The 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.
The 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.
For 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.
Darin 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.
After 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.
Every 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.”
The 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.
The 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.
An 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.
Building 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.
There’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.”
The WWE hasn’t always treated the tag team division with the respect that it deserves. Over the past several years, that has been abundantly clear with how few tag teams there seem to be and where most tag team matches fall on the card.
UNM celebrated the 20th anniversary of National Poetry Month on Wednesday with the UNM English Department hosting the third annual Favorite Poem Project reading at Zimmerman Library. The Favorite Poem Project was founded in 1997 by Robert Pinsky, the 39th poet laureate of the U.S. It is dedicated to “celebrating, documenting and encouraging poetry’s role in Americans’ lives,” according to the project's website.
Pleasure, anatomy, condoms and consent. These were just a few of the topics covered during last month’s competing SexUality Week and Real Sex Week events. Too bad neither of them told you what happens when your vulva goes missing.
It's not hard to find good experimental rock bands in Albuquerque, but the three musicians that make up CRTTRZ are bound to make an emphatic first impression. Formed in 2012, the band consists of guitarist and lead vocalist Gabriel Fuentes, bassist Tony Rivali and drummer Joel Martin. CRTTRZ, pronounced “Critters”, was created by Fuentes who leads the band lyrically and instrumentally. “When I was a kid, I knew I wanted to be a musician,” Fuentes said. “My dad is a painter and sculptor, growing up there were a lot of artistic influences. I would watch YouTube videos and just learn everything I could about guitar and piano.”
WWE’s biggest annual event WrestleMania came and went this past weekend, leaving most fans with a unpleasant taste in their mouths. The 32nd incarnation of WrestleMania delivered with solid matches but had some of the most questionable booking decisions in quite some time. Let’s breakdown exactly what happened this weekend in Dallas, Texas.
Fencing offers its practitioners physical exercise and teaches them the beautiful form of swordplay, but the social culture and fun that comes with it is what keeps UNM Fencing Club members coming back. Fencing is a unique hobby that is available to UNM students through the Fencing Club, whose aim is to create a fun, social environment where students can try fencing or improve on it while going to school.
Sometimes the only history we have on an event or a person is in oral stories. This can come in the form of folk tales, folk songs or even folk poems, among other things. Michele Buchanan, a graduate of UNM’s Los Alamos branch, said she came across one of these oral-only legends when she began to research the origins of her recently acquired instrument, the harp.
Indie bands Geographer and The Crookes are in the midst of their collaborative tour across North America, which brings them to Albuquerque on Wednesday, where they will play at the Rio Bravo Brewing Company. The show will be a midway point in the tour as they continue to travel around America, hitting destinations like New York, Chicago and Nashville in the near future.
Sunshine Theater went wild Friday night when pop-punk titans Mayday Parade took to the stage and played their final show of the American Lines Tour. The European version of the tour, Black Lines, began in January and was followed up with the American Lines Tour, which began on March 10 and ended Friday night. Bassist Jeremy Lenzo has toured internationally with Mayday Parade, and called it a unique experience.
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