Can I Touch Your Hair? On Bein’ Black In New Mexico Now, granted, I am not from ’round here. I was born a poor and upwardly mobile working class “colored” child (says so on [...] Virginia Lovliere Hampton \ Feb 15, 2007 Feature Demetrius Smith next to the poster of Michael Jordan that hangs in his room (Tina Larkin)
Glorifying Torture Have you ever seeen the show “24”? I haven’t. Everything anyone has ever told me about it leads me to believe that this [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Feb 15, 2007 Blog Wackjob patriotism
Sxsw Acts (Not Us. Boo.) My band got its rejection letter from South By Southwest today. Lame-O. Oh well. Their loss. (Just kidding. It’s our loss. But that’s [...] Marisa Demarco \ Feb 15, 2007 Blog
Odds & Ends Dateline: New York– A wallet belonging to a Korean automobile factory worker has been found–in upstate New York. The worker lost his wallet [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Feb 15, 2007 News
Lost Luckies Love is in the air, and everyone’s getting busy. The sheer amount of Lost Luckies this weekend is staggering—there no excuses for laziness! [...] Amy Dalness \ Feb 15, 2007 Blog Love me!
Reel World Más Cinema, Por Favor– Cinemás, the Albuquerque Latino Film Festival, will take place Thursday, Feb. 15, through Sunday, Feb. 18. Film screenings are [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Feb 15, 2007 Film
Two Oaxacas Photography Exhibit Gives Us Views From Outside And Within It’s always a little embarrassing to be a tourist, camera hanging from your neck as you hurriedly check sites off your list, getting [...] Marisa Demarco \ Feb 15, 2007 Art “Mujer con Flores” by Antonio Turok
Music To Your Ears Mahalo, Freddie— Freddie Kekaulike Baker, the Hawaii-born singer and multi-instrumentalist who entertained a couple of generations of Albuquerqueans, passed away suddenly on Feb. [...] Mel Minter \ Feb 15, 2007 Music
Blue In Burque Mysterious Billboards Have Burqueños Holding Their Breath In Albuquerque and along the interstate, people are turning blue in the face. Among them are Al Franken, Orbit (the Isotopes’ furry mascot), [...] Kate Trainor \ Feb 15, 2007 News (Kate Trainor)
Night Of The Living Deadenbacher Orville’s Back! Thanks to strict censorship and the bad timing of commercial breaks, broadcast television is rarely a scary affair. Classic horror series like “Dark [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Feb 15, 2007 Film