Culture Shock: What We Listen For In Lightning Speak Raven Chacon Composes Music That Celebrates Silence I went to pay the parking meter. Several hundred yards, a few dollars and a jog down the steps of the UNM Museum [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jan 28, 2016 Read More From Gauge (Sarah McNair-Landry)
Gallery Preview: Winter's Rapture February Art Openings Celebrate The Unconventional “Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jan 28, 2016 Read More
Culture Shock: The Trappings And The Suits Of Woe The Vortex Theatre Tackles Immense Emotion In Hamlet As a teenager in shades of black, thoughts as dark as my dress, I rivaled even the famously complicated Hamlet in displays of [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jan 21, 2016 Read More Grey Blanco as Hamlet, Caroline Graham as Ophelia (Christy Lopez)
Expanding The Achievement Gap The Privatization Of Education In The Days Of No Child Left Behind Can Albuquerque’s public schools be run by numbers and mandates? When test scores become the end goal of education—by which students and teachers [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jan 21, 2016 Read More (Rob)
Culture Shock: The Space Between The Images 7000 Bc Teaches A New Kind Of Literacy “I must’ve been five or six,” Bram Meehan began, “a neighbor my family used to catsit for had some key Marvel collections and [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jan 14, 2016 Read More Goby Sick (Jim Lynch)
Culture Shock: Around The World In 21 Days Three Week Festival Brings Theater From Four Continents To Albuquerque “Not everyone has the luxury of being able to travel. Finances, family obligations, schedules, et cetera, make it difficult, but Revolutions is a [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jan 07, 2016 Read More Members of NYC’s Aztec Economy perform in Butcher Holler Here We Come (Scott Eslinger)
Aural Fixation: More Than Reality Allows A Conversation With Jessica Mills As we stood on the sidewalk off Central, well after I had stopped recording our interview, Jessica Mills turned to me and said, [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jan 07, 2016 Read More The horn section of Citizen Fish: Miguel Reyes, Jessica Mils and Matt Dowse (Courtesy of Jessica Mills)
Gallery Guide Check One Resolution Off Your List On New Year's Day This year, Albuquerque’s First Friday ARTScrawl just so happens to coincide with the first day of 2016, and there are plenty of events [...] Maggie Grimason \ Dec 31, 2015 Read More
Year In Review: Arts & Lit A Look Back At 2015 In Arts & Lit Shitty Seaworld, Birds of Paradise, Mammoth … Art in the Police State, Exploring Climate Change Through the Arts … Desert Oracle, The Japanese [...] Maggie Grimason \ Dec 31, 2015 Read More Camus the Whale at Shitty Sea World ABQ
Culture Shock: The Meaning In The Metaphor Jimmy Santiago Baca On Anger, Exercise And The Poetry Of Singing At The Gates I ran along the Bosque with the questions I wanted to ask Jimmy Santiago Baca taking shape in my mind. The earliest of [...] Maggie Grimason \ Dec 24, 2015 Read More