Culture Shock: A Homecoming For The Imagination Sandra Cisneros Revisits The House On Mango Street Through Exhibition At The Nhcc It’s July 11 and it’s Elvira Cisneros’ birthday, the mother of writer Sandra Cisneros. When Sandra answers my phone call she is surprised. [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jul 21, 2016 Read More (Vincent Valdez)
Get Lit: Cult Decay The Death Of Idealism In The Girls Richly and precisely written straight from the “twitching rabbit heart” of Evie Boyd, a 14-year-old desperately searching for affirmation in the summer of [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jul 21, 2016 Read More
Arts Interview Sidebar: Lost And Found In The Desert Triangle Across the table, Karl Whitaker opened his tablet and hovered it over the catalog of prints from Desert Triangle, a traveling exhibit he [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jul 14, 2016 Read More
Culture Shock: Dissecting The Muse Making Muses Presents The Many Faces Of Those Who Inspire In my own casual way—as easy as lifting my phone and tapping the screen—I photograph the same people all the time—my boyfriend at [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jul 14, 2016 Read More (Charlotte Strode)
Culture Shock: The Library The Albuquerque And Bernalillo County Public Library's Departure From The Everyday During meager times in Baltimore I quickly came to understand with little abstraction that nothing is free in this world—not even a place [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jul 07, 2016 Read More (Eric Williams)
Culture Shock: Priscilla Queen Of The Desert Priscilla Queen Of The Desert Is Everything That Sparkles And Mesmerizes, Including Love In a parade of sequins, feathers and fringe, the titular bus—yes, she is christened “Priscilla”—makes its way through the Australian outback toward the [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 30, 2016 Read More Chris Wright, Nicholas Handley and Phillip Arran (Russel Maynor)
Arts Interview: Museo De La Basura Working along a single stretch of coast in Mexico’s Sian Ka’an refuge and world heritage site, installation artist and photographer Alejandro Durán identifies [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 30, 2016 Read More (Alejandro Durán)
Theater Review: 12 Angry Jurors 12 Angry Jurors At Aux Dog Theatre Challenges Our Constructs Of Justice Amid a single set that accurately mimics the claustrophobia of a jury room, 12 jurors decide the fate of one young man who [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 23, 2016 Read More (Russell Maynor)
Culture Shock: A Bad Mouth And A Keen Heart New Reading Series Blends Music And Literature To Illuminating Effect “We know that if we want the cool thing, we have to make it,” Erin Adair-Hodges explained from across the table where we [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 23, 2016 Read More In Order: Mike Smith, Erin Adair-Hodges & Marty Crandall (Bad Mouth)
Get Lit: Last Life And Life As We Know It The Reactive Plunges Into A Culture's Shadows “We aren’t wealthy, Nathi, but we aren’t prisoners,” the lead character’s uncle in Masande Ntshanga’s debut novel, The Reactive, tells him. Lindanathi, who [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 16, 2016 Read More