Drone Captures Crowd At Secret City Summer Concert
A drone captures the scene of the record-breaking crowd of about 4,000 gathered Friday evening at the Secret City Summer Concert featuring Big Head Todd and the Monsters at Ashley Pond Park in downtown Los Alamos. Courtesy of Leslie Bucklin/LAC Read More
Daily Postcard: View From Main Hill Pull-Out
Daily Postcard: Panoramic view from the Main Hill Road pull-out. Photo by Maggie Meier Read More
Scenes From Hawk-To-Topper Shaving Cream Battle
Each year the Los Alamos County Parks and Recreation Department hosts the Hawk-to-Topper event at Urban Park providing students with food, fun jumps and a much needed dousing by the Los Alamos Fire Department following the students all out battle with shaving cream. The annual event marks the transition from Los Alamos Middle School to Los Alamos High School. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
Talk about a fun time! Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
They got me good! Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
Hold on I missed a spot! Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
Great memories! Read More
‘So Far From Heaven’ Exhibit Opens Friday
‘Cañoncito Church, cross and door’ by Jan Paul Pietrzak. Pietrzak is one of six New Mexico photographers showing their work in June in the Upstairs Art Gallery at Mesa Public Library. Photo by Jan Paul Pietrzak
‘A Quiet Moment’ by Tony O’Brien was photographed at Christ in the Desert Monastery, and included in O’Brien’s 2011 book ‘Light in the Desert’. Photo by Tony O’Brien
‘Walking Rain’ by Kirk Gittings will be exhibited in the ‘So Far From Heaven’ show at Mesa Public Library in June. Courtesy photo‘Hands On’ Icon Painting Workshop At Saint Job Of Pochaiv Orthodox Church July 8-13 & July 15-20
During the workshop, beginning students will work on this icon of the Archangel Michael. Courtesy photo
Advanced students will work on this icon of Saint Luke the Proto-iconographer. Courtesy photo
Fr. Theophan Mackey, front center, of Saint Job of Pochaiv Orthodox Church and students of a previous workshop with their finished icons. Courtesy photo
Saint Job of Pochaiv Orthodox Church News:
Two icon painting workshops in the Byzantine-Russian tradition will be held this July in Los Alamos, at Saint Job of Pochaiv Orthodox Church, 1319 Trinity Dr.
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Daily Postcard: Double Rainbow Over White Rock
Daily Postcard: A double rainbow paints the sky Thursday viewed near Overlook in White Rock. Photo by Jenn Bartram/ladailypost.com Read More
More Scenes From Big Head Todd At The Pond
A record breaking crowd covers the lawn at Ashley Pond Park Friday evening for the second Secret City Summer Concert of the 2019 season, featuring Big Head Todd and the Monsters. Next week the summer concert features Liver Down the River. From Durango, Colo., this five-piece band of musicians came together in 2012 and has its roots in countless river floats, campfires, late night picking and Colorado living. Their music is a blend of original and improvisational compositions from the high peaks of bluegrass, the deepest pockets of the funk, and the outer reaches of space. Photo Read More
Coco Screens At Mesa Public Library Thursday June 6
LIBRARY News:
Coco (2017, rated G, 1 hr., 45 min.), an animated comedy and adventure film directed by Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina, will be shown at 6:30 p.m. at Mesa Public Library Thursday, June 6.
A boy named Miguel loves music and dreams of emulating the famous singer Ernesto de la Cruz. Miguel’s family earn their living as shoemakers and won’t allow anyone to play music.
