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No probation for Duran Dear Alibi , Convicted felon and ex-Secretary of State Dianna Duran is asking to be spared prison time. She seems to be under the impression that her long career in elected office deserves probation. Her argument for probation is, in actuality, the best argument for prison time. She not only violated the law, but also the public trust. She can rebuild public trust by serving time—trust in the judicial system.

Jeffrey Paul Author, “Inside Politics in America: A View from the Outside”

Hooray for Maggie! Dear Alibi , As a writer who enjoys good writers and an eater who loves fresh food, I appreciated Maggie Grimason’s review of Vital Foods. (Unfortunately, I rarely eat out—I’m a teacher for Pete’s sake and I can’t afford to—though I still love restaurant reviews.) Maggie’s writing was clear and smart, genuine and warm. Ty Bannerman comes across similarly, though he obviously has his distinct voice. I look forward to future reviews by both of ‘em.

Thanks for all you do, Kim Adonna

Looking for books Dear Alibi , I heard from the New Mexico Book Co-op that no locally written books made your recent Gift Guide. As a local author and strong supporter of all my fellow Albuquerque and New Mexico authors, I urge you to join in to support at least a few of the many excellent local writers. Being a local paper, I would expect you to be particularly supportive of our authors. Please consider us in your next Gift Guide.

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DECEMBER 10-16 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [7] was made of real human bones. Students and faculty at Haydock High School held a burial ODDS service after “Arthur,” the class skeleton, was determined to be real as opposed to plastic. Arthur spent more than 50 year shuttling D between the science and art departments at N ENDS Haydock before ending up in storage. “Arthur A meant a lot to us in an educational way,” one student told the Liverpool Echo . “Even though WEIRD NEWS he was in the corner, he still helped me Dateline: Turkey learn.” Sandra Morris, a youth pastor for of The latest twist in the bizarre case of a man Christ Church United RC, said the ceremony accused of insulting the Turkish president via was done in traditional Christian fashion due an online meme now finds a “committee of to the religious affiliation of the school. The experts” being assembled to assess whether ceremony also “gave note to” traditional the fictional character of Golem in The Lord Hindu practices, as the skeleton most like of the Rings is good or bad. Bilgin Ciftci, a came from India. “We wanted to recognize physician living in Aydin, faces up to two that, in both religions, the soul moves on and years in prison for allegedly insulting the body is an empty vessel although his spirit President Recep Tayyip Erdogan by will have left a long time ago,” Morris said. juxtaposing pictures of the politician and Gollum on social media. Ciftci has already Dateline: California been expelled from the Public Health A would-be house burglar who got stuck in a Institution of Turkey for sharing the pictures. chimney for nearly a day died after the Cifitci’s lawyer, Hicran Danisman, told the residents lit a fire in their fireplace. A Associated Press late last month she was spokesperson for the Fresno County Sheriff’s forced to argue in court that “Gollum is not a Office said the county coroner had identified bad character” because she got “nowhere” the burglar as 19-year-old Cody Caldwell. defending her client based on freedom of The cause of death was smoke inhalation and expression. Danisman said her new argument thermal burns. According to The Fresno Bee , has prompted the judge to rule that a the sheriff’s department received a 911 call committee—including two academics, two just before 3pm on Saturday, Nov. 28. The behavioral scientists or psychologists and a male homeowner told deputies he heard television and cinema expert—should now screams coming from inside the house after provide an assessment of Gollum’s character. lighting a fire. Smoke then began to fill up The trial is scheduled to resume on Feb. 23. the residence. Once the homeowner realized someone was actually stuck inside the Dateline: Australia chimney, he extinguished the fire. Deputies Police in a small, harborside suburb of Sydney and firefighters had to dismantle the chimney responding to a report of domestic violence to free Caldwell. He was pronounced dead at pressed an evasive perpetrator for answers and the scene. Investigators believe Caldwell eventually turned up a victim—in the form of attempted to break into the home on the a dead spider. The Harbourside Local Area night of Nov. 27 and remained stuck inside Command in New South Wales posted a the chimney all day. transcript of the conversation that took place after officers confronted a “flushed” and “out Dateline: Pennsylvania of breath” suspect at an apartment in Environmental officials are at a loss to Wollstonecraft. Sometime before 2am on explain why the town of New Castle smells Saturday, Nov. 21, neighbors reported sounds like cat pee. The New Castle News says it’s of a man shouting, “I’m going to kill you” and been a year since residents reported a a “woman screaming hysterically.” After “noxious, cat urine-like odor.” But a recently responding police asked the whereabouts of released State Department of Environmental his wife, the homeowner said he didn’t have Protection report has come back as one. He denied having a girlfriend as well. “inconclusive.” Based on “observations made The man insisted he lived alone. When during compliance investigations and officers pressed him, saying neighbors heard accounts told to the department,” the DEP death threats, sounds of furniture being flung determined that a waste product containing around the apartment and a high-pitched mesityl oxide or other similar compound screaming, the “sheepish” man explained, “It reacted with a sulfur compound “under was a spider. A really big one.” Asked about specific conditions somewhere in the city’s the sounds of a woman screaming, the man sewer system.” Although it’s believed that admitted, “Yeah, sorry, that was me. I really, interaction could have caused the acrid smell, really hate spiders.” Just to be sure, officers and its introduction into the sewer system searched the trashed apartment and turned up might have allowed it to distribute a can of Mortein bug spray and the corpse of a throughout the town, the DEP report “rather large” arachnid. After “a very long admitted, “No specific industry or waste pause and some laughter” the officers left. stream could be identified as the exact cause of the odor.” a Dateline: England A high school in Liverpool held a funeral Compiled by Devin D. O’Leary. Email your weird after learning their science classroom skeleton news to [email protected]. [8] WEEKLY ALIBI DECEMBER 10-16 , 2015 DECEMBER 10-16 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [9] NEWS | NEWS CITY APD was moving forward toward change but Tafoya, a minor, is testifying against co- Air Force Pays for Delay noting, “This is a major organizational change defendant Alex Rios—who turned down a Last December the US Air Force missed a for an organization that’s been doing the same plea bargain earlier this year. Tafoya, who pled compliance deadline that was integral to clean thing for years and years.” guilty to second-degree murder in the deaths up efforts related to a huge jet fuel plume The deadline for defining and of Allison Gorman, 44, and Kee Thompson, threatening Albuquerque’s water supply. Now, implementing a new use-of-force policy is June 46, took the stand to tell the jury about the according to sources at the New Mexico 2016, a date Police Chief Gorden Eden says crimes he, Rios and a third teen named Environment Department, they will pay for the department is sure to make, calling the Nathaniel Carrillo reportedly committed in the delay. new, yet-to-be-written policy the opportunity the summer of 2014. Last Wednesday, officials announced that to “get it right.” The chief also admitted that Court transcripts quoted in the Santa Fe the Air Force will pay the state Environment delays had to do with the ratification of his New Mexican relate the horrible nature of the Department $750,000 to get the project back new contract, which was enacted after the crimes. Tafoya is quoted as saying he “stabbed on track. Although work on remediating the V reforms became law. the guy on the mattress seven times,” while his spill has been taking place, progress has been After complaints, including one from companion Alex “stabbed the guy on the glacial, according to activists who filed a Ralph Arellanes, the chairman of the Hispano ground the same amount of time as me.” As lawsuit last month alleging problems with the BY AUGUST MARCH Round Table, that APD officials were falling well as brutally inflicting mortal wounds on Air Force’s management of the 6 to 24 million behind in their commitments to the mandate the two sleeping Navajo men, Rios told a gallon petroleum-product disaster. Use-of-Force Policy from the Department of Justice, Brack became packed courtroom that afterwards a member of The money garnered as a result of a Notice Contested concerned, according to reports in the the trio also desecrated Gorman’s and of Violation filed back in January will help James Ginger, the monitor chosen to manage national media. Thompson’s mortal remains, urinating on ease the financial burden associated with the Department of Justice’s sweeping reform The monitor’s recent report covers the first them before fleeing the scene of the heinous providing the dedicated regulatory oversight initiative directed at the Albuquerque Police part of this year’s work with APD; a second crime. and review required by the project, according Department, says that while the department is report covering the latter half of 2015 is due In defending his client, Rios’ lawyer, Daniel to Air Force official Kathryn Lynnes. Further, complying with the agreement struck by the out in March. Salazar, said that besides the testimony, the Ryan Flynn, the secretary of the NMED says Feds last year to make crucial changes to the state has no evidence that Rios was actually his office is committed to getting the spill way APD does business, he is at odds with the involved in the beating deaths. DNA Murder Trial Continues taken care of. So far, project has removed over police over the institution’s lack of a use-of- matching Rios was found on clothing related 5,000 tons of contaminated soil as well as force policy. Ginger released his first progress The trial of Alex Rios, accused in the savage to the murders, but Salazar said that is not beating and murder of two homeless Native 570,000 gallons of fuel from soil in the source report last week, noting this problem as a enough to convict and also questioned Tafoya’s area. stumbling block to reform. American men sleeping in a vacant lot in intentions upon cross-examination. The trial Meanwhile plans for the lawsuit continue; In a meeting with US District Judge Robert Burque’s south valley, continued this week at continues this week while the third youth as reported in last week’s Alibi , proponents of Brack last Thursday, a lawyer for the city, the Bernalillo County Courthouse in accused in the crime will face trial in the lawsuit continue to maintain that not Jessica Hernandez, spoke to the conflict, downtown Albuquerque. September 2016. enough is being done to keep the city’s fragile noting that while the dispute was on-going, As part of a plea agreement with prosecutors, self-admitted murderer Gilbert water supply contamination-free. a

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The aforementioned Smith & Wesson .44 showed that simply storing ammunition in a mental illness. Gun ownership itself seemed to Magnum, the very gun that Dirty Harry used. separate locked location from an also-locked increase the risk of suicide even if mental Standing The most powerful handgun in the world. Just up gun reduces the likelihood of injury to health history was controlled for. Meaning one look will be enough to scare the pants off children by 70%. And you bet I’m protecting that it’s worth taking protective measures to of any home invader. those kids if nothing else. guard against a future impulsive, life-ending My Oh, don’t worry though, I know all about So, I’ll put my trigger-locked handgun in decision even if you’re not prone to suicidal gun safety. After all, I have kids and I’m a the top of my closet, so I can get to it easily. thoughts. responsible adult who pays attention to the And then, I’ll have a footlocker under my bed A gun safe, then, in addition to the trigger Ground latest statistics. And yes, I know that with the ammunition. It’ll take a few extra lock is probably the best way to go. I’ll face according to the New England Journal of seconds to get the gun out and loaded, but it’s some minor emasculation and give my wife the Medicine, American kids are twice as likely to worth it to stay safe. combination so that the risk of improper use A gun ownership die from firearms then they are from cancer, Of course it’s not just about children’s by a household member is minimized. So five times more likely to die from safety. A Jan. 2014 that’s, what, one locked box for the ammo, fantasy them then heart disease and meta-analysis of 16 another for the gun and a trigger lock? It 15 times more likely than studies by the Annals might seem excessive for you, but it’s stupid BY TY BANNERMAN from infection. So that of Internal Medicine not to take such precautions when the means I won’t be stashing found that firearm statistics are so firmly weighted in their favor. t’s the dead of night and someone’s in my this piece under my ownership doubled the risk of So yeah, it’s the dead of night and house. I can hear his stealthy footsteps as he bed or anything. gun death by homicide and tripled the someone’s in my house. I can hear his stealthy Icreeps across the living room floor toward Given that my risk of suicide in households with a gun. I footsteps as he creeps across the living room my bedroom door, or worse, my kid’s room. But main aim here is to feel pretty confident that I won’t be floor toward my room, or worse, my kid’s room. this midnight interloper didn’t reckon on one protect my family, it shooting my family members (although, But he didn’t reckon on one thing. thing. would be stupid of me so was Veronica Dunnachie, an open- “Hold on!” I shout as my wife fumbles with Me. not to take basic steps to reduce the carry and gun rights advocate that shot the gun safe’s combination. “I’ve got to find I swing open my door. “Stop right there, you likelihood of injury. A trigger lock would be and killed her husband and step-daughter my keys!” son of a bitch,” I say, and suddenly he’s staring the most straightforward way to go, so I’ll during a domestic dispute in Dec. 2014,) but, Fortunately, there’s every likelihood that down the barrel of my Smith & Wesson .44 count on that and keep a bullet in the as embarrassing as this is to admit, I have been we’ll be safe anyway. According to a Dec. 2012 Magnum. “Didn’t your mama ever tell you that chamber, ready for defending my castle. suicidal at various points in my life and I can’t study by researchers at the University of North it’s rude to drop in un-announced?” Except that numerous reports have guarantee that I won’t find myself in that Carolina at Charlotte’s Department of Yep, I’m going to do it. I’m going to buy a indicated that trigger locks don’t actually frame of mind again. But even if I hadn’t had Criminal Justice and Criminology, it’s gun for home protection. It’s time for me to prevent a gun from discharging if they’re that experience, it’s worth noting that the statically likely that the barking of my take my fate and my family’s fate into my own already loaded. Plus, a 2005 study in the study’s authors did not find a correlation ridiculously paranoid dogs will have already hands. I’ve got the piece all picked out too. Journal of the American Medicine Association between the risk of suicide and a history of sent the crook running anyway. a

DECEMBER 10-16 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [11 ] OPINION | ¡ASK A MEXICAN !

