The Weekly Free

What began as a full-throttle New Year’s battle against your worst habits has thrown you off the wagon, again. You spent a pretty penny making up for lost time on your long-neglected vices, but to soothe the pain, you’ll want to spend every last cent on them. Here’s a sight for those sore eyes — opportunities to indulge your fun-loving side without the nasty effects, like a bank account in the negative. Email future ideas for future guides to culture@dailylobo.com

Albuquerque Toastmasters
weekly meeting
TODAY

Don’t show up with your loaf of Wonder Bread eagerly asking where the toaster is – this isn’t that kind of toastmasters’ club. If you’ve got a speech coming up, or if you just need to shake the jitters of speaking to the sassy sista or mista you’ve been dying to ask out, you’re looking for the Albuquerque Toastmasters.
According to the website albuquerquetoastmasters.com, guests are welcome, but speaking is optional if you just can’t help that initial shyness. You can find them at Sizzler restaurant, 7212 Menaul Boulevard N.E., from 6:15 to 8:30 p.m.

Film screening
FRIDAY

Perhaps you’ve seen him: black stencil on red, poetic hair flowing from a starred beret that caps a face gazing into the distance. But what do you really know about Ernesto “Che” Guevara? If you’re inspired by recent civil turmoil, be it the Occupy movement or governmental shifts in the Middle East, you may learn a thing or two from the screening of “Che.”
Part one of the film plays at the Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice at 7 p.m. According to the event calendar at abqpeaceandjustice.org, there is a suggested $5-10 donation, but the empty-handed will not be turned away. The center is located at 202 Harvard Drive S.E.

Art show
SATURDAY

The Africana Studies Leadership Opportunity Team is hosting an art show in the SUB Plaza Atrium from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Details regarding the subject matter have not been revealed — you’ll just have to see for yourself. If you have class or other obligations, there are other ways to brush up on your Black history, and you don’t need an event to do so.

Torreón Tours
SUNDAY

Every Sunday the National Hispanic Cultural Center offers the public a chance to visit a 4,000 square foot fresco by Frederico Vigil. The painting depicts more than 3,000 years of Hispanic history from Europe, Mesoamerica and the United States. According to the events calendar at nhccnm.org, the tour presents this history through the perspective of the Hispanic experience in the West. From noon to 4 p.m., you could brainstorm enigmatic status updates like, “It never seems to end … sigh,” to elicit sympathetic comments and ego boosts, or you could acquire knowledge to support claims of superiority on Facebook once it’s over. If you opt for the latter, the center is located at 1701 Fourth Street S.W.

UNM Day at the Capitol
MONDAY

ASUNM Governmental Affairs is taking RSVPs for this trip to Santa Fe. Get on that as quick as the Rail Runner that will take you there, because they can’t accommodate everyone. How many thousands of students are eligible? Don’t waste your time counting! Your tickets to and from Santa Fe are paid for, as well as lunch at Tomasita’s. While up there you’ll have the opportunity to spout off about issues like tuition credit and the dwindling Lottery Scholarship funding, all on a platform where those who hear can actually make a difference.
If you have class, they’re offering an excused absence. Students are to meet at the Downtown Rail Runner station at 7 a.m. and will arrive back in Albuquerque at 5:45 p.m. Email your RSVP to asunmga@unm.edu by Thursday, January 26.