Alibi V.22 No.32 • Aug 8-14, 2013

Blacktop Greens

Scoping out the relocated Uptown Growers’ Market

By Ari LeVaux

We check in on the newly relocated market and find plenty of greens on the blacktop.

Growing Pains

Real estate and retail markets spur change in Nob Hill

By Barron Jones

Barron Jones reports on the convergence and divergence of the real estate and retail markets in Nob Hill.

By Mike Smith and ¡Brapola!

Every two weeks, author Mike Smith and artist ¡Brapola! will present their fait divers-meets-comic art print collaboration New Mexico News (with expanded online content) in the Alibi.

Beware Poison Pumpers

Why you don’t need toxic pesticides injected into your walls

By Richard “Bugman” Fagerlund

The Bugman warns against unnecessary pesticide application and consequent toxic exposure.

High-tech Headache

By M.J. Wilde

M.J. Wilde just wants a fridge to be ... a fridge.

By Devin D. O’Leary

Funny because it happens to someone else.

My Breaking (Bad) Heart

By Samantha Anne Carrillo

We really did have great chemistry together, “Breaking Bad.” Stream our BrBa OST Spotify “mixtape” as you prep for your watch party.

The West is the best, from post-punk to yeehaw, destroy what destroys you and improv rumbles Roost

By Samantha Anne Carrillo

Whether you’re in the mood for solo piano, violin, post-punk Americana, sludge, doom or free jazz improv, Four Up has you covered.

Sonic Reducer

This week we listened to new and forthcoming releases from Belle and Sebastian, Julia Holter and Dracula Lewis.

Blackfish—an attention-grabbing documentary from the newly launched CNN Films—presents some mighty upsetting information about the process of capturing, training and exhibiting killer whales. But the information is offered up in such a gripping manner that other would-be environmental filmmakers would do well to sit up and take notes.

By Devin D. O’Leary

After six years of silence, the venerable Jean Cocteau Cinema in Santa Fe is firing up the projectors once again after being purchased earlier this year by famed fantasy author (and longtime Santa Fe resident) George R.R. Martin.

“Breaking Bad” on AMC

By Devin D. O’Leary

All good things must come to an end. So too all bad things. That’s certainly true for the much-loved cable crime series “Breaking Bad,” which begins airing the final eight episodes of its climactic fifth season this weekend.

Week in Sloth

Highlights from around the dial. Except no one has dials anymore.

Our Bodies, Our Stories

New sex and relationship book empowers everybody

By Eva Avenue

In candidly self-aware comics and essays, Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf explores the spectrum human relationships and sexuality. All of it.

Is It Real, or Is It Just the American Dream?

Dreamlandia adapts old questions for a new century

By Holly Von Winckel

Working Classroom brings their own spin to the timeless tale of how we deceive ourselves and others just to get by.

By Suzanne Buck

A journalist’s sudden descent into paranoia, seizures, cognitive deterioration and an altered personality--does it make for gripping reading?

Carrots and Garlic, Summer and Winter

By Ari LeVaux

Ari LeVaux on the simple delights of two common vegetables.

In the name of psych, Instagram rock, “Dead Flowers” on “Rockaway Beach” and northerly neighbors roost

By Samantha Anne Carrillo

Sate your aural cravings for modern psych, indie rock, Ramones and Rolling Stones tributes and Southern Gothic Amertronica with a little help from Four Up.

The Toxic Tales of Susana Martinez

How mining giant Freeport-McMoRan is rewriting environmental laws in New Mexico

By David Correia

Weekly Alibi’s august collaboration with online magazine of New Mexico environmental politics La Jicarita finds David Correia examining Gov. Susana Martinez’s connections to copper mining behemoth Freeport-McMoRan.

By Devin D. O’Leary

Funny because it happens to someone else.

Letters

The readers write.

Please return your flight crew to their full upright and locked position.

I’m So Excited!

Pedro Almodóvar flies the frantic skies in silly, sky-high romp

By Devin D. O’Leary

After the kinky, creepy quirk of 2011’s mod-goth masterpiece The Skin I Live In, Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar returns to his campy, soap-operatic roots with the palate-cleansing amuse-bouche I’m So Excited.

By Devin D. O’Leary

This August the KiMo Theatre is presenting its Summer Retrospective of Mexican Cinema. In conjunction with the Consulate of Mexico, KiMo will screen five classic Mexican films. The series starts on Thursday, Aug. 1, with 1943’s Flor Silvestre (Wildflower).

Roughing It in the Buff

“Naked and Afraid” on Discovery

By Devin D. O’Leary

The exploitative element of Discovery Channel’s new survival show “Naked and Afraid” shouldn’t comes as much of a surprise to viewers. It’s right there in the title. The surprise, rather, is the addictive nature of the seemingly familiar material.

