I’ve nearly lost count of how many guys I haven’t slept with. First, there was Edward James Henderson, Jr., who came from a fine family but preferred to stuff his trust fund in the end of a pipe.
Garrett Briggs, a senior and archeology major, is giving Albuquerque a whole new way to celebrate Halloween. Briggs worked for about six months to create a Halloween hip-hop show, “From Dusk till Dawn,” which will be on Halloween night at Black Market Goods in Nob Hill.
Having retired from one job, Dale Ervin now spends his life doing what he loves: terrifying people. “Scaring people is an awful lot of fun,” said the owner and head operator of Albuquerque’s two largest haunted houses — Primitive Fear and 13th Street Manor.
UNM was founded in 1889, so ghosts have had over a century to come to campus, get an education and decide they like it here.
Sophomore Catherine Loweree seems like any other college student, walking around campus clad in a trendy, green-striped sweater on a Tuesday afternoon.
Harvest season is winding down, but students can still buy local food and support the local economy. Nolina Bryant, owner of Nolina’s Heavenly Organics farm, said purchasing locally grown foods is better for everyone all around. “Most produce is shipped far to be available in the grocery store,” she said in an e-mail.
Suspense is the scariest part of the film “Paranormal Activity,” which follows the supernatural happenings of a young couple. Katie Featherston has been haunted since she was 8 years old but recently noticed an increase in strange nighttime activity.
Antarctica is the star of an upcoming multimedia piece, while live turntable music will play the supporting role. Paul Miller — aka DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid — will perform a 70-minute audio visual piece titled “Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica” at the Kimo Theater on Saturday.
Imagine getting to rub elbows with your favorite band, but in a stranger’s house with 50 other people you don’t know — that’s the general idea of a house show.
Doug Gardner of Arlington, Va., is revolutionizing the world of paper puzzles in his spare time. Gardner, a computer security specialist, created the “Octo” puzzle in the summer of 2007.
Combine one part slasher-flick-style plot and suspense, another part probing meta commentary on violence in modern society, add some nonsensical humor and a dash of nudity, and voilà, “The Scare Game” is served. “The Scare Game,” written and directed by Phillip Hughes, is a new Web series in the same vein as popular series like “The Guild” and “The Legend of Neil.” Each episode of “The Scare Game” runs about eight minutes.
Brother Ali wants to hear what’s on your mind. His new album, Us, looks into social themes, such as racism, homophobia and immigration.
Top predators hold a key to life itself. Can people and predators coexist? Can we afford not to? These are some of the questions posed in the 2009 film, “Lords of Nature: Life in a Land of Great Predators,” the first of many films presented monthly by the UNM Chapter of the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance.
Taking pictures of movies is sometimes frowned upon in the art world, said UNM senior George Richardson. But Richardson said he photographed intense moments on the silver screen for his latest art show, “Come With Me,” which is up at John Sommers Gallery through Friday.
Johan Bengtsson is the bassist for Swedish band The Sounds. The group released their third album, Crossing the Rubicon, in June.
October must be here — hot air balloons are filling the blue sky over Albuquerque. Most people will take a minute or two to admire the colorful floating globes, but few stop long enough to consider how much work goes into every flight. Every balloon has a pilot and a chase crew of about five to six people who eagerly wake up around 3 a.m.
“Farfesha” is Arabic for “laugh joyfully,” said Michelle Morrison, founder and owner of Farfesha Belly Dance. This weekend, Farfesha is hosting a show at the Filling Station to celebrate the differences and similarities in Eastern and Western styles of dancing. “For me, belly dance was kind of a gateway dance, where once I kind of got into it, things like samba, and Bhangra and Bollywood were all the sudden a lot easier,” Morrison said.
Listening to Mark Farina is like taking the melody train all over the city of sound. Farina said his style fuses house beats with hip-hop and acid jazz — and he calls it “mushroom jazz.” “Acid Jazz started as a kind of English style of funk and hip-hop type of thing in the early 90s and was popular in San Francisco in the mid 90s,” Farina said.
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