A couple years ago, the Family Dollar stork delivered a brand-new bundle of corporate joy to my hometown of Cuba, N.M. It's true what you see on television - small-town people don't like strangers coming in and taking advantage of the land their grandfathers tilled.
A Monday night of barhopping is usually a forgettable experience. But the Hodgepodge Entourage is out to change that.
Ezra Buchla and Ericka Anderson made out in a bush and then started a band. The Gowns, a trio from the Oakland-Bay area, played at a house at 1400 Wilmoore Drive S.E. on Monday as part of their tour across the U.S.
Oh, MySpace.com, let me count the ways I loathe thee.
The band Someday proves Christian hardcore isn't clean, wholesome fun. "I'm really sweaty and gross, so that means it was a good show," singer and guitarist Chris Rose said after the band's show Sunday at the Launchpad.
Every console generation has a game that will forever define how that console will be remembered when it is finally eclipsed by its successor. The original Nintendo had "Super Mario Bros. 3." Super Nintendo had "Chrono Trigger." The PlayStation peaked early with "Final Fantasy VII." And finally, the PlayStation 2 has its defining moment in "God of War II." One might even say "God of War II" is the defining moment of video games overall.
Looking at a James Black mural is like walking through a crowded Downtown Albuquerque street. Faces scrawled in black on clean, white walls look at you from a thousand perspectives, each one an improvised portrait of urban life in Albuquerque. Smeared strokes and dripping ink give the exhibition an aesthetic that only a longtime graffiti writer can bring to a gallery.
Waking Ashland The Well Available April 17 We all know about rock 'n' roll, punk rock, grunge rock and indie rock, but is there really such a thing as piano rock? Waking Ashland is, by far, one of the best candidates since Billy Joel to prove that 88 keys and strong vocals can have mass appeal. And ...
Skull Control Records is not a typical record label. "My brother and I started it," MC Illson Serif said. "It's ours as a whole with everyone else (on the label), because we aren't anything without them. It's definitely not a one-sided thing. Everyone is not signing some major contract and that type of stuff."
When El-P got his start in hip-hop, the world was a different place. Never mind the label he helped bring to prominence, Rawkus Records, suffering its demise, or his group Company Flow splitting due to artistic differences, the primary catalyst for El-P's shift in tone was Sept. 11, 2001.
"Eye to I," an exhibit of female artists' works, fulfills the viewer like a hearty three-course dinner. The women use the concept of self-portraiture to define and disassemble themselves. They span their flaws and perfections, embrace or challenge their gender, explore their sexual roles within their cultures and remark upon the absurdity of it all.
Long before Dunkin' Donuts and Little Debbie, Latino families were perfecting the art of making pastries. Flour, eggs and heaps of sugar were whipped together to produce breads, cookies and cakes - confections to complement a morning cup of cafe con crema or an afternoon snack.
Trust me - this small, locally owned cupcake shop will change your life. Cake Fetish sells only cupcakes, and with more than 35 kinds - not counting ones created for holidays - this is not the place for the calorie-counter.
Marcella's favorite movie sucks. She assigned me to write a column on "Adventures in Babysitting," a forgettable movie from the "Uncle Buck" era of late-'80s, family-friendly comedies.
La Cucaracha Stew Co. is out to prove that politics is not just about speeches and fliers. "Our whole idea is to be a guerrilla theater kind of thing that can go to a protest and do an image that knocks into everybody's head what we are trying to say, without even saying anything," member Billah Muhammad said. "They know what it is. They know what we are doing. We don't even have to say anything."
It took a little serendipity to create Meat the Vegans. The band, who took first place at ASUNM's Battle of the Bands in February, came together in June when Seth Hoffman and Jacob Lowery, formerly of the band Seth and Jacob, ran into some bad luck.
Don't underestimate the power of a needle and thread. I wanted to make a couple outfits for spring break, so I went over to Hancock Fabrics at 3157 San Mateo Blvd. N.E. to find some material for my first project.
The world is a colorful place. Some say the days grow shorter as we age. This happens because we get stuck in routine schedules and ways of thinking and acting. Differentiating between the days becomes difficult. There are small things we can do to enhance our quality of life. Spring break is a good time to take a load off and examine all the possibilities.
There's a simple explanation for the reverence toward people like Sam Cooke, Jimi Hendrix and Gram Parsons: They all died before having a chance to suck.
by Mike Smith Daily Lobo In New Mexico, there are mountains made of granite - blackening, angry, razor-crested seas of lava rock. There are sandstone buttes and mesas, slickrock canyons and cliffsides, and the dusty, sunburnt, boulder-choked beds of long dried-up creeks and rivers.
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