New Mexico Mercury

¡COLORES! January 16, 2015

Santa Fe dancer Adam McKinney shares how genealogy and memory fuel his performance. Twin brothers Eric and Anthony McGriff, a cellist and a violinist, reach beyond cultural issues to send an important message...

Play Illustrates Idealism vs Reality in American Corporatocracy

“What laws ever made men free?” Henry David Thoreau asks in The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, a thoughtful new production at the Adobe Theater in Albuquerque. If his question has more than a passing resemblance to the rhetoric of the Tea Party 170 years later, the parallels deserve close examination.

I have published a detailed review of this brilliantly acted and skillfully directed play on talkinbroadway.com and won’t repeat that here, but I do want to discuss further the idea of freedom that is the core of this play—and of much of the political debate in the U.S. today...

A Plethora of Papel Picado at NHCC

“Papel! Pico, Rico y Chico," currently on display at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, features a variety of paper artists innovating on this ancient artistic tradition.

El Machete: Charlie Hebdo

Charlie Hebdo

Mercury Poetry: The woods eat war and forget it

The metal jackets of bullets
rust in the dark river
beyond the weaving grass.

Lightning bugs rise up
in their landscape gaping
with old graves overgrown.

Tractor guts rot and ripped
up soil becomes nutritious...

Five Questions for New Mexico Authors – Benjamin Radford

This week we ask author, researcher, and editor Benjamin Radford about his new nonfiction work, Mysterious New Mexico: Miracles, Magic, and Monsters in the Land of Enchantment, published by the University of New Mexico Press. Radford is the deputy editor of the must-read Skeptical Inquirer science magazine.

New Mexico Mercury: I know you must be a skeptical inquirer yourself. But what first drew you to investigating old New Mexico mysteries like the haunted KiMo theater and the real-world crime scene of a serial killer on Albuquerque’s West Mesa?...

Alan Turing and the Fear of Difference

The Imitation Game brings Alan Turing's heart wrenching story to life and highlights our society's preoccupation with difference, even in the face of brilliance. 

Thank you

As the year comes to an end, the fate of immigration reform remains stuck in a bitter political impasse and faces an uncertain future. Nonetheless, there are many individuals and organizations here in New Mexico that are deeply committed to bridging the gap between the United States and Mexico. I would like to say a year-end thank you to three that I’ve worked with that are located in Santa Fe...

El Machete: Dino-Policy

Dino-Policy

“The Lines” - A review

Immensity of landscape and reflections of human order in New Mexico-based photographer Edward Ranney's new book of photos of the Nazca Lines. Illuminated with an essay by Lucy Lippard.