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On this episode of West Texas Talk, we are joined in the studio by Jaclyn Garcia, a Valentine High School student who has been competing in the history…

The young filmmaker Jeremy Ambers speaks with K. Yoland to discuss his first film Impossible Light. The film documents Leo Villareal's light sculpture,…

Jillian Weise, a current Lannan poet-in-residence, was born in Houston, Texas. She is the author of The Amputee's Guide to Sex (2007), The Colony (2010),…

On Talk At Ten, the weekday interview show, we speak with Dona Roman, the director of the Theatre Department at Sul Ross State University. She directs…

On this episode, Rachel Monroe speaks to writer Claire Vaye Watkins about her upbringing, growing up in California, and her mother's influence on her…

On this episode, Rachel Monroe speaks to Lannan writer-in-residence Kerry Howley. Howley is a contributor to New York Magazine and teaches at the…

The next hearing will be July 12 at 10 a.m. ET, according to a notice posted by the committee. It will focus on the rioters and mob who stormed the Capitol.

Órale, we’re continuing with words in Caló that come from the language spoken by the Kalé or Romaní from Spain, Portugal and France, who also call their language Kaló. The word for this episode is chompa. It means the top of your head in Caló. It comes from the word the Kalé use for the same, chola. There is another similarly-pronounced word in Caló, cholo, which means a gang member (chola for woman). This particular word isn’t related to chompa, however. It comes from the Nahuatl (Aztec) and means dog. We’ll cover that word in a future episode. In the Caló spoken on the Rio Grande, like all languages, references to the head can convey many entendre, depending on the context. A chompón, for example, is a lump on the heat and a head-plant in the proverbial immovable wall. And a chompazo is a hit to the head.

The mountainous landscapes of West Texas testify to diverse aspects of the Earth's past – to the tectonic upheavals that raised the Rockies, to episodes…

Across the country, gardeners and landscapers are embracing the use of native local plants. It's a movement that's growing in West Texas as well. The Big…