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This Week's Arts & Lit: Rancho Pancho, demonic possessions, Picosa

A collaboration between Nani Chacon and Marie Sena
A collaboration between Nani Chacon and Marie Sena

Performance Preview: Rancho Pancho shows relationship between Tennessee Williams and Pancho Rodriguez

Book Review: Seed, demonic possession and creepy kiddies

Art Preview: Picosa depicts strong women

V.20 No.30 | 7/28/2011
Candelaria and Briseño work out some issues.
Alan Mitchell

Performance Preview

A Ranch Named Desire

Play details relationship between Tennessee Williams and lover Pancho Rodriguez

By Summer Olsson
“He was a very prolific character,” says Santiago Candelaria, who plays Williams in Rancho Pancho, a play by Gregg Barrios. “Not only in his writing but just in his way of being, how he moved through what he did.” The play, presented by Camino Real Productions, and running at the National Hispanic Cultural Center through Aug. 7, explores the relationship between Williams and one of his partners, Pancho Rodriguez. “He was a compulsive worker and it sort of shows up in everything he did,” Candelaria says. “He worked compulsively, he drank compulsively, he smoked compulsively, he took pills compulsively, he had sex compulsively.”
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This Week's Arts & Lit: newest from Landmark Musicals, Rusty Rutherford, Trailer preview

Someone here is up to no good.
Max Woltman
Someone here is up to no good.

A Little Love Hexagon: Landmark Musicals’ latest is well-acted and well-sung

Punch Lines: Rusty Rutherford celebrates another year of underground comedy shows

Performance Preview: No One Makes a Home in My Trailer

V.20 No.29 | 7/21/2011
A trio of Hers
Christina Slyter

Performance Preview

Skeletons in the Trailer

Performer tackles love lost and suicide notes with dark humor

By Summer Olsson
Christina Slyter’s new solo show is about a woman who has become a shut-in, terrified of the outside world, because her husband killed himself—yet it’s full of dark humor. “The show takes place on the night that she wakes up,” Slyter says, “and discovers that there are people in her house. She tries to be a good hostess to them and show them a good time ... “ The audience members are the visitors in her house, and as the woman gets closer to revealing truths, her hostess skills unravel.

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Someone here is up to no good.
Max Woltman

Performance Review

A Little Love Hexagon

Landmark Musicals’ latest is well-acted and well-sung

By Christie Chisholm
A Little Night Music is a show that will likely appeal to more mature audiences. Maybe it’s the tone of the show, which is surprisingly wholesome given the subject matter. Maybe it’s the near-constant, often operatic singing. In either case this one’s probably not for a thirtysomething crowd. That said, Landmark Musicals has done a fine job with it. While not all the actors are fantastic, there aren’t any sore thumbs that stick out, and a handful of them are obvious pros.

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This Week's Arts & Lit: ¡Viva México! festival, TED in ABQ, Gronk painting live, Kaleidoscope

A member of Los Voladores
Photo courtesy of El Rancho de las Golondrinas
A member of Los Voladores

¡Viva México! festival features flying men of Veracruz

How-To Review: Street Smarts: Beyond the Diploma

TED comes to Albuquerque.

Art News: Watch Gronk paint live

Kaleidospoke exhibition raises bike awareness.

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This Week's Arts & Lit: Filling Station’s Solofest

 
courtesy of the artist
 

Solofest at the Filling Station: Courageous performers take the stage without parachutes

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Twilight Gypsy Bazaar

Duke City Rep brings you fortune telling, treasures, Le Chat Lunatique.

Heritage House bed and breakfast
Heritage House bed and breakfast

The Heritage House bed and breakfast looks like strange good times are always happening inside its four walls. Equal parts warm cheer and old-time magic, it looms over the corner of High Street and Copper. It’s a fitting place for Duke City Repertory Theatre to hold its annual fundraiser, the Twilight Gypsy Bazaar. And who better to play the rollicking tunes than the boys of gypsy swing band Le Chat Lunatique?

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V.20 No.27 | 7/7/2011
Christina Bouajila in   Incantations From the Lady with the Alligator Purse
courtesy of the artist

Festival Preview

Flying Solo

Courageous performers take the stage without parachutes

By Summer Olsson

The theater folks at The Filling Station are giving you a lot of ones. Solo shows, that is. The third annual Solofest showcases works by single performers, both tested and brand-new. These risky lone wolves are onstage with no one to share the limelight (or the blame, if things go haywire). Pieces range from autobiographies to complete fiction. Elements being investigated include women’s empowerment, a park ranger’s lecture, an uncensored Marie Antoinette and too many more to name. Complete descriptions can be found at fillingstationabq.com. Show your support over the next two weekends.

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This Week's Arts & Lit: Cactus ad nauseam, Oscar Hijuelos’ gloomy memoir, kids love Mr. Stinky Feet

The ever-growing muse
The ever-growing muse

Art Preview: Painter Eason Eige’s prickly obsession with one of the cacti in front of Old Town’s San Felipe de Neri church.

Book Review: Thoughts Without Cigarettes, new memoir by Oscar Hijuelos waxes nostalgic, depressing and Bukowski-esque.

Culture Shock: a few nifty things to fill your dance card

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The Lost Ending in the Fourth Street Mall

Free interactive kids show Friday at noon

Don’t forget your parasol
D Sharon Pruitt
Don’t forget your parasol

“I hate the stuffy theater in the summer! More outdoor performances!” you shout. “Gimme free stuff to do with my kids because they’re out of school and they’re totally driving me bonkers being around all day!”

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This Week's Arts & Lit: Alibi reviews comics, toy store-inspired art gallery

"Sorrow"
Kathie Olivas
"Sorrow"

The comic book lovers on the Alibi editorial staff review a handful of new 7000 BC offerings.

Stranger Factory makes the art gallery experience like being in a toy store.

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This Week's Arts & Lit: Flamenco festival, postapocalyptic Romeo and Juliet, Central Artsy Parts

Fuensanta La Moneta
Fuensanta La Moneta

Flamenco festival brings home the passion and soul of Spain

Performance Review: The Vortex tackles Romeo and Juliet, in postapocalyptic style

Culture Shock: Central Artsy Parts. Photo show, old-timey postcards, paintings of tacos, and a scooter shop show!

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This Week's Arts & Lit: Lucas Hussack’s southwest retrospective, Wild Dancing West returns, colorful creations in Old Town

Rulan Tangen of Dancing Earth
Santa Fe Photo Workshops
Rulan Tangen of Dancing Earth

Culture Shock: Cultural Sunsets at Old Town, Solo Comedy at The Box

Small Engine Gallery: Lucas Hussack’s One Hundred Pieces

San Francisco’s ODC/Dance and other variety at the sixth annual Wild Dancing West

V.20 No.21 | 5/26/2011

Culture Shock

Solar Selections

Old Town is back with another round of Cultural Sunsets summer programming, which brings culturally edifying entertainment to the plaza most Thursdays through early October. Featuring colorful costumes, elaborate and often ancient choreography, and groups that are committed to fostering traditions, Cultural Sunsets gives patrons a chance to experience customs that are likely new to them. This Thursday, May 26, you can see performances from the New Mexico branch of Miyagi Ryu Nosho Kai school of Okinawan cultural dance and music. The kids can learn to make Japanese paper dolls too, in a “make and take” workshop. This free event is from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Keep tabs on upcoming Cultural Sunsets by calling 311.

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