Top 5 Shows
1.) Two of the nicest people in town, Nicole Ofeno and Raef Payne, will be following their creative dreams to New York City soon,...
The Best Filmmaking Debuts of 2014
If you read this blog regularly, you know that I don’t do a list of breakout talents every year. In 2014, however, I saw...
Film Shorts
OPENING:
National Gallery (NR) Frederick Wiseman (High School) directs this documentary about the inner workings of one of London’s great art museums. (Opens Friday...
Grinch on the Grill
Kids and restaurants often don’t mix well. I’m not talking about the ubiquitous, screeching litters of crumb-crunchers smearing their gooey little hands on the...
NYE in the Fort
Well, Wednesday is New Year’s Eve, and in the words of a popular yet controversial longhaired sage who is worshipped by millions (that would...
Frost Bite
Outgoing Republican Gov. Rick Perry’s consistent response to calls to raise the state’s gas tax has truly been, “My way or the highway.” And...
Retro Rocket
The recording studio looks like a shantytown, with its walls made of blankets and sheets held together by bungee cords and plastic clips. It...
Hang 10
In early 2012, Ryan Coplen and Hank Tosh of the Fort Worth surf-rock quartet The Ape Hangars decided it was time to record their...
Ex-Cep-tional
With very limited exceptions (Saint-Emilion in Fort Worth and Cacharel in Arlington), Tarrant County is no hotbed of cuisine francaise. And while Le Cep...
He’s Looking for Loopholes
Static thought it was reading The Onion last week instead of My San Antonio. The item said Governor-elect Greg Abbott had held a private...