LALT Holds Auditions For Silent Sky
Courtesy/NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA)Pride Week Features Special Events June 15-17
The Los Alamos County Council presented a proclamation in May, which recognizes the second week of June as Annual LGBTQ+ Pride Week. This is the first time Pride has been recognized or celebrated by the Los Alamos Community.
It started when three women, Tina DeYoe, Roberta Beal and Danielle Sutherland were sitting around talking about how great it would be if Los Alamos had its own Pride Week, as many other communities do.
“The idea spread quickly,” said Pride organizer Anna Dillane who owns Boomerang Thrift Boutique.
Like-minded Read More
Daily Postcard: View From Overlook Park
Daily Postcard: The view looking northeast during a recent visit to Overlook Park in White Rock. Photo by Nancy Ann Hibbs Read More
Scenes From Summer Concert At Pond Friday
Baracutanga performs for a crowd Friday, June 8, at Ashley Pond Park as part of the Gordons Summer Concert Series. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Two young dancers enjoy the music performed by Baracutanga during the Los Alamos Summer Concert Series June 8 at Ashley Pond Park. This Friday, the concert series will present Igor and the Red Elvises. The show begins at 7 p.m. at Ashley Pond Park. All Gordons Summer Concerts are free to the public. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
A crowd enjoys the music Friday, June 8, at Ashley Pond Park. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com Read More
Saxophone Legends Heat Up The Harwood
Greg Abate, left, and Richie Cole blow their horns. Courtesy photoMUSIC News:
The Taos Jazz Bebop Society and the Harwood Museum present The Greg Abate Quintet featuring Richie Cole at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 22 at the Harwood Museum in Taos. Tickets are $25 ($20 for members). Call 575.758.9826 or stop by the museum.
This is a return engagement for Abate and Cole – and a reprise of the sold-out “Tribute to the Phil Woods”, the 2017 concert that rocked the Harwood last year. This is an amazing opportunity to see these two great jazz artists perform together.
This year’s show is definitely Read More
New Mexico Film Office Announces ‘Dying For A Baby’ To Film In New Mexico
NMFO News:Christian Church Hosts Pet Palooza June 12-14
Pastor Doug Partin searches for his ark as he hopes for rain this season. Courtesy photo
Pet Palooza signs dot the community to entice members and non-members to attend. Courtesy photoDaily Postcard: Spanish Broom Explodes In White Rock
Daily Postcard: A Spanish broom bush explodes Sunday in the front yard of a home in White Rock. Spanish broom is native to the southern Mediterranean region of Europe, including Spain, Morocco, the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Azores and was first introduced to North America in 1848. Source: USDA. Photo by Shari Mills Read More
UNM-LA Class Delves Into 2018 Santa Fe Operas
UNM-LA News:
UNM-Los Alamos will offer “Introduction to Opera” 6-9 p.m., Mondays beginning June 11.
For those who are curious about opera, or wishing to understand the allure of the world-famous Santa Fe Opera, this is the perfect learning opportunity. The initial class will provide an overview of opera, then each subsequent class will focus on one of the operas of the 2018 Santa Fe Opera season. There may be opportunities to attend dress rehearsals as well.
Instructors Greg Schneider and Dennis Davies-Wilson have taught this class together for 12 years. They are both musicians, and each has Read More
Daily Postcard: Summer Morning Hope…
Daily Postcard: A vision of hope shines through the trees early Friday morning at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church on Canyon Road in Los Alamos. Photo by Fr. Glenn Jones Read More
Scenes From 2018 ChamberFest Part 1
Kids enjoy the bubble pit today during ChamberFest in downtown Los Alamos. ChamberFest is the annual street fair featuring Chamber members and hosted by the Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce. At this event, Chamber member businesses and nonprofits showcase their products and services for tourists and locals alike. Booths are concentrated in and around Central Park Square and the green space area off Main Street and Central Avenue. Entertainment includes a band stage, and a kid’s activity area as well as the traditional sand pile sponsored by Los Alamos National Bank. Several thousandAtomic City Children’s Theater Summer Workshops Begin Monday
A past ACCT workshop. Courtesy/ACCT
ACCT News:
Atomic City Children’s Theater (ACCT) will host its Summer Workshops next week. There are spots still available.
ACCT Co-Directors Daren Savage and Annemarie Brown are happy to offer young people in Los Alamos the opportunity work with material from ACCT’s upcoming production of Disney Beauty and the Beast Jr.
A different workshop will be offered each day, which will focus on dance, singing, acting, directing and makeup.
LAPS will continue to support ACCT as an official after-school program. The directors would like to invite Read More
Libations & Leonardo: Museum Adult Night Offers Live Music, Dancing, Drawing & Painting Class
Secrets of the Mona Lisa. Courtesy/Grande Exhibitions
Daily Postcard: American Flags Along Trinity Drive
Daily Postcard: American flags wave in the breeze Friday afternoon along the fence at the Elks Club on Trinity Drive in Los Alamos. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
Daily Postcard: American flags Friday near the Elks Club on Trinity Drive. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com Read More
Daily Postcard: Sunset Spotted From Canyon Road
Daily Postcard: An early evening sunset paints the sky Thursday looking west from Canyon Road. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
The Summer Concert Series Rocks On!
Scene from the first Los Alamos Summer Concert of the 2018 Season at Ashley Pond Park. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.comBy BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post
bjgordon@ladailypost.com
The Los Alamos Summer Concert is off and running! Any lingering fears that Abe Gordon and Kara Robertson couldn’t fill the clown-sized shoes of Russ Gordon, who coordinated and managed the Concert Series for 28 years, have been put to rest by the first two great concerts, Dre Z Melodi and Eddy & the Nomads with DK & The Affordables.
“The first concerts went well,” Robertson said. Read More
LAAC Offers Opportunities To Hear Traditional Music
Cantos de Taos will peform 7 p.m. June 20 in Fuller Lodge. Courtesy photo
By PATRICK NEHERLos Alamos Arts Council
When friends mention they are going to a concert of “traditional music” you might think they mean a folk, or gospel concert. Certainly those genres are traditional music, but now so is jazz, opera, all forms of classical music, rock and pop, and of course, marches and dances.
When a musician speaks of traditional music, it usually means that which was used for a specific purpose: marches, dances, processionals, socializing (background music), cultural Read More
Purgatory Resort Re-Opens With Plaza Activities
PURGATORY RESORT News:Scenes From Albuquerque & Four Corners Pipe And Drums Brown Bag Performance At Fuller Lodge
The Albuquerque & Four Corners Pipes and Drums packed the house at noon Wednesday for a Brown Bag Performance, which included Highland dancing. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com
Bagpipers playing at the Wednesday Brown Bag Performance, from left, Leslie Puckett, Ethan Aulwes, Joshua Spencer, Tristan Goodwin and Donald Machen. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com
Snare drummers, from left, Jillian Puckett, Sheila McClees and Caroline Spaeth perform Wednesday at Fuller Lodge. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com
Pipe Major Anthony Puckett gives Read More
