It’s Concert Day At Duane Smith Auditorium
LAPS News:
The Los Alamos High School and Los Alamos Middle School Concert begins at 7 p.m., today in Duane Smith Auditorium. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Choir students will perform and the public is encouraged to attend this special event.
Author/Photographer Don Usner Featured At Authors Speak Thursday
Don Usner
MPL News:
Author and photographer Don Usner is the featured speaker at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, at Mesa Public Library.
Book cover for ‘Chasing Dichos through Chimayo.’ Courtesy photo
Usner’s latest book, published by UNM Press, is called Chasing Dichos through Chimayo. The book is a chronicle of his search for the deep roots contained in old sayings, proverbs and adages from a disappearing culture and language.
Chasing Dichos through Chimayo
The book also is a very personal and moving story of riding in the car with his mother to Chimayo to find those old stories. The stories Read More
Greg Moon Art Gallery Calls For Entries In ‘After Dark IV’ Exhibition
The Greg Moon Art Gallery in Taos. Courtesy/GMAGInfinity Squared Music Presents Spoken Lead Singer Matt Baird In Los Alamos Concert Tuesday Evening
Spoken lead singer Matt Baird performs at 7 p.m., Tuesday. Courtesy photo
INFINITY SQUARED MUSIC News:
Don’t miss this concert at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24. Matt Baird, lead singer for Spoken, has come from Iowa by way of Texas to do an acoustic show at New Beginnings Fellowship for a $5 cover fee.
This event is the third show in six months, brought to you by a new Los Alamos community group, represented by the name Infinity Squared Music and coordinated by local Phil Jacobson.
The name was born out of the first show (September 2014), where nationally-acclaimed Everfound performed at White Rock Baptist Read More
‘Culture Day’ At Roundhouse Offers Best Of State Museums And Historic Sites
State News:- New Mexico Arts will provide “Oculus Rift Glasses” offering the wearer a cutting edge virtual “Pull of the Moon Experience.”
- The NM State Library will display the new “Brainfuse” online tutorial
Smart Design With Suzette: Wall Art
Courtesy/Suzette Fox
Smart Design with Suzette Thomas Merton said, “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” Indeed, as a society, we are moved by great pieces of art. But has anyone ever tried to hang it?
Have you heard, “Hang art so that the center of the piece or grouping is at eye level?” But eye level is different for everyone. It’s not like we are all the same size!
Hanging Height
There’s no real hard and fast rules about the height you should hang pictures on the wall, but there are some guidelines and starting places that are proven and useful. Read More
Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’
By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB“Kingsman: The Secret Service” is an “R” rated, comic book style movie, featuring exquisitely dressed gentleman secret agents and an evil genius villain.
The secret agents have ingenious weapons inspired by James Bond movies. The evil genius uses cell phones in his attempt to control the world.
If you know all that before going to see the film, it might help. The “R” rating is mostly for violence, much of which is way over the top, reference to sex, and rough language. The film is not so much silly as it is absurd in its tone.
Reasons to see the film might include the nearly Read More
Local Author E. E. Giorgi’s New Novel Launches Monday As Part Of Unique Collaboration
Cover of ‘Immunity,’ by E. E. Giorgi. Courtesy photoLITERARY News:
Monday—in an unprecedented publishing event—Wonderment Media, Inc. (WMI), will launch five new novels in its brand world, Apocalypse Weird. One of them is local artist and writer E.E. Giorgi.
This first-of-its-kind collaboration among two dozen authors, editors, graphic designers and marketing professionals is spearheaded by USA Today bestselling author Michael Bunker and Nick Cole, author of The Old Man and the Wasteland and Soda Pop Soldier. Cole’s The Red King—the first AW novel made free to readers Read More
Tent Rocks In Pueblo Canyon
These tent rock formations are part of the scenery encountered while hiking into Walnut Canyon to East Fork Trail to Pueblo Canyon. Photo by Robert Beberniss
Photo by Robert Beberniss
Photo by Robert Beberniss
Photo by Robert Beberniss Read More
‘Willy Wonka Jr.’ Opens Tonight
Cast of ‘Willy Wonka Jr.’ Courtesy photoAtomic City Children’s Theater (ACCT) and Los Alamos Public Schools (LAPS) reprise Willy Wonka, Jr.
Originally presented by ACCT in 2009, this weekend’s production, performed by a talented cast of Los Alamos Middle School students, will leave you singing.
Follow the adventures of five lucky children who win a contest to tour the famous Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory. Evelyn Wohlbier plays the eccentric Willy Wonka and leads the tour down the Chocolate River, through the Candy Inventing Room, the Fizzy Lifting Read More
This Weekend At Pajarito: Feb. 20-22
SKI News:- Ticket office, rental shop and restaurant will be open at 8 a.m.;
- Mountain will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and
- Restaurant will be open for breakfast and lunch.
