OCTOBER 2007

Monday 01

Silver City/Grant County

Pinhole Photography Exhibit — Through Oct. 31. Modern black-and-white images of the area taken with age-old photographic technique by Kim Henkel. Gila Cliff Dwellings Visitor Center, N. Highway 15, 536-9461, www.nps.gov/gicl.

Open Mic — 7 p.m. Twisted Vine, 108 E. Broadway, 388-2828.

Las Cruces/Mesilla

Mesilla Valley Maze — Through Oct 30. $7, $5 children. Weekends, 11 a.m.-dusk. Puzzle your way through New Mexico's first corn maze, established in 1999. This nine-acre corn maze twists and turns through a new design each year. Relax on a hayride to the pumpkin patch to pick your own pumpkin. 3855 W. Picacho, 526-1919, www.mesillavalleymaze.com.

Margaret Bernstein Art Exhibit — Through Oct. 31. Convention and Visitors Bureau, 541-2444.

My Best Friend — Through Oct. 4. Catherine refuses to believe that her business partner, the unlikable Francois, has a best friend, so she challenges him to set up an introduction. Scrambling to find someone willing to pose as his best pal, Francois enlists the services of a charming taxi driver to play the part. $6, $5 seniors/students, $4 members/children, Wednesday $4. 7:30 p.m. nightly, 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Fountain Theatre, 2469 Calle de Guadalupe, 524-8287, www.fountaintheatre.org.

Tuesday 02

Silver City/Grant County

Wolf on the Patio — 7 p.m. Twisted Vine, 108 E. Broadway, 388-2828.

Las Cruces/Mesilla

"A Christmas Carol" Auditions — 4-5:15 p.m. NMSU Theatre Arts. Boys and girls age 5-13. Script reading, a capella singing, staged movement, games. Non-returnable photo required. Performances Nov. 30 through Dec. 16. Hershel Zohn Theatre on the NMSU campus, 649-0950, bzachary@nmsu.edu.

Bus Stop — Also Oct. 2-7. The American drama includes eight different characters who are looking at the complicated heart of America. NMSU Hershel Zohn Theatre, 646-4515.

Harvest Cooking Class — 2-4 p.m. $20. Learn new ways to use seasonal herbs, pumpkins and pinto beans in fall recipes. Chef Carol Koenig. Pre-registration required. Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum. 522-4100.

Wednesday 03

Silver City/Grant County

Presidio Brass — 7:30 p.m. $15 individual admission or membership. Composed of acclaimed concert artists, Presidio Brass is a dynamic new force in American brass chamber music. With a repertoire written specifically for the ensemble, Presidio Brass offers a program ranging from Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade" to music from "West Side Story." Grant County Community Concert Association. WNMU Fine Arts Center Theatre. 388-2004.

Trivia Night — 7 p.m. Twisted Vine, 108 E. Broadway, 388-2828.

Las Cruces/Mesilla

Bus Stop — Through Oct. 7. See Oct. 2. NMSU Hershel Zohn Theatre, 646-4515.

Playing with Dolls — Examine dolls and their clothing played with by the Amador girls in the late 1800s at their home in Las Cruces. 9:30 a.m.-11:30 p.m. NMSU. 646-3739.
Southern New Mexico State Fair and Rodeo — Through Oct. 7. Midway, auction, food, music, livestock shows and a cowboy rodeo. Southern New Mexico State Fairgrounds, 524-8602.

Thursday 04

Silver City/Grant County

Baggage Tour 2007 — Also Oct. 5. 7-9 p.m. Wise Fool New Mexico's statewide tour of "Baggage." Live theater with puppetry, storytelling, song and masks, dealing with tales of domestic violence survivors from Northern New Mexico. Adult themes and content. WNMU Fine Arts Center. 538-2125.

Cribbage Night with Phil — 7 p.m. Twisted Vine, 108 E. Broadway, 388-2828.

Open Mic — 7 p.m. Buckhorn Saloon, Pinos Altos, 538-9911.

Words on Paper — 7-9 p.m. Donation. An evening of contemporary fiction by Richard Earnheart, read by local actors Frances Trotta and Gary A. Shephard as a fundraiser for Spay/Neuter Awareness Program (SNAP). Isaac's Bar & Grill, corner of Broadway and Bullard St.

