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The Alibi Learning Issue

Alibi Volume 22, Number 03

January 17, 2013

Feature

Feature

Hit Me With Your Learning Stick

By Carl Petersen
It’s 2013. Learn a new skill, create a new talent, water some small seed of knowledge with your tears of discontent and let it grow into a monstrous tree of self-congratulatory bluster. The tree can never be taken from you. Instead of a compulsive chip-eater, become a compulsive chip-eater who knows how to fold an origami frog and drive a semi-truck.

Feature

Sew It Goes

By Samantha Anne Carrillo
Learning to sew again has been on my resolution list for at least five years. Patterns have accumulated, and my browser's DIY sewing project bookmarks have grown unwieldy. After doing a little research, I ended up contacting The Designer's Lounge, whose Facebook page has been a source of inspiration. I messaged co-owner Teresa Romero, and she offered to give me a lesson on the basics. I may have been the most pedal-shy student ever, but Romero's patience and encouragement and her clear demonstrations and descriptions had me anxiously but steadily humming away.

Feature

Hack the High Desert

By Mark Lopez

I’m sure some people still think hackers are internet troll-type losers who spend their days cracking codes, infiltrating databases and basically screwing up the system. Well, those people haven’t been to Quelab. Quelab, for those of you who aren’t in the know, is a local hackerspace right here in Burque. If you’re anything like me, who had no preconceived notions of what a hackerspace would entail (minus watching that terrible Angelina Jolie movie in the ’90s), then you might find yourself pleasantly surprised.

Feature

Storm Bringer: The Dulcimer from Beyond

How I almost learned to play an instrument without trying very hard

By Carl Petersen
For over five decades I've practiced an intense and, I think, quite reasonable refusal to acknowledge the very existence of dulcimers. Yet dulcimers exist, if only in defiance of my will. Also, Cyndi Lauper plays the dulcimer, and I can do anything Lauper can. Anything.

Feature

Raise Your Own Chickens

By Ty Bannerman
How do you go about turning your yard into a pastoral pecking ground for a handful of chooks? The folks over at the Old School have your back. For the incredibly low price of $7, you can sign up for a one-hour class that will introduce you to all the basics of the urban chicken lifestyle.
News & Opinion

Nurse Ratchett

Top Five Reasons to Get a Flu Shot

By Mike Ratchett, Alibi Staff Nurse
We’re about mid-way through flu season here in New Mexico, so it’s not too late to get this year’s vaccination, thereby vastly reducing your chances of “catching a bug” that could, at the very least, set you stumbling back and forth on the trail of tears between your bedroom and bathroom for several days while your significant other spends their free time changing sheets, scrubbing the toilet bowl, and trying to figure out which carpet cleaner is most likely to get the vomit stains out of the rug. At worst, a bad case of the flu could see your loved ones spending their free time making funeral arrangements and fighting over who gets your vinyl records. So why take the risk?

Odds & Ends

By Devin D. O’Leary
Funny because it happens to someone else.
Film & TV

Film Review

Rust and Bone

A whale bit my legs off and all I got was sex with a musclebound Belgian

By Devin D. O’Leary

It’s possible the ailments afflicting the French drama Rust and Bone are not the result of anything culturally specific. They could simply be the the sole artistic bias of writer-director Jacques Audiard, with no reflection on his fellow, Sorbonne-educated countrymen. But damned if—in their dark, existential, ennui-riddled self-importance—they don’t feel oh-so-French.

Reel World

By Devin D. O’Leary
The shot-in-New-Mexico drama Warrior Woman by writer-director Julie Reichert will have its debut screening January 19 through 21 at Guild Cinema in Nob Hill. The Student Union Building Theater at UNM fires up its projectors for a full seven-day schedule this semester. New Mexico Women in Film will hold its next meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 22, at the Center for Contemporary Arts (1050 Old Pecos Trail) in Santa Fe.

Idiot Box

There Can Be Only One

“King of the Nerds” on TBS

By Devin D. O’Leary

TBS’ reality competition “King of the Nerds” isn’t anything television hasn’t seen before. It’s one of those “Survivor”-meets-“The Real World” shows that tosses a bunch of people into a house, gives them some prize money to fight for, then sits back and watches as they bump one another off in their quest to become the last man or woman standing. The show gets major bonus points, however, for going all the way with its concept.

