Posts Tagged ‘free’
Parking Wars
StaticWhen Fort Worth officials ordered up an 1,100-space parking garage near the Will Rogers Memorial Center, they decided it would be paid for via a $5 fee on all the parking lots surrounding the center, year-round. The city negoti...
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KRISTIAN LINWED ? 1 There’s always a good time to think about the less fortunate, so Tarrant Area Food Bank marks the beginning of September with an open house that takes the public behind the scenes of this local charity. The event is 1...
Off to Palio’s
With locations in Mansfield and Fort Worth, this Italian pizza joint caters to health nuts and the gluten intolerant.LAURIE BARKER JAMES
In the northwestern Italian city of Siena, the Palio is a twice-yearly horse race with religious connotations. In the North Texas cities of Mansfield and Fort Worth, Palio’s is a pizza joint with some unusual features. The fa...
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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...
Keeping the Light On
Static Static is glad to see that Attorney General Greg Abbott is back in court defending the Texas Open Meetings Act. The law, which essentially ensures that the public’s business be done in the light of day and not in back r...
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KRISTIAN LINWED ? 7 Former American Idol finalist Syesha Mercado stars in Dallas Summer Musicals’ production of Dreamgirls running this month. As usually happens with stage shows that spawn successful movie musicals, the actors have to c...
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KRISTIAN LINWED ? 23 Viewers of The Big Bang Theory will want to get over to the Improv at Arlington tonight for a lineup of self-described nerds performing standup comedy in a show called Comedy From the Dork Side. We’ll give this show ...
Of Bongs and BP
Fight government regulation if you want, but don’t get your smoke signals crossed.E.R. BILLS
These days it seems like you can’t throw a rock in Aledo without hitting a proponent of free markets, laissez faire, and the notion that it’s every man, woman, and child for him- or herself. These folks want corporations un...
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KRISTIAN LINWED ? 16 The double bass is called that because it goes an octave below the cello, and in recent decades heavyweight composers such as Elliott Carter, Einojuhani Rautavaara, John Harbison, Christopher Rouse, and Gian Carlo Meno...
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KRISTIAN LINWED ? 2 At noon, 8.0 Restaurant & Bar is hosting its annual Indianapolis 500 Champion’s Luncheon, presented by Texas Motor Speedway. The Indy champion, who will be making just his or her second public appearance after bei...