Archive for May, 2013
High Hopes for Lo-Life
HEARSAYLo-Life Recordings is thinking big. The DIY Fort Worth collective/label has already begun doing what any good collective does: concentrate bands’ energy (and anxiety) on projects, including shows, events, and, of course, reco...
1962: The Scariest Halloween
GWYNNE DYERThis month is the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, so we may hear a great deal about the weeks when the world almost died. But the past is a foreign country, a place where everything was in black-and-white and men ...
Grand and Gone
The last guest checked out long ago, but stories linger from the vanished hotel on Camp Bowie.JULIET GEORGE
“Grand Hotel … always the same. People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.” — Dr. Otternschlag in the film Grand Hotel (1932). With West 7th Street canyonlands booming and Fort Worth’s museums growing in stature...
Tortillas Flat
Fort Worth WeeklyI started my Flat Tire Columns last year when my Korean hot-rod broke down in Arlington (On Foot for Food, Dec. 13, 2011), and I was forced to go find a decent lunch on foot. Poor me, right? Wrong. Since then, I’ve come to en...
Standing Up for Laughs
Part of the Q Cinema family, It Only Makes Me Laugh is a riot.JIMMY FOWLER
Fort Worth actor Kyle Trentham has a resume that includes theater, film, and TV, most notably shows like Barney, Wishbone, and Walker Texas Ranger. Onstage he recently appeared in the drama The Fifth Sun at Rose Marine Theatre....
New Cosmic Order
With twin guitar leads and a double-bass attack, The Cosmic Trigger might pull off a crossover.ANTHONY MARIANI
The Sword broke the barrier. The Austin quartet was one of the first heavy-metal bands to be embraced by the indie-rock community, not only receiving airplay on college radio stations nationwide but getting press, often good pr...
Gallery
UNT Art GalleryGALLERY
UNT’s retrospective of longtime professor and ceramics artist Elmer Taylor isn’t merely a show of his work. It’s also a look back at his life, replete with photographs, works by his students and mentors, and even some of ...
Fun Size: Late-Night Justice
This Halloween comedy sends you home with less candy than expected.KRISTIAN LIN
This sounds like a canny piece of counterprogramming. Every year, the movie studios pollute October with another grim batch of horror sequels about ghosts, demons, and slashers. So why not go the other way and put out a Hallowe...
Cloud Atlas: Only Connect
Six stories, three directors, and a hell of a lot of other stuff is in here.KRISTIAN LIN
Call a novel “unfilmable,” and you’re only waving a red flag in the face of certain filmmakers. David Mitchell’s novel Cloud Atlas has been called that for good reason — it’s an exercise in literary derring-do, cont...
Mo’ Momos
This little UTA-area eatery has got your hangover cure — and more.JIMMY FOWLER
If owner Damodar Dahal has anything to do with it, momos will be the new hangover cure for students at the nearby University of Texas at Arlington. Dahal, a UTA grad, opened his small eatery, Momos & More, south of campus a...