Posts Tagged ‘fort worth’
Rose and Thorns
Holy Moly’s frontman has lived to see his band bloom.ANTHONY MARIANI, Photos by Vishal Malhotra
Large bodies were bouncing off one another like bingo balls. In front of and slightly above them, Fort Worth acoustic country-punk quintet Holy Moly was wrapping up a set of sometimes subdued, often high-octane originals and th...
Looming Over Linwood
Neighborhood loses fight against apartments.WYATT KANYER
The latest evidence of pressure on Fort Worth’s Linwood enclave is a project that will cast a long shadow on the park named for a man who fought to preserve the modest but tight-knit neighborhood through floods, a major torna...
What Runs Beneath
More than 700 miles of pipelines carrying corrosive gas run under Fort Worth — but no one’s sure exactly where.PETER GORMAN
On Monday, June 7, 2010, workers installing a utility pole outside of Cleburne, in Johnson County, struck a buried natural gas line. The explosion that followed left one person dead, sent several others to area hospitals, and s...
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ▪ 21 Despite its name, the Quad Cities area is a cluster of five towns located on either side of the Iowa-Illinois border. This is where the Quad City Mallards hail from, and they are new to the Central Hockey League, so ...
Hello Again to The Hendersons
HEARSAYOne of the most talented yet underrated Fort Worth bands is back on the scene after a long hiatus. The last we heard from The Hendersons was in 2010, when the vehicle for singer-songwriter Nolan Robertson released Lotosyros. Th...
Silver Linings: Soaring Eagles
This comedy about mental illness and football cruises into the end zone.KRISTIAN LIN
For whatever reason, this is a banner year for movies about mental illness set in Pennsylvania. We still have the excellent Pittsburgh teen flick The Perks of Being a Wallflower playing, and now from the other end of the state ...
Life of Pi: Cat Away
An improbable survival story on the ocean makes for an Ang Lee masterpiece.KRISTIAN LIN
Remember when I wrote about “unfilmable” novels in my review of Cloud Atlas a few weeks ago? Well, Yann Martell’s Life of Pi was supposed to be unfilmable, too — a largely plotless story filled with the philosophical po...
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ▪ 14 Local playwright T.J. Walsh wrote a play about 19th-century Swedish playwright August Strindberg and his tumultuous problems with mental illness, unorthodox religious beliefs, state censorship, and relationships with...
Gallery
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Milan Gallery has scored a coup this month with Dr. Seuss’ Secrets of the Deep, a retrospective of the beloved children’s book author/illustrator’s 70-year career, focusing on his lesser known and more grown-up drawings. ...
Turkey Awards 2012
FORT WORTH WEEKLY STAFFDroughts and wildfires are just a few of the challenges that North Texas ranchers and farmers faced in recent seasons. On the urban landscape, however, human fallibility in all its forms provided such a rich diet that the local...