Portable gaming has come a long way from the white-and-green screen of the original Game Boy. Today, you can power your portable gaming device by plugging it into the wall. But back then, you had to pop off the cover and slug in four more AA batteries. There was a rechargeable battery pack, but it was bulky - not to mention external - and the pack alone was the size of most modern portables.
There's a renewed hope that the U.S. health care system is ready for change, said Julia Deupree, co-head of the New Mexico chapter of the Health Care for America Now! campaign. The Center for Peace and Justice is hosting a free screening of Michael Moore's film "Sicko" at 7 p.
Jill Reeves and Skylar Whitney knew that when they applied to work at the Albuquerque Aquarium, they would swim alongside 17 sharks, along with various fish, turtles and stingrays, every day. An Albuquerque native, Whitney said he never pictured himself swimming in a display tank to feed and clean the animals.
Artists get scammed all the time, event producer and talent promoter Danette Lovato Pimentel said, particularly by restaurants. They tell the musicians to play a free two- to three-hour set, she said, and if the customers respond positively, maybe they'll hire the band.
The best thing that can be said about "Underworld: Rise of the Lycans" is that it could have been a lot worse. All the elements that make up the pure awesomeness of the first two movies are there - though "awesome" is definitely a relative term. No one saw "Underworld" for the emotional impact, but something is missing from "Rise of the Lycans.
There's a lot of crap on the Internet. With more than 8 billion Web pages in Google's directory, what's a guy to do? How do you know the sites that are worth your time? I've got your back on this one. After sifting through the ashes for the golden nuggets, I bring you four wonders of the Web.
After Danny Solis won the city's haiku championship Saturday night, he wept. It wasn't first place that made him cry - it was the woman who sang his haiku. He knew the song would last no more than a minute. Then it would end. He would never hear it again.
It's not that Stuart Hidalgo played too many video games. He would log maybe two or three hours of "World of Warcraft" every day. But that happened during his spare time, once dinner was out of the way and the kids were off to bed. Either way, Hidalgo's wife wanted answers.
Missionary John Wakabi, from Uganda, said God told him to move to the U.S. in 2002 to reaffirm America's faith. He sang at Woodward Hall three times, along with his keyboard-playing nephew, over the weekend as part of his "Voice of Hope Crusade." The event was sponsored by Destino, a Hispanic student ministry club on campus.
The Golden Age of postcards was 100 years ago. Today, the New Mexico Postcard Club is actively collecting, trading, selling, buying and cataloging postcards old and new, paper or otherwise. "You don't find them much anymore, but (they're also made from) wood, aluminum, copper, wood bark," club head Nancy Tucker said.
Body Language cures hump-day boredom, promoter Nic Ortiz y Pino said about the event. Reverend Mitton and Justin O'Brien heat up the Blackbird Buvette with their funky house music at 9:30 p.m. every other Wednesday. "Body Language is about house music," Mitton said.
Fencing is physical chess, said Andy Carey, organizer of the UNM Fencing Club. "There's about 15 people in the club, but how many show up on one night can vary a lot," Carey said. Fencing was one of the first clubs started at UNM in 1896, Carey said. Since then, the club has been re-founded many times, most recently in 2003.
Songwriter David Eugene Edwards is a doom minstrel from the Old Testament. "The Old Testament - we were under the law, and the law was never appointed to save us," the Woven Hand frontman said. With new album Ten Stones under its belt, the Denver band stops by the Launchpad on Saturday.
Dijana Milosevic wants to talk tea. She flew across Europe, above the Atlantic and over several states to direct a play about three women talking tea. But it's more than just tea. It's about its history. A rich history. A history that spans from the dawn of civilization, highlighting the greatness of humanity: how man achieved flight.
Albuquerque's first-elected sheriff is back from the dead. See for yourself at the history-infused biographical magic show Friday at the Magic Juggler Shop at 3205 Central Ave. N.E. Magician and performer Blake, who declined to give his last name, plays the ghost of sheriff Milton Yarberry, who was convicted of murder and hanged Feb.
Good news, raw foodists: the group Your Radical Health Albuquerque meets once or twice a month at ever-changing locations. You can keep up with their meeting places at Meetup.com/abqraw to share raw food recipes and eat raw food dishes together. Raw foods are classified as uncooked and unprocessed foods.
Tattoo artist Jeff Hayes named his shop Rival because he said it excels over the competition with a wide variety of media beyond skin ink. Rival Tattoo Art Studios has a photography room, a screen-printing press and a clothing line called M80. The 3,000 square-foot shop doubles as an art gallery, Hayes said, and he rotates the artists every two months.
Grad student May Goldman Shaltiel makes dichotomous, disharmonious video art. She got her BFA in photography 10 years ago in New York, where she also grew up with her hippie parents traveling from commune to commune. Since a family tragedy struck last summer, she has kept busy teaching and studying in the electronic arts program, making work, and maintaining an internship for a culture center.
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