St. Valentine’s Day Card Massacre: The Alibi’s Eighth Annual Contest The Alibi’s Eighth Annual Contest Valentine’s Day is a phony holiday created by cruel corporations to sell diamonds, chocolates and cards by provoking our insecurities. Of course, to [...] John Bear \ Feb 10, 2011 Read More
Culture Shock: Killadelphia Examines Murder In The City Of Brotherly Love Murder In The City Of Brotherly Love Sean Christopher Lewis says he came to Philadelphia after graduate school to work at a local theater company. While he was in town, [...] John Bear \ Jan 27, 2011 Read More Sean Christopher Lewis
Culture Shock: Mark Twain’s Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Omits The “N-Word” First They Came For The N-Word A new version of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn takes out more than 200 instances of the n-word and replaces them with [...] John Bear \ Jan 20, 2011 Read More
Comic Con: Albuquerque Edition How Albuquerque Got Its Nerd Back Fanboys rejoice. The Albuquerque Comic Con will be the first “full-blown comic book convention” to hit Albuquerque in more than a decade, according [...] John Bear \ Jan 13, 2011 Read More “Great, I just had my hearing checked last week. Thanks a lot, guys.” (20th Century Fox)
Enter The Valentine’s Day Card Contest Or Die, Inmate Theater, High And Dry Enter The Valentine’s Day Card Contest Or Die Valentine’s Day is largely a corporate farce designed to sell cards, candy and conflict diamonds. If you are sans significant other, it’s guaranteed [...] John Bear \ Jan 13, 2011 Read More
Revolutions: The Schedule Revolutions International Theatre Festival 2011 Schedule Of Events So we didn’t spend a whole article (at right) listing the times and places for the plethora of cool theater stuff during Revolutions, [...] John Bear \ Jan 06, 2011 Read More
Art Schmart: Three Lost Examples Of “Border Pop” (Unlicensed Velvet Art) From El Hombre Sin Nombre Surface In 2010. Three Lost Examples Emerge In 2010 Though sometimes derided as “low art,” no other medium better captures the zeitgeist of the mid-20 th century than unlicensed velvet art, though [...] John Bear \ Dec 30, 2010 Read More Rare examples by the artist formerly known as El Hombre Sin Nombre
Culture Shock: 24 Hours In A Gulag, Photographic Arts, Street Arts’ Last Hurrah Now That’s A Bad Day Sometimes you have a bad day. It happens. There isn’t much you can do about it. The alarm goes off and you think, [...] John Bear \ Dec 23, 2010 Read More Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Gallery Profile: Stone Mountain Bead Gallery Is In The Business Of More Than Beads Nearly 30-Year-Old “Gallery” Is In The Business Of More Than Beads Stone Mountain Bead Gallery supplies artists, but the East Nob Hill store is also like a museum. Thousands of styles, shapes and colors [...] John Bear \ Dec 23, 2010 Read More The large yellow beads are called “African amber” but are actually made of resin. (John Bear)
Art Pics John Bear \ Dec 16, 2010 Read More Pigeon on Fence. Location unknown. (Jessica Cassyle Carr)