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Arts & Culture:
A few years after George Steiner penned an essay about Hitler's architect Albert Speer for the New Yorker and New Wave sellouts Spandau Ballet cracked the...
By Roberto Ontiveros
2/15/2012
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Arts & Culture:
When Juárez cartel gangster Jose Antonio "El Diego" Acosta Hernandez was arrested last summer he had an estimated 1,500 murders under his belt...
By Greg Harman
2/15/2012
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Arts & Culture:
"Who the hell is waking me up by ringing my fucking doorbell at 2:30 am? It must be Sunshine, but why doesn't she just use her key?
By Scott Andrews
2/15/2012
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Book Review:
Ever read a poem about a guy who emotionally abuses a mannequin and leaves her silicon heart broken in a dumpster? Me neither, and I've suffered through more than a few Ted Hughes tomes. But this scenario, beautifully rendered in Esther M. Garcia's haunting
By Roberto Ontiveros
2/15/2012
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Book Review:
Dagoberto Gilb's new collection, Before the End, After the Beginning, is filled with the strivers, drifters, and dreamers who inhabit the Southwest from Los Angeles to Austin...
By Scott Andrews
12/21/2011
Books:
“My art world friends really thought this project was misguided on my part,” said New York-based photographer Lindsay McCrum. “
By Scott Andrews
12/14/2011
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Book Review:
Hell, despite what Sartre, said about it being “other people,” is usually depicted as a lonely place
By Roberto Ontiveros
10/24/2011
Book Review:
Perhaps the reason The Exorcist is such a terrifying experience is because author William Peter Blatty wasn’t even trying to be scary.
By Enrique Lopetegui
10/26/2011
