TRULY, TRULY OUTRAGEOUS SINCE 1992 IMAGES COURTESY OF "OUT OF TIME" ART SHOW AT DOWNTOWN CONTEMPORARY GALLERY VOLUME 24 | ISSUE 11 | MARCH 12-18, 2015 | FREE [2] MARCH 12-18 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI WEEKLY ALIBI MARCH 12-18 , 2015 [3] CRIB NOTES BY AUGUST MARCH alibi Crib Notes: March 12, 2015 VOLUME 24 | ISSUE 11 | MARCH 12-18 , 2015 1 Students at an Albuquerque high school have decided on a theme for this EDITORIAL MANAGING EDITOR/MUSIC EDITOR: year’s prom. It’s all about ______. Samantha Anne Carrillo (ext. 243) [email protected] a) The glory of high school sports FILM EDITOR: b) Marijuana legalization Devin D. 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Eric Williams [email protected] CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS: Ben Adams, Eva Avenue, Cutty Bage, Max Cannon, a) Eating too many donuts Michael Ellis, Adam Hansen, Jodie Herrera, KAZ, b) Sleeping on the job Jack Larson, Tom Nayder, Ryan North c) Harassing motorists SALES d)Time card fraud SALES DIRECTOR: Sarah Bonneau (ext. 235) [email protected] SENIOR DISPLAY ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE: Which Nob Hill restaurant is the latest John Hankinson (ext. 265) [email protected] 4 ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES: to go out of business here in Burque? 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A ENDS Dateline: Pennsylvania WEIRD NEWS Better late than never. Authorities in Duncansville say 33-year-old motorist Michael Dateline: Canada Traveny called an insurance company from a Former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford put the tie he crash scene to buy auto insurance and filed a wore when he admitted to smoking crack up for claim the next day. The Altoona Mirror reports auction on eBay. The NFL logo tie was worn by that the Pennsylvania State Attorney General’s Ford during a Nov. 5, 2013 press conference in Office has filed charges against Traveny for which he admitted to smoking crack cocaine insurance fraud. Traveny is accused of crashing while in office. In all, the tie garnered 111 bids. into the back of another car at a red light on The high bidder on the tie took it home for Aug. 21. Investigators claim that Traveny $12,997. Ford, who is now a Toronto city handed his auto insurance card over to the councilor, placed the tie and several other other driver, who noted that the policy was pieces of “memorabilia” on the auction site. expired. Traveny then allegedly used his cell Ford said 10 percent of the proceeds from the phone to call Safe Auto Insurance from the auction will got to Toronto’s Mount Sinai scene of the accident and purchased a new Hospital. policy. Traveny called the company back the next day and told them he had just gotten in an Dateline: Utah accident. The cost of the claim was $3,902.40. Utah’s state senate is considering passing a bill Traveny is free on a $50,000 bond and will face that would allow medical marijuana edibles in felony theft and misdemeanor insurance fraud the state. The DEA evidently thinks that’s a counts as well as felony theft by deception bad idea—for bunny rabbits. Matt Fairbanks, an charges when he goes to court on March 17. agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s “marijuana eradication” team, Dateline: New Jersey testified in front of a state panel late last month. A New Jersey appellate court has ruled that a Among the reasons Fairbanks laid out for man cannot sue for damages after burning his banning medical marijuana is that rabbits could head while praying over a sizzling steak fajita get addicted to pot, causing them to lose their skillet at a Burlington County Applebee’s. natural instincts and sit around all day Hiram Jimenez filed suit against the casual munching marijuana. According to the dining restaurant, claiming a waitress did not Washington Post , Fairbanks claimed that pot warn him that the “sizzling steak fajita skillet” farms could have negative environmental was hot. Jimenez says he bowed his head to pray consequences, and said he’d seen weed-addicted over the food and felt a “burning sensation” in bunnies at illegal grow sites. “I deal in facts. I his left eye and on his face. The man says he deal in science,” Fairbanks told the panel. As then panicked and knocked the food onto his Washington Post reporter Christopher Ingraham lap, causing further damage. None of the burns points out in his article, however, “I don’t know left scars, however. The incident occurred in that the occasional high rabbit constitutes March 2010 at an Applebee’s restaurant in grounds for keeping marijuana prohibition in Westampton. A lower court dismissed the place, any more than drunk squirrels are an lawsuit, saying the sizzling skillet posed an argument for outlawing alcohol. And don’t “open and obvious” danger. Nonetheless, even get me started on the nationwide Jimenez appealed. Earlier this month the epidemic of catnip abuse.” appellate court upheld the lower court’s decision. In their ruling the appellate judges Dateline: Nebraska noted that Jimenez himself described the On the other hand, no one’s arguing that sizzling skillet as “real hot” and visibly smoking. marijuana makes its users geniuses. According Therefore, they said, the danger was self- to the Lincoln Journal Star , a 21-year-old evident. a Lincoln man was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and Compiled by Devin D. O’Leary. Email your weird news possession of less than an ounce of marijuana. to [email protected]. Lancaster County Sheriff’s deputies stopped the

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PHOTO BY KATE AUSBURN VIA FLICKR On Guard Defending our reproductive rights

early abortions and, ironically, lead to BY SAMANTHA ANNE CARRILLO complicated late-term abortions—medical procedures that carry a much higher risk of nside the city limits, it’s easier to forget that complications. And more than that, parental our reproductive rights are under attack. The involvement laws are sinister because they’re Iold guys hoisting horror porn outside part of a decade-long incremental strategy to Planned Parenthood are the minority. The chip away at the protections Roe v. Wade farther you drive outside provides to American Albuquerque—and into citizens. rural New Mexico—a Under House Bill 390, proliferation of anti- On their the Late-term Abortion abortion billboards Ban, a physician who emerge from the face, HB 390 performs an abortion after landscape. Our state’s 20 weeks of pregnancy history of allowing and 391 are can be fined $5,000 and citizens, families and attacks on have their medical communities agency license revoked for “no over their reproductive reproductive less than one year.” On rights has afforded New their face, these bills are Mexicans safety in freedom. But an attack on reproductive complacency. But that freedom. But hidden in era is over. hidden in both bills is something In 1952 the Grand even more insidious. The Old Party ceded control both bills is late-term implications of of the New Mexico the ban and the late-term House of something consequences of the Representatives. The parental notification bill Land of Enchantment’s even more are laced with a traditionally Catholic conscience clause, also culture was balanced by insidious. known as the “right of a Democratic House refusal.” This would allow majority for 62 years. But pharmacists to refuse to the 2014 general election found the GOP back dispense the morning-after pill and first- in the saddle, 37-33. And last week, seven trimester abortion drug RU-486. House Dems crossed the aisle to oppose Six Democrats—Patricio Ruiloba of nuevomexicano women’s right to control their Albuquerque, Jim Trujillo and Carl Trujillo of own bodies. Santa Fe, Debbie Rodella of Española and On Friday, March 6, the New Mexico Patty Lundstrom of Gallup—joined the GOP House passed two bills on to the Senate that majority in passing HB 390, the late-term would establish 48-hour parental notification abortion ban, on to the state Senate. On the rules and a ban on “late-term” abortions HB 391 vote, two Democrats, Albuquerque- (occurring at 20 weeks or beyond). Parental involvement laws, such as those in HB 391, are dangerous because they prevent access to Opinion continues on page 8

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process in April, it’s time to move forward. “I BY CAROLYN CARLSON don’t want to stop this project,” Peña said. The override failed on a 5-4 vote with The Albuquerque City Council put on some Democrat Peña siding with Republican night moves at its Monday, March 2 meeting. Councilors Brad Winter, Trudy Jones, Dan A lengthy agenda was tackled over the five- Lewis and Don Harris saying ‘no’ to the hour meeting, and your City reps approved override, while Councilors Rey Garduño, Isaac $119 million in capital outlay requests, Benton, Ken Sanchez and Diane Gibson said submitted a number of grant applications and ‘yes’. annexed 1.37 acres in the South Valley, among other things. Public comment again centered on Bosque issues and the city’s treatment of Reporter�s Take homeless citizens. Starting construction of the trail without notifying those still engaged in discussions was The Issue: Bosque trail redux a bad move. But since the last council Last week, the Council directed the Mayor’s meeting, interested parties are talking and Office to stop construction of a 1.5-mile hopefully listening to each other. I got an improved trail in the Bosque between Central uneasy feeling that those wanting the Council and I-40 pending completion of the comment to override the veto really just wanted to give process. The Mayor quickly vetoed the the City administration a few more slaps on directive and continued trail construction, the backside. I agree this administration seems saying there has been more than two years of at times to not give a hoot about what the public input, and it was time to move forward public has to say, but this might not be that before bird-nesting season begins. Six votes fight. I give Councilor Peña some kudos for were needed to override a mayoral veto. To giving both sides considerable attention during keep the problem from recurring, a bill will be comment before making her decision, heard at an April meeting to set requirements regardless of their party. Peña asked for a for public input on future Bosque projects. public commitment from the administration that they would continue to listen and Council Take consider input of interested parties. City Chief Terri O’Hare, an advocate for disabled people, Operations Officer Michael Riordan said that told the Council she has lived here for about the City is committed to continue working eight years and has never been able to see that with the Sierra Club, the Bosque Action Team beautiful stretch of the Bosque. “We can’t roll and other interested parties in the on dirt,” she said. “If you build it, we will development of future Bosque trails. So with come.” Camilla Feibelman with the Sierra that on the record, let’s all go take a run, a Club, among others, encouraged the Council walk or a roll down by the Rio Grande. to override the mayor’s veto saying even Read an expanded version of this week’s though the city is talking with them now, the “Council Watch” at alibi.com. a override is the only way to ensure the city will continue to listen to their concerns. Councilor The next regular meeting of the City Council is Klarissa Peña said she was concerned by the Monday, March 16, in the Council Chambers in the breach of trust, but since both sides are now basement of City Hall. You can also watch it live on working together and planning to address the GOV TV Channel 16 or at cabq.gov/govtv.

WEEKLY ALIBI MARCH 12-18, 2015 [7] OPINION | ¡ASK A MEXICAN ! only a single guy would ever ask why “ esposas ” BY GUSTAVO ARELLANO simultaneously means “handcuffs” and “wives.”

ear Mexican: So there I was sitting in ear Mexican: I’m a gringa with the star exchange tomorrow Spanish class like the good half-frog/half bu y * sell*trad e sign of Leo so I love cats, but I also love Dwop (i.e., “frop”) that I am, when I D Mexican men. But here’s the observe the Spanish teacher rub: Every Mexican I write the word “ esposas ” up meet seems to be allergic on the board. Imagine my to cats or just hates shock/horror when the them. I can’t deal with teacher told us “ esposas ” it. Am I just picking the has two wrong Mexicans or is meanings:“wives” and there some kind of “handcuffs”! Please aversion to four- tell me this is a legged furries in the coincedence! culture that I’m not privy to? —Fropito from Laguna Hills —Sad Cat-Loving White Girl Dear Gabacho: On one hand, I can point to Latin— Dear Gabacha: While show that esposas is the consumer surveys show feminine plural of esposo , which Mexicans do own cats—more so comes from the Latin sponsus (same root than African-Americans or Asians, for word for “spouse”), which comes from the that matter—Mexicans will always prefer dogs Latin spondere , which means “to bind”, and to gatos because we like their companionship note that that’s exactly what handcuffs do. and barking abilities; think of them as our And then I can carry the misogynistic theme ADT alarm system. Besides the only pussy that and mention that wrists in Spanish translates Mexican men worry about ain’t felines. a as “ muñecas ” which also means “dolls,” and that even the Real Academia Española doesn’t know the etymology of the word, or why the Ask the Mexican at [email protected]. two words mean the same thing. And I can Be his fan on Facebook. Follow him on Twitter conclude by decrying machismo in Mexicans, @gustavoarellano or follow him on Instagram NOB HILL: 3005 Central Av. NE • 262-0098 that it’s so ingrained in our culture that it’s @gustavo_arellano! even infested etymology. On the other hand,

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first opportunity to learn about serious birth Opinion continued from page 7 defects. Financial issues and transportation based Ruiloba and Donna Irwin (D-Deming), obstacles also factor into “late-term” joined the house majority in calling for a decisions. parental notification law. The negligible percentage of abortions Both legal and social concepts of occurring after 20 weeks are so politicized responsibility are often invoked in the that most physicians choose not to train for abortion debate. A common pro-life and and perform late-term abortions. Doctors who “family values” talking point is that engaging do provide these necessary medical in sexual activity confers the responsibility of procedures are threatened—and sometimes “accepting” potential consequences, even murdered—for practicing medicine. including unwanted pregnancy. Because of Reverence for these brave men and women is this, providing medical care essential to the valuable, but understanding how pro-life nature of human sexual reproduction is forces’ incremental attack on reproductive stigmatized and demonized. Meanwhile, the rights informs a culture of violence is Guttmacher Institute reports that at current essential. In addition to restricting patient rates, one in three American women will access, the passage of anti-abortion laws have an abortion by age 45. Terminating a stokes the Biblical fires of the lunatic fringe. pregnancy is a common experience. We must trust that women and their doctors During debate on HB 390, Eliseo Alcón are capable of making these decisions. (D-Milan) questioned Yvette Herrell (R- The idea that an expensive, risky medical Alamogordo), the bill’s sponsor, about the procedure is being undertaken lightly is an number of late-term abortions being affront to the dignity of the women of New performed in New Mexico. Herrell replied Mexico. Bills like HB 390 and HB 391 are that a lack of state records meant she didn’t part and parcel of a calculated strategy to know. The voluntary nature of reporting undermine Roe v. Wade. In the abortion abortion statistics does make it difficult to get debate, junk science and emotional appeals an accurate estimate of late-term abortions. are the heart of pro-life strategy. We can But national statistics on late-term abortion encourage a culture of life by respecting the indicate that merely 1.5 percent of abortions autonomy of our fellow citizens. By passing occur after 20 weeks of gestation. Translation: laws that restrict reproductive freedom, we An infinitesimal fraction of all abortions are only promote extremist violence and late-term abortions. For many women, the partisan politics—not the health and welfare 18-to-20 week fetal abnormality scan is their of New Mexicans. a

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WHAT CAPTAIN PIKE SAW The furnishings and even the International Balloon Albuquerque 224 -8300. alibi.com/e/134513. structure of Casa San Ysidro help us glimpse life in Museum (9201 Balloon International Balloon PI DAY: A CELEBRATION OF MATH Meet math experts New Spain as witnessed by Captain Zebulon Museum NE) on Museum from UNM’s Math Connection, make a Pi bracelet, Montgomery Pike, who was escorted by Spanish Saturday, March 14, from Balloon Museum NE participate in a Pi scavenger hunt, learn more about soldiers through New Spain in 1807. Casa San Ysidro noon to 5pm, for the High alibi.com/e/131940 Pi and eat pie! Los Griegos Library (973 Old Church, Corrales). 1pm. (505) 898 -3915. Desert Saint Paddy’s Day Noon to 5pm (1000 Griegos NW). 10:30am -noon. 768 -5170. alibi.com/e/129851. Party and Parade. The alibi.com/e/133270. HEALTHY DINNERS COOKING WORKSHOP Learn some event will feature PI DAY: A CELEBRATION OF MATH Meet math experts essential cooking techniques and recipes that will let “delicious food, crafty merchandise, fabulous from UNM’s Math Connection, make a Pi Paper you have nourishing dinners throughout the week. entertainment and hands-on activities” for Chain, give your friend a “pi in the face,” play math Advanced RSVP strongly appreciated. The Studio attendees. Plus, it’ll give your children a chance to appreciate a vibrant culture that they might games and meet the experts! Juan Tabo Public Space (7014 Cochiti SE). $40. 1 -3pm. (646) 872 -3418. alibi.com/e/132827. not otherwise be exposed to? Because isn’t that Library (3407 Juan Tabo NE). 11am -12:30pm. what St. Patrick’s Day is all about? Education? 768 -5170. alibi.com/e/133271. LOS RANCHOS GROWERS’ MARKET Featuring great, Tickets for this cultural and religious celebration go for $6, but children under 6 get in for free. Also, PUEBLO WOMEN LEADERSHIP A discussion with two of healthy, local produce and products, including winter kids 12 and under wearing costumes get in for free as well. So dress to impress, y’all. Head to cabq.gov the only four women who have ever served as Pueblo squash, onions, leeks and more, as well as arts & for more info. (Mark Lopez) governors, Verna Teller-Williamson (Isleta Pueblo, crafts. Los Ranchos Village Hall (6718 Rio a 1987-1990) and Lela Kaskalla (Nambe Pueblo, Grande NW, Los Ranchos). 10am -noon. 1996-1997). U.S. Congresswoman Michelle Lujan- alibi.com/e/123430. Grisham moderates. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center AMERICAN GIRL FASHION SHOW: STYLES OF alibi.com/e/123725. (2401 12th Street NW). 1pm. 843 -7270. SUNDAY MARCH 15 YESTERDAY AND TODAY Showtimes are 12:00pm MEDITATION FOR KIDS Children learn how to build a alibi.com/e/133226. and 3:30pm. $35. See 3/14 listing. space of inner strength and confidence by developing Q GARDEN FUNDRAISER Come for a day of music, food, ABQ GED B2B FUNDRAISER B2B Burger’s “Giving Back GEOLOGY HIKE Decode the ancient past through the their good qualities. Kadampa Meditation Center poetry, silent auction and seed planting to support Sunday” event. Twenty percent of food sales today will eyes of a geologist. Local rockhound Scott Renbarger (8701 Comanche NE). $3 suggested donation. Americorps Public Allies of New Mexico. All proceeds be given to Albuquerque GED Inc., which gives low- will be your guide. Cerrillos Hills State Park (Santa Fe 10 -11:30am. 292 -5293. alibi.com/e/132846. will go to creating a garden at Casa Q, a new safe income adults a second chance on life through adult County Road 59, Cerrillos). $5 per vehicle. MINI YOGIS YOGA FOR KIDS TEACHER TRAINING $329. house for LBGTQ+ youth. Sundowner Apartments education and GED preparation programs. B2B 11am -1pm. 474 -0196. alibi.com/e/134095. 10:45am -3:45pm. See 3/14 listing. (6101 Central NE). $5 suggested donation. 3 -7pm. Bistronomy (3118 Central SE). 1 -10pm. (916) LYME GET TOGETHER Could it be Lyme? Head to this 872 -2099. alibi.com/e/134019. 716 -5080. alibi.com/e/134483. Lyme Disease support group. Noon -4pm. 304 -9411. Community Calendar continues on page 12

