Archive for May, 2013
NY Times: Politicians May Not Care About Facts… Whoa, What?!
Andrew McLemoreTwo days after Paul Ryan’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, it’s abundantly clear that most everything he said was bunk. And this, we are led to believe by an A-section New York Times article...
Local Artist Scores River Phoenix’s Last Movie
ANTHONY MARIANIJames Michael Taylor is not “going Hollywood,” as the old saying goes –– he’s much too cantankerous and outspoken for anyplace other than Fort Worth –– but his music might be. A movie for which the blue-col...
Arts Are Big Business in Fort Worth
ANTHONY MARIANIOn Tuesday, Sept. 18, Fort Worth City Council will vote on a new budget, one that includes a 25 percent cut in funding for the Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County. A nonprofit agency that disperses taxpayer money to m...
FWISD State of Education On Verge of “Greatness” — Walter Dansby
betty.brinkLike President Barack Obama, Fort Worth schools superintendent Walter Dansby could be forgiven if he said he inherited a failed system when he took over the helm of the district last year from former superintendent Melody Johns...
State Fair’s Heart Attack Delights: Fried Bacon Cinnamon Roll
Andrew McLemoreThe Texas State Fair has released its eight finalists for best fried food and this year’s junk food engineers have once again done their best to concoct more examples of the ridiculously unhealthy, cardiac-arresting cuisi...
Guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd Ready To Rock On Saturday
Jeff PrinceThe bluesy teen-aged guitarist who stormed out of Shreveport two decades ago, got dubbed “the next Stevie Ray Vaughan,” scored a big hit with “Blue On Black” in 1997, and managed to stay relevant all the...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Cosmopolis (R) David Cronenberg’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel stars Robert Pattinson as a young financier whose world comes apart as he rides in a stretch limo across Manhattan for a haircut. Also with Juliet...
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ▪ 29 Those of us who wish to write for a Catholic audience for a living should drop by the Catholic Writers’ Conference at Arlington Convention Center. The event includes a blogging summit in addition to the usual pitch...
More Ship-Jumping
STATICAnyone with business savvy can compare the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and The Dallas Morning News and spot the differences. The Star-T is owned by a struggling corporation in faraway California that is hip-deep in debt and slashi...
Go for the Gold
LAST CALLWell, have you been to The Gold Standard yet? If you’re the type who’s up on Clubland’s latest happenings, you’ve probably been keeping, uh, tabs on the spiritual successor to the dearly departed 7th Haven. Maybe you ev...