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Las Cruces, NM
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Artwork and jewelry created by long-time Las Cruces artist Jo-an Smith is on display at Phillips Gallery, 221 N. Main St. downtown, with even more of her uniquely beautiful jewelry creations on exhibit during the month of October.
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By Mike Cook
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10/1/20
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Documentary filmmaker Charlie Minn has taken the story of the El Paso mass shooting at Walmart from Aug. 3, 2019.
Minn, who spends his time in between Las Cruces and New York, said he will always …
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By Elva K. Österreich
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9/30/20
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Join the Museum of Nature & Science and Museum of Art Studio Programs for this limited edition workshop for middle school students. Participants will receive a 3-D printed model dinosaur skull, …
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9/29/20
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The Las Cruces Museum of Nature & Science continues to offer take out activity kits in October. Kits are free but require reservation. To reserve kits please contact Stephanie at …
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9/29/20
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The Mesilla Valley Fine Arts Galley (MVFAG), 2470-A Calle de Guadalupe in Mesilla, across from the Fountain Theatre, will feature local artists Naida Zucker and Bonnie MacQuarrie during October.
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MESILLA VALLEY FINE ARTS GALLEY
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9/23/20
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The Downtown Las Cruces Partnership (DLCP) and the Las Cruces Arts and Cultural District (ACD) have created an artist-in-residence program and are issuing a call for artists.
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By Mike Cook
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9/23/20
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Las Cruces author and playwright Denise Chávez will present a Thomas Branigan Memorial Library Zoom talk about her work beginning at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1.
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By Mike Cook
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9/23/20
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Project in Motion (PIM), Las Cruces’ modern and aerial dance company, will host Circus Camp Monday, Sept. 28-Saturday, Oct. 3, “with a variety of options to keep you safe” during the COVID-19 pandemic, PIM said on its website.
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By Mike Cook
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9/23/20
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Fans of the Native America flute have a new treat to enjoy.
Las Cruces-based musician C.S. Fuqua has released a new album, titled “Different Direction,” which contains 12 world jazz cuts, with native flute featured as primary instrument in more than half of the instrumentals.
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By Jess Williams
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9/23/20
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Birds “connect the earth and the heavens,” Las Cruces artist Richard Harris said. “I watch and observe and love them. They watch and observe and teach me.”
While his watercolors are accurate in detail, what he calls his “bird studies” have evolved, Harris said, and he said he often uses unusual colors for the birds he paints, as in his multi-hued “Pop Art Owl.”
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By Mike Cook
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9/23/20
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Dale Walker has been a pastor since he was 20 years old, almost 40 years. During his time as a pastor in El Paso he met a man from the Philippines who talked about the “plight of a lot of people without food and in great need.”
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By Elva K. Österreich
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9/17/20
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The New Mexico Department of Transportation’s (NMDOT) Interstate 25/University Avenue construction project will not only improve traffic safety and flow for residents and visitors, it will add unique and beautiful art to city bridges and interchanges.
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By Mike Cook
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9/17/20
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At 7 p.m. Saturday Sept. 19, KTAL Radio (101.5 FM) of Las Cruces will present the original radio play “NO MÁS,” the story of Carmelita Torres and the El Paso bath riots of more than a century ago, KTAL announced in a news release.
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By Mike Cook
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9/17/20
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“Letters to the Future,” an original work created by NMSU Theatre Department Head Wil Kilroy and the members of the production’s cast, will be performed and recorded online for viewing Sept. 23-27.
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By Mike Cook
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9/17/20
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The Doña Ana Arts Council (DAAC) will present its 33rd annual Community Arts Awards with an online program, 7-7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 20.
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By Mike Cook
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9/17/20
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James Ethington III started collecting guitars long before he could play them.
“I had five guitars and couldn’t play a lick,” he said.
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By Elva K. Österreich
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9/17/20
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The Las Cruces Museum of Nature & Science is inviting middle and high school students to join its virtual “Teen Science Café” to connect live with astronomers from Apache Point Observatory (APO) in Sunspot, New Mexico for a webinar beginning at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept 23.
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9/17/20
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With coronavirus in his hair and murder hornets for cufflinks, Old Man Gloom aka Zozobra, heavy with the sadness and gloom of people across New Mexico, went up in flame Friday, Sept. 4. Zozobra is a …
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Photos by Lanze Hibler
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9/11/20
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The New Mexico Film Office (NMFO) has announced that 20 film programs at higher education institutions throughout New Mexico – including New Mexico State University and Doña Ana Community College – have received a total of $330,000 in funding from the NFO’s Non-Resident Below-the-Line Crew Credit Program.
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Bulletin report
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9/10/20
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New Mexico State University’s Borderlands and Ethnic Studies (BES) program has received a $50,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to support an interactive virtual art exhibit to engage the often-untold history of social justice issues in the border region, enhancing a program whose enrollment has doubled since last year.
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By Amanda Adame
NMSU Communications
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9/10/20
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