Entertainment

Little Forest Playschool Fall Fiesta Sept. 10

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Kids getting soapy in the Bubble Pit at Little Forest Play School. Courtesy photo

LITTLE FOREST News:

The community is invited to Little Forest Playschool’s Annual Fall Fiesta 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10.

Join staff at the 2-acre playground for family fun and games including:

  • Prizes;
  • Face Painting;
  • Alpine Slide;
  • Free Toddler Area;
  • Bounce House – 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.;
  • Dunk Tank – 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; and 
  • Bubble Pit – noon to 2 p.m.

Exciting additions this year include: 

  • Traditional Dance at 10:30 a.m. from Ohkay Owingeh; and
  • Live music from The Lebrons
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Los Alamos Little Theatre Opens Season With ‘Not Quite Right’

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By KELLY DOLEJSI

The risk in watching Los Alamos Little Theater’s “Not Quite Right” is that you might see a glimpse of your own family in the spotlight.

Luckily, “whatever your generation or family relationship,” said actor Eric Bjorklund, who plays Marty in the September production, “someone onstage is arguing from your point of view.”

When the play opens, Marty, a man “too old to be quick and too young to retire,” sits in his garage in the middle of the night, playing with a couple oven mitts. At 58, Marty’s still not quite sure what he wants to do when he grows up. He’s learning pottery and sky-diving, Read More

Let The Brown Bag Season Begin!

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The Enchanted String Quintet with Anne Egan, violin; Marke Talley, viola; Eve Kaye, violin; Claire Meador, cello and David Watkins, cello. Courtesy photo

 

By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post

Enchanted Strings Quintet violinist Anne Egan said Schubert’s piece, String Quintet in C Major, “has so much soul.” Indeed, the composer wrote the piece right before his death at age 31 and Egan said the piece seems prophetic; it is filled with a range of emotions from grief to acceptance.

According to Egan’s notes on the chamber piece, it reflects Schubert’s struggle with Read More

Los Alamos Big Band Plays Pond 7 p.m. Today

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Los Alamos Big Band. Courtesy photo
 
By RUSS GORDON
Concert Promoter

The next to last show of the Los Alamos County Summer Concert Series is 7 p.m. today at Ashley Pond with the Los Alamos Big Band.

The Big Band is famous around northern NM for their renditions of music made famous by the Gershwins, the Dorseys, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington and Count Basie plus other classics from the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s. FREE CONCERT.

Opening will be the Los Alamos Jazz Project directed by the Middle School’s music teacher, Ryan Finn. This band is made up of LAHS’s Read More

‘Bad Day At Black Rock’ Shows At Mesa Public Library

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Movie poster for ‘Bad Day At Black Rock’. Courtesy photo

BY KELLY DOLEJSI

Mid-1950s crime thriller “Bad Day At Black Rock” will screen at 6:30 p.m., Thursday at Mesa Public Library.

The moody Spencer Tracy classic opens “Just the Way it Happened!” (according to the tagline) as a railway train pulls into a quiet Arizona town and John J. Macreedy (Tracy) steps off.

Apparently, it’s the first time the train has stopped in Black Rock in a number of years, and the locals are none too happy to have a newcomer. Macreedy can’t get a cab and then is denied a hotel room, although there are clearly Read More

Atomic City Children’s Theater Opens Auditions For Disney Peter Pan Jr. 2-4 p.m. Wednesday

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ACCT News:

Atomic City Children’s Theater (ACCT), the Los Alamos Public Schools’ award winning after-school theater program, is excited to announce auditions for their elementary school production of Disney Peter Pan Jr., a two-act musical based on the Disney film and J.M. Barrie’s enchanting Broadway play.

Co-Director Daren Savage noted, “Peter Pan Jr. is a really fun show with some of Disney’s most famous characters including Peter Pan, Wendy, Captain Hook and of course, Tinker Bell and features many memorable Disney songs including, You Can Fly, Never Read More

Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘Kubo And The Two Strings’

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By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

“Kubo and the Two Strings” is the latest animated film from Laika Entertainment (Coraline, The Boxtrolls), a family action adventure presented in stop-action animation. Words cannot adequately describe this film, but let’s try…

The creativity in this film is awe-inspiring. Stop-action animation means in this case that 4.3 seconds of the footage were created on average every week for nearly five years. In addition to the main characters, created with what we used to call “Claymation”, there are origami figurines, quickly created by Kubo’s story magic, which Read More

Cinema Cindy Reviews: ‘Florence Foster Jenkins’

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By Cynthia Biddlecomb 
Los Alamos
 
“Florence Foster Jenkins” is a BBC/Pathé Pictures release starring Meryl Streep as the 20th century heiress and performer who only thought she could sing. Her mostly true story is both funny and sad, but beautifully presented in this film. Lavish costumes and sets reflect the Victorian era in which Florence grew up—she was born in 1868—as a counterpoint to 1944, the year the story takes place.
 
By 1944 Florence Foster Jenkins was 76 and had been a New York socialite all her adult life. She had been a piano protégé, giving a recital at the
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David Luning Performs At Pond Tonight

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David Luning. Courtesy photo
 

MUSIC News:

Gritty, soulful singer/songwriter David Luning is a lively storyteller whose music, earnest songwriting and rich, captivating voice would have you believe you’re listening to a hardened veteran of Nashville.

Luning is performing as part of the Los Alamos Summer Concert Series at 7 p.m. today at Ashley Pond Park. The concert is free.

His debut album “Just Drop On By” was met with high critical praise and garnered Luning numerous film and TV placements with most recently, a featured placement of his song “ Whiskey Bottle” in NBC’s series Read More