Carmen Carretero Martinez has always been “the different kid.” Born in Spain and anchored in Bioko Island for her early teen years, Carretero Martinez found fragments of ‘home’ in New Mexico during her time at the University of New Mexico, she said. The journey for the 19-year-old architecture graduate, however, was not without turbulence.
Heroic sword fights, champions dressed in handmade armor, assassins lurking through a battlefield. Actions of these sorts seem to be straight out of a medieval storybook, but for one Albuquerque community, these stories come to life through live-action role-play — or more popularly known as LARPing. Every Saturday, non-profit group Amtgard of Albuquerque - Pegasus Valley, takes to Taylor Park to engage in medieval battle games that consist of combat weapons made of foam to replicate swords, daggers, arrows and other feudal weapons.
You may have seen him around the university, but have you seen his style? HappyxLoco, a fashion and clothing community lifestyle created by local artist and designer Jeremy Salazar brings a unique and innovative way to wear recycled clothing and support a sustainable clothing brand.
Instead of going nuts and stressing over classes, students were able to have a more enjoyable crunch time by snacking on some deluxe mixed nuts when the Planters NUTmobile visited the University of New Mexico. The massive peanut-shaped bus rolled onto Smith Plaza at 1 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 22. Mr. Peanut took photos with students while two brand ambassadors were handing out Planters stickers and bags of nuts.
The University of New Mexico is home to numerous undergraduate fine arts programs, masters of fine arts programs and a large collection of various types of art. Year-round there is at least one art exhibit up for viewing — if not more.
There is just something about dogs that brings joy and happiness to the people around them. Luckily for students at the University of New Mexico, the campus is a popular place to walk them. Aluna is a two-year-old staffer terrier mix. She has short hair with black fur on her back and white hair on her snout and legs. Serving as a therapy dog for Latin American studies junior Lisette Camarillo, they go on walks about four times a day.
Thousands of people across the state identify as LGBT, according to a 2017 Gallup poll. Students at the University of New Mexico have created a number of safe spaces where these titles of ‘gay’ and ‘student’ can intersect. Out in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (oSTEM) were founded in 2018. Jennifer Restrepo, a Junior majoring in Chemical Engineering, was one of the groups original founders. The club has grown significantly since then, with Restrepo acting as the club’s current President.
From hot summer days to chilly November afternoons, skateboarders are almost always rolling around “the bricks” — also known as Smith Plaza — outside the University of New Mexico’s Zimmerman Library. “One cool thing about this place is that you can come here on most any given day and there’s always gonna be at least one person skating,” senior film student Carlos Renfro said. “I come here without my skateboard and guys will be here (and) they’d be like ‘hey, you know, come skate with us,’” Renfro said. He added that, on occasion, the other skaters lend him a board.
When it comes to trends, teens tend to jump on board early. Whether it's fashion, technology, games, music, celebrities or social media, there's a trend for it all. Erin Wood, a high school senior at Tierra Encantada Charter School in Santa Fe, is a writer for the school’s online newspaper, TECS Stinger. Wood said several styles are currently trending around her school. Boots have been popular with everyone. High school girls have also been drawing stars and hearts on their faces with makeup and glitter.
As visitors walk into the bright open shop, they notice right away that it isn’t a typical sex entertainment venue. There are no posters with women in suggestive lingerie or striking come-hither poses designed to appeal to the “male gaze.” This is Matie Fricker's Self Serve Sexuality Resource Center’s. Fricker, the owner of Self Serve, said people of every gender, from ages 18 to 80 goto Self Serve to learn about how to achieve sexual satisfaction for themselves and for their partners.
From time treasured trappings to future-forward fits, these five University of New Mexico undergraduate students showcased their style for the Daily Lobo.
Charis Lillene Fleshner is a former University of New Mexico student who is currently working as a conceptual mixed-media artist and art teacher. Her studio practice primarily focuses on soft sculpture, craftivism, and the merging of feminism and art. Fleshner’s exhibition about sexual assaults on college campuses, titled “Lobo Alert” was on display at the CFA Downtown Studio and was available for viewing from Oct. 23rd to Nov. 9th. UNM was not involved with the making of the art exhibition. Here at the Daily Lobo, we were curious as to reasons she did this art exhibition and why. This is what she said.
