
What’s Up, Marfa? : August 30-September 2
Rebecca Solnit is a writer’s writer, one of those voices on art and environment and atomic weapons and San Francisco and walking and many, many other subjects that, if we are being really really honest, describes one so reliably prolific and intelligent as to make other writers just a wee bit jealous. This weekend Rebecca Solnit appears twice on the program of the second edition of The Marfa Dialogues: Politics and Culture of Climate and Sustainability. On Saturday at 1 Crowley Theater she’ll be moderator of a dialogue involving the


Antony Gormley at Carbon 13, at Ballroom Marfa
artists of the show titled Carbon 13 (link here),whom David Buckland – founder of Cape Farewell, an entity formed “to instigate cultural response to climate change” –curated at Ballroom Marfa. Then on Sunday at 1 she’ll read and sign books (and there are a lot of those) at Marfa Book Company (one of the great indie bookstores in our part of the climate-changing universe.) Yes, there’s a lot going on in Marfa this weekend, including also the farmer’s market, the Marfa Lights Festival Parade, the art show, the dialogues – and a performance by New York-based artist Cynthia Hopkins of This Clement World, “a musical that sails through the burning ice and myths of the high arctic.” It’s all an earful, a mouthful and given that it’s nine hours from Santa Fe to drive there (and for various reasons, sigh, I can’t go), I figured I’d just bring you this small description of what’s on.
LYLE LOVETT AND HIS NOT-SMALL BAND
I just have one question, Lyle. Will you be playing the Townes Van Zandt song, White Freightliner Blues?
Here it is from Telluride, if you’re an armchair concert-goer, or just want some pre-show inspiration:
The show is this Friday, August 31st on the Santa Fe Opera stage.
SUPPORT SCUBA HI SATURDAY NOON
SOMETHING ABOUT BEING, LESS BEING MORE DOING .. NOTHING?
Don’ll be letting us know what’s going on in Austin next week.
And I know I missed something, but isn’t that how life is lately? (The Yankees play Baltimore at 7:05 ET at Yankee Stadium. On TV. In case you want to know what I at least hope to be doing. This holiday weekend.)