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As climate change causes increasing havoc across the face of our planet, the future market for weather derivatives is taking off, leading to financial exploitation of other people’s suffering in the manner of ongoing war profiteering. What’s next? A Super PAC of corresponding Wall Street outfits emerges as the richest ever, and so gets to rule the world brutally by selfishly pushing the planet to the brink by insuring polluters on easy terms, then pulling the strings of its supremely funded puppet world leader so as to deploy weaponized weather satellites over huge protest rallies in disaster zones caused by punishing weather, with the assemblies of the afflicted being so large, they can be seen from space, hence easily taken out? Arun Anand Ahuja

In response to "Standing my Ground" by Ty Bannerman Dear Alibi,

I’ve carried a gun for 20 years. It started when I was hired to help a woman find her kidnapped teenage sister in the War Zone at 3am, the girl getting free from sexual captivity and finding a corner pay phone. The situation got a little hairy, so I decided to buy my first gun. Since then I’ve had to face down drug dealers who OD’d my passenger (it was four of them to my .357 six shooter), held my 9mm behind my back while dealing with a crazy person and a gun saved my life one time drawing my little .25 ACP before a drug- addled con drew his gun from behind his back. Why the little .25? In close quarters, and in cars, the smaller the gun the better as full loads .380 and up will deafen you for a day or so (and I joke how I used the little ‘palm’ gun once to stop a stolen semi truck!). Okay. I had a dangerous job, had guns pulled on me, a gun to my head once. But for home defense, in defense of your family and property, every US citizen has a duty and legal obligation to be competent in the use of a firearm. You also have to know the law. As you can see, in all my situations in 20 years I only showed (brandished) my gun twice and aimed it at a person once ... ONE TIME ... and he moved his hand away from his waistband and got real compliant. In 20 years, four incidents; but having that gun kept the odds in my favor. Leonard Daneman via Alibi.com

DECEMBER 24-30 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [5] purchased a new ball of pink wool. She fed herself on a “full bag of mint imperials” she ODDS had also purchased, kept warm using the bathroom’s hand dryer and slept in her

D overcoat. After four days workmen returned to the job and found Phillips inside. “It was a N ENDS great relief when the nice builder turned up A and opened the door,” said Phillips. “He got WEIRD NEWS quite a shock, I can tell you.” A town official Dateline: Mexico told the Suffolk Gazette that Phillips’ A Salvadorian fisherman who survived 438 inconvenience simply shows how nice the new days lost at sea is now being sued by his dead facilities are. “We’re glad Gladys is none the shipmate’s family over allegations that he worse for her ordeal,” said the official. “The cannibalized the man’s corpse in order to fact that she was quite happy in the loo for survive. Jose Salvador Alvarenga—the world’s four days does, however, show how modern longest-surviving castaway—set sail in a 24- and hi-tech it is.” foot fishing boat owned by Ezequiel Córdoba from the Mexican town of Costa Azul, in Dateline: Norway Chiapas, in November of 2012. During the Norwegians have taken to Facebook in an planned two-day trip, the two men ran into a attempt to “gift” neighboring Finland with a massive storm and were washed out to sea. mountain as an anniversary present. The More than a year later, Alvarenga washed online campaign hopes to move part of the ashore alone on an atoll in the Marshall border between Norway and Finland about Islands. Alvarenga’s 6,700-mile ordeal was 490 feet to the north and 650 feet to the east, eventually chronicled in the Jonathan placing the peak of the Halti mountains Franklin’s book 428 Days: An Extraordinary within Finnish territory. The campaign was True Story of Survival at Sea . According to started by retired Norwegian Mapping Alvarenga, he survived on raw fish, turtle Authority employee Bjorn Geirr Harsson. The blood and his own urine. Córdoba allegedly UK’s Telegraph calculated Norway would lose died after a few months at sea. His body was only 0.015 square kilometers in the land deal. reportedly dumped into the sea six days later. “It’s a very good idea,” Catherine Frostup, the Authorities eventually corroborated current head of the Norwegian Mapping Alvarenga’s version of events. According to Authority told Norway’s state Broadcaster El Diario de Hoy , Córdoba’s family is asking NRK. “It is a nice gift to give to a country that for $1 million in damages. Ricardo Cucalón, lacks a high mountain, where the highest the Salvadoran attorney who is representing point isn’t even a peak.” More than 5,000 Alvarenga, told El Diario that Córdoba’s people have already signed on to the relatives have no way of proving their campaign’s Facebook page. allegations and are financially motivated. “I believe the suit is a pressure tactic, trying to Dateline: Florida get him to pay part of the money that they’re Authorities in Indian River County arrested a all after [from the book deal],” Cucalón told man on the night of Monday, Dec. 14, after he the paper. Alvarenga strenuously denies the allegedly tried to break into the county jail to allegations of cannibalism, telling the UK’s visit some friends. WFTV-9 reports Daily Mail , “I wouldn’t have done it, even if it surveillance footage from the jail shows 24- meant that I starved. It would have been on year-old Patrick Rempe smashing his 2002 my conscience forever.” Toyota into the front door of the facility. When the door failed to give way, Rempe Dateline: England turned his attention to a security gate. Rempe’s A British grandmother, locked in a public vehicle also failed to topple that obstacle, so restroom for four days used the time to knit a he tried to scale the fence but got tangled up scarf. Gladys Phillips, 82, told the Suffolk in razor wire. Rempe was rescued by Gazette she was shopping in the seaside emergency workers and taken to the hospital. Suffolk village of Felixstowe when she Rempe reportedly told officers he just wanted stopped off at a public restroom that she to visit some friends inside the jail. It looks didn’t realize wasn’t yet open to the public. like he’ll get the opportunity. He is now facing The door locked behind the senior shopper, charges of aggravated assault on a law trapping her inside. “I was not really enforcement officer, battery on a law concerned at first when I couldn’t get out, “ enforcement officer, three counts of felony Phillips told the newspaper. “In fact I was just criminal mischief, leaving the scene of a crash relieved I’d managed to go to the loo.” with property damage and driving under the Phillips said, “I kept banging on the doors and influence. Rempe told police he was “high on walls and shouting for help, but obviously no flakka” at the time of the incident. a one could hear me. I realized I had to tough it out, and so I sat on the loo and began Compiled by Devin D. O’Leary. Email your weird knitting.” Fortunately, Phillips had just news to [email protected].

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D E N V A E R T G S Susana Martinez San Juan Generating Station Of course the governor found about about here in New Mexico—have been tasked to members to “mess around with” the plan, after BY AUGUST MARCH this situation; for reasons that are still unclear respond by developing specific measures to it has been written and submitted. Staff at to casual observers, she proceeded to instigate acknowledge and enforce limits on the NMED have been quoted as saying they will Pizza Party Politics a confrontation with hotel employees, a police pollutants that most credible scientists say withdraw the plan from consideration if that or many local readers, discovering that New dispatcher and one of the responding officers. contribute to global climate change. scenario arises. Mexico made the national news All of that unfortunate bluster and odd Although the Martinez administration Additionally, the city of Albuquerque will instinctually elicits a wince, sometimes F behavior was recorded. initially stood in opposition to further also have a say in the shape and even before the details of the latest notoriety regulation of energy industries in the state, implementation of the Clean Power Plan. The are known. A long and wan parade made up of NM Political Report published the recordings of Martinez’ interactions on its Hector Balderas, the state’s Democratic Air Quality Control Act—the underlying law clowns with names like high unemployment, Attorney General, has consistently supported being used to bolster the EPA’s project— crumbling infrastructure, failed educational website. Then, the reporters at the New federal mandate on the plan, backing the EPA considers the city to be an energy-using entity institutions and endemic poverty have made Mexican began to do their job, following up against legal challenges here in New Mexico. separate from the rest of the state. Hence, the the aforementioned response de rigueur. and further clarifying the event. Then the At a meeting that the NMED held with Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Air Quality Add governmental incompetence to the whole damn thing grew legs. several state power companies in mid- Control Board must also approve of any plans procession and you’ve got the makings of a Huffington Post called attention to November several issues were discussed. coming from the state in response to the new terrible carnival, one that citizens will sit Martinez’ unprofessional actions with a Although representatives of N.M. utility federal standards. through, albeit with varying levels of headline that read, in part, “Totally Not companies generally agreed to the premises Nonetheless, emissions trading seems to be discomfort, fascination and ultimately Drunk Governor Chastises Cops,” while outlined in the EPA plan, they favor capping at the crux of the issue. PNM is asking for resignation. Such is the case with the latest Gawker went with commentary that included total emissions as well as providing a method permanent allowances for shutting down coal- news from our state’s seat of government, the following pithy observation about our for interstate emissions trading, “so that fossil powered units in the Four Corners and Santa Fe. Last week, the Santa Fe New state’s glorious leader: “Susana Martinez is fuel generators that fall short of their standards representatives of the utility company say that Mexican broke news about our governor’s maybe 17 years old.” The rest, as they say, is can purchase allowances to comply.” the ability to trade emissions credits or behavior during an interaction with police at a history. Adding complexity to an already allowances across state lines is crucial to the prominent capitol city hotel. complicated formula for stopping pollution in plan’s success. Following the state’s annual holiday party Emissions Plan Takes Shape its tracks, the response that the state The plan is now in the public comment for staffers—this year’s fete was held at the he US Environmental Protection Agency Environment Department makes must be phase and such is being managed by the Eldorado Hotel and Spa, one of Santa Fe’s has come up with a Clean Power Plan to approved by a regulatory committee called the NMED CPP Public Outreach Program. most tony social settings—the front desk ensure that greenhouse gases and emissions T Environmental Improvement Board. This state The deadline for submission of a workable received complaints about “loud noise” in the produced by energy producers such as PNM board is made up of Martinez’ appointees who plan is September 2016, though environment room where Susana Martinez was hanging out, and El Paso Electric are strictly regulated. have been vetted by the state senate. There is department officials plan to request an “eating pizza and drinking cokes.” They called After the plan was published in October, state some fear among the power companies that extension until 2018 to ensure the plan’s the police. environment departments—such as the one the political nature of the the board will allow efficacy. a

