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.
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."
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