On the Green Prairie
The cowboy life means long hours in the sun. And even after cowboys hang up their spurs and get enshrined in the Texas Cowboy...
Red Starlet Glistens
When producer and multi-instrumentalist Robby Baxter moved back to Arlington last year after climbing the music industry hierarchy in New York City, he felt...
High-Level Worries
By the fall of 2011, if the courts or legislators don’t act to stop it, Texas could become the “nuclear waste dump for the...
Fumes
To the editor: As I gaze from my sixth-floor window and watch automobiles zipping east and west, north and south, free as the breeze,...
Girls’ Night Gets the O
My South Arlington neighborhood is a little short on happy places for happy hour. That’s why I usually end up somewhere in Fort Worth....
Songs of the Year (Kinda)
The Dallas Observer’s music blog, DC 9 at Night, recently came up with a great idea, one that I’ll be stealing next year: The...
Gallery 414
Gallery 414 will be closed this weekend, but the rest of the week you can catch Randy Bacon’s urban and suburban landscapes, as well...
When You Find a Film With True Grit
The Coen brothers have become rather full of their own philosophy lately, using a series of otherwise widely divergent movies (No Country for Old...
The King’s Speech: Voice of the People
The intelligent, foursquare British drama The King’s Speech is currently racking up all manner of awards and citations, and while it’s not one of...
Derailed
Just about a year ago, a modern streetcar system in Fort Worth seemed likely, even imminent. The city had been studying streetcars for 15...
