Learn To WALTZ At Los Alamos High School
Photo by Kimberly Anne Selvage
LAHS News:
Ever dreamed about learning how to WALTZ? Now it’s your chance!
As a part of fundraising efforts for the Los Alamos High School Dance Program, Ballroom Dance students and their teacher Natasha Barkhudarova are offering four weekly sessions of WALTZ dance classes for Beginners, starting Tuesday.
Classes are 7-8 p.m., each Tuesday – Jan. 13, 20, 27 and Feb. 3 – at the Topper Theater at LAHS. No partner is required. Everybody is welcome to join the class.
The cost is $40 for adults and $20 for children, students and LAPS staff (for all four classes). Read More
Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘Into the Woods’
By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB“Into the Woods” is a Broadway musical by Stephen Sondheim brought to film by Director Rob Marshall and Disney Studio. The music is often jaunty, sometimes catchy, with thoughtful, introspective lyrics.
This musical is a fairy tale parodying fairy tales. It is a satire, exploring the role of “Prince Charming” in the dreams of young females as well as the hopes of prospective princesses.
The storyline pulls together the fairy tales of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk and Rapunzel with an original story about a baker and his wife who have Read More
Learn To Publish Using Adobe InDesign At UNM-LA
UNM-LA News:
Have you ever wanted to publish your own book, magazine or company newsletter and get professional looking results that other desktop publishing software packages can’t deliver? Learn to use Adobe InDesign, the industry leading page layout software on the market today.
UNM-LA is offering Digital Media Arts 203 (DMA203), Introduction to Desktop Publishing (Adobe InDesign). The three credit hour class will meet 9-11:30 a.m., Mondays and is taught by UNM-LA adjunct faculty member John Halliday.
The class will cover the basics of how to compose flyers, brochures, magazines, Read More
MainStreet Hosts ‘Living Los Alamos’ Kiosks Art Contest
MAINSTREET News:
Los Alamos MainStreet announces a call for original photographs or artwork that represent “Living Los Alamos”.
Winning art will be displayed in the four directional kiosks along Central Avenue. The only qualification is that the art should be representative of living in Los Alamos or the surrounding area.
To be considered, email artwork to ryn@losalamos.org. Deadline to submit artwork is Feb. 15. The MainStreet Futures Committee will judge entries and selected artists will be notified by email. For details visit losalamosmainstreet.com/contest.
Contest Rules:
- Eligibility: The
Unitarian Church Presents ‘Northern New Mexico Regional Art Center’ By Maura Taylor
UCLA News:
Sunday 9:30 a.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Los Alamos, Maura Taylor will present a forum talk about the Northern New Mexico Regional Art Center, a small community nonprofit in Espanola.
In addition to running Espanola’s two museums and operating a gallery and visitor’s center, the organization offers free art and music classes to children. During her past three summers as a college student, Maura interned at the center, and will discuss both her own experiences and general information for those interested in learning about the NNMRAC and nonprofit work Read More
NMSA Theater Department Opens 2015 Season
Courtesy/NMSANMSA News:
New Mexico School for the Arts’ Theater Department will open its 2015 season with Radium Girls, by D. W. Gregory, directed by Joey Chavez and Deborah Potter.
Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls follows the popularity of radium as a medical and industrial product, used for a variety of purposes – from fighting tumors to providing luminous paint for wristwatch faces – until the workers painting them began to fall ill from a mysterious disease. Gregory’s play traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a wristwatch dial painter in the 1920s, as she fights for her day in court.
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Winter Clouds Cover Valley
A blanket of winter clouds cover the valley looking southeast at 5:55 p.m., Wednesday from N.M. 4. Photo by Scott Bushnell Read More
NMSA Jazz Ensemble Performs Jan. 17
NMSA Jazz Ensemble. Courtesy/NMSA
NMSA News:
The New Mexico School for the Arts Jazz Ensemble will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, in the Large Rehearsal Hall at the NMSA campus at the corner of East Alameda and Paseo de Peralta.
The NMSA Jazz Ensemble is comprised of 16 music and voice students under the direction of John Trentacosta and Bert Dalton. The concert is free and open to the public; donations accepted at the door.
Students will perform compositions by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Evans, Horace Silver, Mongo Santamaria, Ivan Lins, Nat Adderly, Sonny Rollins, and a vocal Read More
This Week At The Reel Deal
By JIM ODONNELLThis Friday we are opening Unbroken. Thanks to all of you who waited to see it at the Reel Deal. We also have scheduled American Sniper for a Special Screening at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15. Advance tickets are now on sale at our Box Office.
We are holding The Hobbit, Into the Woods and Night at the Museum for another week. Wild will end this Thursday.
Movie Poster for ‘Unbroken.’ Courtesy/ Real Deal Theater
Unbroken: Academy Award (R) winner Angelina Jolie directs and produces Unbroken, an epic drama that follows the incredible life of Olympian and war Read More
NM School For The Arts Presents ‘Winter Dances’
A performer in ‘Winter Dances’ Courtesy/Paulo T. PhotographyNMSA News:
The New Mexico School for the Arts will present its annual performance series, Winter Dances, an evening of mixed dance repertoire, at two venues.
