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V.21 No.5 | 2/2/2012
 
Julia Minamata juliaminamata.com

Newscity

Growing Pains

Council considers eliminating Downtown-UNM district

By Carolyn Carlson
Councilor Isaac Benton’s left-leaning region would be carved up under a Republican-backed plan, with much of it added to the North Valley district. Benton would lose his seat after the 2013 election.

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Councilor Isaac Benton

Talking Points

Benton on Redistricting

By Carolyn Carlson
Why can’t the city just add a district for the Westside? Benton answers these questions and more.

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V.21 No.4 | 1/26/2012
Yashoda Naidoo, Annapurna’s World Vegetarian Café
Eric Williams ericwphoto.com

The Dish

Milestones

Two restaurants reach the decade mark

By Christie Chisholm
Annapurna and Thai Crystal celebrate ten years of dishing.
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NEWS

The Daily Word in Albuquerque had a really crappy weekend, celeb divorce, bird flu may be back

APD investigates dead body found in the middle of I-25.

One man shot and another stabbed in downtown Albuquerque New Year's Eve brawl.

Albuquerque police officer strikes and kills a pedestrian early on New Year's Day.

APD finds bloody scene at a Central bus stop but no victim.

Bad news for bronies.

Iwatchstuff's list of 10 movies not to look forward to in 2012.

Are American agents responsible for giving Hugo Chavez cancer?

Katy Perry and Russell Brand are splitsville.

Bird flu death reported in China.

Vintage poster outlines 23 ways to avoid marrying a girl.

First of NASA's twin GRAIL probes enters moon's orbit.

Police say a man in North Carolina tried to pay for his transaction at Wal Mart with a $1 million bill.

50 unexplainable black and white photographs.

How to make rage faces on facebook.

Man calls 911 after being hit by a grocery cart.

Pimp that snack.

Thanks Carl, Constance and Tom for the help!

V.20 No.50 | 12/15/2011
 

Last Minute Gift Guide

Downtown

By Sam Adams

The Octopus and the Fox

When it comes to inexpensive local crafts, The Octopus and the Fox is about as nifty and comprehensive as it gets. Featuring more than 60 New Mexico arts-and-crafters, the boutique has everything from felt-lined zia bracelets made from beer cans ($20) to popular recycled sweater cat dolls with button-eyes ($18) made by co-owner Belita Orner. And with a stock of screen-printed tees, girls’ dresses and knitted sweatbands with animal ears, there are as many treats for the kids on your gift list as the adults. (And animals, too; sewn catnip toys feature cute kitty faces.) In fact, just about everything at the store is cute and cozy, even felt Frankenstein and vampire dolls. There's also a full supply of organic body goods, and don't miss the awesome volcano and dinosaur wall art. Plus, the recycled-parts earrings made with bug wings and Plexiglas are bound to turn someone into a happy pixie.

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V.20 No.46 | 11/17/2011
 

Aural Fixation

Totally Amped

All-ages venue makes a new home Downtown

By Jessica Cassyle Carr
Amped Performance Center, an all-ages music venue, has relocated Downtown, adding quality to a cultural district in need of further revitalization.
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Report Station

Concerned Dads and Robot Jams

Now with 50 percent more tracks!

 
 

Happy Tuesday Report Station fans. These are more tracks that came off the phone’s voicemail, not the Alibi’s. Again, this means these people were called from the phone booth and are calling the number back.

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Report Station

Hello, Hello? Hello!? Alternative Lifestyles and “Woooooo!”

 
 

Four little gems from our favorite social experiment. The angle with these recordings is that they were left on the phone’s own voicemail. This is a number that someone would have only after having been called from the phone. Check out the surreal storytelling in the last track. These guys are in deep.

What’s going on? Find out.

 
 
 
 

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Report Station

Bullies Bash the Telephone Art Box

Quit it you hooligans!

No more Plexiglass windows
No more Plexiglass windows

When the idea of asking artists to create new distribution boxes for the Alibi first started getting kicked around the office, a lot of people had the opinion that the boxes would be immediately vandalized. As finished boxes started coming in, and many were more intricate and beautiful than we could have imagined, talk around the water cooler was that they were just begging to be destroyed.

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V.20 No.29 | 7/21/2011
A trio of grilled romaine hearts are filled with lentil salad in an herby vinaigrette.
Sergio Salvador salvadorphoto.com

Locovore

bRgR

Local meats, exotic flavors

By Ari LeVaux
Pastoral paintings of thoughtful, grass-chomping cows adorn the red walls of Albuquerque’s brand-new designer burger joint, bRgR. The restaurant’s lineup of burger names could double as the course catalog of a tantric yoga ashram, including (in order of the stages of spiritual growth) the Harmonic, Elation, Euphoria, Jubilation, Ecstasy, Nirvana and, finally, Enlightenment. The beef, which is grass-fed and grain-finished, comes from Heritage Ranch, a national beef company that matches local beef producers with consumers, state by state.
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Animals

Red Dragon Invades Downtown

Monster possibly about to make a trip to Knockouts

Looks little...
Looks little...

I love this weird city. A crowd of shrieking and pointing passersby attracted me to the front entrance of Knockouts on my way back from lunch this afternoon. It was not a dancer doing something outrageous. It was the biggest four-legged reptile I’ve ever encountered outside of a zoo. It was rough and reddish, with a long white band on its tail and enormous jowls. Unlike the speedy Godzilla, or a Komodo dragon, it was crawling along like cold honey. And it was moving steadily towards the Knockouts door. His owner stood calmly minding him, answering questions from rubberneckers like me.

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