Entertainment

Pajarito’s Biggest Summer Event Saturday

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Scene from Summerfest 2015. Courtesy photo

PAJARITO News:

  • Beer Festival, Live Music and Mountain Bike Race

Pajarito Mountain Ski Area will kick off its summer season this Saturday with Summerfest, one of the mountain’s biggest events of the year.

The festival includes the New Mexico Craft BrewFest, two concerts, a downhill bike race, lift-served hiking and biking, a disc golf tournament and more. Summerfest is the first of several events happening at the Los Alamos ski area this summer.

The June 4 event begins at 9 a.m. with the downhill bike race and lift-served hiking and biking. The New Mexico Read More

Teatro Paraguas: ‘I Never Sang For My Father’

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THEATER News:

Teatro Paraguas will present a staged reading of Robert Anderson’s classic play I Never Sang for my Father, directed by Maura Studi at 6 p.m. Sunday, June 26. Teatro Paraguas is at 3205 Calle Marie Suite B Santa Fe. Suggested donation is $10 at the door only.

A widowed New York college professor, Gene, is in a long distance relationship with a woman in California. He wants to marry and move to California, where his girlfriend has her medical practice and is raising her children.

Gene’s mother is sympathetic although aware of the toll it could take on his father. Family tensions arise Read More

Hear Russ Gordon Lay Out Summer Concert Band Lineup On Voice Of Los Alamos At Noon Today

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Concert promoter Russ Gordon. File photo

COMMUNITY News:

Tune in to The Voice of Los Alamos at noon today on 101.5 FM to hear Bonnie Gordon of the Los Alamos Daily Post interview longtime Los Alamos concert promoter Russ Gordon.

Gordon details his band lineup including the blues and rock band “Slick” Nick Schnebelen from Kansas City, which plays at 7 p.m. today at Ashley Pond Park. Read More

Atomic City Children’s Theater Announces Events And Shows For 2016-17 Season

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ACCT News:

Atomic City Children’s Theater (ACCT), Los Alamos Public Schools’ award winning after-school musical theater program announced their events and shows for the 2016-17 season.

ACCT Summer Workshops

ACCT’s jam-packed season begins in August with the return of their popular ACCT Summer Workshops. The Summer Workshops are 9-11 a.m., Aug. 1-5 in two locations at the high school. The Dance, Acting and Music workshops are in the Topper Theater Monday-Wednesday. The workshops will then move to Smith Auditorium Thursday-Friday for the Stagecraft/Prop and Makeup workshops. Read More

Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’

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By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

“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

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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 kite
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Community Winds Presents ‘The Planets’ Tonight In White Rock

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By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

The 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