Pork Ribs Smoking o’er an Enclosed Fire
Chow, Baby recently broke a proud tradition of avoiding malls during the holidays. Until last week, it had been five years since I’d set...
Mistletoes
The holidays took on a warm, fuzzy glow with the opening of Texas Ballet Theater’s glorious new production of The Nutcracker in Bass Performance...
Songs of the Year
True, recording technology has become cheaper over the past decade, and even the most antisocial or horrible local singer-songwriter can put out a record....
Gallery
In lighting terms, falloff is the rate of how much dimmer a light appears the farther away one is from the source. This is...
Hyde Park: FDR & HRH
Unadventurous and ultimately forgettable, Hyde Park on Hudson played at the Lone Star Film Festival last month to an appreciative reception, and it begins...
Hobbit Forming
You’ve seen the giant JumboTron at Cowboys Stadium, right? Well, watching The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is like having that JumboTron installed in your...
Northside High
There are (at least) two businesses in Fort Worth with the name “Los Paisanos.” One rents charter buses at I-35 and East Seminary Drive....
Family History
Arnon Goldfinger was a TV director and documentarian in Israel when his grandmother, Gerda Tuchler, passed away. Gerda had fled Nazi Germany and retained...
Betty Brink
You couldn’t call Betty Brink the face of Fort Worth Weekly because reporters seldom get their mugs in the paper. Most readers had no...
The Best Movies of 2002
Right, so I haven’t blogged in a while. I’ve been busy running back and forth to Dallas and seeing stuff like Zero Dark Thirty...