Archive for May, 2013
Keep ’Em Open
STATICA small but loud group of city officials from across the state — including Arlington’s disgraced former city councilman Mel LeBlanc (hello, methamphetamine and prostitutes!) and Hurst’s mayor pro-tem Henry Wilson — got ...
Getting Along
Hooray for the red, blue, and purple.DAVE McNEELY
Texas legislators from time to time “memorialize” Congress to do this or that. Since the request bears no force of law, the result is sort of like pouring a beer over the lip of the Grand Canyon and listening for it to hit....
V.I.Poltergeist
LAST CALLOK, here’s a question: Have you ever seen a ghost at a bar? Because I’ve drunk at lots of the allegedly haunted bars in town, and the scariest thing I’ve seen was two hardly attractive people getting waaaaay too friendly ...
NPR + PBR
Left Arm Tan’s sophomore album manifests Alticana.JIMMY FOWLER
A lot of musicians think their music can become oversimplified or even misrepresented by labels such as “alternative” and “independent.” While none of the four members of Fort Worth’s Left Arm Tan likes to be pigeonho...
A Thorn for Trans-Canada
Damage to her creek has only hardened one woman’s opposition to the tar sands pipeline.PETER GORMAN
TransCanada, the giant energy firm building a pipeline from Oklahoma to the Texas coast as part of a project that would carry tar sands bitumen all the way from Canada, is finding more fight in some Texas landowners than the co...
Gallery
Gallery 414GALLERY
The concept of Gallery 414’s show is right there in the title: Six printmakers have made works in other media for this exhibit. This is the first show at Gallery 414 since the place temporarily closed due to street constructi...
Watch the Woman, Not The Girl
This border drama boasts a better lead performance than it merits.KRISTIAN LIN
Abbie Cornish is from Australia, and yet something about her makes filmmakers think of Texas. The blonde, apple-cheeked beauty already played a small-town Texas girl in Stop-Loss, and now she returns to the Lone Star State in T...
The No Has It
¡Adiós, Presidente! An adman beats a dictator in this hot Chilean satire.KRISTIAN LIN
Where advertising and politics meet, movies usually turn cynical and satiric. Political ads foul our airwaves, reduce complex policies to soundbites, pander to our unspoken prejudices and fears, and convince us to vote for dema...
Losing Babies
Fort Worth leads the state in a sad statistic: infant mortality.BY SARAH ANGLE | Photos by Tony Robles
My baby kicked and moved until the day he died,” said Jodie Kennedy. She thought everything was fine. It was her second pregnancy. But her amniotic fluid was leaking, making her feel weak and dizzy all the time. She didn’t ...
Homing in on Casa Rita’s
Not all Tex-Mex is created equal.STEVE STEWARD
Let’s be honest: When you name your favorite Tex-Mex place, are you really voting for the food or out of loyalty to some combination of tradition, ambiance, and service? The tacos, burritos, and enchiladas at most run-of-the-...