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.
Walking in someone else’s shoes is hard and dancing in another’s shoes is even harder, but it’s nearly impossible to do either when that person can’t afford to buy those shoes. The New Mexico Ballet Company is trying to help dancers with the cost of their shoes and other supplies with the Dancers Relief Fund Showcase on Saturday.
Changing the guitar strings on a guitar can be intimidating for someone who has never been shown how to do so. Deo Nevarez, an employee of Marc’s Guitar Center, demonstrates how stringing a guitar can easily be accomplished on a nylon-string acoustic guitar.
UNM’s 6th Annual Sustainability Expo and Lobo Growers Market will be held today at the Cornell Mall in front of the SUB. The expo, which runs from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., is held each year to give students the opportunity to learn about sustainable initiatives on campus and in the community
People are empty, shallow terrified animals and, apparently, I’m not the only person who thinks so. Playwright Neil LaBute is a fascinating artist. He writes and directs movies as diverse as the delightful black comedy “Nurse Betty” to the Nic Cage’s “Wicker Man.”
For siblings Matt and Grace Rolland, music had been a part of their family long before they were born. As fiddler and cellist, respectively, for the Tucson-based band “Run Boy Run,” the two said they are the latest in a long line of respected musicians.
Cornrow braids are one of the oldest hairstyles, worn predominantly in African cultures dating as far back as 3500 BCE, and are still worn today in many different styles by many cultures across the world.
The seeds of an ancient tradition are sprouting at the Albuquerque Botanic Garden and BioPark. Out of respect for the mythical practice of curanderismo, the BioPark has devoted an entire section of its grounds to growing the plants that have been vital to this ritual of natural healing.
Gold House offers inviting venue for local musicans Gold House is primarily a collaborative artist living space, said Tyson Ryder, a senior creative writing major. In the eight years since it began, Gold House has showcased a variety of musicians from all genres, he said.
Kai’s Chinese Restaurant isn’t much to look at. It doesn’t have fancy tables or impressive décor. That’s not why people go to a place like Kai’s, though. People go to Kai’s because, for the last decade or so, the restaurant has been serving terrific food at even better prices.
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