D e s e r t E x p o s u r e
July 2009
JULY
Wednesday 1
Silver City/Grant County
Arte con Juanita — Free. 1-2 p.m. Wednesdays. For 7-12 year olds. Casa de la Cultura. Bayard Community Center, Hwy. 180E, Bayard. 519-9738, metrillo2002@yahoo.com
Baile Latino with Maria Izquierdo — $6 for 6 weeks, children free. 7-8 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays. Intergenerational merengue and more. Casa de la Cultura. National Guard Armory, Santa Clara. 519-9738, metrillo2002@yahoo.com
Danza de las Americas con Maestro Manuel — Free. 6-7 p.m. Wednesdays. For 7-15 year olds. Folklorico! Casa de la Cultura. Bayard Community Center, Hwy. 180E, Bayard. 519-9738, metrillo2002@yahoo.com
Mariachi (Violin) con Maestro Howard — Free. 10-11 a.m. Wednesdays. For 7-15 year olds. Casa de la Cultura. Bayard Community Center, Hwy. 180E, Bayard. 519-9738, metrillo2002@yahoo.com
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Hunger — Through July 2. $7 regular, $6 matinee, $5 Wednesdays, seniors, students with ID and Mesilla Valley Film Society Members. 7:30 p.m. nightly, 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday. A film that asks the viewer to enter Northern Ireland's Maze prison, 1981, and watch IRA prisoner Bobby Sands lead a hunger strike that will leave him dead at the age of 27. Fountain Theatre, 2469 Calle de Guadalupe, 524-8287, www.fountaintheatre.org
Vans Warped Tour — 11 a.m. Music and extreme sports. NMSU Intramural Field. 646-1420. www.warpedtour.com/warpedtour, www.ticketmaster.com
Thursday 2
Silver City/Grant County
Baile Latino with Maria Izquierdo — Free. 4-5 p.m. Thursdays. Intergenerational merengue and more. Casa de la Cultura. Mormon church, Swan St. 519-9738, metrillo2002@yahoo.com
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Cycles of Life — 5-7 p.m. Opening reception for exhibit of works by six regional artists. Branigan Cultural Center, 501 N. Main St., 541-2154, las-cruces.org/museums
Melanie Zipin — 8 p.m. High Desert Brewing, 1201 W. Hadley, 525-6752.
Catron County
Shaman Path Workshop in the Gila — Through July 5. Three-day shamanic workshop in an ancient "place of power," on a restored riverside wildlife refuge in the Mogollon Mountains of the Gila. Awakening deeper levels of awareness and response, understanding totems and the medicine wheel, plant helpers, the call to heal, trance drumming. Camping and dinners included, by donation. See story in June Body, Mind and Spirit section. Register: mail@animacenter.org
Friday 3
Las Cruces/Mesilla
4th of July Electric Light Parade — Free. 9 p.m. Apodaca Park to Hadley Complex. Concert by Journey follows parade. 541-2000, www.las-cruces.org
Downtown Ramble — 5-7 p.m. Galleries, shops, businesses and restaurants, art openings, exhibits, music, entertainment, open mic opportunities, shopping, refreshments. 527-5018, www.downtownlascrucespartnership.org
Is Anybody There? — Through July 9. $7 regular, $6 matinee, $5 Wednesdays, seniors, students with ID and Mesilla Valley Film Society Members. 7:30 p.m. nightly, 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday. It's fitting that Michael Caine is cast here as a magician. At 76, he's using the lessons of a long career to show how it's done. Caine's magician, the Amazing Clarence, is losing his gifts. Sleight of hand doesn't work so well when your hands (and memory) are shaky. Widower Clarence drives his van to an English retirement home, where time weighs heavily, even on the youngish couple running the place. Their 10-year-old son, Edward (Bill Milner), is so obsessed with death, he tapes last gasps of guests. Blending humor and heartbreak in a performance that makes a small movie a richly satisfying one, Caine truly is magic. Fountain Theatre, 2469 Calle de Guadalupe, 524-8287, www.fountaintheatre.org
Deming
Grape American Wine Festival — Through July 4. 12-9 p.m. Fireworks, live music. 2-5 p.m. Tuco John Trio, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Chain of Fools, 9 p.m. fireworks. St. Clair Winery, 1325 De Baca Road, 546-1179.
Saturday 4 [INDEPENDENCE DAY]
Silver City/Grant County
Independence Day Parade — 10 a.m. "Saluting Grant County Pioneers: Past, Present and Future." Through historic downtown to Gough Park. 538-3785, www.silvercity.org
Independence Day Festival — Music, arts and crafts booths and more. Cowboy breakfast, barbecue lunch. Gough Park. 538-3785, www.silvercity.org
Fourth of July Ice Cream Social — 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Ice cream cones and floats. Homemade ice cream at the Antique Tractor Show and the ever-popular Cakewalk. Silver City Museum, 312 W. Broadway, 538-5921, www.silvercitymuseum.org
Body Beautiful — Through July 5. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Annual art show by San Vicente Artists group. Silco Theater. 388-2079, luannebrooten@gmail.com
Melodrama Theatre — 8 p.m. Every Saturday. Pinos Altos Melodrama Touring Company. Red Barn Family Steak House, Hwy. 180. Reservations and information: 388-3848.
