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Brain Food
Alexandra Swanberg | November 17Almost a month away, winter break looms just close enough to tease students already feeling their mental reserves tapped out.
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Futuristic drag show ‘a fun way to consider gender’
Nicole Perez | November 17The UNM drag show offers students a night free of gender identity — for free. The Queer Straight Alliance presents the third annual UNM drag show, themed “The Year Queerthousand,”
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Out-of-this-world cast brings ‘Rocky Horror’ to life
Justino Brokaw | November 17“It’s astounding. Time is fleeting. Madness takes its toll.” The Rocky Horror Show’s opening lines to its most famous song, “The Time Warp,” aptly describe the UNM production.
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The Weekly Free
Hunter Riley | November 15The Daily Lobo wants to free you from paying for things. We have browsed the Internet in search of fun free things for you and your friends or family to do.
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Singers and Gaga-style performance steal show
Nicole Perez | November 15In a night scattered with singing, comedy and even a glow-in-the-dark hula hoop act, vocalists ruled Friday’s Lobos Got Talent. Contestants were judged in four categories: showmanship, creativity and artistic interpretation, quality of the act, and overall performance.
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Swapped skis for charity
Nicole Perez | November 15From collecting dust to collecting donations, old ski equipment is available today for free at the Extreme Ski Swap fundraiser.
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Where Are We?
November 14Every Monday the Daily Lobo challenges you to identify where we took our secret picture of the week.
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A Tight Knit Community
Nicole Perez | November 10Colorful, tightly wound balls of wool yarn roll across a few scattered newspapers; knitting needles glint as they flash through the air.
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Step-by-step guide to knitting for novices
Nicole Perez | November 10With cold weather and the holiday season approaching, now is the perfect time to learn how to knit. However, knitting can be much more exciting than making simple scarves and socks
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Educator on mission to ‘fractalize’
Alexandra Swanberg | November 9Having established Albuquerque as the fractal capital of the world, the Fractal Man said hopes to use fractals to revolutionize the way kids learn science and math worldwide.
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Artist Ave.
Alexandra Swanberg | November 8Senior printmaker Daniel Stromberg focuses his energy on symbolic rather than expressive art. Because his chosen medium doesn’t allow for more gestural, “emotive” presentations, Stromberg said he focuses on discovering how meaning is created in icons such as street signs.
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‘Red’: art destroys the artist
Justino Brokaw | November 8Only two characters are necessary to paint the joys and hardships artists must endure. John Logan’s recently written play, “Red,” depicts artist Mark Rothko’s struggle to create a series of murals for the Four Seasons hotels in the 1950s.
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The Weekly Free
Hunter Riley | November 8Oh, how the tides and temperatures have turned! As you approach the final weeks of school and button up for the first touch of winter, the Daily Lobo wants to keep you entertained.
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Where Are We
November 7Every Monday the Daily Lobo challenges you to identify where we took our secret picture of the week.
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Rocky Horror at UNM
Nicole Perez | November 3The dark theater buzzes with the hushed voices of stage and lighting crew members as a girl wearing a flouncy skirt and glittery heels runs on stage pushing a man in a wheelchair, shrieking her lines at the top of her lungs.
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Pride Pageant titleholders prepare to pass on crowns
Alexandra Swanberg | November 3A transgender person could face a tough choice when deciding whether to use the men’s or women’s bathroom, transsexual Nic Sedillo said.
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Fashion Q&A
Alexandra Swanberg | November 1Even though he wasn’t wearing the sexy garb he criticized as typical and boring, Fleming’s costume was still hot.
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For Your Ears
Nicole Perez | November 1Lydia’s staples are breathy vocals and cheesy chord progressions combined with overly sentimental lyrics. If you enjoy wallowing in heartbreak then this band is definitely worth checking out, but be warned, they seem to be completely faithful to the subject of love, letting it dominate their sound waves.
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The Weekly Free
Hunter Riley | November 1Since my 365th arbitrary day around the earth happened last week, I thought I would compile a list of free things you can get on your birthday.
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Gut it Out
Alexandra Swanberg and Nicole Perez | October 27Don’t just settle for your typical toothy jack ‘o lantern: We’re pushing you to bring out your creative side this halloween.