accurate premises—simply opinion. His use of BY GUSTAVO ARELLANO the word ‘grudge’ is Freudian, as I make clear in the last line. Some folks don’t see the forest ear Mexican: Mexicans always reference for the trees or the Indian for the Mexican.” the Reconquista. However, I think you BOOM! Dshould be invading Spain instead. The Spanish did to the Native Americans in Dear Mexican: Do Mexicans resent Mexico what the whites did to the Native meaningless, wannabe Spanglish advertising Americans in America. In fact, we treated slogans like Taco Bell’s “Live Más”? This them better. We gave them reservations, they gabacho finds it rather offensive. Sniff. pay no taxes, they have the right to Shouldn’t such odious assaults on gambling, etc. We also treated the Mexicans language(s) be outlawed? a lot better than the Spanish. The Spanish slaughtered the Native Americans in Mexico, —Shepherd of Shakespeare and I believe their indigenous cultures have been totally destroyed. Let’s not forget the Spaniard’s great gift of syphilis. If Dear Gabacho: This Mexican resents Taco “Mexicans,” Spanish illegal immigrants, are Bell’s meaningless, wannabe Mexican dish going to go back 160 years to hold a grudge called the Doritos Loco taco—leave it to a against the Americans, why company founded by a guy who don’t they hate Spain too? ripped off a Mexican family’s recipe to earn his —Heep Big Jerk billions (true story—read my Taco USA: How Dear Gabacho: With a Mexican Food Conquered question as ahistorical as America ) to fuck up what yours, I had to give the could’ve been an amazing respuesta to my former dish. Hard-shell tacos are college profe , Paul Mexican; Doritos were Apodaca, a professor of created by Mexicans at sociology and American Disneyland (again: in my studies at Chapman book). Yet the Doritos University and the scholar who Locos taco is too salty, has turned me on to one of my all- little Doritos flavor—and then time favorite books, Facing West: The there’s the Bell’s “beef.” Guacatelas! Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire- As for your complaint: Some Mexicans do Building , which perfectly explains gabacho despise Spanglish, but those Mexicans need to foreign policy. “American Indians pay federal get laid more often. Anecdotally, Mexicans and sales tax like other US citizens but do not like Spanglish advertising if it’s clever, and pay state income tax while living on their “Live Más” was okay enough to not spur a federally recognized reservations,” Dr. yaktivist revolt. Scientifically, don’t believe Apodaca says. “The United States did not give the hype: Most studies done on whether young land to Indians anymore than England gave Mexican-Americans prefer advertising in freedom to the US; both governments English, Spanish or Spanglish is laughably recognized the God-given rights of men. biased. Take “The Bilingual Brain: Maximizing Millions of Indians in Mexico speak their own Impact with English- and Spanish-Speaking languages, cultivate their indigenous foods, Millennials,” a 2014 study involving Nielsen practice their folk arts, continue their and Univision that unsurprisingly found that histories, have participated in two revolutions advertising in Spanish “offers a unique and retain the entire country of Mexico as advantage for brands striving to connect with members of a nation they formed. Indians bilingual Hispanic millennials”—the most have travelled across North America for foregone conclusion since Mexico thousands of years searching for resources for underachieved in the last FIFA World Cup. a their families. Time changes every culture and Mexico reflects those changes but the people Ask the Mexican at [email protected]. are continuing and that is something Be his fan on Facebook. Follow him on Twitter wonderful to celebrate, not begrudge.” @gustavoarellano or follow him on Instagram Pressed for something funnier, Dr. Apodaca @gustavo_arellano! concluded, “The fellow has conclusions but no

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Harwood Art Center (1114 Seventh Street NW). 31ST ANNUAL VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS Enjoy kids’ activities, 12:30 -3:30pm. 242 -6367. alibi.com/e/171833. live music, cookies, crafts, a visit from Father Christmas WORLDWIDE CANDLE LIGHTING An event in memory of and more. Silver City Museum (312 W. Broadway, Silver children who have died. Features poetry readings, City). 4:30 -8pm. alibi.com/e/172021. music, a reading of children’s names and the candle COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AS A PATH TO HEALTH EQUITY lighting. Immanuel Presbyterian Church Learn about the health disparities in tribal and urban (114 Carlisle SE). 6pm. 352 -4506. Indian communities and theories on how to change the alibi.com/e/171413. See Event Horizon. status quo. Lobo Rooms A & B (Student Union Building). 12:30 -2pm. alibi.com/e/170827. TUESDAY DEC 15 FRIDAY DEC 11 TUESDAY NIGHT SWING DANCE All-ages swing dance with beginner, intermediate and advanced lessons. 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[16 ] WEEKLY ALIBI DECEMBER 10-16 , 2015 DECEMBER 10-16 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [17 ] [18 ] WEEKLY ALIBI DECEMBER 10-16 , 2015 FeATURe | LAsT minUTe giFT gUide Reading Recommendations for everyone left on your shopping list takes on topics in science through his adorable and accessible BY MAGGIE GRIMASON children’s books. “This book is done in such a lovely, fun way,” Hofssis said of this book, the winter-time companion to the im Hoffsis reads every single book put onto the shelves at earlier What Makes a Rainbow. “It explains science to young Treasure House Books & Gifts in Old Town (2012 S. Plaza children with very funny rhymes. The writing is very J NW). According to Jim, that’s the only way he can provide a memorable.” good recommendation to his patrons, whether they are tourists wandering in off the Plaza or long-time New Mexico residents. The Farolitos of Jim Hoffsis runs the show at Treasure House along with his son, Christmas John. Treasure House provides readers with the very best from by Rudolfo Anaya, New Mexican writers as well as a wide selection of books on topics $18.40 from Museum of New Mexico Press pertinent to us desert dwellers. John Hoffsis was kind enough to The Farolitos of Christmas, like all of provide his book recommendations for all the bookworms on your Anaya’s works, is a New Mexico classic. holiday shopping lists—all of which are available at Treasure This new edition of the children’s book, House, many of which are available at other local book havens originally published in the ’80s, is re- like Bookworks and Page One. envisioned with all-new artwork by Amy Cordova and two new added Death Ship stories, “Season of Renewal” and “A Child’s Christmas in New by Joseph Badal, Mexico, 1944”. “It’s a charming, traditional story set in the ’40s Procrastinating $15.99 from Suspense Publishing about the tradition of lighting the farolitos. If ever there was a “He’s as good a writer as any suspense classic for the children of New Mexico, this is it,” said Hofssis. Weekly Alibi is here to help writer that’s on the bestseller’s list,” Hoffsis said of Joseph Badal, who lives and writes Grandma Lale’s you finish off your gift list in Sandia Park. Death Ship, his most Tamales recent offering in the Danforth Series takes by Nasario Garcia, readers across the globe, where the main $24.95 from Rio Grande Books BY TY BANNERMAN character, Robbie Danforth’s, ship is “Nasario Garcia is one of the best hijacked by pirates. “These books are very, know folklorists in New Mexico,” Hoffsis ou’ve made it through the first very well written,” Hoffsis continued, noting that he believes explained, “he’s written a lot about oral Badal is one book away from breaking into a larger market and histories, but lately what he’s been doing round of gift buying, knocking off achieving well deserved fame for his expansive brand of thrilling is writing about his childhood.” This Ythe easy folks—the ones you know fiction. lovely children’s book, with vibrant illustrations, recipes and a well enough that you can zero in on the small Spanish-English glossary describes his life growing in the The Jewish Legacy in Rio Puerco Valley and his grandmother’s fantastic tamales. “It’s things they want or need most. But New Mexico just a delightful book.” don’t breathe a sigh of relief yet, edited by Richard Melzer, because now it’s time for Level 2. These $19.95 from Rio Grande Books Pie Town Revisited “This book is basically a complete photography by Arthur Drooker, are the people who are a touch more history of Jewish involvement in New $34.95 from University of New Mexico Press removed from your day-to-day life. The Mexico,” Hoffsis said of this anthology of Inspired by the classic photographs of Uncle Jacks and Aunt Marthas you see articles collected in 30 years of work by the small town life done by the Farm Security New Mexico Jewish Historical Society. This Administration in the 1940s, Arthur exactly twice a year, the in-laws whom winner of the 2015 New Mexico-Arizona Drooker sought to update that vision of you’re still trying to figure out, the co- Book Awards “Best Religious Book” category is “very thorough” what it means to live and work in rural workers whom you’ve got to get a gift according to Hoffsis and provides excellent, sometimes New Mexico through this coffee table art overlooked context on New Mexico’s rich history. book. “These modern photographs are taken in the same spirit for because you know they’re going to as the ones taken in the ’40s,” Hoffsis said, “some of these are give you something. Red Gold absolutely gorgeous. This is a great depiction of New Mexico.” It’s time to scramble, and you’re by Robert D. Kidera, $12.99 from Suspense Publishing maybe flying a little blind here, but “I’m not the only one who loves this Hey Kids! that’s no excuse to shirk your book,” Hoffsis said of Red Gold, a thriller Mesaland Series responsibilities. You’ve got to get these that received both the Tony Hillerman by Loyd Tireman, illustrations by Ralph guys something and it ought to be Award and Best Mystery Award at this Douglass, year’s New Mexico-Arizona Book $12.95 from UNM Press something good. Fortunately, the Alibi ’s Awards.With this first novel, Kidera The Mesaland series, a collection of in your corner with a gift guide to some established himself as a heavyweight in children’s books by Loyd Tireman that of the best items you can find from local the local writing scene. “It’s captivating, were originally published in the 1940s, it’s spellbinding,” Hoffsis said of the book, has just been reprinted by UNM Press. Albuquerque businesses. Flip through “I read it in a day and a half.” With its eye-catching artwork, stories the next few pages and you’re sure to focused on Southwestern animals and What Makes a come away with some perfect gift ideas mid-century charm, these tales of Snowflake woodpeckers, jackrabbits, coyotes and other creatures of the for the people toward the bottom of by Ross Van Dusen, desert are sure to make a handsome addition to any child’s, or your list. a $19.95 from Rio Grande Books adult collector’s, bookshelf. (Ty Bannerman) a Retired graphic artist Ross Van Dusen

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feeling expands your mind in primitive H ways and wakes up that sleeping saber- P toothed beast in your soul. You are animal! You will learn the land and become one with it! ... Or not. Even if a shiny hotel far away from all things dirty and natural is your cup of tea, you still have to come up with a mind-blowing gift for that free spirit in your life whose idea of fun consists of pooping in the woods and sleeping under the stars. So here’s a dirty handful of last-minute ideas. Backpack $35-$165 Outdoor REGear 4201 Yale NE http://outdoorregear.com/ Everyone needs a backpack Outdoor gear is ridiculously expensive right? Wrong! Head over to Outdoor Peak Plus Card REGear, an outdoor equipment $69 consignment store, where you can pick up Ski Santa Fe anything and everything from skis and 1477 NM-475, Santa Fe coats to kayaks and bicycles. People are skisantafe.com always going through phases of believing Snow bums will rejoice upon receiving this they can be the next Cheryl Strayed only kick-ass discount card for both Ski Santa Fe to realize that couch-potatoism is their and Sandia Peak. This handy dandy pass can true calling. That means there is a lot of be used all season long with no blackout dates never or rarely used outdoor gear in the and presenting it at the lift ticket office will world that is looking for a new home at a take $25 off the price of an all-day, all- very decent price. Check out the mountain lift ticket (beginner lift not awesome backpack selection that varies in included). Order online and get it via snail purpose from light day hiking to month- mail or just tell your snow bunny to pick it up long lone wolfing. This is seriously the when they go to hit the slopes. They can use best kept secret in Burque. Now you’re in the 25 bucks they save on a victory beer or the know. two once they master that Double McTwist.

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DECEMBER 10-16, 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [21 ] FEATURE | lAsT minUTE giFT gUidE Playing Gifts for the fun of it BY TY BANNERMAN

he Holidays are a time for relaxation, enjoyment and, ideally, a bit of family fun. T Too often, though, that sense of play gets overwhelmed in the stress and desperation of an ever-longer shopping season. So why not combine both? Here are some gift ideas that focus on bringing fun back to the holidays. Game Time Adults for $3/hour, children for $2/hour Empire Board Game Library 3503 Central NE empiregamelibrary.com Empire offers a slightly different take on the boardgame experience, with a vast library A selection of games at Empire. EMPIREGAMELIBRARY.COM of games that anyone can pick up and play. Old classics like Monopoly and Risk are joined Escape Scenario Gift Christmas!” No doubt this will prove their mystery at the heart of each of the scenarios, by new ones like The Settlers of Catan and Voucher worst suspicions of your relationship and maybe including hunting down a lost treasure map, Carcasonne, as well as shelves full of new $32.16 per person (price includes tax) provide some catharsis for you, but actually finding out where a serial killer has trapped his games you haven’t heard of yet. Not only that, Escape Room New Mexico you’re giving them a good time via one of the latest victim before its too late or engaging in a but a full service espresso bar and sandwiches 3916 Carlisle NE more unusual games you can play in New bit of cloak and dagger espionage. await. Gift certificates can be purchased in any nmescaperoom.com Mexico. Escape Room NM offers participants amount and used for either the purchase of a “Surprise!”you say to your gift recipient, “I’m an experience that calls on observation skills, game or for play-time in the Library. going to lock you in a creepy room! Merry quick wits and teamwork in order to solve the

[22 ] WEEKLY ALIBI DECEMBER 10-16 , 2015 FEATURE | lAsT minUTE giFT gUidE 2 Hours of Jumping $20 per person Fallout Trampoline Arena 10000 Coors Bypass NW falloutjump.com There’s a good chance you’re going to be cooped up for a few of your vacation days and if you’ve got visitors or family staying with you, you might all need an escape to blow off some steam. Fallout Trampoline Arena offers obstacle courses, foam pits and (who knew?) trampolines for all ages, meaning that you can haul your whole crew over and spend the afternoon bouncing all that excess energy out. Solve a Murder Mystery $58/person for dinner and show (includes tax) Foul Play Café 2600 Louisiana NE foulplaycafe.com After the holidays, you might just be ready to murder someone. But take my advice, avoid Ninja park obstacle course NINJAPARKABQ.COM the jail time and settle for the vicarious thrill Ninja Training Session it sounds right, because ninjas obviously have but thanks to Ninja Park, a locally operated of trying to figure out who pretended to kill the coolest job in the world and get to wear fitness and obstacle course featuring trainers someone else while you scarf down a four- $60 for one person, $90 for two course meal at the Sheraton Uptown. Mumm’s awesome all-black uniforms when they clock who participated on the television show Ninja Park the Word , the mystery currently being put on 2420 Comanche NE in for their nightly routine of sneaking around, American Ninja Warrior, we can at least by Foul Play Café, features mobsters posturing ninjaparkabq.com doing ninja kicks and tossing smoke bombs. pretend. One-on-one training sessions start at and threatening each other in a 1920s Everybody secretly wants to be a ninja. Sadly, this lifestyle is out of reach for most of $60/hr or $90/hr for two people if you want to speakeasy and it’s up to you to figure out who That’s just something I made up right now, but us who aren’t born into the ancient Iga clan, tag along with your giftee. actually did the shooting. a

DECEMBER 10-16, 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [23 ] FEATURE | lAsT minUTE giFT gUidE Petting Because you wouldn’t leave man’s best friend off your shopping list

