Entertainment
Library Screens ‘In The Mood For Love’
Movie poster for ‘In the Mood for Love’Review by KELLY DOLEJSI
Fidelity and appearances take center stage in “In the Mood for Love” (2000, rated PG, subtitled), showing at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in Mesa Public Library’s upstairs meeting room theater. The free screening is part of the Mesa Public Library Free Film Series.
Writer/director Kar-Wai Wong’s internationally award-winning film — including Best Actor (Tony Chiu-Wai Leung) and Technical Grand Prize at Cannes — delights in the styles and cultural shifts of 1962 Hong Kong, and delights in fomenting questions
Read More Juanita Madland Presents Piano Concert April 5
Local piano virtuoso Juanita Lash Madland will present a piano concert for the Arts Council Brown Bag series at noon April 5 in Fuller Lodge. Included will be compositions by J.S. Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Ginastera, and an original piece by the pianist. This concert also will be presented in May in Minneapolis. This spring Madland will play her 5th harpsichord concert. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.comLos Alamos Little Theatre Announces Cast Of Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead
The cast of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Courtesy photo
Cast members in a clown workshop scene, from left, Alexis Perry, Stuart Rupprecht, Zachary Brounstein, Zachary Brounstein and Jess Cullinan. Courtesy photo
Cast members Trisha Werner as Guildenstern and Don Monteith as Rosencrantz in a box. Courtesy photo
LALT News:
Rehearsals for Los Alamos Little Theatre’s spring production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead are now underway.
This production of Tom Stoppard’s modern masterpiece features Don Monteith as Rosencrantz, Trisha Read More
Cinema Cindy Reviews: ‘Kedi’
By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos
Editor’s note: Kedi is showing at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe. Visit https://www.ccasantafe.org/ for showtimes.
“Kedi” is a film for anyone who loves animals, especially people with an affinity for domestic cats. We are challenged by the film to extend that same fondness and respect to the street cats of Istanbul.
Turkish-born director Ceyda Torun has taken a close look at a unique feature of urban living in her home city of Istanbul, the high prevalence of stray cats and their acceptance in the daily life of the humans around them. Torun Read More
NHCC: César Chávez Day March And Fiesta April 1
Labor leader and civil rights activist César Chávez in 1974. Courtesy/wikipediaNHCC News:
ALBUQUERQUE ― The National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) is again the location for the 24th annual César Chávez Day Fiesta April 1, featuring musical and dance acts as well as poetry, community exhibits, children’s activities and games, food, and a keynote speech by Dolores Huerta.
This is a free family event that will take place at noon on the NHCC’s Plaza Mayor.
One of the headlining acts at the fiesta will
Read More Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘The Shack’
By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB Los Alamos
“The Shack” is the long-awaited film version of the 2007 novel of the same name, written by Canadian author William P. Young. If you have read the book, you will know to bring plenty of tissues to the film. This is a story of bad things happening to good people and of the Holy Trinity intervening to teach love and forgiveness. As a result, the IMDB website categorizes the film as “drama/fantasy.”
The Shack in question is where hard evidence was found that Mackenzie Philip’s youngest daughter was indeed murdered. Abducted from the family campsite, Missy
Read More SFCC Celebrates Native American Week March 27-31
SFCC News:SANTA FE ― Santa Fe Community College will celebrate the third annual Native American Week March 27 through March 31.
SFCC’s Native American Student Outreach Coordinator Valerie Grimley, Ph.D. said, “We’ve got an exciting program this year that celebrates our increased enrollment of Native American students.” There are 462 Native American students enrolled at the college in Academic Year 2016-2017. The current number represents a 34.4 percent increase since Academic Year 2013-14, when there were 344 Native American students attending SFCC.
Read More Donors Help Support Dr. Zee Benefit Concert
Morning Glory Bakery Company donates weekly donuts as an auction item for the Dr. Zee Benefit Concert. Courtesy Photo
COMMUNITY News:
Dr. Zee Benefit Concert organizers are looking for donors who want to be part of the event’s silent auction.
Organizers are excited by what they have received so far from businesses and independent donors in the community including two gift certificates for a dozen donuts a week for six months from Morning Glory Bakery Company. Other donated items have been shared on the Facebook page, @zeebenefit.
Zandree (Zee) Stidham, 35, is a local assistant Read More
Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘The Shack’
Movie poster for ‘The Shack’. Courtesy photo
By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos
“The Shack” is the long-awaited film version of the 2007 novel of the same name, written by Canadian author William P. Young. If you have read the book, you will know to bring plenty of tissues to the film. This is a story of bad things happening to good people and of the Holy Trinity intervening to teach love and forgiveness. As a result, the IMDB website categorizes the film as “drama/fantasy.”
The Shack in question is where hard evidence was found that Mackenzie Philip’s youngest daughter was indeed Read More
