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Off the streets, into the gallery
Bryan Gibel | October 16Instead of decorating the pavement with spray-paint graffiti, artists are going to the gallery to display their artistic crimes.
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Bust a myth, teach forthwith
Ashleigh Sanchez | October 16The flammability of flatulence was one of the myths Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage confirmed Saturday at Popejoy Hall.
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Festival gets things moving
Taylor Lieuwen | October 16The Best in the Southwest animation and graphics festival explored the art and business of graphic design. "We went to a lot of conferences where we learned some techniques, and we saw some inspiration, but it was always just pieces or things, and we thought, well, what do we really want to know?" festival coordinator Becky Padilla said. "We aren't finding it out there, so let's do it."
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Drummer for Coltane keeps jazz legacy alive
Bryan Gibel | October 9John Coltrane died in 1967, but his music lived on at an Albuquerque festival held over the weekend. The Creative Soundspace Fall Festival at the Outpost Performance Space celebrated Coltrane's mark on the U.S. and abroad.
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Festival makes some noise
Kate Murphy | October 9On Friday night, the crowd at Downtown's Cell Theatre danced to the beat of a different drummer - a drummer who banged away on an air conditioner. The Oscillation Electronic Music Festival showcased local musicians specializing in underground electronic music, particularly experimental, industrial and noise.
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Gore talks climate change in NM
Brandon Call | October 9He used to be "the next president," but now Al Gore travels the world championing the issue of global warming. Gore brought his "An Inconvenient Truth" to the Santa Ana Star Center on Wednesday before an audience of more than 2,000 people.
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Pedaling across U.S. for new life
October 9David Wray is riding his BMX bike across the United States and writing a book about it. "I've got the introduction written," Wray said. "It's kind of hard to be experiencing everything and still find the time and focus to take notes. I'm definitely going to tie in a lot of other angles, like spirituality, politics, art, freedom."
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Calling all memoirs, essays and critiques
October 4UNM's premier nonfiction review has extended its submission deadline to Oct. 12. Best Student Essays is accepting work from any graduate or undergraduate student. Nonfiction genres include critical analyses, essays, personal memoirs, photo essays and research papers. All submissions must be nominated by a member of UNM faculty, but the papers don't have to be written for the nominator's class. Submissions can include papers from previous semesters.
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The women take the stage
October 4It doesn't take a Ph.D. to be a drag queen. Yet 40-year-old student P.J. Sedillo is counting on what he has learned in pursuit of the degree to assist him in hosting the Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are show at the National Hispanic Cultural Center on Saturday.
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Ghanaians carry on Coltrane
October 4Two musicians from Accra, Ghana, are performing in UNM music classes this week. Nii Otoo Annan and Nii Noi Nortey are visiting UNM at the request of music professor Steven Feld.
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Vaughn Benjamin: Reggae's prolific proponent of cultural fusion and lyricism
Daniel V. Garcia | October 4In mainstream culture, reggae music is commonly associated with smoking ganja, cultivating dreadlocks and speaking in a colorful dialect.
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Garden introduces Zen to Zia
Taylor Lieuwen | October 2The Botanic Garden unveiled its Sasebo Japanese Garden on Saturday with a ceremony featuring performers from around the world. "The whole thing is just absolutely phenomenal," visitor and Dubai resident Inge Krieger said. "It's very yin-yang." Outside the garden entrance, there's a basin for ceremonial cleansing.
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Skaters close generation gap
Estaban Sena | October 2The age gap between Albuquerque residents was bridged Saturday night at Los Altos Skate Park. People of all ages attended the Down to Grind skateboard event last weekend. The event, hosted by Royalty Life Records and New Mexico Xtreme Sports, brought skaters of all skill levels together for a night of music and skating.
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Festival offers more than movies
Taylor Lieuwen | September 27This weekend marks the fifth anniversary of the Southwest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, but the festival's offerings are anything but wooden.
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Freedom from gravity
September 27Dropping a hand-written note in architect Bart Prince's mailbox paid off for some students. In response to the note, Prince hosted an educational gathering at his famously weird home on Monte Vista Boulevard last week for an experiential learning group called the Foppish Academics.
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Hip-hop scene goes Jurassic
Bryan Gibel | September 27Albuquerque underground hip-hop fans rarely get a chance to see well-known rap acts, much less for free. But, on Friday, anyone over 21 can catch a free show with Akil of Jurassic 5 at Burt's Tiki Lounge, at 313 Gold Ave. S.W.
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Muse inspires spectrum of photographs
Taylor Lieuwen | September 26In some cultures, photographs are believed to capture a subject's soul. But it's the photographers' souls that are captured in an exhibit at the Downtown Contemporary Art Center.
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Dining that tastes as good as it looks
Shandea Williams | September 26Tiny umbrella mobiles dangle above the Grove Cafe's patrons as they dine on delicacies carefully molded into edible art.
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Horror and sheep don't mix
Robert Pressley | September 26In the title of Jonathan King's film "Black Sheep," the word "black" alludes to a mob of sheep taking the path less grazed - brutally terrorizing a New Zealand farm.
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Human canvases bring art to life
Bryan Gibel | September 25Jackson Pollock once said a painting has "a life of its own." Artists at the annual U.S. Body Painting Festival gave new meaning to that saying last weekend, producing paintings that were alive and breathing - and almost totally naked.
