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Do you ever find yourself wondering what happened to Joshua Arellano, aka “Techno Guy,” after he got banned from playing house music on his boom box on campus? Now he frequents the Blackbird Buvette every other Wednesday to express himself with the universal language: body Language.
Thwarted temporarily by Mother Nature, one man’s vision is taking root in drier ground. Rich Henrich said he has always wanted to create a bridge between opposing views.
Hollywood’s trusty system of new meat, same skeleton is off the menu: The people want indie. The Albuquerque Film Festival is about to enjoy its third year exposing the community to films that deviate from the usual recycled plotlines of the Hollywood blockbusters of the last several years.
Aug. 27 at 9 p.m. Alibi Group Hug presents: Factory Party with Low on High, Manby’s Head, The Dirty Novels, The Scrams and DJ Cassyle The Launchpad 21 , $5 Think of this show more as a social opportunity than an entertaining music event.
Summer is over, which means it’s time to escape to higher grounds. Come September, Glad Castle Presents will host the Enchanted Circle Music and Arts Carnival in Taos. Dominic Abbott, co-creator of Glad Castle Presents, said it is an event every New Mexican can get down with.
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UNM film student Josh Stuyvesant said he’s probably related to Peter Stuyvesant, who had a peg leg after his real leg was shot off by a cannonball.
An unusual combination of boards and brushes dominated Warehouse 508’s Extreme Art Show. The youth-driven organization focuses on art (visual, music and writing) and nontraditional sports such as skateboarding, snowboarding, skiing and rock-climbing.
The younger generation is blowing away the smoke screen used to incite the public’s disapproval of marijuana. The New Mexico Medical Marijuana and Natural Healing Expo is the brainchild of Aaron Kushmor and Ben Marshall III.
After all the joints from the medical marijuana expo burn out, the Albuquerque Convention Center hosts the stuff of stoner nightmares with the Albuquerque Sci-Fi and Horror Expo.
Modern theater often lends itself to empty flash and diversions. The quest to sell tickets results in countless plays that boast a catchy “hook” or premise, but little depth.
Newsland, a magazine-shop staple of the University area for the past 30 years, closed July 17 to the despair of owner Roger Walsh’s customers. “I’ve come to tears with customers saying goodbye,” he said. “Emotional.” Walsh predicts that magazines won’t be around after five years — it’ll all be on the Internet, and print might be available as subscription only.
When a theatre company has to rebuild, the temptation can be to try something easy: a show sure to sell tickets, but something not too risky. Surprisingly, Musical Theatre Southwest has gone for ambition instead, choosing to do “Damn Yankees,” a challenging musical that could have easily gone wrong.
Just before the Civil War started in 1861, camels roamed free in New Mexico, but it was only because the soldiers didn’t get along with them.
Local artists are playing telephone operator, connecting with each other all over town. Sarah Nall and the man called Stone co-created Les Artes Eclectic after the wave of art performance shows crashed last year, in part because these shows were hosted by galleries and relied on art sales to keep afloat.
Are you unimpressed by the general public’s take on art and what it is? If you’re on a self-improvement kick, or just want to become even more cultured than the shining beacon of culture you already are, know that the Albuquerque Museum of Art has free activities going on every third Thursday.
Morally ambiguous crime, black realism and sultry, dangerous women — all of it is coming to a theater near you. Starting July 14 the Guild Cinema will host its Festival of Film Noir, a two-week event crammed with double features about the grittiness of the Great Depression era.
The real benefit of drugs is not in the drugs themselves. It is a powerful epiphany that comes from changing perspective from a spoon-fed life into a personal one.
While his friends assured me his name was Chris, “Slade” was a man of carefully constructed parts. “Slade?” I repeated as I shook his hand, wondering if I had gotten it right. ‘Slade,’ confirmed the thick beard, thick flannel, thick black-rimmed glasses and thin smile.
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