Crowd Packs Art Opening At Convento Gallery
Standing from left, Lori Heimdahl Gibson, Jennifer Heineman and Ann Lumaghi and sitting from left, Sandy Nichols, Kit Keith and Jaye Buros are the artists who comprise Las Mujeres del Valle – Women of the Valley art show, which opened Friday at the Northern New Mexico Regional Art Center Convento Gallery in the Plaza de Española. The exhibition continues through Oct. 3. For information, call 505.500.7126 or director@nnmrac.org or www.nnmrac.org. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Northern New Mexico Regional Art Center Board Chair Gabriela Silva, bookkeeper Jennifer Heineman Read More
Meet the Cast of Tower of Magic Opening Sept. 5
Katrina Koeler as Sue McFate. Courtesy/LALTSue McFate is finding it difficult to announce her engagement. Her family has never once heard she has a boyfriend. Her fiancé doesn’t even know her real name.
Sue has come home to make the announcement, but finds herself stymied when she realizes that her fiancé, Felix, will be a huge disappointment to her family.
Scott Reynolds as Felix. Courtesy/LALT
Felix pays an unexpected visit to the family and meets his potential Read More
Manny Martinez Live At Santa Fe Plaza
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Explosive Interest In WGN’s ‘Manhattan’
Scene from WGN’s television show ‘Manhattan.’ Courtesy/wgnamerica
AHF News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The WGN America television show “Manhattan” has galvanized the interest of millions of viewers. Shown on Sunday nights, national audiences are riveted by the dramatic tension between rival groups of scientists and the omnipresent security police in Los Alamos in 1943.
“Manhattan” follows the scientists as they confront the challenges of making a workable atomic bomb while dealing with an intrusive military force, intense rivalries, and strained marital relations where Read More
Los Alamos Photographer Phillip Noll’s Work Displayed At Smithsonian Beginning Sept. 3
Phillip Noll’s photograph of Mt Sneffels goes on display at the Smithsonian Sept. 3. Courtesy/Phillip NollSo far this year, 4.9 million people have walked through the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. While this massive number has viewed flora and fauna from all over the world, starting in September, the crowds will see Los Alamos represented on the museum’s walls.
Phillip Noll during a photo shoot. Courtesy photo
Los Alamos Photographer Phillip Noll of Raven Images earned honorable mention in the Wilderness50 photography Read More
Public Invited To ‘An Artful Celebration’ Sept. 11
COUNTY News:
The Arts in Public Places Board (APPB) will host “An Artful Celebration” Thursday evening, Sept. 11, as part of week-long events planned for Los Alamos ScienceFest.
Beginning at 5 p.m., tours of the public art housed in the Municipal Building in downtown Los Alamos will depart from the lobby. In addition, from 5 to 7 p.m., guests and residents are invited to review art proposals and provide comments to the APPB for outdoor artwork envisioned for installation on the large plaza on the west side of the Municipal Building.
The artists have been invited to be on hand to answer questions Read More
Scenes Around Los Alamos And White Rock
This praying mantis, named for its prominent front legs that are bent and held together at an angle that suggests the position of prayer, came in for his close up during a recent photo shoot in White Rock. Photo by Leah Austin
Here the praying mantis shows off his profile features. Photo by Leah Austin
Clouds hover low looking east from the Anderson Overlook area in Los Alamos. Photo by Leah Austin
Looking east from the Anderson Overlook area in Los Alamos. Photo by Leah Austin
A view from the Los Alamos Cooperative Market. Photo by Leah Austin Read More
Community and Historical Society Discuss Fifth Episode of WGN’s Manhattan
Robert Oppenheimer. Courtesy/Los Alamos Historical Society Archives
LAHS News:
WGN’s Manhattan continues with another dramatic episode and great turnout for the Los Alamos Historical Society’s viewing of the fifth episode.
Manhattan presents a fictionalized look at life in Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. Below are some of the common questions that we heard that night and on social media.
Every week the Society will be updating a bulletin board in the Museum to continue exploring questions and reactions as the 13-episode series continues. Previous episodes are discussed Read More
South By Southwest Plays Summer Concert at Ski Hill Tonight
Photo of Michael Hearne. Courtesy/michaelhearne.com.Tonight, the Summer Concert will be at Pajarito Ski Area and features South By Southwest’s Michael Hearne, Zeke Severenson and special guest Jimmy Stadler. The show starts at 7 p.m. and is free of charge. It’s paid for by the sponsors of the Los Alamos County Summer Concert Series. The sponsors and other information are listed at www.gordonssummerconcerts.com.
In the 25 years that we’ve produced this Series, South By Southwest has played 20 shows. Why? They’re arguably Read More
Author Paulette Frankl Shares Memories of Marcel Marceau With Rotarians
Paulette Frankl discusses her new book about her relationship with Marcel Marceau. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.comPaulette Frankl has done it all. She was a self-described “hippie farmer,” a photojournalist, a courtroom sketch artist, a magician, a mime and an author. Her latest literary work is a memoir titled, “Marcel and Me,” which details another interesting aspect of Frankl’s life; her relationship with Marcel Marceau, the famous mime, which spanned 36 years.
Frankl discussed her memoir with the Rotary Club of Los Alamos during Read More
Museum of New Mexico Staffers Win Major Publications Awards
Promotional materials for ‘Turquoise, Water, Sky.’ Courtesy/ Museum of Indian Arts & CultureSTATE News:
SANTA FE—The New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs is proud to announce that members of its staff have won three of four awards in the 2014 Publications Design Competition of the Mountain-Plains Museum Association.
