Entertainment

7th Annual Dances of India Oct. 19

by

Courtesy/DOI

COMMUNITY News:

 

Each year, the East Indian classical dance teachers of the Los Alamos Family YMCA, Ms. Alina Deshpande and Ms. Kavita Nandakishore, organize a FREE performance called Dances of India (DOI) to showcase their students’ talent and entertain the community with Indian classical, folk and Bollywood dances together with performances by guest artists. 

 

This is a fun filled show for children and adults alike with colorful costumes, foot tapping music, energetic dances and goofy comedy. The event also includes a Bazaar with Indian snacks, Read More

This Week at the Reel Deal

by

Column By JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater   

Reel Deal Tuesday’s are back! All movies, all day Tuesday, are only $6.50! Holidays, winter and summer break are excluded.

This week we are opening The Equalizer, The Judge, and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.  We will hold Gone Girl for another week. The Boxtrolls, This is where I Leave You, and The Maze Runner will end this Thursday.

I saw Gone Girl last night. Wow. It’s one of the very few films I’ve seen that a runtime of 2 1/2 hours is no problem. Gone Girl is twisted, riveting, unpredictable, and masterfully Read More

Pendergast: Art and Science of Entertaining

by

By PEGGY PENDERGAST
Los Alamos

Greetings to each of you reading my first Art and Science of Entertaining column.

My hope for you, after you read my words, is for you to not be surprised should you find yourself racing to your email, phone or stationary and inviting  friends, family and long-lost connections and saying to them, “Hey there – come on over – let’s share some time together, a game, talk, drinks, hors d’oeuvres, fun and friendship.”

Don’t be shy or hesitant to suggest that your guests bring along a spirit or goodie to share with everyone

Read More

Celebrating 15th Anniversary Los Alamos Hill Stompers Take Show On The Road

by

The Hill Stompers playing at recent Brewfest. Courtesy/Los Alamos Hill Stompers
 
The Hill Stompers at a July 4 gig in Telluride. Courtesy/Los Alamos Hill Stompers

HILL STOMPERS News:

The Los Alamos Hill Stompers, your community street band, is delighted to be starting its 15th season of making music and mayhem!

Ever since Jeff and Kandice Favorite started the band in October 2000, the fun hasn’t stopped. The band has entertained at countless community events, fundraisers, and private parties throughout New Mexico and Colorado.

Jeff and Kandice started the band not long after relocating Read More

This Week at the Reel Deal

by

Column by JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater   

Reel Deal Tuesday’s are back! All movies, all day Tuesday are only $6.50! Holidays, winter and summer breaks are excluded.

 This week we are opening the much anticipated film, Gone Girl and This is Where I Leave You. We will hold Boxtrolls and The Maze Runner for another week. The Drop and Life of Crime will end this Thursday.

We are still trying to get a print of The Equalizer. We’ll keep you posted.

Movie poster for ‘Gone Girl.’ Courtesy/Reel Deal Theater

Gone Girl – Directed by David Fincher and based upon the Read More

‘O, Brother Where Art Thou’ Hilarious Odyssey Through 1930s Mississippi

by

Movie poster for ‘O, Brother, Where Art Thou?’ Courtesy/rottentomatoes.com

Review by KELLY DOLEJSI

Always wondered what the devil looks like? What fraction of a roasted gopher would be required to completely bed down a man’s appetite? Look no further than your local public library, where “O, Brother, Where Art Thou?” (2000, PG-13) will screen at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, in the upstairs meeting-room “theater.”

Joel and Ethan Coen’s take on Homer’s “Odyssey” reimagines the classic tale as it might have occurred in 1930s Mississippi. Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney), Read More

Proceeds From Rotary’s ‘California Table’ Benefit Nature Center

by

Rotarian and LAPS Superintendent Gene Schmidt was the succesful bidder twice during ‘The California Table’ charitable live auction Saturday on the patio at Smith’s Marketplace. The Rotary Club of Los Alamos hosted the wine tasting with food pairing fundraiser for which the proceeds go toward providing a picnic area for the new Nature Center. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

The crowd got into the bidding spirit for a worthy cause. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Los Alamos auctioneer Jill Cook kept the bids rising during Saturday’s live Read More

Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘The Boxtrolls’

by

By CYNTHIA  Z. BIDDLECOMB

“The Boxtrolls” is marvelous in so many ways. This stop-action (and CG) animated feature takes you to the underground world of a community of trolls who wear boxes for clothing.

Each is named for the product advertised on his or her box. Thus, Fish and Shoe are the main trolls we get to know. And then, of course, there is Eggs.

Eggs (voiced by Isaac Hempstead Wright) is a 10-year-old human boy, thought to have been kidnapped by the boxtrolls as a baby. Stories of how monstrous the trolls are grew out of that misunderstanding. Fish has raised Eggs and taught him the trolls’ Read More

Santa Fe Concorso Runs Through Sunday

by

Courtesy/SFC

SFC News:

Santa Fe Concorso, the southwest’s premier automotive gathering, is underway on the grounds of The Club at Las Campanas in Santa Fe, and features the cars of Maserati and OSCA and legends of the Brickyard.

The Concorso’s signature tour for entrants starts at the Santa Fe Plaza this morning and travels a route of stunning vistas to the sleepy western town of Cerrillos where entrants will be treated to a barbecue lunch before continuing to The Club at Las Campanas where the cars will be placed on the fairway for Sunday’s Concorso. Great driving and great food are Read More