updated Fri. March 29, 2024
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Vogue.com
April 18, 2018
Cox says that the working title of Deerhunter's upcoming studio album is Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?, which is appropriate given both Marfa, Texas's mystique and its high desert locale. “I think it's a title that is definitely at home right here. There is a feeling of disappearance here,” he says,Ãâà...
WWD
April 17, 2018
Marfa, Tex. — As 125,000 revelers raged each day at Coachella, an under-the-radar festival for music, art and film went down in West Texas' Chihuahuan Desert. But there is a reason Marfa Myths, a collaboration between Ballroom Marfa arts space and Brooklyn record label Mexican Summer that'sÃâà...
Houston Press
April 9, 2018
Music Festivals are in many ways, becoming the norm in today's music world. Now that corporations have gotten involved, there aren't too many festivals that are worth the trek to make it to nowadays. Of course, when you look at the heavy curation behind Marfa Myths, you'll notice that it's a festival like noÃâà...
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette (blog)
April 8, 2018
The music festival circuit is an all-encompassing facet of life for a large portion of the American music community. New events are born every year, each with a vision for what they will become. Some feature specific sorts of music aiming at one niche market, others focus on a broad catch-all approach,Ãâà...
KFOX El Paso
April 6, 2018
The history that surrounds Hotel Paisano in Marfa is unparalleled. Groundbreaking occurred in the fall of 1929. The hotel was one of five of the Gateway hotels being developed by Charles Bassett from El Paso. Less than a year later, Hotel Paisano would open with 65 rooms, a neon sign that could be seen from Highway 90Ãâà...
San Antonio Express-News
April 5, 2018
While Thompson, 72, is unlikely to return to Marfa, the painful story of his fall from grace soon will be told here again. He did not respond to a letter sent to him in prison requesting an interview. His plans are unknown, but his place in the annals of law enforcement infamy, as the Texas border sheriff who soldÃâà...
Bigbendnow
April 5, 2018
editor@bigbendnow.com. MARFA, PRESIDIO – An El Paso human rights group on a two-week caravan along the Texas-Mexico border brought its message to Marfa and Presidio on Saturday to oppose a new state law that allows local law enforcement agencies to ask persons they stop their immigrationÃâà...
KFOX El Paso
April 3, 2018
A much-needed girls' trip is not complete without a stop at the Prada Marfa store. Don't believe the rumors. The place is neither a real Prada store nor is it rundown by vandals. Instead, the store stays kempt due to the most recent support from Ballroom Marfa and a protective local arts community.
D Magazine
March 28, 2018
I've called Dallas home for a decade now. In those ten years, I've visited Fort Worth a handful of times, Austin three times, and once took a totally random girls trip to Graham, Texas. It's a pretty pitiful Texas travel record, but understandable. One of the benefits of Dallas is that it has so much to offer, andÃâà...
Vogue.com
December 31, 1999
Marfa is an undeniably curious place. The tiny West Texas town, which is located in the high desert just 60 miles east of the Mexican border, has a population of just under 2,000 people, a mix increasingly made up of urbanite art world transplants who rub shoulders, perhaps tensely at times, with theÃâà...
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