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Thou Art Dust
Nicole Perez | February 14The archbishop of Santa Fe removed his ornate gold cross — given to him by Pope Benedict XVI — before stepping through a full-body metal detector.
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Fashion Q&A
Nicole Perez | February 13“I definitely dress for comfort. I guess I’m into color too, so a mixture of that. But other than that, fashion’s kind of like art
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Local gardener Lloyd Kreitzer grows and distributes homegrown fig trees
Antonio Sanchez | February 13Lloyd Kreitzer was 4 years old when he first climbed a fig tree. The tree’s limbs hung low and Kreitzer shambled his way to the top, where he took a bite from the sweet, ripe fruit and immediately fell in love.
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Chekhov’s ‘The Seagull’ distant in translation
Graham Gentz | February 12Anton Chekhov is one of the big, bad playwrights — the ones with the proper names that swing around some weight. He’s part of a staggering pantheon of old, white names that make people tut knowingly and nod whenever they’re mentioned.
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The Weekly Free
Nicole Perez | February 12If you’re low on cash but want to do something for your significant other on Valentine’s Day, then you’ve come to the right newspaper. Who said thriftiness isn’t a turn on? Impress your date with this week’s freebies.
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Duke City Fencing a hub for quick-footed sword lovers
Antonio Sanchez | February 7On any given Sunday afternoon, Sherri Barth can be found at Montgomery Park dressed in medieval armor and ready for battle.
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From bamboo shoots to flutes
Antonio Sanchez | February 5Dan Hooke may have built a career around music and instruments, but he said he would never consider himself a musician. “I just was never musically trained. I’m really clumsy,”
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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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The Weekly Free
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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The Weekly Free
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.
