNESS LGBTQIA Square Dance. Wilde Bunch Square Dance Club LOMA COLORADO MAIN LIBRARY, Rio Rancho Mental Illness holds an open house with basic square dance calls and and You. Marilyn Salzman addresses the issue of mental illness, no partner required. All are welcome. 4915 Hawkins St what it is and how to help someone diagnosed with it. 755 Loma NE. 7-9pm. 18+. alibi.com/v/6bgo. Colorado NE. 2-3pm. 18+. 891-5013. alibi.com/v/6fgn. NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF YOGA Yoga Basics. A perfect class for absolute beginners and those looking to refine their flow to UNM LGBTQ RESOURCE CENTER Free and Confidential HIV include the postures of a basic sun salutation, beginner breathing Testing. Get tested and wait for the results. 1919 Las Lomas NE. exercises and savasana. 1111 Carlisle Blvd SE. $10-$45. 6-7pm. 10am-2pm. alibi.com/v/6czf. 15+. 268-0918. alibi.com/v/6f5c. UNM SCHOOL OF LAW Running Medicine Celebrations. 1117 RIO BRAVO BREWING COMPANY Yoga with Yoga Zo. Get a fresh Stanford Dr NE. $15. 5:45-7pm. ALL-AGES! See 5/2 listing. start to the week with an all-levels class. 1912 Second Street NW. $10. 6:30pm. ALL-AGES! 900-3909. alibi.com/v/6cds. WEDNESDAY MAY 8 KIDS TUESDAY MAY 7 WEST GATE HEIGHTS LIBRARY STEM Labs. 1300 Delgado Dr GREEN JEANS FARMERY The Next Generation: N.M. Munch. A SW. 2:30-4pm. See 5/2 ERNIE PYLE LIBRARY listing. safe, inclusive space for younger kinksters to meet their peers LEARN and explore their dark side in a welcoming, accepting environment LOMA COLORADO MAIN LIBRARY, Rio Rancho Grow It: open to those 18 to 35. 3600 Cutler Ave NE. 6-8pm. 18+. Watercooler Wednesdays. Business financing expert Stephanie alibi.com/v/6a2u. Skaggs shows how to get business funding with topics including LAW OFFICES OF GLASHEEN VALLES & INDERMAN Post Cinco what lenders look for in a loan package, alternative funding de Mayo Blood Drive. All donors receive a limited edition Ride sources and more. 755 Loma Colorado NE. 10:30am-12:30pm. for Blood NM T-shirt and are registered to win a new Harley- 18+. 891-5013. alibi.com/v/6fic. Davidson Iron 883 Sportster. 4300 San Mateo Blvd NE. PRESBYTERIAN NORTHSIDE Meals on Wheels Volunteer Training. 11am-2pm. 18+. alibi.com/v/6g3l. The organization is looking for volunteers to help in a variety of SOUTH VALLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY STEM Labs. 3904 Isleta Blvd different areas. 5901 Harper Dr NE. 3-4pm. ALL-AGES! 823-8064. SW. 3-5pm. See 5/2 ERNIE PYLE LIBRARY listing. alibi.com/v/6c4y. LEARN OUTDOOR JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ALBUQUERQUE BACHECHI OPEN SPACE Spring Family Fun Days. 9521 Rio Women Make a Difference Lunch and Learn. Mike LeMoine Grande Blvd NW. Noon-5pm. ALL-AGES! See 5/5 listing. speaks on “Website Marketing: The Top Things You Must Do On WELLS PETROGLYPH PRESERVE, Velarde Wells Petroglyph Your Website To Generate More Customers, Clients and Patients.” Preserve Public Tours. HWY 68. $35. 9:30-11:30am. See 5/4 5520 Wyoming Blvd NE. $29. 11:30am-1:15pm. 18+. 362-8546. listing. alibi.com/v/6fzz. NEW MEXICO VETERANS HOSPITAL N.M. VA Hospital Veterans WELLNESS/FITNESS Outreach. Veterans learn about the nuances and complicated LLOYD SHAW DANCE CENTER Newcomer and Intermediate details regarding the VA and state veterans benefits. Bring your Argentine Tango. Learn the basics and fundamentals of this DD-214 form. 1501 San Pedro SE. 10am-3pm. 383-2414. amazing dance and delve further into the techniques and secrets alibi.com/v/68io. that make this style unforgettable. 5506 Coal SE. $10-$17. 6:45-8:15pm. 15+. 948-1579. alibi.com/v/69gk. SELF SERVE 10 Years of Yes Means Yes with Jaclyn Friedman. Celebrates by going on a journey through what’s changed for the MAPLE STREET DANCE SPACE Teen and Adult Ballet Class with better and worse in its wake, how that change happened and Christin Severini. This class is for intermediate and advanced what’s next in the fight to end sexual violence. 112 Morningside level teens and adults looking for a technically challenging tradi- Dr NE. $15-$20. 7:30-9pm. 18+. 265-5815. alibi.com/v/6fs4. tional class with an emphasis on movement, emotional expression and artistry. 3215 Central Ave NE. $15-$60. 7:15-8:30pm. 13+. OUTDOOR BACHECHI OPEN SPACE Spring Family Fun Days. 9521 Rio Grande Blvd NW. Noon-5pm. ALL-AGES! See 5/5 listing. WELLNESS/FITNESS HIGH DESERT YOGA Tibetan Buddhist Meditation. Learn Diamond Way Buddhist meditation practice methods. 4600 Copper Ave NE. 7:30-8:30pm. ALL-AGES! 450-2878. alibi.com/v/62td. LLOYD SHAW DANCE CENTER Newcomer Swing and Latin Classes. Explore a different set of dances in each class. Understand the similarities and differences between each dance to learn multiple dances at the same time, in a fun method. 5506 Coal SE. $5-$10. 6:30-8pm. 15+. 948-1579. alibi.com/v/68bz. LOTUS TREE AYURVEDA Prayer and Meditation Group. Learn stilling the mind, concentration and meditation practices. No previous experience needed. 7015 Fourth Street. $12-$40. 7-8pm. ALL-AGES! alibi.com/v/63wa. NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER ¡Baile!: Rueda de TUESDAY MAY 7 Casino (Cuban Salsa) Dance Class. This class is geared for SELF SERVE teenagers and adults of beginner and intermediate levels. Learn Rewriting Your Scripts with Jaclyn Friedman. Discover the footwork, partner skills and choreography. No experience neces- subconscious sexual scripts that are failing society and sary. 6-7pm. ALL-AGES! alibi.com/v/67yi. Also, In order to partic- to replace them with ones that serve us better. 112 ipate in this class, dancers must know how to keep time, closed Morningside Dr NE. $15-$20. 7:30-9pm. 18+. position calls, dame, enchufla and outside turns. For intermediate 265-5815. alibi.com/v/6fs5. and advanced dancers. 1701 Fourth Street SW. $5–$10. 7-8pm. 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Q-STAFF THEATRE Promenade Albuquerque. Take the anti-tour of Albuquerque as the reality of the street and the poetry of fiction mix in a way that makes everyday life a privilege to see. 400 Broadway Blvd SE. $15-$25. 6-8pm. 13+. 453-3790. alibi.com/v/6fvc. SONG & DANCE. ELIZABETH WATERS CENTER FOR DANCE Launch: A Student Choreography Showcase. An evening of dance showcasing original choreography by the finest graduate and undergraduate student choreographers of the UNM dance program. 1 University Blvd NE. $8-$12. 7:30pm. ALL-AGES! 277-4332. alibi.com/v/6fo1. HOTEL ALBUQUERQUE Tablao Flamenco. Enjoy dynamic world- class performances, exquisite Sevillan tapas and craft cocktails, with 60 percent of proceeds supporting the National Institute of Flamenco. 800 Rio Grande Blvd NW. $10-$30. 8-9:15pm. 21+. 222-8797. alibi.com/v/68r2. N4TH THEATER The Barefoot Movement. The Nashville-based bluegrass band plays live. 4904 Fourth Street NW. 1-2pm. ARTS & LIT alibi.com/v/6fc8. ST. JOHN’S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Eggs and Bacon Concert. The singers of Quintessence as we present a delicious THURSDAY MAY 2 and intoxicating concert of songs about food and drink. 2626 Arizona St NE. $10-$20. 7:30pm. 672-8863. alibi.com/v/6fu4. WORDS CANVAS ARTISTRY KITCHEN MUSIC ART BAR Burque Revolt TIGUEX PARK Brazilian Samba Percussion Ensemble. 1800 Poetry Slam. Open mic and poetry slam with vendors and a DJ. Mountain Rd NW. $5-$10. 11am-1pm. 15+. See 5/2 listing. Special poetry feature by Toluwanimi Obiwole from Denver Slam Nuba. 3120 Central Ave SE. 7-10pm. 21+. alibi.com/v/5ydx. SATURDAY MAY 4 WORDS ALBUQUERQUE CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING Southwest Writers’ Meeting. Historian and historiographer Don Bullis talks about the research he has done over the past 50 years while writing a score of books and the surprises and disappointments while doing so. 2801 Louisiana NE. 10am-noon. ALL-AGES! 830-6034. alibi.com/v/6fvr. OUTPOST PERFORMANCE SPACE ABQ Slams Presents: The 25th Annual Grand Slam Poetry Championship. An evening of high-level performance poetry with ten of the top stage poets in the Duke City in poetic competition. 210 Yale Blvd SE. $10-$15. 7:30pm. 268-0044. alibi.com/v/69i9. PAGE ONE BOOKSTORE Local Authors Fair. Authors bring their books to promote independently and sell their works. 11am-1pm. ALL-AGES! alibi.com/v/6fbc. Also, Mike Coltrin Signing Event. The local author, a former Sandia Laboratories chemist, talks Every year weekly alibi gulps, chews about and signs the newly updated guide, Sandia Mountain Hiking Guide, Revised and Expanded Edition. 5850 Eubank Blvd NE. 4-5:30pm. ALL-AGES! 294-2026. alibi.com/v/6fai. and sips its way through the jungle of great THURSDAY MAY 2 TABLAO FLAMENCO ALBUQUERQUE AT HOTEL ART eats and drinks that is the ALBUQUERQUE Tandem. A deeply intimate show, of a CORRALES, Corrales Corrales Art and Studio Tour. Village artists sober and direct character, in which everything flows with and craftspeople open their studio doors to the public for featuring Albuquerque food scene to bring you the relationship of flamenco music and dance created by over 100 artists in 39 locations. 164 Olguin Rd. 10am-5pm. two deeply-connected artists. 800 Rio Grande Blvd NW. ALL-AGES! alibi.com/v/6dw8. CHOWTOWN! $30. 8pm. ALL-AGES! 242-7600. alibi.com/v/6g2f. STAGE ALBUQUERQUE LITTLE THEATRE Rumors by Neil Simon. 224 San Pasquale Ave SW. $15-$23. 7:30-9:30pm. 13+. See 5/3 SONG & DANCE listing. OUTPOST PERFORMANCE SPACE Aaron Goldberg Trio with Matt AUX DOG THEATRE Penman and Leon Parker. One of jazz’s most compel ling pianists Auditions for “Whose Line, Hammerstein?” Here’s your chance plays live. 210 Yale Blvd SE. $20-$25. 7:30pm. 268-0044. Performers are paid for all shows. Both vocal and improv auditions alibi.com/v/69i8. are required, with vocal auditions in the morning and improv auditions in the afternoon. 3011 Monte Vista Blvd NE. 9am-3pm. to get a seat at the table. LEARN 18+. 239-4796. alibi.com/v/6g1p. UNM ART ANNEX Open Studio with Xylor Jane. Learn how the Q-STAFF THEATRE Promenade Albuquerque. 400 Broadway Blvd artist creates their art. 1901 Central Ave. NE. 5pm. 277-5861. SE. $15-$25. 6-8pm. 13+. See 5/3 listing. alibi.com/v/6c00. Call (505) 346-0660 ext. 248 or email FILM GUILD CINEMA Journey Down the Gila: Protecting New Mexico’s [email protected] to place an ad Last Wild River. A screening of the film followed by a discussion about the growing Gila Wild and Scenic campaign and a Q&A session with the film’s director, David Garcia. 3405 Central Ave NE. $10. 7-9pm. ALL-AGES! 259-4471. alibi.com/v/6fj0. FRIDAY MAY 3 ART Advertising Deadline: June 14 FACTORY ON 5TH ART SPACE OFFCenter’s 14th Annual Little Houses Exhibit. See over 200 whimsical mini-masterpieces by local artists with contributors from the internationally known to On Stands June 27 emerging creators. Mingle with the makers, buy raffle tickets and silently bid to support. 1715 Fifth Street NW. Free. 5-8pm. ALL-AGES! 247-1172. alibi.com/v/6dvz. SATURDAY MAY 4 FARM & TABLE STAGE 12th Annual Cinco De Mayo Folk Art Fest. Check out ALBUQUERQUE LITTLE THEATRE Rumors by Neil Simon. A dark, unique folk artists, a fiesta umbrella contest, music by comedic comedic play where confusions and miscommunications Mariachi Alma Nuevo Mexico and Alpha Blue, refresh- mount as the evening spins off into classic farcical hilarity. 224 ments provided by Flamingo Steve’s Italian Ice, Farm & alibi THE LARGEST ALTERNATIVE NEWSWEEKLY IN NEW MEXICO. San Pasquale Ave SW. $15-$23. 7:30-9:30pm. 13+. 242-4750. Table and much more. 8917 Fourth Street NW. alibi.com/v/6cz5. 10am-4pm. ALL-AGES! 463-7392. alibi.com/v/6dia.