The Illusion Band — 8 p.m. Isaac's, Bullard and Broadway.
Tyrone Mercantile — 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Every Saturday and Sunday. Buy, sell, trade or barter. Tyrone Town Plaza, Hwy. 90. 534-3911.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
4th of July Celebration — Free. Fireworks and concert by Credence Clearwater Revisited. Vendors. Hadley Complex, 1801 E. Hadley Ave.
Charlie Alfero & Greg Renfro — 8 p.m. High Desert Brewing, 1201 W. Hadley, 525-6752.
Nothing but the Truth — $4, $1 for Mesilla Valley Film Society members. 1:30 p.m. Rachel Armstrong is a political reporter for a Washington newspaper whose editor has great confidence in her skills. After an assassination attempt on the President fails, the US government launches a military attack on Venezuela. In putting a story together, Rachel reveals that a covert CIA operative, sent to this South American country to find out more about the terrorists, instead reported back to her superiors that she could find no evidence that anyone in Venezuela was responsible for the attack on the president. An alternate take on the case of Valerie Plame, the "outed" CIA agent who is now retired and a Santa Fe resident, the film tackles heavy-duty themes and hardball tactics. CineMatinee. Fountain Theatre, 2469 Calle de Guadalupe, 524-8287.
Deming
Grape American Wine Festival — 12-6 p.m. 2:30-5:30 p.m. Dan Lambert. St. Clair Winery, 1325 De Baca Road, 546-1179.
Elephant Butte
4th of July Fireworks — Dusk. The largest fireworks display in the state, reflecting off the largest lake in New Mexico. Park fees waived. Rain date: July 5, same time/same place. Elephant Butte State Park. 744-5923, 744-5421.
Glenwood
27th Annual Frisco Valley CowBelles' Art Auction, Barbeque & Dance — $10 adults, $4 under 12. Glenwood Park on CatWalk Road. Dinner begins at 5:30 p.m. Western Art Auction begins 7 p.m. Dance begins 8:30 p.m. Fundraiser.
Lordsburg
Fourth of July Fun — Lordsburg and Rodeo celebration. lordsburgcoc@aznex.net
Sunday 5
Silver City/Grant County
Body Beautiful — See July 4. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Silco Theater. 388-2079, luannebrooten@gmail.com
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Growers Market — 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Every Sunday. Local produce and eggs, children's activities, music, meet your local growers. Mountain View Market, 1300 El Paseo at Idaho, 523-0436.
Monday 6
Silver City/Grant County
Discovery Canyon Vacation Bible School — Through July 10. $10 donation per family suggested. 5:30-8 p.m. Family-style dinner, games, skits, Bible stories, music and worship. Pre-school through adults. First Presbyterian Church, 538-3513.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Mesilla Valley Bosque State Park Friends Meeting — 6:30 p.m. 5000 Calle del Norte, 523-8009.
Nosferatu — $10, $9 students and seniors. Silent film with musical accompaniment. German Expressionist vampire horror film from 1922, directed by F.W. Murnau. Black Box Theatre, 430 N. Downtown Mall. 523-1223.
Tuesday 7
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Greenhouse and Gardening Camp — Through July 8. $40. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Grades K-6. Learn science of soil and plant growth through hands-on lessons in museum's new greenhouse. BYO lunch, wear clothes to get dirty. Pre-registration required. Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, 4100 Dripping Springs Road, 522-4100.
Harvest Cooking Class — $35. 2-4 p.m. Chef Carol Koenig will prepare dishes using peaches, squash and pinto beans. Pre-registration required. Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, 4100 Dripping Springs Road, 522-4100.
Retablos — Also July 9. Workshop. Branigan Cultural Center, 501 N. Main St., Downtown Mall, 541-2154, www.las-cruces.org/museums
White Sands
Full Moon Nights — $3, 15 and under free. 8:30 p.m. Special programs presented by park rangers or guest speakers. Park entrance closes at 10 p.m., exit by 11 p.m. White Sands National Monument, Hwy. 70, 679-2599 ext. 230, 479-6124 ext. 236, www.nps.gov/whsa.
Wednesday 8
No events listed for this date.
Thursday 9
Silver City/Grant County
Food Co-op Meeting — 6:30-8:30 p.m. Meet new general manager, Doug Zilm. Church of Harmony, 7th and Texas St. 388-2343.
