San Jose Taiko Popejoy Hall Taiko—the traditional Japanese drum—was once used by priests to repel evil spirits and insects from rice fields. Samurai used it to scare their [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Jan 26, 2006 Read More
Brazilian Guitar Quartet Simms Center For The Performing Arts This weekend, Chamber Music Albuquerque presents performances by four Brazilian masters of the guitar. The Brazilian Guitar Quartet perform classical pieces on several [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Jan 26, 2006 Read More
Culture Shock Write Side Up — You’d better rent yourself a cabin in the woods and finish off that masterpiece you keep telling everyone about. [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Jan 26, 2006 Read More
Nothing Like The Sun Sol Arts' True Believers Broadway's most profitable year in history was 2005. Here in Albuquerque, 2005 saw the first full year of Sol Arts' current, permanent location [...] Jim Phillips \ Jan 26, 2006 Read More
1,001 Ways To Kill The Novel If A Novel Dies In A Forest And No One Hears It, Does It Make A Sound? Every year, a writer of importance announces the death of the novel. In 2004, it was V.S. Naipaul standing over the novel's grave. [...] John Freeman \ Jan 19, 2006 Read More
Culture Shock Haul Out Your Easel and Head for the Hills—It's time for the Wildlands Art! 2006 exhibit and fundraiser. Create photographs, paintings, sculptures or [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Jan 19, 2006 Read More
Inopportune Site Santa Fe Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang is perhaps best known for his Project for Extraterrestrials, a series of work incorporating elaborate gunpowder explosions. An exhibit [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Jan 19, 2006 Read More
Would You Like Some Fries With Your Rhombus? The Collective At The Trillion Space Not many people can afford to buy an entire mural. Even if they could afford one, most people couldn't fit it into their [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Jan 19, 2006 Read More
The Personal Is Political Watercolor Women Opaque Men Ana Castillo (Curbstone, paper, $15) Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana Demetria Martinez (University of Oklahoma Press, paper, 14.95) Lilus [...] Lisa Lenard-Cook \ Jan 12, 2006 Read More
Culture Shock Q-Staff Workshop—The talented weirdoes of the Q-staff Company will begin hosting performance training workshops on the third Sunday of every month. The first [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Jan 12, 2006 Read More