Performance Review
Down in the Depths
UNM’s Eurydice is an otherworldly, fiendish delight
The mythology surrounding Eurydice and Orpheus is very old, but playwright Sarah Ruhl’s reinterpretation of the classic is modern, colorful and mesmerizing. UNM Department of Theatre and Dance does it justice at Theatre X.
Book Review
What We Talk About When We Talk About Blood
Defense-
Criminal defense lawyer Ferdinand von Schirach explores the line between moral and legal justice in a terse, grim and captivating short story collection.
Culture Shock
The Old Men Across the Sea
Looking up from a drink in a dark bar the other night, I was confronted by a group of aging Hungarian men clad in Speedos and gold jewelry. One had his arms crossed over his bare chest and looked like a mob boss interrogating a rat, right before the rat gets whacked and his body is chopped into small bits. I would have been scared shitless had I not been looking at a photograph.
