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 ...
by Abel Horwitz Daily Lobo The mystery that is the FOX TV development studios is something that has baffled television fans for years. This is the department that has cancelled such beloved shows as "Firefly," "Undeclared," "Arrested Development" and "Futurama" despite desperate pleas by fans ...
It's a fact of life - Hollywood will mess you up.
Sometimes a film can be entertaining and enlightening. It's even better when it's free.
The comedy about a madwoman is as serious as it gets.
In Durango, Colo., John Barker of the band Stellar Interlock pulled his work truck off to the side of the road to do an interview.
When a group's gimmick has run dry, it probably feels like a nasty hangover. Tha Alkaholiks - J-Ro, Tash and E-Swift - arrived in 1993 with 21 and Over which featured "Only When I'm Drunk," one of the best hip-hop songs of all time. The staggering bass line was first used by EPMD and later made famous by Jay-Z.
Now is the golden time of the year in Hollywood when seemingly every group that has anything to do with movies - actor's guilds, writer's guilds, critic's associations, cinematographers, etc. - hand out their awards.
Aceyalone, while not the most lyrically gifted MC, is nonetheless blessed with a voice that is instantly recognizable.
When singer/songwriter Townes Van Zandt was a young man, he sniffed airplane model glue to get high.
Country music isn't exactly my forte.
Breakin' Hearts started in an alley. Four years later, the annual hip-hop festival at UNM will have several additions to it, said founder Cyrus Gould. With additions such as the flick-book competition and African drumming and dancing, Gould describes the expansion as a snowball that continually accumulates and grows.
You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away and when to - get back to work.
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