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Hundreds attend Silent Lights, despite earlier rain showers

Fin Martinez | October 1

Before the night even began, a line spanning from the SUB to the duck pond was awaiting the gates to open for UNM’s Silent Lights, a silent disco held Wednesday night on Zimmerman Plaza. The event quickly reached capacity with well over 1,000 students in attendance of the rave, despite the rainy weather that came a couple hours earlier. With three DJs and an ice cream truck, the night quickly became one to remember with poi dancers, crowd surfers and a cacophony of red, green and blue lights.

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Culture

Concert Review: Rhymesayers crew brings down the Brewery

Jonathan Baca | September 30

It was a perfect New Mexico evening at the Santa Fe Brewing Company’s outdoor concert space. The air was crisp, with a slight fall breeze wafting the smells of tobacco smoke and a few other distinctive aromas. An excited crowd jostled for position in front of the outdoor stage, trying not to spill their cups of craft beer. The weather was perfect, but the crowd came for the performance — and the Rhymesayers crew did not disappoint.

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Culture

Movie Review: 'Neon Demon' takes viewers on an enticing and vile ride

Audrin Baghaie | September 29

“The Neon Demon” is a psychological thriller film written, directed and produced by Nicolas Winding Refn. Refn, known for his particular style of cinematography, is the mind behind films such as “Drive” and “Valhalla Rising.” Elle Fanning stars in “The Neon Demon,” portraying an aspiring young model trying to succeed within Los Angeles’ salacious beauty industry. Keanu Reeves and Jena Malone also appear in supporting roles.

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Culture

Augmented Reality provides another medium for innovation

Matthew Reisen | September 28

Last week a UNM Honors College professor discussed the potential of mobile media, along with the blossoming augmented reality medium, as part of the Honors College Discovery Series entitled, ”Augmented Reality Games and Learning: More than just Pokemon Go.” Associate professor Chris Holden said the aim of the lecture was to introduce and bring more students into the augmented reality field, or AR.

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Culture

UNM reactions to the first presidential debate

Fin Martinez | September 27

Election Day is looming, and passions are high with the voting population. The first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton aired Monday night, and it had viewers in the SUB — most of them UNM students — saying some impassioned things.

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Culture

Activist shares her experience with wrongful convictions

Skylar Griego | September 26

It is possible to murder a woman without killing her — all you have to do is break her. Jennifer Thompson’s voice quavered slightly during her speech at the UNM School of Law on Thursday evening, as she described the night she lost herself. At 3 a.m. on July 29, 1984, Thompson died while she was raped in her own bed. While not clinically dead, she said she had died on the inside.

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Culture

Album Review: Local Natives delivers emotion-laden LP

Audrin Baghaie | September 26

Alternative rock quintet Local Natives released their third full length LP, “Sunlit Youth,” earlier this month to an eager fan base, following up their 2013 release “Hummingbird” which was a driving sophomore endeavor that established the group's artistry within the realm of indie music. On “Sunlit Youth” we are given a dozen colorful, dream-laced indie pop anthems that can be danced or cried to, depending on how your day went. It’s a solid record but doesn’t deliver in a few areas in which I thought Local Natives’ had outdone themselves in previous releases.

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Culture

2016 Anaya Lecture to feature celebrated Chicano author

Jonathan Natvig | September 22

The UNM English Department is celebrating the seventh annual Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture on the Literature of the Southwest. This year’s talk will be given by celebrated Chicano author Rigoberto Gonzalez on Thursday, Sept. 29, at 6:30 PM in George Pearl Hall 101. Gonzalez will be discussing masculinity in Chicano literature.

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Film Review: 'Ponyo' fuses energetic sounds and colorful scenes to create a cute kid's movie

Audrin Baghaie | September 22

"Ponyo" is Hayao Miyazaki’s eighth animated feature film. Originally released in 2008, the movie details the adventures of the titular character Ponyo, a water deity, and her serendipitous encounter with a Japanese boy and his mother. This movie is, unsurprisingly, absolutely adorable. "Ponyo" is definitely Studio Ghibli’s most playful film since 1993’s My Neighbor Totoro, though perhaps just due to its demographic. "Ponyo" is unapologetically a kid’s film, not that it has anything to apologize for. There’s not much under the surface here besides a sweet adventure flick and a few metaphors.

