Posts Tagged ‘god’
Storms in New Jerusalem
A newbie tackles Baruch Spinoza’s heady philosophizing in Stage West’s latest.JIMMY FOWLER
When Garret Storms auditioned last year for Stage West’s current production of David Ives’ New Jerusalem, his hopes weren’t particularly high. He’d just returned to Fort Worth to live with his family after earning a BFA...
IffySwift Justice
An immodest proposal for tykes’ right to carry.E.R. BILLS
Oh boy, here we go again. Last month, a kindergartner carried a gun into a Houston elementary school, and it fired when he was trying to pull it out and show it off at lunch. There’s no mystery regarding what happened next: T...
God Hates The Mavs
Jeff PrinceGod appeared on Conan O’Brien’s show and dissed Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks. I’m watching Conan, recorded on TIVO last night, and the TV funnyman introduced God to explain why the world didn’t...
Stephen Hawking vs. Heaven Boy
Jimmy FowlerThis is pretty funny: Last night’s World News With Diane Sawyer closed with a story pitting the physicist Stephen Hawking against a 12 year old boy from Nebraska. Hawking has recently given interviews declaring that “heaven...
Wary Christmas
Season’s greeting should include religious tolerance.E.R. BILLS
OK, I get it: It’s Christmas, and you want to celebrate the birth of your savior. You want to decorate the trees and break out the lights and put plastic reindeer on the lawn. You want to wear Santa hats and give out a big pi...
Johnny Got His Pills
(And we’re getting ours.)E.R. BILLS
After U.S. Army Sgt. Douglas Hale, Jr. finished 15 months in Iraq for his second combat tour, it was obvious that things in his life were awry. In 2007, he was diagnosed with severe depression and post-traumatic stress disorder...
Recruiting Tolerance
Hatemongers could learn a few things from this football coach.E.R. BILLS
On my way to work a while back I saw a solitary picketer at the corner of Camp Bowie Boulevard and Cherry Lane. He had a sign in each hand and two or three on the landscaping buggy he’d dragged to the street corner with...
Passion Play
The fate of a local theater production raises worries about artistic freedom and more.MIKE MELENDEZ JR.
When student directors at Tarleton State University decided to stage a production of the play Corpus Christi, depicting a gay Jesus-like character named Joshua, I suspect they had no idea of the visceral reactions they would en...
The Decade Onstage
JIMMY FOWLERThis list of 10 great shows doesn’t pretend to be anything like a comprehensive critical overview of Fort Worth theater in the ’00s. I’ve missed too much — and likely forgotten too much — to attemp...
Thank God and Greyhound, is she gone yet?
StaticFourteen minutes and one second … 14 minutes and two seconds … 14 minutes and three seconds … . Sarah Palin‘s 15 minutes of fame are just about up, but she’s going to sprint to the finish line. Her...