Dreamy Jazz Soundz
Back in the mid-aughts, even after Caravan of Dreams was shuttered, Fort Worth was a pretty jazzy town. The Black Dog Tavern was packed...
Springing Leaks
Is Julian Assange a hero or a creep? Going into The Fifth Estate, I entertained both opinions about the founder of WikiLeaks. However, this...
Michael Cain’s New Start
Longview native Michael Cain remembers the drive-in theater he used to go to when he was a boy, where he saw everything from The...
String of Pearls
From a moving vehicle it’s difficult to appreciate the bridges that span Fort Worth’s two forks of the Trinity River. Railings fly by, obscuring...
Good Buzz
Food portions at most restaurants are too large as it is, so when an eatery makes a point of promoting its sandwiches as so...
Big Time Crush
Surprisingly, it wasn’t until 1935 that Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet made its way onto the dance stage, in Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater. Prokofiev’s sumptuous score...
Flying Down the Road
In 2005, the Fort Worth City Council adopted the Southwest Parkway Master Plan, which outlined how the city would use art to blend features...
Off Asides On Dallas Cowboys vs Washington Racial Slurs
Seeing DeMarcus Ware and DeMarco Murray limping off the field last night prompted visions of the Dallas Cowboys circa 2012 -- a solid team...
R.I.P., Stanley Kauffmann
The news on Wednesday of Stanley Kauffmann’s death at age 97 sent me scurrying back to his film criticism. Having previously reviewed theater and...
CBS DFW’s Chris Arnold Caught Plagiarizing
Local sports radio/TV personality Chris Arnold was busted by Jason Lisk of the The Big Lead blog for blatant plagiarism. Arnold, who is also...