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Culture

Q & A: UNM history professor and author Melvin Yazawa

Skylar Griego | September 22

What were the founding fathers actually thinking when they made the Constitution? That question, among others, is what UNM history professor emeritus Melvin Yazawa seeks to answer in his latest book, “Contested Conventions: The Struggle to Establish the Constitution and Save the Union, 1787-1789.” The Daily Lobo spoke with Yazawa to find out more about what inspired “Contested Conventions.”

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Culture

Column: The Rise and Fall of Pokemon Go

Fin Martinez | September 21

Earlier this year the mobile game “Pokemon Go” was released, after monumental amounts of hype that had Pokemon fans new and old waiting anxiously for its release.  Upon its release, the game generated between $3.9 million and $4.9 million in its first day, according to a Digital Market Ramblings, an online aggregator that tracks video game statistics.

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Movie Review: "Equals" aesthetically pleasing, but leaves some to be desired

Audrin Baghaie | September 16

“Equals” is a 2015 science fiction-romance hybrid written and directed by Drake Doremus, and starring Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart. The film details life in a post-war, dystopian society built to maximize productivity by suppressing human emotion. It’s pretty crazy, but the premise is not unheard of. The film is a celebration of futuristic-minimalism themes; it blurs the line between utopia nd dystopia and references films like “Her” and “The Hunger Games.”

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News

Lobos to deliver infectious ideas this weekend

Skylar Griego | September 15

Contagious. Epidemic. Infection. These words typically hold negative connotations associated with the spread of disease. But on Saturday, TEDxABQ seeks to change those connotations at its Think Viral event. “Ideas are contagious,” reads the TEDxABQ website. “Get infected.”

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Music

ABQ band, Red Light Cameras following the success of past local bands with appealing sound

Audrin Baghaie | September 13

When thinking of bands from Albuquerque that have struck a chord with the masses beyond the Land of Enchantment, groups like The Shins and Femme Fatale often come to mind. Their bouncy, upbeat melodies draw large crowds in venues across the nation. With catchy songs that are difficult to stop humming along to, it’s not far fetched to assume the Red Light Cameras could be joining that list soon.

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Culture

Experiencing news is another dimension

Skylar Griego | September 9

The one thing all journalism students will hear at least once in their studies is something to the effect of, “journalism is dying.” While it is true that some traditional forms of media are declining in use and popularity, journalism is not “dying” with them; it is simply evolving.

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Culture

UNM alumni host diverse arts festival

Matthew Reisen | September 9

This weekend, the All Kinds Festival is taking over downtown Albuquerque with a kaleidoscope of local artistic talents. Josh Stuyvesant, UNM alum and co-organizer of the event, said the team behind it has designed this festival to be innovative from the start. “We don’t mean to just set up a horseshoe of booths, that people walk the circuit and call that a festival,” Stuyvesant said.

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Culture

WWE Column: It's time for A.J. Styles to be champion

Thomas Romero-Salas | September 8

There’s no need for the WWE to wait on pulling the trigger on A.J. Styles any longer. In less than nine months with the company, Styles has proven why many consider him one of if not the best wrestler in the world at this moment. Styles has showcased his abilities with several topnotch matches against the likes of Chris Jericho, Roman Reigns and John Cena. 

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Culture

Things to do in Las Cruces before cheering on the Lobos

David Lynch | September 8

This weekend will mark a mass exodus of Lobos and local football fans to Las Cruces as UNM seeks its fifth straight win over New Mexico State on the gridiron. For those who have little experience with southern New Mexico, the Daily Lobo has provided a guide of places to go, sights to see and unique things to experience before cheering on Lobo football at Aggie Memorial Stadium.

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Culture

Guest artists bring authenticity to flamenco program

Sara MacNeil | September 7

The ground is shaking outside the classroom door. Underneath the subtle Spanish singing and thunderous, uniform stomping on the floor, a guitar can be heard, along with clapping and guiding voice of the course's leader.

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Album Review: Blonde

Audrin Baghaie | September 7

Frank Ocean’s music is going through a profound growth process, an important one considering modern pop history.  He began his career with the chaotic noise-hop collective Odd Future and quickly became its star player within a matter of months by, seemingly, not being obnoxious.