BY MAGGIE GRIMASON

hat do you buy for the dog or cat who has everything? If you’re the kind of Wpet owner who lovingly hangs a stocking for your dog on the mantle next to your child’s or kisses your cat under the misteltoe, you’ve undoubtedly added your pet’s name to your holiday shopping list. If you’re on the look out for something unique and like to keep your dollars local, we have some suggestions for your special friend. Personalized Dog Treats Three Dog Bakery 9821 Montgomery NE ILLO BY TAMARA threedog.com As you slave away in the kitchen baking cookies for Santa Claus, let the pet pros at Three Dog Bakery handle the treats for your four-legged friends. These local purveyors of all-natural puppy treats are sure to delight even the most picky of pooches. Here you can find dog-safe carob cookies and a variety of ornately decorated cakes, bagels and holiday fare that you can put your cat or dog’s name on. Find everything on your Holistic Eats and Treats food-motivated friend’s Christmas wish list Long Leash on Life here. 9800 Montgomery NE longleashonlife.com Custom Collars This year, give your cat or dog the gift of Mimi Green good health. Find all the multi-vitamins, shopmimigreen.com fresh supplements and healthy pet foods you Are you dreaming of coordinating your could ever dream of at the “healthiest pet outfits with your dog this holiday season? If food store in Albuquerque.” For bright eyes that’s the plan, Mimi Green has you and bushy tails, you can select from the covered. This online, Albuquerque-based massive inventory of high-end foods, treats company makes custom collars and leashes and more from the local stewards of pet that will provide a boon to your personal health at their location in the Northeast and pet style. Whether you’re into leather, Heights. The store caters to every leopard or classic solid colors, the designers predilection be it raw, premixed, freeze- on hand at Mimi Green will have the pet dried, wet or dry and the owners are always accessories of your dreams whipped up in no available to answer questions and provide time, and they offer free pick-up for locals. guidance. Dog Packs A Portrait for Posterity Clark’s Pet Emporium Stephanie Martin Photography 4914 Lomas NE smartinphotog.com clarkspets.com A portrait of that special animal in your If you’ve got a touch of cabin fever, then life is a gift for everyone residing in your surely your dog does, too. Gear up for abode and Stephanie Martin of Stephanie adventure by picking up a doggy backpack. Martin Photography is a pro at snapping These convenient carry-alls strap on candid animal portraits—just browse her comfortably, come in all sizes and make sure online gallery for evidence. If you’ve always that you’re hiking partner is pulling their dreamed of having a picture of your best weight. Whether you’re day tripping up La friend frolicking along the Bosque or Luz or headed down the Appalachian Trail, contemplating the horizon hanging over bringing Fido along becomes easier when your mantle, Stephanie Martin can capture you can accessorize him with utilitarian gear. and print your vision to a T. a

[24 ] WEEKLY ALIBI DECEMBER 10-16 , 2015 FEATURE | lAsT minUTE GiFT GUidE Giving The best gift of all

was 10:30am; I still had to drive two hours BY AUGUST MARCH into the western desert to get where I was going. I was terminally worried that a lack of ear the end of Charles Dickens’ A proper giftage would seem an affront. Christmas Carol —after having his past, The particular concrete slab where I N present and future reviewed and revealed stopped happened to be adjacent to my friend by a trio of spirits—Ebenezer Scrooge Jed’s apartment. Jed was a collector and awakened, went to the window and asked a purveyor of rarities. His little home was passing child about the day’s date. Of course it crammed with vintage militaria, costumes and was Christmas Day; who knew? Scrooge then hand-crafted oddities gleaned from one of proceeded toward resolution, joyously bearing many expeditions to Eastern Europe, Central gifts and goodwill to all he encountered. America, Asia or I’d say I’ve found myself in similar Iceland. situations but that’s Jed was at the end not quite the case. of an annual phone No ghosts here, call. He was although random rounding up a trans-dimensional crew to go and have entities have lunch at Ho-Lo-Ma, occasionally a fabulous Chinese presented restaurant in the North themselves to me. East Heights, he told me I hope that’ll as the door to his count for personal museum swung something when I open. show up at this or I related my that holiday party predicament to him while excusing myself bearing my new beard, a bottle of decent rum from lunch. Jed took a few drags off his and a headful of cray stories about the scene as Galoise, smiled and nodded before retreating it was in days of yore. to the back room. I left 20 minutes later—and But those are different tales, best told in a Jackson lighter—with a silk smoking jacket the summer—when the days are longer and fashioned in Istanbul, a jaguar mask from the brighter than my tendency to take tangents to Yucatan and a bamboo walking stick the dude town. So I shan’t digress. Well, maybe just a had traded for a Bon Jovi cassette while hiking little; it’s the holidays after all and people just through the jungles of Thailand. Serio . love stories thereabouts; just ask Dickens or Three hours down the road, I arrived at the the ghost of Dickens. Better yet, follow on, adobe abode of my girlfriend and her parents. dear readers. It was a sunny day and the light was golden as This story’s about what to do when you it cascaded onto tumbleweeds and rocky need to score some presents tout de suite, arroyos. when the day is already upon you and folks are I had wrapped the gifts in pages from the waiting for you to appear, to jump into the Sunday comics. Of course they didn’t mind action like a homegrown and heady Santy that I was late; the presents went over with Claws. them grandly and graciously. But over dinner Sometime near the end of the last century, my girlfriend took my hand gently. She said but before 1992, I woke up early and fuzzy- how I shouldn’t have gone through the trouble headed on Christmas Day. And realized I of getting such exotic gifts; my company and needed to come up with gifts for my girlfriend the fact I had driven so far into the wilderness and her family. In case you wanna know, they was wonderful as it was. were a clan of hep artists and musicians who That year I got a spare windshield for the lived in an earth ship in rural New Mexico. I Peugeot—her father had found it while was supposed to be at their solar-powered pad looking for parts for his ancient Studebaker at by mid-afternoon. the scrap yard—and a pair of home-sewn socks Although their hippie affiliation included a made from llama wool. And love. And pronounced and kindly non-materialistic acceptance, which beat the hell out of clause—which clearly manifested itself in their anything I could have thought up on my own. toleration of a far-out freak whose experience If you find yourself in a similar situation with Christmas traditions was admittedly this time around the sun but can’t count on cursory—I thought I could do them a solid by good fortune’s intercession, stop at any place showing up with an armload of presents. that is open and find something to give—even Off I traipsed into the cold December if it’s just a DVD from the Valero Corner Store morning. Of course just about the whole town or a dog sweater from Walmart (they’re both was shuttered. Albuquerque was quiet, open on Christmas Eve, I hear tell). Give your wrapped up neatly and beatifically like the change from those last minute transactions to gifts I sought. the first homeless person you see walking up Momentarily perplexed, I rolled around the Central. And remember—no matter where student ghetto for a while and finally pulled you are headed—to bring an open heart; that’s my Peugeot 504 into a parking lot. By now it the best gift of all. a

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“Curacao Perched Bird” by Angie Poynter Rehnberg Original painting by Rocky Norton “Before I Go” by Jodie Herrera Spaces on the Edge Pop-Up Collective creates fleeting experiences in the city’s vacant places to vacant urban retail spaces and it seems like BY MAGGIE GRIMASON our shows transform the spaces, too.” Poynter Rehnberg expanded upon that idea, saying, pass by the soft green, pink and blue “It gives us a new canvas to work with “There are so many vacant spaces and hidden colored adobe walls of the empty Sanitary gems in Albuquerque … [we want] to get I Tortilla Factory on Second Street nearly each time, but most importantly, it’s people from all walks of life to step outside the every single day. As long as I have lived in box of routine,” namely by experiencing those Albuquerque, this iconic Downtown space has interesting to create a new context spaces anew. stood vacant, having shut its doors in 2004 Both Herrera and Poynter Rehnberg’s after more than 30 years of “sanitary” tortilla for these spaces as well. connection to these spaces is deeply personal production by machine. Early in 2016, as well. Both were born and raised in New however, all of that will change when SCA Mexico and have been influenced by their Contemporary Art breathes new life into the for which each participating artist will donate because they can’t just go the next day [or] the experience and history with the land. “My building by moving their gallery and studio an original piece. Proceeds will be split 50/50 next week,” Poynter Rehnberg stated. She work is influenced by so many aspects of my space to the defunct factory. This endeavor is a between the two causes. believes that the gathering of the community identity and is constantly evolving and costly one, however, and Albuquerque’s arts “Albuquerque is a unique place, we want to around an arts event creates momentum and transitioning but an integral part of my community has banded together to form the highlight how incredible it is from the helps propel the city’s vibrant and diverse art identity is irrevocably New Mexico,” Poynter Pop-Up Collective, an initiative that supports exceptional talent to the remarkable venues,” scene into a well deserved spotlight. “We Rehnberg said of her influences. Herrera the revival of such spaces. Herrera said of the Collective’s work, adding, intend to show that Albuquerque is a framed her experience similarly, “New Mexico Albuquerque’s Pop-Up Collective, which “Manifold means diverse, many and various, contender in the art world,” Herrera said, is everything to me. My family has been here has existed in different incarnations for years, which is perfect in describing our lineup.” The noting that the “pop-up show” is a concept for over 500 years … There are so many was officially formed in 2014 by locals Jodie characterization is apt; the Manifold pop-up that has been happening in urban centers diverse genres of art that are executed Herrera and Angie Poynter Rehnberg. The exhibit will feature paintings from Herrera and around the world for years. extremely well by our artists and it’s the group’s explicit mission is to create one-night- mixed media offerings from Poynter Rehnberg, Just as the ephemeral nature of Manifold support and rich beauty of New Mexico that only exhibitions that promote or utilize under- as well as photography, sculpture, even and pop-ups like it serve the mission of the ties us together.” appreciated and under-the-radar spaces in the taxidermy, from the likes of New Mexican Pop-Up Collective, so does the emphasis on Support the Pop-Up Collective, SCA city and gather the community around art and artists Shana Levenson, Stacy Hawkinson, using often overlooked spaces. “It gives us a Contemporary Art, Albuquerque Healthcare other worthy causes. This Saturday, Dec. 12, Reyes Padilla, Rocky Norton, Elana Schwartz, new canvas to work with each time, but most for the Homeless and local art by attending the Pop-Up Collective hosts Manifold, an Deret Roberts and Bruce Shortz. importantly, it’s interesting to create a new the one-night-only pop-up event Manifold , exhibit with a two-fold mission: to raise funds The brevity of each show is essential to the context for these spaces as well. We help hosted by SCA Contemporary Art (524 for SCA Contemporary Art’s upcoming mission of the Pop-Up Collective, helping to transform stagnant, vacant spaces into active Haines NW) on Dec. 12 from 6-11pm. In relocation and to generate donations for cultivate a sense of immediacy and closeness. community venues,” Herrera said, elaborating addition to showcasing original work by nine Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless, a “The concept of a one-night-only show helps on the complex relationship between art and local artists, Albuquerque’s 2012-2014 poet non-profit that offers comprehensive health draw a larger crowd … having a show that can the spaces it inhabits, “the site always laureate, Hakim Bellamy, will perform, services to the homeless population. A only be viewed for one evening means the influences the experience of art, but we have Birdman will be DJing all night and drinks will donation will be generated by a silent auction, community makes a stronger effort to attend had exhibitions in everything from warehouses be provided courtesy of Tractor Brewery. a

