The word acequia is Spanish for irrigation ditch. Bookstore owner Gary Wilkie said that is one of the reasons he named his store Acequia Booksellers.
Across the street from UNM, a new clothing shop called UNI has more T-shirt designs than any other store in the state, said owner Greg Cook. "There are 35 different colors, and we have the largest selection of designs in New Mexico," Cook said.
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The wait is finally over. After hitting theaters last Friday, we can now see if "Snakes on a Plane" lives up to the hype.
This time of year must be an auspicious one for mini-music festivals in New Mexico.
In just two years, UNM's marching band has almost doubled in size. In 2004, the band had 82 members. Today, it has 140. "It's because of our new band director," said senior Heather Hansen. "I think that's why."
Hundreds of artists, friends, acquaintances and art connoisseurs gathered at the National Hispanic Cultural Center on Saturday to celebrate the life of artist Luis JimÇnez, who died after a portion of a 32-foot-tall sculpture fell and crushed him in his studio on June 13.
Before Kyle Tuffli became a swing dancer, he was hardly a swinger. "I was a socially awkward junior high kid, and it was the best way to meet girls," Tuffli said. "I never had a single girlfriend before I started swing dancing, but once I started swing dancing, everything changed."
Ziggy Marley spent years trying to find God, but when a Catholic woman asked Marley his religion, the answer came to him in a split second - love.
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Kevin Smith has come full circle with his movies. No one expected the circle to include a donkey show, but that doesn't diminish his latest film in any way.
First, there were movies - silent movies. A noiseless, black and white locomotive would hurtle toward the audience, and people would leap from their chairs to go running for the exits.
Erika Lee Turner has been interested in movies since she was a kid. "I never cared about the plot, just how they did it," she said.
Many theater majors at UNM graduate with nothing more than a degree and a future of waiting tables in New York or Los Angeles. But there are other options, said Joe Peracchio, artistic director of the Albuquerque-based Tricklock Company, a nonprofit theater organization.
It was impossible to find a seat at Scalo Northern Italian Grill Monday night. The crowd was there to see trumpet player Justin Ray perform for the release party of his self-titled debut album.
A new festival will be jazzing up New Mexico for the next two weeks. There will be performances in Albuquerque as well as Santa Fe, said Tom Guralnick, founder of the New Mexico Jazz Festival and executive director of Outpost Productions.
Carson Bennett has been creatively stuck. Bennett is a graduate student at UNM and writes creative nonfiction and personal essays. Every year, he seeks rejuvenation at the Taos Summer Writers' Conference.
Jonson Gallery's new exhibit is as close to home as it gets. The exhibit is the second installment of the Jonson by Decade series, which showcases paintings by the gallery's founder Raymond Jonson from 1920 through 1929.
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With the release of their latest album, Flat-Pack Philosophy, the Buzzcocks are going back to their roots. The band out of Manchester, England, was formed during the punk boom of the late 1970s along with bands like the Sex Pistols. Steve Diggle, guitarist and vocalist for the Buzzcocks, said the initial period was political and explosive.
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