The ruckus, fracas, ready to rock us is back again. On Saturday, the SUB ballrooms will be filled with pure aural ecstasy when UNM hosts the Battle of the Bands. "There are no restrictions on any styles," said Paul Spella, cultural director of Student Special Events.
Entering The Agency is like stepping into a piece of modern art. Blue and gray spirals decorate the resin floor, and elaborate paintings line the red brick walls. "You kind of forget you are in Albuquerque when you see this wall," owner Jason Wolf said. "It's like something you would see in the warehouse district of San Francisco.
On Friday night at the Launchpad, The Porter Draw will likely attract a diverse crowd, according to the band. From hippies to punk rockers, the elderly to rock 'n' roll kids, guitarist Josh Gingerich said everyone will enjoy what the band has to offer at its CD release party.
Art studio major Zane White paints imaginative landscapes and people. He's studying Arita porcelain and said UNM is the only place outside of Japan that teaches this style of porcelain. He longs to paint murals and relishes road trips, which are a source of his inspiration.
"A divorce will make a cat pee out of her litter box faster than anything," said Rev. Kelly Schneid. Schneid is an animal communicator in Albuquerque, as well as a spiritual coach and a Reiki master. She offers classes in animal communication and intuition at Crystal Dove Inc.
Anna Hampton Junior Secondary Education Sunglasses: Borrowed from Mom Sweater: Roxy, gift Dress: Wal-Mart, $10 Shoes: Aldo, $10 "Typically, I shop in bags of hand-me-downs." In the spirit of spring and originality, Hampton dons a sleek black dress. While most of her clothes are gifted, she gives her outfits life by combining them with flashy buys such as her shiny gold shoes.
There's a king snake with part of a whole garter snake shoved down its throat, found in 1958. "They were found this way - they were both dead," said Cindy Ramotnik, a federal worker for the U.S. Geological Survey who helps run the Museum of Southwestern Biology in UNM's Ceria building.
Many students are crossing Mexico off their spring break destination list this year due to rampant violence. Don't worry - not all hope is lost, because New Mexico has a few vacation spots of its own, even ones that will fit the college budget. Ten Thousand Waves - Santa Fe - (505) 992-5025 Ten Thousand Waves is affordable for students who want a spa treatment or a day in the hot tubs.
Is it possible that an Alan Moore comic has finally been turned into a movie Moore will be happy with? That's probably a bit of a stretch, but "Watchmen" is certainly a movie that any fan of the graphic novel should be fairly happy with. It sticks to the comic faithfully, though some changes to the ending were made, probably to make the story more cinematic.
Elliot Laurence, aka Ambassador Junior Lion, said his dream is to spread understanding through reggae music. Along the way, he happened to pick up the title for Reggae Artist of the Year at the St. Martin Music Awards in 2006 and 2007. Laurence will perform outside the SUB at noon on Wednesday and at 5 p.
"Wonder Women, Super Queens" is a drag performance organized by Marshall Martinez, chairman of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. The show is a variety of singing, dancing and dramatic interpretation. Martinez said he has wanted to do a performance like this for more than a year.
The play "Real Women Have Curves" is about five Latinas working in a Los Angeles sweatshop, which blends into an overarching theme of family bonds and women's strength. "They make dresses where they get paid for a dress at $13 apiece, and they're sold for $200," director Salomé Martinez-Lutz said.
A hip-hop-infused modern farce meets ancient Greece in Mars Mraz's "Greek Row Tragedy," which premieres tonight at Rodey Theater at 7:30. The tale, a modern adaptation of Euripides' "The Bacchae," chronicles a frenzy of sorority girls sweeping across the nation at the urging of a lewd choreographer seeking revenge, and the attempts of one man to stop the madness.
Senior Eliana Enriquez is majoring in art studio with a concentration in sculpture. This semester, she's taking intermediate sculpture and painting, but she doesn't much like painting because she doesn't "view the world in that type of space," she said. Enriquez stays well-rounded by working with a variety of materials such as wax, metal, clay, wire - random junk collaged together.
Superheroes, villains, henchpeople, a chupacabra, pink flamingos and a boat sailing the mountains of Tibet. Expect to see these things in Theatre X for the next two weeks. "Thou Art Villain" and "Tibetan Mountain Boat" will open at Theatre X on Thursday. The show features two original one-act comedies written, acted, directed and produced by students.
The Prodigy Invaders Must Die Available Now 4/5 In an alternate reality, this is a greatest hits collection. From start to finish, it's full of songs that sound almost, but not quite, like a collection from The Prodigy's earlier years. "Thunder" sounds an awful lot like "Diesel Power," and "World's on Fire" is a few notes from being a remix of "Firestarter.
The tappity-tap-tap-click of dance shoes stomping out an Irish jig echoed throughout the Radisson Hotel on Saturday. It was the 2009 New Mexico State Championships, and about 260 dancers from across the United States competed for prestige and prizes. Beverly Coleman, who teaches traditional Irish step dancing at the Lloyd Shaw Dance Center, said the festival kicks off the celebration of Irish heritage surrounding St.
Yeah, it has been out for three weeks now and has already made more than $50 million at the box office, but let me tell you about a movie called "Coraline." Based on the children's novel by British author and equally British screenwriter Neil Gaiman, "Coraline" is the latest production from the eye-popping, jaw-dropping, belly-flopping, hip-hopping, stop-motion works of animation master Henry Selick.
This weekend's openers for Global Dance Fest 2009 will appeal to artists across the board, Danish choreographer Palle Granhoj said. "My kind of dance performances are much more for people outside the dance community than people inside the dance community," Granhoj said.
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