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Empty Bowls Filled Today

Last year’s empty bowls. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 

COMMUNITY News:

 
Self Help, Inc. is hosting the Empty Bowls Project Luncheon and Silent Auction 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.,today at the Betty Ehart Senior Center.
 
For $15 participants receive a ceramic bowl, soup, bread, dessert and a beverage. The Craig Martin Experience will provide musical entertainment for the diners.

“The funds raised benefit community members both in Los Alamos and in neighboring counties by helping with basic needs such as food and heat, and by assisting people facing homelessness,” Read More

Planetarium Feature Film: Exoplanets March 5-6

Courtesy/PEEC
 
PEEC News:
 
Pajarito Environmental Education Center is showing Exoplanets at 2 p.m., March 5 and 6, in the Los Alamos Nature Center Planetarium. 
 
Exoplanets takes audiences on a journey to observe planets beyond the solar system and uncover the science and astronomy behind their discovery. This full-dome film was produced by Casper Planetarium.
 
Tickets may be purchased by phone or at the nature center and are only $6 for adults and $4 for children. This movie is recommended for ages four
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Tour Of Duane W. Smith Auditorium

Los Alamos Concert Association Artistic Director Ann McLaughlin, left, and Technical Director Ross Mason, center, led a recent tour of Duane W. Smith Auditorium to discuss needed renovations. The aging facility hosts world class concerts in which the walls are so flimsy, patrons are asked to refrain from flushing toilets until they hear audience applause to muffle the sound. County Council voted Tuesday to help fund the renovation through its school parnership budget. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Ross Mason presents the basics on the renovations he would like to see for
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NMSA Presents Visual Arts Exhibition At Warehouse 21

 
NMSA News:
 
SANTA FE  New Mexico School for the Arts will present “Delightful Decay,” an innovative visual arts exhibition featuring drawings and sculptures from NMSA’s 9th grade visual arts class, March 24 through April 1 at Warehouse 21. The school will hold an opening reception for the exhibition 5-7 p.m., March 24 at Warehouse 21.
 
Working alongside Guest Artist Chris Collins and drawing and sculpture faculty at NMSA, the 9th grade visual artists at the New Mexico School for the Arts have developed sculptures and drawings
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Eco Truck Displays Lia Rushston’s Recycle Design

The special day arrived Thursday, Feb. 26, to honor Chamisa Elementary School student Lia Rushston for winning the Recycle Bowl Poster contest. Los Alamos County’s brand new Eco truck pulled up to Chamisa displaying Rushston’s design. She stands with her family and the ‘Green Team’ at Chamisa. Courtesy photo

Winning Recycle Bowl Poster contest artist Lia Rushston with her family Thursday at Chamisa. Courtesy photo

Winning Recycle Bowl Poster contest artist Lia Rushston inside Los Alamos County’s brand new Eco truck, which pulled up Thursday to Chamisa School displaying Rushston’s Read More

‘Ride The Pink Horse’ At Mesa Public Library Thursday

Movie poster for ‘Ride the Pink Horse.’ Courtesy photo

Review by KELLY DOLEJSI
Los Alamos

The first film ever in which a Latino was nominated for an Oscar, Director Robert Montgomery’s “Ride the Pink Horse” (1947), will screen at 6:30 p.m., Thursday at Mesa Public Library in Los Alamos.

In this noir-style film shot in Santa Fe, Gagin (Montgomery) speaks few words but carries a big secret — or at least, so it seems — all the way to the border town of San Pablo, where FBI Agent Bill Retz (Art Smith) and bad guy Frank Hugo (Fred Clark) figure him out posthaste, or so it seems.

Basically, Gagin Read More

Dog Jog Logo Contest Deadline March 5

SHELTER News:

Saturday, March 5 is the deadline for entries for the annual Dog Jog logo contest.

The Los Alamos Friends of the Shelter is calling on all young community members to help brand this year’s run. Any child in the third to sixth grade is invited to put their artistic skills to work for a good cause.

The winning design will be used as the official 2016 Los Alamos Dog Jog logo and be placed on event t-shirts and other official event materials. The Logo Contest winner will receive one free t-shirt.

