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Artist Ave: Taylor Mitchell
Andrew Beale | November 18Playing the euphonium can take you places. Taylor Mitchell’s skill has taken him from coast to coast.
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Zombie survivor offers advice, luck
Chris Quintana | November 17For those trying to make it through the zombie apocalypse in one piece, longtime zombie survivor Kodi Schmaltz has some advice to offer.
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ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE
Chris Quintana and Andrew Beale | November 17The undead apocalypse starts today. Zombies were seen last night emerging from the Frontier Restaurant and have since proliferated across campus.
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Bold set, fine music revive play
Graham Gentz | November 16Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” is the best play UNM has put on in months. It’s something that everyone can enjoy, not just someone who likes theater.
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illegal art thrills and annoys
Chris Quintana and Andrew Beale | November 11Street artists walk a thin legal line by using the world as their canvas Not every shadowy figure prowling Albuquerque’s dark alleys is a money-hungry, petty criminal or a bloodthirsty cop.
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Artist reveals meaning behind campus statues
Alexandra Swanberg | November 11Those statues are as confused as you are about the giant silver edifice smack dab in the middle of Cornell Plaza. Betty Sabo and her brother, Gary Beals, are the artists behind “Modern Art,” the display in question.
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Indie trend infects film and theater
Graham Gentz | November 8There is a sickeningly fake trend in Hollywood. The formula is simple and transparent: A quirky, young and precocious main character possibly suffers from mental problems.
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Duo compiles Hollywood punk
Chris Quintana | November 8For reasons no one can really understand, Zack Carlson and Bryan Connolly decided to make a comprehensive guide to every appearance of punk rockers on the big screen.
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Web exclusive: Shock value play still valuable
Graham Gentz | November 5The Aux Dog Theatre is making a career of being as edgy and dark as it can. Although with all the shock value available on the bottomless pit of the Internet or unapologetically vile television, it doesn’t always seem to have the desired effect. Not that “Coming Attractions” by Ted Tally is irrelevant.
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Web exclusive: SUCK 'N'
Graham Gentz | November 5The Aux Dog Theatre is making a career of being as edgy and dark as it can. Although with all the shock value available on the bottomless pit of the Internet or unapologetically vile television, it doesn’t always seem to have the desired effect. Not that “Coming Attractions” by Ted Tally is irrelevant.
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New Mexico's desert flowers
Chris Quintana | November 4Minka Kelly Recently announced as Esquire’s sexiest woman alive (whatever that means), Kelly spent time in Albuquerque where she learned to kickbox and sold tamales out of the back of an AMC Spirit.
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Awaken with Theater
Alexandra Swanberg | November 4Many customers don’t know that Winning Coffee Co. doesn’t just caffeinate its customers. Winning owners established Q-Staff Theatre in 1999, and the physical, experimental theater group does work based on training it received in eastern Europe.
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UNM beauty uses looks for charity
Andrew Beale | November 4Sita Huber is absolutely gorgeous. The UNM student’s eighth-place showing at a national beauty contest confirms that.
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Artist purees 50s housewife myth
Chris Quintana | November 2Kristianna Smith dropped out of high school around 13 and applied to community college courses at 15.
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'Absurd' isn't quite the word
Graham Gentz | November 2Contrary to what it may seem, Fusion Theatre Company’s production of “Happy Days” is not part of a chain reaction of existentialism tearing through Albuquerque. The writer, Samuel Beckett, is best known for writing “Waiting for Godot” and kicking it with Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Stop thinking; start writing
Antonio Sanchez | November 2While it may take some writers years to compose a full-length novel, one group asks would-be authors to churn one out in a month. Nov.
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Student-run gallery opens doors
Andrew Beale | November 1It was one of those three-in-one events — a gallery, music show and costume party — that displayed a grab bag of UNM students’ artistic endeavors. Except it wasn’t affiliated with the University, even though UNM students organized it. The Monster Mash was the first show at the newly opened Hydra Gallery on Lomas Boulevard.
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Local acts unplug at the El Rey
Alexandra Swanberg | November 1Project Acoustic mandates that bands strip down music to its base — that is, without the bass. Local acts from Albuquerque will play acoustic sets Friday at the El Rey Theater. Event organizer Helmut Perzi said acoustic minimalism is unusual in concerts. “What we’re trying to do is — you see a lot of these bands, and you see them in their same way all the time,” he said.
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Southern tale will suck you back into the Vortex
Graham Gentz | October 29The Vortex is back with the South again, as politely Machiavellian as ever. “The Little Foxes” by Lillian Hellman tells the story of a wealthy, but poignantly non-aristocratic southern family that fall victim to their own destructive methods that created their own greedy success.
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Program fights musical 'Dark Ages'
Andrew Beale | October 28Michael Chapdelaine views the current wave of electronic music in almost apocalyptic terms. As the head of UNM guitar studies, Chapdelaine understandably feels strongly about such things.
