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Dixon Community Players Presents Back To The 60s – A Musical Tribute To The Grooviest Decade

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Gypsy fortune teller Holly Haas transports the audience to the 1960s. Courtesy photo
 
Rocker David Daniel wows Claire Singleton.Courtesy photo
 

Theater News:

The Dixon Players are back in action again with a fabulous, fun, fantastic musical tribute to the grooviest decade… the 60s this weekend only.

Join the Dixon Players for this journey back to the 60s in song and history, featuring 25 singers and dancers. The show will be perfored at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. at the Tooldshed, #68 HWY 75 in Dixon.

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Los Alamos MainStreet Halloweekend Schedule

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Scene from previous Trick-or-Treat on MainStreet. Courtesy photo

LOS ALAMOS MAINSTREET News:

Get ready for Halloweekend 4-6:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 28 in downtown Los Alamos.

Los Alamos MainStreet annually hosts the highly popular Trick-or-Treat on MainStreet and last year more than 4,000 people attended the event. Local businesses and organizations open their doors and set up tables along Central Avenue to hand out treats to costumed trick-or-treaters.

New this year and weather permitting, there will be hot air balloons during Trick-or-Treat on MainStreet and the Pumpkin Glow. Before Read More

LAMTA’s Annual Masquerade Recital Saturday

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LAMTA News:
 
Los Alamos Music Teachers’ Association presents its Annual Masquerade Recital, 4-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29 at Fuller Lodge. 
 
Come, Everyone. Join us Saturday as we gather to enjoy the musical fun and delightful costumes that our young Los Alamos musicians are eager to share. Thirty-three students of all ages will be showing their skills and talents.
 
The musical sounds of The Horseman, Op. 68, No. 23 (Robert Schumann) by Pippa Fung The Spy (Nancy Faber) by Emily Xu Capers at Midnight (Ruth
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LAHS Olions Win NMAA One Act Competition

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Members of the LAHS Olions. Courtesy photo

Members of the LAHS Olions. Courtesy photo

Members of the LAHS Olions. Courtesy photo

OLIONS News:

The Olions, the theatre club at Los Alamos High School, won six awards this past weekend at the NMSU High Desert High School Theatre Festival and New Mexico Activities Association State High School One-Act Production Competition.

Olions took first place in the NMAA One-Act Production competition and first place for the best backstage crew.

In addition, LAHS Principal Brad Parker was awarded the Ovation Award for Administrators and Volunteers, Chas
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Cinema Cindy Reviews: Queen Of Katwe

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Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘The Girl on the Train’

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By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos
 
“The Girl on the Train” is a new thriller based on a popular British novel by Paula Hawkins.

The book, published in January 2015, quickly hit the New York Times Bestseller List, gaining the notice of those who look for stories to bring to the screen. The film opened Oct. 7 nationwide.

Admittedly, I had not read the book, so I went to the film with no preconceived notions. What I found was a story at first convoluted by “the girl” and her memory lapses – due to her alcoholic binges. She is presented as the first of three women who tell their stories at the beginning of Read More