Rolling Stones Gem and Mineral Society — 6 p.m. Potluck dinner, presentation, monthly meeting. BYO food and beverage, plate, utensils and cup. Ginger Coombs, club secretary, will present program on "Rock Tumbling." Senior Center. 534-9202, tim@tamu.edu, rollingstonesgms.blogspot.com
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Corazon Vaquero — 7 p.m. "The Heart of the Cowboy." Documentary film is a high-definition journey into the mountains of Baja California. Local film buff and Desert Exposure contributor Jeff Berg hosts. Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, 4100 Dripping Springs Road, 522-4100.
Retablos — Workshop. Branigan Cultural Center, 501 N. Main St., downtown Mall, 541-2154, www.las-cruces.org/museums
Tony Movsesian Trio — 8 p.m. High Desert Brewing, 1201 W. Hadley, 525-6752.
Friday 10
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Rudo y Cursi — Through June 16. $7 regular, $6 matinee, $5 Wednesdays, seniors, students with ID and Mesilla Valley Film Society Members. 7:30 p.m. nightly, 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna re-team after their breakthrough performances in the evocative road saga, Y Tu Mama Tambien. They're a couple of rubes recruited from a banana plantation to play professional soccer. Rudo y Cursi ("tough and corny") is a rags-to-riches-to-rags comedy. Rudo (Luna) and Cursi (Bernal) are brothers who play soccer for their village team. A slick agent recruits the pair to play pro soccer in Mexico City. Sibling rivalry provides a consistent source of humor and their antics verge on slapstick. Rudo's longtime goal is to play with a famous soccer team, while Cursi has nurtured a pipe dream of becoming a singer. Rudo, a record-breaking goalie, blows his money in gambling schemes, while Cursi becomes a one-hit wonder. Fountain Theatre, 2469 Calle de Guadalupe, 524-8287, www.fountaintheatre.org
Ayurveda — $10 per day for members; $12 per day non-members. Also July 11. Friday 5-7 p.m., Saturday 3-5:30 p.m. Presentation and consultations. Mountain View Market Community Room, 1300 El Paseo Ste. M, Idaho Crossings, 523-0436.
Summer Exhibition — 6:30-8:30 p.m. Opening reception for exhibit of works by abstract painters. See Arts Exposure section. Preston Contemporary Art Center, 1755 Avenida de Mercado, 523-8713, www.prestoncontemporaryart.com
Saturday 11
Silver City/Grant County
Silver City Farmers' Market — 8:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Enjoy fresh produce from local growers. Pat Bouchard demonstrates how to make fresh lavender sachets. Andrew Dahl-Bredine performs folk music. Main Street Plaza, 7th St. and Main, next to Big Ditch Park and San Vicente Creek.
Guerrilla Poetry — $5 adults, under 18 free. 7 p.m. Silver City's newest variety show featuring local poetry, music, theatre and comedy. WNMU Webb Theatre. (512) 673-8894.
Melodrama Theatre — 8 p.m. Red Barn, Hwy. 180. 388-3848.
Mystical Dance Evening/Dances of Universal Peace — $5-10 donation. 7 p.m. Circle dances that celebrate the unity of all spiritual traditions. Chanting, live music. No experience or partners needed. 1st Church of Harmony, 7th and Arizona St. 534-1441.
Wally Lawder & the Flying Coyotes — 8 p.m. Isaac's, Bullard and Broadway.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
20th Century Chamber Music — $10, $8 students and seniors. 7 p.m. Works by Franckenpohl, PDQ Bach, Robinson, Fillmore, Ewald, more. Performing artists include the Madera Winds Duo, Bruce Baum and Silver and Gold Quintet, Stephanie Robinson, Nick Bennett. Black Box Theatre, 430 N. Downtown Mall, 523-1223.
Amexicano — $4, $1 for Mesilla Valley Film Society members. 1:30 p.m. Bruno, an unemployed Average Joe in New York's Italian community, is offered an off-the-books construction job by his landlord and friend Alex. He's told to pick out a helper at a street corner where Hispanic men (often undocumented workers) hang out looking for work. Bruno reluctantly agrees, but the first guy he picks up lives up to all his worst fears. His second attempt, however, yields Ignacio, an open, thoroughly likeable, competent and hard-working young man who speaks little English. Soon the two are teaching each other their respective tongues, sharing lunches and becoming best friends. Ignacio's lovely, rather impish wife Gabriela invites Bruno to their home, and Bruno, unemployed again, is soon awaiting gigs on Northern Boulevard with the Mexican guys and attending Mexican birthday parties and soccer matches. CineMatinee. Fountain Theatre, 2469 Calle de Guadalupe, 524-8287.
Ayurveda — See July 10. $10 members; $12 non-members. 3-5:30 p.m. Mountain View Market, 1300 El Paseo Ste. M, 523-0436.
