The Last Tenant
The once-stately house at 1108 Grainger St. has had its bones picked by an architectural salvage team, and most of its windows are boarded...
Open-Mics — and Minds — at Embargo
To my knowledge, I’ve played only one open-mic in my life, on a night when I was either 25 minutes or two shots away...
Under the Radar
Most veteran scenesters probably remember dearly departed Cadillac Fraf, a.k.a. Chad Percy, whose level-headed –– and enlightening –– response to criticisms of his lo-fi...
Gallery
This is your last weekend to check out Daniel Blagg’s current show at Artspace 111. The artist has been largely off the radar for...
Argo, Psychopaths: Let’s Fake a Movie!
By coincidence, the titles of both movies this week refer to movies within the movies. Neither Argo nor Seven Psychopaths is really about the...
The Giant Still Sleeps
On early summer weekends this year, volunteers, mostly young and Hispanic, fanned out through the neighborhoods of southeast Fort Worth trying to convince black,...
Horn Aplenty
What’s going on over on the waaay West Side? Between the high-end Mexican creations hidden inside Salsa Fuego’s humble traffic-circle environs and Cendera Center’s...
One Woman and One Man
If it seems like Stage West no longer has an offseason, that’s only because of the two touring one-person shows that will be playing...
Power Trip
No matter how long, notated, and well written an artist’s statement is, his or her art –– to paraphrase Sir Duke –– don’t mean...
Christ, Here Come the “Nones!”
If you need further proof that the religious right in America has trashed the reputation of Christianity for an entire generation, check out this...