Authors Speak Series Hosts Photographer and Author Don Usner
LIBRARY News:
Mesa Public Library Art Gallery presents seventy remarkable photographic portraits by Don Usner of participants in the Lannan Foundation’s Readings and Conversations literary series of the last 15 years. All the portraits are black and white and eloquently reveal the personality of each author.
The exhibition is open to the public this month, and at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21 Don Usner will be guest speaker for the monthly Authors Speak event. Both an author and photographer, he will discuss his experience meeting and photographing the Lannan authors as well as his own books.
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Treasures From Vault Exhibit Opens at Millicent Rogers Museum
Picture of Millicent Rogers with museum exhibits. Courtesy photo
MRM News:
The Millicent Rogers Museum, located in Taos, announces the Nov 18 opening of Treasures from the Vault. This exhibit of rarely or never-before-seen objects from the permanent collections of the museum will be open through Jan. 26, 2014.
“We are thrilled to be able to exhibit these objects that visitors may never have seen from our collections,” Museum Executive Director Peter S. Seibert said. “With more than 7,000 objects in our collection, the Millicent Rogers Museum collection is truly Read More
Olions Present One-acts at the Blackbox
Mateo Cardiel and Megan Pimentel rehearse for the Olions one-act plays, which begin Friday at the LAHS Blackbox Theater. Courtesy photoLAHS News:
The Los Alamos High School Olions Thespian Club will present four one-act plays in the LAHS Black Box Theater at 7 p.m., Nov. 16, 17 and 23, with 2 p.m. matinees Nov. 17 and 23.
Olions sponsor Rachel Saxton will direct “This Property is Condemned,” written by Tennessee Williams. The three remaining plays are student written and directed. They are Haley Henson’s “Chemistry,” Katie Downing’s “Terms Read More
Enjoy Words and Music at Opera Guild Social
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LAOG News:
Los Alamos Opera Guild (LOAG) will host a Membership Social 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17 at Fuller Lodge. The Guilds of The Santa Fe Opera, Inc. supports the Educational and Community Programs of The Santa Fe Opera.
The event includes a lecture by Dr. William Derbyshire titled “Murder Most Foul…” The lecture will explore the prevalent theme of murder throughout operas, be they tragedies or comedies. Derbyshire holds a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in Russian and Slavic linguistics. He is a retired professor emeritus of Slavic languages at Rutgers University Read More
Atomic City Children’s Theater Holds Auditions for Disney Aladdin, Jr.
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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 Mid-School production of Disney Aladdin, Jr., a two-act musical play based on the full-length movie of the same name.
Auditions will be held in the Mountain Elementary gym 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16. The auditions are open to any 7th or 8th grade students in the Los Alamos area. Registration begins at noon.
ACCT also offers students the chance to explore other areas of technical theater, such as working lights Read More
Los Alamos Music Teachers Present Musicale Sunday
LAMT News:
The Los Alamos Music Teachers will present their students in a musicale at UNM-LA at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17. The concert is free and open to the public and students will perform vocal, piano and violin selections.
The students who will be performing are Jon Doorn, Pippa Fung, Betty Kang, Sonya Svyatskaya, Michelle Yang, Ethan Vincent, Marin Kelly, Jerry Li, Injie Mourad, Katherine Shurikhin, Kristin Fassbender, Jeanine Fassbender, Yunseo Kim, Evelyn Wohlbier, Samuel Wang, Joseph Dale, Lucas Yeager, William Dale and Michael Keeler.
The students are from the studios of Aejin Chang, Read More
LALT’s 8×10: Short, Sweet … So Good
Frances (Jody Shepard) and Charlie (Brent Nye) in ‘Shadows.’ Photo by Larry Gibbons
Veronica (Gwen Lewis) and Joe (Larry Gibbons) in ‘Kubler-Ross Comes to Dinner.’ Courtesy photo.One act plays are a lot like speed dating, the subject of the first of the eight one acts in 8×10: The Fourth Dimension. With only 10 minutes to make an impression, the playwright has to pack a lot of punch into a brief period. The actors have to engage you at once. It makes for an interesting and intense night at the theatre.
