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Nicole Perez | January 15Your freedom is gone once again, so get used to it. If you’re going through freedom withdrawals, check out this week’s events.
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New trampoline park offers family-friendly leaps and entertainment
Antonio Sanchez | January 7Albuquerque parents can now flip out with their kids instead of at them, thanks to Albuquerque’s newest haven for trampoline enthusiasts and hyper kids alike.
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For Your Ears
Antonio Sanchez | January 7Let’s face the facts: Slightly Stoopid is great music for people who like to listen to Sublime. If you don’t like Sublime, don’t even bother with this band.
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The Weekly Free
January 7All the freedom of winter break is slipping through your fingers, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Sorry. Relish the last free moments before school starts with this week’s freebies.
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Nicole Perez | December 10You think you can, you think you can: It’s the only way to survive finals. If you need an early taste of freedom before your exams are over, check out this week’s freebies. Warning: They are mostly holiday related.
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‘Weir’ mixes ghosts, gabbing
Graham Gentz | December 10“The Weir” is weird. There’s no mistaking it. Five people wander into an Irish pub, hang out for a while and then leave. In this sense, it’s not terribly complicated — it’s simple, but it isn’t.
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Music venue welcomes all ages
Antonio Sanchez | December 10BlackWater Music owner Sami Frosch designed her new local venue not just because she is a lover of music, but because she is a concerned parent.
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$10,000 worth of glassware stolen from Birdland the Hippie Store
Nicole Perez | December 6A hand-blown glass bumblebee pipe stolen from Birdland the Hippie Store on Thanksgiving was worth more than $4,000.
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Do it yourself living meets frugal lifestyles in the Old School’s classrooms
Antonio Sanchez | December 6Maggie Shepard, CNM instructor and co-director of the do-it-yourself program Old School, said her classes have reached out to those who want to live frugally as well as those who fear the apocalypse.
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Photographer Leo York interviews and photographs Albuquerque community members and posts them on “Inhabitants of Burque,” his Facebook page with almost 2,000 likes
Nicole Perez | December 4Lucky Burqueños could see themselves pictured on a Facebook page with nearly 2,000 likes — and they don’t have to do anything to get on it.
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“It’s A Wonderful Life” falls flat, runs at the Albuquerque Little Theatre through Dec. 24
Graham Gentz | December 4It’s December again, so it’s time to celebrate white-skinned Jesus, Coca-Cola, dreidels and holiday-themed everything. The Albuquerque Little Theatre welcomes the season with something familiar
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The Weekly Free
Nicole Perez | December 4Are you are rapidly approaching the light at the end of the tunnel — the day when your finals are over and you can go get wasted at Brickyard to celebrate? Then to prepare yourself for the upcoming onslaught of freedom, check out this week’s freebies.
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ASUNM Arts and Crafts Fair hosts UNM students and artists from across New Mexico
Nicole Perez | November 29Melanie Magdalena doesn’t use her toaster oven for pizza, panini or toast — she uses hers to melt CDs to make painted flowers.
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Albuquerque’s first women only TEDx event sold out
Megan Underwood | November 29Discussions about prenatal psychology, violence against American-Indian women and sexism in the military come to Albuquerque this weekend for Albuquerque’s first TEDx event that features only female presenters.
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For Your Ears
November 28Kendrick Lamar conjures ’90s alternative hip-hop stars The Pharcyde and De La Soul with his laid-back approach to beats and rhymes.
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The Weekly Free
Nicole Perez | November 27Nobody is stressed out by the slew of final projects and life at the end of the semester is just a breeze. Not. Don’t feel pressured to attend all of this week’s freebies — but I bet you’ll end up there, anyway. This week’s events are just that good.
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Black Friday shopping sparks violence across the United States
Graham Gentz | November 27With Thanksgiving now behind us, we have broken through to the December shopping season with Black Friday, a day marked by the worst thing about America.
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“Tuna does Vegas” plays at the Vortex Theatre through Dec. 16, 2012
Graham Gentz | November 20The plays in the “Tuna” series are shows for actors. This is barely plural, as there are only two actors in the entire show, though they each play nearly a dozen distinct characters.
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The Weekly Free
Nicole Perez | November 20Final projects, papers and tests are starting, and they won’t stop hitting you over the head until after finals week. If you’re paying your friends to write your essays — come on, you know you do — then you might be short on cash. Check out these freebies to pull yourself out of the hole.
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John Lewis’ Mechanical Antiques restores vintage typewriters
Nicole Perez | November 15John Lewis placed a 100-year-old diamond-tipped phonograph needle onto a half-inch thick record, and “Cowgirl Polka” blasted from the wood cabinet.
