Meeting Date / Location: Monday, July 17, 2017, at 7:30 pm Location is Jason’s Deli, 2105 Louisiana Blvd NE (northwest corner of Louisiana & America’s Parkway – across from Bubonicon’s hotel), Albuquerque, NM The July 2017 book for discussion is A Darker Shade of Magic: Shades of Magic 01 by V.E. Schwab (we’re using the 2016 trade paperback from Tor). While places at which we’ve met stay open later, we’d … Continue reading Droids & Dragons Book Group →

The Irregular at Magic High School: The Movie – The Girl Who Summons the Stars at the Guild Cinema Friday-Saturday, July 28-29 – 10:30 pm only Directed by Risako Yoshida – 2017 – 90m.  An Alibi Midnight Movie Madness special presentation! Door Prizes from Lobo Comics on Juan Tabo NE (and one prize from Bubonicon 49)! ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE BY CLICKING HERE!  TICKETS WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE IN … Continue reading “The Irregular at Magic High School” @ Guild Cinema →

The Irregular at Magic High School: The Movie – The Girl Who Summons the Stars at the Guild Cinema Friday-Saturday, July 28-29 – 10:30 pm only Directed by Risako Yoshida – 2017 – 90m.  An Alibi Midnight Movie Madness special presentation! Door Prizes from Lobo Comics on Juan Tabo NE (and one prize from Bubonicon 49)! ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE BY CLICKING HERE!  TICKETS WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE IN … Continue reading “The Irregular at Magic High School” @ Guild Cinema →

Kill Baby…Kill! (Resored) at the Guild Cinema Friday & Saturday, August 4-5 – 10:30 pm only Directed by Mario Bava – 1966 – 83m.  An Alibi Midnight Madness presentation!  All seats $8.00. Door Prizes courtesy of Bubonicon 49! A NEW 50th Anniversary Restoration! Considered by many to be one of Italian horror maestro Mario Bava’s best, Kill Baby…Kill, an occult murder mystery, skillfully interweaves elements of the ‘giallo’ thriller formula … Continue reading “Kill Baby…Kill!” (Restored) @ Guild Cinema →

Meeting Date / Location: Saturday, August 5, 2017, at 2:00 pm Location is Lomas-Tramway Public Library, 908 Eastridge Dr NE (just off the southwest corner of Lomas & Tramway), Albuquerque, NM The August 2017 graphic novel for discussion is My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics 2017).  The group also will discuss the online comic, The Last Mechanical Monster by Brian Fies. WE ARE OPEN to new people!  … Continue reading ABQ Graphic Novel Book Club →

Kill Baby…Kill! (Resored) at the Guild Cinema Friday & Saturday, August 4-5 – 10:30 pm only Directed by Mario Bava – 1966 – 83m.  An Alibi Midnight Madness presentation!  All seats $8.00. Door Prizes courtesy of Bubonicon 49! A NEW 50th Anniversary Restoration! Considered by many to be one of Italian horror maestro Mario Bava’s best, Kill Baby…Kill, an occult murder mystery, skillfully interweaves elements of the ‘giallo’ thriller formula … Continue reading “Kill Baby…Kill!” (Restored) @ Guild Cinema →

Programming: It’s a 2-in-1 Month!  Time for the Bubonicon 49 preview of the schedule and the t-shirts.  Plus Something Else Fun!  The preview of Bubonicon 49 won’t take up our whole time, so Geneva Schult is helping us with a PowerPoint presentation on the upcoming Total Solar Eclipse (August 21)! Newcomers are welcome with a $1.00 contribution to help pay our rent… Enter Through the Northside Door (back of church).  … Continue reading ABQ SF Society – Preview & Solar Eclipse →

RiffTrax Live presents The Five Doctors Two Nights of Doctor Who Celebration for Late Summer! Thursday, August 17 – 7:00 pm only at the Century Downtown & Regal Cottonwood. Encore presentation 7:30 pm Thursday, August 24. The Doctor is in the house! The RiffTrax house, that is! The stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000®, Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett, are back on the big screen for a legendary … Continue reading RiffTrax Live: The Five Doctors (Dr. Who) →

