Archive for May, 2013
New Burning Hotels Track
Anthony MarianiFort Worth’s electro-rocking Burning Hotels have just released for free download “Beard,” the lead track off their forthcoming eponymous album, their second full-length and third recording overall, a collection of smart...
Frank Kent Offers Karma Test Drives
Anthony MarianiFrom 10:20 a.m. to 5:40 p.m. on Mon., Aug. 15, at Lanny’s Alta Cocina Mexicana (3405 W. 7th St.), Frank Kent Motor Company will offer test drives of the Fisker Karma, “the world’s first true electric vehicle with extended...
“Cyberchase” at C.R. Smith
Jimmy FowlerFull disclosure: As I kid, I sucked at math. I was decent at multiplication and division, but fractions pretty much mystified me. I just didn’t care. Maybe I’d have applied myself to the task a little more with an interacti...
Free Tacos from Salsa Limón
Anthony MarianiThat’s right, kids. Salsa Limón, the venerable eatery and food truck, has added breakfast items to its menu and will be giving away breakfast tacos Aug 22-Sept 5. For the first week, the truck will travel across North Texas ...
7th Haven in The Chive
Anthony MarianiKnowing 7th Haven owner Jimmy Moore pretty well, I’m fairly certain that part of the reason he decided to relocate his bar to its current spot on the corner of West 7th and Carroll is that huge marquee, a veritable canvas for...
Mon Julien: Ex-Black Tie Dynasty
Anthony MarianiAs my alter-ego HearSay first reported a couple of months ago, before any other local media source, former frontman for the defunct glam-pop quartet Black Tie Dynasty Cory Watson has been working on a new project. Mon Julien is...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Another Earth (PG-13) Brit Marling co-writes and stars in this indie sci-fi movie as an astronomy student seeking redemption for an accident she caused on the night a duplicate Earth is discovered in the sky. Also with...
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ? 3 Lots of residents hereabouts think a number of public figures should be in jail, so we’re gratified to see Fort Worth Nite Court put them there, even if it’s only pretend. The event is a fund-raiser in which local b...
PETA’s Deep Pockets
StaticJesus surely loved a good fish sandwich despite the fact that tartar sauce wasn’t invented until years later. Mr. Loaves and Fishes himself once fed 5,000 people with only five loaves of bread and two little fish. That’s im...
Quaker City Night Hawks Take Off
Local super-group releases divine new album, ¡Torquila Torquila!ZACK SHLACHTER
The four guys in the Quaker City Night Hawks have undeniable chemistry. Co-lead vocalists and guitarists Sam Anderson and David Matsler previously worked together in The Black Bonnets and knew bassist Pat Adams and drummer Matt...