With 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.
Filming 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.
Normally, 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.
“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.
Nature 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.
Albuquerque 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.
Students 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.
Actors are going medieval — well, Elizabethan — on “Pulp Fiction” with the aid of Shakespeare. The Hermes Theatre company is producing “Classic Pulp Fiction,” a play based on the 1994 Quentin Tarantino film, but with a sixteenth-century setting and Shakespearean language.
Aspiring astronaut Zach Gallegos is one step closer to his dream, but 57.4 million miles away from attaining it. Zach Gallegos, an Earth and Planetary Science graduate student, said he was recently promoted to the third round of selected applicants for the Mars One mission.
One small-town New Mexico business is rising from the ashes of adversity by combining several local southwest businesses in one store. The Jerky Store closed in December after its supplier, Sunset Foods Jerky Processing Plant, burned down. Beatrice Aragon, Jerky Store owner said closing the Bosque Farms store cost her about $40,000 a month.
Many UNM students find skateboarding to be a quick and easy way to get around campus. Bryce Yazzie, a freshman chemical engineering major, shows us how to get started. As always don’t forget to wear protective gear.
As students approach the home stretch of the semester, a nice distraction can go a long way in alleviating stress, especially when that distraction is free.
Not a long time ago, or even in a galaxy far, far away, the Student Activities Center organized a Star Wars Day event on campus. The event, dubbed “Revenge of the Sixth,” is in its fourth year at UNM.
A rare art form is being rolled out, put under pressure and hung out to dry at the Tamarind Institute across the street from UNM. The Tamarind Institute, along with UNM’s Fine Arts Department, is reviving the art of stone lithography while teaching the importance of collaboration.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a million. Allan Stone, senior art studio major, shows us how to share a video by uploading it to YouTube.com.
It took 11 months of toil in Popejoy Hall, but for four UNM students, putting out their debut album ‘do it yourself’-style was worth it. Great States frontman and guitarist Morgan Ching said the process started during finals week of May 2013 and finished in January of this year.
The restaurant business is one of close margins, where even small increases in costs can make the difference between success and failure. This makes the industry ground zero for the debate over an increase in the minimum wage.
Students marched around Johnson field all night Friday to raise money for cancer research. Relay for Life is an overnight event meant to emphasize that cancer never sleeps. Participants circled the field for twelve hours to simulate the exhausting process of enduring cancer’s ‘road to recovery.’
When you walk out of “Night and Day,” you’re going to be asking yourself, “What the hell did I just watch?” But the real question is whether or not that’s a good thing.
Thousands of Native Americans traveled great distances to celebrate and preserve their various cultures at last weekend’s Gathering of Nations.
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