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‘Taos Americaños’ Concert Feb. 15

TAOS News:

TAOS—The Taos Solar Music Festival is hosting a special musical event titled, “Taos Americaños” at 7 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 15 in the historic courthouse at Taos Plaza.

This first time concert in the Mural Room includes music by Americana music royalty, Jim Lauderdale, Ollie O’Shea on fiddle and Phil Parlapiano on squeezebox, and hosted by Taos’ own Max Gomez. Artist and longtime Solar Fest artistic director, Randy Pijoan, will also be doing “artistic endeavors” at the event.

Jim Lauderdale is a Grammy® Award winning musician and one of the most respected artists working Read More

Mesa Public Library’s Carol Meine Accepts Post in Jemez Springs

Carol Meine to head up Jemez Springs Public Library. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

Carol Meine, program specialist at Mesa Public Library, will leave her job Feb. 20 to become the new director of the Jemez Springs Public Library Feb. 21.

“I’m sad to leave,” Meine said. “Library Manager Steven Thomas and Assistant Library Manager Bernadine Goldman have been wonderful to work for.”

Meine has lived in Jemez Springs since 1994. She lived in Placitas from 1980 to 1990 before leaving the state for a few years. Meine and her husband Richard, both Read More

Valentines Dance at Posse Lodge Feb. 15

POSSE LODGE News:

Come dance to Bloomdust Caravan, 7-10 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 15, at the Los Alamos Posse Lodge, 650 North Mesa Road.

Enjoy Steve Wallin’s Texas BBQ Platter, served 6 p.m. until the food is gone. Suggested donations are $8 for food and $15 per person/$25 per couple for the dance.

The event is BYOB with a non-alcoholic cash bar for mixers/set-ups. Overnight RV parking available at no charge.

Need more information? Call Carey at 505.412.7845. Read More

Quotes: The Authors Speak Series Presents Award Winning Romance and Mystery Author

Darynda Jones, award winning romance and mystery author. Courtesy photo

LIBRARY News:

Quotes: The Authors Speak Series presents New York Times bestselling author Darynda Jones at 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 27 in the Upstairs Rotunda at Mesa Public Library.

New Mexico’s own Jones will be part of the new season’s Quotes series, visiting Thursday, Feb. 27 for the evening Authors Speak event and giving tips to teen creative writing classes at Los Alamos Public Schools Friday.

“The grim reaper gets a shiny cool makeover in Jones’s blazing hot debut…Fast-talking Charley’s wicked exuberance Read More

LAMS Hosts ‘Discover New Mexico Day’

Los Alamos Middle School hosted a seventh grade event Friday called “Discover New Mexico Day.” Presenters from the surrounding area helped make the history and culture of new Mexico come alive. Mr. Suazo, left, and Ms. Jenkins of Puye Cliffs present ‘Puye Owinge-Where We Came From.’ Photo by Lelend Lehman/ladailypost.com

Guadalupita Ortiz presents a talk on ‘Retablos.’ Photo by Lelend Lehman/ladailypost.com

Santa Fe artist J.W. Segler. Photo by Lelend Lehman/ladailypost.com

Bandelier Superintendent Jason Lott presents an organizational Read More

NMSA Senior Competes for Presidential Scholar Integrating Science and Music

Los Alamos native Mohit Lauer Dubey has been invited to apply to the Presidential Scholar Program. Photo by Manvendra Dubey

EDUCATION News:

Los Alamos native Mohit Lauer Dubey has been invited to apply to the Presidential Scholar Program. He is a senior at the New Mexico School of the Arts (NMSA), a state sponsored charter school in Santa Fe.

This is a prestigious honor that places Dubey in the top 0.067 percent of the graduating seniors this year, based on competitive performance in tests, academics and the arts. 

