Entertainment

Calling All Teens Interested In Science And Art: Projecting Particles Lab At ScienceFest 2016

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Scene from ScienceFest 2015. Courtesy/LACDC

LACDC News:

This year’s Los Alamos ScienceFest will host a one of a kind workshop for high school aged teens.

Artist Agnes Chavez will lead the workshop, which will explore how to create a live projection art performance using an iPad app called Tagtool. Participants will learn about particle physics concepts, and how physics theories are expanding our understanding of who we are and where we come from.

The students will work in teams over the course of a 2-day workshop to storyboard, design and perform their science based projection installations. Read More

LALT: ‘Spies’ Hilarious 10-minute Show July 15-16

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COMMUNITY News:

The community is invited to watch “Spies” at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m., Friday and 1 p.m. and 3 p.m., Saturday at the Los Alamos Little Theatre, 1670 Nectar St. in Los Alamos.

Part of Los Alamos Sciencefest, “Spies” is a hilarious 10-minute show for all ages, two ridiculous individuals meet and try to figure out if the other is a spy. Convinced they are enemies, they try to one-up each other with absurd actions and fighting. That is until they release their most secret spy weapon: the most unbelievable staring contest you will ever witness.

Admission is FREE, Read More

PEEC: New Laser Light Shows July 31 – Aug. 7

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PEEC News:
 
Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) is bringing all new Laser Light Shows to the Los Alamos Nature Center July 31 through Aug. 7.
 
Choose from up to four different shows each day. Enjoy laser shows choreographed to music as a full-dome experience in the nature center planetarium.
 
With 14 unique laser light shows, there is truly something for everyone. Music fans will love to see how laser light transforms their favorite bands in Laser Rock, Laser Retro, and Laser Viny. There are separate shows dedicated to the music of Metallica, Led Zeppelin,
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Extra Chance To Win Prizes At Los Alamos ScienceFest: Dress In Costume, Volunteer

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Courtesy/LACDC

SCIENCEFEST News:

This year ScienceFest has an Apple watch, a hover board, a spy watch with camera, a new Polaroid camera and a super spy kit to give away! Volunteer to help or come to Festival Day 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Ashley Pond Park dressed in a costume for an extra chance to win one of these prizes.

We are asking everyone in the community to dress in either period attire – vintage 1940’s garb, or as a spy. This year’s theme is espionage, so dress up and come to the festival on Saturday, July 16 at Ashley Pond for an extra chance to win! Swing by the information book to register for the drawing Read More

Cinema Cindy Reviews: The BFG

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The Great Duck Race 2016

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The crowd makes its way toward the bridge and riverbank Saturday in Jemez Springs at the start of the annual Great Duck Race. Photo by Ryszard Wasilewski/jemezdailypost.com

The ducks head downstream in the Jemez River. Photo by R.W./jemezdailypost.com

Crowds stood by the river banks and on the bridge, urging-on their favorite ducks. Photo by R.W./jemezdailypost.com

 

By RYSZARD WASILEWSKI
Jemez Daily Post

The annual Great Duck Race might seem to some to be at the periphery of Independence Day celebrations, but it is clearly a major sporting event for the village of Jemez Springs Read More

Back With A Vengeance … Don Giovanni Scores At Santa Fe Opera

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A goreous sunset posed for the opening of Don Giovanni at the Santa Fe Opera July 3. Photo by Roger Snodgrass/ladailypost.com
 
Daniel Okulitch (Don Giovanni) and Solomoan Howard (Commendatore) in ‘Don Giovanni’. (c) Ken Howard for Santa Fe Opera, 2016
 
By ROGER SNODGRASS and CARL NEWTON
Los Alamos Daily Post

Brazilian-born Ron Daniels’ bold staging and direction of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Giovanni takes a great work and makes it greater. Daniel Okulitch, “The Dynamic Star of Santa Fe Opera’s New Don Giovanni,” on the cover of Opera News, makes it one of the summer’s Read More

The Good, The Bad And The Sbagliato*

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Patricia Racette (Minnie), Gwyn Hughes Jones (Dick Johnson) and ensemble cast in ‘The Girl of the Golden West’. Photo by Ken Howard for Santa Fe Opera, 2016
 
Gwyn Hughes Jones (Dick Johnson) and Patricia Racette (Minnie) in ‘The Girl of the Golden West’  Photo by  Ken Howard for Santa Fe Opera, 2016

 

BY ROGER SNODGRASS AND CARL NEWTON
Los Alamos Daily Post

  • For its Diamond (60th) Anniversary Santa Fe Opera goes for the gold

One of the great all-time Italian comic operas, Giacomo Puccini’s Fanciulla del West takes place in a small-mining camp during the early days of the California Read More

Pajarito And Gordon’s Concert Series Features Grayson Capps 7 p.m. Friday

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Songwriter and musician Grayson Capps takes center stage this Friday at Pajarito Mountain Ski Area. Courtesy photo

CONCERT News:

  • FREE Concert Begins at 7 p.m.

American songwriter and musician Grayson Capps will take center stage this Friday at Pajarito Mountain Ski Area as part of the popular Gordon’s Summer Concert Series. The event begins at 7 p.m. and is free to the public.

Capps’ music, which has been described as “soulful,” “gritty” and “swampy” was inspired by Capps’ experiences in the South, where he Read More