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.
by John Bear Daily Lobo JBOT, lead singer of Captured! By Robots - and its only human member - said he wouldn't go back to performing with humans, even if robots are mean to him. "When you're playing with humans, you're always curious if someone's going to be your bro," he said.
by Joe Buffaloe Daily Lobo You can say you don't like Kenny Chesney, John, but I know you're lying. The man who brought you "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy" drops another 11 tracks of seamless, top-notch pop-country with his second album of the year, The Road and the Radio.
by Daniel V. Garcia Daily Lobo Punk rock was a grass-roots form of music founded on a resolute and uncompromising do-it-yourself ethic. Since its inception, it has become as exploitable a form of music as hip-hop and rock. The obviousness of this achieves a new starkness as one views Green Day's CD/DVD, Bullet in a Bible.
by Jessica Del Curto Daily Lobo If you combine the Bible and burlesque in the same sentence, people may get angry, said Frankie Flores. But this weekend's performance does just that, and Flores has a stage full of women in bustiers ready to show how bad the ladies of the Bible can really be.
by Eva Dameron Daily Lobo Charlize Theron said when she was offered the role of "Aeon Flux," it presented a great mental and physical challenge, so she took it. "Aeon Flux," originally an animated TV series created by Peter Chung, has been remade into a film.
by Abel Horwitz Daily Lobo In the five years since rap/rock hybrid Linkin Park released its multiplatinum, Grammy-winning album Hybrid Theory, the band has toured virtually nonstop, released three more successful albums and made a dozen solid music videos.
by Maria Staiano-Daniels Daily Lobo Sometimes it takes an intimate theater to make a play with an intimate topic work. Sol Arts Performance Space, where "Fantasies and Secrets" will be showing this weekend, is an intimate theater, physically as well as psychologically.
by Jessica Del Curto Daily Lobo Members of Fincannon have the art of multitasking down. Band members Dennis Pagano and Matt Miner do it all. With just the two of them onstage at Burt's Tiki Lounge on Monday night, they switched off between instruments during each song.
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