mike smith
V.25 No.37 | 9/15/2016
Courtesy of Albuquerque Museum and City on the Edge
Culture Shock
The Revelatory Histories of City on the Edge
Searching for the grave of Demi Lovato's forebearers, and so much more
City on the Edge tells of history, not isolated in the past, but how it relates to where we are now.
V.25 No.25 | 6/23/2016
Bad Mouth
Culture Shock
A Bad Mouth and a Keen Heart
New reading series blends music and literature to illuminating effect
The event blends tonally aligned music, poetry, memoir and other media in a curated hour-or-so experience meant to elucidate each work through both contrast and facsimile.
V.23 No.26 | 6/26/2014
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Arts Feature
“Be as Weird as You Want”
Enchantment brings Burning Man to New Mexico (more or less)
New Mexicans finally have a chance to participate in a Burning Man event close to home.
V.23 No.18 | 5/1/2014
Book Review
Short on Story
Education in Albuquerque
Education in Albuquerque casts light on a neglected corner of city history—but does it make the grade?
V.23 No.17 | 4/24/2014
Lisa Barrios • flickr.com/marigoldz
Arts Feature
The Words of the Prophets are Written on Arroyo Walls
Albuquerque's spray-can psychogeography
Love graffiti or hate it, a map of a city of the unseen awaits you on Albuquerque’s streets.
V.23 No.11 | 3/13/2014
Eric Williams ericwphoto.com
Arts Feature
Resisting Suicide; Using Semicolons
How the right punctuation could save lives
Don’t put a period on the end of your life, says the Semicolon Tattoo Project, now in its second year of encouraging public conversations about suicide and self-harm.
V.23 No.7 | 2/13/2014
Book Review
How It Begins
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
WWI started because the Emperor of Austria-Hungary was assassinated by a man who may have been part of a Serbian conspiracy, right? A new book shows that this explanation is so basic it’s just wrong.
V.22 No.50 | 12/12/2013
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Art Scenester
This Wall Has Your Number
Al Hurricane paint-by-numbers mural comes to Barelas
The Tannex’s south side now features the beginnings of a new mural. And the mural needs you to finish it.
V.22 No.49 | 12/5/2013
Arts Feature
Knowing Your Enemies ...
In the War on Christmas
This … this is war! No! No! Oh no! A Christmas war! We’re in a war! A very special Christmas war.
V.22 No.45 | 11/7/2013
courtesy of Quivira Coalition
Arts Feature
Adaptation and the Environmental Beat
Poet-activist Gary Snyder lands in Albuquerque
At the Inspiring Adaptation conference, Gary Snyder explores land ethics as only a Pulitzer-winning poet could do.
V.22 No.42 | 10/17/2013
Arts Feature
Something Seriously Weird this Way Comes
Bewitching III brings an October feeling to Stranger Factory
Stranger Factory’s Halloween-themed show delivers the delightfully grim and the weirdly whimsical.
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Last Month in Music
Last Month in Music: September 2013
Author Mike Smith muses on connection, chaos and, of course, live music.
V.22 No.40 | 10/3/2013
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New Mexico News
New Mexico News: Late September 2013
Inspired by Félix Fénéon's Novels in Three Lines, this feature presents news from New Mexico, briefly, written by author Mike Smith and illustrated by ¡Brapola!
V.22 No.38 | 9/19/2013
Arts Feature
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
Author Eric Schlosser on the aging stockpile of nuclear weapons stored right here, in our city, where we live.
V.22 No.36 | 9/5/2013
New Mexico News
New Mexico News: Late August 2013
Inspired by Félix Fénéon's Novels in Three Lines, this feature presents news from New Mexico, briefly, written by author Mike Smith and illustrated by ¡Brapola!
