by Rhian Hibner Daily Lobo There is nothing quite like a well-made children's movie. If a movie can manage to make its viewers feel like they're 10-year-olds again, someone has done something right.
by Abel Horwitz Daily Lobo Standing on a large platform in the middle of a 40,000-seat sold-out Tokyo arena, professional snowboarder Travis Rice clearly looks overwhelmed. Below him lies a ramp leading to a quarter pipe. He's supposed to launch off the ramp and perform a trick as the mass of young Japanese people in attendance scream in anticipation.
by Debra Au Daily Lobo Juelz Santana is more than just a flashy rapper who churns out formulized club mixes - he has substance. With his sophomore album, What the Game's Been Missing, Santana provides a respectable mix of dance beats, ghetto insight and thugged-out bragging tracks in a structured - albeit lengthy - 90-minute session.
by Alex Williams Daily Lobo You may not have heard of DJ Swamp, but you've probably heard him. On Thursday, turntable veteran DJ Swamp will perform at Burt's Tiki Lounge. Known for outrageous and often pyrotechnic onstage antics, Swamp is finishing the last leg of a tour that stretched from the West Coast to the East Coast.
by John Bear Daily Lobo Apparently, Slim Shady feels he has amassed such a massive repertoire of material that it would be madness not to release a greatest hits album just in time for the holiday season. Really, where does this guy get his balls? Greatest hits albums are for the Doors or Johnny Cash - performers who are dead or have an extensive catalog that would necessitate a medium for uninitiated listeners to take in a good sampling.
by Eva Dameron Daily Lobo Circus Luminous is a dream come true - literally. "The whole show is this imaginary dream life of a clown," said Acushla Bastible, the show's director. "She imagines she becomes part of this big circus, and she's able to do all these tricks.
by Abel Horwitz Daily Lobo You can call punk rock a lot of things, just don't call it heartless. On Friday night the Launchpad is hosting a benefit show as a thank-you to the under-21 crowd who stood up to Mayor Chavez's proposal to stop all-ages shows.
by John Bear Daily Lobo Do not worry for one minute, Joe. You will get some hate mail. I have faith in your ability to piss people off. But in the meantime, whenever you fork over close to $20 for that new Celine Dion CD, do you ever get the feeling you are being screwed? And now it has been revealed that Sony BMG installed root kit software onto 52 of its CDs, since recalled.
by Eva Dameron Daily Lobo Lucian Niemeyer used to be a businessman, but in 1987 he switched to photography, something he'd done all his life on the side. "I had been a businessman," he said. "My wife said, 'Do what you want to do after that,' so I did.
by Joe Buffaloe Daily Lobo I'll admit it, I'm jealous. Last week John Bear got some hate mail for bashing Kenny Chesney's album, while I received none for supporting it. So I'd like to thank him for giving me this chance to anger my readers enough to maybe - just maybe - earn a letter of my own.
by Daniel V. Garcia Daily Lobo There are various ways to write a song. Typically, one starts with a melody and builds it up from there, or he or she writes out some lyrics and tries to make musical sense out of them. Songs are also written cooperatively when a band gets together and a member starts playing something that the other musicians respond to.
by Nathan Williams Daily Lobo The cover of The Google Story matches the Web-based search engine to a tee with a plain white background, the multicolored Google logo and sparse text luring readers into familiar territory. A surprising amount of work goes on behind that simple background, and the book peels back the mystery.
by Debra Au Daily Lobo Maybe I'm not that into rap music anymore, but listening to Canibus' new Hip-Hop For Sale didn't exactly persuade me to start listening again. I guess I'm just a little nostalgic for those things that were back in the day. Like when Diddy was Puff Daddy, when Snoop Dogg didn't own a youth football league, and when Canibus was one of the rawest MCs with clever wordplay.
by Jessica Del Curto Daily Lobo The stresses of life are so much better set to the backdrop of song and dance. Perhaps this is why the musical "Rent" became the longest-running Broadway show after its premiere in 1996. For much cheaper tickets, fans can now see the movie adaptation, which is as close to the real thing as you can get.
by Nathan Williams Daily Lobo The book West Bound contains several linked stories of a family that begins in Tulsa, Okla., and makes its way to Albuquerque, moving through the twentieth century. Robert Gish starts with his focus on Jesse James, or J.
by Abel Horwitz Daily Lobo Greg Behrendt thinks he's cool. Or, at least, he used to be cool, he said. He does have a lot to stand on - not only was he an executive consultant on HBO's "Sex and the City," but he's written one of the most popular relationship advice books on the market today, He's Just Not That Into You: The No Excuses Truth To Understanding Guys.
by John Bear Daily Lobo The iPod craze has officially gone too far. The Kenpo Jacket for iPod allows listeners to merge fashion and technology into one slick package. The jacket features a connection built right into the liner and a control panel on the left sleeve.
by Eva Dameron Daily Lobo Buying art in a gallery can be expensive, but an art auction provides the same high-quality work at a lower price, said artist Karl Hofmann. Hofmann donated a piece of art to the Graduate Art Association's silent art auction with works donated by graduate students, faculty and alumni.
by John Bear Daily Lobo Electronic music has more subgenres than just about any other style of music. There's the easy-to-remember stuff: techno and house, heard ubiquitously throughout America. It plays on commercials, at nightclubs and on the radio.
by John Bear Daily Lobo I would like to take a moment to thank my coworker, Joe, for choosing Kenny Chesney's latest effort, The Road and the Radio, for our first go-around. Now I can add pop-country fans to my ever-growing list of enemies. I am terribly afraid that the average Chesney fan is slightly more heavily armed than the average indie rocker kid.
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