While a number of folk acts have risen quickly to fame in the past few years, Okkervil River gained their audience at a steady rate since 1999. This act continues to plug along with new songs that have added a healthy twinge of Bruce Springsteen to their usual folk flair.
Student Vanely Salinas said she never had the opportunity to ask her mother for help with her homework. Salinas, an undocumented student who has plans on being the first in her family to graduate from college, said her mother stopped attending school after second grade.
As far as gateway melodic death metal bands go, Children of Bodom is a great introduction for those unaccustomed to the genre. This five-man group from Finland toe the line of accessibility well, knowing when the time is right for head-banging screeching vocals or for a soaring guitar solo.
On the weekend of Dec. 14, 2013, National Institute of Flamenco Director Eva Encinias-Sandoval watched over a studio recital of 320 students. A few days later, 40-foot flames engulfed the institute’s studios and conservatory, destroying 15 years of archived files, computers and about 1500 costumes.
UNM student James Long, a biochemistry major, opened last semester taking 16 credit hours at UNM while working as a server at Applebee’s. By the end of the fall semester, Long’s grades dropped. He quit his job, and he lost his Legislative Lottery Scholarship.
Freshman Rebekah Bibb is no stranger to moving. Raised in an Army family with four other siblings, Bibb lived in Virginia, Alabama, Washington, Oregon and several towns in New Mexico before her moved to Santa Fe, just in time for her to enter kindergarten.
Sometimes bands like to jump right to the point with their name — and contemporary American emo bands are no exception. While not as over-the-top as artists like The World is a Beautiful Place and I’m No Longer Afraid to Die, Orlando natives You Blew It! have found a crossroads among self loathing, shouting vocals and twinkling melodies.
From 2009 to 2011, Cravin’ Cookies…and More! dominated the Weekly Alibi’s “Best Cookie in ‘Burque” contest before losing the title last year.
Aaron Carter, American teen icon of the early 2000s, will grace the stage this month during his first tour in eight years, the After Party tour. Here’s hoping Carter will perform such timeless classics as “Aaron’s Party (Come Get It),” “Bounce” and “That’s How I Beat Shaq.
Using a thread and needle, UNMH nurse Loryn Udell has drawn from her interest in American monsters and folklore and crafted a monster — rather, a plush toy of Doctor Frankenstein’s monster.
Sally-Alice Thompson strums her guitar outside the University Bookstore Thursday afternoon, supporting a number of protesters rallying against a war between the U.S. and Syria. Thompson, a World War II Navy veteran and retired elementary teacher, said the U.S. military should stay out of conflict in the Middle East. “I think we’ve wasted enough lives, enough money, enough petroleum for nothing — it’s time to quit,” Thompson said. Thursday’s rally was one of many for Thompson, who has been involved with Veterans for Peace for the past 20 years. Thompson said her interest in protests began years after retiring as an elementary school teacher. “My husband and I both had a transition from going along with everything the government did to realizing we have to oppose a lot of things the government does,” she said.
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