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Frying tips
Steve “Mo” Fye | June 29Deep frying has the potential to be the most hazardous method of cooking used in the kitchen. Here are some tips for safe deep frying.
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Exhibit honors artists' vision
Moriah Carty | June 29A 24-mile nylon fence is the representation of two artists’ vision — a vision that is still being honored 38 years later. The Albuquerque Museum is hosting a three-part film series alongside the exhibition of the daring duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Tom Golden Collection, from now until mid-September. Elizabeth Becker, the Curator of Education at the Albuquerque Museum Foundation, said she is directing the film series, and calls their film a “human story,” because it relays the difficulties Christo and Jeanne-Claude overcame in order to construct the fence. “Each film is crafted so that it highlights the anger, the drama, the highs and lows on a grand scale,” Becker said. Great music and great shots create the drama and all three documentaries focus on the difficulties of each installment, she said. “They are very conscious of their environmental impact,” Becker said.
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Culture Q&A: An interview with Lou Ferrigno
Stephen Montoya | June 27Whether he’s picking up a car in a fit of green rage, or picking up some weights just to keep fit, Lou Ferrigno still has the inspiration of comic books close to his heart. Lou Ferrigno, an internationally famous and respected body builder, is best known for his portrayal of the Incredible Hulk in the 1977-1981 T.V series of the same name.
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Stegomastadon's final destination unknown
Katreena Kirkland | June 22News has traveled fast about the stegomastodon skull unearthed near Elephant Butte, but what no one knows yet is where the fossil will be displayed. Randall Gann, public information officer for the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, said the fossil has a long way to go before anyone can start thinking about its final home.
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Take a walk on the wild side of Albuquerque
Lauren Marvin | June 22The silhouette of a 147-foot-tall cottonwood stands high at the center of the city, ignored by people as they speed by on a day-to-day basis. The ABQ BioPark, in collaboration with Albuquerque Open Space Division, is re-introducing residents to this natural wonder with the Moonlight Bosque Hike.
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Long play hits hard issues the entire time
Graham Gentz | June 15It’s hard to talk about grief. It’s hard to write about grief. People talk in circles and denial runs as thick as herring roe. It often doesn’t make the most enticing dialogue either.
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Student chasing his dream of education
Katreena Kirkland | June 15A student traveled from the tropics of Africa to the bosque of Los Lunas to achieve his lifelong dream of obtaining an education. Nuhu Alhassan, a native of Ghana, said he is attending the University of New Mexico-Valencia Campus and is working toward his nursing degree. ____
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ACIDIC to play this year's Vans Warped Tour
Stephen Montoya | June 15This year’s Vans Warped Tour will feature a band that caters to audiences with an ACIDIC taste in music. ACIDIC, one of the new acts performing at this year’s Tour, has been building a reputation as the hardest working rock band from southern California, according to the band’s website.
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Lung transplant recipient singing with life
Lauren Marvin | June 15Musicians take inspiration from all sorts of places when making an album. For pianist Aaron Trumm, his came from his lungs — or rather, from someone else’s lungs. Trumm said he was born with cystic fibrosis and was referred for a lung transplant when he became ill in 2013. He was 38 years old with lungs at 18 percent capacity.
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Student wins 'Miss Klingon Empire' title
Stephen Montoya | June 8Bang’jaQ pulls her blade back with a sense of pride after slaying a giant saber bear — an act that ensures her mother’s place in Sto-Vo-Kor. Bang’jaQ isn’t real, though; she’s the original persona of Cree Myers, winner of this year’s Miss Klingon Empire Beauty Pageant, an event held annually in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Latin American artwork highlighted by Art Museum
Tomas Lujan | June 8A rich and diverse culture of photographers is being shown political reverence for the first time in many years. Starting June 9, Oscar Muñoz’s “Biographías” as well as the “Luz Restirada” collection from the UNM Art Museum’s private inventory will be featured, free to the public, all summer long.
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Fusion Theatre delivers expertise with 'The Seven'
Graham Gentz | June 8There is a lot of damn theatre in Albuquerque. More than 40 theatre organizations belong to the Albuquerque Theatre Guild. Not bad for a city with a population just under a million. Most of this is “community theatre,” where locals volunteer for little or no money.
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Comic company creates community
Tomas Lujan | June 1A local publishing company is moving forward by going back to 7000 B.C. 7000 B.C., a non-profit organization based in northern New Mexico, is working to keep a sense of wonder alive by providing local comic book creators, writers and artists opportunities to develop their own styles of storytelling while promoting the cultural significance of comic art.
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Non-profit supports poverty-stricken
Lauren Marvin | June 1With no roof over his head nor a family to support him, a desperate man seeks refuge in alcohol with the last five bucks in his pocket. Jose Martinez, once a homeless man, said he carried around a 7-Eleven Big Gulp cup filled with alcohol as he wandered Central with the wish to attend UNM, back when that seemed, at best, a distant dream.
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'Breaking Bad' pilgrimage: A virtual tour of the hit show
Tomas Lujan | May 25Filming of the “Breaking Bad” spinoff, “Better Call Saul” began in Albuquerque last week. In honor of the show and its award-winning predecessor, chase the ghost of Heisenberg and take a do-it-yourself “Breaking Bad” tour, from Heisenberg’s house to Jesse’s home and, of course, Saul Goodman’s office.
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Review: Sci-fi play has strong script, mediocre acting
Graham Gentz | May 25Normally, the Adobe theatre is bursting at the seams when they put on shows. But this time the house was utterly desolate; deader than disco. Dead for an actual science fiction play.
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Kids get therapy through horses
Stephen Montoya | May 25“I go home every night on this huge high … I just feel like the luckiest person in the world to come out here and work with these amazing people,” said Karen Molony. Molony, an instructor at Cloud Dancers Therapeutic Horsemanship Program, said she started volunteering 10 years ago and loved helping special needs children so much that she quickly became an instructor.
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Albuquerque grasshopper plague normal
Lauren Marvin | May 25Nature is calling, but it’s not the chirping of the birds or the swooshing of the trees. This year, it’s the call of grasshoppers. There’s nothing to worry about, though — this is a pretty regular occurrence, according to Dr. David Lightfoot, associate research professor of biology and senior collection manager for the Museum of Southwestern Biology. The sudden abundance of grasshoppers is a result of the heavy rain last fall and a mild winter, which caused a high survival rate, he said. “It’s typically about every five to 10 years (that) the weather conditions will be just right so there will be a big population of these, so it’s not that unusual,” Lightfoot said. The grasshoppers’ prosperity will also be short-lived, he said. “It’s a real temporary thing,” Lightfoot said.
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Look back at ABQ theater highlights
Graham Gentz | May 11Albuquerque theatre and the Daily Lobo have taken another turn around the globe. There has been a lot of senseless tripe, such as the tasteless gall of producing “Cats” of all things, but also some wonderful and amazing productions that I feel utterly blessed to have been able to see and write about.
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Students de-stress by slacking
Tomas Lujan | May 11Students are de-stressing before finals the best way they know how: by slacking. The slackline community at UNM — or Slackers, as they like to be called — is a small group based on campus that meets nearly every day to relax and try their hand at balancing on a rope, known as a slickline, tied between trees.
