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Intrinsic government responsibilities Americans from red states like Oklahoma and Constance Moss (ext. 222) [email protected] can be met within government but outside CONTROLLER: Virginia would rather our government Courtney Foster (ext. 257) [email protected] the one size cookie cutter model. And for the shutdown over Trump’s demands for funding SYSTEMS MANAGER: record, charter schools operate with less of the wall, then to allow Congress to vote on Kyle Silfer (ext. 242) [email protected] WEB MONKEY: funding than regular public schools per the issue (hopefully based on what their John Millington (ext. 238) [email protected] student. constituents want). OWNERS: Teacher Unions are opposed to charters. Christopher Johnson and Daniel Scott The 2018 midterm elections in our now ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE: Charter schools are not opposed to teacher blue state show that the majority of the Courtney Foster (ext. 257) [email protected] unions. 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Elwood Community Schools board president Brent Kane said the district is WEIRD NEWS supporting Smitherman. “She made an Dateline: Iowa unfortunate mistake, but we understand that it was out of concern for this child’s welfare,” he Police say a man constructed a functioning said in a public statement. Smitherman signed bomb while sitting in a sushi restaurant to an Agreement for Withheld Prosecution with make a point. According to KCCI in Iowa, a the Madison County Prosecutor’s Office last man who said he was concerned that bomb week which will allow the charges against her threats aren’t taken seriously enough to be dismissed as long as there are no further constructed a homemade bomb while dining at arrests over the next year. Akebono sushi restaurant in Des Moines last week. The device was reportedly similar to a hand grenade, and officials say it posed a Dateline: Wisconsin legitimate threat to the restaurant’s patrons. Believing his wife had damaged a collection of The man accused of building the bomb, Des action figures, a man allegedly damaged his Moines resident Ivory Washington, told police home with an ax last week. According to he was concerned that people don’t take WMTV in Wisconsin, police were called to a threats seriously enough, and wanted to point Madison, Wis., home last week by a man who it out by publicly building a explosive device said he’d taken a log-splitting ax to a number in plain sight and waiting to see if anyone of items at the home he shares with his wife. would report it. According to restaurant staff, According to police, the man had been Washington was behaving strangely. Witnesses drinking and believed his wife had damaged said he plugged devices into a wall jack and some of his action figures. He said he repeatedly approached the bar to throw trash overreacted and used the ax to destroy a away. Washington eventually called police television, its stand, a laptop and several other himself. He initially said the device was fake, items in the house. He then allegedly but subsequent testing by police officers proceeded outside, where he chopped off both proved that the device was an active side mirrors from the family car and attempted explosive. According to officials, if the device to smash the windshield. The ax became stuck had gone off in the restaurant, it could have in the glass of the windshield and was left injured those within a 25-foot radius and there, where police officers found it upon killed those within a 10-foot radius. arriving at the scene. The man was arrested for Washington was charged with possession of an disorderly conduct and felony damage to explosive or incendiary material. Akebono property. The extent of damage done to the opened normally for business following the action figures has not been made clear. ordeal. The restaurant’s owner said he was unaware that Washington was building a bomb Dateline: Illinois during the incident. Patients at an Illinois medical office were met with a strange sign last week notifying them Dateline: Indiana that the doctor had quit because a female A school superintendent is facing fraud nurse practitioner had been hired. Fox 2 in charges after she used her medical insurance to Illinois reports a note was left on the door of help a sick student receive treatment. The the Multicare Specialists Chiropractor’s Office Herald Bulletin reports Casey Smitherman of last week informing patients that they would the Elwood Community Schools in central need to look for a new doctor. The note read: Indiana was charged with insurance fraud, “Dr. Lupardus resigned from our office on identity deception and official misconduct Friday, 1/18/19. The reason he resigned is earlier this month, but was released on bond. because his wife would not allow him to work Smitherman told reporters she’d visited a here since we hired a ‘female’ nurse student at home when she learned he had practitioner. We are very sorry for any been absent from school. She discovered the inconvenience this has caused you. He will boy had strep throat and took him to seek not be returning to this office.” The nurse medical attention. After being refused practitioner in question made a statement, treatment at one clinic, Smitherman says she claiming she approached Dr. Lupardus with a took the boy to another and claimed he was question concerning one of his patients on her her son. According to reports, she later filled a first day of work. According to her statement, $15 prescription for Amoxicillin in her son’s he refused to speak to her and told her to name. The claim was for $233. Smitherman direct her questions to another doctor. A and her husband have allegedly helped the patient posted a photo of the sign on student’s guardian in the past by providing Facebook, where it gained viral attention. a clothing and cleaning their house. According to the probable cause affidavit, she had not Compiled by Joshua Lee. Email your weird news to [email protected].
JANUARY 31-FEBRUARY 6, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [5] NEWS CITY BY JOSHUA LEE NEWS | COUNCIL/COMMISSION WATCH Former Teacher Named Education Secretary An Inspector, An Election, Pork Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced her picks for the state’s Public Education Department cabinet last week, handing the reins City and county leaders meet again of the department over to Karen Trujillo, an educator and administrator. According to a press release from the Office BY CAROLYN CARLSON of the Governor, Lujan Grisham made five appointments to the PED leadership team last week. Trujillo, who is currently serving as interim hile most of the political action is associate dean for research at New Mexico happening up at the state legislative 60- State University’s College of Education, has been an educator for over 20 years, serving as a Wday session, there are still local teacher, researcher and professional government deeds going down. Recent back to development specialist. back Council and Commission meetings kept During a press conference, Trujillo signaled a Albuquerque and Bernalillo County business change in PED policies. “We support teacher pay raises, we support more resources in the rolling along. schools,” she said. Lujan Grisham also named four deputy secretaries: Kara Bobroff, Tim Hand, Katarina Sandoval and Gwen Perea Warniment. New Eyes on Corruption Distinguished Professor of Education at the City Councilors hired a new Inspector General Graduate School of Education and Information at their nearly two hour Jan. 23 regular A recent photo representation of the Albuquerque City Council CABQ.GOV Studies at UCLA, Pedro Noguera was also meeting. The inspector is in charge of an appointed as a special advisor to Trujillo. Environmental Planning Commission; Abuko recreational facility for local youth for such independent department whose task it is to When asked why the governor appointed an D. Estrada and Arra Carbajal were named to sports as soccer and other sportsball games; unusually large education cabinet, her detect and investigate fraud, waste, corruption the Early Head Start Program Governance and to attract national and regional administration told reporters it showed her and criminal activity inside city government. Advisory Committee; Andrew Lipman went to tournaments to a less populated area in an commitment to education. The Inspector General reports to the civilian the Urban Enhancement Trust Fund; Jeffrey D. effort to reduce the impact (driving, traffic, Accountability in the Government Oversight Huss became a member of the Balloon access issues) youth soccer games can have on Committee. Museum Board of Trustees and the neighborhoods. Judges Hear Holtec Waste Site The last Inspector General, David Harper, reappointment of Dan Serrano to the resigned last summer after filing an Opponents Environmental Planning Commission also unflattering report on the Albuquerque Rapid Chicharrones took place. Public outcry over a plan to build a temporary Transit project. He also criticized the city for A tasty list of county-wide capital outlay storage site for the nation’s nuclear waste in requests were amended, then approved to be New Mexico was heard by state judges last not funding his department adequately. The week. department is funded to the tune of $375,000, BernCo Votes for Education sent up to the state Legislature for funding. Carlsbad Current Argus reports a hearing by has two investigators along with the Inspector Meanwhile, in just a bit over 45 minutes, the Some of the items on the $88.77 million the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s General, and has to keep keen eyes on 20 Bernalillo County Commission sailed through dollar wish list include: (as the county’s Atomic Safety and Licensing Board convened in its Jan. 22 meeting—mainly by deferring a number one priority) $34.6 million for new Albuquerque last week to hear citizens’ departments and nearly 6,000 city employees. concerns over a proposed nuclear waste storage Kenneth Bramlett is the new guy. He is not good chunk of the agenda. regional emergency communications facility that would be located near Carlsbad and from around here. Bramlett served as the County Commissioners urged the public’s infrastructure and mobile radio replacement Hobbs. The proposal was made by private Inspector General for the Los Angeles Unified support for the mail-in Albuquerque Public project; $3.75 million for Sheriff Department nuclear technology company Holtec Schools Mill Levy and General Obligation facilities and off-road vehicles; $4.1 million for International, which plans to store spent nuclear School District from 2013 until 2018. Before fuel from the nation’s power plants in a that he worked on audits and fraud Bond Election. Commissioner Steven Michael planning of the above mentioned Swede consolidated interim storage (CIS) facility until a investigations for the state of Georgia. He was Quezada, who is a former Albuquerque Public Scholer Regional Recreation Complex; and permanent repository can be made. not at this Council meeting, but he was in School Board member, said, “We are already millions and millions for public works projects, Environmentalist groups spoke out against behind the 8-ball, if we don’t become the plan, claiming the plan would conflict with town for the Jan. 7 meeting where he community services, open space projects, federal laws barring the US Department of addressed the Council regarding his proactive about education we are never going community centers, senior centers and so Energy from taking title or ownership of nuclear accomplishments at catching fraud, and how to catch up,” Quezada said. “I understand much more. waste. Concerns over public health in the areas education is expensive, it just is. But this is The list is sent up to the legislative bean surrounding the proposed site were also he has returned millions of dollars to the mentioned. coffers he was charged to protect. important.” counters (including the all powerful The hearing was held to determine what Bramlett said he would be a good fit According to the resolution, APS has Legislative Finance Committee) who use it as organizations would be granted standing during because he does not know anyone in about $900 million in critical infrastructure a reference for allocation of available funding. future proceedings. The board will reportedly and capital needs, and the average age of This year there is an extra billion or so in make its final determinations in March. Albuquerque, and therefore is not beholden to anyone. He’s probably not going to be the Albuquerque Public School building is 40 to funding available making everyone see green. most popular employee at city hall but 45 years old. While 40 may be the new 20 that The governor has said that about a half of that potentially one of the most important. axiom does not apply to school buildings. extra billion dollars must go to statewide APD Limits Officer Overtime Many of our city’s public education facilities education improvements. We will see how The Albuquerque Police Department is Citizen Leaders have persistent roofing, heating and other many coins hit Bernco coffers when the introducing a limit to the amount of overtime structural problems. Ballots have hit the mail legislative session ends in mid-March. a Another inspiring group of people were officers can work in an attempt to curb boxes so vote “yes” and send your vote back by overspending. confirmed to the city’s various boards, Feb. 5. Send your comments about the City Council to In an interview with KRQE, APD Councils and Commissions: Christopher S. spokesperson Gilbert Gallegos said the [email protected]. King, Jr. was appointed to the Americans with department spent $11.5 million last year paying Future