Arts

Los Alamos Little Theatre Announces 2014-15 Season

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LALT News:

The Los Alamos Little Theatre announces a slate of five shows for its 2014-15 season.

September: “Tower of Magic,” by local playwright Tess Light, explores the search for one’s true self amidst the chaos of an idiosyncratic family – a woman with near-magical creative talents, an obsessed ornithologist, a compulsive mezzo-soprano, a murderous chef, a mostly mute savant, a twinned linguist, and just to stir the pot a visitor who is a, yawn, civil engineer.

November: “And Then There Were None,” by the ever-popular Agatha Christie, in which Read More

Michael Benanav Talks at Los Alamos Jewish Center About Grandparent’s Holocaust Survival Sept. 5

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‘The Luck of the Jews.’ Courtesy/amazon.com

LAJC News:

Dixon resident Michael Benanav will be speaking at 6:45 p.m. Friday, Sept. 5 at the Los Alamos Jewish Center about his book ‘The Luck of the Jews,’ the story of his grandparents survival of the Holocaust.

The community is invited to attend this talk.

One December night in 1944, while sailing across the Black Sea on the deck of a refugee ship filled with Jews fleeing the Nazi genocide in Europe, Joshua Szereny met Isadora Rosen.

He was 23, from Czechoslovakia; she was 20, from Romania. Both had lost nearly everything Read More

Several Festivals Labor Day Weekend in Taos

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TAOS News:

Recognized as the unofficial end of summer, Labor Day weekend is being celebrated in Taos and Taos Ski Valley with several festivals Aug. 29 to Sept. 1, including The High Mountain Hideout, Labor Day Arts and Crafts Festival and TAO Studio Tour.

More than 30 regional and local acts will bring a variety of music to Taos Ski Valley Friday, Aug. 29 through Sunday, Aug. 31 with The High Mountain Hideout, presented by Glad Castle. The festival features three full days of music, food, local art, camping along the high alpine setting of the Kachina Basin, art installations, yoga, mountain biking, Read More

Call For Artists: Fire Hydrant Painting Competition

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Painted fire hydrant. Courtesy/Los Alamos MainStreet

MAINSTREET News:

Los Alamos MainStreet is looking for interested parties to participate in a fun, new art contest to coincide with the Los Alamos ScienceFest taking place Sept. 5-13.

If you are any artist, you can help make our town more beautiful and bring pedestrian traffic to downtown by painting selected fire hydrants in the Los Alamos MainStreet district down Central Avenue!

Up to nine fire hydrants may be painted and may include:

  • In front of the Bradbury Museum
  • Across Central Avenue from CB FOX, in front of 106 Central Ave. (Fusion
  • Multisport)
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‘Authors Speak’ Features Local Science Fiction Author T. Jackson King Aug. 28

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Book cover of ‘Alien Assasin.’ Courtesy/T. Jackson King
 
LITERARY News:
 
Los Alamos author T. Jackson King’s newest science fiction novel has hit multiple Amazon Bestseller lists with his novel Alien Assassin, an interstellar adventure about a human assassin who fights against a ‘mind virus’ infection of memorynet machines in the far future Markan star system.

T. Jackson King

His novel has hit Amazon Bestseller ranking in six sci-fi categories. They are: No. 18, Space Exploration; No. 19, First Contact; No. 23, Space Marine; No. 24, Galactic Empire; No. 25, Alien Read More

Atomic City Children’s Theater Holds Auditions For Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka Jr.

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ACCT News:

Atomic City Children’s Theater (ACCT), the Los Alamos Public Schools’ after-school theater program, is excited to announce auditions for its elementary school production of Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka Jr., a two-act musical play based on Dahl’s children’s book and full-length movie.

Registration begins at 1 p.m. and auditions are 2-4 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 27 in the Mountain Elementary School gymnasium. The auditions are open to any 5th or 6th grade students in the Los Alamos area.

ACCT also is looking for students interested in participating as student directors/choreographers Read More

Art Show Opening At Convento Gallery Aug. 29

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ART News:

Las Mujeres del Valle – Women of the Valley art show opens 5-7 p.m. Friday Aug. 29 at the Northern New Mexico Regional Art Center Convento Gallery in the Plaza de Española.    

Artists include women from Los Alamos and throughout the valley. The Gallery is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and most Saturdays.

The exhibition continues through Oct. 3. For information call 505.500.7126 or director@nnmrac.org or www.nnmrac.org.

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‘The Other Son’ Explores Destiny and Fate

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Movie poster of ‘The Other Son.’ Courtesy/IMDB.com

Review by KELLY DOLEJSI

Immediately upon birth, most of us inherit a culture, race, religion and economic status. We go home to a large house in a modern city or a shack in an occupied territory. Freedom might belong to us, or it might not. Everything that makes us “us” starts from these facts, over which we have no control.

In other words, who we are depends on who we are born as. So what happens if we are switched at birth? Who are we then? “The Other Son” (2013, rated PG-13, French), screening at 6:30 p.m., Thursday at Mesa Public Library, Read More