Daily Postcard: Los Alamos sky early Thursday evening looking westward. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
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Signs Of ScienceFest 2018 Spotted Downtown
Tents were going up today around Ashley Pond Park in preparation for the 2018 Los Alamos ScienceFest, which runs through Sunday with the biggest day, Discovery Day, Saturday at the pond and Fuller Lodge. For more ScienceFest information, and the latest event schedule, visit LosAlamosScienceFestival.com. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Let the ScienceFest Chalk Walk begin! One chalk artist today was already at work creating a chalk painting on the sidewalk area near Fuller Lodge. Courtesy photo Read More
Game Cam Captures Bear Bathing On Barranca Mesa
A game cam captures a bear taking a bath earlier this month in the backyard of a home on Kachina Street on Barranca Mesa. Photo by Andrew Delorey ‘Doctor Atomic’ Coming To Santa Fe Opera
The opera ‘Doctor Atomic’ during a performance at The Metropolitan Opera. Courtesy photoSFO News:
The opera “Doctor Atomic” opens this weekend at the Santa Fe Opera. Composed by John Adams with a libretto by Peter Sellars, the opera takes place in the weeks leading up to the Trinity Test. J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, is the central character of the opera.
Other historical figures involved in the Manhattan Project, including General Leslie Groves, Edward Teller, Robert R. Wilson, and Kitty Oppenheimer, also are represented.
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Read More Daily Postcard: Bull Elk In Full Velvet Spotted Grazing
Daily Postcard: A bull elk with his antlers covered in velvet is spotted May 31 grazing in the Jemez. Photo by Jim CobbleArts Council Announces Sec Sandoval Chalk Walk
A youngster paddles a 3-D chalk canoe during last year’s Chalk Walk in downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Local artists decorated the sidewalk during last year’s Chalk Walk. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
LAAC News:
The Arts Council invites the public to attend the Seventh Annual Sec Sandoval Chalk Walk Saturday. Participants can “purchase” a piece of the side walk near Fuller Lodge for $5 and Los Alamos Arts Council members get their first piece of sidewalk for free.
Chalk also is available for purchase. Artists can draw in their squares beginning at Read More
Newton: Madame Butterfly At The Summit
A.J. Glueckert (Pinkerton) Kelly Kaduce (Madame Butterfly) and Megan Marino (Suzuki). Photo by Ken Howard/Courtesy of Santa Fe Opera
By CARL NEWTON
Los Alamos
Giacomo Puccini declared in February 1904 that Butterfly is “the best I’ve written.” Leading up to that moment he pursued the essence of East Asian music, and then merged it with music that would be appropriate for western characters.
Puccini drew some of his best poetic material from librettists Illica and Giacosa. But the opening night audience was predisposed to loudly reject it. However with his great acumen, Puccini made the first Read More
Daily Postcard: Hummingbird Hovers In Quemazon
Daily Postcard: Hummingbird hovers in the sunshine ahead of a rain shower recently in Quemazon. Hummingbirds are birds from the Americas that constitute the family Trochilidae. They are among the smallest of birds, most species measuring 3-5 inches in length. Indeed, the smallest extant bird species is a hummingbird, the 2-inch bee hummingbird weighing less than .07 oz. They are known as hummingbirds because of the humming sound created by their beating wings which flap at high frequencies audible to humans. They hover in mid-air at rapid wing-flapping rates, which vary from Read More
Daily Postcard: Two Tailed Swallowtail Butterfly
Daily Postcard: A Two Tailed Swallowtail Butterfly (Papilio multicaudata) is spotted enjoying local flowers Sunday in White Rock. Photo by Nancy Ann Hibbs Read More
NMFO Announces ‘The Mule’ To Film In New Mexico
NMFO News:SANTA FE ― New Mexico Film Office Director Nick Maniatis announced Monday that Clint Eastwood’s upcoming feature “The Mule,” from Warner Bros. Pictures and Imperative Pictures, will film later this month in Las Cruces.
“We’re thrilled to welcome another production to New Mexico,” Film Office Director Nick Maniatis said. “We’re proud to see the film industry continuing to grow in and around Las Cruces – and throughout southern New Mexico.”
The production will employ approximately
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