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."
Joanna Newsom Ys Available Now Sometimes harpists should just stick to the strings. Joanna Newsom and her five-track, hour-long album Ys are, well, interesting. While the harp music itself is graceful and airy, the lyrics and vocals leave a lot to be desired. The obscenely long songs meander their ...
There's an odd trend afoot in the console world. Apparently, it's become the order of the day to take Flash games off of the Internet, where they can be played for free, and then charge people several dollars to play them on a $600 console. Case in point is the primordial game "Flow." It's a fairly simple game. In it, the player controls a small primordial being that must swim around and eat other primordial beings in order to evolve. It's not complicated. It is addictive.
Drive 18 miles west of the central New Mexico village of Los Lunas, and you drive into a world of dirt, rocks and little else.
A few years ago, Bradford came to the realization that he cannot draw. "I still had the urge to make pictures, so I had to find some other way to translate what I saw in my head," he said.
Talib Kweli doesn't want to be famous. At least that's what the veteran New York rapper would have you believe.
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