Showing posts with label Marfa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marfa. Show all posts
Monday, February 22, 2016

We Have Seen the Lights: The Marfa Ghost Lights

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One of my verily ancient podcasts-- #7 in the 24 podcast series "Marfa Mondays" -- has been whipped and snipped into shape as a s...
Monday, July 13, 2015

Mexico: Sunlight & Shadows, edited by Mikel Miller with Michael Hogan and Linton Robinson (Cover Painting by Erick Ochoa)

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A shout out for Mikel Miller et al's new anthology, Mexico: Sunlight & Shadows , Short Stories and Essays by Mexico Writers whic...
Monday, May 18, 2015

Avram Dumitrescu, An Artist in Alpine (Transcript now available on-line for Marfa Mondays #4)

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Transcript now available for  ye olde podcast #4 Avram Dumitrescu,  an Artist in Alpine The Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project proceeds...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

"La Chora Interminable" on Marfa and the Gonzálo Lebrija Show at Marfa Contemporary

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Well, Marfa's made it to  Vanity Fair ,  60 Minutes , Martha Stewart's  Living , and now... drumroll ... La Chora Interminable.  ( ...
Monday, May 04, 2015

Marfa Mondays Podcast #17 Under Sleeping Lion: Lonn Taylor in Fort Davis

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From the "secret historians" to the Propeller Man to the Filippino restaurant: you'll learn about a myriad unexpected people a...
Tuesday, April 07, 2015

Cyberflanerie: Rock, Mural, Street and Bathroom Wall Edition d'Not Art

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"THIS IS NOT ART" AND, IN SMALL PRINT BELOW, "DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS" (Translation: No littering, dude.) So wh...
Monday, March 17, 2014

Cyberflanerie: Digital Economics Edition

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Enter Airbnb and a little far West Texas town starts turning into... read Rachel Monroe on housing trends in Marfa, TX Robotenomics -- exc...
Sunday, January 12, 2014

A Visit to Swan House: Presidio Texas' Unique Adobe Teaching House Inspired by the Legacy of Hassan Fathy

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My article for Cenizo Journal , winter 2013, is now available on my webpage.    (I read this and did a Q & A for PEN San Miguel de All...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Marfa Mondays Returns with an Interview with Dallas Baxter, "This Precious Place"

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A metaphorical asteroid took out the past few months, but (whew) the Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project resumes today with podcast #12, an in...
Monday, April 15, 2013

Marfa, Capital of Quirkiness, on 60 Minutes

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In a segment that aired on Sunday, " 60 Minutes" calls Marfa, Texas "The Capital of Quirkiness." The sweetly artsy spi...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Boquillas is Big News for the Big Bend

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After much rumor and anticipation , the Boquillas border crossing into Mexico from far West Texas's Rio Grande Village in the  Big B...
Monday, March 04, 2013

Marfa Mondays Blog (New and Improved)

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Now live on blogger.com, migrated from my website where it was rather unceremoniously parked:   Marfa Mondays blog , which is about my Ma...
Friday, March 01, 2013

Marfa, Marfa & More Marfa

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Oh, this country has such beyond splendid skies! Apropos of my book-in-progress, World Waiting for a Dream: A Turn in Far West Texas , I rec...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

Desert America: Boom and Bust in the New Old West by Rubén Martínez

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What is the West? That cross-borderly mashup of music, footwear and haberdashery known as “cowboy cool”? Or is it indigenous? The Big Empt...
Friday, January 25, 2013

World Waiting for a Dream, Reading for PEN San Miguel January 29

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Pinto Canyon Rd, looking towards Mexico I'm reading for PEN San Miguel in San Miguel de Allende this Tuesday January 29th @ 6pm, fro...
Monday, January 21, 2013

The Next Big Thing: A Bloggy Round Robin, from Karren Alenier to Yours Truly on World Waiting for a Dream

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Karren Alenier My amiga the DC-based poet and Gertrude Stein (and Paul & Jane Bowles) expert Karren Alenier tagged me for this blog...