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Reception/Gallery Walk for Physiocartographies Sept. 15

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Bill Gilbert: Physiocartographies @ Mesa Public Library Art Gallery through Sept. 27.

Started in 2003 in the field with the Land Arts of the American West mobile studio, the physiocartographies series combines the abstraction of cartographic maps with the physical act of walking the surface of the planet to create portraits of place.

Bill Gilbert follows prescribed paths across the landscape using a GPS unit to navigate and record points, a camera to shoot images and a  digital recorder to capture sounds.

The final works appear as reconstructed maps, videos and installations.

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Bestsellers at Otowi Station: Aug. 26-Sept. 1

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Bestsellers at Otowi Station Bookstore during the week of Aug. 26-Sept. 1:
 
  1. All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age, Hubert Dreyfus
  2. Encyclopedia of Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico, Mark Cross*
  3. 109 East Palace, Jennet Conant
  4. Wonder, R. J. Palacio
  5. Survival Under Atomic Attack, U.S. Government
  6. Seraphina, Rachel Hartman
  7. Hamlet, William Shakespeare
  8. The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes
  9. The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
  10. Buffalo Bill’s Dead Now, Margaret Coel

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Bob Weeks Top Predictor in Weekly Pace Race

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ATOMIC ROAD RUNNERS News:
 
Bob Weeks was only 3 seconds off his prediction at Tuesday’s pace race.
 
There were many good predictions in the weekly Tuesday pace race in Pajarito Acres. There were 28 people who competed. The course was a fairly-flat one mile paved-loop mainly on Estante Way.
 
One could run any number of loops but with a requested predicted time of 45 minutes or less. All distances from 1 to 5 miles were done. Most did 1 or 3 miles.
 
The fastest for 1 mile were Duncan Fuehne (6:49), Sue Kinkead and Lynn Kluegel (both 13:43). The faster 3-mile runners were Roxana
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North Mesa Loses Gas

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LOS ALAMOS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES News:

More than 1,000 Los Alamos Department of Public Utilities’ customers on North Mesa lost natural gas just before noon today.

Gas construction work in the Kwage Mesa area, specifically a pipeline tie-in, unexpectedly depressurized the gas line feeding the North Mesa neighborhood.

DPU crews began an extensive restoration effort around 12:30 p.m., which includes shutting gas valves to each North Mesa customer, pressurizing the line, and revisiting each customer to turn gas back on and relight appliances.

Crews will be working around the clock Read More

Special Poetry Gathering: Film Performance of Beowulf

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J. R. Skelton’s illustration in the children’s book ”Stories of Beowulf” (H. E. Marshall). Published in New York in 1908 by E. P. Dutton & Company

MESA PUBLIC LIBRARY News:

September is Arts and Culture Month in Los Alamos and Mesa Public Library is pleased to show a film performance of Beowulf, the heroic, epic poem dated from between 800-1100, in the original Anglo Saxon with modern English subtitles featuring Benjamin Bagby.

This special event is part of the regular library program, Poetry Gatherings, hosted by local poet and UNM LA teacher, Jane Lin, which Read More

PAC 8 and Otowi Station Host Amy Goodman Oct. 11

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PAC 8 News:

 

During this 2012 election season, Democracy Now!‘s Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan are on a national speaking tour to mark the 16th anniversary of the daily, independent, global TV/Radio news hour and to launch their new book, The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope.

 

PAC 8 will host Goodman and Moynihan in a fundraiser from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11 at Fuller Lodge.

 

Cost of the event is $15, which includes lunch (sandwich supplied by the Los Alamos Co-Op.) Otowi Station Bookstore will host a book signing Read More

‘The Descendants’ Screens Sept. 6 at Mesa Public Library

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https:////upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7d/Descendants_film_poster.jpg/215px-Descendants_film_poster.jpg Image Source: https:////en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Descendants

Review by Kelly Dolejsi

“The Descendants,” screening Thursday at Mesa Public Library, is the kind of film that smart people wish would win awards.

It’s not sensationalistic or gratuitous. It’s not one easy laugh after another, one car chase after another, one famous person after another saying dumb, obvious things with their multi-million-dollar voices.

And in fact, the film did win an Oscar for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, and was nominated for four others: Best Achievement in Directing Read More

Fuller Lodge/Historic Districts Board Meets Wednesday

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The Fuller Lodge/Historic Districts Board meets 5:30–7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 5 in the Curtis Room in Fuller Lodge.

The meeting is open to the public.

AGENDA:

Call to Order / Roll Call / Introduction of guests

Public Comment – topics not on the agenda

Approval of Minutes: Aug. 1

Items for discussion and possible action:
Signage for historic area – Greg Fisher
Ashley Pond briefing and update – Dick McIntyre

Historic Homestead Tour closeout
Historic Sculptures Master Plan related activities
Post Office NHR Listing
Planning for lecture on tax benefits of historic preservation

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Library Board Meets Monday Sept. 4

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COUNTY News:

The Los Alamos County Library Board will hold its regular meeting at 5:30 p.m., Monday, Sept. 4.

The will be at the White Rock Branch Library, 133 Longview Dr., in White Rock.

Agenda:

Call to order
Public comment/correspondence (for items not on the agenda)
Appreciation for Outgoing Chair
 

Board Business
Welcome new and returning Board members
Election of officers
Review and approval of the minutes of Aug. 6, 2012
 

Chair and Board Members’ Reports
Friends of Los Alamos County Library Liaison Report
White Rock Plan Implementation Committee Liaison Report
Fuller Lodge Read More