Posts From The Road: Desert Views & Colorful Blooms
Bighorn Sheep: Four bighorn sheep casually traverse a rocky hillside near Yaqui Pass in Anza-Borrego State Park in California. The sheep moved across the sloped hillside before disappearing behind large boulders down the hill. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Desert Sand-verbena: The Desert Sand-verbena was one of the wildflowers that was in full bloom in and around Borrego Springs, Calif., during a recent visit. The tiny blooms covered the desert floor in some areas, creating a colorful landscape. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
By GARY WARREN
Photographer
Formerly of Los Read More
Robins Out In Force At Birdbath On Estante Way
Robins are out in force on Saturday at a birdbath on Estante Way in White Rock. Photo by Joyce Wolff Read More
Los Alamos Arts Council Unveils Upcoming Events
Courtesy/LAAC
LAAC News:
The Los Alamos Arts Council (LAAC) unveils upcoming events. Kite Festival is drawing closer, afterschool art is thriving, and soon the gallery will have more weekend hours.
Here’s a snapshot of what the Arts Council has coming up:
- Volunteer Get Together Friday, March 13: To prepare for the year of cultural programming, the Arts Council invites the community to the first volunteer get together! Learn about how to help sustain arts and culture programming in the community even beyond helping with Kite Festival and Pumpkin Glow. From 10 a.m. to noon, drop-in at the Fuller
Daily Postcard: Spectacular Sunrise Fills Sky
Daily Postcard: A spectacular sunrise fills the sky on Saturday as viewed in White Rock. Photo by Shari Mills Read More
Local Authors To Host Book Reading At Samizdat March 6
Local authors Kelly Dolejsi, left, and Tara Downing will read from their books Friday, March 6, at Samizdat. Courtesy photo
COMMUNITY News:
Ever wonder what the cows would think of a bull dancing in glitter? Or whether the small brown birds bobbing in the pines are actually cinnamon-feathered sonnets?
Find out this week, when Samizdat hosts local authors Tara Downing and Kelly Dolejsi for a reading at 6 p.m. Friday, March 6, at the bookstore, 174 Central Park Square. A book signing will follow the reading, which will include new material as well as excerpts from their published work. Books will Read More
Daily Postcard: Strange Trio & Waxing Gibbous Moon
Daily Postcard: Strange Trio sculpture at Overlook Park in White Rock with a waxing gibbous moon shown at just the right angle. This astrophotography image was achieved with post-processing and blending in Affinity Photo 2. A waxing gibbous moon is visible between a first quarter moon and full moon. People often see a waxing gibbous moon in the afternoon, shortly after moonrise, while it is ascending in the east as the sun is descending in the west. The word gibbous comes from a root word that means hump-backed. Source: earthsky.org. Photo by Steve Bublitz Read More
The Maupin Group’s Isaiah Garcia Partners With LA Cares Volunteers To Bring Joy To Community
Isaiah Garcia of The Maupin Group at RE/MAX First, left, and LA Cares volunteers partnered to create something joyful for the community. Courtesy/The Maupin Group
By RYAN MAUPIN
The Maupin Group
RE/MAX First
A new community tradition was lighting up Los Alamos and White Rock this past holiday season. The Los Alamos Christmas Lights Map was alive, inviting families to experience the simple joy of driving through town, admiring all the holiday displays.
The idea for the Los Alamos Christmas Lights Map began with Isaiah Garcia of The Maupin Group at RE/MAX First, who partnered with LA Cares, a Read More
Mountain To Celebrate 75 Years With Afternoon Tea
Mountain News:
Mountain Elementary School will host an afternoon tea,1-4 p.m. Saturday, March 7, in the gymnasium at Mountain, to celebrate 75 years.
There will be finger foods, music, and school tours for alumni. There will be live music. Current students must be accompanied by a family member.
To RSVP, click here: RSVP 3/7 Tea or email m.lee@laschools.net, also there is information on a drive to send photos, at https://photos.app.goo.gl/CJhhXRgRAVuxi5Vd6.
Anyone with Mountain School memorabilia is asked to drop it off at the office, and please include their name. Thank you!
Commemorative Read More
SWAIA Native Fashion Week Returns May 8–9
SWAIA News:
SANTA FE — The Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA) announces the return of SWAIA Native Fashion Week, taking place May 8–9, 2026, at the Eldorado Hotel & Spa in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The 2026 program introduces a refined, curated format designed to deepen engagement, strengthen designer visibility, and create a more intimate, storytelling-driven experience for guests.
Participating designers include Patricia Michaels (Taos Pueblo), Himikalas Pamela Baker (Squamish/Kwakiutl/Tlingit/Haida), Lauren Good Day (Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara Nation), Jamie Read More
Daily Postcard: Shadows In Sunrise Over Sangres
Daily Postcard: Shadows in the sunrise over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains viewed Thursday from Quemazon. Photo by DW Decker Read More
All Student Art Show On Display At Step Up Gallery
STEP UP GALLERY News:
The Los Alamos Public Schools celebrate student art month and the New Mexico Year of Arts in Education with a colorful display of hundreds of artworks made by students from Pre-K through high school seniors. Step Up Gallery at Mesa Public Library hosts this annual show, which opened today.
