Posts Tagged ‘features’
People & Politics 2012
FORT WORTH WEEKLY STAFFThing Tarrant County Needs Critic’s choice: Another Super Bowl Super Bowl XLV in 2011 went awry thanks to crazy bad weather, ticket mishaps, and the fact that the Dallas Cowboys missed a rare opportunity to both play in and h...
Culture 2012
FORT WORTH WEEKLY STAFF Solo Dance Performances Critic’s choice: (tie) Leticia Oliveira, Carolyn Judson, and Michele Gifford Oliveira and Judson alternated in the title role of Texas Ballet Theater’s Giselle, bringing different views of the...
RoboPub
LAST CALLEarlier this week, I saw a still from the set of the impending RoboCop reboot, and, frankly, I already don’t want to see this movie. The photo showed a charcoal-colored humanoid who looks like any one of the legion of robotic...
New Music, Dangit(s)!
Fort Worth WeeklyThough they never really went away, The Dangits are back. I guess you could say they’re no longer content just playing the occasional show for beer money. They’re pushing now. Since the hard-rocking quartet’s formation fi...
Playing Defense
Lockheed lays off workers when military spending drops — and when it soars.ANDREW MCLEMORE
The argument of defense companies like Lockheed Martin, which employs thousands at its Fort Worth plant, is simple: Don’t force us to lay off workers when you know the economy can’t afford it. That’s what the defense indu...
Low-Bidding Mental Illness
The company that brought us deadly private prisons wants to run Kerrville State Hospital.PETER GORMAN
State-run mental health facilities in Texas never have an easy ride: Funding is always tight, and many of them have had problems through the years. But the state hospital in Kerrville, according to advocates and regulators, has...
Wild Wild Western
The Western-modern Wild Mushroom is worth the flood of orange cones.LAURIE BARKER JAMES
Weatherford’s culinary advances over the past few years now include several white- tablecloth establishments, including the upscale-casual Wild Mushroom Steakhouse and Lounge. The three-year-old restaurant is located off the ...
BREAKING NEWS: Grand jury indicts SMU student on rape charge
One SMU panel has found him “guilty,” another “not guilty”By Natalie Posgate, Brooks Igo. and Patricia Boh
Editor’s note: Fort Worth Weekly has reported several times over the last several years about controversies regarding the reporting and handling of crime on college campuses, in Texas and nationally. Included in that coverage...
Live Oak to Work With Spune?
ANTHONY MARIANIMore changes are afoot at The Live Oak Music Hall & Lounge, the plush venue/bar/restaurant that recently opened on the Near Southside. A month ago, Live Oak owner Bill Smith hired Jamie Kinser, co-owner and co-founder of Bl...
Molly the Longhorn Needs a Gas Mask
STATICDo you think members of the Fort Worth City Council ever look around, sniff the air, read the stories about people getting nosebleeds and turning up with gas-drilling chemicals in their blood and moving out of town because of g...