Cinema Cindy Reviews American Sniper
By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB“American Sniper” may not be a movie for everyone. It takes the audience into a bloody war we don’t want to witness. It highlights of the life of Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history. We watch as he lines up each target in the crosshairs and decides whether or not to pull the trigger.
The movie takes essential highlights from each of Kyle’s four tours of duty in Iraq, his life leading up to his decision to enlist, his training as a Seal and his relationship with his wife Taya.
Mostly, though, this is a war movie. The scenes on patrol, sniping from rooftops Read More
MIFA: The Red That Colored The World
Sewing box and cover with cochineal dyed wool yarn. Courtesy/IFAF 
MIFA News:
- Red, with its brilliant hue and broad cultural history, has inspired artists’ imaginations and seduced viewers for millennia
SANTA FE—The exhibition, The Red That Colored the World, opening at the Museum of International Folk Art, combines new research and original scholarship to explore the history and widespread use in art of cochineal, an insect-based dye source for the color red whose origins and use date to the pre-Columbian Americas.
The Red That Colored the World opens May 17 and runs through Sept. Read More
FOS Launches Annual Dog Jog Logo Contest
Courtesy/FOS
FOS News:
- Deadline for logo entry is 5 p.m., Feb. 23
The 2015 Los Alamos Dog Jog is Saturday, April 25. The Dog Jog is an annual fundraiser for the Friends of the Shelter (FOS), an all-volunteer organization that uses this money to provide medical services and needed items for animals at the Los Alamos Animal Shelter.
The Dog Jog Committee is calling on all creative young artists to put their imaginations and love of dogs to work by submitting a drawing for the 2015 Dog Jog Logo Contest. The Logo Contest is open to children in 3rd through 6th grades whose family lives or works in Los Alamos
NMSC&O To Perform Brahms And Schubert Favorites
NMSC&O To Perform Brahms And Schubert Favorites
The New Mexico Symphonic Chorus and Orchestra. Courtesy photo
NMSC&O News:
- Three classical works to be performed March 1 are admired for beauty
ALBUQUERQUE – The New Mexico Symphonic Chorus and Orchestra (NMSC&O) will present three much-admired works from Brahms and Schubert at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 1, at the First United Methodist Church in Albuquerque.
Schubert’s Mass No. 2 in G major is often said to be the composer’s simplest, shortest and most beautiful mass, while Brahms’ masterworks – the radiant Alto Rhapsody and the expressive Read More
Los Alamos Is All Aglow
Los Alamos is aglow in the distance at 8:20 p.m. Friday. Photo by Christine Stempleski Nackers Read More
Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘Mortdecai’
By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB“Mortdecai” is the kind of film one attends when in the mood for some light, sophisticated silliness. It isn’t getting great reviews, but perhaps one’s expectations of the film are a bit off. This is an art-heist caper in the genre of The Pink Panther, complete with incompetent thugs, misguided detectives and aristocrats behaving badly.
Movie poster for ‘Mortdecai.’ Courtesy/Reel Deal Theater
Mortdecai, the movie, is based on “Don’t Point That Thing At Me,” the first in a trilogy of books written in the 1970s by British author Kyril Bonfiglioli. Read More
Murdered To Death Will Be Performed Tonight
LALT News:
Los Alamos Little Theatre says, “The show must go on!” The sidewalks are cleared and the actors are ready … so come watch the show tonight!
Directed by Patrick Webb and produced by Laurie Tomlinson, “Murdered to Death” is a hilarious spoof of the best Agatha Christie traditions, with an assembled cast of characters guaranteed to delight: Bunting the butler, an English Colonel with the prerequisite stiff upper lip. a shady French art dealer and his moll, bumbling local inspectors and a well meaning local sleuth who seems to attract murder – they’re Read More
Snow Scenes From Across Los Alamos
This ruler shows 5 inches of snow has accumulated today on a picnic table at a residence near downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Leland Lehman/ladailypost.com
The Omega Bridge and Los Alamos Medical Center seem to have disappeared in the snow today as seen from a balcony at Mountain Village on Trinity Drive. Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
The Omega Bridge and Los Alamos Medical Center are behind a veil of snow today as seen from a balcony at Mountain Village on Trinity Drive. Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Plenty of snow fills this yard today on Walnut Street. Photo by A.S. Clark
Snow Read More
CANCELLED: Rose Chocolatier Art Show Reception
COMMUNITY News:‘In Bounds’ Opening Reception Cancelled
ART News:Registration Opens For ‘GOT DANCE?’
