Danity Kane Welcome to the Dollhouse Available Now 1/5 Call it the sophomore slump. Call it the reality TV curse. There is no other way to put it: Danity Kane's newly released sophomore album stinks. As documented on the latest season of "Making the Band," executive producer Sean "P.
In July, lavender fields sprinkle the desert landscape against the backdrop of the Sandia Mountains. It's lavender picking time for Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, and what better way to celebrate than the Lavender in the Village Festival? What started five years ago as a small celebration of the summer harvest quickly turned into Los Ranchos' premier community event, organizer Kelly Kuchar said.
Julianne Hough Julianne Hough Available Now 3/5 We all know she can dance, as displayed on the ABC hit show "Dancing with the Stars." But can she sing? This up-and-coming country starlet known for her bubbly personality on television has a leg up on the competition as she debuts her self-titled country album to adoring fans.
It's a modern-day treasure hunt, minus the treasure. There are no pirates, eye patches or X's on a map. Instead, thrill-seekers use Global Positioning Systems to find small trinkets left behind by others who have found the items, called caches, and logged their experience on the Internet.
Four tents, a dozen squirt guns and more than 50 students chasing each other with paint and water balloons - the India Students Association celebrated Holi in style Saturday. "It's the Festival of Colors," said Krishna Chaitanya, president of the ISA. "There's no festival quite like it in the United States.
At the northern apex of the Rail Runner, I was faced with two options: get off the train and spend a few hours looking around Bernalillo, or keep riding it south, back to civilization. Luckily, my explorer's instincts took over, and I found myself setting off into the sunset.
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.
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