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SUMMER MUSIC

School is out, leaving unemployed music fans everywhere with nothing to blow off to go to a show. While live music is certainly less exciting when it’s not completely irresponsible for you to be there, it will still help curb the boredom of staring at your wall in the summer heat. JUN 6

For Your Ears

With finals coming up, everyone needs a study break regardless of whether they’ve actually been studying. APR 19

FIESTAS 2011

Editor’s Note: In the past, Fiestas brought artists such as the Flobots and the Shins. This year, we get Twista. APR 19

Gallery offers pretty ugly art

Apparently this really happened: During World War II, pinball machines in family restaurants exhorted players to “Kill The Jap.”
How ugly, indeed. The Que Feo exhibit is a collection of artwork previously displayed at the 105 Art Gallery and created by artists’ collective Vistas Latinas. APR 13

Keepin’ it classy

Don’t try to read the whole course catalogue – it’s waaaayyyyy too long, and you’ll get bogged down in a lot of classes with names like “Radiation
Oncology Physics” and “ST: NSMS GAANN.” Instead, let the Daily Lobo guide you through our entirely unscientific survey of the best classes at UNM. APR 13

Spray artists to give away art

Spray-can artists Joe Watson and Dan Langlois are on campus today to give students a free, one-of-a-kind piece of spray-paint art. Watson’s company, Artist Joe’s Spray Can Artists, tours the country producing 5-7-inch pieces of art, which will be available to students for free. The artists focus on landscapes and space pictures, Watson said. APR 12

Editor to focus on people behind stories

Chris Quintana, the Daily Lobo’s culture editor, will be the newspaper’s next editor-in-chief. The UNM Student Publications Board appointed Quintana Friday, and he will take over May 1. “I feel like I’ve been handed a big responsibility. APR 11

Bongo Ball to be a ballistic blast

Today, the battle will be fought in SUB Ballroom B.
Students in the SUB will participate in Bongo Ball Mania, a war game requiring participants to take cover behind large shields to avoid being shot by their fellow students. “Bongo Ball is a combination of paintball, laser tag and playing around with Nerf guns, more or less,” said Ryan Wooley, the marketing director for Student Special Events. Bongo Ball YouTube videos show a vicious war-simulation game where young men and women prepare for a military career by pretending to be deep in the middle of live-fire combat. MAR 29

Breaking binary gender code

Adrien Lawyer wants students to think of gender as a spectrum.
Lawyer, who gave a presentation titled “Transgender 101” at Scholes Hall, said the widespread concept of a gender binary — that is, boy/girl — does not reflect reality. “Some people don’t think they are just one of those,” he said. MAR 29

Grad student group suggests cutting admins, Athletics

A group of about 70 students, faculty and staff came together Wednesday to plan ways to force UNM’s administration to “focus on the University’s core academic mission.” Graduate Employees Together, or G.E.T., organized the meeting, which featured information on the University’s funding. The University’s tuition revenue has doubled in the last decade, because of tuition increases and a rise in enrollment, according to G.E.T. FEB 24

Breakdown of the bands

There’s a lot of metal to be had at the Battle of the Bands Finals. The Daily Lobo doesn’t want you to have to wander too far down the cavern to mine the good stuff, so we found the Launchpad’s poster for the show, fired up our Myspace (it still exists!) and listened to these bands. FEB 24

Milk-and-honey life suits farmer

Eric Rasband leads what you might call a simple life: He is the 27-year-old manager of Rasband Dairy in Belen. “There’s no days off over here. JAN 27

Get your band booked over break

Now that the semester’s over and we’ve all got some free time on our hands, we can start getting into things we meant to do, but couldn’t because of all that damn required reading. DEC 13

Skaters Sharpen up for show

Some things come only once a year: Harry Potter movies, Christmas and the Outpost Ice Arena’s Christmas Show. Student Krista Keay will skate in the show, and she said it attracts about 100 spectators every year. DEC 9

Hookah offers alternative nightlife for minors

Albuquerque has your hookah hookup.
Because of rave-like atmospheres with live DJs, Albuquerque has seen an explosion in the number of city hookah lounges, Bubble Lounge manager Ahmad Al-Qasem said. “We used to have a big line in here,” he said. DEC 2

Songs of Nominal variety

The first track on the Noms’ new EP, Choices, promises “Good, Good Times.”
The Noms deliver on this guarantee, but the album unfortunately doesn’t offer enough choices. The band provides enjoyable country-twinged indie rock in the vein of Ben Harper or Jack Johnson. OCT 20

Albuquerque band mixes melody and metal

Despite having a great name, I really didn’t think I was going to like Music is the Enemy. Take any random track from the band’s new CD, Mr. Murdoch … We’re Ready For Our Target Audience, and the first thing that assaults your ears is a wall of death-metal sound. SEP 23

Artist Ave: Jessie Hudson

Jessie Hudson is, by her own admission, obsessed with jellyfish. Hudson, a senior majoring in studio art, paints the creatures in a variety of styles, ranging from oil painting to comic-book-style printmaking. AUG 24

Meandering across Mexico

Editor’s Note: The following are excerpts from assistant culture editor Andrew Beale’s blog about his self-funded travels in Mexico. JUL 26

Daily Lobo Spotlight

Daily Lobo: So do you have an idea of what you want to study?
Pancho Orozco: Social work or anthropology. DL: How long have you played soccer for?
PO: Since I was little, with my friends. SEP 9

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