The awards, to be presented at the organization’s Sept. 28–Oct. 2 conference, represent excellence in the design of exhibition catalogues, books and other collateral materials produced for museums within a 10-state region of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Read More
Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘The Giver’
By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
“The Giver” is another young adult novel turned to film that presents a dystopian vision of the future. And like the others we’ve seen in recent years—“Hunger Games,” “Divergent”—it succeeds in making me want to read the book after seeing the film.
From much younger friends, I have heard that the film doesn’t do the book justice. But that is usually the case in movies that have to tell the fullness of a story in less than two hours. Nonetheless, the images and characters in the film will give visuals to the words I will read when I do buy the book. All is not lost, book lovers!
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Los Alamos’ Amy Storey (Trixie ConQueso) Appears on TV Thursday
Amy Storey of Los Alamos performing this summer in Las Vegas, Nev., at the ‘WonderGround’ variety show. Courtesy/SherylAnn Garrett
Amy Storey, center, with her backup dancers ‘The Cheesy Delights’ Piper Wohlbier and Marcie Long. Courtesy photoAmy Storey of Los Alamos will appear as Trixie ConQueso at 7 a.m., Thursday on The Morning Brew with Larry Ahrens.
Storey is promoting the ‘Fierce Women Party’ set for Labor Day, Sept. 2 at the Tractor Brewing Company on 4th Street in the Nob Hill area of Albuquerque. She will
This Week at the Reel Deal
Column by JIM O’DONNELLThis week we are opening The Hundred Foot Journey and A Most Wanted Man (Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s last film.)
Sin City, The Giver, and Guardians of the Galaxy will hold for another week. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will end this Thursday. Despite poor reviews, I saw Sin City and liked it. It is indeed an artistic work of cinematography and definitely worth a look.
Thanks to all of you who waited patiently for The Hundred Foot Journey, and A Most Wanted Man. Hope we have a good turn-out so we can continue to get this type of genre at the Reel Read More
New Mexico Artist Greg Reiche Begins Sculpture Design Process for New Nature Center
Flor del Llano, a public art piece designed by Greg Reiche for the city of Longmont, Colo. Courtes/gregreichdesign.comPEEC News:
Last week, the Arts in Public Places Committee and members of the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) met with artist Greg Reiche to formally kick off the design process for the sculpture to adorn the outside of the new Los Alamos County Nature Center.
The group toured the construction site where the new facility is well under construction, giving the artist a chance to better understand PEEC, its mission, and the role the new center will play in the community. Read More
¡Globalquerque! New Mexico’s Celebration of World Music & Culture Marks 10 Years of International Music
Courtesy/NHCC
MUSIC News:
¡Globalquerque! New Mexico’s Annual Celebration of World Music & Culture, the Southwest’s biggest world music and culture party, will again descend on the National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) along the banks of the Rio Grande in Albuquerque.
¡Globalquerque! Is celebrating 10 years of successfully mixing the most eclectic lineups of world-class acts from across the planet – from the traditional to the cutting-edge – the legendary to up-and-coming new discoveries! ¡Globalquerque! will bring the world to Albuquerque Sept. 19 and Read More
Pajarito String Band of Los Alamos Wins Bluegrass Band Competition!
Showing off their blue ribbons, Pajarito String Band, a Los Alamos based swing and bluegrass group, won the Bluegrass Band Competition Sunday at the 40th Santa Fe Bluegrass and Old Time Music Festival. Band members include John Wohlbier, Lorelei Wohlbier, Evelyn Wohlbier, Mark Schraad and Ian Fleming. Watch their performance at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Y59bCmgwkat. Courtesy photo
Pajarito String Band performing for the 40th Santa Fe Bluegrass and Old Time Music Festival. PrintScreen/Courtesy Read More
Los Alamos Little Theatre Announces 2014-15 Season
LALT News:
The Los Alamos Little Theatre announces a slate of five shows for its 2014-15 season.
September: “Tower of Magic,” by local playwright Tess Light, explores the search for one’s true self amidst the chaos of an idiosyncratic family – a woman with near-magical creative talents, an obsessed ornithologist, a compulsive mezzo-soprano, a murderous chef, a mostly mute savant, a twinned linguist, and just to stir the pot a visitor who is a, yawn, civil engineer.
November: “And Then There Were None,” by the ever-popular Agatha Christie, in which Read More
Michael Benanav Talks at Los Alamos Jewish Center About Grandparent’s Holocaust Survival Sept. 5
‘The Luck of the Jews.’ Courtesy/amazon.com
LAJC News:
Dixon resident Michael Benanav will be speaking at 6:45 p.m. Friday, Sept. 5 at the Los Alamos Jewish Center about his book ‘The Luck of the Jews,’ the story of his grandparents survival of the Holocaust.
The community is invited to attend this talk.
One December night in 1944, while sailing across the Black Sea on the deck of a refugee ship filled with Jews fleeing the Nazi genocide in Europe, Joshua Szereny met Isadora Rosen.
He was 23, from Czechoslovakia; she was 20, from Romania. Both had lost nearly everything Read More
Los Alamos Big Band Entertains Concert Crowd
The Los Alamos Big Band entertains the crowd at Friday’s Summer Concert at Ashley Pond Park. The Los Alamos Daily Post sponsored the concert for the third year in a row. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
A crowd gathers to hear the Los Alamos Big Band despite Friday’s chilly temperature. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Members of the Los Alamos Big Band’s saxophone section. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Jennifer and Los Alamos sheriff candidate Jaret McDonald dance to the Los Alamos Big Band, led by his father, Jan McDonald