Random Stuff
Dollar Tacos at Fuzzy’s All Day. Amen.
Jeff PrinceChristmas Shmishmus — the holiday I most anticipate each year is National Taco Day at Fuzzy’s Taco Shop. All of their tacos — fish, shrimp, beef, chicken, pork — are a buck apiece. I visited Fuzzy’...
Ladies, He’s Single Again
Jimmy FowlerSingle gals, do you have a thing for natural gas, Republican politics, and liver spots? If not, maybe a net worth of $8 billion warms your heart: A spokesman for T. Boone Pickens, 84, announced yesterday that the billionaire e...
Morris Matson Teaching Early Texas Art Class At TCU This Month
Jeff PrinceArt enthusiast and promoter Morris Matson picked the brain of A.C. “Ace” Cook for 10 years to learn the ins and outs of finding, buying, restoring, documenting, displaying, and preserving vintage Texas art. Cook is no longe...
Harry Houdini Coming to Fort Worth
ANTHONY MARIANIEvery year on the anniversary of Harry Houdini’s 1926 death, Halloween, magic enthusiasts from all over the world gather in a predetermined city to celebrate the legendary escape artist’s life –– and to try to communica...
IPhone 5: My Life is Complete
Jimmy FowlerI just got my hands on a brand spanking new iPhone 5. Believe the hype, people. This lighter, sleeker, faster beauty has given me a rush that nothing can compare to. You could dip Brad Pitt in Nutella and serve him naked on a ...
Save the Twinkie!
Jimmy FowlerMuch ink has been spilled criticizing Chicago teachers for their strike. Not nearly enough attention has been paid to another evil, selfish union right here in North Texas. One group of area workers threatens to imperil the lif...
Rahr: “Official” Beer of Your Dallas Cowboys
ANTHONY MARIANII don’t know if Dallas has a brewery. I don’t spend any time there and don’t have any reason to follow Dallas-centric food/spirits journalism. But I do know that Fort Worth has a brewery, that everybody loves it, and that...
Capri Pants Are Not “Normal”
Jimmy FowlerSo NBC has premiered a sitcom called The New Normal about a gay couple trying to become parents via a surrogate mother. America continues to take a ridiculous amount of time deciding what it thinks of marriage equality for gay ...
Barry Switzer Finally Tries To Hold Somebody Accountable
Jeff PrinceAs a coach, you know you’re just a softie with sprinkles when even your players criticize you for not being tough enough. In the mid-1990s, former Dallas Cowboys head coach Barry Switzer did little to instill discipline i...
Local Artist Scores River Phoenix’s Last Movie
ANTHONY MARIANIJames Michael Taylor is not “going Hollywood,” as the old saying goes –– he’s much too cantankerous and outspoken for anyplace other than Fort Worth –– but his music might be. A movie for which the blue-col...