WEST TEXAS WEEKLY

Big Bend Live Music for the week of Mar 11th-18th.

Music in Alpine, Terlingua and Marfa for the week of February 10-17.

I’d like to recap some of my favorite hotels in Terlingua, Marfa, Marathon and Alpine, Texas. I’ve been doing a series on historic hotels of the Big Bend. Check out the following articles on Big Bend hotels:

The Posada Milagro in the Terlingua Ghosttown– A charming bed and breakfast smack-dab in the middle of the historic [...]

–One last note on the Randi and Evi Quaid mess occurring here in Marfa… it looks as if someone has attacked the famous sign with fire. To paraphrase Jim Morrison: “weird scenes in the gold mine”.
I am not going to comment or speculate too much on this. However, the rest of the Internet has. [...]

[West Texas Weekly brings you the best in Big Bend issues and viewpoints. Alpine writer Mark Glover weighs in with a personal experience on health care.]
In Need of Oxygen
by Mark Glover
When the pipe fell on my nose, I knew it was broke. Blood oozed down my face. I stumbled through the skunk gourd then [...]

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Matt’s Blast from the Past this week is a live version of the Misfits doing Halloween:

Wednesday, September 30th

Open Mic Night at La Kiva [...]

–Update: Kudos to Ballroom Marfa for bringing in Bon Iver for a jaw-droppingly affordable $2 as a kickoff to the weekend before Chinati Open House Weekend. The show is October 1st, click here to pre-order tickets. I will be there with my camera in one hand, and a Long Island Ice Tea in the other.

–Update: [...]

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Matt’s Pick this week goes to Walt Wilkins and the Mystiqueros. 

Thursday, September 24th

Kevin Dean at Harry’s Tinaja in Alpine, 8:00 PM.
Ted Arbogast at [...]

–Update: I’d like to remind everybody that September 19th is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Click here to learn more about this fun and unusual holiday.

–UPDATE: I Try not to beg and plead too much, but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE visit Jason Bush Cancer Fund and donate something. Any amount, no matter how small, [...]

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Matt’s Pick this week goes to La Tampiquena and The Doodlin’ Hogwallops.

Thursday, September 17th

Kevin Dean at Harry’s Tinaja in Alpine, 8:00 PM.
Jackie Bristow [...]

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Matt’s Pick this week goes to Big Balls, though I may be partial.  For me, you just can’t go wrong with 4 hours of [...]

–A gigantic thank you to Jimmy Patterson of the Midland Reporter Telegram. He wrote about me for the paper. Click here to read the article. He also hosts the excellent blog Sticky Doorknobs. Thanks for a great interview, Jimmy!
– Congratulations to my Contributing Editor Marfa, Amanda Mayo. She will be the new office manager for [...]

Update: Here is some footage of me riding in a balloon with aeronaut Rusty Kaim on Saturday morning. Stay tuned for behind the scenes footage of the crew preparing us for flight.

Since 1987, the Big Bend Balloon Bash has provided an unforgettable experience for sport hot air balloon pilots, sponsors, vendors, and families. Over the [...]

–What a busy weekend! Fort Davis National Historic Site will have lots of exciting stuff this weekend. I’m interested in the the baseball game played by 1884 rules. Also there will be a Trash Can Cavelry presentation and a small arms demonstration. Click here to find out more. Also, stop by Old Fort Country; there [...]

Big Bend dining is a specialty at West Texas Weekly. I strongly recommend the Mural Cafe. Stop in for brunch on Sundays or for lunch during the work week. I had a turkey panini that was nutritious and very tasty (it had a fresh olive tapanade that took it from yummy to sublime). Also, they [...]

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Matt’s Pick this week goes to Brown Betty for milking as much as we can get out of the labor day weekend. Have [...]

–In regard to the website West Texas Police State, I received the following e-mail from Guilford Jones: “I think it’s a great site to monitor the doings of the agencies charged with serving and protecting us. It appears to me that these law enforcement deputies and others are still drunk with the power ostensibly given [...]

[Amanda Mayo is our Contributing Editor Marfa. Click here to visit her blog.]
Burt Compton has an impressive amount of experience when it comes to flying/gliding glyders. His business is Marfa Gliders and he is located at the Marfa Airport.
Gliding over Marfa is an incredible experience. On the edge of the Chihuahuan desert, Marfa is a [...]

– Update: There is a petition circulating in Alpine asking that vendors in Alpine be allowed to sell mixed drinks. Stop by Twin Peaks Liquor in Alpine in order to sign this petition and bring West Texas out of the Stone Age! How does it look when tourists visit us from New York and San [...]

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Matt’s Pick this week goes to the Dustin Welch Band.

Thursday, August 27th

The Doodlin’ Hogwallops at Harry’s Tinaja Alpine, 8:00 PM.
A Few Too [...]