Culture Shock: Mysteries Of Identity Super Sleuthin' With The Diy Pi Jessamyn Lovell When she strolls into the coffee shop, Jessamyn Lovell looks unassuming enough. She bumps into a friend, then cozies up to the bar [...] Maggie Grimason \ May 11, 2017 Read More (Zac Beher)
Book Review: Sunshine State Sarah Gerard's Dark Evocations Of The Sunshine State Florida box turtles and Florida raves, subdivision sprawl and seacoast gulls spread like the longview of a Golf Coast horizon across the 300 [...] Maggie Grimason \ May 11, 2017 Read More
Culture Shock: Bridging Worlds Women Across Borders Aims To Create Connection And Awareness Through Art “There are always different avenues … everyone has different ways to contribute, art is just my own,” Jodie Herrera said as we sat [...] Maggie Grimason \ May 04, 2017 Read More "Golden," a semi-photo realistic portrait incorporating woodcut designs (Jodie Herrera)
Culture Shock: Lessons In Rezilience Community-Building Festival Returns For Year Two “There’s all these awesome things happening in our communities,” Warren Montoya said. “And people within our communities are the ones making them happen. [...] Maggie Grimason \ Apr 27, 2017 Read More Renata Yazzie will perform at this year's Rezilience Voice concert (courtesy of the artist)
Steam Genius: Rivals Of Aether Take one look at Dan Fornace’s Rivals of Aether, and you will understand the man’s passion for competitive fighting games. Emerging from Fornace’s [...] Desmond Fox \ Apr 27, 2017 Read More
Culture Shock: Where Language Fails The Role Of The Arts At Unm's Decolonizing Nature Conference “Art is not necessarily a thing,” Jeanette Hart-Mann began. We sat looking out toward the cubed concrete buildings of UNM’s campus from above [...] Maggie Grimason \ Apr 20, 2017 Read More Virginia Colwell’s “Goodbye to All of That” will be on display as part of the exhibition opening in conjunction with the conference. (Virginia Colwell)
Running With The Hunted Field Dressing At Tricklock The stage is set like this: Upstage center there is a piano, a synthesizer and six paper airplanes hung on the wall, a [...] Maggie Grimason \ Apr 20, 2017 Read More
Culture Shock: Stranger In A Strange Land Shing Yin Khor Brings An Outer Space Apothecary To Old Earth The antique Edison bulb flared in the rebuilt wooden gashapon as I cranked the lever. One turn, and a fortune, as divined by [...] Maggie Grimason \ Apr 13, 2017 Read More (Shing Yin Khor)
Culture Shock: Spacefaring From A Leftover Lot Ellen Babcock Takes Her Work To Off Lomas Ellen Babcock showed me the video from the small screen of her cellphone. Sparklers flared along the edges of a six-foot spaceship in [...] Maggie Grimason \ Apr 06, 2017 Read More (Eric Williams)
Culture Shock: The Truth Is In The Text Talking Breakups, Dogs And Happiness With Augusten Burroughs As I was waiting for Augusten Burroughs to call for our scheduled phone interview I took off my shoes and climbed under the [...] Maggie Grimason \ Mar 30, 2017 Read More Author Augusten Burroughs visits Albuquerque on April 6 (Christopher Schelling)