Posts Tagged ‘business’
Butterfly Helps Illegal Gringo Crosser
Paul Edwards and Adam Dietrich hook up for a new comedy pilot.JIMMY FOWLER
A little more than two years ago, Paul Edwards decided that the time had come to chase his lifelong dream. He owned a successful safety food consulting business that brought financial security to his family. His two children we...
Gallery
GalleryThe Art Institute of Fort Worth is a trade school, which explains why its new to the business of gallery showings. The school’s inaugural show features the paintings of Ron Tomlinson and one of his protégés, Zack Hawkins, a...
Medical License
KRISTIAN LINIn the late 1990s, a Harvard Business School graduate named John Crowley made medical history. He was a Bristol Myers executive whose two youngest children suffered from Pompe disease, a form of muscular dystrophy that had alwa...
Mama’s got a brand-new wig
JEFF PRINCESeveral men were starting their weekend early, relaxing in the dark confines of an upscale gentlemen’s club. Greeting them as they came and went on a recent Friday afternoon was Michael Precker, perhaps the only guy ever ...
Business Gets Better
COLE GARNER HILLWith an author’s love of wordplay and keen eye for gritty details, 26-year-old Eaton Lake Tonics frontman Tony Ferraro draws inspiration from “dude-lit,” writers such as Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, and Joh...
Transfer from If to When
DAN MCGRAWFive years ago, no one in Fort Worth was thinking much about public transportation, particularly an inner-city streetcar system. Real estate developers, assuming that only poor people used mass transit, didn’t want any li...
Plowing in Vain?
EDDIE GRIFFINTo: City Manager Dale Fisseler Dear Dale, Since my retirement, I have received disturbing information about an initiative we began in the mid-1980s – the revitalization of the Evans and Rosedale Business and Cultural Dist...
Nickel and Dimed
KRISTIAN LINGeorge W. Bush is out of office. Healthcare reform is on track to be enacted. So what do you do if you’re Michael Moore? You take on the whole gosh-darned system, as we can see in his latest essay film, Capitalism: A Love...
Night and Day
KRISTIAN LINTHU ? 24 TCU’s theater students have been busy. In addition to the school’s production of Doubt this week, they’re also putting on Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile in conjunction with Circle The...
Grouchy
Last CallHere’s the thing: I applaud anyone who opens a business right now, especially if the business is in booze. Economists look at the construction industry as a means of gauging the health and well-being of the nation’s...