Recreation officers for overtime hours. One program, known Disabilities Act Advisory Council; Dr. The next meetings: as “chief’s overtime,” gives businesses the Commissioner Debbie O’Malley asked her Virginia Necochea, Sradha Patel and Adrien Albuquerque City Council: Monday, Feb. 4, 5pm opportunity to pay to have police on-site. For fellow Commissioners to reaffirm their Lawyer went to the Human Rights Board; Bernalillo County Commission: Tuesday, Feb. 12, 5pm the last 16 months, officers were allowed to commitment to a master plan for a 640-acre work as much chief’s overtime as they liked, but Elaine M. Hebard was named to the Indicators Both governing bodies meet in the piece of property known as the Swede Scholer the department has now introduced a cap of 25 Progress Commission; Kimberly D. Andujo Vincent E. Griego Chambers hours per week. The price for businesses to use and Stephen Pilon were appointed to the Regional Recreation Complex at Mesa del Sol. Albuquerque Bernalillo County Government Center the chief’s overtime service has also been raised Transit Advisory Board; Lauren Meiklejohn is The county has been leasing the land from the 1 Civic Plaza NW by APD. State Land Office since the late ’90s. The idea Officials will review the change in March to now a member of the Joint Air Quality Board; View them on GOV TV or at cabq.gov/govtv see how it has affected overtime spending. a Gary L. Eyster was selected for the is to master plan a long-term indoor/outdoor [6] WEEKLY ALIBI JANUARY 31-FEBRUARY 6, 2019 NEWS | COMMENTARY Renew that Energy, New Mexicans! Renewable Portfolio Standard should change BY AUGUST MARCH Can we provide sustainable energy resources for our state as well as profiting from outside entities like California? ne of the planks in the progressive platform Though the bill itself doesn’t require export, but Ois about renewable energy. Simply stated, I will tell you this: When you build up the grid, that means moving—as a culture and as when you build up the resources, you build up New Mexico—away from unrenewable, global the industry and the state profits. warming-causing energy sources like coal and natural gas. What other sustainable benefits will this As you may already know, these legislation engender; what will the aforementioned fuels—for everything from economic impact look like? vehicular transportation to our electrical Over the last five or six years, we’ve seen that generation for cities—comes from the organic jobs—particularly those about rooftop solar remnants of life forms that existed on Earth installation business—are exploding. [That millions of years ago. Besides being intrinsically industry] has been adding 500 to 1,000 jobs per polluting, these resources are temporary: There year to this state. That was even after the tax is only so much dinosaur juice left in the third credit for solar rooftop systems expired. The industry continues to add jobs. The solar rock from the sun. A wind farm in eastern New Mexico EL CABO WIND FARM industry is actually one of the business concerns Attempts to stretch this amount to fill the in this state that local entrepreneurs can get needs of the Postmodern world has resulted in producers like PNM, El Paso Electric and other corporations get at least 50 percent of into. environmentally disastrous ideas and programs corporate utilities would be required to gather a their output from renewable resources. When you think about the oil and gas like fracking and drilling for oil in the last green minimum of 80 percent of the energy they sell How is that new regulation going to change industry, you have to have millions of dollars in frontiers of the planet Earth. to New Mexicans from renewable sources like things in New Mexico? capital to make it work. It’s much easier to start The solution, say the progressives, is to When PNM goes to replace that coal, when the solar and wind. a small business around solar. So this isn’t just move as quickly as possible away from these San Juan Generating Station is totally closed, Our new governor recently stated that she is about creating jobs, it’s about creating jobs that planet-killing products and towards safe, they’ve got to replace that energy with on board with this Earth-friendly goal, writing, people can graduate from college and get into renewable and sustainable forms of energy like something. The question is: “Are citizens going “I have committed to increasing our RPS … so they can stay in New Mexico. Increasingly those produced by solar and wind processes. to pay a little bit more for natural gas or less for Not as a ceiling but as a starting point, with an we’re seeing similar benefits for jobs in the wind In the Land of Enchantment, progressive renewables?” ultimate goal of even greater renewable industry. These are going to be union jobs, well Democratic leaders, including US Senator production. This is our promise to future paid jobs. Martin Heinrich and Governor Michelle Lujan Are renewables cheaper than continued generations of New Mexicans.” There’s also a lot of room for growth through Grisham, are committed to moving toward reliance on fossil fuels? After hearing all of that, Weekly Alibi diversification. There are only three states in clean energy production, transmission and That is definitely the case in the open market. decided to go to the source of the legislation for the country, I think, that do not have the usage that will provide jobs, drive economic more comment and clarification. While bill It’s going to depend on some other factors, but here are some quick numbers: Natural gas facilities to manufacture wind turbine parts. sustainability and most importantly, remove our sponsor Stewart was meeting with the governor comes in at about six cents per kilowatt hour; There is no reason we shouldn’t also develop a state’s lips from the awful, Earth-destroying teat on the subject of renewable energy and the bill’s bids for solar, meanwhile come in at four cents manufacturing facility in New Mexico. of the coal and natural gas industries. progress, we chatted with energy advocate Ben for kilowatt hour; for wind it goes as low as two With 300 days of sunshine per year and a Shelton, the political and legislative director of cents per kilowatt hour. That’s on the open Doesn’t that sort of building of naturally windy environment, New Mexico New Mexico Conservation Voters, a long-time market in this part of the country. When you infrastructure cost money that might be seems the perfect place to define, launch and let proponent and lobbyist for the plan. think about the fantastic solar assets in this passed on to the consumer? prosper alternative means of gathering power state, you think about the critical wind I get asked that question a lot. That’s true. It for homes and businesses. Weekly Alibi: Let’s talk New Mexico and infrastructure we’ve built—particularly in the costs money. Building facilities for energy Currently the state Legislature requires that renewables. eastern part of the state—you definitely see generation costs money. But here’s the thing: public utilities produce a certain amount of Ben Shelton: Okay. As a threshold matter, the those bids tending toward the low end. We’re going to have to build new facilities energy from clean sources like solar and wind thing that’s been crowding out renewables in anyway. Between now and the mid-’20s we’re at power. This legislatively enforced regulation is New Mexico has not been natural gas but coal. What sort of solar and wind facilities is our an inflection point in New Mexico; we’re called the Renewable Portfolio Standard or In this state, we currently don’t get much state building? retiring a lot of resources, retiring the San Juan RPS. energy from natural gas. Coal has definitively When you see the new transmission lines Generating Station. The Four Corners Under Governor Martinez, that number was been the big fish. Really the question that this coming in, especially east-west transmission Generating Station is the other big coal plant; stuck at 20 percent, a heady, nationally notable RPS bill this year presents is “what are we going lines, they’re coming from projects like Clean that’s going to be gone within a decade. This number to be sure, but one that still signified to replace that coal with?” Line Energy. Their transmission lines are isn’t a matter of how much money the change the preeminence of the the fossil fuel industries carrying wind power from eastern New Mexico will cost, but how much it costs compared to in determining our state’s energy future. How much energy does coal currently to consumers in California. We’re already other options. With Democrats in charge of the provide New Mexicans? reaping benefits from selling energy to markets If we choose this renewable route through Roundhouse, that’s all about to change. The In the last two years, it’s about 50 percent for outside of this state. The demand in California, the RPS, our state is going to save money. PNM, a huge percentage. They’re scaling that current RPS will expire in 2020. A bill being on their power grid, when everybody gets home Consumers will have more money in their down. It’s different for the other investor-owned investigated by the the Legislature, SB 275, and fires up the teevee and oven happens at pockets. If we replace all this coal with natural utilities that serve the state like El Paso Electric. cosponsored by Albuquerque Democrat Senator about the same time as generation of wind gas, it’s going to be more expensive. And when But coal, particularly from the Four Corners power in eastern New Mexico reaches its daily Mimi Stewart, would bring big changes to you burn natural gas you are putting carbon in and San Juan Generating Stations, has been a peak. Both times of day line up really well, so the atmosphere. The other kicker with natural energy standards in the state. massive source of energy for PNM and EPE. we have good demand for our wind power right gas is the extraction process, you end up Under the proposed legislation, the now. But what a lot of people don’t get is that Renewable Portfolio Standard would be revised venting a lot of methane into the air. Methane So even as PNM scales down coal use—and we could be consuming a whole lot of demand is about 20 more times effective than carbon to require public utilities like PNM to get 50 I’m told some investor-owned utilities in New Mexico. When there’s more demand in dioxide is in trapping heat in our atmosphere. percent of their resources from renewable moving toward natural gas—the this state, it becomes more cost effective. We have got to get our part of solving the sources like solar and wind by the year 2030. Legislature is proposing that such Further, the bill proposes that by 2040, energy climate change problem in hand. a
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SPURS AND DINNER FOR YOU AND ALL SONGS YOUR SISTERS There are two ways to write a Where better to have a family cooking class than at song: The wrong way—and The Three Sisters? (Get it? Because sisters?) On Friday, Cowboy Way. Learn how to create Feb. 1 from 5 to 7pm, come out to Let’s Cook your very own heart-string- Family Class at Three Sisters to celebrate the plucking tune at Create a Song Chinese New Year by learning how to make Night with award-winning singer- homemade noodle soup and coconut rice balls songwriters The Cowboy Way. with fresh mango. Learning new recipes with the See how the sausage gets made kiddos means you’re not only spending valuable this Thursday, Jan. 31, at Tractor time together, but you’re preparing them with Brewing Four Hills. Admission important skills for later in life. This class is open to for adults over 21 is $45, and a all kids who love to cook and their families (who free drink is included. Registration hopefully love to cook too). Age recommendation is is online and doors open at between 5 and 13 years old, but mostly just keep in 7pm. TRACTOR BREWING FOUR HILLS mind that students are expected to use knives and 13170 CENTRAL AVE SE, 7 TO 9PM stovetops before you bring your toddler in, OK? alibi.com/v/68ze. (Joshua Lee) a Participation is free, but registration is required. Call 505-445-5332 to register for your spot. THREE SISTERS KITCHEN 109 GOLD ST SW, 5 TO 7PM alibi.com/v/6a5q. (Robin Babb) a THE MORE MIRACULOUS THE BERRY … New Mexico is blessed with so many overwhelmingly talented people and sometimes putting together a REMEMBER conceptual piece of art can take a village of these artists. While Festivities continue in the 8th Annual Miraculum is a show compiled from New Mexico Black History Festival multiple photographers, models and of Events “Declarations of stylists, it is all manifested and Interdependence,” with the Kumbuka executed through the vision of the Celebration at the KiMo Theatre walking sculpture herself, Felicia Friday, Feb. 1 at 8pm. Doors open Davis. The exhibition’s name comes at 7:30pm for this free, all-ages from the small red fruit, the miracle remembrance ceremony honoring berry, which contains miraculin and ancestors. There are moving tributes causes taste receptors to interpret onstage to some beloved leaders flavors to be far sweeter than normal. who have moved on to the next Felicia hopes to alter the receptors world, including Miriam Makeba, of viewers, making this alternate Paul Robeson, Aretha Franklin, reality of photographs that much Ntosake Shange, Al Jarreau and sweeter. Each image in the collection others. The word Kumbuka is Swahili IMAGE COURTESY OF BIDEWELL PHOTOGRAPHY is unaltered, captured portrait-style. for “remember,” and audience Stop by Strangeflock Gallery on Friday, Feb. 1 at 4:30pm for the opening reception and a meet and greet members are invited to bring photos with collective of artists that contributed to this show. It is on display through Feb. 28 for all ages, though there of loved ones who’ve passed away. is implied nudity in many of the images. Take in all of the magic for free. STRANGEFLOCK GALLERY 609 GOLD AVE SW, 6 KIMO THEATRE 423 CENTRAL AVE NW, 8 TO TO 9PM alibi.com/v/69dy. (Mayo Lua de Frenchie) a 10PM alibi.com/v/69co. (Alisa Valdes) a