DECEMBER 10-16 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [27 ] SCA CONTEMPORARY ART Manifold . Each artist showcases an original series of work, and donates one piece of art for Arts Lit a silent auction benefiting Albuquerque’s art scene and & the homeless community. 6 -11pm. 264 -5413. Calendar alibi.com/e/171041. SOUTH BROADWAY LIBRARY Virgin of Guadalupe Art Reception . See artwork featuring the Virgin of Guadalupe. 6-8pm. 764 -1742. alibi.com/e/171939. THURSDAY DEC 10 SONG & DANCE KIMO THEATRE The Nutcracker . A Christmas ballet with a STAGE joyful and elegant holiday party, mischievous mice, a bevy SOUTH BROADWAY CULTURAL CENTER Elf The Musical Jr. of bon bons and a sprinkle of sparkling snowflakes. Based on the hit film, Buddy is raised by elves, but when $17 -$30. 7pm. 768 -3544. alibi.com/e/171463. he gets too big, he is sent to New York to find his real OLD SAN YSIDRO CHURCH , Corrales Michael Anthony & First father. $10. 2 -3pm. 848 -1320. alibi.com/e/170300. Take Trio . A jazz concert. $22. 7:30pm. SONG & DANCE alibi.com/e/171936. KESHET CENTER FOR THE ARTS Nutcracker on the Rocks . OLD TOWN PLAZA 42nd TubaChristmas: Sweet & Low . Opening with Tchaikovsky, the classic tale is re-imagined Albuquerque’s tuba, euphonium and baritone players with a production filled with rock and roll hits by the Velvet gather to entertain with music of the holiday season. Underground, Aretha Franklin and more. $10 -$29. 3-4pm. 315 -7537. alibi.com/e/170790. 7:30pm. alibi.com/e/170913. POPEJOY HALL , UNM Center for the Arts The TEN Tenors . “Home for the Holidays” dazzles and delights audiences with amazing renditions of classic seasonal favorites. FRIDAY DEC 11 $20 -$69. 8pm. 277 -9771. alibi.com/e/164796. SAN PEDRO LIBRARY Holiday Hoot . Join a good, old- ART fashioned sing-along. Enthusiasm for folk songs ANDREA FISHER FINE POTTERY , Santa Fe Native American recommended. Song suggestions welcome. All voices Pottery Painting Demostration . Thomas Tenorio of Santo encouraged. All ages welcome. 4 -5:15pm. 256 -2067. Domingo Pueblo demonstrates his painting techniques alibi.com/e/171937. using traditional Santo Domingo designs. 986 -1234. LEARN alibi.com/e/172055. CHERRY HILLS LIBRARY Winter Book Craft . Learn to THE ART SALON AT INSPIRE 2 Fly Opening Reception . transform dictionary pages into creative works of art. All Featuring new works by Cloud Face. 7 -9pm. 242 -4549. supplies provided. Registration requested as spots are alibi.com/e/171882. limited. For teens and adults. 1 -3pm. 857 -8321. STAGE alibi.com/e/171934. ADOBE THEATER The Game’s Afoot or Holmes for the Holiday . INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER Stories in Silver . Learn The danger and hilarity are non-stop in this glittering about the Native American tradition of storyteller bracelets whodunit set during the Christmas holidays. $15 -$17. and how these works of art represent stories being passed 7:30 -10pm. 898 -9222. alibi.com/e/169375. down from one generation to the next. Noon -2pm. ALBUQUERQUE LITTLE THEATRE A Christmas Carol . A highly 843 -7270. alibi.com/e/170395. inventive adaptation of the classic Dickens story, pared FILM down to its essential elements. $14 -$24. 7:30 -10pm. O’NIELL’S HEIGHTS Let the Wookiee Win: A Star Wars Quiz . 242 -4750. alibi.com/e/168926. Get ready for The Force Awakens with the grandest Star NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER Cinderella, The E! Wars pub quiz this side of Tatooine. $5. 9pm. (303) True Hollywood Story . The Dolls bring a little English 532 -4737. alibi.com/e/172041. pantomime to Christmas with lots of slapstick, cross- dressing actors and bawdy humor. $20. 8pm. 724 -4771. alibi.com/e/171673. SUNDAY DEC 13 TRICKLOCK PERFORMANCE LABORATORY Mammoth . Composed in gulfs of glacial silence, two mammoth tusk SONG & DANCE hunters navigate modern romance in a landscape CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. JOHN A Celebration of Women . irrevocably altered by their presence. $15. 7:30 -9pm. Music written by women for women’s voices. $0 -$35. alibi.com/e/171693. 3-4:30pm. 821 -1956. alibi.com/e/166499. VISTA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER , Sandia Park THE KOSMOS To Air Is Human . $12. 6pm. See 12/11 Greetings: A Christmas Play . A young Catholic man brings listing. See Event Horizon. his Jewish atheist fiancée home to meet the family on LAS PLACITAS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH , Placitas Placitas Christmas Eve. Domestic mayhem ensues. $8 -$15. Artists Series December Concert . The Presidio Saxophone 7-9pm. 681 -8376. alibi.com/e/171740. Quartet performs an eclectic mix of mostly classical THE VORTEX THEATRE All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of pieces. $15 -$20. 3 -5pm. 867 -8080. 1914 . On the frontlines of WWI, the true story of alibi.com/e/171890. camaraderie, music and peace between fellow humans. LAS PUERTAS Chatter Sunday: Schumann and Takemitsu . $7 -$19. 7:30pm. 247 -8600. alibi.com/e/171757. Hear Quatrain II and Piano Trio No 2 in D Minor plus SONG & DANCE poetry from Lee Francis IV. Arrive early for espresso and HILAND THEATER The Hopes and Fears of all the Years . goodies. $5 -$15. 10:30 -11:30am. alibi.com/e/170259. Don’t miss this colorful, bright, and gay variety of warm LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER , Santa Fe Christmas winter songs by the N.M Gay Men’s Chorus to welcome Treasures . An afternoon of Christmas favorites including the holiday season in style. $15 -$20. 7:30 -9:30pm. “White Christmas,” “Little Drummer Boy” and more. 569 -0139. alibi.com/e/170943. $25 -$80. 4pm. 983 -3530. alibi.com/e/149752. THE KOSMOS To Air Is Human . A show by the Albuquerque FILM Aeriaist Collective about finding magic in each other’s ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY Through the weirdness in spite of the mundane things in life. $12. Lens of Breaking Bad . Ursula Coyote, still photographer for 7pm. 280 -4002. alibi.com/e/171892. See Event the series “Breaking Bad,” explores how the city and its Horizon. landscape became a character in the show. Included with FILM regular admission. 1 -2pm. 243 -7255. WAREHOUSE 21 , Santa Fe The Force Awakens Pre-Launch alibi.com/e/168507. Party . Featuring toys and collectibles, light saber NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND showdowns, costume contests, movies, comics, food SCIENCE The Polar Express Pajama Party . Wear your and raffles. $10 -$15. 1 -9pm. (505) 989 -4423. pajamas and drink hot cocoa while watching a holiday alibi.com/e/171391. See Event Horizon. classic on the big screen at the DynaTheater. $0 -$10. 6:30pm. 841 -2800. alibi.com/e/171621. WAREHOUSE 21 , Santa Fe The Force Awakens Pre-Launch SATURDAY DEC 12 Party . $10 -$15. 1 -9pm. See 12/11 listing. WORDS WINNING COFFEE CO. Slam Of Enchantment Saturnalia WEDNESDAY DEC 16 Slam . Bring a new poem to share in the open mic or slam and/or take part in the white elephant book exchange. SONG & DANCE 6-8pm. 985 -9708. alibi.com/e/171987. TAYLOR RANCH LIBRARY Stylings of the Season . Holiday ART music is presented by the Lyndon B. Johnson Middle School Advanced Chamber Ensemble. 4 -5pm. 897 -8816. KALM YOGA Wonders of Nature Photography Show . Stunning alibi.com/e/170853. night photography and wondrous landscapes by locals Steve Allen and Jerry Bruce. 6 -9pm. 259 -2354. LEARN alibi.com/e/171912. ABQ BIOPARK BOTANIC GARDEN Holiday Nature Crafts . NEW MEXICO ART LEAGUE Holiday Small Works Show and Make beautiful gifts inspired by nature. All craft materials Sale Opening Reception . Paintings, drawings, prints, are provided. No admission is required. 6 -8pm. photographs and mixed media by artists from across New 768 -2000. alibi.com/e/149369. Mexico. 5 -7:30pm. 293 -5034. alibi.com/e/171718.

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Winter Wonderland (Frozen Stuff) DOWNTOWN OLO YOGURT STUDIO 3339 Central NE, 718-4OLO (4656) [Ice Cream/Smoothies/Gelato/Fro-Yo ] The process used to create Olo’s vibrant flavors guarantees live, active cultures in the product. M HOTO.CO | ERICWP There are 10 flavors available on tap at any given WILLAIMS BY ERIC PHOTOS time, every one richly flavorful. (You can find this week’s list of flavors on Olo’s website.) Follow the signs and take a cup to the stainless steel taps. 3000 San Pedro NE Once you have your yogurt(s) in a cup, there are more than 45 toppings to crown your dish. Finish it off with a swirl of whipped cream and weigh in at the register. At less than 50 cents an ounce (and prices drop during cold weather), you can customize a treat that satisfies your palate and your pocketbook.

HEIGHTS THEOBROMA CHOCOLATIER 12611 Montgomery NE, 293-6545 • $ [Bakery/Sweets ] Floor-to-ceiling shelves boast gift baskets and bags, chocolate sculptures and molded items, giant “kisses,” and sugar-free assortments. A chilled candy case shimmers with an assortment of chocolate truffles, creams and caramels sold by the piece. The counter is heaped with our favorite items, mostly chocolate poured Bread pudding Rum balls over salty, crunchy things like pretzels, popcorn, nuts and cookies. Also, look for chocolate-covered BY CERRIDWEN STUCKY Swiss Alps Bakery the most moist and thick volcano cake being strawberries and Taos Cow ice cream in eight absolutely put to shame by the interior of this flavors. 3000 San Pedro NE rum ball. My friend was very concerned as I astries will always hold a special place in 881-3063 stopped mid sentence, closed my eyes and MIDTOWN my heart. Sweet bread filled with candied swissalpsbakery.com started making happy noises. He tried for the fruit or flavored cream is something I get P Hours: 7am to 4pm, Tuesday through Saturday next minute to reach me unsuccessfully. I SCREAM ICE CREAM an immense craving for daily. Fortunately, Before that bite I was just a girl, but as I came Vibe: An alpine glow 2000 Carlisle NE, 268-0139 • $ Albuquerque has many wonderful local out of my trance, I was a woman. The Alibi recommends: Rum balls, cinnamon [Ice Cream/Smoothies/Gelato/Fro-Yo ] bakeries, and I’ve visited quite a few. Though The turnover wasn’t what I expected caramelized croissant Burque’s newest retro-style ice cream shop is the quality of the sweets is important to me, either, it was different from the nondescript super kid-friendly, packed with toys and puzzles nothing speaks louder than variety. Sadly, I’ve pastries I’d shunned last year. Soft with We ate the bread pudding while sitting at and tons of nostalgic fun for everyone. All 33 of walked into way too many bakeries just to pumpkin filling and crunchy bits of toasted one of the small, round tables, looking though the hard-packed flavors are made by Creamland walk back out because they have a “selection” dough. the large windows to the sky outside. Though right here in New Mexico. ISIC also serves up of just three pastries. The croissant was dry on the outside, flaky delicious, I’ve had bread pudding that I would shakes, splits and other specialty treats to order, I stopped going to Swiss Alps Bakery about as all hell. But that’s any croissant and this consider more authentic. This was more like a and most are between $1 and $5. Cheap! half a year ago when I noticed that the one was special. The sugar-coated outside was slice of cake, solid and more cohesive, whereas “variety” on display was just the same hardened into a shell that shattered into I prefer a gloopy mess of bread turned liquid. I 66 DINER turnover folded differently and labeled with a pretty crystals all over the table at the first saved the rest of my pastries for later. 1405 Central SE, 247-1421 • $ new name. But recently I went there with my bite. All the moisture missing from the I’ll try not to use up the rest of this article [Diner ] mother and brother expecting much the same corners reappeared in the sweet, gooey, soft Step back in time for old-fashioned diner gushing about the rum ball, but no promises. I and prepared to write a gritty critique, but I center. food, jukebox oldies and atmosphere with a New tried this first because it was new to me. The was very pleasantly surprised. First of all, there Whatever it is that the Swiss Alps Bakery Mexican twist (incarnate in the hot-and-spicy Frito rum balls I’d tried before were small and sugar pie). The real stars in this place, though, are the were no copycat pastries. My little brother is doing now, they are doing it right. Thank coated, while this was an inch and a half in awesome frozen desserts. They run the gamut from insisted on the bread pudding—with three you, pastry gods, for shining your light once diameter and covered in chocolate and mammoth banana splits to 99-cent teeny-weeny hot forks, because he knew it was too much for again on their sugary dough. The chocolate sprinkles. Based on my previous fudge sundaes. The milkshakes come in almost any him. I ordered a turnover to see if they had disappointment, almost betrayal, I felt at their experience, I expected the inside to consist of flavor combination you can think of and are some of improved, a rum ball because I hadn’t tried decline is long forgotten, and I feel like I’ve one before and my long time favorite: a a tough, nutty, coco flavored mix. I was in no the creamiest, most lip-smacking concoctions regained an old friend. a around. Voted Best Milkshakes for 2013. cinnamon caramelized croissant. way prepared for the best chocolate cake I’ve ever had and probably ever will have. Imagine DECEMBER 10-16, 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [31 ] [32 ] WEEKLY ALIBI DECEMBER 10-16 , 2015 FILM | FILM REVIEW REEL WORLD BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY

Elf on the shelf In the Heart of the Sea Saturday, Dec. 12, is Family Movie Night at the Lomas Tramway Library (908 Eastridge NE). From 4 to 6pm, the library will be screening the Ron Howard spins a whale of a tale through choppy waters much-loved 2003 holiday comedy Elf starring Will Ferrell and Zooey Deschanel. Admission is free and open to the public. The film is rated PG. BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY Children under the age of 11 must be BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY accompanied by and adult. For more information, please call 291-6295. ince the guy grew up in show business, it’s no surprise to see Ron Howard has Sdeveloped into a workmanlike director. Train your kids Whereas films by Steven Spielberg, Quentin The Lockheed Martin DynaTheater at the New Tarantino, Christopher Nolan and other Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science “name” directors have a distinctive look and gets in the holiday spirit with several screenings of the 2004 computer-animated film The Polar feel, there’s nothing in a Ron Howard film Express . The film—about a magical railway trip that really stands out in a crowd. His films to the North Pole—debuts on the never rise above or sink below a certain level DynaTheater’s massive five-story screen on of professionalism. But you’d have a hard time Sunday, Dec. 13, starting at 6:30pm. On picking a Ron Howard film out of a lineup. Saturday, Dec. 19, there will be a special 3D Rush, The Dilemma, Frost/Nixon, The Da Vinci screening at 6:30pm. The final show is Sunday, Dec. 20, at 6:30pm. Kids are encouraged to Code, Cinderella Man, The Missing, A Beautiful attend in their pajamas. (Adults not so much, I Mind, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Ransom, guess.) Admission is $10 adults, $8 for seniors Apollo 13, Backdraft : They’re all decent, and $6 for children. Tickets can be purchased in watchable films. But few of them linger in advance at brownpapertickets.com. memory beyond the movie theater lobby. His latest—the epic, historical drama In The Heart of the Sea —at least has the distinction of being Howard’s most visually dynamic. The film is based on Nathaniel Philbrick’s nonfiction book In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. The story of the “O ye whales.” Essex was so well-known in maritime history that it served as the major inspiration for that adds a certain vertiginous reality to life Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick . In In the Heart of the Sea among the masts, sails and riggings of a 19th fact, In the Heart of the Sea actually casts century sailing vessel. Directed by Ron Howard Melville as a character (played by Spectre ’s Ben Eventually, of course, nature provides its Starring Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Ben Whishaw). In a somewhat contrived comeuppance in the form of a gigantic white Whishaw, Brendan Gleeson wraparound sequence, young Mr. Melville whale that smashes in the hull of the Essex Rated PG-13 hunts down aged Essex survivor Tom and appears to stalk the survivors across the Opens Thursday 12/10 Pajama pilot Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson) and browbeats Pacific. Here In the Heart of the Sea starts to Congratulations are in order for Albuquerque’s him into spilling the beans about the sinking take on the form of an ecological horror film, homegrown comedy duo done good, Pajama of the legendary whaleship. (In real life, with Mother Nature fighting back against the Men. Surreal sketch comedy kings Shenoah Allen Melville wouldn’t need to do that. Both Chase and Pollard eventually agree to a truce. and Mark Chavez have been spending a lot of hubris and greed of mankind. Chase, Pollard time in England lately, working on their various Nickerson, a cabin boy on the Essex, and first They’ll put up with one another for as long as and the other survivors endured incredible hit stage shows and touring Europe. (Last month mate Owen Chase wrote accounts of the ill- it takes to fill the ship’s hold with whale oil. privations on their ensuing trek back across found them in Sweden and Norway!) The Pajama fated voyage.) This gives Chase time to befriend a 15-year- the Pacific. It remains one of the most Men will be returning to Albuquerque soon, Howard’s misty, soot-covered images of old old cabin boy named Tom Nickerson (played incredible stories of survival in maritime however, to shoot their very first TV series. In the New England are an evocative recreation of in younger years by Tom Holland, who’s history. Despite its claims of being a true story, past the Men have been commissioned by HBO, time and place and set an appropriately eagerly waiting to take over the Spider-Man the BBC and others to develop potential In The Heart of the Sea does play fast and loose television pilots, but nothing has panned out in downbeat mood for Nickerson’s narrative. In franchise). with the facts of the case, turning the the long run. So now they’re taking matters into flashback we’re treated to the story of Unfortunately, the Essex runs into a stream infamous whale into an almost demonic figure their own hands. The sitcom “Brothers in Law” is upstanding Nantucket seaman Owen Chase of bad luck. The crew spends more than a year of vengeance and ignoring other realities in described as “Arrested Development” meets (Chris Hemsworth, biding his time between searching fruitlessly for sperm whales and ends favor of dramatic convenience. Still, the “Bob’s Burgers” with the mysterious slant of Avengers movies). Chase has been promised up rounding Cape Horn to push its luck out in director puts just enough mythic spin on “Twin Peaks”—which sounds about right for the captaincy of a whaling ship, based on his the vast reaches of the South Pacific. For the Pajama Men. The plot concerns the publisher of a things to keep the the film from sinking. weekly newspaper (hmm. We’re listening) that is skill and experience. But the company he bulk of its runtime, In the Heart of the Sea Visually In The Heart of the Sea works. failing so badly he’s forced to run operations out works for slips him into the first mate slot presents a fairly accurate portrait of life aboard Howard manages to get just enough salt spray of his own home. Can his criminal brother-in-law aboard the Essex so that the inexperienced son a whaling vessel in the very early 19th off the page and onto his lens (in many cases help him make his business work? In a word: No. of a wealthy investor can be installed in the century. As anyone who’s actually read Moby- literally) to put audiences in the moment. The The project just met its initial crowdfunding goal more prestigious position. Chase immediately Dick knows, whaling was an exceptionally film’s attempts to wring drama from an of $25,000 on Kickstarter, ensuring that the clashes with the bossy and aristocratic George bloody and brutal business. In the Heart of the pilot will get made. There’s still a week or so left unfortunate series of true, tragic events, in the fundraising campaign and Allen and Chavez Pollard (Benjamin Walker from Abraham Sea doesn’t shy too far away from the ickier however, are somewhat less successful—relying are hoping to lock down funding for several Lincoln: Vampire Hunter ). For a long while, it details of whale hunting. As a result, the film’s on imaginary conflicts and a lot of expository additional episodes. In a recent conversation, looks like In the Heart of the Sea will be main subject matter—the archaic and barbaric dialogue to drive things forward. Like an Allen promised, “We’re bringing a bunch of great hijacking its narrative from Mutiny on the slaughter of whales—makes it a bit of a tough intricately carved piece of scrimshaw, In the folks back to the Land of Enchantment with us” Bounty with cruel captain and earthy first mate sell to modern-day audiences. Still, it’s a Heart of the Sea looks great—but it doesn’t to work on the project. Among the creative team battling it out for control of the ship. (In real historical fact, and the film brings the industry is animator—and former Alibi graphic designer— necessarily serve a purpose. a Jeff Drew. Needless to say, we can’t wait to see life, Chase and Pollard had served together to vivid life—thanks largely to some epic the results. For more info on the project, check before and were a successful whaling duo.) But special effects. The film even has a 3D cut out pajama-men.com a

