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.
The Dukes of Ale are men on a mission. The mission: to teach people about beer and the home-brewing process. Member Rob Briscoe said that 30 years ago, practically the only American beers available were Budweiser, Miller and Coors. "If you wanted a decent beer, you had to get a European import," he said.
Matt Jones likes his music squeaky clean. "I feel like we could go spend $200, buy a guitar and never tune it, and then play it and release a record and try to get a buzz on it, because it's like something new and something different," Jones said. "But it wouldn't be what we were doing, and it wouldn't be real as far as we're concerned.
There was a time when the Squash Blossom Boys would play anywhere they could. "We played for a dog party once," guitarist Dustin Orbesen said. "It was at a boutique dog shop. So, there was just a bunch of people with their dogs running around everywhere." Guitarist Kyle Malone said the gig reminded him of the movie "Best in Show.
Scott Lehman said practicing yoga without clothing is a growing trend. He teaches a men's clothing-optional yoga class Tuesdays and nude yoga for men on Fridays. "I tell people that once you've experienced practicing yoga without clothing, you'll never go back to wearing clothing again for yoga," he said.
Collage artist Wayne Berube reads only newspapers and the Bible. "The Bible is certainly a source of inspiration for my pieces," he said. "If I live long enough, I'd love to collage and recreate sections of the Bible. I get so distracted by pop culture - that's the newspaper side.
Long gone are the days when a video game console only did one thing - play games. The average gamer has many decisions to make when choosing which capabilities they want out of their console. The Wii and the PlayStation 3 have support for Web browsing. The Xbox 360 and the PS3 have support for a number of video and audio codecs, an odd turn for two companies well-entrenched in the digital-rights management game.
Experiencing 516 Arts' "20 Years, 20 Artists" exhibit is like taking a trip, the director of Working Classroom said. "You can sort of travel the world while walking through that gallery," Nan Elsasser said. The exhibit is a team effort between 516 Arts and Working Classroom.
Ghostkimo started as a fake band. "It was my BFA project," band member Lindsay Kane said. "I just made tons of fliers I put around town, saying the date of the show was the day prior, so people would feel bad for missing a show, and they would maybe, like, get interested and, like, 'Oh, man.
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