Los Alamos Pianist Juanita Madland Competes in Cliburn Amateur Piano Video Contest
Juanita Madland at the piano. File photoMUSIC News:
Local piano virtuoso Juanita Madland is competing in the Cliburn Amateur Piano Video Contest. The winner will be awarded automatic entry into the seventh International Competition for Outstanding Amateurs in 2016.
Competitors submitted a performance video of 5-10 minutes in length and the winner will be determined by public voting online.
To see and vote for Madland’s video entry or for the videos of other contestants, click here. Voting continues through Firday. Read More
LALT Presents Play Reading at Urban Park Sunday
This Week at the Reel Deal
Column By JIM O’DONNELLThis week we are opening The Giver. Into the Storm, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Guardians of the Galaxy (great film!) will hold for another week. Lucy will end Thursday.
I did see Into the Storm and despite poor review, I enjoyed the film. It kept me on the edge of my seat throughout.
Next week on Aug. 22, we are confirmed to open The Hundred Foot Journey and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. That leaves two remaining screens. If Guardians is still doing well, we will have to hold it another week and choose between When the Game Stands Read More
‘The Other Son’ Explores Destiny and Fate
Movie poster of ‘The Other Son.’ Courtesy/IMDB.com
Review by KELLY DOLEJSI
Immediately upon birth, most of us inherit a culture, race, religion and economic status. We go home to a large house in a modern city or a shack in an occupied territory. Freedom might belong to us, or it might not. Everything that makes us “us” starts from these facts, over which we have no control.
In other words, who we are depends on who we are born as. So what happens if we are switched at birth? Who are we then? “The Other Son” (2013, rated PG-13, French), screening at 6:30 p.m., Thursday at Mesa Public Library, Read More
Roaring Jelly Plays Contra Dance At Posse Lodge Aug. 16
Roaring Jelly. Photo by James Theiler
COMMUNITY News:
Roaring Jelly, a local Celtic/ Americana band, will play and Donna Howell, a local dance teacher and radio personality, will be the caller at a contra dance Saturday, Aug 16 at the Posse Lodge in Los Alamos.
Before the dance, which starts at 7:30 p.m., there will be a short lesson at 7 p.m. The $8 admission fee will benefit the Los Alamos Sheriff’s Posse. Partners are not necessary.
Contra is a social dance that is like square dancing in that a caller announces the sequence of figures for the dancers as they execute them. For contra, couples are arranged Read More
Los Alamos Soprano Melissa Riedel Performs In Albuquerque Aug. 16
Los Alamos Soprano Melissa Riedel. Courtesy photo
COMMUNITY News:
Los Alamos Soprano Melissa Riedel, along with Albuquerque pianist Darby Fegan, will present a recital Saturday, Aug. 16, at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, 601 Montaño Road NW in Albuquerque.
The recital will begin at 4 p.m., and includes pieces from several different composers, including Richard Strauss and John Jacob Niles.
Darby Fegan. Courtesy photo
Riedel is a native of Los Alamos and performs regularly in Northern New Mexico and surrounding areas, along with teaching privately at her studio in Los Alamos. Read More
Los Alamos Concert Association Announces 2014-15 Season!
Red Priest. Courtesy/LACA
Salzburg Marionette Theater with pianist Orion Weiss. Courtesy/LACA
LACA news:
The Los Alamos Concert Association announces its 69th season, which will feature the added attraction of a newly refurbished venue.
The first phase of a multi-year upgrade of the Duane Smith Auditorium on the campus of Los Alamos High School was completed in July. New seating, carpeting, paint and improved hall lighting will greet concert-goers at the first concert in September. Plans for future hall upgrades over the next three years include lobby Read More
Performing Arts Organization Needs Community’s Help
Broadway on the Hill cast members. Courtesy/LALO
LALO News:
The show Manhattan has been broadcast on WGN America for three weeks now. Manhattan portrays life in Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.
If anyone caught the second episode, there was a scene where townspeople attended a play-one of many activities used for entertainment during wartime. There were actually performing arts groups during that time, and one of them was Los Alamos Light Opera (LALO).
LALO was founded in 1943 by Los Alamos theatre aficionados. LALO welcomed anyone interested in all aspects of theatre: singing, acting, Read More
Illustrated Lecture in Taos: ‘From Josiah Gregg to Edward Abbey – Book Trails Across New Mexico’
Courtesy/TCHS
TCHS News:
The Taos County Historical Society presents a free, public lecture “From Josiah Gregg to Edward Abbey – Book Trails across New Mexico” by Dr. David Farmer at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6 in the Kit Carson Electric Boardroom, 118 Cruz Alta Road in Taos.
