Arts & Culture: 'Ladmo' with Bryan Konefsky
By Brian C. Nixon | Jan 12, 2025
When I moved from Southern California to New Mexico, I picked up a flyer that read “Experiments in Film.” I was intrigued. The host was Basement Films.
Arts & Culture: Paisley Rekdal’s Poems of Translation
By Brian C. Nixon | Jan 3, 2025
In one hand I have the article A Movable Peace—from the newspaper Pasatiempo—extoling the joy of riding Sky Railway, a train venture partially funded by George R.R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones.
Arts & Culture: Julia Lambright—A Light in the Desert
By Brian C. Nixon | Dec 19, 2024
Walking into the Norbertine Abbey in Albuquerque’s South Valley for an art exhibit a few years back, I was smitten by a small icon.
Arts & Culture: Albuquerque in Three Songs
By Brian C. Nixon | Dec 3, 2024
When it comes to popular music, Albuquerque is well represented. From Weird Al Yankovic to Albuquerque’ own, The Shins, Albuquerque is sung about with humor, hubris, and honor. A cursory Google check shows over twenty songs with Albuquerque in the name or within the lyrics.
Arts & Culture: Purgatory in New Mexico
By Brian C. Nixon | Nov 22, 2024
Purgatory may not be something all people believe in, but to Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, Mexican actress Lupe Vélez, indigenous interpreter La Malinche, and La Llorna, a fictitious, forlorn woman, the intermediate state between life and death comes to life in Living Purgatory, a play penned by Patricia Crespin and directed by Alicia Lueras Maldonado.
Arts & Culture: Voices From the Other Side of the Tracks
By Brian C. Nixon | Nov 19, 2024
History barely remembers Asa Whitney, Theodore Judah, and Lewis Clement, or the thousands of other Americans—Native, Chinese, Irish, Italian, German, Japanese and African—who helped build the first transcontinental railroad.
