DALA Announces ‘Nutcracker On The Hill’ Auditions
Little ballerinas. Photo by Paulo T. Photography
Swing dancers in the air. Photo by Paulo T. PhotographyDALA News:
Dance Arts Los Alamos (DALA) invites local dancers to audition for its all-new production entitled “Nutcracker on the Hill”.
The show will be presented during Winterfest Weekend, Dec. 3-6, at Duane Smith Auditorium.
Set in 1944, this original adaptation of the classic holiday ballet is being produced in association with the Los Alamos Historical Society. It will feature swing dancing at historic Fuller Lodge, glow in the dark rats, and a cast of more than 100 dancers Read More
Iguanas Play Summer Concert At Rover Park Tonight
The Iguanas from New Orleans play Summer Concert at tonight at Rover Park. Photo by Laura RichensThe Iguanas from New Orleans play Los Alamos Summer Concert Series at 7 p.m. today at Rover Park in White Rock. The weather should be fine but remember that may change so dress for anything. The Show will go on.
The Iguanas play a gumbo of Cajun (French-Acadian), Mexican, Mexican-American rock, New Orleans’ rock, jazz & blues plus roots- rock They’ve played all over the world including NPR’s Mountain Stage, Tipitinas, the “Treme” Read More
NMSA Students Perform At Railyard Parking Garage
Students rehearse for ‘BLIND SPOT.’ Courtesy photoNMSA News:
BLIND SPOT will be performed at 2 p.m., 3 p.m., 4 p.m., 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 20 in the Santa Fe Railyard Garage, 503 Camino de la Familia, Santa Fe.
The performance, sponsored by the Santa Fe Parking Division, will take place in the lowest level of the parking garage. Audience can access the performance by stairs or elevator across from the Violet Crown Cinema.
As part of the AHA Festival of Progressive Arts, this event is free, ADA-accessible and open to the public.
Performed and created by 27 New Mexico School for Read More
This Week At The Reel Deal
By JIM O’DONNELLIf you want to see an intense thriller with great acting by Owen Wilson and Pierce Brosnon, check out No Escape.
The reviews are mixed, it depends where you look but reviewers who immersed themselves in this film for pure entertainment and action loved it. Those worried about political correctness-not so much. It is big screen entertainment plain and simple.
I’ve been trying to open Love and Mercy for a while now and we finally got it for a one-week run. This film is a portrait of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys. It is a journey through Wilson’s music career Read More
Los Alamos Concert Association’s Ann McLaughlin Presents Upcoming Season Details At Rotary
Ann McLaughlin, artistic director of the Los Alamos Concert Association, speaking Tuesday at the Los Alamos Rotary Club about the association’s upcoming season of ’70 Years of World Class Artists.’ Photo by Doug Wilson Read More
‘Fourth Fridays’ Returns To Los Alamos Aug. 28
CREATIVE DISTRICT News:
Los Alamos Creative District’s Fourth Fridays returns to downtown Los Alamos this Friday, Aug. 28
Designed to get people downtown before the Summer Concert Series begins at 7 p.m., Fourth Fridays is a monthly event that offers special programming at Mesa Public Library, Bradbury Science Museum, Los Alamos Historical Society, Fuller Lodge Art Center and the Los Alamos Nature Center.
Fourth Fridays happens on the fourth Friday of each month and also promotes special offerings from participating local businesses.
This month Fourth Friday special events and Read More
Mozart At Bandelier’s ‘Opera On The Rocks’ Sept. 26
Bandelier Superintendent Jason Lott introduces the 2014 ‘Opera On The Rocks’. Courtesy/NPS Photo
BANDELIER News:
The classical music of Mozart will be performed at Bandelier National Monument’s Juniper Campground outdoor amphitheater during the park’s fourth annual “Opera on the Rocks,” Sept. 26.
The family friendly event is an opportunity for those not familiar with opera, as well as opera enthusiasts, to enjoy listening in a special venue.
“We are very proud and honored to sponsor this event,” Bandelier Superintendent Jason Lott said. “It brings music back to this area where Ancestral Read More
Coming Spring 2016! The Los Alamos Community Winds Band Festival And Honor Bands
Santa Fe Pro Musica Opens Season With OPUS ONE
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OPUS ONE on stage. Courtesy photo
PRO MUSICA News:
Santa Fe Pro Musica opens its 34th Season in September with guest artists from the innovative chamber music ensemble OPUS ONE.
Veterans as well as present members of the world’s most prestigious chamber groups including the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Tashi, the Beaux Arts Trio and the Orion and Guarneri String Quartets, OPUS ONE is the result of a mutual love of music making between four extraordinary instrumentalists and friends. As soloists as well as chamber musicians, they are each familiar figures in concert halls Read More
‘Our Lady Of Mariposas’ Opens In Santa Fe Sept. 3
Esperanza (Maya Sanchez), left, and her neighbor Kate (Liza Frolkis) share a moment together in ‘Our Lady of Mariposas.’ Courtesy photoTHEATER News:
Teatro Paraguas launches its 12th season with a premiere production of Santa Fe playwright Alix Hudson’s play Our Lady of Mariposas, beginning Thursday, Sept.3.
The play, which builds a story of a family in southeastern New Mexico around the massive die-off of monarch butterflies in the winter of 2002, will be presented at Teatro Paraguas Studio through Sunday, Sept. 16.
