Welcome Home
The sound coming from the dressing room at the Los Angeles Forum that night in 1986 was instantly recognizable to Fort Worth guitarist Chris...
No Use Crying over Old Grits
Why I volunteered to cook this Thanksgiving is beyond me.
Maybe it was the tacos. Last month, a friend from Boston was in town, and...
Newly Brewed
Brewed opened last month on the Near Southside on a stretch of West Magnolia Avenue between Hot Damn, Tamales! and Yucatan Taco Stand, and...
Smith’s Infinite Bloom
If God is in the details, then John Holt Smith’s geometric paintings are truly cosmic.
Working from photographs of landscapes, flowers, or human eyes, the...
Cottontail Fire
The term “outsider artist” is often used to describe self-taught artists who proudly and defiantly work outside of any movement, commercial trend, or academic...
Killing Them Softly: Cogan’s Bluff
Andrew Dominik is at home among thieves and killers. The New Zealander has made three films, and they’ve all been crime thrillers: the terrifying...
Anna Karenina Under the Lights
Wow, this is spooky. When I was in college, I wrote a paper on Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. It was about the novel’s relationship...
What Runs Beneath
On Monday, June 7, 2010, workers installing a utility pole outside of Cleburne, in Johnson County, struck a buried natural gas line. The explosion...
Powerball Fever: Epidemic of Losers
Look, I’d like to win $500 million as much as the next working-class shlub, but I seem to be immune from the “Powerball Fever”...
Tarrant County Prosecutor: Picking Jurors Is A Lot Like Taming Horses
Katie Woods hasn't always been an assistant district attorney for Tarrant County.
As Texas Lawyer magazine pointed out in a recent profile of Woods, who...
