Culture Shock What To Do When You’re Not Attending Alibi Events So, I know you’ve already committed the bulk of your weekend to attending our Flash Fiction events at O’Niell’s, and who can blame [...] Erin Adair-Hodges \ Jun 18, 2009 Art
Festival Review Slam Poets Converge On Southwest Shootout—But Only One Will Survive The Southwest Shootout poetry slam stretches all the way back to 2004. In the slam poetry world, that’s like going back to Victorian [...] Erin Adair-Hodges \ Jun 18, 2009 Art Albuquerque team members prepare to destroy. Back, left to right: Christian Drake, Joseph Andrew Romero, City Champion Damien Flores, Cuffee.Front, alternate Faustino Villa, Jasmine Cuffee.
Duke Sweet Duke At The Trillion Space When photographer Julia Lopez moved from Albuquerque to Seattle, her pictures changed."My work got so much darker and drearier," Lopez notes. "Here in [...] Simon McCormack \ Jun 18, 2009 Art Nick Etre’s “Vacuum” combines fabric, five-color screen print and a vacuum. (Nick Etre)
Alibi Food Columnists Featured In The L.a. Times! Stinging hi-fives for Alex Brown and Evan George, who made it into a feature—including a slide show and a recipe—in this week’s Food [...] Laura Marrich \ Jun 18, 2009 Blog Alex (foreground) and Evan make some tasties for the L.A. Times . (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
A Cowboy Stands On His Horse By Gizmo. Meet Craig Cohen. He’s about to stand on his horse’s back in front of Downtown Central Market. I missed about 75% of what [...] Nick Brown \ Jun 18, 2009 Blog “All ladies like to have their asses scratched. Remember: horses don’t have fingers.”
Raveled When I turned 25, I attempted to do 25 things I’d never done before over the course of two months. (I was inspired [...] Christie Chisholm \ Jun 18, 2009 Blog A screenshot from Ravelry
Odds & Ends Odds & Ends Dateline: England— The City Council in Worcester has sent a letter to a dead citizen demanding he pay for upkeep on his gravestone [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jun 18, 2009 News
Hundred-Dollar House With home prices plummeting, Larry Garcia devised an unusual plan for getting his place off the market.Garcia, his wife Jill Logan and third [...] Simon McCormack \ Jun 18, 2009 News
News Profile: A Life Sentence Illiteracy Traps New Mexicans In Low-Paying Jobs, According To One Coalition Working To Free Them Gilbert Zamora was a top janitor at a school in Alamogordo. He was in charge of placing the school’s orders, sometimes for textbooks. [...] Marisa Demarco \ Jun 18, 2009 News
Council Watch: 508 For The (Partial) Win Warehouse 508 has ridden the ups and downs of the funding seesaw. The budding Downtown teen center saw its operating budget slashed by [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Jun 18, 2009 News