Sessions with Copeland’s Haters
About a year after his last studio album, a self-titled trip through non-twangy but C&W-influenced Americana (“Copeland’s Time,” Nov. 2, 2011), Fort Worth singer-songwriter...
Numb and Dumber
A simple reason explains why Fort Worth Weekly was among the country’s first news media to point out that fracking by natural gas drillers...
Blue Monday
Unless you hate crowds, Mondays are a rough night to go out. Maybe not happy hour so much; I’m thinking more of those last...
Hooked
Ah, the lottery.
Texas House members recently voted to kill it, some posturing to curry favor with anti-gambling constituents. But everyone was surprised — including...
Glory Denied, Daughter Roll
For this year’s requisite dose of comedy, Fort Worth Opera went with Donizetti’s The Daughter of the Regiment, a mid-19th-century bel canto piece about...
We’reWolves: Fang-tastic
For We’reWolves, the time was right for a proper recording. All that frontman Riley Knight, guitarist Rob Hine, drummer Austin Adams, and keyboardist Colin...
Home, Home on the Landfill
Westbound motorists on I-30 enjoy a lovely view near the Linkcrest Drive exit in far west Fort Worth.
No, not the honkytonks, boarded-up liquor store,...
Mud: A Clear Vision
In his previous film, Take Shelter, filmmaker Jeff Nichols relied on subtle direction and the exigencies of financial peril to ground the apocalyptic, magical...
Pain & Gain: Muscle Bay
Wonders never cease. Here’s Michael Bay, director of the Transformers movies and various other crimes against cinema, taking time out to helm a caper...
Answering the Call
When Randal Goodwin heard the rumble outside his home in rural Cleburne, just before 8 p.m. on April 17, he thought it was thunder.
“We...
