Archive for May, 2013
Mac Churchill’s Senior Discount
Eric GriffeyIt’s a story old as the automobile itself: A frail elderly man walks into a car dealership. The shyster-y salesmen twirl their freshly waxed mustaches and circle the old-timer like a puppy dropped into a pool of piranhas. “...
Film Shorts
Fort Worth WeeklyOPENING: Identity Thief (R) Jason Bateman stars in this comedy as a New York man who travels to Florida to catch a small-time criminal (Melissa McCarthy) who has stolen his identity. Also with Jon Favreau, Amanda Peet, T.I., Ge...
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ▪ 6 Joining the Big 12 was a football decision for TCU, but it has had a severe impact on the men’s basketball team. The Horned Frogs are still looking for their first win in conference play, and they’ll have their wo...
High Cockalorum
STATICIt was the kind of situation that, had a cell phone camera been handy, could have turned into one of those YouTube overnight wonders that gets a million hits right before everybody forgets it: The beer truck was stopped in the ...
Vee Fame Game
LAST CALLAs the limo rolling down 5th Street pulled over to the curb and stopped, I wondered if it would disgorge somebody famous. Or at least glamorous. I was sitting on one of the cushiony hassocks scattered throughout Vee Lounge’s ...
Cool Lola’s Gets Blackbox
HEARSAYLola’s owner Brian Forella recently made an off-handed comment about his club that broke my heart a little. Apparently, he said, in the glittery, buzzing universe of the West 7th Street corridor, Lola’s is not as important ...
Gallery
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Joshua Elliott’s multimedia installation explores our delusions about ourselves and possibly even the whole idea of projecting one’s obsessions and neuroses into an art exhibit. Other information on this artist is hard to c...
Coffee with the Codger
CHOW, BABYHere’s a sad fact: Chow, Baby is getting older. The signs are there: I’m always in bed before 10 p.m., I avoid crowded places, and I enjoy watching Andy Griffith solve mysteries. But the biggest change in my advancing years...
Black Pearl Shines
Jubliee’s latest production skillfully handles some delicate race matters.JIMMY FOWLER
“You are an authentic doorway to the past,” Susannah (Lana K. Hoover), an Anglo song collector for the Library of Congress, tells Pearl (Liz Mikel), an African-American prisoner in a Texas jail in the 1920s. The white lady ...
Class Act: Jody Jones
His songwriters’ showcase — and career — are growing.ANTHONY MARIANI
In a way, Fort Worth chose Jody Jones. The early-fortysomething Americana singer-songwriter was born here and spent a good chunk of his childhood here, but he and his family moved away a long time ago: He finished growing up in...