UPDATED: Events & Trivia -- Win Free Tickets! (Show your love & brainy nerdiness, you know we go for that!)

Mikaela says (ignoring for the moment her despondancy at the global news):

Lots happening in this fair Dukedom of ours this week:

Yesterday

§ 48-Hour Film Project just wrapped up last night. (See m-pyrical for full coverage)

Today

§ Insomnia Lounge opens tonight (Ditto).

§ Simon Ortiz speaks at Zimmerman at 6:30.

§ The ABQ Slam Poetry Team is holding a little art auction fundraiser tonight at the Harwood at 7. (Please go! Please buy art! Cheer on your home team before they take off for this year's National Poetry Slam in Austin.)

Thursday

§ Pandemonium, fun salsa, etc. band, is playing at the Zoo at 7 pm for $7

Friday

§ The Cell has seven 10-minute plays at 7 pm

§ Ralph Bakshi, innovator in animation, receives an award at the NHCC as part of the Duke City Shootout at 7 pm

Saturday

§ ABQ Slam Team wakes people up at Insomnia Lounge from 3-4 pm

§ Duke City Shootout concludes with an Awards Gala at the Kiva 7 pm, winner to receive the coveted Palm de Grease for best film

§ Sina Soul and Beat Hive soothe Insomniacs from 12 am – 2 am at the Hyatt

We at m-pyre support community events. And we support you. And as organizers, we like to put those two things together.

In that spirit, we’re offering you a chance to compete for 2 tickets, one to attend the Bakshi commemoration on Friday night ($13 value), the other to see the Shootout finale Saturday ($20 value).

Here’s how our little game will work. The first person to answer ALL THREE of the following questions correctly will win the ticket in each category. (Hint: answers can be found on the internet.) Ready?

For the Bakshi ticket Friday:

1. What was the original name of the Duke City Shootout?
2. What are the home states of each of the Ms?
3. What’s the last event in ABQ that had the Ms’ panties all up in a twist?

For the Shootout Gala Saturday: (SORRY, SLOW-POKES -- TICKET WON ALREADY)

1. Who won the first Palm de Grease for best film? ("Plugged")
2. How did the Ms meet? (UNM's CRP Program as students)
3. What now-missing local bar was the Ms favorite hangout? (Pearl's Dive, sniff sniff, R.I.P.)

Respond only in the Comments, please!