Archive for May, 2013
Fort Worth’s Flying Saucer Named One of Nation’s Best Bars
Andrew McLemoreGQ Magazine, a well-respected source for all things gratuitous and scantily clad, has named Fort Worth’s Flying Saucer one of the 12 best bars in America. Of course, the photo is of the bar’s old location in “...
More Juice On Trimble Tech Cover Story
Jeff PrinceThis week’s feature on Trimble Tech High School (“Tech Revolution,” Oct. 3, 2012) includes quotes from Academy Award nominated actress Candy Clark and TV star Windell Middlebrooks. Other notable graduates from...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Butter (R) Jennifer Garner stars in this political satire as an Iowa woman who expects to finally win her local butter-sculpting competition, only to see her supremacy challenged by a little girl (Yara Shahidi) with pr...
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ▪ 3 Appropriately enough for the Halloween season, Dallas Summer Musicals is putting on The Addams Family, the Broadway musical based on the 1960s TV show. A solid hit despite mixed reviews when it premiered in 2010, the ...
Self-Inflicted Wounds
STATICSome people (and companies) just keep shooting themselves in the foot. On Sept. 19, the Weekly reported on the potential takeover of a Kerrville state mental hospital by GEO Care, a subsidiary of GEO Group, the private prison o...
Death of the Album?
HEARSAYAbout a week ago, Dallas Observer writer and former local musician Daniel Hopkins penned a column about local bands and albums, specifically about the futility of releasing albums into a world ruled (cruelly) by Taylor Swift, M...
So Glad You Could Come
CHOW, BABYChow, Baby wants to par-tay. To dinner par-tay, to be exact, like in the movies, where beautiful people drink champagne and snag exotic cheese bites and hors d’oeuvres from trays held by passing waiters. However, since I live...
Tempting
LAST CALLThe more I do these beer promos (the brand varies from week to week), the more I realize how everyone wants to appear refined. Few people care to admit their ignorance, so when some jolly doofus takes a sample of Sapporo Premiu...
Tilting at Texas Windmills
Paul Sadler pins his senate hopes on a high turnout.DAVE McNEELY
The cliché “hope springs eternal” has to apply to Paul Sadler, the Democratic nominee to replace Republican U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who isn’t seeking re-election this year. Sadler, who chaired the Texas House Pub...
Brainy Humor
Drag Strip Courage tackles a mashup of The Bard and the undead.JIMMY FOWLER
A lot of theater artists feel an obligation to speak of William Shakespeare in reverent tones, as if performing the words of The Bard is an unquestionably noble enterprise. Actor and director Seth Johnston, who formed the small...