Events on Central

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...

In the Box Mainstage puts up The Hive, a long-form improv show built around ensemble scenes rather than the quick-hit games that dominate most comedy nights in town. The Box...

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 is a small, single-screen house on Central with good sight lines from nearly every seat, so there's no bad spot in the room. Expect a...

Free Event at Casa San Ysidro

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. This is a sports bar setup inside a 1939 movie palace, which means the bones of the room are genuinely interesting even if your team...

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 in the state rather than passing acts. The Visitor Center's outdoor plaza holds a crowd comfortably but fills up once word gets around, so arriving...

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...

JMSN is a Detroit-rooted R&B singer and producer who writes, records, and releases everything himself, which gives his live sets a rawness that polished label acts rarely manage. Sister is a small room, and that works in everyone's favor here, since his falsetto-heavy sound fills tight spaces better than it would a barn. A ticket...

Wickedly Cunning and Lunatyk Arts are staging a Halloween-season high tea at Painted Lady Bed & Brew, which means expect theatrical weirdness layered over the scones-and-small-plates format rather than a straight costume party. Painted Lady is a genuinely eccentric space on Central, and events from this production pairing tend to commit to the bit in...

Ken 52 Pick-Up is a late-night DJ set at El Rey, running from 8 PM deep into the early morning on a Saturday night into Sunday. El Rey's main room has a proper dance floor and a sound system that rewards staying past midnight, which is exactly when this kind of set finds its footing....