Arts

Posts From The Road: A Radio In Every Room

Boots Court: Boots Court Motel sits near downtown Carthage, Mo. on Route 66 and Highway 71. Built in the 1930s and opening in 1939, the motel became a popular stopping point for travelers on both routes. The entrance was inviting with the outdoor chairs by the door for visitors to linger and stay awhile. Today, all rooms have been restored to their original settings and furnishings and the building has been remodeled from top to bottom. Although a little hard to see in the photo, the round disc sign hanging from the Boots Court sign promises a radio in every room, a luxury in 1939! The motel has carried Read More

New Mexico Actors Lab Presents ‘How I Learned To Drive’

THEATER News:

SANTA FE — The New Mexico Actors Lab opens How I Learned to Drive on October 16th, a powerful memory play of love and abuse. The production will run at NMAL through Sunday, November 2nd.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning play written by Paula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive is both a funny and heartbreaking story about Li’l Bit, a woman on a road trip coming to terms with her past and Uncle Peck, the charismatic uncle who taught her to drive while blurring the boundaries of family. As Paula Vogel says, “this play is about the gifts we receive from the people who hurt us.” Vogel treats pedophilia and incest Read More

Scenes From 2025 Fall Arts And Crafts Fair

Scene from the 2025 Los Alamos Arts Council’s 45th Annual Fall Arts and Crafts Fair, Saturday afternoon in Central Park Square. The fair featured more than 100 vendors. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Scene from the 2025 Fall Arts and Crafts Fair, Saturday in Central Park Square. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Scene from the 2025 Fall Arts and Crafts Fair, Saturday in Central Park Square. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Scene from the 2025 Fall Arts and Crafts Fair, Saturday in Central Park Square. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com Read More

Scenes Of Local Trees Emerging In Glorious Fall Colors

‘I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree’, written by Joyce Kilmer seems to ring true when seeing the beautiful trees emerging around the community this week in all their fall glory. This golden colored tree was viewed on Thursday along Grand Canyon Drive in White Rock. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost

Amber colored tree viewed Thursday on Aster Drive in White Rock. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost

Golden colored tree viewed Saturday in Pajarito Acres in White Rock. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost

Amber colored tree viewed Friday along Grand Canyon Drive in White Rock. Read More

Española Valley Teens Keep ‘Low And Slow’ Alive

Española YMCA Teen Center News:

In the Española Valley—the Lowrider Capital of the World— a new generation is carrying forward the “low and slow” tradition through hands-on engineering and art.

The public is invited. 3-5 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 1, to the Nuevo Mexicano Heritage Arts Museum (NMHA) on Museum Hill, 750 Camino Lejo in Santa Fe, for “Cruzin’ 2 Success”.

This is a free Community Day celebration showcasing teens’ 1:10-scale remote-controlled lowrider cars—complete with custom paint, murals, upholstery and working mini-hydraulics.

A Program Fueled by Enterprise Bank & Trust Read More