The district’s art team goes above and beyond to prepare the show for hanging. The teachers are collecting and labeling the art works, planning how work will be displayed, choosing representative pieces and boxing things up to transport them to the gallery. The art show team is led by middle Read More
Dorothy Browdy Kushner ‘A Force Of Nature’ On View March 13 – April 18, 2026
Purple Flowers (diptych), circa 1964, oil on board, 47.75 x 49 in
Moon Over The Pines, 1955, casein on board, 28 x 20 in
ART News:
SANTA FE — LewAllen Galleries is honored to present Dorothy Browdy Kushner: A Force of Nature, an exhibition of abstract and landscape paintings by the dedicated California and New York Mid-20th Century Modernist painter Dorothy Browdy Kushner (1909–2000). Opening Friday, March 13, 2026, the exhibition highlights Kushner’s evocative synthesis of color, light, and place, showcasing a rigorous body of work that pushed her subjects, particularly landscapes and Read More
Daily Postcard: Early Morning View From Velarde
Daily Postcard: Early morning view on Feb. 16 from Velarde. Photo by Johnnie MartinezSFIS & MIAC Form New Partnership
EDUCATION News:
AstroTour [AR]: Indigenous Cosmologies Through Code is a 6-week transdisciplinary youth workshop that fuses augmented reality, coding, and sky observation.
This powerful new collaboration brings together cultural perspectives, space science, and creative technology in partnership with the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture (MIAC) and the Santa Fe Indian School (SFIS).
Students from SFIS’s Advanced Computer Science class visited the Makowa exhibit at the museum for inspiration.
Bethany Rivera and the STEMarts team with Dr. Julia Blue Bird, Lakota Astrophysicist Read More
Sweet Charity Exhibit At Village Arts Ends Feb. 28
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Courtesy photo
ART News:
What do hats knitted by Melissa Alexander, a watercolor pencil portrait of Bubo the Great Horned Owl by Lydia Marshall, and abstracted collages by Jacci Gruninger have in common? Each of these artists care!
The common theme of the current exhibit at Village Arts follows the title “Sweet Charity”, where artists were invited to submit artwork that, if sold, would go to the charities of their choice. Nearly 2 dozen artists submitted over 40 pieces to the exhibition in the hopes of giving back to potentially over different 20 causes that are close to their Read More
PAC 8 Community Media Center: Feb. 27–March. 5, 2026
PAC 8 News:
PAC 8 Community Media Center is available for recording events, transferring old media, shooting and editing, live streaming and drone photography and videography.
For information, call 505.662.7228 or visit pac8cmc.com.
PAC 8 Television schedule for Feb. 27–March. 5, 2026:
Friday, Feb. 27, 2026
- 6 a.m. — Democracy Now! – Live
- 10 a.m. — The Thom Hartmann Program
- 11 a.m. — County Council Replay 2-17-26
- 4 p.m. — Democracy Now!
- 5 p.m. — PAC PAGES – Los Alamos County News Updates
- 6 p.m. — Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce “Los Alamos County Manager Update”
- 7 p.m. — PAC 8 Summer Media Classes
2026 Sonata Contest Results And Fuller Lodge Performance
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By WENDY GE
LAMTA
On Feb. 21, the local music community celebrated a remarkable showcase of young talent as the annual Sonata Contest was jointly hosted by the Santa Fe Music Teachers Association (SFMTA) and the Los Alamos Music Teachers Association (LAMTA).
A total of 36 dedicated piano students participated in the event, each performing rigorous sonata movements that tested both their technical precision and artistic expression. This year’s competition featured two distinguished adjudicators, Tatyana Bayliyeva and Sergio Rodriguez. Both judges brought a wealth of Read More
Daily Postcard: Sunset Over Los Alamos
Daily Postcard: View of the sunset Tuesday heading toward Los Alamos from N.M. 502. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
‘From Calcutta With Love: The World War II Letters Of Richard And Reva Beard’ Author To Host Book Signing
Santa Fe Author Elaine Pinkerton
COMMUNITY News:
Pajarito Press LLC announces the release of a new edition of “From Calcutta with Love: The World War II Letters of Richard and Reva Beard,” compiled and edited by Santa Fean Elaine Pinkerton, formerly of Los Alamos.
This collection revives an important primary source documenting the China-Burma-India (CBI) theater—a critical yet often-overlooked front of World War II.
From 1-3 p.m. on Sunday, March 1, Pinkerton will sign copies and discuss her beautifully redesigned book at a special event at Barnes & Noble, Santa Fe Place Mall.
The CBI Read More
Review: Olion’s ‘Mean Girls’ Is So Fetch!
Isabella Gietsos, Mattea Clarkson, and Gyasi Atta-Fynn will win your heart as Janice, Cady, and Damian in the Olions’ musical Mean Girls. Photo by Timothy Talley
Mattea Clarkson and Sumner Tholen shine as Cady Heron and her crush Aaron in the Olion’s production of Mean Girls, which runs for one more weekend. Photo by Timothy Talley
Review by Kelly Dolejsi
Los Alamos
There is nothing more fetch than Los Alamos High School Olions’ production of Mean Girls. You have one more weekend to laugh, cringe, and join in on all your favorite quotes from the movie — or to experience the classic tale of high school Read More