DECEMBER 10-16, 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [33 ] TELEVISION | IDIOT BOX Space is the Place “The Expanse” on Syfy Holden (Steven Straight, last seen on “Magic BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY City”). Over on the dwarf planet Ceres, there’s a burned-out police detective named Miller yfy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel) has decided (Thomas Jane from “Hung” looking to rededicate itself to science fiction. We appropriately bedraggled) stuck hunting a Scan only assume this means less wrestling runaway rich girl. Meanwhile back on Earth, we and more actual, you know, science fiction. If get hard-assed U.N. Deputy Undersecretary the premiere of “The Expanse” is any Crisjen Avasarala (Shohreh Aghdashloo from indication, they’re heading in the right “24”) trying to prevent the solar system’s cold direction. war from turning hot. How all these characters “The Expanse” is based on the popular book and storylines fit together will become evident series by James S.A. Corey (a pen name for over the course of the season. Attention and New Mexico authors Daniel Abraham and Ty weekly viewing will be required. Franck). The series (five novels and counting) Fans of the books will be happy to note the has been praised for its hard science approach show (written and produced by Hawk Ostby & and its embrace of good, old-fashioned space Mark Fergus of Children of Men and Iron Man ) opera. The story is set a couple hundred years in sticks very closely to the written word. A TV the future when mankind has colonized the series, by its very nature, has to hit different moon, Mars and a good chunk of the asteroid narrative beats than a novel, so well-read belt. This spread-out future finds humanity on viewers shouldn’t be surprised to see the show the brink of war, with Mars jockeying for amp up some of the smaller moments in order position as the solar system’s new power broker to milk some weekly drama. The cast, though and residents of the asteroid belt so far removed younger and prettier than most of the people in from Earth in time and space they practically the book are probably supposed to be, are all consider themselves another species. solid. The first season of “The Expanse” is based Ultimately, it’s clear Syfy has dumped a ton largely on the first book in the series, Leviathan of money into this project, imagining it to be Wakes . Although, taking a cue from HBO’s their “Game of Thrones.” It’s easily the best- “Game of Thrones,” producers have pulled in looking science-fiction show ever put on some storylines from the second novel as well television. The expansive sets and high-tech in order to expand the scope. This works fine, special effects are beyond impressive. This isn’t pumping up the politically charged content and (so far anyway) one of those chintzy “short bringing in a fan-favorite character right out of hallways in space” shows that have been the the gate. industry standard since the original “Star Trek.” Over the course of the first two TV episodes, In other words: If you love Syfy for the sci fi, this we are introduced to a panoply of players. is the show you’ve been waiting for. a There’s the crew of a deep-space ice hauler roped into a dicey rescue mission by a “The Expanse” will premiere Monday, Dec. 14, at 8pm mysterious distress call. They’re led by idealistic on Syfy. but less-than-confident executive officer Jim

“Transparent” (Amazon streaming Wish Upon a Christmas (Lifetime anytime) Amazon finally gives us 7pm) A corporate actuary returns THE WEEK IN another season of Jeffrey Tambor’s to her hometown to cut jobs at a transgender dramedy. struggling ornament factory owned SLOTH Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot (Lifetime 4pm) by her former high-school Dahl’s 1990 children’s novel gets a boyfriend. ... Gosh, I can’t possibly movie version (which originally aired imagine where this is going. on the BBC). In it retired bachelor Mr. “Married by Mom & Dad” (TLC Hoppy (Dustin Hoffman) is hopelessly 7:30pm) No. Just no. THURSDAY 10 in love with his downstairs neighbor Mrs. Silver (Dame Judy Dench), but “Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and she is only interested in her pet MONDAY 14 Beyond” (KOAT-7 7pm) Producers, tortoise Alfie. animators, technical artists, Childhood’s End (Syfy 6pm) Syfy designers and voice actors talk “The 84th Annual Hollywood Christmas tackles Arthur C. Clarke’s 1953 about the impact of Pixar’s beloved Parade” (KWBQ-19 7pm) Erik genre classic about “peaceful” classic. Followed by a screening of Estrada, Dean Cain and Montel alien invaders as a three-night ... oh, look, it’s Toy Story . Williams will be there. Hollywood! miniseries. “Michael Bublé’s Christmas in “Adele Live in New York City” (KOB-4 Hollywood” (KOB-4 7pm) Modern- SATURDAY 12 9pm) The Grammy-winning record- day crooner Michael Bublé breaker performs at New York’s welcomes Celine Dion, Sharon Becoming Santa (Lifetime 6pm) Yeah, Radio City Music Hall. Jones & the Dap Kings and Tori no thanks. We saw Tim Allen do that, Kelly. Also, Kylie Jenner will be there, and it wasn’t pleasant. TUESDAY 15 because that’s the sort of world we live in. SUNDAY 13 “Hello, I Must Be Going: 25 Years of Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors Nick News With Linda Ellerbee” (KOB-4 8pm) Dolly’s 1971 hit “Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat (Nickelodeon 6pm) After trying to becomes a heart-tugging holiday Noir” (Nickelodeon 10am) In this teach the kids some useful movie about “the healing power of Japanese-French-Korean CGI toon, information for 25 years, Linda seemingly normal high school Ellerbee finally hangs it up. faith and love while struggling to students Marinette and Adrien are overcome tragedy.” chosen to save Paris from evil (as superheroes with goofy names). WEDNESDAY 16 FRIDAY 11 “Behind the Magic: Snow White and “Survivor: Reunion Special” (KRQE- The Ridiculous Six (Netflix streaming the Seven Dwarfs” (KOAT-7 7pm) 13 9pm) ... Oh, the reality show. anytime) Adam Sandler’s Ginnifer Goodwin (who— Not the band. Nevermind. controversial (but most likely just coincidentally, I’m sure—plays Snow “Nashville: On the Road” (KOAT-7 stupid) Western spoof shows up on White in ABC’s “Once Upon a Time”) 9pm) ABC’s country music Netflix. It was shot in New Mexico. narrates this “making of” special melodrama finally gives up on the So there’s that. concerning Disney’s 1934 animated narrative premise and just has its classic. stars sing songs for an hour. a [34 ] WEEKLY ALIBI DECEMBER 10-16 , 2015 DECEMBER 10-16 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [35 ] [36 ] WEEKLY ALIBI DECEMBER 10-16 , 2015 FILM | CAPSULES BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY OPENING THIS WEEK your life? Well, here it is in movie theaters. 130 minutes. up anyway. 137 minutes. PG-13. (Rio Rancho Premiere Spectre PG. (Opens Sunday 12/13 at Century 14 Downtown, Cinema, Century 14 Downtown, Century Rio, Cottonwood A “cryptic message from his past” sends superspy James The American Dreamer Century Rio) Stadium 16) Bond (Daniel Craig) on the trail of the sinister This rediscovered, remastered and rereleased organization secretly responsible for so many of his documentary from 1971 finds actor/director Dennis Topper Returns Krampus greatest battles. Christoph Waltz ( Django Unchained ) in Hopper (red hot in the tire tracks of Easy Rider ) trying to This third and final entry in Hal Roach’s famed “Topper” A boy who has had a bad Christmas ends up accidentally on bad guy and “explaining stuff” duty. The action is helm his notoriously mad dream project The Last Movie . trilogy came out in 1941. Roland Young returns as Cosmo summoning a traditional European Christmas demon extremely Bond-like. And this is a tidy (perhaps too tidy) Filmmakers Lawrence Schiller and L.M. Kit Carson Topper, a mousy banker with the unwanted ability to see (named Krampus, of course) to his family home. Adam wrap-up of Craig’s run as 007. If you haven’t memorized captured Hopper at the peak of his artistic and ghosts. Billie Burke is back as his constantly befuddled Scott ( “Parks and Recreation”), Toni Collette ( Little Miss the last three films, however, this one’s overly intricate commercial success and in the midst of his greatest wife. For this entertaining go-around, sexy Joan Blondell Sunshine ), David Koechner (Anchorman: The Legend of script will lose you in minutiae. 148 minutes. PG-13. (Rio creative conflict. 81 minutes. Unrated. (Opens Tuesday shows up as a dead woman who enlists Topper’s help in Ron Burgundy) and Allison Tolman (“Fargo”) are among Rancho Premiere Cinema, Century 14 Downtown, Century 12/15 at Guild Cinema) solving her murder. An Albuquerque Film Club the cast of this seasonal horror comedy. 98 minutes. PG- Rio, Cottonwood Stadium 16) presentation. 88 minutes. Unrated. (Opens Saturday 13. (Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Century 14 Being Evel: The Evel Knievel Story 12/12 at Guild Cinema) Downtown, Century Rio, Cottonwood Stadium 16) Spotlight The daredevil motorcyclist’s unbelievable life is captured Actor/director Tom McCarthy ( The Station Agent, The in this savvy documentary from Oscar-winning filmmaker The Letters Visitor ) writes and directs this serious, sweeping true Daniel Junge. Johnny Knoxville, George Hamilton, Tony The life of Mother Teresa (Juliet Stevenson, Bend It Like story about how Boston Globe reporters uncovered a Hawk, Mat Hoffman, Frank Gifford and Geraldo Rivera are STILL PLAYING Beckham ) is summarily showcased through the letters massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within just a few of the celebrities interviewed about Knievel’s she wrote to her lifetime friend and spiritual advisor, the local Catholic Archdiocese. This journalistic dangourously thrilling career. 99 minutes. (Opens Tuesday The 33 Father Celeste van Exem (Max von Sydow) over a 50-year procedural lays as much blame on the media as the 12/15 at Guild Cinema) Back in 2010 a bunch of Chilean miners got trapped period. This credulously hagiographic dramatization of the churches. The big cast (Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, underground for more than two months. Their epic rescue nun’s works is basically a closing argument for her Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Stanley Boruto: Naruto The Movie played out on evening newscasts around the world. Here, sainthood and little more. For serious Catholic fans only. Tucci) is in rare form, and the muckraking script is It’s been some years since the end of the Shinobi War, then, is the fictionalized version of what happened. 114 minutes. PG. (Century Rio) gripping (if a bit prosaic). 128 minutes. R. (Century Rio, and ninja kid Naruto Uzumaki is all grown up and serving Basically they sat around in the dark and hoped they Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema) as the 7th Hokage of Konohagakure. His son, Boruto didn’t die. It’s inspiring as a tale of survival, but it’s not Love the Coopers Uzumaki, is now old enough to start his own super ninja particularly dramatic. Some of the actors (Antonio Diane Keaton, John Goodman, Ed Helms, Alex Borstein, Tamasha training—which he does with the help and hindrance of Banderas, notably) try hard. But the decision to shoot it Amanda Seyfried, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei and Olivia Deepika Padukone and Ranbir Kapoor star in this childhood friends and enemies. This is the 11th film in in English with an international cast is ... odd. Gabriel Wilde star in this actor-stuffed comedy about four romantic comedy, set in Corsica, about a nomad and a the successful Naruto series, based on the manga by Byrne wins the Weirdest Accent Award for his half- generations of a dysfunctional family getting together for tourist who gradually develop a fondness for each other Masashi Kishimoto, and its next-gen storyline represents Spanish, half-Irish brogue. Reviewed in v24 i46. 127 their annual Christmas Eve celebration. Hijinks ensue. as they orchestrate “tamashas” (a traditional form of a fresh chapter in Kishimoto’s “Start of a New Era minutes. PG-13. (Cottonwood Stadium 16) 106 minutes. PG-13. (Century Rio, Cottonwood Stadium Marathi theater) across the island. In Hindi with English Project.” 95 minutes. Unrated. (Opens Sunday 12/13 at 16) subtitles. 139 minutes. Unrated. (Century 14 Downtown) Century 14 Downtown, Century Rio) Brooklyn Writer Nick Hornby ( High Fidelity, About a Boy ) adapts The Martian Trumbo Dangerous Men Colm Tóibín’s classically romantic novel about an Irish Matt Damon is an astronaut who gets left for dead on Bryan Cranston stars as infamously blacklisted Hollywood This bizarro, lost-in-a-closet, Z-grade action flick is the pet immigrant (Saoirse Ronan from Hanna and The Grand Mars after a manned mission goes horribly awry. Stuck on screenwriter Douglas Trumbo in this well-acted, by-the- project of Iranian-American filmmaker “John S. Rad.” In Budapest Hotel ) who travels to 1950s Brooklyn where the red planet with only minimal supplies and his book (the one written by Bruce Cook) biopic. Diane Lane, 1989, Mr. Rad set out to make the most awesomest she falls into a new romance. When she’s called back scientific mind, our hero must figure out a way to survive Hellen Mirren, Alan Tudyk and Louis C.K. co-star for gutter epic of “crime, revenge, cop sex and raw power” in home to Ireland, however, she must choose between loves based on ingenuity, wit and spirit. Ridley Scott ( Alien ) director Jay Roach ( Austin Powers, Meet the Parents ). creation. A mere 26 years later, he completed the job. The old and new and countries far and near. 111 minutes. directs. It’s based, of course, on the best-selling book by 124 minutes. R. (Century 14 Downtown) result is a mind-bendingly ridiculous crime saga about a PG-13. (Century 14 Downtown, Century Rio) Andy Weir. 141 minutes. PG-13. (Rio Rancho Premiere woman who witnesses her financé’s brutal murder by Cinema, Century Rio, Century 14 Downtown, Cottonwood Victor Frankenstein beach thugs and sets out on a bloody mission to Creed Stadium 16) Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein gets the jokey, anachronistic eradicate all human trash in Los Angeles. Let the bullets Sylvester Stallone (who neither directs nor writes this “bro” treatment Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes fly, the blood flow and the synthesizers blare! 80 minutes. film) takes a clever turn in this seventh Rocky movie by The Night Before got in the Robert Downey Jr./Jude Law movies. James Unrated. (Opens Friday 12/11 at Guild Cinema) mostly staying out of the center ring. Written and directed The makers of This Is the End and Neighbors turn their McAvoy ( X-Men: First Class ) is the sexy Dr. Frankenstein, by the man who gave us the gritty Fruitvale Station , this raunchy senses of humor toward the yuletide season. A while Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter himself) is his Experimenter sporting drama focuses on the troubled son of late boxer man who’s about to become a father for the first time decidedly un-hunchbacked assistant Igor. The script Occasionally experimental filmmaker Michael Almereyda Apollo Creed, who turns to Creed’s old frenemy, former (Seth Rogen) spends Christmas Eve with his two lifelong comes from hotshot screenwriter Max Landis ( Chronicle, (Nadja, Hamlet, Cymbeline ) writes and directs this biopic Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa, to serve as his pals (Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Anthony Mackie) American Ultra ). 109 minutes. PG-13. (Cottonwood drama about famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram. trainer and mentor. Michael B. Jordan, last seen (or not) searching New York City for a legendary party. Booze, Stadium 16, Century Rio) In 1961 he conducted a series of radical behavior in Fantastic Four , is our young boxer-to-be. 132 minutes. drugs, pervasive sexual content and general hijinks experiments that tested ordinary humans’ willingness to PG-13. (Century Rio, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, ensue. 101 minutes. R. (Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, obey authority. (He also came up with the concept of “six Cottonwood Stadium 16, Century 14 Downtown) Century 14 Downtown, Century Rio, Cottonwood Stadium degrees of separation.”) Peter Sarsgaard ( Boys Don’t Cry, 16) SECOND RUN Jarhead, “The Killing”) stars as Milgram. Winona Ryder, The Good Dinosaur Taryn Manning, Lori Singer, Anton Yelchin, John Pixar and Disney imagine a world in which a rogue The Peanuts Movie Crimson Peak Leguizamo, Kellan Lutz and Anthony Edwards round out asteroid didn’t wipe out the dinosaurs, allowing them to This computer-animated update of the Peanuts TV Guillermo del Toro ( Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth, Pacific Rim ) the cast. 98 minutes. PG-13. (Opens Friday 12/11 at live hand-in-hand (so to speak) with humans. Jeffrey specials we all grew up watching does fairly reverent job writes and directs this impossibly, hyperbolically Gothic Guild Cinema) Wright, Frances McDormand, Anna Paquin and Sam of mirroring the classic 2D style of artist Charles M. ghost story. Mia Wasikowska ( Alice in Wonderland, The Elliott provide some of the voices for this tale of a gentle Schulz’ famous comic strip characters. The thin story Kids Are All Right ) stars as an aspiring author in turn-of- Heart of a Dog Apatosaurus who makes an unlikely human friend while revolves around eternal loser Charlie Brown’s attempts to the-century England “torn between love for her childhood Beautifully odd musician/performance artist Laurie traveling through a mysterious primeval landscape. woo the newly arrived Little Red-Headed Girl in school. friend (Charlie Hunnam) and the temptation of a Anderson directs her second feature film (after 1986’s Reviewed in v24 i48. 100 minutes. PG. (Century 14 The rest is running gags, cribbed from the comic strips mysterious stranger (Tom Hiddleston).” So far, so Gothic— concert film Home of the Brave ). This one is a eclectic, Downtown, Century Rio, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, and assembled by Bryan and Craig Schulz. Purists will but de Toro ups the ante by setting it all in the lushest, multimedia essay about the death of her beloved dog Cottonwood Stadium 16) probably still grouse, but it’s a great jumping-off point for most architecturally intense haunted house in movie (among a myriad of other subjects). By connecting new fans of Snoopy and the gang. 93 minutes. G. (Rio history. 119 minutes. R. (Movies West, Movies 8) disparate themes and images (everything from her late Hotel Transylvania 2 Rancho Premiere Cinema, Century Rio, Cottonwood husband Lou Reed to Buddhism), Anderson has created Genndy Tartakovsky (“Dexter’s Laboratory,” “Samurai Stadium 16) Everest a dreamy, impressionistic meditation on life and Jack”) returns to helm this cartoon sequel in which Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright and everything in it. 75 minutes. Unrated. (Opens Friday Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) tries to bring out the Secret in Their Eyes Emily Watson star in this high-altitude drama “inspried by 12/11 at Guild Cinema) monster in his half-human. half-vampire grandson in Rising FBI investigators (Chiwitel Ejiofor and Julia the incredible true events surrounding a trecherous order to keep his daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez) from Roberts) are torn apart when the teenage daughter of attempt to reach the summit of the world’s highest In the Heart of the Sea leaving his now famous hotel. 89 minutes. PG. their district-attorney supervisor (Nicole Kidman) is mountain.” In a nutshell, eight climbers died when they Reviewed this issue. 121 minutes. PG-13. (Opens (Cottonwood Stadium 16) brutally murdered. Thirteen years later, a shocking clue were caught in a blizzard back in 1996. Four other people Thursday 12/10 at Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Century brings the unsolved case back to life. It’s a remake of died that year, making it the deadliest year atop Everest 14 Downtown, Century Rio, Cottonwood Stadium 16) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 Juan José Campanella’s Oscar-winning 2009 Argentine on record. Until 2014 when 18 people died. The moral: Jennifer Lawrence finally gets around to overthrowing the thriller of the same name. This one won’t be winning any Never climb Mt. Everest. 121 minutes. PG-13. (Movies 8, It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) evil futuristic government in this, the fourth film of the Oscars. 111 minutes. PG-13. (Rio Rancho Premiere Movies West) Is it possible that you’ve seen this holiday pic starring Hunger Games trilogy. This surprisingly dark outing takes Cinema, Century 14 Downtown, Century Rio, Jimmy Stewart less than a dozen times over the course of its time getting to the epic final seige. But fans will eat it Cottonwood Stadium 16) Film Capsules continued on page 38

