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Daily Lobo Photo Essay
Ryan Garcia | September 20Daily Lobo photographer Ryan Garcia spent a month this summer in a UNM art history program in Italy.
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Fall Frenzy to vamp up campus
Antonio Sanchez | September 20As 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.
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Play tackles complex themes
Graham Gentz | September 16“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.
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Festival lauds urban farming
Candace Hsu | September 16If 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.
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Store supports subcultures
Gianna May | September 16To 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.
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BYOB (BRING YOUR OWN BUCKET)
Andrew Beale | September 16Eating 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.
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Movie mixes gore, conscience
Andrew Beale | September 14It’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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NM massacre film unveiled
Alexandra Swanberg | September 14Twenty years after the massacre at a Las Cruces bowling alley, Charlie Minn is bringing the unsolved case back to life with his documentary, “Nightmare in Las Cruces.” On Feb.10, 1990, seven people were shot execution-style and four died.
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Online exclusive: Machete offers gore, conscience
Andrew Beale | September 9It’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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Group focuses in on power of zen
Andrew Beale | September 9The newest religious student group doesn’t represent a religion at all, but a “way of life,” according to its founders. Brittany Arneson, secretary of the Student Dharma Association, said Buddhism is more of a philosophy or a lifestyle choice than a religion. “We listed it with the religious groups because we thought that’s where students who want what we offer would look for it,” she said.
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Going beyond blockbuster
Chris Quintana and Andrew Beale | September 9*On-campus center offers variety of little-known films * Chris Quintana The Guild is often sold as the only place to see “Indie” films around town, while other theaters just play blockbuster fodder for an easy buck.
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Artist leaves digital in dust
Antonio Sanchez | September 7To Andrew Moore, there’s something honest in capturing a moment through a camera lens — something that digital editing software can’t come close to achieving.
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'Dracula' not for 'Twilight' suckers
Alexandra Swanberg | September 7Vampire tales have been done over and over, though audiences never seem to quench their insatiable bloodlust.
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Comic book mecca a friend to all
Alexandra Swanberg | September 6Prosperity means more than sales and numbers to Astro-Zombies owner Mike D’Elia. Years ago, D’Elia’s business plans started with a video arcade and matured into Albuquerque’s more gregarious one-stop comic shop.
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If you can read this, don't read this
Gianna May | September 6Forty-six percent of New Mexican adults can’t read above a fifth-grade level, and the New Mexico Coalition for Literacy is trying to change that one reader at a time.
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A new side to the South
Graham Gentz | September 6There aren’t many happy stories about the South. They’re all dark and brooding, about murky family secrets and slow deaths, suffocating honor and tradition.
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Artist Ave--Jeffrey Hertz
Chris Quintana | September 6Student Jeffrey Hertz’s art is born from his travels around the world. His work, located at Yoberri on Harvard Drive, features photos that one might expect to see in National Geographic.
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Show cracks art scene glass ceiling
Alexandra Swanberg | September 2The musical kitty cats of Albuquerque will finally have a chance to strut their stuff in a night of performances dedicated to women in the arts and the inner power that fuels their talent. “Gatas y Vatas” is the brainchild of Marisa DeMarco, a former Daily Lobo editor-in-chief.
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Medical novel dissects life in ICU
Kevin Jackson | September 2Tengo Sed is the equivalent of a doctor’s stethoscope — preliminary, unobtrusive, yet still useful.
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Talks aim to inspire in 'dark times'
Candace Hsu | September 2Building a resilient society is difficult for any community, but the Albuquerque Cultural Conference is finding ways to make society better. This year’s theme is “Crisis, Community and Performance: Building a Resilient Society,” and it will be held Sept.
