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Nob Hill Main Street is hosting the 1st Annual  Route 66 Days and Nights community weekend July 23rd–25th.

Central will be closed to motor traffic, there will be multiple stages with live music and entertainment, car shows, tours of historic Nob Hill, kids events, artisans markets, sidewalk sales, and specials throughout.

Saturday evening Nob Hill Main Street has partnered with the City of Albuquerque and New Mexico Jazz Festival to bring Summerfest to Nob Hill. Four stages along Central Ave will be featuring music of New Mexico Jazz Festival including headliners, Los Planeros De La 21.

The 10th Annual Neon Cruise presented by the Old Route 66 Car Show Group will be pulling into Nob Hill around dusk Saturday night with more classic cars.

And wrapping up the evening TCR productions will be conducing the annual Nob Hill 5k run, this year starting at 11pm and going until 12:30am Sunday morning, beating the mid-summer heat!

“Beyond the Motor City” – Free Movie Screening, Wednesday June 23, 11:30AM–2:00PM, at the Mid-Region Council of Governments Offices, 809 Copper Ave., NW, Albuquerque. Shown again with a Panel Discussion on Thursday June 24, 6:00PM – 9:00PM at UNM School of Architecture & Planning Auditorium, 2401 Central Ave NE (Buildi…ng east of the UNM Bookstore).

Panel Discussion to follow the 6/24 screening with confirmed panelists:

Albuquerque City Councilor Isaac Benton
Chris Blewett – Staff Director, Rio Metro Transit District
Sandy Gaiser – Regional Planner at Mid-Region Council of Governments
Ken Hughes – Transportation Chair, Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter

http://video.pbs.org/video/1409024983/

For more information, contact David Van Winkle, Chair, Northern New Mexico Group, Sierra Club at david@vw77.com or 505-820-1006.

You are invited to Open Q
An Art & Design Show

Saturday, June 26th
4—10 pm
303 Central Avenue NE
Manual Arts Building at The Historic Albuquerque High Campus

Featuring established and up-and-coming artists and designers in Albuquerque
whose commonality is thinking in an OPEN way, outside the norm.

Food and refreshments served.

For more information, visit abq-in.com.

Calling all arts enthusiasts, artists, writers, performers, curators, collaborators, colleagues, teachers, students, families, businesses, and all who value having 516 ARTS as an active hub of activity for contemporary art in Albuquerque: We encourage you to contribute without delay at whatever level you can afford, to help 516 ARTS carry out our exciting line-up of programs this year.

Further good deed info here: http://www.516arts.org/donate/

Take the New Mexico Rail Runner Express from Downtown Albuquerque to Santa Fe for a day, where  The Santa Fe School of Cooking is walking you to a tasteful tour of the City Different’s best restaurants– Galisteo Bistro, 315 Restaurant and Wine Bar, La Boca, and Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi–to meet the chefs and learn their recipes.Return to Albuquerque and take your own tour to Gold Street Cafe and Restaurant Lucia at Hotel Andaluz. Don’t worry about the calories, just walk, walk, walk!

English Beat at Launchpad tonight.

Architects of Rhythm spin international house music for you on the rooftop bar near a large fire and water structure at Hotel Andaluz on Saturday night. Chill, relax, dance. Fun~

125 2nd Street NW

Visions of Cosmic Dust, works by Ralph Greene from 1970–2010 on display at 105 Art Gallery until May 29th. Opening reception Friday, May 7th from 5-8pm.

Feel childlike again through art with 3 visionaries—Lou Baudoin, Jim Kopp, and Susan Skinner during Happy Fest at Mariposa Gallery.
Opening reception Friday, May 7th from 5–8pm.

Her music is a blend of evolutionary folk & alternative rock, with a splash of celtic & classical influence, and she’s playing at The Blackbird Buvette tonight at 7pm.