Archive for May, 2013
New Music, Dangit(s)!
Fort Worth WeeklyThough they never really went away, The Dangits are back. I guess you could say they’re no longer content just playing the occasional show for beer money. They’re pushing now. Since the hard-rocking quartet’s formation fi...
The 100-Year Starship
Traffic got you down? Consider spaceflight.GWYNNE DYER
Never mind the constraints of the miserable present — the shrinking budgets, the lost opportunities, the collapsing morale. Thinking is free, so let’s think really big. Let’s think about … building a starship in the...
Make Food Not War
CHOW, BABYI’ve never been much of a hippie — I just don’t care for drum circles or the band Phish. But socially conscious eating I’m for. Maybe dining on locally sourced organic ingredients allows my natural smugness to flourish....
Who Not to Call: Ghostbreakers
Finally, this Fort Worth-fueled paranormal satire will see the light of day.JIMMY FOWLER
It’s been almost four years since actor Gabriel Horn, a former Fort Worthian who now lives in Los Angeles, first conceived the idea for Ghostbreakers, a TV show that spoofs the “paranormal reality” genre. He and his buddy...
Clint Niosi: Pleasurably Spiteful
The folky Fort Worth singer-songwriter returns with a new, lush album.ANTHONY MARIANI
Sometimes lyrics seem just thrown together, and for some bands, louder bands, you can see why –– on disc or in person, their words tend to get buried beneath avalanches of furious guitars, basses, and drums. Only the melodi...
Playing Defense
Lockheed lays off workers when military spending drops — and when it soars.ANDREW MCLEMORE
The argument of defense companies like Lockheed Martin, which employs thousands at its Fort Worth plant, is simple: Don’t force us to lay off workers when you know the economy can’t afford it. That’s what the defense indu...
Gallery
UNT on the SquareGALLERY
Famous for their bright colors and geometric patterns, Kente cloths are woven or printed to embody concepts such as healing, royalty, wealth, peace, purity, and fertility. These dazzling pieces are on display through this month...
End of Watch: Partners Against Crime
Old-school good acting redeems this new-jack buddy cop thriller.KRISTIAN LIN
End of Watch is the third in a string of look-at-me-I’m-so-gritty dramas about Los Angeles cops directed by David Ayer. This one is different, partly because it’s shot in a found-footage style but mostly because it’s actu...
Master: Almighty Dodd
P.T. Anderson offers us cult comfort in this drama.KRISTIAN LIN
Bear with me here. I write this review a scant hour or so after watching Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, and like most of Anderson’s films, it tends to resist straightforward analysis. As with Anderson’s previous work,...
Low-Bidding Mental Illness
The company that brought us deadly private prisons wants to run Kerrville State Hospital.PETER GORMAN
State-run mental health facilities in Texas never have an easy ride: Funding is always tight, and many of them have had problems through the years. But the state hospital in Kerrville, according to advocates and regulators, has...