After winning last week’s battle of the bands, members of The Lymbs began preparation for their show at this Saturday’s Fiestas, where they will be opening for Breathe Carolina and several other artists.
After working at the University for 38 years, professor and interim dean of the College of Fine Arts James Linnell will ignite one last flame at this year’s annual Words Afire! Festival of New Plays.
Where can you speak to avid fans of cartoon shows in between a ramen-eating contest and a Japanese rock concert? Where else but Sabaku Con?
Band of Horses gives me mixed feelings. Seeing it in concert last week affirmed that, unfortunately. Don’t get me wrong — its unique brand of folk-indie-rock has warmed my being on multiple occasions.
Of the eight bands that competed at UNM’s seventh annual battle of the bands on Thursday, the winner almost didn’t perform. The Lymbs, which consists of guitarist/vocalist Gage Bickerstaff and drummer Jeff Bell, wasn’t initially in love with the idea of competing.
My introduction to improv came with the American version of “Whose Line is It Anyway?” a show that was so mind-blowingly funny to my small childhood brain at the time, it seemed beyond reproach.
The bodily freedom that comes with wearing shorts, sundresses and tank tops is unbeatable. Match that freedom with this week’s freebies.
Graduate student Christos Galanis looked out into the courtyard of the Art Building Wednesday afternoon at where his newly abandoned temporary home stood.
Twenty-one-year-old Liesse Jones said that when she tells men she owns a lingerie fashion line, they can’t stop asking about it.
To 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.
We need to start here. Yes, this play is called “The Motherfucker with the Hat.” You can giggle about it, too, if you like.
Spring 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.
If 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.
Listening 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.
Blackout 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.
If 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.
One 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.
Upon receiving the résumé of UNM sculpture student Fernanda Montoya, an art gallery in New York immediately contacted her to offer her a position Thursday.
The 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.
Historical 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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