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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.
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Building a flying bomb for peace
Joe Buffaloe | March 29Not only scientists can build atomic bombs. Albuquerque-based artist and UNM alumnus Chad Person thinks differently. Satirizing the U.S. government's idea of building "more usable" nuclear weapons, such as bunker busters, he has designed what he calls the world's first passenger atomic bomb.
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Irish play hatefully humorous
Joe Buffaloe | March 28If you've ever fantasized about killing your brother, this is the play for you. "The Lonesome West," which continues its run at Theatre X this Wednesday through Saturday, is the story of Coleman and Valene Conner, two brothers in Ireland who divide their time between threatening to kill each other and driving their priest to drink. Were it a TV show, it would be the most popular sitcom in hell.
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Pita joint a healthy food fix
John Bear | March 28You have probably noticed the restaurant that opened on Central Avenue a few weeks ago.
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Album a musical mÇlange
Debra Au | March 28Goh seems to be all over the place. Don't agree? Never heard of them? Well, let's do the math. Two guys - Chris Harris and Jay Hagenbuch - are based out of San Francisco and Boston and play nine instruments collectively. That sounds like a lot of music over a lot of frequent flyer miles if you ask me.
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Hamlet goes to high school
Marcella Ortega | March 23Shakespeare is fine and dandy. But making fun of Shakespeare is divine. "Hamlet the Vampire Slayer," written by Jason Witter and Aaron Frale, is a parody of the Shakespeare classic that combines the original storyline of Hamlet with elements from the television show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
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A chemical transformation
Debra Au | March 23The first time I ever saw My Chemical Romance, I was sitting in the SUB waiting for judging to begin at my high school science fair.
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Spike Lee's film thrills the hardest of critics
Chris Narkun | March 23I credit myself on being pretty hard to impress when it comes to plot twists. Once you've seen as many action/suspense/thriller/crime movies as I have, you can see 98 percent of the standard, oh-so-shocking "Gasp - the mole is, in fact, Bruce Willis' boss" variety endings from the theater lobby.
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Anaya weaves sand and spirit into short stories
Joe Buffaloe | March 23Rudolfo Anaya is a true storyteller - if he couldn't print his books, I have the feeling he'd wander from town to town telling his stories for free.
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Drums give CD personality
John Bear | March 21Sorry for the constant drug referencing when describing the numerous rock 'n' roll CDs that come barreling across my desk.
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Film blurs heroism, terrorism
Abel Horwitz | March 21"V For Vendetta" is a futuristic film that warns of the dangers of a fascist government and justifies terrorist actions to topple such powers.
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'Tsotsi' a cure for cynicism
Rhian Hibner | March 21Every once in a while the Academy gets it right. Earlier this month, South African Moviworld Productions' film "Tsotsi" won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. If this film had been made by an American company it would have been in the running for Best Picture.
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Capitol offers more than art snobs
Maria StaianoDaniels | March 9When I was a junior high student in Santa Fe, my friends always complained there was nothing to do. This annoyed me, partially because my friends were losers whose idea of fun was to get wasted and act stupid, which you can do anywhere. So in an effort to prove my loser friends wrong, I give you things to do in Santa Fe - besides getting drunk.
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Litter takes away from striking scenery of Jemez
John Bear | March 9We were just outside of Bernalillo, on the edge of the desert, when I shrugged and began to fake cold. "It's like 80 degrees out here, dude," my driver said. "Why don't you just shut up and enjoy the ride?"
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Taking a break to dance
Maria StaianoDaniels | March 9Maybe you were planning to spend this Spring Break sleeping, watching TV and eating barbecue flavored potato chips on your couch. You are a lazy bum and should be ashamed of yourself.
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Panhandle, hitchhike through Spring Break
Daniel V. Garcia | March 9In an effort to find stuff to do for Spring Break with absolutely no money, I thought long and hard. If you really want to travel but you have no cash, you can hitchhike anywhere. Seriously. Just check out digihitch.com. We've all heard the horror stories, and while some may be true, I have never had any problems. Of course, if you look as psycho as I do while standing on the side of the road, the drivers who are brave enough to pick you up probably won't mess with you.