Time for Bubonicon 49’s Gofers (volunteer workers) to get organized! 7:30 PM Friday, August 18, in the Activity Room of St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, 5301 Ponderosa Ave NE (home of the Albuq SF Society) Enter Through the Northside Door (back of church). St. Andrew locks up their courtyard at 5:00 pm these days, so park around back. If you would like to donate 5-16 hours during the Bubonicon 49 weekend … Continue reading B’con 49 Volunteers (Gofers) Meeting →

Airplane! at the Guild Cinema Friday, August 18 – 10:30 pm only Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker & Jerry Zucker – 1980 – 88m.  A New Mexico Entertainment special presentation!  All seats $8.00. In honor of National Aviation Day, New Mexico Entertainment is presenting this special screening of the 1980 laugh riot that’ll keep you bowled over in gut-busting hahas!  ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE BY CLICKING HERE! The quintessential movie … Continue reading Airplane! at the Guild Cinema →

Meeting Date / Location: Monday, August 21, 2017, at 7:30 pm Location is Jason’s Deli, 2105 Louisiana Blvd NE (northwest corner of Louisiana & America’s Parkway – across from Bubonicon’s hotel), Albuquerque, NM There is No Specific Book for August. Instead, we will go round the circle and each person will recommend 2-4 books they have read in the last 12 months (outside of the book group’s selections). While places … Continue reading Droids & Dragons Book Group →

RiffTrax Live presents The Five Doctors Two Nights of Doctor Who Celebration for Late Summer! Thursday, August 17 – 7:00 pm only at the Century Downtown & Regal Cottonwood. Encore presentation 7:30 pm Thursday, August 24. The Doctor is in the house! The RiffTrax house, that is! The stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000®, Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett, are back on the big screen for a legendary … Continue reading RiffTrax Live: The Five Doctors (Dr Who) Encore →

Bubonicon 49 is here! Pre-Registered folks can pick up their badges & packets 1:00-2:30 pm (before everyone else)… Registration opens at 3:00 pm for the sale of passes… The Dealers Room opens at 3:00 pm… First programming is at 4:00 pm, and the Art Show opens then, too… Con Suite open at 5:00 pm… It all takes place at the Albuquerque Marriott Uptown, I-40 & Louisiana Blvd NE (enter from … Continue reading Bubonicon 49 Begins! →

It Stains the Sands Red at the Guild Cinema Friday-Saturday, August 25-26 – 10:30 pm only Directed by Colin Minihan – 2017 – 92m.  An Alibi Midnight Movie Madness special presentation! All seats $8.00  (Hang out at Bubonicon 49 during the day, and check out this different zombie flick late night!) In the throes of a zombie apocalypse, A troubled woman with a dark past from Las Vegas, finds herself … Continue reading “It Stains the Sands Red” @ Guild Cinema →

It Stains the Sands Red at the Guild Cinema Friday-Saturday, August 25-26 – 10:30 pm only Directed by Colin Minihan – 2017 – 92m.  An Alibi Midnight Movie Madness special presentation! All seats $8.00  (Hang out at Bubonicon 49 during the day, and check out this different zombie flick late night!) In the throes of a zombie apocalypse, A troubled woman with a dark past from Las Vegas, finds herself … Continue reading “It Stains the Sands Red” @ Guild Cinema →

This is the end, my only 49th con, the end… Bubonicon 49 ends approximately 5:00 pm after Closing Ceremonies.  (Programming starts at 10:00 am.) Long Live, Bubonicon 49!  Let the planning for Bubonicon 50 begin… (By the way, our 50th anniversary technically is in 2019… 1969-2019.) Th-th-that’s all, folks!  Thank you so much.

