Entertainment

Night Sky Planetarium Show At Nature Center Dec. 4

by

View of the night sky and our Milky Way galaxy. Courtesy photo
 
PEEC News:
 
Do you want to learn more about the life cycle of stars?
 
Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) is a holding star show at 7 p.m., this Friday Dec. 4, in the Los Alamos Nature Center Planetarium.
 
Galen Gisler will give a tour through the stars and constellations of the December sky and use them to illustrate the life cycles of stars: where and how stars are born, how they evolve, and how they die.
 
The December Night Sky planetarium show is $6 for adults and $4
Read More

Watch Mockumentaries, Enter Raffle For Film Industry Prizes At Planetarium 3 p.m. Sunday

by

COMMUNITY News:

The community is invited to see the winning video mockumentaries at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. on the big screen in the Nature Center’s planetarium.

The Pajarito Film Club is hosting the screening of four 10-minute video shorts submitted to the first ever Trick-or-Treat on MainStreet contest. Admission is free.

Following the screening, the Pajarito Film Club will conduct a brief awards ceremony, during which film program graduates who judged the films will review judging criteria and the categories for which each film is being awarded. The winning mockumentarians will be awarded Read More

‘Noche de Inspiracion!’ Dec. 12-13

by

Kierra Holmes and Chuscales. Courtesy/Insight Foto
 
MAE News:
 
Moving Arts Española will present two performances of ‘Noche de Inspiracion!’
 
This inspirational student showcase is set for 4-6 p.m., Saturday Dec. 12 and 2-4 p.m. Sunday Dec. 13. Tickets are $6 for adults and students.
 
The performances will feature 75 young dancers, singers and actors, presented in the new Moving Arts Performance Center at 368 Eagle Dr. on the Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo (northeast of Española on N.M. 68/291).
 
This multi-arts winter production
Read More

‘The Book Thief’ Screens At Mesa Library Thursday

by

Movie poster for ‘The Book Thief.’ Courtesy photo

Review by KELLY DOLEJSI

 

A coming-of-age story set in Germany during World War II, “The Book Thief” (2013, PG-13) is about a girl whose communist mother is compelled to give her up to a foster home. It’s about a new family that forms under the flying swastikas. It’s about people doing “what people do.”

 

It will screen at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Mesa Public Library

 

Brian Percival’s film highlights regular people’s humanity — our irrepressible will to care for others, no matter the risk to ourselves.

 

After witnessing Read More

Local-Made, Hand-Crafted Gifts At The Los Alamos Nature Center

by

Holiday gifts at the Los Alamos Nature Center gift shop. Courtesy photo
 
PEEC News:
 
The new Los Alamos Nature Center has a great holiday gift shop, run by Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC).
 
It is the perfect place to find gifts for the people on your list who like science and nature.
 
PEEC has made a special effort to stock the Los Alamos Nature Center gift shop with quality, hand-crafted, NM-made, nature-themed gifts including wood boxes, hand-sewn ornaments, educational toys, tea towels, nature-themed art, stuffed
Read More

Tree Lighting At Muni Bldg. 5 p.m. Saturday

by

Scene from last year’s tree lighting event in the lobby of the municipal building. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

COUNTY News:

Come in from the cold this Saturday and join the Los Alamos County Council in the annual countdown to “light up the tree” that will be decorated inside the municipal building!

Doors to the building open at 5 p.m. with the lighting at 5:30 p.m. in the main lobby. Free hot cocoa, cider and cookies will be served. Also, there will be a free photo booth for the public with snow scene props and backdrop available 5-6 p.m. so bring your smart phone or Read More

Shakespeare At Palace Of Governors Feb. 5-28

by

Courtesy/NMHM
 
NMHM News:
 
SANTA FE — Where would we be without the printing press? We certainly wouldn’t have Shakespeare, or the thousands of editions of his plays produced over the last four centuries.
 
Not a bad run for one of the most mysterious playwrights in history.
 
Feb. 5-28, the Palace Press at the New Mexico History Museum presents a special exhibition in collaboration with the New Mexico Museum of Art’s First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare.
 
In The Book’s the Thing: Shakespeare from Stage to Page, award-winning Palace
Read More

Fractured Faiths: An Original Exhibition

by

Shackles from the Inquisition prison in Mexico City, 17th century. Private collection. Photo by Jorge Pérez de Lara
 
NMHM News:
 
SANTA FE — In the 10th through 13th centuries, Spain flowered into a golden age, as Muslim, Jewish and Catholic peoples achieved new heights in science, philosophy and the arts. 
 
That triculturalism, though, endured repeated challenges, first by fundamentalist Islamic Almohads in the 12th century, then by Christian kingdoms in the late-14th century, when it finally deteriorated into dissent,
Read More

This Week At The Reel Deal

by

By JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater

The Good Dinosaur opened Wednesday and Creed, Mockingjay, Part 2, The Night Before and Spectre will hold for another week.

I originally was not going to open Creed as I was thinking “what another Stallone boxing movie!” Then I looked a little deeper, read some reviews and watched some trailers. This film might just rival the original Rocky (well almost). The critics are going wild over it and it’s getting a 95 percent rating. Warner Bros. made us open it Wednesday and messed up our schedule so be sure and look to our website for the most updated version.

Another Read More