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Adobe Theater Presents Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Importance Of Being Earnest’

THEATER News:

Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” is the last of his four drawing-room plays, the previous three being “Lady Windermere’s Fan”, “A Woman Of No Importance” and “An Ideal Husband”, written a couple of hundred years ago! This farcical comedy depicts the tangled affairs of two young ‘men about town’ who lead double lives to evade unwanted social obligations, both assuming the name ‘Ernest’ while wooing the two young women of their affections.

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Museum Of International Folk Art Hosts World Of Treasures Silent Auction And Party Saturday Nov. 15

COMMUNITY News:
The Museum of International Folk Art’s second World of Treasures Silent Auction & Party is 6-8 p.m. Nov. 15 at the museum, 706 Camino Lejo in Santa Fe.
The World of Treasures Silent Auction & Party brings together hundreds of items from around the world that represent the very best of those donated to the Museum’s Friends of Folk Art and gives partygoers the chance to bid or buy-now in the auction, as well as to purchase beautiful, but less costly, items in the boutique.
The cocktail party will feature a New Mexico-themed menu catered by Weldon’s Museum Hill Café.
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Los Alamos Arts Council To Present Lozano And Montoya In Daytime Performance Series

LAAC News:
The Los Alamos Arts Council (LAAC) Daytime Performance Series will feature an original performance from Tomás Lozano & Rima Montoya, 12–1 p.m., Nov. 5 in Fuller Lodge. Like the rest of the Daytime Performance Series, this event is free and open to the public.

Lorenzo is a singer, musician, composer, scholar and writer, born in Barcelona, Spain to Andalusian parents. Known for his eclectic musicianship, Lozano’s performance of Spain’s traditional ballads stand out as iconic. Lozano has become well-known for his musical compositions set to legendary poets. He performs his Read More

Los Alamos Garden Club To Host Work Party At Memorial Garden Nov. 8

Los Alamos Garden Club volunteers at the Memorial Rose Garden. A work party will be held Nov. 8. Courtesy photo

COMMUNITY News:

The community is invited to join the Los Alamos Garden Club Saturday, Nov. 8, to help with its annual mulching of the Memorial Rose Garden. Five-gallon buckets and shovels are helpful. Many hands make light work, and it will probably take around an hour.

Soon, the County will erect an elegant 7-foot, visually minimal fence to keep the deer out and the club will be able to dispense with the chicken wire cages.

Sincere thanks to Will Plotner, Hands of Time Clock Repair, for his Read More

Step Up Gallery New Exhibit Runs Through Nov. 28

STEP UP GALLERY News:

Just in time for Veterans Day, the exhibit “The Way of Art- Veterans Create” is open in Step Up Gallery on and runs through Nov. 28. The show features work by men and women from every branch of the military, who create work in media ranging from oil painting and sculpture to leather, ceramics and jewelry. All are members of New Mexico Veterans Art, the non-profit sponsoring the exhibition.

New Mexico Veterans Art is staffed and organized by volunteer veterans for the purpose of promoting the talents of military personnel, past and present, and their spouses.

Each veteran brings Read More

Lasses And Lads Of Enchantment And Santa Fe Harmonizers Thank Community For Support

The Lasses and Lads of Enchantment celebrate Halloween and send get well wishes to an ill member. Photo by Bernadette Lauritzen

By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Lads and Lasses of Enchantment

The Lasses and Lads of Enchantment and the Santa Fe Harmonizers thank Los Alamos, their advertisers, donors and patrons for attending their 2025 show in October. They are also grateful for those who allow the tradition of 4-part, Barbershop Harmony to continue to thrive in our community.