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VSA NORTH 4TH ART CENTER The Frog Prince of Spamalot. STRANGEFLOCK GALLERY Guerrilla Photo Group. A weekly Hilarity ensues as Hyronomous A. Frog finds his way to the castle creative collaborative for photographers, models, makeup artists, of Princess Gladiola and tries to learn to walk and eat with proper stylists and designers of all skill levels. 609 Gold Ave SW. etiquette. 4904 Fourth Street NW. 6-7pm. 345-2872. 5:30-10:30pm. 18+. alibi.com/v/68i6. alibi.com/v/6fdh. SONG & DANCE CONGREGATION ALBERT A Grand Night for Singing. Barbara Finn and several guest singers perform live. 3800 Louisiana Blvd NE. $35-$40. 7:30pm. ALL-AGES! 883-1818. alibi.com/v/6f4w. ELIZABETH WATERS CENTER FOR DANCE Launch: A Student Choreography Showcase. 1 University Blvd NE. $8-$12. 7:30pm. ALL-AGES! See 5/3 listing. HOTEL ALBUQUERQUE Tablao Flamenco. 800 Rio Grande Blvd NW. $10-$30. 8-9:15pm. 21+. See 5/3 listing. ST. STEPHEN’S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Solid Grounds Coffeehouse. Oscar Butler uses complex finger pickings with rhythmic thumping, while vocally giving what equates to a sonic message lulls his listeners into thinking this is an easy feat. 4601 Juan Tabo NE. 7-9pm. ALL-AGES! 293-9673. alibi.com/v/6g21. LEARN OUTPOST PERFORMANCE SPACE NM Ukulele Weekend. World- renown ukulele master Del Rey and Jim D’Ville lead two days of workshops and concerts. The workshops are designed for advanced beginners and up who know basic ukulele chords. 210 Yale Blvd SE. $85. 10am-4pm. 13+. (503) 200-9584. WEDNESDAY MAY 8 alibi.com/v/6d27. KIMO THEATRE FILM Kimo Theatre: Fact and Folklore Book Launch. Featuring NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE performances by groups and individuals who have called Star Wars. Come dressed as a favorite character and catch a the venue home over the years including Paz from the screening of the film. 1801 Mountain Rd NW. $8-$10. 2-4pm. Ehecatl Aztec Dancers, the NM Young Actors, The ALL-AGES! 265-7866. alibi.com/v/6cl5. Watermelon Mountain Jug Band and more. 423 Central Ave NW. 6:30-8:30pm. ALL-AGES! 830-6034. SOUTH BROADWAY LIBRARY May the 4th Be with You Movie. alibi.com/v/6fz4. See a screening of “Rogue One,” rated PG-13. 1025 Broadway Blvd SE. 1-3pm. ALL-AGES! 764-1742. alibi.com/v/6fne. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY Monthly Matinee. Explore NM history with a ¡colores! double feature. 423 Central Ave NE. 2-4pm. ALL-AGES! 848-1376. alibi.com/v/6fnm. FOOD SUNDAY MAY 5 WORDS THURSDAY MAY 2 POPEJOY HALL David Sedaris. The witty, clever and sardonic PIGGY’S SQUEEKEASY Potluck Dinner author returns to read from his latest works. 203 Cornell Dr NE. . Enjoy a community meal $20-$64. 4-6:30pm. 18+. 277-9771. alibi.com/v/6451. at the art and education center. Don’t forget to bring a contribution. 526 Washington St. FREE. 7-10pm. ALL-AGES! alibi.com/v/6fa1. STAGE ALBUQUERQUE LITTLE THEATRE Rumors by Neil Simon. 224 FRIDAY MAY 3 San Pasquale Ave SW. $15-$23. 2pm. 13+. See 5/3 listing. LA LUNA BAKERY AND CAFE Friday Farmers Market. Enjoy live AUX DOG THEATRE NM Speech and Debate Foundation 2019 music, a kids’ zone, craft beers, vendors and food. 319 Fifth Nationals Gala. Enjoy live musical guests, a silent auction, food, Street SW. FREE. 3pm. ALL-AGES! 550-1119. alibi.com/v/6ek8. drinks and performances by students that qualified for the 2019 national tournament in Dallas. 3011 Monte Vista Blvd NE. $40. 6-9pm. 13+. (347) 517-3263. alibi.com/v/6ejl. SATURDAY MAY 4 STEP UP SIT DOWN GET PAID Q-STAFF THEATRE Promenade Albuquerque. 400 Broadway Blvd NOB HILL Taste of Nob Hill. Indulge in tasty samples of local SE. $15-$25. 6-8pm. 13+. See 5/3 listing. restaurants, bars and breweries at the 3rd annual event. Central Ave. $15-$75. Noon-3pm. ALL-AGES! alibi.com/v/6ejr. SONG & DANCE EARN ON AVERAGE UP TO ELDORADO HIGH SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Small Ensemble Concert presented by the Albuquerque Concert Band. SUNDAY MAY 5 Hear anything from Bach to the Beatles at this special event. ALBUQUERQUE RAIL YARDS Albuquerque Rail Yards Market. A 11300 Montgomery Blvd. NE. Free. 3-4pm. ALL-AGES! market celebrating all things local and at the heart of NM culture alibi.com/v/6fd5. with hundreds food, farm, artisan and healing vendors, live music HOTEL ALBUQUERQUE Tablao Flamenco. Enjoy dynamic world- as well as a kids’ zone. 1100 Second Street SW. FREE. $250 class performances, exquisite Sevillan tapas and craft cocktails, 10am-2pm. ALL-AGES! alibi.com/v/6fxd. A MONTH* with 60 percent of proceeds supporting the National Institute of Flamenco. 800 Rio Grande Blvd NW. $10-$30. 6-7:15pm. TUESDAY MAY 7 ALL-AGES! 222-8797. alibi.com/v/68vy. TRACTOR BREWING FOUR HILLS Taco Tuesday. Street, tacos, NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER Mariachi Los taquitos and beer. Live a little. 13170 Central Ave SE. 21+. Camperos. Hear the pioneers and two-time Grammy-winners 243-6752. alibi.com/v/6etr. play live. 1701 Fourth Street SW. 7:30-10pm. 246-2261. alibi.com/v/6ff8. TRACTOR BREWING WELLS PARK Taco Tuesdays. 1800 Fourth Street NW. Noon-10pm. 21+. See TRACTOR BREWING FOUR FILM HILLS listing. CENTRAL & UNSER LIBRARY Sunday Movie: Creed II. Catch a TRACTOR BREWING WESTSIDE Taco Tuesday. Street, tacos, WHAT TO BRING: screening of the film, rated PG-13. 8081 Central Ave NW. taquitos and beer. Live a little. 5720 McMahon Blvd. 21+. See 1:30-3:30pm. 13+. 768-4320. alibi.com/v/6fme. TRACTOR BREWING FOUR HILLS listing. STATE ID OR DL PROOF OS SOCIAL SECURITY PROOF OF ADDRESS WEDNESDAY MAY 8 WEDNESDAY MAY 8 KIMO THEATRE Kimo Theatre: Fact and Folklore Book Launch. FRENCHISH Hamburger Humpday. A fun weekly rotating burger bplplasma.com Featuring performances by groups and individuals who have to get over the week’s hump. Some are classic combos, some called the venue home over the years including Paz from the are a little more daring and some are downright messy, but all Ehecatl Aztec Dancers, the NM Young Actors, The Watermelon are delicious. 3509 Central Ave NE. 5-9pm. ALL-AGES! 433-5911. 2 Great Locations: Mountain Jug Band and more. 423 Central Ave NW. 6:30-8:30pm. alibi.com/v/5zxm. ALL-AGES! 830-6034. alibi.com/v/6fz4. 22 Yale Blvd SE.(505-266-5729) 701 2nd St. (505-842-6991) Compiled by Ashli Kesali. Submit your events at alibi.com/events. MAY 2-8, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [15] WEEKLY CALENDAR

THE LIBRARY BAR & GRILL Brain Gang Trivia • 8pm • FREE • 18+ MOLLY’S BAR, Tijeras Odd Dog • classic rock • 6pm • FREE • 21+ THE RANGE CAFÉ, Bernalillo Duo AlmaZazz • eclectic, accordion • 7pm RED VELVET UNDERGROUND Sorceress of Sound and Song Marie Black • singer-songwriter • 5pm SHERATON UPTOWN HOTEL Last Call • swing, jazz, soul, blues, R&B • 6pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! ST. CLAIR WINERY & BISTRO Swag • jazz, blues, rock, Motown • 6pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! TRACTOR BREWING CO. Clay Hughes • singer-songwriter • 5pm • FREE • 21+ TRACTOR BREWING WELLS PARK James McIntire Jazz Quartet • jazz • 5pm • FREE • 21+ URBAN 360 PIZZA GRILL AND TAP HOUSE The Alpha Blue Band • variety • 7:15pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! COMEDY POSH NIGHTCLUB Buck D • stand-up comedy • 7pm • $10-$15 MUSIC TRACTOR BREWING WELLS PARK First Fridays Comedy Contest • stand-up comedy • 8pm • FREE • 21+ SATURDAY MAY 4 THURSDAY MAY 2 B2B2 BARRIO Shimon King and The B2 Free Agents • jazz • BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREW PUB, Rio Rancho Rob Roman • 6:30pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! variety • 4:30pm • The Chris Ravin Band • classic rock • 7pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREW PUB, Rio Rancho David Bedini • variety • 4:30pm • Groovebox • electronica • 7pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREW PUB TAPROOM Austin Van • country • 6:30pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! CANTEEN BREWHOUSE Songs of Heaven and Earth • a capella, CORRALES BISTRO BREWERY, Corrales Craig Miller • pop, classic rock • 7pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! DIRTY BOURBON Walker Williams • variety • 3pm • 9pm • $5 • 21+ LAUNCHPAD Polyphia • progressive rock • I the Mighty • indie, alternative • Tides of Man • 8pm MOLLY’S BAR, Tijeras Juanita Bond • rock • 6pm • FREE • 21+ MOONLIGHT LOUNGE Dmitry Samarov • variety • 9pm RED DOOR BREWING COMPANY Halfway Decent Karaoke • 7pm • FREE • 21+ SAVOY BAR AND GRILL Shane Wallin • singer-songwriter • 6pm • FREE • 21+ TRACTOR BREWING WELLS PARK Tylor Brandon • acoustic, country • 8pm • FREE • 21+ WINNING COFFEE CO. Above Average Open Mic • 7pm • FREE • 13+ ZINC WINE BAR & BISTRO The Bus Tapes • funk, rock, country, folk, jazz • 8:30pm • FREE • 21+ COMEDY STAGE @ SANTA ANA STAR, Bernalillo Stand-Up Comedy Thursdays • 6pm • $10 • 21+

FRIDAY MAY 3 SATURDAY MAY 4 LAUNCHPAD BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREW PUB, Rio Rancho Steve Brown • Cattle Decapitation • deathgrind • 9pm variety • 4:30pm • January Storm • classic rock • 7pm • FREE • ALL-AGES!

BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREW PUB TAPROOM Groovebox • elec- gospel • 2pm • $10-$15 • ALL-AGES! tronica • 7pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! CORRALES BISTRO BREWERY, Corrales Lenin and McCarthy • THE COOPERAGE The Barefoot Movement • bluegrass • 8pm folk, pop • 7pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! CORRALES BISTRO BREWERY, Corrales Foxfire • bluegrass, DIRTY BOURBON Walker Williams • variety • 3pm • $5 • Josh Ward • classic rock • 7pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! country • 6pm • $10-$99 • 21+ DIRTY BOURBON Walker Williams • variety • 3pm • $5 • Ryan Bexley • variety • 7pm MOLLY’S BAR, Tijeras H-2-8 • rock • 1:30pm • Hot Rod Classic Band • classic rock • 6pm • FREE • 21+ HOTEL ANDALUZ Music at the Casbahs • Entourage Jazz • jazz, big band • 7pm • 21+ MOONLIGHT LOUNGE TV Girl • indie pop • Get a Life • hardcore • 8pm ISLETA RESORT & CASINO Little Joe Y La Familia • Norteno, country, blues, rock • 8pm O’HARE’S GRILLE & PUB, Rio Rancho Brain Gang Trivia • 8:30pm • FREE • 18+ KAKTUS BREWING COMPANY, Bernalillo Mike Butterfield and the 10 O’clock Blues • blues, rock • 7pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! PONDEROSA BREWING COMPANY Last Call • swing, jazz, soul, blues, R&B • 6pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! KILT CHECK BREWING COMPANY The Brewery Comedy Tour • stand-up comedy • 8:30pm THE RANGE CAFÉ, Bernalillo Jazz to Go • jazz • 7pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! LAUNCHPAD The Despots • surf, punk, blues, rock • L’uomo Nero • Boss DJ • Manhigh • Ashes of Jupiter • Hakim Bellamy • 9pm SAVOY BAR AND GRILL Saudade • Brazilian jazz, world • 6pm • FREE • 21+ LEGENDS THEATER @ ROUTE 66 CASINO Hairball • tribute, classic rock • 8pm SEARED Dave Friedlander • jazz, bop • 6:30pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! LEO’S NIGHTCLUB Juan Gotti • hip-hop • 5:30pm STONE FACE TAVERN Flashback • rock, oldies • 8:30pm • FREE • 21+ [16] WEEKLY ALIBI MAY 2-8, 2019 WEEKLY CALENDAR

SUNSHINE THEATER Twiztid • rap • 8pm TRACTOR BREWING CO. Still Closed For Repairs • Americana, indie, folk • 5pm • FREE • 21+ TRACTOR BREWING WELLS PARK Jacob Chavez • singer-song- writer, folk, Americana • noon • Kyle Martin Band • country, rock ’n’ roll, Americana • 8pm • FREE • 21+ TRACTOR BREWING WESTSIDE Jimmy Deveney • acoustic blues, honky tonk • 6pm • FREE • 21+ ZINC WINE BAR & BISTRO Monti • indie • 8:30pm • FREE • 21+ COMEDY TRICKLOCK PERFORMANCE LABORATORY The Roast of Evan Wronzy: A Birthday Celebration • stand-up comedy • 8pm SUNDAY MAY 5 B2B2 BARRIO Uptown Park Jazz • APS Band Showcase • jazz • 2pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREW PUB, Rio Rancho Open Mic with Rob Roman • 1pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! CORRALES BISTRO BREWERY, Corrales Spanish Broom • flamenco • 3pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! SATURDAY MAY 6 GECKO’S BAR & TAPAS, Northeast Heights Rise of Seekalae’ • THE STAGE AT SANTA ANA STAR CASINO, Bernalillo rock • 4pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! Piff the Magic Dragon • 9:30pm INSIDE OUT Blackout Theatre’s Cinco de Mayo Party • Amanda Machon y Los Metamorfos • Concepto Tambor • Afro-Latin, Latin, world • 2pm WEDNESDAY MAY 8 KAKTUS BREWING COMPANY, Bernalillo Kaktus Kats Blues Jam • 3pm BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREW PUB, Rio Rancho Music with Mike • variety • 6pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! KILT CHECK BREWING COMPANY TobyRiffic Karaoke Show • 3pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREW PUB TAPROOM Chris Ravin • rock ’n’ roll • 7pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! LAUNCHPAD Bumpin Uglies • InnaState • rock, reggae • Shark Suit • variety • DJ Positrax • 7:30pm CANTEEN BREWHOUSE Brain Gang Trivia • 6pm • FREE • 18+ LAZY LIZARD GRILL, Cedar Crest Dylanology • blues, folk • 3pm CORRALES BISTRO BREWERY, Corrales John Urban • folk, blues • 7pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! MOLLY’S BAR, Tijeras Luna Up Front • variety • 1pm • Split LAUNCHPAD Decision • classic rock • 3pm • FREE • 21+ Badger Pack Collective • Young Lerato and the Poevisionaries • variety • Saturday Night Riots • 8pm O’NIELL’S PUB, Northeast Heights Los Radiators • acoustic folk, MOLLY’S BAR, Tijeras Cactus Slim Band • blues, rock • 6pm • rock, blues • 4pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! FREE • 21+ RED DOOR BREWING CO. The Draft Sessions Open Mic • 5pm • POKI POKI CEVICHERIA WESTSIDE Brain Gang Trivia • 7pm • FREE • 21+ FREE • 15+ MONDAY PONDEROSA BREWING COMPANY The Draft Sessions Open MAY 6 Mic • 7pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREW PUB TAPROOM Open Mic with TRACTOR BREWING CO. Tom Bennett One Man Band • folk, one Rob Roman • 6pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! man band • 7pm • FREE • 21+ CANTEEN TAPROOM Brain Gang Trivia • noon • FREE • 18+ TRACTOR BREWING FOUR HILLS Geeks Who Drink • 7pm • FREE • CRAVIN’ COOKIES ... AND MORE! Oxygen on Embers • folk, 21+ grunge, country • 5:30pm • $15 • ALL-AGES! COMEDY LAUNCHPAD Acid Mothers Temple • psychedelic, Japanese • RED DOOR BREWING DOWNTOWN TAPROOM Casual Yamataka • Sonic Titan • Sun Dog • rock • 9pm Wednesdays Open Mic • Royal Wood • Kevin Baca • 7:30pm • FREE • 21+ RED DOOR BREWING CO. Geeks Who Drink • 7pm • FREE • 21+ TRACTOR BREWING CO. Old-Time Jam • 7:30pm • FREE • 21+ TUESDAY MAY 7 BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREW PUB, Rio Rancho Open Mic with Spiral Pilots • 6pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! CANTERO BREWING COMPANY Vinyl Night Out • bring your own records • 6pm • ALL-AGES! CORRALES BISTRO BREWERY, Corrales The Dudes • rock • 7pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! HIGH AND DRY BREWING Julian Dossett • Western swing, blues, jazz, rockabilly • 6pm • Chris Twist • country, rock • Jason Steady • 8pm • FREE • 21+ KILT CHECK BREWING COMPANY Geeks Who Drink • 7pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! LAUNCHPAD Carnifex • deathcore • Oceano • 7:15pm MOLLY’S BAR, Tijeras Acoustic Open Mic Hosted by Steve Kinabrew • 6pm • FREE • 21+ PLACITAS CAFE, Placitas John Urban • folk, blues • 6pm RED DOOR BREWING COMPANY BYOV: Bring Your Own Vinyl • TUESDAY MAY 7 6pm • FREE • 21+ O’NIELL’S PUB, Nob Hill TRACTOR BREWING WELLS PARK Kamikaze Karaoke • 8pm • Tuesday Homie Hangout • Anthony J Martinez • Greg FREE • 21+ Ziomek • stand-up comedy • 8pm • FREE • ALL-AGES!

Compiled by Ashli Kesali. Submit your events at alibi.com/events. MAY 2-8, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [17] FOUND OBJECTS ARTS | INTERVIEW BY CLARKE CONDÉ The Opening Seen Street-Level New Mexico The Photography of Jessica Roybal PHOTO BY BRIAN MILLER BY CLARKE CONDÉ

essica Roybal possesses a rare advantage as a Jphotographer; she lives somewhere interesting. As an architecture student, she Photography from the exhibit Albuquerque: came to photography to better understand how A City Seen buildings interact with the street. As a New Out of a group of local photographers regularly Mexican, she already knew what was there. brought together to share photography books If Roybal were in Los Angeles or New over a pint a beer comes a group show opening York, her career as a photographer might be this Friday, May 3 from 5pm to 8pm in the west wing atrium of the Domenici Center for Health very different (read: far more commercially Sciences Education on the UNM North Campus. successful), but she is in New Mexico and An unexpected but spacious location for a proud of it. Her work is about this place, this photography exhibit, photographers Tyler culture and the people. Roybal has launched Green, Brian Miller, Roberto Rosales, Justin Instagram channels and captained teams of Thor Simenson and Nick Tauro Jr. offer exceptional selections from their deep archives photographers through international for Albuquerque: A City Seen. This event is free photography projects with the aim of and open to the public. showing the world a street-level view of our city, yet has oddly faced challenges from some of New Mexico’s largest established Considering a Move to Georgia promoters of the state’s culture for simply There is no cure for color blindness, but a trying to show her work and the work of Hotel Blue JESSCIA ROYBAL company out of Berkeley, California has developed a color filtering lens they claim will other photographers. of that, the streetscape began to inform my allow many of the estimated 300 million people Weekly Alibi sat down with Jessica Roybal to studies, because you have to study what New Mexico’s Finest with the genetic condition to see the vibrant talk about her inspirations, her new show buildings are doing to the street and how they A Photography Exhibit of colors that have eluded them since birth. and her problems at the New Mexico State are responding to the street. Finding, again, Jessica Roybal Partnering with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Fair. The following is an edited version of Opening Friday, May 3, 5pm-8pm (217 Johnson St., Santa Fe), EnChroma will be those moments of light and where things are on hand at the museum to demonstrate their that conversation. coming through and the lines. I am definitely The Boiler Monkey new corrective glasses on Friday, May 3 from drawn to shadows and lines. I love it. 600 Central Ave. SW 10am to 7pm. Glasses will be available at the Weekly Alibi: Has anyone called you an Then from the streetscape, I went to the signs. museum for visitors to try for themselves from architectural critic as a photographer? I was along Route 66 going to the school of There were a group of photographers that this day forward. Bonus, New Mexico residents Jessica Roybal: I got drawn to photography as get into the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum free on architecture. That quickly began to be a passion. I were in that. this, and every, first Friday on the month. For an architectural investigation. Then, as a part also started to develop a community of people more information, see okeeffemuseum.org. that were also affectionate about Route 66, the When was this? signs and chasing that. Growing up in northern This was last July. My friends with their low New Mexico there was also the culture that I riders came out. They all showed their support Stuck in the Middle come from looking at the cars. Now all of the for showing their photos, photos of them. Betwixt is not a new word for the departure sudden I’m like “Wow, the cars have the fonts the extension period granted the British by the European Union, but rather where you will find signs and the streets have.” What is in this show? Jesse J. Davila in his thinking at the solo show It’s what I think of as staying true to my New On the Topic of Infinity which he has described Old car photographs can be a nostalgic Mexico self with cars in the landscape and as “both melancholic and hopeful,” opening this trope, as can signs, but you’ve approached objects as well. I’ve done this wheat paste Friday, May 3 at Vitrine Gallery (214 Sixth them in a modern way. Was that intentional? Street SW). Davila says, “My artwork is a process where I got these doors from the Habitat formalist response to the harmony and Are you heading in a direction Restore and I apply these rice paper printed peculiarities I see from my position in the middle photographically? images onto the doors. I’m trying to make it of faith and science.” Indeed. This free, all-ages, I don’t think I really have a plan. It’s hard some more artistic and not so refined and ridged. artist’s reception happens from 6pm to 9pm. days where you’re like “what can I find in my For more information, see vitrineabq.com. everyday that is inspiring me to take a Do you want to say something about the photograph and share it.” I try to be true to myself New Mexico State Fair and how you were And Also with You with the images that I share on social media. It’s treated? Folks in China will likely spend the day trying to how I feel or what I am feeling. The same thing happened with New Mexico sort out the complicated legacy of Chen Duxiu True. When I first moved back to on this 100th anniversary of the May Fourth You consider yourself an Instagram Albuquerque, I started Igersabq [the Instagram Movement that turned China’s young photographer? nationalism red in the face of a new imperial group @Igersabq] and they were using all the threat borne out of the Treaty of Versailles, but I am an Instagram photographer. I have my other photographer’s images on their social media here in Albuquerque you can say, “may the cameras that I’ll pull out, but I don’t share that and not giving credit. forth be with you” all day long at the May The work on my social media. I need to do it instantly. 4th/Free Comic Book Day Block Party at Red I don’t have time to go and edit or polish. Who was? Planet Books & Comics (1002 Park Ave. SW). It’s a block party with Star Wars stuff, comic New Mexico True. They get tons of money books, bands and face painting on Saturday, Tell me about your new show. from the state to market our state and were May 4 from 10am to 8pm. For more information This is my second show with the Albuquerque pulling free images off of Instagram and not about this free, all-ages event, see Art Walk. We did a show called Cruising that crediting. Not even saying “at so and so.” redplanetbooksabq.com. VW Soul JESSCIA ROYBAL was based on cars and the culture of cruising. That’s when I started Igersabq. I was feeling

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Canova Cruisin’ JESSCIA ROYBAL very defensive about the community. That was well, that I was in the wrong and that I put three or four years ago. them in a really bad position because I put someone’s photo in there without their So, the fair. permission. I’ve been shooting low riders and the community of low riders because I feel like it’s their passion. A The curatorial people at the state fair lot of times, these guys could be in gangs, but were unaware how photography works? instead they find these families in their low rider Apparently. When I arrived, of course, he is communities and they support one another. It’s yelling at me. The fair is operating, but the not a cheap habit. I have respect for them and gallery is closed. they’ve gotten to know me. I’ll chase them around town because I want to capture them on the street that’s modern with this old, cool car. I’ve been They don’t know how to walk a belligerent doing that for years and most of them have already person out of the fair? gotten to know me pretty well. Except, I don’t It was way too much. I had to confront him really shoot the ’90s cars and I happened to shoot and say, “Here’s my card. If you want to call this Cadillac on hydros. That image was printed, it me or you want an attorney to call me, here, was part of the Cruising show then I entered it in but you’re not taking this piece. I invested the state fair in September [2018]. Unfortunately, money and time in this and you’re in the the gentleman that saw the photo went into the wrong. You need to go read the law.” I had a Hispanic Arts Cultural Center and reacted so few other photos [of people in the fair] and poorly that they actually even had to close the they were proud. This guy he just was in the gallery. He was demanding that the photo be wrong. The state police had to come. They given to him because it was a photo of him that he were like, “No sir. If I’m standing on the street, did not acknowledge or give rights for me to take somebody can take a picture of me and there is his photo. nothing I can do about it.” So, he was escorted [out of the fair]. I left with my piece because But this was shot out in the street. they took it down and said I was putting them It was shot right on Central on a Sunday. He said at risk. he was unaware of me taking his photograph when he is actually throwing up a peace sign and looking at my camera. Did anyone call to apologize? Yes. The marketing person [for the fair] was Nobody should have an expectation of like, “I’m sorry this happened. Please bring the privacy when they are on Central. piece back. We were in the wrong.” Right. Unfortunately, the gallery curator did not put him in his place. He was able to escalate. The curator was not the one who Security had to be called. I was actually called on contacted you, it was the marketing my cell phone and told you need to come here or people for the state fair. else we are going to give him your photo. Yes.

