Archive for May, 2013
HEB Schools Mean Business
Eric GriffeyLooking for signs of progress? Look no further than the Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District. The suddenly forward-thinking District introduced Hindi, the official language of India, into its curriculum. In a press ...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Zero Dark Thirty (R) Kathryn Bigelow’s thriller about the manhunt for Osama bin Laden. Starring Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Jennifer Ehle, Kyle Chandler, Mark Strong, Édgar Ramírez, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt, ...
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINTHU ▪ 3 Unfamiliar theatergoers will find the stage musical version of Footloose to be a different animal from either the original 1983 film or the 2011 remake, with well-known songs from the soundtrack sung by characters ons...
Brink Blossoms
STATICLongtime Fort Worth Weekly writer Betty Brink’s name and spirit will live on in an urban garden — and in apple pies and plum jam as well. The Fort Worth branch of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference will plant frui...
Drive-Thru Resolutions
LAST CALLEven though we’re only a few days into the new year, I imagine more than a few people have already given up on their resolutions. I’m not cynical, but let’s be honest — even if you’re taking them day to day, many of y...
They Also Serve Who Say They’re Sorry
CHOW, BABYEither service is getting to be a lost art, or I’m way too picky. Having spent the better part of a decade in the restaurant business, I think I’m more than sympathetic to the plight of servers, cooks, bartenders, etc., so ...
Not Trap’d
From Nashville to the Fort, this alt-country foursome has range.ERIC GRIFFEY
Seth Reeves does a near-flawless impersonation of former President George W. Bush. The secret to the imitation, said the frontman to Fort Worth alt-country stylists Siberian Traps, is to state some platitude as if you’ve just...
Trusting City Hall
Opponents of the new ethics ordinance say citizens dodged one bullet, got hurt by others.PETER GORMAN
When the Fort Worth City Council approved major changes in the city’s ethics ordinance recently, it put the city in a different camp than most other major American cities outside Texas on how to handle complaints — and in a...
So Dreamy
HEARSAYOne Sunday in November, The Where House on the Near Southside opened its doors to some of the best bands in North Texas’ underground scene. War Party, Doom Ghost, Mailman, SpiderFriends, Siberian Traps, and several other punk...
HIV Infection as Aggravated Assault? It’s Complicated
JIMMY FOWLERTarrant County courts aren’t earning a stellar reputation when it comes to handling complex consensual sex cases. Last year there was the Kennedale High School teacher who got a five-year prison sentence for sex with 18- and...