Culture Shock: So Juvenile What to do about teenagers? They ruin your couches, they smell weird and there’s lots of hugging. We older folk forget, perhaps intentionally, [...] Erin Adair-Hodges \ Sep 24, 2009 Read More
Downtown’s Go! Arts Festival Now in its eighth year, Downtown’s GO! Arts Festival is concerned, naturally, with the promotion of the arts. But perhaps even more important [...] Erin Adair-Hodges \ Sep 24, 2009 Read More
Culture Shock: Strings Attached Strings Attached I’ve been playing The Beatles: Rock Band nearly nonstop since it came out last week and have never been more pleased with technology [...] Erin Adair-Hodges \ Sep 17, 2009 Read More
Performance Review: “Now I Am Become Death, The Destroyer Of Worlds” The Love Song Of J. Robert Oppenheimer At the very least, Mother Road Theatre Company’s production of The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer is ambitious. Written by Carson Kreitzer, [...] Erin Adair-Hodges \ Sep 17, 2009 Read More Christopher Atwood as J. Robert Oppenheimer
Art News: Fair Art A Sampling Of Some Of The State Fair’s Greatest Artwork You may go to the 2009 New Mexico State Fair for the chance to eat a giant turkey leg with a fried Twinkie [...] Erin Adair-Hodges \ Sep 17, 2009 Read More Quilting and sewing winners (Erin Adair-Hodges and Sean McCullough)
We Art The People Folk Art Festival Several years ago, art therapist Janis Timm-Bottos was inspired when she learned about Depression-era “community art studios.” These studios were created in response [...] W. Jacob Divett \ Sep 10, 2009 Read More Puppets at rest.
Culture Shock: School’s In School’s In It’s important to try new things. I’m somewhat of an expert at this. I’ve tried seven art forms, six sports, five languages and [...] Erin Adair-Hodges \ Sep 10, 2009 Read More “Dawn Blossoms” by Wendell W. Unzicker
Art News: Where Art Is A Vocation Cnm’s Visual Individuals At Harwood Art Center Black Mountain College closed in 1957, and when the finances ran out, the faculty were paid in beef allotments from the cows roaming [...] David Leigh \ Sep 03, 2009 Read More Student Julia Lambright’s “Cryptic Sibyl”
Culture Shock: Listen And Learn When I was in college, I was paid by an installation artist to read mathematical proofs in a husky voice, the recording of [...] Erin Adair-Hodges \ Sep 03, 2009 Read More Listening to the landscape, part of The Very Rich Hours
Performance Preview Their Words, Not Mine Since its premiere in 1895, The Importance of Being Earnest has been produced by countless high schools and community theater groups, and now, [...] Erin Adair-Hodges \ Sep 03, 2009 Read More The Dolls speak the Queen’s English. (Russell Maynor)