August 1-6 | 7-13 | 14-20 | 21-27 | 28 into September
August
Tuesday 01
Las Cruces/Mesilla
2nd Annual National Night Out—An evening to promote activities involving crime and drug prevention, strengthening police-community relations, and encouraging neighborhood camaraderie as part of the fight for safer streets. Downtown Mall, Las Cruces Ave. and Church St. 541-2288, ohennessey@las-cruces.org, www.las-cruces.org
312th Army Band—53 musicians who are all members of the US Army Reserve. Performing numerous times per year for both military and civilian audiences, the band plays a wide variety of music, including patriotic tunes, jazz, marches and traditional concert band selections. 7 p.m. Mesilla Plaza, 524-3262.
Don't Come Knocking—Through Aug. 3. A tale of an aging movie star, Howard, who bolts from the set of his latest Western after binging on drugs, alcohol and hookers. He ditches his shoes, shirt, horse and credit cards, and heads off to see his mom, who tells him he fathered a son 20 years ago while shooting a film in Butte, Mont. Howard resents the information at first, but with no other alternative than to return to his dead-end life, he heads off to Montana to see the woman he left behind and connect with his past. Nightly 7:30 p.m. Sunday matinee 2:30 p.m. $6, members $4, students and seniors $5, matinees $5, Wednesdays $4. Fountain Theater, 2469 Calle de Guadalupe, 524-8278, www.fountaintheatre.org.
Harvest Cooking with Carol Koenig—This hands-on cooking class focuses on creative recipes for tomatoes, fennel and peaches. Registration required. $20. 2-4 p.m., Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, 4100 Dripping Springs Road, 522-4100.
Juegos para Chiquitines—Enjoy a fun-filled morning learning traditional New Mexico songs and games in Spanish and English. For children ages 5- 9. Registration required. $5. 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, 4100 Dripping Springs Road, 522-4100.
Live Music—8-11 p.m. High Desert Brewing Co., 1201 W Hadley, 534-0298.
Peru Mestizo: Life and Art in a Colonial Kingdom—Examine the development of colonial life in Peru through photographs of paintings and architecture of the time. NMSU University Museum, 646-3739.
Photo Art on Silk—Through Aug. 13. Work by Nadia Zucker. Images taken with a Nikon digital camera, artistically enhanced using Adobe Photoshop, and printed on silk fabric. The silk is stretched over the inner ring of circular frames hand-turned on a lathe. Black Box Theater, 430 N. Downtown Mall, 527-0207.
Thursday 03
Silver City/Grant County
Ghostbusters—Part of Penny Park's Movies in the Park series. Movies every Thursday at dusk (around 8 p.m.). Penny Park Amphitheater, 1305 Grant St., 534-0261, www.pennypark.org.
Live Music—7 p.m. Buckhorn Saloon, Pinos Altos, 538-9911.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Teacup Garden Studio Artists Exhibit—Through Aug. 31. Paintings, collages and handmade greeting cards by Jan Addy, Martha Randall Brown, Gail Cunningham, Juliet DeLaricheliere, Sharon Gaskill and Laurel Weathersbee celebrate harvest time. Reception 5-7 p.m. Blue Teal Winery, 1720 Avenida de Mesilla, 524-0390.
Live Music—8-11 p.m. High Desert Brewing Co., 1201 W Hadley, 534-0298.
Friday 04
Silver City/Grant County
Billy Goat Ballad—For ages 9 and up, by Loren Kahn Puppet and Object Theater. Cornebique, a billy goat and big fan of the blues, hits the road to forget an unrequited love. He finds himself unexpectedly in charge of a tiny dormouse, an animal of which he has never heard. Flesh, Weasel, special agent, is on their trail. He means to capture this last remaining male dormouse and reunite him with the sole remaining female, in order to create the world's biggest corporate food supply for—weasels! Donations to Penny Park welcome. 7:45 p.m. Penny Park Amphitheater, 1305 Grant St. 534-0261, www.pennypark.org.