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Albuquerque Shambhala Meditation Center (1102 Mountain NW). 10am -noon. 717 -2486. PRENATAL YOGA Explore ways to reduce the aches and alibi.com/e/131988. pains that accompany pregnancy while preparing for your journey in a nurturing and supportive ROSE PRUNING CLASSES 9am -3pm. See 3/14 listing. environment. Inspired Birth and Families SUNDAY FAMILY FUN Get hands-on learning (6855 Fourth Street NW). $10. 5:30pm. 232 -2772. opportunities, take a picnic and enjoy the trails. alibi.com/e/129609. Bachechi Open Space (9521 Rio Grande NW). SHAMROCK SHUFFLE DANCE For kids in grades 6 to 8. 10am -4pm. 314 -0398. alibi.com/e/129238. Must bring school ID for admission. Westside WE WERE PRISONERS, TOO Presentation by East Community Center (1250 Isleta SW). $5. Mountain Historical Society co-founder Louise 5:30 -7:30pm. 314 -0176. alibi.com/e/134168. Waldron, talking about the extraordinary roles played IRISH WHISKEY DINNER Special five-course menu by her father, Lewis Korn, during World War II. Event includes haggis, house-made corned beef, whiskey- will be held in the historic church west of the library. marinated salmon, Guinness-braised beef ribs pie, East Mountain Library (1 Old Tijeras, Tijeras). 2 -3pm. and whiskey toffee pudding. Each course is paired 281 -8791. alibi.com/e/133230. with a fine whiskey. Pueblo Harvest Café (2401 12th JAPANESE CHERRY BLOSSOM AFTERNOON TEA A three- Street NW). $60. 6 -8pm. 724 -3510. course East-West “high tea” of savories and sweets, alibi.com/e/134167. inspired by the Japanese Cherry Blossom celebration. Choose from two seatings: 1-2:30pm and 4-5:30pm. Due to limited seating, advance registration and WEDNESDAY MARCH 18 payment by 3/12 is required. 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[12 ] MARCH 12-18, 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI WEEKLY ALIBI MARCH 12-18 , 2015 [13 ] THEATER REVIEW ARTS | feATuRe BY BLAKE DRIVER Animal Intelligence A gigantic puppet, booze jug in hand, staggers onstage like a grotesque 16th-century ghoul A War of the Words resurrected straight out of a commedia dell’arte carnival. He collapses, drunk as a skunk. When he’s surrounded by a herd of grunting characters who could be mistaken for models stepping fresh out of Hits Home a “Project Runway” blue-collar chic challenge— gorgeous leather suspenders, multicolored canvas Women of the World bout it out in Burque booties and versatile ushanka -styled headpieces with expandable ear flaps—one has to wonder who is human and who is beast in this original staging of BY MARK FISCHER when our ABQ WOW poet Jasmine Sena y George Orwell’s 1945 literary classic Animal Farm . Cuffee saw the number five in the marbled Women of the World Adapted by the award-winning Duke City floor tile of her hotel room while doing her Repertory Theatre to play for 1,100 students in n a sold-out scene last December at the pre-slam ritual of running poems in a steaming Poetry Slam schools around the state as part of its Classrooms Outpost, Mercedez Holtry brought the room hot shower. “In numerology, five vibrates with Wednesday, March 18 through Saturday, March 21, Alive program, this tweak on Nelson Bond’s 1964 Ito a whirlwind of applause as she belted out the highest frequency, and it gave me various times reader script, designed to be read by actors on her final slam poem of the night. As she confidence,” she tells me. “I remembered my See wowps2015.com for complete schedule stools facing the audience, creates the unexpected walked off the stage, the judges, randomly first slam at 15, how well we hosted National in a tale that is infamously predictable. Ghastly selected from the audience, raised their Poetry Slam 2005—I even drew fifth in the Wednesday human drag invites the audience to identify with scorecards. A row of top scores appeared, the rather tame personifications of the animal slam that night—and I realized I wanted the Last Chance Slam, 8pm and opening party, 11pm at including a couple of perfect 10s. Holtry had 505 to host WOWPS in 2015.” Stereo Bar (622 Central SW) players and become, in effect, beasts of the barn. just won the Albuquerque Women of the DCRT delivers a surprising and delightful She won the bid and put together “Las Thursday World Poetry Slam. In that moment, she production twist by rejecting the pig snouts, Chingonas,” an expert team of powerful poets Preliminary Bouts 7 and 9pm at Stereo Bar (622 donkey ears and chicken feathers found in most became the first poet in Burque history to and PR women to bring this festival to Central SW), Flying Star (723 Silver SW) and other stagings. make both the city team and the college team fruition. For the last year, Sena y Cuffee, ABQ Tricklock Performance Laboratory (110 Gold SW) In this allegorical narrative about the corrupt plus win the ABQ WOW title and the title of Poet Laureate Jessica Helen Lopez, Erin Friday cycle of social revolutions, the animals on Mr. Best Slam Poet in ABQ all in the same year. Northern and Amanda Sutton, along with Preliminary Bouts, 7 and 9pm at Stereo Bar (622 Jones’ farm collectively retaliate against his Since that night Holtry has been preparing Central SW), Flying Star (723 Silver SW) and ruthless abuse and neglect and briefly form a webmistress Katrina Guarascio, have created to battle all comers on her home turf. “Being what promises to be the most inclusive and Tricklock Performance Laboratory (110 Gold SW) utopian society of their own that’s quickly the hometown WOW Poet is an opportunity Saturday overtaken by an oligarchy of pigs. In signature celebratory WOW in history. “WOW is a for me to share the stories of the women of Women of the World Poetry Slam Finals, 7pm at Orwellian fashion, and in another clever deviation national platform for women’s voices,” says Albuquerque with the world,” says Holtry, “the KiMo Theatre (423 Central NW) from the novel and custom, the play concludes with Lopez, “voices for social justice on a wide the suggestion that this process of revolt will be struggle and the beauty.” She’s ready to hold it spectrum. The competition piques interest and mercilessly repeated after the lights go down. down for Burque as we host the 8th brings the community to hear these messages.” WOWPS 2015 After Party, 10:30pm at Tractor Brewing Wells Park (1800 Fourth Street NW) Beyond these revolutionary coups de théâtre , international Women of the World Poetry In case you’ve been trapped in a secret DCRT’s brave attempt to cram a weighty Slam championship this week, March 18-21. bunker on Kirtland Air Force Base for a couple masterpiece into an hour-long stage play leaves Holtry and 71 of the top women and decades, poetry slam is the art of competitive Tickets: $7 each preliminary bout and night-owl something to be desired in the way of emotional event at the door; $20-$25 Finals tickets, $50 woman-identified poets from across the US as performance poetry created in the 1980s by catharsis. Avoiding dialect to make characters festival pass well as Israel and New Zealand will duke it out Chicago construction worker Marc Smith, approachable is noble and refreshing, but combined holdmyticket.com in the Duke City over four days of competition who was tired of going to poetry readings and with a lack of distinguishable personality traits, it for the title of Women of the World Poetry leaves them feeling anonymous and difficult to care listening to poets babble on forever with their Slam champion 2015. about. The versatile costumes allow actors to noses in their notebooks. In a slam, poets get transform between characters but further efface It wasn’t easy to bring the WOW up on stage and perform their poems with a Dirty Haiku Deathmatch and Erotica reading, their individuality. For a production based on championship to ABQ. It took two years of time limit from one to four minutes. Afterward Her-Larious! humor reading and the Lit Slam. Orwell’s truly insidious brand of horror, much hard work to put in a bid and prove our fair they’re immediately judged, Olympic-style, by You can also take in the Love of Music needed drama is conspicuously absent, and some city legit. It all five randomly chosen audience members. showcase where some of your favorite local opportunities for emotional highs and lows go started at the unclaimed. DCRT strives never to dumb down its Those with the lowest score get the boot, women musicians pair up with WOW poets in 2013 WOW while the last one standing gets the booty and an improvisational setting. You just might find art with work that is overtly literal, so while Animal championship Farm ’s lack of nuance and real characterization the bragging rights. yourself sipping wine and wooing your poet probably didn’t condescend to younger audiences, WOWPS kicks off with the Last Chance crush or slamming tequila shots and starting a it might to some adults. Slam Wednesday night at Stereo Bar (622 cipher circle with the women who just blew Additionally, the action that director Katie Central SW). Twelve poets from across your mind onstage. Becker Colón has written into Bond’s script merely the country will vie for the final spot in Saturday night is finals where the top 12 parrots the continuous dialogue instead of the tournament. Thursday and Friday women command the stage at the historic independently revealing subtext or elements of the events are happening all day, from KiMo Theatre (423 Central NW). The unspoken physical struggle unfolding on stage— yoga at 9am until the bars close at competition will be intense, the love undoubtedly one of the challenges of staging a read-only script. The result is a compressed 2am. Several venues will host overflowing, and the words might just change production saturated in dialogue taken directly daytime workshops and readings your life. After the champion is crowned, join from Orwell’s original narration that misses the with prominent local poets and the after-party at Tractor Brewery Wells Park bullseye on Colón’s intended target of showing educators to get you in the (1800 Fourth Street NW). A festival pass rather than telling. poetic mood. (holdmyticket.com) gets you into all the These weaknesses are minor, though. This play Evenings are designated events you can handle. If you’re feeling lucky, is a must-see for its original take on a timeless tale battle hours with two you can also go a la carte to any event but you that has been done by much bigger companies with bouts each night at might find yourself out on the street with your much smaller ambitions. a Tricklock Performance face up against the glass if they reach capacity. Laboratory (110 Gold Check the Alibi events calendar in the paper Animal Farm SW), Flying Star or online, and plan your strategy. Runs through March 15 Downtown (723 This is your chance to experience the top Thursdays through Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays Silver SW) and shelf of spoken word poetry. Come listen to at 2pm Stereo Bar. and meet some of the most powerful women in The Cell Theatre Following the world this week. The competition will be 700 First Street NW competition, both fierce, and with Mercedez Holtry waving our Tickets: $7 to $22 nights offer party flag, you can be damn sure it won’t just be our dukecityrep.com, liveatthecell.com, 797-7081 time with night- chile bringing the heat. Check out owl events like the wowps2015.com for all the details. a

[14 ] MARCH 12-18, 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI WEEKLY ALIBI MARCH 12-18 , 2015 [15 ] ARTS | book RevIeW The Liar, the French and the IkeA Wardrobe too-plentiful cash into someone capable of real BY RANDYN CHARLES BARTHOLOMEW empathy and desiring to do good in the world. He meets a Sudanese immigrant named Assefa trying to sneak into the UK in the back of a The extraordinary Journey truck. Assefa explains that he never travels of the Fakir who got with women or children “so that we are never Trapped in an IkeA seen this way. So that we can be remembered as big and strong. Always.” But he does it for Wardrobe: A novel the children back home who look like they’re by Romain Puértolas, trans. Sam Taylor hiding basketballs under the skin of their (Knopf, hardcover, $22.95) stomachs. The two men form an immediate friendship that marks the beginning of the he book is nearly novella short but its title fakir’s re-centering from the self to the world is as long and quirky as they come. It’s The at large. TExtraordinary Journey of the Fakir who got Others are less enthralled with Ajatashatru. Trapped in an IKEA Wardrobe , the debut novel Why would someone name their child A- of Romain Puértolas, an overnight Japanese-ass-toot ? wonders one character, phenomenon in his native France. The title is taking an immediate dislike to our protagonist. accurate, though it could as easily have been The fakir gets bumped around Europe (with called The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir a stopover in Libya) like a pinball. The border who Wrote a Novel on a Shirt While Talking to a services act as an immigrant catapult, Dog or The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir launching captured infiltrators into whatever who Escaped a Knife-Wielding Gypsy on a distant country they have a pretext for. In one Baggage Carousel . Et cetera. Be prepared for a man’s pocket, they find a wooden spoon with number of distinctly odd happenings, in other the handle missing. This is mistaken for a words. castanet, so off to Spain he is sent. Ditto for Ajatashatru Oghash is the name of our the Russian who rolls his r’s. Puértolas’ own fakir antihero-turned-hero. And in case you background working with the French border were wondering, it’s pronounced A-jar-of-rat- police serves him well here. stew-oh-gosh! Or at least that’s what we’re told At its heart it’s a tall tale about colliding on page six. By the time page eight rolls worlds. It’s about people who happen to have around, we’re told it’s A-cat-in-a-bat-suit and been born in the “good countries” and those A-jackal-that-ate-you on page nine. So maybe who were unfortunate enough to be born on just use your own judgment. the wrong side of the Mediterranean like In the course of his titular journey, he Assefa. It depicts an absurd satirical world we transitions from a con man who bamboozles would call Kafkaesque if it weren’t so frothy, his fellow Indian villagers out of their none- French and ultimately optimistic. a

