The following is a tale that overflowed from "Dan Digs" into "My Strange New Mexico." I recently visited my grandmother and her friend, Tommy Gabaldon, who told me about a time in his youth when he found a treasure box filled with Spanish gold coins in Albuquerque.
When I got a hold of comedian Paul Rodriguez, he was sitting by his pool watching his white gardener work. "Well, I couldn't have a Latino gardener - pshh," he said.
After 27 years of teaching, "Twelfth Night" will be the last hurrah for UNM professor Denise Schulz. "It has everything you could want - humor, love, sword fighting, singing, dancing. It's not dry, boring Shakespeare," Schulz said.
Aside from the desert, writing and my family, the greatest love of my life has always been music. Music has always been there for me - providing lyrics to justify my adolescence, soundtracks for my friendships, and a major source of relaxation, energy and catharsis. And usually, my favorite music is made by musicians willing to evolve - bands like Radiohead and Wilco - bands that change, play around and push themselves to do more.
The term "grind house" refers to seedy movie theaters in the '60s and '70s that showed low-quality B-movies filled with sex, violence and general tastelessness. The Robert Rodriguez-Quentin Tarantino project of the same name is a spoof of and an homage to this lost format.
In the movie "City of God," after the villain kills every drug dealer in his Brazilian slum to take over their business, the narrator suggests, "If drugs had been legal, (he) would have been man of the year."
In the late '70s, there was an organization called Albuquerque United Artists. Harry Morris, Mike Hart and Mark Woody became friends through that art scene, and they've gathered for a joint art exhibition called "Collective Madness," which runs through April 14 at the Yale Art Center.
The war of the consoles, so clear and easily defined in the fall of 2006, has become murky and unpredictable over the course of the winter. The Nintendo Wii is still flying off the shelves at a predictable rate, but surprisingly, the sales of the PlayStation 3 have begun to reach sustainable levels.
Timbaland Shock Value Available Now If Timbaland is said to be one of the greatest pop, R&B and rap producers, Shock Value will affirm this and add to his versatility. It's hard to pinpoint which tracks will be hit singles because of the genres incorporated; most songs on the album can be played on ...
Elephant Butte Reservoir can get fairly deep - around 80 feet near the dam - deep enough for sunken boats to stay sunken, for enormous fish to stay hidden and for stories of such fish to remain nearly impossible to confirm.
Mainstream coffeehouses are all the same: expensive food, crappy coffee and unpleasant company.
Lithography was in danger of becoming an archaic medium 50 years ago. So June Wayne, who dropped out of high school at 15 to pursue art, got a Ford Foundation grant and started the Tamarind Institute in 1960 in Los Angeles. In 1970, the institute moved to Albuquerque.
I know Jesus is supposed to be the superstar, but this time, it's Judas' turn to shine. After years of sporting my mom's old "Jesus Christ Superstar" shirt, I finally saw the real deal at Popejoy Hall on Friday.
In the past six years, Soular has come a long way from recording demos and performing in Albuquerque clubs.
Five New Yorkers are stuck in the proverbial mud at a local Bronx dive in the '80s. The play "Savage in Limbo" takes place one night in which some local slackers, all 32 years old, question what they've done with their lives and how they might make something of themselves.
Crime Mob Hated on Mostly Available Now If you want to listen to great hip-hop beats, look no further than Crime Mob's latest album. But if you want lyrical substance on top of those beats, you'll have to keep looking. Even though it has been almost three years since its last commercial hit, "Knuck ...
From Elvis to Robin Thicke, our fairer friends have never had a problem adopting the music of their more pigmented brethren.
There is no place like home for Stoic Frame. "For us - the Launchpad, Albuquerque, N.M. - it doesn't get any better for us, because that's our hometown, and that's what feeds the soul of this band," guitarist and vocalist Keith Sanchez said.
Philadelphia's MÅtter Museum is one of the last medical museums from the 19th century.
Tourists! Come to New Mexico! Come to the Land of Enchantment. Come, spend a weekend on the world-famous slopes of Taos Ski Valley. Marvel at the vibrant colors of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. Explore the shops of Santa Fe's historic plaza. And stand at the very door of hell itself - with nothing between you and all its tortured souls but a gentle breeze and the juniper-scented air.
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