Las Cruces Style

My blog will focus on what you love and hate about Las Cruces, collectors, A & E, prophecies and predictions, desert happenings and much more. What do you want? Mi blog es su blog.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

We have the world’s best fiestas

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By S. Derrickson Moore dmoore@lcsun-news.com LAS CRUCES — Most of my best fiesta memories seem to begin in Las Cruces. Having reached an age...

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Chile lore and pepper pilgrims

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By S. Derrickson Moore dmoore@lcsun-news.com LAS CRUCES — While interviewing visitors to the Hatch Chile Festival, I fielded more questions ...

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

The art of minimalist gardening

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By S. Derrickson Moore dmoore@lcsun-news.com LAS CRUCES — How artistic is your garden? I’ve been pondering my own environs after learning ab...

Portales Season in the Southwest

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LAS CRUCES — It’s been a long time coming in this torrid, sometimes tortuous year. Another bitter, destructive freeze and an all-too brief s...

Friday, August 24, 2012

Cultural Legacy Awards

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This Saturday at 2...all are welcome. 402 West Court Ave., Las Cruces, NM 88005 August 13, 2012 Contact: Irene Oliver-Lewis, iolewis@zi...

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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Do these things at least once

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LAS CRUCES — I’ve been writing about fiestas and interesting places to see and things to do in New Mexico for several decades now, but I’m s...

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Friday, August 17, 2012

¡It's Full-Tilt Fiesta Season!

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By S. Derrickson Moore dmoore@lcsun-news.com LAS CRUCES — Get ready. It’s FTFS (Full-Tilt Fiesta Season). Our fiesta dead zone is shrinking ...

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Las Cruces Style: S. Derrickson Moore covers arts and entertainment and writes features, health, home and travel articles and the Las Cruces Style column for the Las Cruces Sun-News. She has received over 200 national and regional reporting awards, Reader’s Choice Awards, a National Newspaper Publishers Association award for Best Local Newspaper Columnist, & ADDYs for print and broadcast ads. She was president of her own public-interest public relations firm & vice president for two of Florida’s largest advertising agencies. Moore grew up in Michigan and was a newspaper city editor and library network coordinator in Portland, Oregon. She has lived in Connecticut, New York, Germany, Jamaica, Florida and Santa Fe —where she worked for the Albuquerque Journal and the New Mexican. She has written for numerous publications. She is a published poet and the author of an award winning biography “Tenny Hale: American Prophet”, co-produced a documentary based on the book, and has authored two works of fiction, “Santa Fey” and “Age of Awe and Wonder” that combine themes of prophecy and archaeology.

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