LA Big Band Holiday Dance At Fuller Lodge Saturday!
The Los Alamos Big Band is presenting a Holiday Dance, Saturday night at Fuller Lodge. Courtesy photo
The Los Alamos Big Band is presenting a Holiday Dance, Saturday night, Dec. 2, at Fuller Lodge. The dance begins at 7 pm, just after the WinterFest Holiday Lights parade.
Admission is $15/couple, $10/single, $5/student. Admission is free for middle-school children and younger with a paying adult. Tickets are available at the door.
The Los Alamos Big Band is a 16-instrument 1940s Glenn Miller-style swing band that plays for public events, weddings, Read More
New Mexico Film Office Announces ‘Willenberger’
NMFO News:Olions: ‘It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play!’
LAHS News:
Join the Los Alamos High School Olions for its 2017 winter show: “It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play!”
This fun play is set in a Christmas-themed live “radio show” based on the classic film, “It’s a Wonderful Life”.
Fun voices, noises and silliness make this show perfect for the whole family.
Performances are 7 p.m. Dec. 7-9 and Dec. 15-16. There will be 2 p.m. matinees Dec. 8, 9, 16 and 17. All performances are in the LAHS Blackbox Theater. Read More
LAAC Hosts Holiday Open House Dec. 2
The Chamisa Sing-sations peform during a previous Holiday Open House at Fuller Lodge. This year, the Los Alamos Arts Council will host the event 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Dec. 2 with the HillStrummers Ukulele Group and a cookie walk at 10 a.m., Chamisa Sing-sations at 10:30 a.m. and at 11:30 a.m. Juanita Madland will lead the annual sing-along. Also, a Boy Scout troop will sell holiday wreaths during event. Courtesy photo Read More
On The Job In Los Alamos: At Performing Arts Center
On the job in Los Alamos: Ryzsard Wasilewski paints a landscape of an African savannah as part of the set for ‘God of Carnage’, a Tony Award-winning play that will be performed by the Los Alamos Little Theatre Jan. 12-27 at the Performing Arts Center, 1670 Nectar St. The play describes what can happen when politeness and pretense are stripped away from supposedly civilized people. The cast of four features Larry Gibbons, Katrina Koehler, Tami Martinson and Corey New. #worklosalamos #wherediscoveriesaremade. Photo by John Gustafson
Ryzsard Wasilewski paints a landscape of anDaily Postcard: Autumn Sky On North Mesa
Daily Postcard: The autumn sky reflects on cars parked Sunday on North Mesa. Photo by Corrina Hughes Read More
SFCC Clay Club Annual Ceramics Sale Nov. 29-30
Three handled jugs by Eddie Hironaka. Courtesy photoBelisama Irish Dance Company Performs Sunday
Members of the Belisama Irish Dance Company. Photo by Minesh Bacrania‘Christmas In Los Alamos’ At Karen Wray Gallery
Photo for the show entitled ‘Winter Wash’, oil on canvas by Karen E. Wray. Courtesy photo
ART News:
Someone bought Erin Breneman’s first floral piece before Karen Wray had a chance to hang it up for the up for the Christmas in Los Alamos exhibition, which opened Friday, Nov 24.
Breneman is the newest artist to show her work at The Karen Wray Gallery. Her floral pieces are luscious and lifelike. People are always surprised to hear that they were made with colored pencil.
“They’re phenomenal,” gallery owner Karen Wray said. “I don’t know how she does it. Colored pencil takes so much patience.”
The Christmas Read More
Ernestine Aguirre Wins Xi Nu Craft Fair Quilt
The ladies of the Xi Nu chapter of Beta Sigma Phi announce their quilt winner from their recent craft fair. Ernestine Aguirre won the handmade quilt from the Xi Nu Craft Fair. The handmade offering is a donation of time and talent by Xi Nu member and quilting vendor Alice Garcia. Garcia makes the quilt each year for the community fundraiser. Courtesy photoSFCC Chamber Singers Winter Concert Dec. 7
SFCC News:
Santa Fe Community College Chamber singers present a Winter Concert at 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 7 in Room 727 on the SFCC campus, 6401 Richards Ave.
