A&E

2024 Zia Award Finalists: Dede Feldman & Elizabeth Rose

NMPW News:

Zia Award Chair Jennifer Hull has announced the finalist for this year’s Zia Award, Dede Feldman and Elizabeth Rose.

The Zia Award was started in 1953 to honor an outstanding woman author with a strong connection to New Mexico.

Each year, the award rotates to one of three categories:

  • Nonfiction;
  • Fiction; and
  • Children’s Literature.

The two women authors with ties to New Mexico—or whose action is set in New Mexico—have been named as New Mexico Press Women’s 2024 Zia Book Award finalists in the category of nonfiction. The winner will be announced at a celebratory luncheon Saturday, March Read More

LALT Opens ‘Twice Upon A Time’ Friday

LALT News:

What’s big and bad and smells like bacon? It must be Los Alamos Little Theatre’s (LALT) upcoming production of Tracy Wells’s “Twice Upon a Time”.

The show for all ages, directed by Holly Robinson, features the classic fairy tales you know and love with some notably hilarious edits. The show opens this weekend, running March 8-17, with evening performances at 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. matinee performances on both Sundays, at the Performing Arts Center, 1670 Nectar St.

For matinee performances, LALT is happy to introduce a special ticket pricing, Twice Upon A Ticket! Children Read More

DEA Issues Letter To E-Commerce Companies On Sale Of Pill Presses Used To Make Fentanyl Pills

A pill press used to make fentanyl pills. Courtesy/DEA

DEA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has issued a letter to e-commerce companies regarding the sale of pill presses. As regulated entities under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), e-commerce platforms are generally required to comply with CSA recordkeeping, identification, and reporting requirements on the distribution, importation, and exportation of pill press machines.

The United States is in the midst of an unprecedented drug poisoning epidemic. In 2022, approximately 110,757 Americans Read More

SOMOS: Reading, Workshop By Martin Espada April 12-13

SOMOS News:

The Society of the Muse of the Southwest (SOMOS), a literary organization in Taos since 1983, is hosting Martin Espada for a reading and workshop April 12-13, 2024.

Both will be held online via Zoom and the link will be forwarded after registration.

Espada has published more than 20 books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator. His new book of poems from Norton is called Floaters, winner of the 2021 National Book Award. Other books of poems include Vivas to Those Who Have Failed (2016), The Trouble Ball (2011), The Republic of Poetry (2006) and Alabanza (2003).

He is the editor Read More

LAPS Jazz Faculty Perform For LAHS Students

Ryan Finn and the Los Alamos Jazz faculty performed at Los Alamos High School during lunch Wednesday, featuring the music of Thelonious Monk. The performance was a part of the school’s celebration of Black History Month. Thelonious Monk was a Black American jazz pianist and composer. Monk’s compositions and improvisations feature dissonances and angular melodic twists and are consistent with his unorthodox approach to the piano, which combined a highly percussive attack with abrupt, dramatic use of switched key releases, silences, and hesitations. Monk’s distinct look included suits, Read More

Learn About Diné & Ndé At Bosque Redondo Ranger Tours

NMHS News:

New Mexico Historic Sites (NMHS) announces that Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner Historic Site is offering a new series of ranger-led tours.

Join Ranger Lily and Instructional Coordinator Rebekha on Saturdays for a guided tour of the new permanent exhibition, “Bosque Redondo…A Place of Suffering…A Place of Survival” and exterior grounds at Fort Sumner Historic Site, 1-3 p.m., Saturdays, March 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30, 2024.

Directions:

Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner Historic Site, I-40 to Santa Rosa, south on US 84 to the village of Fort Sumner. Take Hwy 60/84 3 miles east Read More

Los Alamos High School Literature Students Participate In African America Read-In At Mesa Public Library

Students from LAHS’s AP Literature classes at Mesa Public Library last week participating in the African American Read-In. Courtesy/LAPS

Students from LAHS’s AP Literature classes participating in the African American Read-In. Courtesy/LAPS

LAPS News:

This past week students from Los Alamos High School’s AP Literature classes took a field trip to Mesa Public Library to participate in the African American Read-In, a nationwide movement begun in 1990 by the National Council of Teachers of English. The read-ins foster community celebration and engagement in works written and illustrated Read More

Verdi With A Vengeance: An Energetic Guide To Life And Complete Works Of King Of Opera March 26

SFOG News:

The Santa Fe Opera Guild hosts its in-person Vivace Book Club featuring the selection Verdi With a Vengeance: An Energetic Guide to the Life and Complete Works of the King of Opera by William Berger, 2-3 p.m. (MDT), Tuesday, March 26 at the Santa Fe Main Library.

