Posts Tagged ‘church’
9/11/11
Big TicketAs the calendar would have it, the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks falls on a Sunday. Not that there would have been a shortage of commemorative events regardless of what day of the week it fell on, but the coinc...
Praise The Lord And Pass The Kool-Aid
How Rick Perry turned a “nonpolitical” prayer rally into his presidential send-off.Steve McVicker | Photos by F. Carter Smith
I like to think I’m relatively well-liked by my colleagues in the news business and that I’ve been doing this long enough to know how to come prepared to any event I might be covering.
Battleground Wittenberg
Dr. Faustus and Martin Luther fight for Hamlet’s soul in Amphibian Stage Production’s current show.JIMMY FOWLER
For a show that explores sober themes like the conflict between faith and reason, Amphibian Stage Productions’ Wittenberg has a surprising amount of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll. Playwright David Davalos’ highly litera...
What’s a Little Hate Among Friends?
StaticGov. Rick Perry is promoting a prayer assembly on Aug. 6 at Reliant Stadium in Houston. How commendable! And pious! Just tell Static where to kneel! After all, Perry asked everybody to pray for rain during this summer’s wildf...
Unheard Classics
Big TicketLast week, we wrote about Tan Dun’s Water Concerto in this space, and this week Fort Worth music lovers with a taste for the unusual will have more unusual fare to choose from. It all starts with the TCU Symphony Orchestra co...
Egypt to Texas, Giza to Giza
An Egyptian-American family tends the store and worries about what’s happening in the Middle East.ERIC GRIFFEY photos by lee chastain
A modest strip mall in Bedford is a long way from the current troubles in Egypt. But for 39-year-old Emad Nagib, it’s a salient reminder of why he left his home there and of all that he has accomplished in his short time in t...
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ? 10 The fourth Lone Star International Film Festival plays at the AMC Palace and other locations. This year’s highlights include Mike Leigh’s Another Year, Jeff Malmberg’s Marwencol (a documentary about a brain-damag...
School Board Candidates Will Answer Voter’s Questions – at Church.
StaticIf last week’s cover story (“Upsetting the Apple Cart,” April 21, 2010) fired your interest in this spring’s hotter-than-usual races for the Fort Worth school board, you may want to go to church. Not necessarily to pray...
Challenging the Big Dogs
John Q. PublicTo the editor: The Nov. 11 Static column, “What Will it Take?,” continues the saga of Taser guns and the dangerous, sometimes lethal ramifications from their 50,000-volt power.
Wheel Right
ERIC GRIFFEYFour years ago, Amber Herndon was volunteering at a banquet being held at her church. The event was a fund-raiser for a new program started by the church’s Sunday school class, which took donated cars, fixed them up, and ...
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