Actors have this funny way of surprising everyone. Tom Hanks went from comedy to being a serious actor with "Philadelphia." Bruce Willis showed his introspective side in "The Sixth Sense." It is apparently Leonardo DiCaprio's turn.
Angel City Outcasts don't just shun the mainstream, they assault it. "It's not my cup of tea," vocalist Alex Brugge said. "I like rock 'n' roll and punk with some balls in it."
Full Blown Chaos Within The Grasp of Titans Available Now After listening to this travesty of modern speed metal, I can only think of one thing I could do to myself that would be equally as damaging to my auditory senses - taking an ice pick and jabbing it repeatedly into my ear. This album shows ...
Sex-craving aliens and a fellatio-performing mermaid are just a couple ingredients spicing up an adaptation of Voltaire's Candide.
Anyone can be like James Bond or Austin Powers. That is if they pick up some spy tools from the Spy Shop.
With Halloween coming up, I thought it would be good to write about a vintage horror film.
Del tha Funkee Homosapien doesn't quite fit the rap mold.
This year's Come Out show was more than just a masquerade. "We try to educate people," said P.J. Sedillo, MC of the show and a UNM student. "We all have masks that we need to take off and reveal. That's what the performers do. They are who they are."
Voltaire once said, "Ice cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal."
This year's Southwest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival has been a success, said Roberto Appicciafoco, the festival's curator. "We sold out all of the screenings on opening day," he said. "We're the fastest-growing film festival in the region."
About 120 miles east of Albuquerque, on the eastern edge of the town of Santa Rosa, N.M., lies a tiny oval of blue water - a spring-fed sinkhole about 80 feet wide and 81 feet deep - known as the Blue Hole.
The paintings, crosses, tiles and folk dÇcor that cover the Aztec Motel are an inspiration to Jae Whitehorse. "I'm very visual," said Whitehorse, an artist and resident at the motel. "I never thought of doing anything like this on the outside of the building. Everything is always on the inside."
For Albuquerque's the Mindy Set, the city provides an ideal setting for its music. "There's a good scene in terms of listenership," said vocalist Matt Dickens. "And the bands have a good sense of community."
The video game market is starting to look like a war of attrition. In the console world, the amusingly named Nintendo Wii, and Sony's new $600 monster, the Playstation 3, are hitting stores just in time for the Thanksgiving shopping madness.
An exhibition at the University Art Museum is giving scientists the opportunity to display their art. "This is all about people from fields that are traditionally at opposite poles, but they intersect around observation," said Sara Otto-Diniz, curator of "Art and Science/Observation and Imagination."
While we may be two nations divided by a common language, no linguistic hang-ups could keep our British neighbors from rapping.
For UNM graduate student and pianist Makiko Kimura, the past year has been a disaster and a success. Kimura transferred to UNM from Loyola University in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. She is a winner of the UNM 2006 Music Department Concerto Competition. Tonight, she will perform with the UNM Orchestra in its first concert of the season.
Best Student Essays is accepting entries and holding a cover-art competition for its fall 2006 issue.
Ludacris Release Therapy Available Now Apparently, haircuts are the newest trend in hip-hop. Following Busta Rhymes, who hacked off his dreadlocks to promote his latest release, Ludacris has done away with his cornrows and, apparently, taken on a more mature image. Granted, this isn't a Talib Kweli ...
Watching movies as a child is very strange. The oddest details about obscure flicks tend to stick in one's mind, and what we later regard as chintzy melodrama is able to manipulate our emotions with ease.
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