Aural Fixation: The Year Of The Weedrat Band Equals Social Justice, Cats The last time I saw Weedrat at Launchpad, the front row swayed to the layered melodies and distorted guitar, singing along to the [...] Maggie Grimason \ Nov 19, 2015 Read More Weedrat (L-R): Adrian Burke, Becki Jones and Greg Yazzie (Hotvlkuce Harjo)
Culture Shock: Her Murder Ballad Her Murder Ballad Explores Where Sensuality And Violence Intersect Four women stand on the raised stage at Tricklock Company, blindfolded, in white jumpsuits, in near darkness amid attentive silence. With a gasp, [...] Maggie Grimason \ Nov 12, 2015 Read More Actresses Katy Houska and Hannah Kauffmann of “Her Murder Ballad”. (Dahveed Torres)
Culture Shock: What The Camera Reveals Photographer Wes Naman Explores New Mexico's Identity Through Portraiture The plastic display units creak as idle tourists spin them, searching for their names on miniature New Mexico license plate keychains. They examine [...] Maggie Grimason \ Nov 05, 2015 Read More Aaron Gonzalez (Wes Naman)
Gallery Preview: There's No Place Like Home Local Galleries Offer Modern Takes On New Mexico's Landscapes New Mexico has sparked the creative impulse in landscape artists working in various mediums for hundreds of years. This November, local galleries are [...] Maggie Grimason \ Oct 29, 2015 Read More Tomatoes on a Ledge (Susan Evans)
Culture Shock: The Moral Of The Ghost Story Author Antonio R. Garcez On Ghostlore And The Undeniable Substance Of The Supernatural Whether they’re portending disaster or teaching an important lesson, the ghosts that inhabit New Mexico carry great meaning. From Old Town to the [...] Maggie Grimason \ Oct 29, 2015 Read More (Antonio R. Garcez)
Culture Shock: Night Of The Interactive Theater Blackout Theatre Puts Guests In The Thick Of The Zombie Apocalypse I’ve seen enough zombie films to know there’s not often a happy ending to the story. As the corpses pile up and society [...] Maggie Grimason \ Oct 22, 2015 Read More (Christopher Walsh)
Culture Shock: An Engine Rebuilt Small Engine Gallery Re-Establishes Itself As A Home For Abq's Experimental Art The car full of strangers barreled downhill with the lights of Downtown suspended in the glass windows. I was new here and lost. [...] Maggie Grimason \ Oct 15, 2015 Read More (Jackie Riccio)
Aural Fixation: Heaven Is Albuquerque In November 2014 after Self Defense Family’s show at the old Gasworks venue, Benjamin Tate told me that he was moving here. This [...] Maggie Grimason \ Oct 15, 2015 Read More Self Defense Family (Mitch Wojcik)
Culture Shock: Still In Print Abq Zine Fest Highlights The City’s Self-Publishers For me, it happened in late winter while living in a coat closet in Indiana, pouring over comics about raising chickens and bad [...] Maggie Grimason \ Oct 08, 2015 Read More Marya Errin Jones & Liza Bley (Marya Errin Jones)
Culture Shock: First Friday New Exhibitions Open In Every Corner Of The City The sun may be sinking sooner as we head into the month of October, but galleries all around the city leave the light [...] Maggie Grimason \ Oct 01, 2015 Read More
