There’s a lot of metal to be had at the Battle of the Bands Finals. The Daily Lobo doesn’t want you to have to wander too far down the cavern to mine the good stuff, so we found the Launchpad’s poster for the show, fired up our Myspace (it still exists!) and listened to these bands.
Top New Mexico bands will partake in a fierce battle. The weapon of choice: metal. Battle of the Bands takes place at the Launchpad on Sunday.
At first glance, skateboards seem nothing more than a set of wheels and some wood, but the UNM skating team thinks they can be a lot more.
The “Center of the Universe,” despite what some physicists might say, is right next to Ortega Hall.
Whether it’s the hum of an acoustic guitar in UNM’s Atrium, or the bass of a band performing by the copper statues, UNM’s Noontime Concert Series provides a variety of performances Wednesdays at noon. This week acoustic musician Bryce Hample, of local band Reighnbeau, will perform a solo set at the Atrium. “It’s not very often that I have the opportunity to play for an hour,” Hample said.
The UNM Anime Club attracts those of a “nerdy bend.” It provides an avenue for nerdy students to come together in a relaxed social situation, and discuss and watch anime.
Aux Dog Theatre is back for round two in its 2011 season, tackling one of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies, “Othello,” with the thunder and human horror it deserves. For those who didn’t read “Hamlet” in school, the title character is a Moorish general in the service of the armies of Venice (making him an Arab or North African — and certainly an outsider). He is happily married and trusted by all, except for his right-hand man, Iago, who seeks to destroy Othello’s marriage, trust and mind. Othello is the most “tragic” of Shakespeare’s tragedies.
World-renowned architect Antoine Predock has a sense of humor about his work. At a presentation he gave Tuesday inside George Pearl Hall, which Predock designed, he showed a photograph of the building and the Frontier Restaurant across the street. “Anybody who saw that, which would they like better?
What started in an alleyway in the international district is now one of the Southwest’s highest-attended beatbox/dance battle shows. From its ramshackle roots, Breakin’ Hearts, in its ninth year, has found a more-permanent location at 508 Warehouse, and attendance has averaged about 1,000, co-founder Cyrus Gould said. “We started in a venue where you had to enter through an alley, and it was in a shady neighborhood,” he said. The event is now classier, Gould said, featuring a performance, contest and workshops to entertain people with diverse interests.
Because of sadomasochism-style woman-breaking themes, “The Taming of the Shrew” has been controversial since its inception. It’s also why the play has seen a lot of light around Albuquerque in the past few years.
Being broke sucks on Valentine’s Day. As adults, we have to realize digging a half-eaten Snickers from between the couch cushions just isn’t going to cut it anymore — I don’t care if that’s what your dad got your mom for their anniversary three years in a row.
Thanks to overwhelming displays at Walgreens and commercially planted expectations, Valentine’s Day has been all but ruined by overly high expectations.
Yogurt and cheese make Chuck Alex’s life fulfilling. The founder of Veggie Growers, now called the Urban Store, makes the products himself.
The poem ends like this: “Here in Terezín life is hell/ And when I’ll go home again, I can’t yet tell.” It’s signed, “Teddy.” Written by a child, the poem is displayed on the wall of a new exhibit at UNM showcasing artwork produced from inside a Nazi “prison-ghetto,” or concentration camp, near Prague in the early 1940s. The exhibit, “Through a Narrow Window: Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and Her Terezín Students,” highlights the work of Dicker-Brandeis, a Czech painter, and the children she taught art to inside the Terezín camp. It is part of a larger exposition, also called “Through a Narrow Window,” which will feature several theater performances, a poetry reading and a recital by the UNM Children’s Chorus, featuring Terezín survivor Ela Weissberger.
Hard economic times have forced people to take a second look at the way they spend their disposable income, especially students.
“Wicked” is the biggest thing to hit Broadway since sliced bread that can auto-tune itself. Creators Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman have shrewdly followed the tradition of refashioning popular, pre-existing cultural icons into mainstream poppy hits.
The snow days on campus raised some interesting questions: Is it really a snow day if there’s no snow?
Quinn has been taking pictures since her childhood, even with cameras that had no film. It wasn’t until later that she started taking photos of nude figures.
Feb. 8 Reverend Horton Heat Launchpad 21 and up $20 The seminal sound of psychobilly, a cross of rockabilly and hardcore punk rock, means it kind of works as country music for people who think country music is lame.
“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” Miriam Beard, Historian For two San Diego cyclists, the idea of living is a charitable cause on wheels. And “Give a Bike” has Adam and Christy Coppola traversing the country.
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