“La lucha sigue” reads the graffitied wall in Oaxaca, Mexico. “The fight continues” this month, as the struggle for justice in Oaxaca continues at UNM. Now through Oct.
Undulating across distant water and land, contemporary artists from all over the world are coming to Albuquerque’s N4th Theater for Global DanceFest. The cultural immersion takes over the city four weekends in October, and it will feature a medley of media including film, theater and dance.
Bring out your pint glasses, dust off your beer goggles and tap into your inner Bostonian. Fourteen microbreweries, including nine locally owned ones, will offer beer directly from their tap room during the inaugural New Mexico Brew Fest taking place Saturday at Expo New Mexico. “It’s our Octoberfest,” said Aaron Moore, Marble Brewing sales manager. The event is presented by Local IQ Magazine and sponsored by Marble Brewing Company and the Santa Few Brewing Company.
Jenny London and Kim Coleman have the luck of the Irish on their side. Once just two dance instructors for New Mexico’s McTeggart School of Irish Dancing, the sisters formed their own dancing academy after their program was dropped in September from the McTeggart company.
Imagine staring down the barrel of injustice because your lifestyle instantly sets you apart. Or just see Tim Miller’s performance at Rodey Theatre and hear about his firsthand experiences. In “Glory Box,” Miller reflects on his personal episodes as they relate to situations gay, lesbian and bisexual people find themselves in.
In the past decade, war has again become an important part of the reality of American life. Despite its atrocities, many authors have used war as a useful tool to examine the beauties of humanity.
The artwork adorning the walls on the lower level of the SUB is intended to make the viewer uncomfortable, artist Charles Ellis said.
World cultures converge in a store in Nob Hill, yet most people pass without giving it a second glance.
Festival won’t be fenced by borders ¡Globalquerque! comes but once a year, and this weekend, ’tis the season to hear music from all over the planet. The music and culture festival enters its sixth year and is unique in the Southwest, said Tom Frouge, ¡Globalquerque!
It seems safe to say that filmmaker Kevin Hansen has quite a bee in his bonnet. His 2010 documentary short “Nicotine Bees,” showing at the SUB’s Southwest Film Center from Thursday-Sunday, exposes the root of the pandemic bee population decline that created a buzz in the news a few years ago.
Despite having a great name, I really didn’t think I was going to like Music is the Enemy. Take any random track from the band’s new CD, Mr. Murdoch … We’re Ready For Our Target Audience, and the first thing that assaults your ears is a wall of death-metal sound.
If you want to see something like you’ve never seen before, go to Blackout. The theater company dreams bigger than any other else and that absolutely shows. If you were lucky enough to see “The Circus Plays,” you can appreciate what Blackout Theatre Company brings to the table.
Burqueños have a chance to immerse themselves in Japanese culture on Sunday at the Japanese-American Citizens League’s Aki Matsuri (Fall Festival). The annual festival, which is anime-themed this year in recognition of the art’s growing popularity in and out of Japan, gives attendees a taste of different Japanese art forms such as origami, calligraphy, martial arts and, of course, cos-play for anime enthusiasts.
Daily Lobo photographer Ryan Garcia spent a month this summer in a UNM art history program in Italy.
As New Mexico’s luscious greens give way to crisp palettes of autumn gold and ginger, ASUNM rushes in with a program set about beautifying the campus. Fall Frenzy, a community-building event held this Friday, aims to spruce up UNM by planting flowers and trees around campus.
“Call me Ishmael.” How else could you start “Moby Dick” in any form? This stage adaptation of Herman Melville’s great American novel is often described as a musical, though it is hardly what you would expect from such a description.
If you like Facebook farming, you’re going to love this. The third annual Open Space Urban Farm and Harvest Festival is taking place Saturday at the Open Space Visitor Center.
To John Morningstar, a co-owner of clothing store Free Radicals, self-expression is an endowed liberty. “Expressing yourself as an individual is the most important birthright we have in this country,” he said. In that vein, Free Radicals, an alternative clothing store, promotes counterculture and competes against big-box, conformist retail chains.
Eating contests and barf buckets go hand in hand. Pizza 9 dough maker Tom Epley, who helped organize a pizza-eating contest to be held this weekend, said the pizzeria keeps buckets on hand during the contest in case anyone loses their lunch, or in this case, their contest. “As the MC, I’m quick to point that out.
It’s not often a movie with a sophisticated social conscience features the hero using a man’s intestine as a rope to rappel down a wall. So let’s say “Machete” is not a typical movie. Filmed in 70s-exploitation-movie style by director Robert Rodriguez, Machete blends hyper violence with political comedy targeted at the state of U.S.
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