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2 WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 6 BANG A GONG! THE MYTH OF THE GUITARIST Tatsuya Nakatani has a posse. Actually the dude—a world-renowned drummer and avant-garde percussionist— Classical guitarists are an odd lot. In musical academia they tend to be outsiders, positioned as it were has an orchestra. And that orchestra is made of gongs. You heard us. But maybe you ought to hear the results between the art music made by violins and the jazz music made by the double bass. Sometimes, they’re of bringing a community of musicians together under the banner of the experimental percussive arts when the rockers in disguise ready to dispense with formality to demonstrate insane licks. Tengyue Zhang may be like Nakatani Gong Orchestra performs that; but you’ll have to listen to find out. at the Marlene Nathan Meyerson This Julliard grad is playing with one foot Auditorium at SITE Santa Fe, Saturday, on the floor when he gigs at the illustrious Feb. 2 at 8pm. Using at least 15 Keller Hall at the UNM Center for the bowed gongs and other fantastic Arts on Wednesday, Feb. 6 at 7:30pm. implementation—including his breath And luckily most anything in the classical and wooden sticks—Nakatani and catalog can be transposed for the guitar his ensemble make immersive sound so you’re likely hearing works by sculptures that are elusively and heavyweights like Bach and Scarlatti. If sometime explosively engaging. All- he busts out “Master of Puppets” as an ages are welcome at this recital and encore, you can’t say you weren’t warned. for a mere $10 to $15 you can This concert experience is designed with experience Chuck Barris’ ultimate all ages in mind and costs but $10 to fantasy. SITE SANTA FE 1606 PASEO DE $15 to get your jangle on. KELLER HALL PERALTA, 8 TO 10PM alibi.com/v/694c. UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, 7:30PM (August March) a alibi.com/v/69du. (August March) a IMAGE COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
JANUARY 31-FEBRUARY 6, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [9] FOUND OBJECTS | BY ALISA VALDES ARTS INTERVIEW The Bead Goes On Beadwork focus of events this The Marvelous Mrs. Meyer weekend Many spiritual traditions make use of beads, Famous author finds new career in comedy at age 83 touched and held, in prayer or meditation, from Catholic rosary beads to Buddhist mala beads. Here in the desert Southwest, as in much of BY ALISA VALDES oral sex and politics. There was this wide-eyed the Americas, beads and beadwork have long surprise among those who were being confronted held cultural importance as items for trade, for the first time with the possibility that a petite storytelling, adornment and ceremony. fter sweeping the Emmy Awards with 14 woman in her 80s, wearing sensible outfits that This week people in the Albuquerque and Anominations and 8 wins last year, the seem plucked from an L.L. Bean catalog, could Santa Fe area will have the chance through Amazon series “The Marvelous Mrs. not only be as funny as some young dude joking three separate events to learn more about the Maisel” is back in 2019 with three Golden about his dick (and Meyer is right, they pretty rich and fascinating history of beads and Globe nominations and one win. The show, beadwork around the world, through a lecture, much all do this), but she can brilliantly meet an exhibition and a class. inspired loosely by the life of comedian Joan them on their own turf, and then sweetly The Museum of International Folk Art in Rivers, tells the story of a wealthy and witty annihilate them. Santa Fe is playing host to a jeweler and art ’50s Jewish housewife who throws off the “Carolyn is an old lady, but she certainly isn’t collector named Earl Kessler on Sunday, Feb. 3 shackles of domesticity and jumps into a new old-fashioned,” said fellow open-mic regular Troy at 2pm for a talk entitled “And What Else About life as a stand-up comedian in New York City Willson, who himself has been banned from at Beads.” Kessler began collecting beads 35 after her scandalous divorce. least one venue because of his misogynistic jokes, years ago, and it soon became an obsession. He The appeal of Mrs. Maisel comes in part has traveled the world in search of beads, and including one about raping grandmothers. has studied their use and importance in a wide from the show’s relentless optimism, and Interestingly, the resistance to Willson has come variety of cultures. relatively easy and stylish female mostly from other male comedians, including Kessler’s talk is presented as something of a empowerment. Mrs. Maisel wanted to do John Cuellar, who hosts the open mic on grand finale for the current Museum of comedy, and she did. Bam. Simple. Or, as Saturdays at Back Alley Draft House, and Marty International Folk Art exhibit, Beadwork Adorns Emily Nussbaum wrote in her review of the Adamsmith, whom Meyer cites as one of her the World, which closes that same day. The series for The New Yorker: “ … the production favorite local comics. Meyer, meanwhile, does not show examines the way beads have been landed at an ideal moment, tapping into a traded throughout human history and traces the take issue with Willson’s approach at all, citing desperation—particularly among women—for RUSSELL MAYNOR PHOTOGRAPHY free speech. “Poor little thing,” she said of various migrations they have made, linking them something sweet and inspiring. No more to global human migration and interchange. good fit for a new interactive game held Willson. “He’s just finding his way. He’ll be all ‘Handmaid’s Tale,’ no more pussy-grabbing. “Even though it’s titled Beadwork Adorns monthly at Empire Board Game Library, called right.” ‘Mrs. Maisel’ offered a bright-pink escape hatch the World, this exhibit is not actually about “Liar’s Game,” in which three people tell a In Meyer, young female comics in town say from 2017.” beads,” said Khristaan Villela, Ph.D, Director of crowd a story, and they crowd has to guess they have found a gutsy mama bear and friend, the Museum of International Folk Art. It is difficult in this broader cultural context, which of them is lying. one who regularly has other women comics over According to Guest Curator, Dr. Marsha Bol, “It then, to ignore the similarities between the “Well, wouldn’t you know, I discovered I was is about working beads resulting in beadwork, for dinner, wine and conversation. fictional Mrs. Maisel and the very real Carolyn very good at lying,” said Meyer, with her and what a collective of beads in a garment or Meyer, the newest and most unusual rising star “I think Carolyn is a delight,” says comedian an object reveals about the intentions of its characteristic mix of humor and humility. “But Hollyanne Byrd, one of the hosts of the podcast on Albuquerque’s robust comedy scene. that’s a job hazard of being a fiction writer for makers or users.” Born in 1935, just two years after Rivers 10 Drink Minimum. “My favorite thing about her The museum’s program for this wonderful five decades, I suppose.” (whose “meanspirited and racist” comedy is the way that she knows exactly how people are exhibition sums up the anthropological, From there, Meyer branched out and began going to react to her dirty stuff. Her timing is historical and cultural importance of these tiny Meyer doesn’t care for, by the way) Meyer has attending comedy open mics in town, most excellent especially in that regard.” objects quite well. “In most parts of the world, spent the past 50 years working in relative frequently the Sunday night open mic at Boese beads, having value, are used at peak moments solitude, as a prolific and award-winning Meyer said that her raunchy comedy, often Brothers Brewery Downtown. She felt Boese to with feminist underpinnings, upsets men of all in life. With their luster and sparkle, used as an novelist. She is one of the most successful be more welcoming than some of the others, adornment or surface additive, they help to ages, and has even made her dating life difficult. authors in New Mexico, with more than 50 because a woman, Elena Warden, hosted it, heighten the effect, the impact, the meaning. “I’m on match.com,” she said. “And one guy I published children’s historical novels, including alongside Tito Dameron. These special moments in the life of the was talking with on there, who was thrilled about a new one out next year about Georgia “It’s a boys’ club everywhere else,” said community tend to revolve around: life stages O’Keeffe. Many of her books are required my books, you know, and saw me as this real and passages—such as birth, becoming an adult, Meyer. She had some pointed things to say marriage and death; power, position or status in reading in schools across the nation. about the male dominated comedy circles in smart lady, he really let me have it after I sent him the community; the high meaning of the After the death of her third husband, writer town, but asked they be kept out of the a link to my comedy. He said ‘How can a woman occasion—as seen in fine dress, house and and University of New Mexico professor newspaper for propriety’s sake. She did, your age be saying these things in public? You animal decoration; and, communication with the emeritus of English Tony Mares, four years ago, however, allow us to share her rhetorical need to keep these things to yourself.’ I was, like, spirits.” Meyer decided it was time for something new. question: “How is it that every single one of fat chance. So, that was the end of that.” Beading is a living art form that, though it “I just needed to get out of the house,” she these boys enjoys talking about his dick so Meyer said her newfound expressive freedom might have lost some of its meaning through the said. “I needed to be around people, and try has also been tough on her three adult sons. industrialization of garment-making, is very much?” something I’d never done before.” Statistics confirm Meyer’s impression of “Well, you know, it’s not easy for them to watch much alive for a retired Albuquerque La Cueva That something was improvisational theater, High School math teacher named Bobbie Albuquerque’s comedy scene as mostly a boys’ their mother go up on stage to talk about giving Yoakum. also known as improv. Meyer, who lives in an club. According to Kevin Kennedy, who books blow jobs,” she said. “I sympathize with them. But Yoakum is a master beader who has turned elegant contemporary loft Downtown, many of the local comedy shows, there are only is it going to shut me up? Nope.” her hobby into a second career as a beading registered for an improv class nearby, at The 7 top-level female comics in town vying for This month, Meyer steps into yet another new instructor at The Beaded Iris, a bead store in Box Performance Space. bookings, versus 90 males, with the vast realm with her comedy, as she continues growing Albuquerque’s Northeast Heights. Coincident “I was terrified,” she said. “At 81 I was by far majority of these all being in their 20s or 30s. in the art form, with her first one-woman show, with the happenings at the Museum of the oldest person there. We didn’t have any of International Folk Art in Santa Fe this weekend, Meyer “is definitely unusual,” he said. “Don’t Call Me Young Lady!,” opening at The the same references. We might as well have Watching Meyer take the microphone at Cell Theatre. The one-hour show, based mostly though unrelated to them, Yoakum will be been speaking different languages.” Boese one recent Sunday evening was an on Meyer’s own life and adventures with her offering a beginning beading class on Saturday, Nonetheless, her lifetime of storytelling Feb. 2 at 11am, in which she will teach students interesting affair, as the young people in the three husbands and three serious boyfriends, all came in handy, and almost immediately her how to do a brick stitch with three beads. The crowd shift uncomfortably in their seats and but one of whom are dead now (and the living class itself is free, but registration is required, as teacher Michael Lovato said he noticed Meyer had a rare gift for the craft. “Michael has been exchange looks of bewilderment. You could one is in hiding, she said, in Guatemala), will run is the purchase of the materials used in the almost hear their thoughts: What the hell is this on three consecutive Sundays (Feb. 10, 17 and class. so supportive and encouraging,” said Meyer. For more information on these events, “He’s really been wonderful.” old lady doing here? This is weird. 24) starting at 4pm. Tickets cost $15. please visit internationalfolkart.org and Soon after, Meyer met Jaime Pardo, a local But as soon as Meyer launched into her bit, Meyer said she has found her passion. “I’m thebeadediris.com a tailor and drag entertainer who saw her a palpable relief and shock rippled through the done with writing books,” she said. “I like being perform. Pardo suggested Meyer would be a audience as she told jokes about porn, Tinder, in front of a crowd. This is it, now. 