Metal subculture is viewed through a gallery lens in art show / concert series DAMNED IF YOU DOOM, opening at Small Engine tonight.

• damned if you doom
• burtal doodle
• todd ryan white
• jack wesley schneider
• small engine gallery
• heavy metal art
• drought
• demons
• cave of isolation
• fog

Rio Grande Community Farm

I wrote about a grassroots model for improving the city a couple weeks ago. ABQ Sprout works like this: People pay for a dinner of local food prepared by a volunteer local chef. At the dinner, presenters pitch their plan for boosting Burque. Diners vote on their favorite. The cash attendees paid for their chow becomes an instant micro grant for the winner.

Because of the inaugural dinner’s success, three groups were chosen instead of one:

Rio Grande Community Farm, a 50-acre nonprofit urban farm in the North Valley, got $1000.

Friends of the Orphan Signs, a group that turns old road signs into art, got $500.

South Valley Seniors, a club that crochets items for the homeless, got $409.

The next dinner is in May, and the organizers are looking for a place to hold it, as well as the next local chef.

Go ahead and blame it on the liberal media to say it, but it appears that people are getting more jobs.

Watch your whip if you go to school in Las Cruces.

Speculations on a potential war between Iran and the U.S.

Drug smuggling into N.M., via airplane.

Komen Foundation restores Planned Parenthood funding.

Shooting yesterday in Walmart parking lot. Here's video.

Despite a common perception of assholishness, Mark Zuckerberg is still the boss.

For those who refer to cops as "pigs."

Possible (dead) chupacabra sighting in San Diego.

Not that anyone's talking about it, but the Superbowl is only two days away ...

"Breaking Bad," shitty 90s video game style.

This whole craze of shit people say: Here are one and two divergent takes on how it's interpreted in Chicago.

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Photo by David Wiley

The Albuquerque Photographers' Gallery is a co-op financed by a group of about 10 shutterbugs. The project started in 2003 and moved to Old Town in April 2011. Its first juried show, In the Mind's Eye, is tonight from 5 to 8 p.m. The gallery put out a call for submissions and received more than 100 photos, which it edited down to 30 images from 18 photographers, all on display at the exhibition. The theme is "What is your vision of the world?" If you're scratching your head on that one, you're not alone. After viewing some images from the show, however, I can assure you that there's some fascinating work involved. As member Tom Spross says, "We purposely left it open."

It will probably take you all of two minutes to play all the way through the drippingly ironic RPG Hero's Adventure. But don't let the 8-bit art style and antiquated, text-heavy play mechanics fool you. Or rather, go ahead and let it fool you. This microscopic experiment is much darker and more screwed up than you can possibly imagine. If you grew up killing rats with magic spells for meager experience points, Hero's Quest will mess with your brain. It's short, but definitely not sweet.