Entertainment

A performance of Nobel Prize winner in Literature, Rabindranath Tagore’s play, “Chitra,” an adaptation of a story from the epic poem, the “Mahabharata” at St. John’s College in Santa Fe.
The play will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication in book form by Tagore, an Indian philosopher and poet.
Directed by Mary Mier, her theater troupe, Teatro Tierra Amarilla will perform, 4 p.m. Dec. 14 in the Great Hall on the St. John’s campus.
Tickets are $10, St John’s students free with ID. Donations of $5 are suggested for St. John’s students.
 

THIS WEEK ON PAC 8
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Friday, Dec. 5, 2014
06:00 AM Democracy Now! – Live
10:00 AM The Tom Hartman Program
11:00 AM County Council Meeting Replay 11-25-14
01:00 PM Democracy Now!
02:00 PM Senior Olympics
03:00 PM Barranca Mesa Speech Contest
04:00 PM Uprising
05:00 PM Tourism Goes Green
05:30 PM Senior Olympics
06:00 PM Democracy Now!
07:00 PM Los Alamos Historical Society – “New Mexico Wines: Past to Present”
08:30 PM The Garage
09:00 PM Bongo Boy Rock and Roll
09:30 PM Global 3000
10:00 PM NNMCAB Meeting
12:00 AM Free Speech TV

Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014
Free Speech TV

Sunday, Dec. 7, 2014
06:00 AM FSTV
05:30 PM Key to the Kingdom
06:00 PM Drawing Men to Christ
07:00 PM United Church
08:30 PM Trinity on the Hill
09:30 PM Generations
11:00 PM That Which Is
12:00 PM Free Speech TV

The Sangre de Cristo Chorale is honoring the 25 year legacy of the late Sheldon Kalberg, the first and longest director of the chorale, by dedicating its winter 2014 concert, titled “Darkness Brings Light” to him.
The Los Alamos performance is 7 p.m. Saturday at Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church, 2390 North Road.
The chorale will perform works by such diverse composers as Tomas Luis da Vittoria, Henry Purcell , John Rutter and Dolly Parton.
The concert’s theme is intended to take listeners on a musical journey from sorrow and darkness to joy, beauty and light, reminding the audience that it is possible to share in a feeling of a communal dawn.
Among the pieces the chorale will perform is Randall Thompson’s “Choose Something Like a Star,” a piece particularly beloved by Kalberg, and played at his recent memorial service.
Though the repertoire was selected prior to Kalberg’s death, the chorale wanted to dedicate both the music and lyrics to him as an expressive love and appreciation felt for him.

Moviegoers in France, Germany and even Seattle love “Bagdad Cafe” (1987, Rated PG). This incredible and incredibly strange film has won awards across the globe for its casting, acting, screenplay and was chosen Best Foreign Film several times over. What will Los Alamos think? That’s always an interesting question to ask.
“Bagdad Cafe,” showing Thursday at Mesa Public Library, begins with a German couple on a desolate road. They are well-dressed — over-dressed for their surrounding. They appear to be married and not happy about it. The road, the car, the rusty lean-to that serves as a urinal, everything is tilted, disoriented, uncomfortable to watch. The couple’s arguments are in German, so English-speaking viewers are even further ungrounded and upended.
And yet, sense prevails. Quite logically, the woman opens the car door, grabs her bag and walks. And once she leaves the car, the movie changes. The asphalt lies horizontal and beneath the sky. Her feet, even in her ridiculous pumps, are firmly planted.
The unusual prudence of this opening sequence prevails throughout “Bagdad Cafe,” as the German woman, Jasmin Münchgstettner (Marianne Sägebrecht), creates a new life for herself on the side of the road.