University of New Mexico Associate Professor John Zimmerman will be taking his expertise in ceramic sculpture and his interest in landscapes and geological history to the Fuping Pottery Art Village in the Shaanxi Province of China as part of an international engagement project funded by the UNM Research Allocation...Gallup Professor Takes Sculpting Talents to China
University of New Mexico Associate Professor John Zimmerman will be taking his expertise in ceramic sculpture and his interest in landscapes and geological history to the Fuping Pottery Art Village in the Shaanxi Province of China as part of an international engagement project funded by the UNM Research Allocation...
‘Captain America: Civil War’ lacks perfection, but includes some superb action
Rating: ««« out of 4Running Time: 146 minutes
Well, we’re now 13 films into the “Marvel Cinematic Universe.” Under the circumstances, things appear to be going quite well. Not every film has exactly soared creatively, but most present just enough to keep viewers entrenched and wanting more. The latest is Captain America: Civil War and its offers one element that’s a bit different ... a confrontation between many of the heroes.
The story revolves around the character of The Winter Soldier aka James “Bucky” Barnes (Sebastian Stan). After several superhero interventions result in collateral damage, the United Nations demand The Avengers to register themselves and come...
DVD/Blu-ray Roundup for May 6, 2016
Welcome to another look at highlights coming your way on DVD and Blu-ray. There is plenty of fun stuff out there in a wide variety of genres. So if you can’t make it out to the movies this week, be sure to give one of these titles a try!Big New Releases!
The Choice - The latest Nicolas Sparks romance novel to get the cinematic treatment is a tale about an unlikely relationship that forms between a diligent medical student and an easygoing ladies’ man. They fall for each other, but can these opposites really form a lasting bond? One thing’s for certain, the press didn’t care either way. They didn’t think there was much onscreen chemistry and found the formulaic drama...
Local author tells stories of drugs, money
Local resident and writer Gaye Brown de Alvarez has taken her 20 years of interviewing people as a journalist, combined her knowledge as an editor and thrown in her imagination to publish three novels.Available in the Kindle format on Amazon.com, two of the books, “Chihuahua For Sale” and “Chihuahua Cage,” are the story of a young woman who gets a little too involved with the drug trade in Northern Mexico.
The third book is “Mona Lisa Navajo,” which is a murder mystery set in Gallup.
All three pieces of fiction are based on stories told to Brown de Alvarez by different people.
“When my husband, who was in the import/export business told me stories of things that...
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