[8] WEEKLY ALIBI DECEMBER 24-30 , 2015 DECEMBER 24-30 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [9] [10 ] WEEKLY ALIBI DECEMBER 24-30 , 2015 OPINION |�¡ASK A MEXICAN ! BY GUSTAVO ARELLANO (no wife or girlfriend in sight) buying expensive pieces of jewelry. I’m sure they are going to trade the jewelry for quickie ear Mexican: I want to start by saying sex, possibly with our women. Isn’t this I’m a Chicano. Now, I don’t understand crude, low-class and tantamount to Dwhy you allow Gustavo Arellano’s prostitution? At least us White Americans article in your publication. He is a racist. First, he has a negative cartoon of a of European descent know how to wine, Mexican. Just look at it. Just because his last dine and make a girl feel special before name is Arellano does not give him the right asking for the hot biscuit. Where’s the to display such filth and to speak for all romance? Are Mexicans only interested in people of Mexican or Latino getting their rocks off? decent. Second, he calls white people gabachos . In Spanish, this —An Honestly is the white stuff that Outraged Local accumulates at the corner of Entrepreneur your mouth. It’s the equivalent to calling a black Dear Chinito: Bruh, you’re person a “nigger,” a Mexican just jealous they ain’t shopping a “beaner” or a Jew a “kike.” at whatever piece-of-caca It’s ugly, isn’t it? I’ve brought storefront you operate. And you’re this up to him, and his response to also mad these hombres are getting me is that it’s all in jest. How can you call a person a racist name in jest? Please action—last I heard, a woman is more apt to take his racist ass off your magazine and go out with a man that surprises her with a please look into the word gabacho . ring than some loser that refers to her privates as a “hot biscuit.” But, yes: Mexican men are —Chicano Charlie only interested in having sex with white women. Sucks for you! Dear Readers: This guy followed with me in a private email that whined, “I don’t think GRACIAS, READERS! For another you have the balls” to publish his letter. Well, awesome year of random questions, kind guess what, Chicano Charlie? Not only do I words, hilarious haters and ever-present have the huevos, I also have the facts. I’ve DESMADRE. Reward your faithful Mexican never claimed to speak for all Mexicans—just with the regalo of watching the premier of the smart ones. A gabacho is a gabacho , not “Bordertown,” the FOX animated show I saliva—you’re thinking of baba , which you served on as a consulting producer. Starts Jan. THE GAME IS AFOOT. should be familiar with, since your words are 3 at 9:30pm, and will air every Sunday at the babadas . If we want to call a gabacho a nasty same time afterward. Watch it live, DVR it, slur, we call him a Donald Trump supporter. stream it on Hulu, I don’t really care as long And who says you can’t call someone a racist as you watch it within a week of its air date. name in jest? Anything is possible in this Have a Happy Año Nuevo , everyone, and try columna —including not granting a pendejo his an ano nuevo , if that’s your thing! a dream. So guess what, Chicano Charlie? This columna ain’t going nowhere— feliz Navidad, Ask the Mexican at [email protected]. gabacho! Be his fan on Facebook. Follow him on Twitter @gustavoarellano or follow him on Instagram Dear Mexican: I own a shop in a small @gustavo_arellano! shopping complex. I see lone Mexican guys

Academy Award® nominee Benedict Cumberbatch, and Emmy Award® winner Martin Freeman, return to PBS in their iconic roles as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson in this feature length Masterpiece special set in London 1895.

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Q Y K U C B L U A L Afternoon at the A Howlin’ Good Time Museum Lucky Paws Adoption Center 6600 Menaul NE Albuquerque Museum of Art and History alibi.com/e/171971 2000 Mountain NW Noon to 3pm alibi.com/e/171619 2 to 5pm ‘Tis the season to give! You give to your friends, family, coworkers and neighbors, so why not give Do you feel left out when your friends constantly brag about how cultured they are because they go to someone who really needs some extra love? to gallery openings, music events and wine I’m not talking about people here, I’m talking tastings? Well now you can chime in, because you about the real MVPs: animals! Lucky Paws is can go to Albuquerque Museum of Art and History’s hosting an open house on Sunday, Dec. 27, 12- Art in the Afternoon this Saturday, Dec. 26, from 2- 3pm, to gather donations for their adorable 5pm. This event combines art, food, drinks and live residents. You can make a cash donation or buy a music, so technically I think this counts as three cat or dog toy and add it to their Super-sized outings in one that you now can brag about (I mean, Christmas Stocking. It will be hosted by Travelin’ discuss). But seriously, this event is going to be Jack—the dog-governor of New Mexico—so you great. Terra Trio will be performing Latin jazz, bossa know it’s going to be a good time. (Megan nova and samba and admission and parking are free. Reneau) a (Taylor Grabowsky) a WEDNESDAY DEC.30

Calm Down VORTEXABQ.ORG The Vortex Theatre 2900 Carlisle NE alibi.com/e/171763 6pm On Dec. 24, 1914, on World War I’s Western Front, Allied Forces and German soldiers called a truce. As history tells it, soldiers shouted “Merry Christmas!” across lines in their enemy’s native languages and sang carols together. This true story is told in insightful detail in a production at Vortex Theatre, All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914. The play was produced in collaboration with Mother Road Theatre Company. Take in some history and bolster your Christmas cheer with this show, which runs until Dec 27. (Maggie Grimason) a COURTESY OF THE ARTIST Get Funky with the Fam Kiss and Tale Tlur Pa Lounge African American Performing Arts Center 30 Rainbow NE 310 San Pedro NE alibi.com/e/172426 alibi.com/e/172605 9pm 4:30pm Sly and the Family Stone was a psychedelic soul ensemble from San Francisco that was wildly influential— A theatrical version of Disney’s The Little Mermaid for their music and their lineup—in rocanrol’s halcyon days back in the late 1960s through mid 1970s. The is showing in town. You may have missed the first American band to feature a multi-gender, trans-racial cast of outrageously talented musicians who opening and first few performances last weekend grooved as much as they rocked out, the band temporarily fell into disarray after Sly’s cocaine conviction but the actors return again this Friday and forced an early retirement that led to his homelessness. A couple of founding members soldiered on though Saturday night. Musical Theatre Southwest and continue to tour the states with starry-eyed conviction, super-awesome chops and an undying performs the show at the African American Cultural devotion to their art. Saxophonist Jerry Martini and drummer Greg Errico form the foundation of The Family Center. The play, directed by Laura Nuzum, draws Stone. They’ll be performing at the Tlur Pa Lounge at Sandia Casino (30 Rainbow NE) on Wednesday, Dec. M O

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SUNDAY DEC 27 BEYOND MEDITATION: COMMUNITY HU CHANT Chanting this once-secret name for God, HU, has helped people throughout time find inner peace and divine love. All faiths/beliefs welcome. Eckankar Center (2501 San Pedro NE). 10:30 -11am. 265 -7388. alibi.com/e/164784. HOWL-I-DAY GIVE BACK TOUR 2015 Help support the city’s adoption site with the highest adoption rate and lowest return rate. Make a donation and select a new dog or cat toy to go into the giant stocking. Lucky Paws Adoption Center (6600 Menaul NE). Donations. Noon -3pm. alibi.com/e/171971. See Event Horizon. POSES & PINTS Yoga at the tap room. Attendees receive $1 off pints after class. Please bring your own mat/towel. Marble Brewery Westside Tap Room (5740 Night Whisper NW). $5. 10:45 -11:45am. 508 -4368. alibi.com/e/173296. PRAYERS FOR WORLD PEACE Learn how to practically bring more peace and happiness into the world by learning to cherish others, overcome anger and deal with stress. Kadampa Meditation Center (8701 Comanche NE). $10 suggested donation. 10 -11:30am. 292 -5293. alibi.com/e/171861. PUBLIC MEDITATION SITTING Join in for a public sitting. Meditation instruction is available upon request. Albuquerque Shambhala Meditation Center (1102 Mountain NW). 10am -noon. 717 -2486. alibi.com/e/132029. SPIRIT OF THE LOTUS CHURCH SERVICE The Church is the nurturing aspect of God, helping you to experience freedom and liberation by uniting you with divine Spirit. All are welcome as there is unity in diversity. Awaken to Wellness (1704 Moon NE, Suite 10). 11am -noon. 261 -8983. alibi.com/e/163462. MONDAY DEC 28 EXPLORA! WINTER CAMPS Ignite your child’s curiosity over the winter school break and sign them up for fun day camps like a special “Code Commando” computer game and code class for grades 6-8. Explora! (1701 Mountain NW) $30 -$80. 9am -4pm. 224 -8341. alibi.com/e/172088 MUSEUM EXHIBIT TOURS Take a docent-led, fact-filled, fun, guided tour of the museum exhibits. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (1801 Mountain NW). Included with regular admission. 1:30 -2:30pm. 841 -2800. alibi.com/e/172444. MYSTERY HUNT FOR TEENS Teens find clues hidden throughout the library and win prizes. No registration required. Cherry Hills Library (6901 Barstow NE). 2 -3pm. 857 -8321. alibi.com/e/172803. TUESDAY DEC 29 EXPLORA! WINTER CAMPS $30 -$80. 9am -4pm. See 12/28 listing. SELF-EMPOWERMENT GROUP Peer-run group focusing on addiction recovery. Small groups consist of recovery goals, triggers, relapse, relaxation and others. One-on-one peer support offered after each group. Albuquerque Center for Hope & Recovery (1120 Second Street NW, Second Floor). Noon -1pm. 321 -3449. alibi.com/e/172259. TUESDAY NIGHT SWING DANCE All-ages swing dance with beginner, intermediate and advanced lessons. Heights Community Center (823 Buena Vista SE). $4. 7 -10:30pm. 710 -3840. alibi.com/e/137584. WEDNESDAY DEC 30 ABQ BACKGAMMON CLUB Meet some fun, interesting people and learn to play the game. Instruction is available. Flying Star Café (723 Silver SW). $5 for match play, FREE for novices. 5:45 -9pm. (201) 454 -3989. alibi.com/e/158888. ACHR EMPLOYMENT EMPOWERMENT Learn how to find and keep a great job. Each week, discuss new skills in finding employment. Materials provided; one-on-one assitance available. Must register prior to attending.Skills Identification- Learn how to introduce yourself to employers, saying what they want to hear. Albuquerque Center for Hope & Recovery (1120 Second Street NW, Second Floor). Sliding scale - free to ACHR/Molina members. 10am -1pm. 321 -3449. alibi.com/e/172204. see more! @alibi.com

