Events on Central

Triple-A Pacific Coast League ball, the Isotopes hosting Las Vegas on a Sunday evening in late August when the heat has usually started to break and the upper deck becomes...

Benny Bassett brings his bass-forward sound to the food hall stage at Sawmill Market, one of the more eclectic live music settings on the corridor. The room is open and...

Gaia's Door Girls are turning the front of this Central Ave kava bar into a full elote operation for an afternoon, with Coco's Clothing Swap rolling in racks and Bruja Beauty LLC doing looks alongside. This kind of low-key popup lives and dies by turnout, and Gaia's has a genuinely loyal UNM-adjacent crowd that tends...

This is tablao-format flamenco, meaning the performers work close, the room is small, and the interaction between dancer, singer, and guitarist is the whole point. Specific artists are listed as TBD at time of publication, so check back near the date if a particular performer is the draw for you. Doors and seating matter here...

Jordan Jonas brings his paranormal storytelling to Painted Lady's Brews & Boos series, a recurring late-night event that leans harder into atmosphere than your average bar talk. Painted Lady's intimate rooms make this kind of thing work better than it has any right to, so sitting close is worth arriving early for. Midnight start time...

Gaia's Kava Root kicks off UNM Welcome Week with a jersey party, the kind of night that draws every freshman who just moved into the dorms and every upperclassman who never misses an excuse. The kava bar format means the drink situation is different from your standard bar crawl stop, which is either a selling...

Gaia's Kava Root is running a no-strings clothing swap the Sunday before the school year picks up, with drop-offs accepted at the shop all week prior so you don't have to show up hauling a bag. The elote bar is run by Izzy, the door girl, who's raising money for nursing school, and that detail...