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Art from a Nazi 'prison-ghetto'

Andrew Beale | February 8

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.

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Burn on a Budget

Alexandra Swanberg | February 8

Hard economic times have forced people to take a second look at the way they spend their disposable income, especially students.

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‘Wicked’ a tale of origin

Graham Gentz | February 3

“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.

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Snow days bring about endless possibilities

Andrew Beale , Antonio Sanchez and Alexandra Swanberg | February 3

The snow days on campus raised some interesting questions: Is it really a snow day if there’s no snow?

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Art couple mixes nudes and cement

Chris Quintana | February 3

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.

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For Your Ears

Andrew Beale | February 1

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.

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Two-wheeled charity pedals on

Alexandra Swanberg | February 1

“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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Milk-and-honey life suits farmer

Andy Beale | January 27

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.

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The makeup of the man and the myth

Chris Quintana | January 27

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.

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No more space for Myspace

Chris Quintana | January 26

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 ______.

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Fractals basis of curiosity

Alexandra Swanberg | January 24

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.

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’Zine is the hip, new campus ‘drug’

Andrew Beale | January 24

Cryptic messages written on the sidewalk. Vaguely unsettling black-and-white pen sketches. Strange things found with the daily newspaper.

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Trials and tribulations of a drama king

Graham Gentz | January 24

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.

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‘Always-fresh cabaret’ available for limited time

Graham Gentz | January 18

“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.

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Sex, power, death make for bold theater

Graham Gentz | January 18

Hailing from faraway Yerevan, Armenia, Theater 8’s production of “The Maids” opens the first week of Tricklock’s Revolutions International Theatre Festival 2011.

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Rare event brings comic relief to fanatics

Andrew Beale | January 18

“Eclectic” is not a strong enough word to describe the mix of people and exhibits found at the Albuquerque Comic Con.

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Year in review Hindsight is 20/10

January 10

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?

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Laugh your tail off at Aux Dog

Graham Gentz | January 10

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.

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Actor talks theater, beavers

Chris Quintana | January 10

Law Chavez is an M.F.A. UNM student and actor who traveled across the country for 12 years before returning to New Mexico.

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Skiers scrape savings to stay on the slopes

Alexandra Swanberg | January 10

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.