Posts Tagged ‘fair’
Downwinders Spread Wings
StaticThe group that made its name fighting against the toxic muck spewed from Midlothian cements kilns is now climbing into the ring with natural gas drillers. In this corner: Downwinders At Risk, a nonprofit environmental group tha...
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ? 18 Having suffered from anorexia nervosa for more than 20 years, Jena Morrow now makes it her mission to educate people about the condition through her experiences. She’ll be at TCU this evening to discuss her memoir, H...
Try and Fail
KRISTIAN LINNelson Mandela reportedly said that if an actor ever were to portray him on screen, he’d want it to be Morgan Freeman. Well, with the release of Invictus this week, he now has his wish. I don’t have mine, though. I ...
Fair to Midland
Listen UpDuring the first notes of “Dance of the Manatee,” the opening track on Fair to Midland’s new disc, Fables from a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True, the Texas band states its clear intent: to be extremely, umm, i...
Beans of Wrath
You’ve got the whole world — or at least the lives of millions — in your cup.ERIC GRIFFEY
In a five-bay garage tucked away in the shadow of Trinity Industries off Seminary Drive in south Fort Worth, the smells are a unique combination of grease and the heady aroma of coffee. Here, owner Marvin Rodak and his crew rep...
Fair Food
Long-time North Texas institution Tolbert’s outdoes Big Tex and the gang 365 days a year.Jimmy Fowler
Ah, October in North Texas: Ferris wheels, livestock, and an “if you fry it, we’ll try it” attitude toward grub is much on the minds of your friends and neighbors, and Tolbert’s, located in Grapevine’s historic Main S...
In Fair Verona
The ShowThe audience for Christian hardcore bands probably isn’t that large. There’s just something about singing to Him in the kind of gravelly, loud, guttural voice normally reserved for bloody murder. Gives a whole new meaning t...