Posts Tagged ‘fort’
Short Hop to the Big Apple
A TCU-born theater group is introducing local frogs to the off-Broadway pond — and vice versa.Jimmy Fowler
It wasn’t much of a stretch, when a small group of TCU drama students decided to stage a play on the Horned Frog campus seven years ago, for them to pick the name Amphibian Productions for the new theatrical entity they&#...
Big Shoes to Backfill
Ames Fender’s grandfather had a lot to do with how Fort Worth looks today — the younger might have something to say about that.Art
Architect Ames Fender’s grandfather is Wyatt C. Hedrick, the man who’s most responsible for the way that much of Fort Worth looks — he designed the T&P Building, the Will Rogers Center, TCU Stadium, the main post off...
The Baptist Generals
The ShowEsopus magazine isn’t really a magazine as much as it’s a distribution tool, like a record label or art gallery.
Word
ANTHONY MARIANINot too long ago at the Black Dog Tavern, near the Will Rogers Memorial Center, where the annual Stock Show & Rodeo was in full swing, about 40 folks piled in to see a spoken-word poetry performance.
Chinese Opera
Big TicketFort Worth opera lovers haven’t had it easy the last few months. The local opera company has been in hibernation all season and won’t come out until the big festival in the summer. Meanwhile, the New York’s Metropolitan O...
The 2006 Tally
Our debit and credit columns just don’t add up.ANTHONY MARIANI
Fort Worth isn’t the same place it was as little as five years ago. It’s more populated and developed, sure, but, more importantly, it now has an impenetrable resistance to being casually referred to as Dallas’ little bro...
Lord of the Wings
Big TicketWhen it came out in 1980, Airplane! was considered frenetically paced for a comedy film.
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Listen UpUnder the baton of Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra has become a vital musical force in the Southwest, challenging even the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for primacy.
9×12 Works on Paper Show
GalleryThroughout history artists have committed some of their most enthralling visions to humble paper rather than expensive canvas.
Troubled Waters
Trinity River Vision opponents want to shut off the funding faucet.DAN MCGRAW
When U.S Rep. Kay Granger pushed funding through Congress for the Trinity River Vision project — anointed as flood control, but really an economic development venture — she did it with amazing speed. The approval for the U....