Archive for May, 2013
Hunger Games: Girl on Fire
Suzanne Collins’ dystopian novel becomes a bruising sci-fi thriller.KRISTIAN LIN
When it comes to adapting Suzanne Collins’ novel The Hunger Games to film, the big challenge is that the book is so many different things at once. It’s an action thriller, a dystopian exercise, a social commentary on pop cu...
Rainbow Lounge Documentary Screens
Notes from the Fort Worth premiere of Robert Camina’s film.KRISTIAN LIN
A great many things started on June 28, 2009, when Fort Worth police officers and Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission agents conducted mass arrests at the Near Southside gay bar The Rainbow Lounge. One of them came to fruition ...
Janet Morrow at FWCAC
Jimmy FowlerThis week’s “Art” page features an interview with conceptual artist Janet Morrow, whose show Ambiguous Belonging is up at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center through March 29. (There’ll be an artist’s reception 6-9pm...
Second Annual Visionary Awards
Tim Harding, David Lowery, and Devon Nowlin are tops in our annual local-arts celebration.Anthony Mariani
Here’s a conundrum: How can Fort Worth have such an incredible array of art-related institutions and not be an “art town”? (At least not yet.) Yes, there are arty aspects of the Fort that are the envy of many other, older...
B Side for Z’s
The FWCAC café makes an excellent beachhead in the Hospital District.JIMMY FOWLER
For more than three years now Z’s Café, located in the Fort Worth Community Arts Center, has been a purveyor of fast, friendly, high-quality lunches for the Cultural District crowd. Owner and chef Janet Z. Capua, who also op...
Reframing
Big TicketFor whatever reason, the main attractions at this year’s Spring Gallery Night seem to lie outside the usual venues. Don’t get us wrong: The traditional spaces still have some stimulating shows opening this weekend. William ...
Enlightened by the Dark
Janet Morrow’s hearing loss sparked her growth as an artist.JIMMY FOWLER
Anyone who’s checked out conceptual artist Janet Morrow’s current show Ambiguous Belonging at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center was probably intrigued and a little mystified by its contents. Long, soft polyester tubes da...
Curse Of Chow Baby
Jeff PrinceLast week, Chow Baby did this review on Bacon’s Bistro and Cafe in Hurst. Today, strong winds hit the restaurant and caused quite a bit of damage. Coincidence? A note from Bacon’s accompanied these photos that wer...
Trimble Tech Tragedies
Jimmy FowlerThere’s so much tragedy in the daily news, it’s understandable that people get somewhat numb to a lot of it. But then a story appears that really gets under your skin with the force of its sadness, like the 17-year-old Tri...
Texas Women’s Health Care Dies Under Perry’s Scalpel
betty.brinkOn Thursday, more than 130,000 Texas women faced the unthinkable. They lost access to their primary care health provider because a small cadre of Republican legislators decided that “small government” really means small eno...