Zoltan Szekely learned guitar from a Hungarian trapeze artist. "Before that, I played the violin, and I was a miserable failure at violin," he said. "After I got instructions from the circus trapeze artist, I began to see the way." His band, the Zoltan Orkestar, is made up of accordion, guitar, bass, percussion and occasionally violin.
For the past six months, the Fertile Crescent has been on the injured list. "We couldn't play for four whole months because our drummer overextended his wrists from playing too much," vocalist Bryce Hample said. The Fertile Crescent will perform at Winning Coffee Co.
Josh Taylor plays in a band in Los Angeles and coaches another one. The Josh Taylor's Friends Forever keyboard-guitar-drums trio has bikini-clad women armed with fireworks and torches. They perform 8 p.m. Wednesday at The Stove at 114 Morningside Drive N.
Rebecca Papp Freshman International business "I usually wear whatever I feel like wearing - jeans, skirts." Papp likes to keep her style casual. She moved to New Mexico from Virginia last semester. She said she usually shops at American Eagle Outfitters and Forever 21.
Randy Martinez cheers after band Asper Kourt finishes their set during the Battle of the Bands in the Sub on Monday.
Saber-toothed tigers notwithstanding, the anachronisms in "10,000 B.C." completely ruin the movie. If Roland Emmerich had put even the slightest amount of research into the time period he was making a movie about, he would have realized that, first of all, no one was building pyramids 12,000 years ago.
Biciaccion will fix your bicycle for free and will even show you how to do it yourself. The group meets the last Wednesday and Sunday of every month at 10 a.m. by the Duck Pond. "We set up our tools, and anybody who shows up on two wheels, we'll fix up their bike for them or do whatever we can," co-founder and UNM student Nathan Brody said.
Global DanceFest is here to teach us about Africa. Marjorie Neset, director of North Fourth Art Center, picks a theme every year for the traveling international dance festival. Friday's event will be held at South Broadway Cultural Center, at 1025 Broadway Blvd.
Rodney Parker & Fifty Peso Reward: The Lonesome Dirge Flogging Molly: Float Minmae: True Love/¿Ya Te Vas?
Best Student Essays has extended its spring submission deadline to Monday. The deadline for submissions is now March 10. BSE publishes all genres of nonfiction writing, foreign language nonfiction writing and photo essays. "Students can submit to us nonfiction of any type, whether it's been written for UNM coursework or outside of class," BSE editor Jay Reidy said.
Rota is considered a lost dance. "It's an important part of our legacy - our dance history," said Mary Anne Santos Newhall, who is helping direct the 1930s German dance for the upcoming show "Rotation," put on by the UNM dance department. "A lot of things happened in that period of time.
The ASUNM Crafts Studio in the bottom level of the SUB is a mystery to most students, studio technician Marie Gardner said. "It feels a little like being in a zoo sometimes," Gardner said. "Like people are pointing and saying, 'Look! Look at the artist.'" She said few students realize the studio is not an isolated group of artists.
A good deal came out of the Great Depression. The UNM Art Museum is marking the 75th anniversary of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal with "For the Greater Good: New Deal Art in New Mexico." It opened Tuesday. The exhibit explores art from the 1930s, when Roosevelt implemented the New Deal, a sequence of programs to help people recover from the Great Depression.
"Beethoven" is painted on a big yellow surfboard that sits on a fence Sunday mornings at 1024 Fourth Street S.W. It's a sign for the Church of Beethoven, where cellist Felix Wurman hosts a free, nonreligious, 45-minute music and spoken word service at 10:30 a.
There'll be a slew of young men clad in yellow Monday. The student group Black Men in Motion is hosting a student fashion show - "De La Sol" - in the SUB at noon. The group's last two shows featured a green color scheme for the gentlemen and peaches and cream for the ladies.
For Section Quartet violinist Eric Gorfain, rock 'n' roll is played from the heart. "There's so much about the performance and the moment," he said. "It's about conveying what you are feeling." The Section Quartet will perform Friday at Puccini's Golden West Saloon.
There is an odd trend toward the apocalyptic among recent and forthcoming video game releases this year. For instance, "Tom Clancy's EndWar," which is set for a fall release, tells the story of a third World War fought conventionally, under the protective shield of an anti-ballistic missile system.
Keith Reddin's dark comedy "Life During Wartime" has everything its title suggests: love, fighting, innocence and corruption. Tommy (Brandon Weaver) is an up-and-coming home-security salesman who uses fear as a sales pitch. He falls in love with his first sale, a single mother named Gale (Rachael Shapiro).
Monster truck driver Charles Benns isn't afraid to take a risk. "There are guys who will go out there, drive over a car and wave," he said. "And then there are people like me who will throw caution to the wind like a maniac and hit it at full speed, and whatever happens, happens.
Gil Greengross wants to know why we laugh and what drives comedians to humor us. Greengross, a humorologist who teaches a class at UNM West, came to UNM from Israel in 2000. His Ph.D. dissertation focuses on humor from an evolutionary standpoint. "UNM is one of the best places in the world to study evolutionary psychology," he said.
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