Gypsy Feet—7:30 p.m. Silver City Brewing Company, 101 E. College, 534-2739.
Live Music—7 p.m. Buckhorn Saloon, Pinos Altos, 538-9911.
Melodrama Theatre—"Billy the Kid or It's Just a Little Gun Play." Every Friday and Saturday. See the March 2006 Desert Exposure. 8 p.m. Pinos Altos Opera House, 388-3848, www.pinosaltos.org/melodrama.
Rhythm Mystic—Twisted Vine, 108 E. Broadway, 388-2828.
USSSA Men's Class "E" Men's West Zone State Championship Slo-Pitch—Through Aug. 6. Ben Altamirano Athletic Complex, WNMU Softball Field and Bataan Memorial Field. 388-3242 or 313-2303.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Air Force Band Performance—USAF Band of the West from Lackland Air Force Base. The band performs everything from Sousa marches to show tunes, classical selections and Top 40 hits. 7 p.m. Las Cruces High School, El Paseo Road, 527-5860.
Elevator to the Gallows—Through Aug. 10. Pure pulp fiction about a murder plan that goes bad, but what really counts is the fatalistic atmosphere. A disaffected veteran sets out to kill his boss, an arms dealer, and winds up missing a rendezvous with his girlfriend, who thinks she's been betrayed. Meanwhile, a juvenile delinquent and his girlfriend steal the veteran's car and wind up in a bloody scrape with two foreign tourists. The heart of the picture is her odyssey, much of it at night and accompanied by poetic internal monologues, as she visits bars and cafes in search of her missing lover. The black-and-white cinematography of Henri Decae gives the movie the clarity of a dream and offers a vision of the City of Light as melancholy and haunted. French with English subtitles. Nightly 7:30 p.m. Sunday matinee 2:30 p.m. $6, members $4, students and seniors $5, matinees $5, Wednesdays $4. Fountain Theater, 2469 Calle de Guadalupe, 524-8278, www.fountaintheatre.org.
Exit the King—Through Aug. 12. MissionaryNCo presents the play by Eugene Ionesco, directed by Dusty Payne. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays Aug. 4, 5, 11,12 at 8 p.m. and also 11 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 12. $6, $5 students and seniors. Black Box Theater, 430 N. Downtown Mall, 527-0207.
La Llorona Festival—Stories by candlelight, open mic time, Terry Alvarez and musician Randy Granger (see the May 2006 Desert Exposure). La Llorona Park, Picacho Ave. and Rio Grande Bridge. 8:30-10:30 p.m., 521-1819.
New Mexico USSSA State Men's D Championship—Through Aug. 6. 5 p.m. Friday-5 p.m. Sunday. Harty Fields, 1840 E. Hadley Ave., and Paz Ballfield Complex, 1875 E. Hadley Ave. 647-3034/541-1889, www.nmusssa.com.
New Vision—Through Aug. 19. An exhibit of work by seven young artists who are current students or recent graduates of Las Cruces area high schools. They worked with professional photographer Paul Schranz for a week of intensive instruction in both the technology of digital art and personal aesthetic development. Reception 5-7 p.m. Las Cruces Museum of Art, 490 N. Water St.
Reaching for the Sublime, a Life Journey—Through Aug. 29. Paintings by Dave Barnett. Imagery in Barnett's work is most often a construct of his imagination, yet the scenes clearly reference New Mexico landscapes and local vegetation. Las Cruces Museum of Art, 490 N. Water St., 541-2221, jmiller@las-cruces.org.
Siddown. It's a Chair Show!—Through Aug. 31. Work by Patty Ickler, Judy Licht, Jean Smith and Margaret Bernstein. Reception 5-7 p.m. Unravel Yarn Shop & Gallery, 300 N. Downtown Mall, 647-1181, www.unravel-yarn-shop.com.
