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.
The myth is that lots of college students have the time and money to fly thousands of miles for spring break. In reality, a lot of us are going to be stuck in our substandard student housing, scrounging change with friends for a six-pack of Pabst that will fall oh-so-short of starting that "Animal House"-esque party we've always dreamed of. No one will take their shirts off for us, and the beach will remain a distant dream.
A few years ago, Brian Basser created a portable hookah lounge on a whim. "I got this 18-by-18-foot tent and lots of rugs and pillows," he said. "I got some cool neon and made a sign. I got Christmas lights, some hookahs, some shisha tobacco and got on the road."
If it hadn't been for J.R.R. Tolkien's masterpiece, the world probably wouldn't have a very successful fantasy genre. No "Dungeons and Dragons," no "Harry Potter" and, very likely, no "World of Warcraft."
Melechesh Emissaries Available Now Who better to bring heavy metal than a band from Israel? If there's one place in the world that inspires feelings of apocalypse, it's got to be there. Melechesh, on its second album, transfers all the scary thoughts you've ever had into one of the most creative hard-core ...
A few weeks ago, Marcella and Eva, the culture department girls par excellence, had a party that featured the sounds of Albuquerque's gypsy jazz revivalist quartet, Le Chat Lunatique. When describing these guys to others, the name Django Reinhardt always comes up as a comparison, but it is frequently met with a blank stare or drooling. OK, the latter has happened only once, but it was memorable enough to mention here, and for good reason.
After years of battling, turntablists Ohm and Kiddo decided to join forces as Five Oh Fresh. The duo will perform March 15 at the Launchpad at 618 Central Ave. S.W.
I'm fat. Not fat in the newly celebrated bootylicious, real-women-have-curves way. I am simply overweight and wear a clothing size in the double digits. This makes it difficult to dress fashionably. I am not one to proudly wave the "big is beautiful" flag, but I do think plus-size gals need not dress like tent-wrapped goat herders.
Rory Coyne finished three large, bizarre oil paintings for his upcoming show. "I try to do at least six pieces for a show," said Coyne, a UNM graduate student studying art. "But the work suffers, so I wanted to focus more on quality than quantity. I focused on three major pieces that are large enough to stand on their own on each wall."
If you were to drive about two hours east of Santa Fe, watching from your car as the sagebrush desert rocked past and rose up into wooded hills and mesas, you might find yourself near the tiny ranching town of Trementina, which is a place that doesn't seem to have much going on.
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