Alibi V.22 No.32 • Aug 8-14, 2013

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.

news

New Mexico News: July 2013

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.

Odds & Ends

By Devin D. O’Leary

Funny because it happens to someone else.

art

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.

De Profundis and Back

By Suzanne Buck

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

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.

Reel World

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.

All Bad Things ...

“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.

music

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.

food

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.

Carrots and Garlic, Summer and Winter

By Ari LeVaux

Ari LeVaux on the simple delights of two common vegetables.

Alibi V.22 No.31 • Aug 1-7, 2013

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.

news

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.