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Artist of the month Dana Aldis talks drawing, painting

Friday, 26 July 2019 02:42 By Cody Begaye Sun Correspondent

Dana Aldis, of Gallup, has been painting professionally since 2008. She transitioned from painting primarily still life, animal portraits and landscape paintings, in oils.

“I try to participate in the local art scene when I can, mostly by displaying my work at ART123,” Aldis said July 16.

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‘The Lion King’ is visually impressive, but feels logy

Friday, 26 July 2019 02:40 By Glenn Kay For the Sun

Computer techniques add a lot, but take away something vital

Rating: «« out of ««««

Running Time: 118 minutes

This week’s big release is Disney’s photo-realistic take on the 1994 animated classic, The Lion King. Fans of the original film may be happy to learn that the primary story hasn’t been changed a great deal. Instead, the selling point is the CGI animal creations backed by an impressive Africa savannah. On a technical level it’s a marvel, with stunning visual effects and imagery. Unfortunately, the extended running time drags events out, resulting in some logy pacing.

The story follows Simba (Donald Glover), a kind-hearted lion forced into self-banishment...

DVD/Blu-ray Roundup for July 19, 2019

Friday, 26 July 2019 02:38 By Glenn Kay For the Sun

Welcome back to another edition of new release highlights on Blu-ray and DVD. As always, there’s plenty to choose from in a wide variety of genres. 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!

Abduction - A SWAT team member wakes up in a park fountain in the Far East, believing it is the year 1985, and having no memory of who he is or how he got there. After trying to put fragmented memories together, he determines that he was out searching for his kidnapped young daughter. He then teams up with a gangster who is hunting for his own missing wife and the pair try to solve the mystery. What they soon discover...

Plans signed to build replica of Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall

Friday, 26 July 2019 02:36 Staff Reports

The New Mexico Department of Veterans Services and Vietnam Veterans of America Northern New Mexico Chapter 996 signed a Memorandum of Understanding July 17 to build a half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C.

Under the agreement, VVA will commence fundraising, independent of DVS, to cover the estimated $300,000 cost of building the replica of the national Wall featuring the names of the 58,318 American service members killed in action or listed as missing in action during the Vietnam War. Of that total, 398 are from New Mexico.

VVA Chapter 996 will commission an artist for the project. Once the replica wall is finished, it will be donated to...