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Nicole Perez | April 16The bodily freedom that comes with wearing shorts, sundresses and tank tops is unbeatable. Match that freedom with this week’s freebies.
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An attempt at animal art
Antonio Sanchez | April 11Graduate student Christos Galanis looked out into the courtyard of the Art Building Wednesday afternoon at where his newly abandoned temporary home stood.
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Local, organic lingerie line aims to inspire confidence
Nicole Perez | April 11Twenty-one-year-old Liesse Jones said that when she tells men she owns a lingerie fashion line, they can’t stop asking about it.
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Utopias bloom in the everyday
Justin Brough | April 11To UNM student Emily Vosburgh, utopias aren’t an abstraction — they can be found in a leaning spruce tree, the gravel by the side of the road or the cement surrounding trees.
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Drugs, profanity drive comedy
Graham Gentz | April 9We need to start here. Yes, this play is called “The Motherfucker with the Hat.” You can giggle about it, too, if you like.
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The Weekly Free
Nicole Perez | April 9Spring fever is upon us. The feet start twitching and the hips start shakin’ and the allergies attack your sinuses. Spent all your money on antihistamines and tissues? Find relief with this week’s freebies.
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For Your Ears
Antonio Sanchez | April 4If hip-hop isn’t your thing, the alternative rock of Thao & The Get Down Stay Down and Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside might be right up your alley.
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Atmospheric tunes transcend design
Annie Swift | April 2Listening to music with no beat or lyrics might not be for everyone, but it certainly is an experience. On Monday evening I attended a show at Synchro Studio, where several local musicians performed innovative, ambient music.
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Poe show builds horror slowly
Graham Gentz | April 2Blackout Theatre is a bit like Pixar. The theater company brims with creativity, originality and energy, and produces the kind of work that makes similar companies shake their heads in wonder at each apparently perfect production.
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The Weekly Free
Nicole Perez | April 2If you lost all your money to the Easter hare or you’re splurging on everything you gave up for Lent, then the Weekly Free is here with some freebies for all you jokesters.
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Canvas is blank as his mind
Helen of Troy | April 1One UNM student has been sitting in front of a stretch-cotton canvas for five years without making a single mark, but he insists he will graduate soon.
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New York gallery vies for mediocre sculptor
Helen Storey | April 1Upon receiving the résumé of UNM sculpture student Fernanda Montoya, an art gallery in New York immediately contacted her to offer her a position Thursday.
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Bulls and Blood
Nicole Perez | March 28The hoof of a 1,500-pound bull narrowly missed rider Ben Jones’ cowboy hat as the bull butted into his upper arm. Jones doubled over on the stamped dirt as the bull was roped, and three sports-medicine technicians ran into the pen.
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‘Leaves of Grass’ comes alive
Justin Brough | March 28Historical re-enactor Bruce Noll hasn’t tired of impersonating poet Walt Whitman in the 43 years he’s been doing it.
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‘Venus’ exposes physically, mentally
Graham Gentz | March 26This is not your daddy’s theater. Bondage, dominance, submission and sadomasochism are the top layer of David Ives’ “Venus in Fur,” presented at the Aux Dog Theatre.
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Nicole Perez | March 26If you’re planning on spending all your money on fuzzy bunnies, cute puppies and chocolate this week, then start saving now with this week’s money-savers.
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Dance combines ant data, art
Nicole Perez | March 26Three UNM students were sick of analyzing graphs, watching PowerPoint presentations and reading scientific papers last semester. So instead, they decided to visualize scientific data through dance.
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Albuquerque Aerialist Collective twirls, drops and flies downtown
Celia McKinnon | March 21Many children dream of running away to the circus, but for members of the Albuquerque Aerialist Collective, the circus is just downtown.
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Allah-las hit Albuquerque after SXSW
Annie Swift | March 21I’ve never attended the famous music and film festival South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, but because of its proximity to Albuquerque, some of the bands stopped by Sister Bar on their way out.
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Joseph Campbell-inspired mythologists gather in Albuquerque
Antonio Sanchez | March 21People say there are some things they just don’t understand, but a group of local mythology buffs has found that many stories serve to explain the unexplainable in everyday life.
