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Blogging the Cliburn (Day 1)

Kristian Lin
Hello, everyone, and welcome to my coverage of the 14th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Unlike four years ago, we’ll be keeping this blog on the Weekly‘s website instead of a different site. Also unlike...


Letitia Huckaby's quilt work has earned her a spot in the 2013 Texas Biennial.

Texas Biennial: Fort Worth Love

ANTHONY MARIANI
Fort Worth’s Letitia Huckaby, Hiroko Kubo, Angela Kallus, Gregory Ruppe, and HOMECOMING! Committee and Arlington’s Jeff Gibbons are the Tarrant County artists selected by independent curators to participate in the 2013 Texa...



Last year's winner Zach Johnson was a putting machine.

Win Two Tickets to the Colonial

Eric Griffey
Here is your chance to win two one-day passes to the PGA’s Crowne Plaza Invitational at the Colonial. As we all know, Tiger Woods always skips our home town golf tourney. For free tickets, answer this question:  If you c...


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March Against Monsanto in Fort Worth

JIMMY FOWLER
If you thought the only thing those lazy, entitled millenials dreamed about was getting famous on YouTube, think again: Many of them would also like to live in a world where genetically altered food was, at the very least, clea...



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Fort Worth Cats Lie Down With Jose Canseco, Everyone Gets Fleas

Jeff Prince
Jose Canseco was supposed to be the carnival sideshow whose wackiness might overshadow the ominous stank coming from the Fort Worth Cats recently. Money woes, grumbling vendors, and employees walking off the job don’t exa...


Queen City Music Hall will seat 1,000 and may satisfy Fort Worth's hunger for an active mid-sized music venue.

Queen City Music Hall Coming to Downtown Fort Worth

ANTHONY MARIANI
The downtown venue formerly known as City Streets and currently called Lone Star Nightclub (245 Commerce St.) is about to become a music venue. Owned by a group of investors led by Randy and Jim Butler, who opened and operate H...



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What Should Texas’ State Bird Be?

Kristian Lin
Yesterday I was directed to Nicholas Lund’s post on a birding blog about how to improve each state’s choice of state birds. I can’t tell if he’s really getting this worked up about state birds or whether...


Belushi's Canal is part of a bar/hostel chain that runs throughout Europe.

Texas Troubadour Abroad: Paris

KEEGAN MCINROE
My name is Keegan McInroe, and I am a singer-songwriter from Lubbock who’s been living in Fort Worth off and on since 2001, when I began my four years of study at Texas Christian University. Over the course of my ten years wr...



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The Watchdog Now Barking In Dallas

Jeff Prince
It didn’t take long for Dave “The Watchdog” Lieber to find a job after being unceremoniously dumped by the struggling Fort Worth Star-Telegram after 20 years. Lieber announced today that he’ll begin writ...


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Jose Canseco To Join The Fort Worth Cats

Eric Griffey
The 48-year-old former Texas Ranger will be suiting up for the Fort Worth Cats for the club’s series against the Edinburg Roadrunners — a team coached by his twin brother, Ozzie. Since he retired from the majors in ...