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hope [resort to] consuming pharmaceutical STAGE BY MAGGIE GRIMASON THE VORTEX THEATRE All is Calm: The Christmas Truce drugs to numb themselves to their own of 1914 . On the frontlines of WWI, the true story of madness.” camaraderie, music and peace between fellow I ran along the Bosque with the questions I Categorically, he added, “[I] don’t give a humans. $7 -$19. 6pm. 247 -8600. wanted to ask Jimmy Santiago Baca taking alibi.com/e/171763. See Event Horizon. shit about rich people and in fact, I despise shape in my mind. The earliest of the morning SONG & DANCE them. I started a line of toilet paper with songbirds were just hushing, and the sky was AFRICAN AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER , Expo [Donald] Trump’s face on every square and NM The Little Mermaid . In a magical kingdom gauzy with an unusual cloud cover. I had left wipe my ass with his face.” under the sea, the beautiful mermaid Ariel longs to Singing at the Gates, a new collection of leave the ocean and live on land with a handsome selected poems by Baca overturned on my prince. $15 -$22. 4:30pm. 222 -0778. alibi.com/e/172605. See Event Horizon. nightstand, its spine already creased with I praise short lives, and believe handling and the hours it spent alternately their souls blend into the gray SATURDAY DEC 26 tucked in my bag or open in front of me. Rio Grande, coursing between broad, Jimmy Santiago Baca was born in Santa Fe hefty cottonwoods that crowd the banks, STAGE and at the age of 21 was imprisoned on drug BOX PERFORMANCE SPACE AND IMPROV THEATRE The emptying into the ocean, Show . Using audience suggestions and any absurd charges in Arizona where he served six and a where I hear them whisper ideas that cross their minds, improvisers create half years in a maximum security prison. 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And there really was so or a cherry in a gentleman’s evening SUNDAY DEC 27 we don’t, we die,” Baca said of the great river much I wanted to ask him—about his life, his drink its pride. that courses, sometimes slowly and shallowly, STAGE writing and his experience of the place where — “With my Massive Soul I Open” through Albuquerque. It is a dark ribbon THE VORTEX THEATRE All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of we both live. I knew I wanted to ask him 1914 . $7 -$19. 2pm. See 12/25 listing. winding throughout Baca’s poetry, which has about justice, fate, anger, and well, running. Of the nearly seven years that Baca spent SONG & DANCE particular resonance with people familiar with AFRICAN AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER , Expo in maximum security prison, three of them the topography of the Southwest. Here, there NM The Little Mermaid . $15 -$22. 4pm. See 12/25 Every morning, whether it was freezing or were in isolation. The reality of life as an are poems about the strange, evocative listing. raining or windy, in the most inclement inmate, as he writes in “What’s Happening”— LAS PUERTAS Chatter Sunday: Mahler’s 9th . Hear landscapes of the desert—“In the Foothills” is Symphony No 9 in D Major arranged by Klaus Simon weather, reluctant or otherwise, I rose with “ … the weeping, and the hate, and the about the Sandias, “Silver Water Tower” for chamber orchestra. Arrive early for espresso and blood!/ And the despair, and the the sun and went jogging along the river … I distinctly references Estancia, “Walking Down goodies. $5 -$15. 10:30 -11:30am. rehabilitation!” is a parody of reformation. to Town and Back” is about traveling on foot alibi.com/e/170261. aligned my feelings to appreciate the birds, Baca snidely includes “rehabilitation” in his OUTPOST PERFORMANCE SPACE Play Conservatory . water, air, noting the subtle significance of to Belen. 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There is such vitriol in And in that sense, I’m a sex addict.” MAIN LIBRARY Children’s Creative Movement Workshop . some of Baca’s poetry that reflects the injustice A creative movement workshop where preschool — The Author’s Note in Singing at the Gates of racism, economic disparity and the children ages 2 to 4 learn basic dance concepts It never ends. This harsh beauty, such as rhythm, balance, shape, imagination and sometimes turbulent experience of growing up This passage and the physicality of so many this struggle not to retreat in fear more. 10:30 -11am. 768 -5170. in the Southwest’s barrios. I asked Baca if he alibi.com/e/172045. of his poems resonated with me. I asked Baca was still angry. He answered simply, “I hope but to celebrate what’s hard earned, staying how the running that he mentions so often has so.” true to myself, is what it’s all about. TUESDAY DEC 29 informed his writing. “Running, or any “What are you angry about? What is there exercise,” he began, “is essential to a healthy — “This Dark Side” WORDS to fight against?” I asked him and with his lifestyle, and to art.” I was a little disappointed BOOKWORKS Controlled: The Worst Night of My Life and poet’s elegance and honest, virulent way of Its Aftermath . Meet author Neesha Arter and get your with his prescriptive response, but then he These days, Baca holds workshops for those speaking his truth he answered, “We live in a copy signed. $0 -$16. 7pm. 344 -8139. continued on with the vehemence and who are overcoming hardships—he visits alibi.com/e/173040. war economy, our politicians are greed- conviction that expresses itself in every line of prisons and underserved schools and works incensed monsters with brains the size of a his poetry. “Most artists are trustfunders and with his nonprofit, Cedar Tree, Inc., which WEDNESDAY DEC 30 flea’s testicle, our judges are commodities to ass-kissers. 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I wished to Downtown’s favorite (and only) grocery 242-3117 thecellartapas.com myself that there was more of the included THE CHOCOLATE DUDE Estore, I saw that the shuttered video store goat cheese and as if reading my mind, the Hours: 11am to 9:30pm, Tuesday through Saturday 3339 Central NE, 639-5502 and former home of the Box Performance server produced a small hill of it on the table. [Bakery/Sweets ] The Dude abides and the Space at Lomas and 11th Street was under Closed Sundays and Mondays This gesture was indicative of the service Dude knows chocolate. This Nob Hill bakery construction. Now, months later, the props Vibe: Iberian epic throughout the night—accommodating, quick specializes in the old fashioned approach, from and stage have been replaced with a The Alibi recommends: Atun y salmón crudo, and kind. the stained wooden cases to the hand-made compelling tale of Spain, complete with almejas and dinner off the tapas menu The gazpacho was a salty highlight after chocolates. Grab a cup of fresh coffee, a couple fragrant paella, an impressive assortment of the salad, and the cool bite of tomato, of fudge squares, a favorite book and take a seat. tapas and even the delectable sounds of cucumber and onion readied me for the final California roll from the nearby Lowe’s. I eyed flamenco guitar. composition. In a pan as big as both my heads, the pink slips of atun y salmon and thought MATANZA This vivid production is brought to you by if I had two heads, the paella was embellished them quite pretty, like dabs of paint on a 3225 Central NE, (505)-312-7305 • $$ the Cellar Spanish Cuisine, a new Iberian- with roasted vegetables, shrimp and mussels. Picasso canvas. I hated to destroy art, but took [New Mexican ] The cuisine here goes by the themed restaurant from first time restaurateur The bed of saffron rice clumped together some tuna and dipped it into a pool of olive monniker “progressive New Mexican,” which seems Gabriel Holguin. Now, rich colors and rustic agreeably and absorbed the flavors of the oil and balsamic vinegar. The tender fish was to mean adding green chile to a cubano materials create a quaint industrial proteins and produce on top. Some say the light and more delicately briny than expected. sandwich, duck to a tamale and the like. More atmosphere (much like the Castilian casas of key to good paella is the balance of aromatic In fact, I went back for more, this time with impressive is the extensive beer line up, featuring yore). The silver tile that encloses the open rice, the main attraction, and the supporting some nicely salted Spanish onion confit. over 100 local New Mexican brews. kitchen and bar add an especially piquant star that is the meats and veggies. The Cellar The third and final tapas also arrived from touch. Varying sizes of wood-topped tables does an admirable job of letting the rice do its the sea, but in a different guise: the shell. The UNIVERSITY seat about 40 in a cozy space. mouthwatering work. For those with eyes that almejas (clams) nestled together in their cast The Cellar offers lunch or dinner, but are smaller than their stomachs, paella also iron pot, generously soaking up the butter and KAI’S CHINESE RESTAURANT dinner offers a fuller menu. Dinner features comes in a single, one head-sized serving. garlic broth. Though a tad small, the mollusks 138 Harvard SE, 266-8388 • $ tapas—hot or cold—entrées, soups, salads and Through all the tempting courses at the were luscious and chewy. Quickly replenished [Chinese ] So many reasons why we love Kai’s: sandwiches. The standouts belonged to the Cellar, patrons can imbibe New Mexican bread helped to lap up the rest of the aromatic It’s cheap even by cheapskate standards. The tapas menu, and with many to choose from, it beers from the likes of Marble, Tractor and mussel broth. service is friendly, and the food comes out in a might be wise to craft a meal just using the Bosque Breweries or choose from an extensive Though a bit stuffed and spoiled by the flash. It’s close to the university, and there’s small plates. The espárragos (asparagus) were wine list. Dessert is also available should you tapas, my companions and I turned to the rest parking in the back. If you’re bored, you can either plump and green, roasted and spiced with a have the room and resolve. of the meal. Salads came next, and after the look at pictures of kung fu heroes all over the deft hand. The accompanying goat cheese and But if you can’t fit in that caramel soaked creative seasoning and pairings of our small walls or check out the action in the open kitchen. roasted red pepper added welcome richness. flan or fruity sangria, I strongly recommend plates, wilted in comparison. The tomate a la If you’ve got $10 and an empty stomach, Kai’s will Along with the quickly vanishing coming back for a sequel. The Cellar is a parrilla con jamón (Spanish ham and roasted take care of you. asparagus, came the atun y salmón crudo (raw welcome Downtown production not to tuna and salmon). Prior to the Cellar visit, my tomato salad) provided a nice excuse to eat be missed. a raw fish proficiency went as deep as the the extolled pork of Spain, but otherwise [16 ] WEEKLY ALIBI DECEMBER 24-30, 2015 DECEMBER 24-30 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [17 ] [18 ] WEEKLY ALIBI DECEMBER 24-30 , 2015 FILM | FILM REVIEW REEL WORLD BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY Screenwriting start The Santa Fe Community College is offering an online course in beginning screenwriting fundamentals. Filmmaker Scott Milder (Dead Billy ) will teach FILM 175 CRN 30712 from January through May of 2016. Class costs begin at $160 for Santa Fe residents and $250 for in- state residents. Santa Fe seniors can take the class for a reduced rate starting at $48. The university is also starting up film crew classes for those interested in learing how to match your skill set to jobs in the film industry. The crew classes will meet in person Mondays, Wednesdays and some Saturdays from January through March. For more info on these and other film-based classes, email [email protected] or go to sfcc.edu.

