Archive for May, 2013
League Of Women Voters Taking Fools Gold?
Jeff PrinceAccepting money from Fort Worth-based natural gas driller Quicksilver Resources earned the local League of Women Voters a raspberry from a local environmentalist. On April 5, the League is hosting Fools Rule, an event to raise ...
T Bone Stakes Claim On Elton John
Jeff PrinceFort Worth’s own T Bone Burnett produced a new album with Elton John that, based on the buzz, sounds like a killer. Rolling Stone reports today that Burnett suggested a stripped down backing band of piano, bass, and drum,...
What Ever Happened to Mandy Lane?
It’s still in limbo, but the Fort Worth filmmaker behind it forges on.KRISTIAN LIN
In October 2006, Fort Worth Weekly reported the story of how Fort Worth’s Chad Feehan had scored a huge hit. His slasher flick All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, filmed in Texas, had played to an ecstatic crowd of about 1,400 peop...
Night & Day
Anthony MarianiWED ▪ 14 Tonight and tomorrow night only, Performing Arts Fort Worth will present the stage adaptation of Mel Brooks’ 1974 classic monster-movie spoof Young Frankenstein. Winner of the 2008 Outer Critics Circle Award and th...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Delicacy (NR) Audrey Tautou stars in this drama as a French widow hesitating about the romantic interest of a Swedish co-worker (François Damiens). Also with Bruno Todeschini, Mélanie Bernier, Joséphine de Meaux, Pi...
A Touch Of The Irish
Last CallWelp, it’s that time of the year again, when all of your friends go down to Austin and have the most amazing time watching every new band that’s better and cooler than any band you’ve ever seen and partying with the most ...
Wanted: Poets …
… to tell the world about itself.E. R. BILLS
Writer Don DeLillo once wrote that reading poetry makes us conscious of breathing. I can’t imagine a better way to put it. The first time I fell in love, really fell in love, it was not with a girl or a woman. It was with a s...
A Flat Tire, A Loaf of Bread, and Wow
Chow, BabyAs my high-dollar hot rod (read: Hyundai Sonata) falls to pieces — due in large part to my neglect — I’m finding myself calling AAA all too often these days. Fortunately, thus far my strandings have led to little foodie a...
Electricidad: Still Scary
Artes de la Rosa tackles a Latinized version of Sophocles’ Electra.JIMMY FOWLER
Yvonne Duque first encountered playwright Luis Alfaro’s Electricidad –– a contemporary version of Sophocles’ Greek tragedy Electra set in an urban gang milieu –– in an issue of the magazine American Theatre back in ...
SXFW
Headed to Austin this week? See some Fort Worth music. Or else.Hearsay
Since the late 1990s, when I first started attending South by Southwest, I’ve complained so much about the annual music festival and conference that you’d think I was talking about some family reunion I’d been forced to g...