Entertainment

WIPP Blue Mine Rescue Team Wins Local Competition

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Courtesy/WIPP
 
WIPP News:
 
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) Blue Mine Rescue team took top honors last week in the Southwest Regional Mine Rescue Contest, held in Carlsbad.
 
The WIPP Blue outdueled five other teams from the region, including the defending national champion WIPP Red team, to win first place overall in the competition. WIPP’s Red team took first place in the first aid competition.
 
Federal law requires every operating mine in the United States to have access to two mine rescue teams. Mine rescuers are highly- trained specialists with life-saving
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The Tub Hosts Huge First Anniversary Celebration

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COMMUNITY News:

The Bathtub Row Brewing Co-op is celebrating its first anniversary this weekend with a huge party with live music, special beer releases and much more.

The two-day celebration is noon to 1 p.m. Friday and Saturday at 163 Central Park Square.

BEER RELEASES

  • Saison with Brettanomyces and Barrel Aged Fitz’s Cherry Quad on Rye.

MUSIC

  • Friday 6-9 p.m. – Cali Shaw;
  • Saturday 4:30-6 p.m. – Ghost Like This; and
  • Saturday 6:30-9 p.m. – Stephanie Hatfield and Bill Palmer.

MORE!

  • Raffles, grilled sandwiches from the Los Alamos Co+op Market, commemorative growlers
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‘The Caveman Of Atomic City’ Shows At Guild Cinema In Albuquerque Saturday

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microMike. Courtesy photo
 
MOVIE News:
 
“The Caveman Of Atomic City” is the story of microMike, a unique man who lived in caves under Los Alamos National Laboratory, the secretive birthplace of nuclear weapons. He developed a theory of time and space to rival Einstein’s, found the most valuable rock on the planet that may help stop a Martian invasion, and challenged the world’s brightest minds about what it really means to be a scientist.
 
“One of the purposes of the film is to bring spirituality to science,” microMike said. “Science without spirituality
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Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘The Jungle Book’

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By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

“The Jungle Book” has come back to the movie screen this year thanks to Disney, Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) and live “motion-capture” technique. For those of us who remember the animated 1967 Disney movie, this version differs: the same “cute factor”, a couple of the original 1967 songs, but a far more exciting storyline. Thanks to CGI and Motion-capture, it is definitely well worth seeing in 3-D.

Movie poster. Courtesy Reel Deal Theater

This Jungle Book movie is based on the three stories about a jungle boy named Mowgli, which are found in Rudyard Kipling’s Read More

Santa Fe Opera’s Spring Tour Opens With Shakespearian UnShakeable

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Performance Santa Fe’s General Director Joseph Illick greets the public arriving for the April 9 premier performance of the opera UnShakeable at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center in Santa Fe. Photo by Roger Snodgrass/ladailypost.com

By ROGER SNODGRASS and CARL NEWTON
LOS ALAMOS DAILY POST

Public appreciation for Shakespeare, like its passion for Opera varies among individuals from all-consuming to de minibus, a range that leaves a few universes to play around in and lots of places for getting thoroughly lost.

An off the top of the head list of Shakespearian operas might have to start Read More

Third Annual Bobcat Bonanza Carnival April 29

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LAHS Principal (and former Barranca Principal) Brad Parker gets dunked at a previous Bobcat Bonanza. Courtesy photo

BARRANCA MESA PTO News:

  • Chance to Win a Ride on the Medevac Helicopter!

Will you be the lucky winner of a ride in the medevac helicopter at the 3rd annual Bobcat Bonanza carnival? It’s one of the many prizes that will be on offer in an impressive silent auction at the event. The carnival is set for 4:30-7:30 p.m. Friday, April 29 at Barranca Mesa Elementary School, 57 Loma del Escolar.

In addition to a silent auction, the carnival will feature food, carnival games, a dunk tank, bouncy Read More

Storytelling At Nature Center Saturday

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Kimberly Gotches, left, and Terry Foxx telling stories at the Los Alamos Nature Center. Courtesy/PEEC
 
PEEC News:
 
Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) is bringing two great storytellers back to the Los Alamos Nature Center at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 16, to light up one’s imagination and tell stories about spring.
 
With master storytellers Teralene (Terry) Foxx and Kimberly Gotches as guides, children and adults will enjoy activities and stories about plants and elements of the earth. This is a free event.
 
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Dive In Movie ‘The Good Dinosaur’ At Aquatic Center Friday

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Courtesy photo
 
COMMUNITY News:
 
The Larry R. Walkup Aquatic Center will be hosting another dive-in movie​ 7-8:45 p.m., this Friday, April 15 featuring the Disney Pixar animated film, The Good Dinosaur.
 
The admission ticket includes free popcorn, drinks and other tasty treats. Float in the warm water or sit on the sidelines, it’s sure to be a fun evening for all. Space is limited so stop by the Aquatic Center anytime this week to pick up tickets ($5 per person), or buy them at the door the night of the event. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
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Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘Hello, My Name is Doris’

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By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

“Hello, My Name is Doris” is the first film in many years to star Sally Field in a leading role.

Her talent, flexibility and grace are the things that make this movie work. Doris Miller may not, however, be a character you can completely get behind. Sure she’s a shy, mousy, invisible accounting clerk, but she is also socially inept.

The movie opens with Doris’ mother’s funeral. Her brother Todd (Stephen Root) and sister-in-law Cynthia emerge at the wake to suggest to Doris that she get some help. It seems mother was a bit of a hoarder and Doris needs to clean out the house Read More

LALT Releases 2016-17 Season Line-up

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Courtesy/LALT

LALT News:

The Los Alamos Little Theatre has announced its 2016-17 line-up. LALT’s 2015-16 season concludes with Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling. The play, directed by Laurie Tomlinson, runs May 6-21. Set in a hair salon in Louisiana, the story revolves around the emotions, eccentricities and problems of six women who either come to get their hair done, catch up on gossip or dispense shampoo and advice.

LALT 2016-17 Season Line-up:

September

  • Not Quite Right by Elaine Jarvik and Robert Benjamin

Directed by Dennis Powell
Not Quite Right, an upbeat and humorous family Read More