Culture Shock: Anime Ignited Albuquerque's “Indigo Ignited” Bridges Worlds With Japanese Production “When a door closes in front of you,” David Pinter said matter-of-factly, “you have to be willing to kick it down.” And that’s [...] Maggie Grimason \ Feb 16, 2017 Read More (Samuel Dalton)
Steam Genius: Drooling Over Thumper You are a space beetle. Before you is a road, winding endlessly through the cosmos. On the horizon, an abstract form takes shape. [...] Desmond Fox \ Feb 16, 2017 Read More
Culture Shock: Strength In Fragility Our Glass Figures Examines Trauma Through Performance Though the coffee shop was busy with late afternoon bustle, Rhiannon Frasier unabashedly let tears well in her eyes as she talked about [...] Maggie Grimason \ Feb 09, 2017 Read More
Culture Shock: The Unsettling Of America Author Mark Sundeen Profiles Farmers On The Fringe In His Newest Book Mark Sundeen shared this example: “I hate the banks. I hate the way [they] engineered the collapse of the real estate market. Yet, [...] Maggie Grimason \ Feb 02, 2017 Read More (Kathleen Hensley)
Theater Review: Old Times Old Times Is Wrought With Glamour, Power And Darkness As hostile and cryptic as it is glamorous, FUSION’s production of Harold Pinter’s Old Times froths over with barely concealed tension. Brought to [...] Maggie Grimason \ Feb 02, 2017 Read More
Culture Shock: Translating Memory In Eight Languages New Book Series Explores The Stories Of Refugee Children “Many of us have been guilty of putting these people in a box—that this is what a refugee looks like, this is what [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jan 26, 2017 Read More (Zahra Marwan)
Culture Shock: Painting Soul Into The City Sign Painter Chad Lindsay Dusts Off An Ever Vibrant Art In winter and in fall, with eyes whipped into tears by spring winds or, later, shaded from the summer sun, I made the [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jan 19, 2017 Read More (Chad Danger Lindsay)
Fashion: Unbound From Borders Global Fashions Premiere In Albuquerque Founded in 2009, New Mexico Women’s Global Pathways (NMWGP) has become part of the bedrock that supports Albuquerque’s population of refugee families from [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jan 12, 2017 Read More World Fusion Wear (worldwideunderground.com)
Culture Shock: The Journey Into Self-Willed Lands Writer Sean Prentiss Searches For Edward Abbey And Home “It’s easier when you’re lonely to be lonely on the road,” Sean Prentiss writes in one of the first chapters of his New [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jan 12, 2017 Read More
Culture Shock: Substance In Decay Friends Of The Orphan Signs Re-Imagine The Abandoned Along Route 66 Lindsey Fromm made the same commute as usual down Central, the bus rocking to an occasional stop to let passengers on and off [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jan 05, 2017 Read More Friends of the Orphan Signs transform abandoned signs into art (Eric Williams Photography)