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.
John Strader wants to bring the art of live music back to the radio.
I've always had trouble placing music in categories.
Hollywood 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.
The 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.
Sometimes 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.
Not 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.
If 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.
You have probably noticed the restaurant that opened on Central Avenue a few weeks ago.
Goh 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.
Shakespeare 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."
The 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.
I 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.
Rudolfo 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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