Posts Tagged ‘dead’
George Jones (Greatest Country Singer Since Hank Williams) Dead At 81
Jeff PrinceHe’ll be “No Show Jones” forevermore — George Jones died today. Early in his career, Jones tried to sing like his idol Hank Williams. I once had a cassette of early Jones material and he practically mimi...
FWISD Needs Dead Armadillo Day
Jeff PrinceRoadkill doesn’t just feed buzzards in New Zealand. It raises money to pay for kids’ education while instilling a creative spirit that only comes from dressing a dead marsupial in a tiny prom dress. A New Zealand sc...
Pantagleize’s Dead Awaken
Ibsen is at his most surreal in the Fort Worth company’s latest.JIMMY FOWLER
It’s hard to overestimate the influence of 19th-century Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen on theater and, in particular, the modern English-speaking stage. With plays like A Doll’s House, Hedda Gabler, An Enemy of the Peopl...
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Big TicketEven now, Henrik Ibsen doesn’t really get his due. It’s hard for us to appreciate the rut that European theater was stuck in in the 19th century, filled with stock characters and sentimental clichés. That didn’t change u...
Caine is Working Stiff
Fort Worth novelist Rachel Caine spins another fempowered adventure yarn.JIMMY FOWLER
Earlier this year, the Weekly ran a cover story on Fort Worth-based urban fantasy novelist Rachel Caine, whose real name is Roxanne Longstreet Conrad. After publishing many books under various pen names in the ’90s, Conrad hi...
Fort Worth Circle Artist Kelly Fearing Dead At 92
Jeff PrinceOne of the last members of the revered Fort Worth Circle of artists died Sunday in Austin. Kelly Fearing, 92, died of congestive heart failure. Fearing was part of a somewhat eccentric art circle that introduced modernism, surr...
Let’s Give Tom Vandergriff What He Deserves
Jeff PrinceThe politician who put Arlington on the map, made a huge impact on Tarrant County and North Texas, and was pretty much the embodiment of political integrity, will be buried on Friday. If anyone deserves a huge public turnout it...
Point Blank’s Kim Davis Celebrated On Saturday
Jeff PrinceKim Davis, a guitarist from Fort Worth’s early rock ‘n roll scene, is dead — gone but not forgotten as he straps on a Les Paul electric and joins that heavenly chorus. Davis played the power chords and harmony...
Recruiting Tolerance
Hatemongers could learn a few things from this football coach.E.R. BILLS
On my way to work a while back I saw a solitary picketer at the corner of Camp Bowie Boulevard and Cherry Lane. He had a sign in each hand and two or three on the landscaping buggy he’d dragged to the street corner with...
It’s Not a Wonderful After.Life
Or even the best movie set at a funeral home this week.KRISTIAN LIN
Eleven years ago, a great Japanese film came out in American theaters under the title After Life, a joyful meditation that imagined all of us going to a Buddhist temple/studio after our deaths to have our favorite memories made...