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A Rebel in Defense of Tradition
[The Nation] "Not since Aaron Copland turned 75 has the birthday of an American composer been greeted with the jubilation now surrounding Steve Reich as he enters his eighth decade. The classical establishment, which still hasn't figured out how to award Reich a Pulitzer Prize, has finally embraced a composer, and a movement, that it had relegated to the margins. Everyone else, it seems, has understood Reich's importance at least since 1974, when Deutsche Grammophon released a three-LP album of his music. The absurd delay in official recognition may be the price Reich has paid for his radical rejection of..."

Marfa: Blue skies ahead?
[Arizona Daily Star] "As the Rio Grande heads down river out of El Paso, the fences end, the cities vanish and the sky turns, well, sky blue. The longest sector on the border, the 510-mile Marfa Sector, is also the most wide-open. For 20 years, it's been the quietest, too. On a southern border where traffic has shifted back and forth in response to enforcement efforts, this stretch has always managed to stay out of the fray. It remains the great unknown. On one hand, it stands as the border's least crossed sector with the fewest apprehensions. On the other hand, it looms as a..."

Marfa Studio of Arts EXHIBIT: Works of Tom Matthews of Lubbock, through November 11. www.marfastudio.org

Historical Marfa Public School Photo, RPPC
Downtown Diary: Steers, Beers, and Queers in Marfa