Hip-hop masters Dilated Peoples is back with its third release, Neighborhood Watch, and members have a lot more to rap about than getting drunk in clubs. The trio, made up of MCs Evidence and Rakaa and DJ Babu, based the album around their 'hoods in their hometown of Los Angeles.
Video art has found its day in the sun. The Walls Gallery is featuring an outdoor-only exhibition that began Monday and will continue through April 25. "I think the intent of the whole show is to redefine that exhibition space," said Michael Cook, an artist in the show and an art professor at UNM.
Jennifer Ferraro says poetry has become distanced from common people. That's part of what inspired her to combine poetry with live music and dance in "Intimate Distance: Courting the Beloved," which will be performed at the South Broadway Cultural Center on Saturday.
Porcelain may remind people of milky faced dolls, the contents of their granny's china cabinet or even tea parties where refined ladies don ridiculous hats, but to some the art of porcelain making is much deeper than that. Ten years ago UNM started teaching the Arita method of porcelain making, a 400-year-old style that, remarkably is only taught at UNM and in Japan.
Some say the third time is the charm. It's true for Orange County, Calif., rock band Thrice. The band's third album, The Artist in the Ambulance, debuted on the Billboard top 200 and after years of playing opening band to more well known acts, the members have embarked on their first headlining tour across America.
Anyone who says young people do not have a say in the 2004 election has not yet read the book, How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office: the anti-politics, un-boring guide to power. Marisol Enyart, a UNM student double majoring in Latin American Studies and Political Science and president of the UNM chapter United Students Against Sweatshops is a contributor of the book.
DJ Scientific, longtime host of KUNM's "Street Beat," has found a new platform to showcase his ideas about hip-hop - television. "Boombox Mathematics" first hour-long episode airs on public access TV tonight. The show, which Jason Marchiondo, DJ Scientific, describes as "just a lot of good stuff," is a hip-hop soup bowl full of MC battles, old hip-hop music videos from the early '90s, graffiti artists and hip-hop skits.
Thomas Andrews says he got interested in filmmaking when a teacher at West Mesa High School gave him a camera and told him to go make a movie. Andrews, a media arts major, is the director of the Southwest Film Center and has made about 15 short films since then.
Carlisle Gym is going through a rebirth of sorts this weekend. Last semester, the gym, which was used as a basketball court until 1986, went through serious renovations in support of UNM's Department of Theatre and Dance new MFA offering. The venue has been transformed into a multifunctional, 200-seat, state-of-the-art dance-performance space equipped with new lighting, sound systems and new seats.
by Krista Pino Daily Lobo Madness has taken over the Vortex Theater. UNM student Gabrielle Johansen made her off-campus directorial debut with "Methods to Madness" at the Vortex Theatre last weekend. Most of the play is set in a Hollywood apartment, with seven characters, including 20-something roommates Mercy and Maxine.
Eric Clapton said he has never heard anyone play the guitar like blues legend Robert Johnson. Some said Johnson sold his soul to the devil for his nearly perfect guitar talents. Ironically, this is near what Clapton's peers say about him and his "slow hand.
by Blair Rinn Daily Lobo Spring is all around with the twittering of birds, the unfurling of blossoms and the caress of the warm sun. It's only natural that the "Flower of Evil" would sprout up at the Madstone Theater. Indeed, there is some spring-like play in "La Fleur du Mal," but it is mostly foul.
Thomas Jefferson is raised from the crypt to provide legal counsel to Jose Padilla in director Ramon Florez's ambitious, trilingual play, "The Peculiar Case of Jose Padilla." In reality, Jose Padilla's case has not been argued before a jury. Padilla is being held for plotting to detonate a radiological bomb in the United States, and the U.
by Luke Nihlen Daily Lobo I bet Carl Jung would have loved the Internet. Jung extended the Freudian theory of the conscious and subconscious mind to include a third component - the collective unconscious. Think of it as a collection of subconscious traits and associations common to all humans.
Grade: B- The Bloody Lovelies aren't bad, just not nearly as good as band members claim. When people have something to sell, it's common practice for them to showcase their goods in a positive light. The Bloody Lovelies is no exception. By perusing the band's Web site (www.
Daniel Stolar was going to become a doctor, but after two years of studying medicine at Yale, he decided to skip off to the University of Arizona to chase his true passion - writing. "I like short stories the most," Stolar said. "They give you the depth of a novel in one sitting.
Special effects are not credited to the late 19th century, but filmmaker Zoe Beloff has brought some of those cinema techniques to life in beautifully captivating pieces that explore the unconscious. Professor Mary Tsiongas of the Electronic Arts Department in conjunction with the Southwest Film Center brought Beloff to UNM and her films, "Shadowland, or Light From the Other Side" and "Claire and Don in Slumberland," last weekend.
This story was going to be the big one. I got an email last Friday asking, "Sam, how would you like to go to The Mars Volta show and interview them after the show?" I got so excited my head started to spin. I thought I was in grade school again on my way to see Motley Crue.
The best work in any art form frequently comes from a revolutionary mind. Working Classroom's latest production, "Carmen" is an innovative creation from no less than 11 minds, one of which is MoisÇs Kaufman, writer and director of "The Laramie Project." "We're taking a process that's very collaborative in the community and creating something pretty revolutionary," said Tricklock Theatre's Joe Pesce, the assistant director for the play.
Even local bands can have a storied past full of hard work and rock star shenanigans. In the four years that Unit 7 Drain has been together, it has had a work output greater than most well-paid pop stars and probably much better tales. The band recoded and released a self-titled EP in 2001, the excellent LP Red Halo in 2002 and 2003's The Suicide Couple.
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