Media
Steve Jobs: Guru of Entitlement?
Jimmy FowlerAfter Steve Jobs’ untimely death last week, his 2005 Stanford commencement address was replayed across social and traditional media. Parts of the speech were wonderful, including his advice to live with an awareness that life...
Is Rick Perry Dumb? Duh!
Jimmy FowlerEver since the website Politico published a story last month asking Is Rick Perry Dumb?, a flurry of media opinionators have declared the question unfair. There are different ways of being intelligent, they said. Not everyone h...
Rahr’s Visionary Brew Has Arrived
Anthony MarianiIt’s here. Rahr & Sons Brewing Company’s Visionary Brew, a dark beer brewed specifically in honor of our inaugural Visionary Awards (three $500 cash prizes given to three outstanding, young Fort Worth artists: Michelle ...
Hands Off SpongeBob
Jimmy FowlerAttention, child learning experts – put down your study and back away from The Sponge. In case you haven’t heard, an online journal released an article today suggesting that SpongeBob SquarePants makes four year olds du...
Rick Perry Reviews Aren’t Great
Jeff PrinceThe Stepford Wives grin…George W. Bush bluster…Rush Limbaugh insensitivity…Cliff Clavin world insight…it was there for all to see. Rick Perry made his national TV splash at last night’s Republican ...
Fort Worth Music: Hot Snot?
Anthony MarianiThe Dallas Observer’s Daniel Hopkins recently invited four media types –– Cory Graves of Subservient Experiment, Andy Odom of Dentoneer, Mark Schectman of The Edge’s local show, and yours truly –– to join him in a v...
Haltom City Stories Project
Anthony MarianiNot that Haltom City is necessarily lacking an identity, but Fort Worth multimedia artist Christopher Blay is helping define the Northeastern Tarrant County ville via his latest artistic endeavor. The Haltom City Stories Projec...
Movies About Maids
Kristian LinThe Help looks poised to be a huge hit this weekend, and everyone is healthily chewing over the book and the film’s racial politics. There’s even a panel discussion on this subject going on at Dock Bookshop on the 18th....
7th Haven in The Chive
Anthony MarianiKnowing 7th Haven owner Jimmy Moore pretty well, I’m fairly certain that part of the reason he decided to relocate his bar to its current spot on the corner of West 7th and Carroll is that huge marquee, a veritable canvas for...
Maxim Hometown Hottie from Fort Worth
Anthony MarianiI admit. While I’m as red-blooded as the next heterosexual American male, I stopped reading Maxim in college, and I was in college before Al Gore invented the internet. Evidently, though, the magazine is still around or at le...