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Weekly Alibi
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Jul 19 - 25, 2012
Feature
Despite its many charms, the Land of Enchantment is having a hard time keeping water around, and farmers are paying the price.
Bone Dry: Southwest farms bite the dust as “megadrought” becomes the new normal
NEWS/OPINION
Gangs have infiltrated tribal nations, recruiting young people who seek identity. But activists say traditions can heal.
Websclusive:
Election or Imposition?
The dinosaurs rule Mexico once again as Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party returns to power.
True Identity: Traditions heal young Native gang members
Ortiz y Pino: The guv’s crusade of destruction
Odds & Ends: Cops mistaken for strippers at the Humpty Doo Hotel, poison pizzas banned, Paris Hilton in 20 minutes or less, a box wine terrorist, perspective employee of the year
Letters: Tea-bagging fascism, baby trouble, the problem with teenagers, saving money and lives
MUSIC
In 1977 the Dirty Dozen Brass Band brought club music—bebop, swing and blues, that is—to streets in New Orleans that were previously filled with repertoires of hymns and proto-jazz. The band is still vibrating on a different level 35 years later.
Spotlight: Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Sonic Reducer: Micro album reviews
Flyer on the Wall: Machinehead
FOOD
The Locavore's Dilemma: In Praise of the 10,000-Mile Diet
takes a step back, painting locovores a Luddites and cheering on mass-produced food.
Have Fork, Will Travel: Eating up a long weekend in the Mile High City
Food for Thought:
The Locavore's Dilemma
makes a case for mass-produced food
Chowtown Restaurant Guide
FILM & TV
Beasts of the Southern Wild
, a Louisiana-based, postapocalyptic environmental fantasy tale, is an unpolished gem.
Film Review: 6-year-old actress wows in postapocalypic indie
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Idiot Box: Comedian Steve Sullivan cheers up the barroom on “Sullivan & Son”
Reel World: 48 Hour Film Project, New Clear New Mexico Film Fest,
Up Heartbreak Hill
Week in Sloth: Warriors of the “Great Lakes” and “American Ninja” variety
Film Times and Capsules
ARTS/LIT
Downtown's Boro Gallery is transformed into a large, mind-bending visual assemblage of tattoo culture.
Gallery Bite: Boro’s
Tattoo Art Show
Performance Review: Desert Rose’s Durang series struggles to pin down a prickly playwright
Book Review: Tracey Garvis Graves’ carnally delightful
On the Island
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Free Will Astrology for the week of July 18
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