- Friday we will have the Aspen,
Fuller Lodge Art Center Launches Program For Artists Ages 4-6
Youngsters create art at Fuller Lodge Art Center class. Courtesy photo
FLAC News:
It is never too early to get artsy and the Fuller Lodge Art Center is offering some new programs for its youngest patrons.
Artist Erin Green leads young artists ages 4-6 on a variety of themed projects every other Monday through the beginning of May. Classes are 10-11:30 a.m. and cover everything from Dr. Suess and Earth Day projects to mosaics, stamping and sculpture.
The next class, on Monday, will be geared toward “Helping Hands” during which participants will make and decorate plastered hands.
Green has the knowledge Read More
‘Dust, Drought and Dreams Gone Dry’ Exhibit Closes Friday
MPL News:
- Dust, Drought and Dreams Gone Dry Wrap-up
Friday is the final day to see the Dust, Drought and Dreams Gone Dry exhibit in Mesa Public Library’s Upstairs Gallery, before it is packed up and sent off to its next location.
The Dust Bowl and its human, economic, political and environmental impacts are the topics of the exhibit. More than 2,000 visitors have seen the exhibit in Los Alamos to date, and many of them have commented about the relevance of this historic environmental disaster to today’s situation.
Programs associated with the exhibit have included Read More
View Of Pajarito Mountain From Airplane
A view shot recently from an airplane flying over Pajarito Mountain. Photo by Julie Habiger Read More
Outstanding Los Alamos Piano Students Featured In Sunday Recital
Lenny Svyatsky, 10, wins the New Mexico State Honors Competition. Courtesy photo
MUSIC News:
Winners of recent state and local area piano contests will be presented in recital at 2 p.m., Sunday in Fuller Lodge. The concert is free to the public and showcases some of the finest young pianists in the Los Alamos community.
The solo performances will cover all musical style periods from J.S. Bach and G. F. Telemann of the Baroque; to Classic era composers Clementi, Diabelli, Kuhlau, Lynes and Beethoven; Frédéric Chopin, Edvard Grieg and Robert Schumann of the Romantic era; Impressionist Claude Read More
Santa Fe Mayor Declares ‘Summer Of Color’
CITY OF SANTA FE News:
SANTA FE ― Six of Santa Fe’s leading cultural institutions located on the beautiful Museum Hill kick off summer 2015 with joint exhibitions and programming in what Mayor Javier Gonzales proclaimed today as the Summer of Color.
All six, located on Museum Hill, are the two state museums, the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and the Museum of International Folk Art; joined by the Museum of Spanish Colonial Arts, the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, the Santa Fe Botanical Garden, and the annual International Folk Art Market | Santa Fe. Each will feature
Personal Invitation To ‘Willy Wonka Jr.’ Production
The cast of ‘Willy Wonka Jr.’. Courtesy/ACCTGreetings to you, the lucky finder of this Golden Ticket, from Mr. Willy Wonka! I shake you warmly by the hand! Tremendous things are in store for you! Many wonderful surprises await you!
For now, I do invite you to come to the stage of Smith Auditorium before the show and be my guest for one chocolate bar—you and all others who are lucky enough to find my Golden Tickets. You will be conducted around my chocolate factory, and be shown everything that there is to see.
But this is by no means the most exciting thing that Read More
This Week At The Reel Deal
By JIM O’DONNELLThe Second Annual Reel Deal Theater Academy Award Contest: Any person predicting the winner in all of the following categories will win a six-month pass to the movies of their choice at the Reel Deal Theater.
The categories are: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and Best Animated Feature Film. The winner or winners must submit their predictions to me before noon MST Sunday Feb. 22 at odonnell455@gmail.com. It doesn’t hurt to try and Good Luck!
This Friday we are opening McFarland Read More
Los Alamos Author Hits Amazon Bestseller List
Cover of ‘Humans vs. Aliens.’ Courtesy/T. Jackson KingLITERARY News:
Los Alamos author T. Jackson King’s newest science fiction novel Humans vs. Aliens has hit No. 11 on Amazon’s Hot New Releases in Space Opera Bestseller list.
T. Jackson King
“I got the idea for this novel when I asked what if First Contact between Humans and Aliens happens in our Kuiper Belt just beyond Pluto?” King said. “Will Humans surrender to apex predators from the stars, or will we fight Read More
Singer Matt Baird Performs In Los Alamos Feb. 24
Former heavy rock band singer Matt Baird performs an acoustic, ‘coffee house style’ show Feb. 24 in Los Alamos. Courtesy photo
MUSIC News:
After 19 years as lead singer for the heavy rock band Spoken, Matt Baird is trying something new. He will bring an acoustic, “coffee house style” show to Los Alamos Tuesday, Feb. 24.
The show starts at 7 p.m. at New Beginnings Fellowship with a $5 cover. Come see Baird demonstrating his incredible voice and God-given breadth of talent as he blends hard rock to softer worship sounds.
Recently chatting with BREATHEcast.com, Baird had Read More
