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.
Stephen Donaldson builds worlds with words. Donaldson will be the guest of honor at the 37th annual Bubonicon Science Fiction Convention that celebrates fantasy, science fiction and horror. The events cover a wide range of possibilities, he said, including open panel discussion, an art show and several short films.
by Eva Dameron Journalist's funeral an explosive final farewell Hunter S. Thompson went out with a bang. In Woody Creek, a small town outside of Aspen, Colo., the Gonzo journalist and author once lived on a piece of land he called Owl Farm. A funeral for 350 friends and family was held Saturday.
Finally, a pretentious art rock band you can sink your teeth into. We Are Wolves sounds like every other garage band to emerge from the woodwork the last few years, at least during a perfunctory first listen. But they manage to pull a few interesting musical tricks out of what are surely very tight sleeves.
McAllister Hull was just 21 when he began working at Los Alamos Labs in 1944. "The work was interesting, the significance of the war was understood, and it never occurred to me to think of my age," Hull said in an e-mail interview. His memoir, Rider of the Pale Horse, documents his experience casting explosions for what would be the atomic bomb.
Jen Stephenson and Alison Terry have created a flexible whirlwind. Those are the words Terry says are reasonable to describe the piece she and Stephenson are working on, titled "Rice For Breakfast." "I think it will be genuinely unlike anything anyone has experienced theatrically," Stephenson said.
If you see a man with his entire head slathered in tattoos walking around campus, don't be alarmed. He's a UNM instructor. Bruce Potts teaches Public Speaking. He got his first tattoo in 1968 during a stint in the Navy and decided after retiring from teaching in public schools that he wanted to get his head and face done as well.
by Chris Chavez Daily Lobo With his first album in seven years, Fugee member Prakazrel "Pras" Michel continues to add to the argument that he is the weakest link in the Fugee chain. The Fugees, started by Pras in 1987, were initially known as the Tranzlator Crew.
by John Bear Daily Lobo The author of the classic gore fest American Psycho has inserted a fictional version of himself into his latest offering. Reagan-era literary poster child Bret Easton Ellis returns with Lunar Park, a novel about, well, Bret Easton Ellis.
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