Toxicology Report: The Drugs Are Winning We’re Using More Than Ever New Mexico is the longtime world heavyweight and still national champion in deaths by drug overdose. But lawmakers passed a landmark memorial that [...] Samara Alpern \ Feb 23, 2012 Read More ( Jens Finke )
Spotlight: Sabertooth Cavity Releases Its Noisy, Artistic Debut En Lak Ech New Mexico Band Releases Noise Freak-Out En Lak Ech Don’t limit it by calling it music, man. Jazz derangements, electronic debris and heaving melts of guitar are just part of it. What [...] Samara Alpern \ Feb 10, 2011 Read More Sabertooth Cavity unleashes its psychedelic sounds on Saturday night. (myspace.com/sabertoothcavity)
Monster Paws Releases An Eponymous Debut Album Killer Pop Music Get out your laser lights and lamé couture: Spontaneous dance parties are about to break out all over town in response to Monster [...] Samara Alpern \ Nov 04, 2010 Read More Monster Paws, circa ’75 (Wes Naman)
Spotlight: Joe West Is Xoë Fitzgerald In A New Mexico-Based Sci-Fi Rock Opera Joe West Is Xoë Fitzgerald In A New Mexican Sci-Fi Rock Opera This is a story about love, so we know from the outset to expect tragedy. But, as the cross-dressing, folk-singing antihero of Xoë [...] Samara Alpern \ Aug 19, 2010 Read More
Afterlife Remixed: Two Albuquerque Artists Take An Unconventional Approach To Visions Of Death Two Albuquerque Artists Take An Unconventional Approach To Visions Of Death The devil may reach out with bristled claws to grab your hair. But, then again, he may not. It may be that butterflies [...] Samara Alpern \ Jul 15, 2010 Read More “Coronacion de la Virgen,” Maria Sena
Heart Art: An Exhibition At Unmh Is Good For Your Health You’ll Actually Want To Go To The Hospital. Really. “My children.” That’s what Dr. Jonathan Abrams calls the the gangster crouching in a silver gelatin print, the frail lilacs rendered with watercolor, [...] Samara Alpern \ Jun 10, 2010 Read More An unexpected art gallery at UNM Hospital is good for your health. (Patricia Sauthoff)
Art News: N8V—“We’re A Newer Generation [Of Native American Artists], Influenced By Star Wars And Punk Music.” Young Artists And The New School Though it’s not widely known, Boba Fett is an important figure in Native American art. At least, he is in the art of [...] Samara Alpern \ Apr 22, 2010 Read More Mural by Marc Quetone and David Abeyta
Gallery Preview: Rock Poster Artists The Art Of Rock Murder By Death was coming to Albuquerque in May 2008, and Jeremy Montoya, a graphic designer and loyal fan of the band, wanted [...] Samara Alpern \ Apr 01, 2010 Read More Jeremy Montoya
Art News: Anne Frank: A History For Today Anne Frank: A History For Today “Will I ever become a journalist or a writer?” wrote Anne Frank while her family hid from the Nazis in a secret annex [...] Samara Alpern \ Mar 11, 2010 Read More “Remember,” pastel portrait by Leo Neufeld
Art News: Custom Toys Make Fun Of Art The Art Of Play On Albuquerque’s north side, in a dimly lit studio choked with cigarette smoke, Jonathan Perea leans over a cluttered work desk and pours [...] Samara Alpern \ Feb 18, 2010 Read More Not Teeth just want to be loved.