Meeting Date / Location: Saturday, September 2, 2017, at 2:00 pm Location is Lomas-Tramway Public Library, 908 Eastridge Dr NE (just off the southwest corner of Lomas & Tramway), Albuquerque, NM The September 2017 graphic novel for discussion is Our Expanding Universe by Alex Robinson (Top Shelf Productions 2015). WE ARE OPEN to new people!  Come join us in a graphic novel discussion. Contact Information: Send the club wrangler an … Continue reading ABQ Graphic Novel Book Club →

Albuquerque science fiction author Victor Milan will be celebrating the release of his latest book, The Dinosaur Princess: Dinosaur Lords Book 3, with a chat and signing Saturday, September 9! Milan’s Dinosaur Princess finds “Knights riding dinosaurs… Humans were abducted eons ago at a god’s whim. Empires have risen and fallen and now men ride into battle on Triceratops and their generals lead them on White Thunder T-Rexes. Welcome to … Continue reading Victor Milan “Dinosaur” signing →

Programming – Meeting 1 Week Late! It’s All About The Cons on Sept 15!  Time for reports on Bubonicon 49 and the Helsinki Worldcon. Plus Dragoncon if anyone local went to Atlanta! Newcomers are welcome with a $1.00 contribution to help pay our rent… Enter Through The North Door (back of church).  St. Andrew is locking up the courtyard at 5:00 pm these days, so park around back. Remember, no … Continue reading ABQ SF Society – 1 Week Late →

The Goonies at the Guild Cinema Friday, September 15 – 10:30 pm only Directed by Richard Donner – 1985 – 114m.  A New Mexico Entertainment special presentation!  All seats $8.00.  DOOR PRIZES COURTESY OF BUBONICON 50 ! Special Limited-Edition poster by ABQ artist Jon Sanchez! In honor of “International Talk Like A Pirate Day,” New Mexico Entertainment Magazine is excited to present The Goonies.  ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE BY CLICKING HERE! … Continue reading “The Goonies” @ Guild Cinema →

New Mexico authors Jeffe Kennedy & Sage Walker will be celebrating the release of their latest books, The Shift of the Tide: The Uncharted Realms Book 3 and The Man in the Tree, respectively, with a chat and signing Saturday, September 16! In Kennedy’s 3rd Uncharted fantasy, “Released from the grip of atyrant, the Twelve Kingdoms have thrown all that touch them into chaos. As theborders open, new enemies emerge … Continue reading Jeffe Kennedy & Sage Walker signing →

Meeting Date / Location: Monday, September 18, 2017, at 7:30 pm Location is Jason’s Deli, 2105 Louisiana Blvd NE (northwest corner of Louisiana & America’s Parkway – across from Bubonicon’s hotel), Albuquerque, NM The September 2017 book for discussion is Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race, a non-fiction space effort, by Margot Lee Shetterly (we’re using … Continue reading Droids & Dragons Book Group →

Bruce Campbell returns to Albuquerque – Hail to the Chin! Action/TV actor & author Bruce Campbell will be making a stop in Albuquerque 2:00 pm Saturday, September 23, at the Marriott Pyramid North as part of his Hail to the Chin book tour – hosted by Bookworks. Hail to the Chin is the new raucous and sardonic memoir from Bruce Campbell, a follow-up to the New York Times bestselling If Chins Could Kill. It’s … Continue reading Bruce Campbell talk/signing →

Dave Made a Maze at the Guild Cinema Friday & Saturday, September 29-30 – 10:30 pm only Directed by Bill Watterson – 2017 – 80m.  An Alibi Midnight Madness presentation!  All seats $8.00. Door Prizes courtesy of Bubonicon 50! Starring Nick Thune, Meera Rohit Kumbhani, James Urbaniak, & Adam Busch! Dave, an artist who has yet to complete anything significant in his career, builds a fort in his living room … Continue reading “Dave Made a Maze” @ Guild Cinema →

Dave Made a Maze at the Guild Cinema Friday & Saturday, September 29-30 – 10:30 pm only Directed by Bill Watterson – 2017 – 80m.  An Alibi Midnight Madness presentation!  All seats $8.00. Door Prizes courtesy of Bubonicon 50! Starring Nick Thune, Meera Rohit Kumbhani, James Urbaniak, & Adam Busch! Dave, an artist who has yet to complete anything significant in his career, builds a fort in his living room … Continue reading “Dave Made a Maze” @ Guild Cinema →