The Collective Oct. 2026

Little Toad Creek Karaoke Thursday, Oct. 1 7-10 p.m. Sing your heart out! Cooper Friday, Oct. 2 8-11 p.m. CW Ayon calls the Southwestern deserts of New Mexico home, but his sound is rooted in blues and the grooves of the...

The family that creates together

The laptop doesn’t come out until most of the day's work is already done. Tanishia Womack has put in her hours as a paralegal. Her sons, Michael and Gabriel, have made it through school and whatever else the day demanded. Mixed in somewhere is law...

Jean-Robert P. Béffort: The Reincarnation of Things

There are artists who begin with a blank canvas and artists who begin with a block of marble. Jean-Robert P. Béffort begins with whatever somebody else has given up on. A doll without a body. A mannequin without a store window. A wrestling figure...

The Journey of an Iconic Song

Spencer Proffer was a student at UCLA, just beginning law school, when he first heard Don McLean’s “American Pie” on the radio. About three minutes into the song, he pulled over. The song kept going, and Proffer kept listening. McLean, he...

Make Music Day in Silver City

June 21, the Summer Solstice, also is international Make Music Day. Celebrating the beginning of summer, thousands of music making folks sing and play melodies throughout city streets and parks worldwide. Silver City is just one of these...

Silver City CLAY Festival Moves to June

The Silver City CLAY Festival returns once again, but this year in June. The weeklong celebration moves from traditional July dates to June 15-21 and takes place in venues throughout Silver City, New Mexico. Organizer Lizzie Slegeir says, “The...

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What's Happening in October

Thursday, October 1, 2026 FREE EVENT To all veterans and their spouses, please join us for the following: “Veterans & Spouses Claims and Benefits Workshop” Thursday, October 1, 2026, at …

Creativity comes in many forms

A lot of focus on filmmakers this month, including an upcoming documentary about one of the most iconic songs ever recorded — “American Pie.” We have the back story behind the making of that film. We also look at a local filmmaker whose work is...

Mel and Rejina Christopher stand inside the new Las Cruces Arts Gallery, where works by association members are on display.

Art association finds a home

After more than six decades in Las Cruces, a longtime arts organization finally has a gallery to call its own. The Las Cruces Arts Association will celebrate the grand opening of its new gallery Friday, Oct. 2, from 5 to 8 p.m. at 221 N....

An actor appears in costume as the blue ghost in “Nearly There,” which was selected for the 2026 Silver City Community Film Festival.

“Nearly There” hits the screen

A pecan farm, two brothers and a blue ghost gave Nancy Carol Flores a way to explore a question that had followed her long before she picked up filmmaking. What does one generation owe the next? That question sits at the center of “Nearly...

Silver City is a True New Mexico Arts Destination

Downtown Silver City has been known for many, many years as a culturally rich “art scene.” Well, it has not stopped evolving and growing. And a lot of the earlier art settlers are still here. In 1997 Lois Duffy, along with a core group of artists...

Fiber Art Display at the Silver City Public Library

The Southwest Women’s Fiber Arts Collective has installed a Fiber Art display at the Silver City Public Library in the exhibit case at the top of the stairs. The display will be shown through Sept. 29 and showcases a variety of fiber arts made by...

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Showing us the world through his lens

Lonnie Schlein sat in the desert and waited. Somewhere along the New Mexico-Arizona line, he had found the photograph he wanted, or at least the place where he thought it might eventually appear. There was a yucca plant in the foreground and...

The Collective Sept. 2026

Little Toad Creek Thursday, Sept. 3 7-10 p.m. Karaoke Sing your heart out! Friday, Sept. 4 8-11 p.m. Rolling Dusk Sonoran psych rock from Tucson, Az. Saturday, Sept. 5 No Band Sunday, Sept. 6 1-4 p.m. Jerry and...

Betty Benedeadly: Acid Western, Desert Strange

Betty Benedeadly makes music for the space between a desert highway and a carnival midway. She calls it psychedelic spaghetti western. It is music with twang, atmosphere and a taste for the surreal, but the songs are only part of the experience....

Rafael Vigilantics peeks thru the garden gate at Whiskey Creek Zocalo. This 1978 Kawasaki K650 will return for the 2026 show and is owned By Dan co-host of the event.

Vintage Motorcycles, Fundraising, and Music Come Together

Vintage Motorcycle Show in Silver City! The second annual High Desert Classic Motorcycle Show will return to Whiskey Creek Zocalo on Sept. 19 with events also on Friday and Sunday. This one-of-a-kind event brings the vintage motorcycle community...

The Rapids Had Other Plans

Kevin Fedarko went to the bottom of the Grand Canyon hoping to become a river guide. It did not go particularly well. Fedarko, who left a career in magazine journalism in New York to come west, fell in love with the canyon and the Colorado River...

Opinions & Columns

A weak argument for change of leadership

Republican gubernatorial candidate Duke Rodriguez makes some fair points in a recent column holding Democratic state leaders accountable for our health care crisis. “It is a full-scale, statewide health care breakdown unfolding in real time,...

On letters to the editor

When I first started writing regularly for the Bulletin about a year and a half ago, the paper was fairly thin. Just a couple of standing columnists in the opinion section and the occasional letter to the editor. I am pleased to see that the...