Archive for May, 2013
“What the Butler Saw” at Stage West
Jimmy FowlerThis week’s “Stage” page features a review of Stage West’s current revival of What the Butler Saw, the anarchic sex farce by British playwright Joe Orton. Orton took London’s West End theater district by storm in the ...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Neil Young Journeys (PG) Jonathan Demme’s concert film of the rock star’s return to Toronto in May 2011. (Opens Friday in Dallas) NOW PLAYING: The Amazing Spider-Man (PG-13) The series goes back to its origins with...
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ▪ 18 After Mexico established itself as a free nation in 1910, culture blossomed in extraordinary fashion as the country’s artists such as Diego Rivera, David Siqueiros, and Rufino Tamayo engaged the trends sweeping the...
Air: It’s also good for breathing
Fort Worth WeeklyGood news, everyone! Texas’ environmental protections could soon raise the bar set by the Roman Empire. That’s because a district court judge ruled last week against the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, which argu...
West of Normal?
What the Butler Saw was a lot of sexual freedom, according to Stage West.JIMMY FOWLER
Comic playwright Joe Orton wrote with an agenda, and he didn’t try to hide it. As a gay man who’d been marginalized by British laws and the medical profession’s attitudes toward homosexuality in the 1950s and ’60s, he s...
Vorvon Descends
Doom is manifest in this Fort Worth quartet’s debut EP, Bass Mountain.ANTHONY MARIANI
Somebody smart has probably already written about the boom in doom rock in these decidedly doomy times. Yes, there has been doom since the early 1970s, specifically going back to Black Sabbath, who flipped the proverbial script...
Shaken and Stirred
In North Texas, most of the quakes are in the same area as most of the injection wells.KRISTA M. TORRALVA
A window that’s popped out of its frame allows spiders to creep into Keary and Kristina Rosalez’ Cleburne home. New cracks about six inches long are visible in the shower and along the bathroom counter. More cracks run alon...
Saucer Takes Flight
LAST CALLAttention, beer geeks. Your temple of brew is back. The Flying Saucer has returned, and if you weren’t able to be there last Thursday when the place opened the doors of its new space, on the corner of 3rd and Commerce streets...
Jacob Furr, Cleanup Bust Out
HEARSAYYou’d think that in a town like Fort Worth, with so many outstanding bands, there’d be a bunch of super-groups, elite bands in which at least half the members play in other groups as well. But with minor exceptions, most of...
Firehouse Art Gallery
GALLERYJ. Preston Trice’s fascination with the occult led him to create a series of 78 paintings inspired by tarot cards. The paintings are now available as a tarot deck at Firehouse Art Gallery, which hosts a reception for the arti...