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Different Lede, Same Nut Graf
Jeff PrinceThe economy sucks and everybody has to take a week off without pay. I’ve paraphrased, but that’s how Fort Worth Star-Telegram Publisher Gary Wortel began a March 22, 2010 inner office memo to staff. Here’s the...
Sports! Knees! Murder!
ANTHONY MARIANIThe NFL playoffs began this past weekend and were as lackluster as you probably imagined though not nearly as lackluster and bone-dry boring as next week’s games will be. All of the favorites won, handily, yesterday and Satur...
Cowboys’ D: Trampled Under Foot
ANTHONY MARIANIYes, boneheaded plays and mistakes are killers. Missed game-winning field goals, unconscionably dumb penalties in crucial situations, interceptions –– they’re all horrible but do not exist in vacuums. You could even say t...
Snoop Throws Dallas Cowboys A Bone; Fiona Apple Who?
Jeff PrinceHere’s a Snoop Lion photo we didn’t have room for in this week’s cover story (“Happy New Year From Sierra Blanca…But Leave Your Weed At Home,” Dec. 27, 2012). Lion wore a Dallas Cowboys swea...
DFW Film Critics: “Lincoln” Is Tops
Kristian LinThe Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association, of which I am a member, recently voted on the best movies of 2012. Today, they released the results of our vote, which includes acting awards and a new category for best movie sou...
SXSW is Complete … Again
ANTHONY MARIANIMore than 800 bands (and counting) from all over the globe have been selected to perform as part of the 2013 South-by-Southwest Music Festival and Conference (March 12-17). The list includes a few regional acts, including three...
Jenna Bush Hager: From Party Girl To Southern Living Matron
Jeff PrinceSeems like only yesterday that George W. Bush’s cute, blonde daughter Jenna was running wild, drinking while under age in Fort Worth and Austin, and developing a reputation as a coo-coo party girl. I always liked that abo...
Century Media Signs Pinkish Black
ANTHONY MARIANIFort Worth Goth-prog duo Pinkish Black has signed with Century Media, a 24-year-old L.A.-based label that is home to metal giants Andrew WK, Buckcherry, Napalm Death, and Lacuna Coil, plus dozens of other, smaller acts. In a pr...
One More Turkey: Star-Telegram’s Undercooked Turkey Awards
Andrew McLemoreThe Turkey Awards paper has long been one of the most beloved traditions among Weekly staffers, second only to hourly cigarette breaks and lunches consisting of bite-size candy bars. This annual ritual of lampooning the cowards...
Another Turkey: North Texas Sports
ANTHONY MARIANINorth Texas is hurting. We’re not talking about the traffic, the smog, the politics, the fracking-generated earthquakes, or the expanding waistlines of most of our friends and neighbors. No, North Texas is hurtin’ in ye old...