Archive for May, 2013
World Series Airs Burning Hotels Song
Anthony MarianiThat twinkling guitarwork and propulsive drumming that you heard during the Rangers-Giants Game 2 pre-game? That was The Burning Hotels’ “To Whom It May Concern,” off the Fort Worth band’s terrific most recent album, No...
“Hack, Hack, Sweet Has-Been”
Jimmy FowlerI’ve always thought that in horror/suspense flicks, women are more interesting as psycho killers than men. It’s empowering — in a trashy pop culture way – to watch a woman subvert all expectations of sweetness...
Rick Springfield Jaws With Blotch
Jeff PrinceA long, black sedan with deep-tinted windows stops in front of the Fort Worth Weekly office and pop icon Rick Springfield steps out wearing a black jacket over a black shirt, Hollywood thin, cool, unsmiling, distracted, and st...
Bring Out Your Dead
Jimmy FowlerWhile there are a variety of cool ways to celebrate Halloween weekend 2010 in Cowtown, we’re partial to Saturday’s (October 30) Dia De Los Muertos Celebration at the Rose Marine Theater, 1440 N Main St, FW. The evening begi...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: GasLand (NR) Partially filmed in North Texas, Josh Fox’s documentary totes up the environmental costs of gas drilling in America. (Opens Friday in Dallas)
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ? 27 In the pages of The New York Times, Maureen Dowd rather brilliantly compared Das Rheingold to The Social Network, both being stories about an antisocial nerd who’s mocked by women until he invents a device that makes...
LAZËR Fires One Off
The Deutschland-obsessed hip-hop duo LAZËR sharpens its musicality.JIMMY FOWLER
Onstage, the techno hip-hip duo LAZËR delivers a high-concept performance punctuated with lowbrow shenanigans. The official — and invented — backstory for ‘the boyz’ is that a dictatorial master rhymer ...
A Bearded Treat
Last CallA while back, I had one of those Thursdays where I just didn’t want to hear it. You know what I mean by “it.” The pronoun encompasses every piece of petty bullshit in life, from a punctured tire to an automated red light ...
Knuckle Up into Movies
A local tattoo parlor also houses an impressive collection of movie props and costumes.COLE WILLIAMS
Plenty of kids and kids at heart will be dressing up like their favorite super-heroes this weekend, and some fans of the genre make their devotion even more permanent — with tattoos. But imagine going to get a tattoo of, say,...
Red Kettle Time is Nearly Here
Peter GormanGot this notice from my friend Patrick Patey, spokesman for the Red Cross in the Metroplex. It seems awfully early to be on us, but I guess times are hard so those red kettles are coming out early. The Salvation Army Red Kettle...