They were going to actually hand your Will you ever put anything in the state fair photograph over to him? ever again? Yes. Because they felt like it belonged to him as I’m not sure. a

MAY 2-8, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [19] WEEKLY SPECIALS FOOD | RESTAURANT REVIEW BY DAN PENNINGTON Brews and Noodz Oni Noodles is back at it again, bringing their tasty Vara-way From Ordinary hot ramen and fresh dumplings to a brewery near you, this time at Marble Downtown (111 Marble Ave. NW). Featuring all your favorite Marble Vara preps food service launch beers, such as the Double White, Wildflower Wheat, Cholo Stout and the India Pale Ale, you’re going to be at a loss for what to try pairing with BY DAN PENNINGTON your noodles first. You can find them at Marble Downtown May 5, from noon-4pm, and this would be a fantastic way to kick off your Cinco de Mayo ne of my favorite things about Albuquerque celebration. Ois our food truck scene. Several magical factors came together to cause the explosion of food trucks we saw out here. First off, we had Sorelle Mia! more craft breweries pop up than we knew what Three Sisters Kitchen (109 Gold Ave. SW) is to do with, and most opted out of doing any food making Italian cooking simple for the masses. The service at all. Second, processing credit cards month of May will feature four separate classes on how to make your own pasta. From fresh egg outside of a storefront became very easy with the pasta dough to eggless pasta dough, from raviolis rise of Square and other card-processing apps. to lasagna, you’ll get hands-on experience with Third, many people found that a shift away from important steps for making your own pasta. This covers the creation of the dough, molding it, traditional dining experiences was happening, cooking it and pairing it with sauces, so by the time and being able to set up wherever they wanted you leave, you can authentically bunch your allowed them to continually reach new markets. fingers together and shout “È molto buono” and All of this is being done at a significantly make your grandmother proud. For more information, go to threesisterskitchen.org. reduced cost compared to opening a full restaurant, and it makes a lot of sense why it became a bit of a overnight phenomenon. Bring A Blanket I mention this because one of my all-time Tasty Tuesday is back, and if you don’t know what favorite food trucks, Malagueña’s Latin Tapas, that is, you have been missing out on picnic party- which has been making waves in the local food time at the park! The perfect way to spend these truck scene since 2017, made a surprising gorgeous spring afternoons and evenings, Tasty announcement recently: They found a Tuesday fills Hyder Park (700 Pershing Ave. SE) permanent home at Vara Wines. While a part of with food trucks, music, events and so much more, me is sad I won’t be able to accidentally stumble creating the city’s largest community picnic. There ERIC WILLIAMS PHOTOGRAPHY are so many things to see, eat and do, but you’ll onto them while out drinking, a pleasant surprise Look at that cream dollop and tell me your mouth didn’t start watering. never know what they are unless you show up in made to brighten my evening, I couldn’t be more the first place. Tasty Tuesday happens every excited that they’ve partnered to develop a full- Vara Wines At the same time, I was delivered the Tuesday (surprise!) from 4:30pm until sundown, time food program for Vara. Ceviche Mixto ($15) and a glass of the so you have plenty of time to get there, grab a nice They’ve been doing a brunch service for a 315 Alameda Blvd. NE Silverhead Brut Cava. Not one to turn away a seat and enjoy some of Albuquerque’s unique food month at Vara, but I hadn’t yet had a chance to 898-6280 truck offerings. glass of anything with alcohol in it, I first had to check it out. This weekend was my first time at varawines.com stop and marvel at the sight of it. With a rich the Vara winery, though I’m familiar with their Hours: Sunday Noon-3, golden color and the signature excess of bubbles wines. Vara has been part of the New Mexico Wednesday - Friday 5-8pm that cavas are known for, it was a truly Do It For Mom community since 2014, specializing in Spanish Vibe: Laid back get-together picturesque drink. A gorgeous crown on top, it and American wines. They’ve done a wonderful spot for group outings was light and reminded me of a high-end job getting out into the community, especially Alibi recommends: Everything. But champagne; as well it should, as cava and with local restaurants, and that has helped to especially the Ceviche Mixto champagne share a lot of similarities but the cement them as a recognizable brand in New and Papas Bravas. distinct difference is that cava is typically slightly Mexico. Pulling up to the winery, I see the fruitier while not as intensely dry as most champagnes. The Silverhead Brut was the familiar truck parked next to the patio, with food bite, and you feel a hole in your heart when you perfect drink to accompany a Sunday brunch. coming out of the back at a remarkable pace and see the tub empty. No fried potato should be this The Ceviche Mixto was on a whole other a sizeable crowd in the dining area. amazing. level though. Featuring Hamachi yellowtail tuna, Malagueña’s was the creation of Javier and Thankfully, they brought a glass of Vara’s Molly Montaño, who are the most delightful shrimp, charred lime, aji amarillo, a chile Garnacha Rosado, a delicate rose with a more coconut juice, and cucumber, onion and people you could ever hope to meet. Talking intensely dark color than you normally see in a with them, you can tell that food is their passion. chicarrones, this dish was stunning. The lime rosé. It was fruity, strong-bodied and honestly and coconut juice never once overpowered the From the best and freshest ingredients to very refreshing. Not one to try a scene by bringing exciting new flavors to life with local flavor of the fish, only helping accentuate natural pounding a glass of wine, I continued to nurse it flavors present in the dish. I’m not big on fish flair, the food on offer is a true breath of fresh air as the rest of the food arrived. in the culinary scene that is rarely seen to this normally, but this was so fantastic and clearly Speaking of, the Spanish French Toast ($7) fresh that I couldn’t stop myself from going back extent around town. hit the table, and I couldn’t believe the size of it. Mountain Mahogany Community School (5014 Take for example their Papas Bravas ($5). On for another bite. You would be doing a disservice Fourth Street NW) is holding a Mothers’ Day Pop There were five or six slices coated in cinnamon to yourself by not trying it when you’re there. the surface, it’s fried Yukon gold potatoes with a sugar, surrounded by strawberries and topped Up Brunch on Sunday, May 12 starting at smoked tomato aioli. That changes the second it So, what’s next for Javier and Molly? On May 10:30am. This brunch will benefit MMCS, a with a huge dollop of cava whipped cream. The 1, they are officially launching full dinner service tuition-free K-8 charter school. Featuring a menu hits your tongue, when the spices that are tossed toast itself was heavenly, with a light crunch on by guest chefs Mary Holyoke and James Pizzo, in take over. Immediately a soft heat consumes on top of their brunch offerings on Sunday, while the outside and a soft interior, and the coating of continuing to offer paella on special Friday this specially curated event menu will be sure to your mouth, and you feel your taste buds come the cinnamon sugar helped accentuate the taste impress your mother and give back to the alive. You’ve never had potatoes seasoned so nights. It’s hard to imagine two people being able community at the same time. You may remember of the bread. Add the huge, fresh strawberries to create such a diverse offering without slipping perfectly before—where you’re not overwhelmed into the mix with the cream all in one bite, and Holyoke as the chef who opened Café Bubbles but delighted by the combination of flavors from somewhere, yet they manage to continually back in the late ‘90s. Tickets are $25 per person you could find yourself transported to a happy impress and exceed any reasonable expectation or $15 for anyone 16 and under. For more just the seasoning. Immediately after, the aioli place, free of the cares of the world. It’s not like information on how to get your space reserved, comes through and cools that heat just enough for excellence, providing some of the best food in any other French toast I’ve had before, with the this city. I’m looking forward to spending more visit mountainmahogany.org or call 341-1424. a to bring you back safely from the journey your sweetness factor kicked up a notch to something mouth just took. This happens on every single time at Vara Wines and eating my way to delightful and sublime. happiness. a

[20] WEEKLY ALIBI MAY 2-8, 2019 FOOD | FOOD EVENTS You Can Taste the Excitement Taste of Nob Hill offers culinary tour of the best on offer

