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Punks fight for common folk
Alexandra Swanberg | April 5Arroyo Deathmatch plucked, drummed, and ukulele-ed its way to a first-place finish at UNM’s Battle of the Bands.
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Get your prank on, fool
March 31Editor’s Note: April Fools’ Day is tomorrow, and it’s bound to be filled with joy, dread or mild annoyance.
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If you gorge and keep it down, it’s free
Zach Gould | March 31Albuquerque has an undiscovered world of food challenges. And at places that you’d least expect.
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An unsettling challenge
Graham Gentz | March 31“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.
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Lab manager gives a hand to save a finger
Chris Quintana | March 29The most dangerous place on campus may not be the nuclear reactor, but the wood and sculpting shops in the art building.
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Bongo Ball to be a ballistic blast
Andy Beale | March 29Today, 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.
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Breaking binary gender code
Andy Beale | March 29Adrien 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.
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Surreal play is best of year
Graham Gentz | March 29Simply put, “The Ghost Sonata” is the best play UNM has produced all school year — SCRAP, UNM Facility, Tricklock or otherwise.
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Bring a toothbrush to the robotic invasion
Alexandra Swanberg | March 24They’re in homes, at workplaces. It’s the March of the Robots, Quelab’s monthly public expo that takes place Saturday.
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unmasking the ‘monsters’
Alexandra Swanberg | March 24Acknowledging the murky part of humanity is what UNM theater student Van Hollenbeck looks to do in his directorial debut.
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Polo requires poise, balance
Hunter Riley | March 22A 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.
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An exhausting trip
Chris Quintana | March 22It 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.
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Blackout delivers New Mexican folk
Graham Gentz | March 22It’s like Blackout sits down and says, “How are we going to be exceptional today?” Blackout doesn’t just put on plays.
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And the world comes dancing
Alexandra Swanberg | March 10Global DanceFest artists are challenging spoken language’s limitations. The production kicks off its three-weekend-long, eclectic compilation Friday.
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Give me a Break
Chris Quintana , Antonio Sanchez , Alexandra Swanberg , Graham Gentz and Juanita Martinez | March 10_So you blew all your money on illegal cock fights, genetically enhanced green chile and alcohol. Always with the alcohol, you alcoholic.
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Press’ health critical, but stable
Alexandra Swanberg | March 7Pressing 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.
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Show is a must-see for opera first-timers
Alexandra Swanberg | March 3Opera isn’t just for men with monocles and women in ball gowns, but also for college students in tattered jeans.
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Discover math’s hidden beauty
Chris Quintana | March 3Mathematicians 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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Disciples dance alongside mentors
Hunter Riley | March 3It’s not in every department that undergraduate students get to perform alongside their professors. But in the Theatre and Dance Department’s faculty show “Strada,” five faculty members will present six pieces, using more than 60 student dancers from the program. Mary Anne Santos Newhall, a rehearsal coach for the first piece “Panorama,” said the department is interconnected. “One of the beauties of our department is that we all do different things, and we really enjoy working together,” she said.
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Bradley's Books
Andrew Beale | March 3Three times a week, Winning Coffee Co. offers more than food and coffee — it’s got something for the mind, too. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, the coffeehouse doubles as a used bookstore. The bookstore, Bradley’s Books, has been operating out of Winning for four and a half years, but owner Bradley Bumgarner-Kirby has been selling books in the UNM area since the mid-70s.