Live Music — 8 p.m. High Desert Brewing, 1201 W. Hadley, 525-6752.
Vegetable Cooking Class — $7.50, free to members. 1 a.m. Recipes and techniques for cooking abundant summer produce. Reservations required. Enchanted Gardens, 270 Avenida de Mesilla, 524-1886, gardens@zianet.com, nmenchantedgardens.com
Visit Our Ancestors — Program on "Roadside Memorials." Branigan Cultural Center, 501 N. Main St., 541-2154, www.las-cruces.org/museums
Truth or Consequences
Art Hop — 6-9 p.m. Many downtown galleries, studios, stores and restaurants stay open late. New fine art exhibits, live music. Information and walking maps online. torcgalleries@gmail.com, www.torcart.com
frutas y consecuencias — 6-9 p.m. Opening reception for exhibit of more than 2,000 photos by Moshe Koenick from a road trip from T or C to Puerto Vallarta. M Gallery, 740-4526, iam@moshekoenick.com, www.moshekoenick.com/m
New Harmonies Music Series Kickoff — Free. 6-8 p.m. Traveling exhibit. Geronimo Springs Museum, 211 Main St., 740-3902, geronimospringsmuseum.com
Sunday 12
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Auditions — 7 p.m. For More Fun Than Bowling, a whacky philosophical comedy. Details, 523-1223. Black Box Theatre, 430 N. Downtown Mall..
Growers Market — 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Mountain View Market, 1300 El Paseo at Idaho, 523-0436.
Music in the Park — Free. 7 p.m. Nuevo Sol (rock, soul), Melanie Zippen & the Z Factor (folk rock). Young Park, 1905 E. Nevada Ave. 541-2200, rcaldwell@las-cruces.org
Monday 13
Silver City/Grant County
Being Creative with Window Displays — Free. 5:30-8 p.m. Scott Day presents. Silco Theater, 311 N. Bullard St. 574-8394, 590-4046.
Widowed Persons Service — $10 for lunch and program. 11 a.m. Cosette Laperruque presents on her life in Iraq. WNMU cafeteria. 388-1072.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Drawing Workshop — Through July 17. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Museum of Art, 491 N. Main St., Downtown Mall, 541-2137, museums.las-cruces.org
Tuesday 14
Silver City/Grant County
Co-op Community Forum — Also July 16. Tues., 5:30-6:30 p.m. Thurs., 12-1 p.m. "Simple and Low Cost Ways to Extend the Growing Season in Grant County." Presented by Susan Van Auken and Carolyn Smith. Food Co-op Community Room, 6th Street behind the storefront. Coffee, tea, light refreshments provided. Come early. Space limited. RSVP or more info: 388-2343.
Historic Mining District Tour — 10 a.m. Meet in front of Bayard City Hall, 800 Central Ave. 537-3327.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Doug Randle — Free. 5:30 p.m. Guitar and vocals. Rio Grande Theatre.
Gourd Carving — Also July 16. $10 includes materials. 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Workshop open to adults and children; geared toward family participation. Branigan Cultural Center, Downtown Mall, 541-2219, www.las-cruces.org/museums
Wednesday 15
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Caji and Salome — Through July 16. $10. 7 p.m. Brazilian and world music. Black Box Theatre, 430 N. Downtown Mall, 523-1223, www.no-strings.org
Deming
Garden Care — Friends of Rockhound State Park.
Thursday 16
Silver City/Grant County
Cancer Relay for Life — Also July 17. Thursday 5 p.m. Friday 12 p.m. Silver High Football Field.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Caji and Salome — See July 15. $10. 7 p.m. Black Box Theatre, 430 N. Downtown Mall, 523-1223, www.no-strings.org
Everett Howl & The Walrus Bros. — 8 p.m. High Desert Brewing, 1201 W. Hadley, 525-6752.
Gourd Carving — See July 14. $10 includes materials. 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Branigan Cultural Center, Downtown Mall, 541-2219, www.las-cruces.org/museums
The Sharp End — $10. 7 p.m. Screening of this adrenaline-soaked journey up the world's most challenging walls is a fundraiser for continuing search for lost climber and memorial for all three climbers lost in avalanche in Southwest China last month. Rio Grande Theatre. 646-4746, www.AdventureFilm.org
Friday 17
Silver City/Grant County
Cancer Relay for Life — 12 p.m. Silver High Football Field.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Goodbye Solo — Through June 23. $7 regular, $6 matinee, $5 Wednesdays, seniors, students with ID and Mesilla Valley Film Society Members. 7:30 p.m. nightly, 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Moving and mysterious, the film begins with a conversation between a taxi driver and his passenger, who proposes an unusual business arrangement. Solo, the driver, is a Senegalese man living in Winston-Salem, NC, working and charming his way toward a share of the American dream. His demeanor is effortlessly warm and disarmingly friendly. The man in the back seat is William, a white Southerner 30 years older than Solo, who wants to arrange a trip to a place called Blowing Rock. It's a long drive into the mountains, and William is offering a lot of money. "What are you going to do, jump off?" Solo asks jokingly. William's silent response unnerves him. Solo is driven not only to try to save William, but also to know him. Fountain Theatre, 2469 Calle de Guadalupe, 524-8287, www.fountaintheatre.org
Saturday 18
Silver City/Grant County
2nd Annual Children's Art Camp — Free. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Artists tutor children grades 1-6. Snacks served. San Vicente Artists. Silco Theater. 388-2079, artshow@silvercityartists.org
Hell 2 Pay — 8 p.m. Isaac's, Bullard and Broadway.
