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Film Shorts

OPENING: Antichrist (NR) Lars von Trier's horror film stars Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a couple who descend into madness while vacationing at a secluded cabin in the woods. (Opens Friday in Dallas) The Messenger (R) The closing night selection at the Lone Star Film... Read more...

Thank God and Greyhound, is she gone yet?

Fourteen minutes and one second ... 14 minutes and two seconds ... 14 minutes and three seconds ... . Sarah Palin 's 15 minutes of fame are just about up, but she's going to sprint to the finish line. Her memoir , Going Rogue , hits the bookstores today, but most of the juicy stuff... Read more...

Taking Wing

Many years ago, when Violet O'Valle was a drama teacher in Houston public schools, she discovered a collection of scripts by the great Irish playwright Sean O'Casey in a campus basement. O'Valle, a descendant of South Texas Irish immigrants, knew about O'Casey, of course. He... Read more...

Art of Darkness

Under normal circumstances, three guys who all work at art museums starting a band together would either be the beginning of a lame joke that only art history majors would get or the kind of buzzworthy event that would make UNT composition majors salivate. Read more...

Mike Reed's People, Places & Things

The jazz myth of Chicago is powerful, dating back to 1922, when King Oliver summoned Louis Armstrong from New Orleans to change the world. It continued in the '60s and '70s, when players who'd germinated in the hothouse of the Windy City's Association for the Advancement of ... Read more...

Smokin'

I had to go to Bone Daddy's House of Smoke in the Arlington Highlands Lifestyle Center to get a gift card for my neighbor's birthday. Believe me, I'd never, of my own volition, go to a place described as " like Hooters, only better ." I have "hooters" that I can look at any time I... Read more...

KXT Saves?

Since KXT/91.7-FM 's inaugural broadcast last week, local musos seem to have rediscovered the wonders of the ol' wireless telegraphy box. "Hey, 2009! The 1940s called. They want their wide-eyed optimism and can-do attitude back!" Read more...

Denial and Tragedy

When I heard about the Nov. 5 shootings at Fort Hood, I packed my bags for Killeen. As a former military wife, a military mom, and a clinician specializing in mass trauma, I suspected what I would find - not so much about the motivations for Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan's mu... Read more...

Gallery

This week marks the 35th anniversary of the founding of William Campbell Contemporary Art. The official celebration won't be until next month, but you can still mark the occasion by catching the gallery's current exhibit of Scottie Parsons' abstract color fields. Read more...

About a Girl

The radiant and gently heartbreaking An Education opens in Grapevine this Friday and is still playing at the Modern this weekend. It richly deserves to be seen, in a week when the buzz machine is at full roar for that other movie about a schoolgirl and an older guy. Fans of th... Read more...

Protection Scheme

Conservatives like to complain (not without some basis) about how Hollywood frequently portrays them in a negative light. I hereby point out that just about every character in The Blind Side , including the heroes of the story, is a dyed-in-the-wool Southern Republican. That's... Read more...

2009 Turkey Awards

We at Fort Worth Weekly are nothing if not topical. We have noticed that Times Are Tough. And so, like every other retailer on this planet, we have figured out how to sell the sizzle when the bird itself is tougher than a driller's heart and money is harder to find than an age... Read more...

New 'Cue

At first sight, Roscoe's Smokehouse in Burleson seemed to violate so many rules of Texas barbecue that I almost didn't go in. The lawn is well manicured, the building looks like it's never been condemned, and the sign outside still lights up. But since I had made the trip al... Read more...

Lunch with the Look-Alikes

Chow, Baby has long wanted to do an occasional series called "Lunch with the Stars," in which we would find out if people who dine with famous people also get fawned over. Plus Chow, Baby would reveal which stars chew with their mouths open . The holdup on all this is that Chow,... Read more...

An ACL Recap

**ONLINE EXCLUSIVE** Two weekends ago at Austin City Limits, about 65,000 official ticket holders and thousands more who managed to infiltrate Zilker Park without paying a dime became a temporary small town. This year's lineup featured some of the grunge-era's finest, along w... Read more...