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.
Wines are liquid landscapes. "People tend to think of landscape expressions in the context of painters," wine-maker Eric Glomski said. "Take somebody like Monet or Van Gogh, who paints a landscape and everybody can say clearly this person is expressing the landscape.
From Ethiopia to Albuquerque, Mike Ellison is educating college kids about the harmful effects of smoking, and he has gotten lots of support from other artists and fans, he said. Ellison, aka Mike-E, has teamed up with the American Cancer Society and UNM's chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity to continue the AfroFlow tour at 6 p.
Women are talking about their vaginas, said Esteli Juarez, director of "The Vagina Monologues." Juarez is directing the show for the third year in a row with support from the Women's Law Caucus and other law organizations on campus such as the Native American Law Students Association and the Jewish Law Students Association.
"Broadway, Your Way!" is a musical revue with a democratic twist. It runs today through Sunday at Theatre X. Audience members get to vote on the songs they want the cast to perform, and they're also invited to participate in a sing-along and dance-along. Director Hal Simons said this is the first year UNM has done an interactive musical revue.
"I used to be terminally serious," Stephen Hunt said of himself before he found the healing benefits of laughter. Hunt said he teamed up with the Tavern to help people lighten up and laugh. Every Monday night in April, the Tavern, at 4007 Menaul Blvd. N.E.
"Paradoxical" best describes the artworks of Julia Sapir and Jessica Kennedy, two MFA students presenting their thesis exhibitions in Jonson Gallery. On Friday, Sapir's photography series "Equation" and Kennedy's painting series "Self-Diagnosis" will be on display as part of an opening reception.
Everyone has secrets. No one knows this better than Frank Warren - author, volunteer and founder of the PostSecret Project. Warren will speak at the SUB Ballroom today at 7:30 p.m. for free. Warren began PostSecret in November 2004. The project was inspired by a dream in which three postcards he had bought earlier that day appeared.
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