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[16 ] MARCH 12-18, 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE Horizon Gathering: Art of MANUEL LUJAN BUILDING AT EXPO NM Rio Grande of Art and Design 10-Minute Play Festival . All plays Atmosphere I . Weather and cloud appreciation as Arts & Crafts Festivals 27th Annual Spring Show . This are original works by SFUAD students who submitted Arts & Lit everyday inspiration by meteorologist Deirdre Kann. An juried indoor festival featuring 180 fine artists and their pieces to the festival, six of which were selected invitation to see the workings of the National Weather craftsmen focuses on fine arts and crafts with artist by Dale Dunn (playwright adjunct faculty member in Calendar Service. Observe a Pi-Ball launch and be inspired by demonstrations, food sampling and live 2013) and four SFUAD students for the final understanding your environment. Part of the entertainment. $7 -$9, kids under 12 FREE. production. All submissions were required to have a TRANSPORT series of events. $30 to register or pay 10am -5pm. 292 -7457. alibi.com/e/129420. positive message and use an umbrella as a prop. what you can. 5pm -midnight. alibi.com/e/132281. WADE WILSON ART , Santa Fe “Trace Matter” Opening 5-6pm. (505) 473 -6511. THURSDAY MARCH 12 ST. JAMES TEAROOM The Art of Treasuring Memories— Reception . Work by SFUAD students, alumni, faculty MAX’S MAGIC THEATRE What Women Really WORDS Scrapbooker’s Soiree . If you love to scrapbook, if you and guest artists, including Gage Peer, Lara Nickel, Want from Men: The Show! Max Krause, are practiced in creating photo books, come Hobnob Edie Tsong, Luke Dorman, Caley Dennis and Chase magician and mentalist, teams up with BOOKWORKS Story Time! Plant a Flower Day . Read at Four with others who share your passion. $43. Stafford. 5 -7pm. (505) 660 -4393. Albuquerque author Melanie Rubin to books about gardening, then plant a flower. 4-6pm. 242 -3752. alibi.com/e/134717. alibi.com/e/134034. present an innovative comedy 11:30am. alibi.com/e/133191. Also, American FILM STAGE performance of magic and mystery Ghost . 7pm. 344 -8139. alibi.com/e/129850. ART KIMO THEATRE Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour . ADOBE THEATER Souvenir . Stephen Temperley’s 2005 based on Rubin’s new book. $30 -$35. A collection of the most inspiring action, Broadway production about an aging pianist 7-9pm. 255 -2303. alibi.com/e/132791. SOUTH BROADWAY CULTURAL CENTER Synaxis environmental, and adventure films from one of the remembering the work of Florence Foster Jenkins. ORPHEUM ART SPACE InBetween: Open Studio Works- Opening Reception . Honoring a painting installation most prestigious mountain festivals in the world. Runs through 3/15. $15 -$17. 7:30pm. 898 -9222. in-Progress . Ecotone Physical Theatre presents works- by Julia Lambright. 6 -9pm. 848 -1320. 7pm. 768 -3522. alibi.com/e/132280. alibi.com/e/131584. in-progress featuring fully improvised dance, theatre alibi.com/e/134673. and music. $5 -10. 8pm. 750 -8065. STAGE NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER Selena . AIRDANCE ARTSPACE The Flying Monkeys: In a Land Far Directed by Gregory Nava and starring Jennifer Lopez Far Away . A group of 11 teenage aerialists transports alibi.com/e/134639. ALBUQUERQUE LITTLE THEATRE The King and I . Rodgers in the breakthrough role of her career. 7 -8:30pm. audience members to a strange land, featuring a RODEY THEATRE , Popejoy Hall A Funny Thing Happened & Hammerstein’s classic production heads to the 724 -4771. alibi.com/e/134449. variety of characters on a spinning aerial cube, a on the Way to the Forum . Landmark Musicals stage in this rendition helmed by Nancy Sellin. Runs climbing wall, an aerial hoop entwined with silks, a presents this fast-paced farce that features music by through 3/22. $12 -$24. 7:30pm. 242 -4750. FRIDAY MARCH 13 triple trapeze, and aerial fabric. $5 -$10. 7:30pm. Stephen Sondheim. $20 -$24. 7:30 -10pm. alibi.com/e/132477. 842 -9418. alibi.com/e/133118. 453 -8844. alibi.com/e/132079. CELL THEATRE Animal Farm . See George WORDS ALBUQUERQUE LITTLE THEATRE The King and I . TRICKLOCK PERFORMANCE LABORATORY Orwell’s classic novel brought to the ST. ANDREW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Albuquerque Sci- $12 -$24. 7:30pm. See 3/12 listing. Mnemosyne’s Lounge . $10. 8pm. See 3/12 listing. stage in this adaptation by Nelson Bond. Fi Society Auction with Robert Vardeman . Time for the AUX DOG THEATRE Mothers and Sons . Tony-winning THE VORTEX THEATRE The Glass Menagerie . One of the Runs through 3/15. $7 -$22. 8pm. playwright Terence McNally’s play about a mother most famous plays of the modern theatre, a drama 766 -9412. alibi.com/e/133552. See Annual ASFS Auction, hosted by local author Robert coming to terms with losing her son to AIDS. Runs of great tenderness, charm and beauty. $22. “Theater Review.” Vardeman who should update us on his current projects while auctioning off various doodads and through 3/15. $18 -$20. 8 -10:30pm. 254 -7716. 7:30pm. 247 -8600. alibi.com/e/134677. STAGE @ SANTA ANA STAR , Bernalillo Stand-up mysterious items. Please bring 2-6 items, sci-fi or alibi.com/e/132452. VSA NORTH 4TH ART CENTER On the Map Performance: Comedy Thursdays . Mike James, Brian Kohatsu and otherwise, to donate to the cause. $1 for newcomers. BOX PERFORMANCE SPACE AND IMPROV THEATRE THE N4th Season . All new productions of original work by Mikey Mayes perform. $10. 7:30pm. 771 -5680. 7:30 -10pm. 266 -8905. alibi.com/e/133020. SHOW . Live comedy and improv. $8 -$10. 8 -9pm. Equilibrium Theater and Buen Viaje Dance, North alibi.com/e/131551. ART 404 -1578. alibi.com/e/134100. Fourth Art Center’s resident mixed ability performing TRICKLOCK PERFORMANCE LABORATORY CELL THEATRE Animal Farm . $7 -$22. 8pm. arts companies. 7 -9pm. 345 -2872. Mnemosyne’s Lounge . A diverse group of New Mexico DOWNTOWN CONTEMPORARY GALLERY Cool Kids Never Die Opening Reception . Work See 3/12 listing. See “Theater Review.” alibi.com/e/129873. women share their voices and narratives. Participants SONG & DANCE will develop and rehearse their stories and then by local artists representing pop culture DESERT ROSE PLAYHOUSE Beautiful Thing . A coming-of- from 1980s and 1990s, based on age dramatic comedy featuring music by Mama CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. JOHN Seven Last Words perform them in a cabaret-style evening. This event is from the Cross . The critically-acclaimed Polyphony: part of Women & Creativity. $10. 8pm. nostalgic characters and Saturday Cass. Runs through 3/15. $12 -$15. 8pm. LEARN morning cartoons. Artists include Jon 881 -0503. alibi.com/e/131448. Voices of New Mexico presents James MacMillan’s Sanchez, Jonathan Perea (Pnut), Jeremy FOUL PLAY CAFE , Sheraton Uptown The Game Show rarely-performed “Seven Last Words from the Cross” ART SANCTUARY , Santa Fe Paint Moment: Santa Fe Art Montoya, Nicole Riner, Austin Zachary Murders . Dinner theater following a group of game and Handel’s “Messiah,” Part II. $10 -$35. 7 -9pm. Classes . A two-hour, step-by-step, guided painting and Derek Smith. Part of On the Map: show contestants who will do anything to win. $57. 821 -1956. alibi.com/e/120007. class to inspire your inner artist. $45. 6 -8pm. (575) Unfolding Albuquerque Art + Design. 7:30 -10pm. 377 -9593. alibi.com/e/131834. 404 -1801. alibi.com/e/133331. 5-8pm. 363 -3870. See preview box. GREER GARSON THEATRE , Santa Fe Santa Fe University Arts & Lit Calendar continues on page 1 8

WEEKLY ALIBI MARCH 12-18, 2015 [17 ] Deep South” and past “Funniest Person in Memphis” Arts &Lit Calendar continued from page 17 winner. $35. 7:30 -9:30pm. 768 -3544. alibi.com/e/132839. LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER , Santa Fe Round MAX’S MAGIC THEATRE What Women Really Want from Mountain: Beginnings Where the Endings Be . A very Men: The Show! $30 -$35. 7 -9pm. See 3/13 listing. special evening celebrating the generational POPEJOY HALL , UNM Center for the Arts Stormy continuity of music and Round Mountain’s musical Weather: The Story of Lena Horne . Mary Wilson (The heritage. $20. 7pm. (505) 988 -1234. Supremes) joins a jazz trio to perform Horne’s music alibi.com/e/134071. LEARN while biographer James Gavin presents rare audio and video footage honoring an American icon. ANDERSON-ABRUZZO ALBUQUERQUE INTERNATIONAL $20 -$54. 8pm. 277 -8010. alibi.com/e/120528. BALLOON MUSEUM Horizon Gathering: Creative RODEY THEATRE , Popejoy Hall A Funny Thing Happened Souls . Discussion on creative souls, internal creativity, on the Way to the Forum . $20 -$24. 7:30 -10pm. See intention setting, and meditation with Rev. Kylie 3/13 listing. Renner of ABQ Center for Spiritual Living, Elaine THE VORTEX THEATRE The Glass Menagerie . $22. Cheng, CIO of Charter Financial Analysts Institute, 7:30pm. See 3/13 listing. Michelle DuVal of the Mindful Center and Amani VSA NORTH 4TH ART CENTER On the Map Performance: Malakai, singer. Noon. alibi.com/e/132286. N4th Season . 7 -9pm. See 3/13 listing. FILM SONG & DANCE KIMO THEATRE Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour . ALBUQUERQUE MENNONITE CHURCH Benefit Concert 7pm. See 3/12 listing. Also, 2015 Film or Flight and Reading for Healing in Gaza . Klezmer and Ladino Youth Film Festival . High school and college films singer/musician Sheila Fox performs Yiddish, Ladino created for the festival. Hosted by Warehouse 508 and original songs with various guest musicians from and Film! ABQ. 7 -10pm. 768 -3544. the Albuquerque Klezmer Community. Students from alibi.com/e/132800. the UNM Peace Studies class will read from The Gaza Monologues. $10 -$20 donation. 7 -9pm. (206) SATURDAY MARCH 14 898 -5090. alibi.com/e/134481. WORDS CENTRAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Handel’s “Chandos” Anthems and Schumann’s Requiem . Byron BOOKWORKS Big on Animals Story Time: Butterflies! Herrington and the Central United Methodist Choir 11:30am. alibi.com/e/133193. Also, Meditation take you on a tour of stunning choral music in this Short and Simple . Jeaninne Grayson presents her evening’s program. $19. 6 -8pm. 243 -7834. book for people who are fairly new to meditation. JAMES A. LITTLE THEATRE , Santa Fe 8th Annual Rhythm 2pm. alibi.com/e/133194. Also, What Women of Fire . This high energy show features award winning Really Want from Men: A Step-by-Step Irish dancers, as well as young up-and-coming Dating Manual . Author Melanie Rubin performers in a family friendly, foot stomping signs her book. Guest appearance from performance of traditional and contemporary Irish collaborator comedy magician and dancing. $10 -$15. 2pm, 7pm. 670 -2152. mentalist Max Krause. 4pm. 344 -8139. alibi.com/e/134110. alibi.com/e/133195. See “Art Scenester.” ART KESHET CENTER FOR THE ARTS A Beast, an Angel and a Madwoman . Preview performance of four 516 ARTS Bits & Pieces . Collage workshop focusing on choreographers and three dancers by Keshet Dance juxtapositions of Albuquerque’s eclectic identity led Company. $10 -$15. 8 -9pm. 224 -9808. by women artists Katya Crawford, Mira Woodson and alibi.com/e/133221. Suzanne Sbarge. Part of “On the Map: Unfolding LEARN Albuquerque Art + Design.” $20 -$25. 9am -noon. MEDIA ARTS COLLABORATIVE CHARTER SCHOOL Artist 242 -1445. alibi.com/e/129852. Trading Cards . Learn about the art of miniature mixed AFRICAN AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER , Expo media masterpieces. Ages 5th-12th grade. $25. NM New Mexico Actors Showcase . Actors have the 9am -noon. 505 -243 -1957, ext 400. chance to perform an audition live on stage with a alibi.com/e/130219. director in front of an audience. Southwest Arts Group OFFCENTER COMMUNITY ARTS PROJECT Spirit Doll and Blackout Theatre Company entertain during Making Workshop . Learn methods for creating small intermissions. $7.50 -$10. 7 -9pm. 222 -0778. imaginative dolls from natural material, found objects ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY Public and fabric. 11am -1:30pm. alibi.com/e/134161. Selects: A Celebration of ABQ Area Artists . Working Also, Freestyle & Found Object Weaving . Learn to Albuquerque-area artists open their studios to the make a pin loom using sturdy, discarded picture public. 10am -4pm. 764 -6518. alibi.com/e/132788. frames with Susan Tische. $50. Noon -3pm. Also, Art in the Afternoon . Sage and Jared’s Happy 247 -1172. alibi.com/e/132516. Gland Band perform. 2 -5pm. 768 -3452. SOUTHWEST WRITERS OFFICE , Carlisle Executive alibi.com/e/134674. Suites 3-day Social Media Intensive for Writers . EXPO NEW MEXICO Albuquerque Rubber Stamp Show . Learn how to promote your writing to attract fans, Vendors from all over the US will be displaying many readers and publishers. $119 -$139. 1pm -4am. examples of what can be done with Artistic Rubber 830 -6034. alibi.com/e/132055. Stamps. Event includes demos, door prizes. $5 -$7, children 12 & under FREE. 9:30am -5pm. MANUEL LUJAN BUILDING AT EXPO NM Rio Grande Arts SUNDAY MARCH 15 & Crafts Festivals 27th Annual Spring Show . $7 -$9, WORDS kids under 12 FREE. 10am -5pm. See 3/13 listing. STAGE BOOKWORKS Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory . Author Catherine Spude presents her ADOBE THEATER Souvenir . $15 -$17. 7:30pm. See 3/13 book. 2pm. alibi.com/e/133196. Also, The Pluralist listing. Imagination from East to West in American Literature . AIRDANCE ARTSPACE The Flying Monkeys: In a Land Far Author Julianne Newmark presents her book. 4pm. Far Away . $5 -$10. 7:30pm. See 3/13 listing. 344 -8139. alibi.com/e/133197. ALBUQUERQUE LITTLE THEATRE The King and I . PAGE ONE BOOKSTORE Blue Birds . Local acclaimed $12 -$24. 7:30pm. See 3/12 listing. author Caroline Starr Rose shares her new historical AUX DOG THEATRE Mothers and Sons . $18 -$20. novel. 2pm. 294 -2026. alibi.com/e/134689. 8-10:30pm. See 3/13 listing. ART BOX PERFORMANCE SPACE AND IMPROV THEATRE THE EXPO NEW MEXICO Albuquerque Rubber Stamp Show . SHOW . $8 -$10. 8 -9pm. See 3/13 listing. $5 -$7, children 12 & under FREE. 11am -4pm. See CELL THEATRE FUSION Theatre Company Auditions. 3/14 listing. Looking for all types/races/ages/sexes/abilities MANUEL LUJAN BUILDING AT EXPO NM Rio Grande Arts for 10th annual short works festival. By appointment & Crafts Festivals 27th Annual Spring Show . $7 -$9, only. This is both an Equity and non-union call. Be kids under 12 FREE. 10am -5pm. See 3/13 listing. prepared with headshot/resume and two contrasting STAGE monologues, each no longer than one minute. To receive an audition time, send an email to: ADOBE THEATER Souvenir . $15 -$17. 2pm. See 3/13 [email protected] with AUDITION TIME in the listing. subject line. 5pm. 766 -9412. alibi.com/e/134724. AIRDANCE ARTSPACE The Flying Monkeys: In a Land Far Also, Animal Farm. $7 -$22. 8pm. See Far Away . $5 -$10. 1:30pm. See 3/13 listing. 3/12 listing. See “Theater Review.” ALBUQUERQUE LITTLE THEATRE The King and I . DESERT ROSE PLAYHOUSE Beautiful Thing . $12 -$15. $12 -$24. 2pm. See 3/12 listing. 8pm. See 3/13 listing. AUX DOG THEATRE Mothers and Sons . $18 -$20. 2pm. FOUL PLAY CAFE , Sheraton Uptown The Game Show See 3/13 listing. Murders . $57. 7:30 -10pm. See 3/13 listing. CELL THEATRE Animal Farm . $7 -$22. 2pm. KIMO THEATRE Michael “Ziggy” Danziger . Stand-up See 3/12 listing. See “Theater Review.” comedy with the current, reigning “Funniest Jew in the DESERT ROSE PLAYHOUSE Beautiful Thing . $12 -$15. 2pm. See 3/13 listing. [18 ] MARCH 12-18, 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI EVENT | PREVIEW Never Grow Up Ancient peoples painted bison on cave walls, and why? Because bison were the most damn interesting thing around. Fast-forward 35 millennia and not much has changed when it comes to choosing subject matter. More than 40 artists raised on a steady diet of Saturday morning cartoons in the ’80s and ’90s have finally found an outlet for their obsessions in Cool Kids Never Die . Debuting at Downtown FRIDAY Contemporary Gallery (105 MARCH 13 Fourth Street SW) this Downtown Friday, the exhibit features Contemporary Gallery work from local illustrators, 105 Fourth Street SW painters, screen printers 5 to 8pm and airbrush artists. Nostalgia aficionados will JON SANCHEZ find a hefty dose of He-Man, She-Ra, Batman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Animaniacs, Jem and the Holograms, Smurfs and more. If you can remember it, someone has probably painted it on a canvas or worked it into an Adventure Time mashup. Your best bet is to hit the 6pm opening reception on March 13, where you’ll be treated to snacks, drinks, face painting by Sean Wells and music from DJ Cali 5. The Girls of Geek will be there in costume, assuming they can squeeze into the gallery’s narrow halls. The show stays up until Apr. 10 and can be seen by appointment; visit downtowncontemporary.com for contact info. (Lisa Barrow) a

MAX’S MAGIC THEATRE What Women Really Want from Men: The Show! $30 -$35. 6pm. See 3/13 listing. POPEJOY HALL , UNM Center for the Arts H.M.S. TUESDAY MARCH 17 Pinafore . The New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players WORDS perform this hilarious tale of love, hypocrisy and BOOKWORKS Age of Jive . Nate Maxson presents his new mistaken identities where the Captain’s daughter falls book of poems. 8pm. 344 -8139. secretly in love with a common sailor. $20 -$64. 3pm. alibi.com/e/133199. 277 -8010. alibi.com/e/120529. ART RODEY THEATRE , Popejoy Hall A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum . $20 -$24. 2pm. See 3/13 NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER Art of listing. Atmosphere II: A Sound Walk . Follow an ear and eye- THE VORTEX THEATRE The Glass Menagerie . $22. 2pm. opening guided walk led by UNM professor Andrea See 3/13 listing. Polli. Dutch lunch at 1pm, walk at 2pm. 1 -3pm. SONG & DANCE 246 -2261. alibi.com/e/132298. TRACTOR BREWERY WELLS PARK The Green Room St KESHET CENTER FOR THE ARTS Four Original New Trios . Patrick’s Day Mixer and Art Market . Mix and mingle Pieces by choreographers Maggie Bergeron and buy art primarily sourced from recycled goods. (Minneapolis), Donna Jewell (Albuquerque), Erika Music by The 2bers, Flo Fader and Burque Sol. Randall (Denver), Shira Greenberg (Albuquerque). 6pm -midnight. 243 -6752. alibi.com/e/134166. 2pm. SONG & DANCE THE KOSMOS Chatter Sunday: From B to Z . Featuring Luciano Berio’s Sequenza IXa for Solo Clarinet, FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH Albuquerque Civic Chorus Alexander von Zemlinsky’s Trio in D Minor Opus 3 and Rehearsals Begin . If you love to sing, join others who poet Mercedez Holtry. $5 -$15. 10:30 -11:30am. share your passion. 7 -9pm. 981 -6611. 307 -9647. alibi.com/e/131526. alibi.com/e/126187. LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER , Santa Fe The NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER ¡Baile! Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Presents Casino/Cuban-Style Salsa and Rueda de Casino Beethoven Festival . 2013 DeHaan Classical Fellow of Dance Classes . Beginning and intermediate, 6pm; the American Pianists Association Sean Chen joins intermediate and advanced, 7pm. $5 -$10. 6 -8pm. the Symphony, performing the composer’s evocative 246 -2261. alibi.com/e/134447. and lyrical Piano Concerto No. 2. Symphony No. 6— POPEJOY HALL , UNM Center for the Arts Women of “Pastoral”—and Symphony No. 2 will also be Ireland . Spectacular music, song, and dance performed. $26 -$72. 4 -6pm. 983 -3530. featuring Ireland’s finest female performers in a alibi.com/e/131979. production inspired by the breathtaking landscape of NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER Mark O’Connor their homeland. $20 -$54. 7:30pm. 277 -8010. with the AYSP Chamber Symphony . Grammy award- alibi.com/e/120530. winning composer and violinist Mark O’Connor will LEARN solo with the Albuquerque Youth Symphony Program’s NEW LIFE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Building a Writing Chamber Symphony. The all-Americana program also Career . Author Jim Tritten will outline a strategy for includes Mark’s wife, Maggie O’Connor. Conductor, breaking in, unusual venues that can lead to David Felberg. $25. 3pm. 246 -2261. publication and ways to blend work and private alibi.com/e/131000. writing. 7 -9pm. 830 -6034. alibi.com/e/134451. LEARN OPEN SPACE VISITOR CENTER Contemplative Collage . WEDNESDAY MARCH 18 Bring yourself inward and create a collage guided by a local artist. Registration required. $50. 1 -4pm. WORDS 897 -8831. alibi.com/e/134675. BOOKWORKS American Girl Book Club . This month, historic American Girl Samantha Parkington, who was growing up when women marched for the right to MONDAY MARCH 16 vote. 5:30pm. alibi.com/e/133209. Also, A Curse at WORDS Squaw Creek Farm . Author Jerry Zimmerman presents BOOKWORKS Reading Purls Knitting Book Club . Meets his autobiographical work. 7pm. 344 -8139. the third Monday of every month. This time the book alibi.com/e/133210. is At Knit’s End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too STEREO BAR Last Chance Slam . Part of Much. 8pm. 344 -8139. alibi.com/e/133198. the 8th annual Women of the World LEARN Poetry Slam festival. $50 pass. 8pm. 510 -2582. alibi.com/e/133460. See CORRALES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL , Corrales Acting “Arts Feature.” Techniques and Scene Study . Acting for beginners FILM includes reading monologues and acting with fellow students. $60 a month. 6 -7pm. 897 -3351. KIMO THEATRE Indie Q . Screening of locally-made films. alibi.com/e/125153. 7-9pm. 768 -3544. alibi.com/e/133456. WEEKLY ALIBI MARCH 12-18, 2015 [19 ] FLASH IN THE PAN FOOD |restaurant review BY ARI LEVAUX M O C . O T

