Archive for May, 2013
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: The Cold Light of Day (PG-13) Henry Cavill stars in this thriller as a young Wall Street trader who must save his family in Madrid after they’re kidnapped over information wanted by the CIA. Also with Bruce Willis, V...
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ▪ 5 The infinitely refined artistry of Chinese ceramics is on display at the Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas. On the Silk Road and the High Seas: Chinese Ceramics, Culture, and Commerce explores the history of porc...
The Judge Giveth, The Judge Taketh Away
Fort Worth WeeklyAfter working so hard last year to diminish minority-voting power, the Texas Legislature received two black eyes from Uncle Sam last week. Federal courts struck down the state’s new redistricting maps for not protecting minor...
The Right Thing
JOHN Q. READERTo the editor: Peter Gorman’s “Ethics: Chipping Away” (Aug. 15, 2012) brought back memories. I was formerly a member of the Ethics Review Committee that heard a complaint on Aug. 19, 2010, against certain council-appointe...
A Stockyards Party
LAST CALLDusk was on its way when I got to the Stockyards Music Festival on Sunday. I immediately hit the bar, a long, narrow, plastic oval under a huge tent situated between two rows of food trucks. Of course it was crowded, and of cou...
Huge UFC Fight Might Be Coming To Dallas (aka Arlington)
Jeff PrinceAnderson Silva is a beast. No, he’s the beast. The UFC middleweight champion is a combination of Bruce Lee, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Spider-Man. Watching him measure up opponents for a round or two before delivering a light...
F.U.: Real News
HEARSAYBreaking news! Burning Hotels frontman Chance Morgan had a 12-inch Spicy Italian ® at Subway the other day with no onions! Hanna Barbarians frontman Blake Parish got a flat tire! Kevin Aldridge is a little sleepy! This, my fri...
Back to Happy
Fort Worth WeeklyHappy hours don’t usually make me happy. They just make me want to crawl into bed and fall asleep to reruns of the Golden Girls. But when a new friend insisted, I proposed a compromise: We’d go to restaurant bars, where she...
More Funny Brits
Circle Theatre’s latest is the brightest in a string of door-slamming farces.JIMMY FOWLER
Are Fort Worth audiences farced out? Apparently not, judging by the prolonged and hearty laughter that greeted a recent performance of Circle Theatre’s current British comedy See How They Run. Philip King’s 1944 script, set...
That’s Kicker
The Longshots have the right attitude and sounds — and pedigree.ANTHONY MARIANI
In many ways, The Longshots are your typical roadhouse-rocking throwback band. Just four young dudes playing dirty rock ’n’ roll, looking grungy, and drivin’ all the ladies crazy. But there’s more to these cats than jus...