Media
Breaking News: The Gulf is Oily!
Jimmy FowlerIf fans of The Daily Show were to spend a few consecutive hours watching one of the 24/7 cable news stations, they’d realize: Jon Stewart’s writing staff doesn’t have to work that hard to find ideas. It only requires a li...
White vs. Extremist Not Named Perry
Jimmy FowlerTonight, while you were busy clearing out the empty beer bottles and the gnawed-on rib bones from the backyard, Democratic guv candidate Bill White talked issues with Libertarian guv candidate Kathie Glass down in Kerrville. He...
Lone Star Awards: The Weekly Rocked
Gayle ReavesIf you’re keeping score, Fort Worth Weekly rocked the house at the Houston Press Club’s journalism awards banquet over the weekend. In the small-newspaper division of the club’s statewide contest, Weekly writers brought h...
Justice Done for USA
Kristian LinI said it in a previous post, and it certainly bears repeating: They wouldn’t be the U.S. soccer team if they did things the easy way. USA went into its last World Cup group game against Algeria knowing that they needed t...
Bi, Bi, Baby
Jimmy FowlerThis is some funny shit: The Advocate has compiled a list of quotes by about 16 allegedly “bisexual” women actors/singers/personalities called “Girls Who Say They Like Girls.” “Say” is the operative word her...
Scenes from The Orbans’ CD Release
Anthony MarianiPhotog Mike Hollis was on hand for The Orbans’ CD release show on Friday at Lola’s Saloon, with openers the Quaker City Nighthawks, from Fort Worth, and Dallas’ The Roomsounds. The Orbans’ album, When We Were Wild, is a...
Bill White: Grumpy Gus for Guv
Jimmy FowlerHere’s a good piece from the Texas Observer that breaks down Dem candidate Bill White’s management style as both mayor of Houston and as energy and investment executive. As much detail as the reporting provides on White’s...
Badass World Cup posters
Kristian LinI just got a good look at these amazing pieces of artwork by the Cape Town-based art group called AM I Collective, commissioned by ESPN and the advertising firm of Wieden + Kennedy to promote the upcoming World Cup tournament. ...
Fort Worth Writer Profiled in National Mag
Anthony MarianiThe March/April issue of Poets & Writers magazine contains a small profile of Alex Lemon, the 30-year-old TCU creative writing prof whose slight memoir Happy I semi-panned back in January, not long after the book came out, ...
The Not Gay Actor (or, WTF, Ramin Setoodeh?)
Kristian LinRamin Setoodeh’s recent culture piece in Newsweek last week has set off quite the conflagration in the gay blogosphere, with repercussions for those of us who care deeply about theater, movies, and TV. Let’s start from the ...