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The seeds are notoriously difficult to germinate, and will grow if and when they feel like Weisslacker (soft pretzel with beer-cheese, it, despite any attempts to dictate their schedule. BY HOLLY VON WINCKEL $6.50) especially satisfy the salt craving that In Montana, the city of Butte houses cavernous Heimat House Restaurant comes with serious beer tasting. bars that appear empty if less than a hundred move from Albuquerque’s bright sun into & Beer Garden After four visits at varied times of day and people are in them. But on St. Paddy’s Day they the dark foyer of Heimat House, and in that theheimathouse.com week—including on Valentine’s Day in the are too full to squeeze into. Likewise, the parsnip is I moment of my eyes’ confusion, I inhale 6910 Montgomery Blvd NE afternoon—my complaints are minimal. The rarely used, but hard to ignore when it is. deeply. That savory whiff, with vinegar-pickled In honor of the long, pale tuber that’s currently 814-0014 Mizeria cucumber salad wanted salt. The in season and the approaching St. Patrick’s Day, top notes, bread, meat and potatoes at the Hours: 11am to 9pm Monday to Thursday, Schnitzel really needed to be beaten more heart, fruity, cabbage-y undertones and a mild holiday, here is a parsnip-based recipe to help you 11am to 11pm Friday and Saturday, before the breading and frying. A bread basket celebrate. yeasty finish, is an aromatic promise of the might or might not turn up at the table after delights to come. One might recall a Gasthaus 10:30am to 8pm Sunday Beef and parsnip stout stew Booze: Yes orders are placed (although when it does, the near Bremen, or Oma’s kitchen in Kenosha, or bread is a fine-crumbed dark or medium rye Plastic: Yes You can’t get more Irish than a stout beer like have no familiar memories to go with the farmhouse style Bauernbrot with a pot of Guinness. Other Irish stouts, like Murphy’s, work as The Alibi recommends: scent yet. Fear not—as soon as you are seated, Königsburger Klöpse, Zupa whipped honey-butter). The staff, as a rule, well. This is a slow cooker recipe, and the longer it new memories are on the way. ogorkowa, Käse mit Spätzle, GF Deutscher cooks the better. It should be made the day before does not speak German at all, which means if The Bayrischer Schmorbraten ($14.50) and Schokoladenkuchen serving. The sweet stout is absorbed by the other you do and pronounce the menu items as they contents and the result is a dark, rich broth that is Sauerbraten ($16.50) are regional variations on are listed on the menu (which is to say in faintly parsnippy. The recipe is modified from very similar dishes. Slow-cooked beef with German), you will be rewarded with hesitation allrecipes.com. traditional sides of stewed red cabbage and ($4.75) and gluten free ($5.25), revealed no or even confusion. They do, however, speak potato-based starch. Sounds pretty bland when significant taste or texture differences. Both food and beer and are quick on the draw with Ingredients described that way, right? By no means! The have a firm sweet-sand crumb, and the caramel special requests, beverage service or 2 lbs. beef, or more if the cuts have bones long, tender strands of meat have bathed coconut frosting is worth licking the plate. supplementary ordering. attached, which is preferable. I last made it leisurely in a rich broth redolent of onion, salt, Königsburger Klöpse ($10.75)—meatballs with a mix of beef stew meat chunks and The place really is a ringer for a Gasthaus pepper, caraway and, in the case of the with caper sauce—is a serious show-stealer. in Germany—dark wood everywhere, beef neck. Ribs would work, as would Enormous, tender meat spheres nestle in a shank. Sauerbraten, vinegar. The red cabbage side unobtrusive lighting, multi-tiered seating 3 medium carrots cut into sub-inch cubes (Rotkohl for those of you who sprechen ) has just blended sour cream sauce. Capers are mixed in areas, large TV screens set into the bar’s 3 medium parsnips cut into sub-inch cubes the right hints of apple and vinegar. German with the meatballs as well as blended into the retaining wall. Even the way it is tucked 1 turnip, peeled and cut into sub-inch cubes fried potatoes, golden crisp outside, pale and sauce, so the palate gets a one-two punch of behind a laundromat is authentic placement. 1 large onion, chopped toothsome underneath, are appealing but this Mediterranean delicacy’s distinctive bright There is so much beer and wine behind the 3 stalks celery, chopped slightly low key. The potato dumplings piquancy. German noodles and cucumber salad bar that there is no room for a television; 1 pint Irish stout accompanying the Sauerbraten are doughy and accompanying the Klöpse balance the plate you’ll have to sit in one of the nearby small 2 tablespoons tomato paste or pizza sauce, unremarkable until swabbed through the nicely. The noodles are firm and dense like or 1/2 cup canned tomatoes booths to watch while you get your fill. gravies of the meat and cabbage, at which gnocchi, while the cucumber salad’s thin slices 2 tablespoons butter The full menu is available at the bar and, and sprinkling of dill relieve the heaviness of 1 tablespoon dried thyme point they transform into a delicious mega- without exception, the staff is pleasant, 2 tablespoons garlic powder dumpling. Full marks for authenticity there! the meal. accommodating and does a great job of 3 cups beef broth (unless you’re using beef Vegetarians are well attended with solid Currywurst ($10.75) and Bratwurst mit working out just how much interaction any bones) dishes in every section of the menu. The Brötchen ($10.75) are unquestionably staples of given patron is looking for. The beer selection Spätzle mit Käse ($5.50) is a Teutonic mac & German cuisine, and no doubt Heimat House Brown the meat under the broiler and add it to a is overwhelming at first, but with the help of sells them by the Boot -load. The pale, soft Crockpot or slow cooker that’s half-full of water. cheese and provoke a bit of fork-jousting for friends and bartender, you’ll work your way You can also cook it in the oven using a baking pot the last morsels, while the Zupa ogorkowa tenderness of German-style sausages, salty and from Andechser to Zeppelin in no time. with a lid. Add a tablespoon of butter to the meat ($4.75)—dill pickle soup—is a mellow surprise fatty and in the case of the Currywurst, made Hofbraü Märzen, Bitburger Pilsner and browning pan and then the celery and onion. reminiscent of creamy mushroom soup perked zingy by a sort of spicy mustard-ketchup sauce. Krombacher Pils are crowd-pleasers, while Brown them on the stove or in the broiler and add up by sour cream and the salt-vinegar twang of In a restaurant where many of the entrees are some of the more adventurous draughts— to the stew. Deglaze the pan with beer and add it sour dills. Fully a third of the menu is gluten enormous—one entree yielding leftovers Green Tea IPA, sour Belgian Monch’s ale, to the stew. Add the parsnip, carrot, turnip, thyme, free and like the vegetarian options, don’t weighing nearly two pounds—the Kleinhunger triple and quad Bock beers—are serious palate garlic powder, tomato, broth (if using) and suffer for the specialization. A side by side options on the appetizers menu are worth remaining butter. Salt to taste as it cooks. Cook 4-8 challengers. Patio season can’t start soon comparison of the Deutscher Schokoladenkuchen checking out. The Wurstplatte (sausage on hours on low until beef is completely tender. a enough! a (German chocolate cake), available in regular sauerkraut, $6.50) and Laugenbretzeln

[20 ] MARCH 12-18 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI WEEKLY ALIBI MARCH 12-18 , 2015 [21 ] FAIRGROUNDS Chow town BAGGIN’S GOURMET SANDWICHES a rotating guide to restaurants we like 5900 Lomas NE, 262-1451 • $ [DELI/SANDWICHES ] Baggin’s prepares satisfying suggest a restaurant or search for more at: alibi.com/chowtown hot and cold hoagies at a decent price, with a w chocolate chip cookie thrown in at no extra These listings have no connection with Alibi advertising charge. The “sundown” is a staple for chronic dine-’n’-drivers; basically a turkey dinner in sandwich form, complete with stuffing and cranberry sauce. Try it on toasted whole wheat or sourdough instead of the standard roll. This old- Springtime school sandwich emporium has been at the top of our BoBR categories for Best Sandwich and Veggies Best Soup many times over the years. and FAR NORTHEAST HEIGHTS FLYING STAR CAFÉ 4501 Juan Tabo NE, 275-8311 • $$ Sammiches [AMERICAN ] Winner of Best Casual Dining, Best Veggie Burger, Best Toast, Best Healthy Breakfast DOWNTOWN and Best Desserts in our annual restaurant poll. AL’S BIG DIPPER Sure, you go in thinking you’ll be good and get a 501 Copper NW, 314-1118 • $ skinny latte and a tossed cobb salad, but five minutes later somebody’s saying “apple pie with [DELI/SANDWICHES ] Al’s has moved from the old ice cream” and the voice is coming from your Relish space Downtown to a spot inside the mouth. Give in. It tastes good. Main Library on Copper and serves a hefty menu of inspired hot and cold sandwiches. There’s an emphasis on homemade touches, from the NOB HILL sweet onion jam on the roast beef sandwich to LOVING VEGAN the cookie that comes with every order. Good 3409 Central NE, 505 890-1555 • $$ salads, daily made-from-scratch soups, a new [ASIAN ] The sushi chef at Loving Vegan rolls sushi sandwich special every day and a supremely expertly, and if you squint your eyes, the fake good gluten-free bread keep the lunch crowd on shrimp, scallops, salmon and squid look exactly its toes. like “normal” sushi. They’re also pretty delicious. A+B’S LUNCH BOX Try the bento box with miso soup, small salads (cucumber-seaweed and green leaves in a 414 Central NE, 312-8819 gingery dressing) and pan-fried spinach gyoza. [COFFEE/TEA/ESPRESSO ] The indoor dining space is We recommend the grilled portobello bento with tiny, but the rambling breezeway and courtyard at vegetables, accompanied with thin, tender-crisp this EDo café offer a refreshingly peaceful asparagus and a fat ring of onion on pleasantly setting for enjoying the Albuquerque weather in glutinous, lightly seasoned brown rice. the company of some great New Mexican food. Lunchtime fare includes sandwiches and NOSH JEWISH DELICATESSEN AND paninis, rounded out with a full roster of BAKERY espresso drinks. 116 Amherst SE, 919-8022 • $$ GRAVY [JEWISH ] Jewish cuisine comes to Nob Hill in the form of Nosh, a friendly deli-style café where the 725 Central NE, 242-4299 • $$ lox is lush, the cream cheese is tangy and the [AMERICAN ] After two years of preparation, Gravy owner calls you “hon.” You’ll walk out smelling like has finally opened in the old Milton’s building. knish, and it’s worth it for a crack at The place looks great, with a distinctly swank Albuquerque’s most delicious and authentic take on the classic diner aesthetic, and the latkes. menu follows suit. Multiple varieties of pancakes are offered for breakfast, along with huevos NORTH VALLEY rancheros and an eggy pot pie. Dinner is comfort food-oriented—think meatloaf, fried chicken and FARM & TABLE chicken fried steak—and there’s plenty of beer 8917 Fourth Street NW, 503-7124 • $$$ (locally brewed and otherwise) on tap with which [ORGANIC/LOCALLY GROWN ] The Far North Valley to wash it down. Try the fried green tomatoes! setting is gorgeous, inside and out (the spacious courtyard overlooks 10 acres of farm field). The HARTFORD SQUARE local and organic ingredients are meticulously 300 Broadway NE, 265-4933 • $ sourced, and the food is reasonably priced for [COFFEE/TEA/ESPRESSO ] The menu changes what you get. Several salad options and weekly, but Hartford Square always features high vegetarian entrées make it a perfect place to quality, locally-sourced food with both eat-in and graze. take-out options. Salads are well stocked with fresh, seasonal ingredients and there are always NORTHEAST HEIGHTS a few hot options like Canadian salmon or ratatouille pot pie. If you’re early enough, you’ll THAI VEGAN get first crack at the crossword in the house copy 5505 Osuna NE, 884-4610 • $$ of the New York Times. [ASIAN ] The Thai Vegan menu includes fake

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shrimp, chicken, fish and pepper steak. That said, that’s on a whole new plane. Winners of Best it isn’t the sophistication of vegetarian faux Vegetarian in our restaurant poll several years meats that makes the place so good. It’s running, Annapurna serves food that is satisfying amazing because the cooks really know what but never heavy and, well, you just feel better after they’re doing, and they use quality ingredients. you eat there. Try Sunday brunch with spiced The Thai iced tea (yup, that’s vegan, too) is like gluten-free, vegan pancakes and breakfast quinoa sipping Bangkok through a straw. Voted Best (but you’ll have to live without scrambled eggs, Vegan Food for 2013. sorry). The shaded courtyard to the side of the restaurant is spectacular. YELLER SUB 7200 Montgomery NE, 888-9784 • $ DUGGAN’S COFFEE [DELI/SANDWICHES ] Yeller Sub is the place for great 2227 Lead SE, 312-7257 • $ subs, like meatball, steak and egg, sliced top- [COFFEE/TEA/ESPRESSO ] An upstart contender in the round roast beef and a steak and grilled onion crowded UNM coffee-shop scene, this small, well- that isn’t quite downtown Philly quality, but it’s appointed space is great for cramming before not bad. There’s a soda fountain where they can finals or scarfing down a quick breakfast before whip you up a mean milkshake for about three school or a salad and a sandwich for lunch. So far, bucks, and for four, a banana split big enough to the main drawback seems to be that its location— send even the most hardcore sugar junkie into a wedged between a laundromat and a piñata coma. They’ve got fresh salads and homemade store—is just about impossible to find. Fortunately, cinnamon rolls. They cater, they deliver, they bake a new sign helps solve that problem. their own rolls, and they’ve got excellent, friendly service at the counter no matter what time of the UPTOWN day or night you wander in looking for a meat fix. CHEESE AND COFFEE OLD TOWN 2679 Louisiana NE, 883-1226 • $ [DELI/SANDWICHES ] We love this strange little place VINAIGRETTE with aggressively retro décor, like super ’70s wood 1828 Central SW, 842-5507 • $$$ paneling. Cool. Plus, they serve New York deli stuff [ORGANIC/LOCALLY GROWN ] A restaurant that like bagels with lox and cream cheese, and a club focuses mostly on salads may be a hard sell for with dill Havarti on rye bread. Our favorite option is meat-happy Burqueños, but make no mistake: the salad trio—you get to pick from Caesar, Greek, Vinaigrette does salad right. From gourmet apple Waldorf, pasta, potato, fruit, tuna, chicken or options that feature duck and arugula to more egg salads, and it comes with a roll. Wash it down delicate fare with pomegranate seeds and with a Dr. Brown’s soda. shoestring yams, Vinaigrette presents a world of salads you may not have known existed. And RELISH SANDWICH SHOP much of their menu is locally grown at their fields 8019 Menaul NE, 299-0001 • $ in Nambe, NM, too. [AMERICAN ] This stylish little cheese and sandwich shop serves smart comfort food that’s blessedly UNIVERSITY unpretentious. A small but well-rounded menu of hot and cold sandwiches sells for $8 or $9 across ANNAPURNA’S WORLD the board and gets paired with innovative takes on VEGETARIAN CAFÉ deli classics (green apple and jicama slaw, for 2201 Silver SE, 262-CHAI (2424) • $ one). Composed salads are simple but luxurious [VEGETARIAN/HEALTH FOODS ] Ayurvedic cuisine with touches like homemade mozzarella and real supposedly works with your body’s natural tomatoes. energies and constitution to create “soul” food

