Arts

Scenes From Friday Night Summer Concert Featuring Headliner Chasing Adequate

Chasing Adequate,  alternative and pop-rock band based out of Albuquerque headlined the Summer Concert Friday evening at Ashley Pond Park. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com

Ashley O’Malley performs the National Anthem before the concert opens. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com

Eryn Bent and Band opens for the Friday Night Concert. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com

Volunteers handout giveaways provided by XMISSION. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com

Chasing Adequate guitarist engages the crowd Friday night. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com

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Jemez Historic Site To Host Trio Of Happenings In June

NMDCA News:

From star gazing to rock painting to digging into gardening, the community is invited to make these programs part of the early summer plans at Jemez Historic Site.

Get the summer off to a hot start in the cool mountain air at Jemez Historic Site and learn some new skills. All programs are included with admission of $7 for adults and free to children 16 years and younger, Tribal members, NM disabled veterans, NM foster families, MNMF members, and Friends of the Coronado Historic site members.

Jemez Historic Site has a trio of happenings this month:

  • 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, June 20 — Looking
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Co-op Summer Showcase Series Presents KISS MY CHAOS

KISS MY CHAOS rock band to perform at 5:45 p.m. Friday, June 12 at Co-op Park at 1010 Central Ave. Courtesy photo

Co-op Summer Showcase Series News:

All girl rock band KISS MY CHAOS will perform as part of the Co-op Summer Showcase Series at 5:45 p.m. Friday, June 12 at Co-op Park at 1010 Central Ave.

KISS MY CHAOS has performed at this year’s Los Alamos Winter Rock Festival and at Bathtub Brewery. 

About KISS MY CHAOS:

KISS MY CHAOS is an all girl rock band. When these teenage girls aren’t busy studying or playing sports, they like to get together and rock out! They like music from all eras and will play Read More

IAIA Names Carin Silkaitis New Provost & Executive Vice President For Academic And Student Affairs

Carin Silkaitis, MFA

IAIA News:

The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), the University for Indigenous Creative Excellence, is pleased to announce the appointment of Carin Silkaitis, MFA, as IAIA’s Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs, effective Aug. 1, 2026. 

Silkaitis brings significant experience as an academic leader, artist, educator, and administrator. They currently serve as Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Humanities at the University of Alaska Southeast. Silkaitis also recently served as Interim Provost, leading academic Read More

Los Alamos History Museum: Sunday Night At The Movies

COMMUNITY News:

The Los Alamos History Museum is excited to announce it will host three family-friendly movie nights this summer.

Sunday Night at the Movies with the Los Alamos History Museum will take place on June 14, June 29 and July 19. Movies will begin at 6:30 p.m. at SALA Event Center, 2551 Central Ave. Each screening is
free and open to the public.

For information about movie titles and additional event details, please visit www.losalamoshistory.org or
follow the History Museum on Facebook.

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County Invites Community To Comment On Upcoming Safety Improvements To Ashley Pond Park

COUNTY News:

Los Alamos County preliminary design concepts for preventing vehicles from leaving Trinity Drive and entering Ashley Pond Park are now available for residents to provide feedback on now through Aug. 2.

The community is invited to review the designs and provide feedback on the County’s consultation page for this project.

Three design concepts were drafted with contractor Groundworks Studio to provide different options of protecting park-goers from the potential of vehicles intentionally or unintentionally leaving Trinity Drive, while also improving or complementing Read More

Daily Postcard: Western Blue Flag Iris At Valles Caldera

Daily Postcard: A cluster of Western Blue Flag Iris blooming Wednesday near a ponderosa pine grove at Valles Caldera National Preserve. Western Blue Flag Iris is starting to pop up all over Valles Caldera’s high-elevation meadows and grasslands. Learn more about plant life in the park here: https://www.nps.gov/vall/learn/nature/plants.htm. Photo by Corey Lycopolus/NPS
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Seventh Corner Productions Presents ‘It’s Just Dinner’ At Teatro Paraguas June 25–28

THEATER News:

Teatro Paraguas is pleased to host Seventh Corner Productions and their original play It’s Just Dinner!

Written by Grayson Pinto, Lily Pinto, and Reilly Stranahan, and starring Dakotah Rose, Grayson Pinto, Lily Pinto, Marika Sayers, and John Michael Hayley, the play is a raucous comedy. The fairly cryptic tagline is “She vanished a year ago, now’s she back. It’s fresh, it’s hilarious, it’s fruity, It’s Just Dinner.”

Grayson Pinto directs the production, with light and sound design by Brody Silver, and set design by Marika Sayers and Grayson Pinto.

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