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Greek Role Reversal
Anna Angeli | February 7Greek dramas are all so typical: the chorus chants, blind prophets stumble around screeching omens and a whole bunch of dudes hang out in togas.
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Olympic games to go platinum
February 7Organizers of this year's Olympiad, which kicks off Friday in Salt Lake City, hope that nightly performances by multi-platinum pop music superstars will give the Games new attitude - and lure more viewers to give ratings a big boost.
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'Fences' repetitive, predictable
Sarah Hunt | February 7The Adobe Theatre's adaptation of a classic, racially-charged play was technically sound but fell painfully short in delivery.
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Film chronicles extraordinary tales of women
Andrew Webb | February 7Working at age 7 and married off by her Bangladeshi family by 12, Selina's existence could have been doomed. But a $60 loan with her future as collateral gave her hope and new life.
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Poet shares his 'Fire of Life'
Angela Williams | February 7Michele Dalton is the walking, talking and singing essence of performance poetry.
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'Places' rife with lyrical immaturity
Simon Trujillo | February 5Generally speaking, healthy quotients of singer/songwriters have a reputation as being highly sensitive but emotionally tattered people.
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Neil Halstead channels Dylan, Bragg on debut
Benjamin S. Rogerson | February 5Sleeping On Roads, the solo debut album from Mojave 3 front man Neil Halstead is a relaxing compilation of folk songs from a very talented singer/songwriter. Each song tells a different story, incorporating the traditional themes of love and remembrance. Halstead's experiences and emotions are found in the lyrics of his songs, while his subtle finger picking is mesmerizing and beautiful.
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Polaroid exhibit surprisingly creative
Emily Sperry | January 31American physicist Edwin Land introduced the revolutionary process of instant photography to the world in 1947. The history of this process and the evolution that eventually formed the Polaroid Corporation is examined in a framed introduction exhibited in Innovation/Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography, which is showing at the University Art Museum in the Center for the Arts building.
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Gallery features diverse array of faculty artwork
Marissa Jurez | January 31One of the things I've come to appreciate most about UNM's always-under-construction campus is the fact that new places to be discovered always exist amid the nooks and crannies within its often unexplored vicinity.
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COLUMN: Prejudice remains prevalent in U.S.
Laura E. Valdez | January 31Black History Month gives cause to pause and reflect upon African American History in the United States. It's a history that many would rather ignore, because it is an ugly mark on these United States.
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'Grateful Dawg' reclaims music
Benjamin S. Rogerson | January 31Gillian Grisman's documentary "Grateful Dawg" chronicles the friendship and musical partnership between David "Dawg" Grisman and Jerry Garcia from the early 1960s until Garcia's death in 1994.
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Hot shot Strokes show talent
Simon Trujillo | January 31Equipped with long, greasy hair, beer bottles and simple, ebullient tunes shaded in the aesthetic of '60s Brit rock - among other genres - The Strokes' Tuesday night performance at the Sunshine Theater instilled the audience with the fortunate/unfortunate fact that these guys are hotshot rock stars.
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'Sabotage' inspired nonsense
Kenn Rodrguez | January 29When a reviewer says your production "is hysterically funny, but it makes no sense," it's usually a bad thing.
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'Me Times Three' silly but worthwhile treat
Anna Angeli | January 29Complete with the standard plucky heroine, date-from-hell scenes and gorgeous gay best friend, "Me Times Three" is the typical chick-flick in book form. Think Bridget Jones' Diary, with a move from London to New York and Bridget replaced with her Jewish alter ego.
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Dilated Peoples wax political
Benjamin S. Rogerson | January 24The Dilated Peoples, consisting of two MCs and one DJ, take hip-hop to a new level on their latest album Expansion Team. With group members Evidence, Rakaa Iriscience and DJ Babu working together, the product is a seamless album full of rock-hard beats with witty lyrics.
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Art in Plastic
Andrew Webb | January 24The founder and director of a UNM plastics engineering facility recently received recognition for something one wouldn't expect from a man who teaches students the business and science of materials engineering.
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New GoMotorCar album a dark, pensive delight
Benjamin S. Rogerson | January 24GoMotorCar provides much needed relief from the hoards of the annoying pop-infiltrated songs of the past year with their dark, eerie sound.
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Laughs keep coming at Riverside
Blake Driver | January 24Been a while since laughter doubled you over in your theater seat? It might have happened to you again if you attended week one of the shows in the Revolutions International Theatre Festival 2002.
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Indie-rockers, Mistletoe to kiss Duke City Monday night
Iliana Limn | January 24The Breeders, an indie-rock powerhouse that is a spawn of The Pixies, among others, and has toured with the likes of Nirvana, will take the stage Monday at the Launchpad along with local band Mistletoe.
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'Wolf' mixes horror, Kung-Fu
Benjamin S. Rogerson | January 23The French film "The Brotherhood of the Wolf" ("Le Pacte des Loups"), directed by Christopher Gans, tells the myth of the Beast of Gevaudan. The film includes the genres of both horror and action, jumping from one to the other, rarely melding the two.
