Ayren Valer moves her two-titled piece "Death: The Great Illusion" and "Reincarnation: the Kaleidoscopey Adventure." Skulls made of sugar displayed at the OFFCenter Community Arts Project on Tuesday. OFFCenter's Dia de los Muertos art show includes a black, triangle-shaped painting, a Mexican shrine filled with sugar skulls and two collages mounted on a vertical rack covered with black leaves and ravens.
Saturday brings a West African song and dance performance to the Outpost Performance Space. Assane Kouyate, a West African dance teacher who will perform in the show, said the group is trying to bring people together to have a good time and enjoy traditional dance.
The San Francisco band Leopold and his Fiction sounds like the White Stripes meets Bob Dylan. Lead singer and songwriter Daniel James has a gravelly speaking voice, which sounds clearer when he sings but adds depth to his onstage vocals. "I smoked for a really long time like seven years ago," he said.
As Election Day nears, there's a striking difference in front yards across the country: political signs are growing out of lawns. The Daily Lobo visited neighborhoods near Nob Hill to talk to residents who advertise their political choices on their property.
Editor, I write in complete disgust of the fearmongering tactics - the worst form of smear and fear - being waged by John McCain's campaign. Does the campaign honestly believe the American people will fall prey to such a divisive and deceitful form of campaigning? The truth always prevails.
The Board of Regents plans to double the capacity of the University's child care facilities by adding 250 spaces to the Children's Campus. More than 500 families are on a waiting list to get into the child care program. Regent Mel Eaves said 250 spaces is likely the maximum number of spaces the University can fund right now.
UNM students and community activists are giving campuswide tours of sites they deem "militarized." The free tours are part of Disorientation Week, organized by the Demilitarization Collective, which aims to raise awareness about weapons research at UNM. The tours have seven stops from the Bookstore to Scholes Hall and run all week until 4 p.
Editor, In response to Vanessa Strobbe's column Wednesday imploring us all to stop whining, I know it is incredibly frustrating for Republicans who have grown accustomed to being in charge to realize that honest disagreement about how this country is being run is not "whining.
The U.S. may be able to solve its financial troubles by being more like Middle Eastern countries. At least that's what Loretta Napoleoni, author of Rogue Economics: Capitalism's New Reality, said during a presentation in the SUB on Wednesday. She said the banking systems in Islamist countries operate according to religious laws and are more successful for it.
Editor, I realize this election is an important one and that people are emotionally invested in one candidate or another. This election has inspired many people to share their opinions, and that's something that a university such as ours should encourage. What the University should not stand for, however, is spreading malicious and intentional slander.
Photography student Scott Preston transferred to UNM from Louisville, Ky., where he worked at a fly-fishing store. He strives to live a fulfilling life free of obsession with material goods. He works with black-and-white film, and he's pretty good at taking night photographs.
Gypsy jazz music dates back to the swing days of the '30s and '40s and in some cases as far back as the impressionist art period. And the late French guitarist Django Reinhardt was the first to fuse Eastern European sounds with American jazz. "Although gypsy jazz isn't heard by everybody, there is now a revival for this unique style of music," said Archtop Eddy, a guitarist for Mango fan Django, a band scheduled to play at Albuquerque's DjangoFest The festival runs from Thursday to Sunday at venues throughout the city.
Congressional candidate Martin Heinrich teamed up with the College Democrats on Tuesday to send students to the polls. The group rallied in Cornell Plaza to inform students that early voting at the SUB began Saturday and will continue through Nov. 1. Kelly Seibert, president of Students for Tom Udall, said anyone registered in Bernalillo County can vote early in the upper level of the SUB.
A carousel atop a fluffy, pink canoe is commonplace for artists Einar and Jamex de la Torre, who created the "Meso-Americhanics" exhibit at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. "The title is actually a mash-up of words," said Richard Garcia, admissions clerk at the center.
Editor, I am looking forward to reading a story about Rep. Tom Udall, because the Bushonomics 101 predicated by Rep. Steve Pearce is useless. He proudly said in a TV ad that he voted against the bailout when everybody now realizes that to do nothing was the stupidest thing one could have done.
In Tuesday's Daily Lobo, the photo of Steve Pearce was taken by Robert Maes, and the photo of Ashley Norris was taken by Zach Gould.
World stock markets have continued to decline during the U.S.'s credit crisis. But economic downturns are not a new problem in some parts of the world. The Daily Lobo asked Matias Fontenla, associate professor of economics, if Americans are overreacting to the market's drop.
Students may soon need at least a 2.5 GPA to be accepted to UNM. Terry Babbitt, associate vice president for enrollment management, presented plans to raise admissions standards to the Academic, Student Affairs and Research Committee of the UNM Board of Regents, which met Oct.
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