Author Interview An Interview With Best-Selling Author Haruki Murakami Some people have epiphanies in church, others atop mountains. Haruki Murakami‘s came on April 1, 1978, on the grassy knoll behind Jingu Baseball [...] John Freeman \ Dec 04, 2008 Read More Brilliantly strange books. Fairly normal man.
Culture Shock You cannot avoid art this week. I would even dare you to try, if I countenanced such things. This first weekend of December [...] Erin Adair-Hodges \ Dec 04, 2008 Read More
Art Preview Designer's Lounge Seeks To Become A Center For The Creative Crafting Community As a child, Teresa Romero didn’t have the patience to learn how to sew. Her mother, Patty Melvin, a self-described “old-school” seamstress, tried [...] Erin Adair-Hodges \ Dec 04, 2008 Read More Designer’s Lounge kicks Home Ec’s ass.
Belen’s Through The Flower Gallery Shows Maureen Burdock’s Feminist Graphic Novels When feminist graphic novelist Maureen Burdock says she “can take a bad situation and transmute it with humor and with grace,” she’s being [...] Lisa Lenard-Cook \ Nov 27, 2008 Read More Hear her roar!
Culture Shock As you’re reading this, you’re most likely somewhere in the process of dealing with food; preparing, digesting, hoarding or reheating. Giving thanks for [...] Erin Adair-Hodges \ Nov 27, 2008 Read More
Book Reviews Twelve Books For Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa Or Just ’Cuz This year’s compilation focuses exclusively on books with New Mexico connections. Unlike the stock market, each of these books provides a guaranteed return [...] Lisa Lenard-Cook \ Nov 20, 2008 Read More
Performance Preview Longtime New York Art Avengers Ready To Blow Some Ceilings In Albuquerque In the 23 years since the Guerilla Girls started a feminist revolution on the streets of Manhattan, members worked their way into the [...] Marisa Demarco \ Nov 20, 2008 Read More
Culture Shock Onward Writing this column is proving much more challenging than I anticipated. For the past three years, my life has been a whirlwind of [...] Amy Dalness \ Nov 20, 2008 Read More
Culture Shock Predicting The President-Elect Leading up to the Nov. 4 election, the Vortex Theatre hosted an evening of eight 10-minute plays by local playwrights called Electoral Dysfunction. [...] Amy Dalness \ Nov 13, 2008 Read More Gene Grant
Performance Review: All In The Timing At The Adobe Theatre All In The Timing At The Adobe Theatre Three monkeys in a cage with typewriters. Given an infinite timeline, would they write Shakespeare’s masterpiece Hamlet or just defecate on a pack [...] Michael Michalske \ Nov 13, 2008 Read More The work of David Ives at The Adobe Theatre (Ossy Werner)