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Monthly Archives: December 2014

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...
Foxcatcher now playing.

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...
The Ape Hangars simply looks like a party (courtesy of artist Keenan Nichols).

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...
The Mont Blanc was the preferred dessert. Lee Chastain

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...