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BY DAN PENNINGTON for some of the best local beer you can find, so have no fear about pairing your favorite drink with a newfound favorite food. Hops Brewery, ith the weather finally safe enough to go which is still relatively new (two years young) to Woutside without freezing, being blown over the craft brewing scene, is listed as pouring for the or getting rained on, we have finally hit the event. They recently won an award for their Hop season where Nob Hill is swarmed with street Hill IPA, so if you’ve never checked them out events. One of the big ones kicking off the season before, Taste of Nob Hill is a great opportunity to is the Taste of Nob Hill, the small food festival do so. celebrating the latest and greatest in our favorite How does this all work? With the purchase of Albuquerque neighborhood (but don’t tell the your ticket (more on that in a second), you’ll be other neighborhoods, they’ll get jealous.) Let’s dig allocated a number of sample tickets that can be into the meat of this, with some of the big names, used to purchase pretty much anything available what to expect, where to be and whether or not to try at the event, with food being 1 to 2 tickets, you need to be there. beer being 5 and non-alcoholic beverages being 1 Taste of Nob Hill has been around for three to 3 tickets each. Additional tickets can be years now, a product of continued efforts by Nob grabbed at $1 per ticket. Thankfully, your ticket Hill Main Street. For those who don’t know purchase already comes with sample tickets, so about the Main Street program, it’s part of a you’ll be set to jump in and go right from the national program to help revitalize communities start. around the US through the use of community Your entry fee is currently $15 (jumping to action to help guide the direction of the $20 day of) if you’re 13 or older, and it comes neighborhood. For the last decade, the continued with 15 sample tickets right off the bat. Children growth of the Nob Hill community can be 12 and under get in for free but they still will need attributed to the guidance and assistance of this sample tickets to try anything, unless they are organization, especially their focus on creating super good at being cute and manipulating booth amazing events to highlight the neighborhood vendors (no guarantees on this working or being and drive more foot traffic to it. an effective eating strategy; results will vary from Touted as featuring 15 to 20 different food child to child.) You could also spring the extra vendors, your options to truly “taste” Nob Hill are cash to get a ticket for the HB Lounge, sponsored going to be many and varied. Currently, the listed by HB Construction. For $75, you get 40 sample vendors are Chocolate Dude, Flying Star, tickets, access to the lounge, sofa seating, table O’Niell’s Pub, Ragin’ Shrimp, Slice Parlor, The service (don’t tip them in sample tickets) and Last Call, Zinc Wine Bar & Bistro, The Farmacy, close proximity to the music stage. Safari Grill, Tractor Brewing and more, so you What music stage you ask? Oh, of course, the will be spoiled with choice on how you want to music stage we conveniently saved until the end get your food experience. to talk about! Featured musicians from Rock 101 Worried about overeating and putting on NM Music Academy will be performing, as well weight while you’re getting that good-looking as local favorite filthy mangy jazz band Le Chat summer body ready? Fear not! This event has the Lunatique. If you’ve never gotten the chance to whole of Silver Avenue between Tulane and hear Le Chat Lunatique live, that’s reason enough Amherst blocked off to create the perfect to make the trip, as they are extraordinarily thoroughfare of dining delights, so expect to get talented and fun to listen to. your steps in and burn a decent amount of those So, when is this awesome shindig going down? calories. Much like the location off of Central, it’s right Speaking of calories, drinking will be a big around the corner, May 4. It’ll be going on from part of this event (not too big, there’s no napping noon to 3pm, so you can take advantage of the in the middle of the street) featuring two of the amazing weather, fantastic food, local drinks and largest breweries in Nob Hill, Tractor Brewing local music. For more information, check out Company and Bosque Brewing. Both are known their event on Facebook. a MAY 2-8, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [21] REEL WORLD FILM | FILM REVIEW BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY May the Fourth Sunset This coming Saturday is May 4—which may not mean a lot to a lot of people, but it’s a special date for serious Star Wars fans. May the 4th Disorienting history lesson trades clarity for chaos (as in “May the Force be with you”) is the day on which we celebrate all things Star Wars- related. And what better way to celebrate the date than by watching George Lucas’ original 1977 space opera Star Wars (aka Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope)? New Mexico Museum of Natural History Foundation and the Albuquerque Film & Music Experience host a screening of that very film in the NMMNH’s DynaTheater (1801 Mountain Road NW) starting at 2pm. Tickets are $10 for general admission or $7.50 for AFME sponsors and NMMNH members. Costumes are, of course, encouraged. The best dressed Jedi (or Sith or bounty hunters or whatever) take home free passes to AFME 2019. If that’s not enough for you, Albuquerque’s Central and Unser Library (8081 Central Ave. NW) hosts a day-long celebration featuring crafts, games, prizes and a screening of Solo: A Star Wars Story from noon to 5:30pm. (See this issue’s “Event Horizon” for more information on that one.) Booking Bad Bookworks (4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW) welcomes back the stars of locally lensed crime dramedy “Better Call Saul” for an evening of reading and meeting. Bob Odenkirk (“Saul Goodman”) and Rhea Seehorn (“Kim Wexler”) return for the “Second Annual Better Call Saul Book Club.” The two actors share their favorite “This looks like a job for … my fabulous hat!” recent reads with audience members. There will be a Q&A, dramatic readings and at least one BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY Sunset setting, she’s got the look and feel of a silent “special guest.” This is a free event, but seating film star. Without her as our guide, we’d be is limited. The store closes at 5pm. Attendees Written and directed by László Nemes considerably more lost in this darkly may line up beginning at 6pm. The book club s follow-up to his Academy Award- Starring Juli Jakab, Vlad Ivanov, Levente impressionistic world. starts at 7pm. To take a look at the books winning 2015 debut, Son of Saul, writer- Molnár Over the course of Nemes’ long Odenkirk and Seehorn are talking about A Rated R director László Nemes trades post-World perambulation, Irisz’ meandering, dreamlike (including Cherry: A Novel by Nico Walker, Opens Friday 5/3. Everything is Just Fine by Brett Paesel and A War II Hungary for pre-World War I Hungary. journey takes in a city (and a country and, Load of Hooey by Bob Odenkirk), go to Audacious and sprawling and more than a by extension, a world) churning with chaos bkwrks.com/better-call-saul-book-club-2019. little disorienting, Sunset is unlikely to and crumbling. Class warfare is brewing in and violence. She meets various menacing achieve quite the same level of praise as his the streets, stripping away the remaining figures (everybody in this place seems on the vestiges of 19th century civility. Anarchists first film. (Son of Saul also captured a BAFTA verge of attacking, killing or dismembering Theater, By the Book are meeting in shadowy locations, plotting somebody)—none of whom provide her with Award, a Golden Globe and the Grand Prix The historic KiMo Theatre in downtown explosive action. Amid all this upheaval, Írisz any concrete or satisfying information about Albuquerque gets its due this Wednesday, May du Jury at Cannes Film Festival.) Nonetheless, is determined to figure out what happened her family or her brother’s brutal crime. 8, with a special book launch celebration for it showcases more than enough cinematic skill with her missing brother. Ultimately, Sunset isn’t about answers— KiMo Theatre: Fact & Folklore. This freshly to impress patient foreign film aficionados. published work of nonfiction is a long- Nemes (with an assist, no doubt, from which, for many, will make this a germinating project of SouthWest Writers, a Our central focus here is Írisz Leiter (Juli cinematographer Mátyás Erdély) has a frustrating 2-hour-and-22-minute mystery. local nonprofit organization dedicated to Jakab), a bold 20-year-old orphan who arrives Kubrick-like confidence in his camera work. Instead, Sunset plays out as a string of helping both published and unpublished in 1910 Budapest looking for work. She’s not The film’s visual focus is dialed down almost unanswered questions and nightmare authors. The book is a collection of “newly told after just any job, mind you. This laser-focused exclusively on Írisz. Shot in a string of scenarios. It doesn’t take a lot of cogitation stories, articles, insights, opinions, never- gal wants to work at the renowned millinery intimate close-ups with the backgrounds to figure out that the random chaos and before-heard remembrances and researched shop started by and named after her parents facts” about the KiMo Theatre as a performing blurred by the soft-focus of a shallow depth of disorder of Nemes’ storytelling is meant to arts theater and as a movie palace. Past (who died under mysterious circumstances field, Sunset follows dutifully after its heroine, serve as a metaphor for the building employees, elected officials, performers and when she was a baby). The current owner often looking over her shoulder from behind anarchy and pandemonium of the audience members share remembrances of the (Vlad Ivanov) is reluctant to bring her on as she navigates the tumult-filled streets of impending World War. But just how deeply theater’s construction, its famous owners and board for various reasons (partially, of course, Budapest. The agility of Nemes’ 35mm Nemes’ metaphor digs is questionable. the city’s vote to buy and preserve the building because she might have a claim on the camera (actual film, not digital) as it sticks “War is chaotic” and “terrible things take in 1977, as well as the building’s subsequent business). She also discovers that she may like glue to the back of Írisz’ extravagant hats place behind beautiful facades” seem like renovation and rebirth. The book launch party have a long lost brother—who may have takes place from 6:30 to 9pm at the KiMo (423 is impressive. shallow observations, really. Anyone with a Central Ave. NW). The Kalpulli Ehecatl Aztec brutally murdered a local nobleman. Jakab herself makes for a mesmerizing strong understanding of the art of film will Dancers, New Mexico Young Actors, the Ballet For those unversed in history, 1910 leading lady—which is a good thing, as she’s on recognize that Sunset is the work of a Repertory Theatre of New Mexico and the Budapest finds the Austro-Hungarian Empire screen for nearly every scene. She says little master filmmaker. But by digging into his Watermelon Mountain Jug Band will be on hand perched on the knife-edge of World War I. over the course of the film, but expresses country’s complicated history, the for the event. There will also be a silent auction (Spoiler alert: That little dustup didn’t work much—thanks largely to her arresting facial filmmaker—much like his camera—may of KiMo memorabilia and other items. out so well for that particular chunk of be a little too close to the subject to Admission is free and open to the public. a features, which seem somehow larger than her Europe.) The country’s monarchy is corrupt actual head. Appropriately for the temporal offer a particularly clear perspective. a [22] WEEKLY ALIBI MAY 2-8, 2019 TELEVISION | IDIOT BOX BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY What the Heart Wants “Chambers” on Netflix

hot right here in Albuquerque (the dustier, Scarlett Reid). But the regular exposure to dirtier parts, anyway) but set in Arizona, Becky’s friends and family only leave her with S more questions. How did Becky actually die? Netflix’s supernatural horror-drama “Chambers” shows up riding the crest of its Why is Sasha getting strange visions of Becky’s parent company’s recent acquisition of ABQ old life in Crystal Valley? And why is she Studios. That means, of course, that New suddenly such a whiz at statistics—just like Mexico viewers are about to see a lot more local Becky? Naturally Sasha is forced to do the sights in their televisual future. Nancy Drew thing to figure out what all the “Chambers” centers on Native American shady-acting folks around her are hiding about high schooler Sasha Yazzie (earthy, naturalistic Becky’s life and untimely death. newbie Sivan Alyra Rose). She lives in the As the show goes on, Sasha finds herself medium-small Four Corners town of increasingly driven by impulses she can’t Cottonwood with her uncle, Big Frank (Marcus understand or control. As you’ve no doubt LaVoi), who owns a low-rent aquarium store already surmised, the show is basically the latest (actually Don’s Paperback Book Exchange on in a long line of “donated body parts possess an San Mateo). While attempting to lose her innocent victim” films (Hands of a Stranger, The virginity to her track-running boyfriend (Griffin Hand, Body Parts, The Eye, Idle Hands). The Powell-Arcand), Sasha suffers a freak, near-fatal characters and setting at least give it a unique heart attack. Several months later, she returns vibe. to school with a brand new donor heart beating Though it bills itself as a horror series, behind the massive scar on her ribcage. “Chambers” is more of a dark, moody, slow- One day, out of the blue, the parents of the moving mystery. It’s loaded down with red dead teenager who passed her young heart on to herrings and weighty portents (ominous dust Sasha show up. Reluctantly, Sasha agrees to storms, freakishly prescient homeless people, have dinner at their house. Turns out Ben and gory dreams, Morrissey songs). If only the show Nancy Lefevre (Tony Goldwyn and Uma kept a better pace. After meandering around for Thurman, the show’s big-name costars) are a most of its run time and growing increasingly couple of rich New Agers who live in posh “Twin Peaks”-weird about its central mystery, nearby Crystal Valley (think Sedona, Ariz.). “Chambers” gets down and dirty and super Before the awkward night is over, they’ve mystical in its final eps. The twists are enough offered Sasha a scholarship to their daughter’s to wake you up, but leave most of the show’s upscale high school. (Evidently Sasha’s too middle section feeling like filler. Although it young to pick up on the strong Rosemary’s Baby has its moments of creepy anticipation, visual vibe mom and dad are giving off.) verve and dramatic weight, “Chambers” (to say Under the prodding of her loving but broke nothing of the second season threatened in the uncle, Sasha agrees to wake up at 5am every finale) would probably have worked better as a morning and take a bus to snobby Crystal one-off feature film. a Valley High (complete with fencing clubs, nap rooms and racist mascot). Soon she’s enmeshed Season 1 of “Chambers” is available now for in the life of poor, dead Becky Lefevre (Lilliya streaming on Netflix.

