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.
Le Chat Lunatique Demonic Lovely 2/5 Available Now The interesting thing about going to a CD release party is that the listener gets a sense of how the band sounds live and not how good the CD is. Sometimes, the CD is left wanting. This is definitely the case with Demonic Lovely.
Nobody likes David Rice. Rice (Hayden Christensen) is the focus of "Jumper," which came out Feb 14. The film follows "Rice Bowl," as the high school bullies call him, from age 15, when he realizes he has the ability to teleport. He soon masters his powers, and before he knows it, he has built an exciting, comfortable life stealing money by teleporting it out of banks.
A secret is just an answer waiting to be revealed. This is one of the central insights of J.T. Rogers' award-winning play "Madagascar," Fusion Theatre Company's season premiere at the Cell Theatre. Directed by Dave Florek, the play focuses on the lives of three uprooted people who find themselves alone in a sparsely-furnished hotel room.
Patrick Cleandenim is the up-and-coming prince of the old-school pop song. The native of Lawrence, Kan., who recently graduated from New York's Cooper Union, released Baby Comes Home last year on Ba Da Bing! Records. Cleandenim engages the full sounds of a string orchestra, horn section, piano and swelling vocal harmonies, backed by catchy, upbeat jazz percussion.
Singer Angus Andrew broke his leg while recording the Liars' latest album, Liars, in Berlin. "I got hit by a car while I was riding my bike, and I got my leg broken, so I had this huge plaster cast that went from my toe to my hip, and it was really heavy to deal with while I was trying to finish the record," he said.
The fliers for Breakin' Hearts have next year's date on them. "That's how you know it's a real hip-hop show - the dates are wrong, and everything is misspelled," organizer Cyrus Gould said. Breakin' Hearts, a hip-hop festival, will be in the SUB Ballroom on Saturday.
Roller derby began in the Great Depression, but without rules. "It was a roller derby match with teams of two people skating the equivalent of the distance from L.A. to New York," derby skater Michela Dai Zovi said. "It was an endurance sport, and the organizer saw people got more into it when people fell.
Italian Film Festival director Ronaldo Patrizio-Steiner didn't want to host a boring fundraiser. "(Albuquerque nonprofits) all pretty much do the same thing," Patrizio-Steiner said. "They have a golf tournament or a run or a dinner with a silent auction. And I said, 'Don't do those things, because everyone else is doing them - let's do something different.
The Mammal Eggs don't want to be famous. "We do everything possible not to promote ourselves," violinist Rosie Hutchinson said. "It's sort of uncomfortable to have admiration from people you don't know." The Mammal Eggs are an experimental rock band that formed at UNM.
Albuquerque Little Theatre is updating a 17th-century French play. "The music from that era is pretty dull," said Theresa Reid, director of "Cyrano de Bergerac." "I'm just not into harpsichord. I'm not into opera. Back in 17th-century France, they were just starting to experiment with opera, and it wasn't that impressive, so I did my sound design around my young cast.
Albuquerque didn't always have a Chinese New Year celebration. "We started in 1990 because every year around Chinese New Year time, we get a lot of calls," Chinese Cultural Center owner Synthia Lin said. "People wanted to know if there was a place to go for the Chinese New Year celebration. Unfortunately, ...
Comedians rarely take their acts beyond the lights of the stage. "You'll find a lot of comics are humble," said Russ Rivas, owner of Laffs Comedy Club. "Most of them are very well-read, pretty educated - me being the exception, of course." Each week, the club presents three performers.
Walter Blanding is known as jazz's ambassador to Israel. "My ex-wife is Israeli, and she was homesick," he said. "So, I decided to move there with her and just give it a chance - good or bad. If things were so horrible, I could just come back home. It was a great experience.
In spite of Marjane Satrapi's drawing style - light, airy and fun - "Persepolis" still manages to be a dramatic film. The animation is based on Satrapi's graphic novel drawing style. It's largely line-based, and, as such, the amount of detail one can see in any given shot is impressive.
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