Socializing was made easy for University of New Mexico students at the first ever Speed Friending event with Uni Nights at the Student Union Building on Nov. 15. The event itself functioned similar to speed dating but instead gave students the chance to make new friends on campus. There were three tables lined up in the SUB ballroom with chairs on each side. Everyone was given two minutes to talk to the person in front of them before moving to the next person down the table.
It was finally Time to Duel! On Saturday Nov.16, Yu-Gi-Oh! fans competed against each other at the Albuquerque Convention Center, for the 2019 Yu-Gi-Oh regional qualifiers. Hosted by Core TCG, this was the first officially sanctioned Yu-Gi-Oh event in Albuquerque since 2008. The event was held in the upper floor of the convention center. Inside, many tables were set up where players would throw down their cards and play the game competitively.
Albuquerque will soon be on the map again. This time, for hosting a Regional Level Yu-Gi-Oh! tournament at the Albuquerque Convention Center on Nov. 16. No other "Yu-Gi-Oh!" event of this caliber has been hosted in Albuquerque since 2008. Many who grew up in the early 2000s remember an anime series called “Yu-Gi-Oh!” and its numerous sequel series’. What is less known is that the card game played in this shows still thrives with an international competitive community.
The crowd was small, but the laughs were loud in the University of New Mexico's Student Union Building Ballroom during the first-ever Cards Adjacent Humanity Tournament hosted by the student organization Tabletop Tavern on Nov. 9, 2019. Students were welcome to hang out, enjoy the food and play the popular adult card game Cards Against Humanity, or other games, during the four-hour event. It was $5 to get in, and everyone had the chance to win one of three prizes: the Cards Against Humanity Green Box extension pack, Monopoly for Millennials or a $21 gift card to Spencer’s. As for the tournament itself, 18 players were divided into three tables. The groups played until only two people remained from each table. The six winners then joined for a final game where the first person to get five black cards won the main prize. The players continued until someone else won second place, and then again until someone won third. Whenever a winner was declared, everyone in the room applauded them energetically with a standing ovation.
A new mural in Downtown Albuquerque showcases the enthusiasm, spirit and spectator lifestyles of New Mexico United fans. Hundreds of photos taken at United games mesh together to create a huge black-and-white collage, completely covering a wall on the corner of 2nd Street and Coal Avenue. Noé Barnett is the artist behind the piece, an Albuquerque native and graduate of Volcano Vista. He told the Daily Lobo he worked at the Albuquerque Police Department for a couple of years before leaving to follow a career in the arts, which included attending art school at the University of New Mexico (UNM).
It was a sunny autumn morning, just a few hours after the second freeze of the season. The leaves had started to change color but hadn’t yet fallen, and the ABQ Botanic Garden was especially quiet — the summer tourists had subsided for the season, and the mid-morning hour catered mostly to retirees and parents with small children. Some days, the docents explained, they have to go out into the park to cajole people into listening to their talk but, on this day, that wasn’t the case. Nine people, including a couple of cooing toddlers with their parents, a collection of retirees and a UNM graduate student listened to the docents as they made their way around the looped curandera garden path. The Spanish word curandera refers to a traditional healer that practices a combination of traditional Indigenous and Catholic remedies. Curanderas are called on to provide treatments for physical, mental, emotional and spiritual illnesses.
As the autumn days grow shorter and the nights grow longer, a number of New Mexicans indulge in the picking of pine nuts — commonly known as piñon in the Southwest and pinyon in the rest of the U.S.. Many families across the state take time out of their days to harvest the tree nut between the months of September and November. Bernadette Jaramillo, a youth minister at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, said she usually takes her family out to collect piñon during the years when the tree nut is being harvested.
Ghouls and gals were welcomed into the Albuquerque Biopark Zoo’s Boo at the Zoo on Oct. 26 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Albuquerque BioPark has hosted some type of Halloween event every year for the past 30 years. This year, Boo at the Zoo was a fundraiser and all of the proceeds benefit additions and renovations for the zoo as well as the aquarium and the botanical gardens. There were many activities for all ages to enjoy including trick-or-treating stations all around the central part of the zoo. In previous Boo at the Zoo events, there was small candy tables throughout the zoo. Candy vendors didn’t discriminate — whether people were young, old or anywhere in-between, they were given a large handful of candy.
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