“Mohit is a perfect example of the synergy that can occur for students when Read More

Beautiful Africa Watoto Children’s Choir at Crossroads Bible Church Feb. 18

Courtesy/Blanca E. Jones

COMMUNITY News:

Watoto, a holistic care program, initiated to serve the dire needs of Africa and her people, is thrilled to present a brand new choir tour entitled Beautiful Africa: A New Generation. The production will be presented at 7 p.m., Feb. 18 at Crossroads Bible Church, 97 East Road in Los Alamos. 

With vibrant, original African music; dance routines; life-transforming stories, the tour is indicative of the new generation of leaders emerging out of Watoto.

“Through the choir’s Concert of Hope, we share a message of transformation by telling the story Read More

‘Got Dance?’ Audition at the YMCA

YMCA News:

The Y is calling for dance auditions open to ages 12 and older in individual and group dance categories. Selected acts will perform 4-6:30 p.m., April 26 at New Beginnings Fellowship Church, 112 East Road.

Dancers will compete per category for top honors. Performance will be on a 25’ deep x 45’ wide wooden, elevated stage coated in a poly-resin paint.

The performance will benefit the Y’s Annual Campaign for scholarships. Tickets sold at the door.

Audition requires submitting an electronic link of your representational dance. Register to compete Feb.6 through March 16 at the Family Read More

This Week at the Reel Deal

Column by JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater

This Friday, we will be opening The Monuments Men, The Lego Movie, and August: Osage County.

We will hold Labor Day for another week.

I tried again this week to get Philomena which was promised to me and I in turn promised to you, but the studio is still holding out hoping the Oscars will breathe new life into the film with a possible Academy Award for Meryl Streep. Then they will ask for a longer run. Regardless, we are still going to show it soon.                                               Read More

Possible Quorum for Art in Public Places Board

COUNTY News:

Members of the Art in Public Places Board will participate in a tour of the Los Alamos County art collection at 3 p.m., Thursday in the Municipal Building at 1000 Central Ave. 

A quorum may be present, however, no board action will be taken. Read More

LALT Announces Auditions for ‘I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change’

LALT News

Los Alamos Little Theatre announces auditions for Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts’ romantic musical “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,” to be performed in May 2014.

Auditions are scheduled at 5 p.m. Feb. 8 and 9 and 7:30 p.m. Feb. 13 at the Performing Arts Center, 1670 Nectar. Those auditioning need to attend only one of these, although they are welcome to attend all. 

Prepare a song (not from this show) and bring your music for the accompanist. If you are auditioning for a non-singing part, you will read an excerpt from the script.

Details on the scenes, auditions, Read More

A Shy Young Man Learns about Love in ‘Lars and the Real Girl’

Review by KELLY DOLEJSI

If you look up “Lars and the Real Girl” (2007, PG-13) on IMDB, the one-line blurb reports, “A delusional young guy strikes up an unconventional relationship with a doll he finds on the Internet.”

First, I wonder if the adjectives “delusional” and “unconventional” are really necessary, considering the noun “doll.” Second, I wonder if it’s possible to summarize such a paradoxically complex and simple film, at all, but particularly in a single sentence.

Yes, it’s about a quiet man who ─ Read More

Santa Fe Pro Musica Welcomes Back Mezzo-Soprano Deborah Domanski

Mezzo-soprano Deborah Domanski. Courtesy/SFPM

SFPM News:

SANTA FE – Santa Fe Pro Musica welcomes back mezzo-soprano Deborah Domanski to perform Gustav Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer with the Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra, Thomas O’Connor, conductor.

