Desert Exposure

07/13/2025

Abundant flora and fauna – including 35 species of rattlesnake! – can be found in Rodeo, NM Near the border of New Mexico and Arizona, more than an hour away from a town, sits Rodeo, …

07/12/2025

Desert Exposure continues its long-standing opportunity to submit creative work.

07/11/2025

Like many people, I know a little about Billy the Kid – he spent some of his growing-up years in Silver City, he was on trial for murder and jailed in a building that’s still standing in …

06/19/2025

Local director Bobbi Master’s says this production of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame is “a ghostly vaudeville set in a post-apocalyptic purgatory.”

Last week, No Strings Theatre Company performed their first night of Samuel Beckett’s one-act play “Endgame” directed by Bobbi Masters at the Black Box Theatre downtown. …

06/14/2025

Celebrate Juneteenth in Las Cruces with the Juneteenth Jazz Arts Festival on Sunday, June 22.

Mesilla Valley Jazz and Blues Society will bring Plaza de Las Cruces to life with jazz music in partnership with the New Mexico Juneteenth Jazz Arts Festival at 7 p.m. on Sunday, June 22. …

06/10/2025

Looking for something to do with DAD this weekend?

Cherry Festival Help celebrate the more than 100-year history of cherry growing in the Sacramento Mountains with cherry picking, cherry pie and cherry cider, as well as food, live music, a …

06/10/2025

They might smell but only if provoked.

Where I live in rural New Mexico, I see striped and hooded skunks throughout the year. I see skunk tracks all the time, every day, around my house, in the fine substrate of the road that leads up to …

06/09/2025

There is no horsing around with these horses.

“The 2025 World’s Greatest Horseman has been crowned, and this year’s title belongs to none other than Erin Taormino riding Hazardouz Material. With an impressive 884.5 composite …

06/05/2025

The third annual Cloudcroft Beerfest will be held from on Saturday, June 21 & Sunday June 22.

There is something about driving up to Cloudcroft. N.M. Maybe it's the fresh mountain air or the feeling of reconnecting with nature while enjoying hiking. However, when it comes to this time of …

05/09/2025

Mending old clothes for a good cause, this weekend!

Did you know that 66% of unwanted clothes and textiles wind up in the landfill? Or that less than 15% are recycled and 19% are burned? Mending Our Ways is a program to help reduce clothing waste by …

05/09/2025

Picacho Hills Art in the Garden Tour is this weekend!

The 2025 Art in the Garden Tour, a Picacho Hills-based art event, returns on Saturday, May 10. This year’s tour includes five locations and seventeen artists and runs from 10 a.m to 4 p.m. …

05/02/2025

Fiesta time in Truth or Consequences, all weekend long!

It’s been 75 years since the city of Hot Springs, New Mexico changed its name to Truth or Consequences, which makes 2025 the Diamond Jubilee of the Truth or Consequences Fiesta. Celebrating …