Arts and Entertainment

World travelers Dr. Chip Carroon and Pat Devereux present their “Nevada Trekkers on the Annapurna Circuit” PowerPoint show at the Nevada State Museum at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 26. The Dayton-area couple will discuss images they shot while trekking 150 miles on Nepal’s most famous hiking route, in the central Himalayan Range. Admission to the event is $8 adults; free for museum members and children 17 and under. The museum is at 600 N. Carson St., Carson City. For more information, call 775-687-4810.

Minnesota prose poet Julie Gard will be reading from her new chapbook, Russia in 17 Objects (Tiger's Eye Press), at Comma Coffee, 312 S. Carson St. Subjects include Russian literary icons, international adoption, and found objects from St. Petersburg courtyards. This event is free.

The Mile High Jazz Band and vocalist Sheryl Adams will be joined by several poets and readers and guest vocalist June Joplin for a lively evening of big-band jazz music and poetry with a new twist. For "Potluck: A Smorgasbord of Poems and Big-Band Jazz," poets names will be drawn from a hat for each reading, followed by a big band tune.

The program features award-winning poets and readers Krista Lukas, Tracy McQuay, Wayne Carlson, Lee Warner, Terri Breeden, and Joe Crowley.

Admission is $5 general at the door, and free for age 18 and under.

Special St. Patrick's Day Countdown Performance by Gairin Celtic Music, Tom and Mary Kay Aufrance, who are you musician hosts for all your favorite Irish St. Patrick's Day sing-along folk songs and tunes.

Grandma Hattie's is family friendly and wheelchair-walker friendly, so you can bring along the whole family.

Grandma Hattie's Restaurant
2811 S. Carson St.
Carson City, NV
Call Ahead to Confirm: (775) 882-4900

Come check out our drink specials and celebrate the Irish!
All day!

The Bella Family
224 So. Carson St ,Suite #8
Corner of 3rd & Curry Sts, Carson City
775-888-9463 (WINE)
bellafiorewines@yahoo.com
www.bellafiorewinesbar.com

Join us for a tasting of some great wines from the historic Frank Family Vineyard. These wines live up to the heritage of the land on which they are produced in Napa Valley. Tasting includes appetizers and desserts. 6pm-9pm, $20pp

Bella Fiore Wines
224 So. Carson St ,Suite #8
Corner of 3rd & Curry Sts, Carson City
775-888-9463 (WINE)
bellafiorewines@yahoo.com
www.bellafiorewinesbar.com

Make no mistake about it, "John Carter," playing now at the Fandango multiplex in Carson City, is a film with a nine-figure budget that takes itself seriously, although audiences may not. It's ripped from the pages of a 1912 newspaper series by Edgar Rice Burroughs of "Tarzan fame" (newspapers ran fun things like that in better times).

FREE Concert SATURDAY NIGHT, March 10, 7:00pm. Three Bands at Comma Coffee:

The teen-comedy "Project X," currently at the Fandango Galaxy cineplex in Carson City, is clearly aimed at high school teens, despite its R rating. It's a wild party scene that is the ultimate teen aspiration, including plenty of drugs, booze, nudity and destruction.

Fundraiser hosted by Chapter H, P.E.O. Sisterhood
Benefiting Women’s Education
Saturday, March 10th, 5pm-10pm, $30pp
Includes wine, light snacks and desserts
Music by guitarist Joe La Chew
Purchase at door or contact Sue Maples @ 775-720-3859
Must be 21+yrs

To be held @ Bella Fiore Wines
224 So. Carson St ,Suite #8
Corner of 3rd & Curry Sts, Carson City
775-888-9463 (WINE)
bellafiorewines@yahoo.com
www.bellafiorewinesbar.com

R.I.P. Davy Jones of The Monkees:

The romantic comedy "Wanderlust," now playing at the Fandango Galaxy cineplex in Carson City, is an R-rated outing that has plenty of the dirty words, touch of nudity and Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston as a married couple in New York City. He loses his job and her film idea for HBO is rejected.

They have to move out of their 'micro loft" to fall on the hospitality of his brother, a super yuppie in Atlanta with a business of supplying toilets to events.

The Salvation Army of Carson City is raising money for over sea mission work. Lt. Leslie Cyr will be painting during each Sunday Morning Celebration Service and each painting will be sold through a silent auction from now through Easter Sunday.

Music, theater, dance and all things creative, the Brewery Arts Center is Carson City’s hub of all forms of art and continues to blaze a trail into the hearts and minds of the capital city.
In the heart of the historic district of Carson City, the BAC and the Brewery Arts Center Performance Hall hosts more than 100 events annually in multiple venues, including theater productions, concerts, art classes, children’s programs, recitals and receptions.

The action-thriller film "Act of Valor," now playing at now the Galaxy Fandango cineplex in Carson City, merges real-life SEALs (we all know who the SEALs are, thanks to the Osama bin Laden assassination) with Hollywood actors in action photography taken during maneuvers at the SEAL training grounds.
No SEALs are identified by name, although there is a surprisingly length listing of SEALs who have died in action at the end of the film.

