JULY• • • Your• • • •monthly • • • • • • guide• • • • •to • •community • • • • • • • • • • entertainment, recreation & culture ‘Bistro Lounge’ ‘Teatro Colon’ ‘Mora Does El Paso’ Borderland native Mauricio Mora focuses on El Paso cityscapes for his new exhibit showing this month at the Hal Marcus Gallery. See ‘Gallery Talk,’ Page 31 ‘UTEP View’ ‘El Paso Museum of Art’ Make your way to Mesilla Summer Fun for Kids Just a short scenic drive from El Paso, It’s not too late to sign up your Mesilla offers visitors a quiet getaway kids for summer camps and classes. J U LY 20 1 5 full of charm and Southwest history. Art, music, nature, science, sports w w w. e p s ce n e . co m Pages 23-25 and more! Pages 20-22 Page 2 El Paso Scene July 2015 Kerbey and Rim at 9:45 a.m. with decorated Music, food and drink also offered. Admission is bikes, scooters, pets and more. Everyone is free; registration for participants is $20 in july 2015 welcome. advance, $25 day of show. Information: 490- 7927, 920-9247 or 525-8758. West Side Independence Day Parade JULY INDEX — The Rotary Club of El Paso’s 19th annual Ardovino’s Fourth of July — Ardovino’s Roundup 3-11 ROUNDUP Independence Day parade begins at 9 a.m. Desert Crossing, One Ardovino Drive in Saturday, July 4 , at Western Hills Church, 530 Sunland Park, will have an Independence Day Behind the Scene 4 Thunderbird. This year’s theme is “Fly Your “Party on the Patio” Saturday, July 4 , with Scene Spotlight 4 American Flag.” Grand Marshalls are the mem - drink specials, prime rib and music by the FM Here’s the Ticket 12-14 bers of the Benavidez Patterson All Airborne Junkies Dance Band. Doors open at 5 p.m. Dance 15 Chapter. The 2.6-mile parade route will go Reservations recommended. Information: (575) from the church down Shadow Mountain, then 589-0653, ext. 3 or ardovinos.com. Program Notes 15 up Mesa to Coronado High School. Music, Comedy 16-17 La Viña Country Picnic — The winery in Information: [email protected] or La Union, N.M. will host its 16th annual picnic Sports 18-19 rotarywestelpaso.org. 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, July 4 , featuring Summer fun for kids 20-22 Fee for entries is $45 ($10 non-profits) by entertainment by Live By Request. Bring a pic - June 13. Prizes are $1,000 for Best Entry, $750 Feature: Mesilla 23-25 nic or buy a hamburger or hot dog from K&B Second; $500 Third and $250 Fourth. Nature 26-27 Barbeque. Information packets available online at Croquet, badminton and a water slide No Taking a Look Back 28 july4parade.com Coolers and no pets. Admission is free. Visitors At the Museum 29-30 Los Porkchoppers Tip of Texas may bring their own lawn chairs. Information: Gallery Talk 31,34 Rockin’ Rally — Los Porkchoppers LE, co- (575) 882-7632 or lavinawinery.com. Independence Day Southwest Art Scen e 32-33 hosts the rockabilly concert and rally benefiting The winery is at 4201 S. NM Highway 28, one — Anyone East Side 4th of July Parade the Wounded Warrior Project is 11 a.m. to mile north of S. Vinton Road. El Paso FishNet 34 can join the 36th annual Independence Day midnight Saturday, July 4 , at Richard White Viva Juárez 35 People’s Parade sponsored by El Paso Del Patriotic Celebration — El Paso Wind Park, 100 Richard White in Anthony, Texas, Norte Lions Club, beginning at 9 a.m. Friday, Symphony’s annual Independence Day per - Keep on Bookin' 36 with 10 local bands including Blaze The Nation, July 4 . The parade starts at Hanks High School, formance of patriotic music is 7 to 9:30 p.m. Banda Siete, Joe Barron, Fixed Idea, Junk, History Lessons 36 2001 Lee Trevino (at Montwood) and travels Saturday, July 4 , at the Chamizal National Jessica Flores and Crosstown, Chasing Solace, On Stage 37,39 to Yarbrough then north on Album to Album Memorial amphitheater. Mainstreet. Admission: $5 (age 16 and younger Park. with floats, marching units, antique cars, A fireworks show follows the concert. Stage Talk 38 free). Information: 202-9762, 241-2596 or horses and bicycles are among the entries. Presented by the El Paso Museum and Cultural Liner Notes 39 atpoa.org Sponsorships and donations welcome. Affairs Department as part of their Music A bike run begins at 9 a.m. from Cohen Film Scene 40-41 Information: 731-1549. Under the Stars concert series. Admission is Stadium to the park. Cost: $10 single rider; $15 August preview 41 This year’s theme is “America The Beautiful.” free. Information: 212-0110, (Chamizal) 532- doubles. Line up time for participants is 7:30 a.m. 7273 or elpasoartsandculture.org. Also that day is the Rockin Rally Car Show Free shuttle from El Paso Zoo to the park — The hosted by Westside Custom Classics Car Club, El Paso Scene User’s Guide 30 Rim Area Neighborhood parade runs 6 to 10 p.m. 17th annual neighborhood parade is 10 a.m. 