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Film Capsules continued from page 37 The Good Dinosaur Fri-Wed 11:00am, 11:50am, 1:40, 4:20, CENTURY 14 DOWNTOWN 5:10, 7:05, 9:45; Thu please call for times 100 Central SW • 1 (800) 326-3264 ext. 943# The Good Dinosaur 3D Fri-Wed 11:30am, 2:10, 2:40, 4:50, 7:35, 8:00, 10:15; Thu please call for times Fred Claus Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D Thu 7:00, 8:40, 10:20, Creed Fri-Wed 11:45am, 12:15, 3:15, 3:45, 6:35, 7:10, Vince Vaughn plays the bitter, black sheep brother of 12:01am 9:45, 10:20; Thu please call for times Star Wars: The Force Awakens Thu 7:15, 7:50, 9:30, 11:10 Secret in Their Eyes Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:40, 7:15, 10:00; Thu Santa Claus (Paul Giamatti), who is forced to move Sisters Thu 7:00 please call for times to the North Pole after his girlfriend kicks him out. Boruto: Naruto The Movie Sun 12:55 The Night Before Fri-Wed 11:45am, 2:15, 4:50, 7:40, 10:00; Hijinks ensue as Fred parties with the elves, incites It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) Sun 2:00; Wed 2:00, 7:00 Thu please call for times In the Heart of the Sea 3D Fri-Sat 4:10, 10:20; Sun 4:10; The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 Fri-Wed 12:00, sibling rivalry and generally creates some North Pole Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:10; Thu please call for times 12:30, 3:30, 4:00, 7:00, 7:30, 10:15; Thu please call for anarchy. Reviewed in v16 i45. 114 minutes. PG. In the Heart of the Sea Fri-Sun 1:15, 7:05; Mon-Wed 7:05; times (Movies West, Movies 8) Thu please call for times Love the Coopers Fri-Wed 12:10, 3:20, 6:40, 9:50; Thu Krampus Fri-Sat 11:55am, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:10; Sun-Wed please call for times 11:55am, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30; Thu please call for times The 33 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:30, 7:20, 10:20; Thu please call for The Intern Tamasha Fri-Sat 12:35, 3:45, 6:55, 10:05; Sun-Wed 12:35, times 3:45, 6:55; Thu please call for times The Peanuts Movie Fri-Wed 11:35am, 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, Robert De Niro is a bored retiree who gets an Trumbo Fri-Sat 11:00am, 1:55, 4:50, 7:45, 10:40; Sun-Wed 9:35; Thu please call for times internship at an up-and-coming online retailer run by 11:00am, 1:55, 4:50, 7:45; Thu please call for times Spectre Fri-Wed 11:20am, 2:50, 6:45, 10:10; Thu please call young go-getter Anne Hathaway. Writer-director Nancy Brooklyn Fri-Sat 11:05am, 1:45 4:25, 7:15, 10:00; Sun-Wed for times 11:05am, 1:45 4:25, 7:15; Thu please call for times Hotel Transylvania 2 Fri-Wed 11:30am, 2:00, 4:30; Thu Meyers ( What Women Want, Something’s Got to Give ) Creed Fri-Sat 1:25, 4:30, 7:35, 10:45; Sun-Wed 1:25, 4:30, please call for times has put together a genial crowd-pleaser, but the 7:35; Thu please call for times script never asks much heavy lifting of its characters, The Good Dinosaur 3D Fri-Sat 12:25, 3:10, 5:50, 8:30; Sun- Wed 12:25, 3:10, 5:50; Thu please call for times GUILD CINEMA providing them with easy laughs and simple The Good Dinosaur Fri-Sat 11:10am, 1:50, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50; 3405 Central NE • 255-1848 solutions whenever the spectre of actual drama rears Sun-Wed 11:10am, 1:50, 4:20, 7:10 its ugly head. Reviewed in v24 i39. 121 minutes. PG- Secret in Their Eyes Fri 11:20am, 2:25, 5:05, 7:50, 10:30; Heart of a Dog Fri-Mon 4:15, 8:15 Sat 5:05, 7:50, 10:30; Sun 5:05, 7:50; Mon 11:20am, Experimenter Fri-Mon 6:00 13. (Movies West, Movies 8) 2:25, 5:05, 7:50; Tue 11:20am, 2:25; Wed 11:20am;; Thu Dangerous Men Fri 10:30 please call for times Topper Returns Sat-Sun 1:00 The Last Witch Hunter The Night Before Fri-Sat 11:25am, 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25; The American Dreamer Tue-Thu 4:15, 8:15 Sun-Wed 11:25am, 2:10, 4:55, 7:40; Thu please call for Being Evel: The Evel Knievel Story Tue-Thu 6:00 Vin Diesel is an immortal witch hunter who is the last times person standing between New York City and the The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 Fri-Sat 11:30am, HIGH RIDGE combined forces of the most horrifying witches in 1:05, 2:40, 4:15, 5:45, 7:25, 9:00, 10:35; Sun- Wed11:30am, 1:05, 2:40, 4:15, 5:45, 7:25; Thu please call 12910 Indian School NE • 275-0038 history. This means, of course, that our man Vin is for times required to swing a sword at a lot of CGI beasties Spectre Fri-Sat 12:40, 4:00, 7:20, 10:40; Sun-Wed 12:40, Please check alibi.com/filmtimes for films and times. and join forces with a sexy spellcaster (Rose Leslie 4:00, 7:20; Thu please call for times The Martian Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:40, 7:00, 10:15; Sun 7:00; from “Game of Thrones”). 106 minutes. PG-13. ICON CINEMAS ALBUQUERQUE Mon-Wed 12:30, 3:40, 7:00; Thu please call for times 13120-A Central Ave. SE • 814-7469 (Movies West, Movies 8) CENTURY RIO Please check alibi.com/filmtimes for films and times. Minions I-25 & Jefferson • 1 (800) 326-3264 The lovable yellow sidekicks from the Despicable Me MOVIES 8 Star Wars: The Force Awakens Thu 7:30, 7:45, 8:30, 9:15, 4591 San Mateo NE • 1 (800) Fandango, express # 1194 films finally get their own spin-off. History tells us 9:45, 10:00, 11:00, 12:01am that the Minions have been around since the dawn of Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D Thu 7:00,7:15, 8:00, 8:15, Fred Claus Fri-Thu 12:00, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 time, looking for evildoers to whom they can pledge 8:45, 9:00, 9:30, 10:30. 10:45, 11:15, 11:30, 11:45, Crimson Peak Fri-Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 12:20am their slavish devotion. This hectic, anarchy-driven Woodlawn Fri-Thu 12:10, 6:30 Boruto: Naruto The Movie Sun 12:55 Sicario Fri-Thu 12:40, 3:50, 6:50, 10:00 toon takes us to swingin’ ’60s London where a trio of It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) Sun 2:00; Wed 2:00, 7:00 The Intern Fri-Thu 11:40am, 3:30, 7:00, 10:20 semi-moronic Minions try to help the world’s first In the Heart of the Sea 3D Fri-Wed 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, The Last Witch Hunter Fri-Thu 12:30, 3:40, 7:30, 10:30 10:20; Thu please call for times Everest Fri-Thu 3:20, 9:50 female supervillain (voiced by Sandra Bullock) steal In the Heart of the Sea Fri-Sat 11:15am, 2:25, 5:35, 8:45, Pan 3D Fri-Thu 2:50, 9:40 the Crown Jewels. The plot is terribly 11:55; Sun-Wed 11:15am, 2:25, 5:35, 8:45; Thu please Pan Fri-Thu 11:50am, 6:20 inconsequential—but it’s hard to deny the silly fun to call for times Minions Fri-Thu 11:30am, 2:30, 5:30, 8:30 The Letters Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:55, 7:05, 10:15; Thu please call be had along the way. 91 minutes. PG. (Movies West, for times Movies 8) Krampus Fri-Wed 11:25am, 12:50, 2:15, 3:40, 5:05, 6:30 MOVIES WEST 7:55, 9:15, 10:45; Thu please call for times 9201 Coors NW • 1 (800) Fandango, express # 1247 Brooklyn Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30; Thu please call for Pan times Fred Claus Fri-Thu 12:00, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 Hollywood takes another uninspired stab at Victor Frankenstein Fri 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45; Sat-Sun The Intern Fri-Thu 12:10, 3:10, 6:10, 9:10 revamping J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan story. This one 4:45, 7:45, 10:45; Mon 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45; Tue-Wed Sicario Fri-Thu 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 1:45; Thu please call for times Woodlawn Fri-Thu 1:10, 7:10 plays out as a “prequel,” explaining how a 12-year- The Good Dinosaur 3D Fri-Wed 11:05am, 1:55, 4:45, 7:35, Crimson Peak Fri-Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 old orphan named Peter (Levi Miller) wound up in 10:25; Thu please call for times The Last Witch Hunter Fri-Thu 4:10, 10:10 Neverland battling evil pirate Blackbeard (Hugh The Good Dinosaur Fri-Sat 11:50am, 12:30, 1:10, 2:40 Everest 3D Fri-Thu 3:40, 9:40 3:20, 4:05, 5:30, 6:10, 6:50, 8:20, 9:00, 9:40, 11:10, Everest Fri-Thu 12:40, 6:40 Jackman) alongside an adventurous young Hook 11:50; Sun-Wed 11:50am, 12:30, 1:10, 2:40 3:20, 4:05, Pan 3D Fri-Thu 3:30, 9:30 (Garrett Hedlund). Joe Wright ( Atonement, Pride & 5:30, 6:10, 6:50, 8:20, 9:00, 9:40; Thu please call for Pan Fri-Thu 12:30, 6:30 times Minions Fri-Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Prejudice ) directs heavily tampered-with fantasy. 111 Creed Fri-Wed 11:00am, 12:40, 2:20, 4:00, 5:40, 7:20, minutes. PG. (Movies 8, Movies West) 9:00, 10:40; Thu please call for times The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 Fri-Sat 12:00, 1:10, RIO RANCHO PREMIERE CINEMA 2:20, 3:30, 4:40, 5:50, 7:00, 8:10, 9:20, 10:30, 11:40; 1000 Premiere Parkway • 994-3300 Sicario Sun-Wed 12:00, 1:10, 2:20, 3:30, 4:40, 5:50, 7:00, 8:10, Emily Blunt stars as an idealistic FBI agent enlisted 9:20, 10:30; Thu please call for times Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D Thu 8:00, 10:00, 12:00 into a shadowy mission by a mysterious CIA agent The Night Before Fri-Sat 11:00am, 12:25, 1:50, 3:15, 4:40, Star Wars: The Force Awakens Thu 7:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00, 6:05, 7:30, 8:55, 10:15, 11:45; Sun-Wed 11:00am, 12:25, 12:00am, 12:05am (Josh Brolin) and his tight-lipped “advisor” (Benicio 1:50, 3:15, 4:40, 6:05, 7:30, 8:55, 10:15; Thu please call Sisters Thu 7:00, 10:00 Del Toro). Ostensibly, the group is trying to stop the In the Heart of the Sea 3D Fri-Wed 2:10, 8:30; Wed 2:10 for times In the Heart of the Sea Fri-Wed 11:00am, 5:20; Thu drug trade along the US/Mexico border. But as the Secret in Their Eyes Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:25, 10:25; Thu please call for times 11:00am operation grows more violent and secretive, our Krampus Fri-Wed 11:05am, 2:00, 4:55, 7:540, 10:30; Thu Spotlight Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:55, 7:15, 10:35; Thu please call 11:05am, 2:00 heroine begins to wonder what side of the fence for times Spotlight Fri-Wed 11:25am, 2:25, 3:35, 8:45; Thu 11:25am, she’s really on. Director Denis Villeneuve ( Incendies, Love the Coopers Fri-Wed 1:55, 4:50, 7:45, 10:40; Thu 2:25 please call for times Creed Fri-Wed 11:00am, 2:10, 5:20, 8:30; Thu 11:00am, Prisoners ) directs this lightless thriller with all the Spectre Fri-Wed 11:35am, 3:15, 6:55, 10:35; Thu please call 2:10 grisly tension of Se7en . Reviewed in v24 i40. 121 for times The Good Dinosaur 3D Fri-Wed 12:25, 1:40, 5:45, 7:00; Thu minutes. R. (Movies West, Movies 8) The Peanuts Movie Fri-Thu 11:05am, 1:45, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55; 12:25, 1:40 Thu please call for times The Good Dinosaur Fri-Wed 11:00am, 3:05, 4:20, 8:25, The Martian Fri-Sat 11:55am, 3:25, 6:55, 10:20; Sun 6:55, 9:40; Thu 11:00am, 3:05 Woodlawn 10:20; Mon-Tue 11:55am, 3:25, 6:55, 10:20; Wed 10:20; The Night Before Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:45, 6:25, 9:10; Thu 1:05, Thu please call for times 3:45 Sean Astin, C. Thomas Howell, Sherri Shepherd and Secret in Their Eyes Fri-Wed 11:30am, 2:15, 5:00, 7:55, Jon Voight (as Coach Bear Bryant!) star in this 10:40; Thu 11:30am, 2:15 COTTONWOOD STADIUM 16 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 Fri-Wed 11:10am, inspirational, true-life sports flick. The story 11:40am, 12:35, 2:25, 3:00, 4:00, 5:40, 6:15, 7:20, 9:00, concentrates on Tony Nathan, a high school football Cottonwood Mall • 897-6858 9:30, 10:40; Thu 11:10am, 11:40am, 12:35, 2:25, 3:00, 4:00 player who experiences a “spiritual awakening” while Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D Thu 7:00, 7:15, 8:15, Spectre Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:40, 8:15; Thu 1:05 trying to overcome prejudice in 1970s Birmingham, 8:30, 9:00, 9:40, 10:15, 11:45 Star Wars: The Force Awakens Thu 7:30, 8:00, 10:45, 11:15 The Peanuts Movie 3D Fri-Wed 1:35, 6:45; Thu 1:35; 1:35 Ala. From the faith-based filmmakers behind anti- The Peanuts Movie Fri-Wed 11:00am, 4:10, 9:20; Thu In the Heart of the Sea 3D Fri-Wed 3:35, 10:00; Thu please 11:00am, 4:10 abortion melodrama October Baby and Jesus-based call for times The Martian Fri-Wed 11:10am, 2:30, 5:50, 9:20; Thu The Hangover knockoff Moms’ Night Out . 123 In the Heart of the Sea Fri-Wed 12:25, 7:00; Thu please call 11:10am, 2:30 for times minutes. PG. (Movies West, Movies 8) The Martian Fri-Wed 6:30, 9:50; Thu please call for times Krampus Fri-Wed 11:40am, 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05; Thu WINROCK STADIUM 16 IMAX & RPX please call for times 2100 Louisiana Blvd. NE • 881-2220 Victor Frankenstein Fri-Wed 6:50, 9:40; Thu please call for times Please check alibi.com/filmtimes for films and times. [38 ] WEEKLY ALIBI DECEMBER 10-16 , 2015 DECEMBER 10-16 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [39 ] [40 ] WEEKLY ALIBI DECEMBER 10-16 , 2015 MUSIC | Show Up MUSIC INTERVIEW BY ROBIN BAAB An Interview with David Rocking a Candle Bashwiner Pt. I: The Musician The rhythm, the speed, the shows! David Bashwiner is a professor of music theory at UNM, but you might recognize him BY AUGUST MARCH as the singer and guitarist for local

