With "Romeo and Juliet" showing at the Albuquerque Little Theatre through Feb. 18, director Peter Kierst has taken on a challenge of immense magnitude - the clichÇ factor. Every American high school graduate has read the play at least once and already sacked it for pickup lines.
When it comes to tales of enormous and legendary amphibians, Scotland boasts its elusive mascot in the waters of Loch Ness, China shares rumors of a gorge-dwelling creature that chases fishermen, and South Africa reports fearfully on a carnivorous half-horse, half-fish.
Though most modern technophiles may have forgotten the art form, I still dig paintings. I like seeing the texture of oil paint and hanging something of artistic merit on my wall. This isn't to say I'm buying Rembrandts. Two of my favorite paintings came from alleys, where they'd been forgotten and were thus free for the taking.
One of the most difficult things about living in a land-locked state is finding a decent sushi bar. I would have to say Crazy Fish is the closest thing to near-the-shore sushi I've had in New Mexico.
Thirty-five years after Bloody Sunday, the Irish Freedom Committee is still looking for justice.
We all remember the '80s fantasy film "Labyrinth" that featured a young Jennifer Connelly and a mullet-adorned David Bowie as the Goblin King.
While Lupe Fiasco counts his Grammy nominations and T.I. pops bottles with models, a whole cadre of underrated rappers get slept on more often than Sealy.
It's award season, at least according to the TV Guide Channel - you know, the station dedicated to letting you know what's on other stations. So, as I was lying on my couch for about the eighth hour straight yesterday, doing everything short of sacrificing a baby to get over a nasty bug, I thought, 'Maybe this is what they mean by Oscar fever.'
There's a poker game where the players still call each other by last name, and some say a player has to die before another one can enter the game. "That isn't strictly true," author Dave Stewart said. "But it's very hard to get in to the game."
It was 1982 in America, a time and place steeped in fear of nuclear war, burdened by the worst economic recession since the Great Depression and made occasionally bearable by escaping into pop culture.
Poet Lisa Gill has traveled down some weird roads. Europe, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, dreams and an innate knack for writing led the graduate student to win one of the nation's top awards for poets - a $20,000 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Although Crazy Fool is now a vital part of Albuquerque's reggae scene, it came from humble beginnings. "I had the pleasure of being stuck in the dorms with this guy named Matt Fitch when I came to school in 1999," said Ben "Brightest Sol" Williams, lead singer and songwriter of the band. "We were roommates really out of fate. We started out jamming in the Santa Ana dorms."
Online role-playing games, particularly those of the massive variety, require a lot of server space, a high-bandwidth connection and, most importantly, dedicated caretakers.
Dirty Novels Pack Your Pistols Available Now If you are unfamiliar with the Albuquerque rock scene, allow me to introduce you to the Dirty Novels, a four-man band that will undoubtedly reach national acclaim. The band's album Pack Your Pistols is 10 tracks of pure spunk and glam. Formed back in 2002, ...
Come rain or shine, Bobby Shelton will sell his newspapers. Shelton, a Roswell, N.M., native who moved to Albuquerque in 1977, has sold newspapers outside the UNM Bookstore for the past 10 years. "It's to support my lifestyle - to just keep a roof over my head," he said.
Royalty Life Records has come a long way from the Redondo dorms. "As far as 2006 goes, we've done a lot of incredible things," said student Lameck "Humble" Lukanga, CEO of Royalty Life Records. "We've done shows with Fat Joe, DMX, Paul Wall, Chamillionaire - any big artist you could possibly imagine. Now, people are kind of understanding there is talent in New Mexico. There is talent in the Southwest, and we're just trying to open up the doors for everyone else."
It's a sad time for the Retail Sleuth. One of my favorite stores in Albuquerque is scheduled to close the last day of January - never to return.
Sixteen years ago, Chris Burmeister walked past a gallery in San Diego and saw a Roy Lichtenstein. He said to himself, "Someday, when I graduate from college, I'd like to own that." He bought it after graduation and has been collecting art ever since.
by Shandea Williams Daily Lobo My infatuation with French food grows every time I discover a place that offers it. When I saw La Provence take over Stella Blue, I was thrilled to find out it was a French country-style restaurant that was affordable, delicious and two minutes from campus.
Barista Teá Nielsen never imagined Irysh Mac's would close. "I've had some time to deal with it, but it's hard," she said. "This has been my main source of income for the past six years."
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