Entertainment

Little Theatre Announces Featured Short Plays For ‘8×10’

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LALT News:

The Los Alamos Little Theatre’s showcase of one-act plays, ‘8×10,’ will take place in November.

“We are very pleased that this season’s ‘8×10’ production features exclusively playwrights connected to the region,” Co-producer Kelli Guider said. “This production is a great opportunity for first-time directors and actors, or anyone who wants to explore his or her creative side.”

Auditions for the plays are 2-5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 8, and Sunday, Aug. 9 at the Performing Arts Center (aka the Little Theatre), 1670 Nectar St. in Los Alamos.

Persons who would like to audition Read More

This Week At The Reel Deal

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By JIM O’DONNELL  
Real Deal Theater

Notice:  Due to its huge popularity this year “Summer at the Movies” sponsored by Los Alamos National Bank has been extended another week! 

Next week we are excited to bring you Hotel Transylvania at 10 .m. Aug. 3, 5 and 7. The timing is nice as the new Hotel Transylvania 2 opens next month. 

New Reduced ticket prices:

  • Matinees before 6 p.m. for everyone $7.50
  • Evenings after 6 p.m.
    • Adults: $8.75
    • Seniors 60 and over: $7.50
    • Students (ID may be required) $7.50
    • Children 12 and under: $7.50
  • 3D surcharge: $2

This Friday we are opening Read More

Tickets Available For ‘Opera On The Rocks’ At Bandelier

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Bandelier Superintendent Jason Lott introduces the 2014 ‘Opera On The Rocks’. Courtesy/NPS Photo

BANDELIER News:

Opera on the Rocks, at Bandelier National Monument’s Juniper Campground outdoor amphitheater, is an annual event now in its fourth year. 

This year the performance will take place 5:30-7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26. Opera Alta will present Bastien and Bastienne and selections from Mozart’s Magic Flute. “Bastien and Bastienne” was composed by Amadeus Mozart when he was 12. It is the story of the travails of a shepherdess and her sweetheart, Read More

Rio Arriba County Fair July 29-Aug. 1

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RACF News:

The Rio Arriba County Fair is July 29-Aug. 1 and the Rio Arriba County Fair Association is welcoming all food, arts and crafts, promotional and information vendors to participate.

To obtain a $20 permit for the entire fair, visit https:////www.racfa.net/. This year’s fair will feature the most livestock and indoor projects seen. Come out and see the lambs, goats, swine, steers, breeding heifers, rabbits and poultry.

Indoors, fair goers will find baking, photography, welding, sewing, cake decorating and many youth projects.

The Rio Arriba County Fair also will feature Read More

Santa Fe Opera Revives A Worthy Early Work By Mozart

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By ROGER SNODGRASS with CARL NEWTON
Los Alamos Daily Post

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s eighth opera, La Finta Giardiniera, written in 1775, when the German wunderkind was only 18 years old, represents another venturous effort by the Santa Fe Opera festival to introduce a lesser-known work by a big name composer.

A somewhat marginal dramatic undercarriage artificially inflated by Mozart’s rapidly developing musical gifts, “The Phony Gardener,” as the title might be translated awkwardly from Read More

¡Fiesta Los Alamos! Fundraiser Draws Sell Out Crowd

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Speaking from the heart, Los Alamos Rotary STARS members Michael Erickson and Laura Loy thank the sold out crowd at Satuday’s ¡Fiesta Los Alamos! fundraiser at Fuller Lodge. Proceeds will provide shelter for parents of children receiving medical treatment in Cd. Juarez. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Members of the El Camino Real Rotary Club of El Paso share in the festivities at Saturday’s event. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Staff Report

A sold out crowd of more than 220 people gathered Saturday evening at Fuller Lodge for the ¡Fiesta Los Alamos! Read More

¡Fiesta Los Alamos! Fundraiser Schedule Announced

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Baile Español. Courtesy/Rotary STARS

ROTARY STARS News:

Tomorrow evening, the Los Alamos Rotary STARS will hold its first annual ¡Fiesta Los Alamos! fundraiser 6-10 p.m. at Fuller Lodge. All proceeds raised throughout the evening will support a shelter for the parents of children receiving treatment in Juarez, Mexico who are forced by poverty to sleep on the street while their children are in the hospital.

The schedule has just been announced for the evening (subject to change):

  • 6 p.m. Doors open/Cash bar opens
  • 6-7 p.m. Mariachi Mestizo plays
  • 6:30 p.m.  Dinner buffet opens
  • 7 p.m. – Flamenco
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Treasure Hunt Caps Summer Family Evenings Program

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PEEC News:

The last Summer Family Evenings is one not to be missed.

Join the YMCA’s Earth Service Corps and Tony Hinojosa for a night of Treasure Hunting. There will be adventures for the whole family, from scavenger hunts to geocaching. This program will begin at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 29.

Summer Family Evenings have always been a popular program at PEEC, and now, with the Del Norte Credit Union’s support, they will be better than ever. Summer Family Evenings take place at the Nature Center every at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday throughout June and July They are free for PEEC members, or $5 per family for Read More

Beer Co-op Hosts Full House Party July 31-Aug. 1

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BRB News:

Bathtub Row Brewing Co-op’s Full House Party is less than two weeks away.

For the first time ever, Bathtub Row will be pouring eight of their own beers. As a celebration of the breweries’ hard work and community support, Bathtub Row will be throwing an incredible two-day party filled with great beer, live music and lots of fun.

“The Full House Party is the culmination and celebration of the years of hard work that this community has put in to realize having it’s own craft brewery,” Brewery General Manager Jason Fitzpatrick said.

Hector Santana, the Brewmaster for Bathtub Row, stepped away Read More

This Week At The Reel Deal

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By JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater

“Summer at the Movies,” sponsored by Los Alamos National Bank, continues at 10 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Doors open at 9:30 a.m. so be sure to come early, as these free movies have filled to capacity in the past. Film titles are listed at the bottom of this column.

New Reduced ticket prices:

  • Matinees before 6 p.m. for everyone $7.50
  • Evenings after 6 p.m.
    • Adults: $8.75
    • Seniors 60 and over: $7.50
    • Students (ID may be required) $7.50
    • Children 12 and under: $7.50
  • 3D surcharge: $2

This Friday we are opening Pixels, with Adam Sandler, Kevin James and Read More