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Projecting Italian culture

Over the next four days, doctors, nurses and researchers will become movie ushers. The Italian Film Festival, which runs through Sunday, will benefit UNM's Children's Hospital. Twelve Italian films will play at four theaters throughout Albuquerque and Rio Rancho.



UNM Capoeira Club president Daniel Young warms up before class Wednesday at Capoeira Pegadas on 4817 Central Avenue N.E.
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Brazilian martial art catches on

If you walk by the Duck Pond on Fridays at about 3 p.m., you might find the UNM Capoeira Club singing in Portuguese, playing Brazilian instruments, dancing and throwing backflips. Club president Daniel Young, a junior, said capoeira at UNM is taking off.



Clinical hypnotherapist Christina Florence sits in her office on San Pedro Boulevard on Tuesday. Florence said she can help relieve test anxiety, aid sour relationships and free writer's block.
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Healer taps out stress, worries

Christina Florence said she can help students relieve test anxiety, aid sour relationships, free writer's block and sometimes help the chronically ill find a road to recovery.



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The Lobo threesome

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Juliet, played by Caitlin Aase, right, talks to her nurse, played by Teri Sweeney, during a performance of "Romeo and Juliet" on Sunday at the Albuquerque Little Theatre.
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Strong performances in Shakespeare's classic play

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.


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New Mexico's version of the Loch Ness Monster

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.


Local artist David Horowitz stands in front of his work, "Vigo the Carpathian," on Sunday. The painting is a depiction of the villain from the film "Ghostbusters 2." Horowitz is selling the piece for $11,200.
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The fury of pop culture on canvas

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.






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Watching television is enough to make you sick

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.'


Author Dave Stewart sits at a table in Satellite Coffee at 3513 Central Ave. N.E. on Jan. 13. Stewart plays private poker games with his well-known friends.
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Dealing a hand to NM's elite

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."

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