Events on Central

The 1986 Bowie-and-Muppets fantasy film screens at the KiMo with a live orchestra playing the score, which means you hear Trevor Jones and David Bowie's songs the way a theater...

Six local acts, six full-set tributes, one Halloween night: the lineup runs from Neutral Milk Hotel to Kataklysm, which tells you this is less a genre show than a chaos experiment that somehow works every year. Launchpad's long narrow room gets genuinely packed for this one, so arriving early matters more than it usually would....

The Lobo Sports Vault takes over a room inside the Historic Lobo Theater for a full afternoon of NCAA football, with a buffet running 11 AM to 2 PM and the college slate on screens through the evening. The venue puts every New Mexico Lobos game on the big screen when the room is available...

The Deal, Albuquerque's Grateful Dead tribute act, wraps their three-show 2026 Lobo run on Halloween night with a set pulling from the full Dead catalog, long jams included. This is the third and final Lobo date of the year, which tends to mean the band arrives with something to prove, and a 550-person room full...

Every NFL game of the day goes up on the screens during a Sunday brunch window at The Lobo Sports Vault, the dedicated sports room tucked inside the Historic Lobo Theater on Central. Each game day you show up earns a drawing entry for the VIP balcony at Super Bowl LXI, which is a genuinely...

The Broadway touring production of & Juliet arrives at Popejoy, the jukebox musical built entirely on Max Martin hits that asks what Shakespeare's Juliet does when she writes her own ending. Popejoy is a proper concert hall with good sightlines from nearly every seat, so this is one of those shows where splurging on cheap...

The Broadway touring production of & Juliet asks what happens if Juliet simply doesn't die, and answers mostly in Max Martin pop hits spanning four decades of radio history. Popejoy...

The Broadway touring production of & Juliet, the jukebox musical built around pop hits from Max Martin's catalog, comes to Popejoy for one or a handful of nights in early November 2026. Popejoy is a proper theater with good sightlines from almost every seat, but parking around UNM on a Friday or Saturday fills fast,...

CAIN, the sibling trio known for radio-friendly Christian pop with actual worship intent behind it, plays Kiva Auditorium with opener bodie, a rising name in the faith-based singer-songwriter space. Kiva seats around 2,000 and tends to fill evenly, so there's no bad spot in the house, but the floor can feel formal for a worship-style...