by Lesley Bell Daily Lobo Suzanne Westenhoefer, an openly gay comedian and actress, does not shy away from talking about controversial issues in her stand-up routines. "I'm not so much aggressive as I am boldly spoken," Westenhoefer said. "I think that my personality onstage and my personality offstage are not that different.
by Eva Dameron Daily Lobo Juliet Wing said her art show at Factory on Fifth will be unlike anything most people have seen at standard galleries because the subject in the art will be present at the show, but not as a person mingling with the crowd. She'll be playing a character.
by John Bear Daily Lobo I am an avid hater of all things Steven Spielberg. A little back story. When I was about 14 I wanted to be a paleontologist - a dinosaur scientist. I realize this marks me as a horribly nerdy individual, and I am fine with that. So I was sitting in my room, playing with my fossils, when I glanced at the television because there was a Tyrannosaurus rex on the screen, gnashing its teeth.
by Maria DeBlassie Daily Lobo Spain is back, in "Prelude to Spanish Modernism: Fortuny to Picasso" at the Albuquerque Museum. One of the most impressive artists was Mariano Fortuny. His paintings were so real, it was as if the viewer could walk into each and every one of them.
by Jessica Del Curto Daily Lobo Dirtheadz stormed the Albuquerque music scene several years ago, shaking the city with their polished beats and addictive hooks. Then the hip-hop group seemed to fall of the planet. The lineup kept changing, promised albums were never released and previous members performed under the same name, confusing fans.
by John Bear Daily Lobo It's called indie rock, and it's enjoying widespread popularity. Its latest addition is a band from North Jersey called Particle Zoo. The album was released some time ago, locally, and is now trickling down the pipes and showing up in strange places.
by Maria DeBlassie Daily Lobo Concha Ortiz y Pino de Kleven is living history. Ana Pacheco, editor and publisher of Concha! Matriarch of a Three Hundred-Year-Old New Mexico Legacy, said Kleven, at the age of 95, symbolizes all that is important to Hispanic New Mexicans.
by Scott Albright Daily Lobo Every Wednesday night hip-hop heads spin, break dance, freestyle, beat-box, and perform the best of their underground skills at Burt's Tiki Lounge. The scene has been popping for the last two years in the Downtown area. Local MCs get up and pour their souls upon the crowds that are willing to listen.
by Abel Horwitz Daily Lobo In the '70s, when UNM Professor of Anthropology David Stuart was a grad student, he wandered into a Mexican fishing village named Guaymas. There, without enough money for a hotel room or much of a desire to be part of the masses of tourists, he did something that the other American visitors didn't do.
by Jessica Del Curto Daily Lobo Theatre X opened their fall 2006 season with a poignant play about isolation, the tribulations of marriage and the impacts of war. "References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot" by Jose Rivera is a timely piece that takes audience members into the secluded and confused life of a military housewife.
by John Bear Daily Lobo And the award for most creative band name in the last week or so goes to - The Kola Koca Death Squad. Really, that is the best band name since John Cougar Concentration Camp, whoever they are. The name sounds like a not-so-subtle diss on a certain soft drink company, the words transposed to avoid any legal repercussions.
by John Bear Daily Lobo "The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean" is a film that features large amounts of fairly graphic violence and spicy language that - only four years before its 1972 release - would have landed anyone associated with it under the harsh scrutiny of The Senate Committee on Lewd and Lascivious Blah, Blah, Blah.
by Eva Dameron Daily Lobo Members of the comedy troupe Eat, Drink and Be Larry are jumping on the Batman craze that's spreading across the country. "Batman Starts or Something" is a parody following the basic story of Batman. Jason Witter, director and actor for the role of Scarecrow, said they worked in pieces from the original '60s show, Tim Burton's "Batman," and anything else they thought related to the parody.
by John Bear Daily Lobo Reggae artist Kevin Lee Todman came to Albuquerque as a travel agent, setting up trips to the Caribbean. Born on the island of St. Thomas, later moving to the United States, he made his money working in the tourist business and did reggae on the side.
by Chris Chavez Daily Lobo A year after dropping out of college, Chi-town rapper Kanye West returns to school with his new album Late Registration. In a little over a year since his debut album, West has been established as rap's premier artist, producer and lyricist.
by Scott Albright Daily Lobo Hardcore metal band Every Time I Die explodes with blood-pumping music and screaming lyrics in their new album, Gutter Phenomenon. Vocalist Keith Buckley yells and sometimes sings over the 11-track CD that combines thrash-like guitar riffs from Jordan Buckley and Andrew Williams with the pounding drum beats of Mike Novak.
by John Bear Daily Lobo Pumpkinhead, the unsung hero of the hip-hop world, has finally released a full-length album on a label. Orange Moon Over Brooklyn combines intelligent lyrics and earthy, heavily turntablized beats that remind the listener of the good old days - 1992.
by Ali Patterson Daily Lobo The lead singer of Something Corporate, has strayed from his successful band to try a solo effort with a band called Jack's Mannequin. Everything In Transit, the debut album from Jack's Mannequin, isn't just about Andrew McMahon flying solo, though.
by Eva Dameron Daily Lobo UNM artists of every conceivable stripe - photographers, painters, performance artists and so on - will gather to showcase their work. There will be an art exhibit at Jonson Gallery to introduce the works of 22 first-year graduate students to the art program.
Americans aren't the only ones with dysfunctional families. "My Neighbors the Yamadas" is an animated film that follows the life of one family living in a suburb of Tokyo, Japan. They fight, lose their 6-year-old daughter in a shopping mall, eat their dinner in front of a TV set, ignore each other, have a preteen boy who looks at dirty magazines and a grandma who talks to caterpillars.
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