Two 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.
In mainstream culture, reggae music is commonly associated with smoking ganja, cultivating dreadlocks and speaking in a colorful dialect.
The 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.
The 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.
This weekend marks the fifth anniversary of the Southwest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, but the festival's offerings are anything but wooden.
Dropping 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.
Albuquerque 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.
In 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.
Tiny umbrella mobiles dangle above the Grove Cafe's patrons as they dine on delicacies carefully molded into edible art.
In 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.
Jackson 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.
Three More Shallows Book of Bad Breaks Available Now San Francisco trio Thee More Shallows has been visible on the low-fi shoe-gaze scene prior to its 2005 breakthrough album, More Deep Cuts. Vocalist Dee Kesler is the locus of the band's latest project. Its music seems to emulate his sullen ...
Death is just a game to a rodeo clown. He plays it almost every day, taking calculated risks against his one-ton, Grade A beef opponents.
When you have an injured leg, your barn is a smoldering pile of ash and your son doesn't respect you -- pride, power and one's place in the world invariably come into play.
Listen to the cacophonous sounds of the Dailies band! This is a test.
Kanye West outsold 50 Cent the week of Sept. 11, and thus concludes the great hip-hop swindle.
Savvy foodies know Don Yasmany Cuban Restaurant and Bakery is the best Cuban restaurant in the city.
Contrary to popular belief, Mexico's independence day is not the holiday of Coronas and sombreros many Americans know as Cinco de Mayo.
Four years ago, Naomi Natale went to sub-Saharan Africa to photograph the lives of Kenyan children.
"Get Estaban laid." I'm an intern for a local radio station, 94 Rock, and photos of me of in my underwear - alongside the preceding plea - decorate the station's Web site,
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