Miguel learns what is behind this ban as he discovers his family’s history. He travels by accident into the world of the dead and meets his idol and the town’s hero, the now-deceased musician Ernesto de la Cruz. Miguel learns Read More
Record Crowd Rocks To Big Head Todd And The Monsters At Secret City Concert At Ashley Pond Park
Los Alamos Chamber Director Ryn Herrmann serves as emcee during the second Secret City Concert of the season Friday evening at the Ashley Pond Park Pavilion. The concert featured Big Head Todd and the Monsters, which drew a record breaking crowd. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Founder of the summer concert series, Russ Gordon, center, gets a special shout-out and standing ovation from the massive crowd as the concert gets underway Friday evening at the pond. He is congratulated by Eddy Partridge of Eddy and the Nomads, left, and DK Warner of DK and the Affordables, right. Photo by Kirsten Read More
Daily Postcard: Scenes From Deer Trap Mesa Trail
Daily Postcard: Cactus blooms along Deer Trap Mesa Trail. Photo by Maggie Meier
Indian paintbrush. Photo by Maggie Meier
Photo by Maggie Meier
Yucca. Photo by Maggie Meier
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More Scenes From Big Head Todd And The Monsters Underway At Ashley Pond Park Pavilion
Scene early this evening as a massive crowd begins to gather to hear Big Head Todd and the Monsters at the Ashley Pond Park Pavilion. Big Head Todd and the Monsters are a rock band formed in 1984 in Colorado. The band has released a number of albums since 1989 with their 1993 album Sister Sweetly going platinum in the United States. Members include Todd Park Mohr, Brian Nevin, Jeremy Lawton and Rob Squires. Photo by KayLinda Crawford/ladailypost.com
The sun begins to set as the second summer concert of the season gets underway this evening at Ashley Pond Park. Photo by KayLinda Crawford/ladailypost.com Read More
Massive Crowd Gathers For Big Head Todd And The Monsters Concert Underway At Ashley Pond Park
By 7 p.m. today a big crowd had turned out to see Big Head Todd and the Monsters. The show began at 8 p.m. and continues until 10 p.m. in the Ashley Pond Park Pavilion. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Scene from the gathering at Ashley Pond Park around 7 p.m. today for the second summer concert of the season: Big Head Todd and the Monsters. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Little people hanging out. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
A sea of concert goers flood Ashley Pond Park today an hour before the concert. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.comBig Head Todd And The Monsters Headline Secret City Summer Concert At Ashley Pond Park Tonight!
Big Head Todd and the Monsters will be on stage at 8 p.m. tonight at Ashley Pond Park Pavilion. Courtesy photo
The County provided this map detailing available parking lots to accommodate the expected large turnout for the concert tonight at Ashley Pond Park. Courtesy/LACMUSIC News:
Big Head Todd and the Monsters will be the featured act at tonight’s Secret City Concert. They’ll take the stage at 8 p.m. at Ashley Pond Park Pavilion.
The band turned 30 this year, right now they’re less about celebrating stability than volatility, in the form of their eleventh studio Read More
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A Universe Of Summer Fun Begins At Pond June 3
Clan Tynker takes the stage Monday at Ashley Pond Park as the Library hosts its annual kick-off to summer reading. Courtesy/LAC
Library News:
Universally beloved entertainers Clan Tynker will juggle, stilt-walk, unicycle, strum and hum Monday, June 3 at Ashley Pond Park, as the Library hosts its annual kick-off to summer reading.
Beginning at 5 p.m. you can visit with all of those good people who put on summer programs for kids and families, and then Clan Tynker will take to the stage at 6 p.m. for their vaudeville-style show. Have a picnic in the Park and enjoy the show!
This year the Community Services Read More
Tales Of Our Times: Synergism Raises Questions And Has Some Answers Too
Tales of Our TimesNew Mexico Citizens
for Clean Air & Water
Like most things, words keep evolving. Today, “synergism” describes how some pollutants do more harm mixed together than the sum of their harms alone. We breathe pollutants mixed together
Daily Postcard: Hikers Spot Evening Primrose
Daily Postcard: An evening primrose blooming along the trail during the Ad Hoc Hikers Thursday hike through Rendija Canyon and Deer Trap Mesa trails. Photo by Patricia Rathbone Read More
History On Tap: A (Re-) Introduction To Spanish Colonial Arts Society At projectY Cowork June 3
Historical Society News:Rotary: Veteran Mike Katko On The Poetry Of War
Veteran and Los Alamos Rotarian Mike Katko recently presented a program at the Rotary Club of Los Alamos in honor of Memorial Day. Entitled ‘The Poetry of War’, Katko read poetry inspired by the tragedy of battlefields of the Civil War, the World Wars and Vietnam. With primarily black-and-white photographs as a backdrop, he also added period music with powerful wartime lyrics. At the conclusion of his presentation, Katko asked members to share the names of veterans who had been important in their lives. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com Read More
