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.
The Daily Lobo knows you’re broke; we all are. So in the spirit of being broke we prowled the World Wide Web to find free things for you to do, see, hear and put in your mouth.
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.
The best children’s entertainment communicates greater truths in ways children understand and adults appreciate.
One month of summer gone! You’re wasting time! There’s so much music, so much of it is completely terrible. But you can relax, Daily Lobo is here to calmly lay down hits and highlights for July in the soft, soothing voice that only a mother can provide.
Living with people is hard, but necessary. Humans are social animals with family, friends, classmates, co-workers, acquaintances, enemies and lovers.Some of these relationships are beneficial and intentional. Others are the by-product of being a social animal who is seemingly unable to separate itself from the relationships that unfold as a result of being defined outside yourself.
The day before I arrived on the Flathead Indian Reservation of Western Montana, the small town of Charlo had its Mission Mountain Testicle Festival. “Can we not talk about it?” said Tim, one of the Christian biologists I met who worked on the Flathead Res. “It’s a bull!
Central Avenue, a piece of American and Albuquerque history, was known simply as Route 66. When Eric Szeman and Diane Avila, along with their son Andrew Szeman, established the Route 66 Malt Shop 15 years ago in Old Town, their goal was to give patrons a taste of that Route 66 of yesteryear. Now situated in Nob Hill just east of Carlisle Boulevard, Eric Szeman said the 1950s-themed shop has been their way of sharing a time when America was the leader of the world in every respect. “Kids I know are looking back,” Eric said.
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