Melodrama Theatre — 8 p.m. Red Barn, Hwy. 180. 388-3848.
Mogollon Rim Fiber Guild Meeting — 9 a.m. "Samples from Surface Design Association." Fiber of the month: "Flax and Linen." WNMU Chino Bldg., Room 206. 388-4839.
Rolling Stones Field Trip — 9 a.m. Trip to area northwest of Luna to find Luna Blue agate. Drive in any vehicle. Trip more than 100 miles each way, so consider overnight. Those who stay will go on to search for "Luna Gold" agate a few miles away the next day. Meet at Aldo Leopold Vista, Hwy. 180, north of Buckhorn. Bring lunch, water, rock hammers, bag or bucket, maybe a trowel or pry tool, GPS if possible. Must be a member or guest; may join the day of the trip and sign liability waiver. 538-5706, kyyote@msn.com
Silver City Farmers' Market — 8:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Enjoy fresh produce from local growers SNAP hosts "Dog and Cat Show," 11 a.m. All entries must be spayed or neutered and leashed or crated. Brandon Perrault performs 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Main Street Plaza, 7th St. and Main, next to Big Ditch Park and San Vicente Creek.
Tile Making Workshop — $95. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. One-day intensive tile-making class with artist Kate Brown at her studio in the Mimbres. All materials and instruction included. 536-9935, katebrown@gilanet.com, www.katebrownpottery.com
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Beautiful Gardens with Proper Irrigation — $7.50, free to members. 2 p.m. Different approaches to watering landscape, from trees to flower beds to containers. Reservations requested. Enchanted Gardens, 270 Avenida de Mesilla, 524-1886, gardens@zianet.com, nmenchantedgardens.com
Soulshine — 8 p.m. High Desert Brewing, 1201 W. Hadley, 525-6752.
The Village Barbershop — $4, $1 for Mesilla Valley Film Society members. 1:30 p.m. Art is an old-school barber who still charges eight bucks for a cut, and who, since the passing of his one true love, spends his routine lunch hours throwing the business' money away on beer and bad betting tips. The film opens when Art's barber-shop partner, Enzo, dies at a Chinese restaurant/brothel. Simultaneously, any control that Art had over his business affairs hits the skids. With this challenge to Art's livelihood and identity, he's forced to look outside his world to save himself, and finds an unlikely heroine in a pregnant, trailer-park-dwelling, unapologetic go-getter named Gloria. Art's love interest is a topless cocktail waitress and his neighbor is a hilarious, still-smoking septuagenarian with an oxygen tank. CineMatinee. Fountain Theatre, 2469 Calle de Guadalupe, 524-8287.
Deming
Music in the Park — 6-8 p.m. Rockhound State Park. 546-6182.
Sunday 19
Silver City/Grant County
Celebrate Lavender — 9 a.m.-12 p.m. $37. Class on cultivation and use. Live harvesting, projects, information, lavender lemonade, refreshments, recipes. 535-2860, info@desertwoman.net
Native Plant Society Hike — Free. 8 a.m. To north side of Signal Peak. Meet at south parking lot of WNMU Fine Arts Theater to arrange carpooling and sign release forms. Bring water, lunch, hat, sunscreen, good hiking shoes. 388-5192.
Sin Nombre — 4 p.m. Making its world premiere at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, this film is an epic dramatic thriller. Seeking the promise of America, a beautiful young Honduran woman, Sayra (Paulina Gaytan), joins her father and uncle on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American countryside en route to the US. Along the way she crosses paths with a teenaged Mexican gang member, El Casper (Edgar M. Flores), who is maneuvering to outrun his violent past and elude his unforgiving former associates. Together they must rely on faith, trust and street smarts if they are to survive their increasingly perilous journey towards the hope of new lives. WNMU-Silver City International Film Society. Real West Cinema II, Hwy. 180. www.silverfilm.org
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Growers Market — 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Mountain View Market, 1300 El Paseo at Idaho, 523-0436.