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JANUARY 31-FEBRUARY 6, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [11] FOOD | BAR REVIEW WHAT DO I EAT WITH THAT BY ROBIN BABB Hollow Spirits Will Heal The Gruet Edition A few of our favorite Gruet wines and what to eat with them BY Robin Babb w [email protected] Your Gin Scars The art of pairing food with wine/beer/whatever you’re drinking is a highly subjective one, based on whether Mercury is retrograde, which way the New distillery serves infused liquors and a chef-driven food menu wind is blowing and what model you’re first car was. With that in mind, here’s our suggestion on BY ROBIN BABB like me occupied. I’ve only recently started for Chef Tristin in crafting the menu. He’s what you should eat with what you’re drinking. coming around to gin and its fragrant, many- found that jackfruit can replace the meat layered flavors after too many scarring proteins in most of the dishes quite well. “I’m 2015 Grand Blanc de Noirs his recent trend of bars, breweries and experiences with the plastic-bottle varieties in tired of taking [vegan] friends out to bars distilleries with killer food menus really my formative years. Ulloa’s mellow, citrusy where all they can eat is fries,” he says. Hollow T don’t excites me—because I never want to spirit is a tonic (hah) to those incidents. Spirits’ vegan burger ($15) with a homemade eat after a couple of drinks, and the limited There’s no sharp edges or overly herbal, bun and cassava fries is tasty, filling testament food truck offerings that are hopefully parked licorice-y notes to it; just bright cucumber and to his commitment to vegan diners. outside the bar don’t always cut it. In orange peel. It’s great to sip on its own and Chef Tristin has worked on some of the Albuquerque there’s Toltec Brewing with their phenomenal in a cucumber-infused gin fizz. cocktail recipes, too. The Bloody Mary flight award-winning burger, Sister Bar with their The spirits have found their way into many ($21) features some of his homemade mixes always-tasty weekly specials and Bosque North of the dishes served at Hollow Spirits, too. The with four of Ulloa’s chile-infused vodkas. with their new ambitious menu that includes lavender-infused vodka, for instance, gets Green chile, red chile, habañero pepper and cauliflower tacos and mussels cooked in cooked down with balsamic vinegar into a pepperoncini vodkas make the boozy base of coconut milk. The most recent this flavorful brunch flight that The Grand Blanc de Noirs has some pretty bold, addition to that list is Hollow ranges in heat from sweet-and- Spirits Distillery, an unassuming earthy flavors, so don’t pair it with light fish like sour to “I’m not crying, I’ve just you might with other whites. I’d drink this spot in the industrial north side of got something in my eye.” The alongside a plate of soft cheese with fruit, some Downtown that’s rapidly gaining green chile is like a slightly spicy carnitas tacos or even a not-too-heavy, fruit- cool points. gazpacho with celery and forward dessert like apple pie or baked pears. Hollow Spirits has been tomatillo in the mix—one could making their own gin, vodka and almost think one was drinking Sauvage Rose rum since 2017. The bar and something healthy, if it weren’t restaurant only opened to the for the booze part. The red chile public at the end of November is smoky and sweet and very last year, though, and the general barbeque-esque, while the response has been pretty habañero will really make you overwhelmingly positive. I always feel alive. jump at the chance to try locally- When I ask Chef Tristin if made spirits because it’s still fairly working spirits into the food few and far between, and because menu is a challenge, he shrugs. it’s almost always better than “Not really—it’s a great whatever middle-shelf bottle I Hollow Spirits’ stunning avocado toast ERIC WILLIAMS PHOTOGRAPHY ingredient, so it’s easy to work would have grabbed at a liquor with,” he says, giving props to the distiller. store. So naturally I was excited to see what Everybody loves rosé because it goes both Hollow Spirits Distilling Chef Tristin was working at The Crown ways, which is a sentence I already regret Hollow Spirits had to prove. 1324 First Street NW Room, the restaurant at The Downs Racetrack writing. Pair this crisp wine with pizza or a The first thing one notices behind Hollow 433-2766 and Casino. Getting to make the whole menu creamy pasta—its slight acidity will cut the fat refreshingly. “Ooh, I love the Sauvage with some Spirits’ bar is that there’s a scientist who’s been hollowspirits.com from scratch has been exciting for him, along given free reign of the place. The back wall is pork ribs, honestly,” says Matt, who is definitely Hours: Mon closed, Tue-Wed 3pm-10pm, Thu 3pm- with preparing the private and public multi- invited to my summer barbeque. lined with various infusions of their liquors: I 11pm, Fri-Sat 11am-midnight, Sun noon-9pm course dinners Hollow Spirits has hosted. His see a lavender vodka, various chile Vibe: Casual and social: great place to bring a bunch next big event is a multi-course pairing dinner Extended Tirage Rose concoctions and a gin with cucumber. I find of friends after work at StoryLab in March, which will doubtless be out later that this is head distiller Martin Alibi Recommends: Bloody Mary flight, a huge sensory experience. Ulloa’s handiwork, and that he’s behind many gin fizz, avocado toast Whether you should come visit Hollow of the cocktails on the menu as well. Spirits for the food or for the drinks is a toss- Before he joined the Hollow Spirits team, reduction that goes on the highly photogenic up, and ultimately I suggest you go for both. Ulloa was making whiskey at Balcones avocado toast. This, drizzled on top of the There are still some things getting ironed out, Distilling in Waco, Texas. He’s excited to start layers of toasted French bread, dill cream most notably the lack of a real kitchen—Chef working on a whiskey recipe for Hollow Spirits cheese, big slices of avocado and heirloom Tristin is currently preparing everything in a in the spring, and on some more exotic spirits tomato and a fried quail egg is heavenly. I food truck parked outside of the bar, which is as well. On a little tour through the distillery, know that avocado toast culture has kind of just kind of one of those things you have to he tells me that they’re going to start making peaked already, but that just means that chefs deal with when you’re working at a fledgeling sotol and absinthe this year as well, and that have to go all-out on it to keep diners business. The real kitchen is under he’s working with Sean Sheehan at Sheehan interested. Pretty sure edible pansies and quail construction and should be finished sometime Again, it would be hard to go wrong with rosé Winery to make a grappa, an Italian spirit eggs count as going all-out. in March. I look forward to seeing how the and pizza—I’m thinking a Margherita pie with a made from the spent grapes leftover from the really crisp crust and perfect summer tomatoes. The rest of the food menu is similarly menu will change and expand when he’s got winemaking process. “Nobody else in New Most baked goods will go well with the added showy for a bar setting: poke bowls, a the new space to work with. In the meantime, Mexico is doing that, that I know of,” he says. yeast flavors in this mellow wine, as would charcuterie board, a chile confit pork bao. I’ll be back for the gin and for whatever Chef pasta. Oooh, or avocado toast on a really thick In the meantime, Ulloa’s gin alone is more Surprisingly, many of their dishes are vegan or Tristin makes in that little hotbox of a kitchen slice of brioche, with some farmer’s cheese and than enough to keep Albuquerque drinkers can be made so, which was an important factor next. a pickled red onions. Who else is hungry now? a
[12] WEEKLY ALIBI JANUARY 31-FEBRUARY 6, 2019 FOOD | DRINKING WITH THE PROS Tasting the Blanc de Noirs Tour at Gruet Five wines with a dark side in the tasting room BY ROBIN BABB
f you’re having a conversation about New
IMexico wines, Gruet is doubtless the first BABB ROBIN name that will come up. The family-run winery, which traces its lineage back to 1952 in Bethon, France, is internationally acclaimed for the quality of its traditional Méthode Champenoise wines. Seven of their wines regularly rate 90 points or above in Wine Spectator, and some have even said Gruet is making “America’s Best Sparkling Wine,” Napa be damned. The Gruet tasting room and winery, sitting in a little brick castle just off I-25 next to an RV dealer, definitely looks a bit out of place. But step inside and the traffic suddenly fades into the background—instead, there’s a gleaming white marble bartop and the sound Matt Smith and the Sauvage Rosé at the Gruet of corks popping. It’s relatively empty when I tasting room visit the tasting room on a Wednesday afternoon, but on weekends and during the Extended Tirage Rosé: The extended summer it can fill up as much as any other bar tirage (more time sitting on the yeast—36 in the city. months, to be exact) lends a surprisingly Helpfully for those of us seeking to expand bready note to this sparkling rosé, but it’s our palates, Gruet has friendly tasting room certainly not unpleasant. Still plenty of notes associates like Matt Smith, who was pouring of strawberry, with a little extra complexity as when I visited recently. They also offer wine compared to the Sauvage Rosé. flights and curated daily tasting lists to Merlot: A bit of a shock after the much introduce you to their repertoire. Each of their lighter (and all sparkling) wines, but a bold flights serves two ounce pours of four of their note to end on. There’s plenty of tannins in wines ($16), and the daily tasting gives you an this and some earthy notes of maple and dark ounce of five wines ($12) that have been fruit. A smooth, full-bodied red for sipping specially selected by the tasting room staff. I slowly. tasted the daily five with Matt leading the As I’m getting ready to leave the tasting way: Sauvage Rosé, Blanc de Noirs, Grand room with a bottle of the Grand Blanc de Blanc de Noirs 2015 Limited Release, Noirs in hand, a woman at the bar who’s Extended Tirage Rosé and the Merlot 2014 visiting from the Bay Area says, “Gruet beats Reserve. “This is kind of a Blanc de Noirs all the California winemakers,” echoing some tasting, so it’ll feature the Pinot Noir grape all of the aforementioned embattled wine critics. the way through the end,” Matt says as he It’s impressive to me that, as nationally well- pours a small glass of the Sauvage Rosé. known (and well-loved) as Gruet has become, Sauvage Rosé: “Sauvage is actually drier they’ve still managed to keep the operation than Brut, which most people are more pretty small—all their wine is still made in familiar with,” Matt tells me. This rosé is their New Mexico winery, and the staff indeed very crisp and dry, with the fine- working in the winery is only between 15 and textured bubbles that Gruet and their 25, depending on the time of year. traditional Champagne method are known for. If you talk to wine people anywhere in New The 100 percent Pinot Noir contents make for Mexico, they’ll get a glassy look of pride in a gorgeous grapefruit color with very little their eyes when they talk about Gruet. It feels lingering sweetness but plenty of fruit notes, good to have such a prestigious gem in our most distinctly strawberry and raspberry. underdog state, and being able to taste some of Blanc de Noirs: One of Gruet’s best known that underdog terroir—the desert dryness, the wines—a sparkling white wine made from crisp air—in the finished product makes it all “black” grapes (namely, from 75 percent Pinot the more enchanting. a Noir and 25 percent Chardonnay). The Blanc de Noirs is dry and peppery, with a soft, creamy You can buy Gruet wines at just about any wine or texture. Minerally and perfectly balanced, it’s a liquor store in Albuquerque, as well as at their great party wine to appease most palates. tasting room at 8400 Pan American Freeway NE. Grand Blanc de Noirs: This was the MVP Visit gruetwinery.com to see all their wines and of the lineup, to my taste. Definite notes of learn more about their traditional winemaking toasted almond and fresh bread: a very savory methods. Laurent Gruet gives public tours of the wine with a round, rich texture. winery every Saturday at 2pm. JANUARY 31-FEBRUARY 6, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [13] REEL WORLD FILM | FILM REVIEW BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY Sexy Shorts Cold War Dan Savage’s HUMP! Film Festival returns to Albuquerque on its 2019 tour. The sex-positive short film fest has been bringing audiences “a Oscar-nominated romance unfolds behind, in front of, the Iron Curtain new kind of porn” since 2005 and will hit Albuquerque’s Guild Cinema (3405 Central Ave. NE) Thursday, Jan. 31 through Saturday, Feb. 2. Every year Savage—a nationally syndicated advice columnist, author, journalist and LGBT community activist—asks sex-loving amateurs to create their own kinky, sexy, funny, creative films spotlighting a cornucopia of body types, shapes, ages, colors, sexualities, genders and fetishes. All films are five minutes or less. This year’s tour is spreading the love to more than 50 cities across the US and Canada. All seats are $18 in advance or $20 at the door. To see a full lineup of shorts or to purchase tickets, go to humpfest.com. You must be 18 or over to attend. Acting! The New Mexico Film Foundation kicks off its 2019 Tale Writers script writing series Feb. 2 and 3 with “Acting 101 For Screenwriters.” This two-day workshop takes place from 9am to 4pm at the American Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe (83 Avan Nu Po). This introductory class is intended to familiarize writers with the art of acting. Exercises in character, dialogue, improvisation and more will—hopefully—make writers better able to communicate with the people who will be bringing their characters to life. SAG/AFTRA actress and former script judge Suzanne Birrell is teaching the class. Workshops are $75 each. For more information about this and future Tale Freebird! Writers workshops (which continue through May 19), go to talewriters.org/script- BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY Zula hides out in rule-filled Communist programs/screenwriting-workshops. Cold