Curator Lance FungPossibly bionic, but noncommital on the role of emergency eyewash stations in the next biennial During one of his now-patented Rock n’ Roll flythroughs, Lance Fung blazed through town in the final week of August so quickly, and in such a torrential flurry of sneakers, eyeglasses, and raw art energy, it seems possible that a team of scientists may have bionicized him in an effort to create a better, faster, stronger, more exciting breed of curator.

If you read the August issue of the CCA schedule carefully, I mean so carefully that you even read the ad copy (does that make me sick?), then you will have noticed that the UBS blurb features not one but two instances of the generic nightmare [this city] while attempting to prove its allegiance to the Santa Fe community. So much for civic pride.

Masatomo Oto's costumes for TEA: A Mirror of SoulMostly good, except for sometimes OK. There’s a sword fight, drums made out of water, and a beautiful woman who sings upside-down. With assets like that, what could possibly go wrong with Tea: A Mirror of Soul, the Tan Dun opera which made its American premiere at the Santa Fe Opera for the 2008 season?