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This Week At The Reel Deal

Column By JIM O’DONNELL 
REEL DEAL  

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

MRM Hosts 13th Annual Miniatures Show & Sale

Oil painting by Mary Dolph Wood. Courtesy/MRM

MRM News:

The Millicent Rogers Museum (MRM) is hosting the 13th Annual Miniature Show and Sale beginning with a reception 5:30-7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6 at 1504 Millicent Rogers Road.

The exhibit features more than 220 of the best artists in Taos County and consists of works in all media that are unique in their scale of being under 10″ x 10″ in total size.

Featured participants include Rich Nichols, Valerie Graves, Ken Daggett, Jim Wagner, Chris Morel, Margaret Nes, Mary Dolph Wood, Mark Asmus and David Anderson, just to name a few.

Tickets Read More

Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘Selma’

By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

“Selma” is the new feature film about the efforts of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to force southern states to adapt to the 1964 Voting Rights Act.

Selma is not a documentary. It is a film meant to remind us what folks sacrificed to get a universal right to vote not only enacted but respected throughout this country.

Movie poster of  ‘Selma.’ Courtesy/rottentomatoes.com

David Oyelowo (Interstellar, The Butler) plays Dr. King with the depth of faith, sensitivity and gravitas necessary to be convincing. Read More

Another View Of Lenticular Clouds

Here’s another view of lenticular clouds hovering week before last above the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Photo Copyright Scott Valentine, 2015 Read More

‘Solar Tree’ Wins Municipal Building Art Plaza Contest

Municipal Building Art Plaza winner ‘Solar Tree’ by Eric Thelander. Courtesy/LAC

COUNTY News:

The Art in Public Places Board met Thursday night and voted unanimously to select “Solar Tree” from among the top finalists in the competition for an art piece to be installed in the west plaza of the Municipal Building at 1000 Central Ave.

“Solar Tree” was created by artist Eric Thelander who works out of an Albuquerque studio on large scale public art projects and private commissions. His “Solar Tree” piece is an 18’ x 12’ x 12’ steel and aluminum sculpture designed Read More

Fifth Annual UNM-LA Music Marathon Feb. 8

The Craig Martin Experience will perform at the 5th Annual UNM-LA Music Marathon. Courtesy/CME

UNM-LA News:

With just over 30 volunteer performers scheduled, the 5th Annual UNM-LA Music Marathon will take place 2-8 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8, in the Student Center on the UNM-LA campus.

Historically, the UNM-LA Music Marathon has raised more than $4,600, featuring as many as 60 performers, and attracting 800 audience members. The event is co-chaired by UNM-LA adjunct music instructor Juanita Madland and Rheta Moazzami, with the intent of funding UNM-LA scholarships.

“In our first year we raised Read More

Hannemann’s Music Corner: Tone, Pitch, Note & Timbre

By RICHARD HANNEMANN
Los Alamos

In music, there are four fundamental terms you need to know and understand including tone, pitch, note and timbre.

TONE: A musical sound, which repeats at regular intervals, higher or lower.

PITCH: The placement of a tone, high or low, within the range of tones and relative to, high or low, other and all of those tones.

NOTE: The symbolic representation of a given tone, at a specified pitch, with specified time duration.

TIMBRE: The quality and/or character of a note (the sound of a sound).

These four terms are often confused with one another and often thought Read More

Atomic City Children’s Theater Shines In Georgia

Atomic City Children’s Theater students on stage at the Junior Theater Festival. Photo by James Barker
 

ACCT News:

Students from Atomic City Children’s Theater in Los Alamos earned high praise at the 2015 Junior Theater Festival happening Jan. 16, 17 and 18 at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta, Ga. 

The 14 students, ages 10-14 presented selections from Disney’s The Little Mermaid JR. for Broadway performer Phillip McAdoo (The Lion King, Rent); Disney Theatrical Group dramaturg and literary manager Ken Cerniglia and performer Morgan Rose (first national Read More

This Week At The Reel Deal

By JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater

This Friday we are opening Strange Magic and Mortdecai. We are holding American Sniper for another week. Big Eyes and Unbroken will end this Thursday. We have booked The Imitation Game for Jan. 30. Again we hope you can wait to see it at the Reel Deal Theater. I wish I could have gotten it sooner but that’s the best I can do.

We are hosting our third annual PEEC event, Back Country Film Festival at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22. Hope you can make it. There will be fun raffles and Pajarito Brew Pub will be there serving up some nice brews. All proceeds from our box office sales Read More

Former Los Alamos Musician James Carothers Signs Worldwide Booking Agreement

James Carothers. Courtesy/www.jamescarothers.com

COMMUNITY News:

NASHVILLE – Country newcomer James Carothers, formerly of Los Alamos, has signed an exclusive worldwide booking agreement with Nashville-based Third Coast Talent.

The deal comes just prior to Carothers’ performance from the DRX Artist Showcase stage at 3rd and Lindsley, at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Hosted by singer/songwriter and SiriusXM “Prime Country” personality Deborah Allen, the event will stream live HERE; Facebook fans can learn more at FB Events

Carothers honed his chops Read More

Summer Of Color On Santa Fe’s Museum Hill

Monarch Butterfly Alights on Child’s Hand. Photo by Charles Mann

Monarch Butterfly on Cosmos. Photo by Sonny Tucker

MUSEUM News:

SUMMER OF COLOR

SANTA FE Santa Fe appears to be awash in gradations of adobe brown yet it is a city of rich colors found nowhere else – as seen by the generations of artists who’ve made this city their home. And color in its many shades and hues comes to the fore this summer when some of the city’s leading cultural institutions located on Museum Hill coordinate a series of exhibitions and events.

Between Memorial Day and Labor Day, the participating Read More

Die Laughing At LALT’s ‘Murdered to Death’

The full cast of ‘Murdered to Death.’ Photo by Laurie Tomlinson
 
Review by BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

Some (okay all) of my family members are continually telling me I have no sense of humor. I prefer to think of myself as discerning where comedy is concerned. In any case, I’m generally a hard sell with comedy, so when I tell you I was rolling in the aisles and laughing my head off along with the rest of the full house at Los Alamos Little Theatre Friday for opening night of “Murdered to Death” it’s quite a compliment to the play and the performers.

The first of Peter Gordon’s Read More

Classical Music World: How Do They Do That?

By ANN MCLAUGHLIN
LACA Artistic Director
 
After Red Priest’s phenomenal performance on the Los Alamos Concert Association series last week, several people asked me the same question: How did the ensemble transport a harpsichord all the way from Great Britain?

The answer: They didn’t. We rented an instrument for them to use. That sounds simple enough but the reality makes for quite a story. 

Harpsichords are notoriously finicky instruments. They don’t take kindly to being moved about or to temperature and humidity changes. They need to be tuned by a skilled technician before

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Indian Country: The Art Of David Bradley

Harvest Moon by David Bradley. Courtesy/Ed and Pam deZevallos Collection

MIAC News:

  • “To be an artist from the Indian world carries with it certain responsibilities … which I do not take lightly.” David Bradley

SANTA FE — Indian Country: The Art of David Bradley opens at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) Feb. 15 and runs through Jan. 16, 2016.

On view will be 32 works of art spanning his career, including paintings, mixed media works and bronze sculptures.

David Bradley of Minnesota Chippewa, creates narrative artworks that tell stories and histories not Read More

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