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Django Reinhardt Festival at A5A
JIMMY FOWLERHow cool is 20th century guitarist Django Reinhardt? So cool, Sean Penn faints at the mere mention of his name. More accurately, Sean Penn’s character in Woody Allen’s 1999 movie Sweet and Lowdown swoons every time someone ...
Let’s Go … Ravens?
ANTHONY MARIANIMy worst NFL nightmare has come true. Two of my least favorite teams –– the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers –– are headed to the Super Bowl, the Ravens after effectively neutering Tom Brady and his Pats, an...
Texas Lawmakers Working Blue
Eric GriffeyTexas has a long, dubious history of allowing antiquated laws to stay on its books. For example, in 1973 the legislature passed a law that made homosexual behavior a misdemeanor offense. That same group passed a law making poss...
Texas Students Use Sugar Daddies to Pay Student Loans
Eric GriffeyStudents at a few Texas universities are getting top marks for their…uh…creative solution to paying off student loan debt. A press release by the InfoStream Group said: “An increasing number of female students...
Preacher Perry Comforts His Gun-Toting Flock
JIMMY FOWLERHow moronic is Rick Perry’s response to President Obama’s new gun control proposals? His statement reaches Everest-scale heights of dumbassed-osity that even I didn’t think he was capable of. It’s awe-inspiring. He ment...
Flying Rats Live Another Day
ANTHONY MARIANIDear Lord. We’ve got to see Ray Lewis do that stupid dance at least one more time. My thoughts on the head flying rat are well known: He’s a thug who obstructed the investigation of a double homicide in 2000 and yet somehow...
Strippers Brace For New Scarlet Letter
JIMMY FOWLERIf you want an interesting perspective on Arlington state rep Bill Zedler’s proposal to shame and harass Texas strippers — er, make them get a state license, I mean — check out columnist Gilbert Garcia’s new pi...
Racist Redskins Should Change Name
Jeff PrinceThe Washington Redskins — a team us Cowboys fans love to hate — might finally be considering a name change. Why? Money, of course. The team wants a new stadium in Washington D.C., but they mayor doesn’t like t...
Star-Telegram Lays Off Watchdog Columnist Dave Lieber
Jeff PrinceAnother round of layoffs at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram included this surprising pink slip — consumer watchdog columnist Dave Lieber is leaving the daily after 20 years. Lieber accepted the layoff with grace and his typi...
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...