“Snakes on a Plane ? Mister, I was in The Thing !” Ready, set, go The AMC series “Preacher,” based on the supernatural graphic novel by Garth Ennis, is busy shooting its first season here in New Mexico. The show’s art department is looking for a production assistant. Work will take place The Hateful Eight between January and June of 2016. This is a paid position. Job requirements include specific Tarantino’s new Western is more than a little cold around the heart interest in set design and/or graphics, familiarity understanding floor plans, excellent research and communication skils and computer BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY American or Mexican, outlaw or lawman—all proficiency including MS Office and Adobe The Hateful Eight of which ratchet up the conflicts, even among Creative Suite. Resumés can be emailed to [email protected]. Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino characters who aren’t secretly plotting to n a nifty act of symmetry, indie icon Quentin murder one another. There are plenty of Tarantino has crafted a numerically Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh metaphorical references to today’s racial and Iappropriate film for his eighth outing as social landscape, making The Hateful Eight one Made in Rated R director. The Hateful Eight finds him lingering of Tarantino’s most contemporary films, oddly Opens Thursday 12/24 New in the spaghetti Western genre he dipped his enough. But the bottom-line question of the toe into in 2012’s Django Unchained . Fans will, film is simple: Can human beings trust each Mexico as always, find plenty to gush over. Will he win From the other enough not to kill one another the first looks of it, any new converts? Probably not. But this sheriff of Red Rocks, Chris Mannix (Walton chance they get? 2015 was mean-spirited powder keg of a Goggins from “Justified”). Ruth doesn’t trust The answer is “of course not.” I mean, another mystery/action/drama is easily his tightest, anyone, assuming everyone he meets is either c’mon, this is a Quentin Tarantino film. After decent year most narratively focussed since his 1992 debut, a fellow bounty hunter trying to steal his the film’s tense but fairly chatty first half (the for the film Reservoir Dogs . prisoner or a compatriot of Domergue’s trying film is divided neatly in two with a full-fledged industry in New Mexico. It’s not that Tarantino has dropped his to free her. But, on the off chance Warren and intermission), the second half explodes in trademark style of raping and pillaging his way Mannix are on the up-and-up, he can’t Overall, copious bloodshed. Some may find the wait a based on through film history, leaving behind references abandon them to die in the looming blizzard. bit long-winded (upwards of two and a half or data from to French crime films, Italian cop dramas, The quartet make it to Minnie’s Haberdashery three hours, depending on which version you the New Chinese marital arts movies, assorted just as the storm smashes down like the see). But Tarantino is the kind of filmmaker Mexico Film American grindhouse flicks of the 1970s and hammers of hell. There, they cross paths with you just have to indulge. The Hateful Eight is Office, there pretty much anything else that’s crossed his four other stranded strangers: A fancy-talking appears to ridiculous, crazy, funny, violent, have been a slight drop in the number of feature radar in the last 30 years of obsessive film British hangman (Tim Roth), a crotchety old claustrophobic, profane, macabre ... and one consumption. His works will always be Confederate general (Bruce Dern), a tight- films shot here in the Land of Enchantment. hell of a hoot. a However, a recent change to the tax incentive maniacally “inspired” by five or six obscure old lipped cowpoke (Michael Madsen) and a laws bumping up the refund for television shows cult films that he saw but you didn’t. Yet The bemused Mexican caretaker with the unlikely (known as the “Breaking Bad Bill”) seems to name of Bob (Demián Bichir). All are trapped NOTE: Hateful Eight actually seems more concerned The Hateful Eight is opening in approximately have made the state more attractive to with narrative than with name-dropping. inside the tiny lodging house until the storm television production. Among the features shot 100 theaters across America in 70mm format. It’s winter in Wyoming and a stagecoach is passes. What follows is basically a feature- here in the last 12 months were the crime drama Old 70mm projectors were refurbished and racing madly ahead of a raging blizzard. It’s length Mexican standoff. Comancheria starring Chris Pine and Jeff placed in as many theaters as possible for this trying to reach the nearest shelter, a humble Though it keeps its genre mashups and Bridges, the teen runaway drama Hellbent , the special “roadshow” event. The roadshow print is sci-fi sequel Independence Day: Resurgence , wooden waystation called (improbably) references to a minimum, The Hateful Eight 20 minutes longer than the digital, theatrical the Mary Steenburgen/Olivia Cooke drama Minnie’s Haberdashery. Inside the coach are can best be described as Stagecoach crossed print (scheduled for wide release on January 1). Katie Says Goodbye , Adam Sandler’s Western notorious bounty hunter John “The with The Thing as written by Agatha Christie spoof The Ridiculous Six , the gang drama Shot Hangman” Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his and directed by Sergio Leone. Our eight main Albuquerque’s Century Rio 24 is one of the few Caller , the corrupt cop comedy War on Everyone prisoner du jour, Daisy Domergue (Jennifer characters are stuck snowbound together for theaters that has been retrofitted to and the Tina Fey war reporter comedy Whiskey Jason Leigh). Ruth is trying to get to the town the duration, suspicions running wild and accommodate the physical film prints. The Tango Foxtrot (formerly known as American trigger fingers getting itchier by the minute. 70mm format is twice the size of normal (and, at Reporter and Fun House ). Television shows that of Red Rocks in order to collect the $10,000 went into production here included the prison bounty on Domergue’s head. She’s wanted Tarantino does a pitch-perfect job stretching this point, equally outdated) 35mm film prints. That doesn’t mean the image you’ll see on documentary “Behind Bars: Rookie Year,” the dead or alive, but Ruth prides himself on out the film’s tensions and building up the pilot for AMC’s supernatural drama “Preacher” allowing his quarry to keep their appointments mystery of who wants to kill whom and why. screen is twice as big. However, large format and the primetime action series “The Player” with the business end of a noose (hence, his That isn’t to say he fails to indulge in his film is capable of capturing much greater with Wesley Snipes. Among the returning series nickname). trademark tangential conversations. But the resolution and color range. Famous films shot in were “Better Call Saul, Season 2,” “Gunslingers, Ruth’s progress is impeded by two film’s various subplots, character interactions 70mm Ultra Panavision (the process used on Season 2,” “Longmire, Season 4,” “Manhattan, The Hateful Eight ) include 1959’s Ben Hur and Season 2” and “The Night Shift, Season 2.” hitchhikers, a fellow bounty hunter by the and curse-filled speeches all more or less Good work, New Mexico. And keep ’em coming, 1962’s Mutiny on the Bounty . Bottom line: If name of Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. coalesce around post-Civil War social and Hollywood. a Jackson) and a man claiming to be the new racial relations. Everyone on screen is either you wanna see it, see it in 70mm as black or white, Southern or Northern, Tarantino intended. DECEMBER 24-30, 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [19 ] TELEVISION | IDIOT BOX Holiday Helper Christmas Day around the dial Lifetime and Hallmark have spent the last BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY couple of months battling it out to see who can produce the greatest number of Santa-based elevision networks love the holidays. They rom-coms. (Hallmark won handily this year.) know exactly what to show: seasonally Both networks will spend all of Christmas day Tappropriate specials and craploads of reruns. re-airing seasonal made-for-TV movies from That’s exactly what you’ve got to look forward the last decade or so. Pick any one you like; to this Christmas Day. Sure, you can always they’re all pretty much the same. Drink every throw that loop of the burning Yule log up on time Candace Cameron Bure or Dean Cain the old widescreen as background while you show up. open presents, drink your egg nog and ignore PBS gets you in a festive mood later on in your relatives. Or you can pick up your remote the evening by airing “Christmas With the and celebrate a full Idiot Box Christmas. Mormon Tabernacle Choir Featuring Santino Start bright and early with “Disney Parks Fontana and the Sesame Street Muppets” Unforgettable Christmas Celebration” (KNME-5 4pm) . I had no idea the Muppets (KOAT-7 9am). This 32nd annual Christmas were Mormon ... but it kinda makes sense. Day parade features parade floats and loads of If the idea of Elmo and choral music turns corporate branding. Plus, the occasional you stomach a bit, you can check out “The musical performances by Jason Derulo, Ariana Andy Griffith Show Christmas Special” Grande, Seal, Reba McEntire and the cast of (KRQE-13 7pm) instead. Having successfully Descendants (a made-for-TV Disney movie you colorized several “I Love Lucy” episodes for the may or may not have watched). holiday, CBS tries its luck at recycling some Of course, if you’re looking to start your day 50-year-old “Andy Griffith” episodes. Let’s with something a little less secular, check out check the synopsis to see what sort of “Solemn Mass of Christmas Day” (EWTN- shenanigans are happening in Mayberry this 24 10am) from the Basilica of the National holiday: “Andy switches store-bought pickles Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in for Aunt Bee’s.” Wow. That is straight-up Washington, D.C. That sounds ... well, solemn. gangsta, Sheriff Andy. It’s right there in the title. PBS’ nostalgic look back at life in an Kids already bored with their new Anglican nursing convent rings in Christmas Christmas toys by lunchtime might be in the 1960 with “Call the Midwife: Christmas mood to watch “Nickelodeon’s Ho Ho Special” (KNME-5 9pm) . It’s based on the Holiday Special” (Nickelodeon 12pm) . When memoirs of postwar midwife Jennifer Worth Nickelodeon celebrities discover that a holiday and is perfectly appropriate for Anglophiles of a party is actually an evil trap, they are forced to certain age. struggle through holiday-themed obstacles and For my money, though, the best UK-based challenges. At least that’s what the official Christmas tradition is watching “Doctor synopsis claims. Brec Bassinger, Mace Coronel, Who” (BBC America 7pm). This year’s Sean Ryan Fox, Aidan Gallagher, Lizzy Christmas special is titled “The Husbands of Greene, Jack Griffo, Buddy Handleson, Kira River Song”—which means The Doctor’s time Kosarin and Maya Le Clark (all actual traveling “wife” (Alex Kingston) is back for Nickelodeon “celebrities” I can assure you) star. more crazy, romantic action. a

