Entertainment

PAC 8 Community Media Center: Feb. 24-March 2, 2023

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PAC 8 News:

PAC 8 Community Media Center is available for recording events, transferring of old media, shooting and editing, live streaming and drone photography and videography.

For information, email pac8@losalamos.com, call 505.662.7228 or visit pac8cmc.com.

PAC 8 Television schedule for Feb. 24-March 2:

Friday, Feb. 24, 2023

  • 6 a.m. Democracy Now! – Live
  • 10 a.m. The Thom Hartmann Program
  • 11 a.m. County Council Replay – 2-07-23
  • 3 p.m. Democracy Now!
  • 5 p.m. PAC PAGES – Los Alamos County News Updates
  • 6 p.m. PAC 8 Summer Media Classes
  • 7 p.m. The Whitehouse Chronicles
  • 7:30 p.m. War
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Santa Fe Community Foundation Grant Enables Los Luceros Historic Site To Improve Preservation And Educational Reach

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Folklórico dancers during Fall Harvest Festival. Courtesy/Carlyn Stewart

LLHS News:

ALCALDE — Los Luceros Historic Site (LLHS) has received a $15,000 Arts and Culture Grant from the Santa Fe Community Foundation (SFCF). The grant will support the Site’s mission to preserve and interpret its history and culture, while improving its capacity to reach surrounding communities.

“I am honored and excited that Los Luceros Historic Site received this grant from the Santa Fe Community Foundation,” LLHS Regional Manager Carly Stewart said. “Los Luceros has an incredibly layered history that Read More

NMFO: Netflix Series ‘American Primeval’ Begins Filming In New Mexico

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NMFO News:

SANTA FE – New Mexico Film Office (NMFO) Director Amber Dodson announced today that “American Primeval”, an action-adventure limited series from Netflix, will begin filming this month in and around Santa Fe, including a scene on Pajarito Mountain.

The production will employ more than 4,000 New Mexicans – 3,420 background talent, 750 crew members and 20 principal actors.

“American Primeval”, starring Taylor Kitsch (“The Terminal List”, “Waco” and upcoming

Netflix limited series “Painkiller”) and directed by Pete Berg (“Friday Night Lights”, “Lone

Survivor” and upcoming Netflix Read More

PAC 8 Community Media Center: Feb. 17-23, 2023

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PAC 8 News:

PAC 8 Community Media Center is available for recording events, transferring of old media, shooting and editing, live streaming and drone photography and videography.

For information, email pac8@losalamos.com, call 505.662.7228 or visit pac8cmc.com.

PAC 8 Television schedule for Feb. 17-23:

Friday, Feb. 17, 2023

  • 6 a.m. Democracy Now! – Live;
  • 10 a.m. The Thom Hartmann Program;
  • 11 a.m. County Council Replay – 2-07-23;
  • 3 p.m. Democracy Now!;
  • 5 p.m. PAC PAGES – Los Alamos County News Updates;
  • 6 p.m. PAC 8 Summer Media Classes;
  • 7 p.m. The Whitehouse Chronicles;
  • 7:30 p.m. Informed
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Northern’s Center For The Arts Gallery Presents ‘LOOK OUT’

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A group of nuns take a portrait with a whale skull on a beach. Courtesy/NNMC

Painting by artist Shane Tolbert. Courtesy/NNMC

NNMC News:

ESPAÑOLA — The Center for the Arts Gallery at Northern New Mexico College presents “LOOK OUT,” a special exhibition of visual art, dance, sound and film screenings marking the gallery’s reopening.

“LOOK OUT” is comprised of dynamic works by Arts & Human Sciences faculty Robert Beshara, Johanna Case-Hofmeister, Sneha Chakradhar, Mateo Frazier, David Lindblom and Shane Tolbert. The exhibit explores what is seen and heard, asking the question, “What Read More

Upstart Crows Reprise King Henry IV, Part 1 Friday Feb. 2

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Upstart Crows of Santa Fe reprise King Henry IV, Part 1 in benefit performance Feb. 24. Courtesy/Upstart Crows

UPSTART CROWS News:

Upstart Crows of Santa Fe reprise their recent production of Shakespeare’s King Henry IV, Part 1 with a single performance at their new performance space: Upstart Crows Performance Space at La Tienda in Eldorado (7 Caliente Road, Building 1) 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24.

The show is to benefit students wishing to travel to the Stratford Festival this summer. 

Tickets: Adults $20, Students $10 at the door and online.

One more chance to see Shakespeare’s history play Read More

Road Testing The SALA Event Center Vision

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The SALA Event Center. Courtesy/Kevin Holsapple

By KEVIN HOLSAPPLE
SALA Volunteer

The SALA Event Center, the ambitious initiative to bring the former Reel Deal theater back to life as a place for our community to gather, watch movies, live events, and have fun is about two months into its start-up so it seemed an appropriate time to sit down with owner Allan Saenz to see how he thinks the “road test” is going. SALA has put quite a few moving parts into play already, and there are certainly more to come.

“We could have stayed closed and practiced, but we have chosen to be open and serve community Read More

Lensic Presents: Doktor Kaboom Feb. 26

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Lensic Presents Doktor Kaboom with comedian and entertainer David Epley Feb. 26. Courtesy/Lensic

LENSIC News:

SANTA FE — Lensic Presents Doktor Kaboom, an interactive journey of educational and hysterical science experiments, 3 p.m. Feb. 26.

Comedian and entertainer David Epley has concocted a hilarious show that methodically studies just how much fun science can be (spoiler, it’s so much fun). Centripetal force, inertia, chemical reactions—Epley enacts the fundamentals of science and at some point, something will go KABOOM! Suggested for kids in grades 3–8, the program is equally Read More

Taos Chamber Music Group Presents ‘A Love Affair’ March 5

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Taos Chamber Music Group’s 30th Anniversary Season includes featured musician David Yang March 5. Courtesy/TCMG

TCMG News:

The Taos Chamber Music Group’s 30th Anniversary Season continues 5:30 p.m. Sunday, March 5 in one performance only of “A Love Affair” at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos.

A multi-disciplinary program of music informed by art, poetry and letters that reflects love in its many forms includes Georgia O’Keefe’s deep connection to the New Mexico landscape, Maya Angelou’s poem of human unity, and Robert and Clara Schumann’s immortal love affair.

Featured musicians are Read More

Los Alamos Light Opera’s ‘Matilda’ Is Funny, Touching, A Bit Scary And A Bit Subversive

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Matilda cast members, center, Emmy Smith as Matilda Wormwood; clockwise from top left, Suzy Kroesche as Agatha Trunchbull; Monica Poston as Miss Honey; Holly Robinson as Mrs. Wormwood and Scot Johnson as Mr. Wormwood. Photos by Zachary K. Baker

By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post
bjgordon@ladailypost.com

Los Alamos Light Opera’s productions of “Matilda The Musical” opened last weekend at the Duane Smith Auditorium. Based on the book by Roald Dahl, the musical premiered in November 2010 in England and had its Broadway debut in March 2013.

Matilda (Emmy Smith) is the story of a child genius Read More