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Mother's diary inspires author
Marcella Ortega | April 11Gene Guerin said he had no idea he was in the running.
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Laughs without the gimmicks
Abel Horwitz | April 11There's a difference between a solid comedian and a gimmicky comedian.
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Book aids post-graduate blues
Joe Buffaloe | April 11Forget 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.
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Funky beats flow through veins
Debra Au | April 11Despite an awkward appearance - six men dressed up in exotic animal masks - there is something special about Men, Women and Children.
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Star cast can't elevate boring film
Daniel V. Garcia | April 6by 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.
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Transcension
Jessica Del Curto | April 6by 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.
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Mystery of shamans, nature inspire Alaskan painter
Maria StaianoDaniels | April 4Four 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.
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Competition cooks up with six chickens, six finalists
Marcella Ortega | April 4UNM 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.
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Artists show fruits of friction
April 4The 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.
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Folk master holds nothing back
Xochitl Campos | March 30The legacy of folk music is the story of the common man, or woman.
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Column: Having once scoffed at E-40, lastest effort deserves acclaim
John Bear | March 30I 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.
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Column: E-40's skills gone to waste, beats and lyrics lack creativity
Joe Buffaloe | March 30I 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.
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Hip-hop producer samples live instruments
John Bear | March 30Producer 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.
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Composers to converge at UNM for symposium
Marcella Ortega | March 30Christopher Shultis said this year's composer symposium will be something that could only happen every five years.
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Scales of lyrical madness
John Bear | March 29Ghostface 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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KUNM breathes life into airwaves
Abel Horwitz | March 29John Strader wants to bring the art of live music back to the radio.
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Column: Flamboyant Bowie in bargain bin
Marcella Ortega | March 29I've always had trouble placing music in categories.
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Column: Snakes do not belong on planes
Abel Horwitz | March 29Hollywood is a strange place. There's no denying that with the amount of plastic surgery patients, bizarre religions and sequels to "Big Momma's House" that float around Hollywood, once and a while the absolute craziest of the crazies will rise to the top.
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Graduation speeches fail to make grade
Joe Buffaloe | March 29The best part of any graduation speech? When it finally ends. I don't know about you, but I've always found graduation speeches pointless. If they told you exactly where to go to find a job in your field, then maybe someone would get some use out of them. But generally they consist of some old, successful person gabbing for 15 minutes while delaying the post-graduation parties.
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Solid music makes up for gimmicks
John Bear | March 29Sometimes a band has a rather lame gimmick that borders on idiotic. In the case of Hypatia Lake - and this is saying nothing about their long-winded song titles - the gimmick is snotty and pretentious. It almost made me break the monitor on my computer.
