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.
by Scott Albright Daily Lobo Institute - the side project of Bush's Gavin Rossdale - has a new album, Distort Yourself, which reeks of broken-down technological junk thrown into the scrapyard of bad rock. Songs like "Information Age" give the impression that instead of using a guitar, the band decided to connect an old defibrillator into a broken fax machine to create a painful mixture of high-pitched twangs.
by Eva Dameron Daily Lobo Artist Jim Kraft, 67, said he made a list of things he wants to do before he dies, and putting on an art show is one of them. His show at the Harwood Art Center is one of five on display. "I don't know if it's my last. I may do another one," he said.
by Maria DeBlassie Daily Lobo Lisa Lenard-Cook has always been a writer, she said. "They tell me when I was a little girl, I was picking up a pen before I could talk," she said. Lenard-Cook has been nominated for the first annual Southwest Book Award in fiction for her novel Dissonance.
by Eva Dameron Daily Lobo Taproot proves you can teach an old dog new tricks. With their third album, Blue-Sky Research, members of Taproot have learned new ways to expand the possibilities of their instruments and voices. The structures of each song flow together with better skill.
by Maria Staiano-Daniels Daily Lobo Leigh-Ann Santillanes, the director of "Orphans," first saw the play 15 years ago and was immediately drawn to it. "There was something about it that was so tremendously beautiful," she said. At the Vortex Theatre, Santillanes and her cast have created a production of tremendous beauty - a strange, sad beauty that is more unsettling than uplifting.
by Katy Knapp Daily Lobo I didn't know they made home lobotomy kits. But A&M Records did in the form of a poorly produced album by the Pussycat Dolls. Their debut - and hopefully only - record was released on Sept. 13, about three months after the single "Don't Cha" first burned holes into our eardrums with incessant radio play.
by Maria DeBlassie Daily Lobo A film festival in Albuquerque aims to change stereotypes about gays and lesbians on mainstream television and film. "The D Word," a parody on the television series "The L Word" is one of many films to be shown at the third annual Southwest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in Albuquerque and Santa Fe on Friday.
by Jessica Del Curto Daily Lobo UNM student Paul Ortiz said he has somewhere between 5,000 and 6,000 records. "You name it, I've got it," he said. But for Ortiz, who is one of a pair of DJs who started a dance night called the Snugfit Social Club, a diverse range of albums is prerequisite to being a DJ.
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