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Rappers aren't obliged to tell us what we want to hear
Damian Garde | May 7As the rest of us mere mortals go about our daily lives, Oprah Winfrey is ruining hip-hop.
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Graffiti on buildings, overpasses proves art isn't dead
Joe Buffaloe | May 7The average college student may not go to art galleries very often or spend a significant portion of his or her money on paintings, but art is far from dead. Why am I so confident about this? Graffiti.
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Unique clothes cost a few extra pennies, but this boutique won't empty your pockets
Marcella Ortega | May 7The retail sleuth found a gem last week. I was running late for a banquet when I discovered Cutie Pie at 1417 Central Ave. N.E.
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Finding salvation, peace through art
Marcella Ortega | May 3When artist Paul Bartlett RÇ graduated from Cal Tech with a degree in physics, he decided to express the beauty of science through art. "On the outside, the transition from science to art was a dramatic transition," he said. "Internally, there is a great similarity - at least with the work I do. It was a fairly smooth progression internally."
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Dancers ready to take the lead
May 3If you're a good dancer, you're good in relationships, said to Millie Leahy, a UNM dance instructor. "The skills it takes to partnership dance are the same skills it takes to have a relationship," she said. "At any given moment, you can only have a leader and a follower. You can't have two leaders at the same moment, for the same reason they don't have two steering wheels in the car."
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Computer screen to big screen
May 3Being an Internet celebrity sometimes leads to greater things. Three friends from Berkeley, Calif., formed a comedy trio in 2001 called the Lonely Island, making short films and posting them on YouTube. The comedy shorts got so popular that Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer had the chance to audition for "Saturday Night Live." They are now on the cast.
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Born to ink
Marcella Ortega | May 3Becoming a tattoo artist wasn't Dominic Sanchez's idea. "I've been drawing all my life," he said. "My friends decided that since I could draw, I could tattoo. So, they made me a homemade tattoo gun."
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Cryptic video may point to UFO crash in White Sands
Mike Smith | May 3by Mike Smith Daily Lobo It was October of '97, and the second annual Australian International UFO Symposium had just gotten underway in the eastern Australia city of Brisbane. Writers gave lectures on the latest extraterrestrial news and theories, various groups manned booths to help counsel alleged former abductees, and the organizers of the symposium presented what they suggested was the first ever filmed crash of a UFO.
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Fine Greek fare brings Mediterranean to Duke City
Shandea Williams | May 1Yanni's Mediterranean Grill and Opa Bar is the fine dining experience avid food lovers search for. The Nob Hill Greek paradise opened 12 years ago. With Greek food on my mind, I walked in and was greeted by co-owners Nick Kapnison and Jimmy Daskalos, who showed me to my beautiful window seat.
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The Lobo threesome
Debra Au | May 1Feist The Reminder Available Now Leslie Feist could be considered the Canadian love child of Enya and Bright Eyes. Striking a balance between upbeat and painstakingly slow, The Reminder is a fusion of piano, soft horn and dreamlike vocals. The first single, "My Moon My Man," feels like a mistake when ...
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Singing along to old Europe
May 1Zach Condon's life changed with one phone call on the UNM campus. "I received this phone call one day literally walking to class saying, 'Do you want to release this album?'" the Beirut front man said of his critically acclaimed album Gulag Orkestar.
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Vonnegut appealed to readers with a sense of humor
Joe Buffaloe | May 1Kurt Vonnegut is dead. Can we finally call him one of the best writers ever?
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taking dream cars for a test-drive
Marcella Ortega | April 26Last Thursday, I was in the newsroom when Harrison Brooks busted out the door and said he was on his way to test-drive cars. Before I continue, let me get you acquainted with Brooks.
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Rapper's fall from grace makes for solid new album
Damian Garde | April 26Hip-hop isn't always kind to its elder statesmen. Just ask Prodigy of Mobb Deep, who, after seeing platinum sales and critical acclaim, has been filed away as a has-been by rap amnesiacs. Back in 1993, when Prodigy got his start with the Mobb, his bleak descriptions of ghetto nihilism shook fans and critics.
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Enormous prehistoric owls may have migrated from Cuba to a town near you
Mike Smith | April 26In the piney mountains and desert mesas of south central New Mexico, residents of the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation still share the legends of an enormous and evil bird: Big Owl.
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More than just a beauty pageant
April 26Juanita Toledo won Miss Indian UNM for reasons beyond hergood looks. "I showed a lot of character onstage," she said. Three students ran for the Miss Indian UNM Pageant at the SUB on Sunday.
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Game show reveals stupidity of American adults
Joe Buffaloe | April 25Are you smarter than a fifth-grader? Well, you'd be pretty stupid if you weren't. That's not to say a game show couldn't be made of the question. After all, people in this country are very stupid. Hell, even college kids are mostly ignorant, lazy and lacking in critical-thinking skills.
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The Lobo threesome
Debra Au | April 25Static-X Cannibal Available Now There are some things in life that you can't just kind of like - modern art, the opera or Sanjaya Malakar - you either love 'em or hate 'em. The same holds true for metal music - either you revere it the first time you hear it, or you refuse to accept it as a credible ...
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Porting games to other systems boosts profits, but lackluster releases may leave gamers feeling jilted
Rhian Hibner | April 25In 1981, the effort required to move a game from one system to another was negligible. Moving "Pac-Man" from the Atari 2600 to the Commodore 64 was a simple matter, requiring little more than recompiling the code for the new system.
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Trendy students spill the beans on where to find juicy deals
Marcella Ortega | April 25An outfit is a work of art most people take for granted. It takes an eye for color and a knack for frugality to be successful at decorating your human canvas - unless you're rich. If you're rich, what I have to present probably doesn't concern you, but congratulations on your prosperity.
