Local Gift Guide: Creative Currency Local Wares To Feel Good About Giving Or Receiving My holiday wish lists have consistently gotten less exciting as I age. They used to include things like dolphin whistles, horses and the [...] Maggie Grimason \ Nov 17, 2016 Read More
Culture Shock: Embrace Your Inner Indigenerd The First Ever Indigenous Comic Con “One of my earliest memories is going to Duran’s down here on Central … They had a comic book rack right inside the [...] Maggie Grimason \ Nov 17, 2016 Read More Dr. Lee Francis IV, organizer of Indigenous Comic Con (Indigenous Comic Con)
Culture Shock: To Georgia, On Her 129Th Birthday The Legacy Of O'keeffe Endures “I’ve been asked the question—and people think I’m going to answer [it] in some salacious way—they say, ‘Tell me something that nobody knows [...] Maggie Grimason \ Nov 10, 2016 Read More Georgia O’Keeffe with “Pelvis Series, Red with Yellow” (Tony Vaccaro)
Book Review: The Gloaming The Gloaming Traces Grief Across Continents I opened The Gloaming by Melanie Finn to page one without knowing anything about it other than that it was delivered by my [...] Maggie Grimason \ Nov 10, 2016 Read More
Culture Shock: Stitch In Time Cecilia Mckinnon's Work Explores Home, Memory And Repair Cecilia McKinnon—“X-Files” fan, curator, musician, art history nerd and self-described “natural hoarder”—is perhaps first and foremost an artist—in the many definitions the word [...] Maggie Grimason \ Nov 03, 2016 Read More (Cecilia McKinnon)
Culture Shock: Tonic For The Spirit Allison Pharmakis Investigates The Human Condition At Graft A short list of things I googled when I went home after interviewing Allison Pharmakis: 1) theosophy: a collection of mystical philosophies culled [...] Maggie Grimason \ Nov 03, 2016 Read More (Allison Pharmakis)
Art Preview: Save Your Pennies The 99 Cent Store’s Diy Vision “We revamped the space completely,” Brooke Denton explained as we looked around the now empty, but soon to be filled room. It seemed [...] Maggie Grimason \ Oct 27, 2016 Read More Left to Right: Brooke Denton, Destiny Trujillo, Mikayla Griego, Lilly Moquin (Maggie Grimason)
Culture Shock: Join The Spectacle (Caravan)! Tess Coats & Co. Create And Curate Their Way To Success Born in 1975 of 29 feet of riveted aluminum, Eloise lived with two others before finding her true home with Tess Coats and [...] Maggie Grimason \ Oct 27, 2016 Read More Tess Coats, curator of Spectacle Caravan (Beth Wells)
Culture Shock: Catching Glimpses The Wheat-Pasted Photographic Murals Of Jetsonorama The Earth is turning away from the sun once again as we earthbound creatures pull on our hats and jackets to meet the [...] Maggie Grimason \ Oct 20, 2016 Read More (Chip Thomas)
Taking In A Fraction Of New Mexico's Orchard Bounty Taking In A Fraction Of New Mexico's Orchard Bounty As I drove south out of Albuquerque, hot air balloons rose up into my rearview mirror. The biting cold of the previous October [...] Maggie Grimason \ Oct 13, 2016 Read More (Maggie Grimason)