Even after all this time, people still give a funny look when they hear the word Americana. What does it mean? Americana is pretty much a catchall term for anyone who plays music that sounds like old-time country music, but doesn't exactly look like an old-time country music type person.
Is it okay to sell out? "Plunda," a play penned by faculty member Jim Linnell, didn't think so. The play follows modern Dadaists who steal resources to create art. A company buys out their warehouse/club and give the Dadaists an ultimatum: sell your show or leave.
How many gruesome acts can one person withstand? That seems to be the question that must have been running through Rob Zombie's head when he made "House of 1,000 Corpses." It's not so much a film as it is a festival, a celebration if you will, of blood, guts and gore.
"Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are.
With a strong sense of cultural identity sustained by the need for change in a grassroots way, the Sin Fronteras Film Festival was created. The festival took place last weekend in two theaters at the South Broadway Cultural Center. Sin Fronteras celebrates through film the movement of the people and current topics concerning youth, gender, people of color, people of Latin America, indigenous resistance and queer issues, through film.
BlackStreet wasn't kidding around when they named their new album Level II, they really have hit the second level of their music career. And this isn't to knock old hits like "No Digity," which was deemed one of the greatest pop songs by Rolling Stone and MTV, but Level II shows off a new, more mature BlackStreet.
Yerba Buena has to be sick of being compared to Ozomatli, but with so few Latin/hip-hop fusion bands hitting the semi-mainstream, it's hard to avoid. Whereas Ozomatli is a 50/50 combo of American influences and Latin grooves, Yerba Buena comes off as 60/40 or maybe even 70/30 with the emphasis on the Latin side of things.
The world is a beautiful place with DVD players - the problem is finding DVDs that have the appropriate amount of senseless violence and comedy for your discriminating taste. The Daily Lobo serves up two new collections for your approval: "Kung Faux" vs.
by John D. Bess Daily Lobo Munchen, Germany - A few days into the tour and we finally got all the equipment dialed in right and all the jet lag out of our heads. This allowed us to really settle in on stage and rock with a new sense of abandon.
by John D. Bess Daily Lobo Munchen, Germany — A few days into the tour and we finally got all the equipment dialed in right and all the jet lag out of our heads. This allowed us to really settle in on stage and rock with a new sense of abandon.
“Mulletville” is a movie that lives up to its moniker — this flick is definitely business up front and all party in the back. Written and directed by Tony Leahy, who also stars as Dens, “Mulletville” is loaded with the hockey hair, but the movie is also about a kid tracing his roots and trying to exact revenge on his high school tormentors.
Former UNM flamenco instructor Pablo Rodarte is one of the most prestigious and experienced dancers alive. As a talented ballet and flamenco dancer in Spain, he has studied extensively and toured all around the world. Some of his great achievements include Natividad Flamenca, Carmen’s Tango Bar and The Red Haired Carmen.
by Mar°a B. Del R°o Daily Lobo In the unforgettable documentary “Se§oritas Extraviadas,” director Lourdes Portillo explores the mystery surrounding 200 kidnapped, raped and missing women in Juarez. She also documents the struggle of the victims’ families making the documentary intense and effective.
The Hipster’s Handbook is a book full of magazine-style, smart-ass lists that can tell you whether or not you’re cool or, excuse me, “deck,” as one would say it if they were hip. Words like “hipster” used in a non-sarcastic setting make me cringe. “How-to” books have the same effect, unless they are about house building or furniture varnish.
by Jacque Oldfield Daily Lobo Beyond the metal mesh exterior of Rebar, the renovated Sprockets space across from UNM, is a civilized, industrial chic — metal, yes, but definitely not scrap metal. Last Friday night, Rebar was packed with locals, mostly students watching a basketball game and a happy hour broke out.
Saxophone-playing jazz force Kenny Garrett’s musical presence is so strong it’s hard to picture him being a sideman to anyone. Perhaps having the opportunity to be jazz legend Miles Davis’ sideman is what gave him the power and confidence to deliver some of the jazz world’s freshest sounds.
Davey Havok is the punk rock equivalent of Edgar Allen Poe. California’s AFI, or A Fire Inside if, to quote the Dude, “you’re not into the whole brevity thing,” has been kinetically summoning Halloween-spirited black mojo for over a decade. The band’s newest masterpiece, Sing the Sorrow, renews the dooming prescription developed by their previous albums The Art of Drowning and Black Sails in the Sunset.
The overly constraining terms “male” and “female” no longer suffice to define gender —not within the world of drag, at least. Friday night’s drag performance, sponsored by Del Otro Lado, UNM’s Gay and Straight Alliance, smashed societal boundaries regarding gender definition and the common fallacy that, in the drag world, only men dress up as women.
UNM’s Jonson Gallery is host to art from 20 graduate art students in this year’s annual Juried Graduate Student Exhibition. The show, which had its opening reception March 28 and runs through May 9, is one of the most diverse shows in the gallery’s nine-year history, according to Curator Chip Ware.
by Rafael Gallegos Daily Lobo The Vortex Theatre has taken a chance on a local playwright. UNM graduate student Jason Witter’s “Smith Hall” will run for most of April as part of the Vortex’s 2003 season. Set in a dorm of a public college — think UNM’s Coronado — “Smith Hall” is the theatrical equivalent of movies like “Animal House” and “American Pie.
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