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Arts, Culture & Festivals
Spotlight: Avenue L
Las Cruces’ Latest Arts Corridor While Downtown Las Cruces has long been the city’s centerpiece arts corridor and home to the monthly First Friday Downtown Art Ramble, a collection of businesses and galleries along Lohman Avenue hope to add to the city’s ever-growing arts community through a partnership called Avenue L. Written by Zak HansenOn the third Friday of each … [Read more...]
Capture the Desert – Photo Contest
We had so many fantastic entries for our first "Capture New Mexico" photo contest (some of the Honorable Mentions are right there on this page!) that we're doing it again this year! Since the Southern New Mexico landscape comes alive with color in the fall, we're asking you to share your favorite cacti and desert beauty shots. Submission deadline is February 1st. Please send it … [Read more...]
Colorblock: A Natural Artist
Meet Heidi Annalise, the fourth artist selected as the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument artist-in-residence. Written by Ashley M. Biggers Photography courtesy Heidi AnnaliseSpending her days painting crags and petroglyphs of Organ Mountains–Desert Peaks National Monument is far removed from artist Heidi Annalise’s recent day-to-day. Working on the East … [Read more...]
3 of a Kind at the Pottery Studio
MAKES A Winning Hand at The Potteries in Mesilla Written and photography by Rob McCorkleTwo blocks off the tourist-trafficked Plaza de Mesilla, on Calle de Santiago, sits a resurrected historical homestead converted into an art gallery cum pottery studio next to one of the many irrigation canals that slice through the village.A growing legion of loyal local clientele … [Read more...]
September Wild Weekend!
Running out of things to do this weekend? Don't let another weekend be as forgettable as the last one and check out these exciting events!Only during the weekend of 9/22/17 - 9/24/17Boba Café and Cabaret will present a tribute to Carol Burnett with two performances each night Friday and Saturday, Sept. 22 and 23. Dinner show seats at 6 p.m. and tickets are $27.50; … [Read more...]



























