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Know Your DJs II
The Subway Sessions is a new night of hip-hop and house music every Friday at The Underground that features DJs King George and Ché. Moving in and out of hip-hop and house makes for a unique style, and does wonders for a town full of people aching to dance.
Chi Dog Versus Chi Dog
The hot dog is the lowest form of sausage. So one has to ask, is it a back-handed compliment to suggest that Santa Fe turns out a better Chicago Dog than Chicago itself?
Break It Down
A partial list of things destroyed in Roland Emmerich’s majestically shameless end-of-the-world movie 2012: The curator of the Louvre (non-accidental Parisian-tunnel car wreck). Mayan calendar cultists. The entire Los Angeles freeway system (ibid). The city of Los Angeles proper. And that's just the beginning.
Slaughterhouse 505
A lot of people are up in arms, having recently realized, through Jonathan Safran Foer’s book, Eating Animals, that factory-farmed meat is the nastiest possible activity. But hough Safran Foer himself is a committed vegetarian, he’s too well-informed to paint all meat production and eating with the same brush.
Cold Snack!
The dark, chilly days of winter and the often attendant desire to remain inside belong to those of us who know that settling in with a good book or staying in bed are the best plans. Of course, those leisurely, lingering activities come with a de facto pit stop: the indulgent break for needed sustenance, the winter snack.
Free is Too Much
My first foray into the Gordon Free Band’s music came when I discovered a copy of its album, SuperConscious, lying around SFR’s office. Curious, I popped it on to get a taste. I cued the CD to a track titled “Revolution (Obama Radio Edit)” to see what an Obama radio edit might possibly be.
The Silent Types
Graphite on Paper, the two-person show at James Kelly Contemporary, delivers on its promise, though the ratio of paper-to-graphite is strikingly disproportionate. The artists, Susan York and Wes Mills, each employ a restrained approach to mark making, but the similarities end there.
Present Tense
In her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood describes a future in which humanity has all but obliterated itself through scientific hubris and indifference to the environment. SFR spoke with Atwood by phone from her hotel room in Chicago.
Tired telepathy
On paper, The Men Who Stare at Goats sounds like a winner. As Bill Django, Jeff Bridges revisits his The Big Lebowski Dude persona to play a love-bead-draped, bearded, über-groovy alt.soldier who believes psychic communication and dancing can win hearts and minds better than guns and bombs.
The Big Loud Wolf
Following warnings from Santa Fe police, the Meow Wolf collective has scaled back the number of shows it puts on. For some, this is an opportunity to focus more on its visual offerings. For others (namely me and anyone who gets excited about hearing original music), this is a huge blow to the music scene.
