Archive for May, 2013
Oscar Worthy?
Disney’s latest nature doc, Chimpanzee is high on monkey business but short on appeal.STEVE STEWARD
When two British vets of nature documentaries, one of whom was the executive producer on the landmark films The Blue Planet and Planet Earth, collaborate on a project, nature lovers are prone to salivate in anticipation like hy...
Price Line
The mayor backs drillers while working for sustainability and transparency.Photos and story by ANDREW MCLEMORE
Most of the Fort Worth residents who gathered outside the city council chambers felt so overwhelmed they asked for a moment to collect their thoughts before responding to questions. There was so much patting of backs and loud c...
Neighborhood Hibachi
Quality Japanese fare isn’t all Takara’s selling.STEVE STEWARD
I had a bunch of errands to run the other day, and they all sort of fell in an order that led me north of Loop 820 into the hinterlands of North Richland Hills. That’s probably the best explanation of why I sat down to eat al...
Early Texas Art Works
Big TicketHoly impressionism, Batman! The big-daddy annual symposium on early Texas art is this weekend at Texas Wesleyan School of Law. The Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art (CASETA) held its first convention in 20...
Bill Howard of Texas Lil Fame Dies Heroically
Jeff PrinceBill Howard, a central figure in an alleged arson at Texas Lil’s Dude Ranch that drew national attention, died Saturday while helping a stranger who’d been injured in a highway accident. Howard was 55. He was driving in Bur...
Don McLeroy on “Colbert Report”
Jimmy FowlerOn balance, Texas probably doesn’t have more whack jobs and nut cases than other large states, but for some reason ours get more national attention, perhaps because they speak with a twang. On last night’s The Colbert Repo...
Facebook In The Garden
Andrew McLemoreIs Facebook making us lonely? The answer is murky at best, but this Atlantic cover story makes a valiant attempt to lay the foundation for a substantive discussion. Constantly connected, always distracted, we are all of us alon...
Dwindling Monarchy
Jeff PrinceScience Daily says the Monarch butterfly population is way down again this year, and quotes a Texas A&M researcher citing a “disturbing trend” — a serious decline in butterfly numbers. The Monarch butterfl...
Then I Was Walking in Fort Worth
Kristian LinIf you live in Fort Worth and like to walk, it’s been an interesting few weeks in cyberspace. Late last year, Walkscore, a website that ranks cities by how congenial they are to pedestrians, ranked Fort Worth as the fourt...
High Speed News Porn
Jimmy FowlerThere’s an ongoing discussion about the safety of high speed vehicular pursuits by police. Can we please have a discussion about the creepiness of local TV news broadcasts covering high speed pursuits live via their helicopte...