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| Arts and Culture |
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A distinctive architecture that celebrates the Pueblo tradition characterizes
many buildings in the city as well as the entire campus of the
University of New Mexico. |
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In Looney Tunes cartoons Bugs
Bunny often found upon arriving at the wrong place that he had taken a
wrong turn at Albuquerque (sometimes he should have taken a left, others a
right). This gag first appeared in Herr
Meets HareFreleng,
1945), a cartoon
which was notable for featuring caricatures of and Hitler. |
| Albuquerque is home to the Kimo Theater (http://www.cabq.gov/kimo/)[Carl Boller
& Robert Boller architects, 1927] one of the United States'
last and arguably best-maintained Pueblo Deco theaters. Modern
buildings are still occasionally built in this style, combining
the colors of Southwestern earth tones, adobe building styles
(rounded corners and edges), and decorative motifs from the
indigenous cultures with the soaring lines and linear repetition
found in American Art Deco architecture. Examples of Pueblo
Deco-style buildings can be seen in Marcus Whiffen's book, "Pueblo
deco: The art deco architecture of the Southwest" (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0826306764/102-6956404-0000945).
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| Even near the center of town, rural characteristics such as
the sounds of roosters crowing are not uncommon. |
| The city was formerly the home of the Chamber Orchestra of
Albuquerque for 29 years. However, in July 2004 the group filed
for bankruptcy after fund-raising failed to pay off the group's
debts. It is expected to disband by Fall 2004. |
| The New Mexico Symphony Orchestra (http://www.nmso.org/) performs and rehearses
here. |
| Albuquerque lies at the center of the New Mexico Technology
Corridor, a band of high-tech private companies and government
intitutions along the Rio Grande. Larger institutions whose
employees contribute to the population are numerous and include
Sandia National Laboratories, Kirtland Air Force Base, and the
attendant contracting companies which bring highly educated
workers to a somewhat isolated region. Intel operates a large
semiconductor factory or "fab" in neighboring Rio Rancho, New
Mexico, in Sandoval County, New Mexico, with its attendant large-capital
investment. |
| The solar energy and architectural-design innovator Steve
Baer located his company, Zomeworks, here in the late 1960s.
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| Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia, and Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory cooperate in an enterprise that began with
the Manhattan Project. |
| Albuquerque is sister city to Alburquerque, Spain; Ashgabat,
the capital of Turkmenistan; Chihuahua, Chihuahua, and Guadalajara,
Jalisco, in Mexico; Helmstedt, Germany; Hualien (Hualian), Taiwan;
Lanzhou, China; and Sasebo, Japan. |
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