KEY: $ = Inexpensive $8 or less | $$ = Moderate $8 to $15 | $$$ = Expensive $15 to $20 | $$$$ = Very Expensive $20 and up WEEKLY ALIBI MARCH 12-18 , 2015 [23 ] REEL WORLD FILM | revIew BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY Fantasy come true Noted fantasy author Peter S. Beagle has been Cinderella touring the country, introducing screenings of the 1982 animated adaptation of his novel The Non-update of classic Disney fairy tale is as comfortable and worn-out as an old shoe Last Unicorn . The tour finally hits Albuquerque this Thursday, March 12. It will be happening at the Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema (1000 Premiere Parkway SE) at 7pm. Tickets are $9.50 for adults and $6.75 for students/seniors. For more info go to lastunicorntour.com. Get reel Reel New Mexico, Santa Fe’s only monthly independent film series, returns on Thursday, March 12, with a screening of The Milagro Man: The Irrepressible Multicultural Life and Literary Times of John Nichols . This 78-minute documentary explores the literary works and social activism of Taos resident John Nichols— best known as the author of the “New Mexico Trilogy” ( The Milagro Beanfield War, The Magic Journey, The Nirvana Blues ). A $5 suggested donation gets you in the door. The screening starts at 7pm at La Tienda Performance Space at Eldorado. Go to reelnewmexico.com for directions. Acting! The New Mexico Actors Showcase will take place this Saturday, March 14, at the African American Performing Arts Center at Expo New Mexico (310 San Pedro NE). New Mexico actors were asked to submit a 60-second video. Each submission was judged by local very “fairy tale”-ish. Branagh and company seem casting directors and talent agents. The top BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY to agree, stripping away nearly all the fantasy submissions in each of three age/talent Cinderella elements of the original story. As a result it feels categories will now have the opportunity to n the last 20 years, the Walt Disney Company Directed by Kenneth Branagh rather odd when, about halfway through, perform live on stage, where they will be has been steadily retooling its image as the Starring Lily James, Cate Blanchett, Helena Cinderella’s fairy godmother (Helena Bonham competing for top honors and prizes designed princess factory. Taking heed of criticism from Bonham Carter to hepl the actors further their acting careers. I Carter, unsurprisingly) shows up out of left field Rated PG Doors open at 6pm. Show starts at 8pm. modern feminists, the Mouse Corporation has to start granting wishes. Despite a somewhat Tickets are $10 each or two for $15 and are started making films that feature non-Caucasian Opens Friday 3/13 rocky transition, the magic is delivered with available through holdmyticket.com. This event women ( The Princess and the Frog ), proactive much wonderment and some nifty special effects. is sponsored by the New Mexico Film female leads ( Brave ) and protagonists that do not It’s clear no expense has been spared to make Foundation and the Southwest Arts Group. require rescuing from traditional romantic far out of shape (which some of those other films this a dazzling adaptation. The screenplay is princes ( Frozen ). But Disney also knows what certainly did). On the other hand, Cinderella penned by Chris Weitz (who wrote and/or side its bread is buttered on. More recently, the adds nothing whatsoever new to Disney’s 1950 produced and/or directed American Pie, About a Teaching authenticity company has been circling the wagons, appealing animated outing (aside from three- Boy, The Golden Compass and The Twilight Saga: The busy New Mexico Film Foundation is also to the nostalgia-minded, theme park-patronizing, dimensionality). This Cinderella is as sponsoring a two-day “Authenticity Workshop” New Moon ). The film is directed by no less than with acting coach Laura Gardner. The event merchandise-buying, traditional princess-loving straight-faced and unironic an adaptation as Kenneth Branagh ( Henry V, Hamlet, Thor ). In will take place at the African American loyalists out there. Swing past Cinderella’s Castle humanly possible. addition to Blanchett and Carter, noted Performing Arts Center at Expo New Mexico. at any Walt Disney Resort these days, and you Disney fans will eat it up. No doubt. The European actors Stellan Skarsgard, Derek Jacobi The two-day class (Saturday 11:30am to can hit up the Bibbidi Bobbidy Boutique for a ballgowns are enormous and super sparkly. The and Ben Chaplin fill in around the main 3:30pm and Sunday 10am to 5pm) will set you full-day “princess makeover.” Stop by Toys “R” castles are towering and wildly gilded. The characters, lending an air of acting back $185. A one-day Saturday class costs princes are appropriately hunky-yet-sensitive. $100, while the one-day Sunday class costs Us, and you’ll see Brave ’s empowerment-minded sophistication to the proceedings. And every $135. You can take a non-participatory audit of bows, books and video games have given way to But the story is thin as a worn-out slipper. With penny of the film’s no-doubt extravagant budget either day for $35. To register for classes, go to countless garish pink Frozen dresses. Over on TV no in-jokey references, no cynical reinvention is visible on screen. But at the end of the day, it eventbrite.com. For more details on the class ABC/Disney’s “Once Upon a Time” has added and no psychologically probing character work, amounts to so much princess porn. itself, got to lauragardner.org. Ursula from The Little Mermaid , Maleficent from this Cinderella is an unabashedly antiquated To be honest, the film does very little that’s Sleeping Beauty and Cruella de Vil from 101 romp though overly familiar territory. unpardonably wrong. It’s nice. It’s pretty. It’s Dalmatians as the big, bad villains of this new From the start you know exactly where this sweet. It’s not deep or clever or anything Youth of today season—despite the fact that 101 Dalmatians tale is going. After her merchant father passes resembling original. Weitz’ script is doggedly The 2015 Film or Flight Youth Film Festival isn’t a fairy tale. (At this point Disney might as away out on the road, Cinderella (the perfectly faithful to its source material, doing little to lands at KiMo Theatre (423 Central NW) this lovely Lily James from “Downton Abbey”) is Friday, March 13. From 7 to 10pm, a wide well admit the show isn’t about fairy tale correct the 300-odd-year-old tale’s many plot assortment of high school and college films characters come to life; it’s about officially forced to live with her evil stepmother (Cate holes. (Why does everything turn back into from the Albuquerque area will be highlighted. licensed Disney characters come to life. Add Blanchett, threatening to but never quite pumpkins and white mice at midnight—except Entrants were given just 72 hours in which to Mickey Mouse and Son of Flubber next season chewing the scenery) and her awful stepsisters for the plot-important glass slippers? How come create their mini-masterpieces. Come check and be done with it.) And on the movie front, (Holiday Grainger from “The Borgias” and the prince falls in love at first sight with out the results and cheer on your favorites. Disney is returning to the tried-and-true for Sophie McShera also from “Downton Abbey”). Cinderella, spends the entire evening with her— This event is hosted by Warehouse 508 and film!ABQ. Admission is free to the public. inspiration. Nowhere is that more evident than Poor Cinderella’s forced to clean the house, and then remembers nothing about her the next in Disney’s new yet totally old-school feature there’s a ball, a prince, a glass slipper, a happy day, other than her shoe size?) If modern culture Cinderella . ending: You know the drill. weren’t already cluttered with versions of this Q and A Unlike previous live-action For some reason the film appears to take tale (1998’s Ever After , 2004’s A Cinderella Story , Indie Q, film! ABQ’s quarterly celebration of remakes/sequels/prequels/reboots Alice in place in a real-world version of Regency Era 2004’s Ella Enchanted , 2011’s “Once Upon a Albuquerque’s vibrant local film scene, hits the Wonderland, Oz the Great and Powerful and England. Visually, it’s gorgeous, what with its Time,” 2014’s Into the Woods ) Cinderella might be KiMo Theatre this Wednesday, March 18, at Maleficent , Cinderella is no savvy reimagination Empire-style architecture, Romantic paintings essential viewing. But unless you’re a dyed-in- 7pm. Several recently completed local shorts of classic material. On the one hand, that’s good. and pre-Victorian fashions. However, the early the-wool princess fanatic, this is one beautifully will be featured. Admission is free. a Cinderella doesn’t stretch the source material too 19th-century setting feels way too modern to be ornate paint-by-numbers set. a [24 ] MARCH 12-18 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI TELEVISION | IDIOT BOX Dig It “Dig” on USA

Over the course of the show’s tightly directed BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY pilot, it’s more than hinted that this archeologist has been killed as part of some ancient, nable to compete against the big networks international conspiracy. She’s been with mere sitcom reruns and reality shows, participating in a controversial archeological dig U basic cable stations are now forced to up near the Temple Mount and may have their game. Stations like AMC (“The Walking uncovered a key item that’s causing a cabal of Dead,” “Better Call Saul”), WGN (“Salem,” Jewish mystics and end-times Christians to freak “Manhattan”) and History (“Vikings,” “Turn”) out. On the other side of the globe, somewhere are actively producing slick, expensive dramas in the New Mexican desert, a prophecy-spouting that go head-to-head with the material pay cable preacher (David Constabile) is raising a small station like HBO and Showtime are able to boy, possibly as the next savior—or, just as likely, crank out. USA Network, once home to such the exact opposite. How are these events cult shows as “Commander USA’s Groovie connected? Guess we’ll have to wait and see. Movies” and “Up All Night with Rhonda “Dig” clearly borrows a page from Dan Shear,” has spent the last few years developing Brown’s wildly popular conspiracy thrillers (like original series. “The 4400,” “In Plain Sight,” The Da Vinci Code ). But only a page. Brown’s “Psych,” “Burn Notice” and “White Collar” have works all read like academic reports written by a all demonstrated USA’s recent commitment to librarian. “Dig” is much more earthy, with curse fresh programming. But with the Biblically words, bloody shoot-outs and at least one errant minded thriller “Dig,” USA steps into a whole nipple. The show was supposed to shoot in new territory. Jerusalem itself, but (ironically) conflict in the “Dig” is a collaboration between producer- Middle East caused the production to flee to writer-creators Tim Kring (“Heroes”) and Croatia and the deserts of New Mexico. Gideon Raff (“Homeland”) and plays like a Wherever it’s filmed, the show looks dynamite. combination of their two famous shows. “Dig” This is the sort of epic, globe-hopping adventure centers around FBI Agent Peter Connelly (Jason that captures attention from the first glance. Isaacs, who played Lucius Malfoy in the Harry So far it’s looking like the show will be Potter series). Connelly is one of those concentrating on a collusion between Jewish and emotionally haunted types. He’s hiding out in Christian religious leaders to bring about the end Jerusalem, having fled the United States (and of the world. Producers are calling it an “event his wife) after the murder of his daughter. series,” meaning it will last only a single season. If Working with the US Consulate and they stay true to that, this should be one tight, occasionally sleeping with his boss (Anne tense series. Already the twists and turns it’s Heche), Connelly tries to keep a low profile. revealed are enough to make viewers crave When the murder of a young American answers. And with only 10 episodes, we should archeologist (singer-songwriter Alison Sudol) end up with some honest-to-god story resolution. hits a little too close to home, however, That, my dear USA, is something to strive for. a Connelly comes out of the woodwork for some serious detective work. “Dig” airs Thursdays at 8pm on USA.

(sort of) in 2014. DC comic of the same name—a young medical resident gets turned THE WEEK IN SUNDAY 15 into a zombie. Naturally, she seeks out a job at the local morgue for SLOTH Darby O’Gill and the Little People (TCM easy access to fresh brains. But 6pm) Turner Classic Movies gets you the brain-eating transfers the in the mood for St. Patrick’s Day with memories of the recently this 1959 fantasy starring Sean deceased—making our dead girl an THURSDAY 12 Connery (who’s Scottish, but ideal crime-solver. whatever). It’s followed at 7:45pm by “One Big Happy” (KOB-4 8:30pm) “ED On Air with Ellen Degeneres” (QVC I Captured the King of the Ellen Degeneres continues to 8pm) Could Ellen maybe have given Leprechauns , a making-of special expand her TV empire (see, for her shopping show a name that featuring Walt Disney himself. reference, “ED” above). In this didn’t remind QVC’s elderly viewers “The Royals” (E! 11pm) Tired of waiting wacky situation of a comedy, a of erectile dysfunction? for the real British royal family to young fella (Nick Zano) produce more scandal-worthy impregnates his lesbian best friend FRIDAY 13 headlines, E! simply makes up its (Elisha Cuthbert) and then marries own fake royal brood (including the hottie girl of his dreams (Kelly “SNL 40th Anniversary Special” (VH1 Elizabeth Hurley as the Queen MILF) Brook). 7pm) In case you missed it on NBC and builds a trashy soap opera the other week. The “Celebrity around it. Jeopardy” sketch is worth the price of WEDNESDAY 18 admission. The rest of it, less so. MONDAY 16 “Barely Famous” (VH1 7:30pm) Erin and Sara Foster, real-life daughters SATURDAY 14 “Dinosaurs: The Untold Story” (DFC of Grammy-winning producer David 6pm) Discovery Family Channel uses Foster, star in this kinda-sorta-but- Wuthering High School (Lifetime 6pm) new discoveries to reach back in time not-quite-unscripted What if Emily Brontë’s Wuthering to examine the survival and evolution “docu-comedy” which attempts to Heights were set in high school? of dinosaurs. This new series starts parody a camera crew’s efforts to Given the emo romance, the out-of- off with—appropriately enough—“The shadow the girls and make a reality control passions and the immaturity, Birth of the Dinosaurs.” show out of it. jealousy and poor behavior of the main characters, it kinda already is. “The Sound of Music 50th TUESDAY 17 Anniversary Special with Diane The Town That Dreaded Sundown (TCM Sawyer” (KOAT-7 9pm) Lady Gaga 12am) A hooded madman stalks the “Community” (Yahoo anytime) Dan was only the beginning, people! lovers’ lanes of Texarkana in this Harmon’s cult sitcom jumps ship from ABC pays tribute to the classic (loosely) fact-based account of a NBC and ends up on the internet. The musical with a one-hour special. 1946 killing spree. This 1976 cult dream is alive. Julie Andrews will probably be slasher from B-movie maniac Charles #sixseasonsandamovie! there. Christopher Plummer? B. Pierce ( The Legend of Boggy “iZombie” (KWBQ-19 8pm) In this Probably not. a Creek, The Evictors ) was remade horror comedy series—based on the

