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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.

that crazy thing

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.

Sex educator to enlighten UNM

Jay Friedman knows sex -- he's not only an internationally known sex educator, but he's not afraid to tell the world the things he knows about the subject. At 7:30 p.m., tonight, in Woodward Hall, Friedman will share his wealth of sexual knowledge with UNM in his lecture titled "The J-Spot, A Sex Educator Tells All.

COLUMN: Castro in predictions

I began my new year like any red-blooded, logically driven American -- I read my horoscope. Strangely enough, my horoscope predicted that this year, Cuban leader Fidel Castro would die and close the final chapter on the ill-fated Cuban experiment. The astrologer went on to predict that his death would not only signal the reunification of Cuban families shattered by century-old political/economic debates, but that Cuba would open her arms to the United States and become an American playground.

Vortex play stellar

If I had to choose one word to sum up "Bosoms and Neglect," the new play at the Vortex, that word would be: brilliant. A stellar small cast plus an intimate setting made for an altogether entertaining and engaging night at the theater, which is usually one of my least favorite places to be.

Laugh along with Williams

Take a kid raised on "Weird" Al Yankovic records, mix in some contemporary lyrics and add a Howie Day-esque approach to doing live shows and you have Keller Williams. Not really a new musician on the scene, Williams has dropped six albums in a little more than six years and is now on tour for his latest, a record titled Dance, which is actually a remix of his previous album, Laugh.

Group one step above crowd

Get ready to step up, yo, because the greatest show on earth is coming to town and I'm not talking about the circus -- it's called Step Afrika! and the members do not mess around. Step Afrika! will be performing tonight, at 7 p.m., in Keller Hall. According to the Web site at www.

Audioslave perfect blend of new rock

The voice of Soundgarden, the power of Rage Against the Machine -- Audioslave is here. One of the most anticipated musical projects of all time has finally arrived and, yes, it was worth the wait. With legendary ex-Soundgarden front man Chris Cornell and the seminal Rage Against the Machine trio, bassist Tim Commerford, Brad Wilk on percussion and guitarist Tom Morello backing him up, Audioslave is, in short, amazing.

Dare you to say "vagina"

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.

Poet swings by old stomping grounds

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.