Logo Entry Guidelines:

  • All entries should be drawn in black ink on white paper. The lines should be
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NMSC Presents Epic Mozart’s Requiem March 6

MUSIC News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE  The New Mexico Symphonic Chorus and Orchestra will perform Mozart’s sublime Requiem, as well as famed Coronation Anthems by Handel, at 3 p.m., Sunday, March 6, at the First United Methodist Church in Albuquerque with ample, convenient, free parking nearby – 314 Lead Ave. SW (Lead and 4th Street).
 
New Mexico audience favorites mezzo-soprano Jacqueline Zander-Wall, soprano Marilyn Thomas Bernard, tenor Eric Parker and baritone Stephen Lewis will be featured soloists in this highly anticipated concert.
 
“Our
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Celebrate Los Alamos Co+op’s 5th Birthday Saturday

Scenes from the Los Alamos Cooperative Market. Courtesy/LACM
 
 
By WHITNEY SPIVEY
Co+op Board Member
 
The Los Alamos Cooperative Market (Co+op) turns five this spring, and community members (Co+op members and non-members alike) are invited to a birthday celebration Saturday, March
5. 
 
“Who doesn’t love a good party?” Interim General Manager Rebekah Valentine said. “Five years is a huge milestone, made even more significant when looking back over the struggles we’ve had during the last year or so.”
 
To celebrate, the deli will make
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Classical Music World: Pale Blue Dot

The Dover Quartet performs in Los Alamos March 11 at Smith Auditorium. Courtesy photo
 

The Pale Blue Dot: This iconic image was taken by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft from a distance of almost 4 billion miles from Earth. The dot can be seen about halfway down the orange stripe on the right. Courtesy/NASA

 

By ANN MCLAUGHLIN, Artistic Director
Los Alamos Concert Association

There are plenty of classical works inspired by or associated with heavenly bodies. Debussy’s ever-popular, Clair de Lune comes to mind as does Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. Gustav Holst’s The Planets, is a staple Read More

A Taste Of Knowledge Beer & Wine Tasting March 4

LAPSF News:

The Los Alamos Public Schools Foundation will host a beer and wine tasting event, A Taste of Knowledge, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Friday, March 4 at the Bradbury Science Museum.

Participants will sample a wide variety of specially selected beers and wines, choosing eight tastes from among 12 offerings. An array of delicious appetizers will accompany the beverages. 

All proceeds benefit the Great Ideas Grants available to school district classroom teachers each fall and spring from the LAPS Foundation.

“The hope is that our community will come out to support our teachers at this unique Read More

Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘Trumbo’

By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

“Trumbo” tells the true story of mid 20th century screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted for his affiliation with the Communist Party. This would seem a common story among the literati of Hollywood in the 1950s.

But Trumbo became a bit of a hero by using his wit and eloquence to stand up to those compiling the list. The appearance of his name in the opening credits of Otto Preminger’s 1960 film Exodus is considered the end of the age of the Hollywood blacklist.

Dalton Trumbo, played brilliantly by Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad), was the top screenwriter in Read More

Bandelier Artist In The Park Opportunity Deadline Nears

Bandelier is accepting applications from artists interested in an artist in residence position. Whether your art is visual, musical, dramatic or something else, if you like the idea of living in the park for a month you should apply! See the details and get an application at http://www.nps.gov/band/artist16.htm. Fuller Lodge Art Center is sharing this information in collaboration with Bandelier National Monument, and as a teaser to get you thinking about nature art. Our ‘Born to be Wild’ exhibition Aug. 12-Oct. 1, is in honor of Bandelier’s 100th anniversary as a National Read More

Dover Quartet To Perform In Los Alamos

Dover Quartet will perform March 11 in the Smith Auditorium. Courtesy photo

 

LACA News:

 

The much admired Dover Quartet will perform in the Smith Auditorium in Los Alamos at 7 p.m. Friday, March 11 as part of the Los Alamos Concert Association’s 70th Anniversary Season.

 

Since a triumphant sweep at the prestigious Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2013, the Dover has won acclaim world-wide. The New Yorker dubbed them “the young American string quartet of the moment.” James Keller of the Santa Fe New Mexican described the young ensemble as “string quartet Nirvana.”  Read More

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