Posts Tagged ‘features’
Music Awards Is Here
HEARSAYSo the ballot for our 16th Annual Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards is out (pg. 43). Lotsa bands on there, right? Too many? Nah. In compiling the ballot with my nominating committee –– local club owners, booking agents, Hall o...
Killer or Filler?
A new, shiny one from some non-scenesters and a blast from the past are comin’ atcha from the great 817.FORT WORTH WEEKLY MUSIC STAFF
Titanmoon’s Bang Bang Titanmoon doesn’t do anything small. After a three-year hiatus, the Fort Worth synth-rock quartet has returned not just with a new album, Bang Bang, but also with a feature-length documentary about the...
Gatsby: Green Light
A great novel becomes a party soaked in champagne, hip-hop, and Art Deco.KRISTIAN LIN
A scant year after F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby was published, it was made into a film. Since then, it has been turned into stage plays, other films, an opera, a graphic novel, and even video games. Baz Luhrma...
Lighter Delights
Don Mario’s piles on the flavor instead of the weight.JIMMY FOWLER
Even diehard fans of traditional Mexican cuisine will admit the fare tends to be too heavy while also being light on flavor. It’s as if the goal of a typical plate of enchiladas was merely to fill up your stomach rather than ...
Killer or Filler?
Rock ’n’ blues, C&W, and a lost gem are coming at you from the Fort.FORT WORTH WEEKLY MUSIC STAFF
The Frisky Disco’s The Frisky Disco One of the pleasures of being a longtime music fan is hearing young musicians rediscover a particular genre or style as if no one had ever heard it before. The self-titled debut album from ...
Ridglea Redux
LAST CALLOf all the peculiarities and hassles surrounding the Ridglea Theater’s renovation, the oddest one in my mind was how the Ridglea Bar, now rechristened as the Ridglea Lounge, opened for all of 11 days last March. It didn’t h...
Watching the Door
Two bills to limit cities’ power over the gas industry aren’t moving now — but they might.PETER GORMAN
It’s a truism of the Texas Legislature that killing “bad” legislation is as important as passing the “good” kind. Under that theory, it would seem that critics of the shale gas industry would be celebrating the fact t...
Iron Man 3: Terror Plot
Though unessential, Marvel Studios’ latest superhero blockbuster sizzles.STEVE STEWARD
Was giving former Hollywood wunderkind Shane Black the keys to Iron Man’s ignition something of a crazy bet? Because the writer-director hasn’t been a sure thing in years. The only bona fide hit he’s ever had was Lethal W...
Ocean Breeze
Bonnell’s Waters is a dazzling if occasionally uneven experience.LAURIE BARKER JAMES
While non-local foodies probably equate our little hamlet with Tim Love, locals know that Mr. Love Shack is far from the only game in town. Since 2001 Jon Bonnell has been wowing palates across the globe with his gourmet rustic...
If Marijuana is Legalized, Potheads Will Have Nothing Left To Talk About
Eric GriffeyIf you’re like me, you have a friend or nine who still smokes weed all of the time, and all he/she/they ever talk about are (in no particular order): legalizing weed, the various benefits of weed, famous people who likely...