Daily Postcard: White Lilacs Bloom On Walnut Street
Daily Postcard: White Lilacs in bloom Monday on Walnut Street. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Santa Fe’s Lensic Performing Arts Center Launches National Search For Executive Director
LENSIC News:Daily Postcard: Farewell Tribute To Chamisa Principal
Daily Postcard: The White Rock rock at the corner of Rover Boulevard and N.M. 4 expresses the love and respect Chamisa Elementary School holds for retiring Principal Debbie Smith who has dedicated 23 years of her life to her students, teachers and staff. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Scenes From LAHS Spring Dance Show
Seniors Melina Burnside and Eben Bold perfrom at the annual Los Alamos High School Spring Dance Show May 17 at Smith Auditorium. Photo by Natasha Barkhudarova
Seniors Adam Listwan, left, Melina Burnside and Mary Brug at the annual Spring Dance Show May 17 at Smith Auditorium. Photo by Natasha Barkhudarova
Rotary’s Deborah Beene Music Award Winners 2016
The Rotary – Deborah Beene Music Award Competition winners. from left, Theodore Warner, Irene Kwon, Jamie Philp, Grace Kim and Brian Johnson. Photo by Ed Van Eeckhout
COMMUNITY News:
The Rotary Club of Los Alamos recently held auditions for the annual Deborah Beene Music Award competition.
The award was established in the memory of Deborah Beene, daughter of Donald and Sara Beene, a violin and piano student who died while enrolled in school here in December 1973.
The award is intended to assist 9th-12th grade Los Alamos High School students in their musical growth. The students Read More
Authors Speak Features Anita Rodriguez May 26
Self portrait, ‘Me My Bones My Roses’. Courtesy/Anita Rodriguez
LIBRARY News:
The public is invited to Mesa Public Library on Thursday, May 26 at 7 p.m. for the latest installment in the ongoing Authors Speak series, featuring Taos resident Anita Rodriguez. Rodriguez is an award-winning artist, who is also widely known as an enjarradora, or plasterer and finisher of adobe buildings.
“Unique, spirited, brilliant, strong” are the words that come to mind when describing the author and artist Anita Rodriguez. Her new book Coyota in the Kitchen is a striking memoir, laced with recipes, paintings Read More
Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’
By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB“The Man Who Knew Infinity” tells the story of renowned mathematical theorist, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar (1887-1920). Living in poverty in India, Ramanujan is a genius in number theory, but is completely unknown to the math world. How he gets to Cambridge and finally gets published and honored is the plotline of this film.
Movie poster for “The Man Who Knew Infinity.”Playing Ramanujan is Dev Patel, whom we recognize from his compelling lead roles in Slumdog Millionaire and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (and Second Best…).
The film opens in Read More
Scenes From Saturday’s 19th Annual Kite Festival
Clear skies, blustery winds and warm temperatures brought kite enthusiasts of all ages to Overlook Park Saturday to partake in the Los Alamos Arts Council’s 19th annual Kite Festival, which runs through 5 p.m. today. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Cora Perkins holds on tight to her kite during the Los Alamos Arts Council’s Kite Festival Saturday at Overlook Park. The Kite Festival continued on Sunday. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Joshua Matteson, along with his mom, Linda, decorate the kite he made during the Los Alamos Arts Council’s kiteDaily Postcard: Cactus Beneath The Moon
Daily Postcard: A New Mexico Cholla (Walking Stick Cactus) seen Saturday night with a full moon in the background near Overlook Park. Photo by Leah Austin Read More
Community Winds Presents ‘The Planets’ Tonight In White Rock
Courtesy imageThe Los Alamos Community Winds will take the audience on an interplanetary adventure at tonight’s concert. The centerpiece of the concert is Gustav Holst’s “The Planets, Op 39 (1918).
The work is based on astrology, rather than astronomy.
A short book by Alan Leo called “What is a Horoscope?” suggested to Holst the possibilities for musically interpreting the influences of each planet. In later years, he stressed that the suite was not intended to be programmatic, and that each movement simply suggested the traits ascribed to the Read More
Final Performance Of ‘Steel Magnolias’ Tonight
From left, Truvy (Dianne Williams Wilburn), Annelle (Holly Robinson) and Clairee (Carolyn Conner) admire a baby picture. The final performance of LALT’s ‘Steel Magnolias’ is 7:30 p.m. today at Los Alamos Little Theater. Tickets are $14 for adults and $12 for students and seniors and may be purchased at the door or in advance at CB FOX or from Brown Paper Tickets. Photo by Larry GibbonsBrownie ‘The King Of Ashley Pond’ Photo Bombs Shot
Brownie ‘The King of Ashley Pond’ suddenly photo bombs a shot of the park this morning. Photo by Greg KendallDaily Postcard: Raven Fledgling Waits For Meal
Daily Postcard: A raven fledgling (one of four), patiently waits in a local tree for his midday meal. Photo by Marc Bailey Read More
Kite Festival Underway Noon-5 p.m. Today & Sunday
Scene from a previous kite building workshop. File photoLos Alamos Arts Council’s (LAAC) Kite Festival launches this weekend. The festival is a 19-year tradition, which showcases expert flyers who perform dizzy aerial acrobatic moves with sophisticatedly constructed kites as well as simple, hand-made paper kites piloted enthusiastically by young children.
A kite flyer gets creative during a previous kite building workshop. File photoLargest Kite Festival In NM Takes Flight In White Rock May 20–22
Courtesy photoStudents Hold End Of Year Paint Fight
Local students hold their annual end of year paint fight Sunday afternoon, from left, Diego Diaz, Michael Dewulf, Samantha Melton, Brianna Montano, Sean Reynolds and Marisa Ronquills. Photo by Hope Jaramillo/ladailypost.com
Participants in paint fight, from left, Sierra Foley, Ashlyn Trujillo and Elizabeth Anaya. Photo by Hope Jaramillo/ladailypost.com
Los Alamos Fire Department hoses down the scene. Photo by Hope Jaramillo/ladailypost.com
Video Game Tournament At Planetarium May 24
Free Super Smash Bros. video game tournament at the Los Alamos Nature Center May 24. Courtesy/PEEC.
PEEC News:
The Los Alamos Teen Center and Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) are hosting a video game tournament at 6 p.m., Tuesday, May 24.
Video games will be projected on a 10’ x 20’ screen in the planetarium dome at the Los Alamos Nature Center at 2600 Canyon Road. This event is free and open to the public and no registration is required.
For more information about this and other PEEC programs, visit www.peecnature.org, email programs@peecnature.org or call 505.662.0460. Read More
‘Sewing With Knits’ Workshop Offered In Biodidact’s New Space At ‘Los Alamos Makers’ May 27
Makeup bag by Veronica Magnelind. Photo by Mandy Marksteiner
Veronica MagnelindDaily Postcard: Tanagers Spotted In Birdbath On Zuni
Daily Postcard: A pair of Tanagers spend time in a birdbath on Zuni in Los Alamos. Photo by Joel WIlliams Read More
