by Maria Staiano-Daniels Daily Lobo Every rumor you've ever heard about Amsterdam is true, said Hajo de Reijger, drummer of the band Blues Brother Castro. The band, which calls Amsterdam home, arrives in Albuquerque on Wednesday as part of its first North American tour.
by John Bear Daily Lobo It seemed like such a good idea at the time, helping an impoverished girl from Burma immigrate to the United States and escape a life of turmoil. In return she can do the dishes once in a while. It's a win-win situation. Of course if you are using a mail-order bride service, at least in the universe created by director Huck Botko, odds are you likely make dirty movies in the basement of your Queens home.
by Abel Horwitz Daily Lobo Serenity now! No, this is not about Seinfeld, but "Serenity," the long-awaited film version of the cult hit television show "Firefly." In 2002 the Fox Network premiered a show named "Firefly," the brainchild of Joss Whedon, the man behind the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel" series.
by Abel Horwitz Daily Lobo If you stick your ring and middle finger into the air with the thumb out to the side, like you're almost flipping someone off, you're flashing Dane Cook's symbol. He calls it the "super finger" and it has two meanings. "This week, the 'feel the love mode' is for my fans and my continued success," Cook said.
by Chris Chavez Daily Lobo On her fourth album, The Naked Truth, Lil' Kim abandons her sexually explicit lyrics and bares her soul. Kimberly "Lil' Kim" Jones, who is serving a year-long sentence in federal prison stemming from a perjury conviction, uses her legal and personal troubles to create a quality rap album.
by Maria DeBlassie Daily Lobo Natasha Paremski said she wants to be a musician for the rest of her life. Paremski will be playing with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra this weekend in the performance "Russian Rhapsody," featuring music from Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich.
by Lesley Bell Daily Lobo The name Cica is a derivative of the Spanish word cicatriz, which denotes healing and growth. The band, which has been playing in Las Cruces and El Paso for about three years, is getting ready to play its first Albuquerque show.
by Chris Narkun Daily Lobo To fantasy mavens who regularly watch the four-hour versions of "The Lord of the Rings" movies and adore their star, Viggo Mortensen: Do not see this movie. On second thought, do see "A History of Violence" - just don't take any of the youthful innocence that fuels your obsession with magical fantasy worlds with you.
by John Bear Daily Lobo "The Last Detail" is a movie about how life can seem like an endless stream of unpleasantness no one wants to deal with. The film stars Jack Nicholson and Otis Young as career seamen languishing in the temporary housing of some bleak naval base, awaiting their next assignments.
by Maria Staiano-Daniels Daily Lobo Matt Orio, the drummer of Ki, said he found the band's name on a tantric-sex website. "I was trying to find out how to have sex for 14 hours straight," he said. "That didn't work, but I found six cool band names.
by Chris Narkun Daily Lobo Usually, you can count on Jodie Foster in a thriller. Since breaking out as a 14-year-old prostitute in "Taxi Driver" through her role opposite Hannibal Lecter in "Silence of the Lambs" and, most recently, as a woman protecting her daughter from a deranged Dwight Yoakam in "Panic Room," Foster's always been able to select roles in believable and suspenseful material with the best directors.
by John Bear Daily Lobo The Dimes are part of the burgeoning indie rock scene in Portland, Ore. But don't call them hipsters. Drummer Jake Rahner said his roommate is one, but added the state of being hip eludes an easy definition. "It's hard to define," he said.
by Maria DeBlassie Daily Lobo The Onlys are an acquired taste, said Jason Chenoweth, lead singer and guitarist of the band. "We're not writing formulaic music," he said. "We capture the energy of art and then go back and rearrange it." This indie rock band from Austin, Texas, will be in Albuquerque Friday to promote their album Limbic System.
by John Bear Daily Lobo Attention nerds: Imposters lurk in the shadows all around you. Actually, they lurk in the open as well. Some of them have even worked up the stugats to appear on television. For reasons I would rather not go into, I was sitting at home late two Saturdays ago idly watching "Mad TV.
by John Bear Daily Lobo UNM guitar instructor Michael Chapdelaine said he has something of a split personality. "My reputation has been this classical guitar nerd who wears a tuxedo and does long, serious pieces," he said. "But lately I've been doing different stuff.
by Eva Dameron Daily Lobo Rudolfo Anaya said he writes every morning. The New Mexico author is nominated for the Southwest Book Award for Serafina's Stories, a collection of 12 New Mexico folk tales translated from Spanish into English and set in the context of a story.
by Jessica Del Curto Daily Lobo Show this weekend, average symphony will not be, sayeth Yoda. The New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony Chorus will bring the music of all six "Star Wars" films to Popejoy Hall. Conductor Byron Herrington said the show will include projection screens, choreographed dancers and special lighting effects flashing over the orchestra to create a multimedia presentation.
by Joe Buffaloe Daily Lobo Everyone loves a good rummage sale. Cheap furniture. An occasional cool T-shirt. Stacks of random CDs. Shopping the way it's meant to be. This Sunday, though, it will also be for a good cause. The Nob Hill Business Association is having a rummage sale to benefit Habitat for Humanity, which hopes to build affordable new homes for those who live in the regions affected by Hurricane Katrina.
by Maria Staiano-Daniels Daily Lobo Could you forgive a serial killer? That is the question Bryony Lavery's play "Frozen" explores. The play, opening at Theatre X on Thursday, examines our ideas of justice, guilt and rehabilitation through the story of Ralph, a man who raped and killed seven pre-teen girls.
by John Bear Daily Lobo Jason Mraz is a musician who becomes irritated when asked to label his music. "Everybody is doing a crossover thing now. I got tired of trying to explain all our different influences because there are a lot of them," he said. "At the end of the day, it's pop-rock.
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