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Scribble Works Reviews: Now You See Me

June 11, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

Naftali Burakovsky, left, and Lorenzo Venneri

Scribble Works Reviews

By Lorenzo Venneri and Naftali Burakovsky

Now You See Me

Rating system:

Alpha – the film was good and said what it needed to say

Beta – the film was mediocre and didn’t quite say what it needed to say, but was still entertaining

Omega – not a film worth watching

There have been many films centered on the idea of a good magic trick, and although Now You See Me follows a similar structure and formula as many predecessors, it is still a pretty enjoyable ride.Now You See Me is directed by Louis Leterrier,

Food on the Hill: Very Garlic Pasta

June 11, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

This week’s Recipe:

Very Garlic Pasta

Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com

Ingredients:

5-8 cloves garlic, pressed

3/4 cup olive oil

2 Tablespoons rice vinegar

1 can sliced black olives

2/3 cup red onion, chopped

1/2 cup bacon, cooked and crushed

1 cup celery, chopped6 to 8 oz sharp cheddar cheese(I like Grafton, 2 year aged stock.) You can use the aged Tillamook cheese as a replacement. This must be made with aged cheddar or it will not taste right.

Directions

Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com

Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com

Mix together Read More

Hannemann’s Music Corner: Get Ready for Session Work

June 11, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

Hannemann’s Music Corner: Get Ready for Session Work

By RICHARD HANNEMANN

Here’s an option for work in the music profession is session and studio work.

Did you know that New Mexico is the fourth largest producer of films? That means when you feel confident enough, you can see about getting some studio work in Albuquerque.

The job requirements are:

Be able to play anything and everything. Bach to Beatles – classical (all forms), country (all forms), jazz (all forms), folk (all forms), blues (all forms) — everything (all forms). This means practice playing everything.
Be able

Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano Competition: Three Magnificent Performers

June 11, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano Competition

By ANN MCLAUGHLIN

Three Magnificent Performers

Hello from high in the Texas sky.

On day three of the Cliburn Competition finals, Russia’s Nikita Mndoyants surprised the audience with two original cadenzas in his performance of Mozart’s Concerto No. 20. On day four, Ukrainian Vadym Kholodenko went him one better by performing a cadenza that he composed during his nine-hour flight to Fort Worth. (I’m usually satisfied if I manage to finish the in-flight crossword and get a good nap.) His performance of one of Mozart’s happiest concertos Read More

Solo Traveler: Traveling For Inspiration

June 10, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

Solo Traveler: Traveling for inspiration

Column by SHERRY HARDAGE

People who travel broadly do it for a variety of reasons. Personally I love to experience life and culture outside the realm to which I’ve become accustomed.

And in the process, I am often inspired to look at an incident and see it in a wider global context, to put some normal life occurrence into a broader perspective. Once in a while, poetry even gets written.

Iceberg in Alaska. Photo by Sherry Hardage

Alaskan Excursion

The tough old bird

yelled at the clueless

land-living tourists,

gawking at the iceberg

instead of paying attention

Yang: From Branding To Identity

June 10, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

From Branding To Identity

By ELENA YANG

I appreciate people taking the time to give me feedback. The branding piece last week evoked some strong feelings.

I cannot claim that a large number of readers resonated with my piece; I can only say that the people who responded to me by and large shared my expressed sentiment. One of the suggestions that struck me – and I have heard this view repeatedly since we moved here in 2002 – is that this town takes forever to make decisions.

Based on my brief sojourn at the Lab, as well as the steady stream of stories I have been hearing for more than a decade, it is not Read More

Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano Competition: Three Finalist, Three Concertos

June 10, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano Competition

By ANN MCLAUGHLIN

Three Finalist, Three Concertos

Something unique in my concert-going experience happened last night. Cliburn Competition finalist Nikita Mndoyants played his own cadenzas.

A cadenza is a virtuosic solo interlude inserted into a movement of a concerto, an opportunity toreally show off. In the good old days, when pianists were trained to do this, they often improvised elaborate cadenzas on the spot. Composers usually wrote cadenzas for their pieces and those the ones most frequently performed.

Mndoyants has Read More

Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano Competition: Final Three Finalists Display Their Talents

June 9, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano Competition

By ANN MCLAUGHLIN

Final Three Finalists Display Their Talents

The weather in Fort Worth has been one of many very pleasant surprises during the Cliburn Competition. The oppressive heat and humidity one expects at this time of year have been blessedly absent.

The Bass Performance Hall, however, maintains the arctic chill typical of every interior space in the city. No wonder the Cliburn’s back stage “mom” keeps a heating pad on hand, reportedly clutched like a teddy bear by the competitors before each performance.

The youngest Read More

Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano Competition: First Three Finalists Perform with Fort Worth Symphony

June 8, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano Competition

By ANN MCLAUGHLIN

First Three Finalists Perform with Fort Worth Symphony

Last night, the audience was much larger and the stage was filled with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra for the finals of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

Leonard Slatkin, in his first appearance at the Cliburn, led the orchestra through some very challenging repertoire. This gig makes unusual demands on everyone involved. Each pianist has about an hour to rehearse with the orchestra, precious little time when the works they are playing Read More

A View From the Stacks: Volunteers Make it Happen

June 8, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

Column by BERNADINE GOLDMAN

Assistant Library Manager, Los Alamos County Library System

Los Alamos County Library is very lucky to be able to draw on our diverse and talented community to reap the benefits of a very active volunteer program.

Our capable and dedicated volunteers support the library in so many ways! Here’s what our volunteers do:

Shelve books
Tutor students
Clean and resurface audio and videodiscs
Mend books
Send books out on Interlibrary Loan
Create indexes (we’re working on a project to index the obituaries in the Los Alamos Monitor
Maintain library history scrapbooks
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