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Musical refreshes soul, mind
Alexandra Swanberg | April 24People who reject all musicals as the result of a single film experience deprive themselves of the palpable force of live musical theater.
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Alexandra Swanberg | April 24These days, faculty and students alike are scrambling to get ‘er done before the end of the semester.
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Where Are We?
April 23Every Monday the Daily Lobo challenges you to identify where we took our secret picture of the week.
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ABQ Hip Hop
Alexandra Swanberg | April 19The hip-hop culture sprouted music potent enough to provoke social change and awareness.
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Band leafs out stylistically
Alexandra Swanberg | April 19The Albuquerque hip-hop group 2bers began in 1999 with the goal of staying true to their underground identity, MC Collin Troy said.
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Eclectic energy charges graduates’ exhibition
Nicole Perez | April 19Stereotypical American imagery such as a couple kissing under a rainbow combines with metaphors of sexual orgasm such as exploding fireworks in graduate student Jamie Kovach’s art.
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Experimental films offer a nuanced view of reality
Alexandra Swanberg | April 19The cinematic stars Americans love to chase and idolize are intended to represent reality;
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Playwrights play with fire
Nicole Perez | April 17Themes such as gender identity, the Occupy Wall Street movement, alcoholism, suicide, the Iraq War and the housing and economic crises dominate this year’s Words Afire!
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Alexandra Swanberg | April 17There are three weeks left until finals, in case you didn’t start counting down as soon as spring break ended. Here are some ways you can entertain yourself this week.
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Bizarre upper-division classes
Alexandra Swanberg | April 17By now you’re thinking you can’t wait for summer so you can do nothing but drop into a coma for a couple days, after which you’ll soak up the sun.
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Where Are We?
April 16Every Monday the Daily Lobo challenges you to identify where we took our secret picture of the week.
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Defying Physics, Reality
Nicole Perez | April 12Employees fan out playing cards, make burning paper disappear and levitate dollar bills. A customer screams as a dangling plastic spider is lowered onto her head by a thin wire hooked up to a pulley on the ceiling.
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Lifestyled
Faerl Marie Torres | April 12If the mention of four weeks left in the semester sends you scrambling to the classifieds in search of a job, you aren’t alone.
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Senior dance thesis exposes genocide
Alexandra Swanberg | April 12When “The Exorcist” first came out in theaters, people had to leave the building midway through the film. Like a modern-day horror flick, some members of a test audience couldn’t stay through the beginning of “Phalanx.”
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Festival explores world’s cultures
Antonio Sanchez | April 11The UNM International Festival goes beyond cultural sharing to provide a bridge between the international students.
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Fashion Q&A
Faerl Marie Torres | April 11“I prefer thrift stores and character. It’s whatever I feel like, I don’t really follow the dress code.” Even in private school, Cantu didn’t wear what was expected.
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Alumnus sculpts success
Alexandra Swanberg | April 11A UNM alumnus dreams of the day the plastic organs and skeletons in classrooms come to life.
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Student paints his anxiety
Alexandra Swanberg | April 11Rather than his art driving him to madness, UNM student George Evans said his madness drove him to art.
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Weak lead mars ‘Macbeth’
Justino Brokaw | April 10Bloodthirsty Macbeth and cruel, conniving witches seem more like a coward and dancing hippies in Aux Dog Theatre’s disappointing production of “Macbeth.”
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Alexandra Swanberg | April 10If you’re broke, you can always bum money off loved ones to entertain yourself — they’re supposed to be there for you in times of need, right?