Music in the Park — Free. 7 p.m. Two Lane Highway (soul, R&B, originals, oldies). Young Park, 1905 E. Nevada Ave. 541-2200, rcaldwell@las-cruces.org
Monday 20
Las Cruces/Mesilla
A Week of Watercolor — Through July 24. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Classes for students of all levels and abilities. Museum of Art, 491 N. Main St., Downtown Mall, 541-2137, museums.las-cruces.org
Tuesday 21
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Wednesday 22
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Pottery and Archaeology Camp — Through July 24. $60. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Grades 3-6. Shape and mold clay into creative objects in this introduction to pottery making. Excavate your own dig site. BYO lunch, wear clothes to get dirty, hats, sunscreen, sturdy shoes. Pre-registration required. Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, 4100 Dripping Springs Road, 522-4100.
Thursday 23
Silver City/Grant County
Aladdin Jr. — Through July 26. $5, under 12 $3. 7 p.m. Based on the Disney film. Production of the Young Entertainers on Stage (YES!), Theatre Group New Mexico's summer program for ages 5 to 18. Tickets at Alotta Gelato, Curious Kumquat. Cobre Center for the Performing Arts.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Deming Fusiliers — 8 p.m. High Desert Brewing, 1201 W. Hadley, 525-6752.
Friday 24
Silver City/Grant County
Aladdin Jr. — Through July 26. $5, under 12 $3. 7 p.m. See July 23. Cobre Center for the Performing Arts.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
The Merry Gentleman — Through June 30. $7 regular, $6 matinee, $5 Wednesdays, seniors, students with ID and Mesilla Valley Film Society Members. 7:30 p.m. nightly, 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday. The first shot in this austere character study of two mismatched yet ideally matched souls is of actor Michael Keaton, sitting on a park bench. He is Frank Logan, who when not wielding a gun is sitting at a sewing table in a men's custom clothing shop. He flickers to life when he meets Kate Frazier, a runaway battered wife. He's hunkered down on a rooftop and peering through a gun scope when he suddenly sees a brightly illuminated woman standing in a window and holding her hands, palms up, in what appears to be a gesture of supplication. They strike up a friendship. While joy seems too remote, too far out of reach, they seem to bring each other comfort. Fountain Theatre, 2469 Calle de Guadalupe, 524-8287, www.fountaintheatre.org
The Odd Couple — $5. Neil Simon's classic featuring fastidious neat freak Felix and habitual slob Oscar. Las Cruces High School Theatre Arts. Rio Grande Theatre, www.RioGrandeTheatre.com
Saturday 25
Silver City/Grant County
4th Hummingbird Festival — Through July 26. Thousands of hummingbirds, assorted events, banding, guided walks, programs, products and art by local artisans and artists. Saturday 7-10 a.m. banding (weather permitting), 10 a.m. photo presentation by William Talbot, 10:35 a.m. hummingbird photographer Jack Milchanowski, 11:30 a.m. "Bats and Their Importance to Our Eco-System" by Ken Abalos, 1 p.m. "The Ancient Birds of the Mimbres People" by Marilyn Markel. Sunday 7-10 a.m. banding (weather permitting), 10 a.m. photo presentation by William Talbot, 10:35 a.m. hummingbird photographer Jack Milchanowski, 11:30 a.m. "Historical Cookes Peak and Other Points South of Mimbres" by Randy Cowan, 1 p.m. "A Pictorial Adventure South of Our Border" on exotic hummingbirds. Hwy. 35 on west end of Lake Roberts, directly behind Sapillo Creek Fire & Rescue Station. 536-3866, www.hummingbirdsofnewmexico.com
Aladdin Jr. — Through July 26. $5, under 12 $3. 7 p.m. See July 23. WNMU Fine Arts Center Theatre.
Brandon Perrault & Friends — 8 p.m. Isaac's, Bullard and Broadway.
Cowboy Days — Through July 26. Dutch -oven cooking, blacksmithing, square dancing, cowboy poets, entertainment, fashion show, horseshoe pitching tournament, cowboy breakfast. Vendors, displays. Golf tournament Sunday. Gough Park and various sites. 534-0550, www.silvercity.org
Melodrama Theatre — 8 p.m. Red Barn, Hwy. 180. 388-3848.
Mystical Dance Evening/Dances of Universal Peace — $5-10 donation. 7 p.m. Circle dances that celebrate the unity of all spiritual traditions. Chanting, live music. No experience or partners needed. 1st Church of Harmony, 7th and Arizona St. 534-1441.
Poetry Reading — Free. 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Poets invited to share their work. A.I.R. Coffee, Bayard.