War Poland. Despite the political separation, Wiktor and Zula cross paths several times, rom the very first note, the musical, mid- Written and directed by Pawel Pawlikowski Starring Tomasz Kot, Joanna Kulig with the majority of Cold War charting their Groundhog Day? Again? century romance Cold War exudes the stark hot-and-cold, on-and-off love affair over the The New Mexico F Rated R beauty of a Bergman film. Modeled course of the ensuing decades. Museum of Natural Opens Friday 2/1 History Foundation, (loosely, we’ll assume) after the tumultuous Under the meticulous eye of its director, in partnership with real-life romance of writer-director Pawel Mr. Pawlikowski (The Last Resort, My Summer the Albuquerque Pawlikowski’s parents, the film is a familiar yet an untutored natural talent. Wiktor becomes of Love, Ida), and the expert lens of its Film & Music painful tale of lovers crossed as much by quietly obsessed with the girl, bringing her cinematographer, Lukasz Zal (who worked Experience, hosts a themselves as by the stars. Triple Oscar- aboard as his prize pupil—and eventually his with Pawlikowski on Ida), Cold War starts out special screening of nominated for Best Foreign Film, Best lover. looking positively post-apocalyptic. As Wiktor the 1993 Bill Murray Wiktor’s arts ensemble finds great success in comedy Groundhog Directing and Best Cinematography, the film wanders through the wintry landscapes, ruined Day on— is shot in a moody black and white (mostly in the ensuing years spreading the gospel of churches and abandoned villages of Eastern traditional Polish art and culture across appropriately the gravel gray spectrum) that belies the Europe, viewers are given a harsh visual sense enough—Saturday, Eastern Europe. In time, however, the big roiling passions underneath its historical story. of the devastation World War II wrought. In Feb. 2 (that’s bosses back in Moscow decide songs about In post World War II Eastern Europe, a addition to the luminous black-and-white Groundhog Day, mountains and wheat harvests aren’t respected musical director/conductor wanders photography, the film is also shot in a rigid don’t you know). The film shows on the nationalistic enough. (This is the Soviet museum’s big DynaTheater screen starting at in and out of tiny villages in Communist “Academy” aspect ratio of 1:37 (resulting in an Union, after all.) Much to Wiktor’s chagrin, 7pm. Tickets are $10 general admission or $7.50 Poland, recording a catalogue of fading folk old-fashioned, nearly square picture). beautiful folk ballads are soon replaced with for Museum Foundation Members or AFME songs. Wiktor (Tomasz Kot, Poland’s version of Gradually, as the film wends its way toward the Sponsors. To reserve them in advance, go to new songs about how great of a guy Stalin is. a young Sam Neill) is working as an streets of Paris, the blacks deepen, the whites naturalhistoryfoundation.org/afmx-movie-series. As the rebranded musical propaganda impromptu ethnomusicologist at the urging of sharpen and the film gains a more romantic, The NMMNH is located at 1801 Mountain Road machine tours through Berlin, circa 1951, his new bosses in Russia. The idea is to Old Hollywood glow. And yet the passions, NW. Wiktor concocts a mad grab for freedom. He preserve the history and culture of local dance both positive and negative, remain. This is a and Zula will cross the border into West and music, all but eradicated in the destructive story of people imprisoned by circumstance, Germany and take up residence in Paris. An American in Saigon sweep of World War II. geography and political boundaries—but also Unfortunately for Wiktor, Zula doesn’t share As part of the annual Books to the Big Screen With the backing of the new Soviet by their own emotional shortcomings. It’s a his romantic optimism. Her newfound musical event (getting started, in earnest, next Thursday government and the help of a kindred musical tale of love, heartbreak and jealously set at the KiMo Theatre), the Public Library ABQ- fame has granted her a certain level of associate (Agata Kulesza), Wiktor sets up a against the backdrop of epic political and BernCo and Friends of the Public Library are comfort. What will the Western world offer training academy for a prospective traveling social change. kicking it off with a screening of the 1958 film her—other than freedom and love? When the arts ensemble and interviews a crowd of A sad ballad juxtaposing the intimate with The Quiet American. Based on Graham Greene’s fateful night arrives, she leaves him stranded at best-selling political thriller, the film stars Audie hungry would-be performers. Among them is the international, Cold War is a masterpiece of the border checkpoint, morosely smoking Murphy as an innocent American economist Zula (Joanna Kulig, the Slavic version of economy and image. In a series of brief but cigarettes and contemplating the future. He caught between the Communists and the Patricia Arquette). Pretty but hard-faced, Zula highly elucidative vignettes spread across 15 colonialists in mid-century Vietnam. The defects anyway. is unlike her naïve rural competitors. She’s a years, the film maps out the often seismic screening takes place at 2:30pm on Saturday, While Wiktor settles in to life as a changes common to all affairs—the emotional Feb. 2 in the Main Library (501 Copper Ave. city gal with a tough past, but she’s clearly got struggling musician in jazz-crazed ’50s France, a NW). Admission is free and open to the public. as well as the political. [14] WEEKLY ALIBI JANUARY 31-FEBRUARY 6, 2019 TELEVISION | IDIOT BOX BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY Teen Steam BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY“Sex Education” on Netflix
he prevailing thought is that today’s A chance encounter with the school’s head plugged-in, world-at-their-fingertips kids are bully in charge—struggling with some T performance-sapping pressure thanks to his, so exposed to sex that they’re basically over the whole experience. Too much knowledge well, plus-sized appendage—finds Otis can sometimes be a dangerous thing. The dispensing impromptu sex advice. Fueled by British-made, Netflix-distributed series “Sex years of his mother’s open-minded tutelage, Otis Education” basically reinvents the teen sex actually helps the kid out. This good deed does comedy by turning it into an opportunity to not go unnoticed by class outcast and local bad analyze modern teenage hangups about sex— girl Maeve (Emma Mackey), who senses an and by extension, the hangups of Western opportunity. She offers her services as business Civilization in general. manager and convinces Otis (who just happens Set in a middle-class British suburb, the to have a crush on her) to set up a freelance show introduces awkward teen Otis Milburn therapy clinic in the school’s abandoned (Asa Butterfield from Hugo). Despite being in bathroom. Turns out he’s got a knack for it. his junior year of high school, Otis remains a “He’s very non-threatening,” points out another socially awkward virgin. Most of this can be of Otis’ satisfied customers. “Like a Care Bear.” traced to the fact that his single mother The show includes a lot of the usual high (Gillian Anderson, who is now permanently school tropes: lunch-money-stealing bullies, British) is a well-known sex therapist. Open brainy nerds, snobby rich kids, mean girl and honest to a fault—not to mention sleeping fashionistas. But it balances its cartoonish with a different man almost every night—she’s familiarity with a certain degree of realism and exposed her son to every in-and-out (so to honesty. “Sex Education” features tons of frank speak) of sex. As a result Otis is terminally sexual talk and plenty of nudity (of the full- jaded about sex. Thanks to mom’s TMI, the frontal male variety, mostly—which has been poor kid can’t even masturbate. deemed “hilarious” since at least 2008). But, Returning to school after a long summer, thanks to its smart scripting and heartfelt Otis and his best (gay) mate Eric (Ncuti messaging, the show comes across as far more Gatwa) are shocked to see that hormones have bawdy than raunchy. “Sex Education” isn’t gone into overdrive and that every one of their trying to one-up its predecessors (from Porky’s classmates seems to making the beast with two to Blockers) with its naughty nature. It’s actually backs. But this sudden burst of teenage lust pointing out the lingering confusion of modern brings with it a host of problems. Thanks to the teenagers and the idea that adults may not have easy accessibility of the internet, today’s teens all of this figured out quite as well as we think, are aware of just about every sexual fetish under either. Funny, raucous and secretly wise, “Sex the sun. (“Just go to PornHub,” notes one Education” is a life lesson for horny teenagers of learned teen. “You can watch a CGI demon all ages. a fuck a horse.”) But that hasn’t necessarily prepared them for the various pressures and Season 1 of “Sex Education” is available for streaming emotions surrounding the act of sex. on Netflix now.
Hosking (The Greasy Strangler) helms Are They Now?” special, you’ve this garishly skeevy live-action comedy got a full day of puppies leading THE WEEK IN about two urban cops (Charles Noland up to this. and Wayne Dehart) who relocate to an “Super Bowl LIII” (KRQE-13 island paradise in the twilight of their 4:30pm) New England Patriots SLOTH careers, only to find themselves vs. Los Angeles Rams. In case investigating a serial killer. you’re not into puppies or kitties. SATURDAY 2 MONDAY 4 THURSDAY 31 “Puppy Bowl Presents: The Dog Bowl” “Elvis Goes There” (Epix 8pm) “Fortune Fights” (Reelz 7pm) Reelz’ (Animal Planet 6pm) AnPlan’s annual Former LA Weekly, Detroit Free new docu-series about financially Puppy Bowl expands to include older, Press, New York Times film critic embattled celebs starts with Johnny adoptable dogs. Think of this as the badass (and dude who gets fired Depp. Where did all that sweet, Pro Bowl before the Super Bowl. a lot) Elvis Mitchell headlines sweet pirate booty go ? “Hallmark Channel’s First Annual Cat this docu-series in which he Bowl” (Hallmark 8pm) Hallmark travels with filmmakers and FRIDAY 1 follows Animal Planet’s “Dog Bowl” actors to “places of inspiration lead, giving us this logical addition to around the world.” First up: Paul “The ABC Murders” (Amazon the annual Kitten Bowl. Feig (“Freaks and Geeks,” streaming anytime) Agatha Bridesmaids). Christie’s dapper detective Hercule SUNDAY 3 Po irot (embodied now by John TUESDAY 5 Malkovich) returns to solve another “Kitten Bowl VI” (Hallmark Noon) Dean baffling murder in this three-part Cain co-hosts. Is there anything Dean “My Great Big Live Wedding with limited series. Cain won’t co-host? Just for fun, here’s David Tutera” (Lifetime “Russian Doll” (Netflix streaming a list of things Cain has hosted/co- 8:03pm) I mean, why wouldn’t anytime) Natasha Lyonne stars in hosted/guest hosted in the last 12 you get married live on Lifetime and Amy Po ehler produces this months: “Access Hollywood Live,” Network? Groundhog Day-esqe comedy in “Outnumbered,” “The 15 Most Iconic wh ich a wo man gets caught in a Summer Blockbusters of All Time,” “The WEDNESDAY 6 time loop, endlessly repeating her National Christmas Tree Lighting,” “The 36th birthday party and dy ing at the 87th Annual Hollywood Christmas “The World’s Best” (KRQE-13 end of the night—only to repeat it all Parade,” “Hallmark Channel’s 7pm) After its debut after the the next morn ing. Winterfest,” “The Top 14 Greatest Super Bowl, CBS airs this Valentine’s Day Movies of All Time,” “groundbreaking” reality show “Care Bears: Unlock the Magic” “Home & Family,” “Masters of Illusion,” (Boomerang 10am) Hey, if you can competition. It features “The 2018 Hero Dog Awards,” “The contestants from around the reboot “My Little Po ny ” and “She-Ra: Today Show,” “Fox and Friends.” Princess of Power,” “Care Bears” is world performing various talent just the next logical stop on the “Puppy Bowl XV” (Animal Planet 1pm) show acts and getting voted off nostalgia train. Between the pregame show, the by a panel of celebrity judges “Training Camp” videos, the “Too Cute (Drew Barrymore, Faith Hill, “Tropical Cop Ta les” (Cartoon For Puppy Bowl” special, the “Where RuPaul). Groundbreaking! a Network 1am) Writer-director Jim
