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Kaleidoscope takes the floor at Thirsty Eye Brewing on a Friday night, with the kind of two-hour set that suits a brewery room that actually has decent acoustics for its size. Thirsty Eye runs small-batch taps that rotate often, so arriving early to sort out your drink before the room fills is a reasonable plan....
Mango Cakes brings their set to Marble's Downtown taproom, one of the more reliably sound-managed rooms on this stretch of Central. The indoor-outdoor layout means you can drift to the patio if the crowd thickens inside, which it tends to on Friday nights here.
Leftover Soul has been holding down Friday nights longer than most of the bars that have opened and closed around it, and the vinyl-only rule isn't a gimmick, it's the whole point. Sister Bar's layout puts you close enough to the booth to actually feel the room shift when a good record drops. Tickets are...
Ivon Ulibarri and Café Mocha bring salsa y más to the museum's long-running outdoor summer series, now in its 35th year, which means the crowd already knows how to use the courtyard space. The sculpture garden fills up fast on warm Fridays, so arriving early gets you a decent sight line and room to actually...
Improv Theatre takes the stage at The Box for an hour of unscripted comedy on a Saturday night in July. The Box is a small, close-contact room where the audience is never far from the action, which either delights you or makes you nervous about eye contact with performers. Admission details weren't listed at press...
Fit To Burn is throwing a proper CD release party at Launchpad, backed by five other local acts and a DJ set from Gamma Ray to keep the room moving between bands. Launchpad's stage and sound have hosted a lot of these moments over the years, and the room genuinely rewards a packed house, so...
This is a comedy debate show where being wrong is apparently the whole point, staged in The Box Annex, the smaller sibling space to one of Downtown's more reliably weird...
Two Albuquerque party crews, Lucid and Riot, are throwing a Halloween party in the middle of summer at one of Central Avenue's most reliably fun rooms. El Rey's layout rewards costume effort, with enough floor space to actually move and enough dark corners to disappear if you need to. Tickets are through Hold My Ticket,...
Late-night long-form improv from the Improv Theatre troupe, running about 45 minutes in one of the more intimate black-box rooms on Central. The Box keeps sight lines honest from every...
Three days of live tattooing, artist showcases, competitions, and music spread across the Convention Center on Central. Floor conventions like this are where you find regional artists whose waitlists you...