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Eliana Enriquez
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Artist's Avenue

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.


The Setonian
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One-acts show features creative comedies

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 Setonian
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The Lobo Threesome

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.


Members from the McTeggart Irish Step Dancers perform during a Christmas party. On Saturday they competed in the Irish Step Dance Competition at the Radisson Hotel.
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Irish festival something to dance about

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.


Dakota Fanning as the voice of Coraline Jones in "Coraline."
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'Coraline' engaging, visually elegant

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.


"Granhoj Dans Obstrucsong" by Per Victor
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Dances with nations

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.


Lead singer of Tool, Maynard James Keenan, left, and Eric Glomski, right, will sell and sign their wines Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Whole Foods Market.
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Wine: a taste of expression

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 left to right: Sowandé Keita, DJ Invisible, Mike-E and Kenny Watson of AfroFlow. The group will perform in the SUB Ballroom today.
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Hip-hop crew sheds light on dangers of smoking

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.


Rose Bryan performs during "The Vagina Monologues" at the UNM School of Law in 2008. The show will run Thursday through Saturday at the School of Law.
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Talking girl talk without shame

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.


Michael Canter in a rehearsal for "Broadway, Your Way!" at Theatre X on Feb. 9.
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Crowd has its way with show

"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.



Luis Powell, left, and Stephen "HaHa" Hunt at Satellite Coffee on Wednesday.
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Feeling sick? Just laugh it off

"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.


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The world as they see it

"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.


Frank Warren, founder of PostSecret, receives more than 200 secrets on postcards per day, and he will visit campus today at 7:30 p.m.
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Secrets collector prepares to share

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.


Clive Owen plays Louis Salinger in "The International."
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'International' mixes thrills with smarts

"The International" might be the most intelligent, frantically paced thriller ever made. It's got all the action of movies like "Crank" and "Live Free or Die Hard" without the stupidity. Clive Owen is an interesting creature in the acting world. Not every movie he's made has been a critical success, but every movie he's been in has at least been fun to watch, or in the case of "Children of Men," absolutely moving.


The Setonian
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Band's Brazilian styles entice listeners, dancers

The band Saudade has a way of drawing people inside the Blackbird Buvette on Thursday nights to hear Brazilian jazz, clarinetist Bob Gusch said. "A lot of people just wander in because they hear us and they'll come in and have a seat," Gusch said. "And we can see people tapping their toes and drumming on the bar.


Michael Carter is featured in "Broadway, Your Way" at Theatre X.
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Artist's Avenue

The joys of musical theater won Michael Carter over last year, and he has plunged headfirst into training and performing. He's performing in "Broadway, Your Way," which wraps up this weekend at Theatre X. The Albuquerque native makes visual poetry films and music videos on the side.


Omar Estrada skateboards at Warehouse 508.  He will be one of many skaters who take their skills to Civic Plaza today for the "Fight for the Right" mass-skating event at 6 p.m.
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Youths rally for space of their own

How many people can say they've gone snowboarding Downtown? Warehouse 508, a youth-oriented entertainment space, put together Fight for the Right, and the group is trucking in about 10 tons of snow for Albuquerque youth to legally snowboard and skateboard on Civic Plaza today, starting at 6 p.


The Setonian
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Andrew Bird rocks, charms crowd

Boy, the man can whistle. Fortune befell Albuquerque when Chicago's Andrew Bird, the violinist rock star, performed at El Rey on Friday night with three backup musicians. The band Loney, Dear opened with an atmospheric cross between shoegaze and head-in-the-clouds music, some Andrew Bird-lite to whet our appetites before the main show, but nothing that moved me to rapture.

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