Found Objects Abq Comic Con Is Here Alrighty, folks. It’s that time of year again: Comic Con! You know, the singularly holy weekend when dressing up as your favorite anime [...] Alisa Valdes \ Jan 17, 2019 Read More (courtesy of Albuquerque Comic Con)
Culture Shock: From Pain, Graceful Compassion Sparrow Dance Productions Seeks To Heal Community Trauma Through Dance There are people in this world who experience trauma and let it freeze them in pain and fear, forevermore. And then there are [...] Alisa Valdes \ Jan 17, 2019 Read More Christina Daly-Smith teaches a class at Sparrow Dance Productions (Eric Williams Photography)
Opinion: What’s The Matter With Belen? City’s Religious Right Would Rather Be Broke Than Support Feminist Art Belen, New Mexico, is home to just 7,089 people, but more than 30 churches. A quick 33-mile drive south of Albuquerque, Belen (whose [...] Alisa Valdes \ Jan 10, 2019 Read More
Found Objects Art From The Heart The New Mexico Humanities Council is playing host to a juried art exhibit curated by the New Mexico African American Arts Guild; it [...] Alisa Valdes \ Jan 10, 2019 Read More (courtesy of the artist)
Arts Interview: Fugelsang-A-Lang-A-Lang Call And Response With John Fugelsang And Danger K. Varoz Comedian John Fugelsang is best known for his regular segments on the Stephanie Miller progressive talk radio show, where he serves as sort [...] Alisa Valdes \ Jan 10, 2019 Read More Comedian John Fugelsang performs at the KiMo Theatre Jan. 12
Culture Shock: The Radical We Max Baptiste Uses Art To Build Community In 2004, when audio engineer Max Baptiste founded a video game company in Albuquerque with a couple of his friends, he had no [...] Alisa Valdes \ Jan 03, 2019 Read More (Artist Sheldon Richards)
Local Lit Mercedez Holtry Unites City’s Poets Albuquerque grows poets the way Dublin conjures memoirists. Maybe it is the extremes of beauty and pain that rub up against each other [...] Alisa Valdes \ Jan 03, 2019 Read More
Culture Shock: Our Own Colbert The City’s Top Comedian Now Has Her Own Talk Show This past weekend, Donald Trump watched a comedy skit parodying him on “Saturday Night Live” and grew dyspeptic enough (or was it despotic?) [...] Alisa Valdes \ Dec 20, 2018 Read More Kendra Jean Brand, host of The New Mexican Inquisition and the city’s top comedian, interviews Zackary Quintero, President of Young Democrats of New Mexico (Eric Williams Photography)
Call For Public Art Westside Group Seeks Artists Are you an artist, or an aspiring artist, who would like a chance to have your work displayed publicly in Albuquerque? If so, [...] Alisa Valdes \ Dec 20, 2018 Read More The West Central Community Development Group Seeks Artists to Design Streetlight Banners to Hang Along Route 66
Found Objects Hi, I’m Alisa, And I’m A Wordaholic In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley posits that “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” [...] Alisa Valdes \ Dec 20, 2018 Read More Yours Truly, Yo