Silver City Farmers' Market — 8:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Enjoy fresh produce from local growers. "Squash Derby" with prizes for kid and adult categories. Country Silver Band performs. Hosanna Eillert demonstrates weaving and natural dyes. Main Street Plaza, 7th St. and Main, next to Big Ditch Park and San Vicente Creek.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Geronimo: An American Legend — $4, $1 for Mesilla Valley Film Society members. 1:30 p.m. A tale that both celebrates and critiques myths of the American West. Walter Hill's revisionist take on the American cavalry's campaign to capture this Chiricahua Apache warrior. Despite its title, the film is really about the American cavalry officers who undertake the responsibility of recapturing Geronimo, in particular the young narrator Lt. Charles Gatewood (Jason Patric), who respects the great Geronimo and brokers a treaty with the Chiricahua, only to see it collapse when the army kills the tribal medicine man. New Mexico resident Gene Hackman plays Gen. George Crook, the proud but sympathetic officer charged with bringing in the renegades. Matt Damon co-stars as a young lieutenant who finds himself battling his assumptions of the Apache people. Robert Duvall, as the tough, racist Army scout and Indian fighter Al Sieber, practically steals the picture. CineMatinee. Fountain Theatre, 2469 Calle de Guadalupe, 524-8287.
Feral Root — 8 p.m. High Desert Brewing, 1201 W. Hadley, 525-6752.
Xeriscape Design Workshop — $7.50, free to members. 2 p.m. Creating a xeriscape garden, from planning for water usage zones to plant selection. Reservations requested. Enchanted Gardens, 270 Avenida de Mesilla, 524-1886, gardens@zianet.com, nmenchantedgardens.com
White Sands
Lake Lucero Tour — $3 entry fee. Ranger-guided trip to Lake Lucero, the source of the white sands. Reservations required. White Sands National Monument, 679-2599 ext. 230, 479-6124 ext. 236.
Sunday 26
Silver City/Grant County
Hummingbird Festival — See July 25. 7-10 a.m. banding (weather permitting), 10 a.m. photo presentation by William Talbot, 10:35 a.m. hummingbird photographer Jack Milchanowski, 11:30 a.m. "Historical Cookes Peak and Other Points South of Mimbres" by Randy Cowan, 1 p.m. "A Pictorial Adventure South of Our Border" on exotic hummingbirds. Hwy. 35 on west end of Lake Roberts, directly behind Sapillo Creek Fire & Rescue Station. 536-3866, www.hummingbirdsofnewmexico.com
Aladdin Jr. — $5, under 12 $3. 2 p.m. See July 23. WNMU Fine Arts Center Theatre.
Cowboy Days — See July 25. Gough Park and various sites. 534-0550.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Children in No Man's Land — 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Film and panel discussion. Documentary that uncovers the current plight of the 100,000 unaccompanied minors entering the US every year. Fountain Theatre, 2469 Calle de Guadalupe.
Growers Market — 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Mountain View Market, 1300 El Paseo at Idaho, 523-0436.
Ice Cream Sunday — $5 adults, $3 seniors, $2 children 5-17. Samples, ice cream making demonstration, ice cream sandwich eating contest. Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, 4100 Dripping Springs Road, 522-4100.
Music in the Park — Free. 7 p.m. John DeHoyos Band (blues, country, folk). Steve Smith & Hard Road (bluegrass). Young Park, 1905 E. Nevada Ave. 541-2200. rcaldwell@las-cruces.org
Monday 27
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Tuesday 28
Las Cruces/Mesilla
La Cella Bella: Women's Cello Concert — Free. 5:30 p.m. Guitar and vocals. Rio Grande Theatre.
Traditional New Mexico Music, Games and Stories — $20. Grades K-2. Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, 4100 Dripping Springs Road, 522-4100.
Wednesday 29
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Thursday 30
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Adult Felting Class — $35. Learn the basics of wet felting and needle felting. Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, 4100 Dripping Springs Road, 522-4100.
BBR Band — 8 p.m. High Desert Brewing, 1201 W. Hadley, 525-6752.
Friday 31
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Shoot the Piano Player — Through Aug. 6. $7 regular, $6 matinee, $5 Wednesdays, seniors, students with ID and Mesilla Valley Film Society Members. 7:30 p.m. nightly, 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Francois Truffaut's marvelously atmospheric 1960 Parisian noir is a fine display of the young director's burgeoning talent. Legendary French singer Charles Aznavour gives his best screen performance as the embittered dive-bar pianist, Charlie, who has retreated into gutter-level obscurity and cares only about the little brother he's raising. Between the two thugs chasing his no-account older brother, the tomboy waitress who knows his secret and the prostitute next door, who occasionally throws him a freebie, life is going to challenge hard-bitten Charlie to get over his long-dead wife and give a crap about this crazy world again. Fountain Theatre, 2469 Calle de Guadalupe, 524-8287, www.fountaintheatre.org
AUGUST
Saturday 1
Silver City/Grant County
Silver City Farmers' Market — Enjoy fresh produce from local growers. Every Saturday, 8:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Main Street Plaza, 7th St. and Main, next to Big Ditch Park and San Vicente Creek.
