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Marshmallow melee slays play
Graham Gentz | February 5How do you compensate for complete embarrassment? Why, with public humiliation, of course. Of other people, certainly.
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Nicole Perez | February 5Now that you’re free to tell all your controversial secrets online via UNM Confessions, you’re probably looking for even more freedom. It feels good, doesn’t it?
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BDSM and polyamorist communities alive and well in Albuquerque
Nicole Perez | January 31Two men dragged a screaming woman off the dance floor at Evolution Nightclub Saturday night, covered her mouth with a rag and bound her in the fetal position with green plastic wrap.
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Twin Suns Comics & Games sells action figures, video games on the West Side
Justin Brough | January 31A heated battle between a horde of green, plastic fanged beasts and figurine space marines found a home Saturday afternoon, wedged inside a room of comic books and card games.
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For Your Ears
Antonio Sanchez | January 31El Ten Eleven is a two-man instrumental band with the musical approach of a six- or seven-man band. Layers of guitars, bass, keyboards and drums crinkle throughout El Ten Eleven’s music.
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‘We are these nerds about toys’
Nicole Perez | January 30Today’s toys aren’t just marbles, jump rope and jacks: kids can now program solar-powered robots to navigate mazes, turn on the lights or get a snack from the fridge.
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Fashion Q&A
Antonio Sanchez | January 30“I feel like when it comes to fashion I love to mix-match patterns but combine colors. Since I am an arts major, colors just kind of speak to me in different ways.”
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Albuquerque gamers work 48-hours straight in Global Game Jam
Antonio Sanchez | January 29Empty energy drink bottles littered the halls of UNM’s Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media building Sunday night as a horde of bodies rushed from one room to another.
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Nicole Perez | January 29With the ASUNM and SFRB budget processes looming, we’re all reminded that nothing is free. Well, most things aren’t. The Daily Lobo searched the Interwebs for a few freebies for you to escape your budgeting woes.
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Peter White’s violin-making class teaches UNM students craft, music and tradition
Antonio Sanchez | January 24One week before spring classes started, Klarissa Petti sat in the corner of a classroom in the Communication and Journalism building, whittling away at her handmade cello.
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600 people attended the second Food Truck Rumble, every truck sold out
Megan Underwood | January 24A long line of people waited outside The Supper Truck Monday night, hungry for some po’ boys, hand-cut fries, and shrimp and grits.
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Crossing the border to teach
Antonio Sanchez | January 24Mexican police escorted seven crowded buses from Mexico’s border to Monterrey, one of Mexico’s most dangerous cities, on Jan. 3. The protected cargo? Student teachers.
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Local artists embrace Etsy
Nicole Perez | January 22New Mexico artists young and old are trading traditional gallery space for the virtual walls of the World Wide Web.
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Nicole Perez | January 22“Let freedom ring,” Martin Luther King Jr. said on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in one of the most famous speeches ever given. The Daily Lobo is taking that to heart, and so should you.
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Ice cream shop has pop roots
Megan Underwood | January 17A little boy ran into I Scream Ice Cream on Monday with a wide, toothless smile, looking for the owner. “Mister Bill! I got a new haircut, did you see?” he said. “Can I have a hot dog?”
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Theater fest flips old paradigms
Nicole Perez | January 17In 2002, Katy Houska was a UNM theater student bound for a “traditional” acting career, but the Tricklock Theatre Company’s Revolutions International Theatre Festival spurred a life change for her.
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Alvarado Urban Farm offers opportunity for volunteers to grow crops, customers to buy local produce
Antonio Sanchez | January 16Among Downtown’s concrete sidewalks and stucco buildings, Alvarado Urban Farm sticks out like a sore, green thumb.
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Fashion Q&A
Nicole Perez | January 16I try to mix as many colors as I can, but not too much; I try to get away from the standard black and gray. I try not to be super flamboyant, but I definitely don’t want to look like everyone else.
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Former Occupy protester serves up coffee, independent films at the “Fans of Film Cinema Cafe”
Megan Underwood | January 15The small stucco building at 504 Yale Blvd. S.E. once played host to the Albuquerque Occupy movement, a haven for protesters who cried out for more transparency on Wall Street.
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One-act plays reign in the Vortex Theatre’s production “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”
Nicole Perez | January 15UNM student and budding theater director Stephanie Grilo has come a long way since her first directing gig in high school, in which she didn’t even plan out the lighting before the performances.
