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Posts From The Road: Route 66 Through Tucumcari

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Route 66: A beautiful Route 66 monument sits next to the Tucumcari Convention Center on the west side of town. Tucumcari has embraced the Route 66 heritage and grown a nice tourist business featuring many of the sites that have been in town since the 1950s and before. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Tepee: Tepee Curios is a popular stop for Route 66 travelers in Tucumcari. The shop is housed in a former gas station remodeled and transformed into the shop you see today. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

By GARY WARREN
Photographer
Formerly of Los Alamos

When driving Route 66 from east to Read More

SFCC Splash Spring Glass Club Sale April 29-30

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A selection of glass artwork from a previous SFCC Glass Club Sale. Courtesy/SFCC

SFCC News:

Santa Fe Community College (SFCC) Splash Spring Glass Club Sale is 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., April 29 and April 30. 

This student sale features functional bowls, platters and vessels, jewelry, games, outdoor accent pieces and sculptures.

Exhibiting artists include Barbara Bloomberg, Bob Carson, Luetta Donalds, Gurudaya Khalsa, Nina Mastrangelo, Diana Shepherd, Yahne McLemore, Jayne Nordstrom, Andrea Polli, Ellen Premack, Fred Roensch and Leslie Walker Hirsch.

This free event is in the SFCC Main Hallway Read More

2026 Los Alamos Film & Culture Festival April 17-19

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By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Los Alamos

After Mikheil Gabadize went on from the 2025 Los Alamos Film and Culture Festival to win two additional awards, it demonstrated that a small, local event had inspired people in several countries.

The volunteer-run and lead non-profit hopes to set the same good fortune in motion for 2026, once again at the spectacular SALA Los Alamos Event Center April 17-19.

SALA’s owner Allan Saenz  is honored to be hosting it at the event center and excited to partner with Sandy Jones again for this third-year festival that brings films from many different countries.

“What Read More

MOIFA Presents Alebrijes: A Linares Family Tradition, A Vibrant Traveling Exhibition

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MOIFA News:

The Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) presents Alebrijes: A Linares Family Tradition, a vibrant traveling exhibition celebrating the extraordinary artistry of the Linares family, renowned creators of alebrijes and central figures in Mexico’s cartonería tradition.

A bilingual adaptation of MOIFA’s popular exhibition La Cartonería Mexicana / The Mexican Art of Paper and Paste, the exhibition explores the fantastical world of alebrijes—vividly colored, mythical creatures that have become icons of Mexican folk art. For generations, the Linares Family of Mexico Read More

Los Alamos Community Ceramics Opens New Location, Invites Public To Open House May 13

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Courtesy photo

LACC News:

After more than a decade of bringing people together through ceramics, the Los Alamos Community Ceramics (LACC) is beginning a new chapter with its move from its longtime home at Fuller Lodge to a new studio at 2101 Trinity Drive, Suite Q1, Los Alamos. LACC is grateful for the many years at Fuller Lodge, where members of the community first envisioned creating a clay cooperative, and for Little Studio on the Mesa where a satellite White Rock Studio was housed for the past year. In those spaces, creativity blossomed and many lasting friendships were formed. That spirit Read More

From Moscow To The Main Stage Red Elvises Guitarist Yury Krivoshein Brings His Journey To New Mexico

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Yury Krivoshein on stage with the Red Elvises. Courtesy image

Yury Krivoshein’s first band out of school – country music. Courtesy image

By BECKY RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

Yury Krivoshein grew up in a musical suburb of Moscow, picked up a guitar at 12, and spent his formative years obsessing over Chet Atkins, Mark Knopfler, and Pink Floyd. By the time he was a working musician, he was playing in Russia’s oldest rockabilly band, doing session work for film and radio, and living what he describes as a successful career. Then, Feb. 24, 2022 changed everything.

“On the Read More