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Intricate storyline rewards over season

Phil Parker | September 14

It's something special when a television show leaves you more satisfied than Thanksgiving dinner. Week by week, "The Wire," which begins its third season Sunday on HBO, leaves me with a sense of elation at the end of every single episode. It's not just the best of HBO's lauded dramatic lineup - "The Wire" is the best show I've ever seen, and I can't imagine liking another show this much.

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Band offers something for all

Noah Armstrong | September 9

Self-proclaimed hardcore band Abandon All Hope combines metal, punk and a hint of blues to create a driving, melodic sound that is entirely original. "Pretty much everyone can enjoy our music," guitarist Roger Pacheco said. "Metal kids like us, punk kids like us - we pretty much fall in between those lines.

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Culture column:Liberal radio needs cojones

Dustin Habermann | September 9

I had a neighbor who listened to talk radio nearly 24 hours a day, seven days a week. I'd wake in the morning to the bass of Limbaugh's voice, carry home the groceries to Hannity's weak attempts at rhetoric, and go to sleep to the soothing rants of Michael Savage.

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Tough Issues

September 9

by Amy Dalness Daily Lobo One in every six women is a victim of rape or attempted rape in her lifetime. Fifty-four percent occur before the age of 18, and 22 percent of these incidents occur before age 12, according to the National Violence Against Women Survey in 2000.

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Pagans celebrate equinox

Nancy Chang | September 9

Witches will gather this week in Albuquerque to celebrate the autumn equinox. Wicca and other religions are participating in the Pagan Pride Day. Wicca is a religion that derives many of its beliefs from symbolism, connection to nature and the universe as a cycle of life.

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Book looks at elevation, learning in marijuana use

Neelam Mehta | September 9

Louis Silverstein thinks marijuana never gets the respect it deserves. This should not be the case, said Silverstein, a professor of liberal education at Chicago's Columbia College and author of Deep Spirit & Great Heart: Living in Marijuana Consciousness, in which he takes a more profound and enlightened look at the popular illegal intoxicant.

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Painter finds art in industry

Amanda Jackson | September 8

Cement plants, mines, gravel pits or oil refineries aren't generally considered things of beauty. They serve their purpose to society and are typically hidden away from the metropolis. Those who use their products hardly think of them. UNM student Nina Elder's sense of wonder extends far beyond the norm to see these industrial plants as beauty and as art.

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To the beat of his own drum machine

September 8

by Landon Dyksterhouse Daily Lobo His nickname is Dancer. Everywhere he goes, he carries a CD player, portable speakers and a stash of electronica. It started one morning when he was dancing before history class with his headphones on at Dane Smith Hall.

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Filmmakers use film festival to get ahead

Noah Armstrong | September 7

Since before they can remember, Philip Gunn, Daniel Gutierrez and David Valdez of Emptyv.org have made movies. Valdez and Gunn grew up in Rio Rancho making short films and documenting everything with a camcorder. Gutierrez didn't meet the other two until later, but was also into film.

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Musical essay on WWI a success

September 7

by Michael Bennett Daily Lobo Denver trio Caustic Soul's latest release takes listeners on a turbulent ride through war. Absence of Warmth is a unique offering and would be hard to lump into a particular musical genre. Members Mike Atchley, Judas Neiman and David Spethman combine guitar, synthesizer and sampling on Absence.

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Culture column:Ex-tennis player's show a racket

Alex Tarrand | September 2

As a celebrity, which talk show you choose is a lot like which urinal you stand at in the men's room. It's a public respecter of confidence. The closer you stand to the sinks and mirrors, the brassier you feel about your tackle. Likewise, the talk show you pick to attend speaks volumes about your priorities and personality.

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Theater, art means to end life on streets

Jessica Del Curto | September 2

Thanks to a new organization in town, Albuquerque street kids can use art to better their lives. Started 14 years ago, StandUp For Kids is a national organization dedicated to helping homeless and street kids. Using tools such as theater, and organizing fundraisers that involve art and dog washing, the group does anything it can to touch on the lives of the troubled youth.

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Pure punk, no pop live in the Klouse

Jessica Del Curto | September 2

For anyone who doesn't understand the beauty of punk rock, a Klouse show may explain it. The 11-year-old band performed Tuesday night at Burt's Tiki Lounge along with The Adapted, and Johnny Cock and the Nuts, providing a night of lunacy and talent that encompasses punk music.

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Rocking the wind

Chris Chavez | September 2

Members of Funeral for a Friend may have performed in front of a packed Journal Pavilion on Tuesday, but all they could talk about was the weather. The band from Wales was one of many performers to take the stage at the Projekt Revolution Tour, which included Ghostface, Korn, Snoop Dogg, Less Than Jake and founders Linkin Park.

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Cult experience shapes book

Marisa Demarco | September 2

Margaret Hollenbach dropped out. She abandoned her master's degree in cultural anthropology and joined The Family, an apocalyptic cult that believed its members were the vanguard of the revolution. Hollenbach wrote Lost and Found about the three most intense months of her life when she left her name and possessions to join a marriage commune in Taos in 1970.

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Civic pride: Fashion takes its turn at getting vote out

September 2

by Gemma Tarlach Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (KRT) Whether you lean to the right or the left, want to quell voter apathy, or express your inner wonk, this election season there's a statement T-shirt for you. And yes, most designs out there are destined for the bargain bin come Nov.

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Poets compete to slam Bush

Cindy Lewis | August 31

While some express political views through debate, others do it through poetry. On Saturday more than 250 people of all ages and ethnicities came together for one purpose - to slam the president. Slam Bush is a national rhyming contest in which poets and MCs step up to the mic to spew their views about the president and his policies.

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Bad trip inspires destructive tendencies

Nancy Chang | August 31

If time travel was as easy as popping in a CD, consider 25% Toby's Live at the BPL, the key to starting up the psychedelic hippie bus. The listener will end up in a place populated by weird guys tripping on mushrooms and trying to revive the '70s by shouting lyrics into the ears of the deaf.

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Band pulls off bipolar concept CD

August 31

Staff Report Who would have thought a band could combine the sounds of death metal and emo, and create a harmony that works? From Autumn to Ashes, or FATA, have successfully mixed two very different genres of music, and on Saturday they showed Albuquerque fans bipolar music may be the way to go.

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Comic column:Comics look at space, humanity

August 26

by Manuelita Beck Daily Lobo There's something magical about outer space. Now, keep in mind I was never one of those kids who wanted to go into space one day - you know, the ones dying to go to Space Camp. But there's something about Orbiter that makes me dream about space.