New Sheriff Armendariz Reads 'Em Their Rights
Regional Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Dr. Al Armendariz made quite a splash last night at the February meeting of the North Central Texas Communities Alliance. Featured speaker Armendariz drew between 250 and 300 people to the Hotel Trinity Inn, where he ...
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Destination: Snook
Chow, Baby is rushing the
roadtrip season
a bit, but you know, sometimes you just get in the mood to accidentally leave your CD case on the dining room table on your way out, so you're forced to continually listen to
Donovan's Greatest Hits
(which has been under the passenger se...
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Sweet 16
Pluckers Wing Bar began in Austin as the brainchild of a couple of University of Texas at Austin students who decided that the state capital just didn't have enough food options; specifically, chicken wing options. People who don't like wings might think, "So what?" Admitted...
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Moon Patrol
A musically incisive nerd-punk who makes instrumental music inspired by video game soundtracks? That's Alex Atchley, a 24-year-old Fort Worthian singer-songwriter who now performs as Naxat, the name of one of his previous projects.
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A Cup of Union
In late December, a small group of Starbucks employees blocked the drive-through window at the company's coffee shop at Rosedale Street and 8th Avenue for about 20 minutes, in protest of the rising cost of their healthcare insurance, low wages, and a litany of other issues. ...
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The Juke Jumpers
When I first hit the Fort back in '78, Robert Ealey's New Bluebird Night Club seemed like a hipster utopia, where TCU kids and their parents - parents who might have partied at the Skyliner Ballroom in the early '60s - rubbed shoulders with hippies, punks, Kim Wilson wannabe...
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Rahr-garitaville
A long time ago, I used to really like
Jack Johnson
. And
Sublime
. And
Bob Marley
. In fact, if there's a band you can associate with drunk dudes in college, it may still be
lurking on my iPod
. I've long since abandoned party-friendly, island-style, good-time acoustic balladry, an...
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Lola's Love from the Netherlands
The Wreck Room
will always be a mythical place in both local and national lore. The Wreck, which was razed a couple of years ago after a 10-year run to make room for Progress, was the kind of place that bands as far flung as
New York
and
Seattle
played, that was memorialized in m...
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Gallery
At Gallery 414, Lance Jones' show - with the wordy title of
There's a feeling that lingers in the afterward
- contains both his bubbly abstract acrylic works on canvas and his video art, full of grainy, ghostly, out-of-focus images of people.
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Letters to Savannah
In her recent, cautiously positive review of
Extraordinary Measures
, film critic Dana Stevens advanced the idea on
Slate
that the movie world's new guilty pleasure is pablum rather than pulp. In other words, slasher flicks, cheap thrillers, and lowbrow comedies have lost their ...
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One-Part Drama
The key to understanding what's right and what's wrong with
Edge of Darkness
is knowing that it's based on a British TV miniseries. Our friends across the Atlantic regularly make intelligent multiple-hour opuses that balance social consciousness, action-movie thrills, and dram...
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Tough Nut To Crack
There's a new developer on the block in Fort Worth's Near Southeast Side who is confident he can do what dozens of other home builders and community leaders have not been able to do in spite of decades of effort: turn a desperately poor but historically significant neighborh...
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San Diego, Texas
Most of the time he was growing up in Fort Worth, painter Drew Snyder wanted to be a musician. It was his first artistic identity. Some of his friends and fellow students at Country Day School -- including Ben Groff and brothers John and Steven Hook -- displayed precocious a...
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U.S. to Blame for Haiti?
As grim accounts of the earthquake in Haiti came in, the accounts in U.S. news media all carried the same sentence: "Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere."
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Greetings from Lake Worth
It was just about dawn on one morning a few weeks ago, freezing cold but with little wind, and Lake Worth was quiet. Joe Waller was up early as usual, standing in his yard near the lake's edge.
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JJ's R.I.P.
As first reported on
Blotch
by longtime staff writer
Eric Griffey
(Sun., Jan. 3, 2010), the lovable
J&J's Blues Bar
is closing its doors after
20-plus years
. Owner
Jim Schussler
refused to discuss details with the
Weekly
, saying that we never wrote about the shows there and that w...
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Michelangelo Glorifies Kimbell
We all know how important Michelangelo is. He painted a massive fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel for, uh, Pete's sake, sculpted totally buff nudes out of marble (who knew that 24 Fitnesses existed back then?), designed buildings, wrote poetry, and did a bunch of o...
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Greening the Gas Field?
In North Texas these days, it seems like you can't drive 50 feet down the highway - or even a neighborhood feeder road - without spotting another gas well or compressor station or a well pad waiting to be drilled. In fact, the only thing growing faster than wells in the Barn...
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The Decade's Best
I'm not from Texas, and I didn't get here as fast as I could, but I like it here well enough. My first Lone Star stop was
Houston pre-9/11
. My second was Fort Worth a year or two afterward. What I'm trying to say is that, while I haven't lived in Fort Worth from Jan. 1, 2000,...
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The Top 10
America's economy may still be in recovery, but our film industry is in good health financially and (more importantly) artistically. That seems to be the major conclusion that I've drawn from the more than 200 movies that I saw in 2009. Oh, I went out of my way to see foreig...
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Tough Nut To Crack
There's a new developer on the block in Fort Worth's Near Southeast Side who is confident he can do what dozens of other home builders and community leader...
Sweet 16
Pluckers Wing Bar began in Austin as the brainchild of a couple of University of Texas at Austin students who decided that the state capital just didn't ha...
Moon Patrol
A musically incisive nerd-punk who makes instrumental music inspired by video game soundtracks? That's Alex Atchley, a 24-year-old Fort Worthian singer-son...
Letters to Savannah
In her recent, cautiously positive review of
Extraordinary Measures
, film critic Dana Stevens advanced the idea on
Slate
that the movie world's new guilty ple...
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Lola's Love from the Netherlands
The Wreck Room
will always be a mythical place in both local and national lore. The Wreck, which was razed a couple of years ago after a 10-year run to make room...
San Diego, Texas
Most of the time he was growing up in Fort Worth, painter Drew Snyder wanted to be a musician. It was his first artistic identity. Some of his friends and fello...
A Cup of Union
In late December, a small group of Starbucks employees blocked the drive-through window at the company's coffee shop at Rosedale Street and 8th Avenue for about...
Film Shorts
OPENING:
An Education
(PG-13) This radiant and gently heartbreaking drama is one of 2009's best movies. The Oscar-nominated Carey Mulligan stars as a 16-year-old ...