This illustrated lecture is structured like a journey, with books, through the history and culture of New Mexico. The talk includes some background on the writers and also includes passages from writings by Josiah Gregg, Susan Magoffin, Leslie Silko,
M. Scott Momaday, Peggy Pond Church and others. Illustrations are coordinated Read More
Scenes From Sunday’s Rodeo At Brewer Arena
Scenes from Sunday’s 2014 Los Alamos County Rodeo at Brewer Arena on North Mesa. Photo by Jenn Bartram
Photo by Jenn Bartram
Photo by Jenn BartramMore Scenes From Saturday’s Arts and Crafts Fair
Jessica Erkkila, left, and Savannah Brown at Fuller Lodge Art Center’s 2014 Arts and Crafts Fair Saturday in downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Kate McKeough of Sundreams, left, chats with Karen West. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Nick Teran of O’Hara’s Jams and Jellies. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.comEighty-two Artists Participate in Arts and Crafts Fair
The 2014 Fuller Lodge Art Center’s annual Arts and Crafts Fair Saturday on the Fuller Lodge lawn. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.comConstruction on Central Avenue may have caused a few tweaks such as where vendors could load and unload their artwork but it did not dampen the festivities at the Fuller Lodge Art Center’s annual Arts and Crafts Fair Saturday on the Fuller Lodge lawn.
Marketing Read More
Russian Immigrant Band Everfound Performs in White Rock Sept. 6
Courtesy posterEverfound will perform in concert free at 7 p.m. Sept. 6 at White Rock Baptist Church, 80 N.M. 4.
A year ago, before starting my freshman year at Los Alamos High School, my dad took me to a Christian music festival in Seattle, Wash. There we saw a band made up of four Russian immigrant brothers whose family escaped religious persecution. I’ve spent the last year helping my dad bring the band Everfound here to Los Alamos and they will be kicking off their first national headlining tour with us.
A Russian immigrant band here in our formerly Read More
‘Off the Cuff’ Opens at Fuller Lodge Art Center
Art Center visitors view ‘Sheldon’ the ceramic turtle by Kari Rives during Friday’s opening of ‘Off the Cuff’ at Fuller Lodge Art Center, 2132 Central Ave., in down town Los Alamos. The show runs through Sept. 20. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
‘Colony’ by Santa Fe artist Kari Rives. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com 
Jewelry by Joanne Kozuchowski of Los Alamos. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
‘Then’ by Judi Ewert shares wall space with ‘Lily Dog 1’ by RuthJaniva Magness Belts Out Blues At Pond Tonight
Janiva Magness. Courtesy/seveneightfive.comJaniva Magness’ show at Ashley Pond tonight will be a lot more than a great concert, it’ll be an experience! The “experience” is presented by the sponsors of the Los Alamos County Summer Concert Series. It’s another free Los Alamos concert, it starts at 7 p.m. and you should be bring your friends, family and chairs.
Opening tonight, will be my great friends, the Jimmy Stadler Band. This is the 25th Anniversary of the Series and Jimmy’s bands have played at least 25 times. Jimmy is from Taos and plays Read More
‘The Wrong Side of the Door’ Premieres 7 p.m. Today
Emma Raven, 10, Carter Haag, 10, Ryan Rushton, 10, and Ethan Rushton, 12, perform in Cindy Richard’s 40-minute play, ‘The Wrong Side of the Door’ today at 7 p.m. at White Rock Baptist Church. Inspired by C.S. Lewis’s writings about Heaven, ‘The Wrong Side of the Door’ is a spiritual drama (with many comic moments) about Mason, a young boy who is trying to enjoy a week at summer camp with his friends (brothers Will and Alan) while still working through the grief of losing his sister Izzy to a cycling accident two months earlier. Admission is free. Courtesy photoCommunity and Historical Society Discuss Second Episode of WGN’s ‘Manhattan’
Courtesy/wgnamerica.comLAHS News:
There was another amazing turnout for the Los Alamos Historical Society’s viewing of the second episode of WGN’s new series, “Manhattan,” a fictionalized look at life in Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.
Below are some of the common questions 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 at www.losalamoshistory.org, on the LAHS Facebook page and in the museum.
Join the Read More
LALO Performs ‘Broadway on the Hill’ Aug. 15-16
LALO News:
Los Alamos Light Opera (LALO) is hosting a fundraiser to continue producing shows for the community.
LALO will perform “Broadway on the Hill,” a concert of broadway songs at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 15, and 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Aug. 16 at the Performing Arts Center, 1670 Nectar St.
Tickets are $15 and $10.
There also will be a raffle for which tickets are $5 for five tickets or $10 for 15 tickets. One of the prizes is two Orchestra Center tickets to WICKED at Popejoy Hall. There are other great items donated by many talented people in the local community.
All proceeds benefit LALO, a local
‘The Wrong Side of the Door’ Opens Aug. 8
Flyer designed by Calysta Kohlrust. Courtesy/Cindy RichardThis Week at the Reel Deal
Column By JIM O’DONNELL This week we are opening “Into the Storm,” and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.” “Lucy,” and “Guardians of the Galaxy” (great film!) will hold for another week. “Sex Tape” and “The Purge: Anarchy” will end this Thursday.
This summer movie season has been a tough one to choose the right films for our town and, let’s face it, most of the films this season were not that good. Yes there were a few notable ones, but not many. Nationally, box office receipts Read More
