Found Objects Hi, I’m Alisa, And I’m A Wordaholic In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley posits that “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” [...] Alisa Valdes \ Dec 20, 2018 Art Yours Truly, Yo
Free Will Astrology ARIES (March 21-April 19): Consumer Reports says that between 1975 and 2008, the average number of products for sale in a supermarket rose [...] Rob Brezsny \ Dec 20, 2018 Freewill
Year In Review: Arts & Lit 2018 In Art Imitating Life And Vice Versa Being really angry for the first part of the year—about all of the big stuff that in the broadest sweep is important to [...] Maggie Grimason \ Dec 20, 2018 Feature Still from Allyson Packer’s Liquid State at Vitrine this summer (Courtesy of Allyson Packer)
I Sing The Bus Electric Implementation, Technology And Art Electric buses purchased for the Albuquerque Rapid Transit project have been returned and a lawsuit initiated, and polluting diesel buses have now been [...] Winston Spencer \ Dec 20, 2018 News A BYD Electric Bus (Courtesy HDR)
Call For Public Art Westside Group Seeks Artists Are you an artist, or an aspiring artist, who would like a chance to have your work displayed publicly in Albuquerque? If so, [...] Alisa Valdes \ Dec 20, 2018 Art The West Central Community Development Group Seeks Artists to Design Streetlight Banners to Hang Along Route 66
Show Up!: Two Weeks’ Worth Half The Space, Twice The Shows I could not rightfully take off on any sort of dreamy few days away from this without telling you all about the next [...] August March \ Dec 20, 2018 Music Delphia and her Delphonic Orchestra (courtesy of the artist)
Year In Review: Film The Top 10 Films Of 2018 Why beat around the bush? There was a year. It had films in it. Many good (see below), many bad (see “Reel World”). [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Dec 20, 2018 Feature The Rider
Year In Review: Music Lo Que Fue En Burque In the year 2018, in the area where the Rio Grande swells into a broad swath of brown water, constantly cascading toward the [...] August March \ Dec 20, 2018 Feature Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd of The Flaming Lips (George Salisbury)
Baked Goods: Borderland Blues Too Much At Pecos Valley Production Las Cruces is at least two cities shoehorned into the same spot—like a drunken used car salesman trying to squeeze into his old [...] Joshua Lee \ Dec 20, 2018 Cannabis
Culture Shock: Our Own Colbert The City’s Top Comedian Now Has Her Own Talk Show This past weekend, Donald Trump watched a comedy skit parodying him on “Saturday Night Live” and grew dyspeptic enough (or was it despotic?) [...] Alisa Valdes \ Dec 20, 2018 Art Kendra Jean Brand, host of The New Mexican Inquisition and the city’s top comedian, interviews Zackary Quintero, President of Young Democrats of New Mexico (Eric Williams Photography)