The Scoop:

Mezzo-soprano Deborah Domanski will join Santa Fe Pro Musica in performance this spring, performing Gustav Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen)with the Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra, Thomas O’Connor, conductor. The orchestra will also perform chamber arrangements of Claude Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi Read More

‘Merry Wives’ Kick Their Heals in This Lively Production

From left, Mistress Ford (Stephanie Anne Landers), Master ford (Micah Linford), Sir John Falstaff (George Williams), Master Page (Tom Conklin) and Fairies Fiona and Chloe Ferber. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Hugh Evans (David Buckland), left, and Master Page (Tom Conklin) watch as Pistol, (Los Alamos actor Iain May) takes on his boss, Sir John Falstaff (George Williams.) Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Review By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

The Arden Shakespeare Festival brings a polished and fun production of Shakespeare’s “The Merry Read More

‘Topper Revue’ Opens Tonight

Topper Revue 2014 emcees from left back row, Daniel Ahrens, Ethan Clements, Ali Berl and front row from left, Richard Jia, Katie Downing and Haley Henson. Photo by Don Taylor

LAHS News:

The Los Alamos High School Olions will kick off the 2014 Topper Revue at 7 p.m. today at Duane Smith Auditorium. 

This year’s emcees are Daniel Ahrens, Ali Berl, Ethan Clements, Katie Downing, Haley Henson and Richard Jia. The show is written, directed and performed by the students themselves.

“As someone still relatively new to Los Alamos, it always amazes me how engrained Topper Revue Read More

Manhattan Project TV Series Seeks Period Vehicles

1940s Plymouth. Courtesy/www.acsu.buffalo.edu

Staff Report

WGNAmerica is coming to New Mexico to shoot a 13-episode TV drama series entitled “Manhattan” that takes place in Los Alamos in the year 1943.

The show will be filmed in and around Santa Fe starting in March.

Producers are looking for all types of vehicles that would photograph as original and fit into the everyday scene of Los Alamos in 1943. The project is seeking civilian sedans, pickups, farm flatbeds, everyday service vehicles such as panel and box trucks, any period buses and 1940-1943 non-tactical military vehicles and equipment. Read More

This Week at the Reel Deal: Theater Says Goodbye to Film Forever … Going All Digital!

Column By JIM O’DONNELL                                 
Reel Deal Theater

Friday Jan. 31, we will be opening Labor Day starring Josh Brolin, Kate Winslet and Toby Maquire. Jason Reitman directs this film about a single mother, Adele and her son Henry, who give a wounded man a ride from the grocery store.

As local police search the town for an escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn

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Science on Screen Presents ‘Particle Fever’

SFI News:

In a special Science On Screen event presented by The Lensic Performing Arts Center, The Center for Contemporary Arts and Santa Fe Institute, special guests physicist Geoffrey West and director Mark Levinson introduce the hit documentary film “Particle Fever,” the story of the machine and the people who sought, and found, the long-predicted but elusive Higgs boson, popularly known as “the God particle.”

The event is 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 11 at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe. Advance tickets are recommended.

For the first time, a film gives audiences a Read More

Dine With One of the World’s Great Guitarists

Guitarist Jason Vieaux and his duo partner, harpist Yolanda Kondonassis. Courtesy/LACA

LACA News:

An opportunity to dine with one of the world’s great guitarists, Jason Vieaux, is just around the corner. The Los Alamos Concert Association (LACA) has announced that there are a few tickets remaining to its annual “Dinner with the Artists” at which Vieaux and his duo partner, harpist Yolanda Kondonassis, will be the honored guests.

The dinner, at the Blue Window Bistro, will follow their performance scheduled for 4 p.m. Sunday, March 16 in the Duane Smith Auditorium in Los Alamos.

“This Read More

Glenn Randall Will Present Landscape Photography Workshop

LAPC News:

The Los Alamos Photography Club and the Los Alamos Adobe Users Group are sponsoring a one day workshop by landscape photographer Glenn Randall 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 12 upstairs at Fuller Lodge Art Center. The cost is $70.

Randall is a nationally known photographer and teacher. He is a regular contributor to the magazine Outdoor Photographer. Here is a link to the syllabus for the class. Visit http://www.glennrandall.com/ to see examples of Randall’s work.

“I took a workshop from Glenn last August at Rocky Mountain National Park and found it to be excellent,” club member Read More

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