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Column: My strange New Mexico
Mike Smith | September 14On the western edge of Albuquerque stand five calm, reddish-black volcanoes, all in a line.
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Breakin' the mold
Marcella Ortega | September 14Status Salon is not just a place to get a haircut. "I was trying to get the local art and hip-hop scene and do something with it," said owner Rett Beecher.
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Customers value store for imported teas
Marcella Ortega | September 12by Marcella Ortega Daily Lobo Summerhouse Tea and Trading Company owner Charlotte Webster is fascinated with the study of tea. "It was very captivating to me," she said. Webster opened her tea house three years ago. She carries 90 different teas from 10 different countries such as France, Australia, ...
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The Lobo threesome
Debra Au | September 12Everclear Welcome to the Drama Club Available Today Everclear has some issues. If lead singer Art Alexakis isn't singing about a crappy childhood, being poor or drug abuse, he's singing about his ex-wife. With two new members in the band, it seems Everclear wants to make a fresh start. However, ...
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Column: Get your grub on
Shandea Williams | September 12by Shandea Williams Daily Lobo When trying to decide on a restaurant for my first review, I felt it had to be one that is newer, smaller and close to campus. There are only a few places within walking distance of campus that offer tasty vegetarian and vegan meals for decent prices. Even meat lovers ...
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Swimming with the shark
Jen Shark | September 12by Jen Shark Daily Lobo With school in full swing, I find myself with barely any free time - especially to eat. Sometimes, the easiest choice is to grab a nice, big, juicy burger from Sonic or perhaps across the street at McDonald's. Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser, might change someone's ...
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Column: My Strange New Mexico
Mike Smith | September 7Last week in "My Strange New Mexico," we explored the short-lived Placitas, N.M., hippie communes of the 1960s and '70s.
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Urban sport uses UNM as playground
Marcella Ortega | September 7Members 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.
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Singer turns UNM on to unplugged sound
Mike Smith | September 7When 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.
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Skydivers in need of safe place to land
Marcella Ortega | September 7Jumping 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.
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Cash tribute transcends genres
Damian Garde | September 7Despite his death in 2003, Johnny Cash has remained a fixture in American culture and, arguably, is more popular than ever before.
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Column: Dan Digs
Daniel V. Garcia | September 6A 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.
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Exhibit highlights diverse talents of new grad students
Marcella Ortega | September 6UNM graduate student and photographer Sam McFarlane said there is something about white. "It looks sexual and beautiful against the black background," he said.
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First-time directors fail to crank out an original action film
Rhian Hibner | September 6It'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.
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Rock gallery a rare gem for geology enthusiasts
Monica Ault | August 31It doesn't take a geologist to appreciate rocks these days.
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Local vines to festive wines
Marcella Ortega | August 31Keith 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?"
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My strange New Mexico
Mike Smith | August 31When 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.
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Clues from the Retail Sleuth
Marcella Ortega | August 31On 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.
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Column: Where the Buffaloe Roam
Joe Buffaloe | August 30I 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.
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Back to the 1920s with local band's mangy gypsy jazz
Damian Garde | August 30by 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.
