http://alibi.com The Latest from the Alibi Staff en-us http://alibi.com/rss PHP webmonkeys@alibi.com (Web Meisters) http://alibi.com/blog/41703/Summer-Guide-2012-High-times-in-New-Mexico.html Everybody knows it’s cooler in the mountains, so get out and explore them already. You don't need climbing gear or a Sherpa to scale tall peaks—just a thirst for adventure and, perhaps, a beer or two. Here are a few of my picks for an elevated summer. http://alibi.com/blog/41701/Pensacola-Florida.html Oh lordy, I finally snuck away for a few sweet moments of quiet. I do not exaggerate when I say my sister has given birth to a litter of hyenas. They run wild literally SCREECHING at us, at each other, at the sky, at the water, at their cereal. They get their sticky fingers stuck in my hair. All of my clothes are ruined from red and blue smears of candy spit and I could KILL. I've been hiding in some dark corner of the beach house trying to read my book, or keeping one eye out so the hellions don't dump a cold bucket of seawater on my back while I'm laying out hoping to goddamn relax. My dad is lucky—he can escape to the old bum bar down the beach. (My mom said he met his first wife there. NASTY.) I hope summer school hasn’t murdered you yet because I think I actually am dying to see you ... If your mom is reading this, tell her I say hi. http://alibi.com/blog/41699/Webgame-Wednesday-Castle-Wolfenstein.html You may not be aware of this, but 2012 marks the 20th anniversary of the Weekly Alibi newspaper. You know what else is 20 years old this year? Castle Wolfenstein 3D! Over the years, Alibi employees have wasted a lot of man-hours playing video games at work: Rogue Squadron, Quake, Unreal Tournament. But Castle Wolfenstein was the game that first sucked us in. To celebrate the release of this groundbreaking first-person shooter, Bethesda Softworks has placed the entire original game of Castle Wolfenstein online for free! What are you waiting for? Go kill Hitler! http://alibi.com/blog/w2610/The-Daily-Word-in-potential-game-changers-mass-mu.html In the news: treated, declaration, rakes in, death penalty, files suit, tactics, shifts, struck, lashes out, belligerent, fire, exhumed, food stamps, outdoor toilet http://alibi.com/blog/41697/Done-working-yet-Il-Vicino-Brewery-Canteen-beckon.html As restaurant critic Ari LeVaux explains in this week’s Food section, IVB Canteen isn’t situated in some cutesy walkable community. “The only reason you’d be in the neighborhood is if you were lost or perhaps having some custom plastics manufactured nearby.” But a glass of Slow Down Brown and a brie-filled Frenchy sandwich are enticing reasons to slip out of work a few minutes early and onto Il Vicino Brewery Canteen’s lively patio. 35.12041495 -106.617633 http://alibi.com/blog/w2609/Time-is-Tight.html Donald "Duck" Dunn was a member of the Stax Studios house band, The Mar-Keys. He went on to become the second bassist in organ player Booker T's band, The MGs. According to longtime band mate Steve Cropper, Dunn died in his sleep, while on tour, in Tokyo. He was 70. Dunn may be best remembered by pop culture as the bass player in The Blues Brothers' band. The man was foremost a studio musician however, and can be heard on records by Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Rufus Thomas, Peter Frampton, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Neil Young.... The list is extensive. One of the stranger things to come out on Stax Records was an instrumental version of The Beatles' <i>Abbey Road</i> by Booker T and The MGs called Mclemore Ave. The Stax recording studios were on McLemore Ave (pronounced "mac-lemore.") 35.11550495 -90.031121 http://alibi.com/blog/41687/Flash-Fiction-frenzy.html In our May 3 issue we introduced this year’s ultra-short fiction contest. The rules are simple—submit pieces of 119 words or less by May 28. Click the above link (or that graphic to your right) for specifics and prompts. In the meantime, here’s a few of last year’s winners for inspiration: