The average college student may not go to art galleries very often or spend a significant portion of his or her money on paintings, but art is far from dead. Why am I so confident about this? Graffiti.
Kurt Vonnegut is dead. Can we finally call him one of the best writers ever?
The Food and Drug Administration, responsible for inspecting produce in the U.S., recently admitted that it inspected only about 1 percent of the 8.9 million imported food shipments in 2006.
Are you smarter than a fifth-grader? Well, you'd be pretty stupid if you weren't. That's not to say a game show couldn't be made of the question. After all, people in this country are very stupid. Hell, even college kids are mostly ignorant, lazy and lacking in critical-thinking skills.
Is UNM a sustainable university? I'm not talking about its business policies. UNM will continue to operate into the future as well as any university in the U.S. But if our entire society collapses from beneath our feet, there may not be much left in the way of universities, an economy or people to educate.
The term "grind house" refers to seedy movie theaters in the '60s and '70s that showed low-quality B-movies filled with sex, violence and general tastelessness. The Robert Rodriguez-Quentin Tarantino project of the same name is a spoof of and an homage to this lost format.
In the movie "City of God," after the villain kills every drug dealer in his Brazilian slum to take over their business, the narrator suggests, "If drugs had been legal, (he) would have been man of the year."
A Monday night of barhopping is usually a forgettable experience. But the Hodgepodge Entourage is out to change that.
Oh, MySpace.com, let me count the ways I loathe thee.
When something has to be mixed in a channel that is measured in micrometers, it's complicated. Liquids in a microscopic channel can't be mixed by shaking them up like gin and vermouth in a martini, said Dimiter Petsev, assistant professor in chemical and nuclear engineering.
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