Entertainment

Planetarium Feature Film Premiere: Mysteries Of The Unseen World March 12, 13, 26, & 27

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PEEC News:
 
There is still time to see the latest nature center full-dome planetarium film, Mysteries of the Unseen World. Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) is showing this fascinating film in the planetarium at 2 p.m., March 12, 13, 26, and 27.
 
This planetarium film lets us embark on an adventure to discover unseen worlds and hidden dimensions beyond our view. With the help of technology, we can unravel the mysteries of things too fast, too slow, too small or simply invisible.
 
Mysteries
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Comedy Show Benefits LAHS Band

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BAND BOOSTER News:

 

A unique entertainment experience is coming to Duane Smith Auditorium in Los Alamos at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 12, a live stand-up comedy and music! In it’s second year, “LOL! Los Alamos” will feature four New Mexico comics in a family friendly show with special musical guest, The Pleasure Pilots.

 

Tickets will be sold at the door for $15 or $10 for students and seniors. All proceeds will benefit the Los Alamos High School Band program and their upcoming trip to Washington, D.C. for the National Independence Day Parade.

 

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Storytelling Workshops At Nature Center With Harriet Cole March 12

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Harriet Cole, storyteller and story-teacher, captivates audiences with the art of performance storytelling. Courtesy photo
 
PEEC News:
 
Learn more about the art of performance storytelling. Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) is offering three storytelling workshops with storyteller Harriet Cole at the Los Alamos Nature Center on Saturday, March 12.
 
Each workshop has a different focus, and all the workshops will be interactive, experiential, and filled with storytelling games designed to increase performing
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Planetarium Feature Film: Exoplanets March 5-6

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PEEC News:
 
Pajarito Environmental Education Center is showing Exoplanets at 2 p.m., March 5 and 6, in the Los Alamos Nature Center Planetarium. 
 
Exoplanets takes audiences on a journey to observe planets beyond the solar system and uncover the science and astronomy behind their discovery. This full-dome film was produced by Casper Planetarium.
 
Tickets may be purchased by phone or at the nature center and are only $6 for adults and $4 for children. This movie is recommended for ages four
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Tour Of Duane W. Smith Auditorium

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Los Alamos Concert Association Artistic Director Ann McLaughlin, left, and Technical Director Ross Mason, center, led a recent tour of Duane W. Smith Auditorium to discuss needed renovations. The aging facility hosts world class concerts in which the walls are so flimsy, patrons are asked to refrain from flushing toilets until they hear audience applause to muffle the sound. County Council voted Tuesday to help fund the renovation through its school parnership budget. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Ross Mason presents the basics on the renovations he would like to see for
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NMSA Presents Visual Arts Exhibition At Warehouse 21

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NMSA News:
 
SANTA FE ― New Mexico School for the Arts will present “Delightful Decay,” an innovative visual arts exhibition featuring drawings and sculptures from NMSA’s 9th grade visual arts class, March 24 through April 1 at Warehouse 21. The school will hold an opening reception for the exhibition 5-7 p.m., March 24 at Warehouse 21.
 
Working alongside Guest Artist Chris Collins and drawing and sculpture faculty at NMSA, the 9th grade visual artists at the New Mexico School for the Arts have developed sculptures and drawings
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‘Ride The Pink Horse’ At Mesa Public Library Thursday

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Movie poster for ‘Ride the Pink Horse.’ Courtesy photo

Review by KELLY DOLEJSI
Los Alamos

The first film ever in which a Latino was nominated for an Oscar, Director Robert Montgomery’s “Ride the Pink Horse” (1947), will screen at 6:30 p.m., Thursday at Mesa Public Library in Los Alamos.

In this noir-style film shot in Santa Fe, Gagin (Montgomery) speaks few words but carries a big secret — or at least, so it seems — all the way to the border town of San Pablo, where FBI Agent Bill Retz (Art Smith) and bad guy Frank Hugo (Fred Clark) figure him out posthaste, or so it seems.

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