Culture Shock: Get Down With The “Gorgeously Profane” Kim Vodicka Never Edits Out The Private Parts When I ask poet Kim Vodicka what the poems she’s written for her collaborative project, Psychic Privates, are about, she demures. Well, not [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jul 06, 2017 Read More Psychic Private's "poetry EP" will be on sale at Tortuga (Kim Vodicka)
Culture Shock: The Indomitable Minie Gonzalez The Enduring Creative Power Of One Irrepressible Local Photographer From the time she learned to work a camera to the last day she was able to hold one, Minie Gonzalez was taking [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 29, 2017 Read More (Minie Gonzalez)
Restaurant Review: St. Clair Winery & Bistro Consistency And Kindness Reign At St. Clair It was nearly 2pm and the temperature was hovering around 98 degrees when I parked my car under the last patchy swatch of [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 29, 2017 Read More Summer berry salad (Eric Williams Photography)
Culture Shock: Something Wonderful This Way Comes Shakespeare On The Plaza Stages Macbeth And More “Let not light see my black and deep desires,” Macbeth says, as he plots the murders that are the hinge of Shakespeare’s bloodiest [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 22, 2017 Read More From last year's staging of The Tempest; Shakespeare on the Plaza aims to bring free Shakespeare to the city annually (courtesy of Shakespeare on the Plaza)
Pretty In Print And The Winners Of The Pretty In Print Writing Competition Are ... In her book on writing, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Anne Lamott perfectly laid it out: “For some of [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 22, 2017 Read More
Culture Shock: Looking Backward Gay Kid On A Cattle Ranch Recounts Joy And Pain Of Coming Of Age In N.m. Ranchlands “I was living in Albuquerque and coming out as a gay man. I was looking for a place to meet men that wasn’t [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 15, 2017 Read More John Burns brings his one-man show to Albuquerque (courtesy of John Burns)
Book Review: Another Brooklyn Jacqueline Woodson's Visit And Her Novel, Another Brooklyn “What’s tragic isn’t the moment, it’s the memory,” Jacqueline Woodson writes in Another Brooklyn, the powerhouse piece of fiction that was a National [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 08, 2017 Read More Jacqueline Woodson visits the KiMo on June 13 (courtesy of Bookworks/Jacqueline Woodson)
Culture Shock: Fuerza Flamenca The 30Th Annual Flamenco Festival Internacional De Alburquerque Brings Adrián Santana To watch Adrián Santana dance is a study in moods—in videos of workshops he throws a bata de cola around his hips with [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 08, 2017 Read More Dancer and choreographer Adrián Santana returns to the Festival Flamenco Internacional de Alburquerque for the third time (Courtesy of Adrián Santana)
Art Preview: Surface Currents Emerging Artists Ascend At The Harwood Rising from the mural-rich streets of Barelas or the soft slopes of The Heights, materializing through the doorway of a shotgun shack in [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 01, 2017 Read More "The Creation," intaglio etching / serigraphy, 2016 (Jessica Gross)
Culture Shock: Red Planet Rising Albuquerque's First Indigenous-Centric Bookstore Opens Its Doors “To me, the idea of a new bookstore opening is thrilling,” I said to Lee Francis IV, the CEO of Native Realities Press, [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 01, 2017 Read More "This World Renounced!" from Tewa Tales of Suspense! Serigraph Edition of 20, by Jason Garcia, whose work will be on display at Red Planet (Jason Garcia)