Las Cruces/Mesilla

Bus Stop — Through Oct. 7. See Oct. 2. NMSU Hershel Zohn Theatre, 646-4515.

Southern New Mexico State Fair and Rodeo — Through Oct. 7. Southern New Mexico State Fairgrounds, 524-8602.

Steve Smith — 8 p.m. High Desert Brewing Co., 1201 W. Hadley Ave., 525-6752.

Friday 05

Silver City/Grant County

11th Annual Weekend at the Galleries — Through Oct. 8. See complete preview in Arts Exposure section. Wine Gala & More: Outstanding wines and appetizers at the Seedboat Gallery Courtyard on Yankie Street, hosted by New Mexico Wineries. $20 ticket includes Wine Gala, art auction and dance. Mimbres Region Arts Council, 538-2505, www.mimbresarts.org.

Baggage Tour 2007 — See Oct. 4. 7-9 p.m. Cobre High School Auditorium.

Brandon Perrault — 7 p.m. Buckhorn Saloon, Pinos Altos, 538-9911.

Going for Baroque — Opening reception for Cecelia Stanford and Nolan Winkler's "Repetitions." Show runs until December. Blue Dome Gallery, 307 N. Texas St., 534-8671.

Life Quest's 34th Anniversary Celebration and Open House — 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Food, information booths, fun crafts and events, live radio broadcast, meet staff and clients. 907 Pope St., 388-1976.

Melodrama Theatre — Every Friday and Saturday. See the March 2006 Desert Exposure. 8 p.m. Pinos Altos Opera House, 388-3848, www.pinosaltos.org/melodrama.

Silco Art Expo — 12-6 p.m. Arts and crafts booths. Historic Silco Theater, 311 N. Bullard. 534-9005.

Southwest Enchantment Quilt Exhibit — 5-7 p.m. An exhibition of contemporary and heirloom quilts presented in partnership with the Southwest New Mexico Quilters Guild. Silver City Museum, 312 W. Broadway. 538-5921.

Wally Lawder and the Flying Coyotes — 7 p.m. Twisted Vine, 108 E. Broadway, 388-2828.

WNMU Mustangs Volleyball vs. University of Colorado Springs — 7 p.m. www.wnmumustangs.com.

Las Cruces/Mesilla

Vincent — Through Oct. 14. 8 p.m. $10, $9 students and seniors. Play starring Josh Shakra about artist Vincent Van Gogh from the point of view of his brother, Theo. Fri. and Sat. 8 p.m.; Sun., Oct. 7 and 14, 2:30 p.m.; Thurs., Oct. 11; 7 p.m. Black Box Theatre, 430 N. Downtown Mall, 523-1223, www.no-strings.org.

A Collection of Oil Paintings — 5-7 p.m. Opening reception for solo exhibit of works by Cynthia Guzevich-Sommers. Show runs through Oct. 27. Branigan Cultural Center, 501 N. Main, 541-2154, www.las-cruces.org.

Big Read Festival — Through Nov. 3. 7 p.m. Kick-Off, award-winning Chicano Albuquerque poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, Ballet Folklorico de la Tierra del Encanto. See story in Tumbleweeds section, full schedule of programs at lib.nmsu.edu/bigread. Court Youth Center, 646-6925, mmahaffy@lib.nmsu.edu.

Bus Stop — Through Oct. 7. See Oct. 2. NMSU Hershel Zohn Theatre, 646-4515.

First Friday Art Night — 5-8 p.m. Demonstrations of glass blowing by Cory Brown, watercolor card making by Jill Gottlieb, gel pens by Joseph Greyfeather, henna by Malaak and fractals by Maria Kruse. Funky Karma, 207 Ave. de Mesilla, 635-2275.

Golden Door — Through Oct. 11. Desperate and poor Southern Italian family seeks a way out, and, having heard reports of rivers running in milk and coins falling off of trees, leaves their stony rural cottage and buys passage to America. The trip to the boat, aboard the boat, and at Ellis Island is one of wonder and hope and usually very little dialogue. $6, $5 seniors/students, $4 members/children, Wednesday $4. 7:30 p.m. nightly, 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Fountain Theatre, 2469 Calle de Guadalupe, 524-8287, www.fountaintheatre.org.

