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Monthly Archives: January 2014

Adding Angst to Tragedy

Down the road from my office, at John Peter Smith Hospital, Marlise Muñoz, 33, is brain-dead. She is a continued patient at JPS because...
Tame ... Tame & Quiet is back. This time for real. So far.

The Return of Tame … Tame & Quiet

Tame … Tame & Quiet is back. I know, I know. You’ve heard that before. But this time is different. Or at least it...
Oscar Isaac squires a housecat around Manhattan while looking for work in Inside Llewyn Davis.

All Folked Up

When I ran my list of 2013’s best movies a couple of weeks ago, I left off one film that was on many other...
Julianne Nicholson, Meryl Streep, and Margo Martindale consult their family history in August: Osage County.

Letts Do It

I need to say this right off the bat: I haven’t seen Tracy Letts’ play August: Osage County on stage. I’ve heard that the...
Igneous Grimm delves deep into country-tinged psychedelia for inspiration.

Killer or Filler?

Some people think we should cover more than Fort Worth. Ha! Yeah, right. There are, like, a million bands here. And half of them...

Finding Home

Sunlight through a stained-glass window cast a glow around Dorothy Blackman, who sat primly on a wooden pew, hands folded in her lap, hair...
The food comes out fast and furious — and delicious — at Velvet Taco. Lee Chastain

Velvet Taco: Sumptuous

There are probably two reasons you don’t want to eat at Velvet Taco: You’re still sore about its replacing The Gold Standard. And Velvet...
A scene from Balthus: Through the Looking Glass at the Kimbell.

Girls on Canvas

One thing that great art does is make us uncomfortable. In this, Balthus’ paintings succeed like nothing else. The French-born, Polish-descended Swiss artist has...
This untitled work, part of Beyond Memory at Gallery 76102, was painted by Arlington’s Lois, who taught second and fourth grades for 26 years.

Colorful Memories

Lisa Buck, coordinator of the Memories in the Making art therapy program for the Alzheimer’s Association’s North Central Texas Chapter, remembers a particularly striking...
Linda Guy’s “Seedpod”

Gallery

Linda Guy is no longer a professor at TCU, but the Florida native is still showing her artwork here. The school’s show of her...