Say "vagina." Now say it 128 times. That's how many times actresses Gretchen Lee Krich, Joyce Lee and Maureen McCormick, of "Brady Bunch" fame, said it in the performance of "The Vagina Monologues" at The Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe Tuesday night.
by Marissa Juarez Daily Lobo As many of us as college students know, there is nothing better than a visit home now and then and for author and poet Simon Ortiz, his trip to Albuquerque on Thursday will be just that -- a return home. Born in Albuquerque in the early '40s, Ortiz grew up in the Acoma Pueblo community just west of the city.
Even after the severe beating administered to Jackie Chan for his role in "The Tuxedo," the scrappy master is back and ready to take on the entire English army. It's always good to see a classic Hollywood convention shattered. Case in point: sequels are supposed to suck.
by Elizabeth Romero Daily Lobo Photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto uses inordinately long exposures, a 19th century camera and 8" x 10" film to make images that are as much about time as about the sea. In an age of speed and digital technology, Sugimoto is actually timeless.
Farruquito and Juana Amaya are two of the greatest living flamenco dancers in the world right now and to miss them this Friday at the Kimo Theatre would be a betrayal to the Force. In attempting to describe Farruquito's abilities as a flamenco dancer, one cannot help but use an extended metaphor comparing him to a Jedi Master.
On Saturday, artist and UNM instructor Rujeko Dumbutshena opened the Blue Tribe School of Music and Dance, something she called the culmination of a life-long dream. She said she intends that the new school will be a haven for students of all types of expression that has roots in African movement.
by Dustin Habermann Daily Lobo Performance artist Miranda July is aiming to achieve an effect. She will be at UNM this Wednesday and Thursday at the Arts Technology Center, on Los Lomas and at Rodey Theatre in the UNM Center for the Arts. Performance art can be some pretty freaky stuff and oftentimes it's a powerfully intimate window into an artist's or audience's psyche.
Actor Cheech Marin said he chose the words very carefully when selecting a title for the exhibition of his private collection of Chicano Art. "Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge" is also a book featuring Marin's compilation of prominent Chicano artists.
by Dustin Habermann Daily Lobo Boo-Ray Esq., or Ray Thomas Jr. Esq., is a rapper/lawyer from Buffalo, N.Y. The Daily Lobo conducted an interview with this up and coming artist on his EP release Gemini: Two Sides of the Same Dollar. Daily Lobo: You were born in Buffalo, N.
Ever since new computer and special effect technology swept up the movie industry during the mid and late '90s, previously dying genres seem to be coming back to life --including horror. "Darkness Falls" is the new suspense/horror Sony Pictures flick released last week.
by Abel Horwitz Daily Lobo The "More Than Code" photography exhibit in the Art Building until Feb. 3, attempts to answer the question of what establishes gender identity. A show designed to be controversial and thought-provoking is expected to have some shock value.
by Rafael Gallegos Daily Lobo The revolution is not over just yet -- this weekend is the grand finale of the Third Annual Revolutions International Theatre Festival. The main events are Daniel Stein of the Dell'Arte School of Physical Theatre performing "Windowspeak" at Theatre X and Jednotka (Unit) from the Czech Republic presenting "Passenger" at Rodey Theatre.
In the domineering face of the maniacal sciences and robo-pleasure, musicians like The Belles remain unfazed. Music has always been renowned for its powers to affect the listener, and now a Baltimore-based company is taking this characteristic of music to the extreme.
Virginia Woolf has never been quite so mysterious. At least, not since her death in 1941. But with the advent of Michael Cunningham's ferocious, candid novel "The Hours," and its equally provocative movie version, Woolf has been all the rage again. In his novel, the Pulitzer-Prize winning Cunningham delves into one of the 20th century's greatest novelists and the mother of the modernists through not only Woolf's story, but also by interweaving a more current theme with two additional characters.
by Dustin Habermann Daily Lobo Music has a transformative power and its might cannot be understated. Every country in the world has a national anthem and every movement has had it's soundtrack. From "El Pueblo Unido, Jamas Sera Vencido" in Chile, to the bulk of Woody Gutherie's and Pete Seger's work and the re-contextualized hymn of "We Shall Overcome" in the civil rights movement of the '60s, music and song help define movements.
In the pop-fueled music industry, it is rare to come across a new band that has talent, depth and the ability to make you feel its music. Memento, a Los Angeles based band has done just that. Their debut CD, Beginnings, may just be the beginning of a long career.
There are no guarantees that you'll get a job after college or even grad school, but if you work hard, meet the right people and "accidentally be in the right place at the right time," you'll achieve anything. At least, that's what Christopher Painter insists.
Lalo Alcaraz knows that having a voice is one of the most valued freedoms our country has to offer. He also knows that this right is one of our most awesome responsibilities. That's why he created the now famous comic strip called "La Cucaracha" that brings issues facing Chicanas and Chicanos in the American mainstream.
In the mood for a history lesson about a man that surprisingly few people of our generation know all that much about? Search no further than "The Trials of Henry Kissinger," playing now at Madstone Theaters alongside "Bowling for Columbine." Henry Kissinger, who served under several different presidential administrations, has just been thrust back into the political spotlight thanks to George W.
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