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Shy” written by rock legend Ian Hunter (Mott two roles affect E T the Hoople) but famously covered by Great A each other. K White in 1989. David Bashwiner Hunter often collaborated with Mick Alibi: Who is Cactus Tractor, and how did y’all Ronson (Bowie’s illustrious sideman). So, the start playing together? dude’s clearly an expert on the rock genre. The David Bashwiner: We’re a music group of song’s all about the excesses of rock and roll anywhere between 3 and 14 people; we live in culture, which is quite a thing, as far as this Albuquerque. The three “core” people are me, column is concerned. Anywho, don’t get Christy Cook and Stef Graner. We got together carried away this weekend by similar about three and a half years ago. Stef had been demonstrations of supererogation, but don’t be Joe West and the Santa Fe Revue PHOTO BY ANNE STAVELEY playing with Christy in a trio for a couple of years; I was hanging out with the two of them at shy either. Consider showing up for the Anyway, in our time, that part of the tree is New Mexican Joe West took his theatrical the time. So we started playing every weekend following excursions into decadence, delight dense with foliage and fruition that is inclinations to Nueva York then settled into at a coffee shop on Eighth Street and and community dedication even if it means somehow still satanically sucking from the Austin, Texas as front man for one of the Mountain—Mr. Watson’s little place (now Boiler restraining your tendency toward the same roots employed by everyone from Black region’s belovedly bizarre alt-country outfits, Monkey). Dionysian. Sabbath to Die Kreuzen. In this abundance of Joe West & the Sinners. Post-millenium, West growth, certain bands who possess acute returned to his home and his roots in Santa Fe Can you tell us about the making of Lydian Water Thursday instrumental skills, fancy ill time signatures and began gigging with a rotating cohort of Songs? Red Wagon Urban Farm and Community and appropriate freely and experimentally Santa Fe’s best players, including drummer It’s our second album. While not exactly a Garden, located on a plot of land in the Wells from other genres—oh and have a seriously Arne Bey (The Hoo Doos, Broomdust concept album, it’s more of a concept than, say, our previous [album, Cactus Tractor ]. Once we Park neighborhood—near the Harwood dark outlook on human existence—rose to Caravan). Together, West’s latest constructed had the title and started thinking about how to School—is a fab organization fronted by local prominence. Among those bands: outfits like ensemble rattles and wanders with psychedelic work with it, it became more and more of one. music stalwart Kimo Licious and Atrisco Truck Yakuza and Neurosis. On Friday night, Dec. intensity, coming to light on solid Once we made the [Kickstarter] goal, we had to Farm founder Mark Le Claire. On Thursday 11, representatives of these forces, Scott Kelly country/Western aesthetics and instrumental prep the album quickly in order to get into the night, Dec. 10, Low Spirits (2823 Second (Neurosis) and Bruce Lamont (Yakuza), flourishes that are suprisingly effective, if studio not much more than a week later. The Street NW) hosts a benefit concert for these perform at the National Hispanic Cultural sometimes joyfully bizarre. That’s what I studio we use is Empty House Studio, with folks. They’re building a resource that aims to Center Bank of America Theater (1701 thought after listening to them, anyhow. Matthew Tobias as the engineer. encourage and manifest agricultural Fourth Street SW) in an event to benefit the Tickets are $22 advance, $25 day of show Once we got into the studio, stuff became even crazier, because we’d scheduled eight hours sustainability at a local, grassroots level. Kimo Endorphin Power Company, a community (including a $2 service charge). The all ages a day for five days in a row of two consecutive said, “It’s been neat to watch the neighbors in health, recovery and social action evocation of El Norte begins at 8pm. weeks. It ended up feeling like a 10-day-long Wells Park get behind the effort.” Now Alibi organization. road trip with Matthew and me both in the front concertgoers can get in on the action too, at a Kelly and Lamont also collaborate on an seat and a rotating cast of crazy people in the Sunday back seat. So it was awesome. But I did have a concert featuring a veritable who’s who of experimental doom/drone project called Obie Trice , a Motor City rapper who’s had a bit of PTSD when it was over with! local musicians who are not only dedicated to Corrections House, but as a multi- bullet lodged in his skull for over 10 years, and their craft but also to the idea that the instrumental and largely acoustic duo, Kelly a full-fathom flow lodged in his heart forever, Are the songs on Lydian Water Songs all written community is a growing thing. Seth Woods , and Lamont reach to the very deep end of the will make an appearance in Albuquerque on in the Lydian mode? We considered calling the first album Lydian the Whiskey Priest, will be on hand to provide dark water places metal came from. There’s a Sunday, Dec. 13, at the Duke City Event Water Songs , because we started noticing that a sense of intricate longing. He’ll be joined on Youtube video of the two covering Neil Center (9800 Montgomery NE). Detroit’s had virtually all the tracks had water stage by the likes of Gato Malo (Felix Peralta, Young’s “Cortez the Killer” that local music a super-rich rocanrol history and the city’s references/themes in them, and a serious number frontman for Felix y los Gatos), electro-pop writer Derek Cataurwal’s posted on his involvement in the evolution of hip-hop has of them were in Lydian mode. [The Lydian mode is a musical scale that contains an augmented folkster Rebekkah Dreskin , Clarke Libbey website; it demonstrates the duo’s journey also been noteworthy. Trice famously fourth.] In making the second, we recognized fronting The Shacks , Peri Pakroo’s project— better than I could ever summarize it here. collaborated with D12 and Eminem, has that all the new songs were doing this too! Peri and the FAQs —bassist extraordinaire This show is like an essential glimpse into influenced successors like J Dilla and Black “Under the Sky,” for instance, is just 100% in D James Whiton and HYDRANT , whom Kimo metal’s vasty depth of field! Admission is $12; Milk and is still working for social justice Lydian. Stef’s “Woman Who’s Torn” is also Lydian. My song “I’ve Moved On” is one that was calls “Albuquerque’s best kept secret.” But the heavy, heavy curtain rises at 8pm. causes in his hometown, empowering youth designed to be purposely “slippery” with respect that’s not all; there’ll be a host of other with access to musical equipment and other to key, and I do a lot of this by way of things that notable musicians on tap that night and the Saturday resources designed to promote achievement in “are” Lydian or “could be construed as” Lydian. Ramla Taal Tribal Belly Dance Troupe will If you’re like me, you’re probably curious about the musical arts. Trice is touring his latest At their best, the modes are like colors—they can blend into one another, contrast with one also make an appearance. The 21+ show starts the music scene in Santa Fe. When I first album, The Hangover , which features G-Unit’s another, vary in hue and brightness. at 6:30pm and for five bucks, Alibi readers can learned they had rocanrol up there, I was like Young Buck as well as grammy award-winning throw in with the rest of the folks riding the totally freaked out. Not only do they have vocalist Estelle. The new sound is poptastic yet What’s next for CT? Red Wagon towards a natural outcome. rock, folks, but a plethora of other vibrant infused with the deep urban vibes and dense We’re actually planning to take the concept thing to the next level, to bring it in at the level of genres (some of them all mixed up, just like use of language that living and working in writing the songs, orchestrating them, Friday here) are represented in the city different. You Detroit no doubt imparts to its inhabitants. coordinating them with one another—not to Somewhere and sometime on the popular can get a load of that representation on General admission costs $17.50 there’s also a mention ordering them in a particular way, music tree, the metal branch began bifurcating Saturday, Dec. 12, when AMP Concerts hosts VIP option that will run ya $28.50. All ages composing transitions between them, working out stage business related to the storyline, etc. wildly. I’d place the change around about the Joe West and the Santa Fe Revue at the are allowed and bar service is available for time punk broke, in like 1979 or 1980. Outpost Performance Space (210 Yale SE). those who can prove their age. a Next week, the theorist in Bashwiner speaks out. a DECEMBER 10-16 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [41 ] BY

