Arts

US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo Announces 2026 Album With Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

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Joy Harjo. Courtesy photo

ART News:

Poet, artist, activist, and musician Joy Harjo will release her next album on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in 2026. Harjo, a member of the Muscogee Nation, is one of the foremost contemporary Indigenous poets, and served as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022. From poetry and music to memoir and other prose, Harjo’s work draws significantly from her matrilineal heritage, the beauty and complexity of Native cultures and histories, and her work as an activist advocating for anti-colonialist and feminist causes. Jazz and its improvisatory Read More

The Family YMCA’s Española Teens Keep ‘Low And Slow’ Rolling At ‘Cruzin’ 2 Success Community Day’

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Enterprise Bank & Trust President – Los Alamos Region & Director of Community Engagement Liddie Martinez, receives the 2025 Community Builder Award from The Family YMCA CEO Chris Daniels. Daniels presented the award in appreciation for the significant investment in the Lowrider Art Program from Enterprise Bank & Trust of Los Alamos, which teaches local youth to modify RC cars, study electric and nitro power systems, and apply math and physics. Photo by Donavan Price

Scene from the ‘Cruzin’ 2 Success Community Day’ event Saturday at the Nuevo Mexicano Heritage Arts Museum Read More

Daily Postcard: Sunshine Highlights European Starling

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Daily Postcard: Autumn sunshine highlights a European Starling’s iridescent feathers as it dines on the berries of  Virginia creeper on Saturday in North Community. The European Starling is dark with iridescent green and purple during spring and summer. In the fall, the new feathers grow cream colored tips that give them their spots. Source: All About Birds https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/European_Starling/id. Photo by Marc Bailey Read More

Scenes Around White Rock On Halloween Night

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Scene of a home decorated on Halloween night in White Rock. Photo by Fred Jones

Scene of a home decorated on Halloween night in White Rock. Photo by Fred Jones 

Scene of a home decorated on Halloween night in White Rock. Photo by Fred Jones 

Scene of a home decorated on Halloween night in White Rock. Photo by Fred Jones 

Scene of a home decorated on Halloween night in White Rock. Photo by Fred Jones 

Scene of a home decorated on Halloween night in White Rock. Photo by Fred Jones 

Scene of a home decorated on Halloween night in White Rock. Photo by Fred Jones  Read More

Meow Wolf Santa Fe Invites Locals To Celebrate With Ski Santa Fe And More This November

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MEOW WOLF News:

SANTA FE — Locals, this one’s for you! Meow Wolf Santa Fe is turning up the hometown magic this November with two special offerings celebrating the creative heart of New Mexico: a ski-themed edition of The Adulti-Verse and Local Mondays—half-off admission for residents ready to rediscover the wonder of House of Eternal Return.

Every Monday, the House hums at a special frequency that only locals can feel for half off regular admission price. The walls breathe, lights blink in secret codes, and familiar rooms reveal new mysteries. Whether you’ve explored the refrigerator portal Read More

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

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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.

The play, celebrated for Read More

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

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

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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

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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