Archive for 2013
On the Green Prairie
StaticThe cowboy life means long hours in the sun. And even after cowboys hang up their spurs and get enshrined in the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame, they’re still going to get their share of solar exposure.
Red Starlet Glistens
Led by New York City producer Robby Baxter, this Arlington trio explores time … and space.CAROLINE COLLIER
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 he was “rolling the dice,” he said. He had done production work fo...
High-Level Worries
Environmentalists are still fighting a dump that could bring in much more nuclear waste than originally thought.BETTY BRINK
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 country if not the world,” State Rep. Lon Burnam says. And he and a coalition of environmental gro...
Fumes
John Q. ReaderTo the editor: As I gaze from my sixth-floor window and watch automobiles zipping east and west, north and south, free as the breeze, I see freedom in motion. Fort Worth is a city on the go, where its people are as free as high...
Girls’ Night Gets the O
Last CallMy South Arlington neighborhood is a little short on happy places for happy hour. That’s why I usually end up somewhere in Fort Worth. But on a tip from a buddy, I recently wandered into Little O’s Patio Grill. She lives ne...
Songs of the Year (Kinda)
HearsayThe 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 alt-weekly is listing the top 50 local songs of the year, a song per day. As of this writing, the...
Gallery 414
Randy BaconGallery
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 as Carol Ivey’s still-life paintings and photographs.
When You Find a Film With True Grit
The Coen brothers make an old Western new.KRISTIAN LIN
The Coen brothers have become rather full of their own philosophy lately, using a series of otherwise widely divergent movies (No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man) to proclaim that we live in a cold, hosti...
The King’s Speech: Voice of the People
Colin Firth rules as a royal with a speaking problem.KRISTIAN LIN
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 the year’s best movies, its lead performance deserves all the praise it’s...
Derailed
Fort Worth’s streetcar debate was about more than money and trains.DAN MCGRAw photos by lee chastain
Just about a year ago, a modern streetcar system in Fort Worth seemed likely, even imminent. The city had been studying streetcars for 15 years, and the panels and task forces of prominent business leaders were gung ho. A major...