Contestants in last year’s ‘GOT DANCE?’ contest. Photo by Henrik Sandin
Contestants in last year’s ‘GOT DANCE?’ contest perform. Photo by Henrik SandinYMCA News:
Individual and group registrations for a “GOT DANCE?” Contest Showcase are now open at The Family YMCA.
The contest is limited to 24 acts and will close when full. Acts may register in person at the Y, 1450 Iris St., or by telephone at 505.662.3100.
The Contest Showcase is 6:30-8:30 p.m. Friday, April 24 at New Beginnings Fellowship Church, 112 East Road. “People’s Read More
Shine Bright Baby Performs In Los Alamos Feb. 6
Shine Bright Baby. Courtesy photoMUSIC News:
Rose Chocolatier Art Show Reception Friday
Tahini truffles from Rose Chocolatier. Courtesy photo
ART News:
Rose Chocolatier at 991 Central Ave. is hosting an Art Show and Reception 5-7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 30.
This new show features work by Ward Zaelke, which will be on display through February on an art wall at the chocolate shop.
Rose Chocolatier also is starting to gather books from local authors to feature in its Book Corner. This section will display resident authors’ books.
“We are excited to showcase these authors and highlight some of the many talented people living here in Los Alamos,” owner Marguerite Read More
Carnaval 2015: Port To Port
NHCC News:
Frank Leto and PANdemonium with the Odara Dance Ensemble, in partnership with the National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC), continue the Center’s annual celebration of Carnaval with “Carnaval 2015: Port to Port” at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 13-14 in the NHCC’s Albuquerque Journal Theatre.
If you’ve ever wished you could hop on a cruise to the hottest Carnaval locations in the world, now is your chance. “Port to Port” transforms the theatre into a Carnaval cruise liner, and you are invited to join the party, from the port of New Orleans to Cuba, to Trinidad, and your final destination—Rio Read More
Opening Reception For ‘In Bounds’ 5-7 P.M. Friday
Topper Revue 2015 Opens with Preview Tonight
This Week At The Reel Deal
Column By JIM O’DONNELL This Friday we are opening The Imitation Game and The Homesman starring Hillary Swank, Tommy Lee Jones, and Meryl Streep. It’s not been well advertised but has great reviews and looks like a poignant film of the old west. We will be showing it for one week only.
Again thanks to all of you who waited to see The Imitation Game at the Reel Deal. It means a lot to us. We are holding American Sniper, Mortdecai, and Strange Magic for another week. Paddington will end this Thursday.
We are having a special screening of Bag-It, at 7 p.m. this Thursday, Read More
The Bachelor Comes To Santa Fe
Chris Soules. Courtesy/NMTD
NMTD News:
SANTA FE – New Mexico Tourism Department (NMTD) has announced that Santa Fe will be featured on an upcoming episode of The Bachelor.
The episode will feature a group date through white water rapids while the bachelorettes try their hand at rafting, a one-on-one date miles above the city, and a one-on-one date that truly tests a connection, all with the newest Bachelor, Chris Soules. The episode is scheduled to air at 8/7c Monday, Feb. 2 on ABC.
Soules, has become known as “Prince Farming”. He introduced himself to last season’s Bachelorette Andi Dorfman, Read More
‘In Bounds’ Opens At Fuller Lodge Art Center Friday
‘Unwrapped II’ by artist Rebecca Nolda. Courtesy/FLAC
ART News:
The community is invited to attend the Fuller Lodge Art Center’s first opening reception of the year at 5 p.m., Friday.
The opening exhibit is “In Bounds” for which the Art Center asked artists to follow a specific set of rules.
Artists will be on hand at Friday’s opening reception to chat about their work. Refreshments will be served. Read More
An Evening Of Sharing Vintage Quilts Tuesday
Antique wedding quilt. Courtesy. LAPQG
LAPQG News:
The Los Alamos Piecemakers Quilt Guild (LAPQG) invites the community to join them for an evening of sharing vintage quilts.
The event is 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 27 at the White Rock Baptist Church. The program is sharing vintage quilts. So many quilters and non-quilters have quilts that were made by their mothers, grandmothers and others so everyone is encouraged to bring their quilts, share stories and hear stories from others.
Everyone is welcome. Read More
