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Welcome to another look at highlights arriving on Blu-ray and DVD. There’s a great mix of Hollywood fare and exciting independent features this time out, meaning that there will be something for just about everyone. So, if you can’t make it out to the movies this week, be sure to give one of these titles a try!

Big New Releases!



The Assent - This low-budget horror picture follows a priest who performed an exorcism that resulted in a child’s death. After serving a three-year-sentence, the protagonist is released and tries to start living a quiet life. It isn’t long before another desperate family arrives on his doorstep and asks for his assistance, saying that...

Zuni Head Start class learns about rockabilly

Near the end of February, a group of children from Zuni Head Start entered a new world, Quintana’s Music Center, where they were introduced to instruments and styles of music.

Rhonda Quintana says the store and Quintana’s Music School have been holding an annual outreach program for Zuni Head Start since 2018, usually in the spring, giving children a chance to experience jazz, country, metal, rockabilly and rock and roll and learn about the different musical instruments used to create it.

There is one class each year.

This year it was held Feb. 28 and featured the music school’s jazz clinic teacher Robert Beasley on the...

Fire Academy EMS Cadet Class 2019-002 graduation

When Rhonda Quintana talks about Gallup ArtsCrawl, you can tell it’s her pride and joy.  Talking to the Gallup Sun March 4, she said ArtsCrawl, brought about 3,000 people last year and it continues to grow.

She says a recently scheduled ArtsCrawl Brainstorm ran across a few obstacles when Second Street was closed.  But never fear.  Quintana says there is plenty of input on social media and she plans to meet with planners for the Coal Ave. Commons Project to plan for logistics involving events scheduled for the future.

One of those is on July 11th. Welcome to Wonderland is meant to give people in Gallup an experience of art, live music and performance art similar to what they might...