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Tonight on the corridor
Cody Polston, who has spent decades documenting paranormal activity across New Mexico, sits down at Painted Lady for a talking-and-tasting evening built around the state's most legendarily creepy locations. The venue itself is a converted Victorian on Central, which does exactly the work you'd expect it to do for a night like this. Tickets are...
Hotel Albuquerque's tablao format puts you close enough to feel the footwork through the floor, which is either thrilling or too much depending on your baseline for intensity. This is a full dinner show, so budget the whole evening rather than treating it as a drop-in. Performers are still TBA at listing time, so check...
Hotel Albuquerque's tablao series brings together dancers, a singer, and a guitarist for an evening of live flamenco in a room that was built for exactly this kind of performance. The specific performers haven't been announced yet, and that matters here because the lineup quality varies show to show, so check back closer to the...
A late-night radio-affiliated showcase at Insideout, one of Downtown's more reliable spots for catching local talent on the Central corridor. Insideout runs small and loud, so expect a room that rewards showing up early if you want a place to stand that isn't the back wall. Tickets are through Hold My Ticket, so sort that...
A live improv comedy show at The Box, the small black-box theater on Central that has been quietly hosting some of the sharpest performance work in the neighborhood for years. The room seats maybe 60 people, which means there is nowhere to hide, for the performers or the audience, and that intimacy tends to make...
Four acts share a UK garage bill at The ABQ Press Club, with TrillBot, ConRisa, Carma, and Kai Radius across what looks like a full night of syncopated 2-step and grime-adjacent beats. The 9:00 PM start is a placeholder pulled from EDM Train, so confirm the actual door time through the ticket link before you...
This one runs from 10 p.m. into the early hours of Saturday morning, which should tell you something about the energy level being aimed for. The Press Club is a mid-size room with a low ceiling that does real favors for loud, dense sound, and the bar stays busy. Tickets are through Hold My Ticket,...
College football takes over the Lobo Sports Vault, the dedicated sports room inside the Historic Lobo Theater, with a buffet running 11 AM to 2 PM and games on the screens all day. The event listing window shows 5 to 8 PM, but the college slate runs well beyond that, and UNM Lobos games get...
Marble's downtown patio has hosted enough outdoor shows to know what it's doing, and a September evening in Albuquerque is about as good a weather bet as this city offers. The 505 name signals a local and regional lineup rather than a national touring act, which historically means a crowd that actually knows the music....
Just Velvet plays the Old Town Gazebo on a September Saturday evening, which puts you outside in one of Albuquerque's most reliably pleasant spots at exactly the right time of year. The gazebo setting is genuinely intimate, open-air, and surrounded by the plaza, so sound carries in ways that can work for or against a...
