Archive for June, 2013
Southern California Suckers Gloat About Josh Hamilton…For Now
Jeff PrinceLos Angeles Times readers are feeling pretty good about themselves today, crowing about Josh Hamilton snubbing the Texas Rangers and taking his freak show to the Left Coast. Three out of four Times readers said they thought the...
Josh Hamilton Follows His Wallet To Los Angeles
Jeff PrinceTexas Rangers power hitter Josh Hamilton has reportedly signed a five-year $125 million deal with division rival Los Angeles Angels. Hamilton is big on God so maybe he would rather be an Angel than a Ranger. Who knows? The guy...
Too Fat to Fight? Since When?
JIMMY FOWLERThe U.S. Army has recently discovered an alarming fact: Young adults, especially males, are lardasses. The situation has become intolerable: During the last ten months, more than 1600 tubbies have been discharged from Army rank...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Any Day Now (R) Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt star in this drama as a 1970s gay couple who fight to keep custody of an abandoned Down syndrome-afflicted teen (Isaac Leyva) living with them. Also with Frances Fisher...
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ▪ 12 Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi has long been obsessed with capturing the bewilderingly diverse music of his country on film, as he did in his 2010 film No One Knows About Persian Cats. His 2006 effort Half Moon, li...
There’s Nothing Wrong and We’re Going to Fix It Right Away
STATICSo, Fort Worth Weekly was taken to task publicly by members of the Fort Worth City Council on Dec. 4. Oh woe is us, oh … oh, wait just a danged minute. The occasion was a consent agenda item regarding the new, slightly evisce...
Concrete Limbo
Two Texas immigration jails are rated among the worst in the country.PETER GORMAN
Their names don’t sound like jails — “detention facility” and “processing center” — but according to a watchdog coalition, they are de facto prisons where people who’ve been convicted of no crime spend months, w...
Kickin’: Rodeo Goat
LAST CALLIn my highly professional and totally expert opinion, no matter how fatty or juicy or upscale a hamburger is, it’s still only good for sopping up one or two drinks. Your constitution might be such that a burger or other equiv...
Coasting Toward Disaster
GWYNNE DYERThey made some progress at the latest round of international negotiations on controlling climate change, held earlier this month in Qatar. They agreed that countries that cause the warming should compensate the ones that suffer...
Today’s Your Lucky Day…And Then We Die
Jeff PrinceNumbers lining up by month, day, and year, such as today’s 12-12-12, means you’ll be lucky in love. Thousands of Asians are getting hitched in mass weddings to increase their chances of getting lucky, er, wedded bli...