It resembles a mad scientist’s lair. The Museum of Southwestern Biology has wall-to-wall filing cabinets, each shelf containing rows upon rows of stuffed animals.
Three words jump out at you when looking at Aux Dog’s newest production, “Offices.” Those three words: “By Ethan Coen.” Yeah, that Coen.
Arroyo Deathmatch plucked, drummed, and ukulele-ed its way to a first-place finish at UNM’s Battle of the Bands.
Editor’s Note: April Fools’ Day is tomorrow, and it’s bound to be filled with joy, dread or mild annoyance.
Albuquerque has an undiscovered world of food challenges. And at places that you’d least expect.
“It’s a seven-pound stuffed sopapilla, dude.” “I realize that, Zach.” Zach Gould was the photographer who first embarked on the Albuquerque Food Challenge project.
The most dangerous place on campus may not be the nuclear reactor, but the wood and sculpting shops in the art building.
Today, the battle will be fought in SUB Ballroom B. Students in the SUB will participate in Bongo Ball Mania, a war game requiring participants to take cover behind large shields to avoid being shot by their fellow students. “Bongo Ball is a combination of paintball, laser tag and playing around with Nerf guns, more or less,” said Ryan Wooley, the marketing director for Student Special Events. Bongo Ball YouTube videos show a vicious war-simulation game where young men and women prepare for a military career by pretending to be deep in the middle of live-fire combat.
Adrien Lawyer wants students to think of gender as a spectrum. Lawyer, who gave a presentation titled “Transgender 101” at Scholes Hall, said the widespread concept of a gender binary — that is, boy/girl — does not reflect reality. “Some people don’t think they are just one of those,” he said.
Simply put, “The Ghost Sonata” is the best play UNM has produced all school year — SCRAP, UNM Facility, Tricklock or otherwise.
They’re in homes, at workplaces. It’s the March of the Robots, Quelab’s monthly public expo that takes place Saturday.
Acknowledging the murky part of humanity is what UNM theater student Van Hollenbeck looks to do in his directorial debut.
A bike polo game looks kind of like a dance — a dance on bikes, with mallets. The players ride their bikes back and forth on a basketball court, trying to hit a ball the size of a large egg into the goal. The most important skill for a bike polo player is patience, and being able to ride with one hand, two-year bike polo veteran Sebastian Beers said.
It took Odysseus 10 years to get back to his wife, and while it took me only 12 hours on a Greyhound bus to get from Oklahoma to Albuquerque, the ride was just as much an odyssey.
It’s like Blackout sits down and says, “How are we going to be exceptional today?” Blackout doesn’t just put on plays.
Global DanceFest artists are challenging spoken language’s limitations. The production kicks off its three-weekend-long, eclectic compilation Friday.
_So you blew all your money on illegal cock fights, genetically enhanced green chile and alcohol. Always with the alcohol, you alcoholic.
Pressing through stormy financial times and evolving mediums, UNM Press’ ink hasn’t run dry. Staff reductions have coincided with steadily declining book sales, but the press’ reputation as the go-to for scholarly writers, novelists and poets endures. Editor-in-Chief Clark Whitehorn said that when the economy tanked in 2008, publishing became unstable, and about half the staff was lost because of layoffs or resignations.
Opera isn’t just for men with monocles and women in ball gowns, but also for college students in tattered jeans.
Mathematicians are glasses-wearing, pocket-protector-sporting, calculator-wielding geeks. That’s the misconception UNM professors Reuben Hersh and Vera John-Steiner try to dispel in their just-released book, Loving Hating Mathematics.
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