Entertainment

Santa Fe Community Orchestra Performs Musical Storytelling With ‘Riddles & Themes’ Dec. 14

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Santa Fe Community Orchestra. Courtesy photo

MUSIC News:

SANTA FE — The Santa Fe Community Orchestra will perform its second concert of the 2025-2026 season at 1:30 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 14, at the Scottish Rite Temple in Santa Fe. The orchestra will be led by conductor William Waag in a program of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Edward Elgar.

Concert Program

Riddles & Themes

Join us for an afternoon of captivating orchestral storytelling, where Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Edward Elgar explore identity, mystery, and emotion through masterful sets of variations that resonate across time and Read More

DALA To Present ‘Sugar Plum On The Hill’ Dec. 5-7

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DALA News:

Dance Arts Los Alamos (DALA) will present “Sugar Plum on ‘The Hill’: Part 3, The Mysterious March” Dec. 5-7 at the Duane Smith Auditorium. This original ballet is the final installment of DALA Artistic Director Jonathan Guise’s Nutcracker on “The Hill” trilogy, the only narrative trilogy of full-length ballets in western ballet repertoire.

The story combines the traditional Nutcracker ballet with the unique history and character of Los Alamos, based on Guise’s thorough research of the Manhattan Project and close collaboration with the Los Alamos Read More

Native American Author Laurel Goodluck Brings Life To Her Storytelling For Visually Impaired Readers

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Native American Children’s Author Laurel Goodluck sits in an audio recording booth with copies of her children’s book. Courtesy/New Mexico State Library

NMDCA News:

SANTA FE — Award-winning Native American children’s author Laurel Goodluck, an enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nations, and an Alaska Native Citizen of the Tsimshian Tribe, is completing her project with the New Mexico Library for the Blind and Print Disabled by recording four books to be added to the National Library Service’s audio collection to reach more people with visual impairments. Read More

Cozy Up For Home Alone & Hot Chocolate At PEEC Nature Center Dec. 13—Ugly Sweaters Encouraged

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PEEC News:

Kick off the holiday season with a cozy evening at the Los Alamos Nature Center Planetarium from 4:30–6:30 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 13, with a screening of the beloved holiday classic Home Alone and a festive hot chocolate bar.

The hot chocolate bar opens at 4 p.m., followed by the movie at 4:30 p.m. Guests are encouraged to wear holiday sweaters (or even pajamas and slippers) to fully embrace the festive spirit.

Home Alone (1990) tells the story of 8-year-old Kevin McCallister, who is accidentally left home alone while his family heads to Paris. Excitement turns to adventure as Kevin defends Read More

Los Alamos Light Opera To Hold Auditions For Sister Act

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LALO News:
The Los Alamos Light Opera (LALO) announces auditions for its March show, Sister Act! Based on the 1992 movie starring Whoopi Goldberg, this show follows aspiring singer Deloris Van Cartier as she witnesses a crime and goes into hiding in a convent. Hilarity (and music) ensue!
Auditions are 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15 and Sunday, Nov. 16 in Graves Hall of the United Church in Los Alamos at 2525 Canyon Road. Signs in the building will direct people where to go. Anyone unable to make these auditions may contact director/choreographer Wendy Caldwell Lanchier at wendykcaldwell@gmail.com
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High Desert Harps To Perform Christmas Favorites Nov. 21

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High Desert Harps to perform Christmas Favorites Nov. 21, at First Presbyterian Church. Courtesy photo

MUSIC News:

High Desert Harps will perform Christmas Favorites at 5:30 p.m., Nov. 21, at First Presbyterian Church, 208 Grant Ave. in Santa Fe.

Doors open at 5:15 p.m. for this free concert.

First Presbyterian offers weekly recitals 5:30-6 p.m. on Friday evenings. These concerts are free and open to all. A freewill offering for the recital fund will be received.

Details:

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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

Los Alamos Arts Council To Present Lozano And Montoya In Daytime Performance Series

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LAAC News:
The Los Alamos Arts Council (LAAC) Daytime Performance Series will feature an original performance from Tomás Lozano & Rima Montoya, 12–1 p.m., Nov. 5 in Fuller Lodge. Like the rest of the Daytime Performance Series, this event is free and open to the public.

Lorenzo is a singer, musician, composer, scholar and writer, born in Barcelona, Spain to Andalusian parents. Known for his eclectic musicianship, Lozano’s performance of Spain’s traditional ballads stand out as iconic. Lozano has become well-known for his musical compositions set to legendary poets. He performs his Read More