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Hamlet Kicks Off 2022 SF Summer Shakespeare Festival

Scene from Hamlet, which kicks off the 2022 Santa Fe Summer Shakespeare Festival. Courtesy/UCS

UCSF News:

Upstart Crows of Santa Fe (UCSF) and The Shakespeare Gym have announced their collaboration on a production of Hamlet, which will kick off the 2022 Santa Fe Summer Shakespeare Festival.

Hamlet, outdoors, under the stars, in the ruin of a castle right here in Santa Fe. The play will perform at Seton Castle, May 27, 28, 29 and June 3, 4, 5 with a cast of actors who are approximately the same ages as their characters.

Thus, Hamlet, Laertes, Ophelia, Horatio, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern are played Read More

Prescribed Burn Spotted From Anniversary Trail

Smoke is spotted on the horizan created from the in Pacheco Canyon prescribed burn as seen Tuesday from N.M. 502 at Anniversary Trail in Los Alamos. Photo by Jenn Bartram/ladailypost.com Read More

Step Up Gallery Takes It Outside! Show Features Landscape Oils By Artist Paul Hotvedt

Two large-scale oil paintings by Silver City artist Paul Hotvedt with the same titles as his exhibit, Time, right, and Tenacity, left. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Work is underway at the Step Up Gallery to set up the newest exhibit of paintings by Silver City artist Paul Hotvedt. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Artist Paul Hotvedt

By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com

In 2020, the pandemic pushed a lot of people indoors but not Silver City artist Paul Hotvedt. Rather than retreating inside, he ventured into the great outdoors.

His newest show, Read More

Daily Postcard: San Ildefonso Pottery Replica On NM 4

A San Ildefonso ancestral cooking pot replica south of the White Rock Visitor Center viewed Monday afternoon from the walking path along N.M. 4. Pots such as this were widely used in the southwest for cooking and storage, the vessels were sturdy enough to withstand the heat from direct contact with a wood fire and had no painted designs that would be obscured by smoke smudges. Photo by Jenn Bartram/ladailypost.com

Sign near the San Ildefonso pottery replica Monday on N.M. 4. Photo by Jenn Bartram/ladailypost.com Read More

Posts From The Road: Reata Restaurant In Alpine, Texas

Reata Restaurant: The Reata Restaurant in Alpine, Texas is housed in an 1890 adobe house. The Reata logo is displayed on the wooden gable and repeated in the walkway to the front. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Cowboy Country: Most of the art and decor within the restaurant leave no doubt you are dining in cowboy country. The beautiful wood plank flooring and bead wood ceiling runs throughout the dining areas. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

By GARY WARREN
Photographer
Formerly of Los Alamos

It’s all about the journey, not the destination. That is how we travel. Usually, we are on Read More

Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra Presents Classical Trumpeter Mary Elizabeth Bowden Sunday Jan. 16

Classical Trumpeter Mary Elizabeth Bowden performs Sunday, Jan. 16 at The Lensic. Courtesy/SFO

CONCERT News:

SANTA FE — The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2021‒2022 season continues with a celebratory program to ring in the new year featuring works by Mozart, Haydn, Glinka & Fung.

The first concert is 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 16 at The Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe.

The Symphony partnered with a consortium of seven orchestras and universities across the U.S. in 2019 to co-commission the JUNO Award-winning composer Vivian Fung and her Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra. Read More

Daily Postcard: Canyon Towhee Spotted At Bandelier

Daily Postcard: A Canyon Towhee spotted at Bandelier National Park. Wednesday was National Bird Day in the U.S. and a good day to appreciate our feathered friends. The Canyon Towhee is a common year-round bird at the park. It is mostly brown, slightly smaller than a Robin, and can be seen in the parking lot near the visitor center and along the Main Pueblo Loop Trail. Courtesy/NPS Read More

LACA Presents Maxwell Quartet Friday Jan. 14

The Maxwell Quartet performs Jan. 14. Courtesy/LACA

LACA News:

Los Alamos Concert Association (LACA) presents Scotland’s award-winning Maxwell Quartet performing 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 14 in the Duane Smith Auditorium in Los Alamos.

The string quartet will perform works by Haydn, Prokofiev, and Dvořák plus a set of their signature Scottish folk tunes.

Winner and Audience Favorite at the Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition in 2017, the Maxwell tours extensively across Europe and the United Kingdom. Following their 2019 US debut, the New York Times called the quartet “eloquent Read More

Los Alamos Little Theatre Opens 2022 With ‘Boots’

LALT News:

Los Alamos Little Theatre (LALT) opens 2022 with the New Mexico premier of “Boots” by El Pasoans Stephanie Karr and Mark Watts.

Director Jim Sicilian transforms this comedy into a modern day melodrama where you can two-step into a west Texas bar and be greeted by Gaby.

But life as she knows it is challenged by the death of her aunt, the owner, and outsiders moving in.

Will the reg’lars save the day? And who is the mysterious poetic stranger always sittin’ in the dark corner?

Attend the New Mexico premier of Boots, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 14 & 15, 20 & 21 and 2 p.m. Jan. 16, at 1670 Nectar St.

Tickets Read More

Teatro Paraguas: Play By Sen. Bill O’Neill ‘Save the Bees’

Courtesy/Teatro Paraguas

TEATRO PARAGUAS News:

Teatro Paraguas will present “Save the Bees”, a play about political impasse by Sen. Bill O’Neill.

Directed by Duchess Dale, the play is about the difficulty legislators face from their respective partisan bases as they attempt to work across the aisle in the polarized political atmosphere.

“This play has much humor in it, but at the same time is very serious,” Sen. O’Neill said. “It focuses on a friendship between two legislators on the opposite sides as they attempt to navigate these turbulent political waters.”

Geoffrey Pomeroy plays older, Read More

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