Spring Break will rear its ugly head a few short days from now. I am going to use the time to get a lot of things done - that screenplay, some house cleaning, read A Million Little Pieces and study for those two math classes I am failing.
Spring Break is upon us. You now have exactly one week to let the groove you have finally managed to work yourself into fizzle into disarray. The remaining eight weeks will be absolute hell on Earth. All is lost. Now that you know you are doomed, try to enjoy yourself.
It was too early Saturday morning. Tired and bitter, I picked up my friend Jasmine to begin our trip to White Sands. We met up with the photographer, Harrison Brooks, and his two friends; one a transfer student from New Jersey and the other a Harry Potter look-alike from southern New Mexico. We blasted "Road Runner #1" by the Original Modern Lovers as we followed the guys south.
Times sure have changed. The last time I was at the zoo was around the same time I was sporting the light-up sneakers, jewelry I made in Girl Scouts and a "101 Dalmatians" backpack with all the Lisa Frank accessories. "Full House" was my favorite TV show, and I had the biggest crush on Zack Morris from "Saved by the Bell." Weren't the 1990s the best time to be a kid?
Australia has its fair share of celebrities - Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman, Heath Ledger, Mel Gibson - yes, he really is from Australia - and, of course, Crocodile Dundee. But be sure to add the Veronicas to that list after you listen to their album The Secret Life of. These identical twins - Jess and Lisa Origlasso - hail from the land down under in Brisbane, Australia, and have a powerful sound that - even though it borders on the edges of a pop group - has substance.
Albuquerque is a wild place, past and present. Howard Bryan writes about some of the crazier moments in his history of the Rio Grande Valley in Albuquerque Remembered. For example, a lawyer comments on a public execution rather nonchalantly.
Liam Steel is in the middle of a five-night run of shows in Gainesville, Fla. "My body's a bit stiff," he said. Steel directs and performs in the show "Sinner," which hopped over the Atlantic from London for a tour of the United States.
If one were to look up the term "hip-hop" in any dictionary, more than likely, he or she would see a photograph of Dilated Peoples. They deserve this honor not because they are the greatest rap group. They aren't. They should get a photo because their sound is the absolute essence of hip-hop music.
"To be, or not to be: that is the question." If you do not recognize this quotation, you are either an alien or an uncultured slob. Fortunately, all you slackers or martians have a wonderful chance to learn about Earth culture from William Shakespeare's "Hamlet," starting March 17 at the Vortex Theatre.
Johnny Depp is trying too hard. This was made sufficiently clear after viewing "The Libertine." While the film has its moments, for the most part it was a two-hour Oscar bid that managed to avoid any success with the Academy during its film festival runs.
Ah, the Oscars. Where else can you see host Jon Stewart admitting his gay crush on George Clooney to a worldwide audience, a bunch of crazy French filmmakers carrying penguin dolls and a rap group named Three 6 Mafia now being able to go by the title of "The Academy Award-winning rap group Three 6 Mafia"?
I'm often accused of being cynical. But I don't see how anyone could blame me. The Nobel Peace Prize is a nice award. It acknowledges those rare homo sapiens who want everybody to stop killing each other. I like that.
I love Albuquerque. And I can't stand it. And everything in between. I exhibit this vast spectrum of emotion because I know this town, the good and the bad.
The ghetto is perhaps one of the most defining things in America's urban culture. It is here that many artists develop muses in one of the many genres of art, whether it is in poetry, theater, painting, or in the case of New Brunswick, N.J., native Jaheim, in music.
Combine spoken word, hand clapping and hard stepping, and you get Step Afrika. Stepping is a dance tradition created by African-American college students. The tradition grew out of rituals practiced by fraternities and sororities in the early 1900s.
I have thought long and hard about this - almost an hour and a half. Give Bono the Nobel Peace Prize. For one, it will motivate him to do more charity work and make less music.
by Debra Au Daily Lobo For all of those who thought the band Oasis was over and done with, there's good news. The '90s British group isn't getting back together, but it seems like their musical style and band composition have been reincarnated. The Subways is almost exactly like the former, being ...
by John Bear Daily Lobo Suicide bombers are people too. The film "Paradise Now" follows Said and Khaled, two work-a-day Palestinians living in Nablus on the West Bank. They have been selected to carry out a suicide mission somewhere inside beautiful downtown Tel Aviv. Said and Khaled are mentally ...
by Joe Buffaloe Daily Lobo It was a scene that could only take place in New Mexico. A guitarist and harpist performed traditional songs of the pueblo onstage. A poet spoke of the wood stove of his childhood and Elvis crossing the plains in the same sentence. Tables were lined with whites, African-Americans ...
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