Eric Rasband leads what you might call a simple life: He is the 27-year-old manager of Rasband Dairy in Belen. “There’s no days off over here.
Russel Taylor sits on a vinyl red couch at Studio Red in Nob Hill. He wears a plain sweater and orange Nike sneakers, and seems unaware of the white face paint that masks his identity.
The recent redux of the website Myspace raises the question: Whose space is it, anyway? Like most of the population, I almost forgot about Myspace, or as it goes by these days My ______.
The Fractal Man’s vision of future learning will coincide with a celebration of a newly designated historic building. The Fractal Foundation’s annual Fractal Challenge invites Albuquerque elementary, middle and high school students to manipulate already-existing formulas in the computer program Xaos to generate their own fractals.
Cryptic messages written on the sidewalk. Vaguely unsettling black-and-white pen sketches. Strange things found with the daily newspaper.
Frank Melcori’s “Playboy of the Western World” has been a special kind of hell. Albuquerque is dirty and bursting with community theater — the kind of theater you do for free, the kind you do for fun. Those who populate it are usually lawyers-turned-song-and-dance men, students led or ruled by a hobby and retired bodies looking for new labors. “Just try it,” our director, Frank, would repeat again and again in rehearsal.
“The Reptilian Lounge” is simply the best on-going theater event in town. It’s also unique. The lounge has been around since 1996, serving as a rotating, always-fresh, always-hysterical, late-night cabaret.
Hailing from faraway Yerevan, Armenia, Theater 8’s production of “The Maids” opens the first week of Tricklock’s Revolutions International Theatre Festival 2011.
“Eclectic” is not a strong enough word to describe the mix of people and exhibits found at the Albuquerque Comic Con.
2010 is the most sci-fi-sounding year yet. I mean, 2000 sounds pretty sci-fi, and 2001 is the best sci-fi movie with a year for a title, but 2010?
Someone once said to me, “Ask me what the first rule of comedy is.” I began, “What’s the first rule of —” “Timing,” he blurted out, right in my face.
Law Chavez is an M.F.A. UNM student and actor who traveled across the country for 12 years before returning to New Mexico.
While the recession has created a financial slippery slope, it has not deterred skiers and snowboarders from shelling out hundreds each season to indulge in their sports. Representatives from local skiing hotspots said the recession has made little difference in how well-attended their slopes are.
Well, you f****d up. You spent all your holiday money buying yourself snow cones, monogrammed pants and the entire Boyz II Men discography.
Some students might have to choose between a teacher with years of experience or one with novel ways of thinking. If accepted into the UNM Honors Program, students might be lucky to study under professor Diane Rawls, who is knowledgeable in both capacities.
Now that the semester’s over and we’ve all got some free time on our hands, we can start getting into things we meant to do, but couldn’t because of all that damn required reading.
The blueprint to leaving a world impression starts in St. Louis — if the UNM Print Club can get there. To do so, the club is hosting a student print sale to fund a trip to the Southern Graphics Council International conference in March. Shaurya Kumar, assistant professor in the printmaking program, said the craft is about creating long-lasting relationships, which students will make at the conference. “Printmaking is a very community-oriented activity,” he said.
Some things come only once a year: Harry Potter movies, Christmas and the Outpost Ice Arena’s Christmas Show. Student Krista Keay will skate in the show, and she said it attracts about 100 spectators every year.
Have you ever wished SNL didn’t suck? Well, have no fear and do not sneer or jeer. For the Box is near, and dear Blackout’s here to make you cheer. Wait.
This time last holiday season, the Albuquerque Little Theatre produced “White Christmas,” selling out houses throughout its run.
Solutions by The State News
