West Texas Wonders
We know your curiosity about West Texas isn't limited to our focus areas. What other sorts of odds and ends do you wonder about?
Maybe you want to know more about a local celebrity, an architectural oddity, or a mysterious phenomenon.
Silly or serious, big or small, nothing's off limits! Ask away.
Latest Episodes
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By Diana Nguyen A few weeks ago, we asked you to send us questions that you have about our region for a new journalism project we’re calling West Texas…
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This Summer, we asked you to start sending us your questions about our region -- big or small, silly or serious. It’s all part of a new journalism project…
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An anonymous listener asked Marfa Public Radio: What's the deal with the abandoned skyscrapers in downtown Midland? It's a question that stirred a lot of curiosity in West Texas — it won our first West Texas Wonders voting round.
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As we approach peak summer festival season, one Marfa resident is out to learn the real rules of the busiest intersection in town -- the 4-way stop on San…
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When it comes to one plant found in abundance across West Texas, Big Spring native Alan Cox wants to get the story straight. He asked Marfa Public Radio:…
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Marfa's Adele Powers asked West Texas Wonders about a natural phenomenon that touches the lives of everyone and everything in the region, literally --…
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In rural West Texas, it doesn’t take much for your internet connection to go down. A pounding rainstorm, heavy winds, construction workers accidentally…
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By Diana NguyenIn Texas, 95 percent of the land is privately owned, much of it by ranchers. And if you drive out West, the swaths of private land holdings…
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JD DiFabbio isn't the only listener who's asked Marfa Public Radio about the status of horny toads in West Texas. She wants to know the current…
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There's no denying it -- Classical Midday host and longtime Fort Davis resident Roseland Klein is in great shape. Roseland, lovingly known as the…