by Abel Horwitz Daily Lobo "Sin City" is a knock-down, drag-out, two-hour brawl of a movie. It's even hard to call it a movie. The way "Sin City" is shot and the way the actors talk make this more of a live-action comic book than a film. You watch this story, and you walk out a changed person.
by Abel Horwitz Daily Lobo The 29th annual Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour packed the Highland Theatre last night with everyone from outdoor sports enthusiasts to couch potatoes who've seen perhaps one too many X-Games. The tour showcases the best independent films about extreme sports and is so popular that this year the festival traveled to every continent - including Antarctica.
Beware of shifts in time or gravity. The time fluctuations that cause people to relive entire days and gravity storms that can uproot trees and send Velcro stock skyrocketing are two examples of the fantastical nature of Sean Murphy's novel, The Time of New Weather.
Beck's back, and he's traded in his acoustic guitar for turntables. For Guero the multi-platinum ingenue left behind the orchestra-tinged folk of Sea Change, and reteamed with the Dust Brothers, producers of his 1996 masterpiece Odelay. Guero, slang for "white boy," occasionally brings back the beat-filled and semi-rapping Beck Hansen made famous by mid-90s hits, "Where It's At" and "Devil's Haircut.
Royalty Life Records was created in part in the UNM dorms. Lameck Lukanga, also known as Humble, and Byron Davis established the hip-hop record label. With the help of residents in Redondo Hall, his dream is now a reality. "Me and B came up with this idea sitting in a garage," Lukanga said.
Saturday, there will be color everywhere on Johnson Field. The India Students Association will celebrate its Festival of Colors, the second-biggest traditional holiday celebrated in India. At the festivals, people throw powdered color called gulal on each other.
by Maria DeBlassie Daily Lobo Allah made some people funny, but others shouldn't quit their day jobs. The "Allah Made Me Funny Official Comedy Tour" displayed its comedic talent Tuesday night in the SUB Ballroom. It featured three Muslim comedians, including Azeem, a comedian who had just finished a tour with Dave Chapelle.
Students and professors alike could be found hobnobbing Friday night at the Jonson Gallery opening that featured artwork from UNM graduate students. The show is the eleventh annual Juried Graduate Student Exhibition. "The show fosters student work," said Rhiannon Mercer, a second-year graduate student in painting and drawing whose work, "Seepage," was in the show.
by Matt Gomez Daily Lobo The cicada-like buzz of tattoo machines and bass-heavy hip-hop provide a soundtrack for Jeff Hayes' business, Rival Tattoo Art Studios. "We did this building start to finish in 33 days - 12 hours a day, no days off," Hayes said.
There. In the time it took you to read that word, you'd already decided a number of things: Whether or not you'll keep reading. Whether you think this book review is worth the next five or 10 minutes. If you like the reviewer or if you think he's a gasbag.
Before there was "Moulin Rouge" and Nicole Kidman's Chanel commercial, there was a little movie about ballroom dancing. Well, calling "Strictly Ballroom" little is a bit deceptive. Sure, Baz Luhrmann's first movie centers on an unlikely pair who fall in love, overcome numerous obstacles and find success.
by Matthew Paul Bailey Daily Lobo I cannot begin to fathom, nor do I want to, the motivation that drives people to wear pajamas out in the big wide world. The idea of comfort has always been a motivation for some people's fashion - or more appropriately, the lack of it.
by Eva Dameron Daily Lobo Actor Steve Zahn's latest movie, "Sahara," is a fantasy tale based on reality. The film, co-starring Matthew McConaughey and Penelope Cruz, is based on a book by Clive Cussler. "It's not all fantasy," Zahn said. "It's based on reality, but at the same time, it's a crazy movie, and we do stuff that's totally not believable.
Network television's nastiest show is back, and any fan of good TV should be ecstatic. FX's "The Shield" is a knock-your-teeth-out cop drama unlike any other. It follows the exploits of Vic Mackey - played by the immortal Michael Chiklis - and his special unit Strike Team, who lord over a fictional L.
He's known as the Enigma, and he's got a tattoo of a jigsaw puzzle covering his body from horn to toe. He is a 36-year-old musician and a sideshow act, and he will be at the Launchpad on Sunday. He's been swallowing swords since he was 15, and he had horns implanted into his head in 1995.
When Tom Shimura was a kid, rap music put him in a trance. Today the MC known as Lyrics Born is traveling the world and hearing his own rap songs in Diet Coke commercials. For Shimura, having his music in commercials worldwide is a good thing. "Things like that even out the playing field for guys like me," he said.
Joshua Homme seems to be having trouble keeping his bands straight. The bandleader and the driving musical force behind stoner-rock heroes Queens of the Stone Age is also the founding member of the Desert Sessions albums and half of the Eagles of Death Metal.
Products of a rich Chicago dance scene, Greenskeepers successfully flip between genres on the group's latest release, Pleetch. The group covers disco, electrofunk, soul, pop, electroclash, trip-hop and house styles without batting an eyelash and carries off each foray with a sly smile.
The lyrics of the group Tw12lve are the played-out chants of gangsta rap. Money can't buy these MCs love, but they'd rather be a thug rollin' on dubs, goes the battle cry of the group who, without love, will probably never make the money to afford one rim let alone enough to roll on.
by Aaron Salas Daily Lobo Fifty Cent claimed he sold more records than all other New York MCs combined in the last two years. His debut album, Get Rich or Die Tryin', has sold more than 11 million copies. Fifty Cent, or Curtis Jackson, also said if his latest album, The Massacre, sells any less, he will consider it a failure.
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