Week in Sloth

Week in Sloth: Take a spin around the dial with this week’s TV picks

Last Month in Music: June 2013

By Mike Smith

Author Mike Smith shares his live music experiences in June 2013 in a column that explores more than merely music.

Sonic Reducer

This week we listened to new releases from True Widow, Estamos Trio and Faux Fur.

Dropping a Bombshell

Thriller author explodes nuclear tourism and genre archetypes

By M. Brianna Stallings

Author James Reich reveals the friction and fission at the nuclear heart of his new novel.

"Storm Rise" by Angus Macpherson, acrylic on canvas

Culture Shock

By Lisa Barrow

Batman goes arty, calaveras become social critique and painter Angus Macpherson transports you to cloud heaven in this week’s Culture Shock.

By Jeremy Shattuck

Set in New York during the onset of WWII, Ania Szado’s novel follows a love triangle involving Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of The Little Prince.

Chả dùm bò: lemongrass beef ball served with rice crackers.

Beefing Up

Seven meaty courses at Pho Linh

By Ari LeVaux

Seven courses of meaty delights wait for you at Pho Linh.

The Alibi Refreshes

Our annual Summer Dining Guide

By Ty Bannerman

The Bombazo de Mango at La Michoacana frozen treat

Our annual Summer Dining Guide shows you the best ways to keep cool even as temperatures soar.

Beat the Heat with Barley and Wheat

Liberate your tastebuds with Broken Bottle’s Ju-Rye 4th Brown Ale.

Burque’s summer brews

By Brian Haney

Brian Haney explores a diverse collection of locally brewed summer beers.

Sweet, cool and energizing--Napoli Coffee’s espresso milkshake.

Beverages to keep you deliciously hydrated

By Eric Castillo

Eric Castillo delivers the scoop on Albuquerque’s glass menagerie.

An explosion of flavor awaits in the Bombazo de Mango at La Michoacana.

Paleteria Brittanica

A New Mexican guide to Mexico’s favorite frozen concoctions

By Gail Guengerich

A primer on some of the most delicious frozen desserts from south of the border—and where to find them in Albuquerque.

Create your own “Margaritaville” with the refreshing, tasty scallop ceviche margarita from Prarie Star.

Cooling Down the Kitchen

Two recipes from Chef Chris Olsen

By Ty Bannerman

Prairie Star’s executive chef Chris Olsen shares two refreshing recipes.

Byzantium

Neil Jordan returns to the vampire film, this time with chicks

By Jerry Cornelius

In his review of Neil Jordan’s Byzantium, Jerry Cornelius strings together some of the prettiest hyphenated phrases we’ve ever seen.

By Devin D. O’Leary

Rocky Horror New Mexico is celebrating summer with a special RHNM beach party. The event will take place on Saturday, July 27 at 10:30 p.m. at the Aux Dog Theatre (3011 Monte Vista NE).

Get Your Family Drama Fix

“Ray Donovan” on Showtime

By M.J. Wilde

Oh, huzzah, my darling TV babies! Long time no bother! Yes, the TV Queen is back—if only for a moment—from her untimely retirement. “Xavier! Manservant! Bring me some queso, chips and teeny weenies. I feel the Tube of Life calling my name!”

Week in Sloth

By M.J. Wilde

Highlights from around the dial. Except no one has dials anymore.

Chief Concerns

Interim police chief named as Schultz’s retirement nears

By Barron Jones

Barron Jones reports on embattled Albuquerque Police Chief Ray Schultz’s retirement and the naming of Allen Banks as interim Chief.

By M.J. Wilde

M.J. Wilde reflects on the sweltering New Mexico heat.

By Devin D. O’Leary

Funny because it happen to someone else.

Letters

The readers write.

Four Up

By Samantha Anne Carrillo

Whether you’re craving booty bass, grindcore, crust, melodic metal, Afro-Cuban/Latin jazz, a local podcast or scrap metal and oscillation-based industrial composition, Four Up has you covered.

"Popsicle of love / Gimme gimme gimme one of those (hoo!)"

By Samantha Anne Carrillo

Stream our summery ice cream playlist while savoring your favorite quiescently frozen treat.

Sonic Reducer

By M. Brianna Stallings

This week music writer M. Brianna Stallings listened to new releases by Kirin J Callinan, David Lynch and Gauntlet Hair.

Truths Found in Dreams

The cryptic origins of Secret Things

By Holly Von Winckel

Crypto-Jews of New Mexico, wherefore art thou? After more than 500 years, it’s easy to lose the threads from which a faith was once woven. Elaine Romero’s Secret Things picks them up again.