“Theater is always dying,” said Pulitzer prize winning playwright David Mamet. In Albuquerque, this seems to exist as a perpetual freefall in orbit of the final death, which is, perhaps, why theater people find the whole thing so appealing. Those of a UNM persuasion can possibly find such things immediately.
As a ball of clay can be stretched and shaped into a towering work of art, the tugging nature of ambition can take an idea and mold it into something grander.
Outside Agora’s booth during the UNM Welcome Back Days, a man, Jim Browning, is talking about to a volunteer about how his mother is in a hospice.
In recent years, hummus has become a well-known snack-food staple. Its lesser-known sister dish, baba ganoush, has remained largely undiscovered by the public.
From page to screen to audience, the Albuquerque Film Festival covers it all. Running from August 25-29, the local fiesta consists of movie screenings, music, panels and other events held throughout the city. Rich Henrich, founder and executive director of Film4Change, the nonprofit organization presenting the festival, is the man running the show behind the scenes.
Jessie Hudson is, by her own admission, obsessed with jellyfish. Hudson, a senior majoring in studio art, paints the creatures in a variety of styles, ranging from oil painting to comic-book-style printmaking.
“Same Time, Next Year” by Bernard Slade is a different, feel-good kind of adultery. The set and premise are simple: A man and woman meet in a Californian seaside cottage for extramarital sex and conversation one day a year for 24 years. The play is split into two acts, each consisting of three scenes, and each scene takes place about five years apart.
Seven years ago, the Silver Skate Shop began with five boards, a handful of shirts and a mini ramp.
As school gets ready to resume, Lobo readers are changing habitats faster than hermit crabs. And as we all know, with new habitats come new habitat-buddies, or “roommates,” if you will. **Do you have any roommate horror stories? Tell us about your habitation irritation below.* *
Sam Irons is Albuquerque’s foul-mouthed acoustic act. His song titles include, “I Want to Hate F**k Your C**t,” “In Case You Die (I Hope You Get Pinkeye)” and the “F**k You Song,” all of which polarize the audience in any venue instantly he said.
Digital Analog Production, the class that built the hanging pods late last spring near the Duck Pond, is back with a project that lights up Central Avenue at night. The installation, called “Oculus: 35,” is located in the south courtyard of the architecture building facing Central Avenue.
Finding food to fit your fix and your finances can take some finesse and can be more challenging than an introductory physics class.
So you’re new in town. Don’t you want to know where the music is? It’s all over the place, really.
Twenty years ago, there were dozens of used bookstores surrounding campus. Though that number shrank significantly, there are still a few places where bookworms can go to indulge in their passion for literature. Bird Song, on University Boulevard and Central Avenue, draws dozens of readers looking to buy or sell books while Book Stop, tucked away on the 3000 block of Silver Avenue, is a brick-and-mortar front to an intimate setting. Despite a shrinking market, used bookstore owners remain optimistic about their futures.
Jonathan Wolfe’s vision is as limitless as the fractals that dominate his mind. A balloonist, artist and scientist,“The Fractal Man” is on his way to spreading fractal knowledge worldwide. “It’s incredibly gratifying as an artist to impact so many people so powerfully,” Wolfe said.
I never responded well to authority. In fact, I never got along with teachers in grade school. Now I know why.
There wasn’t a second of Clash Couture that I didn’t enjoy. The music was great, loud, and dance inducing.
Alex Langston plays the bass with heavy influence from Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa and Primus. He calls himself Mud Octave.
Hunter Beaton, Law Student Glasses: Dolce and Gabbana, $600 Shirt: United Colors of Benetton, $125 Pants: J.
Show stopper Roxane Butterfly will perform tap dance infused with Flamenco and Middle Eastern styles at the 12th annual New Mexico Tap Dance Jam on July 23 and 24. Butterfly’s appearance is a special happening for Albuquerque, as she usually only performs in big cities like New York or Chicago, Liz Salganek, producer of Tap Dance Jam, said.
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