Daily Postcard: White Rock Sunrise
Daily Postcard: The sunrise Monday in White Rock. Photo by Nancy Ann Hibbs Read More
LAHS Orchestra Concert Packs UNM-LA
The Los Alamos High School orchestras and Los Alamos youth orchestra are performing in concert this evening at UNM-Los Alamos because Duane Smith Auditorium is undergoing renovations. Photo by Nancy Coombs/UNM-LA
Photo by Nancy Coombs/UNM-LA Read More
Los Alamos Community Winds Performs Dec. 9
The Los Alamos Community Winds concert poster. Courtesy photoMUSIC News:
The Los Alamos Community Winds would like to invite everyone to a celebration of the holiday season with their seventh Annual Holiday Prism concert. The concert will take place at 7 p.m. Saturday Dec. 9 at Crossroads Bible Church.
An collection of holiday favorites will be performed by the Community Winds, small instrumental ensembles and soloist, with a special vocal appearance by Rene LeClaire.
The Prism Concert format allows smaller groups of musicians to perform pieces that showcase their instrument’s best qualities.
Mesa Library Screens ‘The Last Waltz’ Today
Movie poster for ‘The Last Waltz’. Courtesy photo
Next up in the library’s Free Film Series is a film Chicago Tribune critic Michael Wilmington called “the greatest rock concert movie ever made – and maybe the best rock movie, period.” Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Waltz” (1978, rated PG) will screen at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the library’s upstairs meeting room.
It’s Thanksgiving, 1976. An ice rink and music hall in San Francisco called the Winterland Ballroom hosts a crowd of 5,00 for what concert promoter Bill Graham dubs “rock ‘n’ roll’s last supper” Read More
O’Keeffe’s Desert Abstraction ‘Bear Lake’ Finds Home At New Mexico Museum Of Art
Georgia O’Keeffe, Desert Abstraction ‘Bear Lake’, 1931, oil on canvas, 16 1/2 x 36 1/2 in. On long term loan to the New Mexico Museum of Art from the Museum of New Mexico Foundation (1984.336) © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Photo by Blair ClarkIceland’s Secret Solstice 2018 Announces Exclusive Performances Inside A Glacier + Lava Tunnel
Into The Glacier. Photo by Juliette Rowland
The Lava Tunnel Raufarhólshellir. Courtesy photo
PAC 8 TV Schedule Dec. 8 – 21
PAC 8 TV schedule for the month of December:- 06:00 AM Democracy Now! – Live
- 10:00 AM The Tom Hartman Program
- 11:00 AM County Council Meeting –Replay 12-05-17
- 01:00 PM Democracy Now!
- 02:00 PM United in Christ
- 03:00 PM Road to Recovery
- 04:00 PM Uprising
- 05:00 PM Democracy Now!
- 06:00 PM Chamber Business Breakfast – Tourism Strategic Plan
- 07:00 PM Los Alamos History – How Los Alamos Became a Ranch School
- 08:00 PM Los Alamos High School Graduation
- 10:00 PM League of Women Voters – Nuclear Waste Storage
- 12:00
Coro De Camara Performs ‘Deck The Hall’ Concerts
Coro de Camara presents ‘Deck the Hall’ Dec. 15 at the United Church of Los Alamos and Dec. 17 at the Unitarian Church of Los Alamos. Courtesy photo
COMMUNITY News:
Coro de Cámara presents “Deck the Hall”, a merry concert of holiday favorites and offers a free, 30-minute preview performance at 11:15 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 9 for Santa’s arrival at the Santa Fe Railyard.
Full concert performances:
- 7 p.m. Friday, Dec 15 at the United Church of Los Alamos, 2525 Canyon Road;
- 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 16 at First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe, 208 Grant Ave.; and
- 3 p.m.
Daily Postcard: View Spotted From LAHS E Wing
Daily Postcard: The view spotted Wednesday from behind E wing at Los Alamos High School. Photo by Randall Morris Read More
Free Weekly Raspberry Pi Club At Los Alamos Makers
Einstein meets Raspberry Pi is one of the projects completed at Los Alamos Makers. The bust of Albert Einstein was 3D printed and brought to life with Raspberry Pi-powered animated eyes. Courtesy/Prisca Tiassé YoderLos Alamos Makers News:
“It’s small. It’s cheap” ($10). “You can turn it into an environmental monitor that can keep track of the temperature in your house, and even turn on your fan or air conditioner before you get home from work.”
This is how Akkana Peck describes the Raspberry Pi in her latest book, “Jumpstarting the Raspberry Pi zero – Controlling the world Read More
LA MainStreet Light Parade Draws Record Crowd
Los Alamos MainStreet 2017 Holiday Lights Parade draws massive crowd Saturday night to Central Avenue in downtown Los Alamos. Courtesy photo 
The Hill Stompers Street Band in its 18th appearance leads the parade down Central Avenue. Courtesy photoNew Art Show On Display At Rose Chocolatier
Examples of art created by Lene Bryson, left, and Connie Pacheco on display through Jan. 16 at Rose Chocolatier in Central Park Square. Courtesy photo
ART News:
Rose Chocolatier is hosting artists and friends Connie Pacheco and Lene Bryson. Their work is on display at Rose Chocolatier throughout the holiday season.
Forty plus years of memories connect these two friends who are sharing the results of their creative passions in this show at Rose Chocolatier.
Pacheco has worked in many media, lately with new materials including mica and gold leafing. This has opened the floodgates to new expressions.
Daily Postcard: Cattails Spotted At Fenton Lake
Daily Postcard: Seeds burst forth from cattails spotted last week at Fenton Lake. Photo by Claire Swinhoe
Daily Postcard: Cattails spotted last week at Fenton Lake. Photo by Claire Swinhoe Read More
Daily Postcard: Hiking Along Otowi Trail
Daily Postcard: A view of Barranca Mesa on a recent hike along the Otowi Trail. Photo by Robert Beberniss Read More
Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘Lady Bird’
By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Convincing in the role of 17-year-old Lady Bird is Saoirse Ronan (star of the 2015 film,Daily Postcard: Moonset Sunday Over Ashley Pond
Daily Postcard: The moon sets early Sunday morning over Ashley Pond. Photo by Marc Bailey Read More
Brown Bag Show At Fuller Lodge Wednesday
Kathy McIntosh
LAAC News:
The Brown Bag Performance season’s fourth monthly concert will be presented noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 6, at Fuller Lodge and will feature the virtuoso talents of Kathy McIntosh, harpsichordist; Kay Newnam, violinist; Patrick Neher, contrabassist; and Candace Magner, guitarist.
The program will present Baroque and Classical era music along with a bit of Contemporary thrown in. Featuring the music of Corelli, Boccherini, Bach, and Hovhaness, these four musicians will knock people’s socks off with their inspirational vitality and formidable Read More
Scenes From County Holiday Tree Lighting
The public gathers Saturday evening inside the lobby of the Los Alamos County Municipal Building on Central Avenue to watch the annual lighting of the holiday tree, this year a 32-foot Douglas Fir. Holiday songs were performed as part of the event by the Los Alamos High School Schola Cantorum choir and Mountain Elementary School choir and refreshements were served to the large crowd. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Members of the Mountain Elementary School choir prepare to perform for a large crowd Saturday evening at the Municipal Building. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com Read More
