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Auditions for Disney 101 Dalmations KIDS Jan. 11

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ACCT News:

The Atomic City Children’s Theater (ACCT) announces auditions for ACCT II Disney 101 Dalmations KIDS. ACCT II auditions are open to 3rd and 4th grade students from Los Alamos and White Rock. Registration begins at 1  p.m. and auditions begin at 2 p.m. in the Pinon Elementary School Gym Saturday, Jan. 11.

All 3rd and 4thgrade students who audition for 101 Dalmations are welcome to participate if they can commit to the nine-week rehearsal schedule 4-6 p.m., Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Rehearsals begin Jan. 14 in the music room at Pinon School in White Rock and two performances Read More

Clark & Kendall’s Weekend Preview: Jan. 3

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Sponsored by www.fyila.com

Friday, Jan. 3 

Nana’s Naughty Knickers at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 3 at Los Alamos Little Theater
Tickets are $12 for general admission and $10 for students and seniors.

Saturday, Jan. 4 
 

Science Cinema Saturday 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 4 at the Bradbury Science Museum 
New community video series of short science films ranging in topics from microbes to aquifers to addictions.

Nana’s Naughty Knickers at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 4 at Los Alamos Little Theater 
Tickets are $12 for general admission and $10 for students and

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Celebrate New Season of ‘Downton Abbey’ With High Tea

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PBS poster for ‘Downton Abbey.’ Courtesy photo

LARSO News:

The new fourth season of “Downton Abbey,” PBS’s popular English drama, premieres in the U.S. at 8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 5 on PBS (Channel 5.) To celebrate this new season, The Betty Ehart Senior Center will host “An Afternoon at Downton Abbey Tea” 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 5. Scones, tea sandwiches, and shortbreads will be included with other delicacies to include a full English afternoon tea. 

Do your alliances lie with the downstairs scullery maids or those of the upstairs elite? Dress accordingly for this afternoon event, Read More

This Week at the Reel Deal

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Column by JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater

We finally got a print of American Hustle which we will open Friday. It has a stellar cast and is getting great reviews, and has seven Golden Globe nominations. Do check out the trailer on one of the websites.

Guess what film is number two in the nation this week – Frozen. That’s kind of strange after it’s been out for six or seven weeks. Well I’m not going to argue with the numbers and we are still getting requests. So guess what? We’re bringing it back for a one week run this Friday.

For those of you who do not like 3D, you’re in luck. All shows will be 2D Read More

LAAC’s Free Brown Bag Performance Series Presents Black Mesa Brass Quintet

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The Black Mesa Brass Quintet performs at noon Jan. 8 at Fuller Lodge. Courtesy photo

LAAC News:

The Los Alamos Arts Council’s kicks off its 2014 Brown Bag Performance Series with the Black Mesa Brass Quintet noon Wednesday, Jan. 8 in the Pajarito Room at Fuller Lodge. 

The Black Mesa Brass Quintet was formed in 1990 and still has three of the original five members. Their repertoire is an eclectic mix of classical, modern, pop, and jazz tunes. They play a variety of venues including concerts, educational performances at schools, weddings and other special occasions. Jan McDonald, John Hargreaves, Read More

‘Amelie’ Wins You Over With Whimsical Sweetness

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Movie poster for ‘Amelie.’

Review by KELLY DOLEISI

The next film in the library’s Free Film Series, while not technically holiday themed, is so buttery rich and honeyed that it belongs in The Nutcracker’s Land of Sweets.

“Amelie” (2001, rated R for sexuality) tells the life story of Amelie Poulain, beginning with her conception and building to her first cutely quixotic attempt at romantic love.

Amelie has a horrible, but hilariously summarized, childhood. In part because of a mistaken and of course symbolic diagnosis of a heart defect, and in part because of her parents’ undemonstrative Read More

Clark & Kendall’s Weekend Preview: Dec. 27

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Sponsored by www.fyilosalamos.com

Friday, Dec. 27

A Christmas Dance with the Los Alamos Big Band
7:30-10:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 27 at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish Hall, 3700 Canyon Road. Admission is by donation. Proceeds benefit NPH Orphanage in Honduras and IHM youth mission work.

Sunday, Dec. 29

We’ve Got the Power: A Special Screening
7-9 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 29 at Reel Deal Theater. PEEC is pleased to sponsor a special screening of Brad Marshland’s new documentary, We’ve Got the Power. A follow-on to his Emmy® Award-winning Filmsight Production, The Next Frontier, this film explores the
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This Week at the Reel Deal

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Column By JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater

This week through Jan. 1, we are holding Walking with Dinosaurs 3D, Saving Mr. Banks, Anchorman 2 and The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug.

Jan. 2, we hope to open The Wolf of Wall Street and American Hustle. The studios have not totally confirmed these bookings for us but hopefully they’ll consider our small town, especially after our constant badgering.

Both of these films will be Academy Award considerations, so the studios are not releasing these films in one huge distribution. They’re sort of dribbling them out so folks are still talking about them Read More

PEEC to Sponsor ‘We’ve Got the Power’ at Reel Deal Theater Dec. 29

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We’ve Got the Power. Courtesy/PEEC

PEEC News:

On Sunday, Dec. 29 at 4 p.m., the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) brings you a new movie that will open your eyes to creative uses of renewable energy and will challenge you to reconsider your own daily energy use. From the Emmy® award-winning producers of The Next Frontier, We’ve Got the Power is a new documentary on the economics of renewable energy. Filmmaker Brad Marshland will be in attendance at the film, to introduce it and answer questions afterward.

Sure, wind and solar are cleaner and safer than fossil fuels, but how would weaning Read More