Book News: No Need To Shhh! When You’re Downloading From Home No Need To Shhh! When You’re Downloading From Home The news sent shock waves through the publishing industry: In the second fiscal quarter, amazon.com—the world’s largest online book retailer—had sold more electronic [...] Khyber Oser \ Aug 26, 2010 Read More
Theater News: Duke City Rep Establishes Equity Theater In Albuquerque Duke City Rep Reaps Dividends By Building Trust If all Albuquerque’s a stage, and all Burqueños merely players, then the folks behind Duke City Repertory Theatre are those talented understudies waiting [...] Khyber Oser \ Aug 19, 2010 Read More
Derby Wars: That’s How They Roll Ho-Bots And Doomsdames Triumph In Dcd Doubleheader When 14-year-old Marlo McCarter first saw a derby skater on TV this summer, she was so stoked that she started begging her mom [...] Khyber Oser \ Aug 19, 2010 Read More
Burque’s Bookiniste: Inside The City’s Quirkiest Three-Day-A-Week Bookstore Inside The City’s Quirkiest Three-Day-A-Week Bookstore If you take a moonlit stroll along the banks of the Seine River in Paris’ Latin Quarter, you’ll pass hundreds of padlocked, coffin-sized [...] Khyber Oser \ Aug 12, 2010 Read More
Rugby, Up Close And Nuclear They’re The Atomic Sisters, And They Want You On this side of the pond, rugby conjures mental images of battle waged on a muddy terrain in Europe, where brawny, rain-drenched Clive [...] Khyber Oser \ Aug 05, 2010 Read More During a “theme” match in Arizona last season, clubs took to the field in prom dresses. (Aaron Gonzales, agonzales@cs.unm.edu)
Performance Review: Two Months After Tragedy, Mts Retakes The Stage Two Months After Tragedy, Mts Retakes The Stage As devastating as it was to lose a half-century’s worth of costumes, props and archives in a warehouse inferno, there was never any [...] Khyber Oser \ Jul 29, 2010 Read More
Performance Review: The Vortex Theatre Tests Its “Will Power” The Vortex Theatre Tests Its “Will Power” Bard purists beware: The Vortex version of Much Ado About Nothing is set in the Roaring ’20s. Think flappers, bon vivants, martinis, cigarettes [...] Khyber Oser \ Jul 01, 2010 Read More Beatrice (Kate Costello) and Benedick (Peter Diseth) strike a Jazz Age pose for an unconventional Much Ado About Nothing . (Image courtesy of Vortex Theatre)
Performance Review: In The Pulpit With Aux Dog Theatre In The Pulpit With Aux Dog Theatre Ladies and gentleman, welcome to the “Rumble in the Rectory.”In the right corner, hailing from old-school Catholicism, weighing in at a comfortably paunchy [...] Khyber Oser \ Jun 17, 2010 Read More Mark Dolson (played by David Cooper, Jr.) spars with Father Farley (Steven Suttle) in an ideological cage fight. (Craig Stoebling)
Art News: The National Hispanic Cultural Center’s Art Museum Clears The Air After A Fire Cultural Center’s Art Museum Clears The Air A billowing mass of dark smoke enshrouded the National Hispanic Cultural Center’s 16-acre campus the afternoon of Monday, April 5. The smoke came [...] Khyber Oser \ May 27, 2010 Read More The only art on display at the National Hispanic Cultural Center right now is the architecture. (Khyber Oser)
Duke City Dimestories: Prose-Only Open Mic Short Stories Long On Ambition Three minutes. No poems.Those are the rules at DimeStories—a prose-only open mic trying to gain traction in Albuquerque’s poetry-dominated reading circuit. The timing [...] Khyber Oser \ May 20, 2010 Read More