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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.
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'Old Man Gloom' prepares to burn again
Tricia Remark | September 2Kids and adults of all ages swarmed a Santa Fe warehouse Tuesday night and worked tirelessly — stuffing long shredded paper into a 50-foot, wood and wire structure almost as big as the room itself.
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Artist Ave: Darnell Daniels
Chris Quintana | August 31Darnell Daniels, Mass Communications, Sophomore Darnell Daniels believes fashion is the most fluid art form of all.
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Makeshift studio makes big splash
Andrew Beale | August 31A new production company is in town, and they’ve got the basement all ready for you. Firehydrant Records was founded last year by local music fan Sean Smock with help from The Big Spank singer/guitarist Mike Garcia.
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Printmaking gets good press
Rebecca Gonzales | August 31Across from Johnson Center, one can observe a process that can only be seen at few places around the world. That little-known process? Lithography, a craft that involves the chemical process of transferring a printed image to a metal plate, is taught at the Tamarind Institute, a renowned school for print-making.
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Fewer events to pack more punch
Chris Quintana | August 26Bryan Jurus is taking the helm of Student Special Events and ushering in some changes while modifying some old favorites.
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Legendary trio to make metallic revival
Shaun Griswold | August 26The Clash of the Titans Tour in 1990, featuring Slayer, Megadeth and Testament was the premier thrash metal show at the time.
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On the other side of the fence
Andrew Beale | August 26Editor’s note: The opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author. Our immigration policy is a mess.
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Discover fine ABQ theaters
Graham Gentz | August 25“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.
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New shop invites artists to create, sell
Antonio Sanchez | August 25As 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.
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Agora lends a helping ear
Chris Quintana | August 25Outside 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.
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Take a dip into baba ganoush
Emma Difani | August 25In 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.
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Film fest teaches entertains
Nathan Levick | August 24From 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.