Lois Wilson and John Northcutt — 6-8 p.m. Opening reception for fused glass and metal sculpture artists. Tombaugh Gallery, Unitarian Universalist Church, 2000 S. Solano, 522-7281.

Poetry Reading by Susan Briante — 7:30 p.m. La Sociedad para las Artes 2007-2008 reading series. MFA candidate David Bachman will also read. NMSU Hardman Hall Room 106.

Potent Portraits, Figure Drawing, Too — 4-5:30 p.m. Opening reception at the Terrace Gallery, Thomas Branigan Memorial Library. 200 E. Picacho Ave.

Small Paintings: A Few of My Favorite Things — 5-7 p.m. Artists' reception, New Mexico Watercolor Society, Southern Chapter. The group's third small paintings show at the Branigan Cultural Center, featuring paintings 12" x 12" or smaller. Show runs through Oct. 27. 501 N. Main, 541-2155.

Southern New Mexico State Fair and Rodeo — Through Oct. 7. Southern New Mexico State Fairgrounds, 524-8602.

Sunflower Invitational — Through Oct. 14. 5-7 p.m. Wine and cheese reception for Sunflower art in conjunction with Vincent play. Gallery open one hour before performances. Black Box Theatre lobby/gallery, 430 N. Downtown Mall, 523-1223, www.no-strings.org.

Sunshine Boys — Through Oct. 21. 8 p.m. Neil Simon's classic comedy about a one-time vaudevillian team known as "Lewis and Clark" who not only grew to hate each other over the course of 40-odd years but never spoke to each other off-stage throughout the final year of their act. Now CBS is inviting the team to reunite for a special on the history of comedy, with the pair representing the vaudeville era at its best. Clark is convinced by his nephew Ben to revive one of their old routines one last time. But is it possible to get them into the same room to rehearse? $8, $7 students/seniors, $5 six and under. Fridays and Saturdays 8 p.m., Sundays 2 p.m. Las Cruces Community Theater, 523-1200, lcctnm.org.

Una GALA para Gala — 7:30 p.m. Friends of Chamber Music. Tickets available at White's Music Box and the Gift Shop at the Art Museum. Rio Grande Theatre. 523-7714/523-6403.

Saturday 06

Silver City/Grant County

11th Annual Weekend at the Galleries — Through Oct. 8. See complete preview in Arts Exposure section. Gallery Art Walks 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Phantom Studio: Ten artists will appear out of nowhere to set up a Phantom Studio and each will create a piece of art, completed in just eight hours. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Phantom Art Auction: Preview starts at 7 p.m., auction begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Buffalo Dance Hall, 211 N. Bullard, Silver City. Robert Shaw & the Lonely Street Band Dance: 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Buffalo Dance Hall. $15 ticket includes auction and dance. Mimbres Region Arts Council, 538-2505, www.mimbresarts.org.

9th Annual Pinos Altos October Fiesta — 10 a.m.-4 p.m. A street fiesta in the historic ghost town with music, old time gunfighting reenactments, arts, crafts and collectible booths, food and drink. Proceeds benefit the Pinos Altos Volunteer Fire Rescue. 388-4093.

Brandon Perrault — 7 p.m. Buckhorn Saloon, Pinos Altos, 538-9911.

Creative Cartooning and Storytime — For kids and adults. 1-3 p.m. cartoon workshop for ages 10 and up; 4-5 p.m. storytime for kids and kids at heart, with singing. Author Matthew Henry Hall. Bring pen and paper. Also, how to get a children's book published. Gila Cliff Dwellings Visitor Center amphitheater, N. Highway 15, 536-9461, www.nps.gov/gicl.

Melodrama Theatre — 8 p.m. Pinos Altos Opera House, 388-3848, www.pinosaltos.org/melodrama.

Raised by Wolves — 7 p.m. Twisted Vine, 108 E. Broadway, 388-2828.

Silver City Farmers' Market — Enjoy fresh produce from local growers. Every Saturday, 8:30 a.m.-12 p.m., Grant County Admin Center, 1400 Hwy 180E., 534-0882.

