Members of Urban Exiles don't walk around buildings. "We go over and through," Tad Turpen said. Turpen and UNM student John Whitmore are active members of Urban Exiles, a local parkour group. Parkour is a French street sport that involves leaping from building to building, balancing on railings and scaling walls.
When Michael Stokes walks around UNM, it's a bit like a band member walking through a guitar store - for every person he sees talking with friends, he sees a person with an instrument.
Jumping out of an airplane is easier than it looks. "I took a class, then jumped the next day," said Claire Hilleary, graduate student and skydiver.
Despite his death in 2003, Johnny Cash has remained a fixture in American culture and, arguably, is more popular than ever before.
A few weeks ago, I stumbled onto a DVD that featured snippets from 100 years of blues music performed by living legends at Radio City Music Hall.
UNM graduate student and photographer Sam McFarlane said there is something about white. "It looks sexual and beautiful against the black background," he said.
It's hard to find a good action movie these days. It is becoming increasingly difficult to find a good action star, for that matter. Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor made a concerted effort to revive the genre when they wrote and directed "Crank." Unfortunately, "Crank" doesn't quite measure up. The film is not particularly bad in any one area - it simply fails to shine.
It doesn't take a geologist to appreciate rocks these days.
Keith Johnstone, owner of Corrales Winery, said there is nothing magical about making wine. "They've been doing this for 6,000 years," he said. "How complicated can it be?"
When the weather warms, birds fly north along the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico - swooping over the picketed steel towers on the mountains' highest point, gliding up the mountains' gray granite spine, dropping down the mountains' northern end and coming to rest among the green desert foothills of the village of Placitas.
On the West Side of Albuquerque lies a treasure unknown to many. Fallas Paredes, a discount clothing outlet, carries a variety of clothing, shoes and house dÇcor at insanely low prices.
I don't know how I find entertainment. It just seems to fall into my lap. Take the movie "Ong Bak," a product of Thailand that recently traversed the Pacific to become a legendary flea-market hit.
by Damian Garde Daily Lobo Modern jazz is often associated with stuffy clubs frequented by bespectacled men in cardigans. However, for Le Chat Lunatique, this definition could hardly be more misguided. The Albuquerque quartet specializes in what they call "filthy, mangy jazz," a rollicking racket that would sound right at home in the grimiest of 1920s speakeasies.
UNM students with an affinity for the stage or the writing of Ray Bradbury might want to consider a visit to the National Hispanic Cultural Center. Beginning Aug. 31, the acclaimed New Mexico acting troupe Teatro Nuevo MÇxico will be at the center nightly until Sept. 3, performing a version of Ray Bradbury's "The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit."
UNM student Cori Hoover received her first tarot card reading this week. "I always wanted to," she said. "I didn't have anything to do, and I thought I would try it out."
Pulitzer Prize-nominated author and photographer Lucian Niemeyer said it does not make a difference to him if he wins the award. "I am just a messenger - just a very small person in this whole thing," he said. "It is the people in Africa that need rescuing, help and attention."
Junior Boys So This Is Goodbye Available Sept. 11 Electronica is one of those musical categories that takes me a while to warm up to. There are only so many computer-generated sounds I can withstand before what I'm listening to ceases to be music and becomes glorified video game noise.
With so many choices for concerts on Saturday night, any band entering Albuquerque faced stiff competition. Still, enough people passed on Fall Crawl and Willie Nelson to fill the Outpost Performance Space on Yale Boulevard for the Asylum Street Spankers, a six-piece band of filthy-mouthed country-blues revivalists from Austin, Texas.
When we walked into our first class last week, we all shared the same thought: wanting out. The four main characters in Nick Hornby's A Long Way Down don't expect to find each other with the same purpose of ending their lives at North London's most popular suicide spot on New Year's Eve. Martin, Maureen, JJ and Jess set aside their intentions for a chat and some pizza.
Three years ago, Rocky Norwell was walking Downtown when he stumbled upon the vacant building that would later become the Trillion Space. The multi-purpose gallery and studio located Downtown has provided many local artists with a place to create and showcase their work.
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