Street Art Gets Invited In For A Drink And Maybe A Snack 516 Takes It To The Streets It can be a mural on a street corner, a piece of art pasted to a wall or a rainbow dripped down the [...] John Bear \ Sep 30, 2010 Read More “The Great White Buffalo” by Ernest Doty. He doesn’t appreciate Purple People Eater jokes.
Gay Performance Art Hated On By Republicans, Comics Nerds Stay Up All Night If George Bush Sr. Hated It, It Has To Be Good Tim Miller. This guy got his National Endowment for the Arts grant taken away under pressure from the first Bush Administration for the [...] John Bear \ Sep 30, 2010 Read More Tim Miller, sued for being gay. Won for being right. (cleveland.com)
Literary Offerings For 09.19.10 Poetry Journals Celebrate Publication Two Albuquerque spawned poetry journals are celebrating their inaugural publications at Alamosa Books, 8810 Holly NE, Ste. D on Sunday at from 2-5 [...] John Bear \ Sep 23, 2010 Read More
Bodies ... This Exhibit Won’t Just Creep You Out, It Will Teach You About Your Body And How Rotten You Are To It Bodies ... The Exhibition Comes To Albuquerque Once the initial wave of creepy wears off, Bodies … The Exhibition— well,maybe “creepy” is being too modest. The exhibit, which opened Sept. [...] John Bear \ Sep 23, 2010 Read More Like I said, “Once the initial wave of creepy wears off ...” (John Bear)
Free Cat To Bad Home My Cat Knows I’m An Insomniac And She Thinks It’s Funny It’s been nearly three days since I last slept. Or has it been four?In either case, my cat is a jerk. I’ve probably [...] John Bear \ Sep 23, 2010 Read More She sees me when I’m sleeping. She knows when I”m awake. (John Bear)
Culture Shock: Zodiac, Psychedelic German, Man Obsessed With Birds Zodiac: Not The Serial Killer, The Sexy Painting Local artist Katie Calico is working on a series of paintings based on the zodiac, and the results are decidedly titillating.The paintings and [...] John Bear \ Sep 23, 2010 Read More An ibis and a duck (John Bear)
Culture Shock: John Bear Named Arts Editor; Art Community Furious John Bear Given Culture Beat, Apocalypse Expected It seems my journalism career has come full circle—I went from culture editor to police reporter back to culture editor; or arts and [...] John Bear \ Sep 16, 2010 Read More John Bear, hard at work (courtesy of stevesbraccia)
Bear With Me: I Left My Wallet In Ad Duluiyah My brother did one tour in the land of the two rivers. He came back with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and a brain injury, [...] John Bear \ Sep 16, 2010 Read More
The Daily Word 09.10.10: Dirty Wheat, Pimps, Susan Boyle Rail Runner hits car north of Journal Center Station. Garbage truck flips on I-40. Farmington cold case ends in guilty plea. New York [...] John Bear \ Sep 16, 2010 Read More
Rolling Hard: Downtown’s Segway Police Downtown’s Segway Police Officers Jerome Armijo and Carmen Michaud catch a woman jaywalking at First Street and Central, just across from Alvarado Transportation Center. They run [...] John Bear \ Sep 09, 2010 Read More Jerome Armijo pulls partner Carmen Michaud’s Segway behind him after she hitched a ride with a detective to transport a prisoner. (John Bear)