Entertainment

‘Taos Americaños’ Concert Feb. 15

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TAOS News:

TAOS—The Taos Solar Music Festival is hosting a special musical event titled, “Taos Americaños” at 7 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 15 in the historic courthouse at Taos Plaza.

This first time concert in the Mural Room includes music by Americana music royalty, Jim Lauderdale, Ollie O’Shea on fiddle and Phil Parlapiano on squeezebox, and hosted by Taos’ own Max Gomez. Artist and longtime Solar Fest artistic director, Randy Pijoan, will also be doing “artistic endeavors” at the event.

Jim Lauderdale is a Grammy® Award winning musician and one of the most respected artists working Read More

Valentines Dance at Posse Lodge Feb. 15

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POSSE LODGE News:

Come dance to Bloomdust Caravan, 7-10 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 15, at the Los Alamos Posse Lodge, 650 North Mesa Road.

Enjoy Steve Wallin’s Texas BBQ Platter, served 6 p.m. until the food is gone. Suggested donations are $8 for food and $15 per person/$25 per couple for the dance.

The event is BYOB with a non-alcoholic cash bar for mixers/set-ups. Overnight RV parking available at no charge.

Need more information? Call Carey at 505.412.7845. Read More

Beautiful Africa Watoto Children’s Choir at Crossroads Bible Church Feb. 18

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Courtesy/Blanca E. Jones

COMMUNITY News:

Watoto, a holistic care program, initiated to serve the dire needs of Africa and her people, is thrilled to present a brand new choir tour entitled Beautiful Africa: A New Generation. The production will be presented at 7 p.m., Feb. 18 at Crossroads Bible Church, 97 East Road in Los Alamos. 

With vibrant, original African music; dance routines; life-transforming stories, the tour is indicative of the new generation of leaders emerging out of Watoto.

“Through the choir’s Concert of Hope, we share a message of transformation by telling the story Read More

‘Got Dance?’ Audition at the YMCA

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YMCA News:

The Y is calling for dance auditions open to ages 12 and older in individual and group dance categories. Selected acts will perform 4-6:30 p.m., April 26 at New Beginnings Fellowship Church, 112 East Road.

Dancers will compete per category for top honors. Performance will be on a 25’ deep x 45’ wide wooden, elevated stage coated in a poly-resin paint.

The performance will benefit the Y’s Annual Campaign for scholarships. Tickets sold at the door.

Audition requires submitting an electronic link of your representational dance. Register to compete Feb.6 through March 16 at the Family Read More

This Week at the Reel Deal

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Column by JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater

This Friday, we will be opening The Monuments Men, The Lego Movie, and August: Osage County.

We will hold Labor Day for another week.

I tried again this week to get Philomena which was promised to me and I in turn promised to you, but the studio is still holding out hoping the Oscars will breathe new life into the film with a possible Academy Award for Meryl Streep. Then they will ask for a longer run. Regardless, we are still going to show it soon.                                               Read More

A Shy Young Man Learns about Love in ‘Lars and the Real Girl’

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Review by KELLY DOLEJSI

If you look up “Lars and the Real Girl” (2007, PG-13) on IMDB, the one-line blurb reports, “A delusional young guy strikes up an unconventional relationship with a doll he finds on the Internet.”

First, I wonder if the adjectives “delusional” and “unconventional” are really necessary, considering the noun “doll.” Second, I wonder if it’s possible to summarize such a paradoxically complex and simple film, at all, but particularly in a single sentence.

Yes, it’s about a quiet man who ─ Read More

Santa Fe Pro Musica Welcomes Back Mezzo-Soprano Deborah Domanski

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Mezzo-soprano Deborah Domanski. Courtesy/SFPM

SFPM News:

SANTA FE – Santa Fe Pro Musica welcomes back mezzo-soprano Deborah Domanski to perform Gustav Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer with the Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra, Thomas O’Connor, conductor.

The Scoop:

Mezzo-soprano Deborah Domanski will join Santa Fe Pro Musica in performance this spring, performing Gustav Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen)with the Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra, Thomas O’Connor, conductor. The orchestra will also perform chamber arrangements of Claude Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi Read More

‘Topper Revue’ Opens Tonight

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Topper Revue 2014 emcees from left back row, Daniel Ahrens, Ethan Clements, Ali Berl and front row from left, Richard Jia, Katie Downing and Haley Henson. Photo by Don Taylor

LAHS News:

The Los Alamos High School Olions will kick off the 2014 Topper Revue at 7 p.m. today at Duane Smith Auditorium. 

This year’s emcees are Daniel Ahrens, Ali Berl, Ethan Clements, Katie Downing, Haley Henson and Richard Jia. The show is written, directed and performed by the students themselves.

“As someone still relatively new to Los Alamos, it always amazes me how engrained Topper Revue Read More

Manhattan Project TV Series Seeks Period Vehicles

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1940s Plymouth. Courtesy/www.acsu.buffalo.edu

Staff Report

WGNAmerica is coming to New Mexico to shoot a 13-episode TV drama series entitled “Manhattan” that takes place in Los Alamos in the year 1943.

The show will be filmed in and around Santa Fe starting in March.

Producers are looking for all types of vehicles that would photograph as original and fit into the everyday scene of Los Alamos in 1943. The project is seeking civilian sedans, pickups, farm flatbeds, everyday service vehicles such as panel and box trucks, any period buses and 1940-1943 non-tactical military vehicles and equipment. Read More

This Week at the Reel Deal: Theater Says Goodbye to Film Forever … Going All Digital!

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Column By JIM O’DONNELL                                 
Reel Deal Theater

Friday Jan. 31, we will be opening Labor Day starring Josh Brolin, Kate Winslet and Toby Maquire. Jason Reitman directs this film about a single mother, Adele and her son Henry, who give a wounded man a ride from the grocery store.

As local police search the town for an escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn

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