When a theatre company has to rebuild, the temptation can be to try something easy: a show sure to sell tickets, but something not too risky. Surprisingly, Musical Theatre Southwest has gone for ambition instead, choosing to do “Damn Yankees,” a challenging musical that could have easily gone wrong.
Just before the Civil War started in 1861, camels roamed free in New Mexico, but it was only because the soldiers didn’t get along with them.
Local artists are playing telephone operator, connecting with each other all over town. Sarah Nall and the man called Stone co-created Les Artes Eclectic after the wave of art performance shows crashed last year, in part because these shows were hosted by galleries and relied on art sales to keep afloat.
Are you unimpressed by the general public’s take on art and what it is? If you’re on a self-improvement kick, or just want to become even more cultured than the shining beacon of culture you already are, know that the Albuquerque Museum of Art has free activities going on every third Thursday.
Morally ambiguous crime, black realism and sultry, dangerous women — all of it is coming to a theater near you. Starting July 14 the Guild Cinema will host its Festival of Film Noir, a two-week event crammed with double features about the grittiness of the Great Depression era.
The real benefit of drugs is not in the drugs themselves. It is a powerful epiphany that comes from changing perspective from a spoon-fed life into a personal one.
While his friends assured me his name was Chris, “Slade” was a man of carefully constructed parts. “Slade?” I repeated as I shook his hand, wondering if I had gotten it right. ‘Slade,’ confirmed the thick beard, thick flannel, thick black-rimmed glasses and thin smile.
The best children’s entertainment communicates greater truths in ways children understand and adults appreciate.
One month of summer gone! You’re wasting time! There’s so much music, so much of it is completely terrible. But you can relax, Daily Lobo is here to calmly lay down hits and highlights for July in the soft, soothing voice that only a mother can provide.
Living with people is hard, but necessary. Humans are social animals with family, friends, classmates, co-workers, acquaintances, enemies and lovers.Some of these relationships are beneficial and intentional. Others are the by-product of being a social animal who is seemingly unable to separate itself from the relationships that unfold as a result of being defined outside yourself.
The day before I arrived on the Flathead Indian Reservation of Western Montana, the small town of Charlo had its Mission Mountain Testicle Festival. “Can we not talk about it?” said Tim, one of the Christian biologists I met who worked on the Flathead Res. “It’s a bull!
Central Avenue, a piece of American and Albuquerque history, was known simply as Route 66. When Eric Szeman and Diane Avila, along with their son Andrew Szeman, established the Route 66 Malt Shop 15 years ago in Old Town, their goal was to give patrons a taste of that Route 66 of yesteryear. Now situated in Nob Hill just east of Carlisle Boulevard, Eric Szeman said the 1950s-themed shop has been their way of sharing a time when America was the leader of the world in every respect. “Kids I know are looking back,” Eric said.
What if Jesus Christ was born gay in modern day Texas, instead of all those centuries ago? Terrence McNally’s play, “Corpus Christi,” starts with this intriguing premise.
The words “Special Agent” may conjure images of James Bond’s Aston Martin zooming through the alleyways of a small Italian villa, but they’re not usually associated with park rangers. A new book from UNM Press will prompt some people to rethink their conception of National Park Service employees.
Skateboarders and longboarders are uniting to “bomb” Lomas Boulevard. Fear not, pedestrians and motorists, it’s not a massive explosion, but rather a speedy descent downhill. For its fifth celebration of International Go Skateboarding Day, Warehouse 508, sponsored by New Mexico Xtreme Sports, has arranged for Lomas Boulevard to be closed to traffic from Juan Tabo Boulevard to Los Altos Skate Park. There will be a shuttle taking skateboarders and longboarders from the skate park up to the starting point for free. At 4 p.m., hundreds of participants are expected to bomb down the hill all the way to the skate park. “Every city does something different for it,” said Eddie Vargas, NMX Sports director. “It’s just to provide awareness about skateboarding and that it’s a great way to stay active and you don’t need to be out there doing tricks — just kind of encouraging people to get out there and push on a board.” Everything at the event is free of charge, including admission to the skate park, barbecue, entertainment by DJ Flo-Fader, and skate contests.
Dustin Hoffman, famous for method acting, once famously said that when it comes to Shakespeare’s work, “you can’t improvise this shit.” Daring to prove him wrong, Blackout Theatre, in its all-new, late-night Improv show “Che-Kspeare: Improvised Shakespeare” manages to produce hilarity at its finest. Thous and thees and numerous other Elizabethan idioms are liberally sprinkled through the actors’ speech. All the hallmarks of classic Shakespeare are deftly made up on the spot.
(Sonny) Reynaldo Rivera is a local sculptor and native New Mexican whose work focuses on the rugged beauty of southwest culture.
The small hours are defined as the hours in the early morning when insomniacs and natural night owls go off duty, passing the baton to the early birds.
From the West Mesa to the East Mountains, Albuquerque has 30,000 acres of open space that people can survey, but the largest open space in the city is the night sky. Jodi Hedderig, manager of the Open Space Visitor Center, said the center provides information about these 30,000 acres and access to trails, gardens and wetlands.
Albuquerque will soon house the single largest collection of poetry in the U.S., if an Albuquerque-based poetry group’s plan works out. The group, Speak Easy , is working to build a collection of poetry to be placed in a library the group will construct.
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