The egomaniacal Kanye West constantly takes to his blog to call out music critics who don’t absolutely adore him, gets into altercations with paparazzi and has been known to bitch when he doesn’t get the award nominations he feels he deserves.

WEB EXTRA: A little chaos quickly becomes a lot, especially in the movies.

SFR Online: Sembene: Revolutionary Artist, a portrait of the Senegalese novelist and filmmaker Ousmane Sembene, co-written and produced by Santa Fean Jason Silverman was awarded a Sundance Institute Documentary Fund grant earlier this week.

Don Kimball is an animal-rights activist with Peace and Justice for Animals who has worked around the country since 1989 to protect animals

Joe West releases a CD for kids. Kinda.

Jeremy Bleich's diversity makes him the right music geek to compose the sound for Circus Luminous.

Shelley Hirsch has a way with words. Actually, the writer, singer, musician and performer has her way with words. Hirsch manipulates the boundaries of language and sound to create stories that encompass both the immediate surroundings and the larger world.

Massage therapist Norah Harris, who has been practicing the art of hot-stone massage for six years at Ten Thousand Waves, talks rocks with SFR.

Cory Murchy returns to Santa Fe and brings his ass-kicking band along for the ride. And the chile.

A semi-regular sonic round-up.