On Her Own Local Acoustic Pop Artist Gets Ready To Hit The Road—Again Magen White stole her sister’s guitar. Well, not "stole" exactly. Her sis played it for a couple months, then kind of forgot about [...] Marisa Demarco \ Sep 14, 2006 Read More Magen White loves you. (Barry Thornburg)
Sonic Reducer TVOR sounds like fun. Singsong hooks, overdubbed and wildly sung, fuzzy noise loops, perfect samples, kinked beats, it’s fun—fun and accidentally beautiful. I [...] Marisa Demarco \ Sep 14, 2006 Read More
Quiet The Trains A Measure That Would Hush The Rail Chugs Down The Tracks Of The City Council Every night, when the trains slip through Albuquerque, Jill Gatwood can hear their whistles from her North Valley home. She lives just a [...] Marisa Demarco \ Sep 14, 2006 Read More A Council resolution aims to silence city train crossings, including this one on Lomas west of Broadway. (Christie Chisholm)
Sonic Reducer Everything I like about the Black Eyed Peas in spite of myself—the ’70s-lovin’ funk, the goofiness—found its spotlight on this one. Two of [...] Marisa Demarco \ Sep 07, 2006 Read More
Thin Line Who? Me?— Defensive. High-minded. Timid. They’re the three steps of receiving criticism in this industry. For example, on the letters page of our [...] Marisa Demarco \ Sep 07, 2006 Read More
The Repurposer One Of The Founders Of Negativland Talks Shop, Which For Him Means Lawsuits, Collage, Intellectual Property And “Culture Jamming” Mark Hosler’s got boundary issues. He doesn’t understand the boundary between something he’s made, and something that’s out in the world. Those are [...] Marisa Demarco \ Sep 07, 2006 Read More
Smile, Downtown! You're On The City's Cameras They’re shiny and black and about the size of a tennis ball. They hang in a white casing, usually hidden and innocuous. They [...] Marisa Demarco \ Sep 07, 2006 Read More
Heckle The Headlines I read (or scan) a lot of papers and their sites every day, trying to get ideas for stories. One byproduct is that [...] Marisa Demarco \ Sep 07, 2006 Read More
Pinup Prowess Local Music’s Lovelies Unite For Charity DJ Ginger Dunnill found herself on the fast-track from tomboy to temptress. On a normal day, the pretty, petite Dunnill sports baggy hip-hop [...] Marisa Demarco \ Aug 31, 2006 Read More Ms. January: Giovanna
Over The Counter The Morning-After Pill Will Be Available Without Prescription After a three-year fight, Martha Edmands is not about to look a gift horse in the mouth.The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved [...] Marisa Demarco \ Aug 31, 2006 Read More