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Chappie BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY From the writer-director of District 9 and Elysium comes another South Africa-based sci-fi drama. In the near OPENING THIS WEEK future, Hugh Jackman has built an army of oppressive Cinderella robot cops to patrol the streets. But a rebellious scientist Reviewed this issue. 113 minutes. PG. (Opens Thursday (Dev Patel) and a couple of street thugs (Ninja and Yo- 3/12 at Century 14 Downtown, Century Rio, Rio Rancho Landi from Die Antwoord) kidnap one of the robots and Premiere Cinema, Cottonwood Stadium 16) reprogram it, teaching it the value of human life. The effects are amazing, but the story is sorely lacking in the The Duke of Burgundy sypathetic character department. 120 minutes. R. From weird, awesome Brit Peter Strickland (who wrote (Century Rio, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Century 14 and directed the Dario Argento-esque giallo tribute Downtown, Cottonwood Stadium 16) Berberian Sound Studio ) comes this creepily erotic ’70s throwback. If you know who Tinto Brass, Walerian The DUFF Borowczyk, Jess Franco and Jean Rollin are, you’ll be A young woman (Mae Whitman, “Arrested Development”) better prepared for this sexy pastiche about an shakes up the social order of high school after lepidopterist (Sidse Babett Knudsen) who plays kinky discovering she’s been labeled a “DUFF” (Designated games with her lesbian lover (Chiara D’Anna) in a remote Ugly Fat Friend) by her more popular pals. Naturally, this castle. 104 minutes. Unrated. (Opens Friday 3/13 at is accomplished though the time-honored magic of the Guild Cinema) cinematic makeover. As in all Pygmalion -inspired romcoms, this is easily accomplished, since our “fat” and Le Trou “ugly” heroine is clearly neither. Think John Hughes with Four long-term inmates plan an elaborate escape from hashtags ... and you’re trying a lot harder than this prison in this tense, French film noir offering from 1960. formulaic tween comedy is. 101 minutes. PG-13. Director Jacques Becker, who died just weeks after (Century 14 Downtown, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, shooting the film, used mostly non-actors in the lead Century Rio, Cottonwood Stadium 16) roles—including one man who was involved in the actual 1947 escape attempt on which this story is based. In Fifty Shades of Grey French with English subtitles. 132 minutes. Unrated. Every couple of years, the publishing industry spits out an (Opens Saturday 3/14 at Guild Cinema) erotic novel to remind housewives that naughty sex is a good thing. From Fanny Hill to Story of O to Fear of Flying to Exit to Eden , these books have been snapped up and Run All Night The Duke of Burgundy Terrorists, criminal kingpins and bad guys in general: hidden in bedside tables for decades. Today, we’ve got When are you going to stop threatening members of Liam E.L. James’ smash hit novel Fifty Shades of Grey . This ripe Neeson’s family? It never ends well for you. Neeson—still bit of “mommy porn” started out life as a piece of Twilight young spy’s perfectly aloof bad-ass of a trainer. Samuel L. inuendo-filled comedy they were looking for. So in full-on, ass-kicking, old-man mode—stars as a mob fan fic written under the pen name “Snowqueen’s Jackson is the high-tech baddie. 129 minutes. R. everybody from director ( Shakespeare in Love ’s John hitman who accidentally (sorta) shoots his boss’ son. As Icedragon.” The author changed the character names, got (Century 14 Downtown, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Madden) to cast (Dev Patel, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, expected, the boss man (Ed Harris) doesn’t take to kindly a better nom de plume, and the rest is history. The movie Century Rio, Cottonwood Stadium 16) Bill Nighy) have returned for more of the same. Seems to the action and pledges to execute our protagonist’s may be slightly more literate, but it’s sadistically boring. the now successful retirement hotel in Jaipur, India, has offspring (Joel Kinnaman from “The Killing”). Our hitman Nothing happens. At some point nothing stops happening A La Mala only one vacancy left, prompting newcomers (including antihero has just one night to figure out where his and the credits roll. 125 minutes. R. (Century 14 From Mexico comes this lightweight rom-com about an Richard Gere) to fight for space. 122 minutes. PG. (Rio loyalties lie and how many people have to die before Downtown, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Century Rio, attractive, aspiring actress (popular TV star Aislinn Rancho Premiere Cinema, Century 14 Downtown, Century dawn. Spaniard Jaume Collett-Serra ( Orphan, Unknown, Cottonwood Stadium 16) Derbez) who promises to help a friend with a little Rio, Cottonwood Stadium 16) Non-Stop ) directs this violent action thriller. 114 minutes. domestic problem—pretending to flirt with her boyfriend R. (Opens Thursday 3/12 at Century 14 Downtown, Focus in order to test his fidelity. This leads our heroine to a Selma Century Rio, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Cottonwood Will Smith is a big-money con man who hires a new whole new, lucrative career. As is the nature of these This serious, dutiful biopic chronicles Dr. Martin Luther Stadium 16) “intern” in the form of sexy but naive Margot Robbie ( The things, she eventually falls in love for real with one of her King Jr.’s campaign to secure equal voting rights via a Wolf of Wall Street ). Years later she returns as an “marks.” In Spanish with English subtitles. 99 minutes. groundbreaking march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., The Seven Year Itch accomplished femme fatale to throw a monkey wrench (Century Rio) in 1965. David Oyelowo ( Lee Daniels’ The Butler ) is While his family is out of town for the summer, mild- into his best-laid plans. The actors are having fun, but the perfect as King. Cuba Gooding Jr., Tim Roth, Giovanni mannered New Yorker Tom Ewell considers cheating on script gets needlessly bogged down in “clever” twists. 104 The Lazarus Effect Ribisi, Carmen Ejogo, Alessandro Nivola, Martin Sheen, his wife with new neighbor Marilyn Monroe. ... Well, yeah . minutes. R. (Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Century 14 From the director of Jiro Dreams of Sushi (really?) comes Tom Wilkinson and Oprah Winfrey round out the important Billy Wilder directed this sophisticated sex comedy back Downtown, Century Rio, Cottonwood Stadium 16) this inexpensive, Insidious/Sinister -esque horror flick cast. 128 minutes. PG-13. (SUB Theater) in 1955, and it’s still a classic. 105 minutes. Unrated. about a bunch of med students who discover a way to (Opens Sunday 3/15 at Century 14 Downtown, Century The Imitation Game bring the dead back to life—with predictably ghostly The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Rio) America’s British boyfriend Benedict Cumberbatch stars repercussions. The atypical cast includes “The O.C.” babe Water as famed mathematician Alan Turing in this real-life Olivia Wilde, mumblecore director/actor Mark Duplass When the secret formula for Krabby Patties goes missing, Winter Sleep biopic about Turing’s efforts to decipher the infamous and Evan Peters (from “American Horror Story”). 83 SpongeBob and his pals (Patrick, Squidward, Sandy, Mr. Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central German Enigma code during World War II. The film is very minutes. PG-13. (Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Century Krabs) venture into the real world (featuring a mix of live- Anatolia with his young wife, with whom he has a stormy tasteful and “Masterpiece Theatre”-ish. But Turing’s story 14 Downtown, Century Rio, Cottonwood Stadium 16) action and 3D animation) to recover it from a dastardly relationship, and his sister, who is suffering from her of professional triumph and personal tragedy is terribly pirate (Antonio Banderas ... no, really). Also, they become recent divorce. As winter begins to set in, the three compelling stuff. Based on the book by Andrew Hodges. McFarland, USA superheroes. Yeah, SpongeBob doesn’t make a lot of protagonists are trapped inside, lending fuel to their 114 minutes. PG-13. (Century 14 Downtown) This Disney-produced “based on the inspirational true sense. But it’s awesome. 93 minutes. PG. (Century 14 animosities. This engrossing character study from Turkish story” sports flick is pure formula. But it’s a formula that Downtown, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Century Rio, master Nuri Bilge Ceylan ( Once Upon a Time in Anatolia ) Jupiter Ascending works. Kevin Costner is a high school coach exiled to a Cottonwood Stadium 16) won the Palm d’Or award at the Cannes Film Festival. In The filmmakers formerly known as the Wachowski dirtwater farming community in California. There, he English and Turkish with English subtitles. 196 minutes. brothers ( The Matrix, Cloud Atlas ) are responsible for this creates a winning cross country running team with some Still Alice Unrated. (Opens Friday 3/13 at Guild Cinema) madly over-conceptualized, pulp sci-fi doohickey. Mila of the ragtag local migrant worker kids. It’s all very Julianne Moore gives an Oscar-nominated performance in Kunis is a poor, Chicago house cleaner who finds out the familiar, but director Niki Caro ( Whale Rider ) shows this straightforward drama about an intellectual college Earth is just an “estate” built and populated by an considerable sympathy to the impoverished farm workers professor learning to cope with early-onset Alzheimer’s. ancient alien dynasty—and that she’s the long-lost queen depicted here. Reviewed in v24 i8. 129 minutes. PG. (Rio Her family reacts in different ways, but it’s her estranged STILL PLAYING of the galaxy. The story is a transparent fairy tale about a Rancho Premiere Cinema, Century Rio, Cottonwood daughter (a bohemian wannabe actress played missing princess in (frequent) need of rescuing and the Stadium 16, Century 14 Downtown) surprisingly well by Kristen Stewart) who conjures up the American Sniper dashing knight (Channing Tatum) who protects her from most empathy for mom’s plight. The film is smart, Reliable but rarely more than workmanlike director Clint her evil royal family. On top of that familiar framework, the Paddington sensitive to its subject and exceedingly small in scope. Eastwood helms this biopic based on the biography of Wachowski siblings have added bits of Buck Rogers, The beloved British picture book character gets the Reviewed in v24 i7. 101 minutes. PG-13. (Century Rio, Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle. Bradley Cooper is excellent, Flash Gordon, Dune , The Matrix , Brazil and The Fifth requisite CGI makeover for the movies. Ben Whishaw Cottonwood Stadium 16) running through all the emotions of our main character as Element . It’s entirely ridiculous, but damned if it isn’t eye- (Skyfall ) voices the raincoat-wearing Peruvian bear who he goes from front-line shellshocked to home-front poppingly pretty and filled with zippy, zappy ends up lost and alone at a London train station. He gets Unfinished Business rehabilitated. But Eastwood waffles too much between entertainment. 127 minutes. PG-13. (Century Rio) adopted by a kindly family (led by Hugh Bonneville and Vince Vaughn, Tom Wilkinson and the increasingly reliable gung-ho patriotism and a more reasoned examination of Sally Hawkins) and has some episodic adventures. Nicole Dave Franco star in this raunchy comedy about a the horrors our modern military men and women are Kingsman: The Secret Service Kidman plays the villain, an evil taxidermist. Because hardworking small business owner and his two associates asked to endure. It wants to tackle some big moral Matthew Vaughn ( Layer Cake, X-Men: First Class ) directs there has to be a villain in these sorts of things. 95 who travel to Europe to close an important business deal. issues, but unlike Eastwood’s Unforgiven , it can’t break this fast, funny, impossibly kinetic action flick based on minutes. PG. (Cottonwood Stadium 16) Just to make things entertaining, everything that could go the Hollywood formula long enough to find the the comic book by Mark Millar ( Kick-Ass, Wanted ). wrong does—from an unplanned stop at a massive sex metaphorical weight behind the story. 132 minutes. R. Newcomer Taron Egerton stars as a trendy British street The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel fetish event to a riot at a global economic summit. 91 (Century Rio, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Cottonwood kid who gets recruited to a top-secret spy agency that’s, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel gave audiences the exact minutes. R. (Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Century 14 Stadium 16) like, James Bond cranked up to 11. Colin Firth is the dose of twee elderly romance, exotic locals and faintly Downtown, Century Rio, Cottonwood Stadium 16) a

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CENTURY 14 DOWNTOWN Focus Fri-Thu 11:30am, 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 10:10 100 Central SW • 1 (800) 326-3264 ext. 943# McFarland, USA Fri-Thu 12:20, 3:45, 7:00, 10:10 KIngsman: The Secret Service Fri-Thu 11:55am, 3:15, 6:50, The Seven Year Itch Sun 2:00; Wed 2:00, 7:00 10:00 McFarland, USA Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15; Mon-Thu Fifty Shades of Grey Fri-Thu 12:20, 3:30, 7:15, 10:15 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water Fri-Thu Run All Night Fri-Sun 11:50am, 2:35, 5:20, 8:05, 10:50; 11:35am, 4:25, 6:50 Mon-Thu 11:50am, 2:35, 5:20, 8:05 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water 3D Fri-Thu Cinderella Fri-Sun 12:15, 1:45, 3:00, 4:35, 5:50, 7:30, 2:00, 9:30 8:35, 10:15; Mon-Thu 12:15, 1:45, 3:00, 4:35, 5:50, 7:30 Paddington Fri-Thu 11:40am, 2:05, 4:30, 7:10, 9:35 Unfinished Business Fri-Sun 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, American Sniper Fri-Thu 12:05, 3:25, 6:45, 9:50 10:10; Mon-Wed 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45; Thu 12:30, 2:55 GUILD CINEMA The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:20, 3405 Central NE • 255-1848 7:10, 10:00; Mon-Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:10 Chappie Fri-Sun 1:55, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30; Mon-Thu 1:55, Winter Sleep Fri-Thu 4:00 4:50, 7:40 The Duke of Burgundy Fri-Thu 8:00 The Lazarus Effect Fri-Sun 1:25, 3:40, 5:55, 8:10, 10:25; Le Trou Sat-Sun 1:00 Mon-Wed 1:25, 3:40, 5:55, 8:10; Thu 1:25, 3:40 Focus Fri-Sun 11:40am, 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 10:05; Mon-Thu HIGH RIDGE 11:40am, 2:15, 4:50, 7:25 12910 Indian School NE • 275-0038 The DUFF Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 9:35; Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:25, 7:00; Thu 1:50, 4:25 Please check alibi.com/filmtimes for films and times. KIngsman: The Secret Service Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:20; Mon-Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:20 MOVIES 8 Fifty Shades of Grey Fri-Sat 1:35, 4:35, 7:35, 10:35; Sun 4591 San Mateo NE • 1 (800) Fandango, express # 1194 7:35, 10:35; Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:35, 7:35; Thu 1:35, 4:35, 7:35 Blackhat Fri-Thu 3:30, 10:05 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water Fri-Sun Taken 3 Fri-Thu 11:05am, 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 11:45am, 2:05, 4:30, 7:05, 9:30; Mon-Wed 11:45am, The Wedding Ringer Fri-Thu 11:20am, 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 2:05, 4:30, 7:05; Thu 11:45am, 2:05, 4:30 10:10 The Imitation Game Fri 11:35am, 2:25, 5:05, 7:55, 10:40; Strange Magic Fri-Thu 11:10am, 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Sat 5:05, 7:55, 10:40; Sun 11:35am, 2:25, 5:05, 7:55, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 1 Fri-Thu 12:30, 10:40; Mon-Tue 11:35am, 2:25, 5:05, 7:55; Wed 3:50, 7:10, 10:20 11:35am, 2:25; Thu 11:35am, 2:25, 5:05, 7:55 Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb Fri-Thu 11:00am, 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 CENTURY RIO The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Fri-Thu 11:30am, I-25 & Jefferson • 1 (800) 326-3264 6:20 The Hobbit: The Battle of the FIve Armies 3D Fri-Thu 2:50, The Seven Year Itch Sun 2:00; Wed 2:00, 7:00 9:50 Run All Night Fri-Thu 10:30am, 12:00, 1:35, 3:05, 4:40, Into the Woods Fri-Thu 12:10, 6:40 6:15, 7:45, 9:15, 10:45 Big Hero 6 Fri-Thu 12:00, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Cinderella Fri-Thu 10:50am, 11:20am, 11:50am, 12:20, 12:50, 1:20, 1:55, 2:25, 2:55, 3:25, 3:55, 4:25, 5:00, MOVIES WEST 5:30, 6:00, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:05, 8:35, 9:05, 9:35, 9201 Coors NW • 1 (800) Fandango, express # 1247 10:05, 10:35, 11:10, 11:40; Sat 10:50am, 11:20am, 11:50am, 12:20, 12:50, 1:20, 2:25, 2:55, 3:25, 3:55, Blackhat Fri-Thu 6:50, 10:00 4:25, 5:00, 5:30, 6:00, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:05, 8:35, Taken 3 Fri-Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 9:05, 9:35, 10:05, 10:35, 11:10, 11:40; Sun-Thu The Wedding Ringer Fri-Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 10:50am, 11:20am, 11:50am, 12:20, 12:50, 1:20, 1:55, Project Almanac Fri-Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:10 2:25, 2:55, 3:25, 3:55, 4:25, 5:00, 5:30, 6:00, 6:30, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 1 Fri-Thu 1:05, 4:05, 7:00, 7:30, 8:05, 8:35, 9:05, 9:35, 10:05, 10:35 7:05, 10:05 Unfinished Business Fri-Thu 11:50am, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb Fri-Thu 12:00, 10:30 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Fri-Sat 11:20am, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Fri-Thu 12:10 12:55, 2:30, 4:05, 5:40, 7:15, 8:50, 10:25, 12:01am; The Hobbit: The Battle of the FIve Armies 3D Fri-Thu 3:30 Sun-Thu 11:20am, 12:55, 2:30, 4:05, 5:40, 7:15, 8:50, Into the Woods Fri-Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 10:25 Big Hero 6 Fri-Thu 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 Chappie Fri 10:35am, 11:40am, 12:45, 1:45, 2:50, 3:55, 4:55, 5:55, 7:05, 8:05, 9:10, 10:15, 11:15; Sat 10:35am, RIO RANCHO PREMIERE CINEMA 12:45, 1:45, 3:55, 4:55, 5:55, 7:05, 8:05, 9:10, 10:15, 1000 Premiere Parkway • 994-3300 11:15; Sun-Thu 10:35am, 11:40am, 12:45, 1:45, 3:55, 4:55, 5:55, 7:05, 8:05, 9:10, 10:15, 11:15 Run All Night Fri-thu 11:10am, 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Still Alice Fri 12:25, 6:55; Sat 6:55; Sun-Thu 12:25, 6:55 Cinderella Fri-Thu 11:00am, 12:15, 1:45, 3:00, 4:30, 5:50, A La Mala Fri 10:30am, 1:20, 4:10, 6:55, 9:50; Sat 10:30, 7:15, 8:40, 10:00 1:20; Sun 10:30am, 6:55, 9:50; Mon-Tue 10:30am, 1:20, Unfinished Business Fri-Wed 11:00am, 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 4:10, 6:55, 9:50; Wed 10:30am, 9:50 8:00, 10:15; Thu 11:00am, 1:15, 3:30, 5:45 The Lazarus Effect Fri-Thu 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:35 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Fri-Wed 11:20am, Focus Fri-Thu 10:35am, 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 2:20, 5:25, 8:30; Thu 11:20am, 2:20, 8:30 McFarland, USA Fri-Thu 12:10, 3:30, 6:50, 10:10 Chappie Fri-Thu 1:05, 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 The DUFF Fri-Thu 11:00am, 1:50, 4:40, 7:25, 10:20 Focus Fri-Thu 12:10am, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 KIngsman: The Secret Service Fri-Thu 12:20, 3:40, 7:00, The Lazarus Effect Fri-Wed 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00; 10:20 Thu 12:20, 2:45, 5:10 Fifty Shades of Grey Fri-Thu 1:10, 4:20, 7:30, 10:40 The DUFF Fri-Thu 11:15am, 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 9:35 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water Fri-Thu McFarland, USA Fri-Wed 11:30am, 2:35, 5:40, 8:45; Thu 10:40am, 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 11:30am, 2:35 Jupiter Ascending Fri 3:35, 10:05; Sat 10:05; Sunn-Thu Fifty Shades of Grey Fri-Wed 11:10am, 2:05, 4:55, 7:45, 3:35, 10:05 10:35; Thu 11:10am, 2:05, 4:55 American Sniper Fri-Thu 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:25 KIngsman: The Secret Service Fri-Thu 12:25, 3:30, 6:35, 9:40 COTTONWOOD STADIUM 16 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water Fri-Thu Cottonwood Mall • 897-6858 11:10am, 1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 American Sniper Fri-Thu 12:15, 3:20, 6:25, 9:30 Run All Night Fri-Thu 11:45am, 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 Cinderella Fri-Thu 11:15am, 12:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:45, 7:00, SUB THEATER 7:30, 9:45, 10:15 UNM (Student Union Building Room 1003) • 277-5608 Unfinished Business Fri-Thu 11:30am, 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 9:45 Selma Tue 8:00; Wed 4:00, 7:00; Thu 3:30 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Fri-Thu 11:35am, Ways to Live Forever Thu 7:00 2:45, 6:55, 9:55 Chappie Fri-Thu 12:10, 3:10, 7:30, 10:25 WINROCK STADIUM 16 IMAX & RPX The DUFF Fri-Thu 11:35am, 2:10, 4:45, 7:30, 10:05 2100 Louisiana Blvd. NE • 881-2220 Still Alice Fri-Thu 12:30, 3:50, 7:00, 9:55 The Lazarus Effect Fri-Thu 12:00, 2:15, 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 Please check alibi.com/filmtimes for films and times.

