Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John is sharing selections from the Off-Ramp vault to help you explore this imperfect paradise.
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This week, Austin, Texas has been overrun by musicians, startup founders and movie people trying to get their movies made.
They've come from all over the U.S. to attend South by Southwest. But Austin isn't the only weird place in Texas. Marfa, population 2000 is a small city in West Texas. Just this week, the music website Pitchfork did a profile of the city.
More and more bands and record labels take pit stops in Marfa on their way to South By South West. Actress Kristen Stewart is writing poems about Marfa in Marie Claire. Their beloved art-installation disguised as Prada store has been vandalized again.
Former Off-Ramp intern James Kim is lives there now and working for Marfa Public Radio. Off-Ramp Producer Kevin Ferguson talked with Kim about the tiny, artsy Texas town that's finally arrived.