A single mother and her feisty teenage daughter move into an eerie old New York brownstone, complete with a maze of stairs and corridors, poor lighting, four stories of creaky wood floors and a vault-like panic room. Add some rain and black-clad intruders with a mission, and you have the perfect cookie-cutter psychological thriller.
Macha front man Josh McKay has created a solo album that sounds like anything but a debut. McKay's creation is Seaworthy, and the album is The Ride - something stripped down and void of nearly all the eastern musical influences Macha is known for.
Trying to impress your newest love interest? Head out to the Hyatt Tamaya Resort in Bernalillo. About 15 minutes outside Albuquerque, the Santa Ana CafÇ in the Tamaya offers up great atmosphere and even better food. Don't let the name fool you, it's not a burger joint or a cafeteria. It is actually a fabulous restaurant that turns dinner into an experience that lasts the entire evening.
In the post-OK Computer wasteland that has been the British rock scene the past few years, a glimmer of hope still remains. A select few highlights on the horizon - barely noticeable to the naked ear - shine forth with brilliance and clarity, and one of them is Alfie's if you happy with you need do nothing.
Some of the best songs on Under Rug Swept, Alanis Morissette's latest album, are about the difficulties and frustrations associated with being in or out of love.
We have a buried treasure chest on campus. Inside, it is loaded with a priceless trove where the rich New Mexican traditions of art, history and architecture meet in a splendid array.
If you've never seen a dark and sinister horror movie as a musical, now just might be the time to go.
The Director's notes in the program for "The Altruists" read: "You have to imagine that you can wear NIKES and simultaneously protest sweatshops." This paradox sums up Tricklock Company's production of the new Nicky Silver play.
Less than 150 seats remain for the award-winning musical comedy "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown". The musical was first directed by Joe Harding, from New Mexico Highlands University, and was performed in New York, but it's the revised edition - winner of two Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical for the 1998-99 Broadway season - that is now showing at the Adobe Theater in Albuquerque.
Vegas DeMilo is a band that will end up on popular radio stations soon, without falling into the rut that is modern rock in the new century. It doesn't play rap-metal like Limp Bizkit, it doesn't sound like a Jars of Clay cover band the way Creed does, and it offers no pop-punk sound of Blink-182.
My first thought upon hearing VNV Nation's Empires was "give me the gun." The only problem was that I didn't know which to shoot: myself or the stereo.
There is no need to tune in to WWF on the tube to get your wrestling fix this weekend. Head on down to Theatre X for some good ol' theatrical rasslin'.
The 31st annual John Donald Robb Composer's Symposium is an internationally-renowned event that will feature visiting composers from around the world.
Just in time for Easter, the Podium Players present the drama "Patricio, El Penitente" at the Menaul School Theater.
It took Mar°a Elena Fern†ndez 36 years to find her true identity and reconcile the need to please her conservative Mexican parents, embrace her sexuality and maintain a feminist outlook.
Reviewing the latest Her Love Filled the Room album, Love, Hate & Dignity, was difficult - it has forced me to consider closely my role as a reviewer. Is it to recommend something everyone will like? If so, go out and buy Michael Jackson's Thriller - you won't be disappointed. In so few words, Her Love Filled the Room is a creature too strange and beautiful in its apparent simplicity to have wide appeal.
Re-mix CDs suck. OK, not all of them do. But usually a disc that's full of re-mixed versions of hit songs and throw-away b-sides is a just a waste of time.
The Women's Resource Center will highlight the international struggle of women against opression during its Women's Film Festival today.
In the war between analog and digital, few bands occupy a space at the frontline and remain as unknown and recondite as the boys in Hefner.
Look into yourself for a moment, and think of what comes to mind at the mention of these names:
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