Around Fort Worth
Study: Reading ‘Maxim’ Makes You A Target For Car Wash Thieves
Andrew McLemoreI love stories about scientific research. Where else can you find painfully obvious facts presented as novel information? I’m talking about headlines like “Study: Eating fast food increases diabetes risk” or &...
Yeeeeeeeee Hawwwwwwww!
Jeff PrinceIt only cost $70 to fill up ol’ Betsy this morning. That’s a saving of $15 compared to earlier this year when gas was closing in on $4 a gallon. I’m going to take my $15 and treat myself to a decadent lunch. H...
Cowboys Fans, Be Not Proud
ANTHONY MARIANIWhat a big win yesterday for the ol’ Cowboys, right? Yee-haw! Squaring off against a dreaded, hated conference rival on that rival’s dreary Yankee-ass home turf with the rest of the season on the line and the Cowboys-hating...
LSIFF Report (Day 5)
Kristian LinThe last day of the Lone Star Film Festival began with an extraordinary documentary called Leviathan. Directed by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, this follows a New England commercial fishing vessel on the North At...
LSIFF Report (Day 4)
Kristian LinI got a big dose of high culture at LSIFF today, with Shakespeare, free jazz, and opera taking up my movies. Read on: Caesar Must Die is, I must say, the best Shakespeare movie I’ve seen in a while. Part of it is documentary ...
LSIFF Report (Day 3)
Kristian LinMuch bigger crowds on Friday than the previous two days for LSIFF. This isn’t to be wondered at, with the weekend beckoning. Even Jayne Mansfield’s Car on opening night didn’t attract a completely full house, but both scr...
Scam Alert: Dumbass Edition
JIMMY FOWLERAs the holiday shopping season arrives, criminal masterminds are hatching brilliant schemes to separate the good citizens of North Texas from their hard-earned cash. One ingenious ploy that was apparently popular last year in G...
LSIFF Report (Days 1-2)
Kristian LinSince I’m the only film writer covering this year’s Lone Star International Film Festival for the Weekly this year, I’m posting my coverage of the festival to this site instead of to our usual LSIFF blog. Perhaps this wil...
Clueless: Pegasus News, TCU 360 Assess Fort Worth’s Indie Scene
ANTHONY MARIANIThe Fort Worth music scene is highly amused. And maybe overreacting a bit. Earlier today, Pegasus News, a Dallas-centric online news outlet, reprinted a story that originally appeared in a recent edition of TCU 360, a student m...
Cowboys’ Season Still Alive
Anthony MarianiYou can blame Orlando Scandrick for that missed open-field tackle (not easy) and that holding penalty late in the fourth quarter (fatigue-induced) that kept the Atlanta Falcons’ offensive on the field, eating up precious cloc...