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Boy Scouts “Compromise” on Gay Ban is a Joke
JIMMY FOWLERIf the Boy Scouts gave out merit badges for cynical caginess, the North Texas-based Boy Scouts of America leadership would earn one with its nonsensical “compromise” on changing the group’s ban against gays and lesbians. ...
Sally Majestic Calling it Quits
Eric GriffeyOne of Fort Worth’s most long-tenured bands will be performing its last show tomorrow night at Arts Goggle. Reggae-rockers Sally Majestic’s first show was in Oct. 2001 at an out-of-the-way pizza joint in Denton. Now...
Mystery Of The Mad Wacker Solved
Jeff PrinceAfter hearing about the Mad Wacker who attacked Don Young’s wildlife habitat, I decided to get all private investigatory. Young wrote down the man’s license plate, and yesterday I looked up the records, found the ma...
Spring Artsgoggle 2013
JIMMY FOWLERThis Saturday (May 18) 4-10pm, the Spring 2013 Artsgoggle event takes place at 69 different locations in Fort Worth’s Near Southside neighborhood. (It’s free, by the way.) Paintings, photographs, sculptures, video art, and ...
Mad Wacker Loose In Fort Worth; Hide Your Milkweed
Jeff PrinceNobody is prouder of their front yard than Don and Debora Young, East Side environmentalists and unofficial caretakers of Tandy Hills Natural Area. Their yard is a canvas of native grasses and wildflowers that represent how the...
Fort Worth’s Woodson Named State Painter
ANTHONY MARIANIFort Worth painter and TCU alum and former prof Jim Woodson has been named state artist (two-dimensional) for 2013 by The Texas Commission on the Arts. Woodson joins state poet laureates Rosemary Catacalos (2013) and Dean Young...
You Can Design the Mavericks’ Uniforms
Kristian LinThe always-enterprising Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban just announced on his blog that he’s throwing an open contest to design the team’s uniforms for the 2015-16 season. Already people are posting their ideas. T...
Doctor Moncrief?
Eric GriffeyOver the weekend, Mike and Rosie Moncrief, the former first family of Fort Worth, each received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Tarleton State University. A press release quoted Karen Murray, provost and execut...
Texas Troubadour Abroad: Leaving Philly
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 10 years wri...
Fort Worth Artist Wins Hunting Art Prize
ANTHONY MARIANINative Fort Worthian and TCU alum Marshall Harris’ “Round Up: B.F. Smith & Son Saddlery Circa 1940-1942,” a life-size photorealist graphite drawing, was chosen by judges from Texas, Tennessee, and Delaware from more t...