Charizard, Go! — In what has become a surprisingly stable pop culture phenomenon somehow outlasting (and out-dueling) its other Japanese anime mega-franchise contemporaries, Pokémon is still very much alive and well. You may now remove your jaw from the floor. The Albuquerque Convention Center (401 Second Street NW) holds its annual state championships for the popular trading card game this Saturday beginning at 8:30 a.m. Get there early to register and prepare for an entire day of slapping down cards bearing the likeness of the oddly named pocket monsters (there's close to 500 of them now). Need more? Check out pokemon.com/us/organized-play.
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In what has become a surprisingly stable pop culture phenomenon somehow outlasting (and out-dueling) its other Japanese anime mega-franchise contemporaries, Pokémon is still very much alive and well. You may now remove your jaw from the floor. The Albuquerque Convention Center (401 Second Street NW) holds its annual state championships for the popular trading card game today beginning at 8:30 a.m. Get there early to register and prepare for an entire day of slapping down cards bearing the likeness of the oddly named pocket monsters (there's close to 500 of them now). Need more? Check out pokemon.com/us/organized-play. (Adam Fox)
In a prison camp I lounge comfortably with my two new girlfriends. One has her feet in my face and the other hugs my ankles. The mailman arrives with two huge trailers filled with letters, all addressed to our local hero: 'Health rabbit/Healing bunny'. The camp gangster, dressed in pinstripes, arrives with his goons who proceed to rough up my friend, Della Reece. He undoes her bun. He is angry about being imprisoned. Unfazed, she begins to dress him down, forcing him to admit that his lot is really his own fault and hardly unique. An old man with worn teeth arrives and recounts his past ill-treatment by the gangster.
Alibi Midnight Movie Madness returns to Guild Cinema in Nob Hill tonight with the French action hit District 13: Ultimatum. This is a loose follow-up to the 2004 hit, District 13. High-flying parkour founder David Belle and martial arts stuntman Cyril Raffaelli return as a crime-fighting duo out to bring a bunch of feuding gang members to justice in a near-future Paris ghetto before the military nukes it to kingdom come! We’ll be screening it at 10 p.m. and midnight. Here’s a trailer to tide you over until then.
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