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All-male chorus hits high note in the 505
Chris Quintana | April 6It starts with a single note plucked on a guitar string. A second later, four male voices begin to croon a cappella.
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Freshmen overwhelmed with fun things to do in Albuquerque
Nathan Levick | April 1Thanks 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.
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Balloonists throw in the towel and go back to bed
Hunter Riley | April 1The 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.
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Scholes Hall bathroom, where all your dreams come true
Abigail Ramirez | April 1In 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.
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Broadcasting bike breaks barriers for personal media
Candace Hsu | March 30Radio has taken a new wave, literally going mobile. Dylan Stevens-Sheriff, Parker Jennings and Seth Grant put together a broadcast tricycle.
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Battle of the Bands: The Noms
Chris Quintana | March 30The Noms won the UNM Battle of the Bands along with Zagadka. The five-person band plays acoustic pop.
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Battle of the Bands: Zagadka
Chris Quintana | March 30Zagadka tied for first place in UNM’s Battle of the Bands thanks to their powerful sense of identity, developed over the last seven years.
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Artist's Avenue: Paul Spella
Alisha Catanach | March 29Albuquerque 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.
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Battle of the Bands ends in toe-tapping tie
Chris Quintana | March 29After 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.
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Off the wall
Chris Quintana | March 25— 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.
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Bands to battle for their big break
Jenny Gignac | March 25Have 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.
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Brewing company to host blues fest
Hunter Riley | March 25Santa 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.
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A new take on the tormented teen
Evan Bobrick | March 23Imagine 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.
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Artist Avenue: Ramona Teo
Chris Quintana | March 23The 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.
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Grad student creates complex color
Candace Hsu | March 23Creating 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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Alcohol
Hunter Riley | March 11Parents whose children are busted for underage drinking might say, “Oh, you got busted for alcohol.
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Do it in the duke city: A crack of the whip can shake up a dull sex life
Hunter Riley | March 11There is something about the word kinky that makes me blush every time I say it. It’s a great word.
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Portrait of West trades sentimentality for sheep
Evan Bobrick | March 11I have never seen anything quite like “Sweetgrass,” the new documentary premiering Sunday at the Guild Cinema.
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A nice, hot spot of hookah
Abigail Ramirez | March 11You don’t need tobacco to smoke at this hookah lounge. The Terrene Cafe and Hookah Lounge, on Vassar Drive, is the only hookah lounge in Albuquerque to use tea shisha instead of tobacco shisha.
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Shop offers safe haven to explore sexuality
Hunter Riley | March 9At first glance, Self Serve might look like a boutique for vintage clothes, but it’s stocked with vibrators, rental porn, lubes and condoms. Warm-colored walls of red, brown, purple and green give the single-room sex shop its intimate feel.
