Marfa Public Radio KRTS 93.5 FM

Leading Democratic candidates in the primary race for Texas governor convene for their first live debate on Monday, February 8 at 7:00 p.m. The Texas Debates: Race for Governor will broadcast to millions statewide on public and commercial television and radio and online at texasdebates.org. The debate includes former Houston Mayor Bill White and Texas businessman Farouk Shami.  Listen locally at 93.5 FM.

Afterwards, join guest DJ David Branch from 8 - 10 p.m. for a special blues and country music program.

 Live on KRTS at 1 PM on Saturday, the first of two Brewster County candidate forums.

 Talk At Ten is the live weekday interview program, at 10am and replayed at 6:30am. For the first week of February, we talk to (Monday) Bob Kinford, cowboy poet of Van Horn; (Tuesday) musician Daniel Kamas, with a new CD about Big Bend National Park; (Wednesday) John Smietana Jr of Border Patrol, Marfa Sector; (Thursday) Mike Davidson and Mercer Black on area tourism; (Friday) musician James McMurty, who will be performing in Alpine.

 Sunday night, from 7 to 9pm, live jazz hosted by John Bell of Fort Davis, featuring swing hits from the 1920s. Then former intern Dave Leonnig hosts a jazz set, from 9 to 11pm. Close out the month of January with us and jazz music on 93.5 FM.

President Obama will deliver his first State of the Union address on Wednesday, Jan. 27.  Obama will address a joint session of Congress, beginning at 8 p.m. CST.  Tune in to hear live coverage from NPR News.

There is a weekday interview show on KRTS called Talk At Ten, which is broadcast live at 10am and replayed at 6:30pm. This week: (Mon Jan 25) a roundtable discussion of poet Robinson Jeffers, for Marfa's "Next Read;" (Tue Jan 26) patient's advocate Mary Collier; (Wed Jan 27) Steve Bickerstaff of Fort Davis on recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings; (Thu Jan 28) botanist Michael Eason; (Fri Jan 29) Lannan Foundation writer-in-residence, Leanne Hinton. Live and local, every weekday on Marfa Public Radio.

Due to inclement weather in the Davis Mountains on Saturday morning (which dumped two inches of snow on Sky Island and Elbow Canyon), AEP electrical equipment failed in the region surrounding our transmitter, which interrupted service on 93.5 FM until 11:15 AM. Thank you for your patience, service has been restored.

Saturday afternoon programming includes a replay of writer Erin Hogan's interview (12:15pm), Fresh Air Weekend (3pm), All Things Considered (4pm), On The Media (5pm), the PRX Experience (6pm), and the General Store (7pm), hosted by Dan Keane of Marfa, who will be playing traditional Mexican music.

Talk At Ten is a local interview show, weekdays at 10am (repeated at 6:30pm). On Monday (January 18), a tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.; on Tuesday (Jan 19), a reprised interview with Laura Butler, Sul Ross Professor of English; on Wednesday (Jan 20), a further installment in the Back To Work series, examining the local economy, particularly the communities of Redford and Presidio following the 2008 flood; on Thursday (Jan 21), a preview of the Presidio County Livestock Show; and on Friday (Jan 22), a talk with the latest Lannan Foundation writer-in-residence in Marfa, Erin Hogan, author of Spiral Jetty.