Coldplay Viva La Vida, or Death and All His Friends Available Now Coldplay's latest album is a return to formula for the London band. Producer Brian Eno seems to have held back some of the excesses of Colplay's previous effort, X&Y, and allowed the band to put together an album that has a sound much closer to its first two albums.
Madrid, N.M., is a unique destination, to say the least. The town, originally founded in the 1800s as a coal mining town, is now an artist's haven - a hippie enclave of sorts. And that's an interesting mix. Rediscovered in the 1960s and '70s, the town provided artists an escape from the "touristy and overpopulated" Santa Fe and Taos, one gallery owner said.
Hulk smash? In the pseudo-sequel to the 2003 super-flop "Hulk," he most definitely does. That's a good thing. It's rare enough that a movie gets a second chance, and the Hulk franchise most definitely was not going to get a third try. It's not quite a direct sequel to the aforementioned flop - in fact, the only real plot point that carries over is Bruce Banner fleeing to Brazil.
El agua es la vida - "water is life." For the community of San Antonio, N.M., there isn't a more apt saying. In the 1800s, the village served as a small farming and ranching community. People kept goats - one of the only animals suited to graze the area's rocky climate - and grew small fields of squash, corn and chile.
UNM student Victoria Otero practices flamenco in front of a plain mirror in an unassuming dance studio in Johnson Center. Otero's ornate dress creates a fury of scarlet and gold as it flows with grace and precision. Her feet make a loud, clinking sound perfectly in unison with the echo of Spanish maracas in the background.
Why buy a Father's Day card when your dad could shoot an elk with a bow and arrow? While the elk, along with a few other animals, will be artificial targets, they will be 3-D at the Sandia Crest Bowhunters Association Father's Day Shoot on June 15. The group is hosting the event at its archery range near Tijeras Canyon.
"Cowboys Are My Weakness" is a play about women who are dying for marriage proposals. The audience follows four women whose identities are blurred into a composite female of the '90s who is educated, opinionated and vulnerable. To make a play about women dying for a proposal that never comes is to tread on dangerous ground.
It has been a glorious return to the days of yore, when a young man could steal a car, drive it down a city street at 150 mph, slam it into a bus, shoot the bus driver, and then steal the bus. This refers, of course, to "Grand Theft Auto IV". In this installment of the series, the player controls Nico Bellic, a Serbian immigrant with a penchant for violent crime, as he roams around Liberty City - Rockstar Games' stand-in for New York.
Earth Treasures Us owner Thomas Huber said the items in his store reflect his wife's heritage. "My wife is actually Indian," he said. "She is East Indian, grown up in Thailand. So, to bring in things from India is very natural." The store at, 3025 Central Ave.
A group of women are working hard for social change and women's empowerment. "Our purpose is to build an empowered community of young women of color," said Adriann Barboa, community organizer and development coordinator of Young Women United. The organization, at 120 Morningside Drive N.
Jazz piano guru Stu MacAskie got into jazz in seventh grade after watching a PBS special on Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie.ˇ "Then Dave Brubeck performed 'Take Five,' and I thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever heard in my life," MacAskie said.
When Julia Brown took a tour of Old Town, she decided she wanted to do it every day. "One night I went on the ghost tour, and it was a lot of fun," she said. "And I got involved, and I ended up becoming the manager for the ghost tour, and then a year ago, I actually purchased it and expanded to the history tour."
Robert Downey Jr. was born to play Tony Stark. They share so many similarities: Alcoholic? Check. Rich? Check. Egotistical? Check. Runs around in a suit of powered battle armor? Check - Well, maybe not. After seeing "Iron Man," it wouldn't be all that surprising to discover Downey leads a second life as a superhero.
At one time, the Felonious Groove Foundation had nine members. "We would go to a show, and it'd look like a clown posse getting out of the car," guitarist Cali Soberanes said. "The van door would open up, and it'd be a nonstop line of musicians getting out.
The Jazz Infidels got their name after a month of debate. "It was something we could all semi-agree on," saxophone player Sam Isabel said. "'Infidel' has a connotation that you don't follow the norm. Plus, we wanted to indicate that we are a jazz band." The band also includes Der Baron on drums, Vince Spiak on stand-up bass, Boleszek Osinski on trumpet, and Shawn Umsteau or Paul Mallory on piano.
Tegan and Sara are on tour promoting their latest album, The Con, which is fitting since they basically conned me into thinking they might be good. I had never heard their music before and was excited to see their show, since I'm always in the mood for new, live music.
Basement Films does things a little differently. "We exhibit a lot of films in a mobile, makeshift manner," said Keif Henley, group member and owner of the Guild Cinema. "We don't make films in a traditional sense. We've done things in parking lots. We've done a show inside a used car lot.
For the past eight years, Ya-Ya Boom has been a staple of the Albuquerque music scene. The band's CD release party for its latest album, Isn't Pretty, is this Saturday at 10 p.m. at Burt's Tiki Lounge. Bass player Monica Demarco said the secret to the band's longevity is its love for music.
Dirt City Radio Old Country Blues Available Now 3/5 This album is exactly what its title claims to be. It is country - the style is downright archaic - and it cannot be denied that it is blues. The problem here is it's underproduced. Yeah, a raw sound is usually a good thing, and yeah, no one will deny that too much production will murder an album - but someone really needs to take away Dirt City Radio's echo pedal.
The Blackbird Buvette was opened by a rock band. "Spending a lot of time together traveling, we would always think of different ideas of things to do, and that was one that I think everybody was always intrigued with," Brian Knieriem said. "We all had a background in the service industry - restaurants.
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