Scenes From ScienceFest Oppie Look-Alike Contest
Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce Director Ryn Hermann, right, presents ‘The Oppies’, contestants in the ScienceFest Oppie Look-alike, contest today at Fuller Lodge. Contest judge Wendee Brunish looks on. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Contest winner Xavier McTeigue shakes hands with judge Wendee Brunish. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com. 
Xavier McTeigue, center, receives his prize, a SelfieDrone, from Chamber Director Ryn Hermann. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
A gaggle of Oppies wait for the contest to begin. PhotoScenes From ScienceFest Discovery Day At Pond
This young engineer builds a circuit during ScienceFest Discovery Day, which drew a big crowd today to Ashley Pond Park and the lawn area at Fuller Lodge. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Discovery Day visitors stroll among the bubbles from the Los Alamos County booth at Ashely Pond Park. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Albert Einstein (aka Katy Korkos) gets an idea at ScienceFest today at Ashley Pond Park. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
This little shark found a shark’s tooth at the United Way of Northern New Mexico/Los Alamos DailySinging Scientist Curious Chris Performs July 17
LA HISTORY MUSEUM News:
Mix music, science and history together and you get Curious Chris the Singing Scientist!
The Los Alamos History Museum and the Los Alamos Creative District will present a special History Adventures program for 1st through 6th graders the morning of Tuesday, July 17.
Curious Chris will be singing the Symbols of Enchantment, hands-on science songs about New Mexico’s state symbols.
Children going into 1st–3rd grade meet 9:30-10:30 a.m. on Fuller Lodge Lawn (caregivers, please stay with your children). Children going into 4th-6th grade meet 10:45-11:45 a.m.
ScienceFest: Scenes From LAAC Chalk Walk Event
Los Alamos artist Jennifer Leon creates a dazzling art piece with chalk during the Los Alamos Arts Council’s Sec Sandoval Chalk Walk today at Fuller Lodge. Leon said she got an early start on the piece; she began working on it Friday. Leon said she does a lot of oil painting and and drawing but was having fun with the chalk and using the sidewalk as her canvas. ‘It’s fun to have an opportunity to put something out there and see how people react,’ she said. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
David Reichhardt was inspired by M.C. Escher’s tessellations during Read More
Scenes From Summer Concert At Ashley Pond
Liver Down the River playing Friday night at Ashley Pond Park. From left, Emily Aguirre-Winter (Fiddle, Viola, Vocals), Derek Abt (Bass, Vocals) and Dylan Ruckel (Guitar, Vocals) Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Dancing on the down-low. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Twist and shout. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Deborah and Russ Gordon enjoy the show. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Gang’s all here. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Take it away. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.comDaily Postcard: Early Evening Sky Above Los Alamos
Daily Postcard: Los Alamos sky early Thursday evening looking westward. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Signs Of ScienceFest 2018 Spotted Downtown
Tents were going up today around Ashley Pond Park in preparation for the 2018 Los Alamos ScienceFest, which runs through Sunday with the biggest day, Discovery Day, Saturday at the pond and Fuller Lodge. For more ScienceFest information, and the latest event schedule, visit LosAlamosScienceFestival.com. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Let the ScienceFest Chalk Walk begin! One chalk artist today was already at work creating a chalk painting on the sidewalk area near Fuller Lodge. Courtesy photo Read More
Game Cam Captures Bear Bathing On Barranca Mesa
A game cam captures a bear taking a bath earlier this month in the backyard of a home on Kachina Street on Barranca Mesa. Photo by Andrew Delorey ‘Doctor Atomic’ Coming To Santa Fe Opera
The opera ‘Doctor Atomic’ during a performance at The Metropolitan Opera. Courtesy photoDaily Postcard: Bull Elk In Full Velvet Spotted Grazing
Daily Postcard: A bull elk with his antlers covered in velvet is spotted May 31 grazing in the Jemez. Photo by Jim CobbleArts Council Announces Sec Sandoval Chalk Walk
A youngster paddles a 3-D chalk canoe during last year’s Chalk Walk in downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Local artists decorated the sidewalk during last year’s Chalk Walk. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
LAAC News:
The Arts Council invites the public to attend the Seventh Annual Sec Sandoval Chalk Walk Saturday. Participants can “purchase” a piece of the side walk near Fuller Lodge for $5 and Los Alamos Arts Council members get their first piece of sidewalk for free.
Chalk also is available for purchase. Artists can draw in their squares beginning at Read More
Newton: Madame Butterfly At The Summit
A.J. Glueckert (Pinkerton) Kelly Kaduce (Madame Butterfly) and Megan Marino (Suzuki). Photo by Ken Howard/Courtesy of Santa Fe Opera
By CARL NEWTON
Los Alamos
Giacomo Puccini declared in February 1904 that Butterfly is “the best I’ve written.” Leading up to that moment he pursued the essence of East Asian music, and then merged it with music that would be appropriate for western characters.
Puccini drew some of his best poetic material from librettists Illica and Giacosa. But the opening night audience was predisposed to loudly reject it. However with his great acumen, Puccini made the first Read More
Daily Postcard: Hummingbird Hovers In Quemazon
Daily Postcard: Hummingbird hovers in the sunshine ahead of a rain shower recently in Quemazon. Hummingbirds are birds from the Americas that constitute the family Trochilidae. They are among the smallest of birds, most species measuring 3-5 inches in length. Indeed, the smallest extant bird species is a hummingbird, the 2-inch bee hummingbird weighing less than .07 oz. They are known as hummingbirds because of the humming sound created by their beating wings which flap at high frequencies audible to humans. They hover in mid-air at rapid wing-flapping rates, which vary from Read More
Daily Postcard: Two Tailed Swallowtail Butterfly
Daily Postcard: A Two Tailed Swallowtail Butterfly (Papilio multicaudata) is spotted enjoying local flowers Sunday in White Rock. Photo by Nancy Ann Hibbs Read More
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SOSF News:Daily Postcard: Lightning Strikes North Of Overlook
Daily Postcard: Lightning strikes Sunday to the north of Overlook in White Rock. Photo by Cindy Richard Read More