The company will perform at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 23, Saturday, Jan. 24 and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 25 at the James A. Little Theater 1060 Cerrillos Road in Santa Fe.
The company also will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan 31 and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 1 at the Hiland Theater of National Dance Institute of New Mexico, 4800 Central Ave. SE in Albuquerque.
The fifth annual Winter Read More
County Announces Muni Building Art Plaza Finalists
Municipal Building Art Plaza finalists ‘Solar Tree’ by Eric Thelander. Photo by Leslie Bucklin
COUNTY News:
The County has announced the top three finalists in the competition for art to be installed in the west plaza of the Municipal Building at 1000 Central Ave.
The Art in Public Places Board will hold a special event to give the public the opportunity to view the work of the finalists including:
- “Solar Tree” by Eric Thelander;
- “The Secret Life of a Cube” by Peter Swedenburg; and
- “Confluence” by Evelyn Rosenberg and Steve Borbas.
The open Read More
Play Reading For ‘Avenue Q’ At LALT Wednesday
‘Avenue Q’ poster. Courtesy/LALTLALT News:
Los Alamos Little Theatre will hold a play reading for “Avenue Q” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 7, in the Green Room at the Performing Arts Center, 1670 Nectar St.
“Avenue Q,” a multi-Tony Award-winning musical, will be performed at LALT in May as a joint production with the Dixon Community Players. Auditions are Jan. 17 in Dixon, and Jan. 18 and 19 in Los Alamos.
The play features puppet characters interacting with human characters in a Sesame Street-like vibe. But the lessons these characters learn have more to Read More
Dust Bowl Years Classic ‘Grapes of Wrath’ Thursday
Poster for ‘Grapes of Wrath.’ Courtesy/rottentomatoes.com
“The Grapes of Wrath” (1940, unrated), showing Thursday at Mesa Public Library, follows the story of one of hundreds of thousands of Depression-era “Okie” families who head for California and its promises of work.
In this Oscar-winning film based on John Steinbeck’s classic novel of the same name, the Joads and their neighbors have been forced off land their families have been living on for generations. Some of the sharecroppers try to fight, and watch as bulldozers roll over Read More
Classical Music World: Viva Baroque!
Red Priest. Courtesy photo
Classical Music WorldHave you noticed the posters around town advertising the Los Alamos Concert Association’s next event featuring Red Priest? Maybe you assumed that the rock star poses, leather pants, and crazy hair mean they will be playing something other than classical music. Look again! You will see a recorder, a violin, a cello and a harpsichord. Not an electric guitar or amp in sight.
This flamboyant ensemble from the UK has taken the vibrant artistic spirit of the 17th and early 18th centuries very much to heart. Below are the
Hannemann’s Music Corner: The Language of Music
By RICHARD HANNEMANNBrown Bag Series Presents Music & Theater Jan. 7
LAAC News:
Los Alamos Art Council’s Brown Bag Performance Series presents a scene from Los Alamos Little Theater’s “Murdered to Death” at noon Wednesday, Jan.7 in the Pajarito Room of Fuller Lodge.
The play is directed by Patrick Webb and produced by Laurie Tomlinson. The play opens Jan. 16.
“Murdered to Death” is Peter Gordon’s 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 Read More
LACA Presents Red Priest Jan. 9
Red Priest. Courtesy/LACALACA News:
Britain’s flamboyant Baroque ensemble, Red Priest, will perform Antonio Vivaldi’s iconic work, The Four Seasons at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 9 in the Duane Smith Auditorium. Presented by the Los Alamos Concert Association, the concert also will feature works by Bach, Telemann and others in a program called “Viva Baroque!”
Red Priest, renowned for bringing a theatrical sensibility to Baroque repertoire, takes its name from Vivaldi, known in his time as The Red Priest because he was, in fact, a priest with bright red hair. In an interview on National Public Radio, Read More
This Week at the Reel Deal
By JIM O’DONNELL We are holding The Hobbit, Wild, Into the Woods and Night at the Museum for another week.
We have been working on our broken projector for almost two weeks now and hope to get it up and running today so we can finally show Night at the Museum.
It has been disappointing to only have three screens over the holidays, but hopefully we are close to a solution.
Just after the holidays, we will open Unbroken, American Sniper, The Imitation Game, Paddington, Big Eyes, The Wedding Ringer, Mortdecai, and Homesman.
“Into the Woods” is Read More
Vasculitis Advocate Hosts Free Concert Saturday
Allison Boyt
COMMUNITY News:
Allison Boyt, a professional violinist and member of the Akron Symphony Orchestra, is hosting a concert Saturday, Jan. 3, at Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church’s Kelly Hall, featuring local Los Alamos musicians. The hour-long program begins at 7 p.m., is open to the public and includes light refreshments. The event is free of charge with donations accepted.
Boyt is founder of Violin for Vasculitis, a vascular disorder awareness initiative, which she travels nationally to share with audiences in all 50 states. In 2005, at the age of 17, Boyt was diagnosed Read More