The Lasses and Lads of Enchantment are beginning to prepare for the holiday season. They look forward to seeing the community Read More

Well Fed Beaver Spotted At Bandelier National Monument

A well fed beaver spotted during a volunteer project building beaver dam analogs earlier this fall at Bandelier National Monument. National parks remain as accessible as possible during the federal government shutdown. At Bandelier, the following are not open or accessible: the Visitor Center, Cafe, Park Store, Frijoles Canyon, and the Tsankawi unit, including the hiking trails such as the Pueblo Loop, Alcove House, Frey, and Tyuonyi Overlook Trails. Juniper Campground is open. For more information, visit: doi.gov/shutdown. Courtesy/NPS Read More

American Robins Observed Locally During Annual Migration

Right now, every night, thousands of American Robins stream up the canyons of the Jemez Mountains from the surrounding shrubby lowlands. This is part of their overall Autumn migration. As the estimated 300-400 million robins in North America move south each year, they seek out trees to spend the night in if they’re not actually flying south that night. In our area, robins prefer the forests of the Jemez Mountains to the shrubby pinyon and juniper in the surrounding areas. If one watches 1-2 hours before sunset, they can see thousands of robins moving uphill to find a safe forested area to spend the Read More

Daily Postcard: Orange & Gold Sunrise Colors Sky

Daily Postcard: Beautiful orange & gold sunrise colors the sky Friday over White Rock. Photo by Steve Stringer

Another view of the sunrise early Friday over White Rock. Photo by Steve Stringer Read More

Scenes Of Halloween Around White Rock

Three creepy people and a bony flamingo relax at an afternoon barbecue on Thursday in the front yard of a home on Meadow Lane in White Rock. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Pumpkins and a couple of cats hang out Thursday afternoon in a yard on Meadow Lane in White Rock. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

A tall zombie with a baby stands among large and small pumpkins in the front yard of a home on Todd Loop this afternoon in White Rock. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Grave markers, ghosts and pumpkins on Thursday afternoon in White Rock. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More

Artist Picked To Bring Route 66’s Spirit Alive At New Mexico History Museum

Artist Molly Mendenhall has been chosen by the New Mexico History Museum to paint a mural in honor of the centennial of Route 66. Courtesy photo

Molly Mendenhall

NMHM News:

SANTA FE — To honor 100 years of getting our kicks on Route 66, the New Mexico History Museum selected artist Molly Mendenhall to design and paint an exciting mural of America’s most famous highway for the museum’s lobby, on view January 2026 – January 2027.

Mendenhall was one of five finalists who submitted concept designs to be considered by the museum’s selection committee. The Museum posted an open call for artists earlier Read More

NM Actors Lab Presents ‘The Half Life Of Marie Curie’

NMAL News:

SANTA FE — The New Mexico Actors Lab opens The Half Life of Marie Curie Nov. 20, a play that revels in the power of female friendship as it explores the relationship between two brilliant women, both fearless champions of scientific inquiry. The production will run through Sunday, Dec. 7.

Following our success with the Pulitzer-prize winning How I Learned to Drive, we are continuing our fall season with another renowned female playwright, Lauren Gunderson, dubbed “the most produced playwright in America” by American Theatre Magazine.

In 1911, Marie Curie won the Nobel Read More

Lewis’s Woodpecker Spotted Above Quemazon

This Lewis’s Woodpecker was spotted Monday near Pipeline Road above Quemazon. Uniquely colored, Lewis’s Woodpeckers are seldom seen but found in Los Alamos County all year long. Their metallic green wings and backs, watermelon-red chests, and blood-red faces set them apart from all other woodpeckers. They are named in honor of explorer Meriwether Lewis. Watch for these birds in the burn scars in the high country. Photo by Jonathan Dowell, Ph.D.
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Mind&Melody President And Co-Founder Cristina Rodriguez Named L’Oréal Paris Women Of Worth

L’Oréal Paris announces the 10 Women Of Worth honorees for 2025. The honorees include Mind&Melody President and Co-Founder Cristina Rodriguez, seated, third from left, Yasmine Arrington Brooks, Mizpah Brown-Rich, Keely Cat-Wells, Amy Bowers Cordalis, Sloane Davidson, Lynne B Hughes, Dr. Anita Ravi, Gloria Umanah and Olivia Zhang. They are joined here by L’Oréal Paris Women of Worth spokeswomen Aja Naomi King, far left, Eva Longoria, seated, third from right, and Helen Mirren, far right. Courtesy photo

Mind&Melody President and Co-Founder Cristina Rodriguez of Los Read More

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