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  'Talk At Ten' interviews this week (10am & 6:30pm): Mon, Sul Ross State University President Ricardo Maestas; Tues, a replay of the Rio Grande Legal Aid talk; Wed, Mark Stine of Bike Texas; Thu, Bill Davis of the Texas Forest Service; Fri, Jill Rosser, a Lannan Foundation writer-in-residence. (Muquiz Canyon fire, photo June 9)

In-studio interviews this week (10am & 6:30pm): Mon, Memorial Day special; Tues, "Marketplace" business reporter Alisa Roth; Wed, Karen Hadden, on the radioactive waste dump to the north of us; Thu, Lawyers for Texas Rio Grande Legal Air; Fri, Takanori Sasaka, Japanese baseball player for the Big Bend Cowboys.  

 After 11 innings and three hours, the Petrolia Lady Pirates defeat the Marfa Lady Short Horns 3-2 in Midland for the Regional Semi-Finals in high school softball.

Join KRTS 93.5 FM on Friday night for the Regional Championship Game for the Marfa Lady Shorthorns high school softball team as they face Petrolia at Muggs Field in Midland. The action begins on Friday night at 6 PM. The game will be broadcast live, and hosted by KRTS Intern Daniel Hernandez, and anchored at the studio by Station Manager Tom Michael.

On Talk At Ten this week, live at 10 AM and repeated at 6:30 PM: Monday, musician Big Robb; Tuesday, Jon Morlock, Superintendent of the Fort Davis Historical Site; Wednesday, musician Bob Cheevers; Thursday, Terlingua Fire & EMS; Friday, Lannan Foundation writer-in-residence, Kevin Prufer.

 On Saturday at 11:30 AM, Marfa Public Radio at 93.5 FM will broadcast the Marfa High School Lady Shorthorns softball game against the Haskell Maidens. The Lady Shorthorns have advanced into the Regional Quarterfinal Round. Saturday’s 11:30 AM game is the second in a best-of-3-series. The Lady Horns won the first game, 8-5.

Marfa High School senior and KRTS intern Daniel Hernandez will broadcast the game live from Muggs Field in Midland. You can listen live to the Marfa Lady Horns Regional Quarterfinal Series  on 93.5 FM or online at www.marfapublicradio.org. 

The 3rd annual Marfa Film Festival is May 5 - 9. KRTS will be broadcasting interviews with participating filmmakers all week. Check out the schedule!

Wednesday, May 5

3 PM Greg Miller, an artist with work on display at the Crowley Theater during the Marfa Film Festival.

3:30 PM Hugh Fitzsimons, producer of Flowers in the Desert. This film explores the Wixarika culture. The Wixarika, or Huichol, originate from the Mexican states of Jalisco, Mayarit and Durango. There more that 50,000 Huicholes currently live and practice their indigenous traditions. ^{Screens Thursday at 11 AM}

Thursday, May 6

10 AM Chris Sand, the rapping cowboy, and director Elizabeth Lawrence. from the film Roll Out, Cowboy.  Chris "Sandman" Sand is a rappin' cowboy from Dunn Center, North Dakota. He drives a semi, plays guitar, and raps. He looks like Woody Guthrie, but sings like no one else. Roll Out, Cowboy follows the 39-year-old country/hip-hop musician as he tours the American West during the 2009 Presidential election. ^{Screens Thrusday at 1:30 PM}

10:30 AM Diane Bell,  writer and director of Obselidia. Variety magazine describes this feature film at "an utterly eccentric, movie-loving quasi romance between two intellectual misfits...it is a gorgeous work in which every frame has the appearence of having been hand-crafted in an art studio." ^{Screens Thursday at 6:30 PM}

Friday, May 7

9 AM Robert Arnold, Producer/Co-Director and Cynthia Mitchell, Writer/Co-Director of All Animals. In this short, a man, young woman and a Chevy pick-up truck into a vast desert landscape. ^{Screens Saturday at 10 AM}

9:30 AM Nathan Christ, director of Echotonoe. Echotone explores the world of Austin's vibrant music culture as it struggles to balance notions of artistic integrity and sustainability amidst an economic, cultural, and political paradigm shift.  ^{Screens Friday at 4:30 PM}

10 AM Filmmaker Chris Brown discusses his film Fanny Annie & Danny, the story of a not-so-happy holiday family gathering. ^{Screens Saturday at 1:30 PM}

10:30 AM Nathan Fisher, director of The Unreturned.   This documentary is the story of five middle-class Iraqi refugees caught in an absurdist purgatory of endless bureaucracy, dwindling life savings, and forced idleness. ^{Screens Friday at 2 PM}

3:30 PM Ryan Piers Williams, writer and director of The Dry Land, and actress America Ferrera. The Dry Land follows a young American soldier, James, after his return from Iraq. He tries to reconcile his experiences abroad with his life in rural Texas, but despite the support of his wife, his mother, and friends, he is unable to settle in.  Some portions of The Dry Land were filmed on location in Marfa. ^{Screens Friday at 11:30 AM}

There are many talented DJs who pass through our doors at KRTS. And for them, we have created General Store, the Saturday night  7 PM slot, for the occasional, the irregular, and the once-in-a-while. On General Store, you will hear a variety of special programs, such DJ JD and her  "Version Quest" series - or Marfa native Daniel Hernandez - or Chris Hillen, with "Discography."

And now, this Saturday, it's "All Over The Map," a once-a-month series hosted by Joe Nick Patoski. As part of our General Store rotation, you can hear Joe Nick on the first Saturday of each month with "All Over The Map." So tonight, on May 1st, an hour of great Texas music. Tune in at 7 PM CT.

On the Friday night program Generator, at 10 PM CT, host Brian LeBarton interviews author & artist Mercedes Helnwein.

 This week on Talk At Ten, the weekday interview program at 10 AM and 6:30 PM, is a replay on Monday of the interview with Weather Channel meteorologist Jim Cantore, who hosted a "Marfa Lights" episode this past weekend; on Thursday Tiffany Brooks, new addition to the Big Bend Cowboys baseball roster; and on Friday a Back To Work episode on the "Marfa Money" project.