Albuquerque

Do Mexicans Really Dislike Cubans?

In 10 Years, Channing Tatum and Company Stake Out Adulthood.

Why Do Mexicans Paint Murals on Lowriders?

Arizona Whitewashes American History in Texas

There's a New General Manager at City-Owned WRR-FM: Sarah Colmark, of New Mexico

​It's been close to two years since Greg Davis, WRR's longtime general manager, left the city-owned classical-music radio station -- and, remember, he didn't quit, he retired. But tonight, buried in the stack of docs prepared for next week's council committee meetings, we find this bit of breaking ... More >>

Nation's Report Card Shows DISD Students Doing OK in Math, Need Help With Reading

​Moments ago, the National Center for Education Statistics released its so-called Nation's Report Card, wherein the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences rank fourth- and eighth-grade public school students from 21 urban districts using math and reading scores. And f ... More >>

Are Mexican Women Uninhibited?

And why do they sew their own dresses?

In Honor of Nicki Minaj's Dallas Hotel Skirmish: The Ten Best Musician Fights of All-Time

​By nature, musicians are a rowdy bunch. When tempers run high, as they often do with this hot-blooded bunch, stuff gets broken. And by "stuff," we mean musicians themselves. When musicians fight, it's often very public, very bloody, and the source of national news.Such was the case this week when ... More >>

Will the "Real" Mexicans Please Stand Up?

Study Says Dallas Am Not Be Very Literate

Via Threadless​Don't get defensive. That's just what Dr. John W. Miller, president of Central Connecticut State University, says in the seventh-annual report America's Most Literate Cities 2010 released today. Yet again, when ranking the 75 top-population cities in the U.S., Miller looked at six " ... More >>

Video: Watch Fan Video for Old 97's "Every Night Is Friday Night (Without You)"

Old 97's​Dandee Fleming's favorite hobby, apart from playing bass in his Albuquerque, New Mexico-based band Lousy Robot, is making low budget music videos for his favorite songs. He's made several for his own band, and a few for I Love Math, including this snowday video for their song "Josephine S ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: John McLaughlin at The Granada, Brokencyde at The Loft and Hinder at The Palladium Ballroom

Not a bad selection of shows for the Monday after Turkey Day. But, OK, maybe not the best, either.

On The Range: Sopapillas

​On The Range is a weekly exploration of the history and lore of Texas menu items.Many of us got our first taste of sopapillas by raising the flag. Doesn't make sense? Well, back when dining out options were fewer and farther between, Panchos Mexican Buffet was one of the few places where you co ... More >>

Key City Posts C.S. Rucker Mixtape, Plans Hip-Hop Night At Mokah Tomorrow

​Andres from the Key City Crew passes along a great compilation, The Hungry Kid, featuring Albuquerque/Dallas rapper C.S. Rucker. Rucker shares the mic with fellow Dallasite Dustin Cavazos and Chicago's Kid Static over beats by Drixxe, Kid Rolex, Freon, Licks and more. Rucker reveals a real Wu inf ... More >>

Yes, Mexico Has Professionals, and No, We Don’t Mean Wrestlers

In New Mexico, an Airman is Arrested in the Killing of a Man on Lower Greenville

KXAS-Channel 5Marlon AlfaroThe Associated Press reports this morning that a man has been arrested in the death of Marlon Alfaro, the 23-year-old from Irving who was beaten and run over in a Lower Greenville Avenue club's parking lot on January 25. Dallas police and a certain Barking Dog had speculat ... More >>

Food For Thought 2.13.09

Matt Rainey"We've heard stories from moms coming in saying their child was pulled out of the lunch line and given a cheese sandwich. ... One woman said her daughter never wants to go back to school." (Nancy Pope, director of the New Mexico Collaborative to End Hunger, relaying complaints that Albuq ... More >>

U.S. Attorney Set to Announce Arrest in "Amarillo White Powder Letters" Investigation

Federal Bureau of InvestigationOne of the letters sent to a Chase branch, accompanied by a white powder later ruled to be calciumLast night, the U.S. Attorney's Office sent word that at 11 a.m. today there would a media conference at the Earle Cabell Federal Building downtown "to announce developmen ... More >>

Pairing Off: Microwave Popcorn

Ask a Mexican

In corn vs. flour, wheat gets a smackdown

Marc Andres Shines Some Sun on Sunflower Farmers Market Deal

DFW Airport Wants to Thoroughly Check Your Naked Body

Ask A Mexican

Identity theft is bad. Dealing with the IRS is even worse.

Ask A Mexican

All good things come from Texas—in food, anyway

Hot for Hombres

Sage-in' Mad

Sage Francis is a hip-hop jerk, but not in your usual way

Napoleon the Great

See a French view of Egypt at Beaux Arts

Eat, Drink and Be Merry

Gorge yourself on the good stuff

¡Ask a Mexican!

Follywood

A B-actress, computer mayhem and families feudin'! Making a movie with your rich friends is just courting disaster.

¡Ask a Mexican!

Ain't No Sunshine

"What's Wrong With America" indie comedy reveals what's wrong with indie comedies

Young Lions

Canada's Constantines chat about rock's golden trifecta: Dylan, Neil Young and Motorhead

Trend-Spotting

In a scandal-ridden election year, the year's top ten music stories were all about winning the popular vote.

Good Lord

Hobbits and horns at The Lord of the Rings Symphony

Screenplay Zero

Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley struggle through floundering frights

Hot Stuff

Highland Village is full of hot air

Narrow Minded

The Shins try to find their way in an inverted world

Oklahoma Snubbed

Dems bolt for Albuquerque

The Day the Sky Fell

Plus: Waking up the Snooze, Anti-Semitic Morons, True Fanatic

The Ties That Bind

The Top 10 musical ties of 2002

The Shins

July 12

Safe at Home

Don’t forget the local boys...and girl

Best of the Best

This pretty much speaks for itself

Letters

The Horror, Losing Battle, Look in the Mirror, Keeping the Cows Happy

The Great Divide

The Shins' James Mercer is just another underappreciated genius

The Fox and the Hounded

Or: How The Rondelles deal with being the cutest band on Earth

Scene, Heard

Quality Park Records doubles; Pinkston plans to bow; Doni Blair avoids the monkey suit; Charlie Gilder celebrates; Who is A Quick One; Punk rock lives in Arlington

Letters

The one that you want

High-school confidential, reflected in a '90s fun-house mirror