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Natasha Paremski To Replace Ingrid Fliter In Los Alamos Performance

Natasha Paremski. Courtesy photo
 
LACA News:
 
The Los Alamos Concert Association has engaged a rising young star, pianist Natasha Paremski, to replace Ingrid Fliter who has regretfully cancelled her performance May 7 for family reasons.
 
Ms. Paremski’s program will include Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, Brahms’ Variations on a Theme by Paganini and three mazurkas and the Scherzo No. 4 in E Major, Op. 54 by Chopin.
 
Hailed by the Washington Post as “a pianist of prodigious technique and striking stage presence”, Natasha Paremski
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Winter Returns To Los Alamos … For A Few Hours!

This morning Los Alamos got a surprise snowstorm as shown here on Central Avenue. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

Cars get a thick coating of snow during this morning’s snowstorm. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

The eagle sculpture at the entrance to Cental Park Square is dusted with with snow. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

A wintery scene this morning in downtown Los Alamos. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

An unusual snow scene in late April is spotted this morning outside the Los Alamos County Municipal Building. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

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Atomic City Children’s Theater Presents Disney The Aristocats KIDS At Mountain Tonight & Tomorrow

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ACCT News:
 
Atomic City Children’s Theater is proud to present their production of Disney The Aristocats KIDS.
 
All of your favorite characters from the classic Disney film are here – Thomas O’Malley, Duchess, the Aristokittens, Madame, Edgar and more!
 
Disney Aristocats Jr. will be presented at 7 p.m., tonight, and at 2 p.m., Saturday, at Mountain Elementary School.
 
ACCT’s Co-Directors, Daren Savage and Kelsey Cline are very proud of their young cast. Savage noted, “Our cast is made up of 3rd and 4th grade students
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Olions ‘Mary Poppins’ Is Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

Mary (Lauren Partin), center,  with Jane (Olivia Taylor) and Michael (Katie Wingo). Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Jane (Olivia Taylor) and Michael (Katie Wingo) explore the rooftops of London with Bert (Ben Hanlon). Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Review by BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

For those in need of a spoonful of sugar, look no further than the Duane Smith Auditorium, for the Los Alamos High School Olion’s production of  “Mary Poppins”.

Magical nanny Mary Poppins (Lauren Partin) transforms the lives of the Banks family in early 20th Read More

Barranca Hosts Bobcat Bonanza Carnival Friday

Students have fun at a previous Barranca Mesa Elementary School Bobcat Bonanza Carnival. Courtesy photo

BARRANCA SCHOOL News:

Barranca Mesa Elementary School will host the Fourth Annual Bobcat Bonanza Carnival 4:30-7:30 p.m., Friday at 57 Loma del Escolar.

The popular dunk tank returns again this year as well as the bouncy castles, inflatable slide and inflatable obstacle course.

The Hill Stompers band will be on hand to entertain and brighten the atmosphere and of course, there will be lots of games. Food will be available for purchase, including pizza from Time Out Pizza, popcorn, de la Read More

Promoter Russ Gordon Announces Final Summer Concert Season

This Los Alamos Summer Concert Series is the final one for Promoter Russ Gordon. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

The 2017 Los Alamos County Summer Concert Series is the 28th and final one for concert promoter Russ Gordon. He’s gotten a job offer he can’t refuse.

“We love babysitting our three grandchildren and our grand nieces and nephews,” Gordon said. “Those kids are way too much fun.”

Daughter Annie Rose and her family live in Seattle and Russ and his wife, Deborah Gordon, will be moving there next spring. It’s difficult to leave northern Read More

Letter To The Editor: A Broadway Experience In Los Alamos?

By PHILO SHELTON
Los Alamos

When I was a kid, once a year my parents would take my sister and me to dinner and a show on New York’s Broadway. It is possible to do the same in Los Alamos! One can get a lunch or dinner before and head over to Duane Smith Auditorium to catch a show. 

The Olions is performing the musical Mary Poppins this last weekend. The musical uses a professional set, costumes and the actresses and actors are excellent singers and performers. So make an evening of it Los Alamos.

Catch show times at https://www.facebook.com/LAHSOlions/?ref=py_c

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Los Alamos High School Sophomore Emily Jones Wins 2017 Congressional Art Competition

LAHS student Emily Jones with her winning art. Courtesy photo

From the Office of U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) announced Tuesday that Emily Jones, a sophomore at Los Alamos High school, is this year’s winner of the Congressional Art Competition.