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WEEKLY ALIBI MARCH 12-18, 2015 [29 ] ABQ MUSIC HISTORY MUSIC | Show Up! BY AUGUST MARCH An Interview with Dwight Amid the Glow and the Glare Loop, Pt. II Four shows that illuminate Dwight Loop’s first venture promoting electronic and experimental music in our state was New Music New Mexico. By the mid ’80s, Saturday Loop had expanded his reach, bringing an Speaking of the lower extremities, Sister (407 innovative series of concerts to local venues. Central NW) plays host to the CD release Then he reached out even further with party of progressive blues battery The Lymbs collaborative work on both coasts. Finally and post-millenium, he returned to New Mexico. on Saturday, March 14. Gage Bickerstaff and Jeff Bell take on a diverse set of influences Alibi: What kind of performances and ranging from the blues and classic rock (add collaborations resulted from New Music New Mexico? your own Led Zeppelin reference here), Dwight Loop: During that period in time, I was revisioning it loudly and intricately for our busy cultivating the experimental scene through sunny desert clime. Both of these dudes have grants. We received funding from the National chops out to there: Bickerstaff studied with Endowment for the Arts (NEA). In the early ’80s, UNM guitar maestro Michael Chapdelaine I had an urge to begin working with different ensembles. ... We wouldn’t all necessarily play at and Bell undertook drum lessons with local the same time, but [we] would contribute duo and uber-percussionist Jeff Cornelius before trio work; it was called Circuits. There were deciding rock and roll music was a plausible performances at the KiMo and one at Keller Hall. answer to all the questions they had been The first concert featured Larry Otis (the guitar asking. tech at Grandma’s Music), Bob Chozek and myself. We incorporated modern dance as well as Supporting acts at this uniquely rocking projections. John Cline of The Planets did the exhibition of the power of local music include sound. Maurice Methot, a friend who was Sit Kitty Sit and Timestable . There will also teaching electronic music at the university, got be an opening performance by School of Rock involved as did cellist Tom McVeety. Cellists have student Allison Sherrill , as well as a guitar always been interesting to me as electronic musicians because of the tonalities they work raffle by the fine folks at Music Go Round (I’m with. We wanted to create a total experience— not entering unless the axe in question is a something that flowed from one idea to another Rickenbacher 360). Anywho, per custom, it seamlessly. will cost you five dollars to get into Sister that What happened as the ’80s segued into night for a 21-plus show that begins at 9pm. the ’90s and beyond? The doors open at 8pm. It’s been a real journey. My ears have always been open to a lot of different things. For me, electronic Ian COURTESY OF ARTIST music has always been the new classical music. I Sunday Consider The Source , a far-out instrumental ended up in the Bay Area after working in New Rongiiland and Chill Phil twist their sonic BY AUGUST MARCH trio of intergalactically tuned-in and spaced- York on something called Big Sound, an output into a jangly, glitchy and synth-laden interactive collaboration. ... An old friend of mine out musicians from Nueva York, makes an stream of dark intentions and bright outcomes from St. John’s in Santa Fe invited me to come to nd if you feel that you can’t go on. appearance at Low Spirits (2832 Second with tunes like “Seeing Other People” but can New York to program samples for his project. And your will’s sinkin’ low/ Just Street NW) on Sunday, March 15. Guitarist Then I got called to the Bay Area. I always liked still rock it hard and heavy as evidenced by believe and you can’t go wrong/ In the Gabriel Marin plays a fretless, double-neck Berkeley; the scene reminded me of Ann Arbor, “A “Mars Attackz.” light you will find the road/ You will find the guitar with MIDI capability; bassist John Mich. It was a progressive place. There was San Francisco lo-fi alt-popsters Emotional , electronic music everywhere. I listened to The road/ Oh, did you ever believe that I could Ferrara slaps a Fodera bass and percussionist whose meandering millennial paean to lost Residents and Tuxedomoon. I thought to myself, leave you, standing out in the cold/ I know Jeff Mann employs classical tala techniques in causes “She Dropped Out of College” got stuck “I’m going to come and live out here.” I had no idea how it feels ‘cause I have slipped through to his quest for a higher sense of order amidst the I’d spend the next 10 years there. I collaborated in my ear last weekend, share the bill. Local the very depths of my soul/ Baby, I just want to sonic chaos unleashed by a trio as equally with a light artist named Lynn Augustine from luminaries Lady Uranium (Mauro Woody) Cobalt Sun in Sausalito, Calif. We rented a huge show you what a clear view it is from every influenced by metal as it is by fusion, Middle and Brides , an experimental rock unit space, blacked out the walls and turned it into an bend in the road/ Now, listen to me.–“In the Eastern musical traditions and the jazz of John featuring members of REIGHNBEAU, Train experiential art project. Steve Roach and I worked Light” by Led Zeppelin from the album Coltrane. Muscular, poly-rhythmic and Conductor and Small Flightless Birds, opens together, and he became a good friend of mine. Physical Graffiti suitably intense for Sunday evening, Consider We performed at Grace Cathedral in San up the proverbial can of earworms that will no Francisco. I performed my Hanab Ku Trilogy The Source fucking rocks. Dear concertgoers, some relevant musically doubt infect listeners that evening. All this there. It was based on the idea of a galactic radio Pherkad , a progressive post-metal quintet from station, and it was real deep space music. Lynn did related items follow. Physical Graffiti was new music can be witnessed for only five Pistoia, Italy whose work literally screams with all the lighting.. released just over 40 years ago. Some dudes in bucks. It’s an all-ages affair that takes flight at complexity and references to the deepest metal the music industry celebrated the fact by re- 8pm. I’ve always been fascinated by the work underground, opens the show. Pherkad’s you created while in New York. Can you tell issuing the landmark album. There’s a output balances science and mysticism whilst me more about it? smattering of darkness and of light on this last Friday in the midst of a sonic overdrive guaranteed to With the Big Sound project, we did stuff at the great album by Zep (take my word for it, the In the light that figures so prominently this Palladium and The Kitchen. I also worked with cause involuntary head-banging while you penultimate Presence and last stand In Through week, it’s almost certain El Lay will come up. Julia Heyward, who had collaborated with Laurie question the very nature of the universe and the Out Door don’t even compare) but the It’s always sunny there, sabes ? And what better Anderson. The result was a multimedia its beginning and end. This 21-plus trip to the performance called “Miracles in Reverse.” On the parts about light are pertinent to this week’s example of that can there be but Ian , an land of pulsating guitars and thundering last night of the performance, Anderson and Lou column. For one thing the light of spring has angelic power trio playing at The Tannex Reed showed up. It was really fun, and I got to do returned. Second, it’s easy enough to apply the (1417 Fourth NW) on Friday, March 13. rhythm sections will cost the average listener a lot of great things in the two years I was there. Driven by a daydreamy aesthetic punctuated seven bones. The doors to this other world It’s a continuing saga really—a trip. lyrics printed above to your weekly show- attending frenzy. Believe. Step into the light by plaintive guitar antics and wispy, ennui- yawn wide at 7pm and the music begins at Why did you return to New Mexico? and get a clear view of what awaits. In this engendered vocal stylings, Ian will probably 8pm. Things evolved. I decided it was time. New Mexico case it’s four awesome, upcoming concerts. knock your socks off and cause you to run always felt like my home, and I’m continuing my barefoot toward the nearest beach with songs work here at home. I recently recorded Dream Listen to me: After this weekend of mighty Jungle Music , which is kind of tribal-trance stuff Thursday such as “Born Good” and “I Don’t Care.” musical indulgence, you pretty much have to that mixes old school conceits with tribal beats. I On Thursday, March 12, Townie Productions Burque’s Bone Forest begins the night’s go on. Don’t worry though, your journey will discovered Ableton Live, a computer-based tool takes the former home of Watson Custom procession into glowing goodness with a set of be augmented by the experiences to be had that really expanded my compositional output. Builders to new depths. The joint has been power jams designed to give pause to your here in Burque concert-land. Since spring is Right now, I’m doing an old-school album. I’m also sunny and shoeless later-day inclinations. And planning a solo electronic show, and shopping renamed The Mountain (319 Mountain NW) well on its way, you can also forget about being venues for that as we speak. I want to express a and will play host to an awesomely arresting you may attend this all-ages extravaganza for a left out in the cold. Oh, and the light, stay in lifetime in electronic music as a solid series of performance by a rocanrol duo called Love measly five Washingtons. It all begins at it; stay in the light. a moments or events. a Cop . Portlandia’s passionate police Duffy 7:30pm at the edge of Barelas, yo. [30 ] MARCH 12-18 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI New Shows,New Lineup, More Laughs,More Insight

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WEEKLY ALIBI MARCH 12-18 , 2015 [31 ] Americana • 6 -8pm • FREE Music THE COOPERAGE Taarka • acoustic Americana, gypsy jazz • 8pm • $15 Calendar CORRALES BISTRO BREWERY , Corrales Pawn Drive • The Dawn Hotel • folk rock • 6 -9pm • FREE DIRTY BOURBON Arizona Moonshine • $5 • Sim THURSDAY MARCH 12 Balkey • 9pm EL REY THEATER Bro Safari • CRNKN • dance, THE BLUE GRASSHOPPER BREW PUB , Rio electronic • 9pm -midnight • $21.99 Rancho SweetSpot • rock, blues • pop • 6:30 -9pm • EMBERS STEAKHOUSE , Isleta CasinoBad FREE • ALL -AGES! Katz Trio +1 • 6pm • FREE DIRTY BOURBON Arizona Moonshine • 9pm • $5 LAUNCHPAD St. Punktrick’s Day 2015: The EMBERS STEAKHOUSE , Isleta CasinoEryn Unemploid • Brassknuckle Boys • Rebilt • Fire to the Bent • indie, folk • 6pm • FREE Rescue • Cobra vs Mongoose • The Lords of Wilmoore • HOTEL ANDALUZ Jesus Bas y MÁS • 7pm • The Car Bombs • Annihilate • The Dying Beds • punk • ALL -AGES! 8pm LAUNCHPAD Through The Roots • Mondo Vibrations • LOUNGE 54 @ SANTA ANA STAR , InnaState • rock, reggae • 7:30pm • $8 • ALL -AGES! BernalilloThe DCN Project • funk, soul • 9pm • LIZARD TAIL BREWING Kamikaze Karaoke • FREE 7:30 -11:30pm • FREE • ALL -AGES! LOW SPIRITSGilded Cage Burlesk & Varieté present THE MOUNTAIN Love Cop • Emotional • Lady Feast of Flesh! • burlesque • 8pm • $10 Uranium • smearwave, dustpop • MINE SHAFT TAVERN , MadridOld Time Brides • 8pm • See “Show Up!” Robot • bluegrass, Sting • 5 -7pm • Dirty Brown Jug OUTPOST PERFORMANCE SPACE Lee Konitz • Band • country, bluegrass • 8pm • FREE jazz • 7:30pm • $25 NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER POSH NIGHTCLUB Throwback Thursday • 9pm • Sofía Rei • South American, vocalist • 7:30 -10:30pm • FREE $12 -$22 Q BAR Latin Gold Thursday • 8pm NEDS BAR & GRILLDave Paul Band • blues rock • SANTA FE SOL, SantaFe Satellite Sky 6pm • Edric Experience • dance variety, rock • 9pm • (Australia) • Indie • 7pm • $7 FREE SISTERB. Dolan • Rubedo • Wheelchair Sports Camp • PUEBLO HARVEST CAF Felix y los Gatos • Kron Jeremy • hip-hop • 8pm • $10 Americana, Creole funk • 6pm • $10 includes pizza • SKYLIGHT , SantaFe Dan Johnson and the Salt ALL -AGES! Cedar Rebels • honky tonk • 7pm • Latin Night • 9pm • Q BAR Various DJs • 8pm • FREE $5 SANTA FE SOL, SantaFe Los De Esta Noche • ST. CLAIR WINERY & BISTROLarry Friedman • Texas Garage cumbia • Nosotros • salsa • 9pm • $10 6-9pm SHERATON UPTOWN HOTEL SWAG duo • jazz, TRIPLE SEVENS, Isleta CasinoKaraoke • blues, Motown • 6 -9pm • FREE • ALL -AGES! 9:30pm • FREE SIDELINES SPORTS GRILLE & BARThe Click • WINNING COFFEE CO. Above Average Open Mic • classic rock • 9pm -1am • FREE originals only, poets welcome • 7 -9pm • FREE • SKYLIGHT , SantaFe Bonkerz Comedy with Rob ALL -AGES! Holloway • 8pm • $10 • The Alchemy Party • 9pm • $7 • ZINC WINE BAR & BISTROIsland of Black and Reggae Dancehall Fridays • 10:30pm White • acoustic rock, reggae, blues • SNEAKERZ Twisted Mojo • rockin’ blues • 6 -9pm 9:30pm -midnight • FREE STAGE @ SANTA ANA STAR , Bernalillo Escape Friday: DJ Devin • Chris de Jesus • 9pm FRIDAY MARCH 13 ST. CLAIR WINERY & BISTROJoan Cere • 6-9pm ABQ BREW PUB MoonHat • soul, rock • 7 -10pm • TANNEX Bone Forest • power jams • Ian • FREE fuzzy, ghostly rock • 7:30 -10pm • $5 • ALBUQUERQUE DOWNS Fat City • Latin, reggae, ALL -AGES! • See “Show Up!” swing • 9pm -1am • No Cover TLUR PA LOUNGE , Sandia Resort and BIEN SHUR Rodney Bowe & Sweetlife • 9pm • FREE Casino Shining Star • 9:30pm • FREE CARAVAN EAST Kevin Chavez Band • country, TRACTOR BREWERY WELLS PARK Luckyiam • variety • 5pm • $5 COOLWATER FUSION RESTAURANT Willy J • Music Calendar continues on page 34

EVENT | PREVIEW 4AD 4 LYFE! On Tuesday March 17, haul your bad self down to Sister (407 Central NW) for a truly ass-kicking show by 4AD recording artist Merchandise. Difficult to categorize but enthralling to listen to, the music of this Tampa, Fla. trio gathers the essential elements TUESDAY of punk, art rock, MARCH 17 psychedelia and Sister pop-balladeering. 407 Central NW Members Carson alibi.com/e/133220 Cox, Dave 9pm Vassaloti and Patrick Brady then deconstruct each genre, rebuilding the disparate parts into a total sonic experience that lends deep meaning and awesome listenability to the term “new music.” After recently joining the 4AD roster, the band released After the End in autumn 2014. Touring alongside Merchandise are Dallas, Texas thrashers Power Trip, a speedy punk- meets-heavy metal unit that features Riley Gale on vocals and Blake Ibenez and Nick Stewart frantically playing guitar. Drummer Chris Ulsh and bassist Chris Whetzel make up the thunderous rhythm section of a band whose work includes song titles like “Manifest Decimation” and “Conditioned to Death.” Presale tickets for this night of new and sometimes dark tuneage are $10 at holdmyticket.com The doors to this 21-plus gig open at 8pm, and the righteous rock music begins at 9pm. (August March) a