The program features performances of SFCC’s choral chamber singers who have participated in classes and rehearsals during the past semester.
The concert is presented by the School of Arts, Design and Media Arts. Singers will be directed by SFCC instructor Laurie Romero. Musical pieces include Russian folk songs, a New Mexican lullaby, Ukrainian carol and works by Richard Rodger and Oscar Hammerstein, II, Giuseppe Verdi, Engelbert Read More
2017 Winter Guide To Museums & Historic Sites
NMDCA News:
The free New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs 2017 Museums & Historic Sites Winter Guide is now available online at nmculture.org/guide.
This year’s guide features an historic photo of the New Mexico Museum of Art on the cover in recognition of the Museum’s centennial year. As the storied Museum of Art launches into a second century of service to New Mexico, it hosts three new exhibitions: Horizons: People & Place in 20th Century New Mexican Art; Shifting Light: Photographic Perspectives; and Contact: Local to Global which like the other centennial exhibitions Read More
Hillstrummers Ukulele Group Sharing Holiday Music
Courtesy photo
HILLSTRUMMERS News:
Join the Holiday Fun with the Betty Ehart Senior Center Hillstrummers Ukulele group playing several December Holiday Singalongs.
Singalong schedule:
- 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 1 at Smith’s Marketplace (Produce Lobby);
- 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 2 at Fuller Lodge WinterFest Open House;
- 4 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 19 at BESC with Aspen and Chamisa School Carolers
- 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 22 at Smith’s Marketplace (Produce Lobby); and
- 11:30 a.m. Friday, Dec. 29 at BESC Birthday Lunch.
Come and sing some of your favorite Holiday tunes Read More
Cinema Cindy Reviews: Coco
By Cynthia Biddlecomb“Coco” is Disney Pixar’s latest, very colorful, animated film, full of love for family and the inspiration of music. The 3D version will be well worth your wait so that you see the full visual intent of the film. Marketed to the “PG” crowd, older folks may enjoy Coco for the beauty of the film and the values it holds dear. Parents, though, will want to know that the “thematic elements” to scare a child are animated skeletons.
Twelve year old Miguel (perfectly voiced by Anthony Gonzalez) wants to sing and play guitar more than anything in the world. But his family has a
Daily Postcard: Deer Sip Water In White Rock
Daily Postcard: Deer sip water from a bird bath in White Rock. Photo by Bob Reedy Read More
Daily Postcard: CB FOX Dresses Up For Holidays
Daily Postcard: CB FOX Department Store is dressed up for the holidays on Central Avenue in downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Free Live Theater At Senior Centers Nov. 29-30
THEATER News:
Mark those calendars for 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 29 at the Los Alamos Senior Center and Thursday, Nov. 30 at the White Rock Senior Center for a free short play reading of Epiphany by David MacGregor.
This play is directed by Pat Beck and features Jim Nesmith and Pat Beck. It centers on a long-term couple’s discussion of what (and who) is truly important in their lives. How can one man’s simple epiphany trigger such a reaction in his partner? Are we really hard-wired by biology to live only 30 years or so, and now that medical science lets humans live much longer, how does Read More
Daily Postcard: Thanksgiving Sunrise
Daily Postcard: Thanksgiving sunrise taken from Quemazon. Photo by Trisha Ancell Read More
Los Alamos Symphony Orchestra Holiday Concert
Carol Haertling and Lyndee Francom rehearse for the upcoming Los Alamos Symphony Orchestra’s holiday concert Tuesday night at the Los Alamos High School. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Musicians with the Los Alamos Symphony Orchestra rehearse Tuesday night. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
LASO News:
The Los Alamos Symphony Orchestra will open the 2017 holiday season with its traditional Pops Concert.
The concert will begin at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 1, at the Crossroads Bible Church. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the orchestra will present familiar season Read More
