Marfa News

Hailing from the Ozarks, Addie Broyles expanded her cooking skills on the West Coast and Spain before settling in Austin, mainly for the aguas frescas at the taco stand down the street from her house where she, husband Ian and son Julian are now attempting to grow their own food in the backyard.

Some restaurants epitomize the soul of their cities. There's Brown's Diner and the Pancake Pantry in Nashville, cheese-steak joints like Pat's and Geno's Steaks in Philly, and many a corner pizzeria in Chicago and NYC.

CBS 7 News Staff June 28, 2009 MARFA, TX - The Chief of Police in Marfa has filed an Equal Employment Opportunity complaint against the city of Marfa, citing ethnic discrimination.

The large-scale prints of Jean Luc Mylayne featuring the landscape and avian inhabitants of Fort Davis, Texas, now on view at Parrish Art Museum, are part of the French photographer's long-term project to capture or illustrate different notions of time.

CBS 7 News Staff June 23, 2009 PRESIDIO COUNTY - Presidio County Commissioners are working on a way to re-open the jail, which is now temporarily closed.

Eddie Garcia CBS 7 News egarcia@cbs7.com June 11, 2009 MARFA, TX - The Presidio County Jail in Marfa is in the process of shutting down because the county can't afford to run it.

Vintage boots at JM Dry Goods. "People come to Marfa and think all of Texas looks likes this," said Lyle Lovett, on stage at the Crowley Theater where he was performing this past weekend for the Ballroom Marfa benefit.

It's a smoldering summer night in Marfa, the kind that seems to linger all year long.

The West Texas desert seems an unlikely home for high fashion. But along a desolate stretch of U.S. Highway 90 near Marfa, Texas, travelers can stop at a Prada boutique.

U.S. Army Specialist Victor Agosto, a veteran of the U.S. occupation of Iraq who is refusing deployment to Afghanistan.

Building tall and skinny is common practice in dense, urban areas. But how do you approach the design of a single house on 2,200 acres of southwest Texas desert? That was the scenario Houston-based architect Carlos Jim nez faced in 2000 when he began envisioning a sanctuary for art dealer Lynn Goode and lawyer Timothy J. Crowley.

You don't need to leave the U.S. to find exotic or quirky treasures. The West Texas desert seems an unlikely home for high fashion.

Not every business - even a glamorous one - is entitled to a state tax break. But if the state offers tax breaks, the reason for giving or denying them ought to be clear.

The North Central Texas Fusion Center is Collin County's new criminal and intelligence data gathering center.

Border patrol agents found and rescued a fourth illegal immigrant Thursday evening in a group that was stranded near the brush fires in Presidio County, according to a news release from U.S. Border Patrol Marfa Sector spokesman Bill Brooks.

The Obama administration is resuming construction of a "virtual fence" on the U.S.-Mexico border, renewing plans to build a multibillion dollar chain of tower-mounted sensors and other surveillance equipment over most of the 2,000-mile frontier over five years, Homeland Security Department officials said Friday.

At lunchtime the Food Shark rolls into the empty ranch town. It's a 1974 Butter-Krust brand bread truck stripped down to galvanized aluminum.

THE United States will resume construction of a "virtual fence" on the US-Mexico border, renewing plans to build a multibillion-dollar chain of tower-mounted sensors and other surveillance equipment over most of the 3000-kilometre frontier over five years.

The University of Texas of the Permian's Jan and Ted Roden Center for Entrepreneurship presented the Permian Basin Family Business of the Year awards during a luncheon April 24 at the University's Center for Energy and Economic Diversification.

In our continuing series of guest recappers, we present a mysterious woman known only as Octavia Thundersnatch who braved one hour of insipid TV so you didn't have to.