Entertainment

This Week At The Reel Deal

By JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater

Our summer schedule begins this Friday, May 29, which means early matinees everyday through the summer!

Los Alamos National Bank will again sponsor “Summer at the Movies” beginning in June. These kid friendly films are free to the public at 10 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Films and dates to be announced.

This Friday we are opening Aloha starring Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone and Rachel McAdams. Tomorrowland, Mad Max, and Pitch Perfect 2 are holding for another week. Avengers will end this Thursday. Ex Machina and Spy will open June 5.

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Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘Tomorrowland’

By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

“Tomorrowland”, which opened Friday, is part Baby Boomer nostalgia, part encouragement for teenage idealists, and part inspiration for even younger dreamers.

It is a simple enough story for older elementary kids to follow and visually intriguing enough for adults to be entertained. For some, the last scenes get a bit preachy, but the message is clear: keep dreaming and let hope be your guide.

George Clooney plays a grown up Frank Walker, a boy genius whose story opens the movie. Thomas Robinson plays the 12-year-old Frank, who enters his homemade jet pack in Read More

Los Alamos Daily Post: 2015 SUMMER GUIDE

SUMMER GUIDE

Welcome to summer in Los Alamos!

The Los Alamos Daily Post is pleased to share our 2015 SUMMER GUIDE created for tourists and locals alike. The SUMMER GUIDE is filled with photos and links to sites and activities throughout Los Alamos, White Rock, Bandelier National Monument and the Valles Caldera National Preserve.

Available on the Los Alamos Daily Post website through September, the SUMMER GUIDE will be updated as new activities are announced, so check back often as the summer unfolds.

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James Carothers Playing Ashley Pond Tonight

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Los Alamos Little Theatre Unveils 2015-16 Season

LALT News:

The Los Alamos Little Theatre is pleased to announce its 2015-16 season.

September
Harvey, by Mary Chase

This 1944 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, which falls into the “classic” category, tells the story of Elwood Dowd, who believes he is accompanied by an invisible, human-sized rabbit, much to the embarrassment of his family. Directed by Gwen Lewis.

November
8x10s

LALT’s fifth presentation of this format of eight short plays provides opportunities for wanna-be directors and actors to get their feet wet and for established ones to join the plunge. The scripts Read More

Dance Arts Los Alamos Spring Shows May 15-16

DALA Advanced Hip Hop Students perform “Add Me In”, choreographed by Tina Anderson. Courtesy photo

DALA News:

Dance Arts Los Alamos (DALA) will present its 23rd Spring Recital this weekend, May 15-16, at Duane Smith Auditorium.

The evening performances are 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 15 and 16. These performances will showcase the diversity of the DALA faculty as students perform in classical ballet, modern, jazz, tap, swing, musical theater and hip hop.

It is truly a mixed repertory experience and the audience will enjoy ballets with themes involving a murder mystery, a Read More

This Week At The Reel Deal

By JIM O’DONNELL
Real Deal Theater

This Friday we are opening Pitch Perfect 2 and Mad Max: Fury Road. Avengers: Age of Ultron is holding for another week along with Hot Pursuit. The Water Diviner and Monkey Kingdom are ending this Thursday.

Movie poster for ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ Courtesy/Reel Deal Theater

Pitch Perfect 2: Reprising the kind of musical performances, campus hi-jinks, stinging humor and sassy sisterhood put in place by its eminently likable predecessor; Pitch, Perfect 2 remixes the elements and comes up Read More

LAAC Presents 18th Annual Kite Festival May 15-17

A high flyer at the 2014 Kite Festival. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Los Alamos Arts Council Executive Director Marlane Hamilton, center, with board members and volunteers busy Tuesday evening building kites at Fuller Lodge. Photo by Jeremy Varela
 

LAAC News:

Visitors of all ages will get a chance to let their imaginations soar this weekend at the 18th annual Kite Festival at Overlook Park in White Rock, presented by the Los Alamos Arts Council.

The festival begins Friday, May 15 with a kite flying demonstration and live music. Then Saturday, May 16 and Sunday, May Read More

World Famous Harpsichordist Performs At Noon Today

Harpsichordist Kathleen McIntosh

LAAC News:

The Los Alamos Arts Council continues its 2015 Brown Bag Performance Series featuring world famous harpsichordist Kathleen McIntosh at noon today in the Pajarito Room at Fuller Lodge.

McIntosh performs widely, in festivals in Havana, Lima, Deia (Mallorca) and Tsuyama and with the Santa Fe Chamber Festival since 1996. A member of local groups Serenata of Santa Fe, Santa Fe Pro Musica and the Santa Fe Symphony, she also has been soloist with the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin in Moscow, Vietnam National Symphony in Hanoi, Solistas de La Read More