Archive for May, 2013
Post-Election Wrap
Kristian LinIt’s been hard trying to digest the press coverage of the presidential election while covering the film festival. I’ve read many insightful things from all across the political spectrum, but in the end it boiled down to two...
Scam Alert: Dumbass Edition
JIMMY FOWLERAs the holiday shopping season arrives, criminal masterminds are hatching brilliant schemes to separate the good citizens of North Texas from their hard-earned cash. One ingenious ploy that was apparently popular last year in G...
LSIFF Report (Days 1-2)
Kristian LinSince I’m the only film writer covering this year’s Lone Star International Film Festival for the Weekly this year, I’m posting my coverage of the festival to this site instead of to our usual LSIFF blog. Perhaps this wil...
Fort Worth High School Students Not Big Fans of Mitt Romney
Andrew McLemoreThis election dragged on so long that everyone and their dog knows that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney didn’t won because he couldn’t get the support of women. Or blacks. Or Hispanics. Or young people. ...
Clueless: Pegasus News, TCU 360 Assess Fort Worth’s Indie Scene
ANTHONY MARIANIThe Fort Worth music scene is highly amused. And maybe overreacting a bit. Earlier today, Pegasus News, a Dallas-centric online news outlet, reprinted a story that originally appeared in a recent edition of TCU 360, a student m...
Texas GOP Loses House Super- majority, Ensures Nasty 2013 Session
Andrew McLemoreJust a year and a half ago, Texas Republicans enjoyed almost total control of the state government. Their 102-48 supermajority in the House — and a large majority in the Senate — meant they could pass virtually any ...
Obama Beats Romney: Now Can We All Just Get A Long … Club?
Jeff PrinceA Republican and a Democrat attack each other for months on end and spend millions of dollars to demean each other in TV ads. The Democrat wins and vows to work closely and inclusively with Republicans and forge a new spirit of...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: This Must Be the Place (NR) Sean Penn stars in this dramedy by Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo) about a retired rock star who returns to his native America to track down the Nazi officer who humiliated his late father decade...
Oh Whitney Volvemos
HEARSAYProdigal sons Oh Whitney have returned. But only for a couple of weeks. Fronted by Fort Worth native Peter More, the alt-Americana quartet has roots in North Carolina –– Duke University, specifically –– but also has spe...
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ▪ 7 If you missed the start of this season of the Metropolitan Opera’s movie-theater broadcasts, you can catch up with the first one, as Maurizio Benini conducts Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore, with Anna Netrebko, M...