FRIDAY 25 MONDAY 28 THE WEEK IN See “Idiot Box” above. “Bible Bowl” (TLC 6pm) I’m fairly confident this Bible-based trivia SATURDAY 26 competition is the very definition of SLO TH the term “holier than thou.” “Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes” (Netfilx streaming anytime) Netflix TUESDAY 29 pops out a one-off special, THURSDAY 24 recounting the origin story of blind “The 38th Annual Kennedy Center monk One Hundred Eyes (Tom Wu) Honors” (KRQE-13 8pm) Singer “Dawn of the Croods” (Netflix Carole King, filmmaker George streaming anytime) Dreamworks’ from its semi-historical series “Marco Polo.” Lucas, singer/actress Rita Moreno caveman cartoon gets a TV spin-off. and actress Cicely Tyson are among A Christmas Story (TBS 6pm) TBS “Da Vinci’s Demons” (Starz 6pm) The this year’s honorees. Stephen takes the wrapping off its annual actions series—which recasts the Colbert hosts. I’m sure he’ll have “24 Hours of A Christmas Story ” Renaissance artist and inventor as a some good jokes about conductor promotion. hunky, Batman-style superhero—says Seiji Ozawa. goodbye with a series finale in which “Almost Genius” (truTV 8pm) It’s a Wonderful Life (KOB-4 7pm) Da Vinci battles the Ottoman army. Comedians and performers are Because there’s no way you’re sick “digitally inserted” into viral videos of this at this point in the season. Stalked By My Doctor (Lifetime 6pm) OK. Now that the holidays are over to toss in their snarky comments. “A Charlie Brown Christmas” (KOAT-7 with, Lifetime is right back to doing ... Are there actually comedians left 7pm) According to certain Donald what it does best—making suburban in America not already employed by Trump-loving people on Facebook, moms paranoid about everything in another viral video commentary Obama has issued a presidential life. Although, to be fair, if Eric show? order saying that Linus has to recite Roberts is your doctor, you probably lines from the Koran this year. Let’s should be paranoid. WEDNESDAY 30 all watch and find out. “Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol” SUNDAY 27 “I Get That a Lot” (KRQE-13 7pm) (KWBQ-19 7pm) Making fun of the Kristin Chenoweth, Guy Fieri, Rita visually impaired since 1962. The House Sitter (Lifetime 7pm) Ora, Aaron Rodgers and Cody Lemme guess. It’s a light romantic Simpson join CBS’ “only on a slow “The Best of Larry Barker: Top Stories holiday night” hidden camera of 2015” (KASA-2 9pm) Man, I’d comedy about a house sitter who ... No? She’s an “unstable” young special, pretending to be celebrity hate to be a scheming contractor or look-alikes of themselves. ... Yeah, a substandard retirement home woman who “becomes dangerously attached to a family.” OK. Carry on, like anyone wouldn’t recognize operator and see that mustache teenage Australian pop singer Cody walking up the driveway. Lifetime. Simpson in a wig and glasses. a [20 ] WEEKLY ALIBI DECEMBER 24-30 , 2015 DECEMBER 24-30 , 2015 WEEKLY ALIBI [21 ] FILM | CAPSULES BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY OPENING THIS WEEK The Good Dinosaur Pixar and Disney imagine a world in which a rogue Carol asteroid didn’t wipe out the dinosaurs, allowing them to Director Todd Haynes ( Far From Heaven, Mildred Pierce ) live hand-in-hand (so to speak) with humans. Jeffrey returns again to the 1950s for another ravishing, Douglas Wright, Frances McDormand, Anna Paquin and Sam Sirk-esque romantic melodrama. Rooney Mara ( The Girl Elliott provide some of the voices for this tale of a gentle With the Dragon Tattoo ) is a shy, New York shopgirl who Apatosaurus who makes an unlikely human friend while engages in The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name with a traveling through a mysterious primeval landscape. rich, suburban housewife (the always perfect Cate Reviewed in v24 i48. 100 minutes. PG. (Century Rio, Rio Blanchett). The leads are excellent and the period Rancho Premiere Cinema, Cottonwood Stadium 16, Icon recreation is meticulous. But for all its confrontation of Cinemas Albuquerque) midcentury social mores, the film remains formal as a dinner party and a bit chilly around the edges. Based on The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 the controversial novel The Price of Salt by Patricia Jennifer Lawrence finally gets around to overthrowing the Highsmith. 118 minutes. R. (Opens Friday 12/25 at evil futuristic government in this, the fourth film of the Century 14 Downtown) Hunger Games trilogy. This surprisingly dark outing takes its time getting to the epic final seige. But fans will eat it Concussion up anyway. 137 minutes. PG-13. (Rio Rancho Premiere Will Smith stars as the real-life African pathologist who Cinema, Century Rio, Cottonwood Stadium 16) uncovered the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of In the Heart of the Sea normal play. It’s the perfect film for people who love Thor himself, Chris Hemsworth stars in this historical football but are looking for a reason to hate it. 123 survival tale directed by Ron Howard. The story is based minutes. PG-13. (Opens Friday 12/25 at Rio Rancho on the true account of the Essex, a ship that was sunk by Premiere Cinema, Icon Cinemas Albuquerque, Grande 12 a gigantic whale in 1820 and served as the inspiration Albuquerque IMAX, Century 14 Downtown, Century Rio, for Herman Melville’s Moby Dick . Howard creates some Cottonwood Stadium 16) evocative images of early 19th century New England. And the film’s 3D special effects viscerally capture life aboard Daddy’s Home a whaling ship. The subject matter—the brutal, archaic Will Ferrell is a mild-mannered radio executive trying his whaling industry—might not be everyone’s cup of tea, best to connect with his two stepchildren. The task however. Reviewed in v24 i50. 121 minutes. PG-13. becomes harder when the kids’ kick-ass biological father (Century Rio) (Mark Wahlberg) comes home for a visit. If you loved Ferrell and Wahlberg in The Other Guys ... then your taste Krampus is questionable. 96 minutes. PG-13. (Opens Thursday A boy who has had a bad Christmas ends up accidentally 12/24 at Century 14 Downtown, Rio Rancho Premiere summoning a traditional European Christmas demon Cinema, Century Rio, Icon Cinemas Albuquerque, (named Krampus, of course) to his family home. Adam Cottonwood Stadium 16) Scott ( “Parks and Recreation”), Toni Collette ( Little Miss Sunshine ), David Koechner (Anchorman: The Legend of The Danish Girl Ron Burgundy) and Allison Tolman (“Fargo”) are among Eddie Redmayne ( The Theory of Everything ) and Alicia the cast of this seasonal horror comedy. 98 minutes. PG- Vikander ( Ex Machina ) star in this “ficticious drama” Kate Blanchett in Carol 13. (Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Century Rio, loosely based on the romance between Dutch artists Cottonwood Stadium 16) Gerda Wegener and Lili Elbe, an early transgender pioneer and one of the first recipients of sex reassignment provide the voices. 84 minutes. PG. (Opens Saturday Prime Minister (Peshwa) Bajirao I (a Hindu) and his Sisters surgery. 119 minutes. R. (Opens Thursday 12/24 at 12/26 at Guild Cinema) second wife, Mastani (a Muslim). Ranveer Singh and “SNL” pals Tina Fey and Amy Poehler reunite for this rude Century Rio) Deepika Padukone star. In Hindi with English subtitles. ’n’ crude comedy about two sisters who decide to throw The Kindergarten Teacher 150 minutes. Unrated. (Century 14 Downtown) one last, raging house party before their parents sell off The Hateful Eight A kindergarten teacher discovers that her 5-year-old pupil their childhood home. Raucous and outrageous as it is at Reviewed this issue. 168 minutes. R. (Opens Friday has a prodigious gift for poetry—which is great until she The Big Short times, there’s still a humane and heartfelt undercurrent to 12/25 at Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Century 14 becomes obsessed with the kid, trying to protect his Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Steve Carell, the story about growing up and moving on. 118 minutes. Downtown, Century Rio) talent in spite of everyone else. Israeli writer-director Marisa Tomei, Karen Gillan and Melissa Leo star in this R. (Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Century 14 Downtown, Nadav Lapid has created an engrossing (not to mention cynical comedy-drama about four outsiders in the world Century Rio, Icon Cinemas Albuquerque, Cottonwood Jetsons: The Movie award-winning) drama here about art, integrity and of high-finance who predicted the credit and housing Stadium 16) In 1990 “The Jetsons” cartoon family finally got their own madness. In Hebrew with English subtitles. 119 minutes. bubble collapse of the mid-2000s and set out to expose animated feature. In it George Jetson is forced to uproot Unrated. (Opens Saturday 12/26 at Guild Cinema) the greed and shortsightedness of the big banks. Adam Spotlight his family when Mr. Spacely promotes him to take charge McKay ( Anchorman, Talladega Night s) writes and directs, Actor/director Tom McCarthy ( The Station Agent, The of a new factory on a distant planet. There are songs by Point Break based on the nonfiction book by Michael Lewis. 130 Visitor ) writes and directs this serious, sweeping true Tiffany. ... Really. 82 minutes. G. (Opens Saturday 12/26 A mostly unknown cast (Édgar Ramirez? Luke Bracey?) minutes. R. (Century 14 Downtown, Century Rio, story about how Boston Globe reporters uncovered a at Guild Cinema) takes over for Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves in this Cottonwood Stadium 16, Grande 12 Albuquerque IMAX) massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within dudebro remake of the 1991 surfing bank robber cult the local Catholic Archdiocese. This journalistic Joy classic. This time around, the filmmakers throw in a bunch Creed procedural lays as much blame on the media as the Writer-director David O. Russell rejoins a lot of his cast more “extreme” sports to jack up the adrenaline levels to Sylvester Stallone (who neither directs nor writes this churches. The big cast (Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, from Silver Linings Playbook for this chaotic comedy- distract from the fact that the story is still silly as hell. film) takes a clever turn in this seventh Rocky movie by Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Stanley drama about the life of real-life inventor and entrepreneur 113 minutes. PG-13. (Opens Friday 12/25 at Rio Rancho mostly staying out of the center ring. Written and directed Tucci) is in rare form, and the muckraking script is Joy Mangano, who created the Miracle Mop. The film— Premiere Cinema, Icon Cinemas Albuquerque, Century 14 by the man who gave us the gritty Fruitvale Station , this gripping (if a bit prosaic). 128 minutes. R. (Century Rio) featuring the wonderful Jennifer Lawrence in the title Downtown, Century Rio, Cottonwood Stadium 16) sporting drama focuses on the troubled son of late boxer role—is mostly an oddball American success story about Apollo Creed, who turns to Creed’s old frenemy, former Star Wars: The Force Awakens the ins and outs of running a family business. Like all of STILL PLAYING Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa, to serve as his It’s been 30 years since the Empire was crushed in Russell’s films, the tone is off-kilter throughout. 124 trainer and mentor. Michael B. Jordan, last seen (or not) Return of the Jedi . But something evil has risen from the minutes. PG-13. (Opens Friday 12/25 at Rio Rancho Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road in Fantastic Four , is our young boxer-to-be. 132 minutes. ashes, forcing a new generation of heroes (John Boyega Premiere Cinema, Icon Cinemas Albuquerque, Grande 12 Chip PG-13. (Century Rio, Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, and Daisy Ridley among them) to team up with legendary Albuquerque IMAX, Century 14 Downtown, Century Rio, Computer-animated rodents/pop stars the Chipmunks Cottonwood Stadium 16) freedom fighters Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Cottonwood Stadium 16) mistakenly decide that their adoptive human father/band Leia (Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher, manager (yeah, I really don’t understand any of this Dilwale returning for another go-around). J.J. Abrams ( “Lost,” Star Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet concept) is getting married. So they drive to Miami to From director Rohit Shetty ( Chennai Express, Singham ) Trek Into Darkness ) directs this first new Star Wars film in Ten international directors (led by The Lion King ’s Roger stop the wedding. Jason Lee and Bella Thorne are the comes this romantic musical action comedy. (Why settle 10 years. It’s littered (both literally and figuratively) with Allers) tackle Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran’s much-loved unfortunate humans in this fourth outing. 86 minutes. PG. for just one genre when you can have them all at once.) references to the original film. By mirroring the Star Wars: collection of prose poetry. The spiritual life lessons of (Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Century 14 Downtown, The plot—based on the trailer, anyway—seems to involve Episode IV—A New Hope story almost beat-for-beat, the Gibran’s text have been reduced to three-minute stanzas, Century Rio, Icon Cinemas Albuquerque, Cottonwood drift racing, gunplay, martial arts, wacky spit takes and film lacks a level of narrative surprise. But it’s smartly and an overarching story has been added—something Stadium 16) bearded dudes kissing sari-wearing girls in slow motion nostalgic and a hell of a lot of fun to watch—which is about an exiled artist fleeing his homeland with daughter atop picturesque glaciers. In Hindi and Indian Sign something Episodes I, II and III completely forgot. 140 and housekeeper in tow. It’s imaginative, but choppy. Bajirao Mastani Language with English subtitles. 158 minutes. Unrated. minutes. PG-13. (Rio Rancho Premiere Cinema, Century Liam Neeson, Salma Hayek and Quvenzhané Wallis This epic, historical drama/romance tells the story of the (Century 14 Downtown) 14 Downtown, Century Rio, Cottonwood Stadium 16, Icon relationship between 18th century Indian General and Cinemas Albuquerque, Grande 12 Albuquerque IMAX) [22 ] WEEKLY ALIBI DECEMBER 24-30 , 2015 FILM | TIMES wEEk oF FrI., dEcEMbEr 25-ThurS., dEcEMbEr 31