USSSA State Men's D Championship—Through Aug. 6. 5 p.m. Friday to 5 p.m. Sunday. Harty Fields, 1840 E. Hadley Ave., and Paz Ballfield Complex, 1875 E. Hadley Ave. 647-3034/541-1889, www.nmusssa.com.
Watercolors/Watercolor Collage and Fiber Artists—Work by Laurel Weathersbee and Ann Edington Adams. Reception 5-7 p.m. Rio Grande Theater, 523-6403.
Truth or Consequences
Jeff Barbour: One Man Show—Through Sept. 3. Wall sculptures. Reception 6-9 p.m. Grapes, 894 0031,
www.grapes-torc.com.
Saturday 05
Silver City/Grant County
Silco Theater "Chair-ity Auction"—Southwest New Mexico's finest artists have created more than 40 hand-painted director's chairs for this fundraiser to benefit the historic 1923 Silco Theater renovation. Enjoy appetizers while previewing these one-of-a-kind examples of "sittable" artwork, with viewing beginning at 6:30 p.m., and then get in on the fun of bidding in a live auction for the collectible chairs you most want to take home. See story in Arts Exposure section. Tickets $5. Sponsored by Silver City MainStreet Project. 311 N. Bullard, 534-9005.
Alternatives for Health Healing Fair—Network, listen to presentations, give or receive, mini-treatments, share a potluck meal. Hot springs/camping optional. 12-5 p.m. Wildwood Retreat and Hotsprings,Gila Hot Springs, 536-3600, wildwood@gilanet.com, www.silvercity.net/wildwood.
Book Signing—Cristina Ortega, The Eyes of the Weaver: Los Ojos del Tejedor. 2-4 p.m. Desert Blossom Books, 117 E. College Ave., 388-3475.
Brandon Perrault—Twisted Vine, 108 E. Broadway, 388-2828.
Live Music—7 p.m. Buckhorn Saloon, Pinos Altos, 538-9911.
Melodrama Theatre—8 p.m. Pinos Altos Opera House,
388-3848, www.pinosaltos.org/melodrama.New River Blues—9 p.m. Buffalo Dance Hall, Bullard St. www.myspace.com/newriverblues.
Silver City Farmers' Market—Come sample the tastes of Grant County, with fruits and vegetables available from spring through first frost. Many organic growers, herb and flower vendors and other specialty stalls. 8:30 a.m.-noon every Saturday. 6th and Bullard St. 536-9681.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Bagdad Cafe—Filmed in the town of Baghdad in the Mojave Desert, Percy Adlon's 1987 film has charmed just about everyone who has stumbled across this literally off-the-beaten-track gem. Co-stars include CCH Pounder and Jack Palance. $3, free to Mesilla Valley Film Society members. 1:30 p.m. Fountain Theater, 2469 Calle de Guadalupe, 524-8287 /
522-0286.Birds of a Feather—Local schoolteachers pair up with scientists. 8:30 a.m. Chihuahuan Desert Nature Park,
524-3334, cdnp_rink@zianet.com, www.cdnp.org.Clay and Canvas—Through Aug. 31. Work by Daphne Worthlin and Janice Cook. Reception 1-4 p.m. Patio Art Gallery, El Paseo at University Ave., 574-7401, www.patioartgallery.com.
Colleen Hennessy—Through Aug. 31. Landscape painting. Reception 5-7 p.m. Laughing at the Sun, 1910 Calle de Parian, Old Tortilla Factory, 523-1890. www.laughingatthesunmesilla.com.
Exit the King—Through Aug. 12. See Aug. 4. $6, $5 students and seniors. 8 p.m. Black Box Theater, 430 N. Downtown Mall, 527-0207.
Into the Woods—Through Aug. 13. 8 p.m. NMSU Music Center Recital Hall, 646-2304.
