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  • On our morning interview show, Joe & Lanna Duncan of Fort Davis discuss their introduction to the hotel business. They own the Limpia Hotel in Fort Davis,…
  • KRTS interview Brooke Gladstone, the co-host of the public radio program, On The Media, which is broadcast locally on Marfa Public Radio, Saturdays at 5…
  • Allison Hedge Coke is a Lannan Foundation resident writer in Marfa. She the author of Blood Run, Off Season City Pipe, and Dog Road Woman, which won the…
  • Laura Langham and Elaine Harmon discuss the annual fundraising auction to benefit Grand Companions, as well as the new Miriam McCoy Pet Adoption Center,…
  • All summer, a wide range of hits were in the running for the biggest songs of the season — country singalongs, rap diss tracks, pop kiss-offs and rock epics. But two took the race down to the wire.
  • "Nobody really compares" to Alan Williams number-wise, a statistician says. But the starting center for University of California, Santa Barbara, isn't widely expected to be named Player of the Year.
  • Henry Thoreau is a touchstone in environmental thinking, and he pioneered a form of political resistance still employed today. But for the last decade of…
  • Órale, the feature this week is the the verb, huarachar. It’s derived from the noun, huarache, which means sandal in Nahuatl or Aztec. One nuance of huarachar is to walk or dance in huaraches, but the more common use of this word in Caló is as an analogy for uncouth behavior, that is, acting as if you’re someone who customarily wears huaraches—a hick or backcountry person. It’s an insult with many dimensions, economic status, intelligence or worse. If you’re speaking Caló and you have to say somebody is dancing, you say they’re chancleando or zapateando, not huarachando, unless of course you’re intentionally calling somebody a lout or a brute.
  • The ban gives Gov. DeSantis a key political victory among Republican primary voters as he prepares to launch a presidential candidacy built on his national brand as a conservative standard bearer.
  • This episode of Nature Notes was previously aired on January 30, 2013. Few people of the many hundred thousand living on or crossing the Llano Estacado…
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