Carla Trynchuk plays violin for the Strings in the Schools group Thursday afternoon at Carson High School. Trynchuk will be the featured soloist this Sunday at the Carson City Symphony's Russian Treasures concert. For more information, see http://ccsymphony.com

The Carson City Emblem Club #507 is sponsoring “The Demise of The Downhome Dealers," a murder mystery set in a cowboy bar, on Saturday, Feb. 25 at the Carson City Elks Lodge, 515 N. Nevada Street.

Cost is $25 per person and includes dinner (Cowboy Steak, Mashed Potatoes, Mixed Veggies, Dessert) and the play. Cocktails start at 5 p.m., with the dinner and play starting at 6:30 p.m. The events is put on for the benefit of many community charitable programs.

The action-Satanic film "Ghost Rider, Spirit of Vengeance," currently booming away at the Fandango Galaxy cineplex in Carson City, stars Nicholas Gage as Johnny Blaze, motorcycle stunt rider with a hangup that puts him in seclusion until summoned again to ride his motorcycle blazing with fire and to don his alter ego at Ghost Rider, with the burning skull.

Right off, this is a lousy movie from the making sense point of view and it is the latest in Gage's series of flops. But he keeps trying and his grimaces are standard stock from the past.

The film "This Means War," currently on view at the Fandango Galaxy cineplex in Carson City, stars Reese Witherspoon as Laure Scott. Which is good because she almost brings this turkey of a romantic comedy to life all by herself.

The Carson City Library will show the Academy Award nominated film, “The Tree of Life”, on Friday, February 24th, at 6:30 p.m. This film is directed by Terrence Malik, and stars Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood and into his adulthood. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

The film"The Vow," currently on view at the Fandango Galaxy theater in Carson City, is a good bad film. The bad is the sweetness-loaded script and the apparently rock-dumb male lead, Channing Tatum, as Leo Collins. The good is co-star Rachel McAdams as Paige Collins. This is billed as a romantic comedy, ideal as a "date" outing. Maybe, but ...

Movie opens with a brief scene of now then goes back to five years earlier when Paige and Leo exchanged vows in a yuppie-like wedding. Thus, "The Vows."

"Safe House," an action thriller on view at the Fandano Galaxy cineplex in Carson City, is the latest in the parade of suck movies from Hollywood.

It has all the requisite features — explosions, car chases, a plethora of violence and a couple of stars. Denzel Washington stars as Tobin Frost, a rouge CIA agent in possession of a secret file that makes him a CIA target. Ryan Reynolds plays Matt Weston, an active CIA agent in charge of a safe house in Cape Town, South Africa.

What could be better than spending Valentines at Bella Fiore Wines? We will be tasting 6 Champagnes (TBA) to celebrate the sweetest day of the year, Valentines Day. …And of course our delectable chocolate fountain with tons of goodies to dunk.

So don't miss Valentines Day at Bella Fiore Wines. Only $35 per tasting for all that. The fun starts at 6pm.

The Bella Family
224 So. Carson St ,Suite #8
Corner of 3rd & Curry Sts, Carson City
775-888-9463 (WINE)
bellafiorewines@yahoo.com
www.bellafiorewinesbar.com

If you ever thought your dog had a future on the stage, look no further. The Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival in Incline Village, NV announces auditions for “Crab” – the dog who plays an important and loving role in William Shakespeare’s "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" which will be performed from July 13 – August 26, 2012 at Sand Harbor State Park.

You can now call it a regular sign of Spring in Carson Valley. The third edition of the Genoa Cowboy Poetry & Music Festival will bring together an outstanding lineup of performers, artists and characters April 26th to the 29th.

The Carson City Senior Citizens Center will be holding open auditions for the 2012 Senior Follies production of “Those Delightful Decades.” This production will be co-directed by Norma Conway and Carla Wilson.

This annual production is a fundraiser for the senior meals programs here in Carson City. If you are age 35 or older and would like to be a part of this wonderful fundraising project we would love to have you share your talents with us. It is a variety show consisting of musical and comedy acts ranging from the 1920’s through today.

Proscenium Players is holding open auditions for their May production at the Brewery Arts Center of “Twelve Angry Men” directed by Jeff Fast and produced by Jonni Moon.

Jazz Sampler for Sweethearts features the 18-member Mile High Jazz Band with vocalist Sheryl Adams, presenting jazzy versions of favorite love songs for Valentine's Day, and other swinging, big-band selections.

Highlights of the evening include guest soloist Gerry Wright, soprano sax, playing "When I Fall in Love" and "My Funny Valentine," and guest vocalist Michael Coleman singing "What a Wonderful World" and "Beyond the Sea."

General admission is $5 at the door; free for age 18 and under.

Dance instruction, 6 to 7:15 p.m., is $5 additional.

I was busy some other place when "Star Wars, The Phantom Menace" opened in 1999 in the USA. Lucky me. Not so lucky now when I went to see the reworked original decked out in 3D. It's a corny movie and the 3D adds little to the viewing except for the $3 extra per ticket. At the Galaxy Fandango in Carson City you can see the release without 3D and you won't be missing much.

From the dazzle of Chicago to the pounding excitement of In the Heights to the stirring beat of Rent and the enchantment of The Lion King, this is a cook’s tour of today’s Broadway that will leave you begging for more
$25 or $28 depending on section.

Friday and Saturday night at 7:30, Sunday show at 2 p.m.

By tickets here.

Only one weekend, don’t miss it!