Culture Shock: Priscilla Queen Of The Desert Priscilla Queen Of The Desert Is Everything That Sparkles And Mesmerizes, Including Love In a parade of sequins, feathers and fringe, the titular bus—yes, she is christened “Priscilla”—makes its way through the Australian outback toward the [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 30, 2016 Read More Chris Wright, Nicholas Handley and Phillip Arran (Russel Maynor)
Arts Interview: Museo De La Basura Working along a single stretch of coast in Mexico’s Sian Ka’an refuge and world heritage site, installation artist and photographer Alejandro Durán identifies [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 30, 2016 Read More (Alejandro Durán)
Restaurant Review: Patrons Of Gatos Y Galletas Will Feel Right At Home Patrons Of Gatos Y Galletas Will Feel Right At Home I fell in love for the first time at the age of six. The four stray kittens, found abandoned on the side of [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 23, 2016 Read More (Eric Williams)
Theater Review: 12 Angry Jurors 12 Angry Jurors At Aux Dog Theatre Challenges Our Constructs Of Justice Amid a single set that accurately mimics the claustrophobia of a jury room, 12 jurors decide the fate of one young man who [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 23, 2016 Read More (Russell Maynor)
Culture Shock: A Bad Mouth And A Keen Heart New Reading Series Blends Music And Literature To Illuminating Effect “We know that if we want the cool thing, we have to make it,” Erin Adair-Hodges explained from across the table where we [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 23, 2016 Read More In Order: Mike Smith, Erin Adair-Hodges & Marty Crandall (Bad Mouth)
Culture Shock: Double Barreled Garden Spade The Great Velocity Of Guns Into Gardens I asked Miranda Viscoli, co-president of New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence, “Why here? Why now?” There was a long pause and a [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 16, 2016 Read More (La Plazita Institute)
Get Lit: Last Life And Life As We Know It The Reactive Plunges Into A Culture's Shadows “We aren’t wealthy, Nathi, but we aren’t prisoners,” the lead character’s uncle in Masande Ntshanga’s debut novel, The Reactive, tells him. Lindanathi, who [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 16, 2016 Read More
Culture Shock: The New Iconography The Work Of Thomas Christopher Haag Cuts Straight To The Unconscious I text my sister a soup bowl. She returns it with a smiley face with hearts in its eyes. An abbreviated exchange goes [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 09, 2016 Read More
Culture Shock: No Food Fights, Just Food Love The Weird And Beautiful Culinary-Inspired Work Of Foodgore Like so many great stories, this one, too, starts as a love story. Mayaneli Brown and Niles Keith met in high school in [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 02, 2016 Read More
Day Tripper: Vla A Toyota Pickup, Contact And The Very Large Array In a 1992 Toyota truck with prairie dog skulls on the dash, my partner and I drove the 77 miles south to Socorro, [...] Maggie Grimason \ May 26, 2016 Read More (Dirty Velvet)