CENTURY 14 DOWNTOWN COTTONWOOD STADIUM 16 Sisters Fri-Tue 11:35am, 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55; Wed-Thu 100 Central SW • 1 (800) 326-3264 ext. 943# Cottonwood Mall • 897-6858 call for film times The Good Dinosaur Fri-Tue 1:50; Wed-Thu call for film times The Hateful Eight Wed 6:00, 9:40; Thu 11:45am, 3:25, Point Break 3D Fri-Thu 3:45, 7:30 7:05, 10:45 Point Break Fri-Thu 12:35, 10:25 Carol Fri-Thu 10:50am, 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 MOVIES 8 Joy Fri-Thu 12:05, 3:10, 7:10, 10:20 4591 San Mateo NE • 1 (800) Fandango, express # 1194 Point Break 3D Fri-Thu 11:40am, 5:10, 10:40 Daddy’s Home Fri-Thu 12:00, 2:05, 2:35, 4:35, 5:05, 7:15, Point Break Fri-Thu 2:25, 7:55 7:45, 9:55, 10:25 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Fri 3:50, 8:00; Sat- Joy Fri-Thu 10:30am, 1:35, 4:30, 7:25, 10:35 Concussion Fri-Thu 12:25, 3:30, 7:00, 10:10 Thu 12:00, 3:50, 8:00 Concussion Fri-Thu 10:20am, 12:05, 1:30, 4:35, 5:30, 7:30, The Big Short Fri-Thu 3:40, 7:00, 10:15 The 33 Fri-Thu 5:50, 9:00 10:25, 11:05 Sisters Fri-Thu 12:15, 3:15, 7:05, 10:10 The Martian 3D Fri-Thu 3:00, 10:00 Daddy’s Home Fri-Thu 11:45am, 2:15, 3:00, 4:45, 7:15, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip Fri-Thu 2:20, The Martian Fri 6:30; Sat-Thu 11:30am, 6:30 8:25, 9:45 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Love the Coopers Fri 3:40, 7:00, 10:10; Sat-Thu 3:40, 7:00, The Big Short Fri-Thu 10:45am, 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D Fri-Thu 12:00, 12:30, 10:10 Dilwale Fri-Tue 3:15, 10:15 1:20, 3:20, 4:40, 5:10, 6:40, 8:00, 8:30, 10:30, 11:20 Secret in Their Eyes Fri 6:40; Sat-Thu 12:20, 6:40 Bajirao Mastani Fri-Tue 11:20am, 6:45; Wed 11:20am Star Wars: The Force Awakens Fri-Thu 1:50, 3:50, 7:10, The Peanuts Movie 3D Fri-Thu 2:20, 9:50 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip Fri-Thu 11:55am, 10:00 The Peanuts Movie Fri 4:50, 7:20; Sat-Thu 11:50am, 4:50, 2:20, 4:40, 7:10, 9:35 Krampus Fri-Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 7:20 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D Fri-Thu 9:50am, The Good Dinosaur Fri-Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 Hotel Transylvania 2 3D Fri-Thu 3:20 11:30am, 1:10, 2:50, 4:25, 6:10, 7:50, 9:30, 11:10 Creed Fri-Thu 3:15, 6:35, 9:45 Hotel Transylvania 2 Fri 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40; Sat Star Wars: The Force Awakens Fri-Thu 10:40am, 12:20, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 Fri-Thu 3:30, 6:50, 11:40am, 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 1:55, 3:40, 5:20, 7:00, 8:40, 10:20 10:15 Goosebumps 3D Fri-Thu 3:10, 10:20 Sisters Fri-Thu 11:10am, 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Goosebumps Fri 7:30; Sat-Thu 12:10, 7:30 GRANDE 12 ALBUQUERQUE IMAX Sicario Fri-Thu 3:30, 9:30 CENTURY RIO 3810 Las Estancias SW • I-25 & Jefferson • 1 (800) 326-3264 MOVIES WEST Star Wars: The Force Awakens An IMAX 3D Experience Fri 9201 Coors NW • 1 (800) Fandango, express # 1247 The Danish Girl Fri 12:45, 3:55, 7:05, 10:15; Sat-Thu 12:20, 3:40, 7:00, 10:20; Sat-Sun 9:00, 12:20, 3:40, 9:35am, 12:45, 3:55, 7:05, 10:15 7:00, 10:20; Mon-Thu 12:20, 3:40, 7:00, 10:20 The 33 Fri 6:20; Sat-Thu 12:20, 6:20 Point Break 3D Fri-Thu 10:20am, 4:30, 10:40 Joy Fri 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:30; Sat-Thu 10:50am, 1:40, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Fri 3:00, 6:30, Point Break Fri-Thu 1:25, 7:35 4:30, 7:20, 10:30 10:00; Sat-Thu 11:30am, 3:00, 6:30, 10:00 Joy Fri 1:00, 4:15, 7:30, 10:45; Sat-Thu 9:45am, 1:00, 4:15, Concussion Fri 12:10, 4:35, 7:35, 10:35; Sat-Sun 9:15am, The Martian 3D Fri-Thu 3:30, 10:10 7:30, 10:45 12:10, 4:35, 7:35, 10:35; Mon-Thu 12:10, 4:35, 7:35, The Martian Fri 7:00; Sat-Thu 12:10, 7:00 Concussion Fri 11:20am, 12:55, 2:30, 4:05, 5:40, 7:15, 10:35 Love the Coopers Fri 4:00, 7:10, 10:20; Sat-Thu 1:00, 4:00, 8:50, 10:25, 11:55; Sat 9:45am, 11:20am, 12:55, 2:30, The Big Short Fri 1:10, 4:15, 7:10, 10:15; Sat-Sun 7:10, 10:20 4:05, 5:40, 7:15, 8:50, 10:25, 11:55; Sun-Thu 9:45am, 10:00am, 1:10, 4:15, 7:10, 10:15; Mon-Thu 1:10, 4:15, Secret in Their Eyes Fri 3:40, 6:40, 9:40; Sat-Thu 12:40, 11:20am, 12:55, 2:30, 4:05, 5:40, 7:15, 8:50, 10:25 7:10, 10:15 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 The Hateful Eight: 70mm Roadshow Version Fri-Thu 12:00, Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D Fri 12:50, 4:10, 7:30, The Peanuts Movie 3D Fri-Thu 2:50, 9:00 4:15, 8:30 10:50; Sat-Sun 9:30am, 12:50, 4:10, 7:30, 10:50; Mon- The Peanuts Movie Fri 6:00; Sat-Thu 12:00, 6:00 Spotlight Fri-Sun 12:20, 6:55; Mon 12:20; Tue 12:20, 6:55; Thu 12:50, 4:10, 7:30, 10:50 Hotel Transylvania 2 3D Fri-Thu 3:10, 9:10 Wed 6:55; Thu 12:20, 6:55 Star Wars: The Force Awakens Fri 1:20, 4:40, 8:00, 11:20; Hotel Transylvania 2 Fri 6:10; Sat-Thu 12:30, 6:10 Daddy’s Home Fri 10:55am, 12:15, 1:40, 3:00, 4:25, 5:45, Sat-Sun 10:00, 1:20, 4:40, 8:00, 11:20; Mon-Thu 10:00, Goosebumps 3D Fri-Thu 3:50, 9:50 7:10, 8:30, 9:55, 11:15; Sat 9:30am, 10:55am, 12:15, 1:20, 4:40, 8:00 Goosebumps Fri-Thu 6:50 1:40, 3:00, 4:25, 5:45, 7:10, 8:30, 9:55, 11:15; Sun-Thu Sicario Fri-Thu 3:20, 9:20 9:30am, 10:55am, 12:15, 1:40, 3:00, 4:25, 5:45, 7:10, GUILD CINEMA 8:30, 9:55, 3405 Central NE • 255-1848 RIO RANCHO PREMIERE CINEMA The Big Short Fri 12:40, 4:00, 7:20, 10:40; Sat-Thu 1000 Premiere Parkway • 994-3300 9:20am, 12:40, 4:00, 7:20, 10:40 Jetsons: The Movie Sat-Sun 12:00 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip Fri-Thu 10:50am, Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet Sat-Wed 6:00 The Hateful Eight Thu 6:30, 10:20 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 The Kindergarden Teacher Sat-Wed 3:30, 8:00 Concussion Fri 2:55, 6:00, 9:10; Sat-Thu 11:45am, 2:55, Sisters Fri 11:30am, 1:05, 2:40, 4:20, 5:50, 7:25, 9:00, The Jerk Thu-Fri 6:30 6:00, 9:10 10:35, 12:01; Sat 9:55am, 11:30am, 1:05, 2:40, 4:20, The Man WIth Two Brains Thu-Fri 4:30, 8:45 Point Break 3D Fri-Thu 3:15, 9:00 5:50, 7:25, 9:00, 10:35, 12:01; Sun-Thu 9:55am, Point Break Fri-Thu 12:25, 6:05 11:30am, 1:05, 2:40, 4:20, 5:50, 7:25, 9:00, 10:35 HIGH RIDGE Joy Fri 2:00, 5:00, 8:00; Sat-Thu 11:00am, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00 Star Wars: The Force Awakens Fri 10:35am, 12:00, 1:05, 12910 Indian School NE • 275-0038 Daddy’s Home Fri 1:35, 4:10, 6:40, 9:20; Sat-Thu 11:00am, 2:05, 3:30, 4:35, 5:35, 7:00, 8:05, 9:05, 10:30, 11:35; 2:55, 6:00, 9:10 Please check alibi.com/filmtimes for films and times. Sat 9:35am, 10:35am, 12:00, 1:05, 2:05, 3:30, 4:35, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip Fri 1:30, 4:05, 5:35, 7:00, 8:05, 9:05, 10:30, 11:35; Sun-Thu 9:35am, 6:40, 9:10; Sat-Thu 11:00am, 1:30, 4:05, 6:40, 9:10 10:35am, 12:00, 1:05, 2:05, 3:30, 4:35, 5:35, 7:00, ICON CINEMAS ALBUQUERQUE Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D Fri 12:30, 3:05, 4:10, 13120-A Central Ave. SE • 814-7469 8:05, 9:05, 10:30 6:30, 7:20, 9:55, 10:40; Sat-Thu 11:40am, 2:30, 3:05, 4:10, 6:30, 9:25, 9:55, 10:40 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D Fri 10:05am, 11:05am, Daddy’s Home Fri-Tue 11:25am, 12:30, 2:30, 2:45, 5:00, Star Wars: The Force Awakens Fri 12:25, 12:50, 1:05, 3:50, 11:35am, 12:35, 1:35, 2:35, 3:05, 4:05, 5:05, 6:05, 7:15, 7:45, 9:30, 10:00, 10:20; Wed-Thu call for film times 3:55, 4:30, 7:45, 7:15, 7:25, 7:55, 10:30, 10:45; Sat-Thu 6:35, 7:35, 8:35, 9:35, 10:05, 11:05, 12:01; Sat 9:05am, Point Break 3D Fri-Tue 11:50am, 9:50; Wed-Thu call for film 11:40am, 2:30, 3:05, 4:10, 6:30, 9:25, 9:55, 10:40 10:05am, 11:05am, 11:35am, 1:35, 2:35, 3:05, 4:05, times Sisters Fri 2:00, 5:00, 8:00; Sat-Thu 11:00am, 2:00, 5:00, 5:05, 6:05, 6:35, 7:35, 8:35, 9:35, 10:05, 11:05, 12:01; Point Break Fri-Tue 2:20, 4:50, 7:20; Wed-Thu call for film 8:00 Sun-Thu 9:05am, 10:05am, 11:05am, 11:35am, 1:35, times Krampus Fri-Thu 2:35, 8:35 2:35, 3:05, 4:05, 5:05, 6:05, 6:35, 7:35, 8:35, 9:35, Joy Fri-Tue 11:30am, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30; Wed-Thu call for film Creed Fri 8:45; Sat-Thu 11:20am, 5:20; 8:45 10:05 times The Good Dinosaur 3D Fri-Thu 3:10 In the Heart of the Sea Fri 3:55, 10:20; Sat-Tue 9:00am, Concussion Fri-Tue 11:45am, 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25; Wed- The Good Dinosaur Fri-Thu 12:25, 6:00 3:55, 10:20; Wed 9:00am, 10:20; Thu 9:00am, 3:55, Thu call for film times The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 Fri 5:20; Sat-Thu 10:20 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip Fri-Tue 11:45am, 11:20am, 5:20 Krampus Fri-Thu 11:15am, 2:05, 4:55, 7:45, 10:35 4:05, 6:10, 8:15; Wed-Thu call for film times The Good Dinosaur Fri-Thu 10:45, 1:35, 4:25, 7:10, 10:00 Star Wars: The Force Awakens Fri-Tue 11:35am, 1:10, 1:40, Creed Fri 12:25, 3:45, 7:05, 10:25; Sat-Thu 9:00am, 3;35, 4:05, 4:35, 4:50, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:10, WINROCK STADIUM 16 IMAX & RPX 2100 Louisiana Blvd. NE • 881-2220 12:25, 3:45, 7:05, 10:25 10:30; Wed-Thu call for film times The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 Fri 12:25, 3:50, Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D Fri-Tue 12:40, 9:30; Wed- Please check alibi.com/filmtimes for films and times. 7:15, 10:45; Sat-Thu 9:00am, 12:25, 3:50, 7:15, 10:45 Thu call for film times

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[24 ] WEEKLY ALIBI DECEMBER 24-30 , 2015 MUSIC | Show Up! AURAL FIXATION BY ROBIN BAAB New Music, New Solidarity

2015 was rough, y’all. Between the attacks in Paris, the death and terror that the Islamic State has inflicted in the Middle East, the countless mass shootings, police shootings and rampant xenophobia in our own country, it has been a truly bad news year. Amidst all this violence and political turmoil, though, we learned to seek comfort in solidarity—and some of that solidarity came in the form of new music. This year was “The Return of the Protest Song” according to The Atlanti c, and a highly necessary return it was. Musicians stepped up to make their voices and their politics heard in the debates on police brutality, gun control and immigration, led by Janelle Monáe, Killer Mike, Kendrick Lamar and the ever-political M.I.A. In September, Monáe (who led a Black Lives Matter march in San Francisco earlier this year) and several other artists from Wondaland Records recorded “Hell You Talmbout,” a simplistically powerful drumline-march which included a chant Gene Corbin COURTESY OF THE ARTIST Huntress COURTESY OF NAPALM RECORDS of the names of the many people of color killed by police in the past several years. “Freddie Gray, say his name, Sandra Bland, say her name” shouts Monáe—citing the phrase used by protesters of Sandra Bland’s arrest and Ignite the Night suspicious jail cell death in July. The phrase “say her name” is a plea to stop thinking of the deaths With these heavenly concerts of people of color as mere statistics, but as the loss of real people with names, faces and families. Blood Orange (the musical project of wondrous things. Corbin incorporates a hard- Polyhedra . Diminished Existence , a thrashed- Dev Hynes) released a song about Bland in BY AUGUST MARCH picking, bluegrass style of guitar playing out quartet with roots here and in Mesita and October called “Sandra’s Smile.” In a series of matched up with a deeply resonant voice Tohajiilee, are also scheduled to perform, as lyric annotations to the song on Genius, Hynes id you ever see the faces of the whose hints of vibrato make his narratives full are Santa Fe’s Awakening the Dragon . This said, “I had a somewhat delayed depression upon children/ They get so excited/ Waking with yearning—just the thing Santy Claws box full of heavy elements will cost heshers Sandra’s death. I was hurt and upset and mad “D up on Christmas morning/ Hours and his eight tiny reindeer wanna hear whilst everywhere a mere $5—accompanied by three instantly, of course … a few days later it hit me before the winter sun’s ignited/ They believe cruising down the Turquoise Trail. It’s a free, cans of decent food or a warm winter jacket. and I was unconsolable [sic].” in dreams and all they mean/ Including 21+ gig that rolls out from under the tree— Lacking the cans, coats and compassion will Meanwhile, M.I.A. was working on “Borders,” heaven’s generosity/ Peeping ‘round the door/ like that Tonka Front Loader you asked for in incur an added fee; that scenario requires 10 a song and music video that asks endless to see what parcels are for free/ In curiosity/ third grade—at 6pm. bucks. The all-ages antics begin at 6:30pm. questions of the listener which are progressively abstract and hard to answer. The video is set in And Tommy doesn’t know what day it is/ He two locations: a high chain-link fence and a doesn’t know who Jesus was or what praying is/ Friday Sunday beach—both sites that we associate not only How can he be saved?/ From the eternal grave” If you need to hear something besides Well as Johnny Burnette noted—and The with borders, but with illicit or dangerous – “Christmas” written by Peter Townsend and Christmas music on Friday, Dec. 25, check out Yardbirds and Aerosmith righteously agreed emigration. Standing among hundreds of people performed by The Who, from the rock opera the CD player at Ho Lo Ma Chinese upon too—the train keeps on a rollin’. In this symbolizing refugees, M.I.A. raps “Broke people, Tommy . Restaurant ( 8624 Menaul NE). They’re open case, it’s a heavy iron and lead contraption what’s up with that?/ Boat people, what’s up from 11am-10pm Christmas Day and you can lumbering through town on a track made of with that?”—colloquial phrasings meant to elicit I don’t know about you, but anyone who listen to the latest in Mandopop—you know plutonium. That locomotive is designed to long-form answers. can successfully rhyme “excited” with like Stefanie Sun and Jolin Tsai —whilst carry one out from under the spell of the Before all of these, though, Kendrick Lamar “ignited” gets my vote. As for Tommy, well, I digging some of the best Chinese food in the previous night’s indulgences into yet another released his third album, To Pimp a Butterfly, in March. It’s reached the top of many “Best am quite certain that he can be saved from the city. Their special chop suey rocks. metallic wonderland at Sunshine Theater (120 Albums of 2015” lists, and for good reason: eternal grave through the power of music. You Central SW). Black Label Society brings their too can find redemption that goes beyond Lamar knows that politics are personal, and that Doomtrooping Into 2016 tour to town on being successful doesn’t protect anyone from the seasonal sources by seeking sonic salvation. Saturday Saturday, Dec. 26, is Boxing Day, a secular Sunday, Dec. 27. The groovy yet sludge-based prejudice of others. The track “King Kunta” With that heavenly premise in mind, here’s holiday celebrated in much of the English- band outta El Lay is fronted by Zakk Wylde, a references the fictional slave in Alex Haley’s this week’s Show Up! speaking world, but sadly neglected in the US. multi-instrumentalist with Southern boogie in novel Roots , who had his foot cut off as It’s not a day when you sit about watching his heart, dark thoughts in his head and a black punishment for attempting to escape the Thursday pugilists punching. Nor is it a day where one and yellow Karl Sandoval V guitar that is both plantation where he labored. “Now I run the Spend Christmas Eve, Thursday, Dec. 24, up at gathers up yesterday’s abandoned gift boxes for hypnotic to see (it’s like all spirally, mang) and game, got the whole world talkin’/ King Kunta, Molly’s Bar (546 New Mexico 333) in Tijeras analysis. I’ll tell you this much: It used to hear. Though the band’s seen a slew of lineup everybody wanna cut the legs off him/ Kunta/ Black man taking no losses” raps Lamar, in the kind company of Americana adherent involve boxes, but now mostly involves banks. changes and changed direction over the years, paralleling Kunta’s story with his own escape Gene Corbin , who’ll be playing a special You’ll have to do the rest of the research they still command a shitload of cred, going holiday-themed concert that very night. deep enough to cover tunes like “Ain’t No from the hood and his daily struggle against because I gotta tell you about a show that those that would bring him down. Corbin’s been playing around this town and Sunshine” while also handling new work like night. It’s the Buh Humbug Fest at Blu Music has always been and will always be an the surrounding area for years; he was an Phoenix Venue (3315 Princeton NE). The “Heart of Darkness” with earnest brutality. important part of every revolutionary political integral member of local folk outfit the Band concert’s pretty much gonna be a headbanging Huntress —a gothy, thrash band that features movement. Not only because music brings us of Enchantment. In that time he’s garnered sorta deal featuring dark demiurges from the screamalicious utterances of classically together and reminds us of what’s important, but numerous accolades and influenced at least around the state. Gallup, N.M.’s A Malicious trained vocalist Jill Janus—and The Shrine because, during our darkest moments, it can be two generations of musicians. The dude’s Plague headlines. These guys play a melodic, (they’re like all psychedelically psychotic) an uplifting light. What’s that probably-fake sound revolves around his relationship with a technically informed brand of death metal and open. 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[28 ] WEEKLY ALIBI DECEMBER 24-30 , 2015 Free Will Astrology | Horoscopes by rob brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): The raw materials you language. If you use it, you risk being thought vulgar have at your disposal in 2016 may sometimes seem and uneducated. And yet “ain’t” has been around limited. You might not have access to all the tools since 1706, more than 300 years. Most words that you wish you did. You could be tempted to feel envy are used for so long eventually become official. I see about the vaster resources other people can draw your journey in 2016 as having resemblances to the on. But I honestly don’t think these apparent saga of “ain’t,” Libra. You will meet resistance as you inhibitions will put you at a disadvantage. Within seek greater acceptance of some nonstandard but your smaller range of options, there will be all the regular part of your life. Here’s the good news: Your possibilities you need. In fact, the constraints could chances of ultimately succeeding are much better stimulate your creativity in ways that would have than ain’t’s. never occurred if you’d had more options. