Entertainment

LAHS Graduate Jenny Tumas On The Red Carpet!

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Los Alamos High School graduate Jenny Tumas in Toronto. Courtesy/Cindy Lawton

From left, Los Alamos High School graduate Jenny Tumas, Director Michael Moore, Amel Smaoui and Pasi Sahlberg Sept. 10 at the ‘Where to Invade Next’ premiere on day 1 of the Toronto International Film Festival at The Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) Courtesy/Cindy Lawton

COMMUNITY News:

TORONTO — Los Alamos High School graduate Jenny Tumas was on the red carpet last week in Canada.

Tumas is in the documentary “Where to Invade Next” by film Read More

September Is National Preparedness Month: Don’t Wait. Communicate. Make Your Emergency Plan Today

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FEMA News:
 
DENTON, Texas ― “Don’t Wait. Communicate. Make Your Emergency Plan Today.”
 
That’s the message emergency managers are sharing with people all over New Mexico and beyond during the month of September.
 
September is National Preparedness Month and the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Region 6 Office is urging everyone to take steps to make a plan and know what to do during an emergency.
 
Whether you deal with the possible threats of flooding, wildfires, hurricanes or power outages, the preparedness steps to take are the same.
 
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This Week At The Reel Deal

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By JIM O’DONNELL 
Reel Deal Theater 

This Friday we are opening The Maze Runner: Scorch Trials, Far From the Madding Crowd, and Phoenix. Jurassic World will hold for another week. Vacation, Diary of a Teenage Girl, Man from Uncle, and Shaun the Sheep will end Thursday.

Next week on Sept. 25, we are booked for The Intern, Hotel Transylvania 2 and we are working hard to open Everest on the Sept. 25. Universal hasn’t committed yet but we have pressed them with the benefits of opening this film in our mountain town.  We did not make the cut for Black Mass with Johnny Depp this week Read More

Pooka Prowls Los Alamos Little Theater In ‘Harvey’

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Elwood P. Dowd (Grady Hughes) and Harvey (as himself.) Photo by Ken Milder/LALT
 
Veta (Pat Beck) and Myrtle Mae (Holly Robinson) assist Mrs. Chauvent (Sarah Fisher) as Elwood (Grady Hughes) looks on. Photo by Ken Milder/LALT
 
Review by BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

The charming 1940s comedy “Harvey” opened at Los Alamos Little Theater Friday.

When Mary Chase wrote “Harvey” in 1944, she was hoping to cheer up audiences during WWII. She succeeded admirably and “Harvey” became a smash hit on Broadway, and later a film, starring James Stewart as the sweet, personable and utterly Read More

Hillstompers Celebrate 15 Years Of Funky Fun

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The Hill Stompers rev up the crowd today at the Beer Co-op in Central Park Square. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

A large crowd turned out today tto celebrate 15 years of Hill Stompers fun. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

Staff Report

The Los Alamos Hill Stompers celebrated the start of its 15th season of making music and mayhem today with a big party at Bathtub Row Brewing Co-op, 163 Central Park Square.

The local community street band would like to thank the community for its support throughout the past decade and a half. They especially want to thank the United Church for Read More

Los Alamos Historical Society 2nd Annual Fall Gala Draws Glamorous Crowd To Fuller Lodge

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The annual Fall Gala would not be complete without Los Alamos History experts Nancy Bartlit, left, and Hedy Dunn at historic Fuller Lodge. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

Guests are elegantly attired for the 2nd annual Fall Gala this evening at Fuller Lodge. County Councilor Rick Reiss, second from left, Pat Soran and Ann Hayes, center, and Los Alamos Historical Society Board President Ron Wilkins, right. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

Chamber Marketing Manager Ryn Herrmann, left, and MainStreet Executive Director Suzette Fox. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com Read More

PEEC Day Trip To Explore Copper Mine Sept. 12

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PEEC News:
 
The Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) is offering a rare chance to visit the abandoned Nacimiento Copper Mine 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sept. 12, near Cuba, N.M.
 
The trip, led by local geology expert Patrick Rowe, will be fun and hands-on for both adults and children. Participants will start at the nature center, carpool to the side, and explore the area, with ample chances to find beautiful specimens such as petrified wood.
 
This popular tour will fill up fast, so it is recommended to register in advance at www.peecnature.org
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Science On Screen: ‘Horror Of Dracula’ Sept. 23

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SFI News:
 
The popular Science On Screen series continues Sept. 23 in Santa Fe with Santa Fe Institute (SFI) Omidyar Fellow Sam Scarpino presenting Horror of Dracula.
 
“Dracula is as much about this problem, the problem of evidence and truth, as it is about vampires,” writes Eula Biss in her acclaimed essay On Immunity: An Inoculation.
 
Since the invention of vaccines, vampires have been used to scare individuals away from these life-saving shots.
 
While also a metaphor for concerns about capitalism and anti-immigration
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This Week At The Reel Deal

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By JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater

This Friday we are opening Vacation, Diary of a Teenage Girl, and bringing back Jurassic World for a week. Straight Outta Compton, No Escape, and Mistress America will end Thursday. Shaun the Sheep will hold for another week. Next week, the fall and holiday films begin in earnest with Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, Black Mass, Hotel Transylvania 2, Everest, The Intern, The Martian, Pan, Bridge of Spies, Goosebumps, Spectre 007, Peanut Movie, and Hunger Games: Mockingjay part 2. And that’s only through the end of November!

Movie poster for ‘Vacation.’ Read More

Pooka On The Loose At Los Alamos Little Theatre

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Grady Hughes as Elwood P. Dowd. Photo by Ken Milder
 
Holly Robinson and Stuart Ruppecht as Myrle Mae Simmons and Duane Wilson. Photo by Ken Milder
 
LALT News:

It’s fun, it’s funny and you’ll find the pooka when you get there.

The Los Alamos Little Theatre presents the classic play “Harvey” Sept. 11-26 at the Performing Arts Center. The play is performed at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and with a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. Sept. 13.

“Harvey” is among the top fifty longest running plays on Broadway, along with “The Lion King,” “The Phantom of the Opera,” “Annie,” and “My Fair Lady,” to name a few.

The original Read More