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.
It starts with a single note plucked on a guitar string. A second later, four male voices begin to croon a cappella.
Thanks to the results of a recently released survey conducted by UNM admissions, there is now evidence that reinforces one of the obvious pluses freshmen can expect when they come to UNM: Albuquerque is bustling with things for them to do.
The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta rode its last high at its 2009 event. The fiesta started in 1971, but the Albuquerque Balloon Committee decided the festival was too much of a hassle. In a statement released Monday, the Board of Directors cited “not wanting to wake up so early 10 days in a row and realizing that it’s just not worth all the sleep-loss,” as the driving force behind the decision. The board conducted a survey of about 15,000 attendees, all of which said they were probably too busy this year to go to the balloon fiesta.
In a $1.4 million study released by GPSA, the toilet paper in the administrative building is found to be the best throughout the entire University. According to the study, the bathroom tissue is described to “hug your bottom.” The study stemmed from University-wide departments’ complaints about instances when they’ve had to go without t.p.
Radio has taken a new wave, literally going mobile. Dylan Stevens-Sheriff, Parker Jennings and Seth Grant put together a broadcast tricycle.
The Noms won the UNM Battle of the Bands along with Zagadka. The five-person band plays acoustic pop.
Zagadka tied for first place in UNM’s Battle of the Bands thanks to their powerful sense of identity, developed over the last seven years.
Albuquerque is sick as a dog … with dance fever! UNM students Paul Spella and Hendrick Onderdonk spin electro house music as DJ team Click Click Bang.
After eight and half hours of pounding drums, wailing guitars, crooning vocals and the occasional f-bomb, The Noms and Zagadka emerged the victors of the UNM Battle of the Bands on Sunday in the SUB.
— Some people can do a back flip, others a front flip, but the majority of the population would be hard-pressed to do a front flip over a 10-foot gap.
Have you heard the buzz? Someone’s going to win the UNM Battle of the Bands. And it all goes down Sunday at the SUB. With 25 bands already signed up, and more coming in right up to the deadline, which was Tuesday at 5 p.m., Student Activities staff member Jordi Gailard said she expects this to be an extra huge event.
Santa Fe’s going to be a little blue this weekend. But that’s the way Mike Koster intended it. Koster is the director of Southwest Roots Music, the organization that’s bringing four blues artists to the Santa Fe Brewing Company on Saturday for the Santa Fe Blues Festival. “Nobody has done an all-blues fest in Santa Fe before, so this one is starting out pretty small, because it’s an indoor festival,” he said.
Imagine that Jason Reitman’s Oscar-winning film “Juno” is a hand towel. Now, imagine wringing all the sentimentality and snappy dialogue out of it and leaving it crumpled up to bake in the sun.
The walls of UNM senior Ramona Teo’s home are covered in paintings from ceiling to floor. After high school, she lived in Malaysia, where she honed skills for drawing intricate geometric patterns.
Creating the difference between attractive and stimulating is what artist Beau Carey shoots for in his paintings. Carey mostly works with large-scale oil paintings to reconstruct landscapes.
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