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Sterry Butcher, a writer and longtime Marfa resident, recently wrote a story about her life with horses, "The Earth is There to Catch Us When We Fall."…

Artist Ana Maria Hernando creates installations, paintings, drawings and prints with a layering of natural and formal elements. Designs derived from her Argentinian background are blended with images of plants and insects. Hernando's exhibit "The Illuminated Garden" will open on February 7 and will run till March 23 at Marfa Contemporary. There will also be an artist talk with Hernando on Saturday, February 8 from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm.

International Steinway Pianist Oscar Macchioni has performed in his native Argentina, Italy, England, Poland, Serbia, Turkey, Mexico and will grace the stage at the St. James Episcopal Church in Alpine on February 6 at 7:30 PM. Macchioni is a music professor at the University of Texas in El Paso and specializes in performing Latin-American music. Macchioni will perform a second concert on February 7 at 4:00 PM with works by Beethoven, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Debussy and Alberto Ginastera. He joins us at Talk at Ten to discuss his passion for music, love for performance and his upcoming concert in Alpine.

Cellist Evan Drachman comes to Alpine on Sunday, February 9 to perform at the St. James Episcopal Church at 4:00 PM. Drachman will perform with Pianist Jeffrey Grossman, both who are artists performing with The Piatigorsky Foundation, a New York group that brings live classical music to audiences throughout the U. S. The foundation was established in 1990 by Mr. Drachman in honor of his grandfather, the renowned cellist Gregor Piatigorsky. The program includes work by Faure´, Beethoven and Camille Saint-Saëns.

Writer and Environmentalist Rick Bass was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and grew up in Houston, the son of a geologist. He studied petroleum geology at Utah State University and while working as a petroleum geologist in Jackson, Mississippi, began writing short stories on his lunch breaks. Bass won the 1995 James Jones Literary Society First Novel Fellowship for his novel, "Where the Sea Used to Be" and was also a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for "Why I Came To The West." Rick Bass join Talk at Ten to discuss his work in the literary world.

One of the best ways animals deal with winter is through the process of metabolic suppression, otherwise known as dormancy. Large animals such as bears…

[gallery ids="9974,10021"] Former Lannan Writer-In-Residence Ali Abunimah speaks with us about his new book, The Battle for Justice in Palestine,…

On this week's Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor remembers when his father used to work on the Mississippi River from 1924 to 1926. His father worked as as an inspector of levies and revetments for the Mississippi River Commission. For two years, he lived on a quarter boat and saw some interesting things and people drift down the river.

This week, Lonn Taylor talks about one of his great pleasures in life -- browsing in used bookstores. His father also loved to go to used bookstores and took Lonn with him for the first time when he was five. The first used book store Lonn remembers going to is Lowdermilk in Washington D.C. when he went with his father in 1945.

On Monday’s Talk at Ten, K. Yoland interviews Massachusetts-based artist and KRTS front desk volunteer Sarah Nelson. Sarah taught metalsmithing and…