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Killer or Filler?

Acoustic guitar virtuoso Darrin Kobetich has traveled quite a few miles –– both figuratively and literally –– since he first mixed folk and bluegrass with his metal back in the early aughts as a member of Amillion Pounds. Starting out as a weekly Friday evening happy-hour ri... Read more...

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Devin Leigh Comes Home

Devin Leigh’s twisted, curvy career path has taken him miles from his Fort Worth hometown. In 2000, after a brief stint at Texas Tech University, Leigh began playing guitar for such marquee artists as Bleu Edmondson and Becca Dalrymple, both of whom toured all over creation.... Read more...

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Ethics Alive

Questionable ethics at city hall have gone mostly unchallenged in recent years because residents weren’t sure how to combat them. Not anymore. Read more...

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Inauthenticity Is the Real Deal

Is there such a thing as an authentic bar? A bar totally devoid of pretense? Because, after all, the best bars ( The Chat Room , 7th Haven , Sarah’s Place ) are just really good simulacrums of awesome rec rooms. Read more...

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Shea Seger, Bible Belt Fest 2

Shea Seger ’s music is now –– finally –– available for download. Seger, the subject of a recent cover story (“Shea Seger Redux,” April 7, 2010), is a Fort Worth-born singer-songwriter who popped up on the international music radar about 10 years ago seemingly out of nowhere a... Read more...

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The Kids Are All Right: Laser Has Two Mommies

When I heard that Annette Bening and Julianne Moore were playing a lesbian couple in a movie, I thought, “That sounds like it’ll work.” Then I saw the trailer for the movie and thought, “That looks like it’ll work.” Now I’ve seen the movie in question, The Kids Are All Right .... Read more...

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Dinner for Schmucks: American Idiot

Maybe the best part of Dinner for Schmucks is the opening credit sequence. It shows the construction of an elaborate diorama, depicting a daytime scene in a park populated by stuffed mice that have been dressed in tiny costumes and posed in romantic tableaux. It’s absurd, yet ... Read more...

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Unmasking the Polluters

Every few months, Edgar Mouton, 76, gets jolted out of sleep in the middle of the night by a loud horn blast. The sound is a warning: One of 14 industrial facilities nearby has belched out too much pollution into the air. Read more...

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Hidden Treats at Salsa Limón

Just up the escalator from the main entrance of La Gran Plaza is what has to be the most unusual food court of any mall in Fort Worth. You won’t find a Chick-fil-A or an Orange Julius or any of the other staples of mall cuisine. What you will find is a restaurant whose menu ... Read more...

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Trompe de Shrimp

Chow, Baby’s not clear exactly how, but surely butterflied shrimp are part of the global marketing conspiracy , the one that brought us Certified Angus Beef™ and “dried plums,” formerly prunes. And the new, all-sexed-up “Clue” game , with hip backstories for the characters (“Kasand... Read more...

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Can We Talk?

If you missed the one-week run of Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work at AMC Grapevine Mills, don’t despair. Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg’s documentary portrait of the standup comic/TV talk show host comes to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth this week. Read more...

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Sharing a Constructive Spirit

Modernism is sexy. And not just because Mad Men is set during the period of the style’s apex, the early 1960s, though there’s no denying the show’s appeal. No, Modernism conjures up an era, one in which father still knew best, women knew their place, and the thought of an Afric... Read more...

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Ick by the Barrel

This latest news makes Static feel all icky and worried. A past owner of the former foundry site on the edge of Fort Worth’s Botanic Garden has reached a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). McWane Inc. agreed to pay $4 million to remedy more than 400 e... Read more...

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Something Intangible Shines

The story of the brilliant artist as raging egomaniac is an appealing one, probably because it allows us to see our worst character traits as somehow contributing to something creative in the world. Playwright Bruce Graham apparently wants to redeem the legendary Walt Disney fro... Read more...

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You’ve Gotta See Big Mike

As a toddler, Michael Richardson would haul a suitcase full of 45rpm rock records around his house. He couldn’t even read, but if a family member requested a song, he would find it by locating the record’s label. Now “Big Mike,” as he’s commonly known, is 38, and, somewhere al... Read more...

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High Anxieties Rise & Shine

Ramon Garcia doesn’t look like your stereotypical record label owner — he’s clearly from DIY, not corporate, ranks. His label, Rise & Shine Records , is a one-man operation, and that one man is a friendly, unassuming 21-year-old Arlingtonian with no formal training who too... Read more...

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Tearing up the Track

Three weeks ago, a city-hired engineering firm released its first study on modern streetcars, identifying six possible routes that Fort Worth should consider. These would connect downtown with the Cultural District, the Near South Side, the Stockyards, and the East Side via ... Read more...

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Zen and the All-Star

There are nights when I get drunk, and there are nights when I have a drink. In the case of the latter, I find it best to find a sparsely populated bar with muted lighting and silent TVs. I like these environments because they make it easy to slink onto a stool, order a drin... Read more...

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Chatterton’s Aldridge Solos

At the end of August , Chatterton frontman Kevin Aldridge will go into the studio to record what will amount to a solo album. “I want this to be its own thing,” he said. “It may sound like other stuff I’ve done, but it’s not Chatterton.” He’s not taking a break from Chatterton, he... Read more...

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Los Angeles Thames

Even over the phone, Jay Thames is a massive presence. He has a sandblaster of a voice, and his words come tumbling out with the force of a river rapid as he relates colorful anecdotes — frequently in colorful language — about his itinerant life as an aspiring filmmaker. It’... Read more...