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NEW Cold War Reviewed this issue. 129 minutes. R. (Opens Fri- day 2/1 at Century 14 Downtown, High Ridge) Dan Savage’s HUMP! Film Festival Syndicated sex advice columnist Dan Savage cu- rates this annual collection of amateur erotic shorts submitted by ordinary people. This loving assembled collection of homemade porn cele- brates body types, shapes, ages, colors, sexuali- ties, genders, kinks and fetishes of all kind. For a full description of all of the shorts in this year’s touring lineup, go to humpfilmfest.com. 90 min- utes. NC-17. (Opens Thursday 1/31 at Guild Cin- ema) Destroyer Nicole Kidman stars in this grim crime drama for director Karyn Kusama (Girlfight, The Invitation) as a bitter, alcoholic police detective who recon- nects with people from a mysterious, long-ago un- dercover assignment amid a “Sons of Anarchy”-style gang. Kidman goes all in, but the story is familiar—making Kidman’s “Charlize Theron in Monster” makeunder the film’s biggest headline. 121 minutes. R. (Opens Friday 2/1 at High Ridge) The Gandhi Murder This British-made, Sri Lankan-shot conspiracy thriller is, in the words of producers, “based on verified facts” and opens on the 71st anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s death. It puts forth the idea Destroyer that law enforcement figures in India knew all about Gandhi’s impending assassination but did ended up martyred for his efforts. 112 minutes. nature has transformed their lives. The film’s di- curious, anthropomorphic hotdog and his grocery nothing about it in the hopes that it would unite PG-13. (Opens Thursday 1/31 at Century Rio, rector, Michael M. Conti, will be in attendance store pals who discover the horrifying truth behind Hindus and Muslims following India’s independ- Cottonwood Stadium 16, Winrock Stadium 16 for a Q&A after the film. 100 minutes. Unrated. food and try to escape their fate (being cooked, ence. Stephen Lang from Avatar (for some reason IMAX & RPX) (Opens Saturday 2/2 at Guild Cinema) eaten and digested, that is). Think Pixar, but with playing an ethnic Kashmiri) stars as the evil offi- a whole lot of wiener jokes. Seriously. Not for kids. cial behind it all. There are musical numbers and Miss Bala 89 minutes. R. (Flix Brewhouse) some martial arts, driving home the overall “Bolly- Gina Rodriguez (“Jane the Virgin”) stars as Glo- wood” feel. 138 minutes. Unrated. (Opens ria, a struggling Los Angeles makeup artist who RETURNING The Wizard of Oz (1939) Wednesday 1/30 at Century 14 Downtown) gets caught in the world of cross-border crime Dorothy (Judy Garland) heads over the rainbow, after returning home to Tijuana to help out an Castle in the Sky (1986) commits involuntary manslaughter, steals some Hale County This Morning, This Evening old friend. Gloria’s friend ends up kidnapped The Studio Ghibli flashback train continues with shoes, hooks up with three weird strangers and Nominated for Best Documentary at this year’s after a deadly nightclub shooting. While looking one of master animator Hayao Miyazaki’s most vi- gets hired on as an assassin. Spoiler alert: In the Oscars, this intimate portrait of time and place sually dazzling sci-fi fantasies. A young girl with a end it’s all a dream. Or is it? This all-time family into the shocking disappearance, Gloria gets classic returns to theaters just in time for its 80th peers into the lives to two African-American men. caught between a Mexican gang, some corrupt mysterious crystal pendant falls out of the sky Daniel Collins and Quincy Bryant are a couple of and into the arms of young Pazu. Together they anniversary. 125 minutes. G. (Century Rio) young, aspiring basketball players who live in rural cops and the DEA. Guns and grenade-launchers search for a legendary, ancient, floating castle Hale County, Ala. Filmed over the course of five are involved in this victim-turned-action-hero and the secrets hidden within. 124 minutes. G. years, the doc follows Collins as he attends col- drama directed by Catherine Hardwicke (Thir- (Flix Brewhouse) lege in search of opportunity and Bryant as he teen, The Lords of Dogtown, Twilight). 100 min- STILL PLAYING stays home to become father to an energetic utes. PG-13. (Opens Thursday 1/31 at Century Groundhog Day (1993) young boy. This incredibly poetic and contempla- Rio, AMC Albuquerque 12, Icon Cinemas Albu- Bill Murray is a sarcastic TV weatherman trapped Aquaman tive film comes from basketball-star-turned-pho- querque, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Century in a single, endlessly repeating day in this inven- Jason Mamoa reprises his role as the aquatic tographer-turned-filmmaker RaMell Ross. 76 14 Downtown, Cottonwood Stadium 16, Winrock tive cult comedy from director Harold Ramis (Cad- avenger from Justice League in this shallow but minutes. Unrated. (Opens Sunday 2/3 at Guild Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) dyshack, Vacation). 101 minutes. PG. (Flix energetic sci-fi fantasy. Director James Wan (Saw, Cinema) Brewhouse) Insidious, The Conjuring) goes big-time, big-bud- The Regard of Flight get with this CGI-saturated underwater epic. It’s Hunter x Hunter: The Last Mission ABQ Film Club and the American Vaudeville Mu- Isle of Dogs 50 percent Indiana Jones, 50 percent Star Wars This animated feature is based on the paranormal seum take a look at the genius of Tony Award- Quirky auteur Wes Anderson follows up his stop- and 50 percent Thor—and at two hours and 23 manga/anime series by Yoshihiro Togashi about a winning comedian Bill Irwin (“Sesame Street,” motion animated fable Fantastic Mr. Fox with this minutes long, it’s about 50 percent too much young boy who discovers his long-lost father is picture book tale of a near-future Far East in film. But it’s a good indication that Warner “Northern Exposure,” “Legion”) by showing Irwin’s which all dogs have been banished to an isolated Bros./DC has finally crawled out from under all still alive and working as a world-renowned legendary 1983 stage production The Regard of “Hunter,” tracking down fabulous treasures, island trash dump. Mourning the loss of his that “grimdark” baggage and is ready to have Flight, a hilarious mashup of “pretentious” the- beloved pet, a determined young boy (Koyu some fun. Reviewed in v27 i51. 143 minutes. PG- unidentified animal species and the occasional atre, physical comedy and every actor’s night- lost civilization. This animated feature, released in Rankin) travels to the island to find him. Re- 13. (Century Rio, Century 14 Downtown, Cotton- Japan in 2013, is set before the usual “Hunter x mare. 90 minutes. Unrated. (Opens Saturday viewed in v27 i14. 101 minutes. PG-13. (SUB wood Stadium 16, Flix Brewhouse, Icon Cinemas Hunter” timeline, with heroes Gon and Killua 2/2 at Guild Cinema) Theater) Albuquerque, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, AMC Albuquerque 12, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & tracking down a dangerous escaped convict at TVTV: Video Revolutionaries Oklahoma! (1955) RPX) the “Battle Olympia Tournament.” 98 minutes. Un- Top Value Television (TVTV) was a merry band of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s romantic stage musi- rated. (Opens Friday 2/1 at Flix Brewhouse) video pranksters who, from 1972 to 1977, used cal got the silver screen treatment but good in Bohemian Rhapsody I Want to Eat Your Pancreas then-revolutionary video recorders to go out and this 1955 version staring Gordon MacRae and Rami Malek (“Mr. Robot”) takes on the task of Based on the acclaimed Japanese novel by Yoru document the world at large. The group’s satiri- Gloria Grahame. (Shirley Jones is in there too.) embodying theatrical rock icon Freddie Mercury in Sumino, this romantic, coming-of-age anime cen- cal, format-bending shows took on everything It’s about a bunch of farmers, cowboys and a this entertaining but uncomplicated musical from the 1972 Republican National Convention traveling salesman competing for the attentions biopic chronicling the years leading up to Queen’s ters on a high school boy who accidentally dis- of some local lovelies. Feel free to sing along to legendary appearance at the Live Aid concert. covers the secret journal of a classmate at a to the Steelers and the Cowboys partying hard “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin.” 145 minutes. Un- Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects, X-Men) di- hospital. Turns out she has pancreatic cancer. De- the night before Super Bowl X. Among those in- rated. (Icon Cinemas Albuquerque) rects. 134 minutes. PG-13. (Century 14 Down- spite their differences, he finds himself drawn to terviewed/featured in this flashback documen- town, Century Rio, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & her. But the disease is serious, and her days are tary are some famous folks who either crossed Ponyo (2008) RPX) numbered. Screened in both English dubbed and the lenses of or collaborated with TVTV—includ- From My Neighbor Totoro to Princess Mononoke English subtitled versions. 120 minutes. PG-13. ing Bill Murray, Hunter S. Thompson, John to Spirited Away to Howl’s Moving Castle, the re- Bumblebee (Opens Thursday 2/7 at Century Rio, Cottonwood Belushi, Steven Spielberg, Goldie Hawn, Abbie lease of a new animated masterpiece from Hayao For the sixth film in the live-action Transformers Stadium 16, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) Hoffman, Lily Tomlin and others. 82 minutes. Un- Miyazaki is cause for major celebration. This movie series, producers dial it waaay back. This rated. (Opens Sunday 2/3 at Guild Cinema) 2008 cartoon fantasy centers on the adventures spinoff is set in the mid-’80s and follows the ad- The Least of These: The Graham Staines of a 5-year-old boy who befriends a goldfish ventures of alien-robot-disguised-as-a-yellow- Story The Unruly Mystic: John Muir princess named Ponyo who dreams of becoming Volkswagon Bumblebee as he arrives on Earth As the social fabric of life in rural India disinte- The life and times of John Muir, the patron saint human. This loose adaptation of Hans Christian and teams up—Iron Giant style—with a teenage grates in the late ’90s, journalist Manav Banerjee of environmental activism, are explored in this Andersen’s The Little Mermaid is clearly aimed at girl. Sure it’s filled with CGI action, but the simpli- (Sharman Joshi) moves with his pregnant wife to documentary. Most famously known as the younger audiences, but the visuals are a trippy fied cast, nostalgic setting and heartfelt story the town of Orissa in hopes of a better life. There founder of Yosemite National Park, Muir was also treat for all ages. 101 minutes. G. (Flix Brew- make it the best Transformers of the lot—and a he stumbles across the story of Australian mis- a mystic, a poet, a conservationist and a radi- house) surefire hit with old-school fans. 113 minutes. sionary Graham Staines (Stephen Baldwin), who PG-13. (Century Rio, Cottonwood Stadium 16, Rio is rumored to be illegally converting local leprosy cal. In addition to the historical backdrop, noted Sausage Party (2016) Rancho Premiere Cinema, Winrock Stadium 16 patients to Christianity. This faith-based feature is modern psychiatrists, therapists, theologians, Seth Rogen and pals (Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill, IMAX & RPX, AMC Albuquerque 12) inspired by the real-life story of Staines, who writers and everyday people are interviewed on Michael Cera, James Franco, Bill Hader) star in screen, discussing how their relationship with this raunchy, computer-animated cartoon about a
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Can You Ever Forgive Me? Glass las Cage as Spider-Man Noir and John Mulaney Comedienne Melissa McCarthy sheds her bright The moratorium on spoiler alerts has long expired. (“Saturday Night Live”) as Peter Porker the Spec- persona to play frumpy, downbeat author Lee Israel Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan’s 2016 horror Theater Contact Info: tacular Spider-Ham. This is some deep-dive Marvel in this tragicomic biopic. Around 1990, Lee found thriller Split was actually a sneaky sequel to his Comics mythology, but screenwriter Phil Lord (The her brand of high-tone biographies out of style. 2000 superhero film Unbreakable (which was AMC ALBUQUERQUE 12 Lego Movie) keeps things energetic and fun. 117 Broke, bitter and frequently drunk, she took to forg- pretty sneaky about its true intentions to begin 3810 Las Estancias Way SW • 544-2360 minutes. PG. (Century Rio, Century 14 Downtown, ing witty letters from dead literary figures. Oddly with). Now all the cats are out of the bag, and AMC Albuquerque 12, Icon Cinemas Albuquerque, enough, this gave her great satisfaction as a writer Shyamalan is free to complete the trilogy by getting CENTURY 14 DOWNTOWN Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Cottonwood Stadium (as well as a way to pay the rent). Nicole Holofcen- his upstanding superhero (Bruce Willis) and his 100 Central SW • 243-9555 16, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) ter (Lovely & Amazing, Enough Said) contributes two supervillains (Samuel L. Jackson, James the alternately tough and tender screenplay, which McAvoy) together for their first, real-deal comic Stan & Ollie CENTURY RIO In the mid-’50s, an aging Stan Laurel and Oliver adds some heavy psychological depth to Lee’s book-style conflict. 129 minutes. PG-13. (Century I-25 & Jefferson • 343-9000 petty-outrageous tale of forgery. But it’s McCarthy Rio, Century 14 Downtown, Flix Brewhouse, Icon Hardy tried to revive their careers with a stage tour prickly performance that rings true. Reviewed in of England. Recreated here by British funnyman Cinemas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho Premiere Cin- COTTONWOOD STADIUM 16 v27 i45. 106 minutes. R. (High Ridge) ema, Cottonwood Stadium 16, Winrock Stadium Steve Coogan (Stan) and America actor John C. 16 IMAX & RPX, AMC Albuquerque 12) Cottonwood Mall • (844) 462-7342 ext. #607 Reilly (Ollie), the famed duo are brought back to A Dog’s Way Home life with startling authenticity. Not only do Coogan This follow-up to the book/movie A Dog’s Purpose Green Book FLIX BREWHOUSE and Reilly look the parts, but they’ve studied every could be the most emotionally manipulative tear- A working-class, Italian-American bouncer (Viggo 3236 La Orilla NW • 445-8500 mannerism and movement. As the tour wears on jerker ever conceived. Seems that an impossibly Mortenesen) from New York City finds himself act- both health and finances, the two men come to cute puppy named Bella is adopted by a kindly ing as chauffeur for a wealthy black concert pianist GUILD CINEMA grips with the reasons behind their long-ago young man (Jonah Hauer-King) and is put to work (Mahershala Ali) as he goes on a tour of the segre- 3405 Central NE • 255-1848 breakup. It’s an intimate, behind-the-scenes film, as an emotional support animal for people in hos- gated Jim Crow South in 1962. This family friendly but the charisma and chemistry of the stars im- pitals. But when she becomes separated from her tale of discrimination clearly flips the script on the parts a bittersweet sense of nostalgia. Reviewed in owner, she must embark on a 400-mile journey to HIGH RIDGE Driving Miss Daisy formula. But director Peter Far- 12910 Indian School NE • (844) 462-7342 ext. #605 v28 i4. 