“Flinch” (Netflix streaming anytime) MONDAY 6 THE WEEK IN ’Member “Fear Factor”? Well, here it is with a different title. “Chernobyl” (HBO 7pm) Jared “Tuca & Bertie” (Netflix streaming Harris, Stellan Skarsgard and SLOTH anytime) Lisa Hanawalt (production Emily Watson star in this designer and producer on “BoJack dramatization of the infamous Horseman”) is the creator of this 1986 nuclear accident and its similarly anthropomorphic animated aftermath in the Soviet Ukraine. THURSDAY 2 sitcom about “the friendship of two “State of the Union” (Sundance 30-year-old bird women who live in 11pm) Nick Hornby (High “2019 Miss USA” (KRQE-DT2 7pm) I the same apartment building.” Tiffany Fidelity, About a Boy) and feel like, rather than choosing the Haddish and Ali Wong provide the Stephen Frears (Dangerous most attractive pageant contestant, titular voices. Liaisons, The Grifters) are the executive producers of this we should be choosing the woman comedy series about a recently who best personifies the year in SATURDAY 4 separated couple (Rosamund question. … In which case, Miss Pike from Gone Girl and Chris USA 2019 would be one messed-up “The Disappearance of Susan Cox O’Dowd from “The IT Crowd”) who broad. Powell” (Oxygen 8pm) The meet at a local pub before their disappearance and presumed murder weekly marital therapy sessions. of Utah mother Susan Powell in 2009 FRIDAY 3 has garnered a lot of media attention. Suspiria (Amazon streaming Here, Oxygen goes the true-crime TUESDAY 7 anytime) This remake of Dario route, investigating various theories about the still-unsolved case. “Texicanas” (Bravo 11pm) Basic Argento’s 1977 masterpiece by cable’s latest reality show look director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me into the lives of annoying, rich By Your Name) is boring in some SUNDAY 5 and overprivileged Americans parts and incomprehensibly arty in who like to yell at one another others. But there are moments amid Psycho Stripper (Lifetime 6pm) A week heads to Texas to point cameras the “WTF”ery in which he hits on before her wedding, a young bride at a group of Latina ladies. some shockingly visceral imagery. finds herself stalked by the “brooding, Among those we’ll be spending Dakota Johnson (50 Shades of sexy, exotic male dancer” from her time with are a “perfectionist,” a Grey) stars as the innocent bachelorette party. Lady, you really “social butterfly,” a “daddy’s girl” American student who lands a should have hired yourself one of and the owner of an “upscale scholarship to a West Berlin dance those well-grounded, emotionally nightclub.” academy filled with avant-garde stable strippers. witches. “The Spanish Princess” (Starz 6pm) WEDNESDAY 8 “Dead to Me” (Netflix streaming Based on the books The Constant anytime) Christina Applegate and Princess and The King’s Curse by “Lucifer” (Netflix streaming Linda Cardellini star in this black Philippa Gregory, this British-American anytime) FOX’s supernatural comedy about a hotheaded widow series follows the life of Catherine of crime series (based loosely on searching for the hit-and-run driver Aragon, the teenage princess of Spain the comic by Neil Gaiman) hops who mowed down her husband. who was promised to the English over to Netflix for Season 4. a throne since she was a child. MAY 2-8, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [23] FILM | CAPSULES BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY NEW Avner the Eccentric! Geniuses at Play The American Vaudeville Museum and the Albu- querque Film Club present this collection of segments from the one-man shows of Avner Eisenberg, a classi- cal physical comedian and clown. 90 minutes. Un- rated. (Opens Saturday 5/4 at Guild Cinema) Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy- Blaché In 1894, at the age of 21, Alice Guy-Blaché started in France’s freshly forming motion picture industry. Within two years she was head of production and a star director at Gaumont Studios. This documentary by Pamela B. Green is both a tribute and a detective story, tracking down the circumstances surrounding a pioneering female filmmaker whose name and 1,000 or so films have been largely lost to history. 103 min- utes. Unrated. (Opens Saturday 5/4 at Guild Cinema) Butterfly Kisses This found footage horror flick plays out like a docu- mentary within a documentary. A Baltimore-based wedding videographer uncovers a shoebox full of tapes that seem to contain real-life footage of disturb- ing acts related to a local urban legend known as “The Peeping Tom.” A quest to find the person who made the tapes leads our protagonist down a very dark rabbit hole. 91 minutes. Unrated. (Opens Friday 5/3 at Guild Cinema) Long Shot Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;Surrection guy premise from Knocked Up. It’s ridiculous, of Batman Returns (1992) chance of survival by doctors. But mom and dad stay The popular anime series gets a feature spin-off, tak- course, but the laughs are surprisingly solid. 125 min- Director Tim Burton had a hell of a lot of fun with this by his bedside praying for a miracle. This religious ing place after the 2006 series and its 2008 sequel. utes. R. (Opens Thursday 5/2 at Century 14 Down- darkly cartoonish 1992 superhero film. Michael Keaton drama is based on the best-selling Christian book The In an alternate Earth timeline, the Holy Empire of Bri- town, Century Rio, Flix Brewhouse, Icon Cinemas is Batman, of course, who is tasked with saving Gotham Impossible: The Miraculous Story of a Mother’s Faith tannia has conquered the country known as Japan Albuquerque, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Cotton- City from the grotesque Penguin (Danny DeVito) and the and Her Child’s Resurrection. So, spoiler alert: He and now call it Area 11. Its residents lost their rights wood Stadium 16, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX, sexy Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer). 126 minutes. PG-13. doesn’t die. Topher Grace (“That ’70s Show”) plays a to self-govern and are now called Elevens. The Empire AMC Albuquerque 12) (Century 14 Downtown, Cottonwood Stadium 16, Win- pastor. 116 minutes. PG. (Century Rio, Century 14 uses powerfully destructive robotic weapons called rock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) Downtown, AMC Albuquerque 12, Rio Rancho Pre- Knightmares to ensure control. Two years after the SISKA: Stabat Mater Dolorosa miere Cinema, Cottonwood Stadium 16, Winrock Sta- death of Lelouch VI Britannia, his sister Nunnally VI Radical and divisive Polish musician SISKA is the “fu- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) dium 16 IMAX & RPX) Britania and her bodyguard Zero find themselves the ture choreographic punk style” force behind this “per- It’s really just a wacky collection of absurd bits featuring targets of murderous mercenaries seeking to over- formative dream of making a movie.” Based on the the members of Monty Python (Cleese, Palin, Gilliam, Captain Marvel throw the empire. Screening in English dubbed and album of the same name, this visual narrative is de- Chapman, Idle and Jones) dressed up in medieval out- The new age of the Marvel Cinematic Universe begins English subtitled versions. 113 minutes. Unrated. scribed as “a dancing story about a girl returning to fits, acting out the story of Arthur and his Knights of the with something of a flashback. It’s the ’90s and a (Opens Sunday 5/5 at Century 14 Downtown, Cen- her childhood, when she dressed up as different Round Table. But damned if this classic British comedy young(er) Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) encounters tury Rio) women using her mother’s wardrobe.” It’s also “a tool isn’t a nonstop riot. 90 minutes. PG. (Icon Cinemas Al- one of the universe’s most powerful beings, an alien for reconstructing the scenes from youth,” a “baroque buquerque) soldier caught in a war with a shape-shifting race Diane farewell to all the glitter and unicorns” and “a bayonet known as the Kree. But is Captain Marvel (Brie Larson This intimate, wrenching drama marks the fictional slashing through modern times.” 90 minutes. Unrated. True Grit (1969) from Room) really an alien, or do her roots lie far writing-directing debut from longtime Film Comment (Opens Saturday 5/4 at Guild Cinema) John Wayne swaggers through one of his most memo- closer to Earth? 124 minutes. PG-13. (Century 14 critic Kent Jones. For aging Baby Boomer Diane (Mary rably roles as drunken, hard-assed US Marshall Rooster Downtown, Century Rio, AMC Albuquerque 12, Icon Kay Place) everyone else comes first. She spends her Sunset Cogburn, who teams up with a Texas Ranger (Glen Cinemas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, days checking on sick friends, volunteering at a local Reviewed this issue. 142 minutes. R. (Opens Friday Campbell) to help a stubborn teenager (Kim Darby) Cottonwood Stadium 16, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX soup kitchen and trying valiantly to save her drug-ad- 4/3 at High Ridge) hunt down her parents’ murderers in the Wild West. dicted adult son (Jake Lacy). But Diane’s routine of Robert Duvall and Dennis Hopper are in there as well. A & RPX) self-sacrifice is just an excuse to avoid the troubled UglyDolls late-in-the-game classic of the Western genre, hitting The Curse of La Llorona past she can’t forget and the internal conflicts tearing The quirky stuffed toys that started as a cottage in- theaters in time for its 50th anniversary. 128 minutes. G. Hispanic boogeyman (boogeywoman?) La Llorona, her world apart. 95 minutes. Unrated. (Opens Satur- dustry by David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim back in (Cottonwood Stadium 16, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & the ghost who patrols ditchbanks looking for wayward day 5/4 at Guild Cinema) 2001 then quickly became an overexposed pop cul- RPX) kids to drown, gets her own low-budget horror outing. tural juggernaut have finally been transformed into a Here, a well-meaning social worker (Linda Cardellini El Chicano CGI kids’ movie. Kelly Clarkson, Nick Jonas, Janelle from “Freaks and Geeks”) ignores the warnings of a A pair of twin brothers from East LA choose to live Monáe, Pitbull, Blake Shelton, Gabriel Iglesias, Bebe troubled mother suspected of child endangerment their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of Rexha and Charli XCX provide the voices. There’s a STILL PLAYING and finds herself and her own kids drawn into the the law. Like ya do. What starts out as a typical police message about … aw, you know, being true to yourself eerie supernatural realm of the weeping spook. Paul procedural, however, morphs into a superhero origin or standing out from the crowd or something. 91 min- After Rodriguez is in there somewhere too. 93 minutes. R. story when our cop discovers his late brother may utes. PG. (Opens Thursday 5/4 at Century 14 Down- Ralph Fiennes’ nephew Hero Fiennes Tiffin (no, really) (Century 14 Downtown, Century Rio, AMC Albu- have been the titular El Chicano, a malevolent ghost- town, Century Rio, AMC Albuquerque 12, Icon and Josephine Langford (Wolf Creek) star in this “new querque 12, Flix Brewhouse, Icon Cinemas Albu- like supernatural vigilante protecting Los Angeles by Cinemas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, adult romance” (it’s a thing) about a virginal college querque, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Cottonwood slaughtering the forces of evil. Frequent TV guest actor Cottonwood Stadium 16, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX freshman who falls for a hunky British bad boy with a Stadium 16, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) Raúl Castillo (“Looking,” “Seven Seconds,” “Atypical”) & RPX) “dark secret.” It’s basically Fifty Shades of Grey for teens stars. 107 minutes. R. (Opens Thursday 5/2 at Cen- and is based on the stupidly popular book series (origi- Dumbo tury 14 Downtown, Century Rio, Cottonwood Stadium nally published on the “social storytelling platform” Tim Burton helms the latest in Disney’s unstoppable 16, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX, AMC Albu- Wattpad) by Anna Todd. All her books are inspired by the parade of live-action remakes of animated classics. querque 12) RETURNING music and fandom of One Direction. (Honestly, I’m not Surprising no one, Burton opts for a much darker take making this up.) 106 minutes. PG-13. (Century Rio) on the classic 1941 cartoon. The screenplay by Ehren The Intruder Babylon (1980) Kruger (Scream 3, The Ring, Transformers: Revenge of A young African American couple (Michael Ealy, Mea- Never before released in America, this British musical Avengers: Endgame the Fallen, Ghost in the Shell) strips away most of the gan Good) buy a beautiful house on several acres of premiered at Cannes in 1980 where it was deemed It all comes down to this. After introducing dozens of familiar scenes, adding all sorts of complications land in Napa Valley, only to find out that the man they “too controversial, and likely to incite racial tension.” It heroic characters over the past 10 years, and setting up about wounded war vets, motherless children and evil bought it from refuses to let go of the property. Dennis follows a young reggae DJ (Brinsley Forde, frontman of the tragic circumstances of Avengers: Infinity War, the circus promoters. Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton and Quaid goes all evil for a change to play the stalker-like the British group Aswad) in Thatcher-era Brixton as he surviving Avengers (Captain America, Black Widow, Thor, Danny DeVito star. 112 minutes. PG. (Century 14 real estate seller in this domestic thriller. PG-13. pursues his musical ambitions. This forces him to con- Hawkeye, Iron Man, The Hulk) team up with the newly re- Downtown, Century Rio, AMC Albuquerque 12, Rio (Opens Thursday 5/2 at Century 14 Downtown, Cen- front the racism and xenophobia of employers, neigh- turned Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) to make one last Rancho Premiere Cinema, Cottonwood Stadium 16, tury Rio, Icon Cinemas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho Pre- bors, police and the National Front—all to a stand against death-loving alien threat Thanos (Josh Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) miere Cinema, Cottonwood Stadium 16, Winrock soundtrack of blistering dancehall, reggae, dub and Brolin). Basically everyone who’s ever been in a Marvel Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) lovers rock. 95 minutes. Unrated. (Guild Cinema) movie is part of this space-and-time-spanning epic. 181 Five Feet Apart minutes. PG-13. (Century Rio, Century 14 Downtown, From Romeo and Juliet to Love Story, teenagers have Long Shot Batman (1989) Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Icon Cinemas Albu- proven their affinity for people falling in love and dying An unemployed journalist (Seth Rogen) is hired as Tim Burton’s trend-starting version of Batman looks a querque, Flix Brewhouse, AMC Albuquerque 12, Winrock young. This romantic drama, starring Cole Sprouse ( head speechwriter by the secretary of state (Charlize little dated next to the epic, grim-faced action of Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX, Cottonwood Stadium 16) “The Suite Life of Zach and Cody,” “Riverdale”) and Theron) as she makes a run for the US presidency. Christopher Nolan’s more recent efforts. Still, it’s a Haley Lu Richardson (“Ravenswood,” Split), follows Turns out she used to babysit him decades ago and groundbreaker in the superhero genre, presenting col- Breakthrough two teenagers with cystic fibrosis who meet in a hos- was his first pubescent crush. Improbably but in- orful heroes, unforgettable villains and some knockout Tragedy strikes when Joyce Smith’s adopted son falls pital and fall in love. Unfortunately, thanks to their evitably, these two opposites find themselves at- action sequences. 126 minutes. PG-13. (Cottonwood through the ice on a frozen lake in Missouri. Trapped weakened immune systems, they must maintain the tracted to one another. It’s not much more than a Stadium 16, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) underwater for more than 15 minutes and rushed to titular distance between them. Expect to cry. 98 min- political arena update of Rogen’s hot girl/schlumpy a local hospital, the 14-year-old is given a slim utes. PG-13. (Cottonwood Stadium 16)

