Culture Shock: Art At The Border, Sweeney Todd And This Distance Makes Us Feel Closer. The Fine Unline A map of the world is not a puzzle. Its pieces don’t snap together and hold—they’re amorphous, they fluctuate, and they are transformed [...] Lisa Barrow \ Oct 17, 2013 Read More Adrian Esparza, Superstructure, from installation Vitrina de Colonias, 2013, serape, plywood, nails, 18 x 16 feet
Something Seriously Weird This Way Comes Bewitching Iii Brings An October Feeling To Stranger Factory There were years when the buildings sat empty—the buildings on the northwest corner of Carlisle and Central, at the otherwise vibrant center of [...] Mike Smith \ Oct 17, 2013 Read More
Get Lit: Historically Stating Joseph P. Sánchez · Robert L. Spude · Art Gómez(University of Oklahoma Press · hardcover · $26.95)Moving at a breakneck speed to accommodate [...] Lisa Barrow \ Oct 17, 2013 Read More
Get In On The Joke: Comedy Awareness Week Returns To Abq Comedy Awareness Week Returns To Abq On a hot Tuesday evening in early September, I joined a few local comics around a table at Blackbird Buvette before an open [...] Genevieve Mueller \ Oct 10, 2013 Read More Drew Wayne (Eric Williams ericwphoto.com)
Zombie Outbreak Won’t Lower Chile Prices: But It Will Spook The Bejesus Out Of You But It Will Spook The Bejesus Out Of You The scent of roasting chile grows faint as the trees of the Bosque surrender their final leaves. Nights grow longer, drier, colder. Fall [...] Jeremy Shattuck \ Oct 10, 2013 Read More When quarantine is unsuccessful (Blackout Theatre Company)
Holdin’ On In The Plastic World: Abq Zine Fest Creator Marya Errin Jones On Self-Publication, Little Ray Bradbury And Unlikely Alliances Abq Zine Fest Creator Marya Errin Jones On Self-Publication, Little Ray Bradbury And Unlikely Alliances If you hear a crescendoing machine hum echoing through the arroyos this week, don’t worry: It’s just Albuquerque’s zinesters revving their photocopiers into [...] Lisa Barrow \ Oct 03, 2013 Read More
Happy 21St Beerthday, Poetry And Beer! An Albuquerque Institution Ages Almost Gracefully A venerable Albuquerque performance event is finally of legal drinking age. For purely poetic reasons, Poetry and Beer has opted to celebrate its [...] Geoffrey Plant \ Oct 03, 2013 Read More Matthew John Conley at Poetry and Beer by Noel Franklin (courtesy of the artist)
The World Inside: Matchbook Photomontages Ignite Everyday Magic Matchbook Photomontages Ignite Everyday Magic Albuquerque photographer Margot A. Geist is turning matchboxes into works of art in her new exhibit, Discovering Fire: A Matchbox Series. On display [...] Kristi D. Lawrence \ Sep 26, 2013 Read More
An Artist’s Church: Fred Sturm And Logan Phillips Bring Artistic Ruminations To Chatter Sunday Fred Sturm And Logan Phillips Bring Artistic Ruminations To Chatter Sunday Sunday mornings have always been set aside for church, even for the people who organize and coordinate Chatter Sundays, the music-and-arts series that [...] Mark Lopez \ Sep 26, 2013 Read More Logan “Dirtyverbs” Phillips in action
We Are All Going To Die In A Fiery Nuclear Accident Fast Food Nation Author Eric Schlosser, His New Book Command And Control And Albuquerque’s Aging Nuclear Arsenal The first atomic bombs exploded in pillars of radioactive fire—near Socorro, in Hiroshima, in Nagasaki. The bombs’ fires died down, their radiation remained, [...] Mike Smith \ Sep 19, 2013 Read More