Posts Tagged ‘dallas’
Molly Ivins Stirring It Up
Longtime friend Ellen Sweets remembers her days in the kitchen with the famous journalist.LAURIE BARKER JAMES
As a fledgling journalist at Arlington’s Young Junior High School, I got to have lunch with Molly Ivins. The legendary writerly rabblerouser who died of breast cancer in 2007 at the age of 62 had previously, famously worked f...
Best Of 2011
People & PoliticsFort Worth Weekly Staff
TV Journalist: Readers’ choice: Karen Borta, CBS/Channel 11 Critic’s choice: Brett Shipp, WFAA/Channel 8 This Dallas native is the son of newsman Bert Shipp, and the apple didn’t fall far from the muckraking tree. Brett S...
Auction Hunters Has A Hoot In Cowtown
Jeff PrinceReality isn’t always reality on reality TV, which explains why Spike TV’s Auction Hunters keeps referring to Dallas even though the most recent show is partly filmed in Fort Worth and features Stockyards fixture Dal...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Another Earth (PG-13) Brit Marling co-writes and stars in this indie sci-fi movie as an astronomy student seeking redemption for an accident she caused on the night a duplicate Earth is discovered in the sky. Also with...
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ? 13 Despite its cringe-inducing name, Tequila for Ta-Tas is nevertheless in service of a worthy cause. The Susan G. Komen-inspired event features music by Poo Live Crew, The Boobles (how appropriate), and DJ Christopher to...
All the News Money Can Buy
StaticThis week’s cover story examines the embattled newspaper industry and ponders whether two things — paywalls and iPads — might save the day. Most readers, up to now, haven’t been willing to pay for online news, when so m...
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Born in Knoxville, Zigwai Remy Odukomaiya divided her childhood between the United States and her parents’ native Nigeria.
Joe King Carrasco, Ramblin Jack Are Must See
Jeff PrinceIt’s rare that I recommend people go to Dallas, but I’m making an exception for nostalgia’s sake. Two must-see shows are being held at Poor David’s Pub this weekend. (And the club is a heck of a lot easi...
Worldwide Accent Project Needs Better Texas Talk
Jeff PrinceThe Worldwide Accent Project is relying on the YouTube community to help compile a “global accent archive,” and the contributions from people in this area leave much to be desired. Now here’s what a Texas acce...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Beginners (R) This autobiographical drama by Mike Mills (Thumbsucker) stars Ewan McGregor as a man who’s shocked when his terminally ill, recently widowed father (Christopher Plummer) comes out of the closet. Also wi...