Vibrational Medicine: Bio-Energetic Presentation — Kay Wagnon, certified biofeedback specialist, will speak on bio-energetic medicine. 2 p.m., Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall, 3845 Swan St., 534-4246 / 543-8308.

WNMU Mustangs Football vs. Chadron State College — 1 p.m. Ben Altamirano Stadium. www.wnmumustangs.com.

WNMU Mustangs Volleyball vs. Regis University — 7 p.m., www.wnmumustangs.com.

Las Cruces/Mesilla

6th Annual Mesilla Jazz Happening — Through Oct. 7. Free live jazz on the Historic Mesilla Plaza, accompanied by fine New Mexican wines at the wine garden. Sample some of the outstanding New Mexico wineries at $10 tasting glass. Horse-drawn wagons will offer free transportation throughout Mesilla. Saturday 12-8 p.m., Sunday 12-5 p.m., Old Mesilla Plaza, 522-1232.

"Ecology" Saturday Science Class — 11 a.m. A combination of fun and learning open to all elementary school children. Museum of Natural History, Mesilla Valley Mall. 522-3120.

Autumn Containers — 2 p.m. Workshop, creating planters with autumn flowers. Enchanted Gardens. Free to members; others $7.50. Reservations required. 270 Avenida de Mesilla. 524-1886.

Baggage — Through Oct. 7. 7 p.m. $15 adults, $12 seniors, $10 students. Play performed by Wise Fool New Mexico Theater Company, telling the story of four women and their experiences with domestic violence and sexual assault/abuse using theater, art and song. Part of La Casa Domestic Violence Center's events commemorating Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Rio Grande Theatre. 526-2819.

Big Read Festival — Through Nov. 3. See Oct. 5, story in Tumbleweeds section. Second Kick-Off, Cipriano Vigil y Familia of El Rito, stories and songs of Northern New Mexico. Rio Grande Theatre, 646-6925, mmahaffy@lib.nmsu.edu, lib.nmsu.edu/bigread.

Bus Stop — Through Oct. 7. See Oct. 2. NMSU Hershel Zohn Theatre, 646-4515.

Create Your Own Herb Garden — 10 a.m. Information about herbs and activity, with Jackye Meinecke, owner of Enchanted Gardens. Thomas Branigan Memorial Library. 528-4003/528-4000.

Dennis Luhan — 5-7 p.m. Opening reception for "New Oil Paintings" by Taos Indian artist. Laughing at the Sun Gallery, 1910 Calle de Parian (inside the Old Tortilla Factory), 523-1890.

Desert Treks — 8 a.m. Plant hike field trip from the Museum of Natural History in the Mesilla Valley Mall. Expert instructors are provided, but you must provide your own transportation. Pre-registration required, space limited. 522-3120.

Gabriella Denton — 1-4 p.m. Opening reception for "Color." Alegre Gallery, 1701 Calle de Mercado #1, 523-2311, www.alegregallery.com.

Henna by Malaak — 1-6 p.m. Funky Karma, 207 Ave. de Mesilla, 635-2275.

Not Columbus Day — Two short films: In Conversion (8 minutes) by Nanobah Becker (Dine) — In a remote corner of the Navajo nation, circa 1950, a visit by Christian missionaries has catastrophic consequences for a family. Ed Breeding's <I>Echoes From the Ancestors</I> (25 minutes) — Blends scenic beauty with historical and famous quotes by noted American Indian leaders such as Chief Joseph and Black Elk. Also, documentary Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy. This feature documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. CineMatinee. $3, free for Mesilla Valley Film Society members. 1:30 p.m. Fountain Theatre, 2469 Calle de Guadalupe, 524-8287 / 522-0286.

Sierra Club Hike to Soledad Canyon in the Organ Mountains — Moderate. Meet at the north Pan American Center parking lot at NMSU at 9 a.m. Non-members welcome. 526-7116 / 525-1935.

Southern New Mexico State Fair and Rodeo — Through Oct. 7. Southern New Mexico State Fairgrounds, 524-8602.

Sunshine Boys — Through Oct. 21. See Oct. 5. 8 p.m. $8, $7 students/seniors, $5 six and under. Las Cruces Community Theater, 523-1200, lcctnm.org.