Manuel (Jason Jaramillo), an immigrant from Mexico, is Read More
Red Elvises Rock Friday’s Relay For Life
The Red Elvises entertained a big crowd at Relay for Life Friday at Ashley Pond Park. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Igor winds up the crowd. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Concert Promoter Russ Gordon, left, and Kandice and Jeff Favorite of the Hill Stompers put their hands in the air for the Red Elvises. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Youngsters take to the dance floor. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Relay for Life participants chat before Friday’s concert. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.comScenes From Friday’s Activities At Ashley Pond Park
Summer events are always fun at ‘Party to Go’. Photo by Jennifer Bartram
Food vendors stay busy at Friday’s Summer Concert. Photo by Jennifer Bartram
Taking a break for Kettle Corn. Photo by Jennifer BartramAn ocean of people were drawn to the events taking place Friday evening at Ashley Pond Park.
The Red Elvises rocked the stage. The original members of the band came out of Moscow, Russia as a folk and folk-rock band. The band moved to Santa Monica, Calif.
By 1995, they were a Siberian surf-rock, Russo-American rock band. They became a major part
Los Alamos MainStreet Awarded Spirit Of Preservation
Los Alamos MainStreet Executive Director Suzette Fox accepts the Spirit of Preservation Award from the New Mexico MainStreet Program. Courtesy photo
LA MAINSTREET News:
Los Alamos MainStreet recently received the Spirit of Preservation Award from the New Mexico MainStreet Program for its advocacy of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park.
New Mexico MainStreets gathered in Artesia, Aug. 13, with local affiliates and public and private partners to celebrate 30 years of MainStreet’s economic development and revitalization efforts in New Mexico.
“Governor Susana Martinez Read More
Red Elvises Play Summer Concert Tonight At Pond
The Red Elvises. Courtesy photoThe Red Elvises return to Ashley Pond at 7 p.m. today for a free concert.
Opening the show around 6:30 p.m. will be the fabulous Los Alamos marching band, the Hillstompers. The Hillstompers will also play when the Red Elvises take a break. The Red Elvises is Los Alamos’ favorite band. You disagree? C’mon out and check out this great party band as they play Russian surf-rock, Russian and Eastern European folk rock, Russian and Santa Monica “rokenroll.”
They also perform a very unique country and disco. Check Read More
Author David Stuart Speaks On Chaco History Thursday
David Stuart
MPL News:
Author David Stuart, one of the foremost experts on Chacoan culture, brings his latest discoveries to Mesa Public Library Thursday as part of the monthly Authors Speak series.
The talk will take place at 7 p.m. in the Upstairs Rotunda at Mesa Public Library.
Stuart is an internationally recognized anthropologist whose most cited books are Prehistoric New Mexico, Anasazi America, The Guaymas Chronicles, and the recently released Ancient People of the Pajarito Plateau. He earned his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of New Mexico and he served many years at UNM Read More
LACA Celebrates 70 Years Of World-Class Music
1997 Cliburn Competition Gold Medalist Nakamatsu and his duo partner, clarinetist Jon Manasse will close the LACA season April 17. Courtesy photoLACA News:
When Van Cliburn International Piano Competition medalist Sean Chen takes the stage in the Smith Auditorium in September, he will join more than 300 soloists and ensembles presented by the Los Alamos Concert Association since its founding in 1946.
Celebrating its 70th Anniversary, LACA has presented dozens of solo pianists, string quartets, wind and brass ensembles, guitarists, orchestras and vocal ensembles.
“These Read More
ACCT Auditions For Disney Lion King Jr. Aug. 26
ACCT News:
Atomic City Children’s Theater (ACCT), the Los Alamos Public Schools’ award winning after-school theater program, is excited to announce auditions for its elementary school production of Disney Lion King Jr., a two-act musical play based on Disney’s family favorite feature film, The Lion King and Julie Taymor’s hit Broadway musical.
Auditions are in the Mountain Elementary School Gymnasium 2-4 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 26. Registration begins at 1 p.m. The auditions are open to all 5th or 6th grade students in the Los Alamos area.
ACCT also is looking for students interested Read More
This Week At The Reel Deal
By JIM O’DONNELLI went and saw Ricki and the Flash last night. I’m sorry now I didn’t book it for another week. If you like Meryl Streep you will love this film. Among her other talents, that woman can sing! It ends this Thursday along with Fantastic Four, which is no loss.
This Friday we are opening Paper Towns and The Gift. The Man from UNCLE and Mission Impossible will hold for one more week. We will have an early opening of No Escape with Owen Wilson and Pierce Brosnon on Wednesday, Aug. 26.
Movie poster for ‘The Gift.’ Courtesy/Reel Deal Theater
The Gift: Read More
Rotary Funds Hearing Loop For Smith Auditorium
During Monday’s assistive hearing system installation at Duane Smith Auditorium, from left, Auditorium Manager Ross Mason, Rotary Vice President Linda Hull, Gary Clark of GWC Looping and LAPS Rental Coordinator Kristy Vigil. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Duane Smith Auditorium Manager Ross Mason and LAPS Rental Coordinator Kristy Vigil. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.comThe Rotary Club of Los Alamos has funded an audio loop (assistive hearing