Melodrama Theatre — 8 p.m. Every Saturday. Pinos Altos Melodrama Touring Company. Red Barn Family Steak House, Hwy. 180. Reservations and information: 388-3848.
The Silver City String Beans — 8 p.m. Isaac's, Bullard and Broadway.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
The Visitor — $4, $1 for Mesilla Valley Film Society members. 1:30 p.m. Sixty-two-year-old Walter Vale (Oscar-nominated Richard Jenkins) is a professor of economics at a Connecticut college. He's lost his zest for teaching and doesn't seem to care about anything anymore. A widower, he spends his days on campus in lonely isolation. Sent by his department to read a paper he co-wrote at a conference, Walter heads off to New York City, where he still has an apartment. He is startled to find a couple living there, a Syrian and his Senegalese girlfriend, duped into renting the place by a scammer. Walter opens his closed-off heart and says they can stay for a few nights. Walter attends the conference in the day, the young woman sells jewelry she has created on the streets, and her boyfriend pursues his passion for drumming at various jazz clubs. Due to their mutual interest in music, Walter and the younger man are drawn together in a slowly unfolding friendship, as the young Syrian begins to teach the aging academic how to play the African drum. Then the young Syrian is arrested in the subway, wrongly accused of jumping a turnstile, and taken away; the young couple are illegals, in the country without documentation. CineMatinee. Fountain Theatre, 2469 Calle de Guadalupe, 524-8287.
Sunday 2
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Growers Market — 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Every Sunday. Local produce and eggs, children's activities, music, meet your local growers. Mountain View Market, 1300 El Paseo at Idaho, 523-0436.
Monday 3
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Tuesday 4
Las Cruces/Mesilla
National Night Out — America's night against crime. Downtown Mall. 541-2288. ohennessey@las-cruces.org
Wednesday 5
White Sands
Full Moon Nights — $3, 15 and under free. 8:30 p.m. Special programs presented by park rangers or guest speakers. White Sands National Monument, 679-2599 ext. 230, 479-6124 ext. 236, www.nps.gov/whsa.
Thursday 6
Silver City/Grant County
A Prelude to Happiness — 4-7 p.m. Opening reception for exhibit of works by Todd Shelby and Karen Prittchett. Blue Dome Gallery, 307 N. Texas St., 534-8671, www.bluedomegallery.com
Friday 7
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Downtown Ramble — 5-7 p.m. Galleries, shops, businesses and restaurants, art openings, exhibits, music, entertainment, open mic opportunities, shopping, refreshments. 527-5018, www.downtownlascrucespartnership.org
Deming
Chain of Fools — 5:30-8:30 p.m. Live music. St. Clair Winery, 1325 De Baca Road, 546-1179.
Catron County
Medicine Woman Gathering — Through Aug. 12. See Body, Mind and Spirit section. Anima Learning & Retreat Center, Box 688, Reserve, NM 87830, www.animacenter.org
Saturday 8
Silver City/Grant County
Silver City Farmers' Market — Enjoy fresh produce from local growers. Every Saturday, 8:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Main Street Plaza, 7th St. and Main, next to Big Ditch Park and San Vicente Creek.
Melodrama Theatre — 8 p.m. Red Barn, Hwy. 180. 388-3848.
Sounds of Silver City Live! — Through Aug. 9. 12-11 p.m. $5. Two full days of live music performances by local artists. Fundraiser for Silco Theater. Silco, 311 N. Bullard.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Charlie Varrick — $4, $1 for Mesilla Valley Film Society members. 1:30 p.m. Walter Matthau stars as a former stunt pilot reduced to robbing banks with his wife and a hot-headed young criminal. They successfully rob a small-town bank for more than $750,000 in a heist that claims Matthau's spouse/getaway driver, but his partner's elation is tempered by Matthau's grim realization that the money belongs to the mob, which isn't about to accept such a substantial loss lying down. An icy hit man is dispatched to recover the mob's loot and kill anyone who gets in the way. The noose gradually tightens around Matthau's neck as the feds close in and the long tentacles of organized crime make their presence felt as far as sunny New Mexico. CineMatinee. Fountain Theatre, 2469 Calle de Guadalupe, 524-8287.
Truth or Consequences
Art Hop — 6-9 p.m. Many downtown galleries, studios, stores and restaurants stay open late. New fine art exhibits, live music. Information and walking maps nline. torcgalleries@gmail.com, www.torcart.com
Sunday 9
Silver City/Grant County
Sounds of Silver City Live! — See Aug. 8. 12-11 p.m. $5. Silco Theater, 311 N. Bullard.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Growers Market — 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Mountain View Market, 1300 El Paseo at Idaho, 523-0436.