Archive for May, 2013
Royal Pains
CHOW, BABYDon’t get me wrong; I love my nieces. I just fear for them a little. One is seven and the other is four (I think), and they’ve never been exposed to real food, thanks to Chow, Sister’s penchant for doing the grocery shopp...
Grapefest 2012
JIMMY FOWLERAlexander Fleming, the bacteriologist who discovered penicillin, was quoted as saying: “Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.” Since biblical times and well before, the fermented grape has been credited with healin...
Lycan Licks
We’rewolves mark their turf, one anthem at a time.MATTHEW McGOWAN
A little over a year ago, in the thick of one of the hottest Texas summers in recent memory, three dudes squeezed into a spartan concrete cube south of I-20 and unleashed an arena-ready style of blues rock to an audience of exa...
On the Green
Hollace Weiner mines a rich lode of local history in a book about River Crest Country Club.JEFF PRINCE
It started out as a vanity book celebrating a historic country club, but River Crest Country Club: the First 100 Years evolved into something of surprising heft — physically and figuratively. Author Hollace Ava Weiner spent t...
Gallery
TCC Southeast CampusGALLERY
With school back in session, the colleges all have art shows up for September. Among them is the biennial at TCC’s Southeast Campus, which includes sculptures by Elizabeth Hurtado and video art by John Neal Phillips. A...
Arbitrage: High-Risk Bonds
A billionaire deals for his life in this frigid crime thriller.KRISTIAN LIN
One thing about New York City: In no other place on Earth are the very rich, the very poor, and everybody in between thrown together in such close quarters. The icy Arbitrage recognizes this to terrific effect. The proximity gi...
Bill W.: Demon Drink
AA’s founder is the subject of this complex, nuanced documentary.KRISTIAN LIN
The title of Bill W. refers to William G. Wilson, the former Wall Street securities analyst who lost his livelihood to alcoholism and the Great Depression and went on to found Alcoholics Anonymous. This documentary about his li...
K8 in Your Face
Rebelling against hometown Fort Worth takes an avant-garde artist to success in New York.ANNABELLE MASSEY MALLOY
For nine days in mid-July, K8 Hardy was marooned. On an island. She made the best of it, taking long walks on the deserted shore, sandwiched between wind-carved sand dunes on her left and the great blue Atlantic Ocean on her ri...
Q at the Creek
Though not spicy, Woody Creek’s ’cue is far from bland.LAURIE BARKER JAMES
Woody Creek Bar-B-Q has roots in Parker County. The original restaurant in Springtown started on the banks of the creek that gave the restaurant its name, and, as the story goes, Woody Creek was way ahead of its time. The first...
Bass Master
There may be more to this arts-funding fiasco than meets the eye.ANTHONY MARIANI
So Fall Gallery Night happened last Saturday. Masses of people packed Fort Worth’s multiple galleries and impromptu art spaces, sipping on boxed wine, noshing on cheese cubes, and, of course, admiring the art on display. Ther...