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/40348/DAMNED-IF-YOU-DOOM.html Metal subculture is viewed through a gallery lens in art show / concert series DAMNED IF YOU DOOM, opening at Small Engine tonight. 35.0715915 -106.6541235 http://alibi.com/blog/40343/ABQ-Sprouts-mico-grant-recipients.html I wrote about a grassroots model for improving the city a couple weeks ago. ABQ Sprout works like this: People pay for a dinner of local food prepared by a volunteer local chef. At the dinner, presenters pitch their plan for boosting Burque. Diners vote on their favorite. The cash attendees paid for their chow becomes an instant micro grant for the winner. Because of the inaugural dinner’s success, three groups were chosen instead of one: Rio Grande Community Farm, a 50-acre nonprofit urban farm in the North Valley, got $1000. Friends of the Orphan Signs, a group that turns old road signs into art, got $500. South Valley Seniors, a club that crochets items for the homeless, got $409. The next dinner is in May, and the organizers are looking for a place to hold it, as well as the next local chef. http://alibi.com/blog/w2551/The-Daily-Word-in-Walmart-shooting-Zuckerberg-Ko.html In the news: more jobs, Watch your whip, potential war, via airplane, Planned Parenthood funding, Shooting, Here's video, Mark Zuckerberg is still the boss, "pigs.", chupacabra sighting, the Superbowl, "Breaking Bad,", one, two http://alibi.com/blog/40329/Eye-See.html The Albuquerque Photographers' Gallery is a co-op financed by a group of about 10 shutterbugs. The project started in 2003 and moved to Old Town in April 2011. Its first juried show, In the Mind's Eye, is tonight from 5 to 8 p.m. The gallery put out a call for submissions and received more than 100 photos, which it edited down to 30 images from 18 photographers, all on display at the exhibition. The theme is "What is your vision of the world?" If you're scratching your head on that one, you're not alone. After viewing some images from the show, however, I can assure you that there's some fascinating work involved. As member Tom Spross says, "We purposely left it open." http://alibi.com/blog/40335/Webgame-Wednesday-on-Thursday-Heros-Adventure.html It will probably take you all of two minutes to play all the way through the drippingly ironic RPG Hero's Adventure. But don't let the 8-bit art style and antiquated, text-heavy play mechanics fool you. Or rather, go ahead and let it fool you. This microscopic experiment is much darker and more screwed up than you can possibly imagine. If you grew up killing rats with magic spells for meager experience points, Hero's Quest will mess with your brain. It's short, but definitely not sweet. http://alibi.com/blog/40331/Ecuadorian-Cinema-at-NHCC.html Instituto Cervantes at the National Hispanic Cultural Center is launching another modern Latin American film series tonight starting at 7 p.m. This evening’s film is the Ecuadorian drama Anytime Soon (Esas No Son Penas). Entrance is free and the film will be subtitled in English. For more info, check out this week’s Reel World. http://alibi.com/blog/40330/Weekly-Alibis-Credit-Manager.html Our credit manager is Alan Thicke. If you want credit, go to Alan Thicke. http://alibi.com/blog/w2550/The-Daily-Word-in-the-Old-Main-supergiant-and-Ano.html In the news: combat mission in Afghanistan, Burqueños prison gang, chile market, Reies Lopez Tijerina, 1980 prison riot, adopted his 42-year-old girlfriend, Ron Paul, same-sex marriage, Komen yanked its funding from Planned Parenthood, Baratunde Thurston, we sold guns to cartels, cheerleader, supergiant, military mishandling of a soccer riot, regrets, Mike Kelley, Don Cornelius, Wislawa Szymborska, Angelo Dundee, Ian Abercrombie http://alibi.com/blog/40324/Found-on-Santa-Fe-Craigslist-Organic-farm-formerl.html Remember when Santa Fe-based organic seed/food company Seeds of Change got bought out by behemoth Mars, Inc? And everyone said it was just a cynical green-washing PR ploy? And they were right, because Mars shut the farm down and moved operations completely out of state, but retained the company’s made-from-scratch brand and feel-good history for itself? http://alibi.com/blog/40323/City-to-pipe-landfill-methane-to-the-jail.html One of the tidbits in this week’s Council Watch got a lot of attention. Albuquerque is going to build a line from a local dump to our Westside lockup. The excess methane that’s usually burned off at the landfill with be used to heat water in the jail’s boiler room. It’s predicted the project will save the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center thousands every year for about a century.