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Freshman Issue: Popular local music venues
Audrin Baghaie | May 16Whether raised as an Albuquerque native or moving in from out of state, it’s worth getting to know the music venues of the city.
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Freshman Issue: Students' favorite study spots
Robert Maler | May 16Students often have a difficult time finding where they can perform perhaps the most important activity linked to achieving success - study. One of the challenges to finding a good spot to study is linked to students having different preferences. Some of the more obvious study spots are libraries, where reserving a study room could be a good option.
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Local Record Store Builds Community Around Music
Audrin Baghaie | May 4When digital music streaming and online music shopping begins to feel superficial, it might be worth visiting local record store Nob Hill Music. The shop has been offering deals on vinyls, discs and cassettes for about six years and is a frequented destination for local listeners and musicians alike.
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Q&A: Author Lucy Gent
Skylar Griego | May 2With the end of another school year approaching, students are worried now more than ever about the next step. Some graduating students may be wondering where they’re going to go from here and, more importantly, how they’re going to pay for it. For some students, Lucy Gent Foma, a Transportation Scholar from Santa Fe, has the answer. Foma is the author of “Funded! How I leveraged my passion to live a fulfilling life and how you can too!” which is scheduled for release on May 16.
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Group calls for students to take back the night
Robert Maler | May 2“Maybe that explains why I feel electrocuted when somebody touches me without my consent. Maybe that explains why I feel shocked nobody ever did anything about it.” That is an excerpt of what Audrey Tobyas, a junior linguistics major and Slam poet, shared from a personal experience poem she recited at the “Take Back the Night” walk on Friday, an event coordinated in support of Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
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Meow Wolf revolutionizes live art and music
Audrin Baghaie | May 2Interactivity has the potential to transform art and music into transcendent displays of creativity and artistry. To make an individual feel part of the medium itself is an accomplishment worth writing home about.
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5 and Why: Marshall Broyles
Audrin Baghaie | April 28ASUNM Student Special Event's Executive Director Marshall Broyles has been producing and recording for half a decade, but appreciating the art and intricacies of music his entire life. Between organizing the annual UNM Fiestas event to engineering audio for KUNM, Broyles finds the time to practice with his band Ugly Robot and simultaneously pursue his major in Music Theory. The Daily Lobo sat down with Broyles to discuss his favorite albums.
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Photographer Joyce Tenneson gives students advice on how to succeed
Skylar Griego | April 25With the end of the semester approaching, some students are seeking advice, now more than ever, on how to make their way into the professional world. On Friday, photography students had a chance to receive this advice from Joyce Tenneson, a renowned photographer known for her mixed style of portraiture and mythology.
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Inside Out: UNM uses art as medium for social change
Audrin Baghaie | April 25A global art initiative that has gained popularity all over the world has arrived at UNM to shed light on various social issues on campus. Megan Jacobs, a professor in the Honors College, and students from her Social Transformation Through Art class have recently taken part in the Inside Out Project, a worldwide endeavor led by French photo-artist JR, who works to “transform messages of personal identity into works of public art,” according to the project’s website. JR won the TED prize in 2011, a $100,000 grant given to individuals who strive to affect the world in a positive way. With his earnings, JR created the project, which in four years has become a social phenomenon, enlisting people in over one hundred countries in emphasizing citizens and social issues through art.
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WWE needs to give U.S. belt more time
Thomas Romero-Salas | April 23The United States Championship has once again been relegated to second-tier status by the WWE. That’s not the fault Kalisto, the current U.S. Champ, it’s just the way the WWE has always treated the belt.
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Comical musical provides unique audience experience
Isaiah Jordan | April 22The UNM Department of Theater and Dance’s production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee engages the crowd through guest audience participants, quick and witty humor and relatable characters. The Putnam County Spelling Bee is a musical that relates the live of nine characters and their experience of attending a middle school spelling bee.
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Lady Bass event to highlight female DJs tonight
Skylar Griego | April 21For electronic dance music fans who are all about that bass music, EPIC has got just the show for you. EPIC Events, a local promotion company, will debut a new series called Lady Bass, a monthly performance put on to spotlight Albuquerque’s female DJs, at Sister Bar on Thursday. Aaron Lara, the owner of EPIC, said Lady Bass is a spin-off of the EPIC & Friends series, which has been hosted at Effex over the last year, with the focus placed on local female artists.
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Five and Why: Darin Brown
Thomas Romero-Salas | April 21Darin Brown, a graduate student in the psychology department, feels the strain of having to work, go to school and conduct psychological research. However, when Brown does have some free time he does like to pop in an occasional movie. Brown sat down with the Daily Lobo to talk about some of his all-time favorite flicks.
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Musical Resurrection: Honors College Revive Classical Masterpieces
Audrin Baghaie | April 19After a laborious three-year endeavor, the UNM Honors College, along with the New Mexico Philharmonic Orchestra and National Hispanic Cultural Center, have resurrected the late works of composer Manuel Areu and performed them live for the first time ever this past Sunday. Violinist, composer, actor and entrepreneur Manuel Areu (1845-1942) died after living a life of academia and aestheticism. Despite his transatlantic ventures, Areu’s life’s work of priceless musical compositions and playbills were left to decay in cedar trunks left in rural Arizona.
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Recycling program expands its efforts on campus
Elizabeth Sanchez | April 18Every year, the University of New Mexico recycles over one thousand tons of material. According to Sustainability Manager Mary Clark, that makes UNM the second largest recycling facility statewide. “We generally receive very positive feedback from the UNM community,” Recycling Supervisor Scott George said. “We are continually making changes to improve our effectiveness and efficiency.”
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Green Issue: Good Green's music is universal yet unique
Audrin Baghaie | April 18The tunes of local jam band Good Green have been melodiously infiltrating Albuquerque’s venues and enriching the music scene with nothing but positive vibes. Formed in 2012, the band consists of core members Chris Chavez and Colleen Elvidge, along with a constantly changing roster of live musicians.
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Green Issue: Top 5 green-themed wrestling acts
Thomas Romero-Salas | April 18The word green is unique because of how versatile it is. That fits right in the world of professional wrestling because adapting to any scenario is what wrestlers have to do on a daily basis.
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Green Issue: Friedman Recycling aims to clean up Duke City
Isabel Gonzalez | April 18An old, torn shoe zooms by at 280 feet per minute through a colorful stream of crinkled paper. The shoe tries its best to blend in, but an agile hand catches the infiltrator and dumps it into a bin with other non-paper intruders such as Christmas lights and garden hoses. This kind of excitement is a daily occurrence at Friedman Recycling.
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Green Issue: Local company delivers natural food to the front door
Liam Cary-Eaves | April 18Building a community around real organic products at a convenience is the image Skarsgard Farms aims to portray as their workers are getting ready to load up Monday’s trucks. The number 333 is written, underlined and circled, atop the colossal white board in the warehouse, signifying the amount of customers Skarsgard will be delivering to.
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Five ways to upcycle
Skylar Griego | April 18There’s a fine line between being crafty and hoarding junk; that line is called upcycling. The process of upcycling focuses on the “reuse” aspect of the three Rs – with an interesting twist. The online Oxford English Dictionary generally defines upcycle as, “to repurpose, renovate, or improve (an old or unwanted item) to make something more attractive, valuable, etc.”
