Culture Shock: The Beauty Of Wild Weeds Colossal Botanical Murals Flourish Downtown Unsuppressed by the concrete poured over them, fierce desert weeds curled out of the sidewalk cracks beneath our feet as Argentine muralist and [...] Maggie Grimason \ Mar 23, 2017 Read More (Suzanna Sbarge)
Local Lit 10-Year-Old Marisol Paramo Inspires With Her First Book Marisol Paramo hummed quietly to herself throughout much of our interview. Consider it practice, the 10-year-old already knows that she wants to be [...] Maggie Grimason \ Mar 16, 2017 Read More Marisol Paramo (Eric Williams)
Culture Shock:a Line Carved Through Time Exhibition And Book Illuminate Block Printmaking In New Mexico Many people have observed that the best activities are easy to learn but difficult to master—the bar for entry remains low, but achieving [...] Maggie Grimason \ Mar 16, 2017 Read More "Shiprock, New Mexico, 1940" by Norma Bassett Hall (Museum of New Mexico Press)
Poetry Review: Junk Yards, Church Yards, Everything In-Between Damien Flores Translates The Life Of The City Into Poetry When I first thumbed the pages of Damien Flores’ Junk Yard Dogs, bending the spine of the thin volume of poetry for the [...] Maggie Grimason \ Mar 16, 2017 Read More
Culture Shock: Art+Feminism+Abq Art-Centric Edit-A-Thon Has Its First Local Run In a Wikimedia survey from 2011, researchers found that less than 13 percent of Wikipedia—the online, open source encyclopedia—contributors are women. The effect [...] Maggie Grimason \ Mar 09, 2017 Read More (Nancy Zastudil)
Culture Shock: Scripting Dreams Playwright Gideon Wabvuta Brings Universal Truths To The Stage “For the longest time I had been trying to understand … how people change and where is that exact moment when you wake [...] Maggie Grimason \ Mar 09, 2017 Read More (Gideon Wabvuta)
Culture Shock: Divided We Stand Collected Responses To Shia Laboeuf's “He Will Not Divide Us” When I watched the live stream of “He Will Not Divide Us,” the installation art piece created by Shia LaBoeuf, Luke Turner and [...] Maggie Grimason \ Mar 02, 2017 Read More (Eric Williams)
Theater Preview: Motown The Musical Motown The Musical Takes The Popejoy Stage “I had always figured that less than one percent of all the people in the world reach their full potential. Seeing that potential [...] Maggie Grimason \ Feb 23, 2017 Read More (Motown the Musical)
Culture Shock: How Do You Take Your Fiction? Serial Box Delivers Novels That Fit Into People's Lives There was a stutter-stop on the phone line at several points during my conversation with local author Ian Tregillis. “Oh, ow! Sorry!” he [...] Maggie Grimason \ Feb 23, 2017 Read More (Serial Box)
Culture Shock: Anime Ignited Albuquerque's “Indigo Ignited” Bridges Worlds With Japanese Production “When a door closes in front of you,” David Pinter said matter-of-factly, “you have to be willing to kick it down.” And that’s [...] Maggie Grimason \ Feb 16, 2017 Read More (Samuel Dalton)