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In consideration of the health and wellbeing of the community and visitors, the Mimbres Region Arts Council is canceling the Silver City Blues Festival as planned in Gough Park. In its place, a …
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5/14/20
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Please join us in visiting southern New Mexico artists in their web-based galleries. While we can’t yet go to these galleries and studios and spend our time perusing the amazing work of …
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5/7/20
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I took my granddaughter to see the house where I grew up.
Across the street is the elementary school where I got into all kinds of shenanigans as a kid. I wouldn’t say my friends and I were …
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By Jim and Henry Duchene
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4/30/20
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One lovely and lively day, while strolling on the campus of Western New Mexico University (WNMU) with a friend I hadn’t seen for some time, conversation flowed like a river – …
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Carol Ann Fugagli
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4/30/20
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Like most places, the Silver City Museum, though closed physically, is moving programs online.
There will be lectures and bedtime …
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4/30/20
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Silver City artist Joel Armstrong is exhibiting his wire-based installation “It’s Time to Address’er Drawers” at Light Art Space, 209 West Broadway in Silver City through …
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By Elva K. Österreich
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4/1/20
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I am a skeptic, a journalist and political scientist by training. Imagine my surprise at being energetically “grabbed” by an announcement for La Escuela de Curanderismo one …
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By Lisa Jimenez
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4/1/20
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Sometimes laying around watching Facebook videos for hours isn’t a big waste of time. As I scrolled through the life-chatter, up came a video of a New Zealand brewery that had built a machine …
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4/1/20
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On any given morning during the summer of 2019, drivers on White Sands Boulevard in Alamogordo, New Mexico, passing by the Magnuson Hotel might have noticed a slender man in a cowboy hat leaning a …
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By C.J. Harper
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4/1/20
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April's edition of Desert Exposure is out! Since so many of our regular locations are simply closed currently here are some places you will be able to find …
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3/25/20
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Out of an abundance of caution, the U.S. Army made the decision to cancel this year's Bataan Memorial Death March scheduled for March 15, in response to the COVID-19 threat.
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3/11/20
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For those who would like to explore a new area of the Gila National Forest while making a difference Heart of the Gila (HOTG) is gearing up for its spring 2020 Trails Partnership projects. …
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By Melissa Green
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3/2/20
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As artist in residence for Western New Mexico University, João Galera has come to New Mexico from Brazil to create an art project of significant proportions.
“The idea is to work with …
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By Elva K. Österreich
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3/2/20
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Learn about the death of Pat Garrett during a Culture Series presentation at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, 4100 Dripping Springs Road on Tuesday, Feb. 11. The presentation by local historian David Thomas is free and from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the museum’s theater.
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2/4/20
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Saturday, Feb. 15 is Territorial Charter Day and Silver City MainStreet has two promotions to celebrate Territorial Charter Day. They are the Urban Challenge Fun Run and Love Local.
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2/4/20
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Kids are funny.
My granddaughter, now five, will ask me “Guess what?” with a mischievous grin.
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By Jim and Henry Duchene
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2/4/20
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The forklift didn't go to the moon, but a simple misunderstanding illustrates the respect and credence that the public gives museums.
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By Dave Dooling
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2/4/20
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Lots of places like to say they are a hidden gem. But Prehistoric Trackways National Monument really fits that billing.
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By David Burge
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2/4/20
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Back in 2005, a group of local musicians decided they wanted to keep the music of the ‘50s and ‘60s alive and kicking in the Mesilla Valley, so they formed a band called “Remember Then.”
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By Jess Williams
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1/21/20
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In an art/performance collaboration called “nest(ing)” artist Saul Ramirez has brought together the arts – poetry, performing and visual – into one space at the Cruces Creatives world. The event is taking place every Friday in January starting around 6 p.m., he said. Cruces Creatives is located at 205 E. Lohman Ave. in Las Cruces.
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By Elva K. Österreich
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1/13/20
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