Arts
Kids exhibit artwork at Chinati
July 7th, 2011
MARFA – Everyone is invited to an exhibition of student artwork and a free ice cream social from 6:30-8pm Saturday at the Chinati Foundation’s Arena.
Tayah Anderson sketches with Chinatir art instructor Allyson Feeney in the former artillery sheds housing Donald Judd's 100 works in mill aluminum.
Sixty students from pre-school through grade …
The Hickoids kick it at Padre’s Independence Day
June 30th, 2011
By BENJAMIN WERMUND
MARFA – In the more than two decades veteran Austin cow-punks The Hickoids have been a touring band, they have never played in Marfa.
Austin cow-punk vets The Hickoids play Padre's Monday
But the band has been looking forward to bringing its country-punk mix to Padre’s ever since frontman Jeff Smith …
Save the date for the 24-Hour Plays
June 23rd, 2011
MARFA – Marfa Live Art’s will once again produce the 24-Hour Plays during the first weekend of August.
On Friday, August 5 all interested writers, actors and directors will meet to begin the process. A community performance of the work created during these 24-hour period will be staged Saturday, August 6 at the Crowley Theatre.
No experience necessary …
Giant, No Country screened here June 24, 25
June 23rd, 2011
AUSTIN, MARFA – Marfans can go to the movies on June 24 and 25 when Giant and No Country for Old Men will be shown as part of a Texas Monthly tribute to the top 10 Texas movies.
Giant (1956) and No Country for Old Men (2007) were filmed in and around Marfa. A panel of …
Terlingua theater group stages vaudeville revival
June 23rd, 2011
SOUTH BREWSTER COUNTY—Coming to South County July 4th weekend, The Flat Rock Follies: A Salute to Vaudeville.
Please join us at the (air-conditioned) Flat Rock theater in Lajitas as we celebrate a cornerstone, nay a veritable wellspring of American cultural history. Here you will be entertained and amazed by this collection of classic comedy, drama, song …
Chef Brett author finds new mission in Marfa
June 23rd, 2011
By BENJAMIN WERMUND
MARFA – John DeMers can rest easy.
For the first time in his life, the West Texas Noir author feels like he has done what he was put on this earth to do.
“There’s an amazing sense of having arrived — not achieved, not rich, not famous, none of that stuff — but it’s sort …
Fact (and fiction) from Texas Monthly editor (and former Sentinel reporter)
June 23rd, 2011
By BARNEY NELSON
Jake Silverstein, now editor of Texas Monthly magazine, has written a great book about the fine line between fact and fiction. His book, Nothing Happened and Then It Did: A Chronicle in Fact and Fiction, was published by W. W. Norton Company in New York last year. However, nothing about the title, the …
Fancy Pony Land trots into Vogue
June 23rd, 2011
By STERRY BUTCHER
MARFA – There’s a t-shirt sold in Marfa that’s funny for its irony: London, Paris, Rome, Marfa.
Now, it’s for real, at least in terms of fashion.
The Fancy Pony Land store on Hwy 90 in Marfa features one of a kind clothing, accessories and handiwork.
Marfa’s little clothing shop called …
Giant shoes to fill in a country full of great movies
June 23rd, 2011
By EMILY JO CURETON
MARFA – So what makes a movie great anyway? What does it mean for a film to embody a place? And what if that place is as big and diverse as Texas?
These were the questions recently put to a panel of five film experts, who holed up in a room and didn’t …
Cadden pens book on Big Bend legend Apache Adams
June 16th, 2011
FORT DAVIS – A new book about the legendary Apache Adams has been written and published by his friend for over 20 years, Don Cadden.
The author weaves his personal experiences, his recorded conversations and anecdotal recollections to retell Adams’ range adventures.
Cadden interviewed people who had ridden with Adams over the years and …
