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.
by Abel Horwitz Daily Lobo I sat down to take a sober look at "Who Rules?" and regretted it immediately. "Who Rules?" is a trivia game that's played by answering multiple choice questions on your television. In the same vein as "You Don't Know Jack," the popular late '90s take on the video game quiz show, "Who Rules?" comes complete with a sassy host and some random questions.
by Eva Dameron Daily Lobo Rusty Z said some hypnotists use the long induction process to hypnotize people. Comedian and certified hypnotherapist James Zingelman, whose stage name is Rusty Z, grabs people's wrists. "If we hypnotized with a watch it would take forever," he said.
by Joe Buffaloe Daily Lobo Within us all breathes the ability to love and the desire to strap the objects of our affection to a wall with masking tape. This is the world of local filmmaker Aaron Hendren, a 33-year-old Albuquerque native who recently graduated from UNM and will be screening three short films at Cinema Cafe in Santa Fe on Tuesday.
by Daniel V. Garcia Daily Lobo I distinctly remember a party at which my substance-laden friends brought up the topic of the greatest band in the world. Of course, arguments broke out, and the conversation continued for at least four hours - mind you, these were dedicated musicians whose love of music was matched only by their love of inebriation.
by Debra Au Daily Lobo Pop quiz: Name five Christmas songs. Easy, right? Now come up with five Hanukkah songs, and the "Dreidel" song doesn't count because everyone knows that one. No cheating. That's what I thought. You couldn't even think of one.
by Eva Dameron Daily Lobo Self-taught artist Derick Montez said everything he learned about art, he learned from a spray can. He put together a show, "Wall Scrawl," for 17 artists inspired by graffiti. It opens Nov. 18 at the Downtown Contemporary Art Center.
by John Bear Daily Lobo "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" defies expectations in two ways. One, it doesn't suck outright. Two, while it is by no means "Citizen Kane," it does contain one moment of expert filmmaking: 50 Cent's big jail-house, shower-room fight scene.
by Lesley Bell Daily Lobo 50-year-old men write plays about people in their 20s. And some people in their 20s are sick of it. UNM student Kristen Simpson cites these plays about 20-somethings written by 50-year-old men as one of her inspirations for writing her most recent play, "Let it Get to You," part of the Words Afire Festival.
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