[32 ] MARCH 12-18, 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI WEEKLY ALIBI MARCH 12-18 , 2015 [33 ] piano • 6 -9pm • FREE SONIC REDUCER Music Calendar continued from page 32 MONDAY MARCH 16 Lady Lamb variety • 5pm • $10 COOLWATER FUSION RESTAURANT Comedy Showcase BURT’S TIKI LOUNGE The Shondes • queercore • Constant After with John Cueller • 9 -11pm • FREE Harmony with Hailey Wojcik • 9:30pm • FREE (Mom + Pop ) THE COOPERAGE Nosotros • salsa • 9:30pm -1am • $7 COOLWATER FUSION RESTAURANT Oscar Butler • As Lady Lamb shed the DIRTY BOURBON Arizona Moonshine • 9pm • $5 contemporary, folk • 6 -8pm • FREE last half of her moniker, DRAFT STATION SWAG duo • jazz, blues, Motown • IRON HAUS Sublime Southwestern Sound: Ohioan • Trial she also parted with any 7-10pm • FREE • ALL -AGES! Of The Century • Chicharra • 10am • $5 donation • shred of insecurity that ENVY @ ROUTE 66 CASINO DJ Kaos • electro, hip-hop • might have lingered on her ALL -AGES! 8pm LAUNCHPAD Castle • Cicada • Fallen Prophets • metal • first full-length Ripely Pine . Her second effort THE JAM SPOT Motion Theatre • The Hand That Feeds • (After ) bears the striking confidence of a 9:30pm • $5 -$7 Acceptable Losses • Sailor • Everyday Action Heros • songwriter who’s become more comfortable in LIZARD TAIL BREWING Open Mic Night • 7pm 7pm -midnight • $8 • ALL -AGES! her skin, more in tune with the cadences of LOW SPIRITS Joe Pug • singer-songwriter • Field Report each note being relayed with accuracy and LAUNCHPAD Hirie • pop reggae • Crazy Fool • ska, reggae • (Solo) • 9pm • $12 The Riddims • roots rock, reggae • DJ Jettinasty • spontaneity. Album opener “Vena Cava” THE TAN Slam Up • folk/poetry mash-up • 7:30pm • 9:30pm • $10 immediately displays the heavy and the soft, $5 -$8 going back and forth from whimsical folk to all- LIZARD TAIL BREWING Murata • alternative, adult out rock in the span of four minutes. In terms of contemporary • 7 -10pm TUESDAY MARCH 17 categorization, one can deduce the folk/rock LOUNGE 54 @ SANTA ANA STAR , Bernalillo The DCN influences ringing constantly throughout the Project • funk, soul • 9pm • FREE BEN MICHAEL’S Joe Daddy Blues Jam Session • 7pm • record, but singer-songwriter Aly Spaltro’s LOW SPIRITS ShamRockABilly Showdown: Cowboys & FREE voice and quirks make this an individualized Indian • rockin’ hillbilly • Mr Right & The Leftovers • FIRST TURN LOUNGE , Downs Racetrack and Casino affair. One need only hear the lingering punk-a-billy • Hells Acre • 9pm poetry—which includes grandmothers, saints, Karaoke Night • 7pm • FREE leftover architecture and Arizona sandboxes— MINE SHAFT TAVERN , Madrid Jim & Tim • soulful blues • THE JAM SPOT MCX Insidious Lyricists Sev • Atlas • Joey to bear witness to the mastery at work here. 3-7pm • FREE • You • Train Conductor • psychedelic • Breakdown Dedication • Lady MC Madd Loc • 7pm • Other notable tracks include “Heretic,” “Spat 7pm $10 Out Spit” and “Milk Duds.” (Mark Lopez) NED’S BAR & GRILL Mr. Black • rock, dance variety • LAUNCHPAD Doomtree • hip-hop • 7:30pm • $15 9pm • FREE LOW SPIRITS The Two Tens • Beard • rock • Dave Jordan of PUEBLO HARVEST CAFÉ Stratus Phear • classic rock, Award Tour • 9pm Led Zeppelin variety • 6pm • $10 includes pizza • ALL -AGES! MINE SHAFT TAVERN , Madrid The Shiners Club Jazz Physical Graffiti Q BAR DJ Sez • 8pm • $10 Band • 6pm • FREE (Rhino Records) SANTA FE SOL , Santa Fe Spoonfed Tribe • rock, NED’S BAR & GRILL Eagle’s Whistle • Irish • 6pm • Shit experimental • 8pm • $7 Physical Graffiti , an album Happens • rock • 9:30pm • FREE SIDELINES SPORTS GRILLE & BAR Still Rocking • classic by a band called Led POSH NIGHTCLUB Latin Tuesday: DJ Quico • 9pm • FREE Zeppelin, came out of the rock • 9pm -1am • FREE Q BAR Piano Bar with John Cousins • 5pm • FREE Welsh hills and stomped SISTER The Lymbs CD Release • rock • Sit SISTER Merchandise • Power Trip • 9pm • most other records to Kitty Sit • Timestable • 9pm • $5 • See $10 • See preview box. death just over 40 years ago. If you’re a “Show Up!” SKYLIGHT , Santa Fe Karaoke with VDJ Dany • 8pm • $2 twentysomething, Wayfarer-wearing, Taliban SKYLIGHT , Santa Fe The Noms • acoustic rock • 7:30pm • beard-sporting hipster (or anyone else who’s $10 • Dance Machine • 10pm WEDNESDAY MARCH 18 musically invested), why should you give a fuck STAGE @ SANTA ANA STAR , Bernalillo Vegas Nights about relatively ancient rocanrol history? Well featuring DJ Miss Joy • dance • Featuring Miss Joy, THE BARLEY ROOM Karaoke with DJ Scarlett Diva • 9pm • for one thing, this record kills with the same resident DJ at Mandalay Bay’s Mix Nightclub • 9pm • FREE efficiency today that it did in the days of yore. $5 women, $10 men BEN MICHAEL’S Sammy Perez Jazz Jam Session • 7pm • Atlantic Records’ expanded, deluxe re-issue of ST. CLAIR WINERY & BISTRO Entourage Jazz • 6 -9pm FREE this seminal disc is an important milestone, but TLUR PA LOUNGE , Sandia Resort and Casino Shining it’s also an opportunity to grok the greatness COOLWATER FUSION RESTAURANT Shane Wallin • soul, of a group that, far from being trapped in Star • 9:30pm • FREE pop • 6 -8pm • FREE amber, is still relevant. Encompassing a mind- TORTUGA GALLERY Ego Death Experimental Electronic DIRTY BOURBON Latin Sin Wednesdays • 6pm • FREE bending mastery of rock styles from prog-rock Music Expo • Cinimo Narude • Hearse • Cosmastly • DUKE CITY SOUND STAGE Front Porch Step • 6:30pm • (“In the Light” and “Kashmir”) to raunchy, Sleepdepth • Zen • Ryjal • Yokudan Savage • 6 -11pm • $12 • Immortal Prophecy • metal • 7pm • $8 • rocked-out rampages like “The Rover” and $3 -$5 ALL -AGES! “The Wanton Song,” Physical Graffiti TRACTOR BREWERY WELLS PARK “In the Mix” Live DJs • EMBERS STEAKHOUSE , Isleta Casino Calvin demonstrates an earthy sexual power that 9pm • FREE Appleberry • solo piano • 6pm • FREE may have come from the Devil himself, but is TRIPLE SEVENS , Isleta Casino Whiskey Baby • 9:30pm FIRST TURN LOUNGE , Downs Racetrack and Casino nonetheless holy. (August March) VERNON’S HIDDEN VALLEY STEAKHOUSE Lori Michaels • Karaoke Night • 7pm • FREE jazz piano, vocals • 7 -10pm • FREE GOLD HOUSE Mike Smith • Glitter Vomit! • Loki • 8pm • Steven ZINC WINE BAR & BISTRO Alice Wallace • folk, country, $5 • ALL -AGES! Wilson blues • 9:30pm -midnight • FREE LAUNCHPAD Sister Kill Cycle • industrial • Tripping Dogs • Hand. Cannot. Ballistic Batz • horror punk • Andrako • 9pm • $6 SUNDAY MARCH 15 LOW SPIRITS The Glass Menageries • Us Lights • Quietly Erase. Kept • 9pm • $5 (Kscope) APPLEBEE’S RESTAURANT Ray Anthony and Powerslyde • NED’S BAR & GRILL Picoso • Latin jazz • 6pm • FREE Steven Wilson’s latest funk, jazz • 3 -6pm • FREE • ALL -AGES! NICKY V’S NEIGHBORHOOD PIZZERIA B-Man & the release Hand. Cannot. DUKE CITY SOUND STAGE Autumn Electric • folk, rock • MizzBeeHavens • rock, country, pop • 6:30 -9pm • Erase. is a complex Cactus Tractor • folk • Good Old Shoulder • alternative, FREE • ALL -AGES! collection of songs that explore the indie • 7pm • $8 Q BAR Piano Bar with John Cousins • 5pm • FREE unknowable life and death of British citizen GOLD HOUSE Dirty Dishes • Nocturnal Company • Dark SANTA FE SOL , Santa Fe Chase Gassaway • singer- Joyce Carole Vincent, whose untimely demise Rooms • indie rock • 7:30pm • $5 • ALL -AGES! songwriter • 7pm • $7 in a Christmas-decorated flat wasn’t KIMO THEATRE The Wailin’ Jennys • folk trio • 7:30 -10pm • SKYLIGHT , Santa Fe SINdustry • Informal fun weekly discovered for three years. Wilson doesn’t $30 -$40 event with Juicebox and your host Nu Panda • 8pm delve into the ghastly details as much as he LAUNCHPAD In the Company of Serpents • End To End • uses this recording to explore the concepts of SUNSHINE THEATER Motionless in White • For Today • Iceolus • Echoes Of Fallen • metal • 8pm • $5 New Years Day • Ice Nine Kills • metal • 7:30pm • $18 • knowing and finding. At times superlatively LOW SPIRITS Consider the Source • soaring and at sometimes beguilingly ALL -AGES! Pherkad • experimental instrumental • melancholy, Wilson’s explorations might be mistaken for prog-rock if not for the 8pm • $7 • See “Show Up!” THURSDAY MARCH 19 composer’s attention to melody and lyricism MINE SHAFT TAVERN , Madrid Jim Keaveny • folk, without the pretensions that genre typically country • 3 -7pm • FREE HOTEL ANDALUZ Jesus Bas y MÁS • 7pm • ALL -AGES! engenders. Guest vocalist Ninete Trayeb adds NED’S BAR & GRILL Danger Zone Karaoke • 3pm • FREE LIZARD TAIL BREWING Kamikaze Karaoke • gravitas to a project that, while inherently SIDELINES SPORTS GRILLE & BAR Ravin Hills • acoustic 7:30 -11:30pm • FREE • ALL -AGES! moody, achieves greatness in combination classic rock • 6 -9pm • FREE • ALL -AGES! POSH NIGHTCLUB Throwback Thursday • 9pm • FREE with daring instrumentation on such tracks as SKYLIGHT , Santa Fe Jackie Greene • singer-songwriter • Q BAR Latin Gold Thursday • 8pm “Three Years Older,” “Perfect Life” and 7:30pm • $18 SKYLIGHT , Santa Fe Latin Night • 9pm • $5 “Ancestral.” Daringly dark and beautifully SUNSHINE THEATER Tribal Seeds • The Movement • WINNING COFFEE CO. Above Average Open Mic • bright, Hand. Cannot. Erase. is a big step away Leilani Wolfgramm • reggae • 7:30pm • $15 • originals only, poets welcome • 7 -9pm • FREE • from the machinery of rock music and toward ALL -AGES! its inherent humanity. (August March) ALL -AGES! a a VERNON’S HIDDEN VALLEY STEAKHOUSE Bob Tate • solo

[34 ] MARCH 12-18, 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI WEEKLY ALIBI MARCH 12-18 , 2015 [35 ] straight Dope | aDvice froM the abyss by cecil aDaMs Did Josef Mengele produce any useful medical research?

I once heard that Dr. Mengele's experiments were medicine's “dirty little secret”: modern medical science had gained from his atrocities, but such a fact couldn’t be made public. Later, though, a friend in the biomedical tech industry told me he had never found any reference to Mengele's work in the literature and that his experiments had no medical value. Can you shed some light on this? —Gilad, UK

You’re actually both right—but then again, pretty much all medical research back then was a dirty little secret. These days studies consist of college kids getting paid 40 bucks to smoke weed and sit in a MRI scanner for an hour, but things were different back in the day: The Tuskegee syphilis experiment, where rural men with the disease were kept ignorant of their condition and by a US medical advisor at the Nuremberg trials and prevented from getting treatment, is justly infamous, quietly used by various researchers over the years, but there’s also the ’40s case where inmates at a until in 1988 Dr. Robert Pozos of the University of New York correctional facility were directed to Minnesota’s Hypothermia Laboratory brought swallow suspended fecal matter so researchers Rascher’s work to wider attention in hopes of could study a stomach bug. In 1942 Jonas Salk starting a discussion about bioethics. He got one: himself led a study that injected insane-asylum impassioned doctors, ethicists and Holocaust patients in Michigan with a experimental flu vaccine, survivors weighed in; conferences were organized. apparently with less than fully informed consent. The editor of the New England Journal of Medicine The list goes on. flatly declared the data unusable. Of course, if we’re talking circles of hell, none of At around the same time, authors of a draft these would place you as deep in the inferno as the report for the Environmental Protection Agency experiments conducted in Nazi concentration camps, cited Nazi data on phosgene from 1943, when which regularly crossed the line into pure sadism and doctors exposed 52 prisoners to the gas (used as a horror—like the one where condemned female chemical weapon in World War I) and timed how long prisoners were told the date they’d be executed so it took them to die. This information was relevant to researchers could study the effect of the regulating phosgene use at US plastics and psychological trauma on the women’s menstrual pesticide plants, but 22 EPA scientists wrote a cycles. But most Nazi medical research was letter objecting, and the citation was deleted. intensely professional; proportionately, more Josef Mengele’s work didn’t pose such ethical German physicians (48 percent) joined the Nazi quandaries. He’d published one prewar paper on party than any other occupation. And Germany was hereditary cleft palates, but his notorious a science powerhouse; through 1939, Germans experiments at Auschwitz on hundreds of pairs of accounted for more than a third of all Nobel prizes in twins produced no notable conclusions. He did, medicine, chemistry and physics. however, contribute significantly to a subtler Nazi So yes, there’s plenty of Nazi-era research that plot: the channeling of thousands of victims’ brains doctors have used and built on ever since: Nazi and other organs, cadavers, and blood and tissue scientists were pioneers in the study of hormones samples to major research institutions, including the and vitamins, they were the first to discover the link prestigious Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain between smoking and lung cancer, and they had the Research. Many prominent German neuroscientists most aggressive and successful cancer-prevention worked with the brains: Julius Hallervorden, for program of the time. example, went on to discover a rare But the data gathered in the concentration neurodegenerative disorder that until recently bore camps tended toward the gruesome, unscientific and his name (now it’s called NBIA). Most of these fairly useless. Two cases where these experiments doctors died with their reputations intact. did have some clear public health application, But that was legitimate lab work. By contrast, though, involved phosgene gas and hypothermia. the camp experiments were never likely to be good The latter was part of German efforts to save science: Besides being overly concerned with Luftwaffe pilots downed in the North Sea: working efficient methods of killing people, they were tainted at Dachau, SS doctor Sigmund Rascher had by racial bias and the use of atypically unhealthy prisoners strapped down naked in freezing weather subject groups. Their only really useful outcome was or submerged in ice water for hours at a time; blood, the Nuremberg Code—the first major enumeration of urine and mucus samples were taken regularly while international research ethics, written into the verdict their body temperature dropped. On one hand, of the Nazi doctors’ trial in 1947. It took humanity Rascher obtained data that no responsible 200,000 years, but we finally developed the moral researcher ever could, and he developed the life- maturity to realize you shouldn’t feed unwitting saving hypothermia treatment technique called rapid schoolchildren radioactive breakfast cereal just to active rewarming. On the other hand, he killed as see what happens. a many as 90 people to do it. Send questions to Cecil via straightdope.com or write him c/o The Dachau data was published in a 1946 report Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654. [36 ] MARCH 12-18 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI WEEKLY ALIBI MARCH 12-18 , 2015 [37 ] Free Will Astrology | Horoscopes by rob brezsny

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But if you can’t finagle your brain into actually We come from the same place, yet we are different in once, but I ran home to scrub off your boy cooties. You still trick a magic rascal into saying “Kltpzyxm” when he believing in magic, you should stop fantasizing about many ways. knocked on the door the next day, and every day. You knew very well what the consequences would be, but a magical solution. Which will it be? Every time I see you can’t help but imagine, defied your father after being forbidden to play outside Superman usually succeeded. I’d like to suggest that How did we get so Lucky, with me ever again. You dug a hole in the wall of your best you have a similar power to get rid of a bugaboo that SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I have taken a passage We come from different upbringings, yet we are so alike in friend’s bedroom to get a note to me secretly to meet you. has been bothering you, Aries. Don’t underestimate from a letter that Henry Miller wrote to Anais Nin, many ways. Secretly, we met and you gave me a flower you had hidden your ability to outsmart the pest. and I have chopped it up and rearranged it and added Every time I see you I think to myself, we are lucky, and we behind your back and said, “I love you” and kissed me. to it so as to create an oracle that’s perfect for you are one. I will always remember the times we meet, and TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In 1637 mathematician right now. Ready? “This is the wild dream: you with how empty I feel when you are not in sight. YOU MIGHT THING I’M CRAZY..... Pierre de Fermat declared that he had solved the your chameleon’s soul being anchored always in no But all I want is… http://youtu.be/3dOx510kyOs “Last Theorem,” a particularly knotty mathematical matter what storm, sensing you are at home BIRDMAN Happy St. Valentine’s Day, size 16. Always. problem. Unfortunately, he never actually provided wherever you are. 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It is not love area and you asked me for a smoke because you were out. you are on the verge of discovering a possible change.” that I have for you but only a longing and lust for the I gave you two, and you gave one to your friend. I went solution to one of your own long-running riddles, discovery of every nuance of your body. Your back today for an appointment and your friend told me Taurus. It may take a few more weeks, but you’re SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): One of your abandonment to our friendship has helped me realize the you had been discharged. Good for you and bad for me. I important assignments in the coming week is to get unexpected virtue of ignorance. It is best we know not. El never got your number, so I thought I would try this. We almost there. Can you sense that twinkle in your third eye? Keep the faith. high without the use of drugs and alcohol. Let me should hang out? elaborate. In my oracular opinion, you simply must YOU’RE THE GREATEST! GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your upcoming efforts escape the numbing trance of the daily rhythm. I KEPT YOUR POEMS... You’re the greatest rapper ever, Kanye! might not be flawless in all respects, but I suspect Experiencing altered states of awareness will –Love, Kanye Rita said you ‘really sucked me in.’ It was real on my end. you will triumph anyway. You may not even be provide you with crucial benefits. At the same time, It hurts being so close, yet so far... you can’t afford to risk hurting yourself, and it’s TRADING GLANCES AT THE SHOP completely sure of what you want, but I bet you’ll get essential to avoid stupidly excessive behavior that I was meeting someone in the corner booth Tuesday WORDS AREN’T ENOUGH a reward you didn’t know you were looking for. Cagey innocence and high expectations will be your has negative repercussions. So what do you think? morning. You were sitting in the next booth having You are the love of my life, my redheaded goddess. This secret weapons. 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