Performance Preview: A Strange Guy Comes To The Theater. For You. Mother Road Gives Catching A Movie A Run For Its Money There’s music in the dark. Someone shuffles onto the stage and sits, but a guitar strum cuts through the silence for a long [...] Christie Chisholm \ Nov 11, 2010 Read More “I swear, if this guy asks me to tell him about my mother one more time ... ” (John Maio)
Gallery Review: Zodiac Paintings; Also Scary Mexican Skeleton Dude Paintings. The Talking Fountain Gallery & Boutique Artist Katie Calico first saw a “talking fountain” while visiting Rome. The fountains don’t speak on their own—for centuries, they’ve served as meeting [...] John Bear \ Nov 11, 2010 Read More “What business is it of yours where I’m from, friendo?” (“El Narco” by Sergio Sandoval)
Sinister Bunny Rabbits Get A Place To Call Their Own At Cellar Door I Can Finally Quench My Thirst For Bloodthirsty Humanoid War Pigs. Awesome. Jessica DuVerneay has a definite idea of what Cellar Door Gifts & Gallery should and should not be.She has a master’s degree in [...] John Bear \ Nov 04, 2010 Read More “War Pig” by Malachai Mahboub (John Bear)
Write It On The Wall. Or The Burned-Out Husks Of Big American Cars. Whichever. A Place For People To Stop And Write I had the opportunity—or misfortune, depending on how you look at it—to visit the jewel of the Texas Panhandle: Amarillo. I was meeting [...] John Bear \ Nov 04, 2010 Read More Cadillac Ranch (John Bear)
516 Arts Brings The Ruckus To All You Rap Muthaf*Ckas 516 Arts Brings The Noise It was time to see; now it’s time to listen. STREET ARTS: A Celebration of Hip Hop Culture & Free Expression began in [...] John Bear \ Nov 04, 2010 Read More Poet Idris Goodwin and artist Chaz Bojorquez (516 ARTS)
Cuture Shock: Hitchcock Was And Still Is Creepy (And Is Being Shown In Hi-Def At The Kimo), Sartre’s “No Exit” At Theatre X The Fat Man Cometh: Hitchcock At The Kimo Halloween: spooky, creepy, blah, blah, blah.If you don’t have kids to take trick-or-treating and don’t feel like getting drunk, what to do can [...] Alibi \ Oct 28, 2010 Read More
Children’s Theater That Won’t Make You Want To Commit Ritual Seppuku Finally, Children’s Theater That Doesn’t Induce A Diabetic Coma Children’s theater gets a bad rap. It’s generally dismissed as saccharine and slightly awkward pap that serves little purpose beyond giving parents an [...] Christie Chisholm \ Oct 28, 2010 Read More
Why Does John Bear Hate The Official High Times Pot Smoker’s Activity Book? The Dumbest Book Ever: A Tirade Stupid books are everywhere. Most of them will end up in thrift stores, clogging the shelves, mindless filler between musty copies of Fahrenheit [...] Alibi \ Oct 21, 2010 Read More
Performance Review: Fleeing Attractions (The Only Victim Here Was Theater) Serial Killer Play Dies On Stage Aux Dog is a good little theater. It has heart, and the productions that come out of it are generally well-conceived and entertaining. [...] Christie Chisholm \ Oct 21, 2010 Read More “You see this shirt? It’s an exact replica of my insides.” (Auxiliary Dog Theatre)
Downtown Books. Shop There. Or Else. A Nondescript Building Houses Literary Treasures Independently owned book stores tend to be darker and more cavernous than their chain store counterparts. They are a source for used books [...] John Bear \ Oct 14, 2010 Read More A nondescript photograph of a nondescript building. They sell books on the right. (John Bear)