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Over Exposure

Hollywood stars often take a drubbing for their liberal views , but they don’t all lean left. Take North Texan Janine Turner , for instance. She earned fame in Northern Exposure and other TV shows before ditching Hollywood and returning here to live on a ranch and raise her daughter. ... Read more...

Dating Games with Shut Up and Prance

Talking to some filmmaking teams is like talking to a smoothly oiled publicity machine. Talking to the comedy troupe/filmmaking collective Shut Up and Prance is more like sitting in on a rowdy collegiate bull session, with the three members constantly bouncing ideas off one ... Read more...

Big Balls in Cowtown

Ever open up a local magazine or newspaper, glance at the society photos, and wonder, Who the hell are these people? Because I sure do. This may shock you, but black-tie events aren’t really on my radar. I mean they used to be, but I don’t fit into my tux anymore, and MI-6 won’t pay... Read more...

Just the (Food) Facts, Ma’am

Chow, Baby eschews “hard news.” Corruption, exposés, and who-shot-John are usually the province of my more flinty-eyed colleagues. Chow, Baby gets flinty only about things like poor service and boring cheese plates. So when I looked at recent bad-news stories about a couple ... Read more...

Pantagleize’s Dead Awaken

It’s hard to overestimate the influence of 19th-century Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen on theater and, in particular, the modern English-speaking stage. With plays like A Doll’s House , Hedda Gabler , An Enemy of the People , and Ghosts , Ibsen was one of the first to point a mor... Read more...

Killin’ ’em Softly

Killa MC and about a half-dozen other Fort Worth rappers huddled around a table at a local coffee shop about a year and a half ago and staged a plan to jumpstart their hometown’s anemic hip-hop scene. Read more...

Peace Talks in the Parking War

There’s no question the West 7th Street corridor is booming. The growth of the mixed-use entertainment-and-residential district has been a major factor in Fort Worth’s inner-city redevelopment over the past decade, since city planners and urban developers first saw potential ... Read more...

Spaceway Productions Phones Home

Fort Worth producer Will Hunt has never really been a homer. Of his numerous projects, only a handful have Fort Worth roots. Internationally recognized for his recent work with Amy Lee of the major-label mod-goth band Evanescence , Hunt can pretty much pick and choose who he wants... Read more...

Gallery

Modern ruined, thick and wordy isn’t just a one-evening exhibit of mixed-media work by Frank Artsmarter. It’s also a showcase for its venue, a newly renovated vacant apartment on the South Side. Read more...

Big Miracle: Fish Story

Last fall we saw the release of Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion , a terrific thriller that took in a single event (a global pandemic) from the points of view of a wide array of characters affected by it. The cuddlier and well-intentioned Big Miracle tries to do pretty much the sam... Read more...

A New Curve

One of my early newspaper assignments was to stand on a median on McCart Avenue in south Fort Worth and note the number of motorists who wore seatbelts. Cars whizzed by, whipping wind into my face. I hunkered down and counted seat belts for hours. Read more...

Momma Mia!

Passersby on Belknap Street may look at Momma Mia’s aged outer brickwork and shrug the joint off as just another cheap Italian bistro knockoff that serves oily pizza and stale subs. On the outside, it might as well be a Sbarro. Read more...

Safe Harbor

Le Havre made the honorable mention section of the Weekly ’s list of the best movies of 2011, but only now can Fort Worth audiences get a chance to see this superb French comedy. Read more...

Improvised Silence, FTW

Last year around this time, Fort Worth’s experimental-improv Hentai Improvising Orchestra had decided to forgo public performances entirely. The quartet’s challenging nonlinear sonic art doesn’t necessarily jibe with traditional venues, full of drinkers, smokers, and chat... Read more...

City Grants a Reprieve

Last month, Fort Worth Weekly told readers about Sharon Baker’s battle to repair her crumbling Eastside home (“ Seeking Shelter ,” Dec. 21, 2011). In 1964, she saw her mother and father shot to death there. Since then she’s had what some people might characterize as an unhealthy fi... Read more...

Cody Jinks Hits 30

The lanky stoner-looking dude at the bar at the White Elephant Saloon in the Stockyards might seem a little out of place amid all the Rockies and Stetsons, and you might wonder if the regulars figure he got lost on his way to a heavy metal show. Read more...

More Woes at Dunbar?

The mother of one Dunbar athlete who was pinched on the nipples repeatedly by then-principal Doug Williams says that, although the incidents happened three months ago, no one with the Fort Worth school district has ever told her what actually happened to her son. Read more...

A Man and a Dog Walk into a Bar

About halfway through football season , when I caught on that the 49ers were moving out of a decade of bad coaching and worse ownership to become a possible post-season contender, I happily climbed on the bandwagon , one from which I’d jumped in 1994 because I couldn’t stand Deion Sander... Read more...

Dangerous Method: Jungian Slip

More than 50 years after his death, Carl Jung seems to have reasserted himself in the zeitgeist, with the recent publication of his famously bizarre The Red Book in German, a display of its illustrated pages in New York, and now David Cronenberg’s film A Dangerous Method , which... Read more...

Albert Nobbs: Man Drag

Glenn Close has been trying to get Albert Nobbs made into a film since 1982. Before she delivered any of the screen performances that made her famous, she acted in a stage adaptation of a short story by the Irish writer George Moore and became obsessed with this tale of a woma... Read more...