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Campus-area music hot spots
Alisha Catanach | July 26So you’re new in town. Don’t you want to know where the music is? It’s all over the place, really.
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Tap dance expo blends styles
Alisha Catanach | July 19Show stopper Roxane Butterfly will perform tap dance infused with Flamenco and Middle Eastern styles at the 12th annual New Mexico Tap Dance Jam on July 23 and 24. Butterfly’s appearance is a special happening for Albuquerque, as she usually only performs in big cities like New York or Chicago, Liz Salganek, producer of Tap Dance Jam, said.
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DJ battle pits good against evil
Alisha Catanach | June 21Supananny and the Supersonic Masters of Albuquerque will present a night of danceable disarray, a mishmash of music.
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Cuban art rarely mass exhibits in U.S.
Alisha Catanach | April 14A cluster of ears carved in limestone greets visitors at the Confluencias: Inside Arte Cubano Contemporáneo exhibit at the National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum.
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Festival fuses love & duality with tribal & modern dance
Alisha Catanach | April 8Dancers chaotically spin and leap over rows of plastic water bottles, all of which are knocked over and then gathered in a segment of “The Good Dance.” Avant-garde African and Aboriginal-inspired contemporary dances will make their way to Albuquerque this weekend and the next at Global Dance Festival.
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Artist's Avenue: Paul Spella
Alisha Catanach | March 29Albuquerque is sick as a dog … with dance fever! UNM students Paul Spella and Hendrick Onderdonk spin electro house music as DJ team Click Click Bang.
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Controversial films find home at festival
Alisha Catanach | December 7New Mexico’s film future got a little brighter after last weekend’s first annual Santa Fe Independent Film Festival.
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Artist's Avenue
Alisha Catanach | November 9Colleen Massari is a fine arts major at UNM, double majoring in photography and Spanish. New Mexico’s landscape drives her to photography, and she aims to do something novel with her nature-oriented work.
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DJ blends icy sounds and chamber music
Alisha Catanach | October 21Antarctica is the star of an upcoming multimedia piece, while live turntable music will play the supporting role. Paul Miller — aka DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid — will perform a 70-minute audio visual piece titled “Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica” at the Kimo Theater on Saturday.
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DJ's 'mushroom jazz' brings down the house
Alisha Catanach | October 7Listening to Mark Farina is like taking the melody train all over the city of sound. Farina said his style fuses house beats with hip-hop and acid jazz — and he calls it “mushroom jazz.” “Acid Jazz started as a kind of English style of funk and hip-hop type of thing in the early 90s and was popular in San Francisco in the mid 90s,” Farina said.
