Recursion is a nifty platformer, neatly haunted by the ghosts of Super Mario Bros. Your ship has crashed on a mysterious world, and you must escape by collecting stars and raising flags. (OK, I don't get the connection either.) What makes this one stand out is its warped puzzles and clever art style--which transforms 8-bit gaming into a near-needlepoint experience.

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Albuquerque Film Office’s monthly Indie Q meeting returns to the KiMo Theater Downtown on Wednesday, May 23. Tonight will be a jam-packed night of local film shorts. Liz Langston from the Film Office will introduce the evening. That will be followed by 11 shorts. The lineup is as follows: “Trifecta Screening Promo” by Scott Milder, “Toy Soldiers” by Peter Nicholas, “Independent Business” by John Broadhead, “Two Timers” by Jim Sicard, “The Joy of Arca” by Lora Cunningham, “2Bers, How to Relax” by Ryan Halsey, “Lessons for the Aspiring Man” by Stephen Truselli, “Serious Shift” by James Nunn, “Serious Development” by Tom McGill and “Ritz and Spitz” by the IFDM Capstone Class. Afterward, there will be a Q&A session with all the filmmakers. Admission is free. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Show starts at 7 p.m.

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Hi Baby. It's taken me so much longer than I hoped to get a few words down. Still no phone of my own yet, but finally saved up to get a place. It's only a studio, but one tall-ass window opens up onto a veranda big enough for me to sit in my chair and watch the neighbors’ houses light up as the night falls. Maybe I'll start growing some vines to creep over the railing. Not that it was so bad at my daddy's, but you know how I am. We'd sit up until sunrise playing cards in the kitchen. Still don't talk much, at least not yet, but the silences are more settled. Job's aight. The usual mustachioed psychopath at the helm, and mostly Mexicans instead of Salvadoreños. My Spanish is getting along good. I hope you are too. Sometimes I ride my bike out to sit under the live oaks and daydream about what they've grown up witness to. I thought you'd like to see one. Write to me, please? Even if you're still mad. Please kiss your pretty face in the mirror for me.

The last iteration of this blog column was used to highlight stencils, graff and found art in Downtown Albuquerque. Today we're switching things up a bit. My mom the art historian is currently in Paris, so I asked her to be the Alibi's foreign photo correspondent. Wonder what street artists with names like Miss-Tic, Boozy and and Jef Aerosol are up to in gay Paree? Here you have it in slideshow format, straight from the hip Parisian hood known as arrondissement des Gobelins (which does not mean, contrary to my language-botching proclivities, “The Round Table of the Goblins”). Check out the Hollande vs. Sarkozy presidential boxing poster!

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