
Culture Shock
Ku Time
The Alibi's annual Haiku Contest has been around as long as this humble little alt.weekly has been printing: 16 years. But enthusiasm for haiku has only increased over time, as each year more and more submissions cram our inboxes. Get in on the ku-fever: 2008 entries are now being accepted. Here are the categories to get your creative chi flowing:

Heikki Tuuli
Performance Review
Luke! I am Your Father!
Adriana Mater at the Santa Fe Opera
So I couldn’t stop thinking about Star Wars while taking in the Santa Fe Opera’s American premiere of Adriana Mater, and I feel a little bad about that. I mean, what gives a lowly freelancer the right to associate hoity, highbrow contemporary opera with pulpy, low-rent science fiction?

Eric Williams
Art News
Come Out to Play
The first annual New Mexico Young Playwrights Festival
It’s hard to tell someone learning can be fun without sounding like an after-school special.