Tarot — 5-7:30 p.m. Readings by Linda Marlena. Appointments required. Funky Karma, 207 Ave. de Mesilla. 312-3040.

The BBR Band — 8 p.m. High Desert Brewing Co., 1201 W. Hadley Ave., 525-6752.

Vincent — Through Oct 14. See Oct. 5. 8 p.m. $10, $9 students/seniors. Black Box Theatre, 430 N. Downtown Mall, 523-1223, www.no-strings.org.

Truth or Consequences

Rashied Ali Quintet in Concert — 7 p.m. General $10, $15 preferred seating. Classic Blue Note jazz by renowned avant-garde musician who was John Coltrane's last drummer. Tickets at Coffee, Tea or C, 411 Main St. Presented by the Sierra Arts Council. Historic Senior Recreation Center, 301 S. Foch.

White Sands

Trinity Site Tour — A National Historic Landmark, the Trinity site is open to the public on the first Saturday of April and October. The 51,500-acre "atomic bomb" testing landmark includes base camp, ground zero and the McDonald ranch house, where the plutonium core to the bomb was assembled. Visit these sites and a part of the original crater left by the explosion, revealing Trinitite, a greenish-colored glassy substance formed by the heat and pressure of the explosion. 678-1134.

Sunday 07

Silver City/Grant County

11th Annual Weekend at the Galleries — Through Oct. 8. See complete preview in Arts Exposure section. Gallery Art Walks 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Mimbres Region Arts Council, 538-2505, www.mimbresarts.org.

Aramaic Lord's Prayer — 7 p.m. $10 donation. Chant, intone, breathe and dance the Aramaic words spoken by Jesus as translated by Neil Douglas-Klotz in the book, Prayers of the Cosmos. No experience necessary, all chants and movements are taught. 2106 Juniper St. 534-1441.

Jazz Orgy and Ward Arthur Rudick — 5 p.m. $20, $15, $10. During Weekend at the Galleries. Reserved seating only. Tickets at the Curious Kumquat, 111 E. College Ave. WNMU Fine Arts Center Theatre.

Las Cruces/Mesilla

6th Annual Mesilla Jazz Happening — See Oct. 6. 12-5 p.m., Old Mesilla Plaza, 522-1232.

Baggage — See Oct. 6. 2 p.m. $15 adults, $12 seniors, $10 students. Rio Grande Theatre. 526-2819.

Bus Stop — See Oct. 2. NMSU Hershel Zohn Theatre, 646-4515.

Mariachi Sundays — 4-6 p.m., Old Mesilla Plaza, 528-7070 / 525-1735.

Reading and Book Signing — 3 p.m. Las Cruces fiction writer Robert Boswell and Anne Valley-Fox, a poet from Santa Fe, will read from their works in the Dresp Room of the Branigan Library. Reception and booksigning will follow the reading, presented by Sin Fronteras/Writers Without Borders, the Branigan Library and Friends of the Library. 200 E. Picacho Ave., 528-4001, mpendleton@las-cruces.org.

Southern New Mexico State Fair and Rodeo — Southern New Mexico State Fairgrounds, 524-8602.

The Sunshine Boys — Through Oct. 21. See Oct. 5. $8, students/seniors $7, age six and under $5. 2 p.m. Las Cruces Community Theater, 523-1200, lcctnm.org.

Vincent — Through Oct 14. See Oct. 5. 2:30 p.m. $10, $9 students/seniors. 2:30 p.m. Black Box Theatre, 430 N. Downtown Mall, 523-1223, www.no-strings.org.

Columbus

Paul Forster — 2-4 p.m. Opening reception for the artist's show at Art on the Western Edge, 7 miles north of Columbus, 642-3641, www.awe-88029.com.

Deming

Jam Sessions — Sundays through April 2008. 2-4 p.m. Deming Performing Arts Theater. Dancing, socializing, cookies and coffee at half time. Morgan Hall, 109 E. Pine St. 545-8872.

Glenwood

American Legion Pancake Breakfast — 8-10 a.m. $5. Pancakes, bacon or sausage, juice and coffee. Glenwood Community Center.

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PO Box 191, Silver City, NM 88062.

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