Podcast appearances and mentions of sally beauvais

Small towns come with a lot of drama. When you live in a place like Marfa, there are certain psychological realities specific to having zero degrees of separation between you and your neighbors. People know what's going on in your life, and you know what's going on in theirs. Even if they didn't tell you. This proximity creates a unique reality of deep connection and insane paranoia. In this episode, Elise Pepple conducts an experiment. One that takes small town closeness and uses it as a tool to address someone's problem. This episode was produced by Elise Pepple, Zoe Kurland, and Sally Beauvais. Music: Selections from W. Creeves, and Leftover Fog and Bright White, by Podington Bear, sourced from the Free Music Archive. License: CC BY-NC.

Imagine if there was a community Facebook group for your entire city, where everyone posted all the time. Now imagine if your city was small enough to have no traffic lights, just a few busy intersections with stop and yield signs. Welcome to Marfa Group, a place where these realities collide - into one memorable Facebook thread. Produced by Sally Beauvais, Zoe Kurland and Elise Pepple.

This week we're featuring another podcast from another Marfan — one who beat us to the punch. David Gomez was Marfa's first podcaster. His show What's wrong with people? is an unfiltered look at daily life in Marfa. In this episode, we chat with David and hear a couple minutes of an episode that investigates whether a certain pair of celebrity sisters visited Marfa. Listen to David's podcast What's wrong with people? here. Produced by Sally Beauvais, Zoe Kurland, and Elise Pepple.

As a visitor to Marfa, your days might fly by, but when you live here, time passes differently. Marfa is in the middle of the desert. If you stand anywhere and just look out, the land and enormous sky stretch out in every direction as far as the eye can see. The remoteness of it all can make time feel like it's not passing here. It's a palpable feeling that's also so abstract, it's indescribable – like there must be some German word for it. Producer Zoe Kurland had an existential crisis because of this phenomenon. You know how when you think about breathing, it gets harder to breathe? For her, it was like that, but with time. In this episode, Zoe brings you inside the longest shortest West Texas day. This episode was produced by Zoe Kurland, Sally Beauvais, and Elise Pepple. Music from W. Creeves and The Internet Archive.

As a tourist coming to Marfa, you might have certain romantic notions about this place, ideas about the magic of a small desert town. Sunsets, sound baths, epiphanies and photos in front of Prada Marfa. But what if you live inside of that fantasy every day? What if you've spent your entire life watching people take selfies in front of your firehouse, your clinic, your courthouse, witnessing them having magical experiences over and over and over again while yours…is not that. That's the reality for Sam Salazar. Sam grew up in Marfa, and year after year, she's watched the town she grew up in change into something unrecognizable. So she went out to talk to other people who grew up here to find out if they were feeling it too. Produced by Zoe Kurland, Sally Beauvais, and Elise Pepple, in collaboration with Sam Salazar. Music: Refraction, Pulsars, and Encounter by Podington Bear. Source: Free Music Archive. License: CC BY-NC

This episode is about finding love in Marfa. Or trying to. People wonder what it's like to date here. The truth is finding love in the middle of nowhere can feel like waiting for the rapture - impossible. Even having a crush on someone is a thrill when you live in a town of 2,000 people. Some people do find love out here– like magical, drive off into the sunset kind of love. But for the rest of us, Marfa can feel like a dating wasteland. A nightmare as vast and sprawling as the desert itself, where no place is safe. Not even the grocery store.  Produced by Sally Beauvais, Zoe Kurland, and Elise Pepple. Music by Jockimo.

A lot of people call the journey to Marfa a pilgrimage. Tourists come from all over the world, driving hours through the desert to see places like Prada Marfa and Ballroom. Most notoriously, they come to see Donald Judd's artwork at the Chinati Foundation. On their way to the foundation, visitors pass right by a lesser known pilgrimage site, in the backyard of Ester Sanchez. An apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared on Ester's pecan tree in 1997. And people came from around the world to see it. In this episode, you'll hear the story of the Virgin's arrival, and what happens when two pilgrimages, two Marfa worlds, collide. Produced by Zoe Kurland, Sally Beauvais, and Elise Pepple. Music: Refraction, Pulsars, and Encounter by Podington Bear. Source: Free Music Archive. License: CC BY-NC

Elise Pepple and Sally Beauvais interview Diana Nguyen, the outgoing host and executive producer of West Texas Talk. Later on the show, Ian Lewis speaks to journalist and writer Amitava Kumar. They talk about the state of writing fiction and fake news — the subject of Kumar’s forthcoming book. Hosted by Elise Pepple & Sally Beauvais, Ian Lewis for KRTS

Diana Nguyen speaks to Marfa Public Radio’s Sally Beauvais and Christopher Collins, a reporter for the Texas Observer. They discuss the healthcare crisis in rural Texas. Later on the show, Rachel Monroe speaks with poet Martha Collins. They discuss Collins’ works in which she examines parts of her family history as a lens into racism in America. Hosted by Diana Nguyen & Rachel Monroe for KRTS

We air a portion of the town hall Marfa Public Radio held a week ago in collaboration with The Big Bend Sentinel. On November 21, about a hundred people packed into The Sentinel space to talk about access to resources and healthcare for seniors in the Big Bend. In addition to hearing questions and comments from participants, Diana Nguyen talks to Marfa Public Radio reporter Sally Beauvais about big takeaways from the town hall. Hosted by Diana Nguyen for KRTS

The Rambling Boy teams up with Marfa Public Radio's Sally Beauvais in an attempt to answer some of the tough history questions that have been submitted to West Texas Wonders.

As protesters at Standing Rock clean up camp and head home, their fight has inspired others who are trying to stop pipeline construction elsewhere. Marfa Public Radio’s Sally Beauvais takes us to the Big Bend Region of Texas, where construction on a natural gas pipeline is almost complete.