A year after legalizing recreational marijuana, Colorado voters have approved an excise tax of 15 percent on the drug, with a 10 percent sales tax that will be imposed starting next year.
All five New Mexico starters reached double figures as the Lobos won their second preseason exhibition game before the regular season begins. Forward Cameron Bairstow led the pack with 16 points and nine rebounds in UNM’s 94-51 victory over Jamestown Wednesday night at The Pit.
“Halloween is the one night a year where a girl can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.” ~Mean Girls Halloween is also the one night a year where it is socially acceptable for boys to wear tights, Chipotle is discounted and your dream of marrying a doctor or casting a love spell on Harry Potter can seem closer than ever before.
When construction for the Duck Pond began in 1974, University architect Van Dorn Hooker said he shrugged off initial criticism of the project. As Dorn Hooker wrote of the most vocal nay-sayers, the staff of the New Mexico Daily Lobo, in his book “Only in New Mexico: An Architectural History of the University of New Mexico,”
Former University architect Van Dorn Hooker spent the past three years composing a comprehensive list of short biographies each person whose name is on a UNM building, monument or memorial. While Dorn Hooker’s untitled work is waiting to be published, the Daily Lobo has compiled a short list detailing three prominent figures.
The droning roar reverberates against the wooden floorboards as the movements of a lithe woman weave about the stage. A hum sounds again as a man with a gray ponytail blows into the 3-foot didgeridoo. Behind them, the soft swishing and scratching of charcoal sticks on paper.
Theater students dive into sexually repressed, 19th century Germany in this season’s musical, exploring dangerously intimate issues that are still relevant today. Racy and controversial both then and now, “Spring Awakening” was originally written and staged by Frank Wedekind in 1891.
A Bernalillo court ruled Wednesday morning that former UNM President F. Chris Garcia, who faced charges of prostitution in 2011, should be allowed access to property seized by authorities during investigations relating to the case. Second District Judicial Court Judge Stan Whitaker approved a court order after the confidential hearing that morning. The request for the order was filed by Garcia’s lawyers Robert Gorence and Andrea Harris in October.
The fourth-seeded University of New Mexico women’s soccer team fell to fifth-seeded Utah State in penalty kicks after the game ended in a 0-0 double overtime tie in the second round of the Mountain West Conference Tournament at the UNM Soccer Complex Tuesday night.
The apple is one of the most popular fruits in America due to its diverse uses. Apples can be eaten raw, baked in pies, dried, pressed for cider (sweet or hard) or used for vinegar. The apple really is the All-American fruit.
On Oct. 31, a UNMPD officer was dispatched to the Student Union Building in response to a reported battery. According to the police report, the female victim was at the southern end of the SUB when an unfamiliar man touched her “from her shoulders down her back” without her permission.
Motörhead seems to get louder with every new album, and “Aftershock” is no exception. The 21st album from the band, which was founded by Lemmy Kilmister and now features Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee, never strays from the group’s speed metal roots, and it doesn’t disappoint, either.
Bring up the subject of UFOs in mixed company and you’re likely get one of the following reactions: sarcastic eye-rolling or a silent, vacant stare. The reality of unidentified flying objects is universally derided in the mainstream media as unworthy of serious consideration.
Most music scenes have a band or two that are heralded as being the genre’s “nice guys.” The Swellers fit that bill in the world of melodic punk. These Flint, Mich. natives play music that is fast, fun and stripped of the pretense countless other punk bands have.
New Mexico men’s soccer coach Jeremy Fishbein said at the weekly coaches luncheon Tuesday he has interviewed for the head job with FC Dallas, a Major League Soccer franchise.
Growing up with a television set in his room, Vic Strasburger said he knows how powerfully media can influence children and adolescents. “They are what you make out of it,” he said. “They can be incredibly, extremely bad if you’re talking about violent Internet pornography. They can be intrinsically good if you’re talking about ‘Sesame Street.’
As student government elections near, some candidates are already geared up to snag a Senate seat. The Aspire for Associated Students of the University of New Mexico slate has started its campaign to be elected to the undergraduate student council’s Senate.
For members of (un)Occupy Albuquerque, the Marigold Parade is something deeper than an annual Mexican tradition. Armed with signs and fake money, (un)Occupy members marched along Isleta Boulevard on Sunday, to protest against the U.S.’s Mexican border policies as part of this year’s Día de Los Muertos celebrations.
If you haven’t already guessed the answer to Gollum’s riddle for Bilbo the Hobbit, which is the topic of this article, you will soon. Sunday was the famous “fall back” day, when we turned back our clocks at bedtime and got an extra hour of sleep. It always sounds so lazy and luxurious, until Monday afternoon when we go home in the dark, right?
Editor, Whoever pays the fiddler usually calls the tune. When a “scientific” study comes out saying that coffee is not harmful, always ask who paid for that study. Follow the money trail. If anyone who makes money off coffee helped pay for that study, do not swallow the claimed results as truth.
Solutions by The State News
