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Body Art
Alexandra Swanberg | September 15Marcus Romero is a graffiti artist who chooses to paint on naked women rather than walls on the street.
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Music breaks down borders
Nicole Perez | September 15From Hungary to Venezuela, Pakistan to Norway, these musicians don’t let their countries’ borders limit the scope of their art.
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Symposium looks at visual cultures with new eyes
Nicole Gard | September 15Graduate students are employing the right hemispheres of their brains to explore the Western Hemisphere of the world. “Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas,” an annual publication from the Department of Art and Art History, is a compilation of graduate student essays.
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History hides heroes, traitors
Felipe Medina-Marquez | September 15In U.S. history classes, students are taught to remember the Alamo. But during the era of the United States’ westward expansion, many stories were lost, or even purposely hidden, along the way.
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Dance club in full swing
Nicole Perez | September 14The faint sound of swing music wafts from the Johnson Gym basement and mingles with the shouts of sweaty basketball players nearby. The smell of old shoes and sweat is everywhere in the aerobics room, yet the twirling mass of couples there doesn’t seem to notice.
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Creativity thrives as funds dwindle
Alexandra Swanberg | September 14Money might not be a match for the love of filmmaking. New Vision and other programs established by the New Mexico Film Office have suffered severe cuts this fiscal year.
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Student’s story goes global
Shari Brown | September 14The English royal wedding was an international event that attracted millions of viewers, but it also led to a UNM graduate student’s first international publication.
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A view from a broken family
Justino Brokaw | September 13Love, family, honor and survival, all of which are cornerstones of humanity, are at stake in Arthur Miller’s tragic play “A View from the Bridge.” Mother Road’s production makes for gripping, powerful theater.
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The Weekly Free
Hunter Riley | September 13The Daily Lobo wants you to enjoy the last remaining days of the heat we have grown to detest by doing something fun for you, and for your wallet. After a search on the good old Internet, we have compiled a list of free events that you can check out.
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Scarring, intimacy a part of practice
Alexandra Swanberg | September 13Chris Jennell, a body piercer at Evolution Inc, said he learned to perform cutting because he likes blood. “Blood is cool, we’re all full of it, nobody sees enough of it,” he said. “We’re one of the most reserved people as far as modification.
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Tibetan monks share past to preserve future
Nicole Perez and Alex Swanberg | September 8Tibetan monks, though driven out of their homes, still find a way to keep their native culture and religion. The Gaden Shartse Cultural Foundation is bringing monks from the Gaden Shartse Monastery in India to Albuquerque this week for a series of cultural events including dances, rituals and purifications.
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A crash course in Buddhism
Alexandra Swanberg | September 8Although the tree of Buddhism has many branches, each of them is based on the same basic teachings and principles. The religion is based on the Four Noble Truths:.
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Part kids story, part history, part memoir, all Zozobra
Shari Brown | September 8Zozobra is a time for adults to burn their past, but might they not consider a child seeing it as murder of a precious local hero? Author Andrew Leo Lovato’s most recent book, Elvis Romero & Fiesta de Santa Fe: Featuring Zozobra’s Great Escape, focuses on just that.
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Busking for the love of blues
Felipe Medina-Marquez | September 6In an era when Auto-Tune and heavily produced music reign, PK Dwyer is an anomaly. You won’t find him on MTV or VH1, you’ll see him singing and playing the blues on the street with his guitar case full of dollar bills and loose change.
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9/11 play studies personal chaos
Justino Brokaw | September 6It’s hard to hear an uncomfortable truth, and even harder to escape it once you’ve committed to see a play that isn’t afraid to slap you in the face with it. As the 10 anniversary of 9/11 draws near, the Auxiliary Dog Theatre’s “Recent Tragic Events,” by Craig Wright, confronts some of the scariest questions from that day, with a simple honesty that moves you to listen.
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The Weekly Free
Hunter Riley | September 6The charm of college has worn off and now you are eyeballs deep in homework. Well, the Daily Lobo wants you to rest your eyeballs for a couple hours and go do something that is fun and free. We found events, coupons and other random free things, and compiled a list to create the Weekly Free. If you know of or have an event which you want to put in the Weekly Free, email the event info to hriley@unm.edu.
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Who will save us now?
Alexandra Swanberg | September 1Even adults say the world is a scary place — remember how it was when you were a kid? In a society that bombards its members with visual stimuli, Rebecca Salazar, a painter and UNM alumna, said media have a significant impact on the people who consume them.
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Peace starts in New Mexico
Alexandra Swanberg | September 1Some say Israelis and Palestinians are like oil and water — they just don’t mix. Creativity for Peace, a Santa Fe-based organization, is proving a means by which peaceful coexistence could eventually be possible. The organization has been bringing young girls from Israel and Palestine to New Mexico for the last nine years.
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Heavy thinkers keep it light
Nicole Perez | September 1UNM’s Megatherium Club is as mysterious as its name suggests. The only on-campus group devoted to the study of esotericism is named after a prehistoric sloth that weighed 8 tons, the megatherium.
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Creative haven for local artists
Antonio Sanchez | September 1On the corner of Carlisle Boulevard and Central Avenue stands a small artistic haven that houses the works of countless nearby artists, clashing together in a colorful collection of products provided by local painters, musicians, jewelry makers and even beekeepers. That haven — Kosmic Trading Post — serves as an outlet for artistic goods, services and training with one goal in mind: to build a community for artists.