Each spring, the Congressional Institute sponsors a nationwide high school visual art competition to recognize and encourage artistic talent in the nation and in each congressional district. Since the Artistic Discovery competition began in 1982, more than 650,000 high school students have participated. Read More

Learn Flamenco From Legendary Dancer Carmela Greco June 27 To July 2

Courtesy of Carmela Greco. Photo by Blindekol
 
MoIFA News:
 
SANTA FE — As the popular exhibition Flamenco: From Spain to New Mexico draws to a close, the Museum of International Folk Art (MoIFA) is bringing legendary flamenco dancer Carmela Greco to Santa Fe for a week of Spanish dance arts and music June 27 through July 2 inside the Museum.
 
New Mexicans also will have the rare opportunity to learn Flamenco from a master in classes taught by Carmela Greco.

“Since the mid-20th century, the name Greco has been synonymous with Spanish Dance. The Museum of International

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Daily Postcard: Large Moth Spotted On Barranca Mesa

Daily Postcard: A large moth is spotted outside the front door of a Barranca Mesa home on a brick wall that for some reason attracts moths. Its body is about 1.5 inches long. It appears to be in the silkmoth (Hyalophora) family. Photo by Ken Hanson Read More

LAHS’s ‘Mary Poppins’ Up For Multiple Popejoy Awards!

Popejoy Award nominees for their performances in Mary Poppins, from left, Lauren Partin, Jessica Erkkila and Ben Hanlon. Courtesy photo

LAHS News:

The Los Alamos High School production of “Mary Poppins” has been nominated for the prestigious New Mexico High School Musical Theater Popejoy Award. In addition, Ben Hanlon has been nominated for Best Male actor and both Jessica and Lauren Partin have been nominated for Best Female Actor.

“We are very honored to be working with such a talented cast and crew on this production,” said Jason Rutledge, musical director for the show. “We are also very Read More

Bathtub Row Press Releases ‘Pajarito Acres: A Bootstrap Volunteer Land Development’

BATHTUB ROW PRESS News:

 

The first families moved into the Pajarito Acres development in Los Alamos in 1965, but their quest for those homes had begun three years earlier when a group of volunteers formed the Pajarito Acres Development Corporation. Their goal was to make possible privately owned, acreage homes as an alternative to the government housing managed by the Atomic Energy Commission.  

The project attracted “an eclectic herd of roughly 150 iconoclasts. They were all fed up with the government standards of architecture and restrictions,” Bruce Krohn, whose family Read More

Valley Celebrates National Poetry Month

COMMUNITY News:
 
An event celebrating National Poetry Month called Habla Espanola! A Celebration of Spoken Word & the Language of Place is 7-8:30 p.m. April 29, at the Espanola’s MainStreet Theatre (nonprofit organization). The event includes poetry, music and refreshments with a $5 suggested donation.
 
This event  features local Valley poets, including former Santa Fe Poet Laureate Joan Logghe, Dr. Patricia Trujillo (NNMC professor), Luis Pena (poet and muralist, Michelle Holland (instructor in humanities at Los Alamos High School) and Monique Sanchez
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Sixty Plein Air Artists Draw Beauty Of Jemez Springs

Maryann McGraw paints a Valles Caldera plein air. Courtesy photo
 
ART News:

Sixty artists will be plein air painting April 28–May 4 throughout the Jemez Valley.

Those works will then be exhibited at Jemez Springs Fine Art Gallery commencing with an artists reception 1-3 p.m., May 6. Paintings from the “Plein Air Painters of New Mexico (PAPNM) Spring Paint-Out and Show” will be exhibited at the gallery through May 24 and will be available for sale.

The art of plein air painting is making a comeback and the village of Jemez Springs is excited to host the event.

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Mainstreet Auditions For ‘Acting May Be Murder’

MAINSTREET THEATRE News:

Espanola’s Mainstreet Theater is hosting auditions for its upcoming production of “Acting May Be Murder.” Auditions are 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday at 500 Paseo de Onate in Espanola.

“Acting May Be Murder” is a mystery/comedy that spoofs Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock. The play is a “who dunnit” backstage comedy that will keep the audience guessing. The cast will be made up of six men and eight women from late teen to adult.The performances are 7 p.m. June 2, 3, 9 and 10. There will be a 2 p.m. matinee Read More

Gathering Of Nations Pow Wow April 28-29

 
COMMUNITY News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE  Southern Slam, from Jemez Pueblo, has been announced as an invited drum group at the 34th annual Gathering of Nations, the world’s largest gathering of Native American and indigenous people.
 
The Gathering of Nations, considered the most prominent Native American powwow in North America, will host tens of thousands of people and more than 700 tribes from throughout the United States, Canada, and around the world celebrating their culture and traditions through traditional Native American dance,
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