Entertainment

Cinema Cindy Reviews: Snowden

October 12, 2016 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB

Los Alamos

“Snowden” is Director Oliver Stone’s latest attempt to inflame public opinion through the art of filmmaking. His subject this time is the story of Edward Snowden, the man whose whistle blowing on NSA surveillance procedures was expected to bring the U.S. spy enterprise to a grinding halt. That did not happen. But Stone wants to remind us of the courage of the man who brought those procedures to light.

Three years after Snowden’s revelations, we still have a difference of opinion in this country about what tools the U.S. Government needs at its disposal to stop terrorists.

Staged Reading Of Parted Waters Nov. 5-6

October 12, 2016 by Submitted by Chris Clark

TP News:

Teatro Paraguas is presenting a staged reading of Parted Waters, a play by Los Alamos playwright Robert F. Benjamin.

Originally presented as a full production by Teatro Paraguas in 2010, Parted Waters is a gripping yet humorous drama about three generations of a Hispanic family in Northern New Mexico with crypto-Jewish roots.

Parted Waters focuses on three Hispanic men– grandfather, son, and grandson– whose farm near Truchas has been in the family for generations.

Grandfather Reynaldo tends the farm and

‘Out Of This World’ Pumpkin Splash & Halloween Carnival Oct. 29

October 11, 2016 by Submitted by Chris Clark

COUNTY News:

It’s an “Out of this World” Pumpkin Splash & Halloween Carnival at the Walkup Aquatic Saturday, Oct. 29.

Admission is $7 per participant and is limited to 150 space travelers. Admission includes diving into the pool to collect your pumpkin, flying over to the classroom for pumpkin decorating, then moving from one intergalactic themed adventure to the next with space themed carnival games, a photo booth, and crafts.

The event is 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., with the pumpkin retrieval beginning at 11 a.m. The

Cinema Cindy Reviews: ‘Deepwater Horizon’

October 10, 2016 by Submitted by Chris Clark

By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB

Los Alamos

“Deepwater Horizon” is the latest disaster flick to hit the theaters. It tells the seat-gripping story of events that led to that oil exploration rig erupting on April 20, 2010.

Eleven men lost their lives that day, and the oil and sludge continued to gush into the Gulf of Mexico for another 87 days.

‘Deepwater Horizon’ movie poster. Courtesy image

This would prove to be America’s largest environmental disaster, polluting the flora and fauna of the Gulf Coast.

This is not a film about the environmental ramifications of the Deepwater

Teatro Paraguas Presents Donald Levering And Rich Boucher Nov. 6

October 9, 2016 by Submitted by Chris Clark

TP News:

The Diabolical Poet meets the Paradoxical Rhapsodist in the Neutral Territory, and there they will dialogue in verse on such sundry and variegated topics as:

Money for babies, and debt turned on its head;
Eating ice cream as polar ice caps melt;
Father in the mirror;
Father in the sky;
Apes in space;
Apes writing poems;
Lincoln and Lenin back from the Great Beyond,;
Rachmaninoff and the Pagan Love Orchestra; and
Why are we here and Who are we really?

Rich Boucher resides in Albuquerque. He served two terms as a member of the Albuquerque Poet Read More

Nuclear Worker Documentary Coming To Los Alamos

October 9, 2016 by Submitted by Chris Clark

COMMUNITY News:

The Award Winning documentary “The Safe Side of the Fence” will be showing at 7 p.m., Oct. 20 at The Reel Deal Movie Theater in Los Alamos.

The film looks at the nation’s nuclear legacy from the Manhattan Project to today’s nuclear industry. World War II’s Manhattan Project required the refinement of massive amounts of uranium, and St. Louis-based Mallinckrodt Chemical Works took on the job.

As a result, the chemical company’s employees would become some of the most contaminated nuclear workers in

Black Holes Film At Planetarium This Weekend

October 7, 2016 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

Cinema Cindy Reviews: Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children

October 7, 2016 by Submitted by Chris Clark

By Cynthia Biddlecomb

Los Alamos

“Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” is appropriate entertainment for older teens and adults, young and old, during this pre-Halloween season. Tim Burton directed this adventure-fantasy, based on a popular young adult novel by Ransom Riggs. Though the film is not especially scary, there are creatures in the film that do come close. But some of these may just tickle your funny bone.

The story may surprise you, traveling in time as it does between two eras in history (1943 and 2016), two points on a well-studied map (suburban Florida and

This Week At The Reel Deal

October 7, 2016 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

‘Election’ Shows At Library Today

October 6, 2016 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

By KELLY DOLEJSI
Los Alamos

Escape debate season with a film about an over-achieving, over-prepared female running against a popular, soft-headed male for student body president.

The award-winning “Election” (1999, rated R), screening at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Mesa Public Library, begins with high school teacher Jim McAllister’s (Matthew Broderick) morning routine. He’s a healthy guy, running, showering, and looking forward to a day teaching civics, a job he enjoys.

But amid all this peachiness, a dank pit exists. On his way to his classroom, McAllister finds student Tracy Flick (Reese Read More