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Valle Grande Fog, Wildflowers And Orbwebs With Dew

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on September 2, 2017

Early morning fog lifts from the Valle Grande, revealing a dew-covered grassland with orb webs strung from shrubby cinquefoil, Valles Caldera National Preserve. Photo by David A. Ponton/wildearthlight.com

Bluebell with dew in the Valle Grande, Valles Caldera National Preserve. Photo by David A. Ponton/wildearthlight.com

Bluebell and a sneaky aster with dew in the grassland of the Valle Grande, Valles Caldera National Preserve. Photo by David A. Ponton/wildearthlight.com

Orb web with dew in the early morning in the Valle Grande grassland, Valles Caldera National Preserve. Photo by Read More

New Mexico Film Office Announces Universal Cable Productions ‘Mr. Robot’ To Film In New Mexico

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on September 2, 2017
NMFO News:
 
SANTA FE ― New Mexico Film Office Director Nick Maniatis announced Aug. 31 that USA Network’s television series “Mr. Robot” produced by Universal Cable Productions in association with Anonymous Content, will partially shoot in Albuquerque at the end of August through the beginning of September. 
 
“Once again, New Mexico’s incredible landscapes, unmatched workforce, and our powerful incentives are bringing good jobs to New Mexico,” New Mexico Film Office Director Nick Maniatis said. “This is
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Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on September 2, 2017
By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos
 
The Hitman’s Bodyguard is a funny, but violent movie, an unlikely “bromance” between Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds. Watching this film, you will not be bored.
 
But, movie lovers beware: common, vulgar epithets are overused throughout the film; many cars are hot-wired; many automatic weapons are discharged; every bullet that hits its target produces blood; the bodies, in the end, are too many to number; Interpol gets a very bad rap in this story; maverick guys with security training are the heroes. (It is satisfying, though, to see bad guys
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The Paladins Play The Pond At 7 p.m. Today!

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on September 2, 2017
The Paladins play the pond at 7 p.m. today. Courtesy photo
 
By RUSS GORDON
Concert Promoter

At 7 p.m. today, we’ll be at Ashley Pond and the show is free and you should bring your own chairs and maybe an umbrella.

The Los Alamos County Summer Concert Series show will be Smith’s Marketplace Night. Our band is the great San Diego act, The Paladins (www.paladinsband.com, www.rockabilly.net/paladins and, you can hear lots of their music on www.youtube.com.)

The Los Angeles Times say the Paladins are “…one of the most powerful roots-rocking groups in the nation. Undoubtedly one of the best live Read More

Labor Day Weekend At Bandelier: Cultural Demonstrators And More

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on August 31, 2017
The Fragua family of Jemez Pueblo will be demonstrating their work at Bandelier National Monument over the Labor Day weekend. Courtesy/NPS
 
BANDELIER News:
 
It’s hard to believe, but it’s already Labor Day weekend! Bandelier National Monument will have not one, but three, cultural demonstrators on the three days of the holiday weekend. All of them have been coming to Bandelier for many years to demonstrate their work, so while some visitors may have not met them before, others may enjoy the chance to see them again.
 
The Candelaria family from Santo Domingo Pueblo
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Quorum Notice: Art In Public Places Dedication Sept. 7

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on August 31, 2017

COUNTY News:

A quorum notice for the Art in Public Places dedication “Carry the Light” has been published here.

Members of the Los Alamos County Council may attend this dedication at 2 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 7 at the Golf Course Community Building on Diamond Drive.

A quorum may be present, however, no action will be taken.

The communiy is invited to attend this event. Read More

Final White Rock Artist Market Of Summer Saturday

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on August 31, 2017

The final White Rock Artist Market is happening 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday outside the White Rock Visitor Center. Courtesy/LAMVB

ART News:

The final White Rock Artist Market is happening 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday outside the White Rock Visitor Center. This is the last Artist Market for the summer and will return Memorial Weekend 2018.

Saturday’s market will feature regular artists and artisans but also will include new faces to the Artist Market. The artists will be selling fused and stained glass art, paintings, jewelry, mosaics, gift cards and bags, hand-woven pine needle baskets, natural Read More

Local Veterans Groups Support Therapy Program At Fundraiser Film Event

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on August 31, 2017
Eddie Crain, founder of Healing America’s Heroes. Courtesy photo

COMMUNITY News:

Journey along Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh Trail captured in award-winning documentary Dan Gandee, a disabled Marine diagnosed with combat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and chronic pain, finds fly tying to be healing for himself and others.

The former horse trainer and avid fly-fisherman volunteered to teach fly tying at Healing America’s Heroes (HAH), a therapeutic equine and piscatorial program in Chama. The program’s participants are also veterans—men and women—who suffer from PTSD.

HAH founder,

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‘Communicating Doors’ Opens At LALT Sept. 8

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on August 31, 2017
Scene from ‘Communicating Doors’, opening Sept. 8 at LALT. Photo by Larry Gibbons

By KELLY DOLEJSI
Los Alamos

Women take center-stage in Los Alamos Little Theater’s upcoming production of Alan Ayckbourn’s “Communicating Doors,” showing 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays Sept. 8-9, 15-16, 22-23, and 2 p.m. for a matinee Sunday, Sept. 17.

