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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...

Signs of Civilization

Is there anything more agonizing than dating? If you younglings think I’m talking about your pimply dramas, fuggetaboutit . I’m referring to the cold, cruel world of being a food-addicted , neurotic writer on the wrong side of the big 3-0 whose idea of dressing up means putting on swea... Read more...

Don’t Drink the Water

When Jeff Locker looks out over his 1,500 acres of land just outside Pavillion, Wyo., he remembers what it used to look like: three horses in the corral, fields of barley and alfalfa bending in the breeze. These days the view from every window looks out over nearby shale gas... Read more...

Uneven Sushi Domo

Sushi Domo Bar & Grill is tucked into a corner of a strip mall across from one of Arlington’s three hospitals. There are few restaurants nearby other than fast food, so this pretty, new-ish sushi restaurant is a welcome option, even if it does seem to have a split persona... Read more...

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Even now, Henrik Ibsen doesn’t really get his due. It’s hard for us to appreciate the rut that European theater was stuck in in the 19th century, filled with stock characters and sentimental clichés. That didn’t change until the 1870s, when the Norwegian playwright scandaliz... Read more...

Say Yes to NOS Bar

Say what you want about the south side of West 7th Street . At least Fred’s is there. While you hear about the shiny shops and chef-driven restaurant concepts struggling to stay open, Fred’s is still consistently awesome and busy, a bustling oasis of Fort Worth culture, great gr... Read more...

Fight for Maddie, Lola’s Food

There’s no limit to the nice things that can be said about The Spiral Sound bassist Patrick Higgins . His generosity of spirit no doubt helps explains the outpouring of support for his and wife Melanie Higgins ’ 5-year-old daughter Maddie , who was recently diagnosed with Grade... Read more...

Washington Math

The letter from U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in response to a query was nice, but, um, factually challenged. Topic: the Keystone XL Pipeline , which would run from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico (via Texas). Problem: Hutchison’s statement that the 1,700-mile behemoth would add 2... Read more...

Storms in New Jerusalem

When Garret Storms auditioned last year for Stage West ’s current production of David Ives’ New Jerusalem , his hopes weren’t particularly high. He’d just returned to Fort Worth to live with his family after earning a BFA in musical theater at Sam Houston State University. His r... Read more...

War Party Throws Back

The details of a brief November road trip to Austin are still hazy for War Party ’s four members. In an interview on a recent evening, months after the trip, drummer Peter Marsh could only shake his head, grin, and apologize to his three bandmates about what happened one fatef... Read more...

Mercy on Tap

At first glance, the Sunday night event at Mambo’s Tapas Cantina in downtown Fort Worth didn’t seem to have much to do with a church service. People of varying ages filled the tables, where Shiner Bock bottles and cocktails shared surface space with chips and salsa. A loud roc... Read more...

Gallery

Heavyweight names will be on display at UNT Art Gallery’s show to start the spring semester. The fifth annual Collections, Cultures, and Collaborations features works by Judy Chicago, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, and Cindy Sherman. An opening reception will begin at 5... Read more...

The Artist: Quiet on the Set

After premiering at last summer’s Cannes Film Festival to rave reviews and a Best Actor prize, The Artist has played to rapturous reception at festivals (including the Lone Star International Film Festival) and art houses, picked up numerous other laurels, and seems a lock for... Read more...

Haywire: Kane Mutiny

I’m not sure why this film is called Haywire . The title implies a berserk quality, when in fact this movie is a tightly controlled and emotionally subdued piece of work. This is the closest thing to a pure action-thriller that Steven Soderbergh has ever done in his fascinatin... Read more...