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Scooters Rule
Nicole Perez | August 23A lone mechanic revs the engine of a red, dirt-spattered scooter as fumes pour from the muffler into every crevice of the dark garage.
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Scooter buff lives to race and repair
Nicole Perez | August 23Sean Campbell, co-founder and co-owner of Blue Smoke Garage, learned how to service his scooter by trial and error.
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Sci-fi fans converge
Antonio Sanchez | August 23It’s the end of the world as we know it at this year’s Albuquerque science fiction convention, and sci-fi fans feel fine.
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For Your Ears
Antonio Sanchez | August 23Exotic Animal Petting Zoo plays music for fans of The Number Twelve Looks Like You, Fear Before the March of Flames and Really Loud Band with a Ridiculously Long Name.
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Week in the Gila was no walk in the park
Nicole Perez | August 22My journey to the Gila National Forest to volunteer for the U.S. Forest Service began on Sunday, when I missed the 5 p.m. Greyhound from Albuquerque and squeezed my way onto the next one, which left at 2:50 the following morning.
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Fashion Q&A
Megan Underwood | August 22Tiffany Clash’s style is defined by budget-friendly thrift store pieces with a handmade touch — she cut and bleached her shorts herself.
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Hopfest provides brews, tunes and rides
Nicole Storey | August 22Matt Jones brews beer in the depths of his garage, sings in front of hundreds of people and is paid to write songs for other musicians — so he’s right at home at Albuquerque’s fifth annual Hopfest.
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Twitterpated over tomatoes
Antonio Sanchez | August 21Teresa Edens pushed back her hat, which was decorated with ripe, red tomatoes, while her red earrings and bracelets jingled. She sat down under a tree and read a tomato-themed joke posted there.
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Editorial cartoonist gets a strip
Nicole Perez | August 21Daily Lobo cartoonist Juan Tabone’s uncensored, unapologetic style has evoked cheers and jeers from the University community illustrated in his work.
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The Weekly Free
Nicole Perez | August 21Maybe you’re sitting pretty on top of a mound of cash from your scholarship refund. Or maybe you’re just as broke as usual after buying new school clothes. Either way, save up that greenery by doing something free for a change.
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Local band rocks ‘mangy jazz’
Nicole Perez | August 13Violinist Muni Kulasinghe found inspiration in a Polish gypsy who played violin with the opposite hand, held it upright on his knee like a cello and grabbed the bow in a fist.
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Shared ingredients bind 3 diverse plays
Justino Brokaw | August 13Blackout Theatre Company’s newest plays each feature a two-person cast, minimal set, the use of a nursery rhyme, a phrase repeated four times and references to a house and season — but the similarities among them end there.
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The Weekly Free
Nicole Perez | August 13The snarling beast known as school crept up on you and is slowly chomping down on your free time. Before you know it, you’ll be frantically trying to claw your way out of its intestines, along with 30,000 other students.
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New technology preserves past
Antonio Sanchez | August 13Drive east on I-40 for about two hours, and there’s a tiny town that chair of the UNM Spanish department Enrique Lamadrid does not want to be left in the dust: Santa Rosa.
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Love story explores religious conflict
Graham Gentz | July 23“Paloma” is an extreme amount of talent contained in a very small space.
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Class studies traditional healing
Nicole Perez | July 23In one summer course, UNM students learn how to laugh without being told a joke, ward off the evil eye and even release stagnated blood with burning hot glass cups.
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Angels, aliens guide conference speakers
Antonio Sanchez | July 23Angels first spoke to Nancy Wallace after a freak accident that almost paralyzed her when she was 6 years old.
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Teen’s cutesy chic sells globally
Nicole Storey | July 23Kattie Rose stared at her reflection in the window and carefully combed the pink and purple bangs of her wig with a tiny green comb.
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Hospital food may get a fresh start
Nicole Perez | July 23Debrilla Ratchford said she’s trying to tip the mass consciousness, one bean sprout at a time.
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Get away before school starts
Nicole Perez | July 16So you sat on the couch all summer watching “Teen Mom” on Netflix. It’s okay, we will only judge you a little bit.