BLU PHOENIX VENUE 1st Annual Feliz NaviDead Fest • SONIC REDUCER Phobia • Endless Demise • Godawfulnoise • Piojos • Yar • BY AUGUST MARCH Music 7pm • $8 -$10 • ALL -AGES! CARAVAN EAST Quarter Moon Band • classic country, rock , King Gizzard Calendar blues • Camino Oscuro • Spanish, variety • 5pm • $7 THE COOPERAGE Terra Plena • Latin jazz, salsa • 9:30pm • $7 & the Lizard DIRTY BOURBON Asphalt Cowboys • country • 6pm • $5 Wizard IMBIBE Ryan Shea • 10pm • FREE Paper Mâché THURSDAY DEC 10 LAUNCHPAD Merican Slang • funk, jazz • Pherkad • Silver String Dream Balloon Band • 8pm • $8 (ATO Records) THE BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREW PUB , Rio Rancho Chris LOUNGE 54 @ SANTA ANA STAR , Bernalillo The DCN Project • Ravin Showcase • rock ’n’ roll, R&B • 7pm • FREE • funk, soul, R&B, jazz • 9pm • FREE This garage-psych band ALL -AGES! 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SKYLIGHT , Santa Fe So Sophisticated • DJ 12 Tribe • 9pm • $7 record never feels overwrought or rushed as it LOW SPIRITS Red Wagon Farm Fundraiser • Ramla Taal Tribal STONE FACE TAVERN Flashback • variety • 8:30pm • FREE cascades through slow-mo grooves like Belly Dance • Clarke Conde • The Shacks • Seth Woods • SUNSHINE THEATER Machine Head • heavy metal • 9pm • $20 opener “Sense” and dreamy, Lennon- 6:30pm • $5 TRACTOR BREWERY WELLS PARK In The Mix: Flo Fader • influenced pieces like “Most of What I Like.” MOLLY’S BAR , Tijeras Jam Night with Jimmy Jones • 6pm • 9pm • FREE It’s surprising but ultimately rewarding that FREE VERNON’S OPEN DOOR Shane • singer-songwriter • 6:30pm • frontman Stu Mackenzie and company have Q BAR Latin Gold Thursday with DJ Aztech Sol • 8pm • FREE FREE • ALL -AGES! evolved into a format that, while still unwilling RANCHERS CLUB Lindy Gold • piano • 6:30pm • FREE VERNON’S SPEAKEASY Larry Freedman • solo piano • 7pm • SISTER Holiday Big Band Spectacular • The Jordan Fredrick- FREE to dispense with whimsy, embraces serious Matt Breuer Jazz Orchestra • 8pm • $10 concerns about instrumentation and intent SKYLIGHT , Santa Fe Detroit Lightning • jam band • 7pm • $10 • SUNDAY DEC 13 with a nonchalant aplomb that beckons Lilly Pad Lounge • Rebel Frog • hip-hop, funk, old school • listeners further and further into their color- Latin Night • VDJ Dany • hip-hop, rock, bachata, salsa • drenched world. BURT’S TIKI LOUNGE The Chameleon Effect • indie alternative 10pm rock • Cynical bird • The Haptics • 8pm • FREE SUNSHINE THEATER Atreyu • metal, rock • From Ashes To New • CORRALES BISTRO BREWERY , Corrales Last Call • jazz, R&B, Sunn O))) Amy’s Not Breathing • Tusk • 7:30pm • $20 blues • 3pm • FREE Kannon TRIPLE SEVENS , Isleta Casino Karaoke • 9:30pm ISLETA RESORT & CASINO: THE SHOWROOM Josh Turner • VERNON’S SPEAKEASY Bob Tate • solo piano • 6pm • FREE (Southern Lord Records) country • 7pm • $35 -$45 WINNING COFFEE CO. Above-Average Open Mic • 6pm LOW SPIRITS Three Bad Jacks • rock • The Pretty Goods • Turn this up, find a 8:30pm • $10 comfortable place to sit FRIDAY DEC 11 VERNON’S SPEAKEASY Bob Tate • solo piano • 6pm • FREE (or elsewise an uncomfortable place to CARAVAN EAST Quarter Moon Band • classic country, rock, MONDAY DEC 14 sit), close your eyes and blues • 5pm • $5 don’t blame me if you fall into a trance that will CASA ESENCIA DJ Sez • Josh Burg • 9pm • $10 -$20 THE CO-OP After the Burial • heavy metal • Admire the Fallen • perplex your roommates and bring you, the CORRALES BISTRO BREWERY , Corrales Java Fix • 6pm • FREE Questionable Fate • Breaking Shadows • Obscured listener, one step closer to an encounter with DIRTY BOURBON Asphalt Cowboys • country • 6pm • $5 Chamber • Novelas Sencillas • 6pm • $13 • ALL -AGES! the vast and divine nothingness of the HISTORIC EL REY THEATER De La Soul • hip-hop • 9pm • LIZARD TAIL BREWING Open Mic Jam Night • Dave and universe. Serio , the three tracks that comprise $25 -$35 Friends • 7pm the 35 minutes of Kannon will have a IMBIBE DJ Rotation • 9pm • FREE TRACTOR BREWING TAPROOM Virginia Creepers • jam • profound effect. The work itself is a testament LAUNCHPAD Blue Hornets • ska, reggae • Le Chat Lunatique • 7:30pm • FREE to the power of postmodernism in music; the Balkan Dub Squad • 9pm • $5 whole thing—accompanying graphics, a LEGENDS THEATER @ ROUTE 66 CASINO Wynonna & The Big TUESDAY DEC 15 sculpture built for the cover, liner notes— Noise Christmas • country, holiday • 8pm • $20 -$42 • comes off as a singular expression that hews ALL -AGES! BEN MICHAEL’S Joe Daddy Blues Jam Session • 7pm • FREE itself out of critical theory and into the realm LOUNGE 54 @ SANTA ANA STAR , Bernalillo The DCN Project • CARAVAN EAST Point Blank Band • country • 5pm • FREE of musical experience. 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IMBIBE College Night with DJ Automatic & Drummer Camilo OLD TOWN FARM Lowdown Christmas Hoedown • Entourage Quinones • 9:30pm • FREE Jazz • Bluegrass Buddies • The Squash Blossom Boys • MINE SHAFT TAVERN , Madrid Cactus Slim & The GoatHeads Coldplay 7pm • $15 • See Event Horizon Blues Jam • 7pm • FREE A Head Full of OUTPOST PERFORMANCE SPACE ABQ WOW (Women Of The MOLLY’S BAR , Tijeras Rick Rael • acoustic rock • 6pm • FREE World) Poetry Slam Championship • 7:30pm • $10 -$15 Q BAR Piano Bar with John Cousins • 5pm Dreams PRIME , Rio Rancho Jim Almand • blues, singer-songwriter • (Parlophone and Atlantic SKYLIGHT , Santa Fe Lounge Sessions • DJ Dynamite Sol • DJ 6pm • FREE • ALL -AGES! Guttermouth • 8pm Records) PUEBLO HARVEST CAFÉ Chris Dracup • acoustic blues • all- SUNSHINE THEATER A Reverend Horton Heat Christmas • you-can-eat-pizza • 6pm • $10 • ALL -AGES! I don’t give a good psychobilly • The BellRays • The Lords Of Altamont • 8pm • Q BAR DJ Tommy Gallagher • 9pm • FREE $20 goddamn if Chris Martin THE RANGE CAFÉ , Bernalillo Jody Vanesky & Groove Time • re-discovered his Joie de blues, swing, jump • 7pm • FREE • ALL -AGES! vivre while recording the new Coldplay album. SHERATON UPTOWN HOTEL SWAG • acoustic holiday lounge • WEDNESDAY DEC 16 As far as I’m concerned he should have called 6pm • FREE • ALL -AGES! BEN MICHAEL’S Asher Barreras Jazz Jam Session • 7pm • FREE the whole lot A Head Full of Unfinished SISTER Red Light Cameras • indie rock • Reviva! • 9pm • $5 Radiohead Songs and been done with it. CLUB RIO RANCHO , Rio Rancho Karaoke • Tommy Hurrikane • SKYLIGHT , Santa Fe Feliz Navidad A New Mexico Mariachi 7pm Martin and his gang of wanna-be brit-pop Christmas After Party • $0 -$5 • Malia Sias • comedy • 8pm • CORRALES BISTRO BREWERY , Corrales Quietly Kept • purveyors ought to truncate their catalog at A $10 • The Alchemy Party • DJ Dynamite Sol • Don Martin & acoustic folk, rock • 6pm • FREE Rush of Blood to the Head . 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[42 ] WEEKLY ALIBI DECEMBER 10-16 , 2015 DECEMBER 10-16 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [43 ] [44 ] WEEKLY ALIBI DECEMBER 10-16 , 2015 Free Will Astrology | Horoscopes by rob brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Happiness often ability to express yourself is at a peak. So what sneaks in through a door you didn’t know that you should you do? Whenever you speak, aim for quality left open,” said actor John Barrymore. I hope you’ve over quantity. And always weave in a bit of mystery. left open a lot of those doors, Aries. The more there are, the happier you will be. This is the week of all SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Ducks are the most weeks when joy, pleasure and even zany bliss are unflappable creatures I know. Cats are often likely to find their ways into your life from regarded as the top practitioners of the “I don’t give unexpected sources and unanticipated directions. If a f—” attitude, but I think ducks outshine them. you’re lucky, you also have a few forgotten cracks When domestic felines exhibit their classic and neglected gaps where fierce delights and crisp aloofness, there’s sometimes a subtext of wonders can come wandering in. annoyance or contempt. But ducks are consistently as imperturbable as Zen masters. Right now, as I TAURUS (April 20-May 20): What state of mind do gaze out my office window, I’m watching five of them you desire the most? What is the quality of being swim calmly, with easygoing nonchalance, against that you aspire to inhabit more and more as you the swift current of the creek in the torrential rain. I grow older? Maybe it’s the feeling of being deeply invite you to be like ducks in the coming days. Now is appreciated or the ability to see things as they really an excellent time to practice the high art of truly not are or an intuitive wisdom about how to cultivate giving a f—. vibrant relationships. I invite you to set an intention to cultivate this singular experience with all your SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): My old friend Jeff passion and ingenuity. The time is right. Make a pact started working at a gambling casino in Atlantic City. with yourself. “You’ve gone over to the dark side!” I kidded. He acknowledged that 90 percent of the casino’s GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Like Metallica jamming visitors lose money gambling. On the bright side, he with Nicki Minaj and Death Cab for Cutie on a said, 95 percent of them leave happy. I don’t passage from Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute , you encourage you to do this kind of gambling in the near are redefining the meanings of the words “hybrid,” future, Sagittarius. It’s true that you will be riding a “amalgam” and “hodgepodge.” You’re mixing lucky streak. But smarter, surer risks will be a better metaphors with panache. You’re building bridges way to channel your good fortune. So here’s the with cheeky verve. Some of your blends are messy bottom line: In whatever way you choose to bet or mishmashes, but more often they are synergistic speculate, don’t let your lively spirits trick you into successes. With the power granted to me by the relying on pure impulsiveness. Do the research. gods of mixing and matching, I hereby authorize you Perform your due diligence. It’s not enough just to be to keep splurging on the urge to merge. This is your entertained. The goal is to both have fun and be special time to experiment with the magic of successful. combining things that have rarely or never been combined. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus was a pioneer thinker whose CANCER (June 21-July 22): I hope you can figure ideas helped pave the way for the development of out the difference between the fake cure and the science. Believe nothing, he taught, unless you can real cure. And once you know which is which, I hope evaluate it through your personal observation and you will do the right thing rather than the logical analysis. Using this admirable approach, he sentimental thing. For best results, keep these determined that the size of our sun is about two feet considerations in mind: The fake cure may taste in diameter. I’m guessing that you have made sweeter than the real one. It may also be better comparable misestimations about at least two facts packaged and more alluringly promoted. In fact, the of life, Capricorn. They seem quite reasonable but only advantage the real cure may have over the fake are very wrong. The good news is that you will soon one is that it will actually work to heal you. be relieved of those mistakes. After some initial disruption, you will feel liberated. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): There’s a sinuous, serpentine quality about you these days. It’s as if you are the AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian inventor elegant and crafty hero of an epic myth set in the Thomas Edison owned 1,093 patents. Nicknamed ancient future. You are sweeter and saucier than “The Wizard of Menlo Park,” he devised the first usual, edgier and more extravagantly emotive. You practical electrical light bulb, the movie camera, the are somehow both a repository of tantalizing alkaline storage battery and many more useful secrets and a fount of arousing revelations. As I things. The creation he loved best was the meditate on the magic you embody, I am reminded of phonograph. It was the first machine in history that a passage from Laini Taylor’s fantasy novel could record and reproduce sound. Edison bragged Daughter of Smoke & Bone : “She tastes like nectar that no one else had ever made such a wonderful and salt. Nectar and salt and apples. Pollen and stars instrument. It was “absolutely original.” I bring this to and hinges. She tastes like fairy tales. Swan maiden your attention, Aquarius, because I think you’re due at midnight. Cream on the tip of a fox’s tongue. She for an outbreak of absolute originality. What are the tastes like hope.” most unique gifts you have to offer? In addition to those you already know about, new ones may be VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I bought an old ready to emerge. horoscope book at a garage sale for 25 cents. The cover was missing and some pages were water- PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Here’s an experiment damaged, so parts of it were hard to decipher. But that makes good astrological sense for you to try in the following passage jumped out at me: “In the coming weeks. Whenever you feel a tinge of romantic matters, Virgos initially tend to be cool, frustration, immediately say, “I am an irrepressible even standoffish. Their perfectionism may interfere source of power and freedom and love.” Anytime you with their ability to follow through on promising notice a trace of inadequacy rising up in you or a beginnings. But if they ever allow themselves to touch of blame or a taste of anger, declare, “I am an relax and go further, they will eventually ignite. And irresistible magnet for power and freedom and love.” then, watch out! Their passion will generate intense If you’re bothered by a mistake you made or a flash heat and light.” I suspect that this description may of ignorance expressed by another person or a apply to you in the coming weeks. 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