Idiot Box: Nbc’s “Smash” Mixes Melodrama And Musicals “Smash” On Nbc Given the continuing success of vocal talent competitions like “American Idol,” “America’s Got Talent,” “The X Factor,” “The Voice,” et al, Americans are [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Feb 23, 2012 Film
Week In Sloth: “Being Human” Is Back, Ali Turns 70, Academy Awards Fashions Get Ripped “Monsuno” (Nicktoons 6 p.m.) Remember, after Pokémon came out, that tidal wave of awful Japanese-animated TV shows about kids fighting with monsters that [...] Alibi \ Feb 23, 2012 Film
Jazzed: One Voice Invokes Two More Patti Littlefield Pays Tribute To Etta James And Dinah Washington Vocalist Patti Littlefield can’t recall the song, but she knows who was singing on her mother’s radio. “The first song I remember hearing [...] Mel Minter \ Feb 23, 2012 Music
Fotw: Bass Fiesta Bass Fiesta A Culkin in a wizard costume is the mascot of the all-ages, $1 Bass Fiesta, happening at Synchro Studio (512 Yale SE) on [...] Alibi \ Feb 23, 2012 Music
Gift Rapping: Blackalicious’ Gift Of Gab Comes To Burt’s For A Free Show The Voice Behind Blackalicious Blazes On Don’t let money change ya. That’s the message of "Deception," arguably the most well-known and anthemic track by Bay Area duo Blackalicious. It’s [...] Sam Adams \ Feb 23, 2012 Music
Performance Preview: The Southwest Irish Theater Festival Irish Theater Fest Showcases Contemporary Offerings UNM linguistics professor and actor Alan Hudson was sitting at El Pinto. It was March 2010, and he’d just seen a performance of [...] Sam Adams \ Feb 23, 2012 Art
Webgame Wednesday: Lin-Sanity There’s something to be said for timeliness. By summer, will we be gabbing 24/7 about basketball phenom Jeremy Lin? Probably not. But for [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Feb 23, 2012 Blog
Free Will Astrology For The Week Of Feb. 22 ARIES (March 21-April 19): I invite you to identify all the things in your life that you really don’t need any more: gadgets [...] Rob Brezsny \ Feb 23, 2012 Freewill
Alibi Picks: Babes, Bards And Barbs One thing that poetry, striptease and talking dirty have in common is that, when done right, they’re all art forms. "Tourettes Without Regrets" [...] Sam Adams \ Feb 23, 2012 Blog
The Southwest Irish Theater Festival The great playwright, poet and drinker Brendan Behan once quipped, “It’s not that the Irish are cynical. It’s rather that they have a [...] Sam Adams \ Feb 23, 2012 Blog Woman and Scarecrow at Desert Rose Playhouse (Photo courtesy of Christy Lopez)