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): My old friend John TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You know what owns a 520-acre farm in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. physical hygiene is. But are you familiar with Blueberries are among the crops he grows. If he imaginal hygiene? Educator Morgan Brent defines it arranges their growing season so that they ripen in like this: “Imaginal hygiene is the inner art of self- July, he can sell them for $1.75 a pint. But if he managing the imagination, to defend it from forces designs them to be ready for harvest in late summer that compromise, pollute, colonize, shrink and and early fall, the price he gets may go up to $4 a sterilize it and to cultivate those that illuminate, pint. You can guess which schedule he prefers. I urge expand and nourish it.” It’s always important for you to employ a similar strategy as you plot your everyone to attend to this work, but it’s especially game plan for 2016, Scorpio. Timing may not be crucial for you to focus on it in 2016. You will be everything, but it will count for a lot. exceptionally creative and therefore likely to generate long-lasting effects and influences out of SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1803, the US the raw materials that occupy your imagination. government bought a huge chunk of North American land from the French government. At a price of three GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your mind sometimes cents per acre, the new republic doubled its size, works too hard and fast for your own good. But acquiring what’s now Louisiana and Montana and mostly it’s your best asset. Your versatility can everything between. I don’t think you’ll add that sometimes be a curse, too, but far more often it’s a much to your domain in 2016, Sagittarius, but it’s blessing. Your agile tongue and flexible agenda likely you will expand significantly. And although generate more fun than trouble, and so do your your new resources won’t be as cheap as the 1803 smooth maneuvers and skillful gamesmanship. As bargain, I suspect the cost, both in terms of actual wonderful as all these qualities can be, however, I cash and in emotional energy, will be manageable. suggest that you work on expanding your scope in There’s one way your acquisition will be better than 2016. In my astrological opinion, it will be a good that earlier one. The Americans bought and the time for you to study and embody the magic that the French sold land they didn’t actually own—it water signs possess. What would that mean exactly? belonged to the Native people—whereas your moves Start this way: Give greater respect to your feelings. will have full integrity. Tune in to them more, encourage them to deepen and figure out how to trust them as sources of CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The coming year wisdom. will be a favorable time for you to nourish a deeper devotion to truth, beauty and goodness. Anything CANCER (June 21-July 22): Swedish movie director you do to make your morality more rigorous will Ingmar Bergman won three Academy Awards and generate benefits that ripple through your life for was nominated for nine others. Numerous years to come. Curiously, you can add to the filmmakers have cited him as an important influence propitious effect by also cultivating a deeper on their work. His practical success was rooted in his devotion to fun, play and pleasure. There is a devotion to the imagination. “I am living permanently symbiotic connection between the part of you that in my dream, from which I make brief forays into wants to make the world a better place and the part reality,” he said. Can you guess his astrological sign? of you that thrives on joy, freedom and wonder. Cancer the Crab, of course! No other tribe is better Here’s the magic formula: Feed your lust for life by suited at moving back and forth between the two being intensely compassionate, and vice versa. worlds. At least potentially, you are virtuosos at interweaving fantasy with earthy concerns. The AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I predict that 2016 coming year will afford you unprecedented will be your Year of Fruitful Obsessions. In giving this opportunities to further develop and use this skill. positive spin to the cosmic tendencies, I’m hoping to steer you away from any behavior that might lead to LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Avoid pain and pursue 2016 being your Year of Fruitless Obsessions. One pleasure. Be kind, not cruel. Abstain from self-pity way or another, I think you’ll be driven to express and ask for the help you need. Instead of your passions with single-minded intensity. Focused complaining, express gratitude. Dodge time-wasting devotion—sometimes verging on compulsive activities and do things that are meaningful to you. preoccupation—is likely to be one of your signature Shun people who disrespect you and seek the qualities. That’s why it’s so important to avoid company of those who enjoy you. Don’t expose wasteful infatuations and confounding manias. yourself to sickening, violent entertainment; fill your Please choose fascinations that are really good for imagination with uplifting stories. Does the advice you. I’m offering in this horoscope seem overly simple and obvious? That’s no accident. In my opinion, what you PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your symbol of power need most in 2016 is to refresh your relationship in 2016 will be the equal sign: =. Visualize it in your with fundamental principles. mind’s eye every morning for 20 seconds. Tattoo it on your butt. Write it on an index card that you keep VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Many of the atoms that under your pillow or on your bathroom mirror. compose your flesh and blood were not part of your Gestures like these will deliver highly relevant body 12 months ago. That’s because every year, 98 messages to your subconscious mind, like “Create percent of you is replaced. Old cells are constantly balance and cultivate harmony!” and “Coordinate dying, giving way to new cells that are made from opposing forces!” and “Wherever there is tension the air, food and water you ingest. This is true about between two extremes, convert the tension into everyone, of course. You’re not the only one whose vital energy!” Here are your words of power in 2016: physical form is regularly recycled. But here’s what “symbiosis” and “synergy.” will be unique about you in 2016: Your soul will match your body’s rapid transformations. In fact, the turnover is already underway. 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Across 1 Letterhead illustrations 6 Key holder 9 “Your Movie Sucks” author Roger 14 “I’m on ___!” 15 Anonymous Richard in court cases 16 Where it’s happening 17 Like some French sauces 18 Observation from one person to another, part 1 20 Observation, part 2 22 Street of bad dreams? 23 “Ice Age” sloth 24 Allow 25 Stick (out) 28 Singer who dropped “McEntire” from her performing name 30 Last name in cartoon skunks 32 Appease fully 33 Possible pigeon perch 3 Lose sensation 38 “Undersea World” explorer 35 Baseball Hall-of-Famer Tony 4 “In My Own Fashion” Jacques 36 Observation, part 3 autobiographer Cassini 39 Evades the seeker 5 ___ a fox 40 “Oh ___! — it’s full of stars!” 40 Checkers pieces (line from the novel “2001”) 6 Cholesterol-laden burger topper 43 Pool table fabric 41 “And there you have it!” 7 “Game of Thrones” actress 42 Rake in Chaplin 44 Grant another mortgage 43 British artist Lucian 8 Scarab, e.g. 46 Describing a living organism 45 BBQ specialty 9 What’s happening process (unlike, say, from a test 49 180 degrees from SSW 10 Titanic obstacle tube) 50 Membership charge 11 Pair of bunnies? 47 Yuppie’s German car, slangily 51 Red or Dead follower 12 Bitterly regret 48 “Being and Nothingness” 53 “Poetry Out Loud” org. 13 Golfer’s support author 54 Response to the observation, 19 Mountaintop feature 50 UPS rival part 1 21 First name among early 52 Goth necklace pendants 57 Response, part 2 “SNL” regulars 60 “The Kiss” artist Gustav 25 Crows’ cousins 54 Small songbird 61 Baby food, typically 26 “Reader” founder Eric 55 1950s Hungarian leader Nagy 62 Legendary coach Parseghian 27 Lowest two-digit positive 56 Tesla founder Musk 63 Word before craft or board integer 57 “Be on the lookout” message 64 Northernmost NYC borough 29 “Good Eats” host Brown 65 Modern, in Munich 31 “Pet” annoyance 58 Low-down sort 66 Make some z’s 32 Say some naughty words 59 Prefix sometimes seen 34 LAX listing around vasectomies Down 35 Pomade alternative ©2016 Jonesin’ Crosswords 1 Brief writer 36 Blue used in printing ([email protected]) 2 Maryland’s state bird 37 Shrek, for example

LAST WEEK CROSSWORD ANSWERS “We’ve Got U Surrounding”—vowel play from both sides

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