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. ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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.
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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 ...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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. Ca...
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 ...
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 jump...
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 o...
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 pic...
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 ...
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...
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-new...