97 minutes. PG. (Century 14 Downtown, get home. Along the way, she comforts homeless relly (who, along with his brother, gave us Dumb High Ridge, Century Rio) veterans, rescues people from avalanches and per- and Dumber and There’s Something About Mary) forms all sorts of miraculous deeds. Bryce Dallas directs with compassion and humor. 130 minutes. ICON CINEMAS ALBUQUERQUE A Star Is Born Howard provides the cutesy voice of the dog, who PG-13. (Century Rio, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & 13120-A Central Ave. SE • 814-7469 Bradley Cooper (the Hangover films) turns writer- narrates the film in voice-over. Humor columnist W. RPX, UNM Midweek Movies, Century 14 Downtown, director-star in this remake of the remake of the re- Bruce Cameron (8 Simple Rules For Dating My Cottonwood Stadium 16, Rio Rancho Premiere Cin- MOVIES 8 make of the remake of A Star Is Born. Cooper plays Teenage Daughter) wrote a whole bunch of other ema) 4591 San Mateo NE • 888-4773 the burned-out stadium rock star who discovers a dog books, so be prepared for more. 96 minutes. golden-voiced ingénue (Lady Gaga) whom he men- PG. (Century Rio, AMC Albuquerque 12, Icon Cine- If Beale Street Could Talk MOVIES WEST tors to stardom. (Only to find himself eclipsed and mas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Academy Award winner Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) 9201 Coors NW • 898-4664 drowning his sorrows in booze.) Lady Gaga is a rev- Cottonwood Stadium 16, Winrock Stadium 16 adapts James Baldwin’s 1974 novel about a elation as both a natural actress and as a IMAX & RPX) woman in Harlem who embraces her pregnancy RIO RANCHO PREMIERE CINEMA stripped-down singer. Unfortunately, the film’s first while fighting to prove that her fiancé is in jail for a 1000 Premiere Parkway • 994-3300 half (featuring lots of romance, concert footage Dragon Ball Super: Broly crime he did not commit. This lush, jazz-toned ro- and dreams coming true) is better than the second If there’s one thing that Dragon Ball fans can’t get mance has its tragic, hard-hitting elements, but half (all bad behavior, melodrama and weeping). enough of it’s Dragon Ball. This is the 20th Dragon Jenkins concentrates on the beautiful emotionality SUB THEATER Reviewed in v27 i40. 135 minutes. R. (High Ridge, Ball movie and takes place after the Universe Sur- of this lifelong story. 119 minutes. R. (Century Rio, UNM (Student Union Building Room 1003) • 277-5608 Century 14 Downtown, Century Rio) vival Saga depicted in the “Dragon Ball Super” TV High Ridge) series. After the destruction of Planet Vegeta, three WINROCK STADIUM 16 IMAX & RPX They Shall Not Grow Old Saiyans were scattered among the stars. Two found The Kid Who Would Be King 2100 Louisiana Blvd. NE • (844) 462-7342 ext. #4058 Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings series) directs homes on Earth, while the third was raised with a A British kid finds the magical sword of King Arthur this humble historical documentary about World burning desire for vengeance. Now super-powered and embarks on an epic quest to thwart the me- War I, featuring never-before-seen footage, to com- marital arts heroes Goku and Vegeta must battle dieval menace of Morgana le Fay. This family fan- slightly hagiographic biopic. Brit actress Felicity memorate the centennial of the conflict’s end. 99 against an unknown Saiyan with terrible destructive tasy is swirling with special effects, but it still Jones (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) stars as the minutes. R. (Century Rio, Century 14 Downtown, forces at his command. 101 minutes. Unrated. manages to capture the flavor of a classic kids ad- young lawyer who struggles to find professional Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) (Century 14 Downtown, Century Rio) venture. Also, Patrick Stewart is Merlin. So there’s employment following her graduation from Harvard that. 120 minutes. PG. (Century 14 Downtown, The Upside Law School. Along with her devoted hubby (played This American comedy-drama is loosely based on Escape Room AMC Albuquerque 12, Flix Brewhouse, Icon Cine- by Armie Hammer) she discovers an obscure tax Saw and Cube get jammed into one another as six mas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, the 2011 French film The Intouchables, which is it- law case, which could crack open the possibility of self loosely based on the true story of Corsican strangers find themselves trapped in a ridiculously Century Rio, Cottonwood Stadium 16, Winrock Sta- equal rights for women. It’s ultimately your stan- complicated “escape room” that is slaughtering dium 16 IMAX & RPX) businessman Phillippe Pozzo di Borgo. (There were them off, one by one. Deborah Ann Woll (“True dard, buttoned-down courtroom drama, but the also Indian and Argentine remakes.) A wealthy Blood,” “Daredevil”) and Tyler Labine (“Reaper,” Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi cast is fiery and the filmmakers are committed to hotel magnate (Bryan Cranston), rendered quadri- Tucker And Dale vs. Evil) are the recognizable cast This Indian action drama brings to life the story of highlighting this obscure but important legal mat- plegic in a hang-gliding accident, hires an unem- members. This cheapo, PG-13 January horror flick Rani Lakshmibai, one of the leading figures of the ter. Reviewed in v28 i2. 120 minutes. PG-13. (Cen- ployed man with a criminal record (Kevin Hart) to comes to us from the director of last January’s Indian Rebellion of 1857 and her resistance to the tury Rio, Century 14 Downtown, High Ridge) act as his live-in caregiver. Eventually, of course, cheapo, PG-13 horror flick Insidious: The Last Key. British Raj. Kangana Ranaut (Krrish 3, Tanu Weds Ralph Breaks the Internet the two opposites become best buds. 125 min- 99 minutes. PG-13. (Century Rio, Century 14 Manu, Rangoon) stars. 173 minutes. Unrated. Wreck-It Ralph (2012) was a nostalgic, surprisingly utes. PG-13. (Century Rio, Century 14 Downtown, Downtown, Cottonwood Stadium 16, AMC Albu- (Icon Cinemas Albuquerque) sweet flashback about video game characters AMC Albuquerque 12, Flix Brewhouse, Icon Cine- querque 12) mas Albuquerque, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Mary Poppins Returns come to life. For this animated sequel, computer- ized heavy-turned-hero Ralph (voiced by John C. Cottonwood Stadium 16, High Ridge, Winrock Sta- The Favourite Nearly 55 years after Walt Disney made a live-ac- dium 16 IMAX & RPX) In early 18th-century England, sickly Queen Anne tion/animated adaptation of P.L. Travers beloved Reilly) sets out on a spoof-filled journey to the in- (Olivia Colman from “The Crown” and “Peepshow”) children’s novels, comes this imaginative sequel. ternet with pal Vanellope von Schweetz (Sarah Sil- Uri: The Surgical Strike is expertly manipulated by her BFF, Lady Sarah Rob Marshall (Chicago, Into the Woods) directs. verman). 112 minutes. PG. (Century Rio, Rio Based on the true events of 2016, this action (Rachel Wiesz). Things change, however, when Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada) stars as our Rancho Premiere Cinema) drama recounts the time the Indian Army avenged Sarah’s impoverished cousin (Emma Stone) shows “practically perfect” nanny, who returns to London, Serenity a deadly terrorist attack by carrying out … well, a up and makes a play for the Queen’s affections. decades later, to look after the now-grown Banks Matthew McConaughy, Anne Hathaway, Djimon surgical strike. In Hindi with English subtitles. 137 This three-way power struggle plays out like a nas- siblings’ young children. The cast includes Emily Hounsou and Diane Lane star in this new-noir minutes. Unrated. (Movies West) tier (and, as it happens, far funnier) version of Dan- Watson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Colin Firth, Ben thriller from British screenwriter-turned-director Vice gerous Liaisons. Director Yorgos Lanthimos Whishaw, Meryl Streep, Angela Lansbury, Julie Wal- Steven Knight (who penned Dirty Pretty Things, (Dogtooth, The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred ters, David Warner and Dick Van Dyke. 130 min- Christian Bale goes through a major physical trans- Eastern Promises and Locke). The story concerns a formation to play paunchy, bald and rather infa- Deer) offers up his most accessible, least surreal utes. PG. (Century Rio, Cottonwood Stadium 16, fishing boat captain whose past comes back to film to date with this delightfully wicked costume Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX, Rio Rancho Pre- mous former vice president Dick Cheney in this haunt him when his ex-wife shows up offering $10 vicious comic biopic. Joining in on the fun of giving dramedy. Reviewed in v27 i50. 119 minutes. R. miere Cinema) million to dump her abusive new husband in the (High Ridge, Century 14 Downtown, Cottonwood a finger poke in the eye of authority are Sam Rock- The Mule ocean. Expect lots of twists and turns—which go well as George W. Bush, Steve Carell as Donald Stadium 16, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Winrock from expected to far-fetched to what the hell were Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX, AMC Albuquerque 12) Clint Eastwood directs and stars in this “inspired by Rumsfeld, Tyler Perry as Colin Powell and Amy a true story” drama about a 90-year-old horticul- they thinking? 106 minutes. R. (Century 14 Down- Adams as Lynne Cheney. Reviewed in v28 i1. 132 Free Solo turist who gets caught transporting $3 million town, AMC Albuquerque 12, Flix Brewhouse, Icon minutes. R. (Century Rio, Cottonwood Stadium 16, Alex Honnold, the first person to ever “free solo” worth of cocaine through Michigan for a Mexican Cinemas Albuquerque, Cottonwood Stadium 16, High Ridge, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) (no ropes, no partners, no safety equipment) climb drug cartel. Bradley Cooper, Michael Peña, Andy Century Rio, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Winrock up Yosemite’s 3,000 foot high El Captian Wall, is Garcia, Laurence Fishburne, Taissa Farmiga and Di- Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) Widows the subject of this jaw-dropping documentary. In- anne Wiest costar. 116 minutes. R. (Century Rio, After three women (Viola Davis, Michelle Ro- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse driquez, Elizabeth Debicki) are left widowed by spiring and occasionally heart-stopping, this sport- Century 14 Downtown, Icon Cinemas Albuquerque, In this original-looking animated film (employing a ing documentary deserves to be seen by even Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Cottonwood Stadium their husbands’ botched criminal careers, a nasty gritty, cell-shaded 3D style), young Miles Morales crime boss leans on the ladies to make up for their those who aren’t all that interested in rock climb- 16, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX) becomes the Spider-Man of his reality after he ing. 100 minutes. PG-13. (High Ridge, Century Rio, spouses’ two million dollar screw-up. With no other On the Basis of Sex crosses paths with super-powered spider folk from recourse, the ladies transform themselves into a AMC Albuquerque 12, Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & all sorts of Marvel Comics universes. We get Jake RPX) The early professional life of Supreme Court Justice criminal crew and plot out a multimillion-dollar Ruth Bader Ginsburg is profiled in this simple, Johnson (“New Girl”) as plain old Peter Parker, heist. 129 minutes. R. (Movies 8, Movies West) Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) as Spider-Gwen, Nico-
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BY AUGUST MARCH Monday Can the world be a better place, can dogs stop barking ferociously and will the unborn ust like a rollin’ stone/ I’m outside chicken voices in my head finally disappear lookin’ in/But if your chance came “J due to Vince Staples? I highly doubt it, but would you take it?/ Where on Earth do take into account the modifier being used. I begin … The world was spinning like a ball/ No matter the perspective it’s true enough And then it wasn’t there at all.”—song that Staples represents the forefront in Cali- fragments from track four of the album How made contemporary hip-hop and no you don’t Dare You! by seminal yachty, art popsters need to listen to “Norf Norf” over and over to 10cc. prove that to me or your peers back at the Hello, we’re calling you from the month of polyamorous love shack where such discourse February where it’s just like spring but without inevitably leads. We’re comfortable admitting all the greenery. Hopefully the growing of that Staples has it going on and Big Fish longer days will suffice. And so now that Theory was just an ascendant prelude to the you’ve got that hibernation protocol mapped gorgeously art-damaged casual causality of out, engaged and now—owing to a change of FM! scenery perhaps—put away with the If anything, Staples represents a lineage accouterments of Xmas, a show might be just that has so potently and poetically evolved the thing. during the past 25 years as to be almost To lift your spirits, to lift spirits into the air unrecognizable to its own progenitors. I can’t with music, to play music that lifts like a bird imagine how anyone in NWA could relate to or jet aeroplane—and to listen with airy this stuff, but see clearly how it couldn’t be if Quaker City Night Hawks COURTESY OF THE ARTIST awe—those are some potential outcomes here. not for Snoop D o double g. If you feel that But they may happen if you Show up! then feel this. Vince Staples at Sunshine And while we’re in the midst of urging with dual foci in the OC and in Dayton, Saturday Theater (120 Central Ave. SW) on Monday, Feb. 4. Hmm … feels like summer or a brand action, I’m reminded that you all need a Ohio, has moments of rocked out glory too. Just the name of this new band—a sort of new tiger. 