Events on Central

An open hip-hop cypher hosted by Taylor Cheek at Gaia's Kava Root, one of the more low-key and genuinely welcoming spots on Central. Kava bars run a different energy than alcohol venues, which tends to keep the room focused on the music rather than the noise around it. If you've been sitting on sixteen bars,...

The Box brings improv comedy to its intimate black-box space on Central, where the room holds maybe 60 people and the performers can see every wince and laugh. That closeness is the whole thing here, for better and occasionally for worse. Grab a ticket in advance; this format sells out faster than you'd expect for...

Reklez Entertainment is throwing a late-night rodeo at Gaia's Kava Root, a kava bar on Central that runs closer to a living room than a nightclub. The kava-instead-of-alcohol setup makes...

Albuquerque Roller Derby is taking over Guild Cinema for a screening of The Kansas City Bomber, the 1972 Raquel Welch roller derby film that remains the genre's high-water mark. Guild...

The Lobo Sports Vault pulls the full Saturday NCAA slate across multiple screens, with every New Mexico Lobos game getting the big screen when the room is available for it....

The New Mexico Music Hall of Fame is putting on a four-hour concert at the Route 66 Visitor Center, which means the lineup will skew toward artists with genuine roots...

New Mexico United brings Sacramento Republic FC to Isotopes Park for a USL Championship regular-season match on a Saturday evening in late September. The sightlines at this park are genuinely good for soccer, and the United supporter section in the south end generates enough noise to make it feel like a proper home advantage. Parking...

A live improv comedy show at The Box, one of the more committed small performance spaces on the Central corridor, running about an hour at 8PM. The Box seats intimately and the room puts you close enough to the performers that the awkward pauses land differently than they do in a big house. Tickets are...

The Lobo Sports Vault, tucked inside the Historic Lobo Theater on Central, runs every NFL game simultaneously during a Sunday brunch window from 11 AM to 2 PM. Each game day you attend this season earns you one entry into a drawing for a Super Bowl LXI VIP balcony for you and 50 guests, with...