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Ever-changing gallery promotes community

Verb Collective is an anti-gallery. "Where the hell else can you have holistic healing art?" said Verb member Andrew Kiff. "Aha. See? There you go. We win. Ding! Verb scores again." Kiff said most art galleries are dull. "Someone says, 'Come to the art gallery.


George Romero's "Diary of the Dead"
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Romero's 'shaky-cam' fails to thrill

It wouldn't be fair to say director George Romero has lost his touch - "Diary of the Dead" is an acceptable zombie movie. It's just not a Romero zombie movie. The problem is, by using the shaky-cam method of filming, he allowed the soul to be sucked out of the movie.


Christine Chin's piece in the "Alternative Alternative Energy" exhibit featured in Jonson Gallery through April 4.
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The humor in alternative energy

The first piece in Christine Chin's exhibit is powered by a fuel tank of liquefied worms. The exhibit, "Alternative Alternative Energy," has five pieces that represent their own micro energy economy because they power themselves, Chin said. The exhibit will be up through April 4 in the Jonson Gallery.


Yeo said her character in "Laughing Wild" isn't as crazy as she seems. "She just wants someone to listen to her, to accept her, to love her," she said.
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What-ifs & tuna fish

In "Laughing Wild," two lonely souls find love - in the tuna fish aisle. The play's two characters, referred to only as Man (played by Blake Catherwood) and Woman (Heather Yeo), reflect on their high-anxiety urban lives in monologues and bizarre, coinciding dream sequences.


Meridel Rubenstein is featured in 516 Arts' "Giving Shelter" exhibit.
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Artists lend skills to help African orphans

Artists explored emotional and physical shelter in the exhibit "Giving Shelter," a sister to the Cradle Project. The Cradle Project aims to get 1,000 artists to each make a cradle to raise funds for orphans in Africa. Proceeds from 516 Arts' "Giving Shelter," at 516 Central Ave.



Zoltan Orkestar from left to right: Zoltan Székely, Hector Pena, John Keith, and Roman Garcia.
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Samba group embraces circus spirit

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.


The Setonian
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Band defines 'punchy ambience'

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.


The Setonian
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Bikini-clad rockers take stage

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.


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Fashion Q&A

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.



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'10,000 B.C.' a historical failure

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.


Rookie Olson fixes a tire Sunday near the Duck Pond. Olson is a member of Biciaccion, a group of cyclists who help fix bikes on campus.
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Cyclists work to put dent in oil addiction

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.


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In step with Africa

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.



The Setonian
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BSE calls for student nonfiction

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.


UNM dance students rehearse for "Rotation," which will be featured this weekend at the Rodey Theatre.
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Lost German dance comes to life on stage

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.


Student Zian Ding works on a clay figure Friday in the ASUNM Crafts Studio in the SUB.
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Studio lets students ditch stress for arts and crafts

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.


"Cycle of Science - Astronomy" by Raymond Jonson
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Exhibit celebrates New Deal art

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.


Violinist David Feldberg and cellist Felix Wurman perform at the Church of Beethoven Sunday.
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Church minus the religion

"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.

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