Desert Exposure

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...

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...

WILDLIFE & Nature

Mythologies

Delightful existence and Coyote

The Canidae or dog family originated in North America some 40 million years ago. Eventually they encompassed dozens of species with the coyote, specifically, evolving here and staying here. For thousands of years, as soon as humans got here, too,...

Numbers are up but conservationists sound alarm on the lobo

Conservationists have been sounding the alarm about a looming “genetic crisis” in the Mexican gray wolf community as reintroduction continues. The group of conservationists …