Local retro-fashions boutique 66 Pin-Ups presents a very well-sponsored fashion show of retro styles this evening in Ballroom C of the Student Union Building on the main campus of the University of New Mexico. Reasons to attend: It's a benefit for Engineers Without Borders; beautiful women (and men) wearing nifty threads; Paul Higdon's much-lauded Range Box from Alibi's 2012 Operation Art Box will be used as a prop.

Of course after the show the Range Box will be returned to it's home at Sister Bar, where being surrounded by beautiful and handsome people is par for the course.

Last year’s Operation Art Box yielded an impressive clutch of artistic additions to Albuquerque’s otherwise drab dirtscape. This year, under the watchful guidance of Alibi’s circulation guru Geoffrey Plant, we’ve done it again! Witness the unveiling of this year’s Art Boxes tonight at the Boro Gallery, featuring both the boxes and additional art from this years Art Box champions: Kris Trujillo, Joseph Paul Baca, Danny Skinz, Sharon Vargas, Mark Magallon-Leonard, Ben Adams, Paul Higdon, Jonathon Sanchez, Ashley Plumley, Ana Jiron, and Off Center Arts.

The Operation Art Box Party begins at 5:00 in the Boro Gallery, 317 Gold SW (the Northeast corner of Gold and 4th.)

2012 Art Boxer and internationally renowned muralist Danny Skinz actually disassembled his Weekly Alibi newspaper box and bolted three sides of it to a wall, creating ready made detail panels that will also stand alone as one piece -if he ever gets the box back together.

Seriously though, look for Danny's piece as well as eleven other brilliantly modified Alibi boxes at Boro Gallery next month, where there will also be a month long group show (opening Friday September 7th) featuring non-circulation themed work by 2012 Art Boxers.

Weekly Alibi is currently accepting submissions for this year's Operation Art Box, which last year saw more than a dozen Alibi boxes transformed into engaging works of street art. Not all newspaper boxes are created equal, however. Although they must be placed in a sheltered area, I am particularly fond of the "cage box" because they are unusual and cast interesting shadows. They're edgy. Why not turn it into a vintage birdcage, or a traveling circus cage wagon? The cage box could be used to make a statement about America's staggeringly high incarceration rate. A memorial to the 1980 New Mexico State Prison riot wouldn't be hard to imagine.

Deadline for submissions has been extended to July 19th.