Culture Shock: The Keepers Of Stories Wordcraft Circle Celebrates And Promotes Indigenous Writing And Storytelling “I was raised on story. I wrote my first story when I was four and a half years old,” Dr. Lee Francis IV [...] Maggie Grimason \ Dec 17, 2015 Read More (Original image courtesy of wordcraftcircle.org)
Petting Because You Wouldn’t Leave Man’s Best Friend Off Your Shopping List What do you buy for the dog or cat who has everything? If you’re the kind of pet owner who lovingly hangs a [...] Maggie Grimason \ Dec 10, 2015 Read More Illo by Tamara
Reading Recommendations For Everyone Left On Your Shopping List Jim Hoffsis reads every single book put onto the shelves at Treasure House Books & Gifts in Old Town (2012 S. Plaza NW). [...] Maggie Grimason \ Dec 10, 2015 Read More Death Ship
Culture Shock: Spaces On The Edge Pop-Up Collective Creates Fleeting Experiences In The City's Vacant Places I pass by the soft green, pink and blue colored adobe walls of the empty Sanitary Tortilla Factory on Second Street nearly every [...] Maggie Grimason \ Dec 10, 2015 Read More “Curacao Perched Bird” by Angie Poynter Rehnberg
Arts Feature: A Stitch In Time Colcha Evolves As A Craft While Preserving New Mexican Heritage At the confluence of the Rio Grande and Chama rivers in northern New Mexico, early Spanish colonists forged lives designed by their surroundings—gulping [...] Maggie Grimason \ Dec 03, 2015 Read More
Culture Shock: Presence And Absence In The Landscape Local Painters Take On Climate Change In Diverse Works “It’s amazing that the power that structures a landscape can be exposed through the little intervention of painting,” Beau Carey told me just [...] Maggie Grimason \ Nov 26, 2015 Read More “La Bajada Bluff” by Scott Greene (Scott Greene)
Gallery Preview: Welcome The Holiday Season Visit Old Town For First Friday And More Festivities November. L.M. Montgomery described it as a month with “uncanny witchery in its changed trees.” Soon, however, the month will change and the [...] Maggie Grimason \ Nov 26, 2015 Read More Works by Dahl Delu (Yucca Art Gallery)
Restaurant Review: Vital Foods Vital Foods Serves Up Gratifying Vegan Fare “Sometimes I think vegans hate themselves,” my roommate said pointedly from across the kitchen. Maybe I was ladling a particularly random selection of [...] Maggie Grimason \ Nov 19, 2015 Read More Vital Salad (Eric Williams)
Bookstore Events A Conversation With Isabel Allende In 1972, just a year before his death, Isabel Allende visited the poet Pablo Neruda in his home. At the time Allende was [...] Maggie Grimason \ Nov 19, 2015 Read More (Isabel Allende)
The Gift Of Art Curate An Inspired Holiday Showing With Handmade Items From Local Artists Instead of risking your life for cloned pieces of plastic from big box stores this holiday season, consider investing in pieces of art [...] Maggie Grimason \ Nov 19, 2015 Read More (via laurentobey.com)