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The Trouble with Tasers

An April 30 study, published in the American Heart Association’s online magazine Circulation , verified what Static and a lot of other people have known for a long time: Taser weapons can cause fatal heart attacks . The study, by Dr. Douglas P. Zipes, a cardiologist at the Indian... Read more...

More than 50/50

Two friends were celebrating their birthdays on Saturday , and their combo party teamed up with another friend’s graduation celebration , the resulting booze chimera taking shape at the 50/50 Club on Jacksboro Highway . Read more...

Ogle South Side

Part of my generous, loving, cool alter-ego Anthony Mariani ’s recent cover story (“ Fort Rock ,” May 9) was occupied by chatter –– verging on Pollyannish –– about the Near South Side , specifically of the forthcoming Live Oak Music Hall & Lounge . Rockers praised the area’s pedestri... Read more...

Mr. Justice Kennedy Explains

“Our tradition, our law, has been that you don’t have the duty to rescue someone if that person is in danger. The blind man is walking in front of a car and you do not have a duty to stop him.” — Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, during oral arguments over the Affordable... Read more...

At Least We Didn’t Inhale

Chow, Baby recently ended a burger binge on the cool new double-decker patio at Dutch’s Legendary Hamburgers (3009 South University Dr.). William S. Burroughs and Hunter S. Thompson at their worst could not have rivaled my disregard for the blues that inevitably follow the dizzyin... Read more...

Loving Tosca

Fort Worth Opera kicked off its 2012 festival on Saturday at Bass Performance Hall with a performance of Puccini’s Tosca , a three-act work that epitomizes grand opera: lots of romance, politics, art, violence, and death. And ornate sets and costumes. And choirs. And epic music... Read more...

Killer or Filler?

By the time you reach the end of Pinkish Black ’s self-titled LP, your brain feels like it’s been forced to take a journey perilously close to the event horizon of a black hole, as if skirting its edge is the only way to make it through to the other side. The record’s pulsatin... Read more...

Bait for Cruelty

The pit bull’s wounds were so ghastly that his rescuer was instantly moved to tears. His snout had been torn to ribbons, his bottom lip ripped off the bone, and his tongue lacerated in multiple places. The infection was so severe you could smell it from 20 yards away. Read more...

The Not-So-Great Dictator

I jumped the gun on calling this once before, but now it truly appears that Sacha Baron Cohen has become too famous to keep making guerrilla-style comedies by going undercover and portraying buffoons for the benefit of unsuspecting targets. Either that or he simply ran out o... Read more...

What to Expect: Friends with Kids

Ah, the advice-book movie! The last 10 years have seen a trend of Hollywood piggybacking off the popularity of self-help books through similarly titled movies inspired by the problems that they address. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days , He’s Just Not That Into You , and the current... Read more...

Madness in Muenster

Margaret Medders’ final departure from the tiny North Texas town of Muenster on an unseasonably warm day last January was a far cry from her ostentatious arrival 50 years earlier. Read more...

Bollywouldn’t

Recently, on one of my customary library crawls, I passed an Indian restaurant on the corner of a strip mall in Watauga. Alternately intrigued and suspicious, I looked up India Café online from the safety of the nearest bookcave. The restaurant has a website, I discovered, an... Read more...

Sons and Big Girls

The continuing vitality of African-American theater will be demonstrated in Fort Worth this week when two new plays open. Read more...

Cats on a Mild May Night

The Fort Worth Cats spent much of last year tiptoeing on a hot tin roof, mired in money woes and inundated with uncertainty. Fans wondered if they’d seen the last of Cowtown’s professional baseball team. Team owner Carl Bell was strapped for cash and trying to find a new buyer, wh... Read more...

Save the Cool Clubs

If you haven’t done so already, check out this week’s cover story by my evil alter-ego, associate editor Anthony Mariani , about the Fort Worth music scene. That handsome devil writes about the discrepancy between the vast number of good or “legit” bands versus the low number ... Read more...

Upward to The Basement Bar

Have you read the big (long-winded?) cover story yet? Well, speaking of live music venues, have you been to The Basement Bar ? Because it’s a pretty legit place for a show . I feel like it flies under Clubland’s radar because its Stockyards location is outside the range of a lot of lo... Read more...

Eastward, Ho!

Is it possible for a restaurant in a big green building in a neighborhood with very few non-fast-food options to be labeled a hidden gem ? Maybe, but La Rueda (2317 Oakland Blvd.) in East Fort Worth south of Meadowbrook Drive, won’t be hidden for long, if my recent lunch there was... Read more...

Opera Festival Time

Good ideas don’t always translate into success, but Fort Worth Opera’s festival format, alternating performances of four productions in a month-long residency, mostly at Bass Performance Hall, has been a bell ringer from the beginning six years ago. Not only does it ease the... Read more...

Proper Husbandry

For the past few months, there’s been buzz in Fort Worth about Brenna Manzare and her band, The Proper Husbands . Neither on her own nor with her trio has Manzare formally released any material yet. There are only a handful of recordings available online, and performances seem... Read more...

Polluters’ Paradise?

Texas has filed so many suits against the federal government in the last few years that it’s hard to keep track of them. But one ongoing case has Texas teamed up with a global warming-denying fringe group that has its roots deep in Texas coal money and that has put the state... Read more...