Albuquerque's spotlight poets won another competition. UNM's Word Revolution slam team members Hakim Bellamy, Aaron Cuffee, Damien Flores and Carlos Contreras beat out 21 university teams at the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational in San Marcos, Texas, last weekend. They competed individually and in groups.
Sometimes "forget about it" means just that - forget about it. In the case of The Last Godfather: The Rise and Fall of Joey Massino, forget about it - it's a must-read for mafia nuts everywhere.
"South Park" is the most popular show Comedy Central has ever had. With the combination of toilet humor and cultural satire, "South Park" has taken a formula of putting foul words in children's mouths and created a cultural sensation.
Blues music came from want. People who sang it didn't have enough of what they needed, and they anguished about it in their songs. Nowadays, the only thing most blues musicians want is an upgrade to a better guitar or amp.
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are the exact opposite of what I hate about music today.
Gene Guerin said he had no idea he was in the running.
There's a difference between a solid comedian and a gimmicky comedian.
Forget Crime and Punishment and Tess of the d'Ubervilles. Marcos Salazar's book The Turbulent Twenties Survival Guide is destined to go down as the most depressing book in the history of literature.
Despite an awkward appearance - six men dressed up in exotic animal masks - there is something special about Men, Women and Children.
by Daniel V. Garcia Daily Lobo You've probably noticed several trends in filmmaking as of late. One is to remake an old flick based on the assumption that the current generation is too young to remember the original. The other has been to feature once-prominent actors in an effort to bring in audiences based on the performers' former drawing power.
by Jessica Del Curto The Daily Lobo Vickie Temer said dangling from a rope by the skin of her knees and shoulder blades isn't as painful as it looks. "It's mind over matter," she said. "It's really just how you look at it." The 20-year-old has been performing acts of suspension since she was 18.
Four figures stand against an abstract background of clouds, flames and canyons. The vivid colors seem to flow into and out of them. Their faces cannot be seen, but two have antlers, while the other two wear feathered headdresses.
UNM is cooking this year - literally. The National Association of College and University Food Services will hold the semifinals of the Culinary Challenge competition today at the University of New Mexico. The challenge is part of the 2006 NACUFS Southern Regional Conference.
The friction life exerts on a person can serve as the conduit from which art springs. Or it can send a person on a multiple-state killing spree. Artist Cruz Montoya chose painting over murder.
The legacy of folk music is the story of the common man, or woman.
I spent a great deal of my high school days loitering around a local arcade/den of iniquity which I had the pleasure of watching burn down a few Thanksgivings ago.
I remember my senior year of high school, when I took a blow-off class called History of Rock, Pop and Jazz. One day the teacher said rap wasn't music. He also wondered out loud if there would ever be a classic, legendary rock band again, like Foreigner or Journey. This alone made me hate rock 'n' roll in all of its pathetic lameness forever and pray rap could fill this new void in my life.
Producer RJD2 hails from a place not usually associated with hip-hop music - Ohio. More specifically, he hails from Columbus. That is where he met Blueprint, friend and collaborator on Soul Position.
Christopher Shultis said this year's composer symposium will be something that could only happen every five years.
Ghostface Killah returns with another noisy, definitively Wu-Tang record, Fishscale. And I cannot, for the life of me, understand a word of it.
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