7pm • $31.50 to $131.50 • All- reminder about our yearly music readers’ poll, How else would you categorize teary-teen rock supergroup of previously incarnate ages (13+). Best of Burque Music. Well, in case you epics like “Vanquished.” When emo met pop- Albuquerque Americana outfits—should give wanna know, you can vote for all that shizz punk, it got all cray, kids! Ceremonies open. listeners hope for a brighter, more twangy right now at alibi.com. We’re in the All three of these sonic units require your future in Burque now that giants like the Wednesday nominating phase until Feb. 8, yo. direct observation to continue to exist in a Saltine Ramblers and The Porter Draw have Here’s the hard rock update you have been quantum universe, so you had better go. 9pm all but vanished from the scene, whilst others waiting for, dear, rocked out, deaf to higher • $5 • 21+. like the Handsome Family and Pawn Drive, frequencies and happy to listen to anything Thursday have gone big or been drawn large. In any with sizzling guitar solos readers. Okay toss I am going to bet that Sleepspent gets their Friday case there’s aways new directions being forged complex instrumental passages and mythic name from a song by Death Cab for Cutie in this estimable genre. sometimes Jungian imagery—via concisely If you heard that there was a band called the from an album called Something About Anywho the band is called Dust City pedantic lyrics—into that mix and I Quaker City Night Hawks, would you go see Airplanes. And it turns out, damn, I’m right, Opera; do drop in and see what they have to guarantee it will serve as an adequate preview them? Vaguely familiar with the latest which happens to be quite a neat subtext offer the scene (which we think is a lot) when of the show happening at Launchpad (618 developments in the larger musical sub- about Gibbard’s band—who got their name they throw a hootenanny of sorts at Tractor Central Ave. SW) on Wednesday, Feb. 6. universe known as Texas-style rocanrol, the from a song by The Bonzo Dog Band who Brewing Wells Park (1800 Fourth Street This simmering prog-rock as granite gig construction of these seemingly disparate made it big(ish) playing their song in a strip NW) on Saturday, Feb. 2. It’s a place where features Source, a stunning trio with incisive club whilst Ringo and John looked on. terms into a super-intriguing band name led us one can evidently “get plowed” but not in the math-rock aesthetics cleverly buried in a Sleepspent’s sound has a certain wistful here at Alibi HQ to do some much need same sense or with the same equipment blistering presentation that has more to do sadness to it as well; just like Death Cab For research—lest we be cudgeled by letters displayed at other Americana outfits, like Hee with Tool or A Perfect Circle than with just Cutie, these new avatars of what was once discounting our very instrumentality as a Haw, for example. about anything else one might encounter on loosely called emo have a tight handle grip on critic. The ensemble project of local singer- Pluto or any of the other metallic rocks the pronunciation and musical expression Well, folks, it turns out the songwriter Jared Putnam—and featuring the floating around our sun. I happen to go for that derives from painful personal insight and aforementioned is a band of three fellows from talents of Travis Rourk (trombone, trumpet, works like “Memories of Yesterday” where the they’ll be gigging at Moonlight Lounge (120 Ft. Worth who rock the fuck out all grits and vocals), Clara Byom (accordion, clarinet finger work goes on and on forever against Central Ave. SW) on Thursday, Jan. 31. garage-funk style, como ZZ Top or the Edgar keyboard), Paul Hunton (lead vocals, guitar), orchestral bulkheads built on the bass and The driving yet diffuse experiences played Winter Band. It’s a swaggering long-form jam Greg Williams (drums) and Justin drums. out on their indie hit “California” are by turns sorta thing with an unrelenting back beat that McCauchlin (bass)—Dust City Opera’s sound Plus, they’ll be getting it on for the rock jangly, propulsive and searching, while “Come is hard to master, but you just gotta hear it, ya is reminiscent of turn of the century Western gods with local avatars of all that is contained Smile With Me” their next single, is a hear? QCNH will be playing at The America twisted into postmodernism by outside this world, Ashes of Jupiter. Weekly Alibi interviewed the dudes at Ashes last year surprising musical narrative, complete with Cooperage (7220 Lomas Blvd. NE) on Friday, Putnams’s singular style and vision. and what has followed is certainly solid, as stunning bridges, minor key drones and ironic Feb. 1 and we suppose that’s appropriate Complimented with excellent plying and the band has grokked a form that is lyrics. because you can have a steak if you want sometimes outrageously interesting explosively contemplative, all about the rage while chewing on songs like “Mockingbird” or arrangements, this could well be an indicator And those’re just the headliners. Local and silence of the stars as expressed through pondering the deeper blues references of progress for a burgeoning genre trapped pop-punk heroes Arcade Rivals are also on searching vocals and sick licks. Post-prog scattered throughout El Astronauta. Hot Club behind the banjo and mandolin. This event the bill. It’s clear from listening to this quartet purveyors Patema and Walls Within provide of Cowtown opens. 8pm • $17 in advance, marks the band’s first anniversary, so dang it, that the term pop-punk—which refers to a sanguine support. 9pm • $5 in advance, $8 at $22 day of show • 21+. Show up! 8pm • FREE • 21+. much maligned yet still redeemable genre the door • 21+. a JANUARY 31-FEBRUARY 6, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [19] BAKED GOODS | CANNABIS INTERVIEW BY JOSHUA LEE Call to Research An interview with Dr. Ben Daitz
eople will often make wild claims about the it’s harder to study—it’s harder to understand. medical efficacy of cannabis that are, But it’s mostly the rules and the regulations P propagated by the federal government in unfortunately, backed by little science. I once heard a speaker at a festival passionately response to Harry Anslinger and others. proclaim: “We know THC kills cancer. We We’d like to do more research at the School of Medicine, and we are doing qualitative know it!” To my knowledge, the woman wasn’t a research. We’re trying to look at the interactions dedicated researcher conducting clinical trials. between what budtenders tell patients and what She might have been referencing the 2009 study patients ask for. That kind of stuff you can do— published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation communication between doctors and patients. that found that THC might shrink or induce Often times we don’t know what our the death of human brain cancer cells. But patients are taking. Often times, our the study was conducted on mice, patients don’t know what they’re taking. meaning “we” don’t know how it will If a patient tells me cannabis helps with affect people. their pain, I’ll say, “Well what are you Which makes me appreciate a film taking?” and they’ll answer, “Well, a like The Medicine in Marijuana. While it little Purple Haze or a little …” Often clearly supports medical cannabis, it folks won’t know the concentrations doesn’t mince words about our need for of the cannabinoids, and in order more research. I spoke with Dr. Ben to get more specific about how we Daitz, co-writer, -director and - educate folks, we need to know producer of the engaging documentary about what works for what last week. Dr. Daitz is a professor of [condition] and how to measure Family and Community Medicine and dosages. That’s the kind of research an attending physician at the Pain we need to be doing. Consultation and Treatment Center and the New Mexico has a long history of having a Project ECHO pain and headache clinic at medical cannabis program, and yet it’s been very UNM. difficult to do research with the data that is stored in the Department of Health’s coffers. Weekly Alibi: I liked how your film touched The DOH has information on the numbers of on the endocannabinoid system. That’s people and the conditions, which is obviously something that can be confusing to people. reported on in the paper, but we also have good Can you explain it briefly? information on demographics. We have Dr. Daitz: Well I think the film does a information on age and sex and conditions, and reasonably good job of doing that. It really does we could be scrubbing all that relevant define why cannabis has the effect that it does— identifying information. We could be doing the fact that all humans and all animals, great research as to what’s helping and what’s really—down to sponges—have a similar kind of not. There’s a trove of information that— system: the endocannabinoid system. And it’s particularly because of the past administration— our own internal cannabinoids, basically. no one has been able to access. It would be There are receptors that bind with the THC wonderful if the School of Medicine and the and CBD that is found in the plant, and those Department of Health could cooperate and at receptors that we have are in all parts of our least start looking at the information that we bodies. They’re in our brain—that’s how we can already have—that the DOH has access to. appreciate the fact that THC has an activating effect—it makes you high. But these receptors Do you see any room for improvement in are also found in our digestive system, in our the state’s current medical cannabis lungs—in just about every organ in our bodies, program? in all the tissues. And that accounts, for the All the dispensaries have different strains. It’s most part, why combinations of THC and CBD very complicated, I suspect, for patients trying to can help with pain, sleep and appetite. make their way through the system. Pharmacists It’s complex biochemistry, but the major are out of the loop completely. Other states are ingredients have been figured out. The thing we looking at the education of folks that work in still don’t know is … cannabis has a bunch of the industry. I think knowing the elements of molecules. It’s not just THC and CBD. There the endocannabinoid system is important. I are terpenes and other cannabinoids. That’s think having some basic understanding of what what we don’t know. We need to do the the path of physiology is with these various research. We need to do a lot more than we’re conditions. That’s potentially a problem we doing right now—particularly in this country. need to start looking at, particularly when it comes to medical cannabis. If you’re trying to What are the things keeping us from make recommendations for a particular researching it now, other than the condition … we ought to have some method of Controlled Substances Act? assessing how much people know and how Well that’s the main thing, because it’s very effective they are at educating their clients. a difficult to get a license to do clinical research because of the Controlled Substances Act— because it’s a Schedule I—and it’s a complex The Medicine in Marijuana, narrated by Dave Marash, plant. For example, people are doing increasing host of the nightly radio program, Here and There, is research on LSD and psilocybin. When you look premiering on New Mexico PBS channel 5 this Friday, at those, they’re single molecules, but cannabis Feb. 1, at 8:30pm. The director’s cut, which is nearly has multiple molecules. It’s a complex plant, and 10 minutes longer, is available for rent at tijerasfilms.org. [20] WEEKLY ALIBI JANUARY 31-FEBRUARY 6, 2019 FREE WILL ASTROLOGY | HOROSCOPES BY ROB BREZSNY
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MAY: Invisible that will serve you well if you don’t complain about its means of support will become visible. Be alert for half- semi-awkwardness. MARCH: To increase your clout hidden help. JUNE: Good questions: What do other and influence, your crucial first step is to formulate a people find valuable about you? How can you enhance strong intention to do just that. The universe will then what’s valuable about you? work in your behalf. APRIL: Are you ready to clean messes and dispose of irrelevancies left over from the SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Here are your past? Yes! MAY: You can have almost anything you fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the next five want if you resolve to use it for the greatest good. months. FEBRUARY: You’ll have the need and JUNE: Maintain rigorous standards, but don’t be a opportunity to accomplish some benevolent hocus- fanatic. Strive for excellence without getting bogged pocus. For best results, upgrade your magical powers. down in a counterproductive quest for perfection. MARCH: Make sure the Turning Point happens in your power spot or on your home turf. APRIL: You should be GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here are your fortune willing to go anywhere, ask any question and even risk cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. your pride if necessary so as to coax your most FEBRUARY: Be alert for vivid glimpses of your best important relationships into living up to their potentials. possible future. The power of self-fulfilling prophecy is MAY: If at first you don’t succeed, change the definition even stronger than usual. MARCH: High integrity and of success. JUNE: You can achieve more through ethical rigor are crucial to your success—and so is a negotiation and compromise than you could by pushing longing for sacred adventure. APRIL: How can you heedlessly ahead in service to your single-minded make the best use of your likability? 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