Zach Gould

If you gorge and keep it down, it’s free

Albuquerque has an undiscovered world of food challenges. And at places that you’d least expect.

Group provides support for jobless

It was 2007, and Joshua Burns had just moved back to New Mexico to start a family in the “booming” film industry. Except, as the Columbia University graduate found out, he couldn’t even find a job holding a boom microphone.

Nano step in cancer cure

The UNM Cancer Center and Sandia National Laboratories have taken one small step in the fight against cancer — a very, very small step.

Culture shock becomes nostalgia

Editor’s note: This is the last column from former Daily Lobo staff members studying in a different country this semester.

USA needs to slow its insatiable hunger

Editor’s Note: Lobos Abroad is a regular column written by Daily Lobo staff members studying in a different country this semester. While living in Chile for the past three months, I have noticed some things about America.

Artist Ave: Louis Herring

Louis Herring is a senior in the College of Fine Arts. He loves horror movies, chemical supplies and doodling on other peoples discarded prints.

This is the dawning of the age of Anthropocene

Did you know we are living in an Anthropocene Age? Yep. According to geologists, humans have so messed up our planet in the last 12,000 years that we have created a new epoch of geological time.

War on THC comparable to war on apples

Prohibition of any kind doesn’t work, and that is because prohibition is a regulation of morality.

The opiate of the masses isn't for everyone

I am not religious. At times, I’ve wished I was. I always hear people talking about religion in a way that elevates it as one of the more important things in life.

America's infatuation with tainted beef

I want to eat cows. I want to eat ribs, burgers, steaks and even bottom round roast (the butt). I would love to swim in the fluffy meat pillows of steak goodness, indulging my continuously growing gluttony.

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Lucas Reed (97) looks dejected after a loss to the Aggies at University Stadium earlier this season. UNM is 0-8 and one of only two teams in the country yet to win a game.

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Women’s soccer UNM’s Jael Fanning races past UCR player Melisa Escamilla during a game at the UNM soccer complex Sep.16. The Lobos are the No.1 seed in the MWC tournament and take on UNLV today in the semifinals. See page

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Once the final product is complete, light tea candles inside the pumpkin to illuminate the face, or just leave it as is for all to enjoy.

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Fluorescent liquids like club soda bubble over a UV light in front of QueLab President Gregory Moran. Moran worked on a pumpkin last Sunday that will be lit with LEDs (light emitting diodes) as part of Quelab’s Haunted Lab Saturday. Participants will be able to make their own pumpkin LED kits with customized blinking and color schemes for no extra cost.

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In the first step, gut the pumpkin using a large spoon, a mellon-baller or your hands. The seeds can later be salted, roasted and eaten.

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Peel the outer shell of the pumpkin with a ribbon tool or potato peeler. A regular vegetable peeler will suffice if the correct tool cannot be found.

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After the details are carved into the flesh with a knife, rub the peeled surface with steel wool to define the cuts and smooth the pumpkin’s face.

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Patrolman Mike Timm with APD stands guard as (un)Occupy Albuquerque protesters are arrested at UNM’s Yale Park late Tuesday night. University administration told proters they must leave the campus by 10 p.m. Tuesday night and that those who didn’t would risk arrest.