alibi DEB HAALAND NEWS: PAGESPAGES 8 AANDND 9 VOLUME 28 | ISSUE 35 | AUGUST 29-SEPTEMBER 4, 2019 | FREE 2019 4, 29-SEPTEMBER | ISSUE 35 AUGUST 28 VOLUME “On climate change, there’s an urgency there that we’ve never experienced before. Listen to Indigenous people about how to care for the land, for PHOTOGRAPHY BY ERIC WILLIAMS BY PHOTOGRAPHY the Earth.” AFTER ELVIS LEFT SHAWARMA, HEROES SOUND OWLS THE BUILDING AND HOSPITALITY AT THE STUDIO ART: PAGE 11 FOOD: PAGE 12 MUSIC: PAGES 26 AND 27 VOTING PROGRESSIVE SINCE 1992 VOTING [ 2] WEEKLY ALIBI AUGUST 29-SEPTEMBER 4, 2019 AUGUST 29-SEPTEMBER 4, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [3] alibi VOLUME 28 | ISSUE 35 | AUGUST 29-SEPTEMBER 4, 2019 EDITORIAL MANAGING EDITOR/ FILM EDITOR: Devin D. O’Leary (ext. 230) [email protected] MUSIC EDITOR/NEWS EDITOR: August March (ext. 245) [email protected] FOOD EDITOR: Dan Pennington (Ext. 255) [email protected] Email letters, including author’s name, mailing address and daytime phone number to [email protected]. 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CALENDARS EDITOR: Ashli Kesali [email protected] STAFF WRITER: Joshua Lee (ext. 243) [email protected] SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR: Samantha Carrillo (ext. 223) [email protected] Art Hive for All Dumb down for CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Robin Babb, Rob Brezsny, Carolyn Carlson, Samantha Dear Editor, Anti-gunners Carrillo, Desmond Fox, Maggie Grimason, Steven Luthy, Hosho McCreesh, Mayo Lua de Frenchie The first time I pressed my face to the Dear Alibi, storefront window on the tiny strip mall PRODUCTION Your commentary on dum-dums [v28 i33] ART DIRECTOR: across from Robinson Park, I knew something Ramona Chavez (ext. 268) [email protected] had a grain of truth and a lot of omission. ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR: special was happening at 808 Park Ave. SW. I Corey Yazzie [email protected] It is true that generals and their rule GRAPHIC DESIGNER: discovered a magical place where everyone Xanthe Miller [email protected] who wishes to make art or learn through the books prefer “hardball” ammunition. Not STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER: only does it result in more non-fatal Eric Williams [email protected] creative art medium is welcome. CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS: Since 2001, OFFCenter Community Arts wounds, it also penetrates barriers better. Max Cannon, Kayla Church, Michael Ellis, Nate Hewitt, Alyssa Metoyer, Ryan North, Mike Organisciak, Project has offered free and low-cost art and However, the realities of close quarters Jen Sorensen music classes, writing, card making, theatre combat, whether in the trenches of WWI, SALES and knitting groups, development courses for SALES DIRECTOR: the jungles of Vietnam or the American Tierna Unruh-Enos (ext. 248) [email protected] emerging artists, and connection and street, often render the politically correct ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES: collaboration with others. Kittie Blackwell (ext. 224) [email protected] ammunition ineffective. I took my first steps into OFFCenter 10 John Hankinson (ext. 235) [email protected] In WWI it was discovered that bolt EVENT AND MARKETING COORDINATOR years ago as an Occupational Therapist, Madeline MacKenzie [email protected] action rifles were outmatched by German working with people often labeled ADMINISTRATION sub-machine guns at close quarters. The US PUBLISHER: developmentally disabled. OFFCenter Constance Moss (ext. 222) [email protected] considers us all community members, artists, Army began issuing 12 gauge shotguns to CONTROLLER: friends, collaborators. In a place where troops. These were effective enough that Courtney Foster (ext. 257) [email protected] SYSTEMS MANAGER: unique gifts abound, labels fall away. the Germans claimed them to be a war Kyle Silfer (ext. 242) [email protected] OFFCenter provides a place for us all to WEB MONKEY: crime. 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As a volunteer, When faced with a close quarters attack, CIRCULATION SPECIAL FORCES: community artist and board member, I Darrell Sparks [email protected] learned firsthand of the continual struggle to the ultimate lethality of a bullet is not INFORMATION keep OFFCenter afloat to be able to fulfill its nearly as important as its ability to PRINTER: The Santa Fe New Mexican mission: To enhance the lives of all people in immediately stop the attacker. Expanding IN LOVING MEMORY: our community, especially those who have ammo does this far more effectively than Doug Albin, Martin Candelaria, Michael Henningsen, Gretchen Hudson, Eric Johnson, Greg Medara, Chico been marginalized, through art-making and hardball. 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Letters may be edited for length and Former OFFCenter Board Secretary clarity, and may be published in any medium; we Association of Alternative regret that owing to the volume of correspondence Newsmedia we cannot reply to every letter. Word count limit for letters is 300 words. [4] WEEKLY ALIBI AUGUST 29-SEPTEMBER 4, 2019 While they waited for authorities to arrive, the bear reportedly took notice of them. “It ODDS bumps on the door. It scratches, trying with all its might to get in,” one boy recounted. “We had to push as hard as we could.” It took 13 minutes for Placer County Sheriff’s Office AND ENDS Deputy Allyson Prero to make it to the home. WEIRD NEWS She reportedly opened the front door and fired a “bear round” from her shotgun to frighten Dateline: Germany the animal away. According to reports, the bear helped itself to some taco meat, two pints The German town of Bielefeld is offering €1 of ice cream and some crackers. It left quite a million for proof of its non-existence. mess, but no one was hurt during the ordeal. According to The Local in Germany, the city is battling a conspiracy theory that originated on Usenet in 1994 and has persisted to this day. Dateline: Iceland Usenet user Achim Held started the audacious Iceland officials held a funeral for the first rumor that Bielefeld doesn’t exist as a tongue- glacier to disappear due to climate change. in-cheek nod to conspiracy theory subculture. The Guardian reports that around 100 people Held pointed out that you never meet anyone attended a ceremony earlier this month to from Bielefeld, and no major industry can mark the glacier’s passing. A bronze plaque trace its origins to the town. He claimed a was mounted on the bare rock where the shadowy cabal was responsible for the Okjökull glacier once stood that bears the obfuscation and demanded that the truth be inscription: “Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to revealed. The joke spread, becoming a fixture lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 of German culture over the next two decades. years, all our glaciers are expected to follow It was further suggested by some that the town the same path. This monument is to is an access point to Atlantis and that the acknowledge that we know what is happening city’s university is actually an extraterrestrial and what needs to be done. Only you know if spaceship. German Chancellor Angela Merkel we did it.” It is also labelled “415 ppm CO2,” even got in on the gag during a speech in 2012 the record level of carbon dioxide measured in by mentioning that she’d attended an event in the atmosphere last May.