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Fryxell 7 Letters 33 Body, Mind & Spirit • Designing an Ecosystem (575) 538-4374 • [email protected] Our readers write. How a garden or a yard can be a nurturing space. By Jean Eisenhower Advertising Sales 8 Desert Diary Silver City: Deep South jokes, candid kids and other reader tales. 36 Body, Mind & Spirit • How to Stop Sugar Cravings Ilene Wignall When your sweet tooth bites back, try these tips. (575) 313-0002, [email protected] 10 Tumbleweeds By Stephanie Small Las Cruces/Mesilla: Virgin Galactic’s PR plus reader critter photos and the Top 10. Kristi Dunn 37 Body, Mind & Spirit • Food and Mood (575) 956-7552, [email protected] 12 Southwest Gardener • Gardens of Chihuahua Hill Anti-inflammatory eating may help against depression. Deming: Touring places where the plots thicken. By Vivian Savitt By Megan E. Phelps Marjorie Lilly (575) 494-5095, [email protected] 14 Ramblin’ Outdoors • Being a Cheerleader 38 Body, Mind & Spirit • Is BPA OK? Why it’s hard to beat our corner of the Southwest. The FDA says low levels are safe, but questions linger. Web Designer By Larry Lightner EarthTalk David Cortner 15 Arts Exposure • Another Desert 39 Body, Mind & Spirit • Weekly Events Columnists Painting Americans in Afghanistan. Grant County support groups, classes and more. Linda Ferrara, Henry Lightcap, Larry Lightner, By Jean Chandanais Bohlender Marjorie Lilly, Vivian Savitt, Bert Stevens, 40 Red or Green? • Dining Guide Scott Thomson 17 Arts Exposure • Arts Scene Restaurant guide for Southwest New Mexico. Latest area art happenings. P.O. Box 191 41 Red or Green? • Table Talk Silver City, NM 88062 19 Arts Exposure • Gallery Guide Restaurant news. (575) 538-4374 Where to find art in our area. www.desertexposure.com 42 Red or Green? • Food and Family 20 Talking Horses • The Buck Starts Here Four generations have made Silver City’s Jalisco Café a suc- Don’t be too quick to blame the horse. By Scott Thomson cess. By Peggy Platonos 21 The Starry Dome • Boötes, the Herdsman 46 40 Days & 40 Nights What to watch in the skies this month. By Bert Stevens Complete area events guide for June and early July. 22 Popular Culture •Super New Mexico 48 The To-Do List Desert Exposure is published monthly and distrib- From the Hulk to Silver City’s own Aqualad, New Mexico is Don’t-miss events this month. uted free of charge at establishments throughout ground zero for many of comic books’ most memorable—and Southwestern New Mexico. Vol. XIX, number 6, June oddest—characters. By David A. Fryxell 50 Continental Divide • Wild Kingdom 2014. Mail subscriptions are $19 for 6 issues, $37 Where life is hard, there’s plenty of it to see. for 12 issues. Single copies by mail $4. All contents 26 Higher Education • Back to School By David A. Fryxell copyright © 2014 Continental Divide Publishing LLC. Turning 65 and deciding it’s time to tackle college algebra All rights reserved. No portion of this publication again. By Elaine Carlson About the cover: may be reproduced without written permission. All “Grateful Pause” by rights to material by outside contributors revert to 28 The Cowboy Way • Learning the Ropes Jean Chandanais the author. Views expressed in articles, advertise- How a photographer’s search for horses to photograph Bohlender. To read ments, graphics and/or photos appearing in Desert led him to the rough and tumble world of NMSU’s “rodeo about the artist’s new Exposure do not necessarily reflect the views of the school.” By Mel Stone exhibit of paintings de- editors or advertisers. picting American mili- Desert Exposure is not responsible for unsolic- 30 100 Hikes • In the Loop tary men and women ited submissions of articles or artwork. Submissions Hiking a loop around the Mogollon Box with Kathy White- serving in Afghanistan, by mail must include a self-addressed stamped man, director of WNMU’s Outdoor Program. see this issue’s Arts envelope for reply or return. It will be assumed By Linda Ferrara Exposure section. that all submissions, including e-mail letters, are intended for publication. All submissions, including 31 Borderlines • Hearts and Minds letters to the editor, may be edited for length, style The Learning Center in Palomas comes alive. and content. By Marjorie Lilly Western Institute for Lifelong Learning www.will-learning.com WILL and Summer —ENJOY! Film Series, "field trips," WILL Annual Membership Art, Hikes, Fitness, is only $75. Over 150 course and program and History. offerings a year. Visit www.will-learning.com Take as many as you like. Visit www.will-learning.com for full descriptions. to learn about Membership and everything we do. WILL Office Hours: WILL Office WILL! Tues. – Thurs. 9am-3pm Room 108, Juan Chacon Bldg KEEP ON LEARNING! [email protected] WNMU Campus, Silver City, NM 575-538-6835 6 JUNE 2014 www.desertexposure.com Blackwell’s Editor’s Notebook • David A. Fryxell Antiques & Gifts The Win Column Accolades from readers and fellow journalists. t’s been a few years since we last surveyed our admittedly targets a niche audience, found fans even readership, so it’s good to know “the biggest little among those who said they don’t own a horse—and paper in the Southwest” is still also your favor- was cited as the top favorite by 6% of all readers. Iite paper. In fact, the results of our questions about Those newcomers aside, your rankings of most- Open reading frequency and readers per copy in the 2014 read columns and departments haven’t changed a 7 days reader survey, just completed, track almost exactly lot. This very Editor’s Notebook and Continental a week the last time we asked these questions. Divide by yours truly led the way, followed closely Some 88% of survey respondents pick up Desert by Desert Diary, 100 Hikes and Henry Lightcap’s Exposure every single month, and 86% spend two Journal. Letters, Tumbleweeds and Larry Lightner’s hours or more with each issue. A whopping 61% save Ramblin’ Outdoors were just a few decimal points their copies at least all month long, or indefinitely, behind. and several of those who said they don’t save Desert When asked to name a single favorite, after Desert Exposure explained that’s because they pass it on Diary and 100 Hikes, readers picked Editor’s Note- to friends or family. (In that case, you’re forgiven.) book and Continental Divide, followed by Lightcap, All that pass-along readership adds up to 2.3 readers 40 Days and 40 Nights and Marjorie Lilly’s Border- per copy, actually up a bit from our last survey. That lines column (all tied). works out to about 23,000 readers of our print edi- Not surprisingly given the strong showings of our tion every month.