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.
Actor Brian McKay, who co-stars in an upcoming Broadway musical comedy about con artists, said he's only been scammed one time while walking up Eighth Avenue in New York. "I saw a guy running the three-card game - he shuffles the card and you've got to spot the ace, and I watched and watched and said, 'That's easy.
Gus Van Sant's latest movie, "Milk," tells the story of Harvey Milk (Sean Penn), one of the first openly gay men elected to office on San Francisco's Board of Supervisors. The film follows the story from his election to his assassination, going back and forth from Milk talking into his recorder in his home and flashback shots to his life.
The Dead Man's Carnival is coming to town from Wisconsin. "There's a deep cultural history of circuses and vaudeville in Wisconsin," member Sir Pinkerton Xyloma said. "The Circus World Museum is in Baraboo, Wisc. There's also the International Clown Museum.
Another year has gone by, and "Duke Nukem Forever" still hasn't been released. All kidding aside, 2008 was a hell of a year for the huddled gaming masses. "Fallout 3" hit the streets in October, and it's probably safe to say that it's the best RPG since "Planescape: Torment" graced the cathode-ray tubes in 1997.
They did it again. Once more, Hollywood has remade a great film into a steaming pile of horse crap. The latest victim is "The Day the Earth Stood Still." We should have seen this coming. The first sign that something foul was afoot came when they cast Keanu "Wooden Face" Reeves in the starring role of Klaatu, and it only gets worse from there.
"Urbane Expo" will showcase emerging artists under 21 with a black-tie-optional night of performance, music and art. "It has a dual meaning," organizer Amy Dalness said. "You think 'urban,' like street, city, kind of hip - urban has a lot of meanings. But 'urbane' means kind of refined and sophisticated.
Artist and Maine-native Kelin Underwood said she's never eaten peyote but has traveled a lot. "I had this serious anxiety issue and was not, like, bound to one place but kind of feeling stuck, like I could never branch out," she said. So she took her dog and a bunch of art she made in high school and took off across the States.
On the second floor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering building is what might be the coolest lab on campus. There aren't any lab benches, just a couple of couches, a few tables and a 200-inch projection screen. Attached to the screen is an Xbox 360.
Music meets literature as American Indian music legend Robert Mirabal will read from his first novel, Running Alone in Photographs, today in the SUB Ballroom from noon to 1:30 p.m. He will read three passages of different subjects, followed by a Q&A session and then a book signing at American Indian Student Services, 1119 Mesa Vista Hall.
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