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Art in Public Places Board Quorum Possible
Alabaster statue by Lilly Jaramillo on display at Mesa Public Library. Courtesy LAC
APPB News:
Members of the Art in Public Places Board may attend viewings of artwork at several loctions in which a quorum may be present, however, no board action will be taken:
- Los Alamos Municipal Building – 3 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14;
- Shidoni Foundry in Tesuque – 11:30 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 16; and
- Wiford Gallery in Santa Fe – 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16.
All attendees must notify the Community Services Administrative Office in advance at 505.662.8241. Read More
NMDT-PC Will Move You with Four Original Ballets
NMDT-PC dancers from left, Lindsay Roach, Justin Dunn, Sophia Jeffery, upper, Becky Cai, lower, Devon McCleskey and Louisa Belian. Design by Holger Waschinski/Photo by Brittany FeltonNMDT-PC News:
The New Mexico Dance Theater Performance Company (NMDT-PC), directed by Susan Baker-Dillingham, will truly move you next weekend with its newest production, “Be Moved,” when Baker-Dillingham’s company of 25 pre-professional dancers perform four of her original works.
Emotions will run the gamut with the four original ballets in store next weekend, all choreographed by Baker-Dillingham.
LANL Retiree Explores Moral Dilemmas in ‘Fat Boy and the Money Bomb’
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By BONNIE J. GORDONWhat causes someone to become a whistleblower? Novelist William C. Sailor draws on his 23 years of experience at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to explore that question, among others, in “Fat Boy and the Money Bomb.”
Sailor holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Science from UC Berkeley. Now retired from LANL, he lives in Rio Rancho.
Author William Sailor
Like his hero Stan, Sailor grew up in suburban California and attended UC Berkeley. “Since this was my first work of fiction, I wanted to write about things I knew,” Sailor said.
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UNM-LA Winds Up Film Series With Dr. Strangelove
UNM-LA News:
The University of New Mexico-Los Alamos (UNM-LA) will feature Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb, Nov. 14, as the final installment in the Composition Cinema I: A Film and Lecture Series.
The host for Dr. Strangelove will be UNM-LA Associate Professor, Mickey Marsee, and the discussion will center around her course theme of the mad-scientist in fiction and film.
Dr. Strangelove is Stanley Kubrick’s black satire about the nuclear apocalypse scare of the 1950s and 60s. Starring Peter Sellers, the film is loosely based on Red Alert, Peter George’s Read More
The Chosen – A Mini Festival of New Israeli Cinema Screens Four Films
Israeli film poster for ‘God’s Neighbors.’
SFJFF News:
The Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival presents “The Chosen – A Mini Festival of New Israeli Cinema.” The Festival showcases some of the best of Israeli cinema today with award winning films from festivals such as Cannes, Tribeca and Toronto. The event includes four films over eight days, special events and more. There will be an exclusive Skype interviews and in-person appearances by special guests for this “first of its kind” event.
Israeli films have gained international stature in recent years, garnering awards at Read More
Gift of a Triumph TR6 Keeps on Giving
A 1974 Triumph TR6 decorated by Hopi Tewa artist Dan Namingha and nine other Native American artists is a gift to MIAC that just keeps giving. Photo by Dody FugateMIAC News:
SANTA FE—A 1974 Triumph TR6 decorated by Hopi Tewa artist Dan Namingha and nine other Native American artists is parked in the lobby of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC), a symbol of a broadened approach by the museum to create partnerships with other area institutions that share a mission in honoring and perpetuating Native art and education.
Just as 10 artists collaborated to turn the car into an art piece, now MIAC Read More
Concert of Flamenco Dance and Music Nov. 9
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PSDA News:
A Concert of Flamenco Dance and Music for All Ages at 7 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 9 at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, 555 El Camino de la Familia.
