For audiences, it's the continuous click-clack of the shoes that makes tap dancing such an exciting spectacle. For performers, it's the creation of an art form that drives the motions in their feet. At this year's 6th-annual New Mexico Tap Jam, audiences can watch amazing artists perform myriad of tap styles ranging from Jazz, Swing, Hip-hop and Broadway.
by Krista Pino Daily Lobo Rock 'n' roll, art and dinner is the theme for UNM's Annual Ceramics Silent Auction tonight. In an effort to raise money, UNM Ceramics Club will be holding the auction at ReBar. With $5 bidding increments, interested buyers can sign up to take home art created by the University's finest ceramics makers.
Let's face it, sequels usually bite the big one. Classics like "Batman and Robin," "The Matrix Reloaded" and "The Crow: City of Angels" refuse to let moviegoers forget that sequels are usually the ultimate letdown. Never fear, "Kill Bill: Vol. 2" is not your average sequel.
Go ahead, admit it - you really don't know all there is to know when it comes to sex. Paul Joannides does and proves it in the Guide to Getting it On. The Guide is an amusing and overly sarcastic book that discusses in detail all aspects of "the nasty," in common and slang terms, unlike most material on the subject that takes the proper and more physiological approach.
Daily Lobo: How did you decide on the black market as a topic for this book? Eric Schlosser: You might think of a black market in New York City, but you wouldn't think of it in the heartland of America. So that started me thinking about the workings of the underground.
Eric Schlosser writes in his new book that the American black market comprises about 10 percent of the national economy - that adds up to roughly $1 trillion, and it's still growing. Yet for all the money and influence that arises from this market, few people have ever been truly exposed to its inner workings.
Attention die hard fans of "The O.C." Run, don't walk, to the nearest music store - your favorite TV show now has a CD mix of the show's best music. The creators of the popular Wednesday night series have begun a CD series, this being the first of many mixes of the show's music.
Writer/director Dan Kay said finding work after college can be a struggle, especially when you're an artist living in New York City. This predicament is what inspired his film, "Way Off Broadway." The film, which opens April 16 at Madstone Theaters with an appearance by Kay, follows five realistic characters who fight against the competition of the film and theater industry and battle with the trials of relationships.
You never know what you're going to get when a star of the silver screen takes a stab at singing. Uma Thurman not only stars in "Kill Bill Vol. 2" but makes the soundtrack an extremely sensual and catchy listen. Of course, she's not alone in the effort.
by Krista Pino Daily Lobo UNM graduate student Dustin McGowan's play based on fantasy has helped him achieve an exciting reality. McGowen is leaving for Washington, D.C., on Monday to receive an award honoring the best student-written play on a theme appealing to young people from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.
The editors of In Company: An Anthology of New Mexico Poets after 1960 have been waiting for their book to come to life for more than 10 years. Lee Bartlett, V. B. Price and Dianne Edwards had a vision for an anthology of New Mexican poets, but getting it going was a challenge.
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.
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