Female students strutting their stuff onstage drew admiration and criticism at the Peaches and Cream Fashion Show on Monday. "I'm just trying to hold a respectable medium," said Jason Goodman, president of Black Men in Motion. "I was trying to make the event tasteful, and most of my contestants followed that medium - PG-13."
When I lived in New Orleans, I watched jazz cats, Delta bluesmen and folkies ply their trades throughout the French Quarter, but one group in particular stood out with its authenticity - the Jug Band at Jackson Square.
Burlesque is back, and the ladies of Bella Donna Burlesque Review have more than a couple sombrero pasties up their sleeves. "There will be lots of vintage boobies," member Cherry Jubilee said.
As of 2007, almost 2 million people live in New Mexico. Almost 500,000 of them live in Albuquerque, and more than 300,000 live in Las Cruces, Santa Fe, Rio Rancho, Roswell and Farmington.
Rocks arouse more interest when they come from outer space, thus becoming meteorites.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have found a winner.
Thunder grumbles over weathered stone battlements. In the pale, dappled light, three veiled figures emerge from the earth. The noise of a storm continues as the figures work their hideous magic, casting long, black shadows on the walls.
There's a relatively new guy in town, and he's already earning his place in the local art community and on the airwaves. Artist and radio DJ BillyJoe Miller, who moved from Seattle to Albuquerque last July, is showing his paintings and photographs at Winning Coffee Co.
Poetry is not about victory for slam poet Damien Flores. Flores, along with UNM Lobo Slam teammates Hakim Bellamy, Aaron Cuffee and Carlos Contreras, took second place among 20 teams in the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational at Eastern Michigan University on April 7.
Club 7 opened its doors to Downtown Albuquerque on Friday. Patrons stood outside in a long line waiting to enter the club at 515 Central Ave. N.W. Inside, it was packed with about 250 people. Club 7 replaced the Coliseum, but it has a completely different look and feel.
There's a new warehouse art space in town, and everyone's invited to the grand opening Friday. Local artists Matt Righter and Arjan McNamara got The Curio up and running a little over a month ago.
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 ...
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