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Hellboy Apollo 11 British director Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers, The De- Documentarian Todd David Miller (The Last Steps) scent, Doomsday) helms this reboot of the supernat- Theater Contact Info: combs through some 11,000 hours of newly discov- ural action series based on Mike Mignola’s comic ered synched audio recordings, 16mm Mission Con- book of the same name. David Harbour (“Stranger AMC ALBUQUERQUE 12 trol films and previously unreleased 70mm footage Things”) takes over for Ron Perlman as the demonic 3810 Las Estancias Way SW • 544-2360 from the launch and recovery to compile this portrait superhero. In this outing, he’s battling an ancient sor- of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. 93 minutes. G. ceress (Milla Jovovich) bent on some apocalyptic re- CENTURY 14 DOWNTOWN (Movies 8, Movies West) 100 Central SW • 243-9555 venge. 120 minutes. R. (Century Rio) The Best of Enemies High Life Taraji P. Henson stars in this biographical drama about Robert Pattinson (Twilight) and French legend Juliette CENTURY RIO little-known civil rights activist Ann Atwater, who in Binoche (The English Patient) star in this edgy sci-fi I-25 & Jefferson • 343-9000 1971 went head-to-head with C.P. Ellis, the Exalted drama for French director Claire Denis (Chocolat, Grand Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan (played here by White Material, Beau Trevail). The occasionally mysti- COTTONWOOD STADIUM 16 Sam Rockwell), over the issue of school segregation. fying story finds wayward astronaut Pattinson on Cottonwood Mall • (844) 462-7342 ext. #607 Against all odds, she actually changed his mind, and board a slowly failing spaceship with only one other the two became close friends. 133 minutes. PG-13. survivor, a baby. The film’s fractured timeline mostly FLIX BREWHOUSE (Movies 8, Movies West) recalls what went wrong with the ill-fated mission 3236 La Orilla NW • 445-8500 (which involves some death row inmates, a black Fighting With My Family GUILD CINEMA Brit Stephen Merchant (“The Office,” “Extras”) writes hole and, uh … a lot of semen). Let’s just say things and directs this good-natured, big-hearted comedy- get very bad up in space. David Cronenberg levels of 3405 Central NE • 255-1848 drama based on the true story of Saraya “Paige” Bevis sex and violence aside, this transgressive sci-fi film (played here by Florence Pugh from Lady Macbeth). frequently recalls Andrei Tarkovsky’s minimalist mas- HIGH RIDGE Bevis came from a family of professional wrestlers in terpiece Solaris. 110 minutes. R. (Century Rio) 12910 Indian School NE • (844) 462-7342 ext. #605 Norfolk, England, and tried out for the WWE as a Little teenager alongside her brother—with the stipulation Hollywood, tired of remakes and reboots (sorta), is ICON CINEMAS ALBUQUERQUE that only one of them would get a contract. 108 min- now really getting into opposites. So what’s the oppo- 13120-A Central Ave. SE • 814-7469 utes. PG-13. (Movies 8) site of the smash hit Big, a bodyswap comedy about a young white boy who magically wakes up in the MOVIES 8 How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World 4591 San Mateo NE • 888-4773 The coming-of-age-but-with-dragons trilogy rounds body of a grown up? Obviously, a bodyswap comedy out here with this emotional, exciting segment intro- about a grown-up black woman who magically wakes ducing a new dragon (a sparkling white female to up in the body of a young girl. Regina Hall (Girls Trip) MOVIES WEST counterpoint our hero’s ebony pet/pal Toothless) and and Issa Rae (“Orange Is the New Black”) star. 109 9201 Coors NW • 898-4664 a new villain (evil F. Murray Abraham, who’s deter- minutes. PG-13. (Century Rio, Rio Rancho Premiere mined to exterminate every last dragon). 104 min- Cinema, Cottonwood Stadium 16) RIO RANCHO PREMIERE CINEMA utes. PG. (Movies 8, Movies West) Mapplethorpe 1000 Premiere Parkway • 994-3300 British actor Matt Smith (“Doctor Who”) is the un- Isn’t It Romantic usual but inspired choice to play controversial pho- SUB THEATER A young woman disenchanted with love (Rebel Wil- tographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Smith offers up a UNM (Student Union Building Room 1003) • 277-5608 son) finds herself trapped inside a cliché-filled ro- bold performance. Unfortunately, the film—commis- mantic comedy. It’s from the maker of A Very Harold & sioned by the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation— WINROCK STADIUM 16 IMAX & RPX Kumar 3D Christmas, so you know you’re in good comes across as an underdramatized, 2100 Louisiana Blvd. NE • (844) 462-7342 ext. #4058 hands. 88 minutes. PG-13. (Movies West) standard-issue biopic. 102 minutes. Unrated. (Guild The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part Cinema) Chipper LEGO construction worker Emmett Brickowski (Chris Pratt) has his optimism tested when his home- Missing Link realizes that superhero movies should be fun, aspira- town is turned into a post-apocalyptic wasteland and In this charming, adventurous stop-motion-animated tional and—dare we say it?—heroic. A streetwise 14- his friends are all kidnapped by space aliens. Re- comedy from the makers of Coraline and Kubo and year-old orphan (wide-eyed Asher Angel from Disney’s viewed in v28 i6. 106 minutes. PG. (Movies 8, Movies the Two Strings, a Victorian adventurer (voiced by “Andi Mack”) is contacted by an otherworldly wizard West) Hugh Jackman) makes a bet that he can prove the who gifts him with a host of magical superpowers existence of Bigfoot. In the Pacific Northwest, he (not to mention the ability to transform into a mus- No Manches Frida 2 meets a lonely and surprisingly erudite Sasquatch clebound adult—played by Zachary Levi). With the The 2016 Spanish language hit No Manches Frida (Zach Galifianakis) who begs for an escort to Tibet so help of his adoptive family, our “hero” does his best followed a semi-smooth ex-con trying to recover some he can maybe meet his distant Yeti relatives. What to figure out his abilities (not to mention the meaning hidden loot from a previous bank robbery—by posing follows is an old-fashioned, Jules Verne-style race of heroism). But it’s not long before an evil scientist as a substitute teacher in the high school where the around the world. The story is simple but unexpect- (Mark Stong as Dr. Sivana) shows up trying to steal money is now stuck. In this equally silly sequel, our edly touching, and the hand-crafted animation is those powers. This entertaining and surprisingly seemingly reformed criminal (Omar Chaparro) is get- dazzling in its detail. Reviewed in v28 i15. 95 min- heartfelt action comedy trusts its source material, ac- ting his wedding called off by nerdy-but-hot teacher utes. PG. (Century Rio, Cottonwood Stadium 16) cepting the cartoonish elements and borrowing a lot Lucy (Martha Higareda) and fighting to save the run- The Mustang from Geoff Johns and Gary Frank’s “New 52” version down school from closure. 102 minutes. R. (Movies 8) Matthias Schoenaerts (Rust and Bone, The Danish of the character. 132 minutes. PG-13. (Century 14 The Phantom of the Opera (1925) Girl) stars as a violent inmate in a Nevada prison Downtown, Century Rio, AMC Albuquerque 12, Flix Gaston Leroux’ spooky 1910 novel was the basis for who gets the opportunity to take part in a rehabilita- Brewhouse, Icon Cinemas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho this justifiably famed Hollywood adaptation starring tion therapy program involving the training of wild Premiere Cinema, Cottonwood Stadium 16, Winrock legendary Lon Chaney as the opera house-haunting horses. It’s a well-worn story about redemption and Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) madman. Eclectic musicians The Invincible Czars from cute animals. But Schoenaerts breathes a lot of Us Austin, Texas will be on hand to provide a live sound- emotion into the familiar proceedings. 96 minutes. R. “We have met the enemy and he is us,” quipped car- track (violin, bass guitar, flute, electric guitar and (Century 14 Downtown) toonist Walt Kelly in his 1953 book The Pogo Papers. sound effects) to the classic horror experience. 78 Penguins Writer-director Jordan Peele takes that warning and minutes. Unrated. (Guild Cinema) Disneynature unveils its annual Earth Day documen- runs with it in this follow up to his 2017 horror Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funeral tary offering. This one’s about penguins. Aimed at the smash Get Out. In this unbelievably creepy home in- For this 11th (and final) outing, it appears that younger environmentalists out there, it tells the vasion thriller, a happy middle-class family (Lupita Madea’s joyous family reunion turns into a nightmare “story” of Steve, an Adélie penguin who’s on a quest Nyong’o, Winston Duke and kids) finds itself stalked when the Simmons clan (several members of which to find a life partner and start a family in the icy and terrorized by a group of strangers who appear to are played by Perry, of course) finds itself in back- Antarctic. Ed Helms (The Hangover, “The Office”) nar- be their exact physical duplicates. 116 minutes. R. woods Georgia with an unexpected funeral to attend. rates. 76 minutes. G. (Century Rio, Winrock Stadium (Century 14 Downtown, Century Rio, Cottonwood PG-13. (Movies 8, Movies West) 16 IMAX & RPX, AMC Albuquerque 12, Rio Rancho Stadium 16) Premiere Cinema, Cottonwood Stadium 16) The Upside A wealthy hotel magnate (Bryan Cranston), rendered Pet Sematary quadriplegic in a hang-gliding accident, hires an un- The popular Stephen King horror novel, turned into a SECOND RUN employed man with a criminal record (Kevin Hart) to movie back in 1989, gets a reboot. This time around Alita: Battle Angel act as his live-in caregiver. Eventually, of course, the Jason Clarke (Terminator Genisys) and Amy Seimetz two opposites become best buds in this remake of a (Alien: Covenant) are the grieving parents who turn to Yukito Kishiro’s action-packed cyberpunk manga/anime series Battle Angel Alita gets the live- 2011 French comedy-drama. 125 minutes. PG-13. a mysterious, mystical burial ground when their (Movies West) daughter is accidentally killed. Nothing good comes action treatment courtesy of director Robert Ro- out of that, I can assure you. 101 minutes. R. (Cen- driguez (Once Upon a Time in Mexico). A severely Wonder Park tury Rio, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) damaged android in the form of a young girl (Rosa In this 3D-animated cartoon, a wildly imaginative Salazar) is found in a scrapheap by a rogue scientist young girl who dreams up a magical amusement park Shazam! (Christoph Waltz). He rebuilds her, but she has no in her bedroom—only to discover that it exists out in After years of wallowing in husky whispers and grim- memory of her past or the post-apocalyptic world in the nearby woods and is staffed by various talking an- dark atmospheres, DC Comics/Warner Bros. finally which she finds herself. 122 minutes. PG-13. imals. 85 minutes. PG. (Movies 8, Movies West) (Movies 8, Movies West) MAY 2-8, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [25] AURAL FIXATION BY AUGUST MARCH Josh Ward is from Texas CW star gigs in Burque

Josh Ward COURTESY OF THE ARTIST It’s a true thing. Once I get a country-flavored earworm working its way through my brain, I am apt not to let go and shake it out until the fever it produces runs its course, and I am returned gently to Earth, fried out but all the wiser about the greatness of the thing called country western music. I’ve been listening since I was a child. When I was about 12, I somehow hit the right combination of keys on the old cable teevee converter to land at the station that played at least two episodes of “Hee Haw” per day. I came up with Buck Owens and George Jones and Merle Haggard and their vast entourage of hootenanny-loving humans just as much much as I did with the local FM AOR station, which used the god Pan as part of its logo, by the way. On top of all of that, as a boy, I also got to see ZZ Top perform their Worldwide Texas Tour live at Tingley Coliseum. There was a live steer and a half-dead rattlesnake onstage for that one but I was still impressed at how damned delightful a properly countrified electric guitar could sound. Forty years on, and that combo is still ill. You can bet I nearly jumped out of my seat when I heard tell that country music star Josh Ward is making his way to The Duke City for an appearance at The Dirty Bourbon Saloon (9800 Montgomery Blvd. NE, Suite 4) on Saturday, May 4 at 8pm. Ward nails the gritty, windblown and starstruck, old truck-driven ethos of pure twang and has lately had much success with his honky tonkin’ ways. His recent single, “Ain’t It Baby” just swaggered to Number One on the country charts, and his latest anthem to the charm and dignity of country life, “The Devil Don’t Scare Me” is burning and hopping its way around Texas radio—slow and mad like some new language based on circumstance and piquant guitar licks formed in the heat of the night. I’m serious, Ward’s new record, More Than I Deserve, has got an old-school vibe that’s tightly and tunefully woven together— sometimes lovingly, at other times with a certain amount of insouciance—with modern nuance and crystal clear production that makes listening to county music as joyfully sad and memorably rocking as it ever was and always should be. That this dude’s guitar playing is clearly descended from other Texas guitar greats comes off slyly with a subtlety that is disarming and downright delicious. a Tickets $10 general admission presale Reserved seating 4 Pack $99 via holdmyticket.com [26] WEEKLY ALIBI MAY 2-8, 2019 MUSIC | INTERVIEW It’s a Ukulele Thing Jim D’Ville reflects on four strings

