Archive for June, 2013
Romney, Lockheed Would Build More Jets That Choke Pilots
Andrew McLemoreRemember the F-22 Raptor? You’d be forgiven if you don’t, as the stealth fighter jet built by Lockheed Martin in the 1990s was a colossal failure by almost any measure. Not only did the F-22 cost upwards of $137 mil...
Longtoothed Newsfolk Seek Baby Boomer Viewers
Jeff PrinceFormer TV news reporters from the equivalent of the Palaeozaic era of local journalism are returning to a small screen near you. Expect to see lots of jowls, dyed hair, and mortuary makeup –and maybe even a fresh and in...
Capri Pants Are Not “Normal”
Jimmy FowlerSo NBC has premiered a sitcom called The New Normal about a gay couple trying to become parents via a surrogate mother. America continues to take a ridiculous amount of time deciding what it thinks of marriage equality for gay ...
Art Lovers Tell City Council To Back Off Budget Cuts
Jeff PrinceThe Scream illustrates how art enthusiasts are feeling these days in the City of Cowboys and Culture, as Fort Worth likes to brag on itself. The Fort Worth City Council is trying to balance a budget that’s been hammered i...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Stolen (R) Nicolas Cage stars in this thriller as a former thief who frantically searches for his kidnapped daughter. Also with Josh Lucas, Malin Akerman, Sami Gayle, Barry Shabaka Henley, M.C. Gainey, Mark Valley, and...
Night & Day
ANTHONY MARIANIWED ▪ 12 The end of this month is going to be brutal for your first-place Texas Rangers, who’ll be taking on the roaring A’s and Angels back to back. But until then, it’s smooth sailing, starting with a home stand again...
Molly the Longhorn Needs a Gas Mask
STATICDo you think members of the Fort Worth City Council ever look around, sniff the air, read the stories about people getting nosebleeds and turning up with gas-drilling chemicals in their blood and moving out of town because of g...
Great PR’s
LAST CALLFor whatever reason, I’ve always been led to believe that PR’s is kind of rough, bordering on stabby, but after dropping by on Thursday, I kind of wonder why. I mean, I get it. PR’s is in a part of town, the Stockyards, t...
Redneck Poetry
HEARSAYWilliam Bryan Massey III doesn’t play music anymore. The former drummer for the Fort Worth punk band The Playthings hung up his sticks a long time ago. But the gray-bearded, bespectacled Fred’s Texas Café cook is a rock â€...
Self-Inflicted Wounds
Keep the Texas Legislature away from redistricting.DAVE MCNEELY
Fraud! Shameful! There seemed to be a contest between Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst to see who could make the more outrageous comment after two federal courts poured out the Texas Legislature’s redistricting and...