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the park, with low riders, Advertiser Index 42 Saturday, July 4 , along Rim Road. Interested hot rods, trucks, modified classics, muscle cars, Subscription Form 42 participants should meet at the corner of bombs, original classic 1987 or older and Euros. Please see Page 5 July 2015 El Paso Scene Page 3 Arabesque 2015 — The Snakecharmer and l Paso’s bicultural environment Bellydancer host it annual performance and caught me by surprise when I workshops July 11-12 at Scottish Rite moved here nearly 30 years ago. Temple with Gala Show July 11 . Page 24 . Spanish was spoken everywhere, even Summer Etiquette — Joann Wardy’s Eamong some of my colleagues at the School of Etiquette and Enrichment’s classes daily newspaper. Walking through down - run July 11-Aug. 29 at Coronado Country town El Paso, I felt like I was constantly Club for ages 7-18. Page 7 . crossing the border. There were stores Scene Spotlight highlights events you’d find in any other U.S. city, inter - advertised in this issue. ‘Full Circle’ concert — EPSMF hosts its mingled with bodegas that advertised all summer concert, “Bridging Generations” El Paso Symphony Orchestra — EPSO their goods in Spanish. July 16 at El Paso Museum of Art. Page 42 . host various events during the summer Not only was I in the minority then, but months. Page. 44 : ‘Steel Magnolias’ — El Paso Playhouse three decades I am even more so — about • July 4 : Pop Goes The Fort concert and presents the play by Robert Haring July 17- 67 percent of El Paso was Hispanic back fireworks at Biggs Park Aug. 8 . Page 29 . in 1986, and now Hispanics account for over 80 percent of the population. • July 11 : Run for A Margarita 5K fundraiser, ‘Trial by Jury’ and ‘The Zoo’ — Gilbert Nevertheless, the longer I’ve lived here, what the rest of America will look like in at Riviera Restaurant and Sullivan Co. of El Paso present a double the less I feel like a minority. I tell visi - coming decades.” • Aug. 21 : 85th Anniversary dinner and bill July 24-31 at Chamizal National tors, we’re all Hispanics here. After this Cepeda concluded her column wishing dance celebration Memorial Theater. Page 14 . much time in El Paso, not only am I used that would be exactly the case — that the • Aug. 22 : The Music of the Rolling Stones to hearing Spanish spoken around me, rest of the country could enjoy the same with vocalist Brody Dolyniuk, at the Plaza Mario Otero Salon and Florence Street I’m not even surprised when people come mutual respect, friendliness and under - Theatre. Gallery — Opening reception for Art by up to me and start talking to me in standing among different backgrounds David Kern is July 25 . Exhibit runs through El Paso Live — Page 3 . Spanish. Spanglish has slowly invaded that we El Pasoans take for granted. September. Page 33 . • Through Aug. 8 : Viva! El Paso at my own vocabulary. Little phrases like * * * McKelligon Canyon Amphitheatre Hal Marcus — Showing through Aug 7 is “más o menos” or “no sé” come to the Next to the front door of my house • July 18 : Dancing with the Stars Live at “Mora Does El Paso” one-man show featur - tongue faster than their English counter - hangs a print from 1997’s 3rd annual El Abraham Chavez Theatre ing all new work by Mauricio Mora, with an parts. Paso International Mariachi Festival. The • July 23 : Pat Benatar at the Plaza Theatre ARTalk July 30 . Page 32 . When I travel elsewhere, I miss the poster features a playful painting of • Aug. 28 : Yes and Toto at Cohen Stadium. Hal Marcus’s “Lyric Modern” will show bright colors of the border and the spicy “gorditas” {chubby kids} performing in a Sept. 6-Jan 24 at El Paso Museum of Art. food. It feels more like home to hang mariachi band. It’s signed by the artist, Crossland Gallery — Opening reception is around the Hispanic neighborhoods of Mauricio Mora. June 26 for the annual “America The Sunland Art Gallery — Showing through another city. I first saw the original painting leaning Beautiful” patriotic art show running June July is “Summer Scenes” Members Show. Chicago journalist Esther Cepeda cap - against an art gallery wall. The gallery 26-July 25 . Page 25 . Featured July artist is Ivette Reyes. Page 20 . tured this El Paso feeling perfectly in her owner and the artist agreed to let me use Entries are being taken through June 28 it for the cover of El Paso Scene.