Week in Sloth

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

Aural Fixation

Sioux City Pete & the Beggars Call up Thunder

By Derek Caterwaul
DJ and archivist Derek Caterwaul reminisces about his last encounter with Sioux City Pete and delivers the 411 on a DIY rawk show.

Music to Your Ears

By Samantha Anne Carrillo
Get your jazz, alt.country and local solo fix with a little help from Music to Your Ears.

Sonic Reducer

This week, we listened to new releases by Dark Furs, George Barnett and Coyote Clean Up.
Arts & Lit

Art Preview

A ‘Transference of Joy’ as the Peking Acrobats Return to Popejoy Hall

By Lisa Barrow

It must be an exceptional quality that brings The Peking Acrobats to Albuquerque’s Popejoy Hall on January 20th for their fourth consecutive year of body-bending spectacle. After all, to accommodate everything from big-name Broadway shows to world-class dance troupes, a venue’s got to be selective.

Food

Restaurant Review

Hot Dogs in Evening Wear

Street food steps out at Urban Hotdog Company

By Gail Guengerich
UHDC opened their doors three months ago in a strip center near Cottonwood Mall. Their approach is to doll up a Nathan’s Famous all-beef frankfurter with everything under the sun—particularly foodie favorites like fancy cheeses, fresh herbs, slaws and sauces.
Astrology

Free Will Astrology

Free Will Astrology Week of January 16

By Rob Brezsny

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Writing at io9.com, Charlie Jane Anders provides "10 Signs You Could Be the Chosen Savior." Among the clues are the following: 1. "How often does someone come up to you on the street, point at you, gibber something inarticulate and run away?" 2. "How many robot/clone duplicates of yourself have you come across?" 3. "Is there a blurry black-and-white photo or drawing from history that sort of looks like you?" 4. "Have you achieved weird feats that nobody could explain, but which nobody else witnessed?" Now would be a good time for you to take this test, Aries. You're in a phase of your astrological cycle when your dormant superpowers may finally be awakening—a time when you might need to finally claim a role you've previously been unready for.

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Today's Events

Kids

STEAM Drop-In: Jenga, Booby-Trap and Card Towers

Monday, April 23: 2:30-4pm

Cherry Hills Library

A program for children ages 5 to 12 with weekly themes.
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Flyer

Comm

Super Tractor Gamers Night

Monday, April 23: 5-8pm

Tractor Brewing Wells Park

Video game tournament with equipment and bracket provided.
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Music

Bluegrass Jam hosted by Jake and Ryan

Monday, April 23: 6pm

Molly's Bar

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Music

Singing Pilgrims • folk, country

Monday, April 23: 6-9pm

Blue Grasshopper Brew Pub Taproom

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Flyer

Song & Dance

Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles

Monday, April 23: 7:30-9:30pm

Popejoy Hall

This tribute celebrates the 50th anniversary of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band with a performance of each track on the iconic album, as well as other beloved hits.
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Music

Big Thief • indie

Monday, April 23: 8pm

Sister

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Music

Less Than Jake • alt.rock • Face to Face • Direct Hit! • The Jukebox Romantics

Monday, April 23: 8pm

Sunshine Theater

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Flyer

Music

Metal Mondays • DJ Lady Strange

Monday, April 23: 9pm

The Matador

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Music

The Krank Daddies • The Despots • surf, punk, blues, rock • Who Killed Carla

Monday, April 23: 9pm

Launchpad

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Tomorrow's Events

Art

Making Africa

Tuesday, April 24: 9am-5pm

Albuquerque Museum of Art and History

Browse the work over 100 artists and designers working in cities throughout Africa. Runs through 5/6.
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Image: Jane Lackey

Words

Artist Talk with Jane Lackey

Tuesday, April 24: 5:30-6:30pm

Central Features Contemporary Art

A talk with Santa Fe-based artist Jane Lackey about her work, Shifting Pulse, an exhibition of atmospheric, large-scale works on paper.
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Image via Flickr

Learn

Sex and Self-Love for Survivors

Tuesday, April 24: 7:30-9pm

Self Serve

Trauma survivors learn to take control of sexuality and reclaim the sense of self through gentle, nurturing techniques. Donations are welcome.
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