Add a dash of mystery, several drops of surprise, and an overflowing cup of good humor to your evening by joining the Pajarito Spanish Dance Alliance (PSDA) for a delectable banquet of Spanish music and dance. The intimate space at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe will be brought to life with songs and dances from Southern Spain in true flamenco style
The Company: Ronaldo Baca, Kevin Rendón, Nicolasa Chávez, Tamara Baca, Sara de Luz, Catalina Read More
LALT Launches ‘8×10: The Fourth Dimension’
The Mayflies in ‘Shimmer.’ Photo by Larry Gibbons.
Actors speed-date in ‘Love Rules.’ Photo by Larry GibbonsThe Los Alamos Little Theatre presents “8×10: The Fourth Dimension,” eight one-act plays, each about 10 minutes long. The series opens Friday, Nov. 8.
These are the eight plays:
- Love Rules written by Bob Benjamin and directed by Dennis Powell
- Shadows written by John Gustafson and directed by Patrick Webb
- Kubler-Ross Comes to Dinner written by Fred Berl and directed by Roxanne Tapia
- The Philadelphia
Council Approves Artwork For White Rock
White Rock Implementation Planning Committee Vice Chair Katy Korkos and committee member Steve Foltyn provide backgound to Council on the artwork for White Rock. Print Screen photo 
Council unanimously approve the use of Art in Public Places funds and the APPB’s recommendations for public art in White Rock, including the purchase, delivery, and‘Matchstick Men’ Shows Thursday at MPL
Review by KELLY DOLEJSI
I love a good con, at least onscreen, and Ridley Scott’s “Matchstick Men” (2003, rated PG-13), on the “big” screen this week at Mesa Public Library, is a pretty fantastic con.
It tells the deviant story of Roy (Nick Cage), one of those rare con artists who has to open the door exactly three times before letting a guest in the house, a spotless environ where the guest must immediately remove his shoes and vigorously disinfect the receiver after using the phone.
Without medication, he’s compulsive to the point of being disabled, so when he loses his pills, he quickly deteriorates Read More
Nov. 6 Brown Bag Performance Features MTNA Honors Competition Students
The students are from left to right back row Maria Jones, Presley Gao, Front row Victor Kim and Jennifer Wang. Those not pictured are Joshua Chung, Santana Garcia-Alarid, Karin Ebey, and Jenny Wang. Courtesy photo
LAAC News:
Please join the Los Alamos Arts Council for its Brown Bag Performance Series at noon Wednesday, Nov. 6 at Fuller Lodge. This is the second concert of the series and features local students from the Music Teacher’s National Association (MTNA) honors competition, in an intimate noontime performance.
The LAAC’s Brown Bag concerts showcase local preforming Read More
UNM-LA Community Education Offers Adult Watercolor Class
Courtesy/UNM-LAThe University of New Mexico-Los Alamos (UNM-LA) Community Education department will offer the class, “Watercolors That WOW!” The class runs 6-8:30 p.m., Monday evenings, Nov. 11 through Dec. 16, in room 614 on the UNM-LA campus.
Watercolor artists of all levels are welcome in this class, where they will focus on capturing the motivations for their art and learn a variety of techniques to bring their paintings to life. The tools and concepts that will be taught include the use of the color wheel and creating balance with composition and light.
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LARSO: REVISIT Downton Abbey!
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LARSO News:
If you’ve missed the previous three seasons of PBS’s popular English drama and would like to get up to speed on the story line, join the Los Alamos Retired Senior Organization (LARSO) at The Betty Ehart Senior Center, lower level – the Day Out Living Room – Sunday afternoons in November and December to catch up on the previous episodes.
Beginning Sunday, Nov. 3, we will be showing Downton Abbey Season One at no charge 2-4 p.m., two episodes per week and continuing Nov. 10 and 17. LARSO will begin again on Sundays, Dec. 1, 8 and 15 at the same 2-4 p.m. time. Read More