Dr. Bernadette Snider, the Guild’s President said, “We are excited about the selection of a William Berger title for our upcoming in-person Vivace. Berger is a noted opera expert and speaker, who writes about Giuseppe Verdi with passion, respect, and humor in Verdi With a Vengeance.”

Dr. Snider also notes, “The Vivace offerings Read More

Cinema Cindy Reviews: Dune: Part 2

By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

“Dune: Part 2”—which opened Friday—is a film that deserves the Big Screen, a satisfying, Action/Sci-fi movie, based on the epic 1965 novel “Dune” by Frank Herbert (and its five sequels). Fans of the Dune books, and those who enjoyed the 2021 film “Dune”, will not easily be disappointed. For adults and teens alike, it’s worth sitting through 2 hours 46 minutes.

Watching Dune 2, one can guess it will be nominated for several Oscars. Dune Part 1, in fact, won Oscars in 2022 for Best Sound, Visual Effects, Production Design, Original Score, Cinematography, and Film Read More

Enjoy Dinner And A Movie – Helping LAFC Every Month!

This month’s feature film is ‘The Quiet Man’. Courtesy/LAFC 

LAFC News:

The community is invited to Los Alamos Family Council’s second monthly dinner and a movie fundraiser.

Enjoy frito pie and a movie at SALA Event Center.

Every month on the Second Tuesday of the month, LAFC will host a dinner and a movie fundraiser. Proceeds will support their programs at the Counseling Center and the Youth Activity Centers.

Make the Second Tuesday Movie Night your monthly night on the town!

Dinner will available beginning at 5:30 p.m. The movie will start at 6 p.m.

Tickets are limited – so buy them HERE Read More

ENMU Presents ‘University Juried Art Exhibition’

ENMU News:

PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU) presents the “University Juried Art Exhibition” through Thursday, March 21, at the Runnells Gallery in the Golden Student Success Center.

“Art often serves as an active lens through which identity and time are explored and expressed. Artists navigate myriad choices to anchor their creative expression, ranging from color, narrative, material, depiction of ancestry, evolution, personal growth, traumas, and triumphs,” Jurist and Professional Artist Alyssa Eble said. “In curating this exhibition, I have selected a range of artworks, Read More

Compania Chuscales & Mina Fajardo Present Flamenco Fiesta 2024: Guitar And Tree May 23-26

Compania Chuscales & Mina Fajardo. Courtesy/TA

TEATRO PARAGUAS News:

Compania Chuscales & Mina Fajardo bring their unique flamenco experience once again to Teatro Paraguas with Flamenco Fiesta 2024, and a special concert entitled Guitar and Tree.

Guitarist Chuscales, who grew up in the gypsy caves of Sacromonte in Spain imbibing the duende of flamenco, explains the inspiration for the concert: “Recently, we have had so many wildfires worldwide. We want to emphasize through my guitar and Mina’s choreography how important trees are for all of us …”

According to Mina, flamenco Read More

The Family YMCA Poster Competition Held For Fighting Heart Disease And Promoting Healthy Living

Poster submittals for staying ‘Heart Smart’ all year round. Courtesy/YMCA

Courtesy/YMCA

YMCA News:

As February (American Heart Month) draws to a close, we would like to celebrate the kids in our community who have submitted their poster in our competition on how to stay, “Heart Smart” all year round.

The Family YMCA gave a challenge earlier this month to our community’s kids (Kindergarten-6th grade) to make posters that creatively teach about ways of fighting heart disease and living a healthy life!

The competition was very close but after much deliberation our judge chose the following: Read More

Search
LOS ALAMOS

ladailypost.com website support locally by OviNuppi Systems