It’s Not Exactly Beaux-Arts. Oh, Wait, It Is. Hunky Heroes And Dramatic Deities Descend On Duke City Have you ever looked at a piece of modern art, say a papier-mâché rock with expressionistic paint streaks, and thought, “Yeah, okay. But [...] Gail Guengerich \ Oct 09, 2014 Read More “The Wrath of Achilles” by Michel-Martin Drolling, 1810, oil on canvas
Restaurant Review: Down N Dirty Seafood Boil Down N Dirty Seafood Boil New Mexico harbors its share of ghosts—native people ghosts, mushroom cloud ghosts, dinosaur ghosts—not to mention our ghost ocean. I’m sure you all [...] Gail Guengerich \ Sep 04, 2014 Read More
Face Your Tulle-Wrapped Terrors With Ballet Pro Musica Do you know what’s fun? Doing something really uncultured, like eating peanuts in your underwear and then standing up and announcing loudly that [...] Gail Guengerich \ Aug 14, 2014 Read More
Some Like It Cold: Our Summer Soup Spectacular! Our Summer Soup Spectacular Look, we have a situation here. The same situation we have every summer—the city is baking, the sun spitting fire, and our swamp [...] Gail Guengerich \ Jul 24, 2014 Read More
Chakra And Awe: Graffiti Writer Taps Into Universal Calligraphies Graffiti Writer Taps Into Universal Calligraphies Does the sight of graffiti make you want to roll down your window and yell in your grandpa voice about punk kids? Do [...] Gail Guengerich \ Jul 17, 2014 Read More
Food 101: Baklava The Decadence Of Baklava You may have noticed that the word “artisanal” is becoming something of a joke. Like the bag of frozen shrimp I bought that [...] Gail Guengerich \ Jul 17, 2014 Read More ( Accidental Hedonist )
Restaurant Review: Piattini Cherry Picking At Piattini Ah, remember when we used to work in the North Campus neighborhood and go to that little corner grocery store and get that [...] Gail Guengerich \ Jul 10, 2014 Read More
Food Lore: Eggstravaganza A Tiny Compendium Of Egg Lore To tell the whole history of human egg consumption, we would need to go back to some very uncomfortable scenes at the dawn [...] Gail Guengerich \ May 22, 2014 Read More
Rail Yard Revival: Your New Plan For Sunday Brunch Your New Plan For Sunday Brunch If the Downtown Growers’ Market is the best thing ever in your book, then you might just blow a fuse over the Rail Yards [...] Gail Guengerich \ May 08, 2014 Read More ( Rail Yards Market ABQ )
Restaurant Review: Bouche French-American Bliss On The Westside French-New Mexican fusion is not something you see very often. There may be a reason for that, what with the herb-and-pastry-dough-and-butter-and-wine-and-mysterious-entrail base of [...] Gail Guengerich \ Apr 17, 2014 Read More