• Halloween Haunted House at Gaias Kava Root

    Gaia's Kava Root
    UNM Areaarts & cultureTickets

    Gaia's Kava Root, the kava bar on Central, is partnering with ACE to run a haunted house experience on the Friday night before Halloween weekend 2026. The show runs from late evening into the early morning hours, so this is firmly a late-night crowd situation. Tickets are through Hold My Ticket, which means the door...

  • NCAA Football Buffet at Historic Lobo Theater

    Historic Lobo Theater
    Nob HillsportsDetails

    The Lobo Sports Vault takes over the screening room inside the Historic Lobo Theater for a full Saturday of NCAA football, with a buffet from 11 AM to 2 PM and every New Mexico Lobos game getting the big-screen treatment. Watching a college slate inside a 1939 movie palace on Central is a genuinely odd...

  • Fall Centennial Concert Series

    Route 66 Visitor Center
    live musicDetails

    The New Mexico Music Hall of Fame is putting on this concert series at the Route 66 Visitor Center, a room that carries more history per square foot than most venues twice its size. The Hall of Fame connection means the programming tends to lean toward acts with real roots in New Mexico's musical legacy,...

  • Tablao Flamenco Saturday Matinee

    Tablao Flamenco Albuquerque at Hotel Albuquerque
    latinTickets

    A seated tablao flamenco show during peak Balloon Fiesta weekend, performed by live dancers, a singer, and guitarist in the intimate setting Hotel Albuquerque has built a real reputation around. The specific performers are still TBD, which matters here more than at most shows, since the talent roster at a tablao determines everything about the...

  • NM United Soccer at Isotopes Park

    Isotopes Park
    UNM AreasportsTickets

    New Mexico United returns to Isotopes Park for a USL Championship home match against Monterey Bay FC, a California club that has been competitive enough to make this a meaningful late-season fixture. The stadium sits right on Central, so you can walk from a pre-game dinner on the corridor without thinking about parking, which is...

  • The Last Poets & Terminator X at KiMo

    Kimo Theatre
    Downtownarts & cultureDetails

    The Last Poets, the New York collective whose 1960s and 70s recordings laid foundational groundwork for hip-hop, perform at the KiMo with Terminator X on the decks and Albuquerque's own former poet laureate Hakim Bellamy holding it together as host. The KiMo's ornate Pueblo Deco interior has a way of making certain performances feel genuinely...

  • Just Velvet Live at Marble Brewery

    Marble Brewery Downtown
    Downtownlive musicDetails

    Just Velvet brings their sound to Marble Brewery's Downtown taproom, one of the more reliably good rooms on this stretch of Central for live music. The indoor stage sits close to the bar, so the crowd tends to be engaged rather than distracted, which does a lot for a band that rewards attention. Grab a...

  • Tablao Flamenco Saturday Show

    Tablao Flamenco Albuquerque at Hotel Albuquerque
    world musicTickets

    A tablao-format flamenco show inside Hotel Albuquerque, meaning the performers work close to the audience in a cabaret-style setup rather than on a distant stage. Specific dancers, singer, and guitarist are still TBD, but the format itself is the draw here: the footwork lands differently when you're ten feet away from it. Tickets through Hold...

  • Night of the Living Cover Bands Night 4

    Launchpad
    Downtowncover/tributeTickets

    The fourth night of Launchpad's annual Halloween cover band run, which means the room has already been broken in by three nights of costumes and crowd energy by the time this one hits. Launchpad's sound system handles a loud, packed house better than most Downtown rooms its size, and a Sunday late-night ticket here tends...

  • NFL Sunday Brunch at Historic Lobo Theater

    Historic Lobo Theater
    Nob HillsportsDetails

    The Lobo Sports Vault, tucked inside the Historic Lobo Theater on Central, is running its NFL Sunday brunch again this season, every game of the day on the screens from 11 AM to 2 PM. Each game day you show up earns you one entry into a drawing for the VIP balcony at Super Bowl...