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Benefit dinner and talk for Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party Curriculum at Scalo Northern Italian Grill today from 3–5pm. Proceeds go to the K-12 art education program.

Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades Dance Party at Burt’s Tiki Lounge with Excalico! This is happiness in full swing. Don’t miss it! : )

The Four Loves show is up for just two more days at 105 Art Gallery Downtown. Be sure to stop in and take some goodness home. . . . And downstairs, check out a collection of work called Faded Photographs, paintings by Corky Frausto at Ace Barber Shop.

Designer’s Meeting tonight at Q-Bar’s Art of Fashion & Film Industry Night, 8pm at Hotel ABQ in Old Town. Zipping up the To-Go Fashion Show styles… See you there~

Hip hop appreciation classes at Warehouse 508 Downtown explore what it is to be “true school,” a re-introduction to the 4 elements. More information here.

Punk Rock Mondays at Atomic Cantina tonight at 9pm. Oh yeah~

The American Lung Association in New Mexico presents Peak the Plaza, the 2010 Fight for Air Climb at TODAY at Civic Plaza Downtown. 19 Floors/38 flights/428 steps to the top of Allegiance Realty’s Albuquerque Plaza Building and one sweet elevator ride down.

Your support helps the American Lung Association in New Mexico in the Fight for Air. With lung disease on the rise, we are fighting for research that will find a cure for tomorrow.  We are fighting for those who can’t quit smoking and those who shouldn’t start.  We are fighting for lungs that burn from exercise rather than from ozone.  We are fighting for asthma education to stop children from dying from asthma attacks.  We are fighting for laws that improve air quality both inside and out.  And we won’t breathe easy until we can win the fight.  Each step taken brings the American Lung Association in New Mexico one step and one breath closer to achieving our mission “to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease.”

Artists and Designers,

We want you! Please show us what you’ve been creating in the line of fashion in the 505. We are looking to show off your style at the To-Go Fashion Show on Thursday, April 1st. (Hoodies, arm warmers, t-shirts, skirts, leggings, belts, transit-themed jewelry, etc. This is a great excuse to board a bus together in style, shoot a music video that educates how to use public transit in ABQ, and have a jolly good time.)

We are taking the show on the road, and boarding a Rapid Ride 777 from Downtown Alvarado Transportation Center, and are looking for 12 great lines of local style

Thanks!

This is going to be so much fun~

Sumner & Dene presents the works of Lori Gordon “Katrina Series and Retablos” in March with an opening reception Friday March 5th from 5-9pm. Once a landscape painter east of New Orleans, Lori’s studio and home were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. She now creates recycled art from the rubbles of Katrina.

517 central NW • Downtown
505-842-1400

Public Radio KUNM 89.9, in collaboration with La Montanita Co-Op, presents a showing of the film The Real Dirt on Farmer John, the epic tale of a maverick Midwestern farmer today at 6pm at the National Hispanic Cultural Center’s Albuquerque Journal Theater, followed by a panel discussion with local food experts moderated by KUNM news reporter Sarah Gustavus.