If you’ve ever wondered what the mystery of fly-fishing is, you can find out this weekend. The fly-fishing trip has been part of the Getaway Adventures program at UNM Recreation Services for 16 years.
It’s easy to end up at McDonald’s on a break between classes to grab a quick bite, but those quick bites will sometimes bite back.
Open Spaces and the Nicodemus Wilderness Project will collaborate this weekend for the last Spring Cleanup of the month.
Fire scares us in the desert. But we shouldn’t let that fear deter us from attending the Words Afire Festival. The festival, in its 10th year, is an annual celebration and preparation for UNM’s graduate playwright students as they prepare to enter the world of theater, said Elaine Avila, head of the playwright program.
Brush the dust bunnies off the clothes in the back of your closet to trade them in for new clothes at the Sustainable Fashion: Co-ed Clothing Swap on Friday. Olivia Hawkins, co-coordinator of the event, said she didn’t think she had stuff to donate to the event when she first started looking through her closet.
Picture the blurriest photo you’ve ever seen. The sort where the light pools in odd places, the shapes lose their outlines and solidity, and where the blur is more important than what is in focus.
Bryan Jurus, Political Science, Sophomore Bryan “JurusDiction” Jurus is making noise in the Duke City, Las Cruces, El Paso and Denver.
Ken Stewart wants to change the way UNM students think about war. Stewart is a poet, Vietnam veteran and physician working at UNM Hospital.
A cluster of ears carved in limestone greets visitors at the Confluencias: Inside Arte Cubano Contemporáneo exhibit at the National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum.
Sex doesn’t have to take one form or be done one way, and neither should porn. But it seems that a lot of porn is produced and made a specific way and that there isn’t much variation.
Everything but the kitchen sink … and the toilet. That’s what gray water is — reusing the shower, bathroom sink and washing machine water to irrigate a landscape.
The gun seems to be made of plastic rather than steel. “You hope you never need it,” Chris Carabajal, UNMPD officer, said while checking that the laser sights were activated.
One part love of poetry, one part local authors and one part UNM Bookstore. That’s how students can celebrate National Poetry Month.
What is the difference between independent and undependent filmmaking? Experiments in Cinema 5.1 might give you a better idea. It’s a film festival in its fifth year, put on by Cinematic Arts professor Bryan Konefsky, and his class Experimental Film and Video.
Sophomore Alexis Pavlantos has a penchant for pendants and other forms of jewelry. She said her work tends to appeal to older women, but it’s not exclusively geared toward an older crowd.
Dancers chaotically spin and leap over rows of plastic water bottles, all of which are knocked over and then gathered in a segment of “The Good Dance.” Avant-garde African and Aboriginal-inspired contemporary dances will make their way to Albuquerque this weekend and the next at Global Dance Festival.
Kermit was lying when he said, “It isn’t easy being green.” The Home Builders, Remodelers and Green Ideas Showcase is coming to the Albuquerque Convention Center this weekend to prove it. Rick Shoudt, owner of Special Events Marketing, is the producer of the expo and co-founder of International Green Ideas. “The expo is a consumer trade show,” Shoudt said.
Until UNM starts its own community garden, students can take their food into their own hands. Container gardening was designed for people who don’t have enough space for a garden bed, for places with poor soil quality, less-than-optimal sun exposure and for many other problems one might encounter while greening their thumb. Chuck O’Herron-Alex, owner of Veggiegrower Gardens of New Mexico, said container gardening is perfect for students.
Megan Branch, a senior in the College of Fine Arts, is graduating in May. After high school at Santa Fe Prep, Branch went to the University of Oregon, but said she didn’t fit in.
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