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Breaking News: Sex is Fun
JIMMY FOWLERMuch confusion surrounds the ongoing scandal of Gen. David Petraeus, who had to resign from the CIA after a fling with his biographer Paula Broadwell, and Afghanistan commander Gen. John Allen, who may or may not have talked di...
Cowboys Fans, Be Not Proud
ANTHONY MARIANIWhat a big win yesterday for the ol’ Cowboys, right? Yee-haw! Squaring off against a dreaded, hated conference rival on that rival’s dreary Yankee-ass home turf with the rest of the season on the line and the Cowboys-hating...
Mick Jagger Gets No Satisfaction From Fracking
Jeff PrinceIf anyone should know anything about fossil fuels, it’s craggy rocker Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones. Jagger makes reference to hydraulic fracturing in the band’s first new single in years: “Doom and Gloom....
Post-Election Wrap
Kristian LinIt’s been hard trying to digest the press coverage of the presidential election while covering the film festival. I’ve read many insightful things from all across the political spectrum, but in the end it boiled down to two...
Clueless: Pegasus News, TCU 360 Assess Fort Worth’s Indie Scene
ANTHONY MARIANIThe Fort Worth music scene is highly amused. And maybe overreacting a bit. Earlier today, Pegasus News, a Dallas-centric online news outlet, reprinted a story that originally appeared in a recent edition of TCU 360, a student m...
Cowboys’ Season Still Alive
Anthony MarianiYou can blame Orlando Scandrick for that missed open-field tackle (not easy) and that holding penalty late in the fourth quarter (fatigue-induced) that kept the Atlanta Falcons’ offensive on the field, eating up precious cloc...
“One Square Mile” Near You
Kristian LinIf you remember the story we ran last July on Betsy and Carl Crum, the Emmy-winning documentarians behind the One Square Mile series, here’s some follow-up news. They’re producing a new series called One Square Mile...
The Green Menace Has Been Rolled Back
Jimmy FowlerDid you wake up this morning feeling a little safer? That’s likely because hundreds of thousands of public dollars and countless hours of law enforcement activity were marshalled to take 18 dangerous North Texas criminals off...
Fort Worth Teen Suspended For Anti-Gay Comments Makes Video
Andrew McLemoreRemember Dakota Ary? He was the teenager disciplined by Western Hills High School last year after a teacher overheard him telling another student that “homosexuality is wrong.” He and his mom filed a lawsuit against...
Lena Dunham Gives Right-Wingers Female Trouble
Kristian LinWhen writing a post like this, I become very much aware that there are no women writing regularly on this blog, now that Betty Brink is indisposed. That’s really too bad; this subject cries out for a female point of view....