BY AUGUST MARCH out of the week where you can find some ukulele activity here in Burque. I’ve also been he humble ukulele, a guitar like musical doing some private teaching and group lessons at the Albuquerque Institute of Music. I’ve instrument descended from Portuguese T been trying to reestablish myself here, that’s string instruments—and adapted and why I organized the Ukulele Weekend. evolved by Polynesian culture—has found a home in America. What’s that all about? Popularized by Hawaiian musicians during the reign of Hawaii’s last king, David It’s a daylong event at Outpost Performance Kalakaua—a monarch who also encouraged Space. We’ll be doing a number of workshops dancing the hula, which had been banned by focusing on different genres like blues, colonial forces—the ukulele came to represent ragtime, jug band and country music. My the musical culture of the islands and was soon friend Del Rey, one of the great ukulele heard in Japan and Europe, before appearing in players in the world, will be a featured artist. San Francisco just over a century ago at the She’s coming in from Seattle. It’s a full day of Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San workshops followed by an afternoon concert. Francisco. We’ll repeat the same program up in Santa Soon, the ukulele found its way into the Fe on Sunday at the Performance Space at performances of vaudevillians on the coast. [La Plancha] de Eldorado. They traveled inland, introducing the instrument and its perky, sentimental tones to Tell me more, please. jazzers from California to New York. They The workshops are open to the public. You discovered that the small, highly portable have to know a little bit about the instrument was convenient and easy to learn Jim D’Ville performs at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe COURTESY OF THE ARTIST instrument—I would say advanced beginner and incorporate into ensembles. Most level—to participate. If you know your first pounding out each beat with heart and relish importantly, they learned that the ukulele’s NM Ukulele Weekend basic chords, that will do. It’s not a beginner- but ignoring or eschewing the sublime sounds at tone and timber—happy and pluckily Featuring Jim D’Ville and Del Rey beginner event though. It’s 85 bucks for the their fingertips. transcendent—were the source of much Outpost Performance Space • 210 Yale Blvd. SE whole day. Into this creatively fertile situation comes Jim audience joy. Even American folksters and Saturday, May 4 • 10am-4pm • $85 • 13+ makers of hillbilly music were on board with D’Ville, a multi-instrumentalist and teacher— What are your goals for this event? How this four-string wonder, incorporating it into recently relocated to Burque—who intends to do you get people more engaged with their repertories with ease. bring a much needed deep musicality to the Does that mean teaching them technique? their instrument? Ukuleles continued to be popular with both instrument by teaching its lovers everywhere, but Yes, that’s important, but I also teach them My main workshop right now is called “The audiences and musicians through the middle for sure in New Mexico, all about technique, how to become a better musician, a more Emotional Value of Chords.” So, with seven part of the 20th century. In the 1950s and early theory and practice. organic musician. Learning to listen is a chords coming out of a major scale, each one 1960s, the instrument had secured a solid place D’Ville met with Weekly Alibi about the great skill. has its own emotional power to it. My in the annals of American popular culture. It upcoming ukulele weekend and what it offers both approach to this is to get people to understand was featured nearly weekly on the “Arthur the casual player and the greater audience of I do notice a lot of ukulele players out and what the emotional impact of different sounds Godfrey amd His Friends”—a precursor to “The plucky, string-loving Americans. about in the community. Many of them are and then let that come through in their Tonight Show”—by the host, who sported a just play that up and down strumming playing. Once they have that in their ears, so baritone model and often performed before Weekly Alibi: How long have you been out pattern though, and about four chords. to speak, then we learn about how the large studio and broadcast audiences with his here in Albuquerque? Yeah, we call that the hum and strum. That’s important words in song lyrics fall on those band the Little Godfreys. Jim D’Ville (tuning ukulele): About six months. what I’m trying to change. chord changes, those emotional changes. I tell Of course by the end of the ’60s, as my students that country music is great American culture was being totally transformed Okay. Let’s have a conversation about Well for some, it’s hard to sing and play because you only really need three chords by the counterculture, the ukulele was on hand. the ukulele! an instrument at the same time. But tell because the genre only has two basic An Englishman named Tiny Tim took the For the past 10 years, I’ve been a professional, me more about your work as a traveling emotions: either she’s gonna stay or she’s performance of the instrument to new heights, traveling ukulele instructor and performer. For the music teacher. gonna go. The chord she stays on is the four both delighting and confounding American past six years, I’ve been living in an Airstream After six years of doing that, I just got burned and the one she leaves on is the five. That’s audiences with his ukulele-drenched renditions trailer full time with my wife and traveling around out from towing the trailer, basically. My wife the score. of songs like “Tiptoe Through the Tulips.” the US and Canada teaching the ukulele. and I didn’t want to go back to the rain on the After a period of quiet in the years that West Coast so we came here. Albuquerque is Music theory like that is very important! followed America’s cultural revolution, the Wow, that’s crazy—six months in an a hotbed of ukulele activity. That’s the fun thing about it, all the ukulele reappeared in the ’90s and its popularity Airstream with a ukulele. Sounds like there’s possibilities! A lot of people are coming to the once again soared. On the strength of a song in that. How was that? Oh, really? ukulele later in life, and people are still into personalities and performances like those of the I was teaching and doing gigs, so it was great. I’m There are at least five ukulele clubs in it. I’ve been all over the world and in almost legendary Israel Kamakawiwo‘ole and his more a teaching professional than someone who is Albuquerque. There’s also a couple of them up every city I’ve traveled to, there’s a ukulele veritable successor, Jake Shimabukuro, the used to setting up gigs. So six years on the road in Santa Fe. The weather, the food, the club. The exciting thing for me is going into a ukulele saw a revitalization as Americans teaching people how to play the ukulele, primarily people, the airport in Albuquerque—those are place where they’re strumming out “This Land flocked to music stores to buy an instrument trying to get them off the book, off the songbook. the reasons we moved out here with our Is Your Land” and turning them on to the that was easy to learn and enchanting to hear. There’s all these ukulele clubs [in the US and ukuleles. emotional value of each chord, fingered notes, As popular as it has ever been, the magical Canada] and they all sit around and look at the what songs are really doing, and it just four-string Hawaiian wonder is now the book. The music that comes out sounds like this. Tell me about your recent adventures in changes them completely. instrument of choice among a whole set of [D’Ville] strums one chord repeatedly, hitting each Albuquerque. young hipsters who dig its sound, its ease of beat equally up and down]. I visited most of the ukulele clubs and had That sounds really rewarding. application and its effect on audiences. been here before to teach, so people here Oh yeah. In fact, everyone can take my But mastering this instrument still requires So, it’s all strumming? knew my name. I’m also a contributing editor classes. I gear them so that you’re not coming the same attention and dedication as any Yeah, no dynamics or inflection. My to Ukulele Magazine, so folks here know about here to learn the ukulele, you’re coming here musical endeavor. Many self-taught players mission is to get people off the book and my work. I’ve been going around, to listen, learn about song structure and have never get past strumming four strings at once, teach them musicality. reintroducing myself. There’s about four days a really good time. a MAY 2-8, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [27] BAKED GOODS | CANNABIS NEWS BY JOSHUA LEE Same as the Old Boss Biden a bad choice for cannabis advocates

ast week former Vice President Joe Biden Stone article last week, voiced concern over the made the completely unsurprising possibility of seeing Biden in the Oval Office. L Erik Altieri, executive director of NORML, said announcement on Twitter that he’ll be running for the democratic presidential Biden “holds the worst record on cannabis nomination in 2020. related policy of any individual currently running “The core values of this nation … our for the Democratic or Republican nomination.” standing in the world … our very democracy … Heavy words. But apparently Michael everything that has made America—America— Collins, the director of national affairs at Drug is at stake. That’s why today I’m announcing my Policy Action, agreed with Altieri, telling candidacy for President of the United States. reporters that Biden was “the architect, in all #Joe2020.” ways, of the war on drugs.” Mason Tvert of the That makes about three serious Marijuana Policy Project said Biden was “one candidates in the Race to Defeat Lord of the most aggressive drug warriors in Emperor Trump, and I have the feeling Congress.” they’re all well aware that (for the first Biden has apparently fought a pitched time in a long time) a candidate’s battle against legalization since 1974, stance on marijuana reform will make a when he told the Washingtonian that major difference at the polls next year. he was opposed to it. He called A Quinnipiac University poll released cannabis a “gateway drug” in 2010 last month found that 60 percent of and was a cosponsor on the piece Americans are in favor of legalizing of legislation that created the cannabis, compared to 33 percent asinine position of federal “drug who oppose it. And, wouldn’t you know czar.” it, the majority of Democratic Meaning if he gets the contenders support some form of nomination, we’ll be looking at an progressive cannabis law reform. election where our best bet for Bernie Sanders, who many would assume is a protection of legalized cannabis will be placed in shoo-in, has a good record of supporting pro- Donald Trump of all people. That’s right. Lord cannabis legislation and has recently reiterated Trump is actually more progressive on this issue that it should be removed from the list of than Biden. (We are definitely living in a controlled substances. Of course he was a shoo-in simulation.) way back in the distant 2016, too. That was But let’s not despair just yet, dear reader. We before the Democratic National Committee still have plenty of time before 2020, and who admittedly stole the nomination right out from knows what could happen. Just Google “creepy under him. Biden” to see why we probably shouldn’t worry Now he seems like less of a darling with so much about his chances. Be prepared to be media giants like The Washington Post throwing uncomfortable, though. up divisive headlines like “Bernie Sanders Has Emerged as the Donald Trump of the Left” as Strain Corner though that makes any sense whatsoever. The weather finally seems to have stabilized, and The other headliner is Sen. Kamala Harris of the summer is raring to go. Last week I was California, who used to be against the vile weed finally able to begin my seasonal complaints over but has since flipped. In a radio interview earlier the heat and accompanying bodily fluids. I was this year, she notably admitted to having smoked sweaty, irritable, sun-crazed and pinching a full cannabis in the past. “I did inhale,” she joked. bladder as I walked into GrassRoots RX (3701 She says she wants to legalize marijuana and San Mateo Blvd. NE). It was nice and cool regulate it. She’s also in favor of expunging the inside, and the restroom was sensational. I picked criminal records of those who have been up a gram of Blueberry Gum (THC: 18.33%, incarcerated for cannabis-related crimes. CBD: 0.18%—$10/gram) in the hope that it Unfortunately Harris also has a history chock would chill me out and headed back across the full of controversy and scandal. It’s hard to river. imagine her successfully navigating the slings and Once I was safely on my couch in my Sign up today! arrows of naysayers pointing to accusations that pajamas, I packed a bowl and marveled at the she fought against justice reform during her time powerfully sweet aroma of the popcorn buds. as California Attorney General and allegedly Blueberry Gum is an indica-dominant hybrid that upheld wrongful convictions that were secured tasted of berries and was as sweet as it smelled. through official misconduct. Then there’s the The effects from this strain are noticeable on the bizarre story, told in the Los Angeles Times, of one first hit. I felt an immediate relief of tension in of her aides, who was arrested in 2015 for my sinus cavity—an effect I’ve encountered in impersonating a police officer after he and two certain indica strains that I’ve only recently other men introduced themselves to the Los noticed. I had trouble tracking objects with my Sign up for our new newsletter at Angeles County Sheriff’s captain as members of eyes and actually felt my blood pressure drop. It the “Masonic Fraternal Police Department.” It’s was intense and very pleasant. The body high alibi.com too weird to even make up. was strong, and I felt completely sedated. So that leaves us with good old Joe Biden. If I hit the bong a few more times for good For more information, he follows the party line, then he’s sure to be in measure, laid my head back and closed my eyes. I or to advertise, email favor of cannabis reform, right? felt as if the ocean were rocking me softly from A statement from marijuana reform advocate side to side. I sighed contentedly and sat that way [email protected] organization NORML, published in a Rolling for half an hour. a [28] WEEKLY ALIBI MAY 2-8, 2019 FREE WILL ASTROLOGY | HOROSCOPES BY ROB BREZSNY

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “How prompt we are to LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The country of Poland satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies,” wrote awards medals to couples that have stayed married for Henry David Thoreau. “How slow to satisfy the hunger 50 years. It also gives out medals to members of the and thirst of our souls!” Your first assignment in the armed forces who have served for at least 30 years. coming days, Aries, is to devote yourself to quenching But the marriage medal is of higher rank and is more the hunger and thirst of your soul with the same prestigious. In that spirit, I’d love for you to get a shiny relentless passion that you normally spend on giving badge or prize to acknowledge your devoted your body the food and drink it craves. This could be commitment to a sacred task—whether that NEW MEXICO challenging. You may be less knowledgeable about commitment is to an intimate alliance, a noble quest or what your soul thrives on than what your body loves. a promise to yourself. It’s time to reward yourself for So your second assignment is to do extensive how hard you’ve worked and how much you’ve given. research to determine what your soul needs to thrive. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio poet Sylvia Plath TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I invite you to explore wrote, “I admit I desire, / Occasionally, some backtalk / the frontiers of what’s possible for you to experience From the mute sky.” You’ll be wise to borrow the spirit and accomplish. One exercise that might help: of that mischievous declaration. Now is a good time to visualize specific future adventures that excite you. solicit input from the sky, as well as from your allies Examples? Picture yourself parasailing over the and friends and favorite animals, and from every other Mediterranean Sea near Barcelona, or working to help source that might provide you with interesting endangered sea turtles in Costa Rica, or giving a feedback. I invite you to regard the whole world as speech to a crowded auditorium on a subject you will your mirror, your counselor, your informant. someday be an expert in. The more specific your fantasies, the better. Your homework is to generate at SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In January 1493, the least five of these visions. notorious pirate and kidnapper Christopher Columbus was sailing his ship near the land we now call the GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “We must choose between Dominican Republic. He spotted three creatures he the pain of having to transcend oppressive assumed were mermaids. Later he wrote in his log that circumstances, or the pain of perpetual unfulfillment they were “not half as beautiful as they are painted [by within those oppressive circumstances,” writes mental artists].” We know now that the “mermaids” were health strategist Paul John Moscatello. We must opt actually manatees, aquatic mammals with flippers and for “the pain of growth or the pain of decay,” he paddle-shaped tails. They are in fact quite beautiful in continues. We must either “embrace the tribulations of their own way and would only be judged as homely by realizing our potential, or consent to the slow suicide a person comparing them to mythical enchantresses. I in complacency.” That’s a bit melodramatic, in my trust you won’t make a similar mistake, Sagittarius. opinion. Most of us do both; we may be successful for Evaluate everything and everyone on their own merits, a while in transcending oppressive circumstances, but without comparing them to something they’re not. then temporarily lapse back into the pain of August 10, 2019 unfulfillment. However, there are times when it makes CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “I want what we all sense to think melodramatically. And I believe now is want,” writes novelist Jonathan Lethem. “To move one of those times for you. In the coming weeks, I certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior hope you will set in motion plans to transcend at least world, to see if they can be embraced.” Even if you BALLOON FIESTA PARK 30 percent of your oppressive circumstances. haven’t passionately wanted that lately, Capricorn, I’m guessing you will soon. That’s a good thing, because CANCER (June 21-July 22): You Cancerians can life will be conspiring with you to accomplish it. Your benefit from always having a fertility symbol ability to express yourself in ways that are meaningful somewhere in your environment: an icon or image that to you and interesting to other people will be at a peak. Noon - 8pm reminds you to continually refresh your relationship with your own abundant creativity; an inspiring AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Using algorithms to talisman or toy that keeps you alert to the key role analyze 300 million facts, a British scientist concluded your fecund imagination can and should play in that April 11, 1954 was the most boring day in history. nourishing your quest to live a meaningful life; a A Turkish man who would later become a noteworthy $5 parking · Entrance is FREE provocative work of art that spurs you to always ask engineer was born that day, and Belgium staged a for more help and guidance from the primal source national election. But that’s all. With this non-eventful code that drives you to reinvent yourself. So if you day as your inspiration, I encourage you to have fun don’t have such a fertility symbol, I invite you to get reminiscing about the most boring times in your own one. If you do, enhance it with a new accessory. past. I think you need a prolonged respite from the stimulating frenzy of your daily rhythm. It’s time to rest LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In my horoscopes, I often and relax in the sweet luxury of nothingness and Don't miss your chance to be a part of speak to you about your personal struggle for emptiness. liberation and your efforts to express your soul’s code with evermore ingenuity and completeness. It’s less PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Blue Room is a New Mexico's largest cannabis event! common that I address your sacred obligation to give famous Picasso painting from 1901. Saturated with back to life for all that life has given to you. 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