Archive for May, 2013
A Valuable Crop
Private prison companies are getting rich off tough immigration laws they’re helping to push.Peter Gorman
The Johnson County Jail in Cleburne, at the end of a short country road off the town’s main street, is a complex of imposing cinder-block buildings painted the color of tapioca. When it held only Johnson County prisoners, the...
Sound Police Are Coming
Anthony MarianiOn Tuesday Fort Worth city council passed a noise ordinance, becoming one of only several large metropolises with specific limits on sound. In business areas, police can issue citations for noises louder than 70 decibels at nig...
Aloha, Foni’s
Eating at this Hawaiian grill is no luau, but it offers some bang for the buck.MATTHEW MCGOWAN
Foni’s Island Grill, a year-old Hawaiian food joint tucked into a small suite at the end of a divey strip mall in Euless, should post a sign above its entrance: “Abandon all hope for greens, all vegetarians who enter here....
Smith’s Earth Below
Big TicketLike Katie Paterson, an artist whose work was recently exhibited at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, North Texas painter Mark Smith draws inspiration from nature. Not happy little trees and stuff but the expansively infinit...
Lisa Gail Allred’s Three Seconds of Fame
Anthony MarianiNorth Richland Hills singer Lisa Gail Allred is probably going to be an international star –– for 15 minutes –– in that William Hung sort of way. Allred is a middle-aged singer-songwriter who –– how to put this gent...
“La Misma Luna” at Rose Marine
Jimmy FowlerThis Friday (May 4) at 8:30pm, Artes de la Rosa (the resident performing and visual arts organization of the Rose Marine Theatre) offers a free outdoor screening of the award-winning 2007 drama La Misma Luna (Under the Same Moo...
Rob Says Achtung, Sapristi!
Jeff PrinceA local business that bills itself as “Fort Worth’s favorite neighborhood bistro” has some bold ideas about what constitutes a neighborhood. Sapristi! Bistro and Wine Bar on Forest Park Boulevard has an emai...