The play begins in a deceptively ordinary-looking hotel room. Poopay, a prostitute the elderly Reece wants to witness his confession of murder, must save herself from Reece’s also-guilty assistant Julian — who does not wish to confess — by going back in time

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Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘Wind River’

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on August 31, 2017

By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

“Wind River” is a murder mystery with hauntingly beautiful cinematography and a melancholy spirit. Written and directed by Taylor Sheridan, writer of the 2016 film “Hell or High Water” and the 2015 film “Sicario”, Wind River opened Aug. 18and is already garnering high praise from film critics. (Can you hear the “Oscar buzz”?)

In perhaps his best role to date, actor Jeremy Renner (Hurt Locker) plays Corey Lambert, a Fish and Game tracker around the Wind River reservation. Corey and his Arapahoe ex-wife, Wilma (Julia Jones) are still grieving the mysterious death Read More

New Mexico MainStreet Partners Receive Town Program Funding From National Endowment For Arts

Submitted by Chris Clark on August 30, 2017
NMEDD News:
 
SANTA FE ― Aug. 23, New Mexico MainStreet (NMMS), a program of the New Mexico Economic Development Department, announced that more than $300,000 has been awarded to MainStreet partners to support the arts in New Mexico.
 
The City of Albuquerque, the City of Gallup and Creative Startups partnering with Zuni Pueblo have received funding to support their work as centers of arts and innovation and build on their cultural assets to activate their downtown economies.
 
“This funding will support place making and arts programming in New Mexico Arts &
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Daily Postcard: Colorful Clouds

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on August 30, 2017

Daily Postcard: Colorful clouds spotted Monday from Pajarito Acres. Photo by Jaret McDonald

Daily Postcard: Colorful clouds spotted Monday from Pajarito Acres. Photo by Jaret McDonald Read More

County Dedicates New Public Art Sept. 7

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on August 29, 2017

Albuquerque artist Doug Czor carries in one of the Plexiglass panels that is part of his sculpture, ‘Carry the Light’, which is installed at the Los Alamos County Golf Course Community Building. Courtesy/czor.com

 

Albuquerque artist Doug Czor’s sculpture, ‘Carry the Light’, hangs from the ceiling in the Los Alamos County Golf Course Community Building. Courtesy/czor.com

 

 

By KIRSTEN LASKEY

Los Alamos Daily Post 

kirsten@ladailypost.com

 

One of the most recent additions to Los Alamos County’s public art collection is Read More

Mexican Brass To Play At The Pond Sept. 8

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on August 29, 2017

Metales M5, The Mexican Brass, performs Sept. 8 at Ashley Pond Park. Courtesy photo

 

LACA News:

Metales M5, The Mexican Brass, will perform beginning at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 8 at Ashley Pond Park in the final “Gordon’s Concert” of the season.

The free concert is a joint presentation the Los Alamos County Summer Concert Series and the Los Alamos Concert Association.

“Russ Gordon, the summer concert impresario and I have been trying to figure out how to collaborate for several years,” LACA Artistic Director Ann McLaughlin said. “LACA’s usual venue, the Smith Auditorium, will be closed for Read More

Serena Birnbaum Earns Girl Scout Gold Award

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on August 29, 2017
Serena Birnbaum earned her Girl Scout Gold Award and her project was to build risers in the choir room at LAHS. Courtesy photo

Serena Birnbaum

COMMUNITY News:
 
Los Alamos High School graduate Serena Birnbaum has received her Girl Scout Gold Award, which is equivalent to a Boy Scout Eagle achievement.
 
Her project envolved building a new set of permanent risers in the choir room at Los Alamos High School, which will benefit choir students for many years to come. The risers were custom sized to fit into the new choir room, and Birnbaum worked with the Los Alamos Public Schools to complete
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NMSA Receives Sixth ‘A’ From PED

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on August 28, 2017
NMSA News:
 
SANTA FE ― New Mexico School for the Arts (NMSA) is proud to announce that it has received its sixth consecutive “A” grade from the New Mexico Public Education Department for school year 2016-2017.
 
Eric Crites, NMSA Head of School, congratulated the dedication and skill of the school’s faculty, and the motivation and diligence of its students, citing both as primary factors in the ongoing academic success that has characterized the school since it opened in 2010.
 
“NMSA students demonstrate every day that hard work in a dual-curriculum, rigorous
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Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Announces New Visitor Center In Abiquiú

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on August 28, 2017
Georgia O’Keeffe Hitching a Ride to Abiquiu with Maurice Grosser, 1944. Photo by Maria Chabot. Gift of The Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation. ©Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
 
ART News:
 
ABIQUIU — The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum announced that it will occupy an enhanced visitor center at Abiquiú Inn in Abiquiú.
 
The new center will be at the site where the Museum’s tour office presently operates.
 
“We are very excited about this opportunity,” said Robert A. Kret, director of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. “Not only will this further our mission to preserve and advance Georgia O’Keeffe’s
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