Live Music—8-11 p.m. High Desert Brewing Co., 1201 W Hadley, 534-0298.
Pets & Pals Art Exhibit and Sale—Art lovers who are also animal lovers can serve both interests by attending a fundraiser benefiting SNAP Spay and Neuter Action Program. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Enchanted Gardens, 270 Avenida de Mesilla, 541-2221.
Regular Season Racing—Modifieds, Street Stocks, Super Trucks, Hornets. 5 p.m. Southern New Mexico State Fairgrounds, 524-7913, www.snmspeedway.com.
Roadrunner BMX—Southwest Youth Sports State Qualifier Race. Roadrunner BMX Track, 1600 E. Hadley Ave., corner of Walnut. 650-3999/532-9651, www.roadrunnerbmx.org.
Saturday Science—A hands-on science program for all elementary school children. Museum of Natural History, Mesilla Valley Mall, 700 S. Telshor Blvd. 522-3120, www.las-cruces.org/museums/natural-history.
SCAGA Senior Amateur Championship—Through Aug. 6. Picacho Hills Country Club, 6861 Via Campestre.
523-8641/523-2556, www.newmexicogolf.org.Scaly Slimy—Four-week live animal program for children 3-10. 10 a.m. Museum of Natural History, Mesilla Valley Mall, 700 S. Telshor Blvd, 522-3120, astafford@las-cruces.org, www.las-cruces.org/Public-Services/museumnh.
SNAP (Spay and Neuter Awareness Program) Art and Music Festival—Arts and crafts and Native American flute player Randy Granger (see the May 2006 Desert Exposure). 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Enchanted Gardens, 290 Avenida De Mesilla,
541-2221.Summer Fun 5K/10K Run/Fitness Walk—524-7824, doneugenia@aol.com.
Alamogordo
Summer Tailgate Party—Great musical entertainment under the summer night sky in the parking lot of the Museum of Space History. 8-10 p.m. 437-2202, www.flickingercenter.com.
Deming
Gallery Hop—1-5 p.m.
Elephant Butte
Silent Auction & Dinner Dance—5:30-11 p.m., Elephant Butte, 894-7421.
Reserve
Catron County Gun Show—Through Aug. 6. New, used, antique guns, ammo, knives, archery, hunting, jewelry, cowboy collectibles, books, more. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. $3, Reserve Community Center, 533-6387.
Sunday 06
Silver City/Grant County
Gathering for Peace—The Gila Friends Meeting (Quakers) will sponsor a gathering for peace, with silence will be followed by worship sharing. All are welcome to join in remembrance of the bombing of Hiroshima 61 years ago and in dedication to achieving peace in our world. 12:30 p.m. Gough Park Ramada.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Into the Woods—Through Aug. 13. 3 p.m. NMSU Music Center Recital Hall, 646-2304.
Monday Studio Painters—Through Aug. 30. Work by students of Carolyn Bunch and Julie Ford Oliver. Meeting weekly for 10 months of the year, the group focuses on portraiture. They work from models to improve drawing skills and also work on individual projects. Reception 1-3 p.m. Tombaugh Gallery, Unitarian Universalist Church, 2000 S. Solano, 522-7281.
Music in the Park—Rockin' blues with Guitar Slim and classic country and rock-a-billy with The Cadillac Kings. 7 p.m. Klein Park, 155 N. Mesquite St., 541-2200, www.las-cruces.org.
Deming
Live Music—Arts in the Park performance. 6-8 p.m. Courthouse Park. Deming Arts Council, 546-8663, demingarts@swnm.com.
La Union
Music on the Patio—1-5 p.m. La Vina Vineyard Winery, 4201 South on Hwy. 28, 882-7632, denise@lavinawinery.com.
Reserve
Catron County Gun Show—9 a.m.-3 p.m. $3, Reserve Community Center, 533-6387.
August 1-6 | 7-13 | 14-20 | 21-27 | 28 into September