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."
I must confess that I thoroughly enjoy spaghetti Westerns.
by Rhian Hibner Daily Lobo In a perfect world, Clive Owen would be practicing his Oscar speech. Unfortunately for him, it's not a perfect world. Instead, the academy will ignore "Children of Men," much as they ignore most science-fiction films. It's a shame, because if the academy was willing to see past the end of its nose, it would be clear that it doesn't need to look any further for best picture.
Cocaine and hip-hop have been on-again, off-again lovers since the genre's inception.
A few years ago, Unit 7 Drain came out of the woodwork. "We were basically living in makeshift homeless camps in the woods, practicing on generators from people's tool sheds," guitarist and vocalist Harry Redus said. "We lived in places in central New Mexico like La Joya, which is really, really nowhere. Veguita, Corrales - all these places that are rural farming communities."
The jokes have come to an end at the Gorilla Tango Theatre. "It is basically a series of events in Albuquerque," owner Dan Abbate said in reference to why the theater is closing. "The decision was made that our property was better invested somewhere else."
Ever since Michael Jackson was spotted hanging out in palaces in the Middle East, I've been convinced he's had the weirdest life in the history of the world. He deserves a medal or something.
Every year, the president of the United States gives a State of the Union address. In this tradition, "Console Wars" brings its trusty readers the state of gaming as of January 2007.
Perhaps the most distrusted name in news today, the Weekly World News, is a black-and-white supermarket tabloid featuring entertaining and untrue stories with headlines that vary from the impossible to the deranged.
Louie Torres doesn't just sell movie posters. He sells memories. "Some people buy movie posters not because they really like the movie, but because certain movies bring back certain memories for them," he said. "Maybe at the time they saw the movie, they were going through a divorce. Or maybe they had just fallen in love with somebody and had gone to see the movie with them and that was their first movie together."
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