Holiday Season Begins With NMDT-PC’s ‘The Nutcracker’
Indiana Warrior as Clara in ‘The Nutcracker.’ Photo by Rebecca CaiNMDTPC::
New Mexico Dance Theater Performance Company (NMDT-PC), directed by Susan Baker-Dillingham, presents “The Nutcracker.”
This timeless classic revolves around Clara, who receives the gift of a toy nutcracker from her Uncle Drosselmeyer. Clara then dreams of a fantastic world in which the Nutcracker and she meet many interesting characters.
Notable NMDT-PC dancers in the production include: Indiana Warrior as Clara, Daren Savage as Uncle Drosselmeyer, Sarah Dale as The Snow Queen, Frank Macias as Read More
This Week at the Reel Deal
Column By JIM O’DONNELL Reel Deal Tuesday’s are back! All movies, all day Tuesday, are only $6.50! Holidays, winter and summer break excluded.
This Friday we are opening St. Vincent and Laggies. We will hold Big Hero 6 and Interstellar for another week.
Book of Life and Nightcrawler will end this Thursday.
We tried to get a print of Dumb and Dumber To but we didn’t make the cut. If it turns out to be a good film we’ll try and get it for a one-week run in the near future.
Movie poster for ‘St. Vincent.’ Courtesy Reel Deal Theater
St. Vincent: Maggie Read More
Sofia Enriquez Wins CROP Walk Logo Contest
Sofia Enriquez with her winning logo design. Courtesy photoBy CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Sofia Enriquez has won the logo contest for the 2014 CROP Hunger Walk and Turkey Trot. Her design will adorn scores of new t-shirts to be worn by all who walk or run the course Nov. 23.
The CROP Hunger Walk and Turkey Trot has been held annually in Los Alamos for many years. Each year a contest is held inviting all Los Alamos fourth through sixth graders to submit designs for the walk/run t-shirt. This year, the winner was chosen by committee members, excluding Sofia’s mother who recused herself from the vote (due to conflict Read More
New Bronze Sculpture Installed In Central Park Square
Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
Central Park Square owner Philip Kunsberg and Shidoni President/CEO Scott Hicks, (hat) watch as the new bronze sculpture is moved into place this morning in Central Park Square. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
Central Park Square owner Philip Kunsberg, left, shakes hands with Shidoni President/CEO Scott Hicks and thanks him for loaning the sculpture to the Los Alamos community. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
COMMUNITY News:
President/CEO Scott Hicks of Shidoni Foundry and Galleries Read More
Grammy Nominated Scenic Roots Coming To Los Alamos
Amber and Erin Rogers are Scenic Roots. Courtesy photo
UWNNM News:
Scenic Roots will perform a live concert in Los Alamos at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21 at Crossroads Bible Church Auditorium, 97 East Road.
This Reverie concert will be a fundraiser for United Way of Northern New Mexico. The event is sponsored in part by Naranjo Insurance Agency, Art Montoya Dentistry, Kelly Myers of RE/MAX Los Alamos, Los Alamos Community Bank and also Ruby K’s Bagel Cafe, which is providing refreshments for the concert.
Amber and Erin Rogers are Scenic Roots. These sisters perform original and traditional Read More
Tickets Available For LAHS Choir Performance At 7 p.m. Today!
A group of Los Alamos High School choir students are preparing to leave for Eastern Europe in late-November to perform in cathedrals and venues in several cities including Berlin, Prague, and Vienna. Before they go, they would like to perform their Europe concert for the Los Alamos community. The performance is this evening and about 30 tickets are still available at CB FOX. Courtesy/LAHS Read More
Junior Theater Festival Presents ‘Disney’s The Little Mermaid’
Central Park Square Receives Bronze Sculpture Monday
The bronze sculpture ‘Wally with Bench’ will be installed Monday morning in Central Park Square. Courtesy photo
COMMUNITY News:
Shidoni Foundry and Galleries in Tesuque is generously loaning the bronze sculpture “Wally with Bench” to Central Park Square.
Los Alamos Creative District Advisory Committee Member Philip Kunsberg owns Central Park Square and is covering the cost of delivery and installation for the piece. The sculpture will be delivered and installed at 11 a.m. Monday on Main Street near the large lawn area in Central Park Square.
The Los Alamos Creative Read More
Santa Fe Botanical Gardens Presents ‘Morphing Nature’
One of the sculptures in ‘Morphing Nature.’ Courtesy/SFBGSFBG News:
The Santa Fe Botanical Gardens presents “Morphing Nature: Site Specific Sculpture from Recovered Plant Materials” Nov. 14 through April 26.
Students from the Institute of American Indian Arts and the Santa Fe University of Art and Design are creating site-specific sculptures made from recovered plant materials cleared from the site of the Botanical Garden’s next phase. Some works also will include other found objects, both man-made and naturally occurring.
This exhibition will be located along Read More
Steve Younger Presents Poetry Of WWI Nov. 14
Archival photo from WWI. Courtesy/ww1webquest.orgPOETRY News:
As the world tipped into the catastrophe of the First World War, poet Rupert Brook wrote:
Four years later, eight million had died in fighting that decimated an entire generation and changed forever the social and political map of the world. Amid the chaos, a group of writers distilled their experiences, both on the fighting front and at home. Fathers wrote to daughters, wives described their anxious waiting, and soldiers Read More
They All Fall Down In ‘And Then There Were None’
Some of the accused cast members contemplate their fate in a rehearsal of ‘And Then There Were None.’ From left, William Blore (Eric Tyler), Anthony Marston (Connor Schulz), Vera Claythrone (Sandra Ward) and Captain Philip Lombard (Corey New). Courtesy/LALTSince it was first published in1939, Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None has sold more than 100 million copies, making it the best-selling mystery novel of all time.
