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Billy Corgan resurfaces in Mary Star of the Sea

A decade ago, a gangly, greasy rocker from Chicago released Siamese Dream and gave millions a feeling of fetal warmth using androgynous vocals and soothing cadence as his vehicle. Then he shaved his head and looked like a fetus. After several multi-platinum albums, Smashing Pumpkins front man Billy Corgan dissolved his band, slept with Courtney Love, wrote her an album and then jumped back on the mechanical bull of rock and roll.

Philosopher recognized, Hollywood style

Jacques Derrida, one of the most brilliant and well-known living philosophers, is the subject of a new biographical movie, titled "Derrida," in which he reveals to the camera some personal details from his life. Most interesting, though, is what he does not explicitly say.

Photos display abandonment

Steve Fitch sees the crumbling schools, churches and dance halls of the high planes with the sensibilities of a photographer and an anthropologist A show featuring his work, titled “Gone: Photographs of Abandonment on the High Plains,” will be at the UNM Art Museum until March 23.

Intacto Movie Review

By Rafael Gallegos Daily Lobo What are you willing to risk to get what you want? The enigmatic characters of writer-director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's "Intacto" face this question in a film about chance and luck. A well-assembled international cast, anchored by the Swedish Max Von Sydow, is the saving grace of "Intacto.

Artist to celebrate famous composer with piano piece

Have you ever had the urge to tear apart a grand piano for no good reason? Don’t worry you’re not alone. John Cage, easily the most famous of American 20th-century composers was there with you too. But he sublimated all that destructive energy into “modifying” a piano to create a new sound space for a performer to play in.

Hours author raps about Woolf, book

Author Michael Cunningham wasn’t afraid to take a risk with his novel The Hours — that risk, writing about another book, ultimately won him a Pulitzer Prize and a movie deal with Paramount pictures. In a conference call with the Daily Lobo, Cunningham answered the question every one is dying to know the answer to — how did he write a book about one of the world’s most admired piece of literature, Mrs.

'Daredevil' Standoff

by Sari "Killer" Krosinsky, Angela "Mad Dog" Williams and Marisa "The Judge" Demarco Daily Lobo Here's the debate: "Daredevil" -- a kickass comic book movie for the unpretentious, or "Daredevil" -- a poor clichÇ and destroyer of sacred comic book code? The Daily Lobo, never blanching at controversial topics, addresses this issue.

800 attend city peace event

by Starr Alexander Daily Lobo About 800 people participated in the New Mexico One World Celebration a tribute to cultural and spiritual diversity in New Mexico. The interfaith multi-cultural ceremony for world peace was held at the N.M. State Fairgrounds Creative Arts Center Sunday.

Rape Crisis benefit brings music, poetry

by Mar°a Del R°o Daily Lobo Poetry can grab you right out of your seat, take your imagination farther than it has been before and talk to your soul and your ancestors, and that's exactly what a poetry benefit audience got on Saturday. Enrique Cardiel, a representative of Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida, also known as La Raza Unida Party, kicked off the Rape Crisis Center event with a musical set.

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Listen Hard proves pop stardom overrated

If emotional, erotic and ear-appeasing tunes are your thing, than Melissa Ferrick's new album Listen Hard may just be your ticket to aural ecstasy. The album is the ninth release that the acoustic-guitar Girl Wonder has put out in the last 10 years -- pretty impressive according to my calculations.

Coalition calls for poetic peace

Last night poets of all shapes and colors performed at R.B. Winning Coffee Co. as part of the Poets For Peace demonstration that is a nationwide response to Laura Bush's cancellation of a poetry reading at the White House. "Poetry and the American Voice" was to be a reading of works by poets Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Walt Whitman and others.

How to lose that guy

Why would you want to lose a guy in 10 days? Only if he's stalking you, or really butt ugly. There just so happens to be an instructional book with specific methods on how to lose a guy. The movie starring Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson is based on this book, but thank the screenwriters for coming up a better plot.

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by Jacque Oldfield and Amanda Jackson Daily Lobo Love is easily the most notorious condition known to man. Throughout time, no higher good or greater evil deeds have been done in the name of love. Resistance is futile and no one is immune. Unrequited, ill-advised or uninhibited, people can't seem to avoid falling in.

Daily Lobo Valentine's Haikus

Kenn Rodriguez Contributing Writer if loving you is So wrong, I wanna be 1+1=3 Our love: a barrel Going over a cliff Wrapped in bubble wrap Loving you is easy 'cause you're beautiful and because you smell good Laura Mann Photo Editor Love your spots and your eyes But most expecially Your smooth, hot pink thighs Nathan Jacquez Reporter Erin the most fair Your eyes make me love my life You are my true love My heart bleeds a lot Warm gushing blood inside me Yearns to be with you The Daily Lobo is The daily slave to the grind With love from Nathan Ryan Floersheim Assistant News Editor Gotta be creative With only three fuckin' dollars But pockets full of pride My life seems futile Valentines day makes it worse At least I'm high Jeff Proctor Reporter My policy? No Girlfriend means no sap on Val- entines day.

Voice behind Cat Power an 'anti-star'

She took the name of her group from a baseball cap advertising a tractor company. "She" is Chan (pronounced Shawn) Marshall, the Atlanta-born, New York-based singer/songwriter who, with the help of a few sidemen friends, makes up the "group" Cat Power.

V-Day history not about love

Break out the candy conversation hearts with psychotic, goopy sayings -- that day of love, flowers and machine guns is upon us. That's right, Valentine's Day is rearing its sickly little head. Break out a cigarette and let the activities commence. Sadly, these activities put most of us in one of two categories: in love or not in love.

Ice Cube at heart of gangsta rap world

"Barbershop" presented a kinder, portlier version of Ice Cube than I remembered from his N.W.A. years, but hey, we all have to grow up sometime. But for those of us who need intelligent machismo and swaggering bravado from Ice Cube, Capitol Records is re-releasing the first four Cube albums under the banner, The Albums That Shook a Nation.

Spiraling Out

by Lisa J. Tabet Daily Lobo A figure bathed in harsh light stands alone on the stage; he is about to tell you the story of his life. This begins "Nocturne," a play by Adam Rapp that opened last Wednesday, at Theatre X. Set in a small Midwestern town, the lead character, The Son, played by Luke Higgins, tells his story, the story of the life he survived.

COLUMN: Humor columnist's racist

Jokes are supposed to be funny. Those who tell jokes are supposed to be wise enough to know that. Unfortunately, a famous advice columnist called Dame Edna Everage of the magazine Vanity Fair has a bit of trouble distinguishing the thin, but crucial, line between humor and bigotry.