Featuring films from 25 countries, more than a dozen world and U.S. premieres and special guests such as Susan Sarandon, the 8th Annual Taos Talking Picture Festival is no mere smalltown movie night.
I know how you feel. You're bored with pizza, nauseated at the thought of a burger and crying at the prospect of another breakfast burrito.
When Elvis Costello started out, he was heralded as a pop music innovator. So was David Byrne, leader of the Talking Heads. So was Blondie - though, most music critics being guys, they were more smitten with singer Debbie Harry.
Director Eugene Douglas and his cast breathe vibrant life into Theatre X's production of Moises Kaufman's "Gross Indecency."
Toward the end of Ed Harcourt's new album, my roommate turned to me and said, "Nicole, this sounds like bad country and Christmas music."
Take a minute to imagine something you see every day - perhaps your car, an appliance, or maybe the building you work in.
The seeds of revolutionary theater have undoubtedly taken root in a local coffee shop as performance art becomes Albuquerque's mainstage drama.
Some of you may have noticed a certain funk in the air by the Duck Pond Wednesday. No, not the funk that makes you wrinkle your nose, but the kind of funk that makes you want to get up and move.
A reality show built around bat-biting heavy metal vocalist Ozzy Osbourne has proven a big success for MTV. Now the network is hoping it can hit reality-series gold again this spring.
A single mother and her feisty teenage daughter move into an eerie old New York brownstone, complete with a maze of stairs and corridors, poor lighting, four stories of creaky wood floors and a vault-like panic room. Add some rain and black-clad intruders with a mission, and you have the perfect cookie-cutter psychological thriller.
Macha front man Josh McKay has created a solo album that sounds like anything but a debut. McKay's creation is Seaworthy, and the album is The Ride - something stripped down and void of nearly all the eastern musical influences Macha is known for.
Trying to impress your newest love interest? Head out to the Hyatt Tamaya Resort in Bernalillo. About 15 minutes outside Albuquerque, the Santa Ana CafÇ in the Tamaya offers up great atmosphere and even better food. Don't let the name fool you, it's not a burger joint or a cafeteria. It is actually a fabulous restaurant that turns dinner into an experience that lasts the entire evening.
In the post-OK Computer wasteland that has been the British rock scene the past few years, a glimmer of hope still remains. A select few highlights on the horizon - barely noticeable to the naked ear - shine forth with brilliance and clarity, and one of them is Alfie's if you happy with you need do nothing.
Some of the best songs on Under Rug Swept, Alanis Morissette's latest album, are about the difficulties and frustrations associated with being in or out of love.
We have a buried treasure chest on campus. Inside, it is loaded with a priceless trove where the rich New Mexican traditions of art, history and architecture meet in a splendid array.
If you've never seen a dark and sinister horror movie as a musical, now just might be the time to go.
The Director's notes in the program for "The Altruists" read: "You have to imagine that you can wear NIKES and simultaneously protest sweatshops." This paradox sums up Tricklock Company's production of the new Nicky Silver play.
Less than 150 seats remain for the award-winning musical comedy "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown". The musical was first directed by Joe Harding, from New Mexico Highlands University, and was performed in New York, but it's the revised edition - winner of two Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical for the 1998-99 Broadway season - that is now showing at the Adobe Theater in Albuquerque.
Vegas DeMilo is a band that will end up on popular radio stations soon, without falling into the rut that is modern rock in the new century. It doesn't play rap-metal like Limp Bizkit, it doesn't sound like a Jars of Clay cover band the way Creed does, and it offers no pop-punk sound of Blink-182.
My first thought upon hearing VNV Nation's Empires was "give me the gun." The only problem was that I didn't know which to shoot: myself or the stereo.
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