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Blogging the Cliburn (Day 1)
Kristian LinHello, 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...
Texas Biennial: Fort Worth Love
ANTHONY MARIANIFort 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...
Win Two Tickets to the Colonial
Eric GriffeyHere 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...
March Against Monsanto in Fort Worth
JIMMY FOWLERIf 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...
Fort Worth Cats Lie Down With Jose Canseco, Everyone Gets Fleas
Jeff PrinceJose 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 Coming to Downtown Fort Worth
ANTHONY MARIANIThe 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...
What Should Texas’ State Bird Be?
Kristian LinYesterday 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...
Texas Troubadour Abroad: Paris
KEEGAN MCINROEMy 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...
The Watchdog Now Barking In Dallas
Jeff PrinceIt 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...
Jose Canseco To Join The Fort Worth Cats
Eric GriffeyThe 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 ...