In 1943, Christie adapted the novel for the London stage and for nearly 75 Read More
Annual Holiday Crafts Fair Saturday
BSP News:
Beta Sigma Phi’s Xi Nu Chapter is hosting its 27th annual craft fair 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday at Crossroads Bible Church.
The event features more than 45 vendors kicking off the holiday season. Live music, baked goods and more than 50 raffle items are up for grabs for a $1 charge. Items include jewelry, wood crafts, fiber arts, traditional knitting, crochet, sewing and more.
“Several artists have been with us for over 10 or 15 years,” event coordinator Judy Lovejoy said. “Others skip a year or two and then come back. We will be having artists from Taos, Espanola, Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Read More
This Week At The Reel Deal
Column By JIM O’DONNELL Reel Deal Tuesday’s are back! All movies, all day Tuesday, are only $6.50! Holidays, winter and summer break excluded.
This Friday we are opening Big Hero 6 and Interstellar. We will hold Nightcrawler, and Book of Life for another week. John Wick and Fury will end this Thursday.
We managed to get a print of both Big Hero 6 and Interstellar for this weekend. That’s a great thing as these are the first of the big holiday films and are both getting good reviews. Interstellar is almost 3 hours long so this would be a good time to look at the Read More
Bronze Sculpture Coming To Central Park Square Monday
The bronze sculpture ‘Wally with Bench’ (without the women) will be installed near the roundabout in Central Park Square at 11 a.m. Monday. Courtesy photo
LACD News:
The Los Alamos Creative District today announced the upcoming installation of a new loaned sculpture scheduled for delivery Monday, Nov. 10.
The bronze sculpture is on loan from Shidoni Foundry and Galleries in Tesuque. The artwork titled “Wally with Bench” features an elderly man sitting on a bench.
The Creative District infrastructure subcommittee oversaw the process of finding the art, securing the funding Read More
Los Alamos Sympony Orchestra Presents All American Concert FRIDAY
Ted Vives conducts a rehearsal Monday evening of the Los Alamos Sympony Orchestra. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.comLASO News:
The Los Alamos Symphony Orchestra will hold its fall concert at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7 at Crossroads Bible Church, 97 East Road, in Los Alamos.
There have been erroneous reports that the concert will be held on Saturday, but members of the orchestra emphasized today that it will be held on FRIDAY, the orchestra’s usual performance day.
Ted Vives, artistic director of the Los Alamos Community Winds will join the Symphony as conductor of this “all-American program.” Read More
LAHS Choir Presents Cantique – Sing Me to Heaven Formal Dinner Concert 7 p.m. Monday
LAHS News:
A group of Los Alamos High School choir students are preparing to leave for Eastern Europe in late November to perform in cathedrals and venues in several cities including Berlin, Prague and Vienna.
1962 Classic ‘Lonely Are The Brave’ Thursday
Movie poster for ‘Lonely are the Brave.’ Courtesy/rottentomatoes.com
By KELLY DOLEJSI
“Lonely are the Brave” (1962, rated PG) takes viewers beyond the fences, where civilization means something very different, and a horse is a man’s best friend.
“In the more than 60 films that I’ve made, this is my favorite,” wrote leading man Kirk Douglas in a 1989 letter to the Los Angeles Times, after the death of Edward Abbey, on whose novel “The Brave Cowboy” the film is based.
Los Alamos audiences will have their chance to see why at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the upstairs meeting Read More
Performers With Salzburg Marionette Theater Take Los Alamos Concert Poster Back To Austria
Performers with the Salzburg Marionette Theater prepare to carry a Los Alamos Concert Association’s concert poster back to Austria after their performance in the Smith Auditorium Saturday evening. They were so taken with the design that they plan to display the poster along with other memorabilia in their home theater in Salzburg, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2013. Courtesy photo Read More
Join Los Alamos Arts Council For Brown Bag Performance Concert Featuring Local Music Students
Performers, front row from left, Daniel Kim, Lenny Svyatsky, Philip Ionkov and Jennie Gao. Teachers and performers, back row from left, Janna Warren, Madeline Williamson, Lily Shevitz, Josh Shevitz, Sonyia Williams, Ron Grinage and Robert Zhu (Not pictured, but performing are Presley Gao and Jennifer Wang). Courtesy photo
LAAC News:
The community is invited to join the Los Alamos Arts Council for its Brown Bag Performance Series Wednesday, Nov. 5. This concert features local Los Alamos music students, in an intimate noontime performance.
Performers Instructed by Madeline Williamson: Read More
XiNu Chapter Hosts 27th Annual Arts And Crafts Fair At Crossroads Nov. 8
XiNu News:
The XiNu Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority is hosting a Craft Fair Saturday, Nov. 8 at Crossroads Bible Church, 97 East Road, Los Alamos, 2014.
The Fair runs 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and more than 40 artists from Northern New Mexico will be selling their art.
iNu sponsors this Craft Fair to allow them to give the proceeds to charity. This is the 27th Craft Fair held by the XiNu chapter. There will be a raffle with prizes being donated by the artists who are